I'm cutting it short.

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3rd POV

Dimitri stands, in front of the door that leads to the courtroom, tapping his left foot on the white tile. His hands in his pocket, when he sees his fiancee turning the corner, holding the hand of their child. She's being sustained by Adrian, who looks straight at Dimitri with daggers.

Rose looks up, and their eyes meet. Dimitri's eyes are cold and distant, while hers are defeated and filled with tears she won't let fall.

Seeing Angel holding hands with Rose warmed his heart, and that moment he decided he wanted to keep him. It was theirs, and no one elses. He was going to fight.

Even if he after this he would also have to fight Rose to keep him. The engagement was over.

Not that she knew, anyways. He looked away, first, feeling like a coward, and like his hear was being ripped out of his chest. His right hand went over his heart, and rubbed the place, trying to ease the physical pain he was feeling.

They reached him, and they all stood huddled around.

"Ready?" Dimitri asked Rose.

Rose took in a deep breath to steady herself, she looked up, and straightened herself out.

"Yes, I'm ready."

She looked at him, and spoke softly.

"Guess we weren't worth the fight huh?"

And together they entered the court room, where Ralf stood at the front with a smirk on his face. Angel shied away from him, hiding behind Rose's leg.

Rose and Ralf stared at each other, Rose glared at Ralf, and Ralf admired Rose.

Dimitri looked between them. He was clouded by jealousy and hurt, he didn't see the truth.

Rose, Dimitri, and Angel proceeded to walk towards their podium. Rose took Angel into her arms, and he rested his head on her shoulder.

Hours started to go by, at one point Angel was taken away from her. Things were looking bad for them.

His lawyer was pointing it out to the judge that Angel did not belong to them, he wasn't related to them in any way, Dimitri gave the judge Tasha's letter. The lawyer said even if it was legit, Tasha was out of her mind.

"Is there anything that you would like to say?" the Judge spoke to Rose and Dimitri. Dimitri looked at rose, and Rose looked at Lissa. Lissa nodded her head, and Rose took in a deep breath. Dimitri said, "No-" while Rose said, "Yes, your honor."

Dimitri turned to look at Rose.

"What would that be Ms. Hathaway."

Rose felt a pang of pain, since she knew she wouldn't be Mrs. Belikov.

"I'm not trying to press any charges, since this happened a while ago." Rose took in another deep breath and continued. "Eleven years ago, I was dating Ralf; things were great... Then three months before I turned 14, he changed. He became physically abusive and even tried sexually, but Lissa Dragomir stopped him from going any further."

She looked at Lissa who gave her a supportive smile and two thumbs up. Rose turned to look at the judge, feeling the gaze of Dimitri on her.

"Do you have any evidence of this ?" Rose faltered at this. She didn't. She could feel Ralf's winning gaze on her.

"I do!-Your honor," Lissa cleared her throat, and Rose stared at her friend like she had a third head. The judge nodded her head at Lissa.

"Thank you Miss Dragomir." She was married now, but it didn't matter,at this moment.

The bailiff brought out a t.v and video recorder. The tape was put in, and it appeared fuzzy at first, then the image came in.

It was Rose's room, on the day of her 14th birthday, she'd just pulled a prank on Dimitri and she'd come into her room laughing.

"Hey, Rosie," Rose's head had snapped his way, and she'd stop laughing, and backed away.

"What's up Ralf?" her voice had quavered and she'd knocked over her perfume from the table. He'd stalked over to her, given her a kiss.

A forced kiss.

"Don't believe this!" Ralf screamed back in the courtroom. Rose had a hand over her mouth to stop the sobs from over taking her completely.

"Silence!" the judge had screamed, making Rose jump out of her skin as the screen showed how he threw her into her bed and jumped in fron of her, ripping her clothes off.

"Make it stop," she begged. "Make it stop!" all she heard was Lissa bursting into the room, and the chaos that followed. Then it was all cut off.

"You hoe! Slut!" Ralf screamed at her, and she cringed away from everyone, leaning on the rail behind her, as she cowered down and covered her ears, and closed her eyes.

She felt someone shaking her, and she opened her eyes, and looked around.

"He's gone, Rose," Christian whispered, and she threw herself at him.

"Oh my god," she sobbed.

"It's okay, it's okay," he soothed her.

Not everything was okay, though.

A year has gone by, Rose and Dimitri went their separate ways, after court, Rose kept custody of Angel, with Dimitri visiting his children every day at Vikktoria's house, thought Dimitri and Rose have no contact.

But, now, they will be celebrating Katelyn's first birthday, at the park.

"Are you nervous?" Sydney asks her, as Lissa keeps curling her hair. Rose looked at Sydney from the mirror.

"About...?" Sydney rolled her eyes.

"Seeing Dimitri."

Rose's shoulder slumped.

"I heard he has girlfriend," she commented casually just to get a reaction from Rose.

"Doesn't matter," she said, simply.

"Do you still love my brother?" Vikktoria asked her, staring right at her, daring her to lie.

Rose stared right at the girl, who had the same eyes as him.

"That's like asking if I'm alive."

Once at the park they set everything up and all the children went around playing, being watched by the body guards that belonged to her parents. Katelynn wobbled around chasing her brother Angel.

Rose stared at her beautiful daughter and smiled.

"She's beautiful," she jumped, startled at the voice.

She looked over her shoulder and met the brown eyes of Dimitri. Her breath got caught in her throat, and she looked away.

"Yes, she is," she whispered. He took a step closer.

"I'm sorry... Truly sorry. I was blinded by jealousy, pain, and the frustration of everything going on."

She didn't say anything back, just followed Katelyn around with her eyes.

"I love you," he said. She again, said nothing.

She was tired of always fighting for what she wanted. Tired of not getting what she wanted, of losing the people she loved. That had to end.

He felt her hand go across the space between them, and she interlaced their hands.

"Forever," she said.

"And always," he answered.

Aha. It seems my stories get better towards the end -_- anyways, you want a wedding? All you have to do is review and you will get yourself a wedding (: