This was just an idea I had while listening to music. I have always wanted to try doing a songfic but never been able to find the right one. But I thought this song was just right and from there I just needed a plot.

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Disclaimer: Characters are the property of Richelle Mead and the song Take it All belongs to its respective writer. No copyright infringement is intended.

The plot remains the property of ~~.

Enjoy!

"I'm sorry Rose, it's over. I can't be second best to him anymore. You'll never love me the way that you love him – the way I love you."

Adrian's words cut me like a sharp knife slicing into my heart over and over again. Through my hurt I realised how ironic it was that the song I had last been listening to just minutes before all this broke out was Take it All by Adele. The way Adrian was just leaving and taking everything with him, was exactly how the lyrics said.

"Didn't I give it all?

Tried my best

Gave you everything I had

Everything and no less

Didn't I do it right?

Did I let you down?"

"Adrian, please, you are the one that I love. Dimitri and I are nothing anymore. It's all you!" I pleaded thickly through my tears, my heart tearing into a million pieces as I sat on the bottom step of the stair case, Adrian's once bright happy green eyes now dark and dangerous boring into me, making me cower even more. "I gave you my heart, I gave you my soul, I gave you everything, yet it still wasn't enough for you."

"Maybe you go to used to

By having me around

Still how can you walk away

From all my tears?

It's gonna be an empty road

Without me right here"

"No, Rose, you'll always love him. You can't go the rest of your life in complete denial, and I'm helping you realise that by being stronger and walking away." Although his words could have been perceived as being ones of kindness and helpfulness, the way they rolled off his tongue felt like another slap in the face. "Sometimes, you just know when you have to walk away and let it go, move on."

"But go on and take it

Take it all with you

Don't look back

At this crumbling fool

Just take it all

With my love

Take it all

With my love"

"Fine leave!" I spat, attempting to come across as being angry and not the crumbling mess I was quickly becoming. "I love you and you're just going to up and leave like that. So go, I don't care anymore. Just leave." By the end of my rant I was sobbing again, unable to contain the torrents of tears that continued to cascade down my over-heated cheeks.

"Maybe I should leave

To have you see

Nothing is better than this

And this is everything we need

So is it over?

Is this really you've given up so easily

I thought you loved me more than this

"We can't go on like this Rose. It isn't healthy for either of us. I know you love me, it just isn't in the right way, not in the way that we need to function as a proper couple." Adrian stared deep into my eyes, his own softening a little. "I love you so, so much, and I know I'll never love someone in the way that I love you. Even though I have to do this, never doubt that I love you." He slowly started to turn from me.

"How would you feel if I did this to you?" I asked. "If I just up and left you for no reason at all. You have no idea how much it hurts." My voice broke and fresh tears welled in my eyes.

"But go on and take it

Take it all with you

Don't look back

At this crumbling fool

Just take it all

With my love

Take it all

With my love"

I felt like a fool. I loved him more than anything in this world. Dimitri and I were long over, he was never coming back to me and I had accepted that and allowed myself to move on and love Adrian with all my heart and soul. And now, because of one little photo left behind, it was over, just gone in an instant. Adrian had found the picture of Dimitri and I in my diary and had automatically assumed that I was still in love with him. In truth though, I hadn't even known that picture was in the old book and probably wouldn't have known for a long time had Adrian not found it when looking though all the books on the bookshelf. The photo meant nothing anymore, it was merely just a long forgotten chapter of my past.

Adrian was taking away everything we had. He was stealing my love for him and just leaving like it was nothing to him.

"I would change if I must

Slow it down and bring it home

I will adjust

Oh if only, if only you knew

Everything I do

Is for you"

"My whole life for the past two years has been about you, every little thing I ever did was to make you happy and to make this the best relationship we could possibly have. Do you need me to change? Is that it? Am I not perfect enough for you?" I questions that had been burning within me came tumbling out in one hit.

"You know that's ridiculous Rose," he condescended me. "You don't need to change and should never change who you are on the inside, but I can't deal with not being number one. I won't be the other guy – the one you get because the one you loved doesn't want you." He may as well have come right over to me and just slapped me across the face instead of making that whole speech.

Adrian picked up his bags, walked slowly to me and kissed me on the head, murmuring something I didn't catch through the sobs that were racking through my lead like body.

"Adrian." I tried to call back out to him as he walked out the door but my voice could barely reach a whisper.

"But go on and take it

Take it all with you

Don't look back

At this crumbling fool

Just take it all

With my love

Take it all

With my love"

It was over. He had taken everything and not even looked back.

It was then that I knew. Adrian Ivashkov was never coming back.

~ AN: so my first songfic. I don't know how good it was, I haven't read many and I wasn't sure how I should go about it, but I did the best I could :)

Please leave a review and tell me what you thought. If you are a writer of songfics, send me a link and I'll check them out to get a better idea of how I could have done this.

Thanks for reading !

~bronte.