Helloooo...firstly, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all your reviews and alerts and favorites and stuff. They really, really, really made my day!

I'm updating unusually early but it's still an update! And this chapter is way longer than the others. This chapter focuses more on R&D's relationship so not so much humor and i'm terribly sorry if the scene where she dances with his grandmother turns out worse than what you expected. It's harder to write than I thought. But, I tried my best!

Anyway, most of you actually did guess right. It's JANINE! *cue lightning and thunderstorm* I looked through all the song suggestions and I figured that "U Can't Touch This" from MC Hammer is appropriate. I only heard it on Glee so...yeah. Anywho, enjoy!

"It's a beautiful night,
We're looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,
Or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares baby,
I think I wanna marry you. "

- Bruno Mars, Marry You. (But I heard the Glee version. GLEE FTW!)

DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING!

Chapter 16

"ROSEMARIE HATHAWAY!"

Oh shit.

My mother burst through that door. I internally screamed, AHHH!

And with every step she took, my brain was playing that song from Jaws. DUN DUNN DUNN DUNNN DUN DUN DUN DUN AHHHH!

"Why didn't you tell me you got ENGAGED?" she was furious. No wait, furious was an understatement.

"I...well...umm...Heheh" I couldn't think of anything to say. I looked at Dimitri who seemed just as nervous and scared.

My mother pinched the bridge of her nose and let out a frustrated sigh. "Belikov I swear with everyone in this room as my witness, that I will kill you and I mean KILL you if anything were to happen to Rose. I don't care if I go to jail for murder but if you hurt Rose, I will skin you alive, roast you over burning fire, boil you in acid and then I will feed you to the sharks. I don't care if a meteor drops on her head, I will KILL you." She jabbed her finger at Dimitri's chest. Dimitri looked down at my fuming mother, horrified. He gulped loudly and nodded. "I won't let anything else happen to her. I swear on my life." He promised.

She stepped back and faced Olena. "No offense." She said, referring to her many ideas on how to kill her only son.

"None taken." She smiled.

"So that's where Rose gets it." Christian said, referring to my mother's outburst. I rolled my eyes.

"Why isn't there a ring on her finger?" Oh crap!

"I'm getting it engraved. It's not ready yet. And it's back in the US." He explained, saving our butts.

Janine turned to me and said, "As long as you're happy, I'm fine. But I just want you to be sure."

"I'm fine mom. And I'm sorry I didn't tell you."

"It's fine." She assured me.

"Oh and by the way, you're going to be the one telling Abe." She added. Crap, I forgot about that too.

~IGIH~

After a few days, I was out of the hospital, as healthy as a horse. It's so awesome to have a best friend who can heal all your cracked ribs and bruises. I wasn't going to let Adrian heal me yet. He may rock at healing plants but he sucks at any other living thing that doesn't have leaves. I don't want to end up dead like that fish he tried to heal. Poor fish. Stupid Adrian.

True to his word, Dimitri took good care of me, even though I can take care of myself. Part of it may be because he was terrified of my mother. Of all people and vampires, it's my mother that makes him feeling like peeing in his pants.

Viktoria was temporarily sleeping in Paul's room since Alberta and Janine took hers.

Viktoria would come down every morning, complaining about how Paul talks in his sleep sometimes. Paul would throw something at her in return and his younger sister would giggle.

We were back to sitting on the couch one day, watching tv when Karolina walked up to Dimitri and I, obviously trying to hold her laughter, with a little Paul behind her.

"Dimka, Paul has a question for you."

Dimitri sat up. "What's up, buddy?"

"What's a hooker?" I almost choked on the water I was drinking. I turned to face Karolina. She grinned.

"What did you say?" Dimitri asked him to clarify.

"What's a hooker?" Paul asked oh so innocently.

"Where'd you hear that?" he asked.

"I was reading one of your books and I saw the word hooker. What's that?" He explained and asked again.

"Umm...that's for adults so you can't know." Dimitri was struggling. It was so amusing.

"But you said I was an adult!"

"I said you eat like an adult when you eat all your vegetables. And in the toilet, you're all grown up but this isn't for you."

"But I want to know what's a hooker!" he whined.

"But...but...Karo, he's your son. You tell him!" he told his sister.

"Oh no. Your book, your nephew, your problem. Tell him!" she placed a hand on her hip.

"Are you serious?"

"Tell him!" she repeated.

He sighed. "Alright Paul." he faced his nephew. "You want to know what a hooker is?"

"Yeah!" Paul nodded his head.

"A hooker is Captain Hook's girlfriend."

I looked at Karolina and we burst out laughing.

"Then what's horny?" Paul asked.

That did it. Karolina and I laughed even harder, if it was possible.

Dimitri grumbled and smacked his palm on his face. Paul is my new best friend.

Of course, since now I realized how funny this is, I would catch Dimitri lying on the bed, reading a western novel when I would call Paul and whisper something in his ear.

Paul would look confused and he would run up to uncle dearest and ask "What's a virgin?"

In return, I would hear Dimitri scream "ROSE!"

So damn funny. I have now learned to sensor all dirty meanings.

Hooker: Captain Hook's girlfriend

Horny: An animal with horns

Virgin: An airline

And my personal favorite,

Stripper: People who always uses shirts with stripes who would prefer to call themselves entertainers.

Meanings are courtesy of Dimitri Belikov.

~IGIH~

I was out in the woods one day, going for a jog when I heard Dimitri's grandmother chanting something.

I walked towards the area to see her in this brown robe-like thing and she was dancing around a fire. She was chanting something in Russian so I couldn't understand. I was about to walk away when I stepped on a twig that snapped, causing Yeva to stop whatever she was doing and notice my presence.

"Oh come here, Rose." she motioned me towards her.

"Oh, well alright." I walked towards her.

"I'm just thanking the Gods for bringing you into Dimka's life. I can see that he'll have a happy future with you. Well, better get married to you than to Tanya." She said, laughing.

"Oh...Kay..."

"Join me!" she urged.

I shook my head. "No, I can't. I don't even speak Russian so I'm just going to go..." I started to walk away but she pulled mr back.

"It's okay. Just dance around the fire." she urged. Well I'm afraid to say no. This is the first time I've seen her...well like this. She's usually all quiet and mysterious and shit scary.

"Umm...okay...what am I suppose to do?" I asked, unsure.

"Just dance to the rhythm."

WHAT RHYTHM? I wanted to scream. We're in the middle of the woods and last I checked, no one installed speakers here.

Although it would be really cool to have surround sound, maybe a flat screen TV too. A nice couch, OH! a popcorn making machine! Even better, ENDLESS SUPPLY OF DONUTS. Of course, with a microwave oven. I mean, I wouldn't want to eat stone cold donuts. I mean, come on. One bite and DING! My tooth'll drop out. Maybe I can use stone donuts to hit Strigoi! Imagine how it would piss them off! It's like "BE GONE STRIGOI!" and then you'll just throw a donut in their face. It'll piss them off even more if you scream "OPEN!" and throw it in their mouth. Hahahahaha...I think the medication is kicking in now. What am I supposed to do? Oh yeah, dance.

You know when a song you just heard can be stuck in your head? On loop? Yeah, it's happening now.

Worse thing is, the song stuck in my head ain't exactly a song you want to dance to. It isn't convenient like "Sway" and you can just do the salsa or something like that. Swing a little here and a little there and scream "SWAY!" Oh no.

But since no one's here...

DPOV

I was running in the woods when I heard someone singing. I was interested so I walked closer to the source...and saw Rose.

Oh my God. This is good! Where's my phone? Oh yeah, back at home. Damn...

She was randomly dancing while singing.

"So wave your hands in the air

Bust a few moves

Run your fingers through your hair"

She started waving her hands in the air and then shaking her butt and of course, running her fingers through her hair.

"This is it, for a winner

Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner

Move, slide your rump

Just for a minute let's all do the bump, bump, bump"

She started shaking her booty in all sorts of directions. I tried to hold in my laughter.

It was like "BUMP" shake "BUMP" shake "BUMP" shake. Oh yeah. Like that's going to make her loose weight.

"Yeah!

You can't touch this

Look, man

You can't touch this"

She started shaking everything and pointed to various female body parts.

"You can't touch this!" Points to boobs.

"You can't touch this!" Points to butt.

Shakes buttocks.

I couldn't take it anymore. I burst out laughing.

RPOV

I stopped in my tracks when I heard a low chuckle from behind me. Oh heck the low, it was loud. I turned around to see Dimitri holding his stomach, laughing, almost falling on the ground.

"I thought I'd never live to see the day when the Rosemarie Hathaway actually shows how crazy she is in public!" he exclaimed, gasping for air from laughing.

"Hey! We are not in public! There's no one here!" I screamed back.

"That's the only flaw." he screamed back.

I rolled my eyes at him. I decided to jog back to the house to have a nice long bath.

When I was back, I went to Dimitri's bathroom and stood under the nice hot water for a good few minutes. It was nice and warm and it relaxed my whole body.

After an hour or so, I stepped out of the shower only to realize that I once again, forgot my towel and my clothes.

I sighed and opened the door. Once I walked out, I slammed into Dimitri. Naked. Oh and I'm not talking about myself. Yeap, he was naked too.

I slammed into him screaming "WHAT THE FU- OH GOD, YOU'RE NAKED. EW! GIVE ME THAT TOWEL! OH GOD!"

He, on the other hand, was screaming in Russian. The only words I picked up were "OH MY GOD!", "NAKED!", "BOOBIES" and "TAKE IT!"

I scrambled to snatch the towel away from his grasp and covered myself. He hand a hand to cover his eyes and his...thing.

"Oh my God, my eyes, my holy eyes...you were naked, oh my- ewwww." I mummered.

"What the hell were you doing naked?" he questioned.

"Me? What about you? What the hell were YOU doing naked?" I questioned him back.

"I was about to go get a shower!" he answered.

"Who takes off their clothes OUTSIDE?" I screamed.

"I do! Now move it, I need to go scrub all your nakedness off me." I moved and he dashed into the bathroom.

I took out an old shirt from the academy and a pair of loose pants. Dimitri. Naked. Eugh. I shivered. I probably have to take another bath. Or scrub my brain from that unholy image. Although, it was kind of big if I were to compare it to- what the fuck am I doing? I have to go cleanse myself. Now.

I grabbed a sweater and walked out of the house into the open field not too far away. I fidgeted with my phone. That is, until I heard a KAWK! In TV, all birds go tweet! Yeah, this ain't no tweety bird or a yellow canary. This is a hawk. A freakishly huge one. That goes KAWK!

It started to swoop down and I covered my head in self defense. Thing is, I forgot I was holding my phone.

It grabbed my phone with it's claws and flew away. I screamed after it. "Come on! I won that phone from a bet with Adrian!"

It KAWKED again and dropped my phone. In a the neighbors pool. What. The. Fuck.

"Oh COME ON! Why don't you take their damn dog! At least it can swim!"

That was a huge mistake. The thing came back. It was like Stan but with wings. It's a Satan bird.

I came towards me, it's claws looking sharp. I had and arm cover my face as it got nearer, squeezed my eyes shut, took and deep breath and braced myself for the pain...that never happened.

I opened by eyes to see Dimitri taking the hit and then shooing the bird away. He said a few curse words under his breath as he turned to face me. He was still shirtless but that wasn't what caught my eye. No, he was wearing pants. It wasn't his dick, don't get ahead of me people. I said shirtless. Not butt naked. Although I wouldn't mind butt naked now- what? I am female. I have hormones.

His arm was bleeding after he took the attack from that flying thing. "You're bleeding." Well yeah, what are you, stoopid? Duh, of course he's bleeding. He took that thing for you, damn it!

"Well, yes Rose. That's what happens if a hawk attacks you with sharp claws." He said, looking me in the eye.

I dragged his good arm. "Come on, let's clean it up before you get infected."

He gave me the look that said 'you know that's not possible'. I rolled my eyes at him and dragged him back to his room anyway.

"Sit." I ordered.

"Rose, I do-" I cut him off.

"I said sit!" I pointed towards the bed.

"Yes Ma'am." he sat.

I walked into the bathroom to get a gauze, a small, wet towel, some medication and walked back out.

I sat on the bed and inspected his arm. I'm no doctor but I've gotten my fair share of cuts.

I started to clean the wounds when I noticed more bruises on his chest and back. Some were already healing but others were still bleeding.

"Why didn't you clean your wounds after the attack at your academy?" I asked, not looking up.

He was silent for a moment. "Because I was with you every second."

Now I was silent. "Well, I did leave a few times." he admitted. "I had to pee. Really badly."

I chuckled. I cleaned his fresh wound and applied the medication. I gently rubbed the sides, careful not to put too much pressure on the wound. Then, I moved on to the inside of the wound. He winced a little and I stopped. I looked up at him as he shook his head, an indication for me to just keep going. I went on.

I went from bruise to bruise on his back, carefully rubbing the sides. He seemed to relax after a while.

"Thank you." I whispered.

"Hmm?"

"For everything. Pretending. Saving me from the Strigoi and that stupid devil of a bird..."

"Hey," he turned around, cupping my face. "It's fine." He gave me a small smile and turned back.

I moved on to the bruises on his chest. Don't look at the abs, don't look at the very nice abs, I SAID DON'T LOOK! I chanted to myself.

"Are you okay?" Dimitri noticed.

"DON'T LOOK!" I screamed.

He looked puzzled.

Whoops, no internal filter.

"Whoops, no internal filter." Once I realized I said that, I covered my mouth to shut myself up. Dimitri chuckled.

"I just need my phone back, that's all."

"We'll go get you a new one tomorrow." he promised.

"But we have to stay home and guard Lissa. She has to stay home for at least another week because the Strigoi already know she's here and-"

He silenced me by placing his hand on my mouth.

"That's what Alberta and Janine are here for." He reminded me. Oh yeah. I forgot about that.

He smiled and I went to the last bruise, the one right below his eye, when a Strigoi punched his face the other day.

"It's already healing." I informed him.

He simply nodded but never took his eyes off of mine and his hand on my lap.

Once I was done, I walked back to the bathroom to rinse the blood off of the towel. I heard Dimitri's footsteps from behind me.

I turned on the tap and started to rinse it as be just stood there, behind me.

I turned off the tap when I was done only to feel his arms around my waist, pulling my back agains his.

"What are you-"

"Shh. Just shut up for a while." He whispered as he rested his head on my shoulder. I could feel his breath warm on my skin as he buried his face in the crook of my neck. It felt nice so I simply wrapped my own arms around his.

He jerked away in surprise when he heard a knock on the door. "Rose?" I heard Lissa call.

Honestly, I didn't want to talk to anyone right now. I whispered to Dimitri, "Tell her I'm asleep and I'll talk to her tomorrow."

He nodded, put on a random shirt and went outside as I crawled on the bed.

DPOV

I saw her crawl onto the bed as I closed the door. Maybe she was regretting that I hugged her. Argh, stupid move, Belikov!

I wanted to slam my forehead against the wall until I bleed.

"Lissa." I acknowledged her presence.

Before she could ask for Rose, I answered her, "Rose isn't feeling very well so she's just going to bed."

Lissa looked worried. "Is she sick? Maybe I can heal her..."

I raised my hand to stop her. "She's just feeling a little blue. No need to worry about anything." I assured her.

She smiled at me. "Thanks." She started to walk away when I stopped her.

"Lissa, can I talk to you about something?"

She turned around. "Sure."

"Not here. In the kitchen?" I asked. She nodded and we walked to the empty kitchen table.

I waited for her to sit down before I sat down myself.

I took in a deep breath. "It's about Rose. And this whole...getting married thing."

"You're backing out aren't you?" she assumed.

"No, no. That's not it. The opposite actually...I umm...I really want to marry Rose. Not pretend and get divorced soon after. I don't want to pretend to be her fiancé. I want to go get a ring, get down on one knee, tell her that she's amazing and...and I want to really propose to her. I want to hug her and spin her around if she says yes. I want to really see her walk down that isle and I want to hear her say I do. I want to see her in that elegant white wedding dress. I want to grow old with her. I don't care if I can't have kids with her since we're both Dhampirs and I don't care that i'm putting my job on the line here. I don't give a shit about anything else. I love her, Lissa. I really do." I finally admitted.

Lissa doesn't seem one bit surprised. "I know, Dimitri. I've just been waiting for you to say it."

"I'm just going to you, asking you if you're okay with it. I mean, we are your guardians after all. I would have to resign, maybe switch with Eddie so that I can protect Christian and still be with Rose all the time but I was just wondering if you're going to be okay with it."

She smiled widely. "Oh I'm more than okay. I'm bursting with happiness. When are you going to tell her you love her?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "I've tried. But either the words won't come out or we'll get interrupted."

When am I going to tell her I love her? Because I really, really, really do. Never once I thought that I would fall in love with Rosemarie Hathaway, out of all people but, life's full of surprises isn't it?

Next chapter is coming really really soon! I'm halfway done with it. So, what do you think? REVIEW!