This chapter just sort of came to me, I hope you all like it.

And yeah, it's actually not in Rose's point of view,
which probably won't happen much.

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Lissa's Mind

Adrian's POV

After Dimitri and Rose walked away, finally giving me some damn privacy, I pulled out another cigarette and tried to concentrate. If I was Lissa, would I be asleep right now? Of course? But if I was Strigoi Lissa, would I? Who the fuck knows. Gosh, I hate having to be the one everyone relays on. I hate all this pressure and stress. If only there was another spirit user who actually knew how to do what I do. "But I'm unique," I said aloud, bring a sly smile to my face. "One of a kind."

"Sure you are," Eddie said as he came up from behind me. "Who are you talking to?"

"No body," I replied gruffly. "Can't a guy ever get any privacy around here? This is the third time today that I want to be left alone, and can't. And I just woke up. Gosh."

"Sorry, didn't know you were PMSing."

"Shut up. And go away."

"Fine, I was just going to ask if you wanted to come with me to go out and eat. Everyone else is in their rooms and I didn't want to go alone."

"What, are you scared you'll get attacked?"

"No. Just that Dimitri said for everyone not to go anywhere alone. And I was just being nice. I'll even pay if you like."

"Deal. But what are we having?"

"I haven't decided yet. So anything you want."

"Well right now I feel like some kind of soup. Maybe some egg drop soup. And I saw a Chinese restaraunt down the street."

"Okay then. Let's go." I know, I wanted to be left alone. But who can say no to free food.

After ordering some soup and egg rolls, we sat and talked about nothing in specific. We talked about what kind of child Rose and Dimitri were going to have, If the child could probably kick Christian's ass, who'd be the child's favorite uncle, me of course!, and then of course finishing it all off with where the hell would Lissa be?

"I have no clue," Eddie stated. "I don't know the minds of Strigoi, nobody does except Dimitri. And he won't tell us anything."

"Yeah, he's a selfish jerk," I muttered. "And he wants me to try to dream walk into Lissa's dreams. Apparently he doesn't understand that I've already tried, and I didn't get anything. Just black as night."

"Well then try it again."

"I will. But later."

"No, try it know. It might be a perfect time. If she did turn into a Strigoi, she knows what you can do, and she'll try to stay awake. Since it's the middle of the day, she might think we're still asleep and that you can't do it in your sleep. Or she might sleep during the night when Strigoi are usually awake and running around and that you wouldn't think about trying then."

"Fine, if it makes you stop your babbling." So I closed my eyes and blocked everything out, or as much as I could since there were a group of little kids a few tables over screaming. I concentrated on Lissa, how she looked with her silk, smooth blonde hair, bright green eyes, slender legs, pale skin, and then how she acted, all sweet and kind to everyone, and how she smelled, all sweet and good like honey and nature together. I remembered the last time that I saw her, on the plane, all smiling and happy, and then trying to comfort Christian, all caring how he felt, being all loving.

And then it hit me. I saw an image in my mind of her smiling, but she didn't look healthy. She had dark circles under her eyes, and her smile didn't reach her eyes. She looked like she had been crying for ages, her make-up, or little she had on, was all smudged, and her eyes were a little red and puffy. I whispered her name, and she jumped and looked around, trying to hide herself with the blanket she had. I said her name again, a little louder, making her whimper and shed some more tears.

"Who's there?" she whispered so softly that I almost didn't hear her.

"Lissa, are you okay?" I asked.

"Who's there, show yourself," she said louder, frightened.

"It's me, Adrian."

"Oh my gosh, Adrian," she smiled, looking around crazily. "I thought you were never going to come. Where are you?"

"I don't really know. It's really hard just to get to you. Do you know where you are?"

"Not really. The last time I knew we were headed west," she whispered, like someone else was going to hear.

"How are you not Strigoi? 'Cause if you were, I probably wouldn't have gotten into your dreams at all."

"I don't know. They do keep saying that I better choose soon before they just decide to kill me," she said, starting to cry a little more.

"What's wrong Lissa? What have they done to you?" I asked worriedly.

"They-"

"It's okay Lissa. You can tell me. We're trying to find you."

"They. . . They keep. . keep feeding-"

"What?" I yelled outraged.

"They. . they ke. . keep feeding fro. . from me," she said fast, tears streaming down her face now. "They think it'll make me say yes to become a Strigoi. But I won't. I will never."

"Lissa," I whispered, trying to make her calm down. "Think about this. If you never say yes, they'll just kill you. Think-"

"I don't care. I don't want to be a Strigoi," she yelled without letting me finish.

"Wait Lissa. Think about it. We brought Dimitri back. We can bring you back too. I've been practicing."

"Adrian. You don't know what you're saying. Dimitri was bad after he changed back, real bad. And it's harder than you think to change someone back. I could hardly do it."

"Yeah, but you did do it. That means I should be able to do it too. And I've had really good teachers, Rose and Dimitri. You didn't. And since we actually know that it'll work, it'll be a little easier."

"But what if you can't do it. I wouldn't be myself. I'd be monster, someone that deserved to die. I don't want to be like that, I'd rather just let them kill me."

"Don't say that Lissa. Think about everyone that loves you, Christian, Rose, Dimitri, Jill, Eddie, Mia, me, and pretty much everyone that's ever met you. You can't give up on them."

"But I don't know if I could handle the consequences. The people I'd hurt, or even kill. It would stick with me forever. Dimitri could hardly handle it at first. And he's stronger than me."

"But you're queen. You can handle anything. You've been handling spirit pretty good. I can't even do that. I need alcohol and cigarettes just to go by. You're stronger than you think." She just set there, staring at the floor with tears streaming her face as I thought up a plan. I know it would be hard on Lissa, but she didn't really have a choice. Everyone needed her. Everyone looked up to her. She needed to do whatever was possible to get free.

"Lissa," I whispered, trying to stop the crying. She wiped her face before looking away from the floor, not that she could actually see me. "You need to get free," I stated my previously thought. "Everyone is counting on you to come back. Well hell, everyone is counting on me to bring you back. So please don't let anyone down." I stayed silent for a moment as Lissa wiped her face again and looked up more, like I was actually right in front of her.

"I'll try Adrian. I'll try," she whispered.

"That's all anyone could really ask for. But we have no idea where you are. Dimitri is the only one that kind of knows the minds of Strigoi, but he's not talking."

"They don't do the same thing, ever. They don't want people to catch on. All I really know is that we're heading west. They keep me blind-folded. I'm pretty sure they know that I'm a spirit user, with bringing Dimitri back and all, but not all of them know about Dimitri, apparently just the leader. But I've never seen him, he just calls them. I think that's where we're headed, to him. And he's the one that keeps making them feed off of me. He doesn't want me to be too strong. This is actually the first time that I've had some sort of sleep without passing out completely."

"Well that explains how I haven't been able to get to you. All I always got was just blackness."

"Yeah. I've been acting like I've been passed out for a long time. I've heard them say that they think they might have taken too much last time, that's why I haven't woken up yet."

"Good job. I probably wouldn't have thought of that. But do you remember anything at all? Like whenever you had to use the restroom or eat, and maybe you saw something?"

"I hardly get to get, sometimes just a piece of bread or two a day to keep me weak. But I do get out to go to the restroom. And they have to take the blind-fold off 'cause we go into gas stations. They always tell the person at the counter that I'm sick, so they don't ask questions. But the last station was I think in Colorado. But they keep heading south and then change to north. They know you guys will try to follow, so they try to change it up each day."

"You're only that far? It's been about two weeks though."

"You've got to remember that they're Strigoi. So they can only move around and drive at night."

"Gosh, why do I always forget that? That's they second time today. So they keep you blind-folded, keep you weak by not feeding you and then feeding of of you, they only move at night, so they only drive about maybe seven or eight hours a day, and then you last remember being in Colorado, and you think they're headed to meet their leader, which is weird 'cause Strigoi hardly stay in large groups. Am I forgetting anything?"

"I don't think so. But can I ask you a question?"

"Of course Lissa. You can ask me anything. What is it?"

"How is Christian?"

"He's okay. He got mad that we didn't leave earlier than we did. This is actually like our second day on the road."

"What?" she came close to screaming. "You waited that long?"

"We had to. Dimitri wouldn't let us leave until I learned a little bit of fighting and blocking and stuff. Everyone argued with him to just leave, but he wouldn't."

"Oh, well that's because he was actually thinking. It's better to have a plan than just rush into things. At least you guys are on your way."

"That's if Rose is feeling better. Which looked like she was when she attacked me. But I guess that was my fault."

"What?" Lissa yelled as she jumped up. "Rose is sick? How is she? Is the baby okay?"

"Yeah, yeah," I said, holding out my hands, even though I shouldn't have, it's not like she say me. "She's alright. So is the baby. She just got sick all of a sudden with a really high fever and migraine. But she took medicine that the doctor said she could. She looks and feels much, much better."

"Good. I don't want anything to happen to any of y'all," she said as she cuddled back down with her blanket. "Anyways, I wish I could see you. I miss all of you guys so much. I could really use a hug right now."

"I know. I wish I could give you one. 'Cause I need one too," I whispered as I closed my eyes again, trying real hard to remember everything about Lissa. The color of her aura, her smile, her kindness, anything that would help to make me be able to talk face to face with her. I imagined anything and everything that I could remember about her, leaving the last time I saw her for last.

I kept thinking about her until I felt someone jump on me, making me open my eyes in a rush. I smiled and looked up, right at Eddie.

Thanks for reading my story,
it's means so much to me that people enjoy it.

But now I'm going to do something that I haven't done before:

QUIZ: (this is for all the chapters that I've done so far)
(some of the questions aren't in the story, you should just know them,
I'll just ask them so everyone actually knows who everyone is and what's going on)
(some questions will be what you think should happen, so maybe I'll know what to put in the future)

1. When Rose found out she was pregnant, have far along was she so far?
2. What is Abe's power?
3. Who took Lissa and when?
4. Who is Rose's mother?
5. Who do you think Adrian should end up with?
6. Where we they trying to go when Lissa got kidnapped?
7. What happened to Robert, Victors' brother?
8. What gender, and how many, babies do you think Rose should have?
9. What do think happened when Adrian dream-walked into Lissa's dream at the end?
10. Do you think Adrian will be able to help Lissa?

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