A little earlier than expected but I hurried to put this one out there. tell me what you think. im still not really sure where this story is going... R&R

I woke up in a very strange bed. One that I had never slept in before. I felt different. Everything was heightened. Sight, touch, hearing. I was shocked. My wide scared gaze flittered across the room, stopping only when it was met with a tranquil green one. I took in this man's features and found they were similar to that of Dimitri's except they were softer, not quit as god-like. They were still striking, however.

"I'm his illegitimate brother." That made sense. Wait, was I being that obvious? I blushed. Suddenly I felt a burn at the back of my throat. "Ah, you must hunt." Hunt? Of course, Reed Ivashkov only wanted killers in his army. I didn't want to be like that. But I was so thirsty. He smirked. Suddenly the pain erupted. I clutched my throat and I knew what I had to do. With tears forming in my eyes, I bowed my head when we came to a beautiful man that loped almost identical to Adrian, only he had an even more wicked look about him.

"My, my, you really are a pretty thing. I understand now why my brother kept you for so long." He lifted his nose in the air. Suddenly his eyes flashed to whom I found out was Mikhail. 'Did you bond her?!" Mikhail shook his head. 'My brother did master." My thoughts flashed to Dimitri. What would he think right now? He would hate me if he knew what I was going to do. I was going to kill an innocent person. I really wasn't sure why I cared so much, but my heart broke at the thought of Dimitri hating me. I turned my attention back to the conversation at hand.

"She will forever smell like him! You imbecile!" He turned to me. " I suppose it doesn't matter, your healing powers won't be affected." Healing powers? I was so lost. "You must be hungry." And with that I was taken deep into the woods to a small settlement of native people. I couldn't do this. I thought I was going to be sick. At that moment the smell of copper swirled through my nose. I growled as the untrained hunter within me got ready to eat.

I couldn't recognize myself. I felt fangs poke out from under my lips and together Reed and I charged through the village. I saw a man in the corner of my eye and suddenly my fangs were in his throat. I drank until I was satisfied and then dropped his body. I felt a piece of my humanity fall away, replaced by instincts of a hunter. Oh Dimitri, help me please. I felt tears well up in my eyes.

10 Years Later…

I had been expanding my healing abilities for what seemed like forever. I no longer held any emotions. I don't think I had felt remorse for anyone dying in 8 years. Mikhail was my little bitch of sorts. I used him, threw him away, and he came running back to me every time. As for the war, I only saw injured soldiers, the result of it.

It was a normal day in Reed's village, I was strolling through the village. Thinking about what I wanted for dinner. Unlike the vampires loyal to Adrian, we didn't eat food. We killed ours. We kept no humanity. I was aware the Reed had fell into step beside me. I waited for him to say something but he remained quit. "What do you want?" So I was a little crabby.

"Always happy to see me Rosemarie.' I snarled at his use of my full name. 'I want you fighting tomorrow." I stopped dead in my tracks. "Excuse me?!" He sighed. "Don't think I don't know about your daylight training sessions with the soldiers. I think its time to put your skills to the test."

"And I thank your a pompous asshole who wants to kill the whole world." I held a snarky smirk on my face. His smug expression fell slightly. "Whatever prick. I'll be fresh meat on the frontline tomorrow." I left him standing in the street.

The next morning I lined up along with several hundred other vampires, facing the line of soldiers I used to belong to. The line of soldiers who wanted to keep me weak, as a blood bank. I spat on the ground. I had specially made swords of white ash attached to my back, a knife of white ash on my hip and to guns with white ash bullets loaded.

I snarled. Reed and Adrian seemed to yell at the same time and we all collided in no time. I took down vampires left and right. Stopping to snack every once in a while. My black tank was ripped open, revealing my perfect stomach and black sports bra and my black jeans had rips and tares in them. I huffed and turned to take on the next unlucky victim. What I wasn't prepared for was to come face to face with stunning green eyes.

We both stopped, panting. I remembered every time he would sink his fangs into me and rip my neck, not caring enough to lick them. No he wanted the world to see that I was his bitch. I snarled. It was in vain. Cuffs were clamped on my wrists and my knees were knocked out from under me. Reed's soldiers retreated, Mikhail giving me one glance before disappearing. I snarled. Half in anger, half in pain. I wasn't the person I used to be. Adrian could see that much in my eyes. I was drug from the ground, stakes pointed at me from every angle, cuffs biting my wrists. My throat constricted, and for the first time in 10 years, my charm, strength, and wit couldn't save me.

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What was it about that human that made me care so damn much? I chopped yet another vampires head from its body. I didn't care that much for Tasha. Why her? Why the one that my own damn brother took from me? I snarled in pain and rage. Why did I have to mate with her?! I let my guard down, allowing a young vampire to get a cheap knife through my side. I called out in pain and drove my knife through his heart.

I stopped panting. At the time I hadn't known what had happened. I didn't even know you could mate with a human. But I did. Now she was probably dead. I couldn't save her. She probably had no idea we were mated. Hell it took me 2 years of thinking why I couldn't bond anymore to figure it out. I looked around the field and saw Reed's soldiers had retreated. I began slowly walking off to find Adrian. I didn't really want to go back to that small lonely cabin just to sit and think of what I could have done differently. How I could have saved her. I whimpered to myself, for the millionth time in the last 10 years, missing the woman that captured my soul and didn't even know it.

I composed myself. Not in public. I wouldn't loose control here. I stopped. I lifted my nose to the air. I thought I would never smell that again. I tacked the smell to a trail leading to our camp. What I saw made me stop dead. I let out a strangled sound, that at any other time would have made me weak, but everyone here knew what had happened. They knew I would never go back.

She looked the same from the back, I hadn't seen the front yet. She turned and my heart broke over again. The look in her eyes was a mixture between that of a huntress and that of someone who was scarred.

That night I thought of my poor Roza. There was nothing I could do. She was wing interrogated by soldiers to find out any information she could supply us with. After that was finished I knew she would have trouble with drinking and not killing. I sighed and rubbed a hand over my face.

Some soldier I didn't know started banging on something and it sounded oddly like a drum. Next came a guitar. I shook my head. We had one the battle today and everyone was elated to be going home. Why not? I joined in after a little.

All of the astronauts, Champagne in plastic cups, Waiting for the big hero to show.

Outside the door he stands his head in his heads, and his heart in his throat….

What can he tell 'em now, 'Sorry I let ya down, Sorry it wasn't quite true."

But, Don't get hung up on it, Just soldier on with it. And good luck with shooting the moon.

All the principles, generals, admirals, And the podium lit with the spotlight.

The crowd buzzing quietly, waiting expectantly like it's opening night.

A round of applause went out to all of us and after another shake of the head I stood to leave. On my way to the cabin, thats when I saw it. Rose was standing, facing Adrian and third in command, Christian. She snarled and every time, she was cracked with a whip of ash. I flinched. I stalked over there, grabbing Adrian by the shoulder.

"Give her to me." He opened his mouth as to ask how I was going to get her to cooperate. "Because she has to. She's mine." I whispered under my breath. He nodded. 'Keep her cuffed." I huffed, I still didn't like this getting ordered around thing. I grabbed her arm and hauled her to my cabin. She hadn't fed as much as she was used to, so she was pretty weak.

I sat her down in a chair in the kitchen. Her head was bent, a universal sign of defeat. I sighed. I grabbed a cloth and warm water and went to work on the blood that stained her entire body. She looked up when I got to her face and the veins around her eyes were clearly visible. She was starving. My heart broke, some how I didn't think I could break it anymore. I placed a kiss on her temple and went to get clothes. I came back and she wasn't sitting in the chair anymore. Great. Fucking fantastic. I was going to die. I flashed into the living room and paused to see her looking at something.

It was the picture of Ivan and I a few weeks before he passed. My breathing stopped. I also knew in that picture Tash and Lina were in the background. "You loved her?" Her voice was weak. It wavered and cracked, and I knew her throat was killing her.

"I thought I did. It turns out there was someone more important." Her gaze flashed to meet my steady one. "Why am I so damn drawn to you?!" She screamed. She was loosing it. I let my breath out, how was I going to explain this? She had the look of a terrified animal, she was barring her fangs, panting. To most she would have been a scary sight. She had helped kill thousands of our soldiers. I didn't care. She was my mate and I knew exactly what she was doing. Trying to push me away. She had been unaffected by our mating before because she had yet to be around me as a vampire.

"Tell me! I know your sitting there right now debating on whether you should or not. Just tell me!" I ran a hand threw my hair. I tried to make my voice clear but I knew it was to quit and wavered slightly. "Your my mate, Roza. You weren't affected before because you weren't a vampire." She stood still, something only vampires could do. She stood and looked out through the daylight. 'Your mate?" She was way to quit. Calm. I just nodded. "Well, I think it'll take me a few centuries to get used to that." And with that the cuffs fell to the floor. My jaw dropped. She came over to me and gave me a light peck on the cheek. I bent down as she pulled on my tousled hair and she placed a kiss on my forehead.

"Your leaving?" My voice was strangled. She nodded and exhaled a large breath. "Just for a small while Dimka. I'm going to end this and I'm going to get better. It hurts, to smell the worker here and not rip them to shred, but I know I can't kill them because I was in their position once." She had a small, sad smile on her lips and instinctively I darted out and placed a kiss there, trying to help her, knowing I couldn't do anything. This was all her.

I closed my eyes and I heard the door close. I walked from my cabin as the sun began to set. Camp was a buzz more than normal after a victory. Hmm, curious. Adrian came running at me, a huge grin splitting his face. "I love that mate of yours Dimitri!" I was so lost. I cocked my head sideways, hoping he would elaborate. Instead he handed me a letter.

Dear brother,

I am forced to write this as I am slowly dying. The war is over, we surrender. It turns out killing someone mated to your second in command was a smart idea. For so long I thought my nose was deceiving me, that she wasn't really Belikov's mate. I knew she would be deadly on the field so I made the foolish mistake of letting her go, after 10 years of hiding her from the world.

Sincerely,

Reed Ivashkov

Blood splattered the page and I was thoroughly shocked. She hadn't been kidding. I looked to Adrian before nodding my head, and i ran from the battlefield as fast as I could. I wound up on the steps of my family's large house. I knocked on the door and Viktoria opened it, standing face to face, or face to chest rather. Before I knew it, I was being attacked by a whole herd of females. I laughed and my sullen mood left from Roza being gone, was lifted. Sonya was the first to notice my changed scent. Another squeal was sent through the air. Girls.

"You have a mate?!" "Who is she" "What does she look like?" 'When is she coming home?" Questions flew everywhere, so fast I couldn't keep up. That's when I heard Yeva speak for the first time in 10 years. "She won't come back, will she Dimka? She's left to control herself. She was turned to be used as a weapon by Reed Ivashkov." As nice as it was to hear her voice, I flinched away. After the initial greetings were over, I went back to my room and had a nice hot shower.

Vampires were a lot more advanced, than the other beings at the time. We wore modern clothes, while humans still wore the garments native to the 18th century, the ones taught in history.I sighed as I looked out over the Montana landscape. We had moved again. With the growing population of humans we had to be more secluded. I hadn't seen Roza in 150 years. She had come by to see how I was. Once, I had seen her once in 300 odd years. It was killing me. Adrian had become the equivalent to royalty now. The Strix. Trust Adrian to portray himself as a saint to the humans. He had found that vampires had special powers given to them since the war. I guess you could say He collected them nowadays. I shook my head. I saw snow flurries and sighed. Oh Roza, please come back.

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I walked down the elaborately decorated halls. I mentally eye rolled every time I walked through here, which over the last 200 years since Adrian had built this place, was a lot. I focused back on the traitor walking in front of me. He tried to expose himself, to become more powerful. Well that just wouldn't happen. I was not going to let another terrible war break out. Not if I could help it.

I kicked open the doors to the grand room where Adrian sat, along with Christian, who was now dating my best friend. I changed Lissa around a 100 years ago. She was lying in the street, dying and I was lonely. Since then we had become inseparable. Adrian had left a seat open to his right, in case Dimitri ever wanted to join him. I mentally snorted. Yeah right. Just thinking about him made my heart quiver in anticipation. I stood against the wall, as Adrian took care of the man in front of him. I sighed. Dimitri was due for a visit from me. As screams of a man ricocheted around the room, I made my resolve to travel to Montana, I think it was, tomorrow.

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