Just an idea I thought up. For some reason I enjoy inflicting pain on Rose and by default the rest of the VA characters. This has the potential to be a one-shot but I have more suffering to come if you would like me to make it into a full story. Please REVIEW!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or the world in which this is set. Everything you recognise belongs to the inspirational Richelle Mead.

…After "Love fades, mine has."…

I walked briskly with my head down so that no one would see the tears pouring down my face. I'd thought that he had still loved and was only trying to protect me by keeping me away from him. I'd thought Lissa was my best and I'd thought they still cared about me about.

I had thought wrong.

With four simple words Dimitri Belikov shattered me.

All my life I had be taught that they come first so I had put my life on the back burner. I lived my life for Lissa, and finally when I had found someone worth living my own life for. He took himself away from me. That's what hurt the most. If it had been someone else, anyone else, I would have fought to get him back. I would have travelled the world in search of him and punished the person who taken him away, just as I had with the strigoi. I would break into all the prisons in the world and if I was thrown in there myself I would break myself out. I would die for this man.

Now I will die because of him.

He had taken himself away from me, and I couldn't punish him for that. He had given up on me. I resented Lissa for siding with him, but was glad he would have her once I was gone. My heart had died the instant those words spoken, all I needed now was for my mind and body to follow. I wouldn't kill myself, even I would consider that to be weak. It would be the easy way out. I will not have my death scheduled and organized. Even by my own hand.

I hadn't noticed that I had started sprinting until the air was whooshing past me. The ground was spinning, morphing in and out of focus. My lungs became tight making breathing near impossible. Falling forward onto my knees, I realized I'd stopped just before the edge of the wards. The vast wilderness just out of my reach.

I was weak. I hadn't been eating or sleeping well lately and it was beginning to take toll on my body. I needed energy and lots of it if I was going to make it far enough that no one would be able to stop me.

I felt the bond grow darker, it was almost black and it occurred to me that I haven't taken Lissa's darkness since she restored Dimitri. There was enough darkness to send me on a killing spree and more than enough to allow me escape.

I greedily pulled all the darkness into my mind, soaking up every last strand and embracing it. The power surged through my body and I felt the demonic power of the strigoi as though it was devouring my mind. I touched the nazar around my neck and without even sparing a glance at the court, I powered off into the forest. Jumping over fallen trees and rocks like they were insignificant.

The level of green was disorientating. Moss had grown along the ground and up the trunks of trees, making it hard to see what was the ground and what wasn't. A storm that had been a long time coming, split the sky and pelted down like there was no tomorrow. It was the kind of rain that makes you fear for the safety of your home. The destructive kind of rain. The wind picked up and was howling past, showing no signs of letting up anytime soon. It was causing my 5"7' frame to slide around on the now wet, moss covered ground. The air around me got misty and lost all sense of direction. The sky thundered and I jumped in surprise as a loud crack echoed it. It sounded like a tree splitting in half, a shadowed appeared above me and I couldn't help the screamed that escape my mouth, milliseconds before the trunk crushed me beneath it.

There you go :)

It's up to you whether Rose lives or dies, choose wisely and review.

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