A/N: So... this is the first time I've wrote fanfiction in like... almost three years. I'm not sure what will come of it. This is just a one-shot but I have a TON of ideas. Also, this is based off of Maroon 5's song One More Night. Give me a shout out and tell me what you guys think, and keep posted because I WILL be posting more stuff soon. I just don't have my books right now as a reference. My aunt borrowed them. :)

One More Night

Rose's POV

I can't believe this. No matter how many times I tell him, I stay. One more night, he pleads. He doesn't understand. Lissa almost died. This is dangerous. This is more than me and Dimitri. This is more than the love of my life. We're both Lissa's guards. We should have never allowed ourselves to fall for one another.

I shake my head, as tears fill my eyes. I look around and shake my head at the life we've built together. I've requested a temporary change in charges. I'm now going to be guarding some other royal. A Voda. I don't recall their first name. That doesn't matter until tomorrow. I look and see the pictures on the wall. A smiling Rose, and Dimitri stare back at me and I feel rage. How dare he have made me fall for him? I feel myself rear my arm back, and I punch the frame. I feel satisfaction as I hear glass shatter. I look down at my hand and see blood, and I laugh out loud.

Everyone probably thinks I've gone mad. When I saw Lissa in the arms of a Strigoi, I guess I did go quite mad. I wasn't sure I'd be fast enough, and damn it… I almost wasn't. I can't believe that we thought it wouldn't matter. But it did. Because we both froze. We wanted to make sure that we were safe, for each other, and that almost cost Lissa her life.

And it's an argument we've had every night since, I think about the words that have been said.

"Dimitri, don't you understand?!" I command, and he laughs.

"You mean that I almost cost you your bond mate?"

"I don't blame you. I blame me." I tell him, and he shakes his head. "Dimitri… this, us, has to end. I can't be her guardian and your girlfriend." I tell him, and a tear falls down my cheek.

"No!" He says, and for the first time, I see his mask fall. I shake my head.

"Don't do this to me…" I whisper.

"To you?" He asks, unbelievingly. "I risked everything for you. I love you, dammit. Can't you see that?" I shake my head and he continues on, "or is it not enough? Is Lissa the only one you'll never leave, Roza? Is that it?" He says and I shake my head.

"They come first," I say simply.

"No, don't leave me," he practically begs, with tears down each cheek, and falling backwards on the bed.

"One more night." I tell him, knowing it'd never work.

That fight has happened a million times. Each day, I wake up feeling guilty. I know we almost killed her, yet I can't leave him. Then I realized my downfall. I tell him each night that I'm leaving. So tonight….

He has no warning. He's guarding her, and has no clue that he's going to come home to a wrecked room. My clothes are already packed,and I have my half of the movies, of the knick knacks. He has no clue, I think to myself. I shake my head as I gather myself, and go to the sink to wash out my wound. Maybe he won't hate me for forever, I think to myself and then I laugh.

No, he'll hate me for the rest of my life. Because I'll never see him again. I know it seems childish. Swapping charges seems like a good solution, at first. But dhampirs don't get to be in committed relationships for a reason. And I have now figured out the reasoning. I realized it with Dimitri after the arguments started, and I will not put him, or anyone else through it.

So, after this, no more. No more one more nights. I'm done and he will have to accept it. I've left a letter telling him so, and as I'm looking around trying to see if there is anything I've forgotten. Seven o' clock… he'll be home soon. I should leave, I tell myself and I feel tears coming.

No, I am Rosemarie Hathaway and I will not cry, I tell myself and soon I'm walking out the door with my suit case in hand. No more one more nights, no more Dimitri, no more romance. I am a guardian, and I will be the best damn guardian there is.

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