The night was a blur.
As it progressed, I could not sleep. More and more Strigoi piled in around the edges of the bushes, planning to make their hide away for when the sun comes out. I tried to listen in. If we knew where they were in the daylight, it could but just like before.
I winced at that. Just like before brought up Dimitri in my head.
They were really quiet, though, and I could not hear them. Not that my neausea was doing anything for me right now. Strigoi, at least fifty of them.
My mouth was still bleeding a little bit, but it was closing over, just before dawn. I would have a whole day of Victor Dashkov. Great.
I sucked on my lip, drinking the blood myself. Well, not drinking it, but something like that. Making sure they didn't drink it.
The Strigoi dispersed into the shadows when the sun broke through, but I could still feel their eyes peircing my body.
"They'll come in the daytime, you know." I told him, a little smug. "Your Strigoi will be worthless."
He smirked. "I know."
My smile faltered, then I realised this was a repeat of what had happened before. "You should be predictable, but no one ever realises it."
"I've already found you. I've already got him. There's no more reason to stay in Las Vegas."
His footsteps made no sound as he walked towards me.
"You think they won't know it's you? They will." I threatened as he got to close.
"No. I don't think they will. You were a test to see if they would fall for it, and now you are one of the most wanted criminals in all of America."
He looked like he wanted to say something else, but then he looked behind me at the shrubs and smiled.
"And it begins."
I froze. There was no sign of the Strigoi anywhere now, except to my neausea. I swung around enough to look over at my shoulder.
Dhampirs.
I was shocked to see Lissa there too. And Adrian and Christian. I guess they must have proved themselves worthy of coming to help.
"RUN! It's a trap!" i screamed at them.
None of them listened to me. They only wanted to know the easiest option. But I knew Victor wouldn't come out of this alive.
Dimitri was at the front and to the side, pain staked into his eyes as he saw me all bruised and beaten up.
Rose, are you alright?
Lissa looked at me, a tear leaking from her eye. Did I really look that bad?
I nodded briefly to her, hoping that Dashkov wouldn't see.
Victor stepped towards me and the crowd of Dhampirs. "My family," he begun.
"They're not your family," I hissed. "This will never work."
"Could somebody please shut her up!"
Out of the shadows, a Strigoi threw Victor a white peice of cloth. I knew what came now. I tried to keep my mouth closed, but he shoved the white cloth around my head so tight, I couldn't keep it outside of my mouth. I chewed on it, even though it tasted like oil and something else I don't want to know.
Lissa gasped.
"It's okay, my brothers and sisters, I can deal with this traitor once and for all, and then we can be done with this all!"
"Even if we believed that you were our brother, you would not be the one to kill her." someone shouted from within the crowd. "She is rightfully ours."
Great. They were fighting over who would kill me.
Victor smirked. "Fair enough. Would you care to fight then?"
He snapped his fingers three times like some lame movie scene, and the Strigoi rose out of the black and into the seeable shadows which covered half of the Dhampir army.
There was a crowd of gasps.
ROSE! HELP! Lissa screamed in my head out of fright.
I rolled my eyes when Abe stepped forward.
"So help me, Dashkov. Let her go!"
He shook his head as if he was having the time of his life, which, I guess, he was.
"Over my dead body."
The Strigoi ran into the crowd that wasn't in the sun, and the war began.
HEY!
Okay so i got an email this morning asking me to help someone, (FunXxAndXxFlyXx), and i tried to reply, but your PMs are disabled! Please Review me or PM me when you have disabled it so i can chat to you!
Also I know this is another cliff hanger, but hopefully (and i know some people will be like OMG!) i will be posting another TWO CHAPTERS! tonight. Maybe. Hopefully.
Mermaiden is going well. I'm taking it slow so i can finish this story first.
About Their choice - The next few chapters will seem like its the end of the story! And it kind of is, but its like a sub ending. There will be another part to it afterwards so dont panick!
Okay. Thanks for everything!
Lauren
