Author's Note: as promised I have updated this story again. I know, I have skills :D Omg did anyone else chat to Richelle Mead the other day! It was heaps cool but none of my questions got through. She said one thing that made me really happy: THERE IS GOING TO BE HEAPS OF ADRIAN IN SPIRIT BOUND!!!!! That is bloody awesome :) Spirit Bound comes out May 18th and the 6th book comes out at the end of the year :D

Wow I have nearly finished writing Adrian's perspective in Frostbite. Don't worry peoples, I still have another four books to fanfic on. But I have the feeling I am going to have gaps between when Spirit Bound comes out and the 6th one comes out where I will have nothing to write about so I am planning other fanfics. I think I already mentioned this in the last chapter but oh well. I am very tempted to tell you guys what my next vampire academy fanfic will be about but I want it to be a surprise. Either way you guys will find out soon-ish

Adrian was walking down a hallway, looking for Vasilisa. He had to tell her about Rose. The problem was he had no idea where her room was. He turned right into an identical hallway and saw a group of girls that looked around Lissa's age. He decided to follow them. They were completely oblivious as they continued down the hall.

They led him into the lodge entrance. Cursing, he turned around and made his way back to the hallway.

"Hey Adrian! Wait up!" said a voice behind him and he turned around to see Reese walking towards him. Adrian swore again. This was not what he needed right now. Reese frowned when he got to him. "Wow, you look like you need a drink. Which is where I come in. Look I'm sorry I bailed on you this morning but I got caught up at an awesome party. Speaking of parties there is one just for you in my suite."

"As tempting as it is Reese now is not the time, I really need to be somewhere," said Adrian.

"Look let me make it up to you. Just come to this party. If you need to be somewhere you can go, just give me half an hour of your time."

"I'm sorry Reese but I don't feel that way about you," he said with a smirk.

"That's my boy, come on," said Reese rolling his eyes as he led him to his room. Thirty minutes won't kill me, or Rose.

****

Reese's suite was full of people who had already began to party. Reese straight away led him over to the bar and ordered some drinks. He handed one to Adrian and took a large drink from his. Adrian stared down at his drink thinking that maybe alcohol was a bad idea. He wanted to stay sober for his meeting with Lissa later in the morning.

He looked around the crowd spotting some familiar faces.

"Good party, huh?" said Reese who was watching the crowd as well.

"Sure, sure," he replied wanting to leave.

"Aw come on. Let's go say hi to our friends."

Adrian had no idea who he meant were our friends but he went along with it. They made a circuit around that party and eventually made their way back to the bar. Reese didn't even notice that Adrian hadn't touched his drink.

"Do you mind if I leave you for a bit?" Reese asked.

"Why would I mind?"

"True. I'll be back."

Adrian stayed there not in the mood to socialise.

"Hello there," said a voice behind him. He turned to see a brunette he had never met in his life. "You're Adrian Ivashkov?" she asked.

"Yes I am," he replied with a grin on his face.

She returned the grin. "I have heard all about you."

She was pretty, but the thing that put him off was her perfume. He wouldn't have been surprised if she had filled up a bathtub with perfume and dunked herself in it. He was trying to figure what the scent was. He frowned. Roses.

"Excuse me I have to go," he said while she was in mid sentence. He didn't even wait for a reply, instead he made his way to the door.

****

Adrian left the party and made his way to the banquet room where he was meant to meet Lissa. For once in his life he wasn't going to be late for something. He was almost there when Guardian Belikov came out of a room. He turned and saw Adrian who had come to a stop. Should I tell him? Maybe it could help Rose? He won't believe me, I'm Adrian Ivashkov for crying out loud, no one has ever taken me seriously.

Belikov turned around and started to walk away. "Guardian Belikov!" he stopped and turned around, his aura showed signs of annoyance and even a bit of anger. Adrian moved towards him.

"What is it?" he asked trying to be polite.

"I…I have some information about Rose," Adrian replied. The mention of Rose changed his aura to show feelings of worry and sadness.

Belikov frowned. "How would you know when her best friend doesn't even-"

"That's not what's important right now." Adrian hesitated, unsure what to say. Rose could be being tortured right now! Just say it! "She is in a basement, in a house…but she didn't say where though."

Guardian Belikov glared at Adrian. "This is a very serious matter. I don't have time for jokes."

"Fine, don't believe me but I will tell you anyway. She said something about helping…Mia and…Christian I think it was. She sounded pretty desperate so I guess it would have to be strigori. I couldn't keep a hold of it long enough to get any other information out of her." Adrian walked past Belikov. "Hope that helps," he said as he continued down the hallway.

Suddenly Belikov grabbed his shoulder forcing Adrian to face him. "How do you know all this?"

Adrian shrugged off the hand on his shoulder. "I talked to Rose."

"How?" his tone was starting to sound desperate.

"Again with the 'how's. Look how is not important. Just go find your girlfriend before she get's eaten." Adrian turned and walked away. He was late for his meeting with Lissa now.

****

Adrian walked into on of the lodge's banquet rooms. He thought for a moment that it was empty until he spotted Lissa sitting on the floor on the far side, trying to stay inconspicuous. "Cousin," he said, greeting her. He sat down beside her and drew his knees up. "Sorry I'm late."

"It's okay," she said.

"You didn't know I was here until you saw me, did you?"

She shook her head, disappointed.

"And sitting with me…you can't really notice anything?"

"No."

He shrugged. "Well. Hopefully it'll come soon."

"How does it look for you?" she asked, curious.

"Do you know what auras are?"

"They're like…bands of light around people, right? Some New Age thing?"

"Something like that. Everyone has a sort of spiritual energy that radiates out from them. Well, almost everyone." He thought of the shadows that surrounded Rose. "Based on the colour and appearance, you can tell a lot about a person…well, if anyone could actually see auras, that is."

"And you can," she said. "And you can tell I use spirit from my aura?" Spirit?

"Yours is mostly gold. Like mine. It'll shift with other colours depending on the situation, but the gold always stays."

"How many other people out there like us do you know?"

"Not many. I just see them every once in a while. They kind of keep to themselves. You're the first I've actually ever talked to. I didn't even know it was called 'spirit'. Wish I'd known about this when I didn't specialise. I just figured I was some kind of freak."

In the corner of his eye he could see Lissa staring at her arm as if she was willing herself to see the gold that Adrian saw clearly.

"So, they finally let you go?" Adrian asked her.

"Yeah. They finally decided I really didn't know anything."

"Good," he said. He frowned, "And you're sure you don't?"

"I already told you that. I can't make the bond work that way."

"Hmm. Well. You've got to."

She glared. "What, you think I'm holding back? If I could find her, I would!"

"I know, but to have it at all, you must have a strong connection. Use that to talk to her in her dreams. I tried, but I can't hang on long enough to-"

"What did you say?" exclaimed Lissa. "Talk to her in her dreams?"

He looked at her, puzzled. "Sure. Don't you know how to do that?"

"No! Are you kidding? How is that even possible?"

He ran a hand through his hair and tipped his head back, staring at the crystal chandelier above as he pondered. "Okay. So. You don't see auras, and you don't talk to people in dreams. What do you do?"

"I…I can heal people. Animals. Plants, too. I can bring dead things back to life."

"Really?" he said, impressed. "Okay. You get credit for that. What else?"

"Um, I can use compulsion."

"We can all do that."

"No, I can really do it. It's not hard. I can make people do anything I want-even bad things."

"So can I." His eyes lit up. "I wonder what would happen if you tried to use it on me…"

She hesitated and absentmindedly ran her fingers over the textured red carpet. "Well…I can't."

"You just said you could."

"I can-just not right now. I take this prescription…for depression and other stuff…and it cuts me off from the magic."

He threw his arms up in the air. "How can I teach you to walk through dreams then? How else are we going to find Rose?"

"Look," she said angrily, "I don't want to take the meds. But when I was off them…I did really crazy stuff. Dangerous stuff. That's what spirit does to you."

"I don't take anything. I'm okay," he said.

"You got really weird that day when Dimitri was in your room," she pointed out. "You started rambling, and you didn't make any sense."

"Oh, that? Yeah…it happens now and then. But seriously, not often. Once a month, if that."

Adrian watched as her aura changed and colours of hope started to show. He smiled

"What do you say, cousin?" he asked. "I can teach you everything I know if you're able to touch the magic. It'll take a while for the pills to get out of your system, but once they do, you can learn how to walk in dreams and see auras. And maybe you can teach me how to heal things."

She sat there for a moment, deep in thought. While she was thinking, Adrian was as well. He needed to know more about this 'spirit' element and Lissa was the only one that could help him.

"I'm going to have to think about it," she finally replied.

He nodded. "I guess."

"Well I have to go. I will talk to you later?" she stood up looking down at Adrian.

"Of course. You go," he said as he watched her leave the room. When she left, he got out his packet of cigarettes and lit one. He knew he shouldn't be smoking for two reasons, but he needed to relax and at the moment this was the best way.

Author's Note: I picked up a book from the library the other day that a friend had recommended to me. So I open it up and guess what I found? An aura colour chart. Seriously, why didn't I get this book earlier? Oh well here was what this author thought:

Red: Energy, strength, anger, sexuality, passion, fear, ego

Orange: Self-control, ambition, courage, thoughtfulness, lack of will, apathetic

Yellow: Optimistic, happy, intellectual, friendly, indecisive, easily led

Green: Peaceful, healing, compassion, deceitful, jealous

Blue: Spiritual, loyal, creative, sensitive, kind, moody

Violet: Highly spiritual, wisdom, intuition

Indigo: Benevolence, highly intuitive, seeker

Pink: Love, sincerity, friendship

Gray: Depression, sadness, exhaustion, low energy, scepticism

Brown: Greed, self-involvement, opinionated

Black: Lacking energy, illness, imminent death

White: Perfect balance

Some of these ideas are not bad I guess but some are a bit random. What do you guys think? Personally I might just stick to what I'm doing but it's an idea.