I made my way to my room to get ready to go to lunch with my father. God, that was weird to just say. I never thought I would actually ever meet my father, let alone that when I did that he would turn out to be some mob boss that kept tabs on me my whole life. I always thought that he was some no good moroi that just left my mother. When I got to my room I went straight to the shower. When out, I blow-dried my hair so it fell in loose waves down my back, and put on a very low back, scarlet top, with black jeans. By the time I had finished getting dressed and putting on some makeup it was nearly lunch time. Just as I started to wonder where I would meet my father I got a text from an unknown number.

Your mother gave me your phone number. I'll meet you by the cafeteria doors when you are ready. I knew that it was Abe and quickly added him to my contacts as I made my way down to meet him. When I walked into the cafeteria many turned to look at me, including my group of friends. I will admit, for a regular day of classes, I would be considered dressed up. However, I wasn't taking part in my classes today, I was having lunch with my father. Not that anyone else would know that though. I came up with the excuse that if asked about it I would say that my mother wanted me to have lunch with an old friend of hers. I looked across the room to the doors that led outside to see Abe leaning against the wall beside them, when he saw me he smiled and walked over-meeting me in the middle. Two guardians -personal and not school ones no doubt, followed closely behind him. "Hello kizm, ready for our lunch date?"

"Sure thing." He pointed to the two men behind him.

"These are my two main guardians. Guardian Pavel and Guardian Aaron." I nodded at the two men who silently nodded back. We walked out the doors to a large black van. I got in the backseat with Abe and he immediately began speaking. "So, tell me, how are you? How's your life?"

"I'm good, life's good. There have been some rough patches, the biggest one being my friend Masons death, however I have a great group of friends that are always there for me," And boyfriend, I thought silently to myself. But there was no way in hell that I was going to tell my father-whom I had just met, that I was dating my mentor.

"Ah yes, I heard about the Spokane incident from your mother, I really am sorry kizm. That's some terrible stuff, stuff that most guardians don't even have to face, at least for the kidnapping part. Yet you had to go through it while still in high school. I hope you know that I'm here for you, to talk to. Maybe when you want to talk to someone that's not as close to the situation?"

"Thank you." He smiled and nodded. "So, I have to ask. Are you the reason my mother forced me to take Turkish as a second language all through school?"

"I wasn't aware that she had, but I suppose so. Are you fluent?"

"Ama elbette öyleyim." (But of course I am.) Abe chuckled.

"You know kizm, I have many houses in many places, Turkey-where I'm from, included. If you ever wanted to visit, all you must do is ask. You could even bring whoever your charge may be."

"Thank you." I paused to think for a few moments.

"Abe?" He turned from where he was looking out the window to look at me.

"Yes?"

"What do you want me to call you?"

"I want you to call me whatever you feel most comfortable with, at least while in private. You have the option of dad or baba or even just Abe. But if public, you will need to call me Abe, hell, even Zemy."

"Zemy?"

"Yes, it's what most call me behind me back, it loosely translates to serpent in Russian."

"Interesting." I paused. "When do you think you will sort out your enemy problem?"

"Well, I'll always have enemy's, especially in my line of…business, however, there are a few people who I know that I can made a deal with or pay off to guarantee that they will never even think of threatening you. When I have that done, I'll let you know, and I can start telling people all about my badass daughter Rosemarie Hathaway, and might I say, who just like her old man."

"Yeah, not even a day together and I can already tell I get most of my looks and personality from you."

"Yes, except you got the Hathaway temper." I laughed.

"Yeah, well, I try my best to keep that in check." Before I knew it, we had arrived at the restaurant. Conversation surprisingly flowed smoothly. You would think it would be awkward, however that fact that we were just so similar, and the comfort in knowing that Abe was always somehow apart of my life, made things easier." Once our lunch was done it was well into the night for humans. He got up and left the restaurant, but not even halfway to the car I felt a sudden nausea-strigoi. "Stop!" I shouted. Everyone did. "There's strigoi!" The two guardians and I formed a protective circle around my father. One of the guardians-Pavel, I think, silently handed me a stake. The saying; They come first, popped into my head. All to soon five strigoi came out from behind the restaurant.

"Well, would you look at that fellas," Said the one in the front of the group. "Looks like we got ourselves a tasty dinner." With that, they charged at us. Guardians Pavel and Aaron each got two, while the last one-a woman, came at me, no doubt seeing me as the lesser threat. She tried to claw at the face but I quickly dogged. As I did, I swung out my stake, creating a long gash on her right arm. She growled at me.

"You'll pay for that!" She yelled. She came at me again, this time faster. I could tell by the way she fought that she was a trained guardian before she was turned. She managed to get a hard punch on my ribs. I bet over from loss of breath, but quickly straighten up again as I saw her grabbing out towards my neck. I kicked out at her, she stumbled back. I tried to find an opening to stake her but she kept her chest well blocked. She went to punch me again, which I was prepared to block, but at the last second stuck her leg out to trip me. I ended up falling backwards right on my back, getting the wind knocked out of me, and hitting my head against the pavement. Black spots danced in my vision. I knew she thought I was down for good, so I stayed laying on the ground. She knelt down, bending her head to bite and drink from my neck, however at the last second, I lashed out and staked her in the chest. Her eyes went wide as she crumpled to the ground. I got up from the ground, my vision getting worse at the sudden movement. All of the sudden I could no longer stay standing, I fell to the ground, and passed out.

D POV

I watched as Roza left with Abe Mazur. I knew who that man was, hell, everyone did, and I didn't like him around her. He was dangerous. I wondered, why she had gone with him? I shook my head as if the movement would clear away my thoughts, now was not the time to think about that. I would talk to Roza and warn her about him when she got back. I went to the gym to fit in a workout, even though I had training twice a day with Rose it was still good to fit an extra one in every now and then. By the end of my workout I realized in had been an hour and a half since Roza left, I wondered if she was back yet? Just as I was making my over to her room to check the sound on the alarm went off. The alarm that meant strigoi. I quickly made my way to the head guardian Alberta's office. Once I got in it was already filled with all the other off duty guardians, one of whom was Roses mother. "Okay," Alberta spoke up. Everyone became quiet instantly. "I just got a call, there was a strigoi attack not too far from the academy, I do not yet know if there were any casualty's yet, however I do know the people involved, one of them being a novice of ours." Oh god, please don't let it be Roza. Please let her be safe and back here in her room at the academy. I thought to myself. "I got the call from Abe Mazur, he said that they were currently under attack by the restaurant 'Oakwood', that his two guardians-Guardian Pavel and Guardian Aaron were fighting strigoi, along with novice Rosemarie Hathaway. I'm dispatching a team of you to go help and bring them back. It will consist of Guardians; Peatland, Hathaway, Morton, and Belikov. You will all leave now." We all nodded and headed out to one of the academy's vans. Once in, Guardian Morton started to drive, and I just prayed; Please let Roza be okay, please let me get to her in time.

Hey guys, so that was a longer chapter. I have realized that I've written short chapters in the past for my other stories and I want to get better at that, so hopefully I can keep this up! Let me know what you think of this chapter!