Story for One Shot Songfic Contest by missvalover94
Song: You Promised by Brantley Gilbert
Pairing: Rose/Dimitri
Rating: T
Point of View: Dimitri
I wake up and feel hot, angry tears on my cheeks. I reach out to Rose and don't find her. I roll over and sigh. My heart feels hollow and I nearly scream in frustration. I roll out of the hotel's bed and gather the picture out of my wallet and coat. I grip them, along with a letter I wrote five years ago, and leave the hotel. I drive home and let myself in.
"Rose!" I shout, looking around the house for her. She walks out of the bathroom, wrapped in a towel.
"You're home," she states dryly and walks towards the bedroom. I grab her wrist gently.
"Can we talk?" I ask, "Where's Alisa?"
"As soon as I get dressed," she says sighing, "And she's with Lissa and Christian for the day." I nod and sit in the living room as she gets dressed. I clutch the pictures and paper tightly in my hand. She walks into the room and sits across from me, in jeans and a simple tank top. She's so beautiful.
"I have some things to give you," I tell her, handing them to her. Her eyebrows knit together as she looks through the pictures of us. Some are of Alisa, Rose and me but most are the two of them or just Rose. There are a few of just Alisa as well. As I watch her look through the pictures, I notice that her left finger is bare. She took off her rings. I watch her face fall as she reads the letter. Tears fill her eyes, spilling over quickly. My heart shatters.
RPOV
Roza,
You are an angel, sent to me by god, made to turn my life around. I have never been a good man but then I met you. I love you more than life itself. I was so thrilled to marry you today. I cannot imagine life without you. As I think about my future, about growing old, all I see is you. You are my life.
Dimitri
As I read the letter, tears fall down my face. I place it along with the pictures of us on the coffee table. I lean back in my chair and close my eyes. I let out a deep breath. My eyes fly open as I feel Dimitri kneel in front of me.
"Why are you showing me this?" I ask, raising my hands in a questioning gesture. He takes my hands in his and I let him, "We'll never work."
"Don't say that, please. We can do this," he insists, "My heart hurts too. I know this is hard on you because it's hard on me too. You don't mean what you're saying right now. You meant what you said last night. About wearing my ring. And now it's off. Please, baby, put it back on. Give me another chance. I need one more chance. We can fix this together. I'll stop drinking, I'll do anything. Just please give me one more chance. If not for us, for Alisa."
"Don't bring her into this!" I snap, "You promised me forever," I whisper.
"And we will have forever," he insists.
"No, we both did things that we shouldn't have done but last night, when you walked out that door, you weren't just walking away from me. You were walking away from Alisa too," I tell him, thickly.
"Please give me, give us, one more chance. I need one more chance," he pleads, "I need you and I need Alisa." I look down at him and see how broken he is. We're both broken and need each other to be whole again. I need to know if I can trust him and right now I can't be sure about that.
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