Vampire Academy Page #6

there's only so much we can do,

only so much we can handle.

I should have gone with Vasilisa.

I should have.

I'm so alone.

The clarity of the darkness beckons.

I just want it to go away, the shaking,

the scratching, nightmares, all go away.

Lissa. The king and queen

of the school together again,

- the way it should be.

- Lissa!

It's you and I who are destined

to be together.

Let me handle this.

Look at what you made me do to myself,

just like my damn parents.

Lissa!

I have a new family now.

Strigoi brothers and sisters, attack!

- Rose, what's happening?

- Stay close, right behind me,

just like we practiced.

OK. It's not looking great,

but we will get through this, Lissa,

we always do.

Dimitri?

Oh, Rose, you worry too much.

Lissa, no.

What are friends for?

No.

No!

Rose, are you there?

Did you feel that one?

What a weird dream.

Yeah. Yeah, Liss, weird dream.

Don't you dare feel sorry for me.

Feel sorry for her,

for the princess.

I lied.

Lissa doesn't think

that you're a creepy stalker.

She actually likes you.

Then why did you...?

Because I think

that you're a creepy stalker,

and I actually

don't like you, but...

I like the way that Lissa feels

when she's around you.

So what?

Look at her. She's back on top.

She's not happy. She's not

herself, not as she wants to be.

Trust me, I know, Christian.

I can f...

Shadow-kissed Anna did all she could,

but on some days, Satan's darkness

seeped into St. Vladimir,

weakening his health and mind.

See, Christian,

I don't want that to be Lissa.

You are the phantom here. You must know

where they keep the books and scrolls

and whatnot, and I need to figure out

what her abilities...

You sabotaged the first good thing

to happen to me in a long time,

and now you want me to help you?

Ugh. God.

Princess party in the royal rec room.

There's my blood b*tch.

What took you so long?

It's great that you can joke about it.

Lissa, listen.

A lot has happened.

We have to sit down

and have a real conversation.

Stop being so serious, Rose.

It's a party.

- Hey, Natalie.

- Hi.

Awesome party, huh?

Check this.

Can you say "keg magic"?

Wow, Lissa, you can really do it all.

Well, of course I can.

I'm the princess.

But doing it all is wrong, right?

Fire, air, fire, air, fire,

air, fire, air,

- fire...

- Hey.

Aaron.

Rose! Where are you going?

You weren't just going to bail

without saying goodbye.

I need to go home

and sleep you off.

Oh, is the bond making you

as buzzed as I am?

God, you are burning

us both out on magic.

Stop worrying. It's working.

Weeks have gone by, and Mia is toast.

No threats, no notes, no foxes.

You're just bummed that I, not you,

have neutralized the threat.

You neutralized a threat,

not "the" threat.

And Aaron, seriously,

you really want to show up

to the Equinox Dance with that?

He's... cute.

And incredibly boring.

You think everyone's boring.

Christian's not.

No, you were right about him.

I knew "little flirtation with the dark

side" sounded like one of your lines.

- Sorry.

- You know what? You can have Christian.

You're both savages.

Lissa, what I've been trying to tell you

is that you're making

this about high school,

and it's about something more.

Natalie... Are you nuts?

What are you thinking?

Trust me, you do not want

to have to get a nose job in Montana!

Sorry. I'm sorry. It's...

When you both left

the party, I had no one to...

Everyone kept staring

at me, so I left,

and on my way back to the dorms,

I swear, someone...

more like something,

started to follow me.

I just... I don't know.

I'm probably just being paranoid.

That's not paranoia.

- That's a psi-hound.

- Rose thinks everything is a psi-hound.

What's a psi-hound?

- What's my backpack doing over there?

- Lissa, no.

Lissa!

Oscar! Oh, my God.

Oscar.

- Lissa, just...

- No, Rose!

Shadow-kissed Rose,

you're bound to Lissa,

and it's up to you to help her.

Don't you understand?

The more that Lissa uses her powers,

the worse it'll get.

The more dangerous it will be.

They came for me.

They'll come for her.

What are you talking about?

Is it the Strigoi?

This isn't about Strigoi.

Not everything to be feared roams

outside the gates of St. Vladimir's.

- I don't understand.

- Oh, you couldn't understand it.

You don't have to understand.

Look at me.

No, please, Ms. Karp,

not compulsion, please.

- I beg of you, please!

- I'm not taking your memories away.

Just hiding them for a bit.

Lissa's life is in peril.

You only need to know you have

to get her away from the academy.

Forget everything I've said

until it's time not to forget.

I guess you could say

that it was half-repression

and half-compulsion,

and when you asked me

why we left the academy

in the first place,

a part of me couldn't remember.

I just knew that we had to get out.

Outrageous.

What Headmistress Kirova means to say

is that it was brave of you

to come forward, Rose.

Well, I'm doing it for Lissa.

She needs help.

But is it really true

she can bring the dead to life?

Dead's dead...

but from the brink of death.

Not since St. Vladimir,

and he never declared a magic, either.

But there is no actual proof

to anything you're saying.

We found no cameras,

and the compulsion alone

can only be done in specific

environments by trained professionals.

Well, Lissa had no problem doing it

to you, right in your own office.

Surely, you had to wonder why you didn't

just throw me out of school.

It's outrageous.

Enough, please.

Ms. Sonya Karp. I want to see

the Day Six footage.

I've had a rough night.

Don't make me crawl

through a ventilator shaft

and lower myself down into

the security center on a wire.

Headmistress, we have no right to keep

Rose in the dark for as long as we have.

All right. All right.

Take her downstairs.

Show her everything.

Show us Karp Day Six, please. Thank you.

I knew this is

what you were looking for.

Couple months after you left,

Ms. Karp had a complete breakdown.

And did the doctors

find a way to help her?

She found a way to help herself.

Karp was not like the others.

She didn't become Strigoi

for the power or the immortality.

She just... wanted the pain to go away.

Nobody likes to talk about it,

but the most effective way

for the undeclared to take away

their special anxiety

is for them to take a life

and become Strigoi.

Strigoi have an inner clarity.

No feelings. No worries.

No weakness.

She got away.

We don't know where she is now.

Roza? Roza, calm down.

- I'll protect you.

- Roza?

It's not Karp. It's Lissa.

She's upstairs,

and she's... she's pissed.

Cuts on my arm?

Is that what she said?

And without the use

of a blade, no less.

I know I've been having trouble

declaring a magic,

but that seems a pretty pointless skill.

Allow me to put your mind at ease.

Rose is a dear friend,

but she has a talent for tall tales.

Kirova's letting herself be compulsed

even after I gave the compulsion speech!

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