[A/N] Step right up, here's the next chapter. Enjoy.

I awoke the next morning to find the sun burning on my skin. Adrian was sitting under a shady tree. I forgot how sensitive Moroi are to the sun. I stood up and my head was spinning, I immediately felt dizzy. I hadn't eaten in days.

Adrian looked at me, and pulled out a sandwich from his bag. 'I thought you'd be hungry.' He said this in a tone, where there was absolutely no mockery.

'Thanks'

I sat down and ate it all, not leaving a crumb behind. Why had Adrian gone to all this trouble? Did he really care about me this much?

'Why did you come after me, and why are you acting so ... nice? Where's all the mockery gone?' I asked him curiously.

His seriousness disappeared and he gave me his legendary crooked smile. 'I didn't know you liked the mockery.'

'Who said I did?', and for the first time in days, I smiled.

'Rose, what did you plan on running from?' Curiosity filled his voice.

He thinks I ran from everything? I most certainly did not! 'I didn't run from anything Adrian, I left. There is a difference. I left so I could find Dimitri.'

His eyes filled with compassion 'He's dead rose, there's no point looking.'

'HE IS NOT DEAD ADRIAN, HE'S STRIGOI! He is hiding in the cave that was searched; we have to go there to get him.'

His eyes opened wider than I've ever seen anyone's eyes open. 'He's ... what?!'

'STRIGOI, ADRIAN, STRIGOI! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU?'

His eyes stayed wide 'Strigoi, Oh my god Rose, oh my god! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!'

I gave him the most vicious look I was capable of. 'You're not helping!'

'No Rose, it's not that, I don't know if it will work... it only happened once... I'm not sure...'

'What Adrian, what are you raving on about?' He was making this worse, and here I thought he cared about me.

'Well while you were gone, Lissa was trying to teach me to heal, so we went out of the ward, and down to the woods. We were concentrating so hard, but I couldn't really grasp it. It wouldn't be as strong as Lissa's magic, so we gave up for a while. We just sat on the grass and talked, when all of a sudden we heard someone coming. I turned around to face what looked like a strigoi girl, I don't know what I was doing but my hands flew up as if to hit her and golden rays flew out of my hands and hit her and she fell to the ground in an instant.'

'You ... killed a Strigoi with spirit?' Wow, I was utterly shocked.

'No Rose, I changed her back, she must have been human before she became Strigoi, because as soon as the rays hit her, she hit the ground, and she changed back to her human self. Her cheeks filled with colour, and the dark rims around her eyes completely disappeared. Her chest was moving as well, which showed that she was breathing, but she didn't get up, she just laid there, she must have been weak, we didn't stick around long enough for her to recover, we were so scared we just ran off.'

'So where's Lissa?' If he left her there, I was going to kill him.

'She's back at the academy, I left again to find you' He looked serious, so I believed him.

'So why the hell did you tell me that for, thanks for your story of healing, but I'm worried about other things as the moment'

'Rose, for god's sake, you just don't get it do you? If I could heal that girl, if I could transform her back to human, maybe, just maybe, I could do the same for Dimitri.

My heart must have stopped beating. I stood there, and didn't say a word; I was completely, utterly, in shock. There was a chance that we could save Dimitri, a chance that I would get the love of my life back and I was relying this all on Adrian.

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