HEY GUYS! So I kinda dropped off the face of the earth for a while there but I'm back now. I would never leave you guys completely hanging. Basically, I'm writing a book called Set Back and I've been putting all of my free time into it and I'm also taking all honors classes this year so my homework load has been ridiculous. I'm trying to update as fast as I can so stick with me :) I love you all! -Sammy

Chapter 4:

I was terrified while watching the doctor study the sonogram. I felt Gregory's arms tighten around me as if it would fix the situation we found ourselves in. Instead of watching the screen like I was, Greg was whispering sweet and reassuring words into my ears. He only stopped when we heard the sweet sound of a little heartbeat. Tears sprang to Greg's and my eyes before the doctor even had time to speak.

"Well, Rosemarie, Gregory, it looks to me that your sweet baby was in a certain position that the kick to your stomach did not do any harm whats so ever to your baby." At the doctors words sparked life into my seemingly beatless heart. Greg laid his head into my shoulder and I heard his whisper "Oh thank God."

A few tears were shed as we left the hospital but the real sobs escaped when Greg and I made it to his car in the parking lot. We held onto each other and thanked the Lord that our baby was okay. We left the hospital and went to Lissa and Christian's apartment.

"Vasilissa," I started and she instantly knew I was serious about what was about to come out of my mouth, "I want Tasha found and I want to be the one to deal with her." Lissa looked shocked. I turned to Christian with a sad look on my face that was true to the heart. "Christian, I'm sorry. The fact is that Tasha has become something that it is my job to kill. Not only that but she has become a threat to my family, my son, my unborn baby, and myself and I won't stand for it." Throughout everything that has happened since highschool, Christian has become a big brother to me and my goal is never to hurt him but I can't be held responsible for the choices that Tasha has made.

Thinking about killing Tasha didn't faze me at all, not one bit but as it just so happens, Alex is with her and a strigoi and killing Tasha meant that I would have to kill Alex. That hurt. Alex was a good friend to me. He was amazing to me when I first moved to court and he was amazing with Mason and it killed me inside to think of ending his life even if it wasn't really a life anymore. It was a sad thought to have but, in the end, it had to be done. As a guardian I was taught to have no mercy for the undead but as a mother, it was a part of me to love the people close to me and for a long time, Alex was really close to me and an amazing friend to Gregory and me. I was torn even though I knew what was the right thing to do. End Tasha and Alex for good. It was the only option. It. Had. To. Be. Done.

The only real reaction that Christian responded with was a nod before he left the room to go to his and Lissa's room. I felt bad, horrible really. Greg and I left to go home in complete silence.

When we got home, we found Mason playing with his dinosaurs with Adrian. Gregory had called Adrian to come watch Mason as soon as he found out I was in the hospital.

"Mommy, Daddy!" Mason screamed, dropping all of his toys and running over to us. Gregory immediately bent over to pick Mason up from his place on the ground. "Mommy did something happen to my little brother?" he asked. I smiled. We weren't sure whether the baby was a boy or a girl yet but Mason seemed to be pretty sure that it was a boy.

"Of course not sweetie. Everything's fine." I told him and Gregory sat him down on the couch. "Your brother is absolutely fine." After Mason was finally fully convinced, he went upstairs to his room to put on his pajamas like we told him. Adrian pulled me into the kitchen.

"It was Tasha, wasn't it?" he said in a low, angry voice. I locked eyes with him because no words were really needed to convey my message.

"We are going to take care of it, Adrian. Don't worry." Gregory said. Having been friends with Adrian for years, he knew that Adrian had a habit of freaking out and lashing out in white hot anger when someone threatened someone close to him.

Adrian shook his head violently and seemed like he wasn't convinced. "No. That bitch needs to pay! She can't keep coming into people's lives and fucking everyone's shit up!" he yelled.

"Keep your damn voice down." I angrily whispered. No way did I want Mason to know what had really happened. As far as Mason knew, I tripped and fell on my way to the fitting rooms at the bridal shop. That's all he needed to know.

"I'm sorry. I just… I'm like Mason's uncle-"

"You are his uncle, Adrian." I interrupted.

"I am Mason's uncle and I don't ever want anything to happen to him or to you guys. I love you guys." I noticed small tears in Adrian's eyes and tears formed in mine.

"Adrian," Gregory said, "I swear to you," he turned to me, "and I swear to you, that Mason will be completely and totally fine as long as I live. He is my son and I love him. I also love that baby growing in your stomach and I'll be damned if ANYTHING changes that or puts them in jeopardy." He finished.

"Daddy? Why would anyone put me in japerdy?" I gasped and spun around to see Mason standing at the bottom of the stairway in his monkey pajamas with a hood with cute little round ears at the top. He was just standing, unmoving, at his spot at the stairs. Gregory looked ready to kick himself because Mason had heard him and he quickly went over to Mason.

Gregory picked him up and told him they would talk upstairs. He was such a great dad to him. "We'll talk tomorrow, Adrian." He said before he made his way up the stairs with Mason in his arms.

Adrian and I talked for a few more minutes before he left to go back to his own apartment and I went upstairs to find Greg and Mason talking.

"-bad woman and she doesn't like your mommy very much." I heard Gregory finish. I walked into the room and sat next to Mason on his bed. Greg was on his other side.

"Why doesn't she like mommy, daddy?" Mason curled up at my side and snuggled in.

I rubbed Mason's back while Gregory explained to him. As a general rule, Greg and I decided as a team that Mason didn't need to know that Alex had become a strigoi with Tasha but as it so seemed, it might be safer for him if he knows. "Do you remember when I told you that Mommy dated Dimtri while she was in school?" Mason nodded. "Well Tasha liked Dimtri in a stronger way then he liked her and she didn't like that he was with your mommy. When Dimitri went with Tasha to guard her, she thought that the battle between her and your mommy was over and that she had won. However, when Dimitri came back and has been with us for a while, Tasha didn't like it and she… she uh…"

"She went Strigoi, Mason." I whispered and Mason looked scared and shocked but he was trying his very best to cover it up, my strong little man. "Alex… Alex did too." Little tears came through Mason's eyes and he buried his face in my side.

The eye contact that I made with Greg showed that we agreed that that was enough to talk about tonight. I picked up Mason and held him on my waist while he cried his little tears for his lost friend. The three of us went to mine and Greg's room and we all got tucked into bed with Mase between us. Mason fell asleep after a few more minutes of crying and sobbing and Greg and I were still wide awake.

"How do you think he will be in the morning?" Greg asked me in a quiet voice.

"I don't know." I answered honestly. "They were so close." I looked him straight in the eye and said the one thing that I have been wanting to say all day. "One thing I do know is, I want Tasha out of the equation."

"Agreed."

Alrighty! This chapter for one reason or another was really difficult to write so you guys need to be giving me some ideas about what you guys are wanting to see happen. It would be a huge help! I love you all soo soo much and make sure you are reviewing to let me know what you guys are thinking and if you are liking the Dangers of Rejection -Sammy