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RPOV
Chapter 7
Dr. Olendzki let out a small laugh before she continued talking.
"Oh honey, relax. Everything is absolutely fine. I just wanted to talk to you about something."
I let out a breath. But wait what could she possibly want to talk to me about? "Oh, um, okay. Great. But what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked a little nervously while fiddling with my hands.
The doctor paused for some time before she began speaking. This time her tone was serious.
"You see Rose, ever since you came back to the academy, I have been doing some research on how being shadow kissed can affect you."
I was still clueless about where this conversation was heading to. "Oh, okay. Well, I think I've figured a couple of things that it does to me but what did you find exactly?" I said. I was getting a little scared now. Does this have anything to do with the darkness?
"Oh I see. Well Rose, I found out that when Vasilisa brought you back, she just happened to change a certain gene of your's. When I say change, I mean she made that part of you more Moroi than dhampir. Rose, now that that part of you is changed, it enables you to have children with other dhampirs, something that is otherwise impossible as I'm sure you know."
I was completely speechless. Utterly at a loss of words. So many thoughts ran around in my mind as well as so many mixed feelings. I was really surprised but I was also really happy at the same time. The one thing that I thought I would never be able to give to Dimitri was now possible. We could have kids together.
The doctor's words snapped me out of my train of my thought. "Rose would you like to say something. Do you have any questions?"
I asked her the first thing that came to my mind. "Um, I'm sorry. This is just pretty surprising. Um… if I do have a child with a dhampir, what will it be? I mean human, moroi…?"
Dr. Olendzki looked at a sheet of paper on her desk. "Well according to past cases, the child will be a dhampir just like the parents. Just slightly stronger though as it will have two dhampir parents."
I stayed in the doctor's office a little while longer as she explained a couple of more things to me. When I did finally leave there were only five minutes left for training. I was definitely going to be late.
But the more important thing was, how the hell was I going to tell Dimitri about this? I was in no doubt that he would be happy, he had always wanted kids. But how would I tell him? It wasn't exactly the most normal news to deliver to your boyfriend. Would he even believe me?
I walked across the campus and back to my dorm room. As I was climbing the steps to my room, I felt Lissa waiting outside my door through the bond. She was about to leave when I finally reached my room.
When she saw me, she beamed. "Hey Rose! I just came to see you, I thought you'd have some time left before training and Christian had detention so I was pretty bored too. But then when you weren't here, I thought you left for training already. I mean, you should take all the time you get." She said, the double meaning clear in her voice as she waggled her eyebrows.
I smiled half-heartedly and we both went into my room. I felt suspicion through the bond. Lissa knew something was up.
"Rose what is it?" She asked, worry clear in her voice.
I told her everything and she listened carefully and patiently. When I was done, she was surprised but totally ecstatic. She threw her arms around me and I hugged her back tightly.
That's when I realized something. Something that made me freeze abruptly. Lissa noticed this.
"What happened Rose?" Her angelic face was filled with concern.
"Shit. Oh my God! Lissa, that night at the cabin…" I said in a shaky voice.
Lissa looked thoughtful for a few seconds and then finally realization settled on her face. "Oh my god, Rose!"
When I spoke again, my voice sounded pretty terrified to myself as well. "Liss, what if I'm pregnant?"
Lissa stayed silent for a while and then she spoke in a very calm voice. "Okay, there's only one way to be sure. You're already late for training, so change really fast and then we have to go to my room."
Judging by the way she spoke, it seemed like she had a plan so I just changed into black shorts a white racer back tank top with running shoes and then we were off to her room. As soon as we got there, she pulled me inside and then locked the door behind us and then pulled me to her bathroom. She opened one of her cabinets and handed me a small pink box.
A pregnancy test.
Without saying a single word she went outside and sat on her bed. I shut the door and took the test that might change my entire future. After I was done, we both sat together on her bed, still totally silent.
After ten minutes I stood up and with extremely shaky steps, I made my way to the washroom. I peered down at the test that was resting on black marble counter.
There it was. A little pink minus sign. It was negative.
I let out a huge breath of relief. It's not that I didn't want to be pregnant with Dimitri's child right now. I did, I really did. But I wanted him to know what the doctor had told me today before that. I didn't want him to think I had cheated on him. Seeing him hurt because of me, it would kill me.
"Hey Liss, its negative." I called out to my best friend.
She was next to me in a nanosecond. She hugged me tight. "I know you want him to know first, so I'm gonna say that I'm relieved."
After that I finally sprinted to the gym, 25 minutes late for training. As I ran there, I was thinking of how I would tell Dimitri what I had found out today.
Just as I opened the door, I couldn't bring myself to tell him. I don't know why but I kept feeling like he wouldn't believe me and just like that I let my nervousness and insecurities get the best of me. Rose Hathaway actually just chickened out of something.
DPOV
I just kept sitting in the gym reading one of my favourite westerns while I waited for the love of my life to show up for training. Rose was late for training all the time, but usually it was only by five or ten minutes. Today, when she did finally walk in, almost half an hour of training had gone by.
I looked up when the gym doors opened and then slammed shut behind Rose. She looked beautiful even in workout clothes but for some reason she wasn't sporting her usual bravado, she seemed kind of nervous and distant, almost as if she was scared for something.
She just walked up to me and then when she spoke her tone just emphasized that something was wrong. "I'm sorry I'm late Comrade, I just got held up. I'll start with the laps."
She didn't even wait for my answer; she just went out onto the tracks. Since I was still sore from the damn attack, I couldn't join her for the laps. I just sat there looking at Rose while I imagined what was wrong.
Was it me? Was it something I had said or done? Had I done something wrong? Was she mad at me? Was she sad? My thoughts ran crazy and a tornado of worry built up in me.
When Rose finally got back inside five minutes later, I couldn't stand it anymore. Before she could even begin doing her stretches, I grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into the store room. She sat down on a chair and I pulled one and sat opposite her. I grabbed both of her hands in mina as I leaned forward.
"Roza, what's wrong? Please don't say nothing. Please tell me what's bothering you. Let me comfort you. Please tell me baby. I don't like seeing you like this. Is it something I did? Did I do something?" My voice came out all strained and frantic.
She stared at me with wide, beautiful, astonished eyes. Her hands moved from mine and went to my hair as she pulled my face to her and kissed me hard. We pulled away, gasping for air.
Rose gave me a small smile before she spoke. "You idiot, you didn't do anything wrong. Don't ever think like that. Everything's fine comrade, trust me. Nothing's wrong."
I knew she was telling the truth but still there was something that she wasn't telling me but since everything was okay I decided not to push it.
After five more awesome minutes of making out we finally went back to the gym and finished training for the day.
I pecked Rose on the lips and then we both went our separate ways but not before she convinced me spend the night with her in her dorm room. I swear that woman could make me do anything for her.
I walked back to my room, still wondering what it was that Roza wasn't telling me.
I turned the corner and saw that there were two people who I had been expecting to show up, waiting outside my door.
Abe Mazur and Janine Hathaway.
When they heard me coming, they turned around. Abe just smiled evilly at me while Janine kept her guardian mask in place.
I had a feeling that this wouldn't go down very well, even though Roza's parents were happy for us.
Well, shit.
Okay so I'm realllly sorry to all the people that really didn't want the possibility of Rose getting pregnant. I know that it's getting pretty common but honestly this is where I saw this story going when I pictured it in my mind and I swear I'll try my best to make it different from what you've already read. I really do hope that you continue to read.
