The ride home felt longer than it did going to the beach. Lissa had asked Adrian at least a million questions and he'd answered all of them. Most of them were either about spirit or how everyone was and what they were doing. I could understand why she was curious; I mean her sister was part of that group.

We had all decided to go to Lissa and Christian's room and I didn't know until then how desperate I wanted the safety of our apartment. Robert's words had been echoing in my head since we'd left the beach and I knew that I should probably tell Dimitri, but I couldn't bring the words up. I didn't want him worrying constantly. If Strigoi were to sneak into court I couldn't have him worrying about me more than he already was.

"Rose? Rose, are you listening?" Adrian interrupted my thoughts and, for the first time in a long time, I was glad. I didn't really want to be alone with my thoughts.

"I'm sorry. I'm not feeling the best tonight." It wasn't entirely a lie.

"I said how far along are you?" they all stared at me kind of weird.

"Five and a half months." I stated and he smiled.

"Have you thought of any names or do you even know what little bad ass is?" I laughed and put a hand over my stomach.

"Not the first clue. To either." I said and Dimitri rolled his eyes.

"She doesn't like any of the names I've suggested." This time, I rolled my eyes.

"I want it to mean something. I don't want to just pull a name out of my ass and stick it on the kid." I said and Adrian and Christian snickered. Lissa and Dimitri didn't find it very amusing however.

"What if you have more than one?" Christian suggested. I felt my stomach turn just thinking about it.

"Let's hope not." I said and grinned at Dimitri.

"I don't think we need more than one mixture of us at a time." he smiled and I kissed his cheek.

"I guess you have a point." I moved so I was in his lap and shivered, feeling cold all of a sudden.

"Here." Lissa pulled a blanket from beyond the recliner that she and Christian were sitting in.

"Thanks." I pulled it up over my shoulders and Dimitri wrapped his arms around me.

"So Adrian, how are your college classes going?" Lissa asked and leaned into Christian.

"They're going great. I have an art project at the moment that I am suffering through. I can't think of shit." The only word I caught was suffering.

I laid my head against Dimitri's chest and put a hand on my belly. "Roza?" he asked and I looked up at him.

"I'm fine. Just tired." He gave me the "I don't believe anything your saying, now tell me the truth" look. I got up out of my seat and ran to the bathroom. I leaned over and got sick.

Dimitri had gotten on his knees and was holding my hair back. Never had I mean so happy to have morning sickness.

"Here." He said and handed me some breath mints after I washed my mouth out.

"Thanks." I laid back against him and put a hand on my belly. "I will be so happy when this kid gets here.

"I will to." He said and I smiled. I grabbed his hand and put it over my belly.

"I'll miss this though." I said and he smiled.

He started talking to the baby in Russian and I felt some of my worry leave. Not all of it, but enough to let me concentrate on my lover talking to our child.

"Feel better?" Christian asked and I stuck my tongue out at him.

"You try puking everything you've ever eaten in one day and see how you feel, jackass." I growled and sat back down on Dimitri's lap on the couch.

I smiled at him and kissed him before pulling the blanket up again. I rested my head against his chest and closed my eyes.

"I guess pregnancy really does where you out." Adrian said. I heard Lissa laugh.

"I know. When we get pregnant, let me sleep unless I tell you to wake me up." They laughed at this and I internally groaned at the thought of a little Christian.

"I'll gladly take note of that." Christian said and I slipped into sleep.

I looked around me and I was in the woods at the academy. Then I looked again. There were bodies. Dead, bloody, torn bodies. Janine, Abe, Lissa, Christian, Adrian, and… Dimitri.

I cried and felt someone put a hand on my shoulder. I turned right around into Robert Duro.

"This will be one of the nicer things you'll see when I get done. I might until your baby is born before I take that away from you. Or maybe I'll tear it from you and make your lover watch."

I tried to wake up but he just kept holding me there. "Leave them alone! They didn't do anything wrong." I felt tears sting my eyes were his nails dug into my shoulder. There was no way in hell I was going to cry in front of him though.

I punched him in the nose as hard as I could and I fell back to reality hard. I was up and running as soon as I opened my eyes.

I didn't know where I was running to but all I could see was the forest. Then it faded into the familiar court garden and I felt arms wrap around me and I reached to attack whoever it was and realized that it was Dimitri's arms around me and I was so glad I hadn't.

"Roza! Roza, its ok." he called over and over and I threw my arms around him.

"What the hell?" Christian called and the others came into sight and I buried my face in Dimitri's chest.

"Rose!" Lissa's worried voice rang in my ears and I felt her put a hand on my shoulder and knew what she was doing before I felt the magic. She was healing something. I couldn't tell what but I put my hand over our baby and felt fear race through me.

I looked down and nothing was wrong. No blood but when I glanced at my shoulders, I saw them. Robert Duro's nails really had dug into my skin.

"Your majesty! Your majesty!" someone screamed and Dimitri wrapped a protective arm around me and flames appeared in Christian's hands, the two were ready for an attack.

"What is it, Michael?" Lissa asked and looked to the shaken novice. He'd been visiting with a friend and his blonde hair was everywhere, his green blue eyes wide with fear.

"Tasha Ozera… She's gone… Someone helped her escape." He panted and he may have said more.

But my vision was taken over by black and the last thing I felt were arms trying to catch me.

"Rose!"

***Well lots of stuff happened in this chapter. Adrian's back. Tasha's been broken out of prison and Robert is more blood thirsty than ever. R&R for the next chapter please. I love seeing the reviews and thank you again for sticking with me and hope everyone is still enjoying the story