The next thing that I remember, I woke up at home with Dimitri no where in sight. I sat up in bed and went to the stairs. Pancake batter met my nose like an old friend; at least it would if it hadn't made me nauseous. I finished walking down the stairs with my hand pressed against my mouth.

I found Dimitri in the kitchen and his back was to me. He was humming something that I didn't recognized so I chalked it up to being a Russian song that he knew. I came up beside him and looked at his hands work.

"Hey," he said as soon as he noticed me. "How are you feeling?"

"Sick to my stomach," I said through my hand.

"The doctor said that would happen. Let's go sit down in the living room. You hungry?" He gestured towards the pancakes.

"Yes to the sitting, no to the food, and what about the doctor?" I said.

Dimitri wrapped an arm around my shoulders and walked me into the living room and pulled me onto the couch.

"The doctor said that you'd be sick for a little bit. Don't you remember?"

"Dimitri, I don't remember anything except blacking out on the plane," I answered.

Dimitri looked at me with concern, but excitement took over almost immediately. He had something to tell me and it was huge. He took my hands in his and he smiled at me.

"Rose, you're pregnant."

I stared at him for a moment, taking in what he had just told me. I couldn't be pregnant could I? I mean, we were both dhampirs. That kind of thing just doesn't happen. At least, that's what I thought.

Dimitri noticed the questions running through my head and he squeezed my hands. "Lissa and I have been looking into it. There are known cases of dhampirs having children together. The only way that it can happen is if one of them is shadow-kissed. It changes them somehow. We don't know what, but in every case that we've looked at, one of the dhampirs was shadow-kissed."

"We…we're going to be parents?" I was starting to warm up to the idea of being a mom.

"Yeah, we are," Dimitri replied. I could see tears forming in his dark brown eyes.

"Oh my god," was all I was able to say as I hugged Dimitri tight. I used to think that I didn't want to have kids of my own. Now that I was, I was calling myself mental for thinking that I was not wanting this miracle to happen. I was so happy and I wasn't letting my mood drop anytime soon.

So i'm almost done with this story! I won't leave you hanging and there will be an epilogue so you will know what's been going on. -SagWarrior