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Chapter 7
Wow. Once we got out of the airport, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was so beautiful, like something you only see on tv or in fairy tales. I got to drive this time, and I had no clue where to go, so I just followed some other cars for a while, taking in the sites. I decided to call Abe, Maybe getting some directions and A hotel. "Hello?" "Hey. Its Rose. Um, what do you know about Rome, and do you think you could book me two rooms to stay in?"I asked. "Rome? Rose, why are you in Rome? And yeah, i guess I could. Where are you?" He said. "Well, we think this is where Lissa's brother is. And thats a really good question. uh...Dimitri where are we?" He held out his hand for the ohone and Mumbled,"I told you I should have got to drive," i shook my head, and gave him the phone. "Hello? Yea. I think so. Um, We just passed a hotel called...La Maison Dell'Orologio. Is that good, can we go there?" Dimitri said. "Oh, ok. So not there. Where do I go?" Dimitri mumbled to himself some directoins, and about five minutes later, we reachs St. George Roma. "Whats the big deal with this place?" I asked. Dimitri shrugged. "I dont know.. He said he's stayed here befor. Its five stars, and he can er, cut us a deal." Oh, great. Whatever. I was ready to look around. Lissa was smiling, taking in everything. I think everyone was really awed, including me. This was so beautiful!
The hotel itself was amazing. I really couldn't believe it. I knew now why Abe sent us here. I dragged myself up to Lissa and my room. It was georgous too, but I only had a few seconds to admire it when I got a phone call. Sidney. "Hey. What'd I do now?" I asked, un aware of anything bad I've done lately. "uh, well no. I don't believe that you did anything, although some one did. You remember when some one stole Eric Dragimor's records, like bank account information? Well some one stole some other records we had, from some one who had withdrawn money from his account...Ih..A Mariana Bakens.? You know her?" I froze. "Well, yeah. What did they steal?" She took a deep breath and I heard a few pages flip, then she went on,"Hmm. Some things she payed for while in Rome, and a file on an Addoption case." Oh no. "Oh God. Sidney, do you have an idea who took them?" I asked. "No. Do you?" "yeah. I promise I will tell you things to clear this up later, but for now, I have to go. Bye. Thanks for Calling."I flipped the phone shut, and Lissa was staring at me, her face a mask of concern and confusion. There were three things I knew.
One. Some one was looking for Lissa's brother. Two. They were right on our trail, if not closer, because they had records of his family. And three, the most devestating one. This person was someone who was bound and determined to ruin mine and Lissa's life. He goes out of his way to do that. His name is Victor Dashkov.
I looked at Lissa, and said all I could manage. "Victor...He's..He's after Micheal. He knows exactly where he is, too. We have to hurry." She gasped, and a tear escaped. She was afraid, and angry. I was feeling some of spirits dark effects working on her. Why won't he quit? She freed him, for Christ's sake. She would just have to hurt him, have to make him pay. "Lissa calm down. I won't let anything happen." She always calmed down when I said something like that. It worked. She breathed, and said,"Lets go."
After explaining things to Adrain, Christain, and Dimitri, we set to work. Adrain and Dimitri ran up to the orphanage that we though Micheal used to be in, and Lissa was looking through phone books, and me and Christain were looking him up on the internet. No luck there, o manny links and other crap that don't matter. Thirty minutes later, Dimitri called. "Rose, oh roza. Come quick. We need Lissa here to push it further, but they've agreed to give us his parents name. Adrains using compulsion, but he's been drinking so he can't keep it up that good. Hurry." Thank gosh. I prayed to whoever might be listening that we weren't to late. "Lissa, Christain. Come on, we have to go to the orphanage thing. Lissa, you need to use compultion on them, Adrains trying but, well he's had a few. So, they need us."
Luckily, Me and Lissa had changed. I was wearing Sweats, but they were the cute comfortable kind that you can wear in public with a t-shirt. She was wearing jeans with a t-shirt, as well, so that mean't we didn't have to hobble around in designer clothes. We quickly got a cab, and I relized I had no clue what the address was. "Uh..Orfanotrofio... How do i say downtown...Ah! Centro. Uh...Crap. i knew I should have touched up on my Itailian. Um...Lei sa dove?" I said, praying i had just asked Do you know where. "Uh, I speak English." The driver said, with barely an accent. I felt like an Idoit. "Oh. Um well theres this Orphanage, its some where in a plaza. Uh, do you have any idea where?" I said, glad he spoke english. "Uh, well theres a couple. I could try both?" "Sure. Thanks so much. Um, heres some money. Its like, 50$ in Amereican money." I gave him the money. He seemed satisfied, and he sped off. The first Orphanage Definately wasn't it. I was surprised it was still rinning. The second, I seen Our rental car out front. I thanked the cab driver again, and we jumped out. It was still daylight, so Lissa and Christain were a bit weak. I almost dragged both of them In the building. "We're here."
The people over this place smiled politely. Adrain look wore out, and Dimitri looked ready to attack. "Uh, Ciao. Do you speak english?" i asked one of them. She nodded. I looked at Lissa. She closed her eyes, then reopened them. She gazed into the womans, and said"You are going to tell us who addopted Micheal Dragimor. You will tell us where they live. And then you will forget us." The woman didn't look phased. She just simply told us of course and, still smiling a friendly smile, went and dug up some old records. I was getting Impatient. "Here you go." She handed us a file, and it had his addopted parents name listed, the date of addoption, his address, and I couldn't care less about what else. We walked off, leaving the woman there to do whatever she did. I relized she was a nun. So Did Lissa. "I just used compulsion on a nun. I'm going to Hell." She sighed, but she was smiling. "Nah. God won't care. I mean, you did it to save some other peoples lives, right? That counts for something." Adrain said. I Smiled and shook my head, but picked up our slow pace. We were walking pretty fast by the time we got to the car. I begged and pleaded that they still lived here. His parents names were Issabella and Leo Russo. Right now they Lived in a suite, well apparently the whole sixth floor in a hotel not to far from here. It was pretty much dark now, so I was on guard. Dimitri used his Gps this time since we had an address, so we arrived without trouble.
We didn't bother asking the front office. If Victor was coming, he would already know about where they live. We took the Elevator, and when it hit six I started feeling funny. I made sure my stake was in my jacket, and stepped out the elevator, with Dimitri in the back. We got to a door that had a place to swipe a card to open it. I went to knock when the door pushed open. Strange. Something should have said,'Rose. Pay attention, Lissa is here. Theres something wrong' but of course my rational voice never comes when I need it. We stepped in the room. I looked around. No one. We kept on walking when I heard Lissa crying and felt her fear. I looked to my left, and it was the badica house all over again. A little girl, a slit throat. Along with a guardian and a middle aged man. Then the nausea came, and It was strong. I kicked in to battle mode. So did dimitri. We shoved the into a corner and stepped forward. Then, Lissas worst nightmare came up, two strigoi behind him, and many more in the back of the room. Oh hell.