Hey guys! I'm sooo deeply sorry I haven't updating all my stories in a while, but if you guys are in college, you know what dipshit I'm going through. Essays, homework, BF, pregnancy...UGH! The point is I'm going through a lot of bullshit so please forgive me! I made this chapter extra long...3,500 WORDS! Longest chapter in this story! But I'm sorry to say this, but I'm going to end this story soon. I'm sorry again, but in five or six chapters, this story will end in a two part epilogue. I think this is wise because I want to focus on my other two stories. :) Anyways, enough of this and start reading. See you down there! XO

It turned out I had won our little bet. Christian had fallen asleep not even twenty minutes later and was snoring like a pig. I knew now that I could go to sleep, but something stopped me. I think it was that pit in my stomach, warning me that at any second, I would hear that pebble tap on the window. And the Strigoi would attack. I fidgeted with my fingers nervously. I had lost track on how many hours had past, but soon it would be daylight, so there was no point at attacking then. I crawled into bed with CC, carefully cradling my stomach doing so. She moved in her sleep a little, until she finally opened her big, round chocolate eyes, still a little droopy.

"Go back to sleep, angel.", I whispered as she snuggled more near to me.

A slight yawn adorned a cope of silence as CC's slim baby fingers skimmed my round stomach. The tip of her fingers were warm and it felt good having a hand placed there after a bunch of shivers constantly running through my spine.

"Rose?", a low voice called out from across the room. I turned around and found Lissa crawling over to the side of the bed, so she was right next to me.

"Good.", she sighed, "You're awake. Have you gone to sleep at all?"

I shook my head.

"Oh.", she breathed, rubbing her eyes. But then she stopped and froze. Gently, she let her hands go limp on her sides.

"Rose...", she drifted off uneasily.

I turned around and looked at her. "Huh?"

A look of fear crossed her face as she met my eyes.

"I think it's time."

Her words came like ice from her lips. She cringed at the pain as a little puddle formed beneath her.

I shot up and jumped to her side. This was bad timing, I thought, really bad timing. Why couldn't the twins wait until after we were done with Tasha? And plus she was about a month early. It was weird because I had conceived three weeks before her...

"Stay calm Liss.", I soothed, patting her back, "Do that breathing thing the doctor taught us and I'll wake up fire-boy."

She let out a rugged breath, closing her eyes and squeezing my hand through the pain the contractions were causing her.

"Christian!", I yelled from across the room.

He didn't wake up.

"Yo, Christian Ozera! Fuck! Wake up!", I shouted again.

He didn't bulge.

I grabbed Lissa's high-heel she was wearing from her foot and flung it at his head. The heel hit him right on the forehead, making a small red circle form.

"Ouch!", he recoiled, rubbing the bruised spot.

"Your wife is giving birth, Pyro!", I stated the obvious.

His eyes widened for a second before he ran up to Lissa's side.

"Lissa, oh Lissa!", he crooned, "Stay calm okay? Just stay calm! We'll get through this, okay! Just stay calm! Stay calm, you hear me?"

I burst out laughing. Christian was completely freaking out, and it was kind of funny. Who am I kidding? I shouldn't be laughing! My best friend was giving birth and it was too late to call a doctor!

"What do we do Rose?", Christian yelled at my face as Lissa winced in pain.

"Calm down, Christian.", I reassured, cradling Lissa in my arms, "Wake up Adrian."

"I'm already awake.", Adrian said, standing up at examining Lissa with his hand under his chin, "And it seems as if the twins are ready to be born."

"No shit sherlock!", Christian exaggerated, prying his hair off his head.

"Rose...", Lissa bawled, "It hurts..."

"Everything's going to be fine Lissa.", I consoled. Then I ordered, "Christian, help her out of her yoga pants and put her in this." I tossed to him a long t-shirt that I sometimes used for sleeping. Lissa screamed again. I swallowed.

"Do you know how to deliver a baby, little dhampir?", Adrian asked, tilting his head to the side.

I rolled my eyes. "No, but I've been through this and it doesn't seem like I have a choice. Does it?"

Adrian was silenced and Lissa was now in only the t-shirt. I squeezed my eyes shut. Looks like there's no going back now. I gingerly lifted the t-shirt up and looked inside it. Crap, she wasn't even two centimeters dilapidated. I bit my lip and gave Christian and Adrian a cautious look.

"This can take a while.", I reasoned.

Christian groaned in frustration. "Come out already! God what is taking so long?"

So I left Christian to his worrying and overreacting while Adrian tried to talk some sense into him. I took a quick look at CC, made sure she was still fast asleep, and turned back to Lissa, Her eyes were filled with pain and I kissed the top of her head.

"It's gonna be worth it Lissa. Holding Katherine and Declan in your arms is going to be really amazing." I comforted.

"Adrian!" I dictated. "What do I do?"

Adrian looked at me and shrugged. "I've never delivered a baby before, little dhampir. Do you want me to google it or something?"

I shot him a death glare. "If you have to!"

"What do we do?" Christian stammered. "Lissa is in pain and if we don't do anything bad things will happen!"

"Shut up already!" I yelled. Somewhere in the back of my mind an annoying tapping noise was forming. I pushed it away and continued.

"Christian, just watch over Lissa and check every few minutes to see how far she's dilapidated. Adrian, watch over CC until I figure something out."

The tapping noise started up again. It was coming more urgently now. What the fuck was it? Oh shit...I glanced at the window and realized that the sound din't come from the back of my mind, but from outside. Which meant...

My eyes widened. In one second, I was at the windowsill, staring down at the battle taking flight underneath. There had to be at least fifty Strigoi. Dimitri himself was fighting off six at the same time, and Mia and Aleyna were trying to hold back the three Strigoi against them. Eddie and Adrian's guards were both also fending off the entire army. Aleyna gave me a pleading look before she went back to fighting. I looked around the yard but no sign of Tasha. But in the distance, I could see a crowd of guardians rushing to help.

I turned around to see Adrian and Christian also looking out the window, their mouths agape.

"You.", I pointed to Christian, "You take care of Lissa, no matter what happens. She needs someone to stay with her. If she's fully dilapidated, tell her to start pushing. Got it?" Christian nodded and I turned to Adrian. "You watch over CC. I don't want her to see any of this, so take her to another room. There's an empty cellar downstairs that's safe. Hurry."

Once they scampered off, I breathed out and clutched my stomach in reassurance. Everything is going to be okay. I was all for the safety of Jared, and I wouldn't want the miscarriage to happen again.

"Hello Rose."

I swiveled around and met the deadly and glassy blue eyes of Tasha Ozera. There was a clean dagger in her hand and she was wearing a dirty blue sweater with a pair of ugly corduroy shorts. She had a grim and devious smile on her face, like one of those creepy rag dolls. I snuck a glance at Lissa, who was shutting her eyes and squeezing them, as well as Christian's hand.

"Tasha." I gritted through my teeth.

"Rose, Rose." she muttered, steeping forward. Lissa screamed in pain. I gave her a reassuring look.

"How the hell did you get in here?", I questioned.

She smirked. "Compulsion's a bitch. Those two guardians outside this room are in a deep sleep right now."

"Tasha please." I was practically begging. "You've already hurt my family, and I just want to straighten things out."

She chuckled darkly, bringing the dagger in front of her eyes and stroked the silver blade. Her pointer finger slid around the sharp tip of the blade, holding the knife between her two pointer fingers in front of her face.

"You don't understand, Rose.", she mused. "I loved Dimitri, and I still do. He's blind not to see the tension between us. I don't get why he went for you. If he'd just came with me and agreed to be my guardian, none of this would have happened."

I swallowed. I had to stay strong, and remind myself that I was fighting for the life of my unborn child, as well as my family. I couldn't break down now. Lissa let out a squeak but

I couldn't sneak a peak of her. I was completely focused on Tasha, the blade between her hands, and her deadly eyes.

"You feel neglected, Tasha.", the words that came out of my mouth were bitter and dripping with pure hatred. "I didn't know what I was thinking when I thought that I could actually talk you out of this. Fate destined us to be enemies. And we can't change that."

She grinned. "Finally, you get it. But it's not about that. I want revenge, Rose. You took Dimitri from me. And you must come to terms with what I'm going to say next." She paused then clutched the dagger in her hand tightly.

"If I can't have Dimitri, nobody can."

Then she plunged for me. I clutched my stomach one again and dodged. She grunted then created a fireball in her hand.

"Christian!" I called. He looked up from Lissa and jumped in between Tasha and I, a fireball at hand.

"Aunt Tasha." he whispered. "Rose is a part of my family. She's my sister and she's been more like family then you've ever been. So please, stop."

Tasha's eyes softened for a minute. "Oh Christian. You've always been a good nephew. But you don't know what Rose has done. Dimitri and I loved each other, and that stupid little blood whore you call a sister had to ruin everything."

"Dimitri loves Rose, and he always will.", Christian emphasized.

"Not anymore.", she said, "With Rose out of the way, everything will be perfect."

Christian glanced at Lissa who was clutching her sides, breathing heavily.

"Hold on there, Liss." I reassured. "Everything will be okay."

Without any word, Tasha lunged forward. Christian kicked her lower body, making her stumble over, but she doubled, tumbling forward so she was back up. Christian, taken by surprise, turned around and caught Tasha's arm, wrapping it behind her sufficiently. But Tasha still had the dagger in her other hand. She looked down at it, then at me, then smiled. Within one motion, she flung the dagger at my heart. I spun around quickly, so it hit the wall. I was panting heavily and for once was frightened.

Tasha screamed in frustration and gathered up a handful of blue fire, throwing it at my stomach. I wasn't sure if it made contact with my stomach or not, but luckily, Christian was there to redirect it. Tasha, clearly enraged with anger, jerked out of Christian's grasp and punched him in the stomach. The blow wasn't hard at all, so Christian barely flinched. This woman was crazy. I mean who would punch their own nephew?

"Christian!", Lissa cried. Both of us looked over at her where she was huddled up in the corner, wincing in pain. He gave me a look and I nodded, before he ran over and started to comfort her.

"Looks like it's just you and me, Rose." Tasha breathed.

I looked behind me at the wall and pulled the dagger out, holding it out in front of me and crouching ever so slightly.

"Bring it on, Tasha."

She laughed evilly and whipped a lash of blue fire at me. I jumped lightly an crouched once again, bending my knees while my and touched the ground. I had to remind myself that I had to be gentle.

Tasha kept on firing, but I dodged quickly until I felt something behind me. I reached in and my hand cupped something sharp. It was glass. Tasha or Christian must have hit it. I jumped once more and threw the shard at her arm. It made a scarring sound and a thin, but deep looking line of blood formed from her elbow to her hand. She cried out in pain and swore.

"Rose!", Christian called. "Lissa's ready! The babies are coming!"

"Fuck!", I swore. "Tell her to start pushing when she feels the next contraction!"

Tasha started to get up again, this time, her head bent down so she looked even darker.

"It's time for this to end, Rosemarie.", she hissed, big sashes of fire trailing from her hands.

"Yes, it is.", I snapped back. Realizing I still had the dagger, I threw it with all my strength threw her heart.

And missed.

Her fire whip lashed out and sliced the dagger in half, and making a small cut and burn across my cheek. I winced a little but then quickly recovered.

I saw Lissa screaming so I ran over to her side while Christian took my place in fighting.

"Lissa, Lissa!", I crooned, "It's okay, just push, okay? Everything is fine, just breath and stay calm okay?"

She nodded, biting her lip, then shut her eyes closed.

I jumped back at joined Christian, who was fighting fire with fire with Tasha. I didn't know what to do right there and then. Comfort Lissa? But Christian needed my help. Help Christian? But he and Tasha were already engulfed in their own fight. I glanced at Tasha and scarcely met her eyes. With a grunt she threw one more flame at Christian before catching me off guard before big, blue fireballs started coming at me. Being the badass I was, I dodged sufficiently.

But it was then I heard a scream of terror and pain. And I knew it wasn't from the contractions.

All the fighting stopped and well swiveled around the find Lissa, clutching her arm, with was severely burned. I turned to Christian, who was shaking madly. Then he turned to Tasha, his face red and fuming. Tasha, for once, looked terrified.

"Christian.", she started, "I didn't mean to-

"That's enough!", Christian roared. He bent down, still holding Tasha's weak gaze, as he cupped something in his hand.

A stake.

My stake.

Shit, I must have dropped it. What kind of guardian was I?

Everything went by too fast. In one, smooth motion, Christian had ran over to Tasha and staked her heart, as if she were a real Strigoi. And she crumpled down to the floor like a motionless rag doll. Blood spurted rom her chest and trickled from her mouth. Christian stared down at her wordlessly.

I came over to him and patted his back.

"I killed her.", he whispered, "I killed my own aunt."

"She deserved it." I soothed. "Come on, Lissa needs our help."

We went over to Lissa quickly, forgetting about Tasha's dead body. I got on the phone and called a doctor to the house. We looked underneath Lissa, to find the section of one of the twin's heads coming to view.

"Good job, Lissa." I said, kissing her head.

I peeped out the window and found the ground completely calm. Dimitri and everyone else were huddled in a circle, discussing something. I was glad everything was okay, and this was all over.

I called Adrian and CC up here and Adrian tried slowly to heal Lissa's arm. I hugged CC in my arms tightly, glad she was okay. She looked at me with her big eyes and traced the scar on my cheek. I kissed her hand, then her face. A couple of guardians who had helped, dragged Tasha's lifeless body away, so it would never be seen again. a few minutes later, the doctor came. Her name was Berna, and despite her name, reminded me of Alberta with her tough but old looks. No offense to Alberta. She helped Lissa and bandaged her burns. Unfortunately, I was kicked out of the room, unable to see my niece and nephew's birth. I went downstairs, where a bunch of guardians were flooding the house. I looked for Dimitri, but couldn't find him. Surely he would be easy to find, considering he was 6'7". I was about to give up my search from boredom and lack of sleep, until a warm hand was placed firmly on my forearm, pulling me back.

"What do you-", I started, but was interrupted because the person's other hand, sneaked their way to my mouth, covering it.

It wasn't until I was fully pulled into the spacious coat closet that the person released and I realized it was Dimitri.

His lips attacked mine at an instant. I kissed back eagerly, putting all my feelings towards it. I don't know how long we kissed until we finally pulled back for some air.

Our foreheads still touched, as his fingers skimmed CC's smooth cheek. I hadn't realized I was still holding her.

"I'm so glad you two are okay.", he muttered.

I smiled weakly. "This was a hectic fight, comrade. Lissa 's babies weren't patient enough to wait until after this ended."

His eyes lit up as he took CC from my arms, kissing her cheek.

"Lissa's in labor? I thought she wasn't due until after you?", he asked.

I shrugged. "I don't know. She's having twins. They might be fighting for space in there or something."

He chuckled. "Maybe."

I rested my hands in my stomach, then smiled. "Why are there so many guardians out there?"

"They heard the fight from the other side of Court. Strigoi can be noisy sometimes, you know. But apparently, Tasha and the Strigoi knew beforehand that the wards had a weak spot, so they entered through there."

"Oh.", was all I could say. We chatted for a few more hours, before coming out of our coat closet. Not as much guardians were here anymore, so we decided to check up on Lissa.

She was holding two little angels in her arms. I grinned and crouched down to her level. I felt tiredness from the bond, and she offered one baby to Christian, and one to me.

"That one's Katherine.", she nudged the baby in my hand. Then she pointed to the one Christian was holding. "And he's Andre. I felt the need to name him Andre, instead of Declan, because I really miss him, Rose. And he would've been really happy to meet them."

I stared down at Katherine, her eyes a jaded color like Lissa's, with a tuft of pitch black hair surrounding her head. I handed her to Dimitri, who gave CC to Christian (Hey, CC loved Christian, so they needed to reunite after this whole thing), who gave Andre to me.

Andre was a spiting image of Christian. His face had Christian's features, but Lissa's blonde hair. Dimitri and I handed both babies back to them, and all three of us left them to get some sleep. We decided to sleep in one of the guest rooms, since they were occupying our room.

CC was fast asleep in an instant. I really loved this kid. She wanted nothing to do but sleep. And right now, so did I. I kissed Dimitri one last time before drifting off into a deep slumber.

Once again, it may take me a long time to update, but I'll try to UD soon.