Valeriya

Summary: Set after Shadow kissed but Dimitri does not get turned in the their night in the cabin Dimitri mysteriously leaves St. Vlads and Rose. Not knowing where Dimitri has gone or why Rose tries to deal with her feelings while fighting off the darkness caused by spirit as well as care for her newborn daughter. When Dimitri returns can Rose find it in herself to forgive him or will the two raise their daughter together?

Rated M just to be safe.

Warning: Chapter involves birth

Prologue

It hurt. I had never felt pain like this before, not even when I had been kicked in the gut during class trainings.

I cried out again as another contraction hit me faster and harder then the one before it.

I still couldn't believe that I, Rose Hathaway, was in the middle of giving birth. That was one thing I had never dreamed I'd do. Sure I'm sure I'd have had sex at some point in my life but actually having a baby? No way, for Dhampirs this was something very complicated. I was going to be a guardian and that meant I would have little time for a child and so I had decided long ago not to go down that path but unfortunately fate decided to fuck with me a little and some how I had conceived a baby with my mentor and fellow Dhampir, Dimitri Belikov.

I really had to stop doing things that weren't suppose to be possible.

"OH GOD GET THIS LITTLE MONSTER OUT OF ME!" I screamed as another contraction hit.

"It's alright Rose, you're doing so well." My mother soothed as I squeezed her hand in a vice grip

"I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!" I screamed again and Lissa, my best friend, lovingly wiped the sweat off my face with a damp cloth. "I JUST WANT THIS THING OUT OF ME!"

"Okay Rose," Dr. Olendski, said as I continued to breath "One more push and you'll get to hold your baby."

I closed my eyes and put my arms around my knees that were up against my chest and my mom and Lissa whispered encouragements at my side. My friends, Alberta, and Abe, my father, were waiting patiently outside in the hall.

Where was Dimitri you might ask? Not a clue. A few days after our baby had been conceived he had left, Alberta had said that he had been sent on a classified mission by the Queen and there was no way to know when or if he'd be back.

It pissed me off that he had just left without saying a word to me, not to mention his phone had been cut off so he had no clue that at this moment he was about to become a father… or that I really wanted to castrate him right now. I was never having sex again.

"Okay Rose push hard NOW!" Olendski demanded and I rose up and bore down as I forced the small being from my body. It hurt, it burned even and I realized that being a woman sucked.

Suddenly I felt this wonderful sensation of relief as the baby slip out of me and into the doc's waiting arms.

Gratefully I collapsed back down on the bed and just tried to breath. The room was silent for a few minutes as Olendski carefully wiped the baby's face and then a loud cry shattered the quiet stillness and I smiled.

I had my baby.

I looked up as mom smiled with tears in her eyes and Lissa looked like she was bout faint from excitement. She looked at me with a sparkle in her jade green eyes and she whispered to me three little words that made me grin wider.

"It's a girl!"

I laughed weakly. I was so tired but I wanted to see my baby.

I looked over to mom as she tearfully spoke.

"I have a granddaughter."

Olendski then brought my baby to me and I smiled.

"Lets say hello to mommy." She said to the still crying infant and as gently as possible she handed me my baby and I cried.

"I can't believe she's real." I sobbed as I opened the blanket. The baby had been wiped down but was still covered in fluids and birth goo but to me she was beautiful. She had a head full of dark curls and a little button nose and all ten toes and fingers. She was perfect.

"Hi," I whispered. "I'm your mom." She stopped crying and opened her bleary brown eyes and I felt my heart break. She had Dimitri's eyes.

"What are you going to name her Rose?" Mom asked.

"Valeriya." I said. "Her name is Valeriya."

A/N: So what did you guys think? I've being reading a lot of Vampire Academy fanfiction lately as well as rereading the novels and I felt inspired. One thing I always want to see in a VA fanfiction is Dimitri and Rose's interaction with a small baby so that is what this started out as. We'll see where it goes from here.

Please review and let me know what you all think. I do not own Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead owns Vampire Academy, and I make no profit from this work of fiction.

Thank you

InukoHigurashi

Valeriya- Russian form of Valerie; to be healthy, strong. Russian Nicknames are Val (American), Lera, Lerunya, Lerusya, Lerukha, Lerusha, and Leka.

Baby's full name is Valeriya Dimitrievna Belikov.