Title: Adrian and Sydney: A Chance at True Love

Summary: "I'm not stupid. I understand the sacrifices I made in order to have a relationship with Dimitri. I know how badly I hurt Adrian. I would do anything in the world to help him heal; Even if that means finding him true love."- Rose Hathaway (Rose and Sydney alternate POV's) RosexDimitri, AdrianxSydney, and EddiexUnknown (you'll have to see)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these marvelous characters, unfortunately. I also have no rights to Quick Way, in which I mention in this story.

I meant for this story to take place right after "The Golden Lily." I have included Sonia, I know she leaves at the end of "The Golden Lily," but I have some use for her so for now she has not returns to the Court yet.

Chapter One:

Sydney POV

Bursting through the front door directly after Angeline into the place Adrian Ivashkov's calls his home, I still couldn't get a hold of my heart which now felt like it was still beating a million times a minute. Of course, a heart cannot beat a million times a minute. That is just a figure of speech I had heard a couple of my friends here in Arizona bring up now and then. The fact that I was even using their dialect after only knowing them for the past two months concerned me greatly but for now, I could solely blame my lapse in incorrect verbal communication on the person that put me in this startled state.

"What the—hell was that!" I heard Angeline shout from the kitchen around the corner where I knew without a doubt Dimitri, Sonia, and Adrian were residing. After all, this was the time we agreed to meet for the daily testing session on the Stigoi project.

"What happen?" I entered the kitchen at the same time Dimitri asked, recognizing our state of distress.

"Your girlfriend is what happened! Scared the shit out of me, she did." Angeline said pausing to press her hand over her chest. "Here, feel it. My heart just keeps beating so fast." She explained walking over to the Dimitri's chair where he was sitting in the attempt to get him to feel her heart.

"Rose is here?" Sonya asked at the same time Dimitri stood up and moved away from Angeline to ask, "Where is she?"

While Angeline recounted the story of what happen in the streets minutes before, I was distracted by Adrian.

I had noticed when I first walked into the kitchen that Adrian was alert to Angeline's distress. However, at the notion of Rose being the cause, he had now sunk down into his chair with an unreadable look across his face.

I didn't need to see his emotions play out on his face to know exactly what he was feeling. It was what I had been feeling since I rejected Adrian only a few days ago. Complete and udder sadness.

My only concern was that I questioned whether the sadness in Adrian was caused my Rose's sudden appearance in our lives or me.

Only I knew the sadness Adrian was feeling was much different than mine. I grieved because the person I wanted to be with more than anything in the world would always be untouchable. We would never get a chance to experience what our relationship could have been. The only reminders I would have of Adrian and my time together would be the few kisses and touches we allowed ourselves to enjoy before realization happened.

Adrian had Rose and then lost her. The time they shared together had been experienced without many restrictions. I had never asked Rose or Adrian how far their relationship progressed. I hadn't had much experience with breaks-ups, due to my lack of a real boyfriend altogether, but I knew enough on this topic to understand it was typically classified as a forbidden zone. And honestly, did I want to know?

"Sydney?" I heard Angeline ask me.

Blinking my eyes into focus and trying to remember the last thing I heard Angeline say, I was startled to find inquiring bright green eyes staring back at me. It was then that I realized I had been viciously staring at Adrian this entire time.

"Uhh—she came out— from behind the bushes" I stumbled over my words while still staring into Adrian eyes which had turned from curious to arrogant.

Come on Sydney. Don't let Adrian affect you like this. It's pointless.

"Eddie was unprepared—" I continued with the story breaking eye contact with Adrian and focusing my attention to the remaining four people in the room.

"We were all unprepared."Angeline interrupted obviously not happy with the direction I was heading with the story.

"Rose was testing you, was she." Sonia stated more than questioned as she let out a small chuckle.

"It doesn't matter. Eddie—" Dimitri frowned turning to face Angeline before continuing, "And you should be on your guard at all times. Rose shouldn't have been able to surprise you."

"Yeah, but it was in the middle of daylight." Angeline tried to explain.

"It doesn't matter. With the new threat of the wild Alchemists, everyone needs to always be prepared for all kinds of danger." Dimitri explained using that authoritative voice I was coming to recognize. "Hasn't this been made aware to all of us with what happen recently?"

"Don't beat them down too much, Comrade." I heard Rose say before she turned the corner entering the kitchen with Eddie following in behind her.

And just like that, all pretense of what we were discussing disappeared on Dimitri's face as he made his way over to Rose trying to suppress the smile that had replaced his scowl.

Taking Rose into his arms until her feet were no longer planted on the floor, Dimtiri brought her in for a kiss.

Not wanting to impend on their private moment, I looked away to give them privacy.

Unintentionally, I found myself staring back into Adrian's eyes again. This time, recognizing the change in his facial expression. The unreadable expression was gone, replaced by— pain.

Returning my glaze to Rose and Dimitri in irritation for displaying such actions with such disregard to Adrian, I was startled when the chair Adrian's was residing in squeaked against the kitchen floor.

Turning my attention back to Adrian, I saw him approaching Rose and Dimitri who were now looking at Adrian with the same shocked expression as everyone else.

"Rose— nice to have you back." Adrian stated turning his attention to Eddie, Angeline and myself. "But if you'll excuse me, I would like nothing more than to walk to that nice liquor store next to the Quick Way you all were scared shitless at and buy me a nice bottle of whatever they have on sale — Oh wait scratch that. I have money now. I will buy the most expansive liquor they sell."

With that Adrian walked out of the kitchen with the front door slamming seconds after.

Knowing Adrian needed someone to talk to more than a drink; I decided to follow after him. I mean, why else let everyone know exactly where he was headed.

"I'll be right back." I said hurrying out of them room before Adrian got too far.

Thank you for reading. :)