**Chapter 7**

Sitting in the monitoring room while Dimitri are patrolling around Lissa's house. I spoke to her before she went to bed. She told me all her wedding preparations are all done and can't wait to be married in two months time. I'm so- so happy for her. I was sitting watching the monitors when something caught my eye on the outside cameras.

'Security breach!' I yelled in my security microphone on my collar. The disturbance on the monitor was strigoi breaking in. Dimitri ran to Lissa's room where she and Christian where fast asleep. I joined them. With my stake in my hand, ready for anything. Okay I'm in my last week of pregnancy but I can still fight. Poor Marco can testify to that yesterday. When I threw him over my shoulder and almost punched him in our training facility. Hans were impressed, but Dimitri were beyond furious with me for doing that. Now watching the guardians close in on the strigoi that broke in.

Lissa's hand were on my shoulder. Dimitri and I stay focus on protecting them. They come first after all. Looking out the window, watching the guardians fight like that I felt so proud of all of them. Protecting all of us like this. The fight died down and our guys are winning. When the last strigoi fell, we let Lissa and Christian go back to bed. Dimitri and I patrolled the whole house twice making double sure everything was completely safe. When I reached the dining room I felt a sharp pain, then my legs felt soaking wet. Holding on to the back of a one of the dinning room chairs. Pain set in almost instantly. Dimitri must have saw me on the monitors and came running to me.

'Rose?' He yelled, picking me up where I stood. 'Eddie get a car ready, Rose is in labor.' Dimitri spoke into his shirt collar microphone. We got our side and Dimitri lay me down on the back seat. I just clenched my teeth and breathed very hard as the pain set in again. Dimitri was on his phone calling the hospital then phoned our parents. The pain subsided for now and I relax a little. Dimitri was racing towards the hospital.

'Hold on Roza we are almost there.' He said whipping my damp hair from my face as he drove. New wave of pain set in. I refuse from the start that I won't scream like the woman on TV. Besides it doesn't do anyone any good besides that your ear drums can't handle it. We arrived at the hospital and they were already waiting for us, with a wheel chair. Dimitri carried me from the car to the chair.

Kissed my forehead then head then told me he will be right with me once he parked the car. I could only nod and I was wheeled off to the maternity wing of the hospital. They got me onto one of those beds with your legs raised above your head, and in one of those awful hospital gowns. Dimitri burst into the room with our parents following suit. Dimitri came and sat behind me, holding both my hands every now and then whipping my forehead with a nice cold cloth. I looked at our parents. Abe look a little green.

'The mighty Abe is a bit squeamish. Are you okay daddy?' I asked one time after the pain let go for a while. He walked to my side. I was resting against Dimitri's chest.

'I'm fine honey. There's no other place I'd rather be then right here, right now.' He said and kissed my cheek. Hours pasted and finally the time arrived. I'm already so tired. At last the doctor gave me the go head to start to push. Mom, Olean and even Abe holding cameras all over to record the birth of their grand-baby. I'm so tired but pushing with the wonderful support of my husband didn't even felt like enough. Again and again I did it and finally my babies head is out. The grandparents ooehed and aahed. I pushed a couple of times more than our baby was born.

My doctor lay my baby boy in my waiting arms. He cried his little head off. Dimitri kissed me, telling me what a great a job I did. The doctor gave Dimitri the go ahead to cut the umbilical cord. A nurse came and took my baby from me to be cleaned, weighed and measured. The doctor still attending to me as other things were still to happen to me and 20 to 25 minutes later I was done and was wheeled off to me room with my baby in my arms. Our boy's names is Dimitri Ibreham Belikov, is born on this day 28 November at 00:17AM.

Dimitri took his son from my arms and looked at him smiling, then back to me with tears in his eyes. Abe, mom and Olean where all smiles and also with tearful eyes to. After they each had a turn holding their new grand-baby they left us alone. Dmitri lay Junior back in my arms and I fed him from me. Dimitri that could not stop smiling sat and watched the birthing video on his phone he just copied from my mother's phone before they left. Once Junior was fed, burped and now asleep in my arms. I slide down my bed to walk to the his crib. Being a little unstable on my legs after 11 hours of labor. Dimka was at my side for support helping me to the crib. Lay my sleeping baby boy down then head back to my bed. He helped me back into bed and pulled my covers over me.

'How are you feeling Roza?'

'So tired, and you Dimka. How are you feeling?'

'Like the happiest man on the planet.' It made me smile as I lay down on my pillow.

'Rest, now my precious Roza.' He took my hand and kissed my forehead and I fell asleep. Hours later I was woken by my crying baby and a very desperate looking Dimitri rocking his son so gentle. Walked over to him took Junior from him and changed his nappy and sat down to feed him again.

'How did you do that?' He asked me astonished.

'You can call it mother's instinct.'

'I've been trying for an half an hour to shut him up so you can sleep.'

'Everything is okay. Come sit with me.' He did, looking at Junior as he drank from me.

'Do you know how amazing you are Roza?'

'I am?'

'Yes you are. Thirteen hours ago you were still on high alert about a strigoi breach and now we're parents eleven hours later.'

'I couldn't have done any of it without you.' I added.

'I did nothing but to get you pregnant in the first place.'

'Hey please stop that right now. How could we have known any of this is going to happen. Our race we all know this for centuries that dhampir cannot at all reproduce, yet here we are, you and me beating all odd of history and it is not at all your fault. Do you hear me.'

'Yes- yes Mrs Belikov, I hear you.'

'Good I'm glad we understand each other, Mr Belikov.' He gave me a kiss. After Junior drank his fill, I drape a towel nappy over Dimitri's shoulder and showed him how to burp his son by rubbing his back. I got the baby bath ready and let Dimitri give his son a bath. I could see he was so nerves but being the man he is he took on his new mission. I was laying out a new nappy with a clean baby grow.

Dimitri hand me our boy and I wrap him in a towel. I dried him off then got him powdered and dressed again. I set out rocking Junior to sleep then lay him down once he was asleep. I finally head into a shower, starting to feel a lot better. Washing my hair felt even better. Got out and got dressed again in sweat pants and a t-shirt I had in my bag. Walked out into my room again and Dimitri was talking to my doctor. I joined them, they were talking about Junior. According to the doctor was amazed by Junior's reflexes. When they did their normal new born tests. This is what Dimitri was trying to understand.

'Mr and Mrs Belikov, your son has amazing strength and he sees things much quicker than any normal baby his age. Here let me demonstrate.' The doctor said and gone over to show us the same tests she did yesterday with Junior. When she came to the strength test, Junior grip her fingers tightly that they turned white and he pulled himself up completely. Dimitri and I both looked at each other then back to Junior.

'This is the first case ever to be recorded of two dhampir having a baby but then this is just as astonishing. He is the first ever pure blood dhampir.' The doctor said as I picked up my now crying baby boy. I started to rock him back to sleep. The doctor wanted to perform some studies on him to find out anything else that they might not know. I was so proud of Dimitri stepped up so quickly, telling the good doctor that when I was still pregnant we knew that Junior has extraordinary strength, so when we asked her about it she just said it was normal and she just brushed it off like nothing.

He continues to tell her in a nice way there will be no testing on our son at all. I was so glad he told her to back off, and she did. The following day Junior and I were released to go home. We went home it felt so great to be among my own things. It's funny how quickly a house can change by just bringing a baby in the works. Went up stairs to lay Junior down in his own crib. Joined Dimitri down stairs where he was lounging on the couch reading one of his novels. I bought him a western novel box set for his birthday last month. Sat down next to him and put the baby monitor on the table next to me. He put his hand on my leg.

'I wanted to tell you yesterday, it was so great of you the way you came up for Junior the way you did. The thought of him being their lab rat was sickening. Thank you for that.'

'You're welcome, Roza.' He said placing a bookmark in his book. I leaned in to kiss him when our kissing turned to be so much more than just a thank you kiss. NC- 17 had no hold on this kiss. Where ever he touched me it burns the fuel of desire flames. We enjoyed ourselves so much, something we haven't done in a while. We finally collapse in each others arms on the couch we just broke in properly. We were just laying there in each others arms skin on skin when there was a knock at the front door. We both hurried getting dressed.

I ducked into the pantry and closed the door and got dressed in there. I straighten my hair then went out. It was Lissa and Christian, they wanted to come and see Junior. I took Lissa up stairs to the nursery. She oohed and aah-ed saying he looks so much like Dimitri. She asked Juniors names and she agree it was a good so the next generation have a Dmitri Belikov among them. We went back down stairs where the guys watched a ice-hockey game on the TV while Lissa and I talked wedding and married life. I told her married life couldn't be any greater. Of course we have our down days to, what married couples don't have it. She is so looking forward to be married to the man of her dreams.

I'm of course on of her brides maids. I'm kind of glad though since being maid of honor is so much work on top of a new baby. Later my parents and Olean arrived to come and play some more doll, I'm sure. The men quickly engage in the hockey game as for us girls we engage in girl talk and china patterns. Junior started crying and all the girls went up stairs to the nursery. Mom held her grand-son. She wanted to give Junior his bath so I let her and gave Olean his clothes for the evening.

'So the doctor that helped with the delivery of Dimitri Junior wanted to run test on him.'

'What?' Mom and Olean said in unison Lissa also had a look of disgust on her face.

'Why?' Lissa finally asked.

'Because of his strength and he is born of two dhampir. How did she put it a pure blood dhampir. But Dimitri told her flat out no.'

'Good.' Mom and Olean said sigh out of relieve. Even Lissa looked relieved. Olean hand me Junior and I sat back getting ready to feed him. He latched to me more easier. I threw a his baby blanket over my shoulder. The three woman just sat on juniors big boy bed we already bought. We engaged in very pleasant conversation between us girls. Burping Junior, cleaning him up. I hand him to Lissa. She just staring at him and he at her for the longest time. Then she began to rock him to sleep. Once Junior was tucked in we joined the men down stairs again.

I started to put some food and drinks together for our guests. Lissa and Christian later left because of other engagements leaving just the family. We ate and laughed. Dimitri told his mother about his and Abe's hunting weekend all in Russian. Even Abe and mom chipped in making me feel left out. I so need to learn the language, maybe my loving husband can teach me. After a half an hour of their conversation in Russian I had enough of and I started to clearing the plated and doing the dished while they carry on in a language I don't understand. Once I've done the dishes and stored them away. I made them some coffee and put the cups of already made coffee down then went up stairs. Abe followed me.

'What is the matter Rose?' Abe asked as we reached the nursery.

'I don't understand Russian so why do I have to stick around.'

'Honey please don't be upset. You can learn then you can join in.'

'I suppose. Come on.' Abe followed me into the nursery. I lay his grandson in his arms. The joy on Abe's face was a perfect Kodak moment and knowing that Junior is carrying his name made him even more proud.

'So grandpa Abe, how does it feel to be a grand-dad?'

'Like the best thing in the whole world.' I smiled at him.

'Oh, daddy.' I said kissing my dad's forehead. Abe held me close to his side with his free arm.

'Honey you did so well here.' He motion to Junior.

'Thanks daddy. The doctor wanted to do tests on him…'

'What? Like a lab monkey?'

'Apparently but Dimitri blew her off and said very loud and clear no. She even called Dimitri Junior a first ever dhampir pure blood.'

'Good, your husband is a great man.'

'Yes, that he is. Just like my special old man. No matter what they call you around the world dad. You're still my wonderful, caring and warm hearten good man and most of all my daddy.'

'Oh, sacks sweetheart. Thank you. And you are still my little girl that I would do anything for. I love you Rose.'

'I love you dad.' Abe hand me Junior back and I lay him back in his crib. We head back down stairs were a still very deep Russian conversation was going on I turned around on the stairs and went back up stairs to our room where I took a shower then got dressed again. I decided to return back down stairs. Still a lot of Russian going on I just sat there quietly staring at the table cloth patterns.

Dimitri's hand went to my leg then squeezed it a little. Looking over to me with a smile then he realize what has been happening. I just kept silent, I just return his smile and then shook my head. I later lay my head on his shoulder as he continue their conversation. Holding his arm around me I fell asleep. Was woken when our guest left. We saw then out and I cleaned up. Dimitri stopped me as I carried the empty mugs to the basin.

'I'm so sorry.'

'For what?'

'For our conversation in Russian.'

'Please don't be it's your native language. I just wish sometimes I understand it even just a little.'

'I can teach you.'

'Really, that would be great. Thanks.' I said returning to the dirty dishes.

'Thank you for playing host tonight. You were so great.'

'You're welcome.'

'Please leave the dishes, I'll do them.'

'I've already done them. See.' He looked around and was surprised.

'Roza Belikov you're an amazing wife and mother. Now let's go to bed. I can see you are tired.'

'I am very tired.'

'Come then.' He pulled me up the stairs to our bedroom. I got in to my silk night gown and straight into bed. Dimitri joined me after his shower. But me being so tired I fell asleep after I put the baby monitor on my night stand.