Hey I got this idea after reading the books and some other stories here on fanfic and realised there weren't really any where the Drake boys (and Sol) have children of their own. or any where the Drakes get left behind instead of the humans. So this is a little story I wrote about Lucy and Nicholas' child who doesn't know they're a vampire and nearing their 16th birthday rather quickly.
But first how it all started. Alyxandra Harvey owns all characters in this chapter:
Chapter 1
"Lucy, I love you," Nicholas Drake said. He and his girlfriend were lying in his bed with the duvet covering them as best as it could when two unclothed people were laying side-by-side on a single bed. Nicholas' chest was visible but he didn't mind as long as Lucy's was covered up, otherwise she felt uncomfortable after the best night either of them had ever had.
"I love you too, Nicholas," Lucy replied, giggling quietly at the way they just showed their love to each other. She lifted her head off his chest which is where it had been resting for the last half an hour. "It's almost dawn. We should get dressed," she said, sounding disappointed the night was almost over. He kissed the top of her head and nodded in agreement. She turned round, so her back was facing him as she reached out and grabbed his discarded t-shirt and slipped it over her head. It was like a dress on her and she got out of bed to gather her clothes. After she picked them all up she went into the bathroom connected to Nicholas' room to get dressed. She came out 5 minutes later and gave Nicholas his t-shirt. He sat up in his bed and kissed her again. "You are beautiful, Lucy Hamilton," he said gently. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise,"
"OK. I won't. You'd better get dressed before you crash out, unless you want your brothers to find you naked in your bed tomorrow?" she joked and he jumped out of bed wrapping a blanket around his waist before running toward his wardrobe and grabbing some pyjamas, then running into the bathroom to put them on. Lucy just laughed at his rushing around the room as it was highly amusing for her. There was a knock at the door and Nicholas' older brother Logan walked in.
"Hey Lucy," he said.
"Hey," she smiled still sitting on the bed.
"Where's Nicholas?"
"In the bathroom. He'll be out in a minute, I'm sure. Why what's up?"
"Mum and dad want to talk to him about Solange. They're worried about her, duh, but he's always the one who can seem to get through to her,"
"Yeah but not very well. I get through to her better than any of you,"
"With the 'best friend' title being a disadvantage," Nicholas added exiting the bathroom. "But just remember Lucy, you won't be around forever to help her out,"
"Nick's right there Luce," Logan said. She sighed and left the room mumbling something about going to check on Solange. Solange was Logan and Nicholas' younger sister and the first female vampire to be born in over 900 years and it was said that she would one day take the crown and become queen, therefore attracting more and more vampires that either wanted to kill her, or mate with her, putting her in a lot of danger. Although it didn't quite end up that way as it was her mum, Helena Drake, who killed Lady Natasha and was crowned queen.
"You didn't come in here to talk about Sol did you Logan?" Nicholas asked knowing the answer.
"No, I didn't. So you and Lucy finally got down to business eh?"
"That's none of your business," Nicholas replied, smiling pretty much telling Logan he was right.
"I knew it," he said before jumping around cheerfully, leaving the room as the sun was starting to rise. Nicholas sighed and got into bed smiling at the memory of him and Lucy joined together as one.
Lucy POV
I love Nicholas so much I actually can't explain how much! Being with him last night was just incredible and I hope we get more like it. I didn't go to my room at dawn though as I was pretty much wide awake, but then again I did sleep for a while in Nick's arms, so instead I decided, since the Drakes were all asleep, I'd go for a drive. My parent would be home soon from the ashram and I had to make sure the animals at home were OK as I'd been home about three times these past two weeks so I didn't starve the cats but I'm hoping all the food I left out was enough to see them through the two weeks. Luckily they were OK but they made a bit of mess in the actual house. And when I say a bit of mess I mean a lot! They filled their litter boxes up and so there was pee and poo all over the kitchen floor. Not too bad I guess as the floor was laminate so it was a case of getting the mop out. However the rest of the house was a different story.
The lounge was covered in fluff and had books scattered all over the floor and one of them even broke a snow globe so there was water and weird snow stuff everywhere as well. The room smelled of wet cat somehow but I'm guessing that must be where they knocked over my old glass of water, from the film me and my parents watched before they left, and rolled around in it. The hallway, covered in cat fur as well as every room in the house. One of them (I'm guessing Mystery) had left a lot of pee on my parents bed sheets and our dirty washing and my pile of clean washing I never put away, therefore leaving me to wash it all again. I let all the cats outside so they could run around and get some air; I only left the upstairs window open a little bit to stop burglars and the cats from jumping out, and started to clean up. I put some washing in the machine and started cleaning the kitchen.
By the time I'd finished downstairs it was five o'clock, my parents would be home in about six hours, so they could watch the sunset before leaving for the two hour drive back, and the upstairs was still a complete mess! I text Nicholas ready for when he woke up so he knew where I was and not be too worried to find I wasn't there when he did:
Hey bbe don't worry bout me went home earlier to check on pets and been tidyin up 4 ours. B bk as soon as im finished luv u xxx
He'd probably still lecture me but at least I told him right? I took the vacuum cleaner upstairs to clear up the fluff up there when I suddenly got a sharp pain in my stomach and I felt a bit dizzy and sick. I made it to the toilet in time to throw up, better not to give myself more crap to clean up, before my vision blurred and I fell and blacked out, the last thing I remember was hearing my phone ringing...
Nicholas POV
I woke up and immediately noticed that Lucy wasn't here. I don't mean in my bed and room but in the house. I couldn't hear her heartbeat or feel her presence. I thought for a minute: where would she go? She never leaves without one of us. I couldn't think too much as I grabbed my phone to ring her but found a text from her:
Hey bbe don't worry bout me went home earlier to check on pets and been tidyin up 4 ours. B bk as soon as im finished luv u xxx
OK so she's at home, but boy is she getting a lecture about leaving on her own, even if it was only to her house. I guess it makes sense though. She'd left the cats for about a week now and only checked on them three time altogether, all three times in the first week of the two weeks her parents were gone. I can't blame her really I know how much her animals matter to her and I can't expect her to wait for too long when it comes to checking on them. That's how much I care about her and what's important to her. I tried ringing her phone to see how long she'll roughly be, her parents were home late and this was her last night here for who knows how long. We can't risk her safety no matter how much she may want us to.
"Hey this is Lucy's phone; I'm either busy arguing with Nicholas, hanging with Solange or just generally too busy to answer the phone right now but leave a message and I'll text you later,"
That's funny Lucy always answers my phone calls. Unless she's asleep? No don't be stupid it's only eight o'clock. She's on the phone with someone else? No the stupid voice person would say the phone is engaged. On her house phone? She never answers the house phone because she doesn't like talking to random people trying to sell car insurance. She can't hear it ringing? It's possible she has music on so she can't hear it ringing. She always keeps it on loud so it being on silent is a useless thought. But even with music playing on the stereo she would still feel it vibrating in her pocket, as that's the only place she keeps it. She's driving? Never stopped her before. The only solution left is if she doesn't answer this time, something's wrong. I tried again:
"Hey this is Lucy's phone-" I hung up. Something's wrong. I went to Solange's room. If Lucy told anyone anything about anything it would be Solange she told it to. I knocked on the door to my baby sister's bedroom.
"What is it Nicholas?" she asked angrily, she had just woken up.
"Have you heard from Lucy?" he eyes snapped open.
"No, why? Is she not here?" she asked quickly.
"No, I got a text saying she was at her house but I tried calling her to ask how long she'll be before coming back and she's not answering her phone. Just wondered if you'd heard anything from her that's all," I answered. I was getting worried now.
"If she said she's at home why not just go and check on her? If she's not answering something must've happened causing her not being able to answer," she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Trust me I'd been thinking about going over there already but I didn't know if I'd trust myself. What if the reason something was wrong was she was injured and bleeding? Would I be able to trust myself not to kill her if there was blood? I honestly didn't know and I was tempted to ask one of my brothers, or parents, to go with me, even though I knew they'd tease me forever if I asked, especially Quinn. I didn't have a choice though so I ran downstairs to find my brothers chilling in the lounge with mum and dad. They all stared at me, seemingly shocked to find Lucy not attached to my arm.
"Hey little brother!" Quinn said a bit loudly, "Where's Lucy?"
"That's just it Quinn. Lucy. She text me earlier saying she was at home clearing up after the cats and when I tried calling her she wasn't answering her phone,"
"So, a lot of girls don't answer their phones to their boyfriends, look at Hunter, she hardly ever answers my call,"
"No Quinn, what's wrong is that Lucy always answers her phone, no matter who it is," Solange said walking in, sitting on Logan's lap on the sofa and placing her feet on Connor's. "She hasn't even answer my phone calls and anyway, Hunter's a hunter a Helios-Ra you dumbo. Isn't she still trying to get her grandpa to accept you?"
"Keep Hunter out of this if you please little sister," he said plainly.
"Anyway, I'm going to go over there and check if she's OK. If she's there at all," I said and they all looked at me as if to say why aren't you leaving then? "The only problem is, if she is there and something's wrong I don't know if she's injured or not,"
"And you want one of us to come with you in case she is and in case she's bleeding?" Logan finished and I nodded slowly. Luckily none of them laughed at me and I realised that time was still ticking and I'd wasted nearly an hour worrying about if she's OK or not. They all started talking amongst themselves as to who would come with me until, finally, dad said he'd come with me claiming he'd be able to control himself better if she was bleeding than any of my brothers could. I didn't care as long as I found her. It took us about an hour to get to her house only to realise that her parents were home earlier than usual. Normally they would be another hour at least before getting home from their peace stuff. I politely knocked on the door and Mrs Hamilton answered it and smiled at us.
"Mr Drake, Nicholas!" she exclaimed. "What do we owe the honour?" she asked kindly. I answered.
"Um, Lucy went out earlier and hadn't come back and we were just getting a bit worried about her. She text me telling me she was here and when I tried calling there was no answer," I explained, she just kept on smiling and invited us in.
"Yes, Lucky's here. She's actually upstairs in her room that I had to quickly tidy up since the cats made a bit of mess. She tidied up down here very well didn't she?" we looked around and noticed that everything seemed to sparkle (not literally) and we had to admit she done a good job. "She must've started to tidy up upstairs but when we got home the upstairs was still messy and we found her unconscious on the bathroom floor which she must've become after throwing up," she explained, thinking this must be the reason she wasn't answering her phone. "She had stripped the bed sheets so I quickly put on new ones while Matt carried her into her room and placed her in bed. We don't know what's wrong with her so we called out the late night doctor," I nodded as Mr Hamilton walked into the lounge and told his wife that the doctor was here.
"Nicholas, Mr Drake," Mr Hamilton nodded to us before shaking dad's hand. "Could you excuse us for a minute? We just want to make sure Lucky's OK,"
"Of course," Dad said, "Take as long as you need, we can wait," I felt like I was in a frikking hospital where Lucy was my sister and dads daughter and her parents were the doctor and nurse (you can decide which is which). That wasn't normal and all I wanted to know if she was OK or not. Her parents left the room and showed the doctor upstairs to where she was lying. I could smell her even from down here. She smelt so good I could barely contain myself and had to really resist the urge to run up those stairs, hold her in my arms and kiss her until she woke up to kiss me back.
"She'll be fine, stop worrying," dad told me. I sighed and started pacing around the room taking in the smells and look of the room. It smelt of Lucy in so many ways even though she obviously used cleaning supplies instead of wiping her clothes everywhere just so I could smell her.
I stopped next to a picture above the small fireplace. A picture of her and Solange at one of their sleepovers. Lucy was wearing a large pyjama top that fell off her right shoulder due to her cutting a larger neck hole into it although it was bigger than she planned. She and Sol were sitting next to each other, shoulder-to-shoulder, on the floor and both had their outside knee pulled to their chest and their arms wrapped around it. Lucy's tilted hers to the left while Sol's head was tilted to the right and each had an iPod earpiece in the ear next to the others head. They were both smiling their sweet smiles and, for some reason, this became my favourite picture of the both of them together. I turned when I heard the doctor leaving and Mrs Hamilton came into the lounge smiling. "She's fine and is going to be fine. She only fainted, so there's nothing serious." I smiled and after seeing her for five minutes watching her sleep dad and I went home to let them know she was fine.
Lucy POV
My eyes flickered open and I realised it was late at night and Nicholas must be worried about me. I reached for my phone and realised I had four missed calls from him and one from mum. I heard movement beside me and saw mum sitting next to me smiling.
"Mum? You OK?"
"I'm fine sweetheart, are you OK?"
"Yes, why wouldn't I be?"
"Lucky, darling you fainted earlier,"
"I did?"
"Yes. Your father and I were worried sick about you; we had to call the late-night doctor out. At first I thought you were working yourself to hard again after cleaning downstairs then coming up here. We finished up cleaning since the smell was unbearable," I laughed at that. "Anyway, we got home early to surprise you. Your father and I have decided we're moving away from here,"
"Moving? Away from Violet Hill?"
"Yes. We've found a lovely little house about a twenty minute walk away from the ashram. It's lovely and I know you'll love it. There's a good school nearby that you'll attend until you're old enough to move out and make your own decisions,"
"No! I don't want to move house! Why do you want move closer anyway? You go once a year,"
"Actually it's become more permanent. Your father and I have become full time volunteers there and it's just easier if we move,"
I couldn't believe they were doing this to me; I couldn't move away and leave Nicholas behind. He'd never forgive me if I just left him.
"And it will be a nice place for the baby," mum continued. I stopped her right there. Baby? What baby? Was she pregnant?
"Baby? What baby? You're not pregnant?" she laughed gently.
"No not me. Lucky you're pregnant,"
"ME?" I shouted which caught the attention of dad.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"I don't know. I wake up, mum tells me we're moving because you want to work at some stupid peace place, tells me there's a lovely house we'll be living in that would be a nice place to bring up a baby then tells me I'm pregnant!" I shouted to make sure they could hear how angry I was.
"There's no need to shout young lady, we're right here," mum said calmly.
"I'm just confused as to why you're acting so calm to all this," I replied.
"Because we're happy,"
"Happy you're sixteen year old daughter's pregnant?"
"It won't be so bad, Lucky," dad said, I couldn't take anymore; I had to get them out of here.
"When are we leaving?"
"Saturday morning, we start packing tomorrow and say our goodbyes on Friday. Or at least that's the plan," mum explained. That only gave us three days to pack and say goodbye. How was I supposed to tell Nicholas? I'd have to think of something. I got it. I won't tell him I'm pregnant and tell him I was moving away. Maybe if he doesn't know about our child he can't be too mad can he? We'll find out tomorrow.
"You know guys, I'm really tired. Mind if I sleep it off?" I asked. They nodded, of course, and left me to sleep a dreamless sleep.
"Come on Lucky we have to finish packing," mum said again. It was Friday afternoon and we still hadn't finished packing everything up before we moved away for god knows how long. If we ever come back but I've already decided I'm coming back in a few years time, no matter what. I'd told Nicholas that we were moving and he said he was coming over later to say his goodbye to me. He still doesn't know I'm pregnant and I was planning on keeping it that way for a while longer. Obviously I'll have to tell him before the baby turns 16 because of the vampire thing. I'm pretty sure she'll go through the bloodchange. She? I know it's too early to tell the gender but it just feels like I'm going to have a little girl, and since everything with Solange happened, I don't want any vampire knowing about another born female vampire in over 900 years. Who knows what could happen?
"Alright mum, I'm coming," I answered carrying another box out to the moving van my dad was loading up. I grabbed the permanent marker pen and wrote 'fragile' on it as it had mum's favourite glass ornaments inside before handing it to dad to place gently at the back, strapped down with all the other fragile stuff. I ran back in the house to pack my stuff. Well actually most of my stuff was already packed, I just had to put all my clothes, underwear, socks and shoes into my suitcase, strip of my bed so we can take it apart tonight to go in the van and pump up the airbed I have to sleep on tonight. And it was only six o'clock in the bloody evening! At least my bed was the only one left to be taken apart, otherwise we'd be working all night and that wouldn't be fun.
"Lucky can you pass me the screwdriver please?" dad asked when we were taking my bed apart, I passed it miserably though. "What's the matter babe?"
"Just thinking about us moving away. And how our lives are going to be different. Especially for me being away from Nicholas and Solange for a long time."
"Ah, so you're worried about, not just missing them, but if you're all going to stay friends?"
"I guess you could say it like that," I mumbled.
"Listen, Lucky, I know you're not happy about the move, and worrying about what will happen when the baby's born, but honestly, we're going to be fine," he said putting his arm around me the way Nicholas does to comfort me, and it was comforting, even though it didn't change the fact they were completely changing my life! I'd finished helping dad take the bed down when Nicholas arrived. In fact it was Nicholas, Solange, Logan, Quinn, Connor and Helena on my doorstep to say goodbye, everyone else was busy with other affairs but I didn't mind, it sounds harsh but Nick was the only one I wanted to see tonight.
"Hey guys," I said.
"Hi Lucy, we just wanted to say good luck in your new home and we'll all miss you," Helena said.
"Yeah, make some new friend, especially girls and give me their number, but don't forget the old ones OK?" the one and only Quinn said to me. I smiled anyway, how could I forget my second family? Considering one of them was my boyfriend. After a few minutes of talking and saying goodbye Helena dragged off her oldest sons and Sol leaving me and Nicholas alone for a while. Before I knew it I was in his arms and he was squeezing me tightly. I let a tear fall as we said goodbye and had one last kiss for at least another few years.
When we left early Saturday morning I saw the Drakes were still up, as dawn hadn't arrived yet, and they were all gathered nearby to wave as we left Violet Hill.
Little did I know it was the last time I'd ever be in Violet Hill or that I'd never see my daughters 16th birthday...
OK the ending is a little rubbish but then again i was writing this chapter over one whole night! That's what do when I can't sleep and now I'm hungry so I'm going to go get some breakfast!
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