Dimitri was driving way to fast, and the silence between us made me nervous. Normally our silences were comfortable we knew how to be with each other in even silence, but this was different. Dimitri wasn't being silent because we were comfortable with each other, he was silent because he was angry, and he was angry with me. I turned in my seat so I was facing him. "Hey" my voice sounded weak and I hated that, but I continued. "Are we ok here, are you ok?"

He turned his gaze from the road to me, something in his eyes made me lean away from him, my fingers dug into my seat. I wasn't scared of Dimitri, not really I mean I knew he would never hurt me, but still I was shaking. Dimitri quickly pulled off onto a little dirt road, and stopped the car. He leaned his head back against the headrest and closed his eyes. His fingers were white as they clenched and unclenched the steering wheel over and over. I sat there perfectly still and perfectly silent as I watched him. I watched his breathing slow and become more steady, his chest rising and falling now at a nice even pace. When I had worked up enough nerve, I reached my hand over and grabbed his right hand from the steering wheel. My touch caused him to jump, which in turn startled me, and I started pulling my hand back. He turned towards me so fast it was a blur; he grabbed my hand back and held it in both of his against his chest. His eyes were focused on mine, but he still hadn't spoke so I didn't speak either I just looked right back into his eyes with the same intensity he looked at me with. I refused to be afraid of Dimitri.

After a few more moments he finally spoke. His words sounded so tortured it hurt my soul to hear his pain. "Rose, are you ok?" he looked so sad; I reached out with the hand he wasn't holding and cupped his cheek. "I'm fine" I wanted so badly to take away his pain.

"This has gotten completely out of control" his rampage began. "I have gotten completely out of control, things can't continue like this I…. I…. URRRH." He released my hand and was out of the Jeep before I even knew what happened. He was pacing around the front of the car, muttering to himself in Russian. If I wasn't so worried about what was happening I would have found it hysterical. Finally Dimitri stopped pacing and sat on the front bumper of the Jeep placing his head in his hands. I knew I had to do something, I wanted this date so badly with Dimitri and if I didn't do something to get us back on track this date would be over before it really even began and I wasn't going to give Adrian the satisfaction. So I gathered up all my courage and jumped out of the Jeep the fact that I didn't fall right on my butt is really a testament to my strength considering the height the Jeep was off the ground and the stilettos I was wearing. I walked to the front of the Jeep and stood before my own personal god. His head raised and he looked up at me, he looked like a hurt child with his sad eyes. "Dimitri" I began but he put his hand up to stop me.

"I hurt you" the words were barely audible.

"I'm fine, Dimitri!" I was starting to get pissed how many times did I have to say it I was fine. And after all he had hurt me way worse and way more times in our training sessions and that didn't seem to bother him at all. So why the big torture over this.

"I'm sorry"

"Dimitri enough, don't you see this is exactly what Adrian wanted? He has you so upset it is ruining our date. Are you going to let him win?" Dimitri growled slightly at the mention of Adrian.

"I have completely lost my cool when it comes to you Rose, I am so out of control I don't know what to do and now it is putting you in harms way. That is something I am not ok with."

I stepped closer to him forcing him to open his knees and allow me to stand between them. "Dimitri, do you love me?"

"Of course I love you Rose how can you even ask me that, I would die for you." His emotions starting raging again.

"Well I love you too, and I want this date more than I have ever wanted anything else, so lets do this. Ask me what you need to know about Adrian and lets get past this please."

"I have no right to demand answers from you, when there are so many answers I can't give you in return." He looked so solemn, it was pissing me off.

"Oh for the love of god Dimitri, just ask me!" My irritation was getting out of control, I stepped back slightly out of his legs. He reached out and grabbed my hips pulling me back into place.

"Why was he in your room?" His voice was strained but steady.

"I don't know, I had just got your note and was trying to decide what to wear there was a knock at my door and I opened it to see him standing there." It was the truth I didn't really know why Adrian had come by or how he knew everything he seemed to know.

"So you just invited him in, even though he stalks you and it was past curfew?"

"In case you haven't noticed Dimitri, Adrian usually doesn't ask permission" probably not the smartest thing to say given Dimitri's current state of anger. His fingers dug a little deeper into my hips and I could hear his growl from deep within his chest.

"And you were wearing leather because?"

"I was wearing black leather pants Dimitri, I was trying to pick out an outfit to wear on our date. I wanted to look beautiful for you" my voice trailed off at the end.

"You don't have to try to look beautiful Rose, you just are." That statement and the way he looked at me sent the sparks flying between us again. I wanted to kiss him so badly right now, but I knew we had to finish this I didn't want it coming back up again.

"He seemed to know things he kept making all these cryptic comments. I was afraid he knew about our date. And he did! I don't know how, I didn't tell him but he said he came by to help me get ready. I allowed him to stay because I wanted to know exactly how much he knew and what he was planning to do with that information." Dimitri seemed to be calming down slightly so I kept talking. "He did pick out this outfit and I almost didn't wear it because of that, but well he is a jerk but it was a good outfit and I wanted you to find me… well I wanted… you to think I was sexy." With that Dimitri stood up grabbing me and spinning us around he picked me up and sat me on the hood of the Jeep, stepping in between my legs and sliding me right up against him. His hands were moving cautiously up and down my thighs.

"Please don't try to be sexy I always find your sexy if how you are normally isn't you trying to be sexy then please please don't try. I don't know if I can survive it, this outfit may just be my undoing" He leaned in and kissed me, the kiss was hard and needy, it nearly consumed me. My body took over and I slid deeper into Dimitri pushing him against me and wrapping my legs around his waist. He was pressing so hard against me I could feel his desire against mine. I groaned in his mouth at the sensation that the friction was causing between my legs. Dimitri broke our kiss just slightly to allow us air. I didn't want air I wanted him all rational thought had escaped me, my barely there skirt had risen so far up my thighs if Dimitri hadn't been standing so close against me I would have been giving the whole road a show. Not that there was anybody on the road but still. I dove back into his mouth. I didn't have much experience with guys outside of kissing but right now I wanted Dimitri so badly there were things I had never done that I was willing to try right here on the hood of a Jeep. My hormones were out of control. The thoughts I was having caused me to giggle a little.

This took Dimitri by surprise. "What?" he asked with a crooked little smile playing on his lips, my giggling seemed to amuse him.

"It's nothing" my thoughts of how much I wanted him were still spinning through my mind causing me to blush slightly and giggle a little more. The make out session coupled with the tension of the last couple hours had me feeling slightly punch drunk.

"Nothing, doesn't make you blush, Roza what is it please I need to know." His voice was deep and low and it made heat flush through my body. I wanted to tell him what I was thinking what I wanted how I needed to feel him more of him, but I couldn't it was too embarrassing. He could never want me or need me as badly as I did him. I needed to control myself before I embarrassed myself any further.

" I am so not telling" I smirked, that's it lighten the mood, things are way too intense right now.

"So where are we going anyway" My subject change seemed to snap Dimitri out of his haze as well.

"On a date" He said as he pulled me down from the hood and placed me back on the ground. I quickly fumbled with my skirt pulling it down and straightening it. For some reason I was now a lot more aware of how short my skirt really was. I started fidgeting.

"Thank you captain obvious I know that but where are we going on a date to?" Sarcasm, sarcasm is good, I am good with sarcasm.

"You'll see, but we do have a little bit of a drive a head and after all the distractions" his eyes penetrated mine again as he said that last word. "Well they have us a little off schedule. We better get going."

"Right lets get going" I said maybe a little too enthusiastically but I needed to get out of here before I begged Dimitri to take me right here on the car. I turned and started for my side of the Jeep.

"Rose" Dimitri said pulling me back into him. "Don't you need help getting in?" He asked raising his eyebrow at me. Damn sexy eyebrow I sank into him slightly loosing my breath at the contact.

"Yeah I guess I do" I was still fidgeting he walked me over to my side once again lifting me to my seat. This time the closeness of his mouth was too much to resist, I missed his lips in the short time that had passed since they were melting into mine. Before I could stop myself I leaned in that last little bit and kissed him. I sucked his bottom lip into mine and his control must have slipped as well.

Next thing I knew the seat was leaned back and Dimitri was on top of me the door was closed and his body was pressing against mine with such intensity. His body should have felt heavy. He weighed a considerable amount more then I did, but instead the pressure felt heavenly, I wanted to feel more of him. I pulled him into me, raising myself into him just trying to increase the pressure. Dimitri was full on attacking my lips and my neck; our breathing was short and fast but completely in sync. Dimitri's hands had long disappeared under my skirt, grabbing my thighs and butt as he continued his assault on my mouth. His hands had just fisted around the sides of my panties, when he froze and said, "We have to stop" his hands didn't release though and his mouth was still against my neck as his body shuddered once. It caused my own body to shudder in return and this made him pull back enough to look into my eyes. He smiled slightly as he said, "You have know idea how sexy that is" What's sexy my shudder? I wanted to ask him but I was too embarrassed, I should know what I had done that was sexy shouldn't I?

We somehow manage to untangle ourselves; Dimitri reached back and put my seat back into an upright position. "We are really going to be late now." he smirked before jumping out and walking to his side. He got in the car and just as he pulled back onto the road he grabbed my left hand in his bringing it to his mouth for a gentle kiss. My heart fluttered, he just had such an affect on me.

A few minutes into the drive and I felt my body relax. I didn't realize how uptight I had been until the tension was released. Being in the car with Dimitri was easy again just as easy as being anywhere else with him, I am glad the tension was gone. Glad we talked it out, or kissed it out whatever. It was comfortable again; we had a routine a rhythm with each other that just worked. We talked about his childhood in Russia, and his family. I loved hearing him talk about it, his face lit up every time he describe one of his childhood haunts. We had been bantering back and forth on what song or station to leave on. I was making fun of his fuddy duddy taste in music when a song came on and he sighed.

"What?" I asked him

"Huh" he looked at me seeming confused by my question.

"You sighed, why?"

"Its just this song, it makes me think of you" his smile was shy, like he was slightly embarrassed to admit that.

That brought a smile to my face and shut me up quick as I tried to listen and take in the lyrics. He said it was a James Taylor song, whoever James Taylor is…

There's something in the way she moves, or looks my way, or calls my name
that seems to leave this troubled world behind.
And if I'm feeling down and blue or troubled by some foolish game,
she always seems to make me change my mind..

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now.
She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine.

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go.
She has the power to go where no one else can find me and to silently remind me
of the happiness and the good times that I know, and then I just got to go then.

It isn't what she's got to say but how she thinks and where she's been.
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.
I like to hear them best that way, it doesn't much matter what they mean.
she says them mostly just to calm me down

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now.
She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine.

When the song ended I was in awe. "That was beautiful" I looked at him my voice barely a whisper as I spoke.

"Your beautiful." His eyes fixed on me, he was not paying as much attention to the road as I thought he should be but when he looked at me like that I couldn't complain.

The electricity between us had taken over the car again. I was afraid to even speak, all my thoughts were focused on how close we were sitting in the car and how good my hand felt in his. Why could I not control myself around this man, oh yeah because he was Dimitri that's why.