A/N: Thank you guys for the wonderful reviews. I have been babysitting three 4-year-olds and two babies all day with my best friend and my cousin at my grandma's house while my family had a yard sale, so if this chapter makes no sense, that's why. I think I'm about to pass out from exhaustion. Don't forget to review!
Christian came back about an hour later with another Sprite, a bagel, and a pill container. He handed me the bagel and Sprite.
"The doctor said you had to eat something before you can take these," he said, holding up the pills.
"What took you so long?" I grumbled. "You said you'd be gone for a few minutes."
"I got hungry when I was getting you the bagel. They had pancakes today." He said happily and I moaned, but managed not to throw up this time.
"Did the doctor say anything else? It's not like her to just write a prescription, she usually insists on seeing me." I asked, knowing he was forgetting something.
"Oh right, you need to be at the Infirmary in thirty minutes. She's going to check on Liss and decide what to do with you." He said. I sighed and took a small bite of the bagel. At least he had thought to get me something easy to eat. I continued the small bites until it was gone, and then stood up for the first time that morning. I walked over to my dresser and opened the bottle of pills. There were two in there so I put them in my mouth and washed them down with the Sprite.
Then I took out a pair of sweats and a t-shirt and walked back into the bathroom to get dressed. When I was ready to go, Christian walked with me down to the Infirmary. Lissa and Dimitri had got there before us so we went back to the room they had put Lissa in. When I walked in the door, Lissa ran over to me and started crying.
"I am so sorry you have to go through this too! This is all my fault!" she said between sobs. I tried to lighten the mood.
"Well, Christian's made it easier to just blame him this morning."
"Do I want to know?" She asked.
"I'll wait until we're over this morning sickness thing before I tell you."
She tried to laugh, but it was really shaky. She didn't seem nearly as mad as Christian had said. She just looked nervous.
Everyone turned around as the doctor walked in.
"Good morning Rose and Lissa. I understand you guys aren't feeling well?"
"No, we are pretty sure Lissa has morning sickness and Rose is getting it from her through the bond. We're just wondering why they're so sick." It was Dimitri who said this. We looked at the doctor expectantly.
"Well, last night when I checked her she was two weeks pregnant. Some Moroi find that they have worse symptoms than others. I believe your mom had morning sickness really bad when she was pregnant with you, Lissa. I found it strange because she didn't have hardly any trouble with Andre. But with you all of her symptoms were multiplied. Maybe you just inherited that from her."
"So you're saying that this will keep going on. Not just with the morning sickness?" I said. This was going to be awful.
"It could be. You never know with this kind of thing."
Christian, who had sat silent during out conversation, finally spoke.
"What are they going to do about school?"
"I'll have to call Headmistress Kirova again," the doctor said. "She'll have to decide what to do." She walked out of the room again.
"Thanks Christian! Now we'll get kicked out of school!" I said. I guess I said that a little too loud because the doctor walked back in for a minute. She looked at us, saw that everybody was fine, and walked back out again.
"Gee Rose, could you get a little louder? I'm pretty sure China didn't hear you." Christian said sarcastically. I glared at him. I was about to respond with a smart remark but the doctor came back in.
"I talked to the Headmistress and she said that instead of coming down here we could just come up with a solution on our own. Does anyone have a good arrangement for this?"
"I think I might have one," Dimitri started. "What if Rose and Lissa were just kind of home schooled for the duration of the pregnancy?"
"What do you mean Guardian Belikov?" The doctor asked.
"The teachers' can just give the girls their work for the next few months and they can do all of it when they feel like it." He replied. I looked at Lissa and she nodded.
"That's a pretty good idea. I'll see what Headmistress thinks about it." The doctor said. She had brought her cell phone with her this time so she didn't have to walk out; she just called Kirova right there. After explaining the plan to her, she listened for a long time. Then she hung up and looked at us.
"She said that it sounds like a good idea. I have another patient so I'm going to let you all figure out anything else."
"Thank you for your help," Lissa said politely. We all walked out together. When we were outside of the door, I snorted. Lissa looked at me.
"What did she do anyway?" I asked.
"She helped us find out what to do about school." Lissa answered.
"No she didn't. We could have done all of that by ourselves." I said.
"Girls, please. We need to decide what to do about getting your school work." Dimitri said.
"What are we going to do?" I asked.
"Christian, go get Rose's schoolwork. You're technically still her charge and have to stay with her. I'll call the teachers' and they'll have all the work ready for you. I'll get Lissa's for her." Christian sighed and went off to the Dhampir classrooms. "You two can go to Lissa's room for a while." I rolled my eyes at him but walked toward the Moroi dorms with Liss. He was being a little controlling today.
"Shouldn't he get Christian's work, too? If we're going to have morning sickness for a while, Christian's going to miss some school." Lissa asked me.
"You're right," I said to her, and then I said to Dimitri, "Hey! Can you come back for a minute?" He turned around and started back to us.
"If Christian has to stay with me during this mess, wouldn't he miss school too? You should probably get his work while you get Lissa's." I said. He nodded and walked back towards the Moroi classes. I looked at Liss.
"Happy?" I asked.
"Yes." She said and we walked together to her room.
