Did I ever say THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS.... i guess I just did. But really I love the comments. Good, bad I really don't care. it just shows me people actually care about the story and want more. And someone did suggest longer chappies and yeah I think i can do that.
So this chappie, if it sucks well i thought about it at like 5 in the morning cuz i was rudely woken up by my mom's alarm clock...... anyways just read and i'll post the rest of the A/N at the bottom.
I was lying down on a table; no it was more like a really uncomfortable bed. The room was dark, really dark even if there had been and eclipse and it was midnight, the room would still be darker. It was like a freezer inside of it, I could even see my own breath so the temperature had to be barely above zero.
I kicked off the blankets on the bed and I saw I was wearing a black silk nightgown. I wasn't wearing this when I went to bed. My stomach was huge. Last time I went to bed my stomach was still flat and the only sign of my pregnancy was my morning sickness and sleeping a lot. I pulled the blanket off of the bed and wrapped it around my shoulders. But even that barely kept me warm.
I slowly climbed out of the bed and my feet touched the cold, hard floor. I quickly pulled my feet off of the floor and then slowly inched them back on. Even though I had on socks it didn't matter, it was like the warmth from my body just didn't want to stay around me. The thermostat said it was only twenty degrees. I tried to fiddle with the dial but everything was in metric and in Russian too. I heard footsteps coming slowly by the door. I tried to crouch into a corner or at least on the other side of the wall so I could escape. But being this huge was going to be challenging.
This had to be a dream it just had to. I've seen a lot of Lissa's dreams and this actually might be one of hers. When she was going crazy she had all of these strange disturbing dreams, ones that would include serial killers slowly torturing her or even ones with her reliving the accident that killed her family and me.
And it would probably make sense, I haven't been near her in months and who knows how many people she has healed or how many have tried to hurt her. And I'm not there to take away all of her anger and darkness that was around her.
But still this was just really sick and twisted. Why would she dream this? This is like everyone's worse nightmare. I was trapped into a room with only one exit and that was right in front of me. The old door knob slowly turned. It was one of those old metal ones that would always jerk every direction when ever you turned it and it creaked. Although the creaking I'm sure was probably the floor or the old door too.
The door slowly opened and there was a shadow of a face, it was extremely familiar. But the face was different somehow; my body seemed torn between two instincts, run toward the figure or runaway. I froze there in my place. The door opened more and the figure walked toward me. I knew I had to try and run. But as soon as I took a step a strong powerful hand grabbed my wrist and pulled me back. My back slammed into the figures stomach, I felt a set of extremely strong abs.
I tried to struggle, then eventually got free, and fight him. My arms swung and I did hit him with a few really good blows but he brushed them off as though they were bubbles trying to pulverize a diamond. He laughed a very familiar laugh and two hands grabbed hold of my wrists. I couldn't move them.
He placed one arm across my chest, restraining me from fighting. The other one let the fingers slowly trail down to the hem of the nightgown. Then played for a second with the hem and stopped. Great I was being held captive by a pedophile.
Two arms lifted me up and carried me bridal style back over to the bed. Even though there was some hair in my face I could still see the figure. It was Dimitri, his eyes were different the glowed a very bright crimson that could only be found in a Strigoi. Even though he already was a Strigoi, his eyes were never that bright instead they were a dull red.
"Roza you really should stay in bed. You don't want the baby to get hurt." He laid me on the bed and made sure I stayed this time.
"Wait, what are you talking about?" I was confused. One, why would I be having this dream? Two, I'm not supposed to be this big and the baby will be fine dhampir baby's are extremely strong. Considering my mom was still guarding up until about a day before she had me. He muttered something in Russian to my stomach and kissed it.
"Our child, remember, you're due any minute. And they've decided to 'awaken' you once the baby is born." He said it so casually. Like it was no big deal being 'awaken', being 'awaken' meant that you would be turned into a Strigoi of course for your die hard Strigoi followers this would be a good thing.
Dimitri would never turn me into a Strigoi, we were actually going to try and make him back into a dhampir. The only down side to that would be that we can't have any more kids and there was a chance that we couldn't be together. But still it was better than being on the run and getting staked to death by extremely lethal guardians.
"Who is this 'they' and why?"
He had a small chuckle and then looked back at me with those bright crimson eyes. "Because you are Rose Hathaway and our child will be the most powerful, lethal thing on the planet. You will make a wonderful addition for the Strigoi side and no one will get near you. And our baby will a ledged, no guardian will ever dare touch it. It will kill hundreds."
"But I don't want to be a Strigoi. You don't want to be one either, and our baby. Our baby won't be one; I won't let them have it." I was becoming extremely protective. I wrapped my arms around my stomach as be as I could but Dimitri stopped me. He had an extremely seductive grin on his face and looked at me.
"When you are 'awakened' you will think different of your views now, I promise. You know they are right when they say you do get to see everything much more clearly than when you were a dhampir. Besides you were the one that kept on complaining about guardians being forced into guarding the Moroi when they have their magic to protect them. Now you will be able to kill what you were supposed to protect. They want you because your one of the best guardians. I was too and since our baby is half of each of us than it is likely to be twice as powerful."
He pinned my arms up by my head and handcuffed them to the bed posts. If I wasn't in danger and Dimitri wasn't creeping me out I would think this was extremely kinky and sexy. I tried to get lose but it was no used. Dimitri kissed my lips, his kiss wasn't as soft and tender as it normally was. This kiss was sickening. "You'll love being a Strigoi. We don't need to hide anything now. You can now get revenge on everyone who mistreated you."
I started to struggle even more but there was a pain that shot through my body. I couldn't help but to scream. Dimitri's smile grew. Then it hit me, I was in labor now. I heard stories about having babies but I never thought it would be like this. Dimitri was trying to soothe me and telling me how to breathe. Just then the door opened up again and standing in the doorway was Raisa, Mikhail, and someone I would have never guessed Lissa. All of their eyes were glowing red, it was sickening but for Lissa, I would have never though she would ever do that.
Lissa came over to my other side and she began to wipe my forehead with a cold, damp cloth. "Don't worry Rose, your doing fine." Her voice was still sweet as I remember it but at the same time it sounded different.
Dimitri was kissing my forehead and murmuring something in Russian that I didn't understand. I screamed again, the pain was getting more intense. "Roza, your doing great, your almost done. They will be happy to know that they will soon be getting two very powerful Strigoi's on their side." I just wanted to kill him, this wasn't Dimitri and I knew that. If I really was in labor I wanted the real Dimitri to be here helping me, not an imposter. The real Dimitri would never turn over our baby to anyone; he especially wouldn't do it for Strigoi's. And exactly who was this 'they' he was referring to?
I screamed again and this time I was in my bed with Dimitri right next to me. I woke up in a cold sweat and ripped the blanket off of my body.
My long sleeved shirt was still tight against my body and there was no huge swelled up stomach. Instead there was my normal toned stomach. Dimitri was awake and looked panicked. He was just wearing flannel pajama bottoms. He wrapped his arms around me as I brought my knees up to my chin and rested my forehead on my knees.
"Roza are you alright?" His voice was calming. It wasn't like the dream one. Why would I even dream it? I knew none of it was true about him, and I knew that he would never do that to me. He rested his hand on my stomach. It felt warm, Strigoi's were supposed to be cold but I think Dimitri was different somehow. He wasn't cold. "Is the baby okay?"
I nodded. "I had a nightmare." I whispered. I knew he heard it.
"Do you care to elaborate?"
"No, not really." I lifted my head and he brought me closer to him.
"It was like Lissa's dreams but this time I wasn't Lissa. Instead I dreamed something horrible. It was…..I was pregnant." He looked at me like he was confused and a little worried.
"Roza, you are pregnant."
"I know but I was really, really pregnant. And you said something about 'awakening' me after I had the baby and you wanted to hand our baby over to 'them' and Lissa was there too. Only she had bright crimson eyes just like you did. And….and your kisses they were different. They weren't sweet and tender; instead they were cold and unloving. You….you really scared me." I was trying to hold back sobs but a few tears did escape from my eyes. Dimitri rubbed soft little circles on my back. They felt great and slowly they the helped erase some of the tension and frustration.
"Roza that was only a dream. I will never let that happen to you. You know that." His arms felt protecting and strong. And he was right he would never do that to me. He would always protect me.
I'm not even sure why I thought that. It was sick and twisted. Maybe, just maybe holding all of Lissa's darkness would make me do that. Maybe I would become a Strigoi and be with Dimitri forever. You did have to admit that the Dimitri from my nightmare was telling the truth.
I was a pretty kick ass novice guardian and that was before I got my promise mark. Even during the invasion I killed so many Strigoi, while other novice's my age maybe killed one or two at the most. They were given orders to help guard groups of Moroi that were secured in the dorms. I was one of the few that got to go out and actually kill them.
And Dimitri would be and should be quite lethal too. Everyone at the academy knew about him and I had to train with him. I've seen him kill Strigoi and he could do it well. But he would still become a Strigoi by choice, and he wouldn't have me become that either.
If that was a vision of the future or not, right now I was in the present and I pushed that aside, I was already stressed out enough. I didn't want to go back to sleep even though Dimitri begged me to. Eventually he got up and made me some hot chocolate. It was warm, and it was milk based not water based like other hot chocolate is.
"You fight really dirty, you know that. You know warm milk makes almost everyone fall asleep and you know I love chocolate."
Dimitri moved the covers over me and kissed my forehead. I snuggled close against him chest. He stroked my back like he did before.
"Just sleep, Roza, I'll be here to chase all of the monsters away."
"Promise?"
"Yes, yes I promise Roza."
first things first, NO i do not have a sick twisted mind. and i really didnt want to do that to her but that was kind of like her worst fear comming true.
Second, i have never been pregnant so.....yeah it's all pure research. And When your from a family of five and one of your sisters has like six kids. There's not much else you really need.
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now i'm going back to nap time. and I still have like 40 minutes left of school......this is going to be a very long day. Oh and i think friday, saturday and sunday i will be in the twin cities for a hockey game so i'll try to update.
