A.N. I am sooooo sorry! I know I haven't been updating lately, but if you'll lower the pitchforks I'll explain. Next year I am going to be going to a different school, for my last year of middle school. On top of that the new school is a private school, previously all my other schools have been public. And starting this fall (well actually no, but whatever) I need to schedule tours and interviews for private schools, sooooo that's going to take a lot of time as well as priority, but I'll post as much as often. Not to mention the applications and essays and SSAT thing I need to take! Ugh…. So much stress, this is what you get for doing well and not despising school! Any way on with the story…

LPOV:

"Um, Apollo? Where's Andria? And what's this?" I asked.

"Well Andria is in the back, she is a little whipped out from giving birth to triplets."

"What?" Was all I could manage. Then the bundle I was holding; yeah, it started crying.

DPOV: (Dimitri) Yes I know he is a ghost, but deal with it.

"Hey, Belikov?" June called to me.

"What June?" June and I had been friends ever since I ended up in this place. It was sort of like limbo between the worlds. Apparently since I was a dhampir-turned strigoi-turned partial strigoi/dhampir-turned strigoi (A.N. I think that's right. Point is he has switched 'species' quite a lot.) I took a while for the people in charge to figure out where I'm supposed to go for eternity. June had the same type of thing, she was born a strigoi, don't know how, but she was, and she hardly ever killed while feeding, so no one really knew where to put her either.

"Well I just got news. Remember that little boy you always used to look after? His name was like a god or something…" She trailed off trying to recall his name.

"Apollo?" Apollo had been my godson, so even though I was dead I used to check up on him, now less than before, but I still did.

"Yeah that's the one! Well apparently he and the Ivashkov girl are expecting a child… and since there is a whole bunch of spirit involved she is only going to have a pregnancy that lasts days…if she's lucky…."

"When was it conceived?" I yelled.

"A day or two ago…? Why?" She asked confused.

"Damn!" And with that I disappeared.

That was one of the great things about being stuck in 'limbo', you can come and go as you please, as long as you appear as a ghost when you are in the 'real world'. Even that beats living in a world of all white… white walls, white floors, white food, it's creepy.

Within a blink of an eye, I was sitting in the back seat of Apollo's Ferrari, behind him and Andria. I could tell both of them were freaking out, but I wasn't going to announce my presence unless it was needed.

"Apollo. I don't think we'll make it to court. The baby is coming. Now."The Ivashkov girl said. She was named after Lissa's brother, but how did they do it? It sounded like her fathers name too…

We'll worry about names later. She was now breathing in short gasps. Apollo floors the gas pedal. A Ferrari can go pretty fast, even without a freaking out Apollo at the wheel.

"Apollo! We aren't going to make it!" She yelled as she doubled over, well as much as her stomach would allow.

"And! Call your mom! Quick!" He yelled. He seemed more panicked than she was. She did as she was told and quickly dialed a number I recognized.

"Andria!" I heard a voice yell. That was her name!

"Mommy!" Andria called back. All her toughness and strength left her, now she was a fifteen-year-old girl about to have a baby on the side of the road.

I heard more words, but they were quieter so I couldn't hear them.

"Mommy. The baby is coming."

Andria gave her an address that I knew was about half hour from court by car.

Now I knew that if they got Rose or Christian to drive they would get here in half the time, if you get Adrian to drive and tell him it is muy importante and his baby girl is giving birth, he could make NASCAR drivers look like an old woman driving (A.N. No offense to any elderly woman out there!). Even that wouldn't be fast enough. My turn.

"Apollo. Stop the car." I.

Apollo slammed on the brakes. Both of their heads whipped around. When they saw me their eyes became dinner plates.

"Dimitri?" Both yelled at the same time. That would have been cute if Andria hadn't arched her back and scream out in pain.

"Yeah. It's me. Miss me? Of course you did." See Rose did teach me something. "Now Apollo, out of the car. Go to that hotel across the street. Assuming you still have the ninja skills you had when you were little, I want you to sneak in there, get a bottle of hotish-warm water and a ton of dish towels." He looked at me shocked, but when Andria cried out again, he did as I told.

"Okay, now Andria, I am going to come around the car and move you to the backseat. Then I'll take car of everything." Seeing the question in her eyes, "Yes I can carry you. I am a friend of your parents and your Aunts and Uncles, Apollo's old godfather, Rose's mentor, and I have been in limbo for a while, so I've had time to learn things, so I do know how to deliver a baby."

I did as I said I would, laying Andria down in the back seat. I looked at her, asking permission, before I took off her pants, she didn't care at this point; she just wanted the kid out. Apollo was back in record time, but not before the child was out, since it had started coming before her pants were off. I handed him the child. He ran around to the front seat, wrapping the little girl in a towel as he went and placed her in the middle of the seat and close the door. I checked her to make sure everything was alright, but turns out there was more than one baby. When I asked Apollo, he said he didn't know how many kids there were.

I instructed him to wet a towel with the water and put it on her stomach to help relax her. With a few more pushes the second child, a boy, came out. I handed him to his father and Apollo did the same with him as he did with is older sister. I checked once again and yet another child was coming.

"You sure those were birth control pills and not birth enhancement pills?" I muttered under my breath, but I think Apollo heard because he laughed quietly and shrugged.

Anyway, repeating the process the third child was out. I checked and there was no sign of a forth child, Thank God! I handed the youngest child, a baby boy, to his mother who had pulled her shirt down a bit and was sitting up; her face gleamed with sweat. Apollo ran to the trunk, grabbed something and threw it to Andria. Andria handed him the baby and slid the sweatpants on.

I know it seemed like it took a while but it really only took five or six minutes. Apollo handed the baby back to his mother and picked up the baby girl. Apollo started to clean the little girl off, like Andria did to the younger boy.

"Dimitri? Do you mind cleaning the other boy off?" Apollo asked.

"Not at all." I said as I did the same to the baby boy, who giggled a bit at me and I smiled at him.

"Oh My God! Oh My God!" Andria screamed. I looked over at her, and where the baby boy had been, there was now a toddler-sized child. I looked at the child I was holding in my own arms; there was another toddler-sized child.

"Andria, don't worry. It is normal; it is spirit. Same thing happened to your sisters." Sure a lot slower, but I wasn't going to tell her that.

I looked over at Apollo, who was looking at his baby girl. Nothing happened at first, but then we heard a "Momma? Dada?"

Okay, so the boys grew faster, but the girl learned faster? Interesting. Apollo and Andria looked at the girl with shock.

I took the girl from her father so he wouldn't drop her out of shock and handed him the boy I was holding. I sat down in the back seat next to Andria after we finished the 'transaction', I watched as a car pulled up. Obviously Apollo knew the car since he was simply leaning against his car watching.

Rose and Lissa got out of the back seat (Rose was as beautiful as ever) and Adrian jumped out of the drivers seat. Adrian was shooting daggers at Apollo, but then he saw what Apollo was carrying. In fact, when they saw what Apollo was carrying they all froze.

Dimitri, you are running out of time… That's right, even though we can go whenever we want we can only leave for twenty minutes at a time, and have to stay for ten minutes between trips.

"Apollo… How did you…?" Rose asked. I decided to make my appearance now. So I stepped out of the car and walked up to Lissa.

"Just 'cause I'm dead doesn't mean I don't look out for my god son." I sad, "I thought he may need a little help." I placed the baby girl her grandmother's arms. Lissa looked confused, which she probably was, since she was only expecting one child, which Apollo was holding, plus the girl just looked like a bundle of towels. With that I disappeared again, this time heading back to 'limbo'.

ApPOV:

"Okay. Now it is time to talk." My dad said from his place at the head of the table.

We were back at court, at my house to be exact. We had finally gotten the kids to sleep in the spare bedroom, using cribs we had found in the attic. Andria and Ashlyn loved the kids, Clarissa and Jade had just got here and were upset they didn't get to meet their nephews and niece, but oh well. Anyway, the girls were all upstairs doing who knows what, except for Andria, who was sitting beside me.

"You two are now parents. So you need to make a decision," He said. He paused.

"Do you plan on keeping the children?" Lissa finished for him. I looked at her (she was directly across the table from me).

I looked at And, who was sitting next to me at the end opposite my dad. She met my eyes.

"It is a huge responsibility to raise children. Especially children who have spirit effects going on. Plus there are three of them…" Was she really going to give them up for adoption. No. I'll do it myself if I have to, but I'm not giving up my kids. "But, we have a small advantage over most other teenage parents, we are out of school… So it will be…easier?... to take care of the kids."

"Well then. I would like to point out another advantage you have…." My mother said, from her seat next to me, "You have a family that will help you out."

"Okay, next thing. I want names! I don't want to call my grand children boy, girl and other boy all their lives." Lissa said.

I looked a Andria and shrugged.

"The older boy's name is Dimitri." She said. I nodded. After all Dimitri has done, I have no problem naming one son after him, "The second boy's name will be…"

"Caden." I said. I had always loved my middle name, so why not pass it on to my son.

"Caden." Andria repeated.

"And the third one will be…"

"Elizabeth." Artemis said from the bottom of the stairs. She walked over and stood behind And's chair, "Did you show them yet?"

"Nope. But since we are all set, let's show them now." Adrian said. All the adults stood and we followed.

Adrian led us all out the door and across the street to a house that had recently been vacated. I had known the woman who lived there, she used to babysat back when mom was gone and dad was busy. The house had four or five bedrooms and like seven bathrooms, plus a rec room, work out room, play room not to mention the normal kitchen and living room stuff.

"As soon as I found out you were pregnant, And, I started a little project, just in case you decided to keep the child. When we were coming back, we called ahead and the girls added two more cribs and set up two more baby rooms." My mom said.

My dad slid his hand into his pocket and pulled out a key. He took Andria's hand and held it palm up. He placed the key in it then curled her fingers around it.

"You're giving us a house?" I asked in disbelief.

"Yep." My mom and Lissa said at the same time, both popping the p.

"This way you have space to raise your kids, but we are right there if you need us." My dad said.

He was right. My parents lived across the street, Dan's family lived behind us and And's family lived across the street from them. This might just work out.

I looked back at my old house, Artemis stood in the doorframe, "Thanks sis!" I called.

She giggled then turned and ran up the stairs.

A.N. I know I posted one at the beginning but I wanted to post another. Next week I'm going to Disney with my family. I don't know if I'll be able to post, but I'll try. If I can't I'll have a bunch of chapters written so I can post them when I come back. Anyway, basic stuff here… review, fav, blah blah blah. You know the drill. But seriously do vote! Anyway, Paul's part of the story will be coming soon. Very soon!