I got so encouraged by you guys to write more, that I sat down and wrote another thousand words. I want to thank everyone who followed, favorited and reviewed. I was really surprised and happy someone liked it. Here is the next chapter, hope you like it!


'After sleeping five hours, I was awoken by a nightmare. I sat up panting, trying to force the memories about strigoi Dimitri out of my head. When I calmed down enough to stop crying and heaving for my breath, I got out of bed and decided to look around and find food. I hadn't eaten much breakfast, so I was starving. As I limped my way through the train, I got a new bunch of weird looks. I just tried to ignore them and find what I set out to find. Food.

When I reached the buffet, I sat down at one of the barstools to wait for a waiter. I put my elbows on the table in front of me and put my head in my hands. I was still shaken from my nightmare and didn't quite perceive that someone poked me in the shoulder.

"Uumh, miss?" I looked up and to my right, where there sat a young man with a concerned look on his face.

"Yes?" I took in his appearance. He was average height, blond and had blue eyes. Oh and he was a dhampir.

"Are you okay? Do you need help contacting an Academy?" He knew I was a Dhampir and he guessed I wasn't old enough to be out of training. Shit.

"I'm fine. I'm on a mission" I lied. I tried to sound dismissive and hoped he would leave me alone. He apparently wouldn't.

"Okay, what mission?" He tried to look intimidating as if he could scare me to tell him.

"What does it matter? I don't even know your name" I looked at him with a tired expression, wondering if I could pity him into leaving me alone. He still wouldn't let it go.

"Well, my name is Aiden, what's yours? It matters because you could be lying. You could be in trouble or on the run from your Academy. And I can't help you if I don't know what's going on" He sounded genuinely concerned and I decided to give him a half-truth.

"My name is Rose and I'm on my way to tell a family, that their son and brother, has died" He looked surprised and opened his mouth to say something, but before he could, the waiter came and asked what we would like in a chirpy voice. I ordered a very big brunch and Aiden just ordered a coffee. After the waiter left, his nice smile he had put on for the waiter fell and he turned serious again.

"Why would you travel all the way to Russia to deliver that message? You sound American, so you must have travelled a long way" He looked surprised I would travel that far, but of course, he didn't know that I knew Him.

"I knew him. He was my mentor. And I just wanted to deliver the news personally" I felt tears built in my eyes, but I pushed them down. Just thinking about Him dying (both the battle and me staking him), made me want to break down crying.

"Oh. I'm very sorry for your loss" he looked unsure of what to say. Maybe he saw that I cared about Him a little too much. We sat in silence for a couple of minutes, before the waitress came back with what we had ordered.

"Where are you headed?" It looked like he wanted to ask more, but held back.

"Baia" I wasn't sure I should give him more information, I didn't trust him. But if it came down to a fight I could hold my own and I would make sure he knew it too.

"What's your mentor's name? I may know him; I know many people from there. I grew up there" I decided to tell him, he seemed trust worthy. Not that I trusted him.

"Dimitri Belikov" I choked out. It was the first time I had said his name since talking to strigoi him. I hadn't even thought of his name. It hurt me to the core to say his name. As I came out of my thoughts, I saw the pain on Aiden's face. He looked sad and lost. He knew Him. "You knew him, didn't you?" I could see the pain in his eyes.

"I… Yeah, yeah I did. We went to school together for years, we still kept in touch. I was actually getting worried; I haven't talked to him in a few weeks. What happened to him?" He looked pained. If Dimitri deemed Aiden trust worthy, then I knew I could trust him.

So I told him everything. That I already had told the Belikovas that Dimitri was dead, but not really dead; a strigoi. I told him what happened with the unpromised guys I had met and about hunting with them. How I had failed Dimitri's first lesson; don't hold back. I didn't tell him about the biting, but I did tell I escaped and staked Dimitri. That Dimitri was dead. Really dead.

Surprisingly it felt really good to talk about it. To tell someone. After I told him everything, he sat in shocked silence, processing. Then he thanked me. I couldn't say I wasn't surprised, but I understood what he was thanking me for. He was thanking me for saving Dimitri from a horrible fate. After all that he steered our conversation to more lighter subjects. We talked about where I came from, where he came from. How I met Dimitri and how Aiden met him. We shared our good memories about Dimitri and came to know each other.

When the train came to his stop he had to get off, but before he left we exchanged numbers. I had a feeling we could be good friends and right now I needed as many friends as I could get.


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