A LITTLE RAIN BEFORE THE RAINBOW
A Shiver Fanfiction by sm912e
CHAPTER ONE
Sam
I woke up, naked under the heavy bed sheets. Everything smelled like summer. I could tell it was already morning but the heavy curtains made the room still dark. At first I didn't remember where I was and missed the absence of my paper cranes above my head. Then I turned around and found Grace sleeping soundly next to me, her pale body only covered with the thick covers. I saw her chest heaving slowly as she breathed - I suddenly felt calm, no matter where we were, as long as Grace was here, I am happy.
I sighed. I finally remembered everything that happened last night - our hectic wedding in the middle of summer; my own parents coming to the wedding as Grace's surprise; Grace's partly-unapproving father walking beautiful Grace on the aisle; how Grace's eyes shone when she said "I do"; our first night together as a married couple in our honeymoon location in the middle of nowhere.
I drifted back to sleep, matching my breath with Grace's. Grace Roth. My new wife.
Grace
My stomach felt funny. I opened my eyes and suddenly felt the urge to vomit. I quickly got out of bed, grabbed the closest clothes I could find, and rushed to the bathroom.
After releasing the entire toxin inside my body outside, I felt better. As I stood up to clean my mouth I came face to face with Sam. He was still half asleep, his hair was messy but his eyes were wide awake, looking at my condition.
He didn't need to ask me but I know that he was very concerned.
"I don't know, probably just the terrible dinner we ate last night," I shrugged. We had spent, like, almost a week all alone in the middle of nowhere, just the two of us, having our wonderful honeymoon. Every night was wonderful, but this morning I felt terrible. My body felt fine, really, but I couldn't bear to look at Sam's sad eyes.
"I'm fine, Sam, stop worrying," I said calmly and we walked outside.
The next day, I vomited again. I felt terrible. My stomach didn't feel right. It was a different kind of sick compared to the one I had before I turned into a wolf; this nausea only lasts a while but felt just not right. Like there is something inside my stomach I couldn't get out.
Sam was really disturbed. He thought the vomiting was one of the signs that the wolf inside me was going to change again. But that was impossible - I have spent 5 years as human and it was summer!
There must be something else.
"Grace, this is definitely not necessary," Sam's face was still scrunched up as he drove me to the hospital. It was quite cold and he turned the heater up, probably out of habit.
"Yes, it is. I have a hunch and my hunches are usually right," I said.
He sighed. "Please stop keeping secrets from me."
"I'm not keeping secrets from you! That's why we're going to the hospital now, just to make sure if my hunch is right."
"But you won't tell me what your hunch is!"
"I'll tell you when we're done with the appointment."
In an hour, we were already inside the hospital room, staring at Dr McLean as he explained Sam and I the truth. His hunch was the same as mine, though I didn't say it to Sam. I took a pregnancy test.
"Mr. Roth," the doctor said slowly, "Congratulations, your wife is pregnant!"
For a moment Sam just stared at him. Then he stared at his hands, lying on his lap. I sat quietly next to him, trying to hide my smile. Instead I looked at Sam's currently unreadable expressions.
He looked at me. I couldn't contain my happiness and smiled at him. He didn't smile back. Instead, he stood up, opened the door, and walked out. I raised my eyes, shocked.
Fine, then. I would deal with him later.
"Sorry for that, doctor," I said hurriedly, trying (again) to hide my mixed emotions. "So, what do I need to do now?"
Sam
I walked out of the hospital building, still dazed. I knew Grace wasn't following me, and I didn't care. I didn't care about her startled face as I walked away. I went inside my car and closed my eyes. I didn't know what to do.
She's pregnant?
After only three weeks of marriage, she's already pregnant? I didn't even bother to understand all of it. The only thing that passed through my mind was, we're going to have a baby. We're going to have a baby. We are going. To have. A baby. A baby. A child. Our child. My child.
Then something else caught my mind. Will it turn?
I opened my eyes. Grace was standing next to the door, looking weird. I couldn't tell her expression. Was it concern? Sadness? She went inside next to me and closed her eyes too. For a moment we both sat there in silence. I can still smell the hospital smell on her.
"Sam," she finally spoke up, breaking the silence. "Say something."
I said, still closing my eyes. "What do you want me to say?"
"That everything's gonna be all right and we will actually be a real, normal family?"
I looked into her eyes earnestly and answered, "What if everything's not gonna be all right? What if everything becomes wrong? This is risking your life, Grace!" I almost shouted. I softened up and touched her cheek. "I don't want to lose you again."
A tear slid down her cheek and into my fingers. "But have you ever thought about... this?" she gestured her belly. "Us having... a child, even two? Living happily as father and mother?"
"Of course I have," I said. Honestly, that's the only thing that haunted my dreams of the future, of course excluding the other fact that we had been werewolves once and might be again. "But is it worth risking your life? Would you let me live with the sick guilty feeling if... if something bad happens to you just for... that?" I gestured her belly too.
"Fine, then." Grace turned towards the front, ignoring me. "Go on, start the car."
I obliged her. I wasn't sure if the conversation was over or not. I glanced at her a couple of times as we went back home - as in, our small house in Officer Koenig's peninsula. I wondered how Cole would react. He probably had known all along, him being such a genius and all. I should've known all along as well. I just didn't want to face the whole truth.
Note: Hey guys! Thank you so much for reading. I know it may not be spectacular (I have no experience whatsoever and have no wide knowledge about pregnancy or marriage or even romance), but I just love the couple, I love the series, and I hope you all enjoy it. More coming up, but before that please add some feedback – it's easy! Thank you so much readers (:
-sm912e