Sorry, I only got one chapter this time.
But I hope you enjoy.

R&R

Finishing Them Off - 30

Lissa glared at us through red eyes. Everything seemed to be going in slow motion as I looked around to see Dimitri surrounded with Strigoi all around him, most of them dead. I saw Janine and Sonya at the bottom of the stair, blocking a large group of Strigoi from running up. Eddie, Christian, Mikhail, Abe and Mia were cornered with another large group of Strigoi. All the other guardians, that weren't dead, were also cornered. I looked at Adrian beside me, seeing him staring at me, asking for some kind of help.

"STOP!" I heard Lissa yell. All the Strigoi looked up at her, awaiting orders. She tilted her head to the side and growled, something I would have never expected from her. "What are you going to do?" she asked me. "Kill me?"

"No Lissa," I whispered, knowing she can hear me with her Strigoi hearing. "What I promised to. Save you."

"Ha, and how are you going to do that?" I smiled at her and gestured to Adrian. "With what?" I held his hand up, showing off the stake in his hand. "What?" I looked down confused, seeing his hand empty. Lissa chuckled softly as I got wide eyed.

"Where'd it go Adrian?" I shouted. He looked down and around, then shrugged. What the fuck? "Then I guess you will have to die." I jumped forward, just to get thrown back as another fire wall went around Lissa. "Christian. It has to be done."

"Not like this," he shouted as he jumped on a Strigoi that wasn't looking, since they were all still staring at Lissa, and staked him in the heart, then another. Dimitri did the same, finishing the rest that was around him, and helping everyone else. Abe pushed his way out, staking two Strigoi in his way and made his way to Janine and Sonya.

The wall around Lissa slowly went out, and I kicked Lissa's legs, making her fall on her face. She struggled and got a few punches in on my face, hitting me square in the eye before I grabbed her arms. I was about to stake her, but I heard her yelp, just like the old Lissa, sounding helpless. Adrian jumped on her too, ripping his shirt and tied it around her wrist as I hit her in the head with the hilt of my stake, knocking her out.

The Strigoi at the bottom of the stairs were finally all dead, and Abe and Janine came to hold Lissa. I went back down with Sonya and helped finish off the Strigoi; I had to kill something tonight since Robert got away.

After about twenty minutes or more, who knew when we were down here, we finally staked all the Strigoi. I was breathless, and there was so much blood everywhere. The only people left was; Dimitri, Mia, Janine, Abe, Adrian, Christian, Eddie, Mikhail, Sonya, one other guardian, and me. Everyone had marks showing what happened here. Sonya had a big gash in her arm, Eddie looked like he was on the edge of passing out, Christian was sweating all over the place, Mikhail had a black eye already and a chipped tooth, and everyone else had scratches and bruises everywhere. We were just a big pile of mess.

I looked at the fallen guardians and Strigoi, wondering what to do about them. The Strigoi, all we had to do was set them in the sun and they'd be taken care of. But the rest, we had to bury. I looked at Dimitri as he ripped the sleeve of his shirt and walked over to me. "Here," he said, touching my face with his sleeve. When he touched my cheek, I flinched back and groaned. I threw my hand up and looked at it, just to see blood. What the heck? When did that happen? I didn't even feel it. "Sorry," Dimitri said as he handed me his sleeve. "And your eye is pretty dark now." Oh yeah, Lissa actually got in a pretty good punch.

I walked back upstairs, seeing Adrian, Abe, and Janine holding an unconscious Lissa. "We've got to chain her up. She'll be able to get through that," I said as I went back into the study room. I sat in the first chair that I could and held the fabric to my cheek, trying to stop the bleeding.

"Here," Dimitri said when he came up the stairs. "Let's go to the bathroom." I didn't argue, I just got up without a word and followed. I was too exhausted to do anything else.

While in the bathroom, I heard everyone else shuffle up the stairs. Everyone was grunting in pain, and who can blame them. This could have gone much worse. We could have lost way more than just nine with of many Strigoi there were.

After Dimitri cleaned me all up, I fixed his scratches and then we went to look at how everyone else was doing. Everyone had pretty much cleaned all their wounds; we just had to clean the place up now. But as I started back for the basement, Dimitri told me to just handle Lissa; he didn't want me to be lifting things. Being pregnant really sucks sometimes. The only good thing about it is I can yell at people whenever, and blame it on being pregnant.

So I went with Adrian and my parents to find something super strong to tie Lissa up with. Since Adrian lost his stake, and it took forever to equip one with spirit, we just had to watch her. Which is definitely going to be a challenge since we're so far from court.

We eventually found some rope and thick chains in an upstairs closet. Whoever owned this house, I really thank them now. They had a lot things that came in handy. Because we also found some duct tape and handcuffs. We took all of it and headed for the van with Lissa. She was going to be riding with Dimitri, Adrian, Christian, and me.

First we roped her, then wrapped her in the heavy, thick chains, then handcuffed her, and then finally wrapped tape around her wrists, ankles, and then on her mouth, just in case. Then we sat her in the back seat, and somehow we managed to use the rest of the rope and chain we had and tied her to the seat. Then, because she was Strigoi, we blacked out the window with some duct tape and also tape up blankets to the window and behind the driver and passenger seat so the light from the front window wouldn't get to her, but people could still watch her.

After Lissa was safely secure in the van, I went back inside to help Dimitri with anything that I could. But they were pretty much done with everything; they just had to mop up the blood, yuck. So I helped by throwing water on the floor, and then I went back outside, seeing that it was almost light outside. Gosh, it took us that long?

Anyways, we soon all loaded in the vans, ready to get Lissa somewhere so everyone was safe until Adrian could get another stake equipped with spirit. But it was starting to get lighter by the minute, and we really couldn't stop at a hotel since we just got Lissa situated. So we decided to take turns sleeping. Two people would stay awake at a time, the driver, and one to watch over Lissa just in case we woke up. We ended up deciding that Dimitri would drive, and Christian would stay to watch Lissa, while I tried to sleep in the passenger seat, and Adrian tried in the back with Christian.

Christian's POV

Since I volunteered myself to stay up and watch over Lissa, I had to sit in the darkened out van with a sleeping Adrian by my side. How could he sleep through all this? All the horns honking and the van kept hitting bumps. I probably couldn't sleep even if I tried. So I sat here, thinking of what to do since everyone else was asleep, other than Dimitri of course. So I slid in the back by Lissa to grab a snack out of the box. I ended up grabbing some peanut butter crackers. But as I turned back around to get back in my seat, the chains around Lissa started to jangle.

I slowly looked up at Lissa, locking eyes with her, and slightly smiling. For a second I thought she might of smiled back, it was hard to tell with her mouth being taped, but then she squinted at me like she was pissed, which of course she had to be, she was chained up.

"I'm sorry," I whispered to her. "But it's for your own good." I stared at her, really trying not to cry to see the woman I love all chained up. I blinked back some tears as I stared at her red ringed eyes. "I love you Lissa," I whispered as I closed my eyes. When I looked back up, her eyes were normal, and I saw a lonely tear slid down her cheek.

I didn't want them to turn her back quite yet, so i improvised.
I still have things, and places, that i wanted them to do before Lissa was fixed, saved.

I hope you enjoyed this, I'll try to update ASAP... :D