Chapter 11-

A/N- I am back again! Time for this update that I have been thinking about forever

Disclaimer-I do not own, crap well I do but anyway you get the point.

Thanks to My reviewers and a special shout out to Kchan88 and moonservant

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"No, no, no." Christine said breathlessly in her sleep. "Stop, please." Raoul lied awake watching her, toss and turn with another nightmare of her rape. It had been two weeks since the trial and every night since then she would have the same nightmare over and over again. Raoul knew she was in pain and she had to be watched very carefully so she would not be driven to suicide, which he knew was common among rape victims. This night was different tho Raoul could not bear to see his wife in this state much longer. He slipped a sleeping aid between her pink, plump lips, in the case she might awake and call for him. Raoul kissed her forehead before leaving the room and mounting his horse.

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Fredric sat with chains holding him to the wall, he had heard of the Vicomtess' pregnancy and knew the child was his. He would have to get out of this cell as soon as he could as to claim the child that was rightfully his. It was then he heard the clicking of boots on the stone floor coming towards his cell, the door was opened and to his surprise he saw none other than the Vicomte DeChangy standing there.

"What are you doing here?" He spat with distaste for the man who had married his property. He was answered with a strong punch to the jaw followed be another and another. Raoul kept punching him until his knuckles had begun to bleed, tired of using his fists, Raoul resorted to kicking him harshly in the stomach a few times. Fredric had never felt this much pain in his life but he pulled his voice up through his bleeding mouth. "You are wasting your time, you will never restore what I have taken." He said between shallow breaths as he shook his hand with Christine's chastity ring on it. This only angered Raoul more.

"You bastard!" He roared delivering a new round of kicks to his stomach and crotch. After he tired of beating the man, he stood up to his full height breathing heavily.

"If you really want me dead, please do it now, so this pain can end!" Fredric pleaded, his head and abdomen throbbing. Raoul smirked and only replied,

"Yes, yes, now you know the amount of pain you have caused her."

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It had been a three months since Raoul's rendezvous with Fredric and Christine was now in her fifth month a small bulge had appeared on her once perfect figure but luckily her nightmares had been only showing up every few nights which Raoul was very thankful for. Christine was standing at the window looking out onto the beautiful summer landscape when she felt a small pressure against her stomach.

"Raoul, come here." She called him from his desk where he was looking over her medical costs.

"Yes, what do you want my dear?" He asked walking to her place at the window.

"No do not speak, just feel." She pulled his hand to her stomach and placed it where she had felt the kick. Raoul felt the pressure amounting against his hand urging tears to well up behind his eyes but he swallowed them back trying to keep an air for the distaste he felt for the violence in which the small life had been, conceived in but it did not work, he could not hate something that was a part of Christine, something that would inherit her beauty, something that would grow up calling him Papa. He gave in and let the tears fall.

"Christine, that feels so wonderful." He held a genuine smile not able to keep up with this charade of hating the life within her.

"Oh I know, when I first felt it, I felt so beautiful to have a child in me but then to think how the child was brought into the world made me feel ugly and dirty."

"No, Christine, do not feel that way, our child will be beautiful do not worry about anything else." As he spoke he held her shoulders to show her all he said was true.

"Raoul," She smiled. "Did you just say our child?"

"Yes I did." He said now fully knowing that no matter who the biological father was, he would strive to be the one the child called Father.

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A/N- Weird ending I know, this chap dose not sit well with me for some reason but review anyway.