"Goodness, I'm so glad I caught you here." Adrian said in his usual casual tone, however he sounded a bit nervous. "Now Rose, your going to be quiet and listen because we don't have much time." I was confused but I stayed silent. "This is your fathers way of busting out, he took a horrible situation and turned it into a prison break." I rolled my eyes. "It was all dumb luck but of course he took advantage of it. He was apparently on his way to visit you again when he heard the guardians talking about possibly needing to take you to the hospital."

"I don't understand how..." Adrian put his hand up and I stopped.

"Your father somehow arranged a 'special' ambulance. Your actually coming toward me at the moment. Basically your Russian boy-toy is taking you somewhere on a long... vacation while Lissa and me and everyone else are trying to prove your innocent, or get get Lissa to be queen, whichever comes first." I was completely dumbfounded at the nonchalant way Adrian explained my fathers absurd plan. I was about to launch all of my questions at him, but I felt myself being woken up. Adrian came up to me and kissed me on the cheek. Then he vanished.

I woke up to Dimitri looking at me warily. "Eddie go get Adrian and bring him into the back." I seen the door on the drivers side open. Dimitri stroked my hair, I had never seen him more nervous. I tried to put him at ease but my voice was raspy and I didn't sound to assuring.

"Adrian visited me," I coughed "he explained my fathers 'plan' kinda" He forced a smile, the back of the ambulance opened. Adrian climbed in following Eddie.

"Well Little Dhampir, we have to make this quick." He threw a large backpack at Dimitri and turned back to me. " Quick healing, just in case. Then your off to catch a flight on your fathers plane."

"No healing!" I pulled away. Adrian shrugged his shoulders and hugged me. As I heard him say I love you, I felt the spirit wash over me and make me feel renewed. I didn't push him away. We both knew I needed that. He extended his hand and I made my way out of the stretcher. He waved me off, as Dimitri pulled me to the large parking garage a head of us. Just as we entered a loud, bright alarm went off.

I jumped and covered my ears, but Dimitri grabbed my hand and insisted a kept going. I seen my father half hiding behind a blue pick up truck. We approached him but he motioned for us to come quicker. My father handed Dimitri a pair of keys and an envelope. Then he turned to me. "Rosemarie listen very carefully," he pushed Dimitri toward the car door, Dimitri took the hint and started the car. "Do not let anyone find you, and don't come back until I tell Lissa it's safe for you to come back." I ushered me to the other side of the car and hugged me. "Belikov, get to that RV as soon as you possibly can. Use that to get to SFO, just leave the RV in the airport parking lot. After you land I don't care where you go, but keep her safe." He shut my car door and ran off.

Dimitri drove around the lot to the first floor. A line of cars were trying to leave. But guardians where searching each vehicle, for me no doubt, before they left. Just as I thought Dimitri was going to join the line, I heard an explosion. Dimitri took a sharp turn toward the boom and I seen the wall of the parking lot completely gone. Dimitri warned me to hold on just as the truck jumped through the new hole in the wall and onto a back road outside of the wards.

I felt like something slammed into my skull as soon are the tires hit the ground. Black shapes formed in my peripheral vision. "Go away!" I didn't realize I said it out loud before Dimitri looked at me strangely. As soon I let his gaze make me feel embarrassed I seen the shapes again. I freaked out a little. Ignoring Dimitri I commanded the spirits to leave me again. They vanished, I no longer felt the need to hold my control a while later. It slowly became a natural barrier between me and the ghosts.

Dimitri was driving over the speed limit for the first half hour and it made me very nervous on the windy roads. We sat in silence durning that time, I didn't dare try to distract him. As soon as we made it to a highway he slowed to the speed limit but continued looking around. I finally regained my Rose Hathaway composure and started a conversation.

"So comrade, um what's in the envelope." He didn't take his eyes off the road.

"Our plane tickets and ten thousand dollar." I swear my eyes nearly fell out of my head.

"Why is nobody seeming the absolute insanity my father is causing." I seen Dimitri smirk but he was still looking ahead.

"Well Roza, you had to get it from someone." I mocked offense, but he kept going. "I can't speak for everyone else but I'm doing it because I didn't see any other way to get you out of there, and I know you didn't murder the queen. I hated seeing you so miserable and all alone.

"But your such a, a rule follower. I never pictured you leading a prison bust for the most wanted dhampir in the world." Dimitri didn't turn to face me.

"Technically your father is leading it, I just have control when where out of the country. Roza, you say you know me so well, you'd know there isn't anything I would do for the people I love." I sat completely dumbfounded. I mustered up the courage to ask the question that's been eating me up.

"How can you leave someone if you said you loved them, then come back and fall in love again so quickly?" He was silent for a moment, he was carefully picking the way he would responded. He shook his head and sighed.

"I never stopped." I tried to keep any emotion off my face, I just sat there. The highway we were on merged onto a freeway. We began approaching a more urban area when we pulled off and parked at a mall. "Stay close to me." Dimitri opened the door and waited for me at the back of the car. I was still in a jumpsuit, so I would stick out big time. He took off his duster and put it around me. I buttoned it and then he rolled up the pants so you couldn't see anymore of the jumpsuit. We walked into the mall to find it very crowded.

Dimitri grabbed my hand and we walked into a Macy's. We went into the luggage section first and got a suitcase. Then we went to the maternity section and got a snow jacket. "Do you mind telling me why I need this, comrade?" He shook his head but smiled. When we left Macy's we had a few days worth of clothes, and headed toward the food court.

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