Never Alone (vampire academy)

Prologue: The Beginning Of My Ending (edited)

My name is Rosemarie Hathaway Mazur Ivashkov. I'm 20 years old. My species is Dhampir. Half Moroi, half Human. My job is to protect the Moroi. The good vampires. The title of that job is Guardians. My title is Guardian Mazur. I have never embraced my royal blood. I am dhampir. It was my job, my responsibility to protect and defend against strigoi. The bad vampires. They come first. That is the number 1 rule we, guardians, follow. They as in the Moroi.

More about my interesting family tree. My mother, her name is Janine Hathaway. She is a Guardian, just like me. My father, his name is Ibrahim Mazur. He is a Moroi. Now, the interesting part. The reason why I have "royal blood" is that my father is the half-brother of your majesty Queen Tatiana. I'm her only niece but she also has a nephew. My dearest cousin's name is Adrian. He is 23 years old. Adrian is the son of her whole brother, Nathan. Therefore he is my uncle and he is married to Danielle, my other aunt. To be honest Queen Tatiana is my favorite. Even though I am a dhampir, she still took me under her wing and raised me like her own. She never had children. She never got married. But ever since I was born I have been her family. Both of my parents aren't around as much. My father's business is quite dangerous, he has plenty of enemies. But my father stayed around whenever he could and when it wasn't dangerous for me. No matter what my father did he put me first like a father should. Now my mother, on the other hand, she's always protecting another charge of hers. She's always put her charge first. A charge is the term used for the Moroi when they have a guardian.

It was either I was at St. Vladimir's Academy with my friends or I was at Royal Court with my Aunt Tatiana and my adopted sister/ best friend Lissa. But her real name is Vasilisa Sabina Rhea Dragomir. She has been the last of her family line for 10 years. Me, Lissa, her parents and brother, Andre, were in a car crash, because of a stupid drunk driver on the wrong side of the road. I'm going to be a hundred percent honest. I died in that car crash along with her parents and older brother. But Lissa survived and brought me back to life using her spirit magic. At the beginning, everyone just thought she hadn't gone through her magical "puberty" yet. Well, except for me of course. From the very beginning, I knew she was very special. Special indeed she is. By her bringing me back to life she made me her shadow-kissed best friend/ sister turned Guardian. Lissa isn't the only Spirit user, my cousin Adrian is one as well. Except he doesn't have a bond mate like Lissa and me.

I know. My life sounds weird and complicated but that doesn't begin to cover it.

Now here is the beginning of my ending

It was her 20th birthday. We were just going on a normal stroll through the park. Afterwards, we were going to go see my aunt, Queen Tatiana. Then there was a Strigoi. He came out of nowhere, I didn't see him. I failed as her guardian, also as her best friend. I had my stake on me too. She got hurt, badly. Just before I killed him. I got hurt too but that wasn't the point. It was my job to be her Guardian. She gave the last of her energy to me, to heal me. She saved my life when it wasn't her place. I should have saved her. She died from the loss of energy, use of magic, me failing at my job, me being her best friend and guardian. I'm not the only one suffering. Her fiancée Christian, my nemesis turned adoptive brother is suffering as well. I'm almost sure of it. Before I fell into unconsciousness, after the attack, I only had one thought. The end of the Dragomir bloodline is my fault. Vasilisa Dragomir was dead.