Chapter 6

Everything in my world right now froze. First in pain, then pleasure? Then pain again. Then my vision went black. All of it. I felt someone's hands going to try and lift my head up. I heard faint voices calling to me.

I heard Eddie's voice. Repeatedly calling my name and asking if I could hear him. I couldn't move, I couldn't talk, I couldn't do anything. I just lay there, just like the Strigoi. What was going on? Do I have some weird disease thing?

I opened my eyes but all I saw was blur. Everything was so blurry that I couldn't tell what was what. Well for a minute. Then things got clearer and Eddie was there in front of me. Holding me up. Why didn't they let my lie there? Why is Eddie holding me up? Is it better for a concussion or something?

"Rose, what happened?" I heard Eddie's concerned voice. "I…I don't know." I looked up into his eyes. There was another guardian alone with us the others had left. How long was I down for? It felt like 2 minutes to me, but obviously it was longer. The Strigoi nausea was gone.

"How long was I out for?" I asked them. "A while…" Eddie replied after a minute. "How long?" I asked again. "About an hour." He said. "An hour!" I almost screamed at him in disbelief. He nodded along with the guardian. I had seen him around sometimes on campus, but didn't know his name.

"Did the other guardians find the captured Moroi yet?" I asked Eddie and the guardian. "No. They've barely found anyone. The killed a few Strigoi, but nothing major." The guardian said in a deep, hard voice.

I sighed wishing that they had found Lissa, or anyone I guess. They all need to be found, but to me, Lissa needs to be found now. The bond wasn't telling me much, actually it was telling me nothing. I tried again to slip into her mind, but no luck. I sighed again wishing I knew what was blocking the bond.

Eddie clearly realised something was up with me and asked "OK Rose, what's wrong?" He didn't seem annoyed but something upset me about what he said. "The bond, I can't get into Lissa's head. And I don't know why. And I can't feel her there that much either. Maybe they have a sp- Never mind." I was so close to bringing out spirit user's once again.

"Rose…tell us." Eddie reminded me of Mason when he said that. "You sounded like Mason." I sighed once again trying to get him sidetracked from the problem with the bond onto Mason. "What do you mean I sound like Mason?" He asked, clearly sidetracked. My plan had worked.

"Well, the way your concerned and Mason says that all the time when he knows something's wrong and I wont tell him. You two were so close you started talking the same." I gave him a half smile still missing Mason. Clearly by his expression, he misses him just as much as I do.

"Is that good that I remind you of Mason?" His words struck me by surprise. "Yeah. I think so. It's a good ay to remember the good in him. Which was all of him when you think about it. He never did anything bad or anything that would hurt someone. Besides when he kicks your ass in class." We both gave a small laugh at my words then sat together in silence.

"What do you think is going on with the bond?" He eventually asked. "I don't know. But I'll figure it out soon enough. When they bring Lissa back." I sounded more confident than what I was. I don't know if we'd ever figure out what is going on in our bond. Unless it has to do with out locations or health or something like that. Which I hope it does.

"Should we go after them? To find them and help them?" I asked both of them. All I wanted to do was go out and find Lissa and figure out what is going on. "No. I had strict instructions from Alberta to keep you here." The Guardian spoke again. "Umm…Who exactly are you…?" I asked slowly. He gave a small laugh than said his name. Guardian Mike Simon.

"Oh that's right!" I said with a small smile. "We met briefly in the med clinic that one time." He looked down at me with a small smile as well. "Umm…yeah I'm there all the time…" I looked from him, to Eddie, to the ground I was sitting on. "Do you help out there in your spare time?" He asked with curiosity.

"Not exactly…It's more like they help me all the time…" I spoke still looking at the ground feeling embarrassed. He laughed again before speaking again. "I never would have pictured you of all people to get hurt all the time." I swear he wondered off into a little chain of thoughts.

"Neither would I." I whispered to myself. "I'm getting bored. How much trouble will you be in if I took off to help them?" I looked up at him again and he had a small smile. He wasn't like Dimitri that much. He almost always had a smile on his face and he laughed a lot more than Dimitri. But that doesn't mean he is happier than Dimitri.

"A lot. It was Alberta who ordered me to keep you and him here until they got back here with the Moroi." Well…without me out there to tell them where to go now they might take ages. "If they come back." I said in a sarcastic voice that he clearly didn't get. His smile faded into a darker more serious look. "They will come back. With all the captured Moroi alive."

"He's getting annoyed with me." I joked to Eddie. He gave out a smile and the guardian eyed us off. I got up and within 2 seconds he was in front of me with a solid grip on my arm. "Joke time." I whispered. "What?" He asked clearly hearing something from me. Ignoring him, I made a small not-so-funny joke. "Clingy much. If you want to touch me so badly, just say so." Eddie and I laughed and he let go of me.

That plan was a success. Well, I don't know if it was a plan, but whatever it was, it worked. I started pacing around in the cave occasionally mumbling to myself. Eddie and Mike were in some deep conversation about the queen which I could have had my daily bitch session in, but decided not to.

So I got bored and sat back down next to Eddie just as he brought up a little thing I hated Queen Tatiana for. "She has plans to have Lissa and her guardians, which will be Rose and someone else, to move in and live at the court after graduation." And with that said, I lied down, closed my eyes and fell into a deep sleep.