Happy Labor Day! I hope it's fun! I know I'll have fun, sitting on my ass all day. Lol :) But anyways, I was in a writing mood, so here's chapter 32 :) Chapter 33 might be posted today or tomorrow night :) Enjoy!

~ Day 4 Of Prison, Rose's POV ~

I'm honestly starting to think I'm going mad. I have no idea if it's day or night, what time it is, nothing. Sometimes I forget where I am until Lacey or Caleb come into the room to talk to me. I really hope Adrian gets the information to Dimitri, Lissa and my mom so I can get the hell out of here. Last night Adrian wasn't in my dreams, so I'm guessing he'd gotten the information to them and they're getting rest so they can rescue me, or he's being an asshole and playing games with me. But then again, how else would he know that I'm gone and that I'd gone into the basement door with Lacey?

"Good morning Rose," Lacey said as she opened the door to my room.

"Morning.."

"What do you want to eat? I'm leaving soon."

"Just chocolate donuts."

"Okay. Don't cause Caleb any trouble while I'm gone."

"I'm 8 months pregnant, what am I going to do?"

"Good point. Bye!"

She left and I was alone again. I could hear Caleb snoring in the other room. When is he going to bite me again? Stop it Rose! I yelled at myself. You do not want to be bitten, even if it gives you a great high. You don't need it. It's gross. He's a nasty Strigoi. I don't want him near me. As if he could hear my thoughts, he came into the room, smiling at me.

"Good morning Rose. Lacey's gone, can I have a taste?"

"No!" I said as I scooted on the bed as far as I could away from him.

But scooting only made him cross the room over to the bed, getting closer to me.

"Like I said the other day...we can do this the easy way or the hard way. You taste so good dhampir. I want more."

"I don't want you to bite me."

"Why not? You didn't mind Lissa biting you those 2 years the 2 of you ran away from the Academy. How is this any different?"

"You're a nasty Strigoi."

He'd gotten this evil look in his eyes. He lunged at me, sinking his claws into my arms.

"Now goddamnit Rose, what did I tell you? Strigoi's aren't nasty. If anything, you blood whores are the nasty ones."

"I am NOT A BLOOD WHORE!"

"Admit it Rose, you are one. You love being bit. You like the sensation. You can't get enough of it. Now cooperate with me and let me bite you!"

"No!"

His claws sunk in deeper, his face inches from mine. I whimpered from the pain. "Yes, Rose. I'm going to bite you regardless. Now be a good girl and let me bite you. Now."

Knowing there wasn't any way I would win, I gave up and pushed my hair back, exposing my beck.

"Good girl..." Caleb said as he dipped his fangs into my neck.

~ Dimitri's POV ~

It was 8 A.M., in just a few minutes we would be at the secretary building, getting ready to go in there and down to the basement to get Rose. Janine and I were eating breakfast while Lissa was still upstairs in the guest room, asleep. Adrian crashed on the couch. As soon as we finished, I grabbed the keys and we headed out to the car. I started the car and pulled out of the drive way.

"Are you nervous?" Janine asked, looking over at me.

"A little. But relieved because I'll be able to see Rose."

"I bet. I'm relieved too. I honestly thought it'd take weeks to find her."

"Part of me did too. We had no evidence whatsoever of where she would be at, and it'd take weeks of sitting in that building, looking for a sign."

"And before we saw them, they'd probably see us and move her somewhere else."

"Probably. But I'm so thankful for Adrian. I don't want her giving birth to my daughter without me there, let alone in a basement with strangers who want to kill her."

"As much as I didn't like him at first, I'm thankful for him too. He helped us find Rose."

"And now it's time to go rescue her," I laughed. "I feel like prince charming or something."

She laughed. "Only difference is you're already married and she's carrying your child."

I smiled. "Yeah."

I pulled into a parking lot in front of the building and looked around for anything weird around. When I didn't see anything, we got out of the car and walked into the building. We stood in front of Valerie's desk and she smiled up at us.

"Good morning!"

"Good morning. We know where she is."

She looked around and whispered, "Really?"

"Yes. She's through the doors by the elevator," I whispered back. "We're going to go get her. In 5 minutes I want you to announce a fire alarm or something so everyone will be out of the building."

"Okay, I can do that."

"Thank you."

~ Rose's POV ~

I was finally getting over Caleb's bite. I was still sitting on the bed, eating a chocolate donut. Lacey was pissed off that Caleb had bitten me again, so they were in the other room, arguing. I laughed to myself. I feel like a child dealing with parents that fight a lot.

"Better than my parents," I said to myself. "They've never been in a real relationship."

A fire alarm went off, scaring the living hell out of me. Lacey and Caleb came into the room.

"What're we going to do?" I said, looking at them.

"We're just going to stay down here. They always have practice fire alarm emergencies. Especially when there's new workers."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes! Just trust me!"

We were all sitting in my room, waiting for the practice alarm to be over when the door on the top of the stairs was busted open. A few seconds later, you could hear 2 people running down the stairs to where were are.

"We need to go see who that is Caleb!"

They shut my door behind them and hurried over to the larger area of the basement. All I could hear was Caleb snarling like a dog. I told him Strigois are nasty.

~ Dimitri's POV ~

We were standing outside of the basement door and Valerie pulled a fire alarm practice or whatever. I really hope she doesn't get in big trouble for this. Or even fired. I'd feel so bad for including her in this.

"Are you ready Dimitri?"

"I think so. Are you?"

"Yes. I asked because you looked distanced."

"Oh, sorry. Let's go down there."

At the same time, we kicked the door, busting it open. It smacked the door behind it and we both quickly ran down the stairs to the basement. The 2 of them beat us, though, and we were standing 10 feet away from Lacey, the woman Rose was with in the video, and a Strigoi..?! How in the hell did a Strigoi get into the Court?!

Janine was thinking the same thing, but of course being herself, she said it out loud. "How in the hell did a Strigoi get into the Court?!"

Lacey smirked. "It was hard, but I managed getting him down here without anyone noticing he was a Strigoi."

"And you've been living down here with this nasty thing?"

The Strigoi snarled at Janine while Lacey glared at her.

"Caleb is NOT NASTY! What is with you and your daughter calling him nasty?! HE'S NOT!"

I spoke up. "Where's Rose?"

She smiled. "In the other room, but you can't have her."

"Neither of you bit her, did you?"

Caleb smirked. "I did."

I went at him, getting ready to hit him, push him, anything. But he anticipated my move. In a matter of seconds, he had me down on the floor on my stomach, one of my arms pinned to my back. Then without any communication, Janine came at him with a stake she had in her pocket always. I just knew to distract him, and she just knew to go at him with her stake. We had the element of surprise with Lacey, since she's only a Moroi, so she couldn't stop Janine before she staked him. She drove her stake deep into his heart, and his grip on me loosened. I quickly got off of the floor and Caleb was on his back, his face filled with shock and death.

"NO!" Lacey shrieked, tears in her eyes. "Why did you do that?!"

She lunged at Janine, but I had her arms pinned behind her back, unable to move well.

"He would've killed you after killing Rose, Lacey," Janine said, walking over to us.

"No he wouldn't have! He said he was going to turn me into a Strigoi so we can be together!"

"Yes, he would have Lacey. Strigoi mostly work alone. He used you so he could get to Rose. He can't go out and look for her, you can. He only wanted you so he could get to Rose and kill her for some prize in the Strigoi world."

"How do you know about the prize?"

"There's a price on my head too. Rose and I are skilled guardians. Every Strigoi wants us dead."

"Well you deserve to be dead! You killed Caleb!"

"I saved yours and my daughter's lives. I think you should thank us."

"No!"

"Alright, I'll have to turn you into the police and they'll deal with you."

"No!" Lacey yelled at Janine, but she was already dialing 911.

"Cover her mouth so she doesn't try screaming things for the police to hear."

I covered her mouth with a cloth that was on the floor. She wiggled, trying to resist it but I put it over her mouth anyways. In a matter of seconds, she looked dazed and slowly sinked to the floor. Janine looked at me weird then tried talking to the police while helping me tie Lacey up. Soon she was done with the police and hung up.

"How did she pass out?"

"I don't know. I put the cloth to her face and she passed out."

She grabbed the cloth and sniffed it. She made a face.

"Some chemical I'm not familiar with. They probably used it on Rose too to get her to shut up and sleep so they didn't have to deal with her."

"We need to go find Rose. She has to be around here somewhere."

"Let's go," she said as we stood up.

~ Rose's POV ~

I started to worry. The only things I've heard from the other room is Caleb's snarling and Lacey screaming twice. What if it wasn't Dimitri and them coming for me? What if it was Strigoi that knew I was here, coming to kill them and have me for themselves? I tried calming down, leaning back against the wall. After a few minutes I noticed that the bed felt damp. Did I scare the pee out of myself or something? I tried moving over, but I had a big pain in my back. I screamed. Oh my god, I'm in labor! How is this possible?! I'm only 8 months pregnant! I leaned back against the wall, trying to just breath and calm myself down. Dimitri isn't here and I'm in labor. What am I going to do?! I can't get this baby out by myself!

"Rose?" I heard someone yell from the other room. It almost sounded like my mom.

"Hurry!" I yelled back.

I soon figured out I was right, it was my mom. I started crying.

"Oh, Rose! Are you okay?"

"No! I'm in labor!"

She had a panicked look on her face. She ran out of the room, bringing Dimitri in with her. The tears ran down my face harder. He hugged me so tight, I thought I was going to explode.

"Dimitri she's in labor."

He let go of me and looked at me. I shook my head, confirming that I am in labor. He smiled and kissed me.

"We need to hurry to the hospital. Janine, help me carry her up the stairs."

"Shouldn't we wait until the police get here? They can help us carry her."

He looked at me. "Can you wait a little longer for the police to come?"

"I think so."

"They shouldn't be too long."

Dimitri sat down next to me, holding my hand while my mom was pacing the room. I really wish she would stop. It's only making me more nervous. Soon we heard footsteps quickly coming down the stairs.

"That'd be the police. I'll be right back."

My mom left and the 2 of us just sat there.

"So did Caleb really bite you..?"

I looked at Dimitri, him looking back at me. In response, I moved my hair, showing him the bite marks. He closed his eyes.

"He's so lucky your mom staked him. I would've done so much worse..."

"She staked him?"

"Yes. It would've gotten really ugly if we didn't."

"What about Lacey?"

"She's passed out and tied up. I didn't know that cloth had chemicals on it, and I'd held it against her mouth to shut her up."

"They used it on me a few times."

He didn't say anything. Instead he wrapped his arms around me and rocked me back and forth. I started crying, but I stayed quiet so he wouldn't hear. Soon my mom walked back into the room with some of the police.

"So your daughter's in labor and the 2 of you need help carrying her up the stairs and out of the building?"

"Yes, sir."

Dimitri got off of the bed and they figured out how they were going to carry me. Soon they decided on using the mattress to carry me out. It seemed to be the easiest way.

"Are you completely unable to walk, Rose?"

"I don't know if I can."

"Can you try?"

"Yes," I said as I tried getting off of the bed. But I couldn't, I sat right back down.

"I need to call the paramedics. She might not make it to the hospital before having your baby. We'll have to wait until she's ready then send her and the baby over to the hospital."

Dimitri sat back down with me and rubbed my back while I sat there in shock. I'm seriously having my baby down here in this basement? You have got to be kidding me...

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