DISCLAMIR: EVERYTHING BELONGS TO Richelle Mead, except the story line.

Chapter 2

Rose POV

We were all standing in the lounge, except for the Belikov's. Most of the grown up were talking about unimportant stuff that I didn't need to know, and didn't care about. I was still staring at Adrian, he was doing the same, and he didn't even blink once.

"Daddy," Samara said, as she had her arms out reaching towards Adrian. I froze on the spot, so did he? She looked at him, with a huge smile on her face, showing her front four, baby teeth; two on the top and the two on the bottom. "Daddy, daddy," She repeated again, but in a whining tone. That was the first word she said.

"Daddy," Damon followed, his sister. With the same first words and the reaching out for him, now everyone was staring at us. Lissa had her mouth hanging open.

Rose, they just talked, Lissa thought to me. She was shocked, but also happy.

Yes they did, I replied nervously.

You're going, to have to tell him now, he's not that stupid. She has his eyes, too. Not that many people have his eyes. He also deserves to know, she thought.

Damn it! She was right. I sighed, opening my mouth to explain to him. Then, there was a stabbing pain in my lower abdomen, signaling me that there was Strigoi, in the empty boarded warehouse that has no sunlight coming through.

Lissa, tap Christian on the shoulder, Strigoi's our out front. There are a lot of them, hurry tells him to grab the babies, I said in a panic. She did, and he quickly took them from my arms. He knew the signs, right away.

I tilted my head back, letting my long hair flow freely down my back in waves. The darkness drifted out of my body, towards the surrounding Strigoi, that stood in the basement in a circle. They were surrounding a young Moroi girl. The darkness twirled around the strigoi's neck, to the point that they were decapitated in an instant. I opened my eyes, to see all the shocked expressions, on the guests.

"Moroi woman trapped in the old abandoned warehouse down the street," I said before I passed out into darkness.

A few hours later I woke up, in my bed, with a hand squeezing mine. I looked over to my right to see Adrian sitting on the edge of the bed. He had his head in his other hand looking down at the floor.

"Rose what happened?"

"Do you mean the darkness?" He sighed and ran a hand through his brown messy hair.

"Yes. What happened before you passed out?"

"Our bond is two ways; it has been for the past eleven months." I looked him in the eyes when before I continued talking to him. "It can happen to anyone's bond, when they go through natural pain; that can't be healed."

"What type of natural pain?"

"Childbirth is a natural pain. Lissa's and my bond happened then."

"Okay. But what happened before you passed out. I know there is more to it."

I sighed. "Since our bond became two ways, I can use spirit's darkness, to fight Strigoi's. I don't even have to be near them, and I can tell when they, are three-hundred feet away from me." I thought if I should tell him anymore, but it would be useful for him to know. "There were several Strigoi around in the nearest abandonment warehouse. They were surrounding a young Moroi girl."

He looked at me with wide eyes. "But how was I able to see the darkness swirling around you?"

"You're a spirit user. You can see it in my aura. I guess it just comes out from there." I shrugged my shoulders; I didn't have the exact answers to how, or why.

"That could be the case," he said.

I took in a deep breath. "I have something to tell you."

He moved closer to me. He places his right hand on my left one and gave it a gentle squeeze. His emerald green eyes, boarded into my brown ones, it was like he could see into my soul. "Sure you can tell me anything."

I closed my eyes, gaining up the mental strength to tell him. I reopened me eyes, to find that he was closer to me. My cheeks flushed a light pink, as I thought about him being that close to me.

"Samara and Damon, are you children." I blurted out in one breath.

In his eyes held shock, anger, and happiness. The shock and anger I can understand, but the happiness I had no idea about. He got up from where he was sitting, and started pacing around the room, with his hands clenched into fists.

"Why, Rose? Why didn't you tell me that I have children? Were you trying to keep them from me," he said, but in his voice I could tell he was angry. I cringed, back into my seat.

"No I wasn't trying to keep them from you?" I yelled at him, as I stood up.

"Then why didn't you tell me when you were pregnant?" he demanded.

"I was going to," I said in a low voice. I never saw this side of him.

"When!" he yelled, "when they were eighteen, and adults, so you were just going to keep their childhood from me?"

"No. You remember the night you took me to Charlie's," I said, not raising my voice any higher. He nodded his head still not looking at me. "That was the day that I found out I was pregnant. I was going to tell you, right before, Kelly, unexpectedly show up and ruined our date."

He looked at me, and his face softened. He moved closer to me, as I backed up into my bedroom wall. He was now right in front of me. His hands were placed on the wall, on each side, of my head. He looked down on me. In his eyes, show love, and a lot of it.

"You could have still told me?" he said in a whisper.

"I was afraid. Terrified beyond belief, especially when Kelly said she was having your baby. I'm just a Dhampir where she is a Moroi. I thought you would be happy with her then, me."

"No, Rose I love you. Only you and no one else, I never loved her, plus her child isn't mine. You're the only one that I want to be with," he said, then placed a gentle kiss on my lips. The kiss lit up my body, and electrical current ran through my lips, after he removed his lips from mine.

"Do you want to see the kids," I said. I wasn't quite healing from the Kelly situation, so I couldn't focus with him being so close to me.

"Yes," he said, as he places his lips back on mine. I broke the kiss, as he had a pout on his face. I grabbed his larger hand in mine, and dragged him out of my bedroom, and into the twins' room, where they were wide awake.

"Daddy," they shouted together. He went over to Samara and picked her up. He gave her a kiss on the cheek. I went and grabbed Damon. For the next hour it was just us.