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"If you want lover-boy here to live I suggest that you come with us quietly. We are only here for you. No one else will be harmed." A strigoi growled. Rose's heart dropped. He was holding Adrian by the throat about to jump out the window. This could not be happening. This wasn't going to turn out well for either of them. One of them is going to die tonight. He didn't leave her any choice.

"I will go with you as long as you promise not to hurt him or anybody else."

"Rose no!" Adrian screamed, "You are more important. Keep our baby safe!"

"Ah. Little Rosie here is pregnant. I will have to keep that in mind. Now back to the point. No one will be hurt if you just come with me. I promise."

"Ok I will go with you."

Rose POV

Everything was black and she couldn't feel a thing. The only thing that she knew was that she was sitting. She couldn't feel the restraints on her arms and legs that she knew were there. She couldn't feel the blindfold that she knew was covering her eyes. She was numb. The only thing that she could feel was worry. Worry over whether Adrian was okay or not and whether their unborn child would make it through this let alone herself.

Suddenly the world was bright, too bright but she couldn't move her arms from her side to cover her face. After minutes, maybe seconds, she couldn't tell, everything came into focus.

Standing in front of her was not what she was expecting. A, maybe, seventeen year old boy, and he was human. A silly, scrawny, human boy. She could take him down in seconds if she wasn't bound by chains as she could now see.

"Let me go now!" she growled.

He shrugged. "I heard you came willingly."

This boy obviously did not know much about Rose Hathaway. Rose Hathaway does not go willing, not really. She only did this to protect Adrian in hope that the mysterious strigoi kept his word, and if not, they were both screwed. The familiar mantra played in her head; they come first. This is what was going through her mind when she agreed to go. No matter how much she worried for herself and her unborn child Adrian had to come first and that tore her heart out. Why should her baby come second?

She was only in this state of mind for a mere second before her guardian training took over. She started assessing all possible escape routs, if any. She was in a basement with no windows, which meant strigoi. There was one exit up some concrete stairs with a door up top that would be doubtingly locked. The only piece of furniture that was in the room is the metal chair she sitting on. She wasn't nauseous; there weren't any strigoi around for the moment, which meant that it was also nighttime.

This human was the only one here guarding her? They couldn't be that stupid. There had to be more humans up above. They wouldn't just leave the Rose Hathaway alone with a mere human boy to guard her.

"What do you want with me?"

"I don't want anything from you. I'm just here to keep you company until they get back." He answered. He didn't seem bothered at all by why he was here.

"Do you know who I am?" she asked incredulously.

"No," he shrugged, "It doesn't matter. I'm just here for the pay."

That was when she saw them, the bight marks on his neck. They were feeding off of him. Payment probably meant more bites or maybe if everything goes well them turning him.

"You can't trust what they say. They will just most likely kill you when this is over whether they get what they want out of this or not. On the other hand I am willing to let this slide if you help me," she said in the sweetest tone that she could muster, "You will be able to go back to your boring human life ."

"Now why would I want to do that?"

"Because you would be alive," she tried to reason with him, "They may not kill you but what they are is not living. It is unnatural."

"It is really all the same to me."

She was done with reasoning. She thrashed violently, trying to find a weakness in the chains that bound her to her prison. The human backed away, scared of her sudden outburst. She found none.

"They are going to kill you!" she screamed, "the strigoi are cold blooded killers! They don't keep promises or make payments! They only do things for their own selfish needs then dispose of any extras when they are done with their dirty work. Why would they want you around, you know what they did!"

"I'll take my chances."

She sighed. He wasn't going to budge. It wasn't worth her energy that would be put to better use escaping. Maybe if they thought that she was asleep. She made it look like she was slowly drifting asleep, hoping that he was stupid enough to believe it.

Next thing that she knew she was getting smacked in the face.

"What the hell was that for?" she yelled.

"The told be not to let you sleep. I don't know why. I'm just following orders."

Of course they wouldn't let her sleep. They knew about Adrian's ability to dream walk. They didn't want me talking to him. She could ruin everything that way. She had to get to him and tell him she was okay for the time being. She knew he would over react. LISSA! She could get into Lissa's head to see what was going on. Hopefully the human would cooperate.

"You." He turned to face her, "I am going into my friends head. Don't touch me and maybe I will let you live."

"Sure. They said nothing about that. Go right ahead." Wow this guy really was stupid.

"Adrian you need to calm down" said Lissa, obviously trying to calm down a frantic Adrian. She could tell through the bond though that Lissa was just as freaked out as Adrian was, if not more. She didn't know whether I was alive or not.

"Don't tell me to calm down! She was taken because of me! Why does it matter that I am a moroi and she is a dhampir? She is carrying my child! That should have meant something to her. Why would she do that?"

"Because she is Rose," Lissa told Adrian in a small voice, "She was brought up to put all moroi ahead of her self no matter what and that is what she did."

He continued to pace around his room at the academy. "I need to get ahold of my aunt. There needs to be a search party sent out for her-"

All the sudden I was being pulled out of her mind. Something where she is was interrupting. She was back in her concrete prison.

"Wha-"

"They are coming," the boy interrupted, "Just thought you should know."

Wow. He actually helped her not that it would have made much difference. It was his life, though he probably saved her a beating anyways.

All the sudden she could feel it, the nausea. They were back to deal with her. She panicked momentarily. What where they going to do with her? What use would she be to them hostage, why not just kill her? He thoughts were interrupted but the door bursting open. A male strigoi practically waltzed down the stairs to where she was standing.

"How was she?" the strigoi asked the human.

"She was fine, didn't put up a fight."

"Ha," the strigoi scoffed, "lets see how long that will last."

Well at least someone knew something about her. "Hey! I'm still here you know!" They were talking about her like she wasn't there.

"You, go upstairs. I will call you if I need you." He continued, not even regarding the fact that Rose had spoken to him.

"Yes master," the human boy responded before making his way upstairs where he was most likely going to be fed off of. It was disgusting. Why would anyone want to get into this mess?

The male strigoi turned back to her. He circled her. He smelled her.

"Rosemarie Hathaway."

"What do you want with me you unnatural monster?" she spat.

"It isn't me that wants something from you. It is my boss."

"Who is he?" she yelled, "tell me!"

"I am not allowed to tell you that. You will find out all in due time little girl."

She spat on him. "I am not little!"

He slapped her across the face. "I wouldn't do that again Rosemarie. Next time you wont be so lucky." He started to walk back up the stairs most likely to bring back the human to watch her.

"No you wont." He stopped in his tracks. "You don't want me to sleep. If you beat me there is a high chance that you will knock me out and I will be able to communicate with Adri- the others back at the academy." She told him, calling his bluff.

He didn't turn around but she could hear his smile in his voice, "Who said anything about beating you?" He laughed then continued up the stairs.

"Shit. How the hell am I going to get out of here?" She asked herself.

Just like that the nausea was gone. The strigoi had left, but the human was back.

"Come on, please let me sleep for five minutes!" she begged.

"I-i-I can't" he slurred. He was high. She could see the fresh bight marks on his neck. Maybe she could use this to her advantage.

"Come on. They won't ever know" she told him as seductively as she could. "It will just be our little secret."

"Okay." He giggled the proceeded to pass out on the floor.

"Well that sure helps."

She closed her eyes and tried to relax as much as she could. She felt herself slowly drifting off.

So what did you think? So i got my copy of bloodlines and that definitely inspired me to keep writing though i am only halfway done. If you haven't started it you definitely should.

IMPORTANT: So some of you may have noticed that i changed the pairing to Adrian/Rose. I know some of you will stop reading this because of that but i just couldn't help myself. Ever since i finished Last Sacrifice I have been totally team Adrian. Plus, i know where the story is going to go now and it is so much better. Sorry to all of you are disappointed and won't read this anymore. Please review!