Together
A Vampire Academy Fanfiction
Original author of series: Richelle Mead

CHAPTER 1

"I'm pregnant." She told me, practically bouncing on the spot with excitement. I gripped her in a hug and asked her, "Really?" I'm so happy for her and then she's talking babies with me: what to buy, that she hopes the gender will be a surprise and of course, baby names. "If it's a girl, I want to call it Cher and if it's a boy I want to call it Alexander."

I laughed, "Those are great! Has Christian thought of any?"

She groaned and laughed. "You don't even want to hear them. Honestly, guys are the worst at picking names."

We sat there laughing for what seemed like hours when there was a knock on the door. Christian stood in the doorway to my room. Since Lissa had become queen, she had given Dimitri and me our own apartment which we shared when we were at court. Right now, it was the summer break so that meant that Christian and Lissa were together all the time, therefore that meant that Dimitri and I got time to ourselves too. And at the moment, Dimitri was across the other side of court with Mikhail, doing some sort of "secret guardian" stuff he had claimed, even though I too was a guardian now. But I had let him go with a kiss so that he could have some guy time away from Christian and me.

Lissa's laugh was what brought me back to the present and when my eyes focussed on them once more, that was the moment when they decided to full on make out in front of me.

I cleared my throat and they both broke apart almost instantly—save a few last kisses—and Lissa's cheeks went a bright red.

"Ready to go?" Christian turned back to Lissa, with an excited glint in his eye. I never would have thought that I would have seen Christian look excited to be a father.

Lissa nodded enthusiastically and answered the question that hadn't been in my head but that she thought would have been. "We have a doctor's appointment today where we get to have an ultrasound. Do you want to come?" A muscle in Christian's cheek twitched and before I could give him another reason to hate me, I quickly refused, "No thanks. You guys have fun." And honestly, I didn't want to be interrupting this moment for them… not to mention that there would probably be a lot of smooching involved. Yeah… no thank you.

With that, they said their good byes and left, leaving me to stare at the closed front door feeling empty and lonely.

I trekked into the bathroom and stood with my hands rested against the edge of the sink and my eyes staring into my own through the mirror. My eyes trailed down my body until they came to rest over my stomach, soon my hands were joining it, just resting lightly over my flat belly. That was when I realised what I was missing, why I was feeling this way, why I was feeling so empty and lonely. My body craved for a baby, to have a little person inside of me, I wanted a baby. But I knew it was impossible, I didn't want to have sex with someone else. The only person I wanted to do it with was Dimitri but the only problem was that we were both dhampirs, meaning that it was physically impossible for us to have a baby together.

I heard keys in the door jiggling and finally the door opened. I quickly dropped my hands from my stomach and turned around so that my back was leaning against the sink.

At first he didn't see me as he walked around the room, placing the belongings he had taken with him on his bedside table. When he turned around, he just about jumped out of his skin at the sight of me. At any other time, I would have laughed but right now, I wasn't in the mood for laughing.

"Oh, hey." He said, looking at me warily. "No comments on that?"

I just shook my head and came out of the bathroom and sat down on our bed with a sigh, looking down at my hands. I wanted to confess my wants and needs but I knew that wouldn't be fair on Dimitri. It wasn't his fault that we couldn't have children, so when he asked what was wrong, I just said, "Nothing."

I saw his knees before I saw his face. He took my hands in his and forced me to keep my eyes locked on his. "Roza…" he began, his voice gentle. "You can tell me anything, you know that." Instead of answering, I crushed my lips to his. He was surprised at first and hesitated but soon his body's wants were taking over his thoughts. His lips met mine, equally as passionate and greedy as my own, his hands travelled down my body, his thumb brushing over my hip bone. Without breaking away, he lifted my legs so that they wrapped around his waist.

Gently, he lowered us both down onto the bed. My hands slipped under his shirt, tracing the many muscles along his stomach and on his back. He sat up for a brief moment, pulling his shirt over his head and chucking it onto the floor. His lips returned to mine and eventually, all of our clothes were on the ground and we lay side by side, panting heavily.

I turned onto my side once we were done, resting my head on his chest and peering up at him. He allowed his lips to brush my forehead and smiled down at me, but underneath that twitch of his lips, I saw the worry and concern for me.

"What's wrong, Roza?" He whispered.

So I decided to tell him about Lissa's visit and to pretend to switch my emotions around. "I'm not upset, Dimitri… I'm happy actually, happy for Lissa. She came to visit me with good news when you weren't here. She and Christian are going to have a baby."

His eyes lit up at this, it seemed that I had succeeded. "That's great news."

"Yeah, they're having their first ultrasound today too." He smiled at this.

I told him I was tired and so he let me drift off to sleep with my head on his shoulder. I heard his breathing slowing and knew that he too was falling asleep… but I lay awake for what seemed like hours, just thinking about what it would be like to have a baby inside of you, to have to defend not only for your life or a Moroi's life, such as Lissa's but someone so much smaller, someone so much more vulnerable. With those thoughts, I allowed myself to fall into a deep sleep.