This chapter is a little boring, but well, she needed to know her friends still loved her. Anyways, read, enjoy and review!

Chapter 17-

I felt a warm hand squeezing mine. "Sam, are you waking up? Can you hear me?"

I slowly pealed my eyes open and groaned. I had a headache from hell and my entire body felt like I had been hit by a bus. "Damn Adrian, I appreciate you bringing me back from the dead and all, but couldn't you have healed some of the pain away." I heard laughing and looked over at him. "Not funny, Adrian. I hurt like hell." I took a deep breath and winced as pain shot through my chest. "Mmm… I think I should have stayed dead. At least there was no pain."

The door to my room opened and in walked Stan, Dimitri, Lissa, Christian, Eddie and Rose. They all had stupid grins on their faces and I really wanted to just deck them, but I hurt to bad to even try. "It's nice to see you up," Stan said coming over to sit next to me. "Yeah, we thought you would never wake up," Eddie added.

"How long was I out for?"

"Two days."

I looked over at Lissa wide eyed. "Two days?"

"Yeah, you were hilarious when you first came back to life. You thought angels were talking to you and you were pretty mad at them."

I glared over at Christian. "I did no such thing."

"Yeah you did," Lissa said.

I glared at them and sat up. "Well, since I slept for two days, I'm outta here." I through my feet over the side of the bed and was trying to hop down when Adrian and Stan pushed me back down. "Oh no you don't Sam. Not until the doctor gives you a clean bill of health." Stan stroked my hair back giving me one of his fatherly smiles.

"I actually hate to agree with him Sam, actually it's killing me, but he is right." Stan shot a glare in Adrian's direction. "If you are going to be my guardian, I need you strong."

"Yeah, no doubt," I snorted. "I have a feeling that I'm going to be defending you from more than just Strigoi."

Everyone laughed. "Yeah, she's back," Rose said coming over to give me a hug. "Don't you ever scare us like that again."

"I tell you what you let me out of here so I can get back to training and I'll do my best not to die again."

Dimitri shook his head. "Sam, you have to rest. It's a good thing we knew you would try something like this. You are way too much like Rose."

"What do you mean?"

"Well we all figured you would try to bolt," Adrian said. "So I asked them all to help me keep you from hurting yourself."

"We are all taking shifts watching you," Lissa said. "Rose and I are going to alternate days sleeping in your room and the guys are going to alternate watching your door, just in case you decided to sneak out while we are sleeping."

"You have got to be kidding me," I said exasperated.

"Nope, you're stuck with us until the doc gives you the all clear."

I sighed. "Guys can I talk to Guardian Alto and Belikov alone for a moment."

My friends all nodded and filed out of the room. "We'll be right outside when you're done," Eddie said kissing the top of my head. I nodded and gave him a smile as he shut the door behind him.

Dimitri came forward and stood on the other side of my bed. "Sam, what is it?" he asked.

I looked at my hands. "I'm not sure where to even begin. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for everything. I didn't even realize I was outside of the schools wards until it was too late. I should have never taken off." I buried my head in my hands as the tears began to stream down my face. "I put everyone in danger. You could have been killed and it would have been my entire fault."

I felt Stan push my hair back. "Sam, it was an accident. No, you should not have taken off like that, but we are just happy that you are okay. And no one would have been killed. Remember the Strigoi can't get past the wards and there was only one of them and ten of us. We were fine."

I looked back up at them and wiped my eyes. "I don't know if I can do this. I love it here, but I don't know if I will ever be strong enough to be a guardian. I mean look what happened."

Dimitri smiled. "Sam, you fought and staked a Strigoi in the heart. You have never even been trained to fight with anything other than what you were born with, yet you managed to find a weapon, and use it to your advantage. We have students that have been here since they were in kindergarten, that wouldn't have been able to do what you did. Most would have been killed before they could have even run."

"Sam," Stan said. "When you are feeling better and cleared, I would like to add even more practices if you are up to it. I think it's time that you learned how to use a stake and any other type of weapon you may be able to find properly. Guardian Belikov and I will alternate trainings with you. Would you like that?" I nodded fighting the tears that threatened to fall again. They smiled. Stan patted my hand and got up. "I'll go get Doctor Olendski and see about getting you out of here."

A little while later all my friends made their way back in to help me get back to my dorm which I was very grateful for. I was looking forward to a little bit of normalcy, until I remembered that I would have babysitters for the next three to four weeks.

Push the damn green button. Something magical will happen if you do...okay probably not, but still if you love me and Sam then you will review. she's starting to get a complex. Have you seen how sarcastic she is getting. Jeeze, help a girl out and just tell her you love her will ya!