Rpov

You know when you have a really bad nightmare, where youre running away or fighting something off and youre sweating really bad, the adrenalin is pumping and then something huge happens that shocks you awake? Thats what it felt like.

My eyes shot open with a start, almost like I had been electrocuted or something. Whipping my head around wildly, taking in my surroundings. I was laying on the ground, panting hard. I squeezed my eyes shut as my head pounded and my body ached. What had happened? The Last thing I remember... That black haired strigoi... He... He bit me!

My eyes flew open and I launched myself up off the ground. My hand went to my neck as I spun in a slow circle looking all around me. Where was he? Where did he go? I had to kill him for what he did!

"Rose...?" Eddie coughed from his position against the building. I whirled on him about to assault him with questions when I abruptly froze. Anger bubbled up in my mind taking over all other emotion. Eddie had been useless, hed been beaten far too easily. He just lay there and watched Dimitri almost die. He was a useless guardian! My fists clenched into tight balls as I thought of him just laying there when the strigoi had held Dimitri about to kill him. He deserved to die...

Wait.. What?! No! Eddie was like my brother, what am I thinking?

As I looked at him my eyes wandered over his beaten, bruised and bloody body... Blood... My eyes lingered on the crimson blood that was caked on his forehead. I could smell the tangy iron scent and I realised that it appealed to me. I imagined what it would feel like... What it would taste like... I felt a slight pop in my mouth, surprised, I immediately ran my tongue over the area. I could feel long, sharp extended fangs...

Fangs?!

My mouth dropped open and my eyes widdened. The last thing I remember was that strigoi biting me... He had wanted me and Dimitri... Oh god.

Everything suddenly fell into place in my head. My worse nightmare had become a reality... I was strigoi!

I closed my eyes, running over everything I knew about strigoi, everything that I had learned at the academy and since then. They were unfeeling, emotionless, soulless, evil beings who killed for the sake of killing.

I couldnt believe it, how could this happen!? How could my life be turned so suddenly inside out and upside down. Everything had been perfect a couple of hours ago, and now... Now my life was over. I was, for all intense purposes, dead.

I heard a groan behind me, my body tensing. I knew who it came from instantly but I couldnt make myself turn towards him. I couldnt let him see me like this.

"Rose... Rose, thank god youre ok." he half groaned, half whispered. I must not be fully turned yet because my heart clenched in heart wrenching pain as he spoke, he thought I was fine, he thought everything was ok. How wrong he was...

Eddie was still looking at me, his eyes wide with terror as he trailed up and down my body, landing lastly on my face. His eyes locked with mine and I saw the sorrow and the ache in his eyes as he took in my changed appearance. Well I hadnt seen myself yet, but I could only assume that he was seeing the pale white skin and the now red ringed eyes.

"Rose?" Dimitri questioned again obviously confused as to why I hadnt yet turned and gone to him. I squeezed my eyes shut, I couldnt face him, I refuse to let him see me like this.

"Dimitri... Look after Alexavier... Promise me." I whispered still looking at Eddie.

"What?... Rose what are..."

with my increased hearing I could hear him struggling to lift himself off the ground.

I got angry then, "Promise me! Dimitri Belikov promise me you will protect our son with everything you have" I yelled at him. My fists clenching at my sides as I tried to control myself.

"I... Of course, I told you before WE will protect him..." He said, I could hear the confusion in his voice as he tried to work out where I was going with this.

"good." I barely whispered, and then just as I heard him take a step towards me, I took off into the trees. I couldnt stay here, I was a strigoi now, I was dangerous and I couldnt put my loved ones in danger like that. I refused to, even if I was evil now, I would do everything within my power to stay away from them so I couldnt harm them.

What a messed up situation Im in now. I didnt know where exactly I was going, just that I needed to run. Run as far and as fast as I could. The priority at the top of my list right now though... Find and kill that bastard strigoi who did this to me.

DPOV

I struggled to open my eyes, they felt so heavy and my body felt so weak. I forced my self to concentrate on what was going on around me. There was barely any sounds, no movement that I could hear. I tried to think back to what had happened before I blacked out... I remembered being held by the strigoi, and his cold breathe on my neck as he sunk his fangs in... And then nothing... I just blacked out... But did that mean I was dead? Or worse?

I decided straight away that I couldnt be dead since my body ached so badly... So was I one of them?... I groaned as I lifted one arm, it was still an olive tan colour... I ran my tongue along my teeth, no fangs...So I wasnt a strigoi? I let out a breathe that I didnt even realise I had been holding.

I turned my head to the side, looking for some telling of what was going on and was surprised to see my Roza standing a little way away facing Eddie who was still slumpt against the wall.

I couldnt understand the expression on his face. He looked scared, terrified almost and a hint of saddness was in his eyes...

"Rose... Rose, thank god youre ok." I managed to croak out. I watched as her body tensed fractionally, but what surprised me was that she didnt turn to me, she barely even acknowledged me.

"Rose?" I asked again, maybe she just hadnt realised it was me...

She still didnt turn to me as she whispered her next sentence "Dimitri... Look after Alexavier... Promise me."

I was totally confused, why was she saying this to me? Why did she want me to promise her something like that? She knows I would lay my life down for him, and for her. So why was she asking me again? And why now?

"what?...Rose what are..." I tried to get up as I spoke but she cut me off,

"Promise me! Dimitri Belikov promise me you will protect our son with everything you have!" the fierce uncontrolled anger in her voice shocked me, ive never heard her like that... Not even when the darkness took hold...

"I... Of course, I told you before WE will protect him..." I spoke slightly louder then I had been before. I didnt know where she was going with this, but for her to talk this way I could only think the worst... What was she planning? What happened to make her act like this?

"Good." was all she whispered, I took a small step towards her, I was going to make her tell me what was wrong, to tell me why she refused to look at me.

But then...just like that... She was gone.

I stood there staring after her, or atleast the area in the trees that had suddenly swayed when she disappeared. I stood with one arm raised, as if I might be able to pull her back with just that motion.

My mind was racing, I couldnt understand what had just happened... She left? Shes gone? Why? What has happened to my Roza?

"Dimitri..." Eddie groaned against the wall, dragging my gaze from the trees to his beaten face. He still wore the same look as he had before, and I still could not understand it... But now, when I looked I noticed the streaks down his cheeks... He was crying?!

Thats when something in my mind clicked. I dont know how I came to the conclusion... But something in me told me that it was correct...Her reluctance to look at me... Her sudden burst of anger... Her speed when she left...

"no..." I whispered, complete and utter pain lacing my tone as I stared at Eddies face. He just closed his eyes and nodded twice slowly.

I couldnt handle it, I dropped to my knees and slammed my fists into the ground. The pain and heartache was overwhelming as I realised what had just happened...

The love of my life... The mother of my son... My beloved Roza... Was a strigoi.

Dont shoot me!

I know its sad :( but theres a light at the end of every tunnel :)

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