Ok so this took me forever, but I have so many thoughts in my head that I'm trying not to rush everything at once. I think this is actually very poorly written and its short but what I wanted to happen next because it finally reveals what I want to be revealed about Sophia all along. So enjoy!

Sophia's POV

I had spent the remainder of my weekend mostly hidden away in my dorm room. The new school week began and I couldn't have felt more exhausted from the rollercoaster of emotions going through my head. The task had been more than traumatizing and I had felt anger for not knowing about it, but at the same time elated for actually being able to kickass in the situation. I also couldn't stop thinking about Landon. I was so angry with him for not shedding light on the situation, but couldn't shake the night we had shared in the tent. I couldn't shake the feeling of his warm embrace around me as he tried to comfort me. Our practice session had been cancelled for today and I didn't see him once around campus. I sighed as I walked towards Arabella and Jake, meeting them where we normally met to practice. I tossed my book bag on the ground near the tree I usually leaned up against, barely having a chance to regain my posture as Arabella had tossed herself into my arms.

"Oh my God! Sophie I heard about the test in the woods! I can't believe they didn't tell you that it was happening. Are you all right? Everyone's been saying that you kicked all the guardians' asses. Everyone also seems to be really impressed with Landon; they say he must be a really good mentor." Arabella said coming up short of breath. I raised one eyebrow up at her and glanced over to Jake who just shrugged his shoulders in response.

"I'm fine Arie, and I'd really rather not talk about it okay? Let's just get this training session over with, I'm tired, it's been a long day, I have tons of homework, and I have no idea where Landon's been all day, but I'm pretty sure he'll want me up bright and early tomorrow for training, not to mention I haven't had any blood all weekend, I'm a little cranky." I replied in a bottomless rant. Arabella frowned at me in sympathy and wrapped her arm around me.

"Awe poor Sophie, I'd give you some, but the majority of us don't go walking around with it in Sippy cups." Jake said teasingly with a big grin on his face. I glared and kicked his feet from underneath him, causing him to fall flat on his back.

"So you're first today then Jake?" I said teasingly, grinning down at him on the ground. He mockingly laughed and got to his feet in the fighting stance I had shown him.

"Okay Sophie, bring it on." Jake responded cockily. I laughed amused and knocked him back to the ground again in one swift movement. I shook my head as Arabella gave me a stern look, trying to hide her amusement.

"Oh Jakey, so much to learn still." I said teasingly as he stood up and we continued to practice.

Landon's POV

I walked around campus in a slightly bad mood. Everyone had spent the majority of the day trying to ask me about the night in the woods. I knew I shouldn't have been angry, everyone was just impressed with my work, but I couldn't shake the guilt of the look on Sophia's face that night. I didn't want to think about it anymore and just wanted to find Sophie so we could move forward from this. Class had ended not too long ago and I couldn't find her anywhere and my annoyance was only rising as I continued to search the grounds for her. I stood in the courtyard momentarily as I scanned the grounds for her and felt a presence walk up beside me. Without even looking, I knew who it was and smirked.

"What secret message have you come to bring me this time oh wise one?" I said smirking as I turned to look at my mentor, Hunter. He returned the smirk and shrugged his shoulder.

"They are not all secret Landon; I just need you to pass on a message for me to Sophia, since it seems I probably won't be seeing her around anytime soon. Just let her know that the Queen is sending her parents over for a visit to help with the final tasks for you senior novices, so she will be lucky enough to see her parents soon." Hunter replied.

"Well at least it's some good news." I mumbled as Hunter grinned back at me. He turned to walk away shouting over his shoulder to give Sophia his best. I rolled my eyes and continued on my search. As a continued walking to an area that was never very populated with students, I could hear voices coming from a secluded area within a circle of trees. As I got closer, I stopped in my tracks in shock. There in the middle was Sophia teaching her two friends Arabella Swan and Jake Dashkov guardian combat moves. All thoughts of telling Sophia about her parents visit went out the window as my bad mood flared up in anger.

"What do you think you are doing?" I shouted. The three of them turned towards me in shock, the two moroi looking frightened, while Sophia just looked annoyed.

Sophia's POV

I turned to see a very angry looking Landon standing there and rolled my eyes at his intrusion. Ignoring his outburst I turned back towards my friends and grabbed my book bag.

"We'll meet here again on Wednesday guys okay? I'll see you then." I said and with that turned around and purposefully walked past Landon shoving into his shoulder with mine. I heard him growl, but turn swiftly on his feet to follow me. He quickly caught up to me and walked briskly by my side.

"What do you think you were doing? You can't teach the moroi how to defend themselves, that's our job, plus you can get in trouble, you know how taboo that is? He seethed angrily. I didn't bother looking at him to respond.

"What? Just as taboo as a moroi marrying a human and having a dhampir baby? Come on Landon, there's no harm in teaching them how to defend themselves. Do you know how in handy that could be with their elemental magic; we could defeat strigoi like nothing with their help." I replied coldly. Landon had stopped in his tracks and I turned around to face him. My stomach sunk a little in guilt as I noticed the hurt look on his face.

"That was a low blow don't you think? I've worked hard my whole life to get where I am today, to show everyone I can do what I was born to do, to prove myself. I've made myself worthy of protecting the moroi; I don't need what I've worked so hard to become taken away from me." Landon replied, every word getting thicker and thicker with emotion and in that moment I noticed the dark circles under his eyes from lack of sleep. For a moment I remained silent and then laughed.

"Don't worry Landon; you won't have to worry about that, not all the moroi will be keen on learning to defend themselves. Some of them want to pretty boys like you to keep around." I replied smugly. Landon glared and walked closer towards me.

"Stop behaving like such a bitch just because I did my duty and didn't tell you about the test, you're being immature." Landon seethed through his teeth. My temper flared and I pressed closer towards him.

"You arrogant jerk!" I shouted.

"Dramatic, reckless, fool!" Landon replied through gritted teeth. Sophia gasped and clasped her fists next to her side.

"Who are you calling drama-." I began but was interrupted by a set of lips pushing aggressively against mine. My eyes widened as I felt Landon pulling me into him. My anger soared and I fought angrily against him to get him off. Landon was strong and it became a difficult battle and I could feel him smirking against my lips and I pushed harder against his chest and then the most shocking moment of my life happened.

"Get off!" I shouted with my eyes clenched tight. I heard the shocked scream of Landon and opened my eyes to see a shocking sight. There was Landon, 5 feet ahead of me on the ground with a burnt hole through his shirt. I looked down at my hands shaking; the skin was pink and hot. Landon stood up slowly and walked towards me taking my burning hands into his, observing. I touched one hand to his chest to where the hole in his shirt was and clasped myself onto him for dear life.

"Whoa." Landon whispered keeping his arms around me to steady my shocked frame.

"Did what I think just happened happen?" I whispered quietly taking comfort in the smell of Landon's clean smelling scent.

"That you pretty much just proved you're not just any dhampir and shot a ball of fire at me? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that just happened." Landon replied quietly into my ear. My eyes widened and I tightened myself if possible even more to Landon's embrace.

"Wow." I whispered barely audible. Landon and I stood there in what felt like forever, not sure where to go from there.

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