Summary: The story starts practically where Blood Promise left. So all is the same, I havent changed the characters, their abilities or anyhting like that.

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Chapter One: Plan A or B?

I had been sitting in this cell for almost a month, so far I had showered twice. I felt awful and dirty, I hadnt eaten a real meal for weeks. I didn't count slop and bread as a proper meal. A single ray of sunlight seeped through the tiny crack in the wall of my unearned cell. A beginning of another endless day in this place. Up to this pint I had only let Abe Mazur, my father, in to see me. He only ever brought bad news and an occasional glazed doughnut though.

This morning I rolled out of my 'bed' and went over to the miniscule basin and washed my face. Then I decided to do my daily 'workout'. I still did my best to stay in shape, it was probably useless but it gave me something to do. I started with a few warm-up stretches and I did 50 push-ups and 50 sit-ups. I ran on the spot for 20 minutes and already the sweat was poring off me. In the last month I had lost more weight than I would have lliked exactly. I did a couple of cool-down stretches and laid down on my cot, breathing heavily.

One of my sanctioned guards came in with another bout of soup or slop as I like to call it. He set it on the floor before he glanced at me and then I saw his eyes. His eyes. His soft, brown eyes. I would know them anywhere.

I gasped. Dimitri motioned for me to stay quiet. I got it. He wasn't supposed to be here. Why was he anyway? What did he want?

"What are you doing here?" I hissed.

"Come closer. Pretend your eating," Dimitri ordered.

I did as I was told. "Ok, what?"

"I have some good news for you," Dimitri whispered.

"Which is?"

"Lissa is having a meeting with the council. They are deciding whether or not to hold your trial. Lissa found some pretty interesting information out form one of the royal guardians," Dimitri said in a rush.

"What did she find out?" I said, excitement and hope rushed through my body. Tow emotion I had never thought I would ever feel again.

"I don't know. Only her and Lord Ivashkov know and they arent sharing." Dimitri said, his frustration about not being told evident in his tone and facial expression.

"So why are you here?" I asked, confused.

"Well, if Lissa xant convince the council of your innocence, we are breaking you out – tonight," he explained. "Im here to tell you the plan if that happens.

"Ok, shoot."

Dimitri described, a complex, well thought-out plan, that I would be following should plan A fail. The "plan" stated that at 6pm Lissa would use compulsion on the guardians, Dimitri would come in and spring me from my cell. Then we would run to a car out the back that would have Adrian driving, with Mia and Abe in the backseat. Eddie and Christian would be providing a distraction in the main lobby. My mother would be trying to seduce the guardians captain here at the Royal court. We would drive off. Adrian and I would then go to Russia and lose ourselves in St. Petersberg for a month. Then we would rendezvous with most of the others in Baia, our cover being I was going back to see Dimitri's parents and coincidently the rest were just passing through on their way to Novosberisk (?). After that we would begin our hunt for Lissa'' sibling.

When Dimitri was explaining the step in the almighty plan about Adrian and I losing ourselves in S. Petersburg, a strange look crossed his face. If I hadnt of known better I would have thought I was jealousy, but then I remembered his words, "Love fades. Mine has."

This man confused me so much, he had hurt me more than any other person in my life. Somehow though, I still loved him. I don't think I wuld ever be with him or anyone else as more than friends though, not after everything that has happened. I wouldn't let myself get hurtlike that again, it almost killed me. Which meant that I would be calling off the thing I had going with Adrian. I would tell him before we boarded to go to Russia. I personally didn't think the council was going to let me get off Scott-free. I felt depressed at the thought of what had happened so far and what was yet to come, but I knew I had to do it, if not for Lissa, for me. I had to finish what I had started.

"Lissa will tell you whether we are running with Plan A or Plan B, so pop in and out of her head regularly throughout the day. I have to go before they get suspicious. Oh, and Rose. If I don't get a chance later: Stay safe." Dimitri said, looking away as he uttered those last two words.

I felt like saying, Why? Why do you care? But instead I settled with: "Yeah, ok. I will. You too."

And then he left.

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Gabbiehannah xx.