Chapter 12

Hello everyone! I have been really busy lately with classes and everything but I have decided to continue with my stories. Can't promise I will be updating really often but I will try my best. I was re-reading my story and realized that it was far from over so hopefully I will be able to finish it before classes start again. Hope you enjoy these chapters, as always reviews are appreciated and it would really help me to know that people still read this story to continue it.

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DPOV

"I don't like this," I said to Lissa as we were getting out of the courts airport in a private jet, courtesy of Lissa of course. Even if she was not yet 18 being the princess of a dying bloodline did give her some authority, like when she had decided to take a little vacation from school in order to come with us.

"Well, you were the one that said that she could be dangerous and we couldn't exactly leave her in court wondering around now could we?" she looked better than before, she still looked paler than usual, but it seemed that Rose being near her made her better, perhaps because the cord that linked them didn't have to be stretched that long anymore.

"Hey, Comrade, it's okay, relax and enjoy the flight." A voice came from the back of the plane; looking back I could see Rose, chained to her seat and her friend Lila beside her. Rose gave me a small smile but it was more like a grimace than anything else; the chains that held her supposed to keep her down in case she lost control again. The chains were also charmed with the elements courtesy of Christian and even though Rose was not a complete strigoi, from which she was not howling in pain, she did feel pain because the chains where infused with elements. Typical of Rose though, she wasn't one to admit when she was in pain so being the stubborn one she refused to take the chains off and brushed the subject off; but I knew that despite her bravado, she was also afraid she could hurt someone, lose control.

RPOV

The trip to Moscow, Russia was long and uncomfortable, damn chains, but at least I hadn't slaughtered anyone yet so that was a plus.

We had found out that there was a spirit user in Russia that supposedly had changed a strigoi to its original state and we were going to find exactly how and if it was true.

We still weren't sure yet how had Lissa changed Lila, all Lissa remember doing was throwing spirit at her, and since some of it hit me then I wasn't completely strigoi yet, but I could feel the monster getting stronger and even if so far Lissa was somehow helping me through the bond it still could not be a permanent solution seeing how it was affecting her, hopefully we would be able to get some good news out of this trip.

Trying to distract myself with something I focused in looking at Dimitri, no matter how many times I saw him he was always amazingly gorgeous to me. I tried to picture how everything would be after this was over, then of course I would have to go back and finish school, if they would take me; I knew how they treated Christian because his parents had become strigoi, but that was a question for later.

And of course, after graduation, Dimitri and I could finally be together, no more hiding and he would ask to be reassigned perhaps to Christian, so that we could still see each other without endangering our charges.

"Hey, we're here." Lila told me, unbuckling her seat belt and reaching for my chains,

"No," I told her, I was serious about the monster getting stronger, I couldn't risk hurting anyone.

"Well, unless you are planning on getting us to carry you or taking the whole plain with us we are going to have to unchain you." she said with a smirk. I looked down to the chains that were bounding me to the airplane.

"Fine, but leave the ones on my wrists."

I felt relieved as the chains were taken off me, leaving only an uncomfortable feeling, like when you get sunburned and your skin burns a bit.

We settled in a little hotel just outside of the city of Moscow before coming up with how to find this spirit user.

"Okay, so we know that his name is Robert Doru and he changed a strigoi about 12 years ago. He apparently has been off the radar for a while but his last known address was in Moscow." Dimitri said. It wasn't a lot of information but it was a starting point at least.

"We should probably go and scout the city for any possible leads in the morning." It was night time still but only for a few more hours which meant that I would have to hide inside the room for the day while the others were out in Moscow.

"Okay, so we probably should sleep for a few hours and then go out. Um Rose…"

"Yeah I know I'll stay inside for the day."

After a few hours later they were all getting ready to leave. Christian and Lissa decided to go uptown to city hall to check if there was any recent records of Robert Doru while Lila and Dimitri were leaving to check different places like hospitals and such.

Lissa and Christian were the first ones out the door, after giving me a farewell and then Lily said she would be waiting downstairs. Which left me and Dimitri alone in the room.

We stared at each other for a little while, not sure how to act around each other. But then I just decided to hell with it and just decided to close the gap between us and hugged him. For a long painful second nothing happened but then I felt Dimitri's arms circle around me holding me in his embrace.

"We'll get through this Roza." He said holding me tight.

"I really hope so." I responded, wishing with all my heart that he was right.