25 WEEKS PREGNANT- ANNA (Jeremy's POV)
Anna wants us to go to Babies-R-Us to shop for things for the twins' shared nursery, which she insists on painting a latte color. It will be in the largest of the three empty rooms. She says that when the twins are older, maybe four, we'll split them up and move them into the other two rooms.
She tugs me into the girls section, selecting a few baby girl outfits and a nice pink blanket and crib cover.
We have already ordered two maple wood cribs from IKEA, so at least that's taken care of.
After Anna is sure of her choices, she pulls me towards the boys section. Here she chooses a toy-patterned crib cover and blanket, along with some cute baby boy clothes.
On top of all this, we have already been to Wal-Mart today, where we bought car seats (which are in Uncle John's van), diapers, and a suitcase.
She is planning on filling the suitcase a diaper bag, diapers, unisex baby outfits, and few of her own outfits.
John smiles warmly (a rare occurrence) as he drives us to our new home and helps us unload everything. Then he leaves us alone, standing in our kitchen.
I kiss Anna happily as I wait, hoping that the twins will start kicking. It's been happening less often lately, because there is now less room in the womb.
Anna stares down at her belly, looking worried.
"You look beautiful," I whisper into her ear.
"I look like a whale!" Anna cries.
"No, you don't. You look like my beautiful, glowing wife who has my twins growing inside of her. You won't be pregnant forever. I'm enjoying the miracle of these new lives, that you and I created. What about you?" I say, kissing her cheek.
"I am..." she says, trailing off and showing me how unsure she still is.
Honestly, can't she see that she's beautiful while pregnant? While anything?
I kiss her roughly, with a lot of passion. More than we have ever given since we discovered Anna's pregnancy.
I carry her to our bedroom, still kissing her desperately and passionately.
I lay her down, and we help each other out of our clothes. Then we made love.
After we awoke from the lust-filled daze, we were naked under the covers.
"Wasn't that weird for you? Having sex with someone six months pregnant?"Anna asks.
"No," I answer honestly.
Anna just lies on my chest, murmuring, "I love you's," every once in a while.
Then, all of a sudden, the doorbell rings.
Anna grabs her night gown off the floor and pulls it on, before rushing to answer the door.
"Hi mom!" She says.
"Your hair's a mess," Pearl says, tone quizzical before it becomes completely shocked, "Were you and Jeremy just..."
"No, mom... I just... " Anna trails off, her face breaking into an adorable blush as I come to stand next to her, fully dressed.
I kiss her cheek.
"Hello Pearl," I say.
"Hello Jeremy," she says in response.
I then realize Pearl is carrying a simple, black suitcase.
"I was going to ask Anna if I could move in," Pearl says, her voice hesitant and questioning.
"Of course you can, Mom! You can live in the guest room," Anna says, pulling Pearl into our most cheaply-decorated guest room.
"She can, right?" Anna asks me,when she comes back.
"Yes. Maybe she can help us with the twins, seeing as she had you. What's the story behind that, anyway?" I ask.
"I was born in China, before timing was relevant for common folk. My mom and I could barely make do, as my father..." Anna says, trailing off.
"Your father?" I ask, hoping she will continue.
"Was a bastard foreigner who took to my widowed mother. He raped her when she told him she wanted to save herself for her second marriage. He didn't want to marry her. I was conceived out of that raping," Anna says.
"Widowed? Does that mean..." I ask, wondering if Anna could have had any half-siblings.
"No, Jeremy. Her first husband died without an heir, and my mother wasn't pregnant when he died. Her first marriage was arranged by her family, and she never loved him, so his death didn't affect her very much. However, her family disowned her when they learnt of me. We struggled with being on our own, but we led a pretty boring life until Katherine arrived," Anna says. "I was fifteen when Katherine and her latest human boy toy arrived. My mother was trying to marry me off, with no success. She had no husband, and I wasn't born from her first marriage. The eligible boys' parents were afraid I would taint their 'perfect' Chinese linage because I was a 'bastard, half-European.'"
"So you were a virgin, while you were human for the first time?" I ask.
"For the most of my 15 years human, yes. When Katherine came to our village, I was raped by her... plaything. He was from our village, actually. Katherine had only met him a few months before. I suppose she compelled him to rape me. The day later, both my mother and I were changed," Anna replies.
"I'm sorry, Anna," I mumble, not sure what else to say.
"No need. My mother has told me that I was her blessing in disguise. Apparently it's harder for virgins to turn," Anna says. "After that, we traveled off and on with Katherine, who had given us trinkets to protect us from the sun. We arrived here at the time of the Civil War and settled down for a bit. My innocence, as well as my mother's, were long gone by that time. However, because of the customs of that time, I still pretended to be a timid, frigid virgin. Then my mother fell in love with your ancestor but, in spite of him loving her back, he betrayed her. I kept whoring myself out to find information about the tomb. I had learnt from a Bennett warlock I had slept with that there was a way back into the tomb. He was too far from the line to do it, plus he had no idea where Emily's Grimoire was. After that, you know the rest."
"I had no idea." I say, stunned.
"How could you?" Anna asks, "Besides, the when I had sex the second time I was human, it was much better."
I remember when we had urgent, passionate, stupidly-unprotected sex the day she had been reborn. We had desperately thrown off each other's clothes, eager for our bodies to become one again.
I lean forward and kiss her on the lips, softly.
"I love you with my life and my soul, forever." I whisper into her ear once I pull away.
I looked into her eyes and saw tears.
AN: Please review. This is about Anna's back-story. As the next 2 chapters will be filled with filling in the GAINT holes I have left. Then it's birth time.
BTW, I'm not saying rape isn't wrong and it leaves no scars, but Anna and Pearl already dealt with it.
