A/N: Hello this is my third instalment in this story. I really want your opinion on this story and you're input on what should happen next. If you want it completed please give me some feedback and some ideas. Thanks enjoy.

I was sitting on the plane and I was getting upset as Dimitri had just made me move because he suspected that Lissa and I were contemplating escape plans. He kept his eyes on me the whole way there. At one point of the flight he came and sat next to me.

"Why did you fight me?" He asked curious. I looked away from his gaze and out the window

"Guess who's here," said a familiar cocky voice. I turned in my seat completely forgetting the fact that I was ignoring Dimitri. There stood in the flesh and blood Adrian Ivashkov. He had a cup of scotch in his hand.

"Adrian?" I asked shocked.

"Little Dhampir, what a shock to see you here." He said jokingly as he walked over to where I was sitting with Dimitri. I turned so I was no longer sitting in the chair but I was kneeling in it.

"What are you doing here?" I asked still shocked over his surprise appearance.

"Well I couldn't not come and see you and Vasilisa. You have been gone a long time. I missed you both." I got out of my chair and went to give Adrian a hug.
"I missed you too." I moved my head closer to his ear to whisper so Dimitri wouldn't hear. "Thank you so much for all your help. I owe you big time." He kissed the top of my head.

"Any time little dhampir," I let go of him but he kept possession of my hand. I looked down at his hand holding mine and it looked right but did it feel right.

"No way! Adrian, what are you doing here?" Lissa said walking out of the bathroom. She ran into his arms and he staggered backwards, letting go of my hand to grab a hold of Lissa.

"Hey, I missed you too. Why don't I catch you up on what's been happening at the court and at the Academy?" He said with double meaning. I knew that if he caught Lissa up I could 'watch' and listen through her, that way we both knew the situation. It was the easiest option than repeating it, where we have multiple guardians to listen in on us.

I sat back down next to Dimitri, who had a very shocked and confused expression.

"You know Adrian Ivashkov?" He asked curious yet incredulous of what had just happened in front of his eyes.

I finally looked at him. "What's it to you?" I asked piercing his questioning gaze with my stare.

"Nothing but I didn't know you too were close."

"How would you? You don't even know me." I said, exasperate with his interrogation, turning from him and back to look out the window. I was being very hostile to Dimitri but the gut barely knows me and feels the need to interrogate me because I know Adrian. What's he gonna do, snitch me in to the queen. I was curious about his earlier statement. How would he know Adrian?
"Anyway what's it to you. And how do you know Adrian?" I asked hastily yet angry. He looked at me enquiringly at my sudden outburst.

"I don't know Adrian personally but he is infamous for his ways. He is well known being the great nephew of Queen Tatiana herself. It's nothing to me but I do have the courtesy to look out for my fellow students."

"What's that supposed to mean? Adrian's a very good friend and helped Lissa and I es –." Holy snapper doodles. Was I just about to tell him that he helped us escape? Rose keep your mouth shut! I reprimanded myself. "Ah helped Lissa and me through some tough situations." He gave me a strange look knowing that I was about to say something different. Dude, this guy is on to me.

We had just landed and were being led to jeeps to go back to the Academy. Adrian and Lissa walked next to me at a deliberate unhurried pace. None of us, especially Lissa and I wanted to go back there. Adrian didn't want to go back because of his parents, they annoyed the hell out of him, and his great aunt, don't even get me started with her.

Rose when Adrian tells you to, I want you to run. I'll be right behind you. This is our only chance if we ever want to get out. We can't go back there, I can't go back there. Adrian's going to fall to the floor in an attempt to make a scene, when the guardians go to him we run. She said through the bond. I nodded slightly and we continued to walk as if there was no exchange between Lissa and me.

We walked about three feet when Adrian suddenly fell to the floor. Run, Lissa said through the bond. I looked to Adrian to see if he was okay. He winked at me and I grabbed Lissa's hand as I caught up with her. I ran but she was slowing me down.

"Come one Lissa." I said to her as we ran. I let go off her hand but I kept the same pace with her. We got about 40 meters when someone suddenly tackled me to the ground with all their weight.

"Run!" I yelled at Lissa as she started to slow down due to me being seized to the ground. "Run, you can't go back there!" I yelled as I tried to turn and face the person who had tackled me. I turned over but I didn't look at my capturer instead I watched Lissa. She needed to get away from the Academy. She couldn't go back there. She started to run again until one of the other guardians caught her.

"No! Let her go! Let me go!" I finally turned to my capturer and it wasn't too much of a shock to see Dimitri. "Get off of me!" I yelled at him as I started to fight for dominance. I managed to flip him over but he just pushed me right down to the ground and restrained me.

"Stop fighting me and I'll let you go." He told me calmly.

"Okay, okay. Just let her go, don't hurt her." He gave me a confuse look.

"Why are you trying to fight me? Brave yes but still stupid. Why are you even trying?" I looked away from him for a while and then back to his intense gaze.

"I'm her guardian. It's my job." I said matter-of-factly. After a while her got off me and helped me off the ground. He kept a hold of my upper arm.

"Don't even think of trying to run away. You know I'll catch you again. You haven't had proper training for two years." He said as we walked over to a jeep. There were three of them.

Adrian walked over to me as Dimitri still had a hold of my arm.

"Are you okay Rose?" He asked concerned as he noticed I was limping a little. Being tackled by someone as big and as tall as Dimitri hurts a lot. He had all his body weight on me and used all his body weight to tackle me and to keep me down.

"I'm fine Adrian. Sit with Lissa she probably concerned you know. Make sure she knows I'm okay and go with her back to the Academy."

"What about you?" He asked knowing that if he rode with Lissa that I'd be alone with Dimitri.

'I'll be fine. Just make sure she's okay."

"Okay, I'll see you there." He said giving me a kiss on the cheek before going to the car Lissa was already sitting in. Dimitri's grip tightened on me as Adrian kissed me. Once Adrian left Dimitri finally let go of his firm hold on me.

"Finally." I said annoyed as it took him a long time to let go of me. I rubbed my arm as he hurt me when Adrian was kissing me. I went around to the passenger side as he sat in the driver's seat. The car with most of the guardians and Lissa went first. Then the other lot of guardians went followed by us.

"Are you dating Adrian?" Dimitri asked five minutes into the ride back to the academy.

"Dimitri, I don't know you and you don't know me so why are you getting involved with my life. You said you didn't know him so why are so concerned if he is involved with my life." He turned to me and looked at me on the side before turning his head back to the road.

"I may not know you but Adrian is a bad guy. He plays people and I wouldn't want to see you get hurt. I know your mother well and I feel as if I have to protect you from evil."

"Oh come on! You know my mum so you feel as if you should protect me. Bull crap. What are you my father? Adrian is a close friend of mine and how dare you talk of him in that way. If you must now I'm dating him so you better keep your mouth shut." I said exasperated. I had to say with this guy for another twenty minutes who knows how long I'll last before snapping and hitting him.

"How do you know my mother?" I asked after a while as the silence had gotten heavy with awkwardness.

"I've met her when her guardian came and visited mine." He said keeping his eyes on the road.

"Fair enough,"

"She's was very concerned when you ran off. She was worried that you had gotten yourself into something."

"She never cared and never has. I left for good reasons." He gave me a curious glance before stopping at the Academy gates. It looked the same as it did two years ago. After getting the all clear, we went passed the wards and up to academy. It was a bit past sunset.

We reached the secondary campus, it all looked the same; the gardens, the gates, the abundance of space and the church like structure and elaborate ostentatious designs. As we walked up to the upper part of the school Adrian and Lissa caught up with me.

"Lissa are you alright." I asked concerned over what happened earlier.

"I'm fine. What about you?"

"Same thanks Adrian for trying to help. Now how do we get out of here before going to Kirova?" I whispered to Adrian and Lissa.

"I don't know we're surrounded and where would you go. You can't exactly leave with compulsion again." Adrian said

"Any way how do we get away from twelve guardians? We didn't have to use compulsion on that much last time. It was two or three." Lissa told me.

"I know but –."

"Hathaway!" Dimitri barked at me. "With me now," I walked over to him and walked by his side.

"What!" I asked bothered that he had interrupted me.

"We don't want you to get hurt by me using force again now do we?" He said seriously.

"And why would you need to use force?" I asked playing dumb. If in doubt just play dumb.

"Because you're trying to escape once again and you're not going to do that on my watch." Son of a bitch. How does he do that? How does he know how I'm thinking?

I was cut off from my thoughts when I realised what way we were going to see Kirova. They were going through the commons to get to her office. Everyone would be there it was the start of the day. It would be full, awesome just awesome. There had to be some way to circumvent this. I ran away from Dimitri and went back to Adrian and Lissa. Dimitri stopped walking to watch me.

"Adrian is there a way to get to her office now without going through there. Can't you say anything?" I said to him.

"Ah I don't know, sorry don't have much –" Adrian was cut off by someone calling him.

"Adrian, where have you been?" Asked a woman as I turned I saw Adrian's mother. Great just the person I want to see. She probably sees me as a bad influence against him considered what I had done.

"Mother, how are you?" He asked trying to avoid too much conversation.

"I'm fine." She said as they exchanged hugs and kisses. "Rosemarie, when did you get back?" She said looking to me.

"Lady Ivashkov, how are you?" I asked while offering my hand for a shake which she took politely.

"Oh Rosemarie, I'm good." She then turned to Lissa. "Oh my dear Lissa you're back. I heard that you got taken away. You poor thing. Are you alright? And look at the clothing you have on. We must organise a shopping trip to get so new clothes. The queen might be visiting soon and I'm sure she doesn't want to see the last Dragomir in tattered clothing now would we?" She told her. Geez, she's a big bitch today. I thought.

"Thanks Lady Ivashkov." She said curtseying to her.

"Tata, lovelies. Oh and Adrian your father wants to see you, immediately. Oh and you should invite someone to the dinner I'm hosting tonight for the return of Lissa Dragomir."

"That isn't necessary, Lady Ivashkov." Lissa intervened.

"It would be my pleasure and please Lissa call me Daniella. I'll seed someone to give you the details later. I'm sure you want to get settled back into schooling life once again." She gave polite nods to some of the guardians and then she turned on her heels and swooped out of the room angelic-like the way she had come in.

"Awesome I'm guessing I'm going to be that someone." I said as Adrian smiled and placed his hand around my waist.

"Oh yes little dhampir."

"Okay, that's enough. Rosemarie with me," Dimitri said a little annoyed that we had completely forgot about him. I wanted to hit him because he kept calling me 'Rosemarie'. I would but we all know that I'm not a very good at fighting after two years of non-existent training. I walked away from Adrian and Lissa and went to Dimitri.

"What." I asked peeved.

"It's time for you to go-."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know time to go to Kirova. No need to remind me." I said bitterly.

"I don't know how you do that but yes it is." As he said that he opened the doors to the commons. To an abundance of kids I have known all my life, now eating breakfast here to see me returned to the Academy that I escape from.

When the doors opened with a thud the commotion abruptly stopped and all eyes focused on us, Moroi and dhampirs watched us intently as we walked to Kirova's office. I returned some of the stared but most I ignored.

When we finally reached Kirova's office I let a sigh of relief as our walk of shame had ended but then remembered who office I was about to walk into.

Adrian stood behind me once we entered the room. Lissa and I were about to sit down getting ready for our verbal bitch slapping.

"Vasilisa," said a voice from behind us. I spun on my heels and in the corner of the room rose Prince Victor Dashkov.

Lissa ran to him to give him a hug. I wanted to say hello but it wasn't my place. He was Lissa's uncle and I was just the guardian.

Adrian bent down to my ear so only I could hear him. "I don't like that guy but how does he know Lissa." He asked concerned.

"He's her uncle."

"Wait what,"

"Not by blood. He's a family friend. Come one you should know, of all people, that royalty flaunt family terms around loosely." As I was talking to Adrian he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"I'm glad that you're okay." While Adrian was talking to me I notice that most of the guardians had dispersed leaving us alone. The only ones that were left were Dimitri and Alberta. Their faces were unreadable as they hid their emotions and just watched the people in the room. I was watching Lissa having her moment with Victor when I had a feeling that someone was watching me. I look away from Lissa and looked to Dimitri who was watching me closely. After a couple of minutes he looked away.

Lissa was forced to sit down and sat next to her not so ready for one of the best lectures Kirova has given. I didn't want to listen to her lecture but when it turned against me I tuned in.

"Miss Hathaway, you broke the most sacred promise among our kind. It is a trust that we greatly take pride of. A trust that was dishonoured by a petty excuse of being selfish. You took the princess away from a protected area and took her out to the world where Strigoi could have very well finished off the last Dragomir." Adrian knew I was getting angry, he place his hand on my shoulder to try and keep me calm.

"Rose didn't kidnap her/me." Said Adrian and Lissa in unison.

"Very well. You both could have come up with this absurd plan to run away but it was Miss Hathaway's duty to prevent it from happening to stop Miss Dragomir from going through with it. If was a true guardian she would have one her duty and informed someone of the situation."

"I did do my duty!" I jumped out of my chair but Adrian kept a firm hold on me. "I protected her. I did what I had to do to keep her safe when none of you could do it. I had to protect when none of you would."

"Miss Hathaway, please enlighten me on how taking her out of a heavily magically protected school is the best thing for her. Unless there was some hidden agenda that you're not telling us about."

"Ms Kirova don't you think you're being a little too harsh on Rose." Adrian interfered knowing I wasn't going to tell the truth about our why we ran away.

"Lord Ivashkov maybe it's best for you to leave this room. You shouldn't be here in the first place. Listening to this conversation and having a personal tie to Rosemarie will make you biased." She told him as kindly as possible knowing that he was the queen's great nephew.

"How dare you speak to me like that?" Adrian said. Kirova disregarded his statement and continued to lecture me. A guardian walked into the room and said something to Adrian.

"Sorry got to go. Duty calls." She squeezed my shoulder before he left.

"The princess must continue to at the academy for her safety but we have no obligation to keep you here on these grounds. You will be sent away as soon as possible."

"What?" Lissa and I said in unison.

"You can't see's my guardian!" Lissa argued with her.

"No she is not. She is still a novice."

"My parents –."

"I am fully aware of what you parents wanted but things have changed greatly. Miss Hathaway is a danger to you and others and this Academy considering the stunt she pulled before she ran off, which could also be an agenda for why she left in the first place. Yes you parents want her to be your guardian but she does not deserve to be one and she will leave once arrangements have been made." I stared at her. How dare she talk about me like I'm not even there. I couldn't believe what she was saying.

"Where are you going to send me? To my mother in Nepal? Or maybe to my non-existent father? Or maybe to a blood whore commune? Try that and we'll be gone before the end of the day." I said acid high in my tone.

"They have a bond." Dimitri suddenly said breaking the heavy tension between me and Kirova. His presence was immensely overpowering. Kirova may have forgotten his presence but to me it has too hard to ignore. His dark chocolate eyes stared straight at as he spoke. "Rose knows what Vasilisa feels, don't you?" He said no ounce of doubt present as he spoke.

"No, that's not possible. It hasn't happened in centuries." She said glancing between me and Dimitri

"No it's not. It's obvious. I figure it out the moment I started watching them." Dimitri said as he looked at me and only me.

"This is a gift and must be looked into deeply." Victor said quietly form his corner. "Something that is rare and should be cherished,"

"Yes and the best guardians always had that bond in the stories." Dimitri added.

"Yes stories, don't you see. Stories that have been that are centuries old." She exclaimed.

"She may be rude, wild and disrespectful but if she has the aptitude-."

"Rude, wild and disrespectful?" I interrupted. "Who the hell are you to say that about me? Outsourced help?"

"Miss Hathaway, I supposed you haven't been informed on the changes but Guardian Belikov is now the princess's guardian." She said smugly.

"Seriously. You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa. You're joking right."

"Miss Hathaway if you continue to talking the way you are now, tell why we shouldn't just send you away now." She said. "You are completely indiscipline an just because you have a bon doesn't mean you deserve to be her guardian. A guardian who is undisciplined is worse that no guardian at all."

"Then teach her discipline. Classes didn't start to long ago, so put her back into them and get her training once again."

"How? She's been gone for two years with no sort of training. She will be light years behind her peers if we put her back in now."

"Then give her extra sessions. Put her into more training classes so she catches up in time for the trials."

"And how is that possible? Who will put in the extra, the extra session? You?"

"I wasn't implying-."

"There you go. That's what I thought."

"Fine then. I'll do it. I will mentor Rose and give her extra sessions."

Adrian walked into the room and stood beside me.

"So what's going on?" He asked quietly.

"Nothing much beside I have to o extra mentor and Kirova still needs to say yes to letting me in."

"Lord Ivashkov what are you doing here?" Kirova asked seeing him.

"Nothing, I just wanted to see if Rose would be allowed to stay here." He said.

"Well that hasn't been decided yet."

"Please allow her to stay." Adrian begged. Using some compulsion as the effects of the alcohol had worn off.

"If Miss Hathaway is to stay at this school this is how it is going to e. She will continue going to classes an in every spare moment you have you will training with Guardian Belikov. You are also banned from any and every social activities, unless it has been approved by me. You will also receive a punishment for running away in the first place. If you fail to meet these standards you will be sent away no arguments."

"Fine." I accepted, as long as I was with Lissa 'm sure I it wouldn't be too bad here.