"Wait a minute," Rose said as the Mercedes came to a screeching halt in front of the Missoula bank. It was 11:30 A.M. and Rose had just enough time to kill Dimitri before the sun went down. She practically jumped out of the car and ran into the bank, nearly crashing into a security guard. "Um, I'm here for Adrian Ivashkov, he called a couple hours ago he wanted me to come here?" Rose explained as the young bank accountant looked in suprise.

"Yes um he asked for Rose Ivashkov to sign these papers," the accountant said handing her some papers. Rose narrowed her eyes into slits.'Goddamn Adrian! No amount of healing is going to save you when I come back,' She said in her mind as she signed the papers handed to her."Here you are $4,000.00 just as advised to give you," the accountant said giving her 4 huge wads of cash. Rose's eyes almost popped out of her sockets as she stuffed the money in her bag. She felt the 3 silver stakes that were in the bag and smiled to herself. 'Alberta didn't even notice that I stole 4 stakes,' Rose said smirking.

"Um exactly how much money is in the account that my husband and I have?" Rose put and emphasis on husband and gritted her teeth.

"Well let's see, um well in your account there's $7,000,000.00 I can't tell you what's in your husband's account though. All he said to do is add money to your account if you ever run low," she answered. Rose's jaw almost dropped to the ground. She quickly composed herself and left. She reached the Mercedes quickly than she expected. Then the nauseous feeling hit her hard, knocking the her breath out.

"Strigoi,"Rose breathed as Celeste and Yuri reappeared in the backseats. "I thought you said there was only one strigoi!" Rose growled as she started the engine and headed east.

"Te-"Yuri whispered pointing east.

"There's ten now? Can't you count before you tell me?" Rose said gritting her teeth. Celeste eyes told Rose not to push her luck. Rose took a deep breath and swerved nearly hitting a tree. "Damnit stupid trees," Rose muttered as she slowed at a speed bump.

They arrived at the warehouse in no more than 5 minutes. Rose turned the ignition off and stepped out, the nauseous feeling getting stronger. Rose shook her head and stared at Celeste and Yuri, who stared back with sad expressions. "Let's hope I don't join you guys," Rose said as she tucked her 4 stakes in different places. Two in each side of the inside of her jacket,one in her boot and one in her hand.

"This should be easy or difficult either way," Rose said laughing humorlessly.

The warehouse was clearly old and abandoned by the looks of the place. 'A perfect place to hideout by day, and kill good samaritans by night,' Rose thought to herself bitterly as she approached the warehouse door. Quietly,Rose slipped into the warehouse and saw that there were ten strigoi. They were all circled around 2 figures who's heads were covered by brown sacks. Apparently, the strigoi had heard her enter and two of them lunged foward from both sides.

Luckily, they were both idiots and crashed into each other head on. Rose laughed maliciously and staked one of them that was groaning on the floor. The other one was harder to take down since he had been a dhamphir before being turned, he had over 26 molnija marks on the back of his neck, indicating that he was a badass. 'Not badass enough,' Rose thought to herself as he lunged at her. She faked a left and staked him in the heart. She heard his breath hitch and dropped him onto the ground.

"Two down, eight to go," Rose said as four more of the strigoi attacked her. She feinted right causing them to crash into the wall of the warehouse. Rose took the chance to stake two of them and circled the two that had backed away. "Come on, don't wanna take a chance huh?" Rose taunted as one jumped on her, making them both fall to the ground. The strigoi was straddling her, and he was bending down to bite her neck. He didn't restrain her arms so Rose stabbed in the back with the stake, to where his heart was. He screamed in pain and Rose pushed his dead body off of her.

The other strigoi tried to take the chance to suprise her and attack her from behind. Rose turned and twisted the stake into his heart, his eyes wide. Rose glared down at him and took the stake out dropping his body to the floor. 'I'm gonna have alot of cloth to take off,' Rose thought to herself. She had already torn off 16 square pieces of cloth from the strigoi she had killed. But now, she had 10 more to take. "Come out,come out wherever you are, there's only 4 of you and I just killed the others," Rose taunted.

The last four strigoi appeared in front of her, all ready for a fight. "Well let's just see about that little girl," one strigoi spat back at her. That was all Rose needed to tick her off. She charged at two of the strigoi staking one of them in the process. Jumping up she growled at the remaining three. "Come on you're the one that's so sure little girl," another strigoi taunted.

"Stop calling me that!" Rose exclaimed as she staked yet another strigoi. 'Two left ok I can do this,' Rose thought as they jumped at her, Rose quickly staked the one that had landed on her. The other strigoi, the one that had called her little girl first, looked terrified. Rose smiled darkly and jumped on the strigoi. He was taken by suprise and fell on the floor with a loud thud. Maneuvering the stake to his heart he grabbed the hand that didnt have the stake and bit it. Rose glared at him and plunged the stake into his heart, trying not to scream at the pain of his bite. "Shit," Rose cursed.

Slowly, she got up and took a square piece of cloth from each of the strigoi, tucking it in her jeans pockets. Rose ran to the two captives and quickly took the bag off one of them. "Molly!" Rose exclaimed as Molly opened her eyes, wide with relief. Rose checked her eyes, and smiled, she wasn't strigoi but she was extremely pale.

"Molly,I need you to stay at the door and don't leave until I say so, okay?" Rose advised. Molly nodded and waited at the door, her eyes anxious. 'Rose, calm yourself there's a chance it's not Dimitri,' Rose said to herself. She took the bag off of the person's head and gasped. "Dimitri?" Rose asked as he opened his eyes, ringed with red.