Rose was patrolling near the windows like she always did this time of night and checking her watching every five minutes sonshe wouldn't be late meeting Kirk. Who she saw a moment later was being held by the neck by none other than Dimitri.
"Shit." She hesitated knly a second before grabbing a stake - one of the wooden ones. It wouldn't kill Dimitri but it would knock him out for, oh, about five minutes. That would be enough to get her friend inside the wards. Rose saw Lissa's panicked look as she rushed out, but she didn't have time to explain, she didn't have time to argue. Dimitri was seconds from seriously hurting one of her best friends and no matter what she'd said to him on the network, she wasn't that confident he wouldn't risk pissing her off.
"Leave. Him. Alone," she practically growled as she reached the pair moments later. All pretense that Kirk didn't mean that much to her was pointless now and her fury radiated off of her like a palpable thing. No matter how much he looked like Dimitri, no matter how much she hoped to get the real Dimitri back, Rose ass pissed and it showed.