This scene played out in my head so perfectly I could see it in a movie but I didn't feel like I was telling it right, after 4 hours of revising I finally came up with this…now that being said, I don't want constructive criticism on this chapter only because at this point I will beat myself up over not making it better. Anyway, enjoy.

I watched her walk passed us as if she were a zombie. I have only really seen her like this a handful of times mostly over a guy. But this, this was different from the way she looked I could guess that she had been expelled. I have never seen Rose without her confidence even when she was on the verge of tears, she would hold her head high and even go as far as to admit when she was wrong. I wasn't exactly sure how I was able to pick up on all of this but I felt the sudden urge to both cry and kill the cause of rose's expulsion.

"Where, is he?" I screamed following the later thought. "I swear on all that I am that I'll kill him, it's his fault."

"Lissa?" Eddie called "are you okay?"

"He has to pay for this, I just got her back Eddie and he took her from me again." I screamed as I started running in the direction of his dorm.

"Stop her" I heard Tasha scream after me.

"I don't know what's going on." Eddie said running after me. "But you need to calm down."

I stopped in my tracks looking him in his eyes without blinking. "You will not try to stop me Eddie you will go back to the others and tell them to let me go"

I could feel the power flowing through me as I compelled him.

"yes." was his compulsion induced answer.

"Good now go." I said taking off again. Not bothering to see if it had actually worked. I ran as fast as my feet would take me. Within a matter of seconds I was at his door banging with everything I had-which to my surprise was a lot.

"What do you want Lissa?" he asked after opening the door.

"Don't give me that" I said taking a swing at him, "you know good and well what I'm doing here...you can't have her so no one else can either?"

"She chose to fight with me Lissa."

"But you knew that she would, you know her and she doesn't swallow insults well."

"Yeah and look where it's gotten her."

"I thought that you said you cared about her?" I said taking another swing at him just barely grazing his right ear.

"I do okay...I just got made aren't I allowed to get made and speak my mind or is she the only one allowed to do that?" he made a grab at me but I used that as an opportunity to punch him in the jaw. "Fuck that hurt."

"Your an idiot, rose likes you and you do this to her, well at least she used to like you."

"Well she had a funny way of showing it."

"yeah well not everyone can get over someone they actually love just like that, despite how you may see it she has mortal feelings just like the rest of us."

I began to swing away at him not being able to quench the thirst I had for violence. Part of me knew that this wasn't me but there was no reasoning with the stronger part of my mind.

"Lissa stop, what are you doing?" I heard him scream but I was too angry to feel remorse. "I...can't...breathe"

"Lissa stop" I heard someone yell from the doorway of his dorm but again I was too consumed in making him hurt to notice. "Eddie, block Christian while I grab her."

My senses were hyper alert as to who was trying to ambush me. I could hear, smell, see, feel, and taste his aura. These senses were etched in my brain as if I had created him. I humored them all letting Dimitri grab me and yank me to the door before I started to compel him as well. Wordlessly he let me go and Eddie looked scared.

"Lissa stop." I heard a rather feminine voice say from not too far behind me. once again I let my senses stretch out to identify the voice, my ears knew who it was but my mind was in defense mode I had to make sure I knew exactly who was approaching me. "Liss, please just stop."

"Rose..."

"Lissa it isn't worth it."

"You're not going to be my guardian anymore...it's his fault."

"It's mine too, Lissa let them go."

"I can't he has to pay and I'll make sure he does."

As if using lighting speed she was beside me trying to get my attention. "Let them go"

"No."

"Lissa this isn't you."

I could take it anymore, with the same type of speed my hand was around her throat. "Don't you see I'm doing this for you?"

"Lissa you're hurting me."

"I am doing this for you."

"Let...it go" she said between struggled breaths.

"How?"

"Give it to me..."

"I can't"

"Just open your mind and let me back in"

I was not sure what she meant by that or how it would help anything but I tried to do as I was told and pictured a white canvas in my mind. It was hard to focus with the rage that was trying to keep everyone out including me but I managed to draw the door and open it. An exercise that I tried after the whole Dashkov fiasco to see if I could block parts of my mind from others or myself.

It wasn't instantaneous but slowly I felt the bloodlust turn to anger then to anguish. I was able to slowly to release Rose's neck but immediately wish that I hadn't. As soon as she was free from my grasp she lunged herself towards Christian.

"Eddie, grab her." I yelled. He stopped choking and sprung after her as they both collided with Christian who was now struggling to breath.

In the blink of an eye I saw Dimitri rushing into the fight.

"Hold her down so I can compel her."

"Well as you can see it isn't as easy as that." Christian said now joining the struggle to hold her still. As soon as his hands touched her she began to move as if she were convulsing and contorting into the most bizarre shapes trying to bite at or kick him. This sight would have been funny had she not really been determined to cause the boys harm.

"Just hold her." I went and kneeled next to her. "Rose look at me, you need to look at me."

"Why so you can save him? Your still in love with him aren't you?"

"I loved him yes and I still love him as a friend but rose you have to let me heal you."

"I'm fine, I couldn't be better you're the one who wants my boyfriend."

So this was what they were fighting about. I watched Christian's hold release a little bit. "Not yet Christian." I said knowing exactly what He was thinking. She was doing all of this for me. She thought that I was still in love with Christian.

"Lissa Can you heal her?" Dimitri grunted at me.

I didn't need words to answer that question, instead I reached across to touch Rose's temple. Doing so slowly to insure that I would still have my hand afterwards. I could feel that magic build up in me as I healed my best friend. Her moods started changing from the bloodlust to anger but it stayed there. "It didn't work."

"Yeah it did." she said pushing the boys off of her as if it were an easy effort.

"You could have had us both off if you without a problem." Eddie said looking as if he would fall into shock.

"She wanted to be stopped." said Adrian from the door way. "You should have seen her aura it hurt me to see it."

"What the hell was that Lissa?" she asked.

"I got angry and then when I gave it to you...yours was worse than mine."\

"I was already angry Lissa, not a good combination if you know what I mean."

"Why did you come back here?" Christian said getting cold again.

"Adrian and Tasha came to get me and I had to come back for my stuff anyway since I'm not your guardian anymore. You're welcome by the way."

"So it's true? You're expelled?" Adrian spoke up.

"I guess so, I have a month to figure out where I'm going to stay then they are 'escorting' me off the premises."

"You're kidding" I asked.

"No but look, I have literally been fighting all day and I'm tired the last thing I want to talk about is getting expelled so I'm going to get my stuff and go." she said putting an end to any further question that any of us had.

"Rose..." Christian started.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for things to go this far."

"yeah you did, but like I said I don't want to talk about it anymore, Kirova made it perfectly clear that she allowed me to be saved cause I showed promise, she doesn't feel that way anymore so there is nothing to be done about it." she looked heartbroken at the prospect of leaving everything she worked so hard to get. I suddenly thought about Dimitri, she loved him and she gave him up because he didn't want this life for her, now she doesn't have him or her Title. "Your right Lissa, I have absolutely nothing now. Are you done showing me every place I screwed up?" she snapped. Her voice was a cross between anger and anguish.

The others looked at us as if we were holding some supper secret from them. Everyone except Adrian who seemed to know what was going on. "You still have me Rose." I said walking up to her.

"And us, we are still your friends, think of it as freelancing." Adrian said with a smile.

"Your such a dork Adrian" she said with a shaky voice and trying to return the smile. Unfortunately she was only able to break down even further letting tears flow freely along her pale and bruised face.

No one had ever seen her break down like this not even when Mason died. Sure she cried but she mostly put on a brave face, even for Dimitri. Everyone including myself was so shocked by this that we didn't know whether to comfort her or stand clear. Naturally as her best friend I began to brave the trip across the room into what seemed like foreign regions. I was cut off though by the men in her life all three of them swarmed to her aid.

"I'll take care of you I promise" I heard Adrian say. Christian and Dimitri both looked as if they could murder him here and now but their common goal kept them from doing so.

"Uh, I think that we need to give them two some time alone to talk." Tasha said from the doorway. I was assuming she had meant Christian and Rose since they were the two with the real issues.

"Yeah, um…come talk to me later" I said taking Eddie's hand and leading him out of the room. Times like these I would proudly admit that things were always better when it was just Rose and I.