Here's chapter 17… kid of on a sad streak here. The next chapter is sad to. So here you go hope you enjoy it

So Weak

Dimitri's POV

The Strigoi put us all in a van. We drove and drove. I looked out the window and saw what looked to be Missoula. They pulled into a parking lot and told us to get out. We did as we were told and they sped off. It was just my family, Eddie, Adrian, and I. We didn't know where Abe and Janine were. And Rose? Rose was gone. She had traded her life for ours.

We looked around us and I saw a pay phone. "Any of you have any money?"

Adrian walked up to me. "I think I have some change." HE reached into his pocket. His hand came back out with a wad of cash. All $20 bills.

"You call that change?" I asked him.

"Well, yah. I mean-"

I shook my head and grabbed the cash. I flipped through it all and 3 quarters fell out of all the green. "Thank god."

"Why don't you want the cash?" Adrian asked.

"Payphones only take change." I talked to him like he was stupid.

"That's stupid." I was about to respond but I decided not to. I went over to the payphone and dialed Alberta's number.

"Petrov." He voice came over the telephone.

"Alberta?"

"Dimitri?"

"Yah."

"Where are you? Is everyone okay? Abe and Janine are here. They told us what happened."

"Oh, thank god. We thought they were dead." I paused. "Can you come and get us?"

"Where are you?" She asked. I told her where we were. We just waited there for her.

A van sped into the parking lot and stopped. Alberta jumped out and rushed over to us. "Is everyone okay?"

"Everyone that's here is." My mother said.

"What?" Alberta looked at everyone. She turned back to me. "Where's Rose?" I couldn't hold it in any longer. I fell to the ground crying. "Oh god." I heard Alberta say. She crouched down and put her and on my shoulder. "Let's get back to the academy Dimitri." I nodded and let her help me up. We all piled into the van and drove off to the academy.

**VA**

"We need to go and get her!" I yelled.

"Yes, Belikov is right." Abe said.

"He is and we need to go now, before they kill her!" Janine said.

We were all sitting in the guardian's conference room. We were debating on how and when to go and get Rose. "She is not an asset to his school or the vampire world. So we will not go and get her." Said a guardian that had been flown in because the attack had killed of so many of the guardians.

"So you will not go and get her then?" I asked outraged.

"No, Mr. Belikov, we will not." He replied.

"That's Guardian Belikov." I growled.

"No, not anymore." I was about to get up and confront him but Abe put his hand on my shoulder.

"We will go ourselves." He whispered to me. "We will save her." HE stood up to address all the guardians. "If anyone wants to help us go save Rose then please let yourself be known."

A few seconds past and Alberta stood up. Then Stan. Then Kirova. At the end of it, almost every guardian and teacher that had taught Rose or ever knew her stood up. "Follow me." Abe said, smiling.

Rose's POV

I stood leaning on the outside of the window. I stared out of the tinted windows, looking for some sort of movement. On the left side of the building I was in, was large, snow capped mountains. On the right, a campus of some sort lined with high fence. I sighed. The door opened behind me and I didn't have to look to see who it was. I heard Nathan's footsteps get closer and closer. He stood behind me and put his hands on either of my shoulders. "Hello Rose." I shivered at his touch. "You're so beautiful." He moved my hair so it was all laying over one of my shoulders so my neck was exposed. "How did someone like you end up with someone like Belikov?" He paused again. "You're too beautiful for him." His voice raised. "You need someone powerful."

"Yah? Like who?" I asked repulsed.

"Like me." He said.

"Even if I didn't want someone with power, why would I want you? You don't have any. You run a tribe of animals." I said still looking out the window.

"But I do have power. I have this type of power." He paused.

"What are you-" His fangs bit into my neck. My body stiffened and I felt the endorphins rush through me. He drank and drank. He lowered me to the ground, with his mouth still on my neck. He laid me all the way on the ground, and removed his mouth from my neck.

He wiped his mouth. And looked down at me. "Sorry, Rose, I think I took a little too much." I tried to move, but I couldn't. I was so weak. He laughed and stroked my hair. "See you soon, Rose." He got up and left, shutting the door behind him.

I just waited until I felt some strength come back to me. I grabbed on to the edge of the window seal and pulled myself up to my feet. I let go of the window seal and fell back down on to my hands and knees. I started to cry. I was so weak. I crawled over to the bed. I clambered up on to it and started to cry harder. How could Dimitri ever love someone as weak as me? I just let Nathan do that to me. And I didn't even try to fight back.

I fell asleep, and didn't dream.

Intense right? Review! Hope you liked it! The next chapter is still sad and it skips sometime so… be prepared.