A.N: Hey guys!!

Firstly big kudo for all of you who reviewed chapter 2. You are amazing and i`m so glad that we share the same interest for this great series.

Secondly YAY fanfiction fixed the problem, i was starting to get worried.

I also would like to thank my great friend Kelly again for being the beta for my story. She is busy with college and all that but still takes the time to do it. I really appreciate it girl. Thank you SOO much.

Well here is chapter 3 and please please don`t forget to review ok?? *puppy sad eyes*

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Chapter 3:

Dimitri…I thought facing him still frozen. He was the same, but the significant differences made him a whole different person.

His beautiful face, his straight nose, full lips, his strong well designed jaw line was still the same, even if the skin wasn't beautifully tanned how it used to be… no now his skin was white…alarmingly white. A white I only knew too well, a shade of white that raised goose bumps on my skin.

His silky brown hair was down encircling his angelic face. The face I've learned to love from every angle, the face that meant the world to me…The only face that could ease the constant pain in my chest.

As I saw the sun playing on his hair showing the little golden reflects in it I frowned.

He couldn't be standing here now…He was clearly a strigoi and…and sun was deadly to them. I bit my lips.

He is not really here…It's just a mind trick. I thought.

"What are you thinking about so hard Roza?" He finally asked with the smile I used to long for. Just seeing it again was a relief, like a rush of air to the lungs after drowning.

"Aren't you happy to see me?" He added taking a step forward.

I automatically took a step backward. "It's …It's not you." I said my voice shivering as I fought the tears.

"Of course it's me!" he said taking a smaller step forward this time. "I may be a bit different…"

I scoffed, but he ignored it.

"I'm also less breakable and more durable but…" He looked down at me and extended his hand for me to seize "but I'm still the same deep down. I still love you so SO much" he added.

I didn't move. My brain was the only part of my being that was somehow working.

"Why are you doing this to me…?" I whispered too low for human ears to hear, but he heard me just fine.

"I'm keeping my promise to you Roza." He said tenderly. I realized how much I missed his voice.

I looked at him confused.

"After we made love…" This memory sent a shooting pain through my body. I did so well usually with blocking those hours from my memory.

"I told you that I would always be here for you so…Here I am," he said extending his hand again.

I remembered. "I love you Roza." He kissed me again. "I'll always be here for you. I'm not going to let anything happen to you." He said to me in the cabin

I didn't have enough strength to refuse the contact of his skin once more as I was longing for this touch more than anything else.

He entwined our fingers, his skin was cold, but I didn't care. This simple touch sent electric vibes all over my body. He closed the distance slowly and lightly rested his forehead against mine.

"Join me Roza…" He whispered. "It's not as bad as you think and…and we could be together forever. I could love you till the end of time"

With our foreheads still joined I searched his eyes. We locked stares; I could smell the inviting cologne coming from his skin. Maybe there was still a part of the Dimitri I loved inside this Strigoi after all and maybe…maybe a part, how small it was, was better than nothing at all.

"You said you loved me Roza…You said you would never leave me." He said letting his hands move up my shoulders. "Don't abandon me now…I need you…my strong, strong Roza."

I let my eyes wander to his lips and stood on my toes to gently brush his lips with mine, they were just as soft as I remembered. "Okay…" I whispered against them.

"Sure?" He asked slowly directing his face to my neck to bite me.

"Yes…" I huffed closing my eyes tilting my head to give him full access to my neck.

As I expected the pain I was surprised to feel him kiss my neck instead.

He broke our embrace and took two steps back. "See Roza… You are strong, but not strong enough to face me." He said blankly. "Go back to St Vladimir, to Lissa, to your life." He shook his head. "You were ready to become what you hate the most just to be with a faint imitation of me Rose."

I blushed with shame.

"You are not ready…as strong as you are… you can't. Please, please let go and go home." He said hisvoice full of agony. "You think I would want you to put yourself in danger? I would have given my life to keep you safe! The world still needs you Roza."

It was the last thing I heard before jumping out of my bed and looking around with panic.

It was just a dream…I thought sitting on my bed removing my sweaty hair from my face.

I could see the sun rise at the horizon.

"Maybe I am not strong enough, but I have to do it!" I said out loud standing from the bed as ready as I would ever be to resume my hunting trip.

I dressed quickly tightening my hair in a low ponytail as I didn't want to attract attention to the marks of my neck.

The little tattoos that now recalled me of my once set destiny. Now I was just a young woman broken beyond repair, someone who betrayed everything she ever believed in….A disgrace to the eyes of her own kind. A girl running to face what would eventually be her own death.

I sighed throwing my duffle bag on the back seat of the car and sat behind the wheel.

I stared forward not really seeing anything. Adrian did manage to shake me I thought a bit angrily, but not enough to stop me, especially now that I knew that everybody was aware of my disgrace…Dimitri once said to me that he'd rather die than become a Strigoi and I owed him that much.

Now I knew that saving Dimitri's soul was my only chance of redemption.

The only way I could forgive myself for not forcing him to go on with Tasha!

He would be happy… or at least alive now and if my life was lost in this attempt of forgiveness well… it wasn't such a high price to pay.

Some might call me suicidal, but I'm not…. No! I am just resigned knowing that I would probably find Dimitri in a nest of Strigoi and I knew that I would not make it out alive…I wasn't invincible, pretty far from it! But if I could take him down with me as I fall it would be worth it. I thought so secured in my own logic to even start debating it.

I started the car, I would probably find some diner for a warm breakfast along my way to Spokane.

I didn't know why exactly I decided to go to Spokane, but after going over many hiding places around the Academy I knew deep down that Dimitri was not in Montana anymore and this little voice kept telling me to go back to Spokane to the house were Mason died. Maybe there was a way to track down the Strigoi that was a part of this nest.

Well it was my only brilliant idea so far…I really hope I could get something out of it.

I was also relying on the ability I developed, the ability to 'feel' the Strigoi close to me. A part of me was worried that this ability was directly linked to Lissa as it was probably the case too with my Friends the 'ghosts'.

But I kept trying to convince myself that I still had this extra ability and that the only reason it didn't manifest itself yet was because there were no Strigoi around.

I really needed this "sense" and every other one I could put my hands on to find Dimitri because even if I was a natural as they called me back at School, and even if I refused to recognize it out loud, I was still a novice on so many levels. I also needed all the luck, or some might say misfortune, I could get to track him down.

A blue sign on the side of the road let me know that there was a diner 5 miles down the road.

At this realization my stomach woke up and started to make some complaining sounds.

"Almost there…" I groaned.

At this moment I saw something appear beside me and I quickly turned my head to look.

"Holy Shit!" I shouted pressing on the brake pedal as hard as I could. I heard the tires squeal so loudly that it sounded like a scream. The car came to a stop in the middle of the road. I quickly looked in the mirror, but I was lucky enough that it was very early and that I was on a small desert road. If that wasn't the case I would have caused one hell of a Collision.

I turned back my attention on the passenger seat and here he was, Andre Dragomir, Lissa's brother was sitting here silently staring at me.

The only problem was that he was dead and he has been dead for three years now.

"Huh!" I stupidly said out loud. "At least it shows that my ability to see ghosts is not linked to Lissa." I added even more stupidly.

He shook his head.

"Andre…Why are you here?" I asked him starting the car again to park it in a more secure spot.

I parked the car and returned to staring at him. I shook my head and let out an annoyed sigh. Geez… I forgot they were not that good with words anymore.

"Are you here for me?" I asked

He nodded

I was on the road again, only 5 minutes before the Dinner's car park.

"Are you here to help me?"

He shrugged

"Wonderful!" I said sarcastically.

"Why are you here?" I asked impatiently. "I really don't have time to play games Andre!" I added trying to contain my anger.

His eyes narrowed as, I presumed, he was trying to canalize all his energy to form some words. His eyes were full of sadness, he was a burning man…or ghost… or whatever he was. "You. Will. Die. Soon…" He said in a whisper.

This revelation had the effect of 10 buckets of icy water being dropped on me at the same time.

"How soon?" I asked not able to think anymore.