Hello my darlings! I know, I know, it's been forever. But it seems I've been doing more chilling than writing these days, sorry! Thanks for all of your amazing reviews last chapter guys, I love you all more so because you're always so patient and always give me love even when I disappear!

I don't own VA, and, there's a little spice in this chapter. If you don't like, please don't read! Lol as if any of you people dislike lemons…:P

In The Rain.

Chapter 36.

By the time the alarm went off the next morning, Rose and Dimitri were too wrapped up in each other to notice. Dimitri's usual acute alertness didn't kick in until probably the third blast of the alarm. It was that third blast which jolted Rose back to consciousness too, but it was Dimitri's arms wrapped around her which spared the clock from being tossed across the room.

Now, she stood at the sink brushing her teeth and trying not to notice that Dimitri was just behind the glass of her shower covered in nothing but sluicing droplets of water and soapy suds. She may have been too tired last night to try anything, but daylight had revitalized her and made it impossible not to notice the 6/7, hot as hell Russian walking around her room like he owned it. And he was hers, every delectable inch of muscular glory.

How easy would it be to slide out of the terry robe she'd wrapped herself in and slip into the shower with him? Too goddamned easy, she thought her body already going hot at the idea. She stared at her reflection, at the flushed face and darkening eyes and let out a strangled groan. She should get out of here, wait in the bedroom outside while he finished. Yes, great idea, and yet, she couldn't stop her traitorous eyes from glancing at the glass door of the shower.

Even though it was fogged with the steam from his shower, it wasn't hard to imagine what was behind there. Just as she was telling herself all the reasons why she should be grateful for the fact that the glass was fogged over from the steam of the shower, the shower turned off. Her heart flew into her throat. She grew impossibly hotter, her body responding in the most primal of ways to the fact that he would be stepping outside in just a few seconds. Shit. She should turn around and walk out now while she still had the chance. But her legs refused to work, her brane shutting down and rejecting the idea immediately.

And in that next instant, the door was sliding open and Dimitri was emerging, covered in only a towel which was wrapped around his waist, beads of water sliding out of his hair and down his back and shoulders and his well-muscled chest and stomach. Holy fuck. Rose's breath caught in her throat. The urge to lick him dry was so intense that she had to physically grip the counter and dig her heels in to keep from doing just that. He seemed totally unaffected, but when he looked up and locked his eyes with hers, she knew he was anything but. He flashed her an all too knowing smile and walked past her and out of the bathroom.

Rose stood there, hot and bothered for a moment or maybe 10 before she snapped out of her haze and dragged herself into the bathroom. She turned the water on cold, desperately searching for relief. But no matter how long she stood under the punishingly cold spray, the ache in her molten core refused to ebb. And when she finally decided to soap up, her own touch was extra heated on her already sensitive skin, making it all too easy to imagine that her hands were his hands. She bent forward in the tub and shower combo, letting thoughts of him guide her to an instant, earth shattering release.

…

Thankfully, Dimitri was gone by the time she'd stepped out of the shower. She heard him downstairs, talking to her parents and Christian. No sooner had she wondered where Lissa was and slipped on some underwear that a knock sounded on the door. She knew who it was before she opened it.

"Yeah it's opened." She said, grabbing a clingy black pencil skirt which fell to just past her knees. The door opened and in walked Lissa, looking gorgeous in a pink sweater and jeans. Her hair was wrapped in a ponytail, her lips glossy with her favorite cherry gloss. She seemed to be going for the casual look today, but she was certainly rocking it.

"What's up, Liss?" Rose asked, and wished she hadn't when she caught sight of Lissa's face in the mirror. "No," Rose demanded. "Nothing happened, Lissa."

"I didn't even say anything," Lissa said. Rose shook her head as she pulled on her shirt and a pair of fuck me high heeled shoes. It had been a while since she'd dressed up like this, probably not since that first couple of times when she found herself in Dimitri's bed.

"You didn't have to," Rose quipped, brushing out her tangled hair and pulling it up into a bun letting a few strands frame her face. Lissa rolled her eyes.

"So if nothing happened, is that why you got your panties in a bunch today?" She asked and it was so out of character for her that Rose stared, speechless for a good few minutes. Then she shook her head.

"Good god Liss, your boyfriend is seriously rubbing off on you." Lissa blushed.

"Don't change the subject, Rose." Rose sighed and glared at her through the mirror as she put on some lip gloss and mascara and gave her eyes that perfect smoky look.

…

The light mood stayed with Rose all the way to work. But the moment she got there and her father insisted that everyone came to the tech lab for a meeting, her mood plummeted. There was only one reason why her father would call a meeting, and it was never for any good reason.

"What's going on?" She asked jogging up to his side. Her mom was there too, standing with Dimitri and the Joiner duo.

"Sit and you'll find out soon enough, little girl." Sighing she pulled up a chair and fixed her eyes on him just as the other guardians began to file in.

…

"This is insane," Sydney said, her eyes drawn to the monitor in front of her. Rose glanced up, looking at the monitor over her shoulder. On screen was a labyrinth of corridors, each more winding and confusing than the last. She could just make out some kind of intricate design on the marbled floor which resembled tribal tattoos.

"Do you know what those are?" She asked, her gaze settling on Tray.

"They're tattoos," He said. "The warriors get them inked on themselves for every mission they successfully complete."

"That's crazy," Adrian mused.

"Not to mention the fact that it looks like a rat's maze," Mason piped in. Rose couldn't help but agree. But she wasn't stupid. She knew it was a tactical strategy meant to confuse people who didn't know their way around the compound. The guardian's own headquarters was laid out in a similar fashion, and many a person had gotten lost once or twice.

"The fact that we know what the inside of their compound looks like is really cool," Christian said. "But do you have any information to keep us from doing exactly what those winding corridors are designed for? Because I have no intension of getting trapped in enemy territory." Everyone in the room agreed and nodded, but Sydney was nothing if not resourceful. The look she gave them shut everyone up a second later, and they all looked on as she typed a series of keys. The screen changed, and what seemed to be the schedule for guards on duty replaced the maze of corridors.

"This," She said. "Is gold. It is the schedule for the guards on duty and we're going to have only one shot of getting in undetected."

…

Hours seemed to past as they all sat there, discussing strategy and tactics. The warriors compound was located in California, under a sprawling mansion in the heart of Las Angeles with high wire fences. But where similar fences surrounded the guardian headquarters, and was rigged with about 50 thousand bolts of lethal electricity upon contact, the fences which surrounded the mansion were not. It was, however, lined with security cameras. Not that those were going to pose much of a problem for Sydney or Jill, but Rose had to admire the effort.

"How soon do we leave?" Rose asked after they'd discussed their plans of entry which was basically a friend of Sydney's named Sabrina. Sabrina was friends with another one of Sydney's friends, this one known to most in the room. Marcus Finch, an x-warrior of light with a rebellious streak a mile and a half long, had helped get them the intel they now had. He lived on the edge always, forever on the run from the warriors, but that had hardly crippled his resourcefulness.

Sabrina, on the other hand was working undercover with Marcus to put a stop to the warriors' evil. Like Tray, she'd been born and forced into their folds. Unlike him, she hadn't yet broken ties. That didn't mean that she didn't want to destroy them, particularly because they were responsible for the death of her boyfriend. Apparently, he'd been a part of their cause, but relationships between warriors were forbidden and he and Sabrina had gotten caught. As punishment, they'd been put in a fight to the death, and Rose supposed she knew how that turned out.

"There's no we, little girl." Abe said. "You're not going anywhere."

"Dad, come on!" Rose said, throwing her hands up in frustration. "You know I can help, so why won't you let me go?"

"Because you're pregnant," This time, it was Dimitri who spoke up. "No way in hell you're risking your life or that of our baby." Well, if there was anyone who didn't know that they were together or that Rose was pregnant she supposed now they knew. Not that she cared.

"Pregnancy hardly makes me a fragile flower," She growled. "This is my job. What are you going to do? Put me on desk duty for the next 9 months?"

"If that's what it takes to keep you contained," Abe said, but there was a playful gleam in his eyes. Not that any of this was funny to Rose. No, far from It actually, and she made her disapproval known with a hard glare.

"Mom," She wined. "Tell him to let me go." She'd been expecting Janine to be on her side. After all, the woman had worked right up until she went into labor, but Janine only shook her head.

"You're not going, Rose," Her father said, his voice full of authority and saying in no uncertain terms that it was no longer up for discussion. Rose was fuming for the rest of the dam meeting, but she nodded when Dimitri turned those damned enticingly soft eyes on her.

…

The need to linger after the meeting and steal Dimitri away for a few private moments was dashed when Lissa and some of the other ladies whisked Rose away for a girl's picnic lunch outside. She had no hope of refusing them, not when they knew she was pregnant and wanted details. Not that Rose minded talking about her baby, but the mission and the fact that Dimitri was going weighed heavily on Rose's mind. Oh, she had no doubt which side was going to get their ass handed to them, but she couldn't help but worry.

Even after they'd eaten and had exhausted the subject of her pregnancy the need to seek Dimitri out still lingered. She contemplated her chances of slipping away unsuspected, but those weren't really good, not when she was sandwiched between Lissa and Amber with Jill, Sydney and Andrea sat across from them and Viktoria and Areya not too far off.

"I have to pea," Rose blurted, drawing everyone's' eyes to her. She shrugged and stood, but Amber's voice stopped her dead in her tracks.

"Do you really have to pea, Rose?" She asked lifting her head to stare inquisitively at her. "Or is this just a sneaky escape so you can go find your man?" Rose shrugged, unable to help the smile that slid so easily onto her face at the mention of Dimitri.

"Oh go on," Lissa said. "I'd tell you to be safe, but well it's a little late for that." Rose rolled her eyes and headed back inside, the girl's musical laughter following her until she closed the door behind her.

She was pretty much on a one tract mind after that. She made it to his office without running into anyone, a good thing seeing as how she hardly felt like meaningless conversation. She knocked on the door, her body hot all over. But that single knock was all she allowed. She pushed the door open and stepped inside. Dimitri glanced away from the computer screen to look up at her.

"Hey Roza," He said, wrapping her up in his arms the moment she was close enough and dropping a brief kiss on her lips. "I thought you were having lunch with the girls outside."

"I was," She said, wrapping her arms around his neck and crawling into his lap. "But I missed you." Dimitri's smile went straight to her groin and just about melted her panties. She pulled him down for her kiss, a slow meeting of their mouths which ignited a fire in Rose's veins. Her tongue slid out, running not so tentatively against his lips. Dimitri opened to her, his own tongue tangling with hers and what started out as a slow kiss turned into something fiercely passionate and fiery.

Rose tangled her fingers in his hair, further deepening their kiss as Dimitri's hands came to rest on her hips. He dragged her closer, pressing their bodies flush together and showing her just what kind of effect she was having on him. Any attempt to resist the moan that bubbled up in her was impossible when they were pressed so tightly together, Dimitri's hand sliding from her hips up to cup her breasts through her clothes.

"Fuck," She gasped when Dimitri broke their kiss to trail his lips down her neck. Each hot, open mouthed kiss against her bare skin stripped away at her already lacking self-control and made his desk look more and more appealing. Her panties were drenched now, and when Dimitri lifted his head to gaze into her eyes, she knew he felt like she did.

"Roza," He growled, part reverence and part profanity. "Tell me to stop now." Rose saw the struggle playing out in his eyes and fuck if it wasn't the hottest thing that she could bring him to the edge like that and shatter that self-control, not that she didn't already know that, but it had been a while since she'd seen heat reflecting in his eyes like that.

"God no," Rose said. "Don't stop. Fuck me," She gasped breathless for the way his hands were mercilessly still on her breasts where her nipples strained against her shirt and bra. Dimitri's lips found hers again, this kiss rough and demanding as he worked to get rid of her shirt. Rose met his kiss with her own demands, their tongues tangling in a deadly dance for dominance. Rose gave in with a gasp when the cool air met her bare skin as Dimitri removed her shirt without breaking their kiss.

Her bra Went next, and then his mouth was leaving hers to trail down her neck again until finally coming to rest on her breast. He sucked one of her nipples into his mouth, flicking his tongue against the sensitive bud until she was moaning and grinding against him, her fingers tangled in his hair. He switched breasts, his hands wreaking havoc where his mouth wasn't.

"Dimitri, please," Rose groaned. "Take me." But he either didn't hear or simply didn't care. He lifted her onto his desk, sending papers and files clattering messily to the floor. And a second later it didn't matter because he was standing between her legs, his erection pressing against her aching, hot core. Rose made quick work of undoing his belt and the button on his pants while he hitched her skirt up her thighs. It bunched at her hips before he stepped back from her to kneel between her legs.

One of his Fingers stroked over her panties, a light stroke that nearly made her combust right there. But then Dimitri had pulled the lacy scrap of material to the side and slid one of his fingers between her folds. Rose jerked and gasped muttering his name.

He tore the offending fabric away with his teeth and then that sinfully delicious tongue was plunging into her, while his fingers worked her clit. Any attempts to fight the orgasm that had been building since this whole thing started was absolutely pointless. Rose knew that, and yet when it roared up on her it was all she could do to not let loose with a scream that would probably send her father and the rest of guardians charging in. Instead, she tightened her hold in Dimitri's hair.

She was still floating above the earth when she felt Dimitri between her legs. He pushed into her, gently though she was sure it took all of his control to be gentle with her. And fuck she did not want gentle, not when they'd spent so much time denying their feelings and their need for each other. She wanted him to fuck her, make her scream his name. She lifted her legs and wrapped them around his hips, as Dimitri started to thrust into her. He filled her and then pulled out, over and over, each stroke seeming to hit deeper than the last. She met him thrust for thrust, their bodies picking up where they'd left off as though they had never been apart.

"Fuck I'm so close," Rose gasped, tightening her legs around Dimitri's hips, so much so that the heel of her shoe dug into his ass. She knew it must have hurt, but Dimitri didn't seem to care. If anything, he only thrusted harder, and it didn't take long for Rose to splinter around him. She bit down on his shoulder to keep her scream at bay as the orgasm over took her, this one more intense than the first. And when Dimitri spilled into her, saying her name like it was a prayer, she was sent spiraling again. Wave after wave of pleasure engulfed her and Dimitri helped her ride them out.

"Holy fuck," She said breathlessly as Dimitri pulled out of her and sank back onto the chair so as not to crush her. "I think I love you, comrade." Rose said from where she still laid boneless and breathless on his desk, spread out for him like a sacrifice in her black skirt and fuck me high heels.

"Didn't we already establish that?" Dimitri asked chuckling. Rose rolled her eyes, but she didn't miss the appreciative way he gazed at her.

"Oh dam why did I do that?" She asked laughing and sitting up or she might be possessed to start round 2. "Now I gave you an even huger ego." Dimitri rolled his eyes and kissed her, this one slow and sweet and it melted Rose's heart.

"For the record," Dimitri said. "I love you, too." He said gazing into her eyes, and the entire world faded.

AWWW! So, tell me, is this everything you guys hoped it would be? Been a while since I wrote a lemon, so let me know how this was, k? And what did you think about the chapter as a whole? The upcoming mission that Rose is sitting out of? Let me know!

Review lovelies, and there just might be another lemon in the next chapter ;)

XXX

Roza