Okay, it has definitely been a while since the last update to this story… I don't even remember what I was going to write next. But when I re-read the story I think I figured out why you guys like it so much. In fact, I am seriously waaay excited to write more! I was so excited that I got done with the next chapter right away! Lol. So, without further ado, here is chapter 5 of A Turn of Events:

I wanted to cry. I had to keep myself together for everyone else's sake. I was being lifted onto a gurney. The pain in my leg had kicked in and I yelped in pain. I saw the jerk that went through Dimitri and told myself that I had to fight through the pain for his sake. I didn't want him worrying about me…or the baby.

As they put me in the ambulance, I saw Lissa being pulled from the car by another paramedic. Dimitri wouldn't let me pull her out earlier. Although I didn't want to wait for the ambulance to get there to pull her out, I knew that he was right. There could've been a number of things that were wrong with Lissa, and pulling her out could've killed her. I knew that Dimitri cared about her, too, but in the back of my mind I couldn't help thinking that he was thinking about what would happen to me if something were to happen to her. If I had pulled her out of that car and accidently killed her, I wouldn't know what to do with myself, let alone Dimitri or the baby.

Lissa's limp body looked perfect as they pulled her out of the car. At that moment, I saw why people thought she looked like a Goddess. She was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen – and not in a lesbian way. I couldn't see if she was breathing from where I was, but I reached out through the bond and knew she was alright.

I closed my eyes and thought of the irony of it all. We were supposed to be going away to protect Dimitri, the baby, and I. Instead, we get into a car wreck and were put in more danger than we were in the first place. A different kind of danger, yes, but danger nonetheless. I kept wishing over and over that everyone would be okay. Especially my baby. My poor, innocent, little baby who could do nothing to protect itself. How could I be a good mother if I couldn't even protect my child when it was in the womb?

Pain brought me out of my thoughts. I looked down to see a needle in my leg.

"Don't worry, it's just something for the pain. You've been cut pretty badly and we want to give the medication to you now so that it'll kick in before we get to the hospital. You'll have to get stitches, but you'll be alright." a young paramedic told me. He had dark brown hair and a nice smile.

"Thanks. Is everyone else okay?" I asked. Dimitri had gone around to the front of the ambulance where the police were. He had to tell them what had happened. I still didn't know.

The paramedic took the syringe he had and put a cap over the needle. "I'm…not sure."

"What is it? You know something; I can tell." I narrowed my eyes at him when he looked at me again. He looked away from me and put the syringe down for a moment.

"There were only four of you in the car, right?" he asked.

I thought about that for a minute. The crash had made me forget about a lot of things temporarily. "Yes." There was our driver, a guardian whom I had never met before, Lissa, Dimitri, and me.

The young paramedic sighed. "I'm afraid that the driver is in critical condition. We…well, we don't know for sure, but we don't think he's going to make it. He's on his way to the hospital as we speak in another ambulance."

I looked up at the roof and let out a breath. I didn't even know his name… He died around people who didn't even know him. Then again, that's usually how it goes with guardians. It didn't make me feel any better, though.

"Rose?" Dimitri appeared in the doorway. When he saw me he took a deep breath. "Lissa is alright. They said they won't know the extent of her damage until they get her to the hospital, but she should be fine."

I thought I would cry when I heard that, but I managed to hold it together. I put my left hand out to the side. "Come sit with me?"

He sat down and stroked my fingers. He leaned in and whispered in my ear, "Did you tell them about the baby yet?"

Damn it all to hell! Why couldn't I remember important things like this? I shook my head and looked over to the paramedic on the other side of me. "Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm pregnant…"

The young man looked up sharply at me. "Why didn't you say anything sooner?" He jumped up and ran out the door. The jolt from the door hurt my leg. I thought pain medication from the hospital was supposed to kick in fast!

"Are you okay? How bad is the pain?" Dimitri asked.

I gave him a small smile. "It's not the worst feeling in the world, but it isn't the best, either. I can deal with it." He kissed me, but the engine started and the ambulance began to move so he had to stop. "That was fast. I guess when you have an injured pregnant woman you get special treatment."

Dimitri gave me a serious look. "Rose, this isn't something to be joking about."

I looked away. That stung. I knew he was right, but the way he said it made me feel so…bad. "Maybe Tatiana was right." I said. "Maybe…we should give the baby up."

Dimitri's hand tightened on mine. "No." I looked over at him. "Roza, I would never give our child up for anything. Do you hear me? Anything." I could feel my lower lip tremble. "Why would you say something like that?"

I took a deep breath before I said anything because I knew that if I didn't I would start crying. "I'm so bad at this. I…I forgot to tell the paramedic about the baby! How can I be a mom when I don't put my child first?"

Dimitri sighed and dropped my hand. I didn't expect that reaction. "Rose, I think it's normal for someone in your situation to forget about something like this. You're…having a baby under different circumstances than anyone else in the entire world!"

I didn't say anything. I didn't know what to say. It was completely silent except for the clinking of instruments for a moment. "I know. I don't know what I'm saying. I guess-"

I was interrupted by a shocking feeling. I immediately jumped into Lissa's head. She was being held down by the paramedics. At first, I started to freak out inside because I thought they were trying to hurt her, but then I realized that Lissa didn't know what was going on so she was freaking out and the paramedics were just trying to get her to calm down.

"What happened?" she asked. "Where is Rose? Dimitri?" I tried so hard to send her a feeling through the bond, but it didn't happen. Sometimes the bond being a one-way thing sucked.

"You're friends are okay. We will see them when we get to the hospital. You were in a car accident. We're just taking you to the hospital to make sure that everything is alright." one of the paramedics – an man who looked about middle-age, with light hair and green eyes – told her.

Lissa looked around and realized she was in an ambulance. She calmed down and asked how much longer it would take to get to the hospital.

"Rose!" Dimitri yelled. I jumped out of Lissa's head and looked at him. "Is Lissa okay? What happened?"

Dimitri knew me so well now that he didn't even have to ask what was going on with me. Instead, he already knew that I was in Lissa's head. I really hadn't paid much attention to that fact before. "She's fine. She flipped a little when she woke up because she didn't know where she was, but she's alright now."

Dimitri relaxed a little. "Good." My heart sank a little. I had wanted him to comfort me before when I said something about giving the baby up. I knew that he had said comforting words, but his actions – dropping my hand and sighing – said something else.

The ambulance stopped and the doors came open a minute later. The next few minutes went by in a flash. One second I was in the ambulance, the next I was on another gurney and being rolled into the ER. The next minutes went in a blur as they checked out my stomach. They rolled me to a closed room with a lot of machines in it and left. A nurse came in and checked my blood pressure and temperature. She then told me that the doctor would be back in a moment.

As I waited, I thought about how weird this all was. I couldn't believe that I was one of those girls who got pregnant in her teens. Sure, you hear about that happening a lot, but not in my world. I was scared. Was I supposed to go to a special doctor for this? Would a regular doctor be able to tell that my baby wasn't exactly human?

My thoughts were interrupted by the door opening. "Rose, is everything alright?" Dimitri asked as he closed the door behind him. He rushed over to my side and took my hand. I was happy that he was by my side, but at the same time I was still stung by his reaction earlier.

"I'm not sure yet. They said the doctor would be back in a minute. I'm kind of scared…" I said. It was weird. I, Rosemarie Hathaway, had been through fights with badass killing-machine vampires, and I was scared of being in the hospital.

Dimitri kissed my forehead. "Don't be, Roza. Everything is going to be fine. I am right here beside you."

I took a deep breath and nodded. The door opened then.

"Hello, I'm Dr. Stephens. We're going to be doing an ultrasound to make sure that the baby is alright and that the placenta is intact." It was a girl doctor, thank God for that.

She came over to the side and put some gel on a weird looking device that kind of looked like a microphone. "How far along are you?"

"I don't know." I told her.

She gave me a funny look. "Have you been to the doctor since you found out you were pregnant?"

"Uh, no. Was I supposed to?"

She sighed and shook her head. She had long, dark blonde hair and brown eyes. She was pretty tall for a human woman, about 5'10". "Well, then. We're going to have to do a few tests, okay?" I nodded. "Is this the father?"

Dimitri stepped forward and extended his hand. "Yes. I'm Dimitri."

"Dimitri. What a lovely name." she said as she shook his hand. Jealousy flared up in me. "Will you be staying in here while she has the tests done?"

"Yes." he replied. I wanted to say no because I didn't want him there while I was getting checked out. I may not have known a lot about pregnancy, but I did know a few things and I didn't want him there while I was getting my…uh, lady parts examined. I decided against it because, after all, he was the father.

You don't even want to know what happened after that. After everything was checked out the doctor told me that the baby was fine. "I want you to take it easy for a while, okay? I don't want to scare you, but too much stress can be harmful to the baby. So, relax and rest for a while. I am going to give you a prescription for the pain in your leg that won't harm the baby. They are going to wheel you out to get it stitched up. They should've done that a long time ago. Tell me, can you feel this?" she asked as she poked my leg right next to the cut.

"No, actually." I replied. I had expected it to hurt, but I guess the medicine was still working.

Dr. Stephens smiled as she said, "They will give you my number at the office and I want you to give it to the doctor that you will go to throughout your pregnancy so I can tell him about your results. Find a doctor when you get home! They will tell you when you need to go back for another appointment to make sure the baby is doing well." She went to leave, but stopped and said, "Oh, and congratulations."

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Lissa turned out to be fine. She would have a couple of cuts and bruises but she would be alright. It was the same with Dimitri. They gave us all different medications, but I got prescribed prenatal vitamins, too. Our driver didn't make it, just like the paramedic had said. Tatiana arranged for us to be picked up and brought to a private jet.

We had just got on the jet when Lissa got a call. She excused herself and Dimitri and I were left to ourselves.

"I'm so glad the baby is okay." Dimitri said, holding my hands.

I put on the best smile I had in me and replied, "Me, too. I'll have to find a doctor when we get…wherever we're going."

Dimitri paused for a moment to look at me. "Roza, what's wrong?"

I thought about what I would say to him. Should I tell him the truth and face him getting mad at me? Or should I just try to forget about it and say nothing? "I just… Are you mad at me?"

He laughed. "Mad at you? Why would I be mad at you?"

"For what I said earlier, in the ambulance." I looked down at the ground. I couldn't believe myself. I wasn't acting like me at all. Get it together, Rose!

Dimitri grabbed my face and pulled it up to look at him. He kissed my forehead, nose, cheeks, mouth… "I'm not mad at you, Rose. Yes, it was a little…unsettling, what you said, but I'm not mad. Let's just forget it ever happened, okay?"

I nodded and kissed him back, over and over. "I love you so much." I said. He didn't have to say anything back. I knew that he loved me just as much as I loved him. We kissed until I couldn't breathe anymore, and then we leaned back and just sat together in silence. We didn't need words.

At that moment, Lissa ran back to us. I sat up because she looked like something was wrong. Dimitri had had his eyes closed, so as soon as I moved, he moved, too.

"Lissa, what's wrong?" I asked.

She had her cell phone in her hand and she was switching her phone between it and her other hand. "That was the queen."

She didn't say anything else. "And…?" Dimitri commented.

Lissa looked to the ground, the roof, and then finally at us. "Well, I don't think you need to feel bad about the driver dying."

I was shocked when she said that. How could Lissa – someone who loved almost everything and everyone unconditionally – say something like that? It was so unlike her. I loved Lissa like a sister and would do almost anything for her. I realized that maybe it was the darkness doing this to her. I took a peek and saw so much darkness that I was scared for her. If it was doing this to her, it could cause some really bad problems later. Dr. Stephens had said that the baby looked fine, and I had taken some of the darkness from her before, so I figure taking a little from her now wouldn't be a problem.

I drew some of the darkness from her. I kept drawing it until I felt it was about even between us. When I tried to stop, I couldn't. I tried harder, but it wouldn't stop coming. That had never happened before. I started to freak out a little bit on the inside. Finally, when the darkness in Lissa was down to a little ball, it stopped coming into me.

My vision went red for a moment and then I saw stars. When they disappeared, I realized that Lissa was looking off.

She sighed, and I thought it was from the darkness being taken from her, but she turned toward us and sighed again. "She said that we didn't crash on accident. Our driver was found behind the kitchen at St. Vladimir's. He was murdered. Someone apparently killed him and pretended they were our driver so that they could crash the car and kill us."

So, some guy had tried to kill the love of my life, my best friend in the world, my unborn child, and myself? On top of it all, I had said something horrible to my…boyfriend/soul mate because I was feeling sorry for myself, and now I had taken all that darkness from Lissa for nothing?

"What?" I asked, my teeth ground together. I could barely see Lissa and Dimitri as they turned to look at me.

"Rose?" they both asked together.

Everything was red again. How dare he? How dare he? That man tried to kill everyone that I hold dearest to my heart! I was going to get Lissa to bring him back to life just so that I could stake him myself!

"Stop this jet! Get me back there so I can figure out who did this! I am going to kill them!" I shouted. I tried to get up, but Dimitri pulled me back down.

"Rose, calm down! The guy is already dead. Let the guardians at the school figure out what's going on. We're okay, that's all that matters." he soothed.

I tried to get up again. "Rose, the baby!" Lissa shouted at me.

I could feel my eyes go wide. The redness faded. I could feel Dimitri's arms around me. I felt so weak. "I…I…" I didn't know what to say. My hands went to my stomach. I looked right at Dimitri. "What is happening to me?"

He pulled me to his chest and shushed me. Lissa stroked my hair back. "Roza, I love you. There is nothing wrong with you. This is stressful, I understand, but you have to try and relax. For our child."

That last sentence got to me. Not, my child, or, your child, or even, the baby… No, he said our child. And to me, that meant more than anything in the world.

I looked into his eyes. "You're right. From now on I am going to be the most relaxed person in the world!" I was still a little worked up. I could feel the room spinning. "Our child will be the most important thing to me. Starting now."

Lissa and Dimitri smiled at me.

That was the last thing I saw before I passed out.