This is a short but needed chapter! Hope y'all are as shocked as my awesome Beta was! There are some questions at the end that would absolutely love y'all's opinions on! So please review! And enjoy the chapter :3 Disclaimer, I don't own anything to do with the VA series.

Chapter 4

Viktoria's POV

I'm on my way home when Rose calls me and asks me to pick up a wrist brace for her. I don't even bother to as why, I'm too busy worrying about Dimitri and trying to figure out whether I should tell Rose and him my secret. I know Dimitri will kill me but I'm honestly not sure what Rose's reaction will be.

So far the only person in my life who actually knows what I do is Eddie. That's mostly because I love him more then anything and he works kind of in the same field as me.

I want to tell them, I have always wanted to, but I'll just be putting Rose in even more danger then she already is. Although the only reason I became friends with her in high school was because of my job. At first, I was only pretending to be her friend but now I actually really care about her. Plus, living with her is so easy. She doesn't ask too many questions about my past or my job, and she just kind of lets me do my own thing without being noisy.

Letting out a frustrated groan, I pull into our driveway and turn off the car. I sit there for a little bit, just starring at my steering wheel, trying to figure out what to do. My phone startles me out of my thoughts when it starts ringing. I whip it out and look to see a blocked number calling me.

"Viktoria," I answer with a stiff, serious voice.

"I am sure by now you should know agent Belikov1 has been compromised. You need to find out everything you can about it. We need to see how far the information has spread and how fast it is spreading. Monitor it for a couple of days and then report back. You know what to do." With that, the deep voice on the other side of the phone hangs up. That voice is really starting to annoy me.

Grumbling under my breath, I climb out of the car. I didn't actually know that Dimitri had been compromised as he hasn't shared yet how he got hurt. Plus, he's only been at my house for a couple of hours. I mean, I obviously knew something big went down. However, I don't think there is anyway Dimitri could have reported in to his chief yet. So then how the hell did my boss already know? My guess is that they had someone following Dimitri but why and how? Worry and suspicion courses through me and I hurry to the door.

I walk into the house and find it oddly quiet. I climb up the stairs and knock on Rose's door, figuring Rose is there taking care of Dimitri like the good nurse she is. I am surprised though when Rose opens the door, her face tear stained and her eyes blood shot. Worry for Dimitri shoots through me like a bullet as I glance over Rose's shoulder and see that her bed is now empty.

"Rose what's wrong? Where is Dimitri?" I say to her, my voice straining to stay calm.

Rose takes a deep breath, sensing my tension,

"Dimitri is fine, and he is probably down in the kitchen which is where I last saw him." A strange look passes across her eyes when she says it but I'm too relived to read into it.

I quickly hug her and hand her the wrist brace before making my way downstairs to find Dimitri. I finally find him, not in the kitchen but passed out on the couch in the living room. I grab a blanket and gently place it around him, not wanting to wake him. I then retreat into my bedroom, locking the door behind me.

I slip off my shoes as I make my way to the right side of my bed and stand facing it. I twist the ball on my bed post, twice to the left and once to the right. A panel then slides open and I step onto it. I stand rigid as the panel scans my foot prints and then slowly starts to descend into the floor. I arrive in a small square room with only one door in it. The door is padlocked by a number pad, an eye scan and a thumb print. I quickly go through the process of typing in the code, and scanning my eyes and thumbs. The door silently slides open and I step into my favorite place in the world.

Rose POV

I hear a knock at my door and I get off my bed to answer it, hoping it's not Dimitri. I rub my eyes and wipe away any stray tears before opening the door. Instead of finding Dimitri, I find Viktoria standing there. She glances at me and then over my shoulder, and a flash of worry crosses her eyes and her face gets all pinched up. She's probably wondering where Dimitri is.

"Rose, what's wrong? Where is Dimitri?" She asks me, I can hear the panic rising in her voice.

I take a deep breath,

"Dimitri is fine, and he is probably down in the kitchen which is where I last saw him." My throat catches a little at the memory of our shoulders brushing against each other. Luckily, Viktoria doesn't seem to notice my troubled expression. Instead, she quickly hugs me and tosses me the wrist brace.

I close the door as she dashes down the stairs. I take the brace out of the box and ease it over my sore wrist, grimacing a little at the pain. I then lay back down on the bed and curl up into a ball, eventually I drift off, right into a dream about Dimitri.

In it, I am walking along when a man attacks me just like with Mason. Instead of me having to fight him off however, Dimitri appears and grabs the man. He starts beating him into a pulp, looking like a god while he does it. Once the man is obviously dead, Dimitri turns around and walks to me pulling me against him. Suddenly, the dream changes and I am back on top of Dimitri. Once again, he shoves me off but this time he starts yelling at me, saying how I am disgusting and ugly and no one in their right mind would want me! I feel myself about to cry when, once again, things change. Suddenly, Dimitri is pulling me into his arms and murmuring sweet nothings into my hair. He pulls my head up to his and kisses me oh so softly on the lips. It's an amazing kiss, his lips are warm and perfect against mine. Things are just about to get better until I am ripped from the dream by another knock at my door.

Groaning loudly, I sit up in bed, rubbing my eyes and yawning. My body is tingling from the dream and I can tell I'm turned on. Damn you, body, I think to myself as I stand up to get the door, figuring it's Viktoria again. This time though, when I pull the door open I find Dimitri standing sheepishly outside of it. He's looking down at his feet but once I fully open the door, he looks up at me. I glare at him and am just about to close the door when he sticks his foot out to stop it.

"Rose, please give me another chance to explain myself. Please. I am so sorry about earlier. I didn't mean to push you that hard, you just caught me by surprise." Dimitri says to me, a bit of desperation in his voice. I decide to let him continue because I can tell he really means it. I keep the door slightly closed though, almost like a shield between us.

"Look Rose, I honestly think you're an amazing person from what I've seen today and from what my sister has said. I can tell you have an extremely bright future ahead of you. You'll probably make the best nurse this world has ever seen. I just can't let anything happen between us though. Trust me when I say, I really want to but it's just too dangerous. I can't put you in that kind of danger."

Dimitri takes a deep breath and I see a look like regret cross his eyes. Then he takes a step forward and strokes my cheek gently with his finger tips, another look crossing his face that, this time, I can't place.

"You really are amazing and oh so beautiful. It'll be best though, if once I leave you just forget about me," he drops his hand away and steps back again.

My chest clenches at his words and my cheek tingles like crazy from his touch. I look down at me feet not being able to look at him anymore.

"I understand," I say to him, even though I wish it wasn't true. I figure he'll leave now so I go to close my door but he stops me.

"Please, don't be upset about this. I just want to keep you safe. Too many people have died under my watch already and I can't bear the though of that happening to you." He says to me grabbing my hand, as if pleading with me to understand better.

I am startled at his words but my whole body is going crazy from his touch. Suddenly, against my own will it seems, my body steps forward and I throw my arms around Dimitri, burying my face in his chest, needing for at least a few moments to be close to him and let my guard down.

"Really, I understand. It's okay," I say into his chest.

I can tell he is surprised by my sudden hug but he slowly wraps his arms around me waist and buries his face in my hair. We stand like that for what seems like forever. I look up at him eventually and I can see in his eyes, he really does want me as much as I want him. Slowly, like we're both in a trance, our head start coming closer together. I can feel the electricity shooting between us and my lips tingling from the kiss I am expecting.

We never get there though. The sound of glass shattering in what sounds like the kitchen breaks us out of out trance. Dimitri and I jump apart, both of us blushing like crazy. Then we hear more sounds coming from the kitchen. Dimitri glances at me and then heads down the stairs. I follow behind him, my stomach knotting up.

When we get to the bottom of the stairs, Dimitri sticks his hand out and whispers to me to stay there. I watch as he slowly creeps towards the entrance to the kitchen. The house is now dead silent and I feel my heart pounding in my chest as I strain to hear anything.

A loud crack sounds and I almost jump three feet in the air. Suddenly, a silver canister comes rolling past Dimitri, gas spewing out from it.

"Cover your mouth and nose and get out of here!" Dimitri yells at me running to me. It's too late though. I feel myself slowly fall to the ground while Dimitri yells my name. I soon pass out into darkness along with Dimitri.

So! What do you think about Viktoria's secret job? Who do you think she works for? What do you think about Dimitri and Rose's relationship? Where would you like to see it go? And finally, who do you think knocked them out and why? Review with your opinions! They really do make me update faster! Love y'all! 3