Okay soory it took so long but here you go and yes it is very long BUT i think you may like this chappie.
So read and i'll post teh A/N at the bottom
Rose POV
I was huge.
But thankfully I was do any day now but that also was a little bit of a bad thing. Since I was due any day now I had to be in bed, Mikhail really didn't say why he just said that it would be better if I was less stressed and maybe that would help. But see I'm one of those people that have to get up and do something, or at least lately I;m like that, and sure being waited on hand and foot is a great thing. I was starting to get really irritated. And I'm not sure why, I loved Dimitri and I love thing baby that we made.
I knew he was trying to make me comfortable as possible so the birth won't be so bad but we both know either way it's still going to hurt, a lot or at least that's what they tell you. Still I know he means well and I love that about him. Also the staying in bed things also a good thing, because lately I've been extremely tired. And I think most of that is due to my weird dreams.
Most people would think the baby is keeping me up because of the kicking or the punching but surprisingly no, the baby actually slept when ever I did. But the dreams were becoming more erratic. They would shift form these weird ones that involved me somewhere hugely pregnant, like I am now, and a group of Strigoi, that mostly included Dimitri and Lissa with their glowing crimson eyes, wanting to take my baby and then I would always wake up right before the baby was born.
The other dreams I have been having were Lissa's nightmares. I was used to these but that was a long time ago, back when she used to cut herself. Lissa's dreams were just plain disturbing and I'm not even sure how I can slip into them. Since Lissa was still living in America and I was here in Russia. But Lissa's almost always either had me as a Strigoi or me being killed along with her brother Andre.
Every time I closed my eyes I would just have nightmares. I didn't like that, and that was probably one of the reasons why I was put on bed rest and why I was so tired. Dimitri walked into the room carrying a tray of some food and also a notebook.
"So how are we today?" He set the tray on the nightstand and sat down on the edge of the bed. He rubbed my belly and kissed me on the lips. I loved his kissed they were amazing, no words could describe them. Then he pulled away and kissed my belly. Instantly the baby kicked me really hard, he always did that when every Dimitri touched my belly.
"Well better, but I would be so much better if I could just have the baby now. I'm sure it's really nice in there but Mommy is getting really tired and wants to see her feet again."
"I take that as you want to get out of bed, and Rose did you just call yourself 'mommy'?"
"That would be part of the reason, the other part is I want to hold our baby. And yes I did call myself 'mommy' do you have a problem with that 'daddy'?"
His lips met mine again and he stroked my long dark hair. This kiss was one of those where it felt like we were drinking the other person up. But he broke away, slowly though It wasn't a sudden break.
"I have no problem with that at all Roza."
I grabbed the notebook from the tray and started to leaf through it. It was exactly what I needed. Dimitri had written down ways that were supposed to induce labor. Most of them didn't sound like they worked but there were a few that I did like. He noticed that I had the notebook and for some reason he felt the need to explain.
"Well you don't have to do anything on there. Mikhail just said you were probably past your due date and that most pregnant women will usually try anything to induce labor. But you don't have to, he said that we'll just have to wait a little bit more longer for the baby."
"No, no it's okay. Actually I think we could try some of these things." I found one that looked really perfect to try, even if I didn't go into labor it would still probably be fun. "In here it said sex was a way to induce labor. Maybe we could try."
"What ever you wish." He kissed me gently on the lips and began to unbutton his shirt. "I just don't want to hurt the baby." He said softly.
"You won't Dimitri, trust me you won't."
All I can say was that it was amazing. There never are any words to really describe what sex is actually like. For some people it varies. And I only know that because of that bond that Lissa and I have. The way she felt after doing it with Christian was different than Dimitri and I.
I was once again sleepy. Not because that was tiring but because I was just tired. I rested my head on Dimitri's chest. There was no heart beat anymore and I missed that. But there was this really eerie, hollow sound, it was Dimitri breathing.
I just wished that things were different with Lissa and I now. I had a theory that maybe, just maybe we could bring Dimitri back to life. I know Lissa's done it before, I'm living proof. Just the bad ting is that would probably make Dimitri Shadow Kissed like me and he would feel the darkness that I would pull from Lissa.
I didn't really dream tonight. It was a dream, I think, but it wasn't like all of the others. This one was really different but it was still the same. In this dream there was Lissa and my mother also some guardians. I knew most of them because I had gone to school with them or have seen them at the school. My mother was giving the orders and was organizing a small group to go somewhere.
It was weird.
It was also like a warning. But why would this dream be a warning? Just then they began to speak. "Alright now Lissa are you sure that she is still alive?" It was my mother's voice, she actually sounded concerned and I knew it couldn't have been about me. But why would she ask Lissa about any one else?
"Yes Guardian Hathaway. Actually I think she is asleep right now." Lissa's voice changed a little bit. It was more confident. But they couldn't have been talking about me, I mean I wasn't in danger.
But then it hit me. To them I was in danger, after all I was living in a house with Strigoi and I was in bed with one at this very moment.
"Right then. Guardians, we know we need to attack right away but hold your fire until we find Rose. But if they attack you then you can defend yourself. The trip will take roughly and hour to get there and I want us to go in and get her in less than ten minutes."
One of the Guardians spoke. "But Guardian Hathaway, why shouldn't we kill the Strigoi?"
"Because they may try to hurt her or worse turn her. Russian Strigoi are more trickier than the ones around here that you all are used to." She answered with a steady but slow voice, it was like she was trying to hold back tears or something. That was weird and why I thought that this was a dream.
When they went out the door I noticed a few things that were outside. They were in Russia and they were close by. Only they were in the wrong town, but they were pretty close. I just happened to glance at the clock and it read 4:30.
That meant at about 5:30 they would be here if that wasn't a dream. I had to warn everyone. Mikhail had mentioned one day that there were escape routes out of this house, they were underground and he called them some name but if forgot what he said they were called. He said that tunnels could led to almost everywhere in the city and there were also these small Strigoi communities. Molly had to use them one day to get blood from some other town.
I found myself awake when I heard the low roar of an engine come near the house. Dimitri heard it too, we had both jumped out of bed and walked over to the bed, he turned to me and from the look on my face he knew it was bad. I opened my mouth to speak but then a sharp pain went through my body and I felt like someone poured water down my legs.
Dimitri immediately rushed to my side and I just realized that I was doubled over, squeezing the life out of his hand and trying not to scream. "Roza, what's wrong?" His voice was extremely frantic. But he knew the answer I think, we had both known the answer. The baby was finally coming. Baby you really picked a bad time to come, since your grandma wants to kill you dad. Oh and the doctor too.
"Dimitri," I was in so much pain. I was actually thinking that they were kidding in school when they said it hurts but if people experienced this pain, I can see why people don't want kids. "Dimitri, it's my mother and Lissa and also a few of the Guardians." The contraction hit me after that, damn I thought they said at first the contractions were slow. These weren't slow. "Dimitri Lissa wants me to go with them but they are going to kill everyone first."
"What?" It wasn't Dimitri's voice it was Raisa's voice. Her voice was loud and Molly put her hand over her mouth. "Raisa you have to be quiet, dhampir's have really good hearing." Molly stated in a whispered voice. "What do you mean that they are here to kill us?"
------oOo-------I was going to leave you guys here but……….
I tried to gather myself together but it was just a little hard when you know your mom and used to be best friend are trying to kill everyone that has practically been like family to me for almost a year. And then there is also the fact that one of those people is your boyfriend/ baby daddy, and you are also having that baby right at this very moment.
Yeah this was just a great day wasn't it?
"Ahh," Dimitri and Mikhail placed their hands over my mouth so we could muffle the sound. Dimitri had placed a thick warm blanket around my shoulders. Mikhail, Molly and Raisa were busy trying to pack a few things so we could leave and I could have my baby.
"Raisa they are trying to kill you guys because my dumb ass best friend said I was in danger." I said while trying to regain my breath. Mikhail walked over to me and showed me the way that he wanted me to breathe. I tried but I felt stupid doing it. We gathered our stuff and walked down the back way into the basement.
Down in the basement, it looked like your typical basement. Molly and Raisa were the first ones down stairs and they had already gone into the tunnels. There was two doors there. Both were used for food. One was just your typical pantry that had a way out but you couldn't see it. It was well hidden. And the other was an ice room. It also had a way out but that one was near impossible to find, easy to get into that room through the passage but just hard to find.
There was a loud boom that came from up stairs. My guess is that the ten minute rule was up and they were just having a heyday up there. But we couldn't stop for anything. The pain came back and this time Dimitri's and Mikhail's hands weren't fast enough to cover my mouth.
I tried to muffle the scream but it was just a little hard. I knew that they had heard it and I felt the connection through Lissa come closer to me. Through Lissa I could hear my mother lead two other guardians down stairs. Lissa followed them and then I saw , through Lissa's eyes, myself, Dimitri and Mikhail.
"Rose, you have to get away, now." It was Lissa's voice. It looked like she was trying to use compulsion on me again. But it didn't over power that sharp pain I was feeling.
"God Damn it Lissa quit using fucking compulsion on me!" She knew I didn't like it but she still used it on me.
"Rose, honey, you have to get away from them." She was using a sickly sweet voice, she was still trying to use compulsion on me.
"Lissa, enough already quite trying to use compulsion on me, it's not working obviously because I'm in labor. God how stupid can you get."
"Rose, you have to get away from them now." It was my mother and she was using that motherly stern voice that she always thought she could use on me, but it never worked. Because she was never around and basically the Academy acted like my parents. Hell the only person I had actually ever known in my family was my mom, she never mentioned my dad. And she only talked about he cousins when ever she threatened to send me to a community.
"No mom, I'm old enough now and I can make my own choices, you don't own me anymore." I knew that stung her but I couldn't see her face. The air was filled with smoke. But it wasn't fire smoke it was just like hundreds of smoke bombs went off. Dimitri handed me a cloth to breath through and they both led me into the tunnels.
We ended up going to a small hospital where a friend of Mikhail was working. He was where Mikhail had gotten the ultrasound machine from and also a few things that I needed during my pregnancy. They got me cleaned up and put into a room.
Dimitri was right by my side, holding my hand and trying to coach me. Neither of us had been through this and we were both clueless, perfect. The doctor spoke English almost perfectly. It was nice to have a doctor that I could understand but even if we didn't there was still Dimitri, who could be my translator.
"Well lets see how far we are." If I wasn't in pain this guy would defiantly be getting hurt by me. "Your fully dilated so are you ready to push?"
"She's that far already? She's only been in labor for about five hours."
"Dimitri, she was probably in labor longer than that but we didn't know it. But people have been in labor for only a few hours to a few days. So Rose are you ready to push?"
I gave him a nod and he told me to push as hard as I could. It was only till the count of ten but it was still hard, every time I doubted that I would even make it to ten. It felt like for ever for the pain to finally stop, I felt like I was going to die…again. But at the height of the pain it suddenly dulled. I hear a little cry and Dimitri kissed my forehead and wiped the sweat from my face.
"I would say you did amazing but you did much, much better than that. I love you and thank you for giving me a healthy son." He brushed my hair back and kissed me again. The doctor called him back and handed him a pair of scissors. The nurses wrapped him up and laid him on my chest.
He looked so beautiful. He had Dimitri's deep dark eyes and I could see my hair on his head. His skin was still a little red but it was starting to turn a tan color. Dimitri kissed our newborn son and spoke something in Russian, it was too quiet to hear but I could only think that it was something personal, so I didn't ask him.
After a little while, with went by really fast, one of the nurses took our son to get him cleaned up and they wheeled me off to get cleaned up and to be put into a different room.
Dimitri's POV
I still can't believe that I am a father.
When Rose's mother and Lissa had showed up at the house I didn't think I would have a chance to see my son. But I did and Roza did the most amazing job having our son. Amazing wasn't even the word to describe it, it was more than that.
I was exhausted but I think Rose was even more. She had woken up and our house was being raided by Guardians from the academy and they also included her mother and, apparently now ex-best friend, Lissa. Lissa had been trying to convince Rose to leave and for some weird reason I felt the space around Rose change, I think Lissa was trying to use compulsion on her.
But I guess the pain from the baby caused that link to break. I was hoping that Rose would be sleeping now, or at least thats what the nurses said they would make her do. Before everyone would come and see the baby. He looked like the perfect combination of both of us. He had my dark eyes and Rose's beautiful dark hair. His skin was beginning to turn almost the same shade as Rose's but maybe a little bit lighter.
I walked out into the lobby area where Mikhail, Raisa and Molly were waiting. Molly was the first to run up to me. It surprised me because her and Rose didn't get along to well but since she became a Strigoi I guess things between them changed.
"So how is she?"
"She's fine, they are both fine actually. Rose is sleeping right now and my son is getting cleaned up."
"So what does he look like?" Raisa was right behind Molly.
"Well he has my eyes and he has Rose's hair he also has her skin tone but maybe just a few shades lighter."
I led them to the nursery where all of the newborns were kept. There were actually quiet a few in there and for everyone else it was hard for them to find my newborn son, but I knew which one he was.
It was strange since they all looked the same, but it was like he had something special that none of the other babies had. Well he did have two kick ass guardians for parents, well he really only has one and the other one was turned into a Strigoi. I talked to the nurse and I had to verify that I was his father with my hospital tag that they gave me right before I went into the room to coach Rose.
They led his cart over to me and I wheeled it over to Rose's room. I knew she wouldn't sleep that long but at least she slept a little bit. Her faced instantly lit up when she saw our baby enter the room. If she wasn't hooked up to the IV I think she would have ran over to me and our son.
Rose POV
I saw my son and it felt like and eternity since I had seen him.
There were no more red splotches of skin on him and he had this light tan skin that covered his body. His dark eyes were halfway closed and his beautiful dark hair had been washed and combed perfectly.
"So what did you decide to call him." It was Raisa. She brushed her fingers down his plump little cheeks.
I didn't know what we were going to call him. Alexei was a name we both liked, but we also wanted to go the more traditional route and give him the usually patronymic middle name, in this case we decided for Dimitriyevic, it meant that he was the son of Dimitri.
"How about Alexei." Dimitri smiled.
"I love it. His name will be Alexei Dimitriyevic Belikov." He sounded so proud when he said our son's name.
Alexei meant 'to protect' which was a little ironic.
Hopefully I got his middle name right, i was trying to figure it out from a website. Also Alexei was derived from Alexey, which does mean to protect and if they do have anouther kid then i defiantly have the name picked out.
I am part Russian but i'm like a 3rd generation american so sorry if I make any mistakes and also i've never had a baby or anything so yeah sorry if I mess up on that, well any who I hope you liked it, remember to review. And i'm going to read Hunted and also good news the next book is out August 2009 and it's called Blood Promise
