It's late afternoon and Mark calls his mom to tell her that he is going to be a few minutes late, because he is going to drop off Sarah at her house. There was no answer, which was odd to Mark, but he just ignored it. He called her again after he dropped off Sarah, again no answer. He was getting worried he drove faster to reach his mother's office quicker. He called her a third time on his way, and she finally picked up.
"Mom, where were you? Did you get my message?" Mark asked.
No answer.
"Mom?"
"Mark." Vicki sounded in pain. "Mark, please get here, the baby, something's wrong." She dropped her cell.
"Mom, I'm coming." He hung up his phone quickly.
He ran out the car, and ran inside.
"Mom!" He yelled.
Vicki was inside leaning against her desk, in apparent pain, she looked up sd her son entered the room.
"Boy am I glad to see you." She said half-smiling.
Mark helped her to the car and drove to the hospital.
"Were almost there, Mom, hang on." He reassured her.
"Yeah, I'm trying." She said as a wave of pain rushed over her.
They arrived at the hospital and Mark brought his mother inside and she was seen immediately. Mark waited outside while they got her hooked up to all of the monitors. He called his father in the meantime and left him a message.
He waited in the hallway for the nurse to come out. He looked up and saw a lady dressed in blue coming towards him.
"How's my mom?" He asked.
"She's doing fine, her blood pressure is high, and were going to keep her for observation, but she's going to be just fine." The nurse reassured him. "You can go in and see her now" she said with a smile.
He walked through the door and saw his mother in the hospital bed, and his heart sank.
"Hey." Vicki said with a smile.
"Hi, how are you doing?" he asked.
"I'll be okay. The nurse told me I have high blood pressure, and that I need bed rest until the baby is born."
"That stinks" Mark said with a smile. "That's going to be really boring." He joked.
"Tell me about it." His mom rolled his eyes.
"How's the pain?" He asked.
"All gone, the nurse gave me some stuff to make them like totally go away." She said in a valley girl's voice.
Mark laughed. "Right okay, as long as you're comfortable."
Henry showed up a few minutes later, just as the sun set.
"I'll just leave you two alone."
He left Vicki and Henry alone.
"How are you feeling?" He kissed her.
"I'm okay, I'm ordered on best rest for the rest of my pregnancy." She said with a sigh.
"Don't worry we'll take care of you." He said with another kiss.
"Yeah, I know you will." She forced a smile.
"Vicki? Is there something bothering you?" Henry asked with curiosity.
"No, why?" She lied.
"Come on, I've known you long enough to know that you suck at lying." Henry came back with.
"I'm worried about our son. He's gone through things that no normal 16 year-old boy should have to go through. Henry, I feel like he's drifting apart from me." She started to tear.
Henry hugged her. "Is that what your worried about? Vicki, I promised you, since the say he was brought into this world that no harm would come to him."
"And look what's happening. Christina persists, and I'm scared that she'll win, I don't want to lose him.
Henry remained silent.
"What does she want with him, Henry?" Vicki asked in a stern voice holding back her emotions.
There was a moment of silence. Henry knew exactly what she wanted, but how to tell Vicki.
Here goes nothing he thought.
"Vicki I…." Henry started.
"Cut the Vicki crap, and just tell me."
"Christina was a vampire long before I was, and before she made me she always talked about the sun and how she would give anything to walk in the daylight again."
Vicki swallowed.
Henry continued. "When Mark was born, Christina saw him as key to finding the light again, she knew that he would possess something that she had been missing for over 5 centuries."
"So what exactly are you saying?' She asked with a scared expression on her face.
Henry explained, " A child born of two parents, light and dark. Our son has daytime and nighttime running through his veins, and Christina needs him to free herself from her curse."
"The curse of eternal darkness." Vicki added softly.
Henry nodded.
"Now what do we do?" She asked.
"Now, we wait." He added softly.
Little did they know Mark was out in the hallway listening to their conversation. He was scared, and angry at the same time. Why him? He sank to the ground and a tear rolled down his cheek.
A week later Vicki was out of the hospital and on bed rest, only to get up to use the bathroom and shower. She was quite bored after one week she was going insane.
Mark came straight home after his practices and games to take care of his mom.
"Hey Mom, I'm home." Mark Yelled when he walked through the door.
"I'm right here, you don't have to shout." She hollered back.
"Oh sorry. What's up?" he asked sitting on the couch.
"Oh not much, just sitting and sitting and laying down and sleeping and reading." She joked. "Oh and eating" She added.
Mark laughed. "Okay I get it, you're bored."
"Got the bored part right." She added.
"Only 6 more weeks, time will fly by." He half-joked.
"Oh yeah, easy for you to say mister." She smiled.