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Here is Chapter 5!

Rose

I climbed out of the bed that was way too big for one person and slowly walked over to the couch. There was a blanket laying on it, but no Dimitri. I turned and looked around the room; everything was dark except for a tiny sliver under the bathroom door.

I breathed a sigh of relief. He was still here, he hadn't left. I don't know why losing him scared me so much, I just met him. I leaned against the couch and looked down at my bare feet. He must have been important to Rose.

The bathroom door opened spreading light over me. Dimitri took a few steps out and froze when he saw me. His hair was dripping and his chest was bare, he probably just got out of the shower.

Something tickled my thoughts. Like there was something there, but I couldn't grasp it. It had something to do with Dimitri. Dimitri with wet hair. Just as quickly as the feeling came, it was gone.

"Rose, did I wake you?" Dimitri asked me as he walked over to where his suitcase was laying. He opened it and pulled out a gray T-shirt.

"No, you didn't wake me up." I watched as he pulled the shirt on.

"You should shower," Dimitri said. "We'll be meeting with the others soon."

Christian

I hadn't been able to sleep last night. Not with everything on my mind. Lissa has brought Rose back again, that had made Lissa susceptible to the darkness. This time it was depression, who knows what could happen next time. Maybe she'd have a streak of insanity again. Just the thought of that sent shivers down my spine.

Lissa stirred and opened her eyes sleepily. She looked around and found me.

"Where's Rose?" She asked. It made sense that she would be worried about her.

"She's with Dimitri," I told her and stroked her cheek. "She'll be back in a little while.

"Does she... does she remember?" Her eyes pleaded with me.

"No, but we're going to work on it." I told her gently. "Rose said she's going to try everything to remember for you." She sighed and felt the silver necklace around her neck.

"I can feel the magic, it's helping a little." She said, trying to be strong. This was going to be difficult.

Dimitri

I could swear when I saw Rose standing outside the bathroom she remembered me. There had been a light in her eyes, like a memory was playing itself out on her mind, then it was gone.

If I hadn't imagined it, that meant her memory was just below the surface. Maybe if we help her, she'll remember. What if I did something that could spark a memory? Then it would all fall into place like a chain reaction.

I wanted her to remember me, I needed her to remember me. She didn't stop trying to find a way to save me when I was a strigoi, I won't stop looking for a way to help her.

Adrian

Abe stood outside Lissa's door as I came around the corner. Figures he'd be here. Our insanity party wouldn't be complete without him. He had a sixth sense for this kind of thing. Honestly I can't say I feel bad for Dimitri having him as a father-in-law, or as close to one as he'll have considering I can't see either him or Rose getting married.

Abe must have sensed me, or saw me from the corner of his eye because his head turned towards me. He had a three piece suit on with a neon green vest and tie that matched his pocket scarf. I wish I could pull off the outrageous fashion he always seemed to wear.

"You couldn't have picked a worse time to show up," I told him when I made it down the hall. There was a glint in his eyes like he knew already. "I'm not going to explain though, for that you'll have to talk to Belikov."

Rose

I turned the pendant around in my fingers. I'd taken it off before I took a shower. It was circular and had different shades of blue varying in circles. It was weird, but pretty. I slid the chain back around my neck letting the pendant hang where it had before my shower. A beaded bracelet was already round around my wrist like before. It had a cross with a dragon on it. I had chosen one of the pairs of jeans and a T-shirt from the suitcase that apparently belonged to me.

I looked at my reflection in the mirror again. I was clothed, but I remembered looking at the scar over my heart. My hair was long and almost black; my face was pretty with eyes almost as dark as my hair. As I combed my hair out I noticed something on the back of my neck. Had I missed dirt or something?

I turned, lifting my hair, so that I could inspect my neck and was shocked at what I found. There were black marks, like tattoos covering almost all the skin there. There were a majority of little jagged X's, so many I could hardly count them. There was an S shaped mark in the middle of all the other marks, and one mark that looked like a fancy star. What the hell?

I finished in the bathroom and went back into the room. Dimitri was leaning against the window frame, looking out.

"Dimitri?" He turned and gave me a questioning look, obviously knowing I had a question. "There are tattoos on my neck, why?"

"Those are guardian tattoos," He turned his head and brushed aside his long brown hair to reveal that he had marks similar to the ones on my neck. "The S shaped on is the promise mark. Guardians receive them at graduation when they vow to protect moroi with their lives. The lightning bolt X's are molnija marks. They count how many strigoi a guardian has killed. The zveda means that the guardian was in a large battle with strigoi and there were too many kills to count."

I touched the back of my neck. They counted Strigoi kills? Rose must have been a good guardian, even Dimitri didn't have as many marks as Rose.

Me, I corrected myself. If I was going to try to remember Rose, or pretend to be here, I should at least start thinking of us as the same person.

Dimitri

I was not expecting Adrian to be about to knock on our door, but the bigger surprise was Abe.

"Belikov," Abe said in a nonchalant fashion even though his eyes held their usual suspicion. Honestly, it was a toss-up for which parent gave Rose the most genes.

"Rose, you and Adrian can go see Lissa," I told Rose. "We'll be there in a few minutes." I expected Rose to complain about having to go, but instead she just kept giving Abe confused looks over her shoulder as she walked down the hall with Adrian.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm just wondering what you guys think will happen when Abe finds out about the memory loss, or what about Janine?

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