AN: Hey guys! I'm so excited to start this sequel and I sincerely hope that you are all as excited as I am! Love you all and as usual I do not own the Vampire Academy. By the way, thank you for all of the amazing suggestions on how to start off this first chapter. -Sammy

Chapter 1:

My first prenatal appointment was set a couple of weeks after Gregory woke up at the hospital and I was super excited. At this point in time, everyone around me knew about my pregnancy and I was being showered in congratulations hugs and cards. Much to my dismay, Lissa decided, as queen, that I wasn't allowed to guard her until I gave birth and Gregory didn't argue with her because he was cautious with pregnancies as it was being that he had lost a baby before and wasn't about to lose another one. Being as I wasn't guarding, I was extremely bored and I spent most of my time at home with Mason since there was no reason to put him in daycare when I was home all day.

For a while Mason acted really odd and that started after we had revealed to him that Dimitri was his biological father. It was a hard day. Surprisingly, Greg and Dimitri made it through the whole conversation with Mason without screaming at each other and this was because, when one was talking, the other kept their mouth shut, plus I was mediating.

Flashback

"Mase, baby, your daddy, Dimitri, and I need to talk to you." I'd called up to Mason who had been playing upstairs. He came running downstairs and saw all three of us sitting together at the kitchen table. Dimitri and Greg were sitting right next to each other and across from them, I was sitting down and next to me was an empty chair for Mason to sit at.

He looked worried and looked at me, "Mommy, what's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong, baby. We just need to talk." I smiled encouragingly when I realized that he thought he was in trouble. Seeing my smile, he smiled back and came to sit by me at the table.

No matter how many time the three of us had run through this conversation, it didn't make it any easier and it became clear that all of our conversation plans were lost to oblivion. A look of fear crossed Greg's face, he really was worried that he would lose his first and only son.

"Buddy, when your mommy was younger..." he started and then took a deep breath to steady his wobbly breathing. "When your mommy was younger, she was dating Dimitri." he said quickly and glanced at Dimitri.

Mason looked at Dimitri and looked confused for a minute. "You dated my mommy, Dimtri?" he said. Dimitri nodded.

"Dimtri left your mom and then she found out she was pregnant with you." Mason looked at my stomach and I knew he was thinking about how I was pregnant now. "When she found out, she was very..." he searched for the right word, "worried, because she didn't know how she was possibly going to take care of you because she was still in school. I found her crying the day she found out and we fell in love. I went to her doctors appointments and I was with her when she first saw you on a machine in the doctor's office. I was with her everyday and I was with her through everything. After being with her through her pregnancy, I began to think of you as my own son. I was with your mommy when she had you and we both considered you my son. You called me daddy when you were 10 months old and you really were my son whether or not you were biologically mine." Greg said and he had tears in his eyes. He was visibility sweating from being so worried.

Mason just sat in the chair for a minute and right before I was about to ask him if he understood everything that Greg had said, he looked up at Greg and said, "So Dimitri's my daddy?"

One of the tears in Greg's eyes dropped down his cheek and he quickly wiped it away. Dimitri jumped to Greg's rescue surprisingly. "Mason, I know that this kind of confusing but basically what your dad is trying to say is that although I was with your mommy and me and her were the ones that created you, your daddy is still your dad. He has been there for you your entire life." Dimitri's next sentence looked like it pained him to say but he did it anyway, "The father that you have known your entire life is more of a dad to you than I am."

Greg looked at Dimitri shocked and more tears fell down his face that I don't think that he even noticed because he was so entirely shocked at Dimitri. Before I could completely process what Dimitri had said, Mason got up and walked around to the other side of the table. He didn't hesitate in wrapping his arms around Greg and pulling him close. I barely heard Mase whisper, "I love you, Daddy."

Greg wrapped his arms around Mase and picked him up to set him on his lap before he said, "I love you too, Buddy. More than the world."

Back to regular time

Ever since then, Mason had acted a little strangely around Dimitri. They hung out a lot and they bonded but Mason would rather spend time with Greg. One night, Mase came to me and asked me if he was the reason that Gregory is so upset whenever he's with Dimitri. I had told him that he get's so upset because his daddy really is afraid of losing him. Since I told him that, Mase wanted to spend all of his time with Greg.

Back to my doctors appointment, I was now 9 weeks pregnant and it was my first check up appointment. We left Mason with Dimitri at our appointment so that we could have this first check up together. The appointment itself went pretty quickly. She checked my blood pressure and all that other good stuff and told me that everything seemed to be going smoothly.

Greg and me stopped by DQ after we left the hospital. We had to eat there so that Mason wouldn't see that we got ice cream without him. After we got our ice cream cones, we went to sit down at a table outside and we held hands across the table.

I don't do well in the silence so I decided to ask him a question that has been itching at me for the last couple of weeks.

"Is there anymore news on Tasha and Alex?" I asked. He locked eyes with me and then cleared his throat.

"There's been a couple more sightings that usually end up in the killing of a few people, never moroi though. She hasn't made it anywhere close to court so that's something." he said.

"What about Alex?" me and Alex have been really close friends since I started working at court three years ago and I never, ever thought that he would go strigoi or let alone be with someone like Tasha. But, as far as I knew, he wasn't strigoi, there was no proof of it.

Greg took a deep breath and squeezed my hand. "Alex... well he's been spotted with red eyes and fangs." tears strung into my eyes and Gregory immediately got up and came over to my side of the table. He got on his knees in front of me and wrapped his arms around my waist. I put my head down and started to cry silent tears for my friend. "Shhh. It's okay, sweetheart. Everything's going to be okay, I promise. Don't cry. You have me and you have Mason, you have our beautiful baby that you're carrying, hell you even have Dimitri to help you through this. Don't cry, my love, everything will be okay."

My tears started to disappear when I heard his words. He had always been able to make my tears go away since the first time we met. When he found me crying after I had found out about my pregnancy, all he had to do was talk to me and my tears would go right away. I wrapped my arms around his broad shoulders and whispered, "Thank you, baby. I love you."

"I love you, too." he said to me before he stood up and brought me to my feet as well. We finished our ice cream on the walk home.

When we got home, Dimitri was sitting in silence on the couch with his head in his hands and his elbows on his knees. I could hear Mason playing upstairs.

"Hey Dimitri, what's wrong?" I asked. He slowly took his head out of his hands and looked up at me. I could see tears run down his face. "What's wrong...?" I asked slowly. He was starting to worry me. Instead of answering, he picked up his phone that I hadn't noticed was there and handed it up to me. There was a text message showing. I read it.

It said, Dimitri you will regret leaving me. I've been thining of ways to make sure of it and I think I've finally got it. Either you come back to me and you're mine forever or I take that little brat away from you in every way possible. Take your pick. Love you XOXO. -Tasha.

I stared down at the phone for what seemed like decades and when I could finally tear my eyes away, they looked straight up at the stairs that lead to Mason's bedroom. I felt tears come to my eyes as I thought about what could happen to him.

AN: WHOOAA! What a way to start off the sequel ladies and gentlemen! Let me know what you thought, were you disappointed or did you love it? What are you hoping to see happen. Love you all -Sammy