I didn't want to jump, but I didn't have any other ideas.
So here you go, I hope you all enjoy.

A New Idea – 33

A Month Later…

Adrian still had no luck with equipping the stake with spirit. But he did equip a lot of Mia's jewelry, giving Lissa a necklace and a few rings to help her stay calm. We ended up finding some blood bags from a hospital for Lissa since we didn't want her to drain the feeders since that what Strigoi do. Everyone, especially Christian, was really starting to doubt Adrian, no matter how good he was getting with the small objects, which was surprisingly amazing.

"Do you even think he can do it anymore?" Christian whispered to me one day.

"Come one Christian," I whispered back with Adrian just in the other room. "Have some hope."

"But just because he did it once doesn't mean he can do it again. We have to find another way."

"What other way is there?" Mia asked, sitting beside her boyfriend, Eddie, who by the way finally asked her out two weeks ago.

"None," I replied, looking Christian in the eye. "That's why Adrian is our only hope." But in the back of my mind, there was something yelling at me to remember something, something important.

"But it's been over a month and he still doesn't have anything." We were all silent for quite a while, while we all thought of some kind of plan to help.

"What about Sonya Karp?" Eddie asked, everyone else having completely forgot that she was a spirit user.

"Nope," Dimitri answered from beside me.

"And why not?" Christian almost yelled at him.

"She's sworn off using spirit. Ever since she turned back form a Strigoi, she doesn't want to use it. And anyways, she doesn't know much about spirit. I already asked her a week ago when I noticed Adrian wasn't making any progress. She can grow things like Lissa and heal things, but she doesn't even like to do that with all the side effects it gives her."

"Well she's the only other spirit user we know," Eddie whispered, getting worried that we'd never be able to save Lissa. And then that's when I remembered what my mind has been yelling at me.

"Not exactly," I whispered, coming up with a plan.

"What do you mean?" Christian asked at the same time Adrian walked into the room.

"What's going on in here?"

"Just thinking?"

"Care to elaborate?"

"Not really," Christian smirked.

"Just coming up with some plans," Dimitri said as I smacked Christian in the back of the head while Mia giggled.

"Plans for what?" Adrian asked confused.

"Well we've all noticed that you haven't made any progress, and we just need to hurry it along."

"Yeah, I don't know how much more of Strigoi Lissa I can handle," I said, missing my friend. "It's nothing personal, it's just we need to hurry. I hate seeing Lissa like this."

"I know that Rose," Adrian said, trying not to get angry that we've all turned on him. "It's not my fault. It's harder than you all think."

"I know that Adrian. I've watched Lissa struggle with it too. But it has been over a month and you still have nothing." He looked down, defeated.

"Fine, so what do you have?"

"Nothing quite yet," I said. "But I will real soon." I stood up and started grabbing my stuff.

"What do you have that you're not telling the rest of us?" Adrian said, squinting his eyes at me.

"I'll let you all know after I make a few calls to check something out." I held out my hand to Dimitri, waiting for him to follow me. "I may need some of your help, please."

"Wow," Dimitri laughed, clearly shocked. "Rose Hathaway asking for help! I thought I'd never see the day."

"Oh, whatever. Are you going to help me or not?" He smiled at me as he followed me out the door, leaving everyone else to try and guess what I had up my sleeve.

"Roza?" Dimitri whined. I was in my room walking back and forth on the phone. "Why won't you tell me? I thought you wanted me to help? How am I supposed to do that if you won't even tell me?"

"Just hold on," I whispered, covering the phone with my hand. "I have to check if we can all get there first." He looked at me as I went back to talking on the phone.

"All set!" I said as I set the phone down on my desk.

"Can I ask for what?" Dimitri asked as he sat up on my bed, staying quiet as I was on the phone.

"We're all going on a trip to help Lissa. We have to be on the plane in three hours." I smiled at him as he looked at me confused.

"May I ask where we're going?"

"Nope. But I will let you know that it's somewhere where you'll like, that's for sure." I hopped in his lap and kissed him, laughing as he tickled me.

"Tell me where and I'll stop," he chuckled as fell forward, knocking him on his back.

"Never," I squealed.

"Roza," he pleaded.

"It's supposed to be a surprise. Am I not allowed to give you a surprise every once in a while?"

"Of course you can. But right now we're supposed to be focusing on Lissa."

"I am. That's what this trip is mainly about. But I know you'll love it too, so it's a bonus." I laughed as he gave up trying to figure my plan out.

"So what did you need me for if you were planning on not telling me?"

"I just love you company. Is that wrong?"

"Nope, not at all." He kissed me again and rolled me over on my back, pulling my shirt up to see my stomach with a very small bump. "In another month we'll definitely be able to see that you're pregnant."

"Oh, yeah, I can't wait," I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes.

"Hey, there's nothing wrong with that."

"I'm going to be fat, there's always something wrong with that," I said, turning my head away from him.

"It's called pregnancy, its normal Roza." I looked back in his eyes, seeing that he wouldn't care one bit if I turned up as fat as an elephant, which hopefully I don't. I kissed him passionately, loving how he'd loved me no matter what.

Two Hours Later…

With one hour left for takeoff, and I still wasn't ready. After 'talking' with Dimitri for an hour, leaving two hours left to tell everyone to pack, I was actually starting to stress. What if they weren't even willing to help me? That would make this trip worthless. Well not completely worthless, it would make Dimitri happy to see some people.

"You're still not ready?" Adrian asked as he came knocking on my door. "This was your plan and you're the one taking the longest." I ignored him as I grabbed a few last things; I had no idea how long we were going to be, even though it was my idea. "Are you even listing to me Rose?"

"Oh, what?"

"I said, how are we going to get Lissa on the plane and settled? The sun's out." Oh, crap. I completely forgot about that.

"How about you come up with something for that? Dimitri and I have an appointment before we leave with my doctor." I threw another shirt in my bag and zipped it up, looking at Adrian as he looked at me. "What?"

"I know you're scared and all," he said as he walked toward me. "Even if you don't like to show it, but everything's going to be okay. With Lissa, with you, with your baby."

"I wasn't worried Adrian. Well for Lissa I am, but I'm okay. Seriously Adrian, I'm fine."

"Well I just want you to know that I'll always be here for you Rose. Always." He hugged me as a tear fell from my eye.

"I don't know if I want to go in," I say to Dimitri as we stand outside the doctor's office.

"All he's going to do is tell us is if the baby's still healthy," he said as he slowly opened the door. "I'm sure everything's fine Roza." I smiled at him, always loving the way he says my name in Russian.

"I know. But you know there's always a small chance that there's not?"

"Roza, I'm sure it all fine." He squeezed my hand and led me into the room, as my doctor came up to me and smiled.

"So how are you feeling Rose?" Was the first thing that he asked me.

"Great. But than great actually."

"That's good to hear. Well I'm just going to check a few things first, so if you'll have seat please." I sat down as the doctor got the ultra sound stuff ready, never letting go of Dimitri's hand.

"Dang," I squeal. "That stuff is cold." Dimitri chuckled beside me as the doctor slid the gel over my stomach.

"So far so good. The heart beat seem real good. You can't really see a picture of it yet, but real soon you will be able to."

"So everything's okay."

"Yeap. It seems your baby is extremely healthy. I'll have to say, whatever you're doing, just keep doing it."

"Wow. I'm not really doing anything special though, just my everyday stuff, but of course taking it easy like you said."

"That's wonderful. Well there's not much more I can do at this stage, so I think you're all set. And I've heard that you're headed out somewhere for quite a while, so I'm going to prescribe some medicine that you'll have to start taking at three months. I don't know when you'll be back, so in a little over two weeks, just take these once a day around noon after you eat. They're just vitamin pills, don't worry. It'll just help the baby grow stronger, but I doubt that it'll need that."

"Okay thank, will do," I smiled, thanking the doctor as we left and headed back to my room to get my stuff for the trip.