I was a wreck.

Lissa was a wreck.

Dimitri was a wreck.

Everyone was a damn wreck. It has been a long few days since Victors warning. Everyone was on edge. Also, my mum has yet to try and make contact with me since she found Dimitri and I kissing in the gym. I didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. I had called Abe yesterday, all I got out of him was that apparently my mother was 'just processing things at the moment.' I honestly have no idea what he means by that but hopefully its good.

I was brought out of my thoughts by a knock on my door. Thinking it was my hot Russian boyfriend I opened the door with a sweet smile plastered on my face. But it was not him-it was my mother. "Oh…mom." She was dressed in her guardian uniform and I could tell by looking at her she seemed to want to be anywhere other than with me at the moment.

"Rosemarie, may I come in?" It was meant to be a question but with her tone she made it sound like an order.

"Yeah, come on in." I shut the door closed once she came in. I silently sat down on my bed and she sat down on my chair by my desk across from me. "So…" I started. She cleared her throat, she only looked uncomfortable for a few moments before she put her guardian mask up.

"I wanted to talk to you about your relationship with Guardian Belikov."

"Okay, well for starters when it's just us you can call him Dimitri." She nodded her head. Her bright red hair not moving at all as it was wound up tightly in a bun on the top of her head.

"Your father and I talked, and he seems to think that you and…Dimitri, are good together. That he actually cares for you and isn't just…"

"Using me?" I finished for her with a hard edge in my tone. "He isn't. He does care very much for me, as do I for him."

"I believe you, however I would like to talk to Dimitri. If you weren't my daughter and I saw what I did that other day in the gym I would have gone straight to the office to turn you too in."

"You make it sound like we're criminals."

"Well he's not far from being one."

"Mom!" I was outraged that she would say that about Dimitri. She looked down only looking mildly guilty for what she said for a few moments.

"Anyway, talk to him and let him know that I would like to speak to him sometime when he's not on duty." I nodded.

"I guess if I have too."

"You do." We then continued to sit in my room in silence, neither knowing what to say. "Well then, I should go."

"Okay, I guess I'll see you around then." I walked her to my door, just as she stepped out and I was about to shut my door she turned around to look at me.

"Just so you know Rosemarie, if that man even thinks about breaking your heart, both your father and I will skin him alive. You best let him know that." I smiled.

"Thanks for letting me know you care." I watched as a small smile graced her lips.

"I'd do anything to protect you." With that she turned back around and walked away from me without a second glance back.

It was late at night. I was doing some quick cleaning up of my room when I suddenly felt a wave of panic roll over me. But the feelings weren't coming from myself, they were coming from Lissa, they were so strong they were threatening to pull me inside her head. I quickly stopped what I was doing and slipped into her head just to see where she was-she was in her room. I pulled back out of her head and rushed out of my room. I sprinted towards the moroi dorms as fast as I could and towards Lissa's room. Once I reached there I burst into her room. I looked around and saw her sitting in the middle of her room on the floor with a note in her hand, she was crying. She looked up as I entered and stopped crying for just a moment before she burst into tears again, it was as if my presence made her cry more than she was before. "Lissa, what's wrong?" I quickly sat down next to her on the floor and pulled her towards me so I could wrap my arms around her. "Lissa, answer me, please." She looked up at me with her bright green eyes that were now bloodshot from all her crying.

"I got a note, it was slipped under my door. It's from Victor." With shaky hands, she handed me the note so I could read it for myself.

Dear Vasalisa,

I have been in contact with Rosemarie a couple of times and figured it was only fair I make contact with you as well, after all, it is you who I want. I wanted to make sure you knew that I will get what I want, do not put anything past me, I will do what needs to be done to get what I want. I can easily take away your boyfriend, and we already know that I plan to do that with Rosemarie. Do not make things harder than they have to be. If you cooperate I assure you I will bring no harm to anyone. Excluding your bondmate- she should have stayed dead along with your family, she's just setting me back now from getting what I want. I'll see you soon Vasalisa, very soon.

-Love your uncle

Quickly I pulled out my phone to call Dimitri as I continued to hold a sobbing Lissa against me. He picked up at the second ring. "Belikov." He answered. He sounded groggy, obviously he went to bed early to try and get a good night's rest.

"Dimitri, I need you to come to Lissa's room."

"Rose? What's wrong? Are you okay? Is someone crying? Are you crying?" His questions were coming fast and I could hear his tone change with worry.

"Can't talk much, just come now. We need you." With that I hung up and paid my attentions to Lissa. "Ssshhh Lissa, it's okay. You're okay." I ran my fingers through her long soft hair and kept repeating the same things over and over again. She clung to me as if I would disappear if she were to let go.

"But it's not okay. He's going to kill you and use me!" I shook my head even though she couldn't see me from where she had her face buried between my neck and shoulder.

"It will be okay, I'll make sure of it." For the second time this night the door to Lissa's bedroom flew open, this time from Dimitri. He quickly rushed towards us and knelt down beside me.

"What's going on? Is Lissa okay? Are you okay?" I took one of my hands off of Lissa and grabbed Dimitri's hand to squeeze it.

"I'm okay. Lissa's just in shock, she got a note from Victor." Dimitri said something quietly in Russian, most likely a swear word. I handed him the note and watched as his eyes scanned over the paper and he took it all in. Once he was done he looked up and met my eyes, if at all possible he looked even more worried than he did before.

"That's it, something needs to change. I want you two to come with me to see Alberta and Kirova. Things can't keep going on like this." I nodded and looked back down at Lissa.

"Lissa, come on you have to get up. We're going to go to the office to try and do something about this." Slowly she got up and continued to cling to me as the three of us walked down the dark and empty halls of the academy towards the office where I knew Kirova would most likely be sitting behind her desk working a late night. I was proven correct in my guess when Dimitri knocked on the door and her voice called from behind it to come in. One look at us and she knew why we were there.

"What did he do this time?" Dimitri handed her the note.

"He sent this to Vasalisa." Once she read the note she looked back up at us.

"Obviously thing need to change."

"Yes, they do, I say at the very least more guards for the girls and we set up cameras outside their rooms as well as give them something they can keep on them at all times that allows us to track them at any time." Kirova stayed silent for a bit as she though over Dimitri's suggestions.

"Yes, I agree. Guardian Belikov, I will call Guardian Petrov down here first thing in the morning to talk to her about getting more guards for the girls. Until then I want the girls to stay in the same room together tonight and yourself you stay guard, you can work that out with them and how that will work. Additionally, I want you to do routine checks on them as often as possible through the days to come." We all nodded our heads. Then left to go back to my room. Seeing as Lissa didn't really want to go back to hers tonight. Once inside I laid down Lissa on my bed and tucked her in.

"Try to get some sleep Lissa, Dimitri and I won't leave you side, you're safe."

"You'll come to bed with me soon?" She asked in a small voice.

"Yes, I will. I'm just going to talk things over with Dimitri." It only took a few minutes for her to fall asleep. When I turned to face Dimitri, he was sitting on my chair by my desk. I sat on his lap and he instantly put his arms around me. "Sorry I woke you." He leaned forward and kissed me softly.

"I'm not. I'm glad you did."

"I don't know what to do Dimitri, I want to protect Lissa but I don't know how."

"You're doing the best you can Roza."

"I wish that was enough."

"So do I." I got off Dimitri and grabbed some extra blankets and a pillow from the bottom of my closet.

"I wish you didn't have to sleep on the floor tonight, but I hope these are at least a little bit comfortable." He smiled slightly.

"I'm sure they will be fine." With one last kiss, we both went to our separate beds.

"Goodnight Comrade."

"Goodnight Roza." After a few moment's I spoke up again.

"By the way Comrade, my mum wants to talk to you sometime when you're off duty. She also said if you where to break my heart at all the both her and Abe will skin you a live." I giggled a little at the last part even though the thought of him being hurt wasn't funny.

"I'll talk to her tomorrow. She has absolutely nothing to worry about, I'd never do anything to hurt you."

"I know."

Finally an update! Fanfiction was giving me a hard time and wasn't letting me update any new chapters for a while! Hopefully I'll be able to post a new chapter soon! Please review and let me know what you think!