Hey! So I'm sure this is the chapter most of you have been waiting for this update and there is a pretty big surprise you probably wouldn't expect to be in this chapter. But guess what? IT IS! So you'll just have to read to find out what it is. I'm really excited to be posting this chapter because it's my fave so far. So please review if you like it, it'll be highly appreciated if you do. I really want to know what you think. And congrats to for guessing the name. Happy reading! :)
Chapter 11 – This truly is the best day of my entire life!
Giving birth was nothing like how I imagined it would be. It was painful and hard but it was easier than I thought it was going to be. I screamed at Dimitri a few times telling him that he lied when he told me he loved me because if he really did he wouldn't have done this to me and things like that. But in truth I was over exaggerating.
"Rose you did it!" Lissa told me once my daughter was finally born. I was so exhausted that I hadn't even realized Dimitri had cut the umbilical cord and the doctor had put her in some crib thing.
"I want to see her." I said as the doctor and some nurses started to wheel her out of the room.
"Very quickly, we have to take her and hook her up to a machine that will help her get oxygen." The Doctor said.
As they were wheeling her over to me the nurse lowered my bed so that I could see my baby without moving too much.
"Oh my god she's so tiny, she beautiful!" I said and looking down into her big brown eyes put me in some sort of other universe.
Then the nurse said, "I'm sorry we have to go now." and wheel her away, bringing me back down to earth.
I hadn't even noticed I was crying until Dimitri wiped the tears off my face and looked into my eyes with so much love.
So from my first contraction to seeing my little angel it is was only 4 hours, apparently that's quite quick for a first child. Lissa wished us congratulations and left the room to go meet Christian who was waiting outside the room. After the nurse had finished fixing me up they wheeled me out of the delivery room and back to my room where they left Dimitri and I alone.
"She looks like you Roza." Dimitri said as he lay next to me on the bed.
"Yeah she does but she has your eyes." I say and then start crying again.
"Rose everything is going to be ok, I promise." He said kissing me on the forehead.
"I know that, I'm not crying because I'm sad, I am crying because I am so happy Comrade." I tell the love of my life and father to my perfect miracle.
I swear I actually saw his eyes get teary but then he blinked a few times and they cleared up.
"I am so very happy to, my Roza." He said to me before kissing me like he never had before.
It was such a kiss I don't even know how to describe it. Even though I was sore I rolled onto my side a little so that I could get closer to him. He put one hand on my cheek and the other he used to lace his fingers in my hair. I would have stayed like that a hell of a lot longer just kissing him but our perfect moment was interrupted by my phone started beeping on the table next to me. As I reopened my eyes, I saw Dimitri reach over and pick it up.
"What does it say?" I ask.
"It's Christian, he says as they were rushing out of the delivery room he managed to get a picture. Here look at her." He said passing me the phone.
"She really is an angel. I swear if I hadn't of just given birth then I would say she was my twin." I joked and Dimitri just laughs at me and shakes his head.
"So do you think the name we've picked suits her?" He asks while I'm still staring at the picture.
"Yeah I think it's perfect?" I say still memorized by the baby on the phone that I can proudly call mine.
Roza you can't just 'think' it's perfect you have to know because once it's on the birth certificate you can't change it." He says amused.
"Ok then let me rephrase. Yes, Nina Vasilissa Belikov is one hundred percent, definitely, positively perfect. Now was that better?" I ask.
Dimitri could not control his laughter and almost rolled off the bed and even though I was deadly serious, I couldn't help but laugh as well.
"Yes that was more convincing. God I love you so much Rose. I could not imagine my life without you and I never want to. You have made my life worth living and after Ivan died and then me becoming a strigoi, I thought I'd never feel that way again yet you made me see how stupid that was. I have thought about this and I can honestly say that I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I want us to raise Nina as a proper family. " He said getting off the bed and down on one knee, pulling a little, black, velvet box out of his pocket.
Oh my god he is not doing what I think he's doing.
"So Roza would you please do me the extraordinary honor of becoming my wife?" he asked, opening the little black box revealing the most gorgeous, and I'm sure a very expensive, engagement ring.
I was shocked and I had no idea what to say but me being me said "Comrade two things. One; I thought you'd never ask and two; of cause I will marry you, you idiot." I say and he smiles so big all I can d is laugh.
He gets a hold of my left hand and slips the ring onto my finger. If I thought the kiss he gave me before was indescribable, well this one was WOW! Like seriously WOW, WOW, and… WOW!
He laid back down next to me and held close while I rested my head on his chest and fell asleep.
I woke to the sound of a baby half crying and a soothing Russian. I opened my eyes and saw Dimitri holding our Nina in his arms trying to calm her down by speaking to her in Russian.
"Hey you promised you'd teach me some Russian before the Nina arrived. You lied Comrade!" I said in a disapproving voice as I watched him.
"Sorry Roza but she came a little earlier than I expected. Do you want to hold her?" he asked me.
"Yes please." I said sitting up putting my arms out impatiently.
Dimitri walked over smiling and placed my still crying baby in my arms. She wasn't like full on crying it was sort of like a soft cry but whatever kind of cry it was, it stopped the second she was in my arms.
"Hey there Nina. Oh you're going to stop crying for me are you?" I say to her then turned to Dimitri and say "Ha sucked in Comrade, she's going to be a mummy's girl."
He laughs and says "Good luck with that Roza."
Then I realized something.
"Umm Dimitri why is Nina in here? I thought she had to go be hooked up to some machine. Oh my god you didn't go kidnap your own daughter did you?" I ask.
"No of cause not Roza! The doctor brought her in about ten minutes before you woke up. He said that she healed herself really quickly and was breathing normally and needed no help at all." He said looking down at Nina with what I think was pride in his eyes.
"Oh, well that's good!" I say just as the door opens and Olena pokes her head through the door.
"Hi guys, I'm not interrupting anything am I?" she asks.
"No Mamma! Would you like to come meet your Granddaughter?" Dimitri asks.
"I think you already know the answer to that my Dimika. Everyone else is waiting outside, they didn't all want to come in, if you weren't up to it Rose." She said as she walked over and took Nina out of my arms.
"Oh she's so beautiful! Dimika, Rose I am so very happy for you both. What have you decided to name her?" She asked looking between the both of us.
"Nina Vasilissa Belikov. Nina because I've always like it, Vasilissa after Lissa and Belikov because, well we decided before but, we're getting married." I say.
"So you finally did it Dimika. Oh I'm so proud of you. Congratulations!" She said hugging her only son and tears streaming down her face.
This truly is the best day of my entire life!
Hope you liked it. Were you surprised? Please review and let me know what you thought. :)
