Chapter 7

                                    

                                          
Abe's POV 
                          
"You, Miss Hathaway, broke the most sacred promise among our kind: the promise of a guardian to protect a Moroi. It is a great trust. A trust that you violated by selfishly taking the princess away from here. The strigoi would love to finish off the Dragomirs;you nearly enabled them to do it.", Headmistress said.
                          
"Rose didn't kidnap me.I wanted to go. Don't blame her.", that frail voice must be of Princess Dragomir. She is trying to protect her. 
                          
"Miss Dragomir, you could have been the one who orchestrated the entire plan for all I know, but it was still her responsibility to make sure you didn't carry it out. If she'd done her duty, she would have notified someone. If she'd done her duty, she would have kept you safe."
                          
"I did do my duty! I did keep her safe! I kept her safe when none of you could do it. I took her away to protect her. I did what I had to do. You certainly weren't going to.", someone shouted and my the sound of it, it must be Rosemarie Hathaway. 
                          
The passion and fierceness in her voice brought a strange sense of familiarity in me. A strange feeling of belonging that I hadn't felt since a very very long time. 
                          
"Miss Hathaway, forgive me if I fail to see the logic of how taking her out of a heavily guarded, magically secured environment is protecting her. Unless there's something you aren't telling us?", Headmistress Kirova questioned. 
                          
Come to think so it, even I who takes dangerous risks for fun and amusement can't understand Rosemarie taking her best friend who is a Royal moroi, a Princess and the last living member of Dragomir family moreover whom she cares so deeply about out of a warded Academy where she would be constantly exposed to the strigoi. 
                          
Her silence explains that she is definitely hiding something, something big and I need to find out what. 
                          
"I see. Well, then. By my estimation, the only reason you left - aside from the novelty of it, no doubt - was to avoid the consequences of that horrible, destructive stunt you pulled just before your disappearance."
                          
What? That is preposterous and not to mention stupid. 
                          
"No, that's not - ", she tried to deny but before she could Kirova interrupted. 
                          
"And that only makes my decision that much easier. As a Moroi, the princess must continue on here at the Academy for her own safety, but we have no such obligations to you. You will be sent away as soon as possible.", Kirova declared. 
                          
What? Okay, this has gone too far. She deserves detention or essay writing or some other punishment but expulsion? That is just unfair. Kirova really does hate her.
                          
Kirova knows who I am. I could get Rosemarie enrolled back in this Academy or any other Academy whatever she wants. The protectiveness in me surfaced and I was ready to save my daughter. Nervousness of seeing her gone in a flash. 
                          
I braced my self setting my mind straight and my cold exterior back on.  I took the first step but felt a hand gripping my arm preventing me from entering the office. It was Pavel, I frowned. Why was he stopping me? He shook his head. After so many years spent with him I know when to trust his instinct. I sighed resigned. 
                          
"I... what?", Rosemarie said shocked. 
                          
"You can't do that! She's my guardian.", Princess exclaimed. 
                          
"She is no such thing, particularly since she isn't even a guardian at all. She's still a novice.", Kirova turned her down. 
                          
"But my parents - ", I know about the whole Dragomirs asking Rosemarie to be Princess Dragomir's guardian. 
                          
"I know what your parents wanted, God rest their souls, but things have changed. Miss Hathaway is expendable. She doesn't deserve to be a guardian, and she will leave.", Kirova is hell bent Rosemarie's expulsion. I'll make sure she'll pay for it. Rosemarie's voice brought me back from my dangerous thoughts. 
                          
"Where are you going to send me? To my mom in Nepal? Did she even know I was gone?", she asked. Why is she asking such a question? Of course Janine would know everything about her, because well she is her daughter. 
                          
"Or maybe you'll send me off to my father?", the level of disgust in her last word shocked me. Why would she have so much hate for her father? She haven't even met me. Or maybe she knows who her father is, who is a scumbag. Because her hating me without even knowing me makes no sense. 
                          
Ugh, this is so complicated. Pavel is right, I can't just barge in her life like this. I need to know all the facts first. I need to leave before I do something I will regret. I need to tread this carefully. I won't leave her alone that is for sure. If she does get expelled I will have her enrolled in some other Academy. 
                          
I stepped back and indicated Pavel to return to guest quarters. 
                          
Dimitri's POV 
                          
Rosemarie is enraged at the idea of getting expelled. I knew this was likely to happen but that doesn't mean I support it. The number of female guardians in our world is far too less to risk losing another one especially with such potential . 
                          
"Where are you going to send me? To my mom in Nepal? Did she even know I was gone? Or maybe you'll send me off to my father?", her mother is none other than Guardian Hathaway. One of the most renowned guardians in our world. Her skills and level of dedication is expendable. But no one is perfect, although she is an exceptional guardian, same cannot be said about her motherhood. I have been told that she had came to see her daughter handful of times over the course of 13 years. Guardian Petrov is more of a mother to Rosemarie than Guardian Hathaway. Like most dhampirs her moroi parent is unknown to her. Naturally she doesn't want to be with anyone of them. 
                          
"Or maybe you're going to try to send me off to be a blood whore. Try that, and we'll be gone by the end of the day.", this is getting out of hand real fast. Novice Hathaway doesn't want to separate from the Princess but Headmistress Kirova is hell bent on expelling her. She surely hates her guts. 
                          
I need to do something, but what? 
                          
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