I looked around to find myself in my town house loving room, with Adrian sitting on my couch. I was happily surprised to see Lissa appear next to him. I knew Adrian would understand why I completely ignored him. "Lissa!" I almost screamed her name when I crashed into her with a hug. When we pulled away I see in tears in her eyes. Adrian came and hugged me briefly.

"It worked, your face is healed." I had completely forgot about that. Adrain looked impressed with himself. I shrugged and turned back toward Lissa, who now wore a look a concern. I groaned.

"Adrain, I didn't want her to worry about that."

"Rose, what happened?" Lissa voice was soft but demanding.

"It was just a few strigoi, it's okay. We made it to the RV, and we got away from the other ones, and..." Adrian interrupted me again.

"The other ones?" He arched an eyebrow.

"Guys I'm fine, like you said Adrian, Dimitri is doing his job, I think we're in Idaho. And we have 3 days to get to SFO." Lissa sighed but didn't push more. I hugged here again. "It's so good to see you again. Unfortunately I started to tear up again. Adrian coughed dramatically.

"Cousin, don't you think now would be a good time to show rose the trick you learned." Lissa nodded and a look of excitement crossed her face. I turned to look for an answer from Adrain but he was gone. 'What the'

"Surprise, I learned how to control my own spirit dream, kind of, I can't start it but I keep control of it when Adrian leaves." She looked so excited but her face dropped when she seen I wasn't happy as well. "What's wrong Rose?" I rubbed my bump as I tried to say what I was thinking without totally crushing her.

"I didn't know you were using spirit." She looked away for a moment.

"I know, but I want to help you while your gone, and if you didn't notice till now that has to be a good thing, right." She was right but I still didn't really want her to risk it. Lissa was happy, I didn't want to take that away from her.

"I guess so, just promise me you won't over do it." She squealed a little before hugging me.

"Of course, I promise, I promise. Rose I have to tell you something though." I looked at her to reassure her. "I only didn't get the prescription like I said I would because, well I, I ah, I wanted to got on the pill, like birth control. I'm sorry but my doctor says I can't use both and, well I can't really afford to end up in your situation." I wasn't offended so I don't know what my face showed but she apologized.

"No, no, I get it. Just take care of yourself. You come first." Lissa always hated when I said that, but now she just thanked me. As she hugged me I felt myself being woken up. "Love you." Before she could say anything I blinked to see Dimitri standing over me. He smiled at me. "I was talking to Lissa." I wiped my cheeks still feeling the tears I had in the dream.

"Oh I'm sorry, I just wanted to see if you wanted to go shopping now, I don't want to leave you in here alone." I looked around the sun was all the way up, and the little tv above the drivers seat was on some news channel.

"Um, sure. I just should put some actual clothes on." I sat up and rubbed my eyes. I got up and went into the bathroom. I wasn't going to bother with my hair so I threw it in a bun. I went back into the room and picked a pair of pants and t-shirt. I stopped when I realized Dimitri was here. Before I said anything. He awkwardly excused himself and went outside to 'check the weather'. It was nearly thanksgiving so I knew exactly want it was like. Not much to say you have to do around here anyways so I appreciated it.

I got frustrated trying to put on sneakers so I slid on some flip flops, despite how cold it was. When I went outside I found Dimitri looking a picture, but when he seen me he put it in his pocket. I pretended not to see it. "Let's go." He stood next to me and we walked across the parking lot in silence. When we got inside the Walmart I was surprised to see it kind of busy. Dimitri grabbed a shopping cart and we headed toward the groceries. We got a few days worth of food. It was almost all healthy and I knew, because of Dimitri, this was how I was going to eat for a while.

"I need to get something out of the baby section. I don't have any vitamins." Dimitri nodded and when we got there he left me with the cart and told me to stay there until he came back from the bathroom. I found the vitamins I was assumed was the right kind I started to wander around the section. I looked at bottles, toys, diapers, and before I knew it Dimitri was back.

Once again he noticed me crying before I did. He wiped my cheek and I winced. "Come on Roza, let's get back to the RV." A grabbed his hand.

"Wait" he pulled on me again.

"Don't do this to yourself Roza." I turned toward him. "What if the baby is born before we get back to court. I was going to find out the sex at my next appointment, and what if something happens and I can't go to the doctor. What if..." He pulled into a hug.

"That isn't going to happen." He stroked my hair and I just stood there holding onto him. "You'll be back in time, and maybe now it can just be a surprise."

"I hate surprises." He laughed at me, and I smiled. After all this time hearing him laugh still makes me feel like I was floating. He kissed me on the forehead and took my hand. I followed him to the check out. The old lady at the counter congratulated me and smiled. I was confused for a second, "Oh, thank you."

"Oh just look at you two, that baby is going to be such a cutie." I felt a little uncomfortable because no one has ever congratulated or assumed it was Dimitri's. But she was human, the old women was just being friendly. Dimitri seemed to notice, I was at a loss for words and started having a conversation while the lady scanned our food.

"Three more months." Dimitri put arm around me. "She's already a handful so I'm not sure what I'm going to do." The lady laughed. I looked at him offended but quickly smiled when he looked at me. He kissed me on the forehead just as the lady finished ringing us up.

"You two are the cutest thing I've ever seen. Congrats and good luck" I felt my cheeks turning red. Dimitri took our bags as we walked back to the RV, I asked something I didn't know why I didn't ask before.

"Where are we going exactly?" Dimitri smiled at me.

"I was wondering why you hadn't ask me that yet." I raise an eyebrow. "To Baia."

"You mean where your family lives!?" He smiled and nodded. He pulled a pulled a picture out of his pocket and showed me. "This is them?" He simply nodded. I could see a similarity in all of there faces. However Dimitri's features where more defined than all the women in the picture. They had softer features and pretty faces. I couldn't see the younger ones very well. "When will we be there?" I was sure the excitement was obvious in my voice.

"Plane lands midnight this Sunday, so probably that afternoon, there on a human schedule." That made me even more excited. Not only was I going to have an actual sleeping schedule for the first time in what felt like forever, it was my preferred time to be up. I always missed sunlight, and since my return to Saint Vladimir's it's something I haven't seen a lot of. I then proceeded to help put the food away while asking Dimitri to tell me everything about his family.

When we finished we got into the car seats at the front of the RV, and started heading west. "Dimitri what if they don't like me?" Dimitri looked at me as if to see if I was joking. "Seriously, I'm not know for making good impressions on people."

"We can stay somewhere else, my only order was out of the US. That doesn't matter though, they are going to love you Rose." I was content for only a few seconds.

"What about the baby, what if they don't believe it's yours, or want you to have it? What are they going to expect...us..to be." Dimitri reached over and took my hand once we backed out of the parking spot.

"I promise you as soon as they find out I'm having baby, they are going to be over the moon. Knowing my grandmother I'm sure the idea of you being shadow kissed and the... Side effects won't be that hard to believe." Dimitri didn't answer my last question. I didn't ask again, I just pulled my hand away and started rubbing my bump.

A while later Dimitri started talking again. "Rose we don't need a label, in Baia peoples relationships are defined by love not names. Since most girls there a single dhampirs, most of them never use words like boyfriend. I never thought of it like that put it my mind at ease.

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