A/N: This is the sequel to my other fanfiction Assassinating in blood. I apologise to those who have been waiting for this for so long. Also, sorry it's a day later than I said it would be, I didn't realise jet lag was quite so hideous!

Summary: A few months after Dimitri Belikov has betrayed the EDA, Rose gets a lead on Kierov through who is funding his operation. Thomas Finn. He's part of Rose's past, before the EDA, and when she goes after him, Dimitri is obviously there to protect him. But why was someone who Rose used to know part of all of this? Who is Kierov's boss?

RPOV

Dimitri's eyes found mine; a terrible edge to his face as he wielded the knife with ease. He stepped away from the body: Adrian. The only one who'd ever truly stuck by me.

I shuddered as a new fear came over me. We both knew the worst thing he could do now was no longer to kill me, no it was to walk away, to leave me there. The EDA was destroyed now from all the information he'd provided along with the bug he'd planted on me. All I had left to do was to watch everything I knew fall apart.

He cocked his head to one side, the hair he'd allowed to grow falling slightly around his face.

"What do you want me to do Rose?" he asked softly.

I swallowed thickly before responding with words I'd never said despite all the torture I'd suffered; "Kill me."

I woke with a start, my alarm going off with its usual unforgiving sound. Every night, every single night since Dimitri had left I'd had the same dream. It was just those few moments, yet at that time I knew everything. I knew exactly how the EDA would fall, everything Dimitri would have done to lead us to that point. It was horrifying that my mind would conjure up such a detailed painful scenario and replay it every night. It had gotten to a point where I almost felt it was inevitable, that I was going to beg Dimitri to kill me out of sheer desperation.

Of course I'd had myself scanned at least four times to ensure there wasn't any kind of bug in me and I'd gone through everything Dimitri had ever accessed to see if he knew any completely pivotal information. Both had come up clean yet there was still a part of me that was sure there had to be something I'd missed. It possibly wasn't something I could find out; it may have been something purely on Kierov's end, something linking all of this together. Perhaps I'd never explain it. Kierov was remarkably good at keeping things quiet.

I got dressed and grabbed some breakfast, only slowing in my rapid pace when I almost walked into an alive and well Adrian Ivashkov. He looked at me confused for a moment.

"Everything all right?" he asked, his voice gentle.

I nodded, "Just a little rattled this morning." I replied, heading towards my meeting with the Captain.

I wasn't quite out of earshot when he made a muttered response, "as you are every morning."

I reigned in a laugh at that; it was too true to really respond to in that way.

The Captain was in his office, he had a permanent one on our base since he ass there so often to keep an eye on us, well, on me. He hadn't left since Dimitri had gone.

He began talking before I'd even sat down.

"I'm sending you on an assignment. It's time you got out."

I nodded not even thinking about arguing with him because it was what I wanted anyway.

"Now I'm going to give you a choice," he sighed as if he was afraid of my response, "I can put you on a normal assignment, there's a crooked politician out east that we need to get shot of. Or, I can put you back on the Kierov case and have you looking into his funder who we identified yesterday."

"You found him?" I asked incredulously, my voice raising up a notch.

"Yes. Group six followed a lead and found him. A lead we'd had for years but only just found how to use it."

Something about the way he was speaking was setting me on edge. Something was very wrong here.

"What lead?" I asked, feeling a slight tremble in the words.

"Your burn scar Rose," he said softly, "Initially we scanned it for historical matches as he told you it was a family heirloom. It's not just an old Wild West branding symbol. We ran it again through the present day database as with everything going on we wanted to be sure. Turns out it's the logo of a British investment firm." he slid something across the desk and I picked it up.

Finn and Co.

Finn and Co.

The surname was startlingly familiar, so much so that it was driving me insane. I flicked through the file to find who owned it. The CEO of the company was Thomas Finn. When I found the picture of him I instantly knew who he was.

He'd gone to my school. Hell we'd even dated. He'd been my only high school boyfriend and he'd entirely put me off the experience for the rest of the five years. I felt my blood run cold. For him to be involved something very odd had to be going on.

"Did you look into his childhood?"

"Yes. He went to your school if you remember." The Captain said vaguely.

"Oh I remember." I murmured looking back to the photo of him, "He's my ex, a not so happy breakup. Mind you it was long ago he probably hardly remembers it."

The Captain's face took on a concerned expression, "You're saying he could be holding a grudge?"

"Perhaps, I don't know." I sighed, raking my hands through my hair, "I hope not."

"Well, what do you want? A normal assignment or not?"

I hesitated. It was obvious what the Captain wanted me to choose, a normal assignment. He'd given me a dodge politician which he knew I found more interesting, and the fact that he'd even mentioned a normal assignment proved that.

"You know I can't...especially since it's Finn." I looked away from his burning eyes, "I have to go after Kierov."

He slid something across the desk to me, "Plane ticket. Las Vegas. Someone will meet you at the airport to provide you with weapons and a hotel room. I'm using your teams' jet to send them on the normal assignment. This is solo."

I nodded, plucking up the tickets and file to explain the assignment before leaving.

I made it to my room without bumping into anyone. However when I got in I found a nervous looking Castile waiting for me.

"What's going on?" I asked, an impatient edge to my tone as I just wanted to go through the file.

He paced the room while he spoke, "I've been offered a promotion. Team leader. Group four."

For a moment everything stopped. I could feel myself panicking but I quickly hid it as I next spoke.

"Makes sense. That's where Marks transferred to isn't it? You always got on with Marks." I rambled on.

"No." he said sharply, a frown in his voice, "I wanted to tell you I said no. I didn't accept the job."

Almost instantly I felt myself glaring at him, my expression dark, "Then why even bring it up?! So I can feel guilty about it?!

"No!" he sighed, walking over to take my hands, "I wanted to tell you that I'm sticking by you no matter what happens. We all are."

A/N: Ok, so this is probably roughly the length of the chapters, a tad short I know but I need to keep it manageable! I'm starting college this year so there isn't a regular updating scheme. But I WILL be finishing this. I don't care what happens, it will be done.

Thank you for reading & please review!

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