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Verona started shaking violently as tears started pouring out of her eyes. Marishka came next to her and engulfed her in her arms. Verona wrapped her arms around Marishka as she continued to cry. As Marishka started to cry along with Verona, her tears fell into Verona's hair.

Aleera had leaned her head into Dracula's shoulder and let a few tears fall herself. Dracula wraped an arm around his youngest bride as he watched the other two.

"Aleera, go to your sister, she needs your support now more than ever." Aleera did as she was told and sat on the other side of Verona. She laid her head on Verona's shoulder and hugged her around the mid section.

"Verona….I…"

"Just go," she said in a very sullen tone.

Aleera looked up at her older sister, confused to with the sudden mood swing. Without any warning, Verona whipped around and slapped Aleera on the cheeck, letting her nails dig into her skin. Although the scratch healed up quickly, Aleera was still stunned. She looked back at Verona, who had flames burning in her eyes.

"It is because of you that she is dead!" she screamed at her.

"Verona," Marishka placed her hand on her arm, trying to calm.

Verona ripped her arm away from Marishka. "You share just as much of the blame." Marishka backed away. "Why? Why would you take her there when you yourselves knew the danger?"

"Verona, we didn't know she was following us."

Verona turned back around towards Aleera. She lunged towards her, but was unable to reach her, for she was being held back by Marishka. She tried to free her arms from her, but once she had succedeed, her arm was grasped by Dracula.

"That is enough!" his voice boomed through the room. "Marishka, Aleera, leave us." Marishka nodded her head as she led her and her sister out of the room.

Dracula then turned towards Verona, tears running down her face. He took her in his arms, as she started to cry again. She burried her face into his shoulder as she started to cry even louder. Dracula did not like to see his eldest bride upset, so in an attempt to comfort her, he started stroking her hair.

"Verona, I know how much you loved her. It was obvious to all of us, but there was nothing you could have done."

"I could have watched her better. If only I was faster to react, the holy water wouldn't have hit her, but me instead."

"But then she would have been in the same predicament as you."

"But she would have been alive!" She shouted at him as she pulled herself away from him. "I will never be able to forgive those two. They always seem to bring pain into my life."

"Verona, you can't mean that."

"I do! You do not know the pain that I felt when they came into our family. They ruined our marriage, and now they have killed my daughter!"

"They never ruined our marriage, for I still love you as much as I did from the moment you became my bride. They simply added life to the castle. You will always have a special place in my heart that they will never have, because you will always be my first bride."

"That still does not excuse them from Rose's death."

"Do you think that they would have wanted anything bad to happen to her?" Verona simply crossed her arms and turned in the other direction. "Despite what you think, they loved her very much, even Aleera."

Verona's eyes furrowed, "She is the one I blame the most for this." Dracula placed his hand on Verona's shoulder, but she simply shrugged it off. "Please Vladislaus," this threw Dracula off, for Verona only used his first name when she was very serious, "just let me be. I need some time alone to greive."

Dracula then left the room, leaving Verona to her thoughts. Once the door had been closed, Verona fell to her knees, letting the tears fall freely from her eyes. As she started to cry, her body started to tremble until she was completely shaking from the tears. Verona looked up when she saw a small flash of light. The light of a star had caught the stones in the necklace that was still on the floor.

Verona slowly got up and dried her tears. She then reached over and picked up the necklace. As she held it close to her chest, all the memeorise she had of her daughter started flooding into her mind; in all of them, Rose was always smiling and laughing. Oh how she would miss that laughter. Verona then walked over to the window.

While she stared out at the black sky, she noticed that there was one star that seemed to be shining brighter than the others. When she looked up at it, she noticed that she had never seen that star before. As she continued to look at the star, it seemed to twinkle every few seconds, and when it did the light always seemed to hit the black diamond in the center of the necklace that Verona had in her hands. She looked down at the stone and then back at the star. She smiled to herself slightly, thinking that that star would always be her reminder of Rose. Although she wasn't ready to let go, Verona found a little peace in the fact that her daughter would always be with her and never leave her heart.

Verona turned around towards what was left of her daughter. As she did so, a gust of wind blew into the room, sweeping up the dust into a small cyclone. And what Verona saw made her question her own sanity. For just a split second, there in the cloud of dust, stood Rose, smiling at her, but as quickly as it had come, the image was gone.

Verona hung her head, eyes shut, trying to keep back the tears, but she managed to let one slip out. She then placed the necklace thatt she had in her hands, and placed it on the pillow. She then slowly pulled the drapes to the window shut, and closed the door. Then, without a sound, Verona left Rose's room for the last time and walked to her own, where she layed down in her coffin and cried herself to sleep.

I hope you liked it. Yes, I know it was short, but I wanted to update before I left for the holidays. So please review and everyone have a happy holidays!