A/N: So I guess that didn't take too long this time did it? I tried to get it in during Christmas break but I was SO busy. And then my laptop was down for a while so that delayed my update. Hopefully this makes up for the wait!

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Kisses!

I stood up, snapping my phone shut. I left my plate there and quickly went to the front where the keys to the Mercedes were.

I grabbed them and climbed into the car only to speed down the street towards the Madison home.

I arrived at the house ten minutes faster than it would have normally taken. Billy opened the door for me looking somewhat relieved.

Mr. and Mrs. Madison were in the kitchen appearing stressed and impatient.

"Alexander!" Mr. Madison started walking towards me. "Come on, she's in her room."

I followed my girlfriend's father up the stairs and into Raven's bedroom. I'd been there plenty of times before but for some reason now it felt like I was violating her space. Either way, it didn't matter in this situation.

When I entered the room I spotted Raven right away. She was lying in her bed under the black covers. I could see her swollen stomach that rose and feel with each shallow breath she took. Her skin was even paler than mine, unnaturally white.

I traveled to the side of her bed and kneeled there. Taking her hand in both of mine I could feel that she was freezing cold. If I couldn't see that she was breathing I would have presumed her dead.

"We need to take her to the hospital," I declared, looking up at her family.

"Yes we thought about that but we didn't know how safe that would be with her carrying a half-vampire child."

I thought about it for a minute. "I'm going to cal her doctor." With that I stood up and walked into the hallway, pulling my phone out.

One the third ring she picked up. "Hello?"

"Dr. Zaharu? It's Alexander."

"Oh, Alexander! I was just going to call you. I've moved to the hospital in your town, this way I'll be close in case anything happens."

Someone must be watching over us because this was a miracle I needed. I explained the situation to the vampire doctor.

"Okay bring her to the hospital. I'll be ready for her."

I snapped my phone shut and walked back into the bedroom. They all looked up at me expectantly.

"It's okay we can take her to the hospital. Apparently her doctor just transferred to the one in town."

Mr. Madison started walking out the door. "I'll go get the car ready."

That left me, Mrs. Madison, Billy, and an unconscious Raven. I moved back to the side of the bed.

Mrs. Madison started pulling the covers off of her daughter's body. "We need to take her downstairs."

Without the covers was even worse. Her body became sickly thing and frail and she was paler than I'd ever seen a living person be. Despite it having only been a week, her stomach seemed larger than the last time I saw her. I couldn't tell if it was because it had really grown or if it was because the rest of her body was so thin.

"I've got her," I said, sliding my arms under Raven's knees and shoulders. Lifting her up, I could definitely tell that she'd lost a lot of weight.

We loaded into their family van. Billy stayed behind reluctantly. My girlfriend was laying on my lap in the backseat.

When we arrived at the hospital, Dr. Zaharu was ready as promised. She was standing outside the Emergency Room doors with a stretcher.

As soon as the door next to me slid open, a few nurses lifted Raven off of me and on to the stretcher before I could say a word.

"Alexander."

I turned to Dr. Zaharu who called my name. "Has anything changed since you called?"

Shaking my head I responded, "No, nothing at all."

"Okay. We we're going to take her into the back. You are going to have to wait in the waiting room. I'm sorry," with that she turned and followed the nurses pushing Raven into the hospital.

Mrs. Madison walked up behind me and squeezed my shoulder reassuringly. None of us said anything as we walked into the waiting room. It was a large room with blue painted walls, plastic chairs, and meaningless pictures scattering the place. It was a sad attempt at comfort.

The chairs were set up in rows facing each other. Mr. and Mrs. Madison sat next to each other and I situated myself in a chair across from them. They were holding hands and were both staring at the ground. Meanwhile I scanned the room, looking at everything except the couple in front of me.

There were quite a few people in the waiting room. A child with a broken arm, a young man nervously twisting his wedding ring, a young couple with a newborn, a man with paper towels covered in blood wrapped around his hand, and a girl with a twisted ankle. They all looked slightly worried, some more than others.

Before now, I'd never actually been in a hospital before, not a human one at least. It was a dreadful place.

When I finally looked back to my girlfriend's parents I noticed Mr. Madison's gaze on me. He didn't say anything so I figured it was my responsibility to break the silence.

"Mr. Madison, I am so sorry," I started. He didn't say anything, just continued to gaze at me with a guarded expression.

I continued. "Everything that has happened is because of me and I take full responsibility. If I-"

"Alexander Sterling?" An average-looking nurse stood at the entrance of the waiting room and waited expectantly for someone to respond.

I stood up. "Yes?"

"Dr. Zaharu would like to see you."

With one last glance at Mr. and Mrs. Madison I followed the nurse to meet the vampire doctor.

She led me to Dr. Zaharu who was standing in the middle of the corridor. In the distance I could see nurses pushing a stretcher with a pale-black haired girl occupying it.

"Is Raven going to be okay?" I blurted before the doctor could say anything.

"Yes she will be fine. We managed to get her out of the woods and stabilize her. The baby is another story. We still have to run some tests," she said. I cut her off before she could continue.

"What do you mean 'the baby is another story'? What's wrong? Is he…. Is he going to live?"

She placed her hand on my shoulder and squeezed it, similarly to Mrs. Madison. "Alexander you need to calm down. I promise we are doing the best we can. Something strange came up so we are running more tests to figure it out."

I attempted to calm my nerves to little avail. "Something strange? What does that mean?"

"Well, she's lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw her, six days ago. From what Mrs. Madison explained to me, she had been in a depressed state and has not left her room for the past five days. She also informed me that she barely at and had not blood supply. Since she had not blood supply, the baby started taking Raven's blood, and any nutrients that Raven had inside her."

I mentally reminded myself to have Sebastian beat me up mercilessly after this was all over. "Okay so what is the strange part?"

"Well despite all those factors, she shouldn't be in the severe state she is in. There has to be another factor that no one knew about, but nothing is coming up in the tests."

I stayed silent, racking my brain for anything that could affect Raven like this. Nothing came to mind so instead I just gazed at Dr. Zaharu helplessly.

A/N: Was that worth the wait? What is the unknown factor to Raven's state?! (I couldn't tell you if I wanted to. I don't really know myself. I kind of just wing these things.) PLEASE REVIEW!

Until next time!

ONYX MAXWELL

(someone pointed out that they liked how I used Maxwell as the last name, like Jagger. I actually made this pen name LOOOOOOOOOOONG before I started reading Vampire Kisses. So it was pretty shocking when I met Onyx in the books and she started going out with Jagger in the last book!)