HI GUYS
WELL I AM STILL ALIVE AFTER CELEBRATING MY 25th BIRTHDAY (just) AFTER THE DRAMA OF THE LAST CHAPTER I THOUGHT A NICE EASY ONE WOULD BE NICE. AFTER THIS CHAPTER THERE WILL BE A TIME JUMP
THANKS FOR ALL THE REVIEWS AND MY BIRTHDAY MESSAGES :)
CHEERS
LORNA X
CHRISTIANS POV
Three shots ring out around the cabin. I hear bullets hit flesh. Then I hear the thud of a body. I don't want to look up. If Elena has killed my Ana I don't know how I'll cope. A world with out Anastasia would be like the earth without the sun. I squeeze my eyes shut not wanting to open them to a world without my love.
"Christian...baby open your eyes" I hear her soft voice and my eyes snap open. Ana! She's alive? But then who was shot? I turn my head and see Elena laying about three feet from me with blood pouring from three different spots on her chest.
"Holy fuck" I whisper and then pull Ana down onto my lap and bury my head in her chest. She's here, she's safe.
"When I saw that gun pointed at you I didn't even think. I killed her Christian...and I'm not even sorry...not even a little bit...what type of person does that make me?"
"Ana if you hadn't of shot her she would have shot me. It was self defence baby. Thank you for saving me Mrs Grey"
"You are more than welcome Mr Grey" she takes my lips in a heated kiss but we are very rudely interrupted by Elliott.
"You two are fucking unbelievable! Here I am bleeding out like a fucking pig and you two are practically humping each other! A little help please!" He screams while holding his leg which is bleeding but not very much. We stand up and go to him and, thank god, it's just a flesh wound. The bullet grazed his outer thigh but the way Elliot is moaning you would think that his leg has been blown off by a land mine.
"I think you will live Elliott, it's just a scratch" I shrug and he glares at me
"Let me shoot you Christian and see how you feel! Just a Scratch my ass! Help me up I want to be with Kate and Ava" Ana and I help him up and take him to the Bentley SUV where Kate has Ava held tightly to her chest. When she sees us coming and the blood on Elliott's leg her eyes go wide
"Holy shit Elliott! Oh my god baby are you ok?"
"No I'm not ok, this hurts like a bitch...but now there is no excuse for you not to wear that naughty nurse outfit I bought you. I'm going to need tending to Katie girl" he grins and she laughs and then wraps her arms around him and Ava and cries.
Ana and I leave them too it and we wonder back to where Elena's body is just as Taylor and Sawyer drive up. It takes Taylor less than a second to study the situation and I can see his mind working out a plan.
"Who shot her?" He asks
"I did Jason but she was going to shoot Christian so I had no choice" Ana is shaking slightly so I wrap my arms around her tightly and kiss her head.
"Ana it will be fine. All the cars in the fleet have cameras mounted on the rear view mirrors and I can clearly see the Bentley from where I am standing meaning that the camera would have seen everything. Even when the cars are turned off the cameras are still active because they run off of an independent battery. I will call the police and you will have to give a statement but with everything being on tape they won't have anything to charge you with" Taylor tells us and I feel Ana relax in my arms.
The police turn up and take all our statements. Ana holds my hand the entire time while she tells the police everything. Thankfully instead of some rookie beat cops the guy in charge is in his Fifty's and reminds me of Carrick. He is gentle with Ana and doesn't push her at all and I make a mental note to donate money to the police mans foundation. When he asks why Elena would want to kidnap Ava in the first place and what her motive would be I have no choice but to tell him of my past with her and all the evidence we have on her that we found in her safe. He listens to me as I tell him everything and when I am done he claps me on the shoulder in a fatherly gesture
"You're a brave man son and you did the right thing. I know who you are and what type of influence you have in the city so I will try my hardest to keep your name out of everything. I will get a special team together to handle every thing found in her house and I can promise you our discretion"he says kindly
"Thank you officer I appreciate it" I shake his hand and head over to the SUV where Ana is waiting for me. Kate, Elliott and Ava gave their statements and then took Taylor's SUV back to Seattle. Jason and Luke will head back later with Welsh and his team.
We drive for about thirty miles in silence. Ana is in deep thought looking out of her window at the passing scenery. I don't know what to say to her and I know right know she is working out in her head the fact that she took a life, an evil life, but still a life. No matter how vile Elena was, Ana is not a killer and I can only imagine the emotions that are running through her body. She turns to look at me and hearing her sweet voice makes me sigh with relief, but what she says confuses me.
"Do you remember the first time we made love? I mean not in the playroom, the first time in your bed when we just did vanilla?"
"Yes Anastasia I remember, that was one of the greatest moments of my life. It was the moment I finally admitted to myself that I loved you, I was just to chicken shit to actually say it out loud to you"
"I remember thinking that night that you were an idiot"
"Excuse me?" She giggles at me and then takes my free hand and kisses my palm
"That night, right before we made love, you told me that you were a sadist. It was the most stupid thing I had ever heard because you were the sweetest guy I had ever known and I didn't get why you thought you were a sadist just because you like spanking my ass. To me a sadist is someone who hurts another person and takes great pleasure in inflicting the most amount of pain possible with no remorse"
"Ana I understand what a sadist is, what's your point?" She turns her head back and resumes her landscape watching.
"I wish I was able to tie her up and beat the ever loving shit out of her. Three bullets to the chest was too easy for her. I think I have found my sadistic side and I'm worried that if I get my hands on Nathan Brown or Veronica...especially her, I'm scared of what I might be capable of so I need you to promise me that when we find them that you don't let me get carried away because, baby...I kinda got a little thrill when she dropped...knowing that I was responsible for ridding this world, Phoebes world, of that evil woman...I'm not even a little bit sorry"
"Anastasia that woman was evil to the core and you baby don't have a bad bone in your body so having me keep an eye on you so you don't become a serial killer should be the easiest job ever" I grin at her and she smiles.
"I love you Christian"
"I love you more baby, now I think I need to feed you, there is a great French restaurant not far from here"
"Actually I am in the mood for a big fat juicy burger. I have my appointment with Dr Green in a few days and after my shot runs out I need to eat as healthy as possible if we are going to get pregnant, so from tomorrow I am on a health kick"
"Well your wish is my command"
A few miles down the highway we pull In to a drive through burger joint. I order a classic burger with fries and a coke and Ana orders the classic with extra bacon and cheese, fries, onion rings, cheesy bites, a chocolate milkshake and a coke.
"Jeez Ana, are you sure you're not pregnant already?" I joke and she scowls at me from over the rim of her shake.
"No I'm not it's just with the drama of today I'm hungry as a horse, besides I took a pregnancy test last week" she shrugs and I almost choke on my fries
"YOU WHAT? OMG DID YOU THINK YOU COULD BE PREGNANT?"
"Chill the fuck out dude, my god Christian is this how you will freak when we actually start trying?"
"I don't know...why would you take a test unless you thought you were pregnant?"
"I've taken one every couple of weeks since we got back together. I always drink wine with dinner and seeing as I got pregnant with Phoebe while I was on birth control because like I have said before, you have some type of super sperm, so I just wanted to always be careful"
"Good point, very well made Mrs Grey, by the way this burger is disgusting!" She starts laughing when I throw it back in the bag.
"You know when I was pregnant with Phoebe I had this M&Ms craving, I would literally eat a bag a day, but only the crispy ones so you might want to get stocked up and I am not looking forward to the heart burn again because that was a bitch, but hey bright side this time when my hormones get out of control I will have...,, " she stops talking and blushes a deep deep red
"Keep talking, when your hormones get out of control you will have, what?" I'm Intrigued because she is now squirming with embarrassment.
"Um...well...during my second trimester I became...um...really really horny and you were in Seattle and we were broken up and I didn't even entertain the idea of another man after you so I...well I went and bought my self a vib...vib...a battery operated boyfriend" she covers her face with her hand as I burst out laughing. She throws a fry at me and starts giggling.
"I had no choice Christian. Some days I was almost out of my mind and when I get pregnant again you better prepare yourself because I will be needing your services, actually scratch that, I will need up you to service me morning, noon and night"
"I'm sure I will be able to rise to the occasion"
"Get us home Christian and we can start practising"
TWO WEEKS LATER, ANAS POV
"Would you sit down please you're going to wear a hole in the carpet, Christian"
We are at Dr Greens office and Christian is pacing back and forth because we have been waiting a grand total of 4 minutes. I had to cancel my appointment with her last week because we had to go to the police station and give another statement to help them with their case.
"I'm just nervous Anastasia. What if she tells us that we won't be able to get pregnant or that there is something wrong with me?"
"Christian nothing is wrong with you, Phoebe is proof of that"
"What if that was a one time deal and I caught you on the full moon and knocked you up. What if my little solders are not marching anymore?" I can't help but laugh at him. I stand up and wrap my arms around him.
"We are going to go in that room, tell the good doctor that we want to try for a baby, she will give me an exam and then some advice about vitamins and ovulation and other stuff like that ok? There is nothing to worry about"
"Anastasia Grey?" My name gets called and I lead Christian into the exam room. Dr Green is a no nonsense woman and she quickly and efficiently takes my blood and then tells me to go pee in a pot so she can check for pregnancy. I tell her there is no chance I'm pregnant. I take a pregnancy test twice a month and I'm on the shot so I can't be, but I dutifully pee in the pot and leave it in the bathroom. Dr Green goes in and checks it while I slap Christian on the back of the head because he is giggling like a girl over a plastics model of a woman's vagina.
When she comes back in she has a small smile playing on her lips.
"Well Mrs Grey I was going to recommend some vitamins but instead I will give you a prescription for a course of folic acid because you are pregnant Mrs Grey"
The air leaves my lungs and I gasp. The grip Christian has on my hand loosens and I look up just as the first tear escapes his eye. He has the biggest smile on his face I have ever seen.
"But I took a test and it was negative...and I'm on the shot, again!"
"Well you could have had a false positive but according to my stick, which is blue, you are pregnant. Let's do a scan and I will confirm it" she spreads gel over my belly and then starts probing. Christian is practically on top of me trying to look at the screen which makes me smile.
"And there we go, your baby...and if I turn this up we should be able to hear the heart beat" when she turns the volume up we hear the thud thud of out baby's heart and I start crying.
"I would say you are about 4 weeks, I'll print you some pictures and then I will get Abby to get all your paperwork sorted" she leaves the room leaving just me and my husband who takes my face and kisses the life out of me.
"We are having a baby Ana! A little baby!"
"I told you that you had super sperm" I laugh
"Four weeks ago that was,...,our wedding was four weeks ago, I bet we got pregnant on our wedding night!"
"Christian how much sex we have it could have been one of a 100 times...but I would like to think that we made this little one on our wedding night too" I place my hand on my belly forgetting about the gel which makes me laugh.
"Thank you Anastasia" he takes my hand and kisses me again.
"What are you thanking me for?"
"Everything. Being mine, giving me Phoebe, marrying me, being my more, loving me, letting me love you, and for giving me this little one. I love you more than any man on this earth has every loved his woman"
"I love you too Christian"
I kiss him with everything I have letting my love for him show in the kiss.
I have my man, my baby girl and my little one. Elena is dead and never coming back so for the first time in my life the little bit of worry that I always carry around with me disappears.
I am going to enjoy this pregnancy and I have a feeling that Christian is going to try to wrap me up in cotton wool for the next eight months, and I'm going to let him.
During my pregnancy with Phoebe I had no one. No one to hold their hands on my bump when she first kicked. No one to call when I went into labour. My room mate at the time was in Alabama visiting his family so I had to call a taxi to take me to the hospital, and no one to share my joy when my little girl came into the world.
This time will be different, and I can't wait