I finally decided how many babies Rose should have, and what gender, but you won't get to find out the gender now..

Surprise – 46

Rose's POV

We watched Adrian and Jill on their date for a while, seeing them laugh at things we couldn't here, and then watched them dance under the stars. All the while I kept thinking how he never did anything like that for me.

"Rose," Lissa yelled. "Did you hear me?"

"What?" I asked, looking away from Adrian's date.

"Are you ready to head back in? It's starting to get pretty cold out here."

"Oh, yeah." Dimitri helped me up as I looked back at Adrian and Jill, seeing him wrap her up in the blanket they were sitting on before they started dancing. Dimitri looked at what I was looking at and wrapped his big, brown duster on me, snuggling me to him. If it was at any other time, I would have made a comment about his duster, but I haven't done that for a while, not since before I got pregnant. Man how I miss those days. How I used to make comments at him when I knew he liked me but he tried to be responsible; how I burned for the times he'd do his full on smile just to make my days better. But now is better, in so many ways. Now he smiles all the time and we don't have to hide our true feelings about each other. But I do miss the training sessions with him.

"Hey, what wrong?" Man, he really knows when I feel down.

"Nothing, it's just that I miss the old days." I looked ahead of us, seeing Lissa and Christian swinging their hands together.

"How so? Don't you like our lives now?"

"Yes, I really do, I love it. But I do miss the one on one training sessions." I smiled up at him, seeing him smile that smile that I loved so much back at me. He knew which training sessions I was talking about, the ones we had together after he caught me and Lissa in Portland when we ran away from the Academy. It was to catch me up on my training since I had been away for two years. The ones that we ran laps together, and then he'd teach me to fight and he'd trap me on the floor with his body on top of mine, with his warm touch on my skin. He tried to fight his feelings then, I did too for a little while, but nobody knew that we'd actually fall in love, and now have a child on the way.

"We can start them back up after the baby is born."

"But that's not for a while." That meant we still had about six more months to go.

"But it will be worth it. We'll have a little baby to teach it all to."

"Yeah, but by then I'm going to be so out of shape."

"You were out of shape when I first trained you, and that was from not practicing for two years, this will only be nine months, you have nothing to worry about. You'll be able to kick my ass soon enough."

"I wouldn't kick your ass, it's too hot," I laughed, grabbing his ass. "Whoa!" I squealed.

"What, what?" Dimitri asked worried.

"Talking about kicking, I think I just felt it kick."

"Really, it's only a little over three months, can it even do that yet?"

"I don't know, but I felt it move. It's probably just trying to get comfortable."

"Probably, or it's sickened by hearing us talk like that."

"I can't help it, you are just so hot, and I love you so much."

"And you're so gorgeous that it makes me crazy for you."

"Damn!" I squealed again.

"Did it move, or kick, or whatever again?"

"Yeap, it totally does not like the mushy talk."

"And neither do we," Christian yelled out. Lissa and him laughed as we reached the building and went inside to go to bed.

A Week Later. . . .

"Yeah, it didn't kick," the doctor was telling us at another checkup. We were having more checkups than normal because he was still scared that there was something wrong since we were two dhampirs and I got pregnant. But so far, everything seemed normal, everything seemed perfect. "It was just moving around, or should I say they were moving around."

"Wait, what?" I said, jumping from my seat, but Dimitri just held me back down so the doctor could finish the ultrasound. "Did I just hear you right? You said they?"

"Yeap, there's more than one heartbeat here."

"How many more?" Dimitri asked before I could, because I wouldn't just ask, I would yell.

"There are either two or three heartbeats." He kept looking at the screen.

"What do you mean?" I asked. "Can't you tell?"

"Sometimes it's hard. One baby's heartbeat can be in sync with another, but there are at least two babies in your belly."

"Well can't you find out?" Dimitri asked while I squeezed his hand. I was just getting used to the idea of having one baby, now tow, and possibly three? There's no way I can do this.

"Right now I can only see two bodies. See here," he said pointing to two things on the screen that looked like round balls. "Those are the heads. If there is a third one in there, then it's trying to hide."

"So does this mean that I have to eat twice, or even three times, as much as I am now?" I sighed; I was already eating like a big, fat pig. And Christian was already making fun of me for it.

"It might help, babies need as much nutrition as they can get. All I can say is to come in next month for your monthly checkup and we'll find out then." Dimitri and I sighed together, both hating having to wait.

I of course told Lissa about what the doctor said, and she was ecstatic. She was happy for me even if I wasn't. So I told her she'd have to babysit then, I sure as hell wouldn't be able to keep up with more than one baby. But she assured me more than once that I was going to be a great mother. But all I kept picturing in my mind was my mother, leaving me with another family so she could still be a guardian, something she loved. I loved being a guardian myself, so what was I supposed to do.

Then I thought of my mother some more, how she was also pregnant, and I started getting mad at her all over. What is she supposed to do? Is she actually going to stop being a guardian to try and raise a child, when she couldn't even raise me? Is she just going to drop the kid somewhere and forget it? What? I sure as hell am not taking care of it; I don't care if it will be my sister or brother.

But I forgot about my mother and her new baby as Lissa squealed about being an aunt. And then Christian muttered something under his breathe about how he was so looking forward to spoiling my children. I just hit him, like I will ever let him near my kids. Lissa yes, she loved all things, but Christian, the fire user, in his dreams.

"I won't kill them, gosh Rose," Christian said to me. "I'll probably even be their favorite uncle."

"Yeah right," Adrian laughed as him and Jill walked through the door. They had been inseparable ever since their little date. Her parents still didn't approve, but whose parents did now-a-days with teenagers? Jill just kept saying that they'll have to if they like it or not. Lissa had even went and talked to them for her, but not even the queen could change a teenage girl's parents mind about Adrian. "So what are we talking about anyways?"

"How I'm going to be the best uncle to Rose's kids," Christian said with a smirk on his face.

"Kids? How many is she planning to have?"

"Apparently she's having twins, or maybe even triplets, the doctor doesn't quite know yet," Lissa filled him in.

"How does he not know? He must suck at his job." I was going to say something else, completely forgetting about how Lissa and Christian didn't want everyone to know that she was almost pregnant with Robert's kid, but I didn't. At the last minute I changed my mind.

"All doctors mess up now and then," Lissa said, probably thinking back to what I was.

"Anyways," I said. "We find out next month."

"Oh, don't you love waiting?" Adrian laughed, and I just pushed him off the couch, laughter filled the room.

A Month Later. . . .

Finally, I thought to myself, my monthly checkup. Adrian had been making jokes for weeks about if I had four, or even five, babies. I told him not to joke around, it could be possible, but that just made him joke around more. This just made me get even more nervous. But today is the day to find out.

"Are you ready for this?" the doctor asked as he stood with the gel to put on my stomach for the ultrasound. I nodded and he put it on my stomach. And damn was it cold. He laughed as I just my eyes, it was so cold, and it tickled as he slid the thing around my stomach, trying to find the baby, babies. "Do you hear that?" I asked with a huge grin plastered on his face.

"Yeah," I whispered, listening to the heartbeat.

"How many do you hear?" He shut up as we all listened to the monitor. The sound was weird, but awesome at the same time. It was weird because it was so fast, but awesome because it was coming from inside of me. "So?" the doctor whispered. All I could do was shrug.

"At least two," I said, but I was unsure. It did sound kind of weird, like maybe there was a third one with how it echoed more than I thought it should.

All he did was smile. "Just have a look for yourself. See," he pointed at the monitor screen. "Here's the heads, and here's one of their arms, and another, and a leg."

"It all looks confusing to me," I said, tilting my head every which way to try and see what he saw.

"Yeah, but they're in there."

"Well of course they are, where else would they be."

"Rose, be nice," Dimitri whispered. I smiled up at him.

"It's alright; I always just blame it on hormones. Its pregnancy, and you're a little over four months, its common."

"Oh great," Dimitri groaned. I hit him and laughed.

"So are you sure this time?" I asked. "You're not going to surprise me next month with something else?" He nodded.

"Don't worry, I'm sure this time."

"Don't worry, Don't Worry? I wasn't even prepared for one, how am I supposed to handle this?"

"You still have five more months to go, I think by then you'll figure something out."

"Yeah right. I've already been pregnant for almost half the time I'm supposed to be, and I still have no idea."

"But most of that time we had been dealing with the Lissa problem," Dimitri explained. Oh yeah. "But now you can think about just the babies."

"Like that will help," I muttered to more myself than anyone else.

"Anyways, that's all here, if you don't have any questions, you guys can go and tell everyone the good news."

"Yeah, good news," I smiled, hiding the terrified feeling I truly had.

This time, instead of going to Lissa to tell them, I told them all to go to my mothers. They didn't ask questions, they all already knew where I was just at. But after I had called them all, Dimitri dragged me off down the beach.

"What, I thought you wanted to go tell them all the good news?"

"I do, but we can make them wait a little longer," he smiled. I like the way he thinks. We walked down the beach in the shallow end, feeling the cold water on our toes. I've missed this, just the two of us. "I love you Roza," he whispered in my ear. I looked up at him, seeing those dark, gorgeous brown eyes of his, and his shoulder length dark hair in a ponytail with a few strands hanging lose. And those lips that I always craved.

"I love you too, Comrade." He pulled me to him, my big belly and all, and kissed me passionately. "I don't know how you could love me while I look like an elephant." I laughed when we finally broke the kiss. "Look at me, I should have known there was more than one baby in me with how big my stomach is, and I'm only at four months, so that means I'm just going to get bigger." I groaned and he laughed. "Why are you laughing?"

"Because I'll love you no matter what. And you look gorgeous right now." Yeah right. But I accepted it and hugged him, loving the warmth of his body.

We finally managed to head to my mother's room, and everyone was there, how could they not be, we were on the beach for at least half an hour.

"What took you so long?" my mom went at it. But then she changed. "Oh my gosh, you've gotten so big." I hadn't really seen my mom since I got mad at her about being pregnant, I was still mad, but what can I do, ask her to have an abortion, no way, I'm a hundred percent against that.

"So?" Adrian asked, making my mom pause from hugging me.

"What? Is something wrong? All they would tell me was you were at your checkup. Did something go wrong? Is your baby alright?"

"Yes," I laughed. "They're all alright."

"What do you mean by 'they'? What does she mean by 'they'?" I don't know how she didn't figure it out, she was only about a week or two behind me, we should have been the same size, but we weren't, I was much, much bigger.

I looked at Lissa before answering all the questions everyone had. And then I looked back at my mom and smiled, "You're going to be the grandma of triplets."

TaDa! Now if anyone has any ideas for names, please feel free to tell me, I will give credit it to.

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