I don't own any of these characters they all belong to richelle mead ;)
Rose and Dimitri after shadow kissed but Dimitri didn't turn strigoi. He and rose became open about there relationship and although it was hard at first everyone soon came around, Rose has graduated and is ready to spend her life guarding Lissa, but what will happen when rose gets life changing news, she's pregnant. Will she still be accepted? Will she keep the baby? How will Dimitri react?
Rose POV:
As I was leaning against the bench in my tiny bathroom doing nothing in particular but staring at a wall and waiting to see if I ruined my life or I'm just being overdramatic – which could happen, I'm rose Hathaway- as I looked at one particular tile and imagined running into it head first I heard a knock at my door. I went to open it already knowing who it was, it was Lissa she was here to help me celebrate my graduation, thing is I wasn't in the mood to celebrate right now.
"Rose, rose, rose, rose, rose!" she screamed in the utter most happiness and then more happiness and excitement washed over me from the bond. "You did it!" and then came the tears. It took a while for her to calm down so as she went into the bathroom to clean up I said hi to her followers. The usual Christian Ozera, Eddie Castile and Adrian Ivashkov, they all had their own lines Eddie was happy that we finally finished school and don't have to be around these teachers again, Christian was his usual self and told me that I just because I was going to be Lissa's guardian doesn't mean he will stop teasing me and Adrian just said good job but of course he added his own little line in at the end which I will never want to remember again and try very hard to push our of my memory. The "party" didn't last long but it was only because curfew came and Lissa didn't want to get caught, she said sorry through the bond and they left me in my room all alone with nothing but my thoughts and speaking of thoughts I quickly remembered why I hadn't enjoyed that party as much as I should have. Running into the bathroom I got the test out from where I hid it and looked and the little plus sign in the middle. This could not be happening, I was pregnant. At first I didn't know how I was pregnant, I mean I knew how but I was a dhampir and the only guy I had ever done IT with was also a dhampir which made it impossible, then I thought about the fact that it might be because I was shadow kissed. Then I thought about Dimitri, how he would take the news and all that other stuff that just couldn't compute in my mind right now. I knew I couldn't stay in this room any longer so I snuck out my window and went for a walk. The air was nice and warm on my skin and so was the breeze it was fresh and oddly smelled of aftershave, an aftershave I knew all too well.
"Rose, what are you doing out here?" I turned around slowly facing my one and only godlike very hot mentor boyfriend with the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen, eyes that were now staring at me with a very amused look in them. Part of me wanted to run up to him and let him hold me and say that I was sorry and just start crying, but the other part of me ( the rose part of me) stayed put and just smiled.
"What's up Comrade, I was just taking a little stroll at the hell hole that practically raised me, oh how I am so not going to miss this place, and I couldn't sleep." I added seeing as how it was the truth and I only say the truth.
"There isn't any happy memories of this place?" he asked me, of course there were all the training sessions I had with him, the cabin – our cabin – finally graduation and surprisingly all the times I got kicked out of stans class and sent to Kirova.
"Well I will miss Stan and his lectures and of course Miss Kirov and her lectures, oh and my dorm room I will miss the dank boringness plain walls of my room." Adding a little more sarcasm to the end bit about my room, remembering why I was walking round in the first place and then I suddenly felt really guilty. The father of my child was right there in front of me and I was acting like nothing was wrong, surely he would want to know right? Could I even say the words out loud?
"Rose, is something wrong?" he said suddenly sounding concerned as he grabbed my hands to pull me closer to him. We had just sorted everything out, when I get out of this school I would be Lissa guardian and he would be working at court assigned to someone as well, everyone approved I didn't want to add this bombshell. It would ruin everything, wouldn't it? I mean after I had the baby I could always go back to being Lissa's Guardian, but I wasn't going to let my chid be raised my an academy like I was. I didn't realize I was crying in Dimitri's arms until my breathing became uneven. "Rose, what's going on?"
"I m so sorry, I don't know what to do, I can leave you don't have to see me again." I looked up at him only to see pain in his eyes from the words I just said.
"What's going on?" he said for the second time
"I'm- I'm pregnant." I said and I watched his reaction, shock, confusion and then strangely love. He asked how it was possible and I explain my theory and all my worries.
"Rose, you need to relax. Lissa will understand actually I'm pretty sure she will be happy. And um why would you think I would want you to leave me?" he sounded a little angry when he said that part about leaving.
"Well, I just. I have no idea what I'm thinking, I knew it would be a shock and I'm scared and it just came out okay." I said he surprised me by laughing. I knew he was going into shock, what am I going to do.
"You thought I wouldn't want to be a father? Rose that's insane, I've always wanted a child with someone I love. A little fantasy of mine, it's just that when I became a guardian I didn't think it would happen unless I was with a moroi. Then I met you and I was seriously considering adoption somewhere in my future. Rose this is literally a miracle, a child that belongs to you and I. plus I would never want you to leave me." He said and then he kissed me, it wasn't one of our usual kisses filled with passion and always needing more at the end. It was soft and sweet and when it finished I felt the odd sense of completion. We talked a little more, just about graduation and Lissa and things like that, not once touching on the subject of children, although I felt a little better about it I just wanted it to be like old times. I got really tired after a while and went back to my room after of course I kissed Dimitri.
"Thank you. I didn't think you would react this way." I knew of course that I would have to tell Lissa, I would do it tomorrow, but right now it was time to sleep. As soon as I hit my pillow I fell asleep, no Adrian invading my dreams. Just sleep but then I woke up and thought of something.
Dimitri POV:
As I walked into the guardian dorm after my shift I heard a few people talking. They were the guardians that were taking the next shift up and ready to protect.
"Hey Belikov, How was the shift?" asked Stan Alto, who was just about to take over my shift. I looked at him and thought about what I was going to say. I couldn't tell him the whole thing but I could tell him what he wanted to know.
"Quiet, no novices lurking around thinking they can take on a guardian and get away with it. Like you thought they would Stan." I said with a slight smirk on my face.
"That's because they are all terrified of you. Well all except one novice who would take you on and at some stage probably beat you." Ah my Roza, the one woman who could see through me and the only woman I could ever love.
"Ha, okay Stan whatever you say, although I am pretty sure that they are all asleep or they will be planning something for tomorrow, right now I am not going to think about that though. I am going to sleep so I can be up in the morning." I wasn't going to think about anything but my Roza and My unborn child.
"Are you still training Rose, The years out man, classes are finished." Who said I was going to training with Rose, well I was going to see Rose in the gym but I wasn't going to train. Or maybe I was.
"For old times sake. It was Rose's idea, she wants to see if she can finally win." It was the truth after the graduating ceremony she told me that we were going to train tomorrow and that I better not disagree with her otherwise she would through a tantrum – like that was going to happen – but I said yes anyway. She was so happy and cheerful this morning and afternoon compared to when I just saw her about five minuets ago in complete tears. Stan wished me luck and went off to take his shift. As I walked off and into my room I looked at my little shelf for a moment, pulling out a family album that my mother gave me when I left home, she sends me photos every now and again begging me to put them in the album. There are photos of my sisters and their new children, my little sister with her friends, my grandmother smiling one of her rare smiles and secretly telling me with her eyes to come home and of course my mother, smiling in every photo I have of her wether it is in the kitchen or in the garden, she will always smile. I missed my family and I knew I had to write to my mother soon telling her that I miss her and that I am moving to the royal court and that Rose is still my only true love and that I am going to be a father. I wonder how she would react to that. Maybe she would send a photo so I could see her face. I looked at the album a little while longer until I got to the photo I wanted to see, a photo of Rose and me two days before her graduation at one of our training sessions. I remember when Princess Lissa took this photo, she came in the gym with Mr Ozera right behind and practically yelled at rose and I to stand still and smile. She gave me a copy just yesterday and it was a memory I would always have with me. I went to bed after that and fell into a sleep but it was soon interrupted by dreams, and one dream I particularly didn't want to have.
"Hey Guardian Belikov! What's happening?" asked Lord Adrian Ivashsnob, I mean Ivashkov.
"What do you want?" he had never been in one of my dreams before and I felt very nervous thinking that somehow he could access my memories and all that.
"I want to speak to you about Rose. I know she's pregnant, I saw it in her aura."
"Why are you telling me this huh? I already know, and I'm happy actually more than happy, there are no words that can describe how happy I am." I was slowly getting very mad right now, it was ruining my good mood.
"Calm down, I jut wanted to say that I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For not realizing that she is really in love with you." this did not sound like him, I wonder what he is up to. "But Dimitri, if you hurt her and then you leave her, I will be there for her and even if she doesn't want be to be with her with her I will help her with the baby." Oh I see now, he wanted to apologize for not giving up a while ago but he is still not going to give up?
"Again with the question why are you telling me this?" I said, I didn't want to dream about Adrian Ivashkov, I wanted to dream about my family with my mother, my sisters, my nieces and nephews, my child and rose.
"You seem like a good guy okay, I know you wont hurt rose and I have a proposition for you." I just stood there quietly waiting for him to get to the point so I could get back to my own dreams, how did rose put up with it? "Rose will be going to the Royal court with Lissa and since you aren't going to be her guardian but you will be at the court anyway. Considering I live at the courts and need a guardian I was wondering if you would like to be my guardian. I mean I've already got three but if I push I can get four and I wouldn't even really need you a lot of the time so you could be with rose so much more." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Coming from him, it was a good offer though.
"Why are you doing this Adrian?" I asked he didn't look shocked that I asked the question so he must have been expecting this.
"Like I said, you seem like a nice guy and I'm not going to pretend your not an amazing guardian because you are, with the free time you can help rose with the baby and when she gets to pregnant to walk and well guard I can lend you to Liss, because I know that, that is as rose would want, you can help with the baby and look I want rose to be happy and stress free, you are what makes her happy and she doesn't have to worry about you getting a job if you're my guardian so what's your answer?" I had to think carefully, he had really thought about this and for that I was grateful.
"I will accept your offer, thank you."
"Good because it's already sorted. Don't know what I would have done if you said no." and like that the Adrian I knew was back, but before I could say anything else his dream faded and I was back in my own dreams.
Lissa POV
Oh my god! Rose was pregnant, with Dmitri's child; I'm going to be an aunt. I was so- o –o- o happy for her. I couldn't believe it, it was a miracle. I wonder how Christian feels about this; I wonder how rose feels about this. I'm going to be an aunt this kid is going to be so cute and a major badass Ahh! I'm going to be an aunt.
"Rose this is amazing news! Isn't it amazing Christian?" I glanced over at him; he had massive shock in his eyes. "Christian! Don't stare its rude!" I said he suddenly looked at me and smiled.
"Rose it is great news. How do you feel about it though?" oh my, why didn't I ask that to her, why did he ask that to her?
"I'm more excited than I was. Dimitri is okay with it as well, actually he sounded more than okay and I'm glad you not upset." She said to me, okay so when she came to my room during the middle of the night and told me she needed to speak to me I might have thought she was dying, so as Christian was getting ready to leave she said it had something to do with Dimitri and her and then he stayed probably hoping to get a chance to make fun of her and then she says I'm pregnant and he just shuts up.
"Why would I be upset, of course I'm happy for you and when it's time for you to take some time off I will just organise for another guardian to step in DUH. Rose shouldn't you be sleeping?"
"Well I was, then I woke up and thought about talking to you and I got nervous so I needed to get it off my chest and now I need to sleep." She said with slight smile on her face. I ordered her to get out of my room and sleep; I knew she had some training thing tomorrow morning. She better be careful of my niece or nephew. As she left I went back to my bed and looked at Christian, he still looked shocked.
"What is wrong with you?" I said, half laughing.
"I don't think I could ever be a parent at my age. I'm thinking more birth control." I laughed at this, he was so funny when he wanted to be and most of the time he wanted to be. After he left I went to sleep knowing that I didn't have to get up until about lunch time the next day.
Rose POV
When I woke up the next morning I was quickly got ready and ran down stairs, no one was in the hall because only insane people would get up this early when we didn't really need to. I was going to training, it was going to be my last training session with Dimitri and I wanted to make the most of and kick his ass for the first time, not counting when we did our field experience and all the guardians had to be strigoi. I walked to the gym and saw him sitting on the mats reading a western novel I only saw his back for a good reason I went through the back door so I could sneak up to him.
"Do you think that I could pry you away from your book Mr Belikov for just a moment." I said and I was right, I scared him, he jumped.
"Rose, you finally learnt how to scare me." He said putting down his book and coming over to me, not sure if he was just going to start fighting me or kiss me so I was ready for both, slightly on guard and ready for anything. "I'm not going to fight you today."
"Why not? You said you would." I was sounding a little like a kid and feeling a little hurt, why didn't he want to fight me, but then I noticed his eyes looking down and finally caught on. "Oh, I get it now." He laughed and pulled me into him and kissed me.
"I need to tell you something." I waited a trait I learned from him. "I took a job at the court. With Adrian Ivashkov." This was a joke right? Oh but it wasn't you can tell when Dimitri is kidding because he rarely does it, he was telling the truth.
"Adrian Ivashkov, doesn't he already have guardians."
"Rose I don't really get it, actually I do get it and it is actually kind of nice, his intentions I mean. All in all he wants you happy, he said that when you get further along that he can "lend" me to Lissa as her guardian because he knows that, that's what you would want according to him." He knows I'm pregnant, how did he know that, I didn't tell him. Maybe it had something to do with my aura. I'm so confused.
"Wow, okay so when did he ask you this because I highly doubt that he would have gotten up this early. Did he go into your dream." He nodded with a slightly amused expression.
"I don't know how you put up with it. I also need to ask you something." I waited again, I was to tired to say anything sarcastic or make it sound like I cared what Adrian did, I mean I did care it was really nice. "Do you want to keep the baby Rose? I mean don't get me wrong I do want a child especially with you, but I just have a feeling that you haven't actually considered your own feelings in this." I was surprised to hear that, the truth was I had thought of it but only for a second I wanted this child and that's exactly what I said to Dimitri.
"I was jut worried what you would think comrade." I was suddenly overwhelmed with thoughts of Dimitri as a father, reading his western novels and teaching them Russian. I was suddenly looking forward to this.
Chapter 2:
I don't own any of these characters they belong to Richelle Mead ;D
5 months later
Rose POV
Okay so in five months I had moved to the royal court, become a guardian, found out I was pregnant and having fun. No morning sickness, no nothing and Dimitri is always home when I finish work. Not that there is much work for me being at court is pretty easy with guardians, the only real time Lissa needs me is if she is going to a party or leaving the premises which is hardly ever so I don't do much but train. These 5 months have gone by so quickly I go to all my checkups to see if the baby is healthy and I am just starting to show, which means Lissa and Dimitri are getting slightly more worried about everything because in about four months I will have a little baby in my arms. I even told my mother that I was pregnant. She was angry at first but then she got excited, she probably thought that she could make amends with her grand child from her bad parenting towards me. I went to my 6 month check up today without Dimitri because I was finding out the gender today and I wanted to surprise him so I ordered Adrian to make him work today so I went with Lissa because she wanted to know what colour clothes and toys and every other baby thing she could get her hands on. The doctor put the cold gel thingy on my stomach and the monitor revealed the little alien bean inside me.
"Well Miss Hathaway you have a very, very healthy baby girl." She said, Lissa squealed with delight and I was on the verge of tears, but because Rose Hathaway doest cry I held it in. a baby girl. As we were going home Lissa kept chanting it's a girl around all the other guardians one of which was Eddie who was just as excited as Liss was.
"Liss, I think we get the baby is a girl now, and considering we are getting close to court would you mind calming down a bit." I actually wanted to surprise Dimitri. Lissa was slowly calming down, until she started talking about shopping and the nursery for the baby. As soon as we got her into her apartment she ran to Christian and just got even more excited, I decided to go home and wait until Dimitri got home.
Dimitri POV
"Hey, I heard Rose is going to the doc today. Girl or boy?" Adrian said, we were walking into a bar, the fifth bar since one thirty, I don't even know why he needed me today, he was in court and it was my day off.
"Not sure." I said slightly distracted, it wasn't my fault I didn't know how Rose was getting to the doctor or who she was going with, if she was going with someone.
"Come on, I'm guessing boy, lets make a bet I will bet you ten dollars that, that baby is a he." Oh my god, did this man have any idea what a stupid bet this was.
"Fine, Ten dollars and I am obviously betting girl." He nodded in agreement and we shook hands, I was excited about the baby's gender but it's not like I wanted profit from it. Adrian looked at is watch for about the seventh time since we walked into this bar and finally smiled.
"Rose and Lissa should be home now, you can go, and I was only meant to keep you from actually going to the doctor with rose because she wanted to surprise you."
"She went with the princess? So Rose set me up?" he nodded and laughed and actually ordered me to leave.
"The sooner you find out the sooner I can get ten bucks." He said I laughed and slapped him in the back; I was actually becoming good friends with Adrian. I walked slowly back to the apartment and for the first time in a while I thought about my mothers reaction when I wrote to her. I still remember the letter.
Dear Dimka,
A baby, that is Amazing news you deserve this happiness, I need to meet this Rose and believe me Dimka I will meet her, is she as beautiful as her picture? I bet she is more gorgeous than even a picture. You look so happy with her and I can't wait for photos of this baby. It is truly a miracle. I love you so much and give my love to Roza as well.
From all the family Love mum.
I knew that mum would find a way to meet rose wether I took her to Russia or my mum came here, either way she would know my Roza. I walked through the door and was greeted by Rose jumping up to me. I kissed her sweetly and then she jumped down.
"It's a… wait what did you do with Adrian today?" she asked, what was she doing? I wanted to know.
"Nothing but go to bars, I didn't know that there were so many in one place." I said starting to feel nervous.
"Well it's Adrian; he probably got people to actually put in the bars for him."
"Rose! Can you please tell me?" My voice sounding a little like I was begging. Which I would do if I had to.
"Tell you what." She said with a smirk on her face. "Oh, you don't mean that I tell you if our baby is a girl or a boy do you? Because I wont tell you." why not! I loved the way she said our baby. "Oh, don't look so scared, go into the second bedroom." We had three bedrooms in this apartment and I knew exactly which room she meant. I walked into the bedroom and saw that there was a big poster on the wall saying "it's a girl". A girl a baby girl. I turned around and saw rose smiling at me. I hugged and kissed her and just held her.
"Surprised?" she asked
"Yes, I also get ten dollars." Suddenly remembering Adrian's bet. Rose looked at me strangely but didn't ask me any questions. A girl wow!
Rose POV:
Well everyone seemed happy about the baby, Lissa was off buying clothes anytime she could and Dimitri was happy in his own way – not all touching my stomach and going hello baby because that would just be weird – when he got the chance he would hug me, kiss me on the cheek or the lips or just say that he loved me. Even Adrian was happy and me, well I had to think of baby names and every time I went shopping with Liss I had to beg her not to buy pink, my child would not be dressed in pink fairy dresses everyday of her life she would be badass like her parents. I was getting more nervous as the weeks went by, and getting more emotional as well every now and then I would yell at Dimitri like last night I was screaming because he didn't make enough cookies. I couldn't believe I had yelled like that over cookies.
Flash back-
"Dimitri are there anymore cookies left?" I asked after that dinner you would think I was full but no I wanted more cookies.
"Nope, you ate them all." I did not. He's hiding them from me
"NO, I didn't! there were ten cookies, I didn't eat them all, your lying to me!"
"Why would I do that Rose. I value my life."
"I want more COOKIES!" I yelled a bit more and then started crying. "All I want are some cookies, is that too much to ask." I said in between sobs, Dimitri held me and rubbed my back until I had clamed down a bit.
"I can buy you some cookies from the shop, if you want." He said, I really wanted cookies but I wanted them warm and hand made by Dimka.
"No, that will take to long. Do we have chocolate?" Thank god we did other wise I didn't know what I would have done.
End flash back-
I had one week left and I could barley walk a big distance without getting tired, so usually people came to visit me. I couldn't wait until I could get back to training and guarding. I couldn't wait to see how I would turn out as a mother, me Rose Hathaway. I still didn't have any names, I mean I was throwing a few around but I wasn't completely sure, for some reason the only name that has stuck in my head is Ingrid. It is pretty but I just want to know where it came from, I have never in my life met someone named Ingrid.