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Okay... Sorry for taking so long to get this one up, but I've had so much fun writing the next couple of chapters of Alternate Universe that I couldn't
stop writing it... But I got it done... YAY! Anyway, here 'tis...
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Sandy

Chapter Thirty-six

Where am I?

Rose... Something's wrong...

I know Liss, we're coming. Is Christian there with you?

No, I'm here with your parents. My parents? Odd... Just then I thought of something.

Get my dad to bring you downstairs and wait there for us; we're only a minute away. I then heard her talking to my dad but was still in pain. We got into the car that we'd borrowed to get to the clinic in the first place, the doctor included. We got back to the apartment building just as my dad was walking outside with Lissa in his arms. We got her into the back of the car where the doctor did some basic tests to see if she was alright and we flew back to the med centre where a gurney was waiting for us. It was only a matter of minutes when Christian walked in.

"Where is she Rose? Is she alright, the babies?" he asked in quick succession.

"Calm down Christian, the doctor's examining her," I said as I pointed down to the room. He ran off and opened the door slightly before asking if he could go in. They must have said yes because he went in. I debated if I should go into Lissa's head to see what was going on, but I thought that this was something private... I was getting a bit uptight at not knowing what was going on, I could feel that she was calm, but it still didn't make me feel any better. Finally Christian came out with a worried look on his face.

"FINALLY! What's going on in there?" I asked him. He gave me a confused look.

"You don't know already?"

"No... I stayed out... Is she alright? Are the babies?" I said, almost mirroring his previous questions to me...

"Thank you Rose." He said sincerely. "And yes Lissa's fine, but it looks like she might go into premature labour. The doc is going to do a scan in a minute, just to check that everything is alright." I looked up to Dimitri, who had his guardian face on.

"So...Will they all be alright?"

"Well, we won't know until he does the scan. Do you want to go in to see..." Before he could finish the sentence I took off to her room. I heard some giggling and I also heard Dimitri say something like... 'That answers that question'...

I walked into her room and she finally unleashed her feelings through the bond. She was so worried, she felt so helpless. "I can't lose them Rose, either one of them."

"You won't, there are a lot of people here who won't let that happen. There are two more spirit users here that will also help at a moment's notice, you know that right?" She nodded but her anxiety didn't diminish at all.

"What happened with you earlier, with the doctor?" she had spoken to me after the doctor rang Dimitri, so I let her know where we'd be. She was genuinely interested, but she also used it as an opportunity to think of something else.

"Well..." I said as I tried to think of how to approach the subject of me drinking blood, when her eyes widened and she sat bolt upright on her bed.

"ROSE! Oh my God! You drank?" She was so shocked that I had actually done it, her and me both actually. "Are you alright?"

"Am I alright? Gees Liss..." I said shaking my head, she was the one in hospital, this time and she was asking if I was alright... "They want to do an amnio thingy to run some tests. As soon as I drank it, the baby moved. I think it was exactly what the baby wanted. I couldn't believe it... Liss, what if I've been starving my baby this whole time?" She reached out and took my hand in hers as we both sat on her bed.

"I don't think anything bad has happened to your baby Rose, but at least now you know what it needs...and wants by the looks of things, then you're going to have to...suck it up!" She said with a smile.

"Oh! A joke... Funny..." I said sarcastically... although it was quite funny... "I couldn't do it in front of Dimitri though... but, wow... it tasted so good." She softly giggled to herself and tilted her head to the side.

"I know. All these years you've screwed your nose up at me when I fed and now you know just how yummy it is..."

"Yeah, righty-oh!" Suddenly I felt her emotions get serious again.

"Rose, the doctor said that I have to have bed rest from now on, until the babies are born. I won't be able to help..." I knew what she was referring to. My upcoming battle with Mrs Karp and her minions.

"You were never going to be in the middle of that anyway Liss." I saw her expression change and that she was about to argue with me... "Don't even try it. You know damn well that I was never going to let you come with us. We're both pregnant Liss. It's bad enough timing that she has to rear her ugly Strigoi head when I happen to be pregnant, but I can't take the risk that you would get hurt."

"I know. I just wish I could be there to help, I may be needed."

"You're not the only healer we have you know." I said with a sly smile.

"Yeah, but I'm the only one who can help you if you really get hurt." I knew what she meant; she wouldn't lose our bond if she had any say in the matter. So I just nodded. Just then Christian and Dimitri walked into the room.

"Hey Sparky." I grinned at him.

"Hey Buffy." He grinned back at me. Dimitri came up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him as the doctor came back into the room.

"I need to do a scan," The doctor said looking at me and Dimitri. I know that he wanted us to leave but I wasn't going anywhere.

"Well I don't know about everyone else, but I'm staying." I was being serious, but everyone else thought it was funny... The scan was done and it was found that the babies were fine for now, but they could come at any tick of the clock. They wanted to keep her in the hospital but she told everyone in no uncertain terms that that wasn't going to happen! I loved it when she grew some balls and stood up for herself. A compromise was made and she was allowed to return to the apartments, but she was to have complete bed rest and she had to have a nurse at all times, the babies would be monitored and at the first sign that anything was wrong, she was to go straight back to the hospital...

Adrian had come to the hospital to see if everything was alright and we told him what was going on, once he was satisfied that Lissa and the babies were okay, he left, so when we finally got home, we walked into a very different looking apartment. The lounge suite that used to be here was now gone and in its place was a cream leather lounge that was so soft that you felt like you were sitting on a cloud and another single lounge that was somewhere in between a bed and a lounge. Adrian had ordered this one be bought over so that she would be in comfort no matter where she spent her time. He also bought in another wide screen television for the bedroom, so that if she wanted to stay in there, she could. No matter his outward nonchalance, I knew Adrian loved us all and would do anything that was in his power for any one of us.

Once she was all set up, Dimitri and I went to our apartment next door. I shut the door behind me that joined the two rooms and looked up to see Dimitri standing with his back to me and his head down. I went around to see what was wrong but he had his eyes closed. "What's wrong?" I asked him. He opened his eyes and looked at me; all I could see was pain.

"I don't know what I'd do if I lost you, either one of you." He said as he placed his hands on my stomach. As I looked into his eyes I felt his hand move under my shirt to my waist and my body responded instantly, I smiled and pressed up against him.

"You won't," I said in an almost whisper. "I fought too damn hard to get you back, nothing is going to separate us again. I won't let it." I reached up on my toes and pulled him down to me. He scooped me up into his arms without breaking the kiss and walked to our bedroom. Once there he put me down onto the floor and held my face as he stared into my eyes. He never said anything, but it was like he was searching my eyes for some sort truth or answers, but then he pressed his lips to mine in a hard, desperate kiss; taking my breath away with the intensity of it. He didn't waste any time in ridding my body of the clothes I had on and his hands searched my body, eventually making their way down. One hand slipped in between my legs making me moan immediately. I reached up and pulled at the button on his pants; he took that task over as I got rid of his shirt. He reached around behind me; lifting me up by my butt and then walked over to the bed with me wrapped around his body. As he laid my back onto the bed, he entered me... "Oh my..." My words were cut off by his mouth as he continued kissing me, his tongue pushing into my mouth, mirroring the thrusts that he was making with his hips.

His actions soon pushed me over the edge and I yelled out in my own ecstasy, but he wasn't finished... His smile took my breath away as I opened my eyes... "I love you Rose," he whispered. His actions slowed, his kisses became softer as he brought his mouth along my jaw then down my throat... his tongue made circles on my skin. He reached behind me grabbing my butt and then pulled me on to him. I looked at his beautiful face and smiled, these moments...quiet, knowing moments, filled my heart, it was like our eyes said everything that couldn't be said in actual words. His hands caressed my growing stomach and then made their way up to my ever increasing chest, our bodies moving together as one. Then we rolled again and his thrusts sped up sending me into my second climax, then he kissed me again as he reached his own. He laid on my body, still inside me and I lifted my leg around him to keep him there. I reached up putting my hand on his cheek and smiled.

"I love you." I whispered. We stayed in this position for ages, just looking into each other's eyes, totally comfortable, totally in love but he soon pulled himself off me and laid against my side. We soon fell asleep in each other's arms and it wasn't long before the normal black nothing of sleep transformed into something else...

I was walking...somewhere... but it was black and I couldn't see anything around me, but at the same time, I could see where I was going... "Adrian?" I called out. It wasn't anything like one of his normal dream walks, actually he'd never done anything like this before, but it wasn't like any dream I'd had before either. "Adrian, if you're here would you like to color things up a little and maybe add a little light?" I stood there waiting for him to appear but he didn't. I was starting to get a funny feeling right about now... I could feel my heart start to beat faster, so I tried to change the scenery myself. Adrian had actually shown me how to do this and I'd been able to do it on a few occasions. I concentrated on a beach scene; I'd always loved the beach. As I concentrated, sand started to appear beneath my feet; I could smell the ocean and feel the sun's rays on my skin. I opened my eyes and saw that my beach was starting to form...then it started to flicker... "No!" I yelled in frustration, and then it was black again.

"I don't think so Rosemarie." Goosebumps prickled at my skin... Who was that?

"Hello?" I asked tentatively... "Who's there?"

"It's been a long time Rosemarie." I looked around me but all there was, was blackness... cold, empty blackness... I swallowed and had a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach.

"Where are you?" I asked. "Show yourself."

"I'm everywhere Rosemarie..." the voice whispered. "In front... beside... behind... above, everywhere. I've waited so long and finally...you're here..." I knew that voice, but no matter how hard I tried to put a face to it, I just couldn't.

"Who are you?" I waited for a reply but none came. I was really starting to freak out right now... I started walking again; I had no idea where I was going because there was nowhere to actually go. No buildings, no trees, no...anything. I had been walking for hours it felt like, I don't know how far I actually walked, probably nowhere in this stupid, black dream. There was no sound here, not even an echo when I yelled out, nothing... The person from before hadn't come back and that feeling of dread in my stomach hadn't improved, if anything it was worse, so I sat down on the...ground if you can call it that, it was nothing really, it had not feel to it at all, it was as if I was just sitting in mid air. I wasn't hungry, I wasn't cold or hot...I wasn't even tired; I was just scared. I thought I'd give it one more try to see if anyone was out there...

"Hello..." Nothing! "Shit!" I whispered as a sob escaped from my chest.