Prologue: Dimitri's Alive in More Ways Then One

This is my version of the Novel Spirit bound and Last Sacrifice and does not belong to me in any way. All credit goes to Richelle Mead.

You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know that your enemy is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you- which will be soon.

Love D.

I couldn't seem to stop shaking as I stared at the neat cursive writing.

He's alive! That's all that was going through my mind. I wasn't sure if I should be happy or afraid about that. If he's alive I can try to save him. I just have to find that damn spirit user. Then again he's threatening to kill me.

"Rose?" Lissa said as she touched my shoulder and I could smell the scent of her shampoo.

Suddenly my stomach turned and I felt bile coming up. I jumped up and ran for the little bathroom in my room. For the first time in a long time I actually got sick.

"Rose!" I heard Lissa almost shout as I felt her hold my hair back as all that Lao Ming and Mushu Pork made a very disgusting re-appreance into my toilet.

"Uh!" I groaned as my stomach settled. "What the hell?" I flopped back on the floor as Lissa went to get a warm washcloth to clean my face.

"Rose are you alright?" She asked as I scrubbed my face. "Yeah. I don't know what the hell is going on with me. I was feeling queasy almost every day in Russia. I just thought it meant that there were Strigoi near by. It Kept me on my toes."

I glanced to Lissa and she was biting her lip in worry.

"But there aren't any Strigoi here, we'd be on lock down if there were."

I nodded. "Yeah I know. Its probably just nerves, especially after reading that damned letter." I said as I motioned uncomfortably toward the bed where the silver stake and Dimitri's letter lay.

"I don't know Rose, maybe you should have Dr. Olendski look at you. Just to be safe."

"Nah Liss, I'm fine." I said as I got up and proceeded to wash my mouth out.

"At least tell your mother." She said as she made her way out the door.

"Liss-" I started but she was already gone.

Oh well, I thought. As I laid down on my bed. I was beginning to feel so tired. I picked the letter up again and I just couldn't help but feel a flutter in my chest. I wasn't sure if it was fear or hope.

No matter what he did, I'd always love him, not the Strigoi Dimitri but my Dimitri. The man that made love to me for the first time, the man that taught me to fight Strigoi in the first place. He protected me and worried for me.

I just hoped that I'd be able to return him to a Dhampir.

"Rose?" my mother asked as she poked her head into the room. I lifted my head. I sat up and rolled my eyes. "I'm fine mom." I said before she even said anything.

"Oh really?" She said as she crossed her arms under her breasts. "Lissa says you got sick. She said that you told her that you've been feeling off for almost a month."

I rolled my eyes again. "I'm pretty sure its just nerves mom. I have trials coming up, and then there's this." I handed her Dimitri's letter.

She took it and read it. I could see her guardian mask coming over her features as she looked up. "When did you get this?" she asked.

I shrugged "Just now." She nodded.

"Have you been sick a lot while in Russia?" she asked as she sat beside me.

I lifted my eyebrows in question. "Mom, are you asking me if I'm pregnant?" I asked jokingly and she glared at me.

"I'm serious Rosemarie. Has it just been the nausea? Are you achy anywhere? Did you get hit?"

"Mom, I'm not pregnant!" She huffed and got up. "I'm not saying you are Rose. I want to make sure that you're not seriously sick or something. Now answer the questions." I flopped back on my bed.

"Now have you been getting sick a lot? Are you hurting anywhere?"

I pulled myself up again and looked my mother in the eye.

"I haven't been getting sick necessarily, I mean I haven't actually thrown up until today." She nodded.

"Ok anything else?" I crossed my arms and flinched. "Rose are you ok?" I nodded as I rubbed my breast. "Yeah, my boobs are sore is all. Must be getting my period."

I didn't notice my mom's eyes narrow. "Anything else Rose?"

I thought back to before Dimitri had kidnapped me. I had been feeling tired a lot before that, and then there was that dizzy spell a minute ago.

I told my mom that too. This time I saw the suspicion on her face.

"What's wrong mom?" I asked.

She shook her head and turned toward the door. "I'll be right back Rose." Then she left leaving me completely confused.

I laid back on my bed again and closed my eyes. Four minutes later mom walked right back in. I opened my eyes and looked at her or better yet what she was holding out for me to take.

I sat up to get a better look because surely, surely, my mother wasn't serious. I had said that pregnancy line as a joke!

"Mom!" I yelled. "Just go in the bathroom and take it Rosemarie." She almost growled.

I glared and snatched the pregnancy test from my mother's hand and stormed into the bathroom.

"Just so you now when it comes up negative I hope you feel like a real ass mother!"

She said nothing. She just sat down on my bed and got comfortable.

A minute or so later I stormed out of the bathroom and I sat down next to my mother.

"Stupid thing said to wait for five minutes." She nodded and set her watch and we got comfortable.

When her watch beeped I got up and went to the bathroom. I snatched the test off the sink; I didn't even look at it. "Here." I gave it to her.

She looked at it for a minute and gave a tired sigh.

"Who was it with Rose?" I stared at her and I felt my eyes go round.

"Wait, What?" I almost screeched as I grabbed the test and looked at it.

There was a tiny pink plus sign… Positive.

"This is… Mom this isn't possible. I wasn't ever with a Moroi!" she nodded her head and put a hand on my shoulder. "Ok Rose calm down. Now you've never been with a Moroi?" I shook my head.

"Ok, then Rose who have you been with?" I felt myself begin to shake, it couldn't be, it was impossible.

"No one, just… Dimitri not even an hour before the Strigoi attacked… back in March." I felt tears well up in my eyes. I couldn't be pregnant.

My mom didn't look happy about that but instead of getting angry she took my hand and led me out of the room.

"Where are we going?" I asked quietly. "The clinic. We'll have Olendski do some test so we know that the Pregnancy test wasn't faulty."

I nodded as I followed my mom to the clinic.

By the time Olendski came back with my results Lissa had joined us in the clinic.

"Now Rose." Dr. Olendski said as she took her glasses of her face and put them on her head. "When was the last time you had sex?" I blushed, yes I Rose Hathaway blushed. "Uh, back in March the same day the school was attacked. It was… my first time."

"Ok and you said he was a dhampir?" I just nodded. We didn't tell her exactly who the 'father' was, and I say father loosely considering there has to be a baby for there to be a father. And there wasn't a baby, there couldn't be.

The doc shook her head and looked down at the results.

"Rose with all the times you've been in here and all the injuries you've had over the last eighteen years, I've always thought you were a miracle child but now, I know you are." Then she handed me the results. "And so is your little one. Congratulations Rose, you're pregnant."

…Shit.

This is basically a rewrite for my story Miracle Child. I've made some changes and I hope you all like it. I did a lot of research for this story since I am not a mother, but if there is anything that's a little off please let me know so I can fix it. Please review and enjoy.