My stomach was turning and I felt scared. I wanted to tell him anything at this point, anything except the fact that I was having his baby. Even though this is what both of us had wanted for a while, I didn't if he was going to believe me. I took a deep breath before starting.
"When Lissa healed me in the accident and I became shadow-kissed, it changed a few things. We had a bond, I can sense Strigoi, and can call the dead. I didn't know that it changed other things about me. If I'd known there would have been absolutely no reason for me to leave." I paused and his eyes were alight with confusion but he didn't say anything. I took another deep breath before starting again. "When I became shadow-kissed it changed my body in a few ways." I stopped and looked at him again.
"Roza, I'm listening." He got up from the couch and walked over to me. I swallowed my breath as he did.
"Dimitri, being shadow-kissed allows me to get pregnant by a dhampir. I told you that you are the only person I will ever be with or want. I kept that promise; there has been no one else. I'm pregnant. We're having a baby." I felt tears run down my face and waited on him to leave, to tell me I was a lying bitch and that he never wanted to see me again.
Instead he didn't say anything. He put an arm around my waist and put a hand on the baby. "You believe me?" he laughed softly and I looked up at him.
"You haven't given me a reason to accuse you of lying. We said we wanted this to work, right?" I nodded. "Part of making this work is that we trust each other." I felt tears running down my face again and kissed my cheek softly.
"I love you." I told him again.
"I love you, Roza." We sat on the couch and I kept my hand over his that was resting on my stomach.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" he asked softly and started wrapping a piece of my hair around his finger. I smiled at this. He'd always loved my hair and took any chance he had to play with it.
"I thought you wouldn't believe me. That you would accuse me of lying and I'd have to raise this baby on my own." I kept my eyes on his and he just stared for a moment before frowning.
"Rose, you left but I know you're not stupid enough to jump into bed with someone else." He paused a moment before asking. "Who else knows?"
"You, Lissa, Abe, and Janine. That's it." I told him. Shit, I'd told my mom before him. Talk about an unexpected realization.
"How far along are you?" I took a deep breath.
"3 months today." He raised an eyebrow at me.
"You've been here a month and you didn't tell me. When did you tell Lissa?" he asked and I stared amused.
"Lissa was the first to know when I got back. I wanted to tell you sooner but we we're pissed off at each other and I didn't want you to be stuck in a relationship you didn't want." I raised my eyebrows at him this time. It may not be the one but I wasn't going to not try. He laughed softly.
"She is your best friend, I guess. You don't need to train with the novices anymore. You're going to have to start eating healthier though." I smirked at him.
"First of all, I know I'm going to have to stop training with the novices. Secondly, fuck the whole eating healthy. I am not going to sit here and crave something and be forced to eat carrots. No, not happening." I told him and crossed my arms.
"How about we get you what you're craving and put something healthy on the side?" he suggested and I smiled.
"Fine. But I'm not sitting on my ass and eating everything in the house. I'm guarding Lissa until my 7th month." I told him and a frustrated expression crossed his face.
"No you're not. We're discussing this with Lissa and I'm pretty sure she is going to say the same thing I am. You're not guarding her for that much longer. After the baby is born, if you want but until then, no. We can't put you and the baby at risk. If you get kicked or hurt it could kill the baby and we need to do whatever we can to keep him or her safe." I glared at him.
"I have missed out on guarding Lissa for the past few months and I did not go through hell to become a guardian just to sit on my ass." I got up to walk out of the room and he put his arms around me and kept me there.
"I know you didn't and if it were just you then I would understand." He slid his hand down to our baby and I put my hand on his. "But we need to think of the baby too." I sighed and leaned into him.
"I know but I don't really trust anyone else with her. The only reason I trusted those other guardians was because I was going to another country. I can't sit here and think that she's maybe a few miles away and could get killed. I can't sit around and worry, that's not me. I have to see her and know she's safe, that if something does go wrong I can do something. Or at least try." I sighed and leaned my head back onto his chest.
"I know. We'll talk about this some more, see what Lissa thinks but you can't keep going till you're about have the baby. I know how much she means to you and I know you don't want anything to happen to her." I sighed and walked out of his arms. The situation pissed me off, but he was right. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if something happened to this baby.
We walked out of our dorm and kept our distance. I kept my hand on my stomach and Dimitri kept his eyes there. I loved this baby and I didn't want anything to happen to him or her but I needed to know Lissa was going to be ok too.
"Hey guys." Lissa greeted us when we got to their dorm room. I smiled to her and she walked over to us.
"I told him." she smiled and put a hand over my stomach.
"Well it's about time. Hey baby." she started cooing to the baby and I smiled. Get used to the attention because that's your aunt. I though down to my bump.
"What baby?" Came Christian's voice. Lissa turned to look at her boyfriend with adoring eyes.
"This one." he looked at us confused.
"I'm shadow-kissed. Had a lot of strange things happen. Dimitri's baby." I told him and his eyes flashed with understanding.
"Well hell, one more smartass to deal with." He laughed at his own joke and so did I.
"He's got a point. Besides both of this baby's parents are complete badasses so odds are he or she will be a kick ass guardian." I rubbed my stomach and looked up at Dimitri, who had an eyebrow raised at me. "I'm starving. Let's go get something to eat."
Lissa put an arm around Christian and the followed after us. When we got down to the cafeteria and fixed our plats we all sat around at the table we used to sit at. Well Lissa and I used to sit at.
"Rose I'm going to go ahead and assume you're having cravings." I threw some grape jelly syrup, hot sauce, and shredded cheese on my piece of toast and looked at her.
"No, why would you assume that." I took a bit of the food and moaned. "Damn that tastes amazing right now." I mixed some apple juice and grape juice together and shook them up and took a sip. "That's my healthy shit with this meal." I looked at Dimitri and took another sip.
"Rose, that's loaded with sugar." I glared at him but continued to drink it. "We wanted to discuss something with you while we're all together." That he said to Lissa. She looked up from her water and looked to him.
"Sure, what's on your mind?" she asked and straightened up in her queenly manor. The cafeteria was empty at the moment but the students would be here in about 40 minutes. It didn't seem like any of them had gotten over the shock of the queen staying at the school.
"Rose's pregnancy and how you feel about her guarding you while she's pregnant." He said and I choked on my drink.
"Do you have to be an ass and make me sound useless?" I asked, instantly pissed but he put a hand on my belly and looked to me with a knowing look. Right, we're doing this for the baby.
"I was thinking that maybe she could guard me until her forth month and then while she wouldn't technically be guarding me, but she could be around. I don't plan on leaving the school for a good while. We can stay until the baby is born." I groaned leaning back in my chair.
"Liss, the last thing I want to do is give birth here." I told her and she and Dimitri shared a smile.
"It's that or go back to court." Christian smirked and took Lissa's hand.
"Poor Rose. She has to be boring." I glared at him.
"You're all jackasses." I crossed my arms and leaned back in my chair.
"If she can survive that long. Hell, she might run away again." Christian simply shrugged.
"Thank you Christian the asshole. I already hate that I left, must you remind me." I kicked him under the table and he grabbed his knee. "But that'll make up for it for now."
Lissa and Dimitri laughed and got up from their seats. "Come on. Let's go hangout for a bit in our dorm and watch a movie. I don't feel like hearing asshole royals brag about themselves." Christian said as Lissa pulled him from the chair. He was still rubbing his knee.
I sat up and felt a bit of dizziness hit. Strong arms wrapped around me and steadied me until my balance came back. I looked to Dimitri and put a hand on my stomach. "I'm ok. I think I need to rest a minute."
We walked back to Lissa and Christian's dorm, they continued to look back and Dimitri kept a steady arm around me the entire time.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Lissa asked as Dimitri helped me lay on the couch.
"I'm fine. I'm just tired." I said and laid down across Dimitri's lap. I fell asleep to him playing with my hair and Lissa talking to Christian about the baby.
Only it wasn't that peaceful. I looked around at my surroundings and noticed that his was the place I'd killed Victor 5 months ago. I was in a spirit dream, I realized and I couldn't see anyone else.
"Well it's about time. I hope you didn't forget me, because I didn't forget you." I turned into the eyes of Robert Duro. "Because I'd hate for you to think that you were safe."
***Well she told Dimitri! I know it's about time and look at that. One of our villains has appeared. But who says he's the only one we need to worry about? R&R and still loving the reviews. Hope you liked it.