Before I get into the story, fist of all, sorry for the shortness! I haven't had much of a break from school and work and sleeping has become a lovely escape. Second, thank you all so much for the reviews! They were all so inspiring! And last but surely not least, Richelle has just recently, as in a few days ago, released information on what her short story is going to contain. She's having Dimitri and Rose go to Russia and they are going to see his family…I was in shock for a while, and I'm fancying myself a bit of a psychic! Phew now that that's out of the way, please enjoy, and expect some interesting and long chapters to come soon! –M.L.

8

To say that I was in shock would be saying the least. Lissa and Christian having a baby. It wasn't so much that I was upset about it, it was just so weird. My best friend was pregnant.

I walked back down to Dimitri and my apartment in a daze, since Lissa wanted to tell Christian in private.

When I walked back in, Dimitri, who had been asleep, woke up as I shut the door. 'sorry' I mouthed. As I climbed back into the comfort of his arms.

"so what was that about? Is Lissa okay?" I couldn't help the small smile that appeared on my face when I heard the worry Dimitri was trying to mask. He was the only person beside me who I knew worried about Lissa so much.

"She's fine. She's…well, she's pregnant." I could feel his arms tense around me for a second which caused me to sit up and look at him. What I saw wasn't an appealing picture. He looked sad.

"Dimitri, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just that, I know how important Moroi our to our society, and I'm grateful to put my life on the line, but it just makes me realize that me and you, even if we could have kids, we wouldn't be able to raise them ourselves. It just upsets me sometimes." I realized the hurt in his eyes and I couldn't really blame him.

Kids weren't exactly on my list of priorities, but I could definitely picture Dimitri running around in some back yard chasing around a small boy with dark hair and eyes. I quickly shook my head dismissing the image.

"I thought about the same thing once, way back when, when I thought you were going to be with Tasha. I thought it wasn't fair. But then I realized something. Me and you will constantly be with this baby. It might as well be half ours." This made him smile, and he pulled me down back into his arms.

"Roza, you've become quite the optimist over the past few years. "I closed my eyes and snuggling into his warm and extremely naked kissed my forehead before I passed out from the exhaustion.

By the end of the week I finally felt back on schedule. When I woke up that next Saturday morning, Dimitri wasn't beside me in bed, and when I walked into the kitchen I saw that he was cooking bacon. Naked. My two favorite things.

I snuck up behind him to tried and snatch a piece of bacon that was on the table behind him, but he was too fast and caught me before I could grab it.

"You have no patience do you?" He said playfully holding my arms behind my back.

"To be honest, right now I don't have patience to wait for anything." I said eyeing him up and down.

Dimtri pushed everything out of the way and lifted me up onto the kitchen table. He started kissing hungrily at my neck. We made love on our kitchen table until the kitchen began to fill with smoke.

Dimitri turned around and said something in Russian that sounded like a swear, before turning off the stove and trying to stop the bacon from charring. I couldn't help but giggle like an idiot at the situation. Ever since getting back to the apartment from the vacation, we had been constantly having sex. Everywhere . We had some problems keeping everyday things ,like turning off the stove, on our minds.

"I think we're managing to christen every space of the apartment. I need to make a list." I said jumping off the table and cleaning up the mess.

"I think the only place left is the closet at the end of the hallway, and I'm way too tall."

"I'm willing to try." I said kissing his chest as I turned toward the sink.

"Of course you are." He said with a smile appearing on his face.

After we diffused the issues in the kitchen, we managed to shower, and get ready without sexually attacking one another.

As I kissed him goodbye to go grab Lissa, I couldn't help but feel lonely as he went the opposite direction. Lately, it had felt physically painful to leave his side. He had to go check on Viktoria though and I had to accompany Lissa to her baby appointment. Christian would have jumped at the chance to go, but Lissa had insisted that he not cancel the trainings he did every Saturday with moroi fire users.

Lissa had been afraid to tell Christian when I left her that past Sunday, but when she did tell him, he cried, she cried, it was like an emotional happy free for all, and I couldn't help but be glad I didn't have to watch.

When I got to Lissa's suite, Nik knocked on her door and she came out looking radiant as always, but also glowing. She grabbed my hand and I smiled feeling like little kids as we walked down to the doctors office.