AN~ I don't own Vampire Academy, the lovely Richelle Mead does.
It has been three days since the wonderful surprise I got. I'm finally allowed to go home today. Truthfully they wanted me for another night but I refused. They wanted me there because I had died while giving birth. God, I die a lot. But thankfully I always come back. While I was in the hospital Dimitri got the basic stuff, diapers and wipes, bottles, some onesies, two more little blankets, a car seat, and a small cot. Lisa promised we'd go out and buy a whole bunch of stuff for Nickolas this weekend.
"Roza, I love you." Dimitri kisses my cheek as he helps me into the passenger seat. He was determined I needed help. I will let him believe this for now. I'd let him be the man and help me. Once my door was closed he snapped Nickolas's car seat into the port. Then he walks over to the driver seat. He looks down at me with a goofy smile on his lips.
"What?" I ask curiously.
"I'm so lucky." He simply says starting the car up. "Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that I would have been blessed to have such a wonderful woman in my life let alone having a child with her." My eyes well up and a tear escapes my eyes. I grab his hand and kiss it.
"I love you," I say. His thumb wipes away one of the stray tears. That was the sweetest thing he's ever said to me.
"Oh, and on another note, you're parents are coming over and taking the three of us out." Dimitri says looking forward as he drives. A whimper escapes from Nickolas.
"I'm with him," I say looking out the front window. "Do we have to go?"
"Well, this time I think it might be on a happier tone. You're parents love Nickolas. Plus Abe hasn't cornered me yet threatening to break my kneecaps because I'd gotten you pregnant while you were still my student." Dimitri says positively.
"No, he's waiting to do that tonight." I say quietly. His hand tightens around mine. "I was only kidding."I look up at Dimitri. His features relax a little bit.
Once we're back at the apartment building he got Nickolas out and said he would carry him up to the apartment. I frown but just nod. I open the doors and press the elevator buttons. I look over at Dimitri. He was carrying Nickolas in the carrier with one hand while the diaper bag hung on his other arm. I smile at the sight. I open the door to our apartment. It was the same as I left it. The only difference was in our room was Nickolas's cot. I take Nickolas and sit down on the couch. I take him out of his carrier.
"Hey cutie," I coo as I get him comfortable in one arm making sure his neck was supported. I rub his cheek with one of my fingers. He grabs it with his tiny hand. Dimitri sits down next to me. I lean into him as he wraps one of his arms around the back of me.
"We make cute babies Roza," He kisses Nickolas's forehead.
"We do," I agree. "Do you know where we're going tonight?" I ask him.
"The cafe on the out skirts of town." He answers kissing my cheek. A whimper escapes Nickolas's lips. I look down to him. He was starting to squirm and cry.
"You hungry?" I ask hoping he would learn to talk and answer me. But I knew that wouldn't happen. I pull my shirt up and undo my bra, it was one that snapped in the front. It felt even more weird to feed Nickolas when Dimitri was in the room. Especially when Nickolas was being stubborn and I had to tease him with it before he latched on.
"Hm, so that's what those are really for, see I was using them right." Dimitri teases me. My face instantly turns bright red. "Only difference was I didn't get anything out of them. Well, not food at least." He kisses my cheeks, which I was sure were hot enough to burn his cheeks.
"Dimitri," I say his name and look down at Nickolas, he was happily eating now. He was watching up at us. He was probably thinking 'what the hell? How'd I get the weird parents?'. With my free hand I push his dark hair out of his face. His hair has grown a lot since he was born. His hair now covered most of his head and got darker so now it was just a perfect match to Dimitri's.
"Roza, my pretty little red flower." He teases. I glance up at him and shake my head. He laughs at my response.
"Shh," I whisper softly as Nickolas's eye lids start to droop, his little hand forms a fist. He falls a sleep but he keeps eating. I slowly take him off me and burp him. Once he burps I hand him to Dimitri. I redo my bra and pull my shirt down.
"I'll be right back," I say stepping up and walking to the kitchen. I open the fridge to grab a bottle of water. Then I went back to the living room. Nickolas was tiny in Dimitri's arms. I loved this, how sweet Dimitri was with our baby. Our baby, God, that's something I would never have guessed I'd ever get to say, nor did I ever know how much those two words could mean to me. I sit down next to Dimitri, I lean up and kiss his cheek.
"You're such a good man." I say up to him. He smiles.
"I'm going to put him in his cot then I'll be right back." He says standing up very slowly making sure not to wake Nickolas up. While he was doing that I took a drink of water. He walks back in and sits down next to me. I look up at him. With out warning he presses his lips against mine. Just as soon as it came it was gone.
"I love you, Roza," He says in his thick Russian accent, as he pulls me onto his lap.
"I love you too, Dimitri," I kiss him on his cheek. He hugs me to him.
"I'm glad I was there with you," he says kissing my palm.
"Me too," I say. "I don't know what I'd do if I had him and didn't have you around." I lean up and kiss his lips.
"Gone crazy," Dimitri offers when I sit back down. I shrug.
"Probably," I agree with him. "Nah, I would just have to play the mommy and daddy part. I would be a much better mother than my own mother had been." He runs his hand through my hair.
"I'm glad you don't have to," He kisses my forehead. "And you know that she did the best she could. She just isn't the motherly type."
"I know but would it had hurt her to visit me more than just once a year?" I ask. Thinking about mothers and family a thought passes through the front of my mind. I look up at him, "Have you told your family you're back?" He frowns.
"No, I haven't." He says.
"We should go visit them while I'm on leave. They were nice last time. Your sisters liked me, your mother liked me." I bite my bottom lip. "Yeve liked me enough." He laughs and kisses my forehead again.
"It's hard to get her to like anyone." He says. Then the fight comes back to me.
"Viktoria probably still hates me though," I muse to myself looking down at my knees.
"What happened?" He asks worriedly. I look back up at Dimitri.
"While I was staying with your family, I-I did something to her. At that point I felt the need to protect her like you would have wanted to. So Abe and I had made a deal, this was way back when I didn't know who my father was. He got this guy to leave her alone. She believed the mori guy loved her, when truthfully he was scum that just wanted sex. So Abe promised me that the guy would leave Viktoria alone as long as I left Baia. I agreed. But it basically backfired in my face." I sigh, "She yelled at me repeatedly saying I wasn't her friend, that she hated and worse that I didn't know what true love was." I laugh at this harshly. "Everything I did was because I love you. I went there to keep our promise and it killed me that I thought I would have to kill you." I didn't know it until Dimitri wipes a tear away that I had started to cry.
"Roza," he tilts my head up and kisses my eyes then my mouth. It was a sweet 'I love you' kisses. When he leans back I could see hurt in his eyes, I knew exactly what he was thinking. The memories of when he was a storigoi and he held me captive.
"Dimitri," I say, it was my turn to give him a small 'I love you' kiss. My hand on his cheek I kept this kiss going longer. When I finally do let go I fall back onto his lap gasping for air. When I look up he was smiling down at me with that goofy smile. Our moment was over when a loud wailing escapes from the bedroom. I bit the inside of my cheek.
"We'll never have another moment of silence together, you know that right?" I say standing up.
"It is worth it though." He says as I walk into the bedroom. I could see his little arms flailing around.
"Oh, Nickolas, you don't have to cry." I say as I walk over to him. When he opens his eyes and sees me he lets out a smile. I pick him up and walk back into the living room. I was about to sit down when Dimitri's phone starts to go off. His face falls grim, I could feel it now.
He looks up at me, "They're on their way to pick us up." Nickolas starts to bawl, and boy was I about to, too.
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