I looked at Alexanders parent's panic spreading through me like a wild fire and I couldn't stop my eyes from widening a bit nor could I help how my legs trembled and almost tingled with the need to run away right then as the looked between me and him slowly and I clutched onto his hand tightly which he returned with the same tightness and I leaned against his side and he slipped an arm around my waist his hand cradling the underside of my large stomach. Their eyes almost seemed to narrow at the same time and I cringed gently when the sound of combat boots against the wood came loudly and there was Stormy. She looked at us, her short midnight hair hung in her eyes, it was a surprise to see her so big now, she was about fifteen or sixteen and she offered me a small meek smile befor her parents glared then turned back to us seriously.
"Alexander tell me exactly how oyu could have been as stupid-" Alexander flinched squeezed my hand tightly as his father spoke. " -As to get Raven pregnant? Were you even thinking when it happened? Don't you know about protection at all? How is it that you've messed up your life so badly? Hers too!What will happen to that child? It will be a hybrid shunned by both worlds. Is that what you would want?" Constantine says stuttering at a few parts looking at Alexander and I looked down my hair swaying into my face gently and I bowed my head slightly with both fear and shame at the situation.
"Alexander, do you truly wish to have a baby with a human girl?" Cassandra says softly her dark eyes on me and him seriously.
"Ys I do, I am in love with Raven, there's no one else I'd rather have a child than with Raven." He says loudly making me look at him and I flushed smiling gently. It was the first time he ever truly said he'd want no one else other than me having his child, it made me feel so very honored at that moment as I stared up at him a few of my tears slipping down with nothing but love, it made my heart fill and expland doubling in size and I felt the baby moving around in my stomach as he stared back at me lifting one of his hands up wiping the tears away. They were happy tears however, his fathers eyes narrowed ever so subtly.
"Do you know how you'll support each other?"
"Yes we're figuring that part out together slowly." He says as he finished wiping away my tears gently and his mother offered a small smile.
"Besides I'll be here to help too!" Stormy says as she finishes decending the stairs, looking at her parents her eyes a bit narrowed with faint annoyance and they sighed gently.
"Stormy." Constantine says and its her name alone that draws her eyes up to his.
"Please Dad, let me do it I need too Raven will most likely be my sister in a matter of time so what does it matter if I help them out?"
"Because some people need to learn and they need to learn how to do it on their own."
"Still that's unfair!" Stormy says outrage and an incredilous tint rang in her voice shocking nearly every one and I sighed softly to myself holding a yawn back as I rubbed my eyes leaning heavily against Alexander my eyes drifting shut on their own will no matter how hard I tried to keep them open and he scooped me up into his arms gently.
"I'm sorry Raven is tired and I think its best to continue this conversation when she's not as tired as she is now. If that's alright with you two." Alexander says directing the half question straight at his parents gently as he began walking around them as my eyes finally shut all the way and I curled up softly in his arms and I smiled thankfully up at him which I knew he returned. He laid me on the couch in the little room upstairs and he laid behind me though it was only midnight he stayed there until it was time for him to go to his coffin when he shook me awake but I was still tired.
"Raven. Raven. Come on lets go to my coffin,you'll be surprised by the changes I made to it." He says both shaking my shoulder and peeking my curiosity as I opened my eyes to look up at him groggily.
"Mmkay lets go." I say my words sluggish and thick with tiredness as he lifted me up like a bride would be lifted and I smiled tired as I closed my eyes again but clinging to consciouness and we went up to his bedroom then he shut and locked the door making my brow raise a bit but a massive yawn took over taking over any clever remark. He sat me on the bed and unlcoked the small attic door, he picked me up again making me giggle madly as he grinned his dark eyes sparkling gently and we walked in he shut the door and lit the candle that set a beautiful glow around throom then I looked at his coffin and let out a tiny gasp. The coffin seemed to be a least a little longer and a little wider than before in width, it'd easily hold me and him plus my giant belly. I grinned lovingly up at him his hands resting on my shoulders kissing my cheek gently.
"I love you."
"I love you too." I say smiling and yawned again making him pull me gently to the coffin and we laid down gently his hand pressed to my large stomach as he shut his eyes softly and we curled up softly against one another smiling softer and dozed off once again.
Eight-thirty P.M, Sunset
When I had woken up Alexander was already awake ahead of me surprisingly but in his hand he held a large cup filled a quarter of the way up with a thick, dark liquid that made my eyes draw to like magnets and my stomach suddenly felt like it was a cavern wanting nothing but to be filled up with that liquid.I wanted it more than I wanted to breath right at that moment and I felt suddenly impatient about drinking it and I wanted it badly.
"This may be hard for you to drink but we're not. . .exactly sure I mean from the way your looking at it it seems like you want to rip it out of my hand and chug it all down." He chuckled but I could hear the sweet concern in it. I smiled gently looking at him standing up slowly with a low little groan and stepped out of the coffin, he pulled me to his bedroom where I sat on the bed reaching a hand out for the cup which he gently placed in my hand and I brought it up to my lips hestating slightly before taking large sip of thick sweet liquid. Oh my god. It was like silk going down across my tongue down my throat almost slithering down instead of sliding and a small moan left my lips around the cup as I kept swallowing the silky sweet liquid closing my eyes in bliss my head falling back as it began to slowly drain and I felt like growling and some part of me was scared of it but the baby was kicking and moving around, obviously delighted by the large dose he recieved. I believed we'd be have a boy, a erfect clone of Alexander, yes there'd be me in the baby, but I was hoping and praying that the baby would be a beautiful baby boy. If the baby turned out to be a girl, I'd be thrilled, some part of me also hoped it was a girl just so I could have a daughter, a little girl that I could play and dress up with but she would be perfect none the less.I couldn't wait to meet my little baby. I finished guzzling down the liquid I licked my lips to get the remaining traces of it to find Alexander staring at me worriedly and I felt some weird prick of irritation with him. Why the hell was he staring at me? I glared just a bit which made him blink and he smiled self cosciously.
"sorry I know it annoys you when I stare."
"Yeah. It does so quit it." I all but snap at him making him blink agian, this time in surprise as he stared at me and I marched out of the room going through the small door the best I was able to with my large stomach all but it was a bit hard since I was so large. I huffed out a loud breath walking towards his bedroom door when suddenly he grabbed my wrist softly and I turned looking at him still feeling pissed when he leaned down kissing me softly and I blushed gently closing my eyes my stomach touchg his softly. That's when I realized something that made me pull back from Alexander and move my hands down to my large stomach. How did I not notice? I got much much more bigger! Instead of looking nineteen weeks I now looked like I was thirty weeks. It shocked me and I stared up at Alexander who looked down at me. We shared a brief smile before walking downstairs but I got these. . . strange building pains that started in my back and to my hips making me blink but I just ignored it. We sat down in the living room much to my relief with Stormy when suddenly I jerked upright quickly a fast wetness spread between my legs soaking the couch and my clothes.
"A-Alexander. . "
"Raven? Whats wro-" Then he stopped his eyes widening as he saw the wetness soaking through everything and Stormy gasped jumping up shrieking for her parents.
"I-Its time. Who would've thought, six cups of blood later and we get a little baby." I say trying to joke when an intense pain shocked me and he lifted me up runing to the car uttng me in and sped to the hospital. I was scared. Scared of givigng birth. But I was more scared of being a mother and why my baby was coming so soon. I held a hand to my stomach, my face pale and I could stop the scream that burst from my lips as a large and painful contraction hit me and I whimpered as Alexander turned his gaze to me quickly his own face pale and scared. I breathed through the next contraction as pain swamped my body. I closed my eyes barely noting how fastwe were going or that his parents and Stormy were following us. I reached for one of Alexander's hands and I held it so tight as if death was coming to take me away and we stayed like that as we drove and I felt another painful contraction, they were coming ever ten minutes apart but this time it was 6 minutes since the most recent one and I gasped softly as the hospital slowly came into view. We screeched to a stop at the front doors his parents pulling up into the parking lot instead and Alexander rushed out and picked me up running into the hospital and I thanked god the doctor who saw us just yesterday was there for she ran out just as Alexander started yelling.
"Raven how far apart are your contractions?"
"Every six minutes now." I say panting loudly and her eyes widened gently then nodded at two other nurses who put me in a wheel chair wheeling me right to the delivery room and I whimpered again as they laid me on the bed, they put my feet up in these sturups and I felt a bad impulse to push, the doctor must've realized this for she placed a hand on my arm softly as the nurses put in an IV in my left arm and she soothing rubbed her hand up and down my arm softly.
"I know honey, I know you want to push but you can't sweetie not yet its too soon. Here I'll go get Alexander, just a few more minutes is all you have to wait for, me and my nurses need to prepare quickly is all then you'll be holding your baby in a matter of minutes." She flashed me a quick grin and with that she left the room with my impulse to push, push and push to get the baby out when I cried out against the horrible pain shooting throughy body with the contraction and Alexander was there gripping my hand and I held his super tight as I rested on my back sweaty and trembling from the pain and I looked up to see his brown eyes glowing with fear and concern for me, knowing that for some forsaken reason I wanted to do a natural birth, he leaned down kissing my forehead softly.
"Don't worry I'll be here no matter what."
"And I'll be A okay after this and we can go home with our baby." I whisper my throat hurting a bit from my scream when the doctor walked in with her nurse all of them deckedo ut in their scrubs making me want to giggle and then the doctor sat down in between my legs on one of those rolling computer chairs and she looked up at me almost seeming to ask if I was readdy and I nodded when the contraction built up and crashed.
"Push!" And oh dear lord did I push, my scream echoed off the wall with the intense pain rockeeting through my body. "PUSH!" The doctor yells above my fading scream and I heard a large dripping sound and Alexander paled and looked down between my legs.
"Is she supposed to be bleeding that badly?!" He shouts his voice high with panic.
"No shes not that's why we need to get the baby out before harm is done to her OR your baby. Raven you gotta push! C'mon baby girl push push push!" The doctor says in an almost chanting voice and I pushed hard four times screaming loud enough I thought I would catch the attention of God up in the clouds and I screeched, screamed cursed and whimpered when suddenly with one more hard push my baby slipped right out the cry mixing in with my screech and I breathed heavily feeling my face drain of color now hearing a low trickling sound and the baby cried loudly it was a bloody squirming thing in the doctors she smiled.
"Its a girl." A girl. A girl! My own little baby. I wanted her so badly at that moment but they wiped off the blood and wrapped her in a pretty pink blanket handing her to Alexander. He smiled lovingly down at the baby in his arms and I wanted to see her face memorize it for some reason but I wanted too and I held my arms out.
"I want to hold her please. . . " My vioce trailed off, it was no louder than a hoarse whisper which I thought was because of the screaming but a thick blackness began forming at the corners of my vision and I felt tears rising as I stared down at the most beautiful baby in the entire world. She had a light dusting of dark hair ontop of her head that was exactly like mine but it seemed to be tinted darker and she opened her cute tiny eyes. They were a deep beautiful and rich brown just like Alexander's and her small nose, her tiny pink lips and her glowing red cheeks standing out against white skin and I felt a sob burst through my lips. She was so perfect. She was tiny but absolutely perfect and she nuzzled against me and I held her to my chest tightly as tears trickled down as I held my sweet baby when suddenly I heard the heat moniter seem to go. . . weird and the blackness moved over my eyes as I took one last look at my baby and the panic around me was enormous, a nurse took my baby out of my arms and Alexander was hsoved out of the room by his father and I felt the thick air of concern around him as I crashed into a thick darkness.
