Rose Payne/Relationships

==Relationships==
== Mateo Gonzalez ==
Within her time in the District Attorney’s Office, Rose had to become somewhat tolerant of Law Enforcement. While her distaste was STILL very much apparent, she decided it was time to try making friends. She appeared noticed at a Shift 3 meeting held at LSPD – informing the shift of the on-goings with the District Attorney’s Office, and what the DA wanted (at the time). After the meeting, she introduced herself to a few officers before excusing herself to go back to the office to have a drink and smoke before lying down.
Upon her drive back to the Office, she received a text message from an officer by the name of Mateo Gonzalez, to which she flat out ignored because there was *zero* reason to respond to it at that time. Several days had past, and she was posting on the social media app about Vanilla Unicorn being closed, and some ‘thirst’ traps on how she felt. Confident in not only her position within the Office, but also over al herself. Noticing one particular person likinedhem. Finally, she responded back to the text message – and it wasn’t exactly professional or on business grounds. She mantion tedhat he had been liking her twinsta posts.
The two of them actively flirted for about 2 weeks continuously. Mateo was curious about her distaste for officers and clarified. Both of them met up and had a conversation, and while the red-headed woman was very blunt about why she didn’t care about officers, and the reason for them, Mateo didn’t really get upset or defensive over it. They continued to talk and text each other, all the while Rose had three others, including Harvey Litt in her texts.
She wasn’t someone to invade someone else’s life, let alone private time so she kept to herself and at a distance. She was trying to hint towards Harvey that she wanted to spend more time with him, however due to the “White Bunny” situation that the entire State was going through; Harvey seemed to drift towards someone else whom worked at the Vanilla Unicorn.
Rose confined herself for a few days within Mateo, expressing some of her trauma, explaining her relationship with Donovan and Paul. Granted, she didn’t really dive into the details of her relationship with Donovan. But she did dive into some information about Paul and Legion, granted she left it open end-d.
As the weeks continued, the two of them spent more time with each other, Mateo going off duty more often, and since Rose removed herself from the DA’s office – she kept in contact with him. Still giving him that distance if he requested and wanted it, and would let him reach out to her (basically not constantly texting him because she didn’t want to come off as needy). Rose made a couple jokes stating that Mateo was being given the ‘wife’ treatment without paying the price for it; years ago she would ask for 500k for an entire week with her. And she would give that wife experience. Cooking, cleaning, and all the fun that came with that.
While the two were driving around, Mateo asked Rose if she wanted to goi with him on a vacation back to the Dominican Republic, get away from SA, to which she told him yes.
( WORK IN PROGRESS :) )
== Donovan O'Ryan ==
Donovan O'Ryan was someone that Rose fell in love with - their relationship was the building steps back to being "herself" after her trauma. She was and is still very much in love with the Irish Man, but understands that, if you love them, you let them go.
== Paul Stratum (Content Warning: Drugs, abuse, manipulation) ==
To put this simply Paul Stratum was the leader of a gang called Legion that resided in Southside. When Rose met him, he was "divorcing" his wife. At that time, Rose was in the process of divorcing her own husband after some "coming to light" moments. Paul put it in her mind that her ex-husband would probably utilize his rank within the Lost Outlaws and that he would come after Rose in a fit of rage. Since well, he was abusive; she didn't think twice and asked Paul for protection. Staying with him, hanging out with his gang, and participating in activities (mostly criminal) to make sure that she was watched over at all times. Soon, after the divorce, Rose hit some acid. She had texted Paul, rather bluntly telling him that his face could be planted 'else-where'. That started what Rose would have called a very heated, and passionate relationship. But ultimately, Paul was cruel in his way. Manipulating Rose into taking cocaine, and using her body to gain any sort of information from Law Enforcement to better "their" side. This went on for a couple of years, and Rose fell in love with Paul. Paul had grown a weak spot for "His Little Rose", and his gang started to notice. After a situation, Paul's hand was forced to show Rose what happened when you messed with Legion. She was taken to the Lighthouse and explained exactly what she had done. Paul gave her a choice, kill a member of Legion who had betrayed them or be killed herself. Due to how "under his spell" she was, she did what she was told. In his own sick and twisted way, Paul forced blooded her into Legion in front of the rest of the members. After belittling her to the point she went numb, the other members were happy and left. After the situation, Paul told Rose to run from the Power Station back to the city, with no food, no water, and no way to protect herself if a mountain lion decided to nom on her. Once she had returned to the city, Paul picked her up and they spent the night together once more. Sadly, that tenderness that he showed... was all fake in the very end. Rose woke up one morning to an empty bed. Paul is in an unknown location, along with the rest of Legion. However, Rose believes that he still possesses the switchblade which took the person's life that she murdered to protect her own life. Rose also believes that he returned to the UK in search of his "wife".(Finding out that Paul never divorced her fully)