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In hindsight, he should have known this had the distinct possibility of happening. Adrian knew he should have known, and hey, maybe in his early twenties-that was the time he met 'her' and the gang-he would have found it funny. But did he find it funny now? No.
Did everyone else? Definitely. Hilariously. Uproariously.
(Traitorous scumbags, the whole lot of them)
Rose Hathaway was many things, but forgetful she was not, especially about things like this. Adrian had learned this the hard way.
He had made one stupid comment-just one-about Rose.
Okay, let's face it, he'd made a lot of stupid comments to and about her, and he still kept on making them now, but that was because he was a stupid guy who never learned from his mistakes, and she kept on doing asinine things that deserved such comments.
But then again, Christian made stupid comments about her all the time, and all she ever did was insult him with every other breath; but it had become a sort of bonding/competition between the two to come up with original creative insults about one another.
Could she have opted for the same with him? Yes.
Did she? Hell, no.
Rose did something worse, something more memorable, and much to Adrian's chagrin (and slight horror), it seemed to be catching on. Not only among the gang, who seemed to find it so funny that some of them had gotten tears in their eyes when they first heard, but also among his other friends and acquaintances, who though not understanding the context, found 'it' nice. And cute.
So what, may you ask, was going on? Well, it might be easier to explain how it all started. After the scandal at Court had died down about his love and marriage with Sydney Sage the human Alchemist, and they had settled down and set their roots, the couple were blessed with their own miracle, a perfectly beautiful (and placid) daughter with his emerald eyes and her flaxen hair.
They had named her Selene, but did anyone call her that? Not anymore.
No, everyone nowadays tended to call her what Adrian had once called Rose-Little Dhampir. And unfortunately for Adrian, that rang true. Selene was a dhampir, borne from a human and a Moroi, and of course she was little (and wonderful), and so the first time Rose had come to see the little girl, she had held the baby in her arms, wearing a twinkling look in her eyes, and looked straight at Adrian-evilly, he might add-and quipped 'Hey, Little Dhampir'.
The hospital room had gone silent for just about two and a half seconds before Christian snorted and Jill started to giggle, and Dimitri went as far as to grin, flashing his teeth. Even Sydney, his own dear, sweet Sydney, had joined in on the laughter.
Unfortunately for Adrian, the name had stuck. And now everybody and their mother called his baby girl little dhampir.
And so, it seemed, his daughter at the tender age of 78 days, was already paying for the sins of her father.
And hey, it could have been a lot worse…the gang could have found out that the first time he had gone to retrieve his daughter from the hospital ward where the newborns were kept, he had picked up another little blonde baby and had already been halfway out of the room before he saw her name-tag on her pink blanket and realized what he had done.
Because he was sure that if Rose (or Christian, or Eddie, or Mia) ever, ever found that out, he would have been branded cradle-robber, and have to live with it for life.
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