Hey, sorry for the long wait. I've been working on my other story. But I promise that I will update at least once or twice a week. Depends on the response though :) And I do appologies if there's some grammar errors, but hey english isn't my first language so... ;)

I hope you'll like this chapter. Sorry if it's too short, but I'll make the other ones longer, promise.

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Chapter 2

Previously in The forensic anthropologist and the FBI agent;

"Hey Rose, thanks for coming. I just talked to the FBI's prosecutor Sidney Sage and she said that the heads of the FBI wanted our help – or specifically your help with a case." Mia said while shuffling with some paper on her desk.

"They need help from me? Why?" I asked curious to why the FBI need help from someone who examines historical bones.

"They've hit a dead end in a case and they need you too identify their Jane or John Doe. Their own people couldn't figure it out by themselves."

"But I'm not done with the bones from the bronze age. I'm sure I can help them when I'm finished with that."

"No, you're gonna help them first. The bones you're working with now can wait. This is a much more important case than the historical one." she said sternly.

"But I'm no FBI agent nor am I a crime-investigator." I said, a bit desperately, knowing that I wasn't gonna win this discussion.

"It doesn't matter. They need our help and I'm demanding you – as your boss – to help them with their case."

"You're seriously using the boss-card against me?" I asked incredulously.

"Yes Rose, I am. And that's final."

I grumbled in annoyance but nodded my agreement. I really hate it when she does that to me. I've even told her that. But I guess there's nothing more to say.

"Good, it's settled then. The FBI agent who's gonna supervise the work are on his way."

And just in that moment there were someone who knocked on the door. And when I turned around I was met with deep chocolate brown eyes who belonged to a tall and muscular and very handsome man. I'm not that easily to like someones appearance but this man, he sure is something special. He's surrounded by a strong aura and I feel extremely drawn to him. Weird...

"Rose, meet Special Agent Dimitri Belikov" Mia said with a smile plastered on her face.

Dimitri POV

Wow.

Is this the woman I'm supposed to work with on this case? Man, I thought all lab-rats and squints were ugly. But this woman – she's not ugly. Far away from it! She must be the most beautiful woman I've ever laid eyes on.

Short and curvaceous with long brown hair. Love the body, yes. Don't expect anything else, I mean I'm a man.. But the most captivating about this woman must be her eyes. Her deep brown orbs are right in this moment scrutinizing me, up and down. I can literally feel her eyes burning all over my body. And those eyes, man! They're speaking legions even though she haven't uttered a word to me yet.

I can feel myself getting way too attracted to this woman who I haven't met before, not even spoken too yet. If I'd met her outside from work, I would totally hit on her. She's totally the right kind of woman whom I'm easily attracted too. If I could get my way with her, we would be in a bed – naked together. Me on top of her and then under her, behind her.. Doing her in all the most imaginable positions I can muster up. Maybe I should ask her out? And then see where we go from there. Maybe she'll love to play with me too.

I snapped out of my not so appropriate thoughts when Mia cleared her throat.

"Dimitri, this is our forensic anthropologist Dr. Rosemarie Hathaway. She's the one who's gonna help you with your victim" Mia said while eying me suspiciously.

I could feel the heat rising to my cheeks. It's a good thing I'm tanned so that it wouldn't show off too much. Before I turned around to face this Rosemarie I cleared my voice and mind.

"Hello, I'm Special Agent Dimitri Belikov. I hope that we can make this relationship work." I said with cocky confidence.

It wasn't after a couple of seconds that I realized what I actually said and before she could open her mouth I corrected myself;

"I mean this work-relationship." I said with as much emphasis on the work.

"Hello. I suppose that we will work together fine enough. And as you heard, I'm Dr. Rosemarie Hathaway, but please call me Rose." she answered dryly.

"How good!" Mia exclaimed happily. "Now when the two off you have met, you can proceed to work on the case."

In the peripheral of my vision I could see Rose roll her eyes in annoyance. I wonder what that's suppose to mean. This is gonna be fun, working with such a pretty lady. God, I hope that she's good in bed!

"Excuse me? What did you say?" Rose's low voice reached me as I was thinking that.

"What? I didn't say anything." I said innocently.

Or did I say anything? Shit, shit! Did I say that about her being good in bed out loud? Fuck.. So screwed.

"I heard you say something about someone being good in bed" she answered quite annoyed.

"Well, no I didn't say that. I said that I hope that you're good i-in this.. eh.. this whatever you're doing."

Nicely done Dimitri, you've totally made yourself a fool in front of the sexy lady.

"I beg your pardon, but I must say that I'm excellent in this work. And I'm quite sure that I can figure this case out – without your crime-minions." she said sarcastically.

"Well aren't you a feisty little woman?" I asked in mock surprise.

"Shut up. Just because you're an FBI agent doesn't mean that you're better than me. I need you to know that you're in my playground now, and when it's my playground it's my rules!" she hissed at me and thereafter turned around and stalked away.

Good God, what did I do? I didn't think that she would be so... annoyed?

But I didn't think it through too much and just walked after her briskly to keep up with her frantic speed towards I don't know.

"Hey Rose where are you going?" I asked her when I caught up with her.

"I'm on my way to examine that victim of yours. If you don't mind. I thought that you would prefer this case to be solved as fast as possible."

"Okay and where will you do that?"

"In the bone examining room of course." she answered with a duh-voice.

"Aha okay. Why are we walking so fast?"

"I'm walking this fast because I want to get rid of you"

"Too bad that you won't get rid off me that easily then is it?" I said while smirking at her.

She stopped dead in her track and stared at me incredulously.

"What do you mean with that?!" she hissed at me, pretty annoyed by now.

"It means that I'll be with you the whole time, when you're working with our victims bones." I said, amusement evident in my eyes.

"No you will not be with me all the time. I'm most capable to do my work without some arrogant man hovering over me."

Oh, she's angry now. Funny how it makes her more tempting to me. With rosy cheeks and a glow in her eyes that's telling me not to challenge her.

"I'm sorry Roza, but it's not your call nor is it mine. It's my boss who's ordering me to do this."

"Roza?" her angry eyes turned confused in a matter of seconds.

Oops, slip up. Wasn't supposed to say that out loud. Stupid mistake to call her by her Russian name, but it's too late now.

"It's your name in Russian" I told her simply.

"Do I look Russian to you?" she said while attempting to rise one eyebrow, but failing miserably. "No, didn't think so. My name is Rose and Rose only. Or you could call me Dr. Hathaway if that's something you would prefer more."

"I think it suits you though, so I'm just gonna stick with Roza." I said with a smirk.

This is gonna be fun, working with her. She's something special, making me hot and bothered and all.

Rose POV

Urgh! This man is totally making me lose my control. He's so annoying and cocky and so full off confidence that I might just brush my teeth. Maybe I'm over exaggerating but he's pushing all the wrong buttons in me. Why can't he just be normal?

I'm quite sure too that the said something about me and that he hopes that I'm good in bed. How dare he? How dare he say something like that? Even though I'm sure that I wasn't suppose to hear it; I heard it well enough. And I'm very good in bed thank you very much. But that isn't something I'm gonna say to him no, no!

And what the fuck is all that about him being some kind of supervisor? I can do my job well and I don't need some idiotic FBI agent watching me while doing my work. I'm so mad right now – I don't even know where to go or what to do. I should probably talk to Mia about my issues, but I'm sure that she's just gonna wave it off and say – suck it up and do your work. Damn woman...

Stupid Russian FBI …. idiotic... Roza? I mean my name's Rose! R-O-S-E not R-O-Z-A .. I wonder if he got some grammar issues. How hard can it be to pronounce my name in English? But I got to admit to myself, that his accent's so hot and sexy..

What the fuck?!

Rose what are you thinking? Why are you thinking such good things about him? Remember that you dislike him? Yeah duh I know that. But a girl have to dream. And if this cocky-self-centered-man can fantasize about me; then I can fantasize about him too. I bet he's good in bed.. we might be good or awesome in bed together.

No, no, no! For God's sake Rose. Stop with the non appropriate thoughts about the God like sexy Russian FBI agent, who's walking right next to you.

To my relief we'd finally arrived to the bone examining room and I could start with the work they wanted me to do.

"Jill, did you finish the other bones?" I asked my assistant while putting on some gloves.

"Yes, Dr. Hathaway. I stored them in and cataloged them." she smiled at me while she was preparing for the examination of the victim.

"Good, now you can go. I do recall that you have an essay to write." I gave her a small smile while dismissing her from the room.

"Yes I do. Thank you so much for this opportunity and for today Dr. Hathaway. And I'll see you in class this afternoon." she smiled one last time and disappeared through the door.

Alright lets get this work done and over with, I thought to myself. So I can dismiss this FBI agent too. And go on with my historical bones. I knew for a fact thought that this case could take a while. But I didn't say something to Belikov, he could suffer a little with the silence while I'm working.

After approximately thirty minutes he spoke to me;

"So what have you found out by now?"

I didn't answer him because in my opinion I haven't gotten the silence treatment over with just yet. Very childish maybe but this man is just annoying and I want to annoy him too. I did however watch him from my peripheral and I could see that he was beginning to get quite annoyed by me and my silence.

"Roza, why don't you tell me what you've found out? We're supposed to be a team, remember. Co-operate and everything. So spill!"

I'm laughing inside. This is quite hilarious – to make him annoyed and feel out of the loop. He doesn't have any control here at the Jeffersonian. I'm the one with control and I would prefer it to always be that way. But I guess I should talk to him.

"From the size of the pelvic girdle this victim was a woman in her early twenties." I finally answered him.

"Finally" he exclaimed. "What caused her death?"

I took a deep breathe to prevent myself from lashing out on him and answered his question with a strained voice;

"I haven't examined all the bones yet, so I can't make any statement of death right now. But this woman was heavily beaten because she has both old and new fractures on her bones. Especially on her radius and humerus."

"So she was in an abusive relationship then?" Dimitri asked impatiently.

"Well I know for sure that this fractures was caused due to her defense. She was defending herself from someone, and she did that a lot."

"Is there anything more you can tell me?" he asked, while I just stood there and stared at the bones in front of me.

"Her patellas has been crushed. She was in a lot of pain constantly" I said seriously.

"Shit, this is not good. This case is getting bigger and bigger everyday." Dimitri hissed in annoyance.

"I think you have a murder victim here right in front of you"

"I think so too" he said before he turned around and left the room.

Dimitri POV

God dammit, a murder case. That's exactly what I thought from the beginning. And I just got it confirmed by Roza. Now I have to call my bosses and make arrangement for people to work on it. I picked up my phone and dialed Sidneys number.

"This is Sidney Sage, how may I help you Belikov?" she answered with a snarky attitude.

"Sage, it's a murder case. Get someone on this case right now."

"So it is a murder case after all. You were right."

"Are you mocking me for my brilliance?" I questioned her.

"No, of course not" she answered sarcastically.

"Good, so you'll talk to whomever you have to talk too and get someone on this case."

"Already did that."

"Okay, good. Gotta go. Talk to you soon."

And I was just about to hang up on her when I heard her say;

"Belikov, you're on this case."

"I am? Great" I muttered back to her.

"Yes, and you better do it good."

"You know I always do my work good."

"Yes I know, I'm just teasing you and you know it" she snickered back at me.

"Yeah, I know. But I really gotta go though, so I can start with this case immediately."

"Of course. But just one more thing."

"What?"

"Congratulations, you have a new partner."

"What? I don't do partnerships and you know that"

I just can't believe that they're doing this to me. They all know that I can't have a partner, not since Ivan. They know.. oh fuck them all. Stupid superiors and everything.

"I know Belikov. But you also know that you haven't anything to say about this. It's already confirmed by the two; meaning the FBI and the Jeffersonian."

"You got to be kidding me?" I asked incredulously.

"Nope"

"So you're telling me that I gotta do a partnership with Rosemarie Hathaway?"

"Yes"

"Fuck no! Do you know how annoying that woman is? She's so arrogant and self-centered that it's almost.. I don't know. I have no words to describe her actually."

"Well like I said; you can't do anything about it. Suck it up and be a man, Belikov"

Oh I'm a man right, I know that... But a partnership with Roza? That's begging for trouble.

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