Chapter 9

Dimitri got to me first. He picked me up and took me back into the cabin. Adrian followed him yelling at Dimitri to let me go. I really wasn't in the mood right now to listen to any of this. I was in too much pain to argue with anyone. Dimitri laid me down on the bed and walked over to get a damp cloth for my head. Adrain continued to argue with him.

"Belikov give her to me. She needs a doctor." He said firmly

"She won't make it there in time. I've been around women who have children most of my life. Trust me on that." Dimitri said emotionless. Dimitri walked over and placed the cloth on my head as I stuggled to catch my breath.

"You're just saying that!" Adrian yelled

"Adrian, please don't start this now" I said through my ragged breathing

The two started fighting again. I was getting really tired of the yelling. As the next contraction came I screamed at them.

"ENOUGH!"

They both turned their heads to me.

"I know you both hate each other but this isn't about your feud right now. This is about the fact that this baby is coming now. I'm in a lot of pain here so I'd appreciated it if you both would stop fighting for right now and help me!"

Dimitri rose and went to get supplies and Adrian walked over to me.

"I don't trust him Rose" Adrain said to me as he tried to help me get more comfortable.

"I know, but he is from a town with no doctors so he might be able to deliver the baby. He lived in a dhampir commune. Please Adrain trust me on this"

"Okay"

Wow this was going to be a long night

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I really wish my mom told me how much this hurts before now. It's been hours and the baby is still not here yet. I kept slipping in and out of consciousness. I just wanted the pain to end.

Adrian had me laying on his lap and clutching his hand while Dimitri would be getting a new cloth for my head or check my dilation or something. Occasionally Adrian ans Dimitri would start yelling at each other and I would have to break them up. I heard them talking at one point when I was resting. I guess they thought I was sleeping.

"So are you the one who has stolen her heart now" Dimitri asked

"Yea, what's it to you." Adrian said back sarcastically. Oh great he's going to start an argument again. I thought.

"It's everything to me. She stole my heart long ago and she still holds it. I never needed anyone else like I need her."

Wait did he say he needed me? He didn't say that to me? I thought. It was the truth. Dimitri continually said he wanted me since he's been a strigoi, he's never once said he loved me or needed me. Maybe he really did still care.

"Funny I thought you only wanted her" Adrian said

"She told you about that?" Dimitri said.

"You thought she wouldn't?"

"No, I just figured she wouldn't go into detail."

"Oh believe me, I wish she hadn't"

"She was the only one who made me feel whole. I almost lost her to someone else once, another student guardian. When he died. I had to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart. Now I've lost her again."

"I just don't get you. First you tell her you can't be with her, then you says you love her, then you say you want her, now you say you need her. Why can't you make up your mind?"

"I made up my mind about her a long time ago. I just know I can't be with her as I am now. I would hurt her as I did in Siberia. I couldn't live with myself if I did that."

"Well, you certainly are causing her a lot of pain right now."

"What are you talking about?"

"Well she certainly ain't having my kid. We didn't do anything like that until after she came back from Siberia. She apparently got pregnant before she left"

"Not possible, we were both dhampir at the time"

"How do you know it's not possible. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that she's shadow-kissed."

Dimitri got extremely quiet at that point which made me wonder if he figured out what I had known all along. It then got quiet except for the fire crackling and the occasional sound of breathing. Then the quiet was broken by me. I jolted awake and gasped, feeling the strongest pain I had felt yet. Both men jumped at my sudden movement. Adrain broke the silence.

"Rose, what is it?"

I looked at him in fear.

"I think it's time to push"

A/N I know I'm cruel. Sorry for the extremely long wait for this but I had a lot on my mind

Hopefully I won't have to make you wait too long for the next chapter