**Chapter 18**

My short meeting with guardian Varosky went well followed by my council meeting they agreed to my conference for next year. Now I was sitting in Dr Walnikov's consulting room with Dimitri. The good doctor have asked me a few simple questions and I answered him. The good doctor asked for my urine sample and I gave it to him, he stuck a pregnancy test in my sample. The timer goes off and I grip Dimitri's hand nervously knowing what the result will be.

'Mrs Belikov according to this results you are pregnant.'

'What?'

'Yes, see here.' He showed us both.

'Rose is pregnant again?' Dimitri asked with a big smile on his face.

'Yes, Mr Belikov she is indeed. Congratulations.'

'Thank- thank you.' I finally uttered.

'Please follow me so we can see what's going on.' I got on the bed after I dropped my pants. The there on the screen is our baby a larger then I thought he or she might be, Dimitri took my hand and kissed my forehead and whispered in my ear; 'We will be fine. This is great news. Don't worry Roza.' I just smiled up at him. We refocused on the screen. The doctor moved the ultra sound scanner around.

'This cannot be possible.' He said looking at the screen.

'What's wrong?' Dimitri asked smoothing back my hair.

'You are having twins and they lay perfectly on top of each other. By their size I say they are roughly about 7 to 8 weeks old.' The doctor cleaned the gel from my belly and I got dressed again. I sat back down next to Dmitri, folding my arms around myself. Knowing we can't take on another two babies. Oh, this is a disaster. Listening to the doctor Walnikov about my due date. He wrote it all down in my file then we left. We were completely silent all the way to the airport with two cars we will need to pick Dimitri's family up. I was leaning against my car and with a really heavy sigh, I finally burst out in tears. Dimitri walked over to me and held me in his bear hug.

'Please Roza don't cry. This is a happy time for all of us. This a fantastic news.' I looked up at him.

'You think this is great?'

'Yes it is wonderful. Please-please don't worry Roza. We are going to be beyond great, you'll see.' He said picking me up in the air and he was smiling up at me. 'You make me the happiest man alive.' He said and spinning us around.

'I do?'

'Yes, you do.' He said putting me back down and gave me a kiss I won't soon forget. We waited on the tarmac for the jet to arrive. Four months and two weeks I've been head of HQ and now this. This is just so darn dandy. The weird thing is Dimitri is completely okay with me being pregnant again. Just relax Rose your strong, you will get through this as well.

'You are so strong and we will both her through this.' Dimitri spoke standing next to my open window.

'How do you do that?' I asked startled.

'Roza, you and I have our own special bond. That is how we can finish each others sentences all the time.' He said rubbing my cheek as we smiled at each other.

'I love you my Dimka.'

'And I love you more, my precious Roza.' I kissed his palm. The jet arrives and soon we were swarmed with Dimitri's warm family. Yeva also came along this time. Yeva and I never really saw eye to eye from day one. We were heading back to court in out to cars. 20 minutes from court and I put my ear piece in and sure enough I picked up everything that is happening all over court. Olean wanted to drive with me and all the kids are now driving with Olean and me. We talked about everything. Mark and Oksana send their love. I told Olean that went for a check up this morning and found out we are going to have twins.

'What fantastic news.' She said then squeezed my knee. 'How far along are you?'

'A rough calculation from the doctor he said about between 7 or 8 weeks.'

'This is so great.' She continued.

'How did you do it?' I finally asked her.

'Lots of faith, hope and a lot of very hard work.'

'Yes, it is hard work. Have you heard?'

'Heard what?' She asked confused.

'That little Dimitri can already reads and write. Dimitri is already teaching him Russian and now speaks better Russian then me by far and is now finally potty train. His teacher at day care calls him a miracle baby. She had to move him to an older class so he can keep developing.'

'This is rather astonishing.'

'We have to pick him up a little later from day care.'

'Mind if I tag along?'

'No, not at all grandma.' She smiled and then laughed a little as we got out at our house. Dimitri and Victoria carried in their luggage. There are really people just everywhere. We bought a dozen extra mattresses for everyone to sleep on. The kids agreed on sleeping on the living room floor making one massive bed in front of the TV. We ordered a stack of pizzas that should arrive just after we get back from getting Junior from day care.

'Rose are you off this weekend?'

'Yes but I am on standby.'

'That only means you can sleep then go back to work.'

'Yeah at least this way I get to see you all and spend time celebrating my son's birthday with him.' I said as we park at the day care center. We went inside and he ran straight to Olean's arms.

'Grandma.' He said in Russian. Olean looked at me and a broad smile wash across her face.

'I can't believe how big he got.'

'Yes he did.' We got back in the car and drove back to the house. As we walked back in, the loudness of the house was so overwhelming. Olean put Junior down and his face lit up when he saw all his new friends to play with and he ran to them. Still with my ear piece in my ear, I sat down next to Dimitri. He saw my ear piece and pulled it out of my ear.

'You do know I am on standby right?'

'I know, but you need to rest too.'

'He is right Rose you need to rest.' Olean said taking Dimitri's side.

'What if they need me?'

'Then they can call your cell. Dimitri said firmly and kissed the top of my head. Our pizza's finally arrived and we all dove in. The whole room fell silent as everyone ate. Afterward we all cleaned up and set out to get a nights rest. Junior slept in our room in his camping cot. It was not even an hour later and Junior woke up and crying from one of his bad dreams.

'I got this,' Dimitri said as he getting up to go pick Dimitri up. Dimitri spoke to Junior in Russian. Junior just lay his head on Dmitri's chest. Dimitri walked up and down in our room singing Junior back to sleep. I just watch him with Junior and it brought a smile to my face.

We got everything ready for Junior's first birthday party. Finally Dimitri and I drove to go pick up Junior's birthday cake from the bakery. I held the cake and Dimitri drove us back home.

'How are you feeling Roza?'

'A bit better with some sleep.'

'Good. Please will you be extra careful with time round, it's not just two of you but three. Please promise me.' He almost begged me.

'I promise. You do know in our line of duties it is very difficult to keep this kind of promise, but for you I will try.'

'Thank you.' He said resting his hand on my leg and I held it. Looking out of my window as we drove back to our home as we listen to Dimitri's country music station. We finally got back home and Dimitri took the cake from me and carried it in to the house. As for me a stayed outside for a while as I feeling so dizzy I held onto the banister that lead to the front door of our house. Later I sat down on the stairs. A few minutes later my caring husband came to look for me, he wanted to close the front door when he saw me.

'Roza?'

'Sorry, I just feel really dizzy and I just need to sit down for a moment.' He helped me up, steadying me with a his arm around my waist, helping me back into the house. Olean was busy in the kitchen packing away groceries they bought for their stay with us. I wanted to leave when Dimitri gave me a glass of milk and a sandwich to eat. I ate half a sandwich and drank my milk. The party started and the kids are having a blast with games we set out for them. Junior is laughing so much it really is a joy to see. We are making a video of his whole party.

Later the afternoon we all sang for him and we had some birthday cake. I was starting to clean up the dishes in the kitchen when I pop back the ear piece in my ear while I am washing the dishes. It is quite all over court and Lissa's in a small meeting today then she have to get some rest. Things are still okay at HQ to and the perimeter is still silent. I set a washed plate up right in the dry rack when my dizziness returned. Holding onto the kitchen sink to steady myself. The room started to spin violently that's when the black spots in vision started. Still having a porcelain plate in my hand I blacked out as I fell to the kitchen floor the plate broke when it fell out of my hand. I hit my head on the tiles. Laying unconscious on the kitchen floor.