AN: so some people submitted reviews to ask me to continue and I have :]. At the moment I have about 3 chapters written to post, but I need ideas for what you all would like to happen in it. Please review and let me know! Not much happens but I just wanted to get a chapter posted tonight for you all. Hope you like it.

My hand flew up to cover my mouth and stifle a cry of surprise. Mason had never appeared in front of other people before, save for Stan, or depending if your one of the "Rose is Crazy" supporter, I had never hallucinated in front of this many people before.

Alberta and Dimitri both noticed my sudden change as I let the open door fall closed again.

"Rose, what are you doing?" Dimitri asked from behind me. I could tell from his voice that he was worried.

"Do you see him?" I hissed to the two of them, pointing towards Mason's flickering outline. "It's Mason." He looked a little frustrated, but mostly scared. What would a ghost have to be afraid of?

Dimitri put a hand on my shoulder, "Come on, Rose, lets go inside, it's late."

I shook him off. "Damn it! This isn't lack of sleep of stress! And I am not crazy!"

Mason opened his mouth and looked like he was trying desperately to speak.

"Mas. What is it?" I pleaded with him. He tried to speak again and then resigned to point towards the woods where we had come from. I turned to look, but still saw nothing.

"I don't understand! What's out there Mason?" Dimitri and Alberta exchanged a worried look, probably about my mental stability, but I ignored it. "What's wrong?"

And with what looked like an enormous effort, Mason finally formed words.

"They're coming."

I could only think of one "they" that we would need warning about and suddenly I understood why Mason had looked scared.

"Strigoi?" I gasped out and, very solemnly, Mason nodded before fading away.

"Holy Shit!" I whipped around to face Dimitri and Alberta. "There are strigoi on campus!" Neither of them moved.

"Rose… I don't think…" I cut Alberta off.

"I'm not crazy!" I shouted, yet again. "I know I'm not," I said, rounding on Dimitri. "I told you about Anna."

Dimitri hesitated, not sure if me absorbing Lissa's darkness proved that I could see ghosts or caused me to imagine them. Finally, seeing the desperation on my face, he gave in. "Okay, Rose, I'll go check everything out."

Alberta looked exasperated. "Really, Belikov, this is hardly necessary."

I was about to tell her to stop being an idiot and let us go have a look, but Dimitri spoke first. "Actually, I think it might be," he said, "something doesn't feel right." Then he turned to me. "I'll be back soon."

"Wait!" I shouted, "I know I'm right. You can't go out there alone."

He placed his hands on my shoulder and looked at me levelly. "You have to stay here with Guardian Petrov." He must have know that I was about to protest because he quickly added, "someone will need to sound the alarm." I couldn't argue there.

"And I'll take a radio," he assured me.

At that, Alberta disappeared inside for no more than ten, she reappeared handing Dimitri a radio. She seemed to accept that something was indeed wrong because a second later she handed me a stake. With one final look at us, mainly me, Dimitri sprinted off the way we had come and as soon as I couldn't see him anymore, I began to pace. Alberta stood stiffly against the wall.

Suddenly, her radio crackled to life.

"Petrov, Its Belikov. Can you hear me?"

"Yeah, Petrov here. Go ahead," she responded, gripping the talk button tightly.

"Rose was right," came Dimitri's voice again and I wanted to shout I know! "There's a lot of foot prints out here and judging by the length of the strides, they were moving fast. Sound there alarm and I'm going to go try and find them. I wonder how in the world they…" he cursed in Russian."

"Buria." He whispered, deadly calm into the radio before static took over.

My breath hitched and I snatched the radio from Alberta's frozen hands. "Go sound the alarm," I practically shouted at her, "didn't you hear him?"

She snapped out of her shocked state and darted back in the back door to the dhampir dorms. I pressed the talk button on the radio down with shaking hands and managed to choke out Dimitri's name. There was nothing but static in response.

If he died, I didn't know what would happen to me. He was the other half of my soul. I had always been independent and strong and I was going to protect Lissa from strigoi, even if it killed me. That had been my plan until I met Dimitri. I had never needed anyone as much as I needed Dimitri and if he died, the one person I leaned on would be gone. I would collapse. But I was a guardian. I didn't have time to worry about anyone when moroi lives were at risk. This was my life, no matter how much I wished it wasn't at the moment. I wanted to just screw the Moroi, except maybe Lissa, Christian and Adrian (yes even Adrian) and just run off with Dimitri to somewhere safe. Somewhere where we didn't have to worry about constant attacks everyday. This was reality thought, and I needed to focus if I was going to get through this alive.

Swallowing my worries, I pressed the talk button with new resolve.

"Dimitri, if you can hear me, you listen up. Don't you dare let anything happen to yourself. You stay safe you hear me?" Even as I said the words through, I knew that Dimitri's own life meant little to him in a situation like this. He would fight to the death if it meant keeping others safe. So, I hit below the belt and played on his inability to say no to me.

"You stay safe for me. I need you to come back, Comrade. I love you." There was nothing else to do except hope at that point. I couldn't afford to panic right then though. There was probably a giant pack of strigoi coming to attack the school and I needed to focus.

AN: again: so there was chapter two. Just a small taste of whats to come. Review and let me know what you thought of it please. And ideas?

~LLM