I'd just gotten up. I sat on the bed and just stared at him sleeping so peacefully. He looked so beautiful. I couldn't even imagine that it had already been twelve years since Lissa became Queen. Time sure flies when you're having fun. I wouldn't say that I'd been having "fun" all these years but yeah, it had been a great time. I decided to go check on Lily so I tried to get out of the bed as slowly as possible so that Dimitri wouldn't wake up. I quickly put on my robe and went to the next room to see Lily. She was asleep and looked as beautiful as a seven year-old could ever look. Our beautiful daughter. I'd never even thought I'd be able to have kids with Dimitri. Dhampirs couldn't reproduce with each other. They could only with the Moroi. But since Dimitri and I, both of us are Dhampirs, I'd never thought I'd have children. That was until a dhampir couple figured out a loophole nine years ago. They had found out that if the male and female genes were combined outside the bodies and a hint of spirit was added to it and placed inside a womb, even dhampirs could have babies. So seven years ago Dimitri and I decided to have a baby. Lissa and Christian had their first daughter Sarah just three months before Lily was born. They had their first son Jared four years ago. I am willing to bet that Dimitri was the happiest when everyone got to know that dhampirs could reproduce with each other. We had been married 7 months then. I still remember the joy in his face when he told me about it. Looking at Lily now, I realized that it had been one of my best decisions to agree to have a baby with him. Initially I'd been afraid that since we're both guardians we wouldn't have the time or the patience to have a baby but Dimitri convinced me and everything went perfectly. I sat at side of Lily's bed so I could look at her. She looked so beautiful and peaceful. I smoothed her dark hair out of her forehead. She was hugging the humongous teddy she called "Coco" that Abe had given her on her seventh birthday. She had been extremely happy when he gave it to her and she called him the "best grand-daddy in the entire world" over and over again. I got up and went to our bedroom to find Dimitri awake but still in bed.
"I was wondering where you were," he said, as I got into the bed with him.
"Just went to check on Lily," I answered.
"Is she awake?"
"Nope, not yet."
"Oh good," he said, bringing his mouth to mine and kissing me fiercely. Oh. All these years and he didn't cease to amaze me.
Just when I realized that Dimitri and I were both extremely turned on, a really loud bell rang in the entire court. We stopped kissing and were alert at once. This bell rang only when the guardians were needed. The duration of the ringing of the bell indicated the seriousness of the situation. This bell rang for 1 whole minute. Dimitri and I looked each other in the eye.
There was an emergency.