Ok like I promised. Sorry for those that thought someone was going to be on the phone I just needed a way to shut Lissa up and thought it was a good way to do it. A lot of people are wondering what the baby will be and names. I would like to know your opinion. What do you want the baby to be girl or boy? And names and looks. Have fun with it. And remember to review.
Characters are owned by Richelle Mead.
"No, I don't think that it is a good idea" Adrian said sitting down on the couch across from me.
"What do you mean not a good idea? This was the point, get me strong enough to push you out of my dream so I could push Dimitri out of my dreams" I said looking at him with a bit of agitation.
"I know why we did it but I am fine with sleeping when you do. I don't see why you feel the need to see if you can push Dimitri out right now" he said crossing his arms across his chest.
"Adrian I have been able to push Lissa out of my dreams for over two months and you for almost a month this is clearly the next step. Plus the doctor said I am going to be growing more exhausted you won't be able to sleep whenever I do" I said leaning forward in the chair as much as possible with my ever growing stomach.
"Mark and Oksana are going to be leaving in a week I want to do it before they are gone in case we still need to work on it" I said pulling myself out of the chair to stand in front of him.
"I will agree on one condition I am coming into the dream with you" he said reaching up to grab my hand to pull me down on his lap.
"No I am going to hurt you, I think I officially weigh more than you" I said trying to pull out of his grasp and failing.
"Don't be ridiculous " he said pulling me down completely onto his lap.
Once I accepted defeat I thought about what he had just said.
"You are not coming into the dream with me. We seen that the injuries you get in a dream can follow you through. He has a reason not to kill me and every reason to kill you. I won't let you put yourself in danger like that" I said looking at him to let him know how serious I was.
"Rose I could have us both out of the dream before he had a chance to touch us, and I am not letting you do this by yourself" he said placing his hand on my stomach.
"I don't like it" I simply stated knowing that it wasn't fair of me to tell him that he couldn't come into the dream but expect him to be ok with me going into it by myself.
"I know" was all he said.
"I will talk to Oksana so she can be here when we do it" I said attempting to get up when I felt a flutter in my stomach. My movement stopped and I placed my hand on my stomach.
"Are you ok?" Adrian asked staring at me intently.
"The baby, I think she just kicked" I said sitting back down on Adrian's lap and placing his hand on my stomach where I had felt it. I scolded myself for calling the baby a she but I couldn't help it after hearing Adrian call the baby a she for the last two and a half months it had unfortunately caught on. Not only with myself but it seemed that everyone was calling the baby a girl. We decided not to find out when Dr. Olendzki asked us at the last appointment. Lissa was furious.
"I don't know why you wouldn't want to know. How are you going to know what to decorate the baby's room in or what color clothes to buy. This is just stupid why are you guys trying to make everything so secretive?" she asked frustration flooding the bond. I couldn't help but laugh at her outburst which did not help the situation.
"It is not funny how am I suppose to know what to buy my God child if I don't know what he or she is?" she said running he fingers through her hair a habit I noticed she had picked up when she was frustrated or mad.
"How would you like it if I bought your maid of honor dress and didn't let you see it until the day of the wedding?" she asked popping her hip to the side resting her arm on it.
"If that is what you wanted then I would be fine with it" I said knowing that I would probably not be ok with it but I knew she wouldn't do it so I didn't see the harm in the lie.
"Liar" she said.
The flutter in my stomach pulled me from the memory.
"Wow" Adrian said moving his hand on my stomach pushing a little bit to see if he could feel it again.
"Hey little baby Dhampir" he said moving his hand. The baby moved again.
"I think she likes your voice" I said laying my hand next to his. He chuckled when I said she, he use to make fun of me but now it seemed that he had gotten use to the fact that I was now calling our child a girl also. God I hope this baby is a girl. I often found myself apologizing to the baby if it was a boy. Thankfully I don't recall any memories of being in my mother's womb so he would never have to know everyone called him a girl for over six months.
"What makes you so sure it is my voice she is responding to" he asked leaning forward until his lips were touching the back of my neck. The baby moved again this time with a little bit more force.
"That" I said moving his hand to were the baby had just kicked. We spent the next forty-five minutes in amazement every time the baby moved. Finally I think she got tired of moving or tired of us talking about her moving and she stopped.
"Why isn't she moving anymore?" Adrian asked moving his hands all over my stomach concern filling his voice.
"I am sure she just feel asleep, maybe you should finish reading that book Mark bought you for expecting fathers" I said finally climbing off of his lap so the blood could start circulating through his legs again.
"I started it I just haven't gotten to the part where they talk about the baby moving" he said standing up behind me.
"Baby it helps if you stay on the trimester that I am in or reading the book is going to be pointless" I said turning my head smirking at him before walking to the kitchen to make something for us to eat.
I was in the middle of making our sandwiches when Oksana walked in.
"Hey, did you want one?" I gestured down to the sandwich.
"No I have already eaten. I am going to miss this" she said taking a seat on one of the stools at the counter. Now that she said something about it I realized how much I enjoyed having her and Mark here.
"You don't have to leave, we love having you here" I said hollering for Adrian to come get his sandwich. I would usually bring it out to him but I was in the middle of a conversation that I didn't want to leave.
"We love being here, but I think it is time to get back to the real world and for us that is in Russia. Plus if we are going to come and visit to meet the new edition to your family we need to get back" she said smiling at me.
"She started to move today" I beamed at my stomach placing the hand that wasn't holding my sandwich on my protruding stomach. "When she does it again I will let you feel it if you want" I said realizing I needed to call Lissa and tell her or she would flip out.
"I would love that Rose, you have come a long way since Russia. You seem to amaze me everyday. I knew you were special when we first meet you and each day we have known you it just keeps impressing us. You are going to make a wonderful mother" she said a look of sadness filling her face. I wasn't sure if it was because they were leaving or because she realized she wanted a baby. The way she stared at my stomach I was assuming it was the latter. We had spent hours talking about the baby and looking through catalogues trying to decide how to decorate the baby's room. I picked up on her desire to have a baby and was just hoping that one day she could be as happy as I was knowing in a few months I would be able to hold my baby.
"Thanks" I said then decided it was time to change the subject. "I am going to attempt to push Dimitri out of my dream. I wanted to do it before you guys leave I was thinking maybe later tonight or tomorrow. Adrian will be dream walking into the dream too" I said realizing how much I disliked the idea but knew there was little to no reason to argue with him about it.
"I don't think it is a bad idea to have him there. Since Dimitri keeps your appearance the same in the dream as what it is in reality there is a strong possibility that he is going to realize that you are pregnant and not be happy about it" she said. I realized she was right there was no hiding the fact that my stomach had definitely grown plus Adrian had a point he could get me out of the dream a lot quicker if necessary.
"You're right, but don't tell Adrian I said that" I said taking a bite out of my sandwich thinking about what his reaction was going to be.
"I have an idea" she said staring off like she was still pondering it before she spoke again.
"You told me when we first arrived here that Dimitri could use compulsion on you and when he injured you if followed you through the dream. Maybe it is possible to use compulsion on him in the dream and it continue to work once the dream ends" she said still staring off.
"Yeah but that means whoever is using compulsion on him is going to have to be extremely close for it to work" I said staring at her. It made sense but I didn't like it.
"I am already going to be there might as well do something while visiting" Adrian said walking into the kitchen grabbing the plate that was on the counter with his food on it.
"No, it is bad enough you are going to be there, I don't want you any closer to him than what you have to be" I said looking away from Oksana to look at Adrian.
"We don't even know if it will work maybe we can have Lissa come into the dream and I can use compulsion on her because I will not use it on you while you are pregnant" he said taking a seat next to me.
"Even if it works I don't want you doing it to him. He is strong and dangerous and I will not have you getting hurt. Plus what are you going to try and make him do?" I said staring at him wishing he would have stayed in the living room a little bit longer and avoided hearing any of this conversation.
"Well I could attempt to have him tell us his plans, if we know what he is planning then we can be a step ahead of him" he said eating the rest of his sandwich.
"I still don't like it, I can't help you at all if he tries to hurt you" I said turning my body to face his. "You are always telling me you don't know what you would do if anything were to happen to me or this baby, I feel the same way. I can't do this alone, and I don't want this baby growing up without a father like I had to do for eighteen years" I said grabbing his hand putting it on my stomach.
"Ok it is off of the table" he said leaning forward until he was so close that I could feel his breathe on my face. "I won't ever do anything that will bring you pain or sadness" he said kissing my lips lightly.
"As much as I would love to kiss these wonderful lips if yours, but I have a meeting. And I think you are late" he said pulling away laughing. "Love you" he said walking out of the kitchen.
Since we had arrived Adrian had started working with his aunt, something I was not to thrilled about it until I realized how much he was enjoying it. Something about working and providing for his family made him happy even though we was technically rich. I understood the need after a month and a half off Eddy, Christian, and I were going stir crazy. We eventually spoke with the head of the school that was at Court and were able to start up classes like we had at the academy. I was limited on how much I could do because of the baby but that didn't stop me from scaring the kids half to death when they started acting up.
"I need to be getting back to class too. I told Eddy I was going to lunch two hours ago" I said chuckling when I realized he was probably going to kill me.
"Oh I am sure he will be happy to see you return" she said smiling at me.
"I will call Emily and see if she wants to have dinner with us tonight" I said grabbing my plate and putting it in the sink.
It took us a few days to figure out where Eddy was spending all of his time but finally Lissa and I followed him and seen he meet Emily outside our building before walking off quickly towards her dorm. We tried to give him time to tell us but after he kept denying that he was seeing someone we called him out. Lissa and I were both confused why he wouldn't tell us who he was dating until we found out she was only sixteen. I had to laugh since they were only two years apart and he wasn't even her teacher. Where Dimitri and I were seven years apart and he was my mentor. The laughs only lasted a few seconds until I realized that Dimitri and I didn't choose to go our separate ways he was taken from me. I didn't like to think about what would of happened if Dimitri was still here, not because it hurt me to think how he wasn't but because Adrian and this baby had a very good chance of not being here and I wouldn't trade them for the world.
"Rose are you ok?" Oksana asked touching my arm.
"Oh yeah sorry I seem to be getting lost in thought a lot more lately" I said giving her a reassuring smile. I hated how everyone seemed to worry about me all the time. I said goodbye to Oksana before slipping my shoes back on and jogging back to the gym.
"I know I am sorry Adrian and I lost track of time" I said walking into the gym to see a very annoyed looking Eddy. I had called Emily and was happy she agreed to come over for dinner so I figured I could use that to my advantage.
"Rose I don't want to know about your sex life" he said walking away from me.
"And I didn't say anything about sex you idiot. We felt the baby kick for the first time. Get your head out of the gutter perv" I said punching him in the shoulder.
"Is that normal?" Eddy asked looking at my belly like the baby was going to attack him through my stomach.
"Yes it is normal, gosh Eddy where did you come from" I said shaking my head laughing at how clueless Adrian and Eddy were, I couldn't imagine that Christian would be much better. The students started to file in taking their spots on the gym floor.
"Hey Emily is coming over for dinner tonight" I said to him before returning my attention to the students. The rest of the day went smoothly but I was glad to see it come to an end my feet were killing me and I couldn't pay attention when the baby started to move which I noticed she did a lot when I yelled. Once the kids left I helped Eddy put the equipment away told him I would see him at dinner and took off towards our apartment.
As soon as I walked in the door Lissa was sitting on the couch with a not so friendly face on. Crap I scolded myself realizing that I had forgotten to tell her about the baby moving and so far I had already told Oksana and Eddy. Knowing Adrian I was sure he hadn't keep it quiet.
"Hey" I said hoping she didn't know anything and I could play it off like she was the first to know.
"Hey Rose, how was your day?" she asked smiling up to me.
"Good, what about you?" I asked already knowing that she knew I could feel it through the bond but clearly she was attempting to play some type of game so I decided to go along with it.
"Oh you know pretty boring. Was your day as boring as mine or did you have something exciting happen?" she asked with the same smile she had on when she started her questioning.
"Oh my gosh you wouldn't believe what happened to me today" I said putting as much excitement into my voice as possible.
"What?" she asked her voice going higher.
"I came home for lunch today and totally lost track of time and didn't realize I was gone for almost two hours. When I got back I was pretty sure Eddy was going to kill me because he had to skip lunch since I wasn't back in time. So I invited Emily and him over for dinner hoping he will forgive me. I am always losing track of time it is crazy" I said smiling at her.
"Rose" she hissed at me.
"Don't Rose me if you already knew why are you trying to play games with me. I am fat, hot, and hungry and my memory apparently sucks. I am sorry I didn't tell you I told Adrian I was going to and then Oksana and I started talking about testing if I could push Dimitri out of my dream tonight and I lost track of time and like I already told you was a hour late getting back to class" I said flopping down onto the love seat sliding my shoes off.
"You are right, but you can imagine my surprise when Christian is asking me if I had felt the baby move and I had no clue what he was talking about" she said sadness feeling her voice. "Lissa I am sorry really I am. I wish you would have been here so you could have felt it too" I said touching my stomach.
"Is she kicking now?" she asked gazing at my hand.
"No she apparently only does it when Adrian is talking or I am yelling" I said realizing the baby was already a daddy's girl or boy gosh this baby is going to have issues if it is a boy.
"Then do it" she said. It took me a few seconds before I realized what she was suggesting. "Lissa I am not screaming to get the baby to move, just wait Adrian will be home soon" I said closing my eyes for a few seconds.
"What did it feel like?" Lissa asked.
I opened my eyes to look at her. She asked about the pregnancy as much as Oksana it made me wonder when her and Christian were going to have their own baby.
"Wonderful, but a little bit weird. It is still really light so you have to really pay attention to it. The book that I am reading says that the baby will start to kick harder and I apparently should get use to going to the bathroom a lot because that will be coming soon. Since we are talking about baby's when do you think you and Christian will start trying?" I asked.
"I don't know sometime after the wedding. Christian wants to wait a year or two but I am trying to work on that. I don't want our babies being to far apart in age" she said looking up at the front door watching Adrian walk in.
"Hey cousin" he said smiling at her. "Hey baby" he said coming over to give me a kiss.
"Are you talking to me or the actual baby?" I asked when he leaned back up.
"You of course, but I suppose I should say hi to the little one" he said walking to stand in front of me before leaning down. He lifted my shirt exposing my stomach if anyone but Lissa was here I would have objected but she was family.
"Hey little baby Dhampir" he said placing both hands on my stomach. "Has she been moving a lot today?" he asked looking up from my stomach to my eyes.
"Only when I yelled" I said smiling at him.
"You don't like it when mommy yells? Daddy doesn't like that either" he said laughing at his comment. Then I felt it again. Adrian's face lit up and he glanced up at me.
"How can you like daddy more than me when I am the one that feeds you and keeps you nice and warm?" I said sliding one of my hands under his. She kicked my hand and I couldn't help but laugh.
"Lissa come over here and feel this" I said knowing she was giving us our moment but I knew how badly she wanted to feel it.
"Are you sure?" she asked even though she was already standing next to the loveseat. I grabbed her hand and placed it where mine was.
"Just talk to her and she will respond" I instructed Lissa.
"Hi, gosh I don't even know what to call the baby. You know it is still not to late to find out what it is" she said staring up at me and then Adrian.
"Lissa I am sure you can think of something to call the baby" I said shaking my head I thought she had put that behind her clearly I was wrong.
"Hey pookie bear I am your aunt Lissa" she said before Adrian interrupted her.
"Pookie bear, really?" he questioned her.
"Don't blame me for your child not having a name and making me come up with a nickname for her. Or him" she added on quickly before returning her attention to my stomach.
"I am your mom's best friend and I will be the best aunt you could ever have. I am going to try and get uncle Christian to give you a cousin to play with."
"Lissa don't talk about sex in front of the baby" Adrian said laughing. Lissa ignored him and keep talking to the baby. Adrian gave me a quick kiss then walked to the kitchen to grab me something to drink while Lissa continued to talk to the baby waiting to feel something. After fifteen minutes I wasn't sure what story she was going to tell the baby next. She had already told the baby how I was a rebel and got into trouble, how we ran away from school and then how she and Christian meet, and now she was telling the baby about her wedding. I was pretty sure I was about to fall asleep.
"Lissa she may have fallen back to sleep. That is what she did earlier" I told her when I could feel her frustration start to grow.
"Maybe you could try yelling to wake her up" she suggested trying to give me her sad face.
"Lissa I am not going to yell, if you want go get Adrian maybe he can get her to move" I suggested wondering why he was taking so long.
"I am not asking him he will never let me live it down plus I want the baby to like me" she whined.
"Lissa I am sure the baby likes you she is probably just tired" I said yawning then realizing Eddy and Emily were coming for dinner in less than a hour and I hadn't even started to make dinner.
Adrian finally walked back into the room. "What did you go milk the cow yourself?" I asked taking the cup of milk from Adrian.
"Sorry, Stan called some of the kids you and Eddy trained are graduating in a month and he wanted to know if you would be interested in speaking at the graduation" he said taking a seat next to me.
"Wow graduation already. If Dr. Olendzki says that it is ok I would love to go" I said feeling my excitement grow. It had been a while since we had been back at the academy and I kind of missed it.
"Ok after we talk to Dr. Olendzki I will call him and let him know whether we can come or not. I assume you and Christian will want to go too" he asked Lissa looking at her with amusement on his face when he realized how hard she was concentrating on my stomach. He raised an eyebrow and looked at me, I mouthed the baby wouldn't move before Lissa looked up.
"Yeah I am sure Christian would love to get out of here for a while" she said before looking back at my stomach.
Adrian placed his hand on my stomach "Baby Dhampir are you being stubborn for your aunt Lissa? Will you do daddy a favor and show aunt Lissa how strong you are" he said grabbing Lissa's hand pulling it where his was.
"Oh my gosh" she said tears filling her eyes as she felt the baby kick.
"You are going to be a stubborn baby just like your mom" she said moving her hand to see if she could feel it again.
"Lissa I have to get up and start dinner everyone is going to be here in thirty minutes and I have no clue what I am making" I said attempting to pull my shirt down so she had to move her hand from my stomach. Adrian helped me up then walked with me to the kitchen to help with dinner. Lissa said she was going to run home and change and get Christian then come over to help set the table.
"Lissa was right" Adrian said opening the fridge to grab stuff out to make a salad since I had decided on spaghetti it was quick, easy, and delicious.
"About what?" I asked turning away from the water I had just set on the stove.
"The baby being stubborn like you" he said chuckling while cutting up lettuce.
"Why do you say that?" I asked glaring at him. I knew I didn't always go along with what everyone else was doing but I didn't consider myself that stubborn.
"How long did she sit out there talking to the baby without getting a response. I said five words to the baby and she was all over the place. I guess she gets that from you too, you go crazy when you hear my voice" he said walking to stand in front of me. Allowing me to slap his arm.
"It might be nice having the apartment to ourselves" he said smirking at me nuzzling into my neck.
"You think so" I said smiling.
"Yup, we haven't been able to properly christian this place" he said running his hands down my back until they were on my butt.
"I think what you are doing would break a lot of health codes" Christian said walking in followed my Lissa.
"Hey" I said smiling at them. "You guys can grab the plates and silverware and set the table dinner should be ready in a few minutes and everyone else should be getting here soon" I said pulling out of Adrian's embrace to stir the sauce
Dinner went smoothly I think I was able to get Eddy to forgive me and from how much he had eaten I was assuming he didn't ever get anything to eat after class. Once Eddy and Emily left we all gathered in Adrian and my room. I was hoping it would just be Adrian, Oksana, Mark and me but Lissa insisted on staying and Christian said he wasn't going back to his apartment to watch Emily and Eddy make out.
I laid down on my side while Adrian pulled my body into his. It was the way we slept most nights and I knew I would be able to fall asleep faster with him holding me.
"No funny business stay in the background and if I can't get out or if you think he is going to harm me then pull us out" I said pulling one of his hands further around me so I could intertwine our fingers.
"Got it, but that means the same for you if he shows up push him out don't wait around until I have to pull us both out because he is going to harm you" he said kissing the back of my head.
"If we are asleep for to long wake us up" I told Oksana.
"Are you sure you don't want me to come too" Lissa asked looking eager to be there.
"No, I should be fine. I would rather Adrian was not there either but that is not going to happen" I said smiling up at Lissa that was sitting in the recliner.
"Night" I told everyone as Mark turned the light off.
"I love you" I whispered to Adrian.
"I love you too" he said before my eyes fluttered shut and faded to black. It was weird knowing Adrian was asleep and not with me. There have been very few times when he was not in the dream with me. Lissa had bugged us both to death about her visiting my dreams so she could become a stronger dream walker but we limited it to one night a week or naps when Adrian was at work. Oksana had worked with Adrian attempting to dream walk but had little success. She was able to alter Mark's dreams but still hadn't been able to invade them.
"Roza" his deep voice frightened me causing me to jump.
"I did not mean to scare you" he said in a voice that made me think of the old Dimitri.
"You didn't" I lied turning around to face him. His face seemed softer than it was the last time I had seen him.
"You smell exquisite" he said walking toward me. My body tensed as he got closer but his movement was not threatening so I stayed where I was standing.
"Have you changed your mind, you seem I don't know different" I said looking up at his body that towered over mine. I wasn't sure where the boldness was coming from but I think it may have been knowing that Adrian was close.
"No I have not changed my mind I am who I want to be as I have said before. I just don't like you staying away for so long because I can not control my anger" he said bringing his hand to my face to move my hair to the side.
I wasn't sure where Adrian was but I was pretty sure he did not like what he was seeing.
"I am not the one changing, something is very different about you" he said glancing down my body. We had decided to put me in a large shirt that hung loosely from my body to hide my stomach.
"I am the same old me" I said taking a step back.
"You can not keep staying away for so long, I miss you dearly when you do not come to visit. I would hate to move up my plans because I miss seeing you so much" he said his face slowly loosing the softness that it had held.
"And what plans would those be?" I asked wishing I could use compulsion on him.
"What would be the fun of me telling you that?" he asked reaching forward and grabbing my arm pulling me towards him. "I want to see your face when it happens" he said running his hands up my body abruptly stopping on my stomach.
I froze I knew I should have pushed him out of the dream as soon as he grabbed me but here I was standing with his hand on my stomach frozen.
"What is this?" he asked pulling my shirt up.
Adrian came running out. Dimitri was caught off guard and let go of my arm and I stumbled back away from him.
"Back off Belikov" he said grabbing my arm pulling me towards him.
"What took you so long?" I asked ready for him to push us both out of the dream.
"Ended up on the other side of the academy" he said. I finally realized where we were.
"I love you" he said before pushing me out of the dream. I faded to black and waited for him but he didn't come.