Rose POV

I knew he was watching me. I had expected him to do as such. Although I hated that he was worrying about me, I understood why. Anyone could die here, even the strongest of us all. I was worried as well; a lot of people had died already both Moroi and Dhampir. There was no way we could've gotten through this without a majority of us not getting killed or injured.

I looked around and saw that Christian was staring at me after I had killed yet another Strigoi. Our eyes connected, as if we could read each others mind. I knew how he was feeling and he knew how I was feeling; worried. We were both worried that we weren't going to make it through the night.

Worst of all, if I hadn't distracted him he wouldn't have been attacked by this brown-headed Strigoi. If only he had turned around when I had told him to.

The Strigoi had turned around from where he had killed a Moroi, setting his eyes on Christian. The Strigoi had seen Christian's moment of weakness and started walking towards us. "Christian!" I screamed as the Strigoi started running towards us while Christian had still been totally unaware of the danger.

Christian had tried to turn around in time to defend himself but he had been too late, the Strigoi had clashed into him and thrown him onto the ground. Christians head smashed into the concrete as I ran towards the Strigoi with my stake in my hand. I jumped on top of the brown-headed Strigoi, trying my hardest to get a clear view of his heart. I knew it would be close to impossible to be able to strike him straight in the heart so I stabbed the stake into his neck, hoping that while he was distracted with the pain I could get him in the heart.

As the Strigoi continued to shriek in pain from the blow, I twisted my body around so that I could see a perfect view of his heart. Without any hesitation I pierced my stake through his heart making sure it goes all the way so he can't revive. The Strigoi cried out in pain as I ran over to Christian and made sure that he was okay.

"Christian." I could see that he was bleeding from his head. I panicked, not sure if I could move him or not. We were in the middle of the battle and I needed to get him to Lissa straight away without actually moving his body. Christian moaned as I rubbed his back, not sure how I was going to help him if I couldn't move him. "Christian, please. I can't leave you here." There was no way in hell I was about to leave him in the middle of all the shit that was happening now, even if it meant I could get to Lissa. "Fuck" I looked around and saw Adam, one of Christian's students.

Adam looked like he had been through hell, literally. There was blood all over him that I hoped wasn't his, there was scratch marks over his face from Strigoi and he looked like he was about to give up. "Adam" I screamed at him, realizing that he was fighting with a Strigoi at the moment. As he looked around the Strigoi that he had been fighting with took the opportunity to punch Adam in the face.

Acting on basic instincts that was natural to me I quickly ran over to Adam. I used all the force I could gather to knock him down on the ground, my whole body was on top of him as I started punching and kicking with all my might. Despite my efforts, the Strigoi looked only a little bit hurt.

The Strigoi pushed me off of him and I was thrown in the air like a puppet. I landed twenty feet back from where Adam was, who was now struggling to get up onto his feet. Running full force at the Strigoi, I collided into his rock hard body which barely moved an inch.

Luckily, while the Strigoi was distracted by me plummeting into him Adam, which was now standing strong behind the Strigoi, easily plunged his stake into the Strigoi instantly killing him.

Breathing heavily as the Strigoi fell to my feet; I looked up at Adam who looked as bad as I felt. "Adam, you have to go find Lissa so she can help Christian." He nodded, confused for some reason. Maybe he didn't know about Lissa's abilities? Or maybe he didn't even know who Lissa was?

"I can go get Lissa but where's Christian?" I looked around wildly and found that Christian was nowhere to be seen. The strigoi's had taken him while I had been defending Adam.

No this could not be happening. Not now, not ever. Why did they have to take him? Why couldn't they take me or someone else? Why would they even take him in the first place? No!

"What's wrong Rose?" I could only faintly hear Adam's voice as I was beginning to ponder on how to get him back here safely. I didn't even know where they would take him or what they would do to him. Please, for the love of god don't let them turn him. If they turned him that would be it. He would be as good as dead only alive and killing innocent people.

"Rose? Rose, what's wrong?" Adam took me by my shoulder and turned me around to face him. His face, which was scrunched up with worry, was bleeding from the Strigoi's blow. His body was battered and bruised, unlike mine which was still ready to fight, but I couldn't when Christian's out there being possibly turned.

"Christian." I whispered as if he could read my mind and tell what was wrong with the picture. I looked around and sure enough, everyone was still fighting oblivious to the missing person I was so worried about.

"What about Christian? Is he hurt? Lissa can help him."

"No she can't. Yes, Christian is hurt but guess what he isn't here because they took him. THEY TOOK HIM!" I screamed in his face. I knew taking my anger out on him was unjustifiable and stupid but I couldn't help it. I had no idea where they were taking Christian and I had no clue how to help him. He was injured for god's sakes!

Adam looked at me with big eyes. "We can find him Rose." A tear leaked from my eye as the possibility of never seeing him came into my mind.

How the hell were we supposed to find him?