Hello all! I know two chapters in one day is impressive but I have some bad news. This is the last chapter in this story. However, I shall continue writing and continue the story but in a different way. So it isn't all bad.
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I hope you enjoy this last chapter but I promise I won't be away for long.
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Everyone descended on the hospital about an hour after the babies were born. I had told Adrian not to tell anyone there were three babies. I wanted to do that myself.
I was in a private room in the maternity block of the hospital courtesy of the Queen who had send a congratulatory message and said she would visit when we were home. I had put some clean pyjamas on and had put all the babies in baby grows, all different colours so I knew which one was which. Luckily we had packed a few just in case we were in hospital for a while so we had enough to cater for the unexpected baby.
Adrian and I were squeezed onto the hospital bed, me holding the two girls and him our boy. Both of us overjoyed and shocked and our three little bundles of joy.
Lissa and Mia were the first ones in the room and they gasped upon seeing the five of us all together. Eddie and Dimitri were constantly beaming and smiling and Christian, seemed his normal uninterested self but I could tell he was happy.
"Everyone, say hello to the Ivashkov triplets." I smiled and everyone stared at me stunned but still managed to look happy.
"They said there was only two." Lissa said, sitting on the other side and studying all three babies.
"They got it wrong. One of the girls is smaller than the other two so that might be why they didn't see her and her heart beat might not have been as strong. But they are all healthy, nothing wrong with them." Adrian, who had a permanent smile on his face, handed our son to Liss and took one of the girls off me.
"I can't believe it." Lissa whispered. "You're parents! The two people who would never think to get married and have kids has done it!" she exclaimed and took my little man over to where the others were standing and they all admired him and said how gorgeous he was.
"What about names? You couldn't agree on two let alone three." Eddie said, eventually getting a hold of little man, all of the babies had been taken off me and Adrian.
Shit, names. I'd forgotten about that.
"Well you said a son would we be named after me right?" Adrian beamed, kissing my forehead by way of coercion.
"Yeah I did. I was thinking for a middle name, Mason." I looked and Eddie and who looked down at the baby.
"Adrian Mason." He said, the baby gurgling. "I think he likes it." He whispered and I could tell he was crying, just like I was.
"What about the girls." Dimitri said, whilst pulling faces at one of the babies.
That was the difficult part. Neither of us could agree on a girls name except Georgiana so having another girl was making it harder. How were we going to think of middle names too?
"Well we have Georgiana for little pink over there." Adrian said referring to the baby Christian was holding in a pink baby grown. "But we don't know about middle names or another first name." He sighed.
"You said Christina before right?" Lissa said. "How about that?"
"I like Christina but to me, she doesn't look like a Christina. Does that make sense?" I said, looking at Lissa knowing Adrian didn't agree.
"Yeah. What about having names of family members?" Lissa said.
"Georgiana Tatitana." I said. I liked it.
"You'd give her my aunt's name?" Adrian asked.
"Yeah. I think it goes well. Christian, see what she thinks." I said. I had read online that when naming children, they would say the name to them and if they made a noise they liked it.
Christian raised his eyebrows. "I think it's stupid but we'll give it ago. How about it Georgiana Tatiana?" he said and she started crying. I took that as a good thing.
"She can't like if she's crying." Adrian said dejected.
"She made a noise which is good enough for me." I smiled. Two down one to go.
"What about the other one?" Eddie said, looking over at the little yellow bundle Dimitri was holding.
"That's the tricky one." I said, looking at Adrian who shrugged.
"How's mom and babies doing?" Ava entered the room, in her usual scrubs and smiled at me. "Looks like you've got a big family." She smiled
"This is only half of them." I laughed thinking of all the others that still had to meet the triplets.
"How is naming coming along?" Ava said whilst checking the monitors I was hooked up to.
"We have two named but we are stuck for more girls names." Adrian said, taking Adrian Jr off Eddie.
"It is always hard when you aren't prepared. A name will just come to you." Ava had finished her check on me and was now looking at baby Georgiana. "When my mom had my sister, she was stuck between having Eleanor and Melody so she combined the two and had Elodie." She smiled and moved to the other baby girl.
That was it! "Elodie. That's that name." I exclaimed and I could see Adrian smiling out the corner of my eye.
"You like it? I always thought it was kind of stupid?" Ava laughed, moving to check on Adrian Jr.
"Well I love it. So you can thank your mom for being amazing." I smiled at her and she squeezed my shoulder.
"Everything seems fine here. Just press the button if you need anything. And I hate to remind you all but visiting is over in an hour and you've already been here longer than you should have. Sorry guys." She smiled at everyone and left the room.
"Janine."
"Yes, Adrian?" My mom said from the corner. She'd been making phone calls to everyone telling them the news.
"No I meant the name. Ava was saying about her mom and you said her mom was amazing so why not give Elodie the middle name Janine?" Adrian suggested, standing up to rock baby Adrian who had started crying.
"Elodie Janine has a nice ring to it." Mia said, taking a crying Georgiana from a scared looking Christian. I couldn't wait for the day he and Lissa had children.
It did. I know me and mom had had our ups and downs, more downs, but she had been brilliant through my pregnancy and the birth and had supported me and Adrian. Not always but she had recently.
"You don't have to do that. There are hundreds of other names you can pick." Mom said, trying to hold back the tears I could see in her eyes.
"I can't speak for Rose, but I want her to have her name. We all know you're going to be the only Grandmother they have, except Olena," Adrian smiled at Dimitri but he was too busy trying to stop Elodie crying. If they were all going to cry at exactly the same time it was going be a nightmare. I'm glad I elected to bottle feed. It would be hell otherwise. "so why shouldn't we? And besides, we haven't always seen eye to eye and I want this to be a way that we can draw a line in the sand and start again." Adrian smiled, giving up trying to soothe baby Adrian and handed him to me where he stopped crying immediately.
"We'll I like it so that's sorted." I smiled at mom. "Welcome to the world Adrian Mason, Georgiana Tatiana and Elodie Janine Ivashkov." I beamed.
"It's going to be confusing having two Adrian's in the house." Dimitri laughed.
"We'll call baby Adrian Junior." Adrian said. I didn't like the idea but then it would save a lot of confusion.
The last hour went by quickly, and everyone reluctantly put the children back in their crib.
"Everything is just so exhausting." I sighed and stretched out my limbs, suddenly feeling very stiff. The babies were all asleep and I wanted to follow them.
"I know, babe. In a way, I'm dreading having them home. We'll have to do everything by ourselves. And I'm dreading the night feeds." Adrian said, lying on his side on the bed next to me. Somehow I had got a room with a double bed in it so Adrian didn't have to sleep on the floor.
"I don't want to think about that until tomorrow. All I want to now is sleep." I yawned, putting my head on Adrian's chest him wrapping his arms around me and kissing my head.
"You've done well, baby girl. I'm so proud of you. As hard as it was watching you in pain, I can see now why you wanted to do it yourself." Adrian muttered so quietly I wasn't sure if he said it. But I feel asleep too soon after to say anything anyway.
The next day was the day we were dreading. Taking the screaming, crying, sleep shattering triplets home.
Dimitri had come to pick us all up, assuring us that everything had been sorted at the house to accommodate the extra baby. They slept the short way back to the house and carried on sleeping when we put in their crib for which I was grateful. It would give me a chance to sterilise the bottles we'd need and catch up on a bit of sleep. Lissa had promised that if they woke up she would help Adrian but I had a feeling I would wake up anyway.
The next time I opened my eyes it was morning. I had slept for hours.
"Adrian?" I whispered to him, shaking him slightly.
"What?" he mumbled in coherently.
"Why didn't you wake me? Did they cry much?" I asked, frantically. Looking over at the triplets seeing them starting to stir.
"They woke up four times, babe. I fed them and changed them. I tried waking you but you were out for the count." He said, yawning. Turning over on his other side and falling back to sleep.
I sighed, feeling bad that I had left him to do everything and hoped no one else had woken up because of the triplets crying.
I got out of bed and went to pick them up. They didn't cry so I assumed they weren't hungry or needed changing yet so donning the carrier thing (I didn't know what it was called) I put Junior in there and held the other two in my arms and took them downstairs. We had all the stuff we needed for night feeds and changing upstairs but we also had it downstairs too. I felt sorry for everyone having to live with us, having baby stuff everywhere. Maybe they would move out? I wouldn't blame them.
"Morning, Ivashkovs." Dimitri smiled, setting down his mug on the coffee table and taking Elodie off me.
"Someone is happy this morning." I said. Placing Georgiana and Junior in the little wicker basket crib we had downstairs.
"Well, if I'm honest, I was worried the babies crying was going to keep us all up but we didn't hear a thing. We did it a bit sneakily but we had the whole house soundproofed while you were in hospital courtesy of the Queen." He smiled down at Elodie and I was surprised at how good Dimitri was with the kids.
"Sound proofing? Really? I half expected you all to move out." I said, starting on making the first lot of bottles.
"Eddie, Lissa, Christian and Mia had spoken about it but then I wouldn't be able to move out because I'm Adrian's guardian." Not once did he look at me, it was like he was speaking to the baby.
"I notice you are rather taken with the Mini Ivashkovs." I tried to hide my smile.
Finally, he looked at me. "Well, they are my nieces and nephew. And, honestly? I can actually be here to see them grow up. I can't do that with Paul, Zoya and Yeva with them being in Baia and I want to be the best Uncle I can." I was surprised by his honesty, as I was always surprised at seeing the 'human' side of Dimitri.
"I guess I hadn't thought of that. And as first Uncle duty. You can give them a bottle." I handed one to him and it annoyed me slightly when he checked the temperature. As if I wouldn't have done it already.
We fed all three of them in silence and then winded them and put them back in their crib to sleep. Again. As much as I loved them, they were incredibly boring.
I started I make some breakfast and everyone, except Adrian, had emerged by then, all saying they had slept perfectly with no interruptions. I felt sorry for Adrian having to do all of it by himself.
It was midday before Adrian was up and I had just put the triplets down for yet another sleep.
"You should have woken me when they got up." Adrian wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed my shoulder.
"I did but you were so tired you fell back to sleep so I left you. Dimitri and Lissa helped." I said, leaning my head against him.
We stood like that for a while. Everyone except Dimitri had gone out and he was in the office doing Guardian stuff. It was nice to have a quiet moment. I doubted we would get many of them anymore.
I got to thinking about what had happened over the last few months. How differently my life had turned out to how I had planned. This time eighteen months ago I was determined to be a guardian and serve Lissa to the best that I could. I wanted to be with Dimitri for Christ sake. And yet I had married a Royal, I had children and I had to give up a guardian career before it had even started. And as much as I had deferred from the actual plan, I wouldn't have changed anything for the world.
"You ok, babe?" Adrian asked, kissing the top of my head.
"Yeah, I'm ok." I sighed. "I was just distracted."
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