Stevie Rae's child

Written by Thomas G. Arndt

A view that I had

Chapter 1

" What do you mean it's positive, we're dead it can't be positive," Stevie Rae's eye's shot to her favorite man with and almost pleading look in them, then she said, " well I guess that vision is coming true."

Raphraim then came over to her, and he put his arm's around her and said, " Don't worry we can do it."

" How, I'm asleep during the day, and your a f-ing bird."

Zoey then came over and said, " Stevie Rae, the twins and I can lend a helping hand, we can do this."

" You might be all powerful High Priestess and stuff, but you're a vampyre to, you have to sleep, and we live in a sewer."

Raphraim then said in his no nonsense way, " Stevie Rae we live in Prohibition tunnels dear, these are not sewers, and we've made it our home for so long, we can raise this baby."

Zoey then added, " And we can skip a few hours of sleep, plus he or she will most likely be awake at night anyways, and she will be spoiled rotten by her aunts."

Stevie Rae then countered, " He."

" How do you know that?"

" We had a vision together, in our vision she was a he, now Y'all can't loose that much sleep, so we'll need something more like a nanny."

" Stevie Rae, we can't really allow a nanny down here, I mean what if she gets eaten?"

" No one ate Aphrodite yet, no offense Aphrodite?"

Standing in the door way she said, " Not that they haven't tried, good thing I have Darius."

Zoey gave her a you are not helping look, then her look turned to a smile as she said, " Well we have a live in nanny already, I think we can do this."

Stevie Rae then gave her a confused look, then she followed her stare to Aphrodite and she got a big smile as well, this made Aphrodite get a nervous shutter as she asked, " What?" It only took a nano second for her to realized what they were thinking, and she then spit out with an evil sneer, " No way, in fact no fucking way, I'm screwed up, I can't be a nanny."

Zoey then said, " Its the only possible way for her to do this, and it has to be the goddesses will, I mean Stevie Rae was right, she is kinda undead like, so only the goddess could have bestowed this upon her."

" You, are, sounding, like, Damien, he's the wordsmith here, and I guess if its the goddess will I'll have to say, yes. But I'll have to put in a formal complaint to her, I mean I know I'm going to screw her up, and what will you say if she turns out like me?"

Stevie Rae then shuttered as she replied, " Well then I'll have to love her anyways, I mean I had to learn how to love you, and y'all know how hard that was for me?"

Zoey then asked, " I wonder how long it will take her, I mean him to mature in your womb?"

" What do you mean?"

" Well you know your not exactly human, it has to be at a different rate as human children."

" What if it takes longer, I don't know, I'm not sure I can take nine months let alone like two years."

" The goddess would never give you more then you can bare."

" Yeah I guess you're right, I mean it wasn't as if I lost it and bit Aphrodite on the neck and got my humanity back right, oh wait that did happen."

" Stevie Rae! You have to trust in the goddess."

" I know, I know, except I haven't had such a good track record with our goddess."

" Seesh, Stevie Rae it isn't like you'll be all alone here, I mean we have Kamisha, and the twins, plus you know I'll give you a hand."

" I know, Z I'm just scared, I mean have any of you had a baby before, and now I'm going to get fat and all, and y'all please none of those fat jokes."

Shawnee then chimed in, " Please, just please . . ."

Erin then added, " it'll be easy pleasie, and we would never . . ."

Shawnee ended, " to you."

Zoey had to laugh as it seemed that the more the twins were together the more in sink they seemed to bet, she wondered if they should cut out the middle man and just marry each other, of course since they both really liked boys there would be a problem with that. Then she saw the strain on Stevie Rae's face and knew in her mind that she was in trouble, not physically but mentally, so she went over to her and gave her best look as she said, " Stevie Rae none of has ever had a baby before, but we'll all be here for you, and Raphraim loves you to death."

She gave a heavy sigh and said, " Yeah I know, that's how I got into this mess, we love each other far to much, well and I kinda like it, oh Raphraim I think we have to stop having sex."

Raphraim came to her side as Aphrodite spit out, " Oh please, am I in bumpkin hell, Stevie Rae you can have sex with him, just because you're having a baby doesn't mean your life has to end," she the was quiet for a second then added, " Not that I want to know about your sex life, oh hell I don't want to know about anyone's sex life."

Darius then came in and asked, " Who's sex life are we talking about?"

In his own way he had changed greatly, after the major attack on their compound by Neferet, and it came to light that her main target was Aphrodite, it was only the advent of her long time friend Venus that had saved her, and how badly she was hurt, he could see how it affected Aphrodite. He had to think that Aphrodite wasn't used to having such a good friend, and the way that the tracked Erik had taken it upon himself to care for her, he was truly out side his element and the High Priestess and stark had helped him. Then they saw Stevie double up in pain, it was strange how Aphrodite seem to know that they had to do the test for a baby, it was as if she knew what the pain, this made him think that she may have had to give up a baby. He would have to ask her about it later. It came to him that the way things were going there might not be a later, they can't go back to the campus as an all out war has been called upon them, the only thing that's saving them from the High Councils interference is the sudden death of three of them. Zoey had said it was Neferet's fault, he had to think that maybe she knew something that no one else knows, but it wasn't his place to question her, after all she is their and his High Priestess, and what she had done to the kids at the House of Night was far beyond all of a High Priestesses capabilities, so it had to be true that Neferet was somethnig else. He shook himself from his thought's and asked, " Stevie Rae how do you feel?"

Stevie Rae then smiled at him and replied, " Except for me having a baby, well normal, and I'm sorry you had to leave Aphrodite to save me, I'm just glad Venus got there in time, Hey Z did Stark tell you what we saw?"

Zoey seemed to shutter as she replied, " Yeah, and I kinda saw it to, what was that?"

" I don't know, I mean it looked like a normal boy, the way he dished out damage and took it, but did you see the way he just stopped when you screamed at him, what was up with that."

" I did see that, and the way he seemed to cry as he stood there, I think it unnerved Neferet to, and the way she grabbed him and ran with him, it was as if he couldn't not do what she told him."

Aphrodite then made a strange sound, then she said, " Excuse me where did that come from," everyone then laughed and she then made the sound even louder, and she said, " Whoa that almost hurt, I think I need a bro mo."

" Aphrodite are you all right?"

" I don't know Z, my chest has a numb feeling to it, and my right arm doesn't seem to work . . . DARIUS!"

She clasped to the floor, and Darius was there to keep her from hitting the floor, she then spit out, " DAMN!"

Her eye's rolled back in her head as if she was having a vision, Zoey moved to her side and Darius then ripped open her dress, he started to do C. P. R. Zoey then yelled, " GO GET STARK!"

Erik broke into the room, and he put his hand on her head and then was helping Darius with his C. P. R. Damien then came in with Venus in his arm's and asked, " Erik why did you, oh my Erik I'll take over so you can help Venus."

He then said, " Damien I heard her heart flutter, you'll have to spell Darius in a few, she maybe having a heart attack."

Darius then cried, " NO! I can't loose her, she's my entire life, please lovely Princess you have to survive."

Zoey then said, " I don't know how, but Neferet is behind this, I'll call the spirit to help her, everyone else do the same, maybe with our help we can avoid this."

Everyone then centered themselves, and so did Damien as Stark ran in to help Darius, they all threw their abilities to help her, then beyond all hope the goddess appeared and said in a musical tone, Neferet has done this and she is beyond all hope, Zoeybird put all your spirit within her and I will help you in this unwanted death.

Then she was gone, it was then that we did exactly what she told us to do, I trust my spirit within her, I knew this would scare Stark and I hoped he was strong enough to wait for whatever the goddess had planned, then as I saw through her eye's I could see her spirit getting ready to leave. I used my spirit to pull her back into her body, and with a trust of her chest I could then see something different, she seemed to be able to see everyone's spirit as it existed in them, and Zoey knew exactly what had just happened. She then returned to her body, and as she came around and said, " Darius you can stop, Aphrodite has made the change."

Darius then looked at her with tears going down his face, Zoey put her hand on his face and added, " Aphrodite can't be touched by her ever again, the goddess has given her apart of her own spirit, you can get up now Aphrodite."

She lifted her head and smiled, Darius then said, " How can this be, she was nothing but a human, and where are her tattoo's, she's can't be a vampyre."

Aphrodite then said, " Honey I'm more then a vampyre, the goddess has given me a thread of her, so instead of being a mortal I'm an Immortal, Zoey I feel so light, I think I could take on the world with such power, I think I'm the answer to Heath. A wait how did I know that, that monster was created to fight you, but some how there's part of Heath in there, Zoey if we can get through to him we may have a new weapon, and the key is you, I have a feeling that like you I could do all the same things."

" The goddess created us all, so it would figure that she would be able to do what I could do, but she has given us free will, so why would she do this to you unless this is only temporary, I think your our tool again that creature, or even Neferet."

Stevie Rae then spoke up, " Zoey is this normal?"

Everyone then looked to see a small bump where it was flat just a little while ago, Zoey put her hand on the bump and felt a sudden movement and said, " No, but for you I think yes, I'm no doctor, but I'm sure you shouldn't be showing yet, but you guys have got to feel this, its so cool, you can feel it move."

Instantly everyone was there putting their hands on her stomach, and with giggles they all felt it move, she had to smile as she said, " Dang Y'all, at this rate I'm going to have this baby within a week or so."

Damien then said, " If I have it right, two weeks and three days, Stevie Rae I think Z was right, I think the goddess is preparing us for something and that usually isn't good."