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Oh Shit

"Shit, shit, shit!!!" I yell as I quickly turn around and sprint as hard as I can back into my house. Adrian is still lying on the floor unconscious. I have no idea if he is alive or dead. Part of me wants desperately to help him, but I have to get to our babies first. I have to make sure they are safe. That Rowan will survive.

I can hear Alivia crying as I come to abrupt halt before our twins. I look down and I see that Rowan is breathing, but he has a dazed look on his face from the strigoi bite. I sigh with relieve and I lower my shaking hands to pick up my babies, and an extra blanket. As quickly as I can, I run back down the hall towards Adrian with the babies in tow.

I lay the blanket down and I place them both gently on it in their swaddled blankets, and then I lean over Adrian so I can check for his breathing. I can barely feel him breath. I know there is no time for me to find a feeder, so I angle my neck to Adrian's mouth and I scratch myself on his neck, and I feel my blood run freely into his mouth.

I put my hand to my neck to stop the flow of blood. I pull myself free from Adrian's fangs, and I grab screaming children knowing the best thing I can do for them is nurse them. I am feeling that familiar high from Adrian's bight and I am exhausted from the fight, but I have to take care of the twins. I strug"Argle to keep my eyes open. My fingers clumsily lift my clothing so I can get the twins into position. I lean against Adrian's body as I nurse the twins. I have a death grip on each of the twins, each of whom is half on the floor and half on me. I cannot take it anymore, and my body slips into black abyss.

***

"Rose, wake up! Rose!" I am suddenly jolted awake. I sit up in a panic when I realize that my babies are no longer in my arms.

"Rowan and Alivia! Where are they?" I demand as I look wildly around me for them.

My eyes fall on my Mother. "It's ok, Rose, they are both at the hospital, they are going to be just fine." She tells me.

"And Adrian?" I ask as I realize he is no longer lying on the floor.

"Adrian will be fine too. He lost a lot of blood, so it will take some time for him to recover, but he will be fine."

"I want to go see them!" I yell.

"Of course you do, but before you go, there is something I have to tell you and some things we need to discuss." She tells me while not looking me in the eye. This is never a good sign.

"Mom, what's wrong?" I ask.

"Eddie is dead. He was killed while trying to protect Lissa." She tells me sadly.

"Oh my God. You have to be kidding! How is Christian?" I ask.

"No one knows where Christian and Lissa have gone; we assume they must have been taken." She tells me levelly.

"I saw Lissa get taken. It was that blonde stigoi. The one who turned Dimitri. He was taunting me, so I ran after him. He told the others they had gotten what they came for, so they got in a van and left. I never saw Christian get taken." I tell her, filing in the dots.

"Is Mia ok?" Poor Mia is going to be so devastated; she and Eddie had dating seriously for a while now, I have often wondered if Eddie was going to propose soon. The strigoi have taken so many lives from her.

"She is in the intensive care unit. Things are really touch and go for her right now. She has several broken ribs, a broken right arm, and a cracked skull. I wasn't here when the fighting broke out, but I heard she fought well in the battle, and kept the strigoi from taking many more casualties." My Mom finished.

"I assume you are here to talk strategy? Do we know how they got in?" I ask.

My Mom pressed her lips together like she didn't want to tell me something. "We do know how they got in. It appears that we have some Guardians who have willingly become stigoi."

"WHAT???!!!" I interrupt incredulously.

"Mox, Avery, Mollhill, and Laun have been working with the strigoi for some time. The deal was that the immortality in exchange for the Dragomere Princess and other royals. Apparently, the stigoli attacked while Mox, Avery, Mollhill, and Laun were guarding the perimeter. One of them knocked down the wards while the others helped them sneak in through food delivery vans. We know this because Guardian Chilmes overheard the rogue Guardians talking to the Blonde stigoi while the attack was happening." My Mom finished.

I felt sick to my stomach. "I just can't believe this. This is too unreal." I say as I place my hand on my nauseous stomach. I had heard of Mori voluntarily turning stigoi, but never a Guardian. It goes against everything we were ever taught!

"Do we have a plan?" I ask my Mom. I don't even know who to worry about first. My Mom says my Babies are fine, but they are still in the hospital. Adrian is unconscious, Mia is in the ICU, Eddie is dead, Christian is missing, and my best friend Lissa has been taken, because I wasn't fast enough to protect her. I can't even wrap my head around what I should worry about first. I know that "they come first", but we are talking about my babies and my husband; my family ranks up there quite a bit higher in my book.

"Can you still slip into Lissa's head and get her location? " My Mom asks me.

I nod. Through my panic, I had forgotten about the bond. I close my eyes and try to enter Lissa's head. I am blocked! This has never happened before! I lay back comfortably on the floor and I close my eyes, trying to relax myself into her mind.

"I am blocked!" I tell my Mom.

"Can you try again?" She asks trying to conceal her panic.

I try again, but I am still blocked.

Shit, shit, shit. How am I going to find my best friend when I can't use our bond?