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DPOV

I was on my way to nearest airport because of the use of the private Jet would raise some eyebrows. Roza had a class and Lissa had queenly duties so it was myself and Christian going to collect the guys. It was about an hour and a half drive to get to the airport so I was glad Christian and I were on much better terms. Friends even. He sat to my left with his brows creased, looking deep I thought. His hair was tossed and grey dark circles framed his eyes.

We had been driving for about 30 minutes in a comfortable silence until I couldn't take it anymore.

"Christian what's wrong? You've been acting weird and you look like you've seen you're own death. I know something is going on between you and Lissa. It was obvious when she was sitting alone by the fountain last night. Don't think I didn't forget that."

I quickly glanced to my right to see the Moroi glaring at me.

"You were out in the middle of the night too. Let's talk about that shall we?" He snapped, his eyes baring into the side of my face.

"I was excited. I thought I was going to be marrying Rose next week. So why was Lissa out, alone, in her night gown in the middle of the night?"

His glaring slowly fading into an apologetic look. He knew I was devastated about the wedding but it was the best thing right now.

"Sorry. We've just been going through some stuff and Lissa being female and temperamental and all, won't listen to reason and just ran out."

All I wanted to do was ask why. What would make the queen run from her chambers in the middle of the night putting herself and the court in danger? It was extremely unlike her. Lissa was strong and battled calmly with words and – unfortunately for Christian- she mostly won her arguments or debates. She was cool and collected so up and running was terribly out of character.

I sneaked a look at my charge and I could see he knew what I was thinking. Lissa may not be my charge, but she was my queen, my fiancé's sister and dare I say, my friend.

"It just-" He inhaled deeply pinching the bridge of his nose and shutting his eyes before continuing. "It's just NONE of this could have come at a worse time. Everything's fucked up."

I patiently waited for him to continue looking straight ahead.

"Lissa's pregnant." I was barley heard him. My own thoughts confusing me. This is a good thing right? Since when is a baby, between two consenting adults with the finances to support a child, a bad thing? I would kill to be able to give Roza a family regardless of how bad the timing was. I would do anything to have a mini her in my arms as I make pancakes and teaching her how to walk, how to drive and how to fight. I would walk through fire to have what Christian had right now.

I felt a wave of nausea hit me. My chest started to constrict and my stomach felt heavy. Jealous. I was jealous of my friends. They could be happy with something that I couldn't have and I hated it.

"Jesus Dimitri slow the fuck down!"

I hadn't noticed my foot getting heavier on the gas and my knuckles turning white. I needed to calm down or id end up killing us both.

"Sorry. Please explain to me why a child is so damning." I spat through clenched teeth. Probably too harsh. It wasn't his fault that he didn't have a genetic malfunction.

"It's not the baby that's the problem. It's the fact that she refuses to tell anybody. She's been working harder than ever before and getting fuck all sleep. I tried to tell her that she had to rest once in a while. Just put her feet up and relax. After that she just lost it. Screaming and shouting that she was the queen and that she couldn't just take a day off. Then she just started shouting at anything I said. She's going insane. It's like I have to walk on egg shells every time I talk to her."

When he was done he shut his eyes running his hands through his hair. He looked like he was going to break down into tears and I honestly couldn't handle that.

"If Lissa was so stressed, she shouldn't have planned our ENTIRE wedding."

Christian let out a small humourless chuckle. "She's been trying to avoid me while proving a point."

"And what point is that?"

"That she can do whatever the fuck she wants and she doesn't need me to do it."

We drove the rest of the way in silence. Each in our own thoughts about the conversation we just had. I started doing the maths in my head mostly out of boredom. Lissa started to get really involved in the wedding and drive Rose nuts about two months ago. So she must be about 3 months pregnant at this stage. Meaning she would be due in what? July?

As we reached the airport and headed toward the arrivals I turned to ask Christian just one more question.

"Does Rose know?"

"No. she was going to tell her after the wedding. Something to do with ownership of thunder or some crap."

With that a booming voice echoed through the terminal.

"Did somebody call for some reinforcements!" and out walked Adrian with Jill, Sydney and Eddie hot on his heels.

When we arrived back in court we went straight to myself and Roses apartment or 'base' as Christian started to call.

Rose was waiting for us when we arrived and immediately wrapped her arms around Adrian.

"Hey little Dhampir. What's the big emergency? I thought you might have gotten pissed off with the big wedding thing so you wanted us to come with you to elope."

Rose pulled back shooting him a sad smile. "I wish. Actually the wedding is called off altogether."

Then rose proceeded to tell our guests exactly why we had called them here. About an hour later after everything was explained, the Strogoi, the wedding, the tattoo's. Everyone seemed to gape in horror. It was Jill that broke the silence.

"I brought good shoes! I thought there was going to be a wedding!"

After further discussion we decided that having Adrian and Jill join the Specialist classes and gather more information about the students and their capabilities. Eddie would be infiltrating the court guards and Sydney would be doing research. When we all decided our tattoo designs and Adrian made up sketches.

Rose decided on something small. Three small dots on her pinkie finger on her left hand between her first and second knuckle. One for me, one for her and one for yard. I decided on this tattoo of a forest that wraps around your wrist and forearm (check Pinterest out to see it). Lissa got a spiral on her right wrist, the exact opposite of the strigoi in my bathtub. Everyone got pretty standard tattoos except Adrian who thought it would be hilarious to get a camel tattooed onto his toe.

After dinner we walked everyone to the palace and helped them settle in. the night was peaceful and everyone started to feel better about the situation and our plan.

It was about 4pm when I woke to the sound of Roza's bloodcurdling screams.

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