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Dimitri's POV

On arrival, I had watched them throw the unconscious girls into a dark room. I watched them throw Rose, my Rose. The anger had built up in me so much that I acted out, throwing a hard punch into the face of the closest Strigoi. I caught them by surprise and when they turned to directly face me, I hit them again. They fell to the ground and I stood there, looking towards the girl's room. They had just locked the door, meaning I couldn't see her anymore. Two Strigoi came up behind me and knocked me to the ground, tying something around my arms and legs so that I couldn't move.

I growled but they didn't release me. Soon enough, they threw me into my own cell and left me tied up. I tried getting free but it didn't work. So, I just lay there, feeling more useless than I ever had before. I thought about Rose. And then fell asleep.

When I woke up, I was still tied up. I had no idea of how long I had been sleeping. I rolled over and felt a shooting pain in my back. I had slept in a very bad position. Then, the last thing that I was expecting, I felt something in my pocket. I twisted my arms around so that I cold check what it was and slipped my fingers into my pocket. When I brought my hand out, I saw my stake. Wow, they must have been stupid to leave me with that, they were about to find out about the big mistake that they had made. I used the stake to untie myself and stood up. My body felt free as I did so.

I saw a stool in the corner of the room and sat on it, planning my escape. I knew that before I cold leave, I have to get Roza, whether I survived that or not didn't matter as long as Roza was safe.

Hours passed in absolute silence. The creaking sound of the metal door opening made me look up. Who was it? I nearly laughed when I saw who they had put in to join me.

"Trust you to be the one locked up in here with me, Roza" I said, briefly chuckling.

I saw her turn her head sharply, and she stood up. She was looking at me in shock.

"Dimitri? Is that you?" she asked curiously.

"Who else is it going to be?" I said, smiling.

"Oh my God, are you okay?" She ran over to me and wrapped her arms around my chest. I inhaled her sweet scent and hugged her back.

"I'm fine, Roza. What about you? Did they hurt you?" She sobbed and unwrapped her arms.

"I'm fine now that I'm with you." I smiled and I replied.
"Isn't that a bit cheesy for you, of all people, to be saying?"

She threw a joke punch into my stomach and I heard her chuckling. I leant in and planted a passionate kiss onto her lips. She kissed me back with desperation and pure love. "I love you, Roza" I said.

She looked up, into my eyes. "I love you too, Comrade"

We spent what felt like hours explaining to each other what had happened and telling each other how much we loved each other.

"But how did you survive? I saw that Strigoi bite you." She said caringly.

"Yes, he did bite me, but I heard them saying that I was a good fighter and that they could use me as a Strigoi." She straightened up immediately and looked as though she was going to hit someone.

"What?! How could they? You would rather be dead than Strigoi! And I won't let them do that to you, you'll stay with me, as a dhampir because I love you and we still have a life to live together!" she shouted.

I was shocked. She really did want to spend the rest of her life with me. "But Roza, you know that we can't. We have to be guardians."

"Yes, but we can still be around each other as Lissa's guardians. Oh my god!"

"What is it Roza? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. But I need to sleep."

"What? What are you on about? We shouldn't be sleeping; we should be planning our escape, together!"

"I need to speak to Adrian!"

"Oh yeah" I said sarcastically "speaking to the flirty royal who is in love with you will really help!" I hadn't meant to sound so judgemental and harsh, but Adrian made me angry. She always wanted to talk to him.

"Dimitri!" she gasped. "How can you say that? Adrian is an ass! He's immature and has a crush on me. It doesn't mean that I return the feelings! And I sure as hell don't! I love you"

I had no idea what had come over me.

"I'm so sorry Roza; I didn't mean to upset you. For a moment then I just couldn't control myself."

Her face straightened again and I sighed.

"I am truly sorry, love."

"It's okay. I just need to tell him that we are alive and see if they can help us."

I kissed her on the lips, just short and sweet, and then she walked over to the darker end of the cell.

"Watch me, will you? I don't want anybody coming in and taking me again."

"Of course, I would never take my eyes off you in your sleep."

And with that, she fell asleep.

Whilst she was asleep, I kept my eyes on her. I heard her mutter my name a few times and it made me smile. But I became suddenly furious, as I had earlier, when I heard her mutter a different name.

"Adrian . . . I love you . . . Adrian"

What?! She loved Adrian? The same Adrian that just hours ago she had called an immature ass? My face tightened and I turned around and punched the wall. It hurt like hell but I had to do something and I feared that if I hadn't hit the wall, I would have hit her. I stood up, turned around and started running round the cell, trying to use as much energy as possible. Usually I would oppose to this, but energy just made me angrier.

I stopped running and went over to the door. I could see shadows from under the door, and heard voice. Two of them, but one was a girl. Usually I heard male Strigoi's.

"Galina, she's in there with the skilled guardian. They didn't fight like I thought they would, I think that they are in love. But I'll be surprised if he hasn't tried to kill her yet, he overheard her dreaming."

"What are you talking about, Nathan?"

"She said that she loves someone else in her sleep. And he didn't sound too pleased about it."

"Well well well . . . It looks like he could be of more use to use then we thought."

They went quiet for a few moments and then continued.

"I think that once we've turned him, he might be able to help us turn her. She is also skilled." The female said.

Wait, what was her name? Galina?

That was the name of my old instructor, she was Strigoi! And she wanted to turn me into one too. I didn't want to be Strigoi, even if it was go get Rose back for what she said. They must have left because by the time I started listening again, it was silent.

I heard rustling from the other side of the room and Rose sat up, looking at me sleepily.

"Hey" she said

I turned away from her and stood by the door.

"Hello? I am here you know" she sounded slightly curious and I presumed that it was because I was ignoring her.

I continued to ignore her and I heard her stand up and walk over to me.

"Are you okay? Why are you ignoring me?"

I turned and faced her. "I think that you know the answer to that yourself. If not, why don't you fall asleep again and carry on talking about how much you love your precious Adrian!"

"What?!" she sounded angry.