A/N: Disclaimer in Chapter 1.

Six chapters to go after this.

In my new fic, is there anything people would or wouldn't like to see?

I have the main plot mapped out but I don't want to do anything that might offend people or miss out something that people would want to see.

Chapter 64: Transylvanian

Erin felt clean for the first time in twenty-four hours. She'd successfully delivered the afterbirth and was now more relaxed. They'd been placed in a small room for privacy away from Jonno and the still comatose Octa.

She twisted slightly to see Vlad curled up on the small cot sound asleep. She hated being separated from him even though they were only a few metres apart from each other. He always looked so much younger in his sleep and not the nearly twenty two year old he was.

At the end of the bed was the incubator. She managed to shuffle herself down before knocking the blanket from her. She let out a cry as she tried to reach for it only feeling pain flaring across her stomach instead.

Erin was suddenly sitting back at the head of the bed, tucked in and left staring at Vlad as he wheeled the incubator around towards her. She folded her arms and glared at him but he ignored it. He leaned over and brushed a feather light kiss to her forehead, she sighed forgetting that she was annoyed with him. He moved down towards her lips and kissed her slowly.

The former slayer reached up a hand to cup her mate's neck holding him to her. Vlad was forced to splay his hands out on either side of her to support himself as he was forced to shift his centre of gravity. Erin nipped his lip forcing him to open his mouth, not that he minded. Their tongues brushed slowly against each other, reaffirming that the last few hours hadn't been a dream.

A small noise pulled them apart and they turned as one towards the incubator. Vlad let out a chuckle. The interruptions had started already.

Vlad settled down on the bed next to her and Erin gently turned his hand over looking at the cast they'd put on it for a single broken bone. It would get him out of signing official documents for a week at least.

Erin traced the green cast, wondering why Vlad hadn't had a red one. Then again she doubted he had much choice or that he'd been paying much attention to when it was being place on his hand. His attention had been solely focussed on their newborn children.

Erin gestured with her head towards their children. "He looks like you." Erin whispered, speaking quietly so not to wake the children. Their son had Vlad's eyes and mouth but her nose. The shape of his face was the same as Vlad's, complete with the cheekbones that seemed to run in his family. His hair colour was the brown that Vlad's used to be years before but he was sure it would darken up into black. "He'll be fighting off the girls just like his dad."

"I don't fight…" She gave him that look, the one that could reduce him to a small boy that had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. "That was once…" He tried.

"I'm not counting when you tried to bite Becky." She warned him in advance. Vlad opened his mouth to protest but she was right. He'd had more than enough unwanted attention from girls since he arrived at Garside Grange and still had it even at their manor.

He looked away, distracting her with their daughter. Erin was happy to let him do it. "She's just as beautiful." Vlad answered, looking at his daughter as she moved in her sleep. She was already as restless as Erin by the looks of it. "She's as twitchy as you already." Erin hit him for that comment only making him laugh. "Your eyes this time." She had the same beautiful, clear eyes as her mother as well as her nose but his mouth. Once again she had the same hair colour as Vlad originally had, if only a fraction lighter.

They couldn't believe how close they'd come to losing them. Erin wasn't sure that she could go through another pregnancy again if she did lose them, it would be too painful and stressful with the knowledge that it could happen. Someone must have been watching out for them to ensure that the children had been born alive and unscathed.

"Are you sure about the names?" Erin asked him, she wanted to make sure he wouldn't regret the names they would give their children.

"I'm sure." He answered with a smile, bringing her hand up to his lips and kissing it softly. "You?"

"Yeah."

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Johnson tried not to shudder at the temperature of the children, he knew what they were but it was still uncomfortable for him. It wasn't natural at all. He didn't hold anything against them he had the same reaction when he held an uncooked chicken compared to a cooked or alive one.

"Their lungs are fragile but they're fighters. They'll be small for a while but its normal for premature children." He tried to give them a smile; Vlad grinned at the news and rubbed Erin's shoulders. "I don't think there will be the same health issues in these twins as mortal ones."

"They're mortal for sixteen years." Erin panicked, she wondered if he'd forgotten that. They could still contract something. She knew Vlad hadn't been ill in his mortal years through a breather illness but these children weren't pure vampires.

"I know but they show no signs of any illness, vampire children don't usually suffer from illnesses do they?"

Vlad shook his head. "Erin's only a half fang not a full…"

Renfield stopped Vlad in his tracks, examining the children closer. "They look like they've developed quicker than average vampire children at the same stage in pregnancy. They seem to be about six months rather than five."

"Are you telling me that when Erin told me she was pregnant and you confirmed it you were out by four weeks?" Vlad couldn't believe it.

"Mistress Erin is the first half fang to be pregnant, the stages might be slightly different than in a normal pregnancy…" He tried to defend himself.

Erin caught Vlad's wrist, giving him a look. If Renfield was out by a month then she was glad, it meant the twins were in less danger. "Sorry." Vlad muttered as he finally saw reason in Erin's eyes.

Renfield nodded before suggesting a course of action, "You'll to supplement their diet with blood up to the date they should have been born."

"We don't have any blood here!" Johnson protested, "And no one's willing to donate…"

"He meant soy blood." Vlad interrupted, "Renfield classes it all under blood."

"Soy blood will be the most nutritional. Not often though, mixed in with their milk and only small amounts, it should help build up their immune systems."

When vampire parents fed on human blood it introduced all the common infections to the unborn child and allowed them to build an immune to stop them from catching these diseases. Soy blood had been modified to include a vaccine of all diseases making it more beneficial than human blood.

"What's the best way to feed them?" Erin asked quietly.

"A drip." Renfield and Johnson spoke at the same time.

"I'd better get some." Vlad muttered, standing making his back click and pop. The cot hadn't been the easiest thing to sleep on.

"Actually I have a supply here for you." A new voice cut in, they looked towards the door. Erin smiled as she saw Jonno standing in the doorway – completely machine free. "Renfield can start mixing away."

"Do they know you're here?" Erin asked him with a grin.

"I'm still in the medical bay, just a different room." He shrugged; technically he wasn't breaking any rules. "Anyway I wanted to meet the new Draculas."

"We want them to meet their Uncle Jonno." Vlad told him with a smile, Jonno looked up at Erin and Vlad seeing any sign that this was a practical joke. Vlad's eyes told him it wasn't. He answered with a large smile towards them.

Erin gestured for him to come closer and take a look. "They're beautiful. Obviously they get that from Erin." Erin chuckled at Jonno's comment; Vlad only rolled his eyes in answer. "Which one's the oldest then?" Jonno grinned at them, if it was the girl their culture would be stunned into silence and Vlad would have created another new age and if it was the boy then the vampire world wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Vlad looked at Erin before opening his mouth to speak. Only for his voice not to come out.

"What are you calling them then?" Ingrid interrupted from the door. Vlad tipped his head to look at her. "Daisy and Arnold?" She teased with a glint in her eyes. "Or Dragomir and Elvira?"

"Ingrid!" Vlad and Erin groaned. Vlad nearly snapped back 'you can call yours that', but managed to stop himself in time so not to hurt his sister.

"I need to put their names on the clan tree Master Vlad." Renfield hinted, siding with Ingrid.

This was the first time Erin had heard of a 'clan tree'. "We have a clan tree?" She asked with a smile.

"Two actually." Renfield cut in, "One for Master Vlad's clan and one for the Grand High Vampire's lineage."

"Its like a birth certificate." Vlad muttered. It was something that could be referred to when looking for a relative.

"We'll create a birth certificate for when they need to start school." Jonno offered making the two young vampires smile in gratitude. "So what did you decide on?"

They both had preferred to wait until everyone was in the room but it seemed that they weren't going to get that choice.

Erin shrugged; they'd spent most of the night talking about names. It wasn't like they could sleep they'd been too fixed on the young children sleeping, fearing that if they closed their eyes they'd be dreaming and back in the nightmare of the hours before. However now seemed as good a time as any to tell them all the ones they'd decided on. They were names they hadn't considered before and thought were quite fitting for their children.

"Can I?" She looked at Johnson gesturing to their children in the incubator.

"Carefully." He consented gently as he opened up the incubator. Vlad moved around before Erin could struggle and gently pulled out his daughter, kissing her forehead lightly and handing her to Erin. Then he did the same with his son.

"This is Erika Luiza Anika Dracula." She introduced to them all. They all immediately fawned of her. Erika simply turned her small head closer towards her mother, oblivious to the reaction she was getting. Erin only had eyes for her daughter in that moment.

"What have you named him?" Ingrid asked, gesturing to the small boy Vlad was holding comfortably in his arms.

Vlad was going to introduce his son to them, "Meet Alexandru Nicu Aric Dracula." Alexandru had his eyes half open studying them before yawning.

"Looks like he'd inherited your boredom then?" Jonno smiled at Vlad, he knew how bored Vlad could get in official meetings. His only answer was a dirty look from the new father in question. Erin didn't succeed in covering up the snicker that escaped her lips, She bit her lip trying to look serious and pretend that it hadn't come from her but failed miserably.

"As least Alex doesn't fidget." He jibed lightly at his mate, taking care not to look at her as he said it but he could picture her mock outraged face clearly in his mind.

Erin was quicker, "If he's taking after you he'll sulk instead." Vlad opened his mouth to retort playfully but the argument was spoiled by his sister.

"Can I?" She asked Vlad, she saw his reluctance as a new father but he handed Alex to her. Ingrid bounced him up and down lightly in her arms; she looked at Erin who was doing exactly the same with Erika. "You went for Transylvanian then?" Ingrid asked with a sly smile. Vlad shrugged it off, they wanted something that was vampiric but could sound breather like as well. Neither name would draw attention to themselves, especially if they referred to Alexandru as Alex, which they would most likely do.

"Erin wanted something more traditional." Vlad answered, he didn't mind of course he knew the meanings of the names.

"Congratulations." Ingrid smiled, passing Alex to Jonno before bringing her brother into a tight hug.

Vlad closed his eyes, wrapping his arms around his sister's waist and burying his face in her shoulder. He let the moment over take him, everything had turned out for the best and for that he was forever grateful. "Thanks."

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Erin took care to avoid the drip that was connected to their children's arms as she gently touched them. They looked so peaceful, she found herself mesmerised by the rise and fall of their small chests. Their breathing was stronger inside the incubator, that's why they were warned not to take them out more than necessary.

She reached up to play with her necklace before remembering it was in Vlad's pocket, "You're fixing that by the way." She ordered him.

"As soon as I can." He promised, he'd regretted breaking it but he had been in a hurry at the time.

Erin looked across at Vlad who was stoking Erika's fingers lightly. "I can't believe they're here."

His gaze locked with hers, "I'm glad they are. We're parents." He whispered in amazement, it hadn't fully sank in that he was now a father.

"It feels strange not having them inside me." Erin confessed, looking down at her stomach, it made her panic every now and again before she remembered everything.

"They're safe." He reminded her. She knew that but she was grateful for him saying it. "I love you, I love all of you."

"I love you too, I love the twins just as much." Erin answered. Vlad pulled his arm from the incubator. Her eyes rose following him as he stood and leaned over the incubator towards her.

The phone began to vibrate on the stand next to them, the noise echoing around the room. He let out a groan.

"You shouldn't have that on in here." Erin teased him.

"I won't tell if you won't." He answered just as cheekily, before pressing the screen and bringing the phone up to his ear. He realised then he should have checked who it was.

"Vlad?"

Vlad moved the phone from his mouth, "Robin." He told Erin and she smiled, she turned back towards the incubator, tracing a hand up and down her sleeping son's arms. "Where are you?"

"Outside the Guild."

Vlad rolled his eyes; he thought he was calling to tell him why he'd been delayed. "You can come in. Jonno knows you were on your way."

Robin gulped, audibly, "I really don't think we can."

Vlad was now confused, he straightened. "Why not?"

The only answer he received was another gulp.

TBC

A/N: What do you think?

Erika – Ruler Forever

Luiza – Famous in War

Anika – Grace

Alexandru – Defender of Mankind

Nicu – People of Victory

Aric – Eternal Ruler

Thanks for reading.