A/N: This one is pretty much the same as the first one with one small difference.

CHAPTER 2 I WAS ALREADY DEAD ANYWAY

I laid on Dimitri's chest with my silver stake poised under his ribcage.

It had been a long and hard year but I had finally tracked him down. The fight the insued after I confronted him had lasted a good half hour. I never would've imagined having to use everything he taught me against him. Then again, I probably would've died early on in this fight if he hadn't been my teacher.

It still broke my heart to see it had come to this. As I laid there my head was shouting, "Just do it!" but my heart was telling me I couldn't. How could I bring myself to kill the man I loved with all my heart and soul.

I knew he wouldn't be down for long. He was struggling to get up even as I fought with myself over what to do next. I didn't have much time. I knew it was either kill him or get killed by him. I knew there was no escaping him if I lost my nerve.

I thought back to the day we went to Missoula. When he told me he wanted to be killed if her was forced to become a Strigoi. I knew it was what he wanted. Yet, I still couldn't bring myself to do it. The hand holding the stack shook as he continued to his attempts to throw me off of him.

Closing my eyes, I remembered everything that we had gone through since he brought Lissa and I back to the Academy. He was my rock. He had kept me sane and whole when things just got too much for me. He never gave up on me no matter how difficult I was.

That's when I realized, regardless of what he wanted, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I loved him to much to deliver the life ending blow. I dropped the stake and it fell to the ground with a clatter. Tears filled my eyes as I rolled off of him.

Before I could even hit the ground, I felt his strong arms around me and his teeth pierced my neck. I felt the amazing high of a vampire bite and didn't even fight it. It didn't matter that he was about to drink me dry, I was already dead anyway. I died the day he did.