Chapter 57: You Will Not Lock Me In a Closet!

Here's another wonderful chapter or at least I think it is. Anyways not one person guessed right about the bond. I thought someone would. Oh well guess you'll just have to be surprised.

Anyways not to be a bitch or anything, but I have received several comments on my quotation marks and a suggestion that I get a Beta. I have re evaluated my last three chapters and I found only one repeat instance of quotation marks being wrong and it was a very casual mistake that should not have been distracting. I would like to tell everyone that when Lissa and Rose speak through the bond there is no need for quotations because nothing is said aloud. If it gets confusing I am sorry. The reason I like posting and reading on this site is that you don't have to have a Beta and you don't have to work around someone else's schedule. I read and appreciate works on this site from all age groups, people whose first language is not English and teenagers who are still in school learning how to be proper writers. I am not a professional and I won't claim to be. I teach French not English and I may not know every grammatical rule or spell 100% of words correctly. I try my hardest to run my spell check and fix my mistakes, but I am only human and cannot catch every last one. If you like my story and want to read please do so. I am always happy to have reviews. Please don't take this rant personally. I just wanted to clear a few things up. I have read and reread my chapters and I do not find them to be too confusing to understand. Believe me when I say I've tried to read several stories on this site that had horrible errors in verb tense, use of homophones and extreme spelling errors. If I liked the story I muddled through it. Also yes this story is a little OOC it is stated in the description of this story.

Sorry I just felt I had to say that. Very excited about what is happening next so stay tuned. I hope my rand did not discourage reviewers.

RPOV

"Help me sit." I requested.

I could feel his reluctance, but he helped me anyways. As soon as I was in an upright position I threw myself into his arms and let out all of my emotions from the past few days. He did the same. I don't know what came over me. I could not stop crying. Not sure if they were tears of happiness for being alive, relief that it was over or fear of what was to become of me now that I was shadowkissed yet again.

As Dimitri held me in his strong embrace I realized what had happened right before I died.

Lissa where's Lissa? I couldn't feel her. Oh my God I couldn't feel her. I tried slipping into her head.

I became frantic as I pulled myself away from Dimitri. He looked at me with worry.

"Roza what's the matter?"

"Where is Lissa? Why can't I feel her?" I was becoming increasingly paranoid as the seconds ticked by.

"Rose, do you remember what happened right before you…" he trailed off a pang of sadness rippling through his heart.

"It's okay you can say it." I told him. "Right before I died?" The pained look on his face as I said that made me regret being so blasé about it. If I had to watch him die I'd be just as upset if he treated it so casually.

"Dimitri I'm sorry. I didn't mean for it to come out that way." I told him. He didn't look at me. He was doing that seeing without seeing thing that us Guardians are so good at.

"Do you think the bond was severed?" I asked quietly .

"I don't know Rose. I honestly don' t know." He said his voice taking a hard tone.

"You shoud go find Lissa. I need to call this in and get some Alchemists out here asap." He said before turning around and walking out the door. I felt as if there were a gaping hold in my chest the minute he walked out the door. I couldn't think about that right now I needed to find Lissa.

I walked aimelessley through their house and ours looking for any signs of her or Christian. I was just about to go over to Adrian's when I was violently sucked into Lissa's head. I looked through her eyes and as I took in her surrounding I couldn't help but gasp. She , Christian, Adrian, Tasha and Mia, and Abe were tied to chairs and gagged. Lissa was exhausted and fighting hard to keep awake. Adrian was completely unconscious. Lissa glanced to her left slightly and what I saw made my blood run cold. Three of my father's extra Guardians lay dead on the floor in a pile. Next to them my mother and Eddie were lying bruised and battered bound with ropes back to back. My mother was fighting to keep conscious, but Eddie was slumped over. His breaths were shallow. I surveyed the room further. No sign of Dimitri. Thank God they hadn't gotten him yet. Lissa jumped slightly as the door to Adrian's front room slammed open revealing four large Guardian's I recognized as personal Guardians to the Queen. They were carrying a very weakened and sickly looking Tatiana in their arms. I could feel the shock coming from Lissa. She'd known that it was possible the Queen was behind this, but she didn't actually believe it until just now.

"Well well Princess Vasilissa. That was quite a show you and your minions put on. Bravo! I didn't actually think Hathaway would have the nerve to sacrifice herself for you. Guess I was wrong." Sneered none other than a very healthy looking Victor Dashkov as he entered the room.

Lissa gasped. Christian looked murderous as did Abe. Mia looked confused and Tasha shuddered at the sight of him. She knew very well what he was here for.

"Rose is dead?" cried Lissa. "Christian Rose is dead?" she repeated in a shaky voice. I could feel her panic and sadness at the mention of my death.

"Oh you didn't know? So sorry to be the one to tell you." He said not sounding sorry at all. Good I thought. He thinks I'm dead. That gives me the element of surprise.

Lissa was sobbing uncontrollably now. No one dared spill the beans that I was still alive. Thankfully my friends were too smart for that.

Adrian was beginning to stir. "Adrian Ivashkov I thought I sent you out of town. Why did you not leave?" asked Tatiana in her grating voice.

Adrian regarded her with sad eyes. "Oh Auntie. I didn't want to believe you were capable of something like this, but now I see its true. Please tell me why you would hurt my friends like this and turn your back on your Kingdom?" he asked sadly.

Her voice softened. " I had no other choice. As you can see I am quite ill. The only way I can survive is through healing from a Spirit user." She explained.

"If you'd asked I would have tried to help you." He told her honestly.

"You can't help me unless you are Strigoi." She said flatly.

I could tell that realization had hit almost everyone in the room and I could tell by the look on Adrian's face that he was not exception.

"You orchestrated this whole thing and the attack on the academy to get Rose to turn to get to Lissa so you could turn her Strigoi so she could heal you?" asked Adrian incredulously.

"As a matter of fact I did and now sadly since you've become involved in this you'll have to die with the rest. You were supposed to be safely in Romania. Why didn't you leave when I told you to?" she screamed at him sending her into a fit of coughing.

"Because these people here Rose, Lissa, and the rest they are my family and I would never leave them to die. I had to fight for them." He shouted back.

"Your family? This crazy bunch of lunatics are you family? I'm your family Adrian. You should have never entagled yourself with that Hathway girl. She was bad news and only a Dhampir. You shouldn't associate yourself with such lowly company." She said giving a haughty look to my mother and Eddie and the pile of dead Guardians that lay on the floor. "

I'd heard enough I needed to get into that room, but there were four large Guardians. I needed help. Pyro and Tasha could be of some use even tied up. I needed to find Dimitri. I pulled myself from Lissa's head and realized I wasn't alone.

"Roza?" Dimitri was shaking me. "Where were you? I've been shaking you for ten minutes." He said. I could feel his worry. He thought I was going crazy.

"I'm fine. Where did you go? Why were you upset at me? Never mind we have bigger problems." I filled him in on what was going on next door and we called for back up. Pavel and Sergei my fathers' two Guardians had not been with the others and had returned to find us planning out how to attack.

I could feel that Dimitri didn't want me involved in this. He was trying to think of ways to leave me behind. He even contemplated tying me up and locking me in the closet so I'd stay safe.

That outraged me. "You will not lock me in a closet Dimitri Belikov! If you think I'm sitting this one out you're in desperate need of a mental health assessment." I yelled loudly shocking most of the people in the room.

"What how did you know what I was thinking?" he asked bewildered.

I thought about it for a minute. " I don't know. I just felt it. You thought "maybe I should tie her up and lock her in the upstairs closet so she won't follow me. She'll be angry, but alive. "

He looked ashamed and shocked at the same time.

"How is it possible that you knew that? It's like you read my mind." A knowing look flashed across his face.

I was clueless as to why I could tune myself into his thoughts and feelings. Right now he was surprised, upset, embarrassed that I knew what he'd been thinking and concerned that now he was going to have to allow me to come with to rescue them.

"Rose I was touching Adrian when he was healing you. Can you feel him?" he asked

I tried to focus on Adrian, but I couldn't get a read on him. I still felt Lissa and I vauguely felt Dimitri, but not Adrian.

"No I can't feel him." I told Dimitri. I could feel his confusion, but also the strong need to be in the other room fighting.

"Can we possibly talk about this later and go and rescue Lissa now." I asked impatiently.

"Yes, let's go." He nodded. "Be careful Roza. I can't lose you." He said pulling me closer and capturing my lips with his own. The kiss was brief, but I could feel what was in his heart.

Well there you have it. Did anyone really think that this could happen? Just remember anything can happen in my imagination. Review if you want to be bonded to a hot Russian God!