A/n: I don't know... should I continue this? I'm thinking of writing one about Adrian too.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. It all belongs to the wonderful creater of the Vampire Academy series, Richelle Mead.

I zoned back into the real world as the bus came to a halt.

"Make sure you don't leave anything." the driver called to us.

I quickly checked to see if I had everything. My backpack had my money, food, and water stashed in it. Check. The long coat I wore was one I had borrowed from Dimitri before I left. The term borrowed had me keeping my head up. We would be okay. It was the Strigoi who should be worrying. Check. Last, there was the stake I had conveniently placed in the inside pocket of the jacket. Check. As I walked down the steps, Lissa's mind knocked me out of proportions.

"You gave her money?" she screamed at Adrian. He was the one who had kindly donated the money I needed to get to Spokane. Of course, it wasn't free. I had agreed to give him a chance at a relationship when I got back. He was a nice guy at times, but during others, he was a complete ass.

"Of course cousin. How else would she get to wherever she's going?"

"Why did you do it?" she asked, folding her arms across her chest.

He hesitated, debating whether or not to tell her our plans. "She said she'd come back for me."

"Adrian! You can't seriously believe that! Y- Do you even know why she left?" she snapped.

"I- no."

"She left to go find Dimitri." she whispered painfully.

I pulled myself out of it; I couldn't look at his face. Adrian had told me all the time that he liked me, and I never considered or even imagined that it was true. Love and flirting are two different things, and you never knew with Adrian. He was another spirit user that Lissa and I had stumbled upon, but he kept sane in a rather disgusting way. He said to me that Lissa gave her emotions to me, so that she stayed stable. Him on the other hand, smoked and drank to kill it off. I had never witnessed him fully drunk before, but he always kept a buzz.

People were staring then. Lissa had pulled me into her so abruptly, that I had forgotten to keep walking. When I started up again I glanced at their faces. In the sunlight, it was hard to distinguish between the living and the dead. If I knew someone on the other side, I waved or if I was alone, sometimes talked to them, but they just stared. I hadn't known about this ability at the academy, and I was just figuring it out. It seemed that since I was shadow-kissed, I was the bridge between the two worlds. Shadow-kissed was another thing I had yet to fully figure out. It started when I began to see the ghosts; Mason, of a friend of mine, told me about the Strigoi attacks, and later he revealed that Dimitri had become Strigoi. It also helps when fighting. I can sense when Strigoi are near, which is a really badass power to have if you're a guardian.

In my peripheral vision, I spotted a shabby-looking hotel. It couldn't hurt to stop and sleep for a few hours.

"Hi, can I have a single bedroom please?" I asked the man at the counter. He made me sign a few stuff and then gave me my room key. I hit the bed without taking my coat off. It was hard to go to sleep when the two people you're trying to ignore, are invading them. It had been at least three sleepless days since I had been in a bed. My eyes drifted and I passed out.

Every dream I've had since I figured out Dimitri's fate, has been the same. I find him, and hesitate, like he always told me not to, and he kills me. I know it sounds horrible, but its a lot of practice. After this dream though, I was in a familiar clearing in the sunlight.

"That has got to be the worst nightmare I've ever experienced." a painful voice whispered from behind me.

"I see it every time I close my eyes."

"You don't seem yourself. Ever thought about therapy?" he asked, leaning against a tree.

I rolled my eyes. "Are you kidding me? Its like you're expecting me to come back and forget everything that ever happened with him. I won't do that. I can't do that. I hurts me just to be away from him."

"No." he said sternly, walking up to me. "I don't expect you to turn away. You love him; I get it. If it was you out there, I'd want to get you back. Its a love thing, right? I mean, love makes you crazy. You will do anything, no matter how insane it is, to keep them by you forever."

I couldn't picture Adrian as the kind of person to burst into an amazing speech, but that was pretty awesome. "Wow Adrian. That was nice little speech. What are you going to put together a romantic song too?"

He laughed. "There's the Rose I know."

I smiled and looked down.

"Are you getting anywhere?" he asked casually.

"I'm not telling you where I am." I snapped sharply.

"I didn't ask. I simply want to know if you're succeeding in whatever you are trying to accomplish." he said sarcastically.

"Honestly, I don't know if I can do it. This dream is really scaring me. I just wish some Strigoi would pop out of no where and-"

I snapped out of my dream abruptly when two cold hands grabbed me. I screamed and opened my eyes to find, that they had got me.

"You must be Rose." he whispered, carrying me.

I struggled to get free. "Who wants to know?"

"Dimitri has been looking for you." he smiled wryly.

I stopped. "Dimitri?"

"Yes. He said he had some unfinished business to take care of with you. How did you piss him off?" he asked. His eyes sparkled with compulsion.

I blew it off. This man knew Dimitri! "I'm his fiancée." I lied, pretending to fall for his spell.

"Did you leave him?" he asked as he walked.

"I had an affair." I laughed inside. Like I would do that.

"I wonder what he'll do to you when we see him."

"Probably kill me."

"Maybe he'll share." He seemed excited as he brushed his hand over my cheek. Pervert.