Hi everyone, so some people thought my last chapter was a little boring. The reason it was so short and not much happened is for two reasons. 1) I feel like Rose is going through so much emotionally and I wanted all of her feelings to be explored without a heap of action being distracting. 2) I sometimes feel in fan fiction that not enough detail or time is taken with the stories and it makes them not flow and kind of jumpy so I wanted to take some more time with this story and make it more believable.

As always, please review, they're what keep me going xxx

I felt fear burning through me, through Lissa, I could barely stand up my body was shaking so hard. Christian tried to help me too my feet all the while asking me what was going on. I managed to speak one word 'Lissa' before Christian practically dragged me up and sprinted off pulling me by the hand. I managed to block out the bond slightly or at least see through it clearly in order to find out where Lissa was and what was wrong.

When we were almost at the hotel Lissa was focused enough for me to slip into her mind and get a clear picture. She was stood in the hallway outside our suite; Dimitri was fighting off guardians as was Mia with her water power. Lissa was pressed up against the wall, she wanted to help so badly but she couldn't. Dimitri was starting to get overwhelmed and Mia had taken a knock to the head and was staggering back towards the wall, a guardian grabbed her and began carrying her towards the fire escape.

'No!' she screamed, she couldn't let them take Mia, she'd convinced Mia to come in the first place, and she was her responsibility. That's when it happened; the magic welled up in her so strongly she couldn't fight it even if she'd wanted to. She would not let these guardians take any more of her friends, especially since we were all innocent and victims of royals looking for a scapegoat.

'Stop' she commanded, it took a moment for some of the guardians to respond but in the end they all did as she had ordered. 'Fall to sleep, don't wake up.' The guardians fell to the floor, Mia fell along with them and Lissa rushed over to help her up while Dimitri checked for possible exits.

Christian and I were approaching the lobby when we spotted guardians in and around the entrance, dressed in civilian clothing. To anyone else they would look just like tourists but my trained eyes saw them for what they were.

Rose, don't come back to the hotel, you and Christian go find a car and I'll tell you where to meet us. I stopped in my tracks and pulled Christian back. I recounted what Lissa had just spoken into my mind and he nodded before pulling me into a nearby souvenir shop.

'They might know what we were wearing, especially you in your black and white' I nodded before pulling some Las Vegas t-shirts in male and female variations off a shelf as well as some tennis shoes and shorts for me. We hastily paid; lucky Christian had brought some cash out with him, and ran back out onto the street and in the opposite direction.

I silently cursed the one way bond. I stayed tuned into Lissa while we ran down the crowded street and hoped Dimitri had guessed there would be guardians in the lobby. They'd come to retrieve the Dragomir Princess, that wasn't a half assed type of mission. Dimitri had led the girls into one of those elevators with two doors, one that exits into the hotel and a service entrance. They took the elevator to the lowest floor available and exited through the service door into a hot room that smelt of detergent. This was the laundry, but luckily it seemed to be free of guardians.

Mia was still groggy after she took the hit to the head and Lissa kept a tight grip on her hand, she didn't dare to heel her yet in case it took too long or she needed her power for something more pressing. The laundry was empty except for a few housekeeping ladies huddled in a corner taking a coffee break and watching a small television. If they notice Dimitri, Lissa and Mia walk past they didn't say anything and Lissa felt relieved, the last thing they needed was to be held up with questions.

'Are you ok?' Dimitri asked Lissa, a worry on his face so pure that, if he'd been looking at me I would have melted. She nodded and gave Mia's hand a squeeze before they walked on. Dimitri couldn't have known where he was going but Lissa thought he assumed, as did I, that there must be a staff entrance or somewhere leading to the back of the building somewhere. Dimitri's instincts were right and a back door situated next to an industrial sized washing machine appeared as they rounded a corner.

'Lissa, can you see any aura's on the other side of this door?' Dimitri asked. It was a great idea and I was glad he'd thought of it, by using her 'aura vision' Lissa would be able to see if anyone was on the other side of the door. Adrian would have been able to do it more effectively but thinking of him made my heart hurt.

'There's no one there' Lissa said confidently, her aura abilities had grown a lot recently and she was sure she could rely on them now. Dimitri nodded before opening the door and checking outside himself, when he was sure it was clear he ushered the two girls out and they walked down the side of the building, while he kept his eyes vigilant over the whole alley way. Lissa wasn't sure where this alley led and so she kept her aura vision up and was prepared to compel quickly if the need arose, she felt Mia's hand tighten around hers before letting go and she knew that Mia was ready to use her water power as well, she'd regained some of her strength.

I had no idea where Christian was leading me, and since I'd been in Lissa's head I wasn't exactly paying attention. I managed to take in my surroundings after retreating back to my own mind to get my bearings. We'd left the main drag and were walking past some seedy looking buildings, a far cry from the glitz of the casinos we'd left behind.

'Where are we going?' I asked Christian who was still striding along in front of me; the crowds were gone now so I didn't feel like I would lose him. The sun was still out in all its glory and I was surprised Christian wasn't getting tired; perhaps his recent feeding had helped.

'We're going to find a car, Grandpa told me there's some places in this neck of the woods who have a sort of don't ask don't tell policy.' I had to laugh at that, Christian's great grandfather seemed as though he may have been involved with that sort of a thing at one time or another.

When we got to the place it was a lot easier than finding a car in Alaska, except this time we didn't rent, we bought. The car was a four wheel drive with seven seats, not that we needed that many, not since Adrian was gone, but it would be helpful to have room, especially if we were driving for a while.

Seeing as I was the one with the licence it looked like I'd be doing the driving here. All novices are required to get a driver's licence for when their Moroi need to go out so I'd been taught while still at school. It was assumed that Moroi's families would teach them how to driver when they graduated or not at all, Moroi with guardians didn't really need to know how to drive.

Lissa sent me an address through the bond and after asking our new 'car dealer' we realised it was only a five minute drive away. Christian jumped in to the passenger seat next to me and we set off, with Christian commenting on my driving at every possible chance. As we pulled into the address that Lissa had sent me I realised we might not be able to come back for a while, the guardians new we'd been here, they were probably searching our abandoned hotel room and everything we'd left, luckily Lissa had had the hindsight to grab that bag Abe left with the cash, cards and fake ID's. But a part of me felt like leaving Las Vegas was like abandoning Adrian.