I would have fallen over if it weren't for Dimitri's hand squeezing my upper arm, hard. We were so stupid! I was so use to Dimitri being a Dhampir that it didn't come to mind that we would need protection. I glanced at Dimitri from the corner of me eye. He looked like he was thinking along the same lines. Dr. Connor saw that.
"We'll know for sure tomorrow. Just be careful, eat, and get some sleep," she said.
I was in shock as we walked back to our rooms.
"Rose." I turned to look at Dimitri. "If you are pregnant I want you to know that I will stand by you. I will still marry you if you want to."
"Thanks Dimitri. If I am pregnant this changes nothing. I still want to marry you. Thanks for sticking with me."
"I will always want to be with you, Roza."
Dimitri knocked on my door just as I was fixing to open it then next morning. We had gotten up early to go and visit Dr. Connor. On the way there I had to stop twice to vomit while Dimitri held my hair.
Dimitri and I sat in our seats with our backs ramrod straight.
"Well, are you ready to hear the news," Connor asked as she walked into the room with the results. We nodded. "You're pregnant, Rose. And if you don't mind me asking, do you know when you were impregnated?"
"I would guess about a month and a half ago," Dimitri said in shock. "Why do you ask?"
"Because, Guardian Belikov, it would depend on how many children miss Hathaway will be having."
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"From your blood work I would say you were about six weeks and having twins or twelve weeks and only having one child."
Twins! Oh my goodness!
"Well I would like to take a ultrasound so we can see. Wait right here and I will be right back."
I turned to stare at Dimitri. He usually had a pretty good mask at hiding his emotions but he was feeling too much shock to be able to conceal it all.
When Dr. Connor returned with the machine she had me lay back. She put a jelly on my stomach that was freezing. I shivered. She gave me an apologetic smile.
"Now we won't be able to see much since your still early in your pregnancy but if you are pregnant with twins then it will be obvious."
She started to move the stick around my stomach. I could hear two off be thrummings. Doc smiled. On the screen I could see two small objects. No, not objects. My babies.
"Twins," Dimitri breathed. Some of the shock had worn off and was replaced with joy. He turned his head from the monitor to smile at me. In that smile was unconditional love. And not just love for me. But for our children.
We arrived at my room about an hour later. The three musketeers were gone. I led Dimitri by the hand to the couch.
"What are we going to tell them?" Dimitri asked. "You know they'll ask."
"Tell us what?" Lissa asked.
I didn't hear the front door open. Christian, Eddie, and Lissa were standing by the front door.
"Ummm." I turned to give Dimitri an anxious look. I'm sure it didn't look like that since I was grinning from ear to ear.
"Tell them," said he, grinning. "I know you want to."
"I'm pregnant!"
Lissa screamed and launched herself into my arms.
"Careful," Dimitri warned.
We didn't listen. We were to busy jumping up and down with glee.
"Scoot over Lissa," Eddie said. "I want to give my sister a hug."
"Do you know what your little monster is going to be?" Christian asked.
I smacked him up the back of the head. "My babies are NOT monsters. And we don't know what they are going to be yet."
Dimitri came up to wrap his arms around my waist as Lissa screamed "Twins!" Dimitri had his hands lying possessively on my stomach. We both nodded. She squealed again.
Eddie asked, "When did you find out?"
"Well Rose fainted during practice yesterday so I took her to the clinic. Dr. Connor said she thought Rose may be pregnant so she took some blood tests we went there this morning and she did and ultrasound."
"When are you due?" Christian asked.
"January."
"What are you going to do? You can't stay my Guardian when you are pregnant."
"I don't know yet. I mean I haven't had time to think about anything yet."
"Rose. I don't want you to hurt my nephews. You should take a vacation or something."
"What makes you think they are boys? 'Cause if you ask me I think that they are a boy and a girl," Eddie said.
"If you say so. What do you think, Christian?"
"Girls."
We continued our conversations for a while when Christian burst out laughing.
"What?" I inquired.
"You haven't told your mother have you? Can I watch? I want to see her beat the crap out of Belikov." He laughed again.
"Why do I need to tell her? I'm disowned. She doesn't need to know."
"Roza, she is your mother. You should tell her no matter what. It would be better for her to hear from us than someone else." He grabbed my hand and pulled me off the couch. "Come on. Let's get it over with now"
We found Janine outside of the guest dorms. She was just fixing to walk upstairs.
"Guardian Hathaway," Dimitri greeted her.
She turned on her heal to face us. "Guardian Belikov. Guardian Hathaway."
"We wanted to tell you something before you heard from someone else." There was a short pause where I could tell Dimitri was a little nervous. "Rose is pregnant with my children."
AN:
I know I left you hanging. Sorry I don't write very much. I don't have much time to myself anymore. My friend drags me all over town, babysitting, reading, and everything else that goes on in my life does not leave me much time to do anything else. I will try to right as soon as I can. Please R&R!