I really enjoy writing angry, upset and hurt Simon. It's fun for me, so I don't plan on ending it with the last chapter and now he'll be all Mr. Cool Uncle. So not happening yet. Derek isn't going to find out yet, that is next chapter and it is probably going to be the worst way to find out you will be a father, guaranteed. It will be so great to write though, and by the way you will probably want to strangle me for this chapters cliffhanger.
DISCLAIMER: *I am cleaning my room and my little sister Samantha comes in and is looking through the mess*
Me: What are you doing?
Samantha: Looking for buried TREASURE!
Me: Great... Can you at least be helpful? I need a new disclaimer for one of my stories.
*Samantha looks confused*
Me: Say "Jessica doesn't own Darkest Powers. It belongs to Kelley Armstrong"
Samantha: Jecca do- *Stops and screams "treasure" because she found a toonie in the mess and she runs away*
Me: And I would have given her $5 for helping me... oh crap if she chokes on that toonie mom will kill me... SAMANTHA!
Chloe's Point of View
"Simon." I started.
I reached out to touch him but before I could touch him, he moved back as if I had slapped him.
"Don't touch me." Simon hissed.
The tears that were stopping now had returned full force.
"My brother!? My brother!? Of all people? Him!?" Simon screamed.
"S-S-Si—" I stuttered.
"Don't. Just don't. You might hate your stutter, but I think it's adorable. Which is making it very hard to be mad at you, and I have a right to be angry at you right now, and I should be, considering the girl that I really like and maybe even love a little is pregnant with my brother's baby." Simon said, as if he was tired.
"Babies." I corrected automatically, before realizing maybe I shouldn't have said anything.
"What?" Simon asked.
"Superman sperm produces more t-t-than one b-baby." I said.
"That's just great." Simon said, in what was probably his first ever sarcastic tone. "Do you plan to tell Derek?"
"N-Not yet." I said.
"When is this 'not yet' going to be over? After the babies are born?" Simon asked, angrily.
"I d-d-don't know! Okay I don't. I don't know anything about any of this. Melody is the one whose been researching about this topic. S-S-S-So I need to think." I said.
"Melody knows?" Simon asked, still angry.
"And J-Jaron." I said.
"Dammit Chloe! It wasn't supposed to be like this!" Simon shouted.
I think he has gone mental, thankfully so did Jaron because he came in through the door a few seconds later.
"What the hell is going on here?" Jaron asked.
"S-S-Simon k-knows." I said, I then tried to subtly hide behind Jaron.
I wasn't scared of Simon that much, it was just that I hadn't seen him this angry and I didn't want to test how far his anger could go.
"About the babies?" Jaron asked.
Melody must have told him.
"Yes and a-about D-D-D-Derek." I said.
"Simon seriously calm down. You are freaking her out." Jaron said.
"She's having his kids." Simon said, sounding broken.
"I know, but arguing and losing control like that isn't good for her, and if anything happens to her or her babies because of you I will make sure that you will NEVER be able to reproduce. GOT IT?" Jaron said.
Simon nodded, scared.
Jaron waited for me to leave before he exited the room himself.
"Melody wants to see you in her room." Jaron said quietly.
"Okay... and thanks for what you did in there." I said.
"You're welcome and I don't think Simon is a bad guy. He might be behaving like an self-centered ass but he's hurt so just give him some time... that being said if he does anything stupid let me know." Jaron said, he left and went to his room.
I went to Melody's room and walked in.
"Is everything okay?" Melody asked.
"Yeah fine, well no, Simon knows everything and he kind of freaked out." I said.
"Are you okay?! Are my protégés alright!?" Melody asked, panicking.
"We are all fine... wait what the heck did you call them?" I asked.
"I called them my protégés, because they will be under my protection until they are at least 50 and that is only if they behave." Melody said.
Oh my god... my poor poor children... as soon as they are born I should apologize to them for everything Melody can and probably will do to them.
"Uh huh, so we are all fine, Jaron came in right about after Simon went all 'Dammit Chloe' and just to let you know Jaron is really angry at Simon. I think he might actually hurt Simon if Simon gets angry like that again." I said.
"So Jaron threatened to neuter Simon? I am surprised he didn't do worse." Melody said.
"Why?" I asked.
"It's a long story." Melody said.
"We have time." I said.
"No we do not and we have to talk about a few things. Like safety precautions." Melody said.
"I think it's a little too late for that." I said, joking.
"Normally I would find that funny, but right now we have to talk about ways to protect your babies inside from threats outside that can harm the both of you. We will need protection spells, health spells, and maybe we will have to consider some power weakening potions just to reduce the stress that you get from ghosts, zombies, bodies and everything else that your necromancerness results in." Melody said.
"Are you my doctor or something?" I asked, joking again.
"Nope that will be the shaman, you know once you tell her that seeds have been implanted inside you and will grow into nice lovely necromancer-werewolf babies, minus the plant roots." Melody said.
"Do I have to ask her?" I asked.
I didn't like her very much. Her name was Alexa, 19, brown eyes and red hair, and she had some strong opinions on many topics, teenage pregnancy being one of them. Actually being number one on the very long list. I swear this girl was a hippie, if someone was going to cut down a tree she would probably throw herself inbetween the saw and the tree. I didn't like her much because one of her strong opinions is 'Necromancers shouldn't use their powers to raise the dead, it's not right.' I knew that, it's not like I raise people just because the placement of their dead and decaying bodies annoy me.
"Yes, unfortunately you do. If anything goes wrong she can heal you. That is a very valuable thing." Melody said.
"I don't want a 'teenage pregnancy' lecture. I think I am stupid enough as it is." I said.
"Yes you are, but we should shut up because in a few minutes Derek will be coming through the door and if we don't want him to hear we should shush it." Melody said.
"How is the necromancer research going?" Melody asked.
When we had first gotten to the safehouse and I realised that I didn't have a necromancer teacher I started researching about necromancers in the library when I wasn't learning some regular old self-defense moves.
"Fine. I finally figured out how to tell ghosts apart from real people." I said.
"That's great, did you figure out what that necklace does?" Melody asked.
Melody also wondered what my 'mood ring' necklace did.
"No, there are many pendants that seem to fit some of the characteristics but not all." I said.
"Why don't you try summoning your mother? Ask her what the thing does." Melody said.
"A)I don't have any of her belongings to summon her with, and B)She isn't a ghost, it's not right for me to just take her out of her afterlife just for my selfish reasons." I said.
"Just a thought." Melody said.
"I know and if I absolutely needed her here then I would summon her, but I don't and it isn't fair to her to just force her to come here, especially when I don't know if I will be able to send her back." I said.
"Alright, decent thought process." Melody said.
Melody and I spent the rest of the day talking, I went to bed early and was woken up by a pair of familiar green eyes.
"Chloe wake up." Derek said.
"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked.
I looked him over and noticed he looked feverish.
"You're changing." I said.
Derek nodded.
This was bad, I knew I was pregnant and that staying with Derek while he goes through his werewolf changes was a serious risk to my babies, but I couldn't just let him go through this by himself.
So I did the stupid thing and grabbed my sweatshirt and shoes and out them on. I would just have to be very careful tonight.
As Derek and I were walking through the forest I thought back to the first time Derek had gone through one of his werewolf changes at the safehouse.
***Flashback- The fourth day at the safehouse 3 AM***
"Chloe, wake up I'm changing." Derek said.
"What?" I asked.
I noticed his eyes and the sweat on his forehead.
"You are changing." I said.
"I just said that Chloe." Derek said.
I grabbed my shoes and jacket and put them on and followed Derek outside.
We found a clearing twenty minutes away from the safehouse and I sat down next to Derek while he stripped down to his boxers.
As the change started to begin I whispered words of comfort while his bones cracked and moved, while his skin sprouted fur and then the fur receded, and while he screamed and whimpered in pain.
After a few minutes the change stopped when he was half-human and half-wolf. He then screamed in pain again as the change reversed itself.
He didn't complete the change.
***Flashback Over***
Derek has gone through that agonizing pain seven times since then, and not once in those seven times did he complete the change.
"Maybe tonight will be the night." I said.
"Doubt it." Derek said.
Derek was losing hope that he would ever finish the change.
"Derek, you can't think like that." I said.
"I can think however I want to think. It's my mind and my body that has to go through this." Derek said.
He was usually more irritable on the days when he was about to change. I was actually surprised that I didn't notice he was going to change tonight, I guess I had a lot on my mind.
We went to the same clearing that we always went to when Derek was about to change.
There was a stream that ran through the clearing on the far left side, so it was a good spot where Derek could cool himself down if he felt like the fever was becoming too much.
He undressed until he was just in his boxers. You would think it would have become awkward for him to do this after what had happened between us, but add his pain to my worry and it wasn't awkward at all.
He took some deep breaths before the change started to kick in. He vomited a few times and then his bones started to crack and re-organise themselves in more animalistic ways.
Derek screamed in pain as his ribs started to crack and change position in his body.
His face changed. His nose and mouth became more like a wolfs, his eyes started to change shape and fur started sprouting on his face.
His muscles rippled and his skin started to stretch as if it was being pulled, he dry heaved.
Derek whimpered at the pain that shot throughout his body at the feeling of being stretched out.
"Derek. It will be alright. Look at me." I said.
His pained and fear filled eyes looked at mine.
"It will be alright. You might not change tonight, but you will eventually and you will be fine." I said, and kissed his furry face.
He pulled away from me. He whimpered and then screamed as his back arched.
He stopped screaming and lay panting on the forest floor.
"Derek?" I asked.
His change seemed to have gone farther than the last few times, but I didn't want to get his hopes up by saying that it seemed as if he was going to fully change tonight.
He then dry heaved again and the change started reversing. Like I said, I didn't want to get his hopes up.
He screamed again as his bones started to return to their normal positions and as his skin returned to normal.
A few minutes later a normal human Derek lay on the forest floor panting, tired.
"Derek, maybe you should get some sleep." I said.
He nodded and closed his eyes.
I got up and sat down next to him. I stroked his hair lightly and started humming a song softly.
About twenty minutes later I was tired of humming so I started to talk to Derek's sleeping form.
"Derek?" I whispered, just to make sure he was asleep.
My response: A soft snore.
"What are we going to do? Our lives are already complicated enough. It was incredibly stupid for me to come out here tonight, it was a serious risk to us. I know you would never hurt me, but if you are right and the change will go badly... what will happen to me? To them? Aw, crap now I am going to have to be so careful and if Melody finds out I was here tonight she will kill me. Well she won't kill me yet, she will wait until the babies lives aren't attached to my life and then she will kill me." I said, muttering to myself more than sleeping Derek.
I should probably stop talking because if he wakes up and hears the mutterings of his pregnant 15 year old sort of girlfriend he might get a little nervous.
I started to doze off a little and decided that maybe I should get a little sleep, so I laid down next to Derek and closed my eyes determined to wake up in twenty minutes.
I woke up and saw the sky, I was definitely asleep for longer than twenty minutes. I just didn't know how much longer. I really needed to get a watch, or a cellphone, or something that tells time.
I reached over to Derek and shook him awake and he woke up with a start.
"Everything okay?" Derek asked.
"Yea I was just thinking that if you're up to it maybe we could go back to the house." I said.
"I'm fine and you are right we need some decent sleep. The forest doesn't count as comfortable sleep for you." Derek said.
"For me?" I asked. "You like sleeping out here?"
"Sort of. The forest smells sort of like home, but I could do without the constant rocks digging into me." Derek said.
We heard a growl.
"Sorry we are late. Did we miss something?" Liam asked, as he walked through the trees.
Derek moved faster than I thought was humanly possible and got us both into a standing position before you could say 'O-M-G'.
I really should not have come here tonight. My stupid decision just put my life and my kids lives at risk. I didn't even know for a fact that I was going to be a mother for a week yet and I was already screwing up. Putting them in the path of Liam and Ramon was a pretty big screw up if you ask me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Well cutie. We already told you that we needed your little boyfriend to help us." Liam said.
"Though it seems you two have become... closer since we last saw eachother." Ramon said.
That did it.
Both Liam and Ramon started laughing like crazy people.
You all sooo want to kill me right now... but don't... because if you do how will you know what happens?