Thank you for the reviews! I'm amazed at how loved this story is so far! I do want to appologize for the last chapter, it was a little difficult to write. But this chapter I enjoyed writing. =)

Rose

Everyone in our group was given our own rooms, so that we could get ready for the dinner in a few hours. It was nice of the school to give us guest rooms, but I didn't want to sit around. I wanted to be doing something that could help me remember. I was in this school, somewhere I had apparently spent a lot of time, and here I was locked up in a room.

Or was I? Nobody was babysitting me, I could find some clues to my past without worrying the others. I wouldn't hurt anyone if I didn't remember anything, and if I did remember, well, that was good.

I opened the door and looked down both ends of the hall. No one, so I closed the door behind me and headed out side. It was dark, but I had no problem seeing, I guess that was one of the dhampir qualities. I looked around, and found myself lost. Figures.

There were buildings everywhere that all looked the same to me. All the same Gothic feel. After a few minutes of walking around, I found a quod with buildings surrounding it on every side. There were a few people walking across the quod and going into different buildings. I didn't feel like walking into any of them, so I followed a path between buildings.

I found myself heading away from the buildings and towards trees. The smart thing to do would be to turn around and go into one of those buildings, but I kept walking into the trees. I wasn't sure where I was heading, I just let my feet take me farther away from the buildings.

Dimitri

I felt trapped. Even reading wasn't helping. When we arrived it felt like everyone was watching me, waiting for me to slip up and go on a killing spree. I realize that it wasn't that long ago that I was strigoi, but I'm not anymore.

If I felt trapped, I wonder how Rose is feeling.

Rose. How could she forget me? We love each other. Sonya said that our souls are meant to be together. How could she forget that? After everything we went through to be together, she still has to feel that connection.

What if I could spark those feelings the same way they originally came up? We are at St. Vladimir's… I could use the excuse that she needs to be able to protect Lissa.

I didn't let myself think about it any farther. If I learned anything since meeting Rose it's that sometimes it's good to jump right in.

I left my room and went down the hall to Rose's. It was talking her a long time to answer the door, too long. I tried the door and found it unlocked. A quick check inside confirmed what I already knew. I instantly wanted to hit my head against the wall. Rose may not have her memory, but she was still Rose, always doing something to infuriate me.

Where could she have gone? I left guest housing decided to start searching the upper school. Rose probably wanted to find herself while she was here. There was nothing wrong with that, I just wish she would have told me.

She was nowhere to be found on the quod. Maybe she went into her old dorm, no, she would go somewhere without thinking about it. At a loss, I decided to try the cabin. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping that Rose would be there and she'd remember me. I hadn't been to the cabin in a long time. Not since before I was turned.

I made it to the cabin only to find it empty. I couldn't help myself from remembering the night Rose and I spent together here. Surely if Rose saw the cabin again she'd remember. She wasn't here however, I would have to find her.

The school suddenly seemed miles away as I started back.

Rose

I was well away from the buildings at this point, and I still didn't know where I was going. I spotted something up ahead, it looked like part of an old fence. When I made my way to it I could see that the wood was old and weathered.

The strange thing about this part of fence is that looking at it made anger churn in my chest. I was so angry. This wasn't normal anger, it was darker, deeper.

Jesse. I was angry with Jesse. He hurt Lissa, tortured her, right here. He had tortured others too, forcing them to compel him to stop. He was the reason the strigoi got in to the school. He's the reason so many people died, why Dimitri was taken from me. He had to pay for what he did, and I was going to make him pay.

But Jesse wasn't here. I was alone with the fence. My fist clenched and before I could control myself I struck out and hit the fence. I hit it again, and again.

"Rose," I heard Dimitri come up, but that didn't stop me from hitting the fence. "Rose, stop." Dimitri's hands were on my shoulders and he was pulling me back. I tried to fight him but he was strong. "What are you doing?"

"He has to pay," I struggled to free my arms from his iron grip, but only resulted in him holding me tighter.

"Who?" Dimitri looked confused and worried.

"Jesse," I spat his name out. "He has to pay for everything. It's all his fault. He hurt Lissa and let the strigoi in." Dimitri froze and I turned to see his eyes had widened. Why was this a shock to him? He was there. "They took you away from me, I have to make Jesse pay."

"Rose," I struggled to get free. "Roza, you have to fight this, it's the darkness making you think like this."

"It is not! This is me." I almost managed to get free, but Dimitri caught me and held me tighter.

"Roza, I'm here. I'm alive and Lissa is safe. Look." I looked at him. He wasn't strigoi. He was Dimitri, my Dimitri.

As I looked into his eyes, the anger faded. Dimitri sensed the change in me and loosened his hold on me. I instantly rested my head on his chest.

"What was that," I asked him weakly as he smoothed my hair.

"That was the darkness," His voice was comforting, like balm to my anger. We stood like that for a while, not saying anything. I listened to his breathing.

"I remembered something," It was almost a whisper as I said it, but I knew Dimitri heard it. I leaned back to look at him and found tenderness in his brown eyes.

"Yes Roza, you did."

I know I promised a fight, and there wasn't exactly a fight in this chapter, but I hope some of Rose's memory was worth it and you wont be too upset with me.

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