Hey guys Purrfictionist here! I wanted to start some one-shots about Sydney, Adrian and our other beloved characters from the Bloodlines series. There really isn't a specific size on how big the one-shots will be. They might be small or big… but please read and review! I'm still working on I'm Sorry and The Truth so please check my stories out and review! And to my readers and followers of Spared, my Short Second Life of Bree Tanner story, I'm in a bit of a writer's block but don't worry, it'll be over soon (hopefully)! Read and review!

Disclaimer: I don't own Bloodlines, sadly, everything but the plot belongs to the awesome Richelle Mead!

1

The Ring

"Miss Sage."

I looked up from my hands and took in the tall, slim figure of Donna Stanton. She wore a dark maroon button up shirt that was topped off with a knee length gray skirt. A skinny wool white jacket was wrapped around her neck and her elbow length hair was brushed aside from her face revealing the golden lily that had brought me so much pain in the past years.

I stood up from my seat and played with the file in my hands anxiously as she took me in from head to toe. I was dressed much similar to her in casual business attire with my white collared shirt and khakis. The only thing that seemed to throw her off was my lily on my cheek. She looked it at in silence for an agonizing long minute before nodding at me slowly.

"You may come in now," she said.

My hand tightened on the manila folder as I followed Stanton into her large office. I took in her large mahogany desk that I had sat before many times during my time as an alchemist and a child with my father. A large shelf of books and filled, all alphabetically organized and stacked neatly in order by their size. I remembered my time as a child when dad brought me here to study her textbooks on the biology and history of the Moroi and Dhampirs and our duties as an alchemist along with my sister Carly. Stanton's office was much like my second home and her, my second teacher after my father. I was too busy reminiscing to notice a tall familiar silhouette sitting in one of the chairs by her desk and as I took in those familiar golden brown eyes my heart came to a stop. I stopped walking and turned around on my heals to face Stanton as I took in the scene before me. She lied. She lied to me.

"You said that I could talk to you about this alone," I said. "You promised."

"I did what I had to Miss Sage. I had no other choice but to call him. He is your father and he needs to be here when you decide to make harsh and hasty decisions like this. We offered you re-education to clear all of your troubles so that you can start all over again but you denied us. You're too young to understand what you're doing Sydney and you need someone strong and powerful enough to tell you the truth of the world Sydney and that person should be your father. And people break promises Sydney, you of all people should know that."

I blushed and felt my hand fly up to my broken golden lily. "That has nothing to do with this and I know what the truth of the world is," I said. "And it is the exact of what the alchemists have told me."

"You do not talk to your superiors like that Sydney," dad said coldly. "Apologize now."

"She is no longer my superior," I said as I looked into those furious brown eyes. "Because I'm resigning."

"You cannot do this Sydney!" my father howled as he jumped out of his seat.

"I don't want this anymore dad, I never wanted it but I took Carly's spot as an alchemist no matter what I felt about and now, now I realized the mistake I made, how stupid I was to have my life controlled and driven by a group of people for four years," I said, my voice growing louder and louder as I continued. "And I'm done now, I'm done with all. I want to live a normal life, away from all this."

My father looked at me both furious and speechless. I heard someone snort behind me and I ignored it as I looked at pale Stanton.

"Miss. Stanton, can I have my resignation forms now?"

Miss Stanton looked at my father hesitantly before turning back to me. "Please Sydney, think about this again."

"She made her decision," a voice says from the corner of the room. "Give her the forms."

I didn't have to turn around to see that the person behind me was none other than Abe Mazur. We had come to pretty friendly terms in the past few years after he had found out about Adrian and mine's relationship. When he heard that I was planning to resign from Adrian, he had insisted that he would tag along. The three of us both silently knew that the alchemists wouldn't back down without a fight, especially when Stanton had found out from Ian about Adrian and me. I crossed my arms and stood up a little taller as I took in the horror filled faces of my father and Stanton's.

Stanton reached out and handed me the thin white paper. I took the paper from her and scan through the resignation form making sure that there wasn't anything wrong with it. You could never trust the alchemists with forms without double checking. I grabbed the pen that laid astray on her desk and was about to sign it when my father placed his hand over the form.

"If you sign this," he said. "You will never see your family again. You will never be able to call yourself a Sage, much more my daughter."

My grip around the pen loosened as I looked into his eyes. I felt my eyes burn with the tears that I had been trying to avoid for a very long time now as my world tear in half. Why couldn't he understand how unhappy I was being an alchemist? Why couldn't he understand how happy I was with Adrian? Why couldn't he understand the real truth behind all this? I pulled my eyes away from his painfully and quickly signed the paper as I ignored the tears that were rolling down my cheeks. I clicked the pen off and pushed the form towards Stanton.

"So be it," I said as I felt my heart snap.

"You did good back there," Abe said as we walked out of Stanton's office.

I pulled my jacket around me tighter and nodded silently as we walked into the cold January night. "Abe?" I whispered. "Don't tell Adrian that my father was there, and that I um, cried."

Abe nodded as we reached Adrian's beautiful yellow car. "I won't."

I pulled open the car and slid in after Abe got into the passenger seat next to Rose. I buckled my seatbelt and looked into the pair of anxious dark green eyes that I had grown to love over the years. I reached out and touched Adrian's cheek with a small smile as he leaned in to press a kiss on my forehead.

"Hey," I whispered as he wrapped his arms around me.

"Hey," he whispered back.

Rose smiled at us from the front as she pulled out and hit the highway. "So it's official," she said. "You are a rebel."

I frowned and sat up straight in Adrian's arms. "No, I am not a rebel,"

"You kind of are Sage," Adrian said as he squeezed my hand.

"I'm more of a bad employee,"

"Rebel," Rose sang.

I shook my head at her and hid my face in the crook of Adrian's neck, too weak to argue. Abe looked at me from the corner of his eyes silently but didn't say anything as I looked out the window. We drove for hours and hours, quickly pulling away from Utah and to California where the others were waiting for us. Adrian didn't say a word for the entire ride and absent mindedly played with my fingers and my hair as Rose drove through the empty free-way like a mad woman. If I wasn't so distracted and hurt from what happened with my father earlier today, I would have probably passed out from fear of crashing into a tree or a light pole. An hour or two later, Rose pulled up in front of a gas station angrily muttering about low gas mileage. Abe said that he wanted to buy something to drink from the small store next to the station, leaving Adrian and I alone in the car.

Adrian reached out and pulled me into his chest as soon as the two were gone. He tilted my face up to his and leaned down to press a kiss on my forehead, my eyes, my nose and my chin. I waited patiently for the question I knew was coming and looked up at him, shocked by the silence. Why didn't he ask me what was wrong?

"I got you something," he said a minute later.

I smiled at him. "You did?"

He smiled back at me. "Yes, close your eyes."

I did and felt him slip something onto my ring finger. I bit my lip, a little too impatient to see what he had bought me.

"You can open your eyes now," he said.

I opened my eyes and looked down at my hand to find a beautiful golden ring wrapped around my finger. It had a tiny diamond sitting on top of it that dazzled in the beautiful midnight moon making it twinkle like a little star. But that wasn't what caught my attention. It was the words engraved into the golden ring that made my heart flutter. "Ivashkov's Rebel"

A rebel. Maybe that was what I really was and I had to admit it, even though I just broke off everything with my father back in Utah and let him carve a hole in my heart, I had another family waiting for me in California. I had another family who accepted me for who I am, I had a family who could save me from drowning and I had Adrian. And I knew that one day or another; my mother would find me and would drop by for a visit or two like she always did when my father sent me away on missions. Maybe turning into a rebel was a good thing after all.

"Do you like it?" he said anxiously. "Do you want a bigger stone? I could-"

"It's beautiful," I whispered him cutting off. "It really is Adrian, I love it, I love you."

He grinned down at me and pulled me into his arms. "I love you to rebel."

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