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As I looked up at the face of the person who had attacked me I was surprised. It was Dimitri. Seeing Dimitri now sent mix signals throughout my entire body. Part of me was excited to see him. I hadn't seen Dimitri in about a day and I truly missed his prescience. Another part of me was afraid. Dimitri knew I had tried to escape him. Would he take this decision as being my decline to join him? Would he kill me now?

Now as I reluctantly tried to focus on Dimitri, I could see the pure anger now radiating off of his face. In addition, his fangs were drawn out and he was starting to shift into a crouch position ready to attack. The only thing is that as Dimitri shadowed over me all his attention was on Nathan.

As I now turned my focus to Nathan, I saw that he too stood in a crouched position with his fangs drawn out only his face wasn't radiating the anger I had seen in Dimitri's, but fear. There was no reassurance now that Dimitri wouldn't kill him. He had taken something that belonged to Dimitri and would now have to pay the price with his life.

Suddenly, Dimitri leaped forward towards Nathan ready to attack. As soon as Dimitri moved, Nathan too fled in the direction of Dimitri. Once they met each other the fight broke out. Each took turns lashing out and dodging each other. As I watched them fight, it became quite obvious that Dimitri was winning. To say Dimitri was a great fighter would be an understatement. Back at the Academy, students feared him and fellow guardians treated him with respect. Seeing Dimitri fight now proved those observations correct. Even as a Strogoi, Dimitri's fighting abilities were still deadly. He was truly a force to be reckoned with.

As I watched them fight, I began to feel the nausea feelings, I typically got around Strigois, increase. This meant the others were coming. Dimitri had arrived here first probably because he must have been faster or had figured out what was going on before the others. I wasn't quite sure how Dimitri had caught up to us so fast but I couldn't afford to sit here and contemplate it. I knew that Dimitri would win this battle and soon after he would come for me. If I had any hope of escaping this situation I had to move. I needed to make it to the boat. I need to continue with my escape plan.

After taking one last long look at Dimitri and Nathan, I fled from the scene running towards the body of water. As the distance between me and the water decreased, I began to frantically look for the boat that would assist me in my attempt to freedom. I was overjoyed when the boat finally came into my view. The boat looked very familiar. I believe I saw it on the discovery channel special before. If I was right then I think it was called a Cigarette Boat. If my prediction was true then Nathan had been right. Galina's boat was indeed fast. This was a good sign. It meant that I could make my escape easily.

The boat was tied to a stationed dock by a long thick piece of rope. Quickly I tried to unfasten the rope from the dock before any of the Strigois caught up with me. Once the boat was released from the dock, I jumped into the boat and ran over to the wheel. Next to the wheel was the ignition which appeared to need some sort of key. Being Rose Hathaway, I considered myself to be very crafty and had learned many things that had assisted me in my recent illegal acts. Unfortunately hot wiring a boat was not one of my many skills.

I wasn't ready to give up hope yet. I had come too far for this escape to blow up in my face. Taking a deep breath and relaxing my mind to sense my surroundings for any oncoming Strigois, I took relief in the fact the nausea was very dim. This meant that that there were no Strigois in close proximity to me. I was safe for now.

Looking around the boat and hoping for a solution to my problem, I remembered a movie I watched with Lissa before I left St. Vladimir's Academy. In the movie, ironically enough, a couple of prisoners had escaped from a man who had been holding them captive on his island for weeks. When the prisoners were high jacking his boat, they had found the keys to the man's boat hidden underneath the seat cover of one of the chairs on the boat. As I looked around the boat I stood on now, I saw many chairs. I had been very lucky today. But would I be lucky enough to find the keys hiding on this boat. Only one way to find out.

As I proceeded to take my chances and strip the boat of his seat covers in hopes of finding the key that would help me gain my freedom, my nausea returned full force. There was a Strigoi approaching fast. Frantically pulling off the remaining seat cover's, I realized that my luck had faded. How could I have been so stupid? Honestly why would someone hide the keys to their boat under the seat cover of their chair. I seriously needed to give up these stupid movie ideas.

Before I could think of another plan, someone spoke behind me ultimately startling me.

"Going somewhere Rose?" I didn't need to turn around to know who had spoken to me. Dimitri. He had of course won the fight with Nathan. I guess this means I wouldn't have to worry about ditching Nathan anymore I joked to myself in hopes of easing my increasing fear.

"I thought I would take a boat ride." I said sarcastically finally bringing myself to turn around and face him. If I was going to die right now than I might as well go out Rose style.

As I allowed myself to study Dimitri's face, I found myself unable to decipher his emotions. His fierce Strigoi features hide whatever emotions he was feeling.

"I have made my decision. I won't join you." I said becoming serious now.

"I know." Dimitri said still not showing any emotion.

I wasn't sure what to say. He wasn't giving me any hints at his emotions. I had no idea how he was feeling or what he was thinking about.

"Where were you going to go? With Nathan?" Dimitri said. Except this time there was a reaction on his face. When Dimitri said the name Nathan. I wasn't sure what it could have been. Could Dimitri be anger that I was with Nathan? Was he curious? Or was he jealous? Just as fast as the feeling spread across his face it was gone leaving me wondering how he felt about me escaping with Nathan.

"I need to go." I said trying to change the topic from Nathan.

"We are in the middle of nowhere. Where will you go?"

I thought about this briefly. Sensing my hesitation, Dimitri jumped into the boat. As soon as he landed in the boat, my body instantly fell into battle mode. I had no idea what Dimitri was planning on doing.

"You don't trust me?" Dimitri said as his face slowly broke its composure.

"You're a Strigoi…how could I trust you?" I said abruptly like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I sounded like a true guardian right now; Strigois aren't people, they are monsters. Treat them as monsters.

"Is that how you feel." Dimitri said in more or a statement than a question. As I focused on his unraveling facial features, I was troubled. In his eyes I saw sadness.

Knowing that I was causing him sadness was beginning to overwhelm me with guilt. Although he may be a monster, he is Dimitri. I tried desperately to see him as a monster … as a Strigoi but it is impossible. To me he will always be my Dimitri and I will always love him.

I couldn't think about that now. I had to focus on getting away from Dimitri. I needed to remind myself that I now had bigger issues to deal with than my undead lover. There was something growing inside of me.

"Let me go Dimitri!" I demanded. I needed to get away from him. He is going to pull me back in.

"Why?" Dimitri said walking over to me which forced me to back away from him to keep us distant from one another. "Why do you have to be so difficult?"

Dimitri than reached out suddenly before I had time to react and grabbed a hold of one of my arms pulling me toward him. First, I tried to fight his grip but then realized that I was powerless. Dropping my hands to my sides I knew, Dimitri had the advantage.

"We could be together Rose. I want you. I need you." He said giving me a loving expression. At first I thought that I must be hallucinating. Strigois were incapable of love. The expression he was giving me must a trick.

"Why?"

"Why what?" Dimitri asked confused.

"Why do you want me?" I asked secretly pleading for him to give me the correct answer that had the power to change everything.

"Because we belong together." And with that my doubts were confirmed. I was right, Strigois were incapable of love. Just like with Nathan and Galina. Strigois could express sexual feelings like kissing and sex but that was it. With no soul how could they feel? I was nothing more than an object to be desired by Dimitri.

As soon as I came to this conclusion I broke. As tears escaped, Dimitri, who probably took my sudden change in emotion to be that he had having finally convinced me that we should be together, moved his left hand to my face to wipe them away. As soon as his other hand shifted to hold me tighter against him I felt something in the back of my shirt. It was the branch I had hid there earlier. I knew what I had to do.

As Dimitri's hand wiped the tears from my face, I closed my eyes and pretended that we were back at St. Vladimir's Academy. We were in the training gym and he was a Dhampir. We were standing close together with our bodies fitting together perfectly. One of his hands was lightly holding my face while the other was caressing my back in his usually gentle manner he always had with me when he was being affectionate. As Dimitri continued to wipe the tears from my face, I could even imagine that his hand was as warm as it used to be. Suddenly I needed to feel his lips against mine. As I moved my face toward his, I could imagine the smell of his cologne he used to wear as a Dhampir. When our lips finally found each others, I imagined that it was the same as when he kissed me in the cabin. Dimiti's kisses were always so tender yet amazing. Everything about Dimitri was amazing. The way he made me feel like I was the only girl in his heart. How every so often, during our stolen moments of pure affections, he would rub his fingertips lightly across my arm sending shivers throughout my body. The fact that Dimitri awlays knew what I was thinking and how to make everything in my life right. Dimitri was truly my soul mate. My other half.

As we continued to enjoy the moment, our kiss grew more intense like it usually did. Only this time, I gazed my tongue against his fangs. The feeling of Dimitri's fangs touching my tongue ripped me out of my fancy world and I pulled away from our kiss. The person I was kissing was not the Dimitri who promised to love me forever. The Dimitri who held me now was a stranger. As I looked into Dimitri's red eyes, I felt like I was truly seeing Dimitri as a Strigoi for the first time. Before now I had deluded myself into thinking I could pretend he was still my Dimitri. But he wasn't my Dimitri. Not anymore.

When I felt Dimitri's left hand, which had been placed on my face, slowly drop and find its way back to my waist almost touching the branch in the process, I knew my time was running out. I couldn't continue to pretend the Dimitri standing before me was the man I fell in love with. I had to act.

Before Dimitri had time to react my right arm reached behind my back and grabbed a hold of the branch and I quickly moved from Dimitri's grasp and proceeded to plunged the branch into his heart.

I sort of liked the staking in Blood Promsie so I decided to incoporate it into my story...my version of the staking which of course had to involve a branch lol. No chair legs for me.

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