It's a beautiful night, as I watch from my dorm room window, Rose and the others running across the yard. They did it. They succeeded. Rose is free. The Guardians won't like it but I don't care what they think. I don't pay attention to them unless it's about Rose. I can't help it. Even if I could, I wouldn't let myself. I love Rose too much. I know she has chosen Belikov over me, but no matter how much she has hurt me, I don't care. Not really. The pain never goes away, but it just means that she's safe and happy and I can feel something. It's something. After everything I've done for her, she didn't choose me.
Suddenly, I see a horde of strigoi here. They're everywhere. I have to get out of here. Get myself somewhere safe. Get away from the school. I grab a couple stakes from my dresser just in case. Not that I've ever killed or fought one before. It's just a precaution.
I carefully make my way towards the exit of the school building, avoiding strigoi and fighting Guardians.
I stop in my tracks when I see something happening from the corner of my eye. I turn to the right and start straight forward, making up my mind. I go quickly towards a certain fight, walking quickly, as I avoid other fighters. I pull out a stake as I do so from my jacket.
I arrive and, with memory of what I learned, start staking strigoi left and right, helping Rose. Once a few of them are dead and Rose is back in control, I go over and stake one that Sydney, the Alchemist, a human, was having some trouble with. I feel pretty good staking strigoi and saving people.
Several hours later, the battle ends and a bunch of Guardians are either injured or dead. The others are okay I see, as I look around at where Rose and the others are. Eddy is one of the uninjured or killed Guardians. Rose's mother is injured though. Hopefully she'll be okay. Rose has had enough loss and heartbreak. She doesn't need her mother to die too.
The next day, everything is back in order, Miss Hathaway is okay, and the dead are all buried.
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