So I am still trying to figure out how to make the timing work for the babies and I think between every chapter will be like one week in development or two weeks in development depending on how dramatic I plan to make things. Oh but on the plus side this is an extremely amusing chapter. Personally I find werewolf speedy growth to be amusing involving little Chloe.
And to TheVampyricAssassin, I know right! If all pregnant woman were like that it would be so awesome and scary for the fathers... :D
DISCLAIMER: *Skipping in a park*
Me: *singing* I am skipping-skipping-skipping in a park. *singing*
Melody: Should we include a park in this story?
Me: Parks are only nice during the day, and this story my friend progresses better during the evening.
Melody: Whatever, you don't own Darkest Powers. It belongs to Kelley Armstrong and since she writes the real thing she will most likely include a park, so ha ha ha HA!
Chloe's Point of View (5 weeks)
I was in pure hell. The only good bonus to this pregnancy was the fact that the babies seemed set on keeping me alive, I am not even allowed to fall properly.
***Flashback-3 days ago***
I was going to go to the library to see how far Emy had gotten in her research. I was almost there when I heard someone calling my name. I turned and I twisted my ankle and I felt myself lose balance and as soon as I started falling I stopped. It was as if an invisible shield had bubbled up from the floor because I stopped falling.
"Um? Chloe?" Melody asked.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"Why are you diagonal in the air?" Melody asked.
"I am not allowed to fall because the babies don't like it." I said.
"Just like their father, overprotective." Melody said, walking over and making me stand straight again.
"You have no idea." I mumbled.
***Flashback Over***
I wasn't even sure if THAT was a positive either because it guaranteed that if anything serious was going on these kids would find some way for me to be terrified of their powers, no matter how safe and protected it made me.
I went to the kitchen and started looking through the fridge for something to eat. I was starving all the time which can I just point out something, if I wasn't throwing everying up that went down my throat maybe I wouldn't be starving. Maybe if I was just allowed to eat food properly I wouldn't have this issue. Apparently I am not allowed that luxury.
I made myself four pieces of toast with jam, butter and bananas on them and cooked an entire package of bacon with half a package of eggs and cheese. An odd food combination but it could be worse.
"Are you going to eat everything in this house?" Tori asked, she was sitting down next to me with a bowl of cereal.
"I'm hungry." I said.
"Obviously. Your places in this house are always the bathroom or the kitchen." Tori said.
"I have a pretty good reason." I said.
"All I'm saying is that you really should let us know when you plan on eating us." Tori said.
I glared at her and said, "In case you haven't noticed Tori I am really not in the mood to put up with your spoiled, selfish, bitch act today."
I really wasn't. I can tolerate Tori most of the time, in fact I don't mind having her with us but right now she was just completely getting on my nerves, just because I was pregnant didn't mean I wanted anyone to wait on me hand and foot but that didn't mean I wanted to have Tori get on my case about spending so much time in the bathroom or kitchen.
Tori seemed slightly shocked by my little outburst.
"I'm going to eat these in the living room." I said.
I walked out and sat down on the sofa in the living room and started watching TV while eating.
About five minutes into the TV show Amelia came down the stairs and sat down. She was looking at me, I didn't like being stared at but I could deal with it.
"What?" I asked, after five minutes of her staring.
"Nothing." Amelia said.
"Obviously it's something unless I'm imagining you staring at me for 5 minutes." I said.
"You look sick. Can I help?" Amelia asked.
"Can you take Tori shopping?" I asked.
"I can do that." Amelia said.
Amelia got up and went to the kitchen to talk to Tori about going on another shopping trip.
Alexa was walking down the stairs with Emy, both looking like they were angry.
"I am not going to heal her and I am not going to just let you take my powers." Alexa argued.
"So if something goes wrong who the hell cares right? Triplets have difficulty being born with natural childbirth, so we are going to need healing powers just in case there is that diffculty." Emy argued back.
"It could cause problems with me and my powers if you take them." Alexa said.
"I won't need to if you would just help." Emy said.
"No." Alexa said.
By now they were in the living room and they saw me, as was the usual Alexa glared at me and Emy gave me a half-hearted smile.
"Can you stop acting like this is the worst thing to ever happen to you, this isn't even about you. You heal what needs healing and then you're done. You don't even need to like the situation." Emy said.
"This isn't a situation. It's a problem." Alexa said.
I was going to snap.
"YOU THINK THIS IS A PROBLEM!? I CAN TELL YOU A PROBLEM, OR THREE!? OR SEVEN OR HOWEVER MANY YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR. WHAT ABOUT THE PROBLEM THAT I AM EXHAUSTED? THE PROBLEM THAT I AM THROWING UP CONSTANTLY. THE PROBLEM THAT I AM HUNGRY ALL THE TIME. THE PROBLEM THAT MY HEAD IS HURTING BECAUSE I AM BEYOND STRESSED AND YOU'RE NOT HELPING WITH THAT ONE BIT. THE PROBLEM THAT MY BOOBS ARE SORE AND ARE KILLING ME. THOSE ARE PROBLEMS." I screamed.
"Okay... TMI." Noah said, walking into the room.
"Why don't I take her shopping with us?" Amelia said, taking Alexa and directing her out the door, Tori following close behind.
"Breathe." Emy said.
I took a few deep breaths to calm myself.
"Is there going to be anymore talk about certain problems?" Noah asked.
"No you're safe as long as you don't act like a pig, or a monkey on LSD." I said.
"Good." Noah said.
I resumed eating what was left of my food which had in the time that I was yelling or complaining about getting stared at turned slightly cold.
"Are you going to bite my head off?" Emy asked.
"Nope. Nope. I just don't have a high patience for everyone that seems to treat me differently or like crap because of this." I said, gesturing to my stomach.
"It's hard not to. We don't want to hurt the little... pups." Noah said.
"The pups can take care of themselves." I said.
"Damn straight." Melody said, walking in and sitting next to me, she had a book in her hand.
"What's that?" I asked, looking at the book.
"A book on babies." Melody said.
"I'm shocked. Oh so very very shocked." Emy said sarcastically.
Melody smiled.
"So it human baby reading or werewolf baby reading?" I asked.
"Both, it is all about preparing for the baby or in this case babies." Melody said.
"Oh fun." I said, my voice practically drowning in sarcasm.
"Chloe. You need to read about these things." Melody said.
"I don't want to read, I don't want to look at anything, I just want to spend the next twenty something weeks doing three things eating, sleeping, and more eating." I said.
Melody was about to say something but I felt a wave of sickness pass through me and I knew I wasn't going to make it to the bathroom this time so instead I put my food on the coffee table and threw up in the kitchen sink.
"Oh god." I groaned, turning on the sink.
"Are you alright?" Derek asked, wrapping his arms around me and resting his hands on my stomach.
"Do I have to go into another rant about what these babies are doing to my body? If I do tell me now because I think I will have to warn Noah if I do." I said.
"You don't... you went into a rant?" Derek asked.
Alexa was getting annoying with her hatred of me and my situation which she seems to identify as a problem and I got a little snappy with Tori because she was starting in on my eating and bathroom occupation.
"Tori was starting about your eating again?" Derek asked.
"Yes." I answered.
Derek was frowning, he didn't like it when Tori started on me. She was doing that a lot lately, ever since I ate one of her frozen dinners. If you're exhausted you would want to make something that takes less than 5 minutes to make that's just the way the world works.
"I'm fine, I told her I wasn't in the mood for her bitch act and left before I could get really upset. I'm fine, we're fine, we're all fine." I said.
Derek was eyeing me to make sure I was alright.
"It was actually Alexa that upset me the most." I said.
"What else did she say?" Derek asked.
"Just more stuff about her not wanting to contribute anything or help in any way and her glaring at me." I said.
I smiled and pulled away and was about to kiss him before I noticed that his forehead felt hot, way too hot to be just from his run.
"Derek are you ch—" I started.
"I'm fine." Derek cut in.
"Derek, are you going to change tonight or early tomorrow morning?" I asked.
Derek moved away and tried leaving.
"Derek." I said, getting in his way.
He rolled his eyes and said, "Yes I am going to go through an attempt at changing and no you're not going to be there."
"Who says I can't?" I asked.
"I do, it's not safe." Derek said.
"Are you two arguing?" Melody asked, appearing in the doorway.
"Of course not, I am just enjoying wanting to punch Derek." I said, heavy on the sarcasm.
"Why?" Melody asked.
"I am going to attempt changing early tomorrow morning and Chloe wants to be there." Derek said.
"Chloe—" Melody started.
"If you're going to side with Derek, no thank you." I said.
"But Chloe if I do change, turn into a wolf, and lose all control I will hurt you and if I hurt you I couldn't stand it but if I hurt all of you. No. I won't do that." Derek said.
"IF you lose control. YOU WON'T. Even if you did try to hurt me the babies wouldn't let you." I said.
"That works for most people but they can sense that I'm their family as well so they won't hurt me." Derek said.
"What about their levitation powers?" I asked.
"They're tiny, they can't possibly know what they're doing. They barely even have brains yet!" Derek said.
"I think I'm going to go..." Melody said and then backed away carefully.
"You said that they won't hurt you but then you said they don't know what they're doing. You're contradicting yourself Derek." I said.
"So if I throw you back into a tree or something and you get seriously hurt, so can they." Derek said.
"Okay if I feel you're losing control or if I am scared I will run away, alright?" I asked.
Derek frowned but seeing the determined look in my eyes he agreed because he knew it was likely to be the best offer he'd get.
"And if you think letting me sleep and not waking me is a good way to go believe me when I tell you that you will not like me in the morning." I said.
"Okay, Okay." Derek said, raising his hands up in defeat.
I scrutinized him for a minute or two to see if he was lying to me.
"Good." I said.
I then went back to the living room to find Melody drawing on a really big box and Noah eating the food that I put on the coffee table.
"Noah? Why are you eating my food?" I asked.
"Well it was getting cold and I thought that you might not want to eat much after getting sick." Noah answered.
"Whatever." I said, sitting down.
"Whatya think?" Melody asked.
She had drawn on a big cardboard box the words bomb shelter.
"Now if you get so angry that you want to explode let me know and I can run in here for safety." Melody said, smiling.
"All someone would have to do is light that thing on fire..." Derek said.
I rolled my eyes. Ever the joy killer Derek.
I spent the next few hours crouched over the toilet letting everything I've eaten today come up, it's like one time I throw up I have to keep throwing up until I got nothing left.
Derek wanted to help me through this but today Melody decided that she would play the 'hair holder' role.
"So this is one of the worse days isn't it?" Melody asked.
"Yes." I said.
"They're going to grow really fast so start in the next few more weeks you're going to need some new clothes." Melody said.
"Those maternity clothes are all flowery and happy and ruffly." I said.
"We have a few weeks so if you want we can special order some nice looking non-scary clothes." Melody said.
"Is this how my life is going to be for the rest of my life? Talk about babies and happy things?" I asked.
"I think so. Things will change a lot. Everyone has said it." Melody said.
I groaned and said, "I think I'm going to go to sleep. See you later."
Melody silently waved.
I changed into something more comfortable and went to bed and fell asleep.
I woke up a while later and had no idea what time it was. Usually when I think I've only been asleep for a few hours it's longer that that.
I went downstairs to the kitchen after I had changed into proper clothes and poured myself a cup of juice. According to the clock on the microwave it was 9:00 at night. I had slept all day.
I walked up the stairs and knocked on Derek's door and heard a mumbled "Come in!"
"Hey, how are you feeling?" I asked, sitting on the edge of Derek's bed.
"Better now that my sleeping beauty is awake." Derek said. "That sounded a lot less stupid in my head."
I smiled and kissed him.
We were kind of absorbed in each other so we didn't hear it when the door opened and tiny footsteps walked in.
"EWW! Are you trying to fit more babies in her!?" Ava screamed.
Derek and I pulled away quite fast after hearing that.
"Umm... no. It doesn't quite work like that." I said.
"How does it work?" Ava asked.
Derek and I looked at each other.
"When you're older." Derek said.
"I am seven and I know how older people try to avoid subjects. You don't want to tell me and that's fine, I am just supposed to tell you that Andrew wants to see us all in the library." Ava said, walking out.
Derek and I got up avoiding any touching in case she walked back in and walked down the stairs to the library.
We had to wait for a few minutes before everyone else came in.
Derek looked restless, angry, and itchy.
"Derek, stop." I whispered.
"Stop what?" He asked.
"You're going to scratch a hole in your skin if you don't stop scratching your arm." I whispered.
"Is anyone else pregnant?" Alexa asked once she entered, glaring at me once before she sat down.
"Is anyone going to break Alexa's nose?" Melody asked, glaring at Alexa.
Jaron just sat down next to Melody looking amused.
Once everyone was seated Andrew began pacing.
"We have a problem." Andrew said once he stopped pacing.
"What problem?" Tori asked.
"The werewolf that got away—" Andrew said.
"Ramon." I supplied.
"—Ramon, he met a witch from The Edison Group and let it slip about your... condition." Andrew said, looking directly at me.
"W-W-What d-do t-t-they plan to do about it?" I asked. "D-D-Do they kn-know where we a-are?"
"They don't know where we are because Ramon got killed by the pack before he could meet the witch again as they had planned to do the following day with Marcel. According to the person I talked to Marcel is trying to locate us through whatever means possible now, but refuses to do anything until the babies are able to survive outside the womb, then he wants to... remove them."
"W-Why?" I asked.
I knew the answer but I had to ask. Dr. Davidoff wanted my babies.
"He wants to raise your children and study them throughout their lives. Not only are they 2nd generation to one of the experiments, they are 2nd generation to two of the experiments along with the possibility of one of the three to be both a necromancer and werewolf." Andrew said.
"Th-That's c-c-crazy!" I shouted.
"So what do we do?" Derek asked, straining to control himself, he looked like he wanted to hunt down Dr. Davidoff and start tearing apart flesh and bones.
"For now we try to avoid drawing unneccessary attention to ourselves. If any information reaches us that he knows where we are, we leave and go to another safehouse. Understood?" Andrew asked.
Alexa looked completely pissed off and she started to open her mouth but Melody spoke first, "I swear, Alexa, if you even try to blame Chloe for this and not the sick bastard who wants to cut into her and steal her kids I will cut into you myself and start pulling out organs, am I making myself perfectly clear?"
Alexa's eyes bugged out of her head and she swallowed and nodded.
"Andrew, Derek will be changing early tomorrow morning at 2 or 3 in the morning. Chloe will be going with him, is it safe for them out there?" Melody asked.
"It should be for now." Andrew said, he cast a wary glance at Derek.
Derek as usual, pretended he didn't see the look Andrew gave him. That's what he did when people gave him the look that meant they were afraid of him or worried about the 'danger' he posed.
"So now that everyone knows what's up I guess we can go. Unless anyone else has anything to say?" Andrew asked.
"Nope." A few people said.
"Alright then." Andrew said, rubbing his temples.
We went to go about our evening, a few people like Ava and Luca went to bed but I didn't want to sleep because I had been sleeping all day, not that I couldn't sleep if I went to my bed right now, but I was trying to find a balance.
I went to the kitchen and started eating some chocolate cake when Melody came in and took the rest of the cake from the fridge.
"We are soon going to become two of the most happily fed people in this house." Melody said.
"Speak for yourself." I said.
Melody smiled and asked, "Do you want to watch some movies with me? Maybe you can get some baby name ideas and bring them up to Derek later?"
"That'll be a fun conversation, he's trying to morph into a wolf and I am telling him a list of baby names and the ones he doesn't sprout fur at are keepers." I said.
"You're right, but movies?" Melody asked.
"Alright, you make the popcorn?" I asked.
Melody made two bags of popcorn, one for each of us. She made me feel a lot better about my eating habits because she wasn't a werewolf or knocked up and she still ate as much as she could, which could rival Derek's appetite.
We started watching the movie The Boondock Saints.
"So I think it is safe to say that I am not going to name a boy Murphy." I said.
"What about Connor? The name means dog-lover or hound-lover. Something like that." Melody said.
"It's a good name but all the boys named Connor I know all turned out to be jerks." I said.
"Really?" Melody asked.
"Yeah, I don't want to doom my babies with the name of the jerks before they're even two." I said.
"I'm sure not all guys with the name Connor are jerks." Melody said.
"Probably not, just the ones I know." I said.
"No to Connor then."
We watched the movie in an almost silence then with the occasional comment here and there about the deaths and about what we thought about the brothers.
She took the movie out and we watched a few others until somewhere near the beginning of the fourth movie Derek came down the stairs and I knew he was going to change right now.
"You're changing." I said.
Derek nodded and I got up and followed Derek outside.
"Chloe if I fully change, which I doubt, but if I do, leave." Derek said.
"Okay, Master Derek." I said.
"Chloe." Derek said.
"Derek. I know, you keep telling me 100 times. If I wouldn't do it 99 times ago, I probably wouldn't do it now. I'm not a dog and you're not teaching me how to roll over or backflip for a treat." I said.
Derek could tell I was serious so he didn't say anything. That seemed to be what everyone was doing lately. Don't upset the pregnant girl with freaky powers and maybe you won't get hurt when the kids decide that they want to be boats for a day.
We walked deeper into the forest until we reached our clearing.
Derek undressed while I sat by the stream waiting for him.
A minute later, Derek, only dressed in his boxers was trying to change.
As usual I whispered words of comfort while he threw up and screamed in complete pain.
I heard bones crack and snap while he sprouted fur and then it receeded.
His change stopped while he was part man-part wolf but instead of going back to just regular Derek the change continued.
He screamed in more pain as his bones kept snapping and breaking, by now he had nothing left to throw up so he just dry heaved.
I heard one last final snap and standing before me was a tired beautiful black wolf with the prettiest green eyes I ever saw in my entire life.
"D-Derek?" I asked.
Derek-wolf nodded.
"You're still in control? You're not going to go all bitey on me?" I asked.
Derek-wolf looked at me in that same 'Chloe you are soooo off base' look he gave me when he was in his human form.
"Can you change back?" I asked.
Derek-wolf nodded.
Derek howled and shifted back into human and to be honest it was strange to watch.
I went and got Derek's clothes and helped an exhausted Derek into them.
"I can hear them." Derek mumbled.
"Who?" I asked confused.
"Them." Derek said, he placed an ear on my stomach smiling.
"Be glad you can do that now without worrying about tiny feet kicking your ear." I said.
"You're just jealous because I can hear them and you can't." Derek said, not moving and sleepily listening to the babies.
"Babies, please tell daddy that I am not jealous because you give me some great powers to work with while he hears you which I can do a good six months or so away from now whereas he'll never get to use your powers." I said.
Derek mumbled something but I didn't hear him because it was muffled by my shirt as he fell asleep.
If there was ever an odd time it was now. Derek and I were laying down in the middle of a clearing with his head on my stomach with him having fallen asleep listening to the sounds of babies being created.
Like I said. Odd.