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Rose

Lissa fell asleep after a while and I let Christian take my place beside her. He cared about her. I could tell.

Everyone else in the room had dispersed to their separate rooms, all except Dimitri who was standing next to the door. I took a second to look at him. He was tall. He still had the long coat on, even though it wasn't cold. He looked strong. Like someone you could count on no matter what.

Dimitri looked over at me then. There was a flutter in my chest. What was that?

"I'm Christian's guardian, and you're one of Lissa's guardians." Dimitri kept his voice soft so he didn't wake up Lissa.

"One of her guardians?" I matched his tone.

"I'll explain in a few moments, but right now you are going to have to act like everything is okay." What he said confused me, but before I could ask another question, he seemed to read it on my face. "Our replacements are coming, and until we figure this out we should keep it to ourselves." Just then there was a knock at the door. Dimitri looked through the peephole and opened the door.

"Guardian Belikov, Guardian Hathaway." A man said as he walked into the room. A second man followed him in and Dimitri greeted them before he looked at me and held the door open. I took the hint that it was time to leave and went into the hall. The door closed and Dimitri stood next to me. I noticed how short I was in comparison.

I followed Dimitri down the hall a ways to a door identical to all the others. He pulled out a card from his pocket and swiped it through the reader on the door. The inside was a mirror image of the room we were in before. Except there were two suitcases on the bed. I walked over to them and saw that they were both still closed; whoever was staying here hadn't have time to unpack.

"The one on the right is yours." I glanced over to see Dimitri watching me. Was he waiting for me to open the suitcase? I have to admit I'm curious about what's inside. What type of things had the Rose he knew packed? Would something inside it make me get my memory back?

I unzipped the suitcase and looked inside. There were cloths folded inside. I saw jeans and t-shirts, some tank tops and of course underwear. There was also a pile of black fabric. I picked it up and found that it was what appeared to be a suit and a white blouse. Did Rose wear this?

"Guardian's wear those for formal events," Dimitri explained as I lifted up the jacket to inspect it. Rose was a guardian, whatever that means. A red pin on the collar caught my eye and I touched it. "Only the queen's personal guardians have those."

"Queen?"

"The queen is the head of our government." Dimitri told me, taking a few steps in my direction.

"You said I was Lissa's guardian, so that means she's the queen?" Dimitri nodded. I thought about Lissa. She must be important.

"Everyone must rely on Rose for a lot," I thought aloud, and I immediately wish I hadn't. Dimitri looked away and I could see lines of pain etched into his face, but I could also see he was trying not to show it. Did I say something wrong?

Then I realized that I'd talked about Rose like I wasn't her.

"I mean me," I tried to cover up my misstep. "They rely on me for a lot." The damage was done however.

"You should get some sleep, you've had a long day." What he said sounded final. There was no way to fix what I had said. "I'll take the couch."

Dimitri

Rose was asleep and I sat on the couch. I wish I could hold her. Maybe she'd remember me then. But she would just get scared again. I sighed and put my head in my hands.

We had been on our way to St. Vladimir's for a dinner. Lissa was going to make a speech. Since Christian was going with her, I came. Adrian always followed, so Jill and Eddie came.

People would realize Rose wasn't herself, especially her mother. She was supposed to be there for the dinner with the moroi she guarded. And knowing Abe, he'd probably show up at our door in the morning waiting to go to breakfast.

How were we going to get out of this one?

Rose

I was back in the ballroom of the hotel. Strange. I don't remember coming here. Of course, that doesn't mean anything since I can't remember who I am.

The ballroom no longer had the bodies from earlier. Now I knew what they were. Dimitri had said they were strigoi, evil vampires.

"Little dhampir?" A voice spoke from behind me. I turned to see Adrian standing against the wall with his hands in his pockets.

"Huh?" I was confused, was he talking to me?

"I guess you still don't remember," He sounded disappointed. Great, another person I'm upsetting. "I was hoping that you might remember things while you're asleep."

"I'm not asleep," I told him. "I'm awake."

"Oh, right you don't remember," He said. "This is a spirit dream. You're actually asleep, I'm just visiting your mind." I nodded slowly. Just when I though spirit couldn't get weirder, I'm visited in my dreams by a psychic guy.

"Why did you think I'd remember while I'm asleep?" I asked him. He seemed real enough, but I guess if I was dreaming things would seem real.

"I don't know Rose," Adrian started inspecting the wallpaper. "Maybe I was hoping that your subconscious would remember." I watched as he touched the wall and the paper on it changed from gold to red. He looked at me and smiled slightly. "I control the dream."

"Is this a spirit power?"

"Yeah, I would've though Belikov gave you the crash course on spirit," Adrian's eyes shifted slightly.

"Dimitri told me about spirit, but not about how you can dream walk." I sighed. This is so hard. I don't know anything about myself. The first thing I remember is waking up after Lissa saved me.

"Do you mind if I try something?" Adrian asked with a curious expression. I shrugged. What harm could he do? Make me forget today?

Adrian reached a hand towards my forehead and lightly touched his figures to my skin. I felt hot rush over me, then cold, and hot again. What was that?

"Rose?" Adrian asked after he pulled his hand away.

"Yeah?" I was confused, had he just tried to heal me?

"Do you remember anything?" There was hope in his eyes. I felt bad again and shook my head. "Damn, I thought it would work."

"I'm sorry," I don't think I could do anything right.

"I'll think some more and come up with something." He took a few steps away then turned back, pacing.

"I'm hurting everyone aren't I?" I asked him. I seemed to only be asking questions. "First I didn't remember Lissa, then Dimitri, and now you." Who am I? Did Rose hurt people like I do? Of course not, everyone loved her.

"You're not hurting us, we just care about you too much," Adrian said and the world seemed to fade. I woke up lying in the bed of the hotel room. I sat up and looked over to the couch where I expected to see Dimitri lying. He wasn't there. Panic ran through me. Did he leave because I didn't remember him?

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