Dimitri:

I watched the emotions flicker through my beautiful Roza's face. Then the look she got when avoiding a question settled. I felt like doing the typical Rose and rolling my eyes at her feeble attempts at keeping something from me.

"Okay, Hypothetically, what would you say if I wanted a baby?" My heart sank. It had finally happened, she wanted the one thing I couldn't really give her. I had asked Lissa, she said in was hard for even shadow-kissed women to have children with dhampirs because of an intense mental need both partners needed to have for it to work. I wanted a child so badly, now she did. I didn't want to adopt, I want the whole experience, laying together and feeling the baby kick, even holding her hand when it arrived, knowing Rose, I would end up with a few broken fingers and a guarenteed swearing explosion. But, I wanted it to be my baby, not someone elses. I was selfish but I wanted it to be the child of Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov, not Rose Hathaway and unknown sperm doner. It wasn't the same.

"Rose, I want a baby too, but I want it to be our baby. We can't adopt and I doubt you'll be happy with another man's child growing inside of you." I frowned at her peculiar expression and watched the excitement flare in her gorgeous brown eyes. What was she up too... something clicked in the back of my mind... maybe she had found a way for us... hope surged up, stronger than ever before. Could we have the perfect child I envisioned?

"What if was our baby... what if... what if it was growing in me right now." I stared at her, not comprehending what she was saying at all. Did that mean she was... I couldn't even think the P word. Or was she being completely hypothetical? A huge grin made her glow as she gently took my hand and placed it on her stomach, between her hips. It was perfectly flat but I knew we had only just.. been with eachother last night. How would she kniow so quickly? Or was it a shadow-kissed thing.

"Dimitri... breathe... I am pregnant. With our baby... our child. If you don't start responding I'll be forced to perform mouth to mouth" she winked muschievously and I knew she wasn't kidding. We were having a baby! I felt my lips twitch of their own accord, a small upturn. A full out grin stretched across my face and I picked her up in ecstasy, swinging her around. Someone walked in and whistled to gain our attention. She laughed and I out her down gently, beaming at Eddie.

"Eddie! We're having a baby! A baby!" I tried reigning in some degree of control, trying to make myself seem more like how I usually am but I failed miserably. Laughing with my beautiful Roza, the mother of my child."

Rose POV:

I couldn't believe how happy Dimitri sounded, how happy he looked. He glowed, seeming more like a god than ever, Eddie congratulated us, kinda weirded out by a happy Beliokov when he was usually Mr. - stone-mask-sulky-badass. Next thing, Dimitri had a cell phone whipped out and was rapidly speaking in russian. I shook my head, hearing Roza and sat down with a huff. I really needed to learn more russian...

"I'll put you on speaker. Mama, Roza and I have something to tell you. Roza is pregnant and I am the father. Shadowkissed dhampir woman can have children with other dhampirs." Squealing and happy gushes erupted from the other side or the line and I heard Oleona demanding that we go to Russia before the baby was due so it could be born there. I just nodded in a daze. I was pregnant...

I knew how Adrian could tell so early on that I was pregnant. His aura power was advanced but that wouldn't make a difference on normal people. The baby has an aura the minute it embeds in the ehem.. uterus. Uck . I hate even thinking the word, juvenile, I know. With everyone else, the aura of the baby is so similar to the parent that it blends with theirs but, because mine is a shadowkissed aura, the babies is a bright golden yellow amidst a lot of grey and black. Joy for baby. I smiled happily, watching Dimitri,

"Wow Dimitri, your happy glow, it's blinding!" he grinned goofily at me and picked me up carefully bridal style, carrying me to our little house. Our phone was presented to me and a paper with Janine and Abe scrawled in his beautiful handwriting shoved infront of my nose. Dimitri's serious mentor face fixed in place, I knew I couldn't win. I sighed a little and decided Abe was the lesser of two very scary evils, he actually valued family... If Janine took it the wrong way I would be hiding in a dark cave, living on pepperoni sticks and cans of condensed milk for the rest of my life. Not a pleasant future... the ringing phone cut me out of my nightmarish thoughts and I frowned at Dimitri, knowing he dialed for me.

"Mazur, how can I help you Gaurdian Belikov?" His thickly accented voice smoothly sounded, power oozing off him. I sighed and leant against Dimitri's rock hard body for comfort.

"Abe, it's Rose. I have to tell you something important..." His intake of breath showed his contained suprise and he changed his voice to a warmer tone I knew he used when he tried to butter me up or, as he did last time, get me out of the country. Some dad he is...

"Well Kiz, what would that be?" He was like me, straight to busines.. well at least I knew where it came from. I rolled my eyes, I knew that my bad-ass ness was too good to be all me.

"Well, Dimitri and I wanted to let you know that I am pregnant. With Dimitri's baby. So, um, yeah. You're going to be a granddad, old man." My declaration was met with absolute silence. Even the crickets were completely astounded. I chuckled lightly and started winding my fingers in Dimitri's ponytail, listening to the harsh breathing that started on the other end of the phone.

"Pass me to Dimitri please, Rose." I sighed and handed the phone to the god in question and grumbled. Just because I was the kid doesn't mean I couldn't hear what the "big men" had to say. I huffed and slammed my hands down on his thigh, catching his attention. He was listening, intently. I started imagining the coversation, the long and explicit ways my 'father' planned on disemboweling us with a rusty spoon and ripping out Dimitri's spine to beat him with it. Obviously my imagination was a little too active for my own good but it was entertaining.

"Trust me sir, that is a very important thing to me, one I plan on remedying as soon as she'll let me. No, of course." He held out the phone to me and I slowly put it to my ear.

"How much of that were you listening to Rose?" He sounded tired, like this whole thing had worn him out. My old man... I snorted quietly and cocked my head to the side, thinking the best way to answer while unfuriating him. I was in a Rose mood.

"Depends, did you plan on beating him senseless with his own spine?" once again, silence, except it was Dimitri that stopped breathing. Abe just laughed and said no, humour rumbling through his already deep voice.

"Well, my son, your half brother is coming over to protect you while you are pregnant. With your charges, Dimitri can't always protect you and I will not have my daughter in danger. Kai will be there in two days time. Goodbye Kiz, tell your mother" I had a brother? What? I just stared at the keypad, blank filling my mind. Just pause for a moment, rewind and repeat, I have a brother...? Kai...