Names – 49

"You know you didn't have to cook," Janine kept saying to Dimitri. "I'm the one that invited you after all."

"But you keep forgetting one thing mom," I said through a bit of Dimitri's famous spaghetti. "He actually knows how to cook and his food is way better than yours." She glared at me through her own bite of food, but then groaned in agreement.

"So anyways, back to names."

"I still don't know why you choose those two knows mom."

"Neither do I," Dimitri agreed. "I like them, I just don't understand you."

"And why is that?"

"You're the toughest woman I know, well one of them," he corrected after I hit him. "Why would you want to choose one of those names?"

"Because I like them."

"And flowers," I mumbled. It's true; my mother must like flowers or something, which is weird, especially with what Dimitri said. She is one of the toughest women in history, with being the best guardian and all. But the two names she was having trouble choosing over were Daphne and Lily.

"Is there something wrong with that?" she asked.

"Nope, nothing."

"You know, in every woman there's always one thing that shows their girly side," Abe said as he held his fork up with a meatball at the end. "And your mother's just happens to be flowers. But her favorite one will always be the rose." He smiled and winked at me as he said the last part. And I must admit, it actually made me happy for him to say that. But my mother didn't say anything as she smiled at me and nodded before taking another bite. I guess my mother really does have a soft spot deep, deep down.

"Anyways," my mother said as she cleared her throat. "Dimitri, have you thought of any names yet?" Nice, directing the subject at us. He looked at me and all I could do was shrug.

"We haven't really thought about it," he replied, looking back at his plate before she started her lecture like always.

"What? You know you only have two months left. Two Months! Does that not mean anything to you? You know you can't leave them nameless, that's just not right." She blabbed on like that for what felt like hours but was really just minutes. But I zoned out after the first what.

"Rose!" Janine yelled for what was probably the hundredth time. I finally opened my eyes and looked at her.

"What?" I yawned.

"Are you even listening to me?"

"What do you think mother? I'm tired, so no I wasn't." I laid my head against Dimitri's shoulder and closed my eyes again.

"Oh, I'm sorry sweetheart." Damn her mood swings, I can't believe she still gets them this far in. "But please think about what I've said, you really do need to think of some names, before I decide to do it for you." And she really would if given the chance.

"Dimitri," I sighed as I held my hand up. He grabbed it and helped me up, letting me lean against him. "We're going to go before I pass out. And yes, we'll think about names mom." She started talking about something else right when we walked out the door and shut it behind us. Does she ever shut up?

"So are you really going to think about it, or did you just say it to shut her up?" Dimitri asked when we half way to our house.

"Mainly just to shut her up, but I do know that we do need to think about it. I don't want our kids to be left nameless, or named after flowers."

"Hey, I love your name, Roza." I sighed as he said my name, making it roll off his tongue.

"I do when you say it like that," I admitted. So he leaned down and whispered it in my ear, sending shivers down my body. He smiled as I leaned into him more. "I love you my comrade."

"And I love you, Roza."

"Mommy, mommy," three little kids laughed. "Come play with us." I smiled as Dimitri was pushed to the ground as our three kids tackled him. And it was always a pain to get him down when I sparred with him. But it's not like he'll hurt our kids.

I got out of my chair and snuck up behind Dimitri as he tried to sit up. Right when I was about to ponce, he spun around and jumped on me, making the kids laugh and join him.

"Gotcha!" they all chuckled as I struggled to get free, but it's hard to when you can't stop laughing. They slowly got off of me, finally letting me up when I almost ran out of breathe.

"I bet you can't get us mommy," one of the kids smiled as they all three took off into the field. Dimitri smiled and winked, and then I was off as he watched since he already caught them once. But when I reached the middle of the field, they were nowhere to be seen. I turned around, and Dimitri and our house were gone. I turned in circles, searching everywhere for them. I yelled for them to come out, but there was nowhere to hide. There were no trees, or walls, or anything to hide behind, or in. I fell to the ground crying, screaming, anything, but nothing brought them back.

I heard a footstep behind me so I jumped up and spun around, standing in my stance, ready for an attack. I was face to face with, Robert…

I woke up screaming and Dimitri pulled me in his arms in an instant. I cried for about two hours as we just sat in bed and he smoothed my hair, telling me everything is going to be okay. He didn't even ask what my dream was about, he was so used to my nightmares, but this one was different. I'm used to Robert being in my dreams, taking Lissa or anyone I cared about, but this one felt different. It seemed so, real, like he was actually nearby.

I ended up falling asleep in Dimitri's arms after my crying finally ended last night. And when I woke up, Dimitri was wide awake, staring at me.

"Are you okay?" he asked. All I could do was nod. "This one seemed different. You cried way longer than normal." I started to whimper as the dream came back into my mind, seeing Robert with an evil smile and something in his hand, a bear, from one of my children. "Shh, it was only a dream," he whispered as he pulled my closer and rubbed my big belly, soothing me.

"But it felt so real," I sobbed. "It felt like he was actually hear Dimitri. He, he took our children." I whispered the last sentence as I cried even harder against his chest.

"It wasn't real. It was only a dream. And I would never let that monster come near our kids, ever." That promise calmed me a little, but I still couldn't stop the tears from falling. He wiped most of them off my cheek with his thumb as he pushed some of my hair behind my ear.

"How can you do that if no one can find him?" We've had guardians out at all times everywhere, searching for any signs of him. We thought we had him once, but it ended up being a dead end.

"We're actually coming closer."

"What? Really?" I sat up in bed so I could look him in the eye. "How come no one told me about it?"

"Because we didn't want to stress you out."

"I'm pregnant, not a fragile little girl Dimitri. I can handle anything."

"I know that, but Lissa, the queen, ordered us not to."

"Then why are you telling me this now?"

"To comfort you. Apparently one of the groups of guards near Seattle found dead bodies piled up in a basement. They looked like they were from Strigoi attacks, and then they found one Strigoi a few houses from that one. They caught it and questioned it, but didn't get a lot out of it, but enough. Apparently a lot of the Strigoi are working together, the biggest group ever, which you know is bad since usually they don't work together. And he let slip that Robert was headed to Lancaster."

"So, he's actually back in this state. How long ago did you guys hear this news?"

"Three days ago."

"Three days? He could be closer now. He could be right outside these walls for all we know."

"He's not. We would have seen him or heard something if he was near here."

"He could be coming up with an ambush. Like you said, it's the biggest group of Strigoi ever. He could be trying to get all of the Strigoi together."

"That's impossible, but we have already discussed that. And lately it seems that that the groups out hunting have been finding less and less Strigoi around. We think they're trying to hide. They've mainly found them hiding deep in tunnels and the sewers." That figures. We fell silent as he let me process that. It was a lot to take in, especially after my nightmare. And then that reminded me.

"Another thing that freaked me out about my dream was," I looked up and did a half smile. "When I was calling out to them, I didn't know their names, and they were probably about seven or so. So apparently we didn't name our children." He laughed as I sat there staring at him. "It's not funny." Even though it kind of was. "That just means we really should figure out some names." Even if we didn't know the genders. That would just mean we would need three different boy and girl names.

"I know that, and I have been thinking of some names. And some of them can be either girl or boy, so we won't have to come up with a lot." I would have never thought of that.

"Oh yeah, like what?" I smiled as we finally changed the topic off of Robert.

"Well I like the name Dorian for some reason; it just rolls of the tongue. And Riley can be either or."

"You know that's only two, and we're having three, right?"

"I know that. But I thought I'd at least let you name one."

"Aww, how nice of you," I smiled and kissed him. "You know what? I kind of want to name one after your sister Viktoria, since me and her got close." His eyes sparkled as he smiled. I knew it would make him happy to name one after his family.

"Just don't name her Vicky, because I don't like that."

"Me neither. I was thinking something along the lines of Tori."

"I like it." He kissed me again, even harder, making me moan.

"Ouch," I squealed.

"Sorry," he mumbled against my lips.

"It wasn't you. Did you not feel it? One of them kicked me right where your hand is."

"Yeah I felt it." He smiled and then kissed my stomach where his hand was not one second ago. "Stop hurting mommy," he demanded to the baby. Then smiled at me and rubbed my belly.

"Only two more months to go."

If anyone else has some names that you think fit Rose and Dimitri, tell me, please. I might just use them, but I will give credit to you.

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