A/N: All righty, here's the next chapter, an exciting piece of news: THE ONE BEFORE LAST! Haha, and no, there won't be a sequel, it's too hard!

So I apparently feel like thanking my reviewers:

Claire Perry x - thank you, it's nice to see what my reviewers want to happen!

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Do'B - thank you for your on-going support on all of my fanfictions, particularly this one as you know it's the one I've struggled with the most! And sadly no Tasha till the last chapter :P

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RPOV

He was quite possibly the most ridiculous man I'd ever seen.

I honestly wondered if he'd never visited just to save him from the sheer embarrassment of being seen in public. Abe, as he called himself, had an absolutely ludicrous black goatee topped off with a rather colourful scarf. It appeared he had several of these scarves, and hooray for me, he had one that he'd thought would look good around my neck. Those were the words he used. Creepy huh?

There was a rather large array of jewellery on his ears which seemed to also appear under his scarf and he had oddly familiar brown eyes, but that wasn't entirely surprising.

"You don't look like my father." I mused, the first thing I'd said to him since opening the door, "But then, I suppose I couldn't tell you what my father should look like."

He chuckled, "Well Rosemarie, you haven't seen me before."

"No. That would be whose fault?" I shot him my best glare and saw his expression falter.

He drew breath to explain himself but I interrupted him.

"It doesn't matter. Now's not the time for this conversation." I led him through the house to where he could stay, "Olena's going to drive us to the hospital in an hour." I informed him, "I'll yell or something."

"I can time an hour Rosemarie." Abe said sharply, "Don't patronise me."

I rolled my eyes and went to find Dimitri. He was in the kitchen preparing what appeared to be lunch.

"Something smells good." I said stepping into the room.

"It's supposed to." He murmured without turning around, "How is he?"

"Unpacking I'd assume." I shut the kitchen door with my foot.

Dimitri finished with whatever he was doing and slipped his arms around my waist.

"You okay?" he rested his forehead on mine.

I closed my eyes, "It hasn't sunk in yet, ask me that in an hour."

He smiled, "All right." he pressed his lips to my cheek, "Just know he doesn't...dislike you Rose."

I leaned up on my tiptoes and kissed him, "I'm not having that conversation with him until Mum's all right. So it doesn't matter."

He took the scarf Abe had given me out of my hands and wrapped it round my neck.

"It looks nice." He said; a hint of surprise in his voice.

"Yeah, it looks like a rainbow blew up and landed on it." I snapped snidely.

"Mmm," he twisted a strand of my hair in his fingers, "It's nice all the same."

Then he moved back to the oven and finished up with lunch. He'd baked some bread, cooked some bacon and mashed some avocado. He'd created what was definitely my favourite lunch.

I helped him plate it up; it seemed rather rude not to help in some manner. We put a brief, easy salad on the plates too. Just some chopped tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and the first dressing we found in the fridge. When it came to salad, I wasn't very particular considering half the time I wouldn't eat it anyway. It didn't matter what sort.

"Now, I'll take this to Abe, you get Viktoria and my mum." he said picking up a plate, "He'll want to talk to me about what happened."

DPOV

"Tell me what happened." Abe ordered the second I stepped in, ignoring the plate entirely.

"I told you one the phone. The men haven't spoken. I have nothing more that I can add." I said stiffly.

"How's Rose been?" he clasped his hands behind his back, in a rather odd manner, like he was uncomfortable.

"You can ask her yourself. She is in the building Mr Mazur."

He narrowed his eyes at me, "You are lucky she cares for you, boy. Otherwise I would make things a lot worse for you."

"But she does, sir."

He chuckled, "That she does. Now go. I'm sure she needs you a lot more at the moment."

I nodded in acknowledgement and left the room, but, my guilty conscience got the better of me.

I stuck my head back round the door, "You're welcome to eat with us if you'd like."

"No, Rose wouldn't like that Belikov, as you're well aware."

RPOV

Of course it was a very awkward drive to the hospital. But it was bound to be. Dimitri had sat between me and Abe, after I'd forced him, so I didn't have to speak to my 'father'.

We all waited outside while Abe had what appeared to be an extremely lengthy conversation with my mum. He was in there for at least an hour, maybe more, and there were times that I thought he was never going to leave.

"Dimitri, is something going on that I don't know about?" I asked while we waited. It had been on my mind as he hadn't seemed...surprised about any of this, and nor had Abe. Not that I knew what surprised looked like with Abe.

He hesitated in his reply, seemingly unsure as to how much he could tell me, "Yes." he said eventually, "but it's complicated."

"Well it looks like we certainly have time." I snapped; my voice sharper than I'd meant it to be.

"All right. You're father's been involved in a deal that went wrong back in Russia. The people involved already held a grudge against him and your mother from before you were born. So Abe sent me over here to try to protect the two of you from these...men."

"So what, the only thing that I get from my father is a man attacking us? Great." I shook my head and turned away.

"Rose..."

"No." I interrupted, "You don't...just no."

"Why?" he insisted, squeezing my arm.

"Because you didn't tell me." and that, that was honestly the worst part.

A/N: was that all right? Lol every time I went to write I got distracted by something...

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