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I yawned as I woke up and smiled seeing Dimitri reading one of his westerns.
“Morning Roza.” He spoke and kept reading. “You should get some clothes on soon. Paul is coming soon.”
I sat up and looked over at him. I forgot we offered to take Paul on his next vacation from school. “That’s today?” I got up and started to get dressed.
“Yes, Roza, that's why we got the guest room ready yesterday and why I bought extra groceries yesterday at the store.” He smiled and put a bookmark in his book before setting it down. “You weren’t paying any attention at all yesterday were you?” He rolled his eyes at me and I shrugged.
“I didn’t forget, I just didn’t remember it was so soon.” I said sticking my tongue out at him.
It had been a while since we saw Paul in person, he was Dimitri’s nephew. He’s now old enough to start really learning how to become a guardian. He had asked us so many times if we would teach him. Even though I’ve never really taught before I loved Paul and I wanted him to be prepared for anything that came his way. I couldn’t imagine something happening to him, and training with Dimitri taught me a ton of information that I was more than happy to share.
“Remember Roza, we have him here for 3 weeks. And he’s still a child.” He said as if he knew I wanted to train with him as much as I could get these three weeks. Luckily having your boss being the queen means that most people don’t question what you tell them.
“Yes, I know, he’s going to come with me to some court meetings to see just how boring it can sometimes be to be a guardian.” I smiled and stood on my toes to kiss Dimitri.
“No steaks yet, he’s too young.” He looked at me seriously.
“I know I know, comrade, most of our training will be normal workouts. Unless you want to help me show him what true sparring looks like. I’m sure he’d love to see us ‘fight’ each other. The real question is who will he root for.” I smirked and walked out of the bedroom and grabbed the box of doughnuts on the counter and took it with me to the couch as I started in on the doughnuts.
“I wonder if he’ll bug you about the wedding plans.” Dimitri smiled as he put his shoes on and grabbed a doughnut out of the box I held.
“I hope not.” I said finishing off a doughnut. “I get enough of that from Liss,” I said, rolling my eyes.
“Then pick a date Roza,” He was smirking, that amazingly sexy man of mine was teasing me.
“I will, sometime in the future we will get married.” I spoke while biting another doughnut.
“I’m trying not to push Roza, but come on, what’s stopping you from planning our wedding?”
I set the box down wiping my hands together as Dimitri sat next to me on the couch. “Okay I’ll tell you but you can’t make fun of me for it.” I looked at him seriously.
“I promise not to make fun of you Roza,” He kissed my forehead.
“Okay, I’m just worried something will happen. I’m scared that both of us are off the clock and something bizarre happens like an attack at court.”
“Oh Roza, we can double check everything before the weddings and have extra guards if it makes you feel better. I’m sorry I didn’t even think about that.”
“Also if something does happen I can’t really fight Strigoi very well in a gown and heels. I’m talented but not that talented.” I sighed.
“That won’t happen Roza,” He smiled and held my face in his hands. “I won’t let that happen on our day.” He spoke softly before giving me a reassuring kiss and when I kissed back the intensity started to amp up and before I knew it Dimitri broke away and rested his head on mine. “I’d love to continue to kiss you but we have to go pick up Paul.” He smiled and kissed my head.
I sighed and grabbed another doughnut before putting my shoes on and grabbing my jacket as I threw the heavy leather duster to Dimitri and smiled when he caught it even though he wasn’t looking.
We drove to the small airport just outside of court. We walked over to baggage and I smiled as I saw Viktoria and Paul. They both had their bags already.
“Rose,” Paul yelled, pulling Vika towards me and Dimitri.
“Welcome to America!” I smiled, pulling them into big hugs.
“Thanks for letting us come visit.” Viktoria spoke smiling as we walked them back to the car. Dimitri packed the luggage in the trunk and drove us back to our little house inside court.
“Thank you Vika for accompanying Paul, I didn’t really want him to make this big of a trip without someone.” Dimitri said, smiling at his sister in the rear view mirror.
“Of course Dimka,” She smiled and looked at me. “I hope you don't mind but I was wondering if I could stay and see some of court while I’m here.”
“Of course, feel free to stay as long as you like, we do only have one guest room though so you’ll have to share with Paul or take the couch.” I smiled.
“Can I sleep on the couch?” Paul asked excitedly.
“Yes you can.” I smiled rolling my eyes as I looked back at Dimitri. “Kids.” I giggled. “Paul, are you ready for some training? Uncle Dimka said no steaks yet though,” I smiled and Dimitri gave me a quick scowl before I saw it fall off his face.
“Yes, and okay.” He was just excited to be with us.
“If you don’t mind I wouldn’t hate to learn some things from you guys too. I know most women don’t become guardians where we are from but I really would love to learn more and maybe if I get good I can talk to mama about guarding.” Viktoria spoke softly, I could tell she was nervous to see what Dimitri said.
We pulled up to the house. “Of course Vika, it’s always a good idea to learn more.” He spoke softly, “And mama, she will be happy no matter what you do.” He smiled and opened her door and she gave him a huge hug.
I helped Paul take the bags in the house as Dimitri pulled Viktoria into his side as he walked her to the door and opened it.
“It’s beautiful.” Viktoria spoke softly.
“It’s okay,” I smiled. “It’s a little small but there weren't many places available when we decided to move in together.”
Paul took the bags to the guest room and I smiled as Paul came back and polished off the rest of the doughnuts that were left on the coffee table.
“Hey, those were mine.” I said crossing my arms and pouting.
“Roza, behave.” Dimitri spoke sternly and I giggled.
“Relax, I was joking.” I said smiling.
“So when do we get started on training?” Paul asked.
“We can start how Dimka made me start.” I winked at Dimitri.
“I wasn’t that mean was I?”
“Three miles a day in the winter in Montana. That was my warm up. Remember?”
“It wasn’t three miles. The first few days.” He smiled.
“Wait, uncle Dimka used to make you run 3 miles a day?” Paul asked with his eyes wide.
“Yep, and it was much colder than it is now.” I smiled. “Did you bring good running shoes like we told you to?”
“Yes,” He said before looking at us. “Vika, Paul you have 20 minutes to get ready, wear something that will keep you warm but not too hot, a nice thermal shirt and sweats would be good.” I smiled and walked over to Dimitri and leaned against him.
“Yes Rose.” They said as they went to the guest room to get ready.
“Well, we can make out for a solid 15 minutes.” I smiled and kissed Dimitri. We kissed for what seemed like no time and yet time seemed to slow when we were kissing. The electricity that flowed through the two of us when we kissed and touched each other was amazing.
Once they were ready we led them to the track behind the guardian gym.
“We are going to do only 1.5 miles today.” Dimitri said, “That's six laps.”
I smiled and Dimitri and I joined the run. When they started to slow we cheered them on. This wasn’t hard at all for Viktoria, me and Dimitri but Paul wasn’t pushed this hard in his training yet. I knew he could do it though.
After Paul finished his last lap I handed him water and smiled. “Good job. Now you wanna go watch a show?” I smiled and pointed towards the gym.
“Yes!” Paul’s eyes lit up and Viktoria smiled.
“Who’s going to be sparing?” She asked and I smiled.
“We will see Vika, honestly I haven't thought about that yet. Dimka?” I smiled using his nickname.
“Well, it’s beneficial to see how she fights against one of us.” He smiled and I knew that he meant me.
“You don’t wanna show off in front of your family? Or are you afraid I’ll embarrass you in front of them?” I smiled holding his hand as they followed us up to the building.
Once we got inside I smiled and waved at Eddie who was using one of the punching bags in the corner. “Hey Rose, who are your new friends?” He asked towards the kids behind us.
“Eddie, this is Viktoria, and Paul. Vika is Dimitri’s sister and Paul is his nephew. They’re staying with us for a few weeks while they’re out of school.”
“Nice to meet you Viktoria, Paul. Are you gonna show them how to spar?” This was directed at me.
“Yeah, you wanna get a chance to show off?” I smiled.
“Against you Hathaway?” He grinned.
“Of course, unless you wanna fight Dimitri.” I smiled and his face fell a little.
“I’d rather take you Rose.” I smiled and gave him a hug and Dimitri ushered the others to sit and watch.
“No holding back Castile.” I said as we took our places in the middle of the room.
“Only if you don’t Hathaway.” He grinned and he tried to go straight in for a punch and I dodged and grinned.
“Come on, that was lame.” I said sticking my tongue out at him. “Show me what a princess’ guard has got.” I teased and I smiled as he went to sweep my foot out from under me.
We danced around dodging and throwing attacks towards each other. I could feel the eyes on us and I smiled as Eddie looked away for a half of a second. I took advantage and gave him a solid punch right to the side of his face. Being so close left me open to an attack and he got a kick to my stomach in making me stumble back a few steps before I regained my balance. I smiled and ducked down and ran full force at Eddie grabbing his knees and threw him over my shoulder before I turned around and put my knee on his stomach aiming my silver steak at his chest before helping him up.
“Wow. That was amazing!” Paul said, looking between the two of us.
“Oh you should see Dimitri and Rose fight, theirs is more intense.” He smiled.
“Rose, have you ever punched uncle Dimka?” Paul asked, looking dead serious at me.
“Oh yes, Paul more than a few times.” I smiled looking at Dimitri.
“Dimka, is it true?” He asked.
“Yes, she’s almost better than me.” He smiled and I could see the fire in those brown eyes of his. He wanted to challenge me.
“Oh yea?” I said putting my steak back into my belt loop. “Bring it Belikov.” I grinned smiling as I haven’t even broken a sweat with Eddie.
He smiled and Eddie took Dimitri’s seat and he walked up to me and whispered. “Remember you asked for it, Roza.”
I whispered back so only he could hear. “Yes I did babe.”
I smiled winking as he went to grab me and I slid down avoiding his grasp. As always we predicted each other's moves trying to get ahead of one another. Dimitri was playing mostly offense and I was trying to keep out of his grasp. I knew that I just needed to tire him to get him to slip up. All I needed was one blink of an eye, just the smallest chance. As I was thinking Dimitri grabbed me and pulled me against him tightly with one arm across my shoulders and I grinned.
I leaned my head forward and whipped it back hitting Dimitri in the throat giving me just enough time to grab his arm that was holding me and I threw him to the ground. He jumped up, not giving up. I smiled as he was trying to stay away from me but I was just a touch faster, a convenience of being smaller. I kicked him behind the back of his knee and went for the opposite ankle making him fall forward and I slid under him letting him land behind me and I grinned and sat on his back. My steak was pointed at his back before I smiled and let him up.
“Good job Roza,” He smiled as he got up and smoothed out his jacket.
“Wow, Roza you just beat Dimka.” Viktoria said in wonder.
“You just gotta be always vigilant. It’s down to seconds, taking that extra second of weakness. That’s what gives you the edge, but don’t get me wrong. I’ve been banged up quite a bit by Strigoi.” I smiled and Viktoria was confident enough to try and spar with Dimitri.
I watched as Dimitri pointed out her mistakes and she just kept getting back up and trying again and again.
“Paul, have you been taught how to throw a punch?” I asked, smiling.
“Kinda,” He said softly and Eddie and I smiled moving to the side and I moved Paul’s hand how to hold himself and I told him to punch Eddie.
“I can’t punch him.” He said looking at me panicked.
“Yes you can, don’t worry it won’t hurt me.” He said smiling.
“You sure?” He asked. He was nervous and I realized he hadn’t actually punched anyone before.
“Yes, go ahead.”
“Aim for his stomach.” I smiled and whispered to him a few pointers and I took a step back and saw Dimitri and they stopped to watch Paul.
Paul let his hand fly and make contact with Eddie’s stomach and I heard a soft thump.
“Good job, now put more into it. You want to put all of your body into that hand. Don’t hold back.” Eddie said smiling. He was really good at teaching.
Paul tried again and the punch hit harder and Eddie seemed a touch winded and I smiled. “Good job Paul!” Vika and Dimitri said, smiling as they came over.
“Do it again,” Dimitri said and took Eddie’s place. “Come on Paul. Try to knock me over with a punch.” Dimitri said as he kneeled in front of Paul.
Paul used his left fist this time and I saw him wind up a little with his body and as his fist hit Dimitri he grunted. It hit harder than Dimitri expected as he swayed back a little and I smiled as Dimitri “fell over” backwards. Only Eddie and I noticed he totally could have righted himself but he chose to fall backwards to give Paul the win.
I smiled and picked Paul up and we all cheered. Even Dimitri cheered and smiled. “Just like your uncle.” He laughed and Paul was so excited.
Shortly afterwards we left the gym and started to walk back to the house. Eddie walked with us before taking off towards Jill’s apartment. As we were almost back I started to get a little lightheaded and saw some black spots but I just shook my head to try and get it to go away. I probably just needed some more water.
I drank some water and after sitting watching a tv show the spots started to go away and I felt fine. Dimitri came in from our bedroom where he had been reading his book. “Are you guys hungry?” He asked, looking at Paul and his sister. “Roza, you’re always hungry.” He said seeing the smile fall off my face.
“It’s not my fault I have such an unusual talent.” I pouted.
“Yes, what’s for dinner tonight Dimka?” Vika asked, looking at him.
“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” I smiled. “It’s their first dinner in America,”
“Pizza,” He smiled and I nodded. I saw him grab his phone and he already knew what I wanted so he just placed our normal order with adding another pizza.
An hour later I was stuffed and Paul was in love with pizza, so was Vika.
“That’s delicious.” She spoke covering her mouth as she burped.
“I know.” I smiled and I stood up. More black spots appeared and I went and grabbed some water.
“I’m going to get my pj’s on, Paul, go to bed soon okay? Vika, you better behave.” I smiled and hugged them both, giving them kisses on their heads.
As I sat down my head spun a little. Dimitri looked at me a little concerned. “You okay Roza?” He asked, confused.
“Yea, I think I’m just a little dehydrated.” I showed him the water bottle I grabbed and turned the tv on.
“Okay but if you still don’t feel good in a few days we go see the doctor at medical okay? You never get sick.” He whispered, clearly he didn’t want the kids to know. The last thing we wanted to do was scare them.
The next morning Dimitri woke me up shaking me and I pushed his hands away. “Noo, sleeeeepy time.” I said and I rolled over pulling more blankets over me.
A few moments later someone was sitting on me poking me. It was Paul.
“Auntie, wake uppp.” He said as he kept poking anywhere he could.
“But I’m tired.” I sighed.
“Dimka said I’m going with you to work today.” I sat up as Paul fell onto the bed.
“Damn, I have work. At least it’s a short shift today.” I smiled looking at Paul.
“What are we going to do at your work today?” He asked softly.
“We get to sit there and listen to Lissa’s meeting. It’s kinda boring. We just stand there. Luckily it’s just one big meeting today. Usually it’s many.”
“That is boring.”
I shooed him out and told him to let Dimitri know I was getting dressed for work. I got dressed and walked out to the kitchen and smiled, grabbing one of the loaves of black bread Dimitri made and I got a butter knife and the container of butter and sat down at the table slathering the bread with butter before eating it.
“Good morning Roza,” Dimitri said, kissing my temple as I ate.
“Morning.” I said muffled through the bread. I smiled, feeling a little better now that I ate a whole loaf of bread in one sitting. I put the knife in the sink and the butter back in the fridge.
“So, I’m taking Paul with me to work.” I said smiling.
“Yes, I’ll be here with Vika. I might go show her some of the shops. I just have to take some of the Moroi out to strengthen the wards this afternoon and then I’ll be checking the perimeter and Guardian Lee will be bringing the Moroi back.”He said smiling. He leaned and kissed me softly keeping his head close to mine he whispered. “How are you feeling this morning?”
“Fine. But I’ll keep you posted.” I smiled, kissing his cheek. He had been even more protective after I got shot. I can’t complain I’d be the same if something like that happened to him.
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After I let go of Dimitri I told Paul we had to get going or we would be late.
“Roza, don’t let him think that’s the reason you’re late, if you are late it’s because you slept in.”
“Hey, I love my sleep.” I smiled, throwing my shoes on and my jacket. Paul walked out in black jeans and a black long sleeve shirt.
“Alright let's go little Belikov.” I smiled and led him towards Lissa’s chambers where the meeting she had this morning would be held.
“Hey Rose, is this Paul?” She smiled and came over and offered to give him a hug. He hesitated looking at me and when he saw me give him the okay he hugged her tightly.
“It’s nice to meet you, Miss Queen.” He said blushing a little.
“Oh just call me Lissa, it’s nice to meet you too. I heard you learned how to throw a punch yesterday.” She smiled. “Did aunt Rose teach you? Want to know a secret, she taught me how to punch too.”
“She did?” He smiled. “She’s a good teacher, I even punched Dimka and made him fall over.” He said proudly.
“Well, you’ll be one amazing guardian someday. Maybe you’ll come to work for me one day. You might even be able to take Aunt Rose’s job.” She giggled and saw the heat flare in my eyes.
“That’s silly, I could never beat her.” He smiled.
“Never say never,” She smiled and kissed the top of his hair and walked over to me.
“So, how’s he adjusting?” She smiled.
“Great, Dimitri’s sister is staying for a few weeks too. His younger sister, Viktoria. She wants to be a guardian.”
“That’s great another guardian Belikov.” She smiled. “And a girl.We need as many girls as we can get,” She smiled, having girl guardians made some things a little easier.
When others started to enter for the meeting I took Paul and told him to stand quietly. We only talked when we were asked or in an emergency. I was quite relaxed, but still keeping an eye out just in case. We were in the palace so I knew no Strigoi could get this far in. Not unless there were hundreds, and if that happened everything would go into a lockdown.
After everyone spoke their minds on the bill that would give guardians better pay and give us the same rights as Moroi. It wasn’t quite the best but it was something. They voted and only the Ivashkov prince was the only one to vote against the bill. After it was passed, Lissa called the meeting adjourned as that was the only thing on the agenda everyone was able to leave.
After everyone else ended up leaving I smiled and ran over to Lissa and hugged her. “Thank you, thank you,” I smiled.
“Aunt Rose, what was that vote for?” Paul said.
“It gives guardians better pay for their jobs, and if we get hurt or sick, we still get paid. Or if someone has a baby they can take time off and still get paid.” I smiled
“That’s great auntie.” He smiled.
“You have no idea,” I smiled. “We have to go tell uncle Dimka!” I smiled. “Let's stop and get cupcakes on the way back to the house.” I hugged Lissa and she just smiled. “Talk to you later Liss?” I asked, smiling.
“Yes, go tell your fiance the good news.” She waved me off. As I switched shifts with another one of Lissa’s guards I caught them up on what happened.
“Isn’t he a little young to be protecting the Queen?” Guardian Shay asked as he looked at Paul.
“He’s my nephew, he wanted to come see what it was like being a royal guard.”
“It’s good, a little boring though.” He smiled.
“Don’t worry budd, we have plenty of training planned.” I smiled and told Shay to have a good shift and call me if there was anything needed.
As we walked into the best bakery on the way home I asked Paul to pick out his favorite cupcakes in the case. “There’s so many to choose from.” He said, eyeing up all the cupcakes.
“Vika would like orange and strawberry ones. I think the chocolate frosting one and the red ones look good.”
I smiled and ordered the cupcakes, getting two for each of us and I grabbed the box after I paid for them.
“Will I see Dimitri for more doughnuts tomorrow morning?” The baker asked, smiling at me.
“Oh you know it. We might need a couple dozen. I got two more Belikovs in the house, visitors,” I said nodding to Paul.
He laughed and I’m sure Dimitri already had ordered breakfast for tomorrow. He always had ordered them the day before to make sure that they were ready when he came to pick them up. We walked home and I smiled seeing Paul amazed by court life.
When we got home I smiled, setting the cupcakes on the table.
“Dimitri? You home?” I kicked off my shoes and slid my jacket onto the hook by the door.
“He’s in the shower.” Viktoria came out and smiled. “Ooh what’s in there?” She pointed to the box.
“Oh just some cupcakes, you can't have any yet, not until Dimitri is here and I get to tell him how the day was."
“Paul, did you like going with auntie to work?” He nodded and he pulled her into the guest room to tell her all about it.
I walked into our bedroom and knocked on the bathroom door. I’m pretty sure he’d lock it with his sister in the house.
“Dimitri, I have to tell you about today. They voted.” I sighed and changed back into sweatpants and one of my t-shirts.
I heard the water shut off and after a few minutes he came out dressed drying off his hair. “Wait, they already voted? On the guardian bill?”
“Yep, it was almost unanimous.” I sighed. “Damn Prince Ivashkov. He’s gonna be in trouble if people find out he voted against it.” I smiled looking over at him seeing the wheels spinning for a second.
“Wait it passed?” He looked amazed.
“Yep,medical leave, vacation, maternity leave, higher pay for all guardians. We might be able to afford an actual house and not this little ‘house’.” It's practically an apartment but we weren’t attached to any other buildings though.
“Oh my god Roza, we have to celebrate.” He smiled, coming over and kissing me.
“Paul and I picked up cupcakes from the bakery.” I smiled. “I told him to up the dozen to a few dozen.” I smiled.
“I already ordered for tomorrow morning.” He smiled, kissing my neck and I smiled pulling him to the kitchen.
“Come on, I want my cupcakes.” I smiled.
As we walked out I told the kids that we were going to have our cupcakes. I wanted to tell Viktoria, as she wanted to be a guardian. This bill would affect her if she did ever become a guardian.
“Why are we celebrating?” She asked as we were all eating our cupcakes.
“Court passed a bill that treats guardians like actual humans. We now can get medical leave, maternity leave, vacation, and better pay for all guardians and even more pay for female guardians as there are so few of us.” I smiled and shoved Dimitri’s second cupcake into his face. Mine were gone so at least he couldn’t do it back.
“Roza,” He narrowed his eyes at me and I saw a fire in those eyes as he wanted to make me pay but the kids were in the room.
“Yes?” I smiled innocently.
“What was that for?” He looked at me.
“Oh, just practicing for our wedding.” I smiled. “Isn’t that what you do with cake at the wedding, you feed it to each other?”
“Yes, but usually without aggression.” He sighed.
“Oops, sorry I didn’t know.” I shrugged smiling and I sat down on the couch pulling my phone out and playing a game on it before texting Lissa.
I smashed a cupcake in Dimitri’s face in front of the kids. Now I must stay with the children or he will punish me. Save me!
I smiled and saw it was time for lunch. Dimitri made us all sandwiches before he changed to get ready for work.
“Have a good day. I’ll be back for dinner.” He smiled and hugged the kids before giving me a soft kiss before heading out. “Behave.” He called as he left.
“Was he talking to you or us?” Viktoria smiled.
“I’m pretty sure he meant it to all of us.” I smiled and I sighed feeling more tired than normal. “I’m gonna go watch tv in my room. You guys can watch whatever you want on the tv out here or you can come hang out in my room too.” I smiled and saw Paul follow me into my room.
“Auntie, can I cuddle with you while we watch tv?” He smiled.
“Of course. Do you wanna pick what we watch?” I smiled and laid down and handed him the remote.
“Really?” I nodded and smiled letting him snuggle close to me.
“Did you really get shot auntie?” He asked softly, holding my cheek.
“Yes, do you want to see the scar?” I smiled
“Is it okay if I do?” He asked softly as I nodded and moved my shirt to show just the scar in the middle of my chest without showing any extra skin.
“Does it hurt?” He frowned.
“No, not anymore, it did when it happened. Don’t ever get shot, baby.” I snuggled him close.
“Okay auntie.” He said softly as he picked an action movie.
“My friend Eddie, the one you met at the gym, this is one of his favorite movies. He went to see it in the movies when it first came out, with our other friend Mason.”
“Can I meet your other friend?” He asked.
“I’m sorry but you can’t, he died a while ago. That was the first time I killed a Strigoi.”
“I’m sorry auntie,” He said softly, looking at me with such a kind look.
“It’s okay, I chopped their heads off. With a dull sword.” I kissed the top of his head. “Uncle Dimka helped me a lot with losing my friend.”
“He’s really good at helping people.” He smiled.
“That he is, you’ll be the same, I can see it in your eyes.”
“Thank you. Are you okay auntie, you look tired.” He looked at me as I felt the pull of sleep trying to pull me back to sleep. Why was I so tired?
“I’m okay budd, I just must not have slept well.” I smiled and held him tight and I fell asleep against my fighting it off. I must’ve been asleep for a while because when I woke up Dimitri was standing over me and Paul was gone.
“What, what time is it?” I asked looking around and saw that the sun was almost up indicating it was bed-time for most here on court.
“Roza, it’s nearly time for sleep. You slept all day, you even missed dinner. Are you hungry?” He kissed my head and offered me a plate with some chicken and veggies on it and I pushed it away. The smell, oh it smelled horrible.
“You need to get that food away from me. It smells horrible.” I whispered, I didn’t want to hurt his feelings.
“It’s fine, I promise.”
“The smell is making me nauseous.” I said abruptly.
“I’m sorry Roza,” He took the plate and put the food away before coming back with a pack of crackers. “How about these?” He asked softly before holding one out and I ate it but my stomach still felt like it was doing somersaults.
He offered me another and I shook my head. “My stomach isn’t feeling it.” I sighed as I went to get up but Dimitri pushed me back onto the bed. “Lay down and rest Roza, something’s clearly wrong.”
“What’s wrong with me Dr. Belikov?” I looked up at him for an answer. I had no idea what could be making me dizzy and nauseous.
“I don’t know Roza, you know I’m no doctor.” He laid down next to me and pulled me close to his chest. I felt my hair stuck to my neck. I must’ve been sweating in my sleep. “I’ll ask Eddie if he and Jill can entertain Paul and Vika tomorrow. So I can take you to the doctor.”
“Isn’t that a little overkill?” I asked, sighing knowing fighting this would be useless.
“I don’t care, you are going to the doctor tomorrow with me. Paul said you were breathing heavily in your sleep and you were sweating.”
“I’m sorry I didn’t mean to scare him. He asked to snuggle.” I spoke softly and I felt a lump forming in my neck but I couldn’t tell why.
“He said you told him about Mason and your first kills.” Dimitri said, tipping my chin so I was looking in the softest brown eyes full of worry and love.
“Yea, It’s the first time I told someone other than you and Eddie.” I said softly. "He put on one of their favorite movies."
“Oh my Roza,” He said softly pulling me to his chest playing with my hair. Why in the hell was I so emotional. I swear I never cried for no reason but I felt the tears close to falling. “It’ll be okay Roza,” I sighed and closed my eyes trying to calm myself down.
“Roza,” he whispered.
“Mhmm?”
“Have you missed your…” He trailed off and my eyes snapped open as I looked up at him.
“No, I’m not due to have it for….” I sighed and grabbed my package of birth control, “For like 3 days. Do you think?” I held up my birth control.
“I don’t know Roza, but we do know it happened with Neil and Olive.” He said softly.
“But we’ve been…” I dropped the birth control on the nightstand.
“We can ask when we talk to the doctor tomorrow. I’ll take you to a doctor outside of court tomorrow my love.”
“Thank you, I don’t want anyone in court knowing until we are sure. You know I didn’t...with someone else.”
“Of course I know you would never, my love.” He kissed my head and grabbed a hair tie and pulled my hair up into a messy bun on the top of my head so I didn’t sweat as much hopefully. He helped me put a clean shirt on so I wasn’t wearing a sweaty shirt to bed.
I knew he wouldn’t sleep well tonight because he’d be too worried about me. I saw him text someone and I heard the woosh. A few moments later Dimitri said that Eddie and Jill said they would love to take the kids for the day. If they asked, apparently we had a secret mission that was classified. After a while he fell asleep and I laid there I couldn’t sleep with the idea of this swirling in my head and after a little while I quietly got up and went to the bathroom and after I washed my hands I splashed some cold water on my face as I tried to get myself to calm the hell down.
Notes:
any guesses as what's going on? I had this story in my mind for so long it mostly just wrote itself.
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I sighed and I sat on the floor leaning against the wall as I texted Liss.
Hey, you up? I’m kind of freaking out about something. I came home and slept the rest of the day and I’m feeling like I'm going to get sick. Yesterday after light training I was lightheaded.
I sighed and set the phone in my lap as I let the tears fall silently and I felt my phone quietly buzz.
It’s going to be okay, You’re on your birth control right? Anything else happening? Do I need to come over? <3 you -Liss
Nah, everyone’s asleep, you’d just wake Dr. Worry-wart in my bedroom. He’s going to take me to a human doctor in the morning. Just to be sure I’m not….ya know. I’m crying and I don’t know why, apparently when I slept I was sweating… but I haven't missed my period, so I can’t be. Right??
I don’t know sweetie, but if you are, at least it’s with the sweetest man in the world. He would do anything in the world for you and anyone else he loves. - L
Thanks sis, I love you. I’m just so scared. What if I’m dying? I can’t do that to him again. Just thinking about how scared he was then, it crushes my heart. He could’ve lost me. He could still lose me.
Rosemarie Hathaway. Stop, you won’t lose him and he won't lose you either. You came back from the brink of death twice. You can get through anything with all of us, you have a family. It’s not going to be the end of the world, whatever it is. You’ll be okay, you two will get through it. Now stop spiraling and go to bed. <3 you Sis, Text me when you get to the drs safe. - L
Thanks, I will <3 you more sleep well.
I wiped the tears away from my face and wiped my nose and quietly walked back into the bedroom and slid into the bed next to Dimitri and he murmured something and I knew he did notice my absence but I’d play it off as just getting a drink and using the bathroom. He pulled me close and I set my phone face down on my nightstand.
“It’ll be ‘lright, Roza,” He mumbled softly against me and I nuzzled in as close as I could to his chest and listen to his heart. I made myself focus on only his heartbeat and my breathing. Fighting back my thoughts and worries I fell asleep listening to Dimitri’s heart.
The next morning when I woke up my shirt was drenched again and I must’ve moved a lot in my sleep as I woke up sleeping on my stomach and I turned over and felt my stomach lurch and I got up and ran to the toilet and let whatever was making me sick come back up. God I hated throwing up. I didn’t even have a chance to shut the bathroom door. After a good ten minutes of my stomach wrenching anything and everything in my stomach up I sighed breathing and I got up and brushed my teeth rinsing my mouth out really well and I sighed taking in my reflection. I looked like I was hung over, like really hung over. That’s when I heard a knock at the bedroom door.
“Roza, it’s me, can I come in?” he asked cautiously.
“Yeah,” I said and I could feel my voice crack as I spoke and I walked back into the bedroom.
“The kids are getting picked up soon.” He spoke softly before sitting next to me and he pulled me close to him. “Roza, please let me take you to the doctor,” he said, pushing a curl that fell down out of my face. I couldn’t speak so I just nodded.
“I’m, I'm sorry you have to see me like this.” I croaked.
“Don’t ever be sorry Roza, you are the only one I love. I just don’t want you to feel horrible.” He kissed my forehead.
“I better get dressed and try to look human.” I said softly.
“Don’t worry Roza, I’ll be back in ten minutes okay? I’m just going to make sure the kids get picked up, our appointment isn’t for a while so we can take our time getting you ready.” I nodded as he set me back on the bed.
I grabbed my phone and started to play a game but given all the thoughts flying around in my brain I couldn’t relax. After what seemed like forever Dimitri came back leaving the bedroom door open, so I knew we were alone.
“Lissa and Christian said they’d take Vika and Paul for dinner and overnight. The kids are so excited.”
“Paul really liked Liss,” I said softly as I got up and took my sweat drenched shirt off and I took my underwear off also after my change late last night. That's all that Dimitri had me put back on.
“Let's get you in the shower,” He said as he stripped down to nothing as well pulling me into the bathroom gently helping me get in the shower. He washed my hair and I loved letting him do it. He always gave me the best head massages when he washed my hair. He even started to massage my neck and shoulders as he whispered calming thoughts in my ear.
After we were both all clean and dried off I threw my hair up messily not caring that it was still wet. It was honestly just easier to throw it into a messy bun at this point before I got dressed. I put on some jeans and a semi-loose fitting top. Dimitri got dressed and stripped our bedsheets and changed them telling me to go sit on the couch and try to eat if I could.
I felt starving and I saw the tell-tale box of doughnuts sitting on the counter in the kitchen and I walked over and grabbed the box taking it to the couch with me as I ate almost a whole doughnut on my way to sit down. By the time Dimitri came out I had chocolate all over my lips and I was finishing off my 6th doughnut.
“Well, your appetite is very strange.” He shook his head. “Chicken, horrible, half a dozen doughnuts, of course.”
“Hey, that chicken smelled funny to me last night. I don’t know why.”I shrugged. “So what time is the doctor's appointment?” I asked.
“Since it’s a human doctor it's going to be late for us, so if you can sleep or nap before that’d probably be a good idea.”
“Also if you’d like, I would appreciate a day with you alone.” He smiled and kissed me softly.
“I love having a day with you, but don’t you have to work?” I asked.
“Well, I told my boss I needed the day off,” He smiled. “He was very understanding, especially after someone texted his girlfriend in the middle of the night.
“Sorry, I was freaking out and you were asleep and I needed to tell her what was going on. She wanted to come over.” I sighed and breathed a little heavily. Why was I out of breath, I was just sitting here talking.
“You sound winded, are you okay?” He sat down and checked me over looking for something.
“I’m fine, now that my stomach isn’t trying to kill itself. Oh god I told Paul how I killed my first Strigoi.” I felt panic surge through my body like lightning.
“Roza, it’s okay. He’s proud to have you be his aunt. He wasn’t scared. He was sad that you lost your friend, he felt bad you had to go through that.” Dimitri touched my cheek softly.
“He looked so much like you when I told him.” I spoke softly
“Yea, he’s a lot like his uncle isn’t he?” He smiled.
“Yea, that's why yesterday I called him little Belikov.”I laughed and I leaned against Dimitri and turned the tv on. “What do you want to watch? Westerns?” I asked, starting to flip through the channels.
“I don’t mind whatever you want Roza,” He smiled, kissing my head as I threw a radio channel on.
I adjusted so I could lay my head in Dimitri’s lap as I snuggled up on the couch. He took my hair down and started playing with it softly and I purred softly before falling asleep. I woke up and Dimitri’s feet were up on the coffee table and he had switched it to the channel that always played the westerns with the volume low but the captions were on. I’m sure he already knew all these movies by heart though.
“Hmm?” I said softly stretching. “You did want to watch westerns.” I pointed out and Dimitri leaned down and kissed me softly.
“How was your nap?” He asked studying my face.
“Fine, I think,” I sat up and moved my neck and it made a loud crack, “that felt good.” I said as I shook my head and felt my hair was almost dry. I must’ve been asleep for a while. “Wait, I was supposed to go to work today.” I said my eyes went wide.
“Given your texts last night Liss changed the schedule around. She used Paul and Vika as the reason.”
“oh,I should thank her.” I sighed. “I’m hungry.” I stood up and my vision went black and I could feel my feet were unsteady before Dimitri’s strong hands set me back down on the couch.
“No, you sit Roza,” He said sternly. “What can I get you?”
“Do we have bacon or black bread?” I asked, shaking my head trying to get my vision back to normal.
“You ate all the black bread but yes I have bacon, I’ll just heat it back up.” He smiled, kissing my forehead and I smiled.
“Thank you, love.” I smiled. “Dimitri, what if something’s really wrong with me, something no one can fix?” I asked softly.
“Don’t talk like that my Roza,” He said sternly. I didn’t need to see his face to tell he wasn’t going to talk about those kinds of things being the case. “Anyways, nothing can take you down. Lord knows a lot of things and people have tried.”
“Yeah,” I sighed, touching my scar. “I got close a few times.” I shrugged, half laying, half sitting on the couch.
“Roza, you are not allowed to spiral into the bad cases of ‘what-if’ before we know what’s wrong. We have just this evening, can you try to not focus on this all day my love?”
“I’m sorry, I’ll do my best, my mind’s been buzzing with questions and possibilities. It’s exhausting.” I sighed and focused on the tv until Dimitri brought me a plate. I sat up a little to let him sit back down and I barely chewed the bacon but I did let out a little purr of happiness.
I heard Dimitri laugh softly and I pouted at him with a piece of bacon sticking out of my mouth and he just shook his head at me.
“Oh Roza,” He smiled and kissed my head. “We can pick stuff up to make more bread. I have plenty of fruit in there if you want to eat healthier.” He smiled at me.
“That’s your food.” I smiled, swallowing the last of the bacon.
“Roza, you just ate a whole pound of bacon like it was a snack.”
“It was,” I smiled and leaned up to kiss him and smiled.
“Are you sure you don’t have a tapeworm?” He smiled.
“Nope, just my amazing dhampir genes.” I smiled and stood up looking around for my phone “Where’s my phone?” I was confused.
“Your nightstand.” He smiled and I went and got it smiling snuggling close to Dimitri.
Hey E, how’re the kids doing? I hope they’re not asking too many questions. -R
They’re fine. Viktoria gets along really well with Jill. Paul said he watched a movie with you last night, and you mentioned….
Yea, I’m sorry, It was that movie that was your favorite. It just came out. I miss him. -R
Yeah, I know. It was kind of nice being able to talk to someone about him. Keeping his memory alive. Now someone else met him through our stories. He apologized for losing my friend.
Yeah, he has some of that zen master wisdom of the Belikov’s. It’s kinda weird from a kid so young. I hope he’s not punching you too much. -R
He’s just asking about my stories. He’s a good kid. Viktoria might come home with quite a few bags of stuff.
I looked up at Dimitri as I knew he was reading the texts between me and Eddie. He just pulled my head up a little and kissed me.
“I’m glad Paul gets to learn about Mason. It’s good for you to talk about it sometimes.” I smiled.
“Yeah, It’s just so hard to talk about it because, well, he deserved to live longer, he deserved a life.” I sighed.
“I know Roza, so don’t take yours for granted. Live your life to the fullest.” He kissed my forehead.
“Let’s save some of the Belikov zen wisdom for after the doctor’s. I feel like we both might need some wisdom and help then.”
"Yes,my love," He smiled and gave me another long kiss. When we pulled away to breathe he looked at the time on my phone. "Would you like to go on a walk with me before we leave for the doctor's?"
"Sure" I smiled and Dimitri pulled me to stand up slowly to prevent me from getting dizzy. He held my jacket so I could put it on and I slid my feet into my shoes.
I was glad they were loose enough that I could just slide my foot in them without untying them. Dimitri threw his duster on and got his boots on before taking my hand. He turned and flipped the lights off before locking the door.
Dimitri pulled me close as we walked around the outskirts of court where we lived enjoying nature and the sunrise. He kept a hand on the small of my back to help steady me and I'm sure he was worried about me getting dizzy and falling.
Even though our pace was pretty slow and leisurely I still was having some difficulty breathing heavily. Seriously, I've never had an issue like this before. Last week I ran 3 miles and barely broke a sweat. Dimitri made me sit down every time we saw a bench and if I tried to get up too soon he would pull me back down.
"I'm sorry I'm driving you crazy Roza, I'm just worried for you." He looked into my eyes and in his eyes I could see all his love for me and how concerned he was. He was just as confused as I was.
"It's okay, but after we figure out what's going on with me, I swear I'll pick a date for our wedding. I promise." I smiled looking up at him.
"Yes, my love." He kissed me softly and we let the passion grow but I had to pull away to breathe.He rested his head against mine and I smiled at him and gave him a small kiss.
"I love you."
"I love you too Roza. We better start heading back, I wanted to make sure the doctor was good so it'll be an hour drive." He smiled softly, guiding me back to the house. Sometimes it was really nice seeing this sweet side of Dimitri. I saw a lot of it when we went to visit his family in Baia. We had gone to tell them the news of Dimitri being saved. I knew they wouldn't believe it unless they saw him.
Once we were back at the house he opened the passenger door for me and kissed my hand as he helped me in before closing my door and sliding into the driver's seat as he turned on the car.
"Since I'm not feeling 100%, I get to pick music." I said softly expecting him to resist but he didn't. I knew I could ask for mostly anything and he would do it. Driving, he would not let me do that,or cook without supervision.
We rode in comfortable silence most of the way there. Unless a song I liked came on then I turned the volume up and sang along. I think Dimitri almost crashed the car when he heard me singing every word of S&M by Rihanna.
After the song was done he looked at me with an eyebrow raised as he kept driving. "Maybe we should try something like that, if you really do like it."
" I like any and all sex with you Comrade," I smiled kissing his cheek. "Now focus on driving and not me tied to a bed." I giggled as that thought popped into my head and I got to admit in my imagination it seemed extremely sexy.
That was exactly what we needed to lighten the mood and keep our brains preoccupied. I was nodding off into sleep when Dimitri shook my shoulder softly and I realized we were parked in front of a doctor's office. "Oh, we're here." I said softly. He laughed and kissed my head.
"Yes Roza, no matter what happens in there we will do this together. Promise? I will be by your side no matter what. There's no getting rid of me." He smiled, kissing my forehead.
I didn't trust my voice to not crack and make tears start falling so I just nodded and smiled. Once we got inside they asked for us to fill out some paperwork and Dimitri paid the fee with cash. We both didn't want anyone from court to be able to track us here.
We sat in the waiting room and Dimitri filled out the paperwork as he knew it. "Roza, you might need to fill out the rest. There's a question of when your last cycle was and if you are allergic to medication."
"You know I don't have any allergies and yea my last was….about a month ago. It was just really light though."
He nodded and wrote it on the paperwork. I smiled at him and when the nurse called my name he pulled me up gently. She was nice and told me that I had to pee in a cup as it was standard procedure. I took it and listened to the directions she gave and walked to the bathroom she pointed me to.
Once I was done putting the label and everything I wiped it off and put it in a little compartment in the wall and washed my hands. Once I came out of the bathroom the nurse walked me to an exam room where Dimitri was already sitting in. She checked my vitals and smiled at me.
"So what brings you in, Ms.Hathaway."
"Umm I'm getting dizzy and seeing spots, I'm exhausted even after sleeping a bunch, I was sweaty when I woke up. I'm getting short of breath super easily, I'm nauseous and sick. I'm really active and I never get sick." I said, trying to catch my breath, biting my lips.
She kept looking between me and the computer as she was typing away like she was a mad woman. I had no idea why she was putting all that on the computer. "Okay, and you've been sexually active?" She looked between me and Dimtiri.
"Yes, but I'm on birth control and we use other protection."
"Okay, and your last period?"
"A month ago, it was light, but I've had that happen before." She typed more onto the computer.
"So, we are going to run a pregnancy test just to be sure with the sample you provided. Is that okay?"
"Umm, yea," I looked up at her.
"The doctor will be in shortly. She will probably check your lungs and heart." She smiled and locked the computer and she left the room shutting the door.
I looked at Dimitri and he sat next to me holding my hand squeezing it gently reassuringly. It felt like a lifetime just sitting there waiting for the doctor to come in.
"What's taking so long?" I sighed looking at Dimitri.
"They're probably waiting for the pregnancy test results." He spoke softly.
I texted Lissa that we were at the doctor's and currently waiting. Dimitri pulled me into his lap holding me tight against him as he could see my irritation growing.
"Be patient,Roza." He kissed my forehead softly to reassure me. I noticed he was just as frustrated as I was. "I love you."
"I love you more Comrade," I smiled thinking that he offered to buy sexy things in the car. "Were you serious about buying that kind of stuff in the car?"
"Yea, it could be fun," he growled softly. He knew what that did to me. That's when the door opened. I smiled and sat on the bed with the paper over it.
Notes:
sorry I had to leave it at a cliff hanger.
Chapter 4: Chapter 4 -Answers
Summary:
Finally some answers to how Dimitri and Rose's worlds going to be completely changed.
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"Hello. Rose, right?" She smiled as I nodded, washed her hands and typed something into the computer to unlock it. "Who's with you today?"
"My fiance, Dimitri." He nodded with a small smile.
"Well congratulations, it looks like we came in for some lightheadedness, nausea, shortness of breath, and extreme fatigue."
"Yes Doctor," I said looking at the computer trying to figure anything out. I'm sure Sydney could tell me what it all meant.
"And we did a pregnancy test."
"Yep," I said nervously.
"Alright, I'm just going to listen to your heart and then your lungs." She put the stethoscope against my chest and listened for a little bit before putting it on my back and instructing me to take deep breaths, moving the stethoscope between each one.
"Alright, any tenderness or soreness of the breasts?" She said looking between me and Dimitri
"Umm not more than they usually ache before my period." I said blushing a little.
"Okay, you can come sit down I'd you'd like." I got up and sat next to Dimtiri lacing my fingers with his.
She clicked a few things on the computer and nodded as if she knew what the computer was saying.
"Well, Ms. Hathaway, it seems that you're pregnant. However your progesterone levels are a bit higher than I'd like. That's why you're having a hard time breathing."
"I...I, but we were told there was almost no chance of us having kids, and then using birth control." I couldn't believe it.
"Well, it looks like there's a miracle. Because you are certainly pregnant." She smiled and I just blinked. I was completely lost for words, not just words but thoughts.
"Thank you doctor. What should we do to make sure we keep her and the baby healthy?" Dimitri asked gently, squeezing my hand and I can't remember anything else that was said. I was still in a daze as we got back to the car.
"Roza, are you okay?" He kissed my temple as I let out one single tear.
"I don't know, can we get some tests. I need to see it." I said barely audibly.
"Of course Roza," He kissed me softly. "I knew you weren't dying."
I smiled and as we drove to a nearby pharmacy I realized I wasn't paying attention after she said pregnant.
"Dimitri,I didn't hear anything else after she told us. I'm already failing." I sunk my head into my hands.
"You were in shock. And you did not fail. She gave me tons of resources and you know we always have help. Sydney can find any information possible." I nodded and smiled, squeezing his hand.
"You're going to be the best dad ever." I smiled thinking of him holding the tiniest human I can imagine.
"And you will be the best and most protective mother in the world."
We sat in silence for a few more minutes as we pulled up to a pharmacy and we walked straight to the aisle we needed. The first half of the aisle had diapers and all kinds of baby things. The other half was tampons and pads. At the end there was a small section that had condoms, pregnancy and ovulation tests and I realized I had no idea what the difference between them was. So we grabbed an array of tests.
I was going to need a lot of something to drink to pee on all these tests. We stopped and grabbed a big jug of flavored water.
After checking out I took the items to the car. If I was going to do this it'd be at my house where I was comfortable.
On our way back I texted Lissa expecting her to be asleep by now.
Just left the store, will be home in an hour. Meet at my house? Plz no sparky. I'll tell you when we get there. -R
Ok, I won't bring Christian. The kids are out cold. Viktoria loves Jill. Before you know it she'll be one of the gang. Paul is so cute and so so sweet. -L
He is and I love Vika but she can't be part of the gang. I sleep with her brother. It's bad enough she can assume that but I don't think Dimitri wants her knowing anything else about our sex life. -R
I didn't think about that, that's true. But if you think that, why'd you call me and Christian sleeping in the church at game night???? -L
Because that was something I never did. I'd never sin that bad. I'm still kind of a good girl. *Wink* -R
I giggled and I smiled as Dimitri looked over at me smiling.
"What's funny?"
"Just telling Lisa to meet us at the house. I'm sorry but I don't know why but when I take these I'll need her and you. I might break down hard. She told me that Vika and Jill were getting along really well and Lisa said that before you know it Vika would be part of the crew."
"Not with that group of perverts." He sighed. "They're merciless when it comes to game night."
"Sorry to break it to you comrade, but we are just as bad." I smiled and I gently set one hand over my flat stomach. "We will be the first ones pregnant." I spoke softly.
"That's true." He smiled " you know you promised to pick a date after the doctor's appointment.
"Actually I said once all this is settled. And it's not settled until I pee on all these tests." I saw his smile fall a little. "Don't worry babe, I'll pick a date in the next day or so. Wait, did the doctor say how far I am? She was talking about levels being high."
"She said she wasn't sure, we would have to go to a gynecologist. They'd probably need to do bloodwork and such, and yes she said your progesterone was high."
"Oh, okay," I was glad one of us was paying attention.
I opened the big water and made sure to only take a few sips. "I'm hungry." I whined.
"Of course you are Roza, there's a McDonalds up here. That okay?"
"Amazing." I smiled. "Ooh I want two quarter pounders, and two large fries and no onions." I made a face at the thought of onion.
We went through the drive through and I smiled as Dimitri put my order in and then he got himself two double cheeseburgers. Once we got our food we merged back onto the interstate and I fed Dimitri a fry before handing him his cheeseburger so he could eat and drive. I tackled the first large fry and I won. I went for a burger next and by the time we got back to court I put all of my food down and a bite of Dimitri's. I knew he noticed but he didn't say anything. As soon as we got into the house I took the drink and bag and I pulled her to the bedroom.
"Rose, these are all pregnancy tests." She said as she pulled them out of the boxes.
"Oh good, could you unwrap them for me? I have to pee really bad and as you see there's a lot of them."
"Does he know?" Lissa hissed at me.
"Yes he paid for them, now can you hurry please, my bladder is going to explode."
"Okay," she smiled and unwrapped them and someone had shut the bedroom door. Lissa handed me two handfuls of pregnancy tests and I realized I was going to have to ration my pee.
I took each test and put the caps back on them and set them on the counter upside down. After I finished washing my hands I walked back to Lissa and pulled her into the living room. Dimitri sat up waiting for me to speak. "We have to wait like 5 minutes." I said looking at him.
"That means you have 5 minutes to explain this to me." Lissa said sitting in the recliner.
I sat next to Dimtiri and I looked up at him letting him speak as I was short of breath again. Would this progesterone crap relax and let me breathe.
Dimitri told Lissa everything including me going into shock. I smacked him when he told her that part.
"Well, at least we passed the bill and you'll get paid leave." Liss smiled looking at me.
Dimitri at the five minutes stood up and gently pulled me to stand. We all walked into the bathroom and I could feel my heart pounding. Dimitri flipped over the first test that was two distinct lines. I flipped the next one over and saw a little pink plus sign. Lissa flipped the next over and it also had clearly two lines. We kept flipping tests over and we didn't say a word. They all were positive tests.
Dimitri didn't say anything but he picked me up and spun me around letting tears fall from his eyes. "Roza, you're gonna be a mama."
"And you're gonna be a daddy." I smiled, feeling tears falling quickly down my face.
"I'm going to be an Auntie!" Liss squealed and we all hugged.
We walked back out to the living room and Dimitri pulled me into his lap on the recliner. "How are you doing with this Roza?"
"I'm excited but I'm also scared about screwing up." I said thinking. "I don't know anything about babies."
"We will learn together, Roza." He said brushing a curl out of my face.
Lissa hugged me again and excused herself to give us some privacy before the kids came home.
"Can we have sex if I'm pregnant? Because I don't know if I can not have sex with you for like most of a year."
"Yes Roza, if you are up to it we can. Would you like to now?" He smiled and I nodded smiling as I stripped my top off and I pulled at his shirt. Dimitri growled softly as he picked me up holding my ass as I wrapped my legs around his waist as my hands desperately took my bra off as I was carried to our bed.
As he set me down Dimitri placed kisses all over my neck and bit down and there was no way he was going to hold back. He totally was going to leave big red marks and bruises on my body.
After he stripped me naked he stripped before pinning my hands above my head with one hand. His other hand grabbed my thigh and I felt the electricity of his touch set a fire in my body that made me moan softly.
"What do you want me to do Roza?" His voice low, almost growling.
"Me, do me" I moaned and I needed Dimitri more than I ever needed anything. I needed him more than air.
He growled and slapped and pinched my nipple. "Answer Roza, what do you want me to do to you?"
"Use me however you wish. I'm your plaything." I smiled looking up at him and winked. I saw the heat in his eyes intensify and I knew that he liked that answer.
"Oh? So I can do whatever I like?" He raised an eyebrow and I saw a mischievous smile across his features. "That's a good girl," he purred and sucked on the spot on my neck that he knew would just make me more horny.
He grinned and looked at me. "I'm going to let go of your hands but if you move them I will punish you. Understand?" I nodded wiggling softly under him.
He smiled and knelt on the ground lining his face with my body. He kissed up one thigh and once he got to my entrance he kissed up from the other before placing kisses all over my clit and my entrance before he licked hungrily and my hip instinctively wrapped around his head as I moaned loudly. I could feel him moaning Roza into me and it just made me even more wound up. He slowly worked my clit and gently pulled at one of my nipples. "Oh Dimitriiii" I sighed in pleasure grinding against his face and I felt him nuzzle in deeper. I was so close and he unwrapped my legs and leaned over me.
"I, I, I "breathed heavily.
"I know Roza, that's why I stopped. It's not going to come that easy tonight." He ground against me and I was painfully aware that he was so close to my entrance. "Now, Roza, now I'm going to play." He winked and I breathed heavily. I thought he already was.
He told me not to move as he walked to his closet and grabbed out a few ties making sure to get the widest one.
I watched silently as he laid me down in the middle of our bed, my hands at the headboard and he tied my hands together with a few ties and he put the widest tie across my eyes and tied it behind my head.
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
"Umm 2?" I was honestly just guessing.
"Good girl," I felt him kiss me before kissing down my neck. I gasped as he moved my legs, spreading them before biting one of my nipples hard as he growled.
I felt him grind against me teasing me. I felt him gently slapping himself against my wet lips and I gasped tensing gently.
"Dimitriiii," I moaned loudly, practically begging.
"Yes?" He spoke softly in my ear.
"Please,please I need you please fuck me. Please," I begged as he rubbed my clit.
"Oh you want me to fuck you. Do you want this?" He said gently pushing just the head into my entrance.
I gasped for breath,"yes,please please fuck me with your cock. Please,please I need it." My body was screaming for his cock.
"Okay, since you've been good and given me the best gift, I'll give you your gift."
He took off the blindfold as he grabbed my hips tightly and pushed himself deep into me faster and harder than he ever had. He kissed my breasts before going back to my neck and I cried out even louder which spurred him on more to go faster and harder. My body tensed, tightening my hold on his cock and we both came. He kept fucking though the orgasm and after he was done he untied my hands and laid on me with his head between my breasts.
"Oh Rosa," he said, breathing heavily.
"Mmmmm"
"That's the best sex I've ever had." He said, rolling to lay next to me.
I didn't even think sex could get better than what we had and this was mind-blowing and I leaned against his chest trying to catch my breath.
"Best, ever," I mumbled as I closed my eyes and Dimitri had enough thought to pull the sheet up over us as he played with my hair and I fell asleep quickly.
I slept like a baby. When I woke up I found myself alone naked in the middle of the bed. I saw on the nightstand Dimitri set out some pajamas. I reached and put them on without getting out of bed and I grabbed my phone and texted Lissa another thank you.
I set the phone down as I heard a knock at the door. "Roza, we made you breakfast." Dimitri said softly. "Are you decent?"
"Yes, you can come in," I knew that he would have followers.
Dimitri carried a tray and flicked little legs out from the bottom as he set it in front of me.
"Since you're sick we decided to make you breakfast."
"Dimka showed me how to make bacon!" Paul said proudly. "Yes Paul helped with the bacon, Vika made your favorite kind of pancakes, and I made you black bread with extra butter." Dimitri said with a big smile on his face.
I reached up and he bent down to kiss me. I smiled and thanked Viktoria and Paul. After I ate I got up to go to the bathroom and I was glad I was not sick. After eating all that I did not want it to come back up. I yawned and walked out to the kitchen stretching.
Dimitri pulled me into the kitchen and kissed me softly and then placed kisses down my neck. "Thank you Roza," he purred.
"For what?" I asked, smiling letting my voice turn to a whisper. "Gift 1 or gift 2?"
"Both," He smiled while playing with my hair.
"Lissa said she was going to set up a gyno appointment for you at medical and she is assuring us everything will be kept very discreet. At least as much as possible. How are you feeling today?"
"Im ok, still a bit out of breath and dizzy but not sick this morning." I leaned into Dimitri steadying myself.
"You're shaking," he spoke softly and I realized I had.
"Oh, you're right." I sighed. Dimitri kissed the top of my head and held onto me steadying me as we walked into the living room and he sat in the recliner pulling me onto his lap.
I closed my eyes and I felt a little hand on my face. "Dimka, is she dead?"
I felt his soft laugh. "No, she's just not feeling well,let's let her rest."
"She's going to be okay right?" Viktoria asked questioningly.
"Yes, it's just something she needs to recover from. She will be fine."
"Dimka, she's not, ya know?" I couldn't see what happened but whatever made Dimitri laugh really hard.
"Vika, we all know two dhampir can't do that." He spoke softly. "And does she look like she wants anyone else?"
"Well no,"
"In a little while I'll take you guys to the gym. Roza can come but she can't participate."
He must've known I wasn't asleep and I nuzzled my head into his neck and murmured "dick".
I didn't need to see the smile to know it was there. "That is unless she wants to stay here. We will ask her later, okay? Let's put a movie or show on."
I smiled and murmured "I hate you" into his chest. This made him rub my back and play with my hair which always helped soothe myself and him. I nuzzled against his neck and fell back asleep once again.
Once I woke I stretched and Dimitri pushed my hand away from his face. “Careful Roza, you don’t have to take my eye out.” He smiled as I stood up.
“Sorry Comrade,” I smiled. “So what’s the plan for the day?”
“Well, we are going to the gym but I think you should take it easy.” He kissed my forehead.
“I feel fine. I’ll come but I promise nothing too crazy, I won’t even spar.” I smiled and Dimitri nodded.
“You can teach me more, auntie.” Paul smiled, hugging me tight.
“Sounds like a plan, little Belikov.” I kissed the top of his head.I smiled and I felt much better after a long nap. I smiled as Paul walked hugging me the whole way to the gym. “Are you really going to be okay? Dimka said you would.” He looked up at me.
“Yes budd, don’t worry. I’m strong.” I let a small chuckle out as I ruffled his hair.
“You are really strong.” He smiled.
“Thanks buddy, now let’s get you just as strong okay?”
“Yay!” He smiled as we got to the gym. We went inside right away and I smiled and waved hello at some other guardians. “Is Eddie coming to train with us?” Paul asked me, smiling.
“I don’t think so, I think he’s working today budd.” I said pouting.
“Oh, okay, well what are you going to teach me to do today?” He asked and I smiled as I pulled Paul to the side of the gym with the punching bags and I grabbed a few pads that were meant for practicing boxing that slid onto my hands.
“We’re going to work on those punches today. I want you to give me all you have. Get mad. Pretend that the target made you really mad and punch it with all your strength.” I smiled holding out one of my hands.
I saw a fierceness come across his features and he punched my hand with a good amount of force for his size.
“Good, now keep doing it.” I smiled holding up my other hand. After each punch I switched which hand was the target and with every punch he added just a little more strength. He was getting the hang of it and I smiled and nodded Dimitri over.
I handed him one of the gloves. “Give it all you got Paul.” I smiled. Dimitri needed to see how strong his nephew was even at this young age.
Paul punched the glove hard and made a loud clapping noise and I smiled seeing the big smile play across Dimitri’s face.
“Good job Paul, before you know it you’ll be stronger than me.” Shortly after I walked Paul back to the house as he was starting to show signs of being exhausted as Viktoria stayed to work with Dimitri.
I smiled as we got back to the house. I smiled and snuggled with Paul on the couch. As he fell asleep I grabbed my phone and started texting Lissa.
Sis, wanna come hang out? I’m at the house. I miss you. We have to do another game night soon. Probably after the kids head out. I don’t want them to overhear our shenanigans.-R
Sure and we can do that. I’ll talk to Syd about setting it up. I wish I could come over but I have to head to some meetings. Please take care, no going crazy. You have a drs appointment with Dr. Lee tomorrow afternoon. Don’t worry, the queen's orders to not talk to anyone about your appointments. <3 L
Thank you sis, I love you. Please don’t make me take this whole year off being a guardian. I can do my job as long as the doctor agrees. -R
I know, we will talk about it after your appointment. Don’t worry, it can be bad for both of you. <3 L
Chapter 5: Chapter 5
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I smiled and watched some movies before getting up and I smiled. Dimitri and Viktoria would be home soon so I looked around the kitchen before seeing that we had boxed pancake mix. Even I couldn’t screw this up, I just had to add a couple things and before you know it I was making pancakes. I even had the chocolate chips out and I smiled as I was about to grab a pan out. I heard the door click.
“Roza, we’re home.” He said taking his duster off. “Roza, are you in the kitchen alone?” He looked at me sternly.
“No, my supervisor is sleeping on the couch.” I smiled and I kissed Dimitri before popping a handful of chocolate chips in my mouth. “I just made the batter.” I showed it to him and he nodded approvingly.
Viktoria went to shower and get cleaned up before coming back out. “I’m so hungry.” She spoke softly as I woke Paul up and told him it was dinner time.
We all sat at the kitchen table that night eating our pancakes. I smiled, biting my lip.
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It was time to take Paul and Viktoria back to the airport. We told Paul he could come back soon and we would see him before he knew it. Viktoria seemed a little disappointed to leave too. We would see them soon. After seeing them off I looked up at Dimitri.
“You ready for game night Belikov?” I smiled looking up at him adoringly. We loved our time with Viktoria and Paul but I knew we both were happy to get a bit of privacy back.
“Yes Roza, as ready as I’ll ever be.” I smiled as he pulled me back to the car. “Are you sure you are up for it?” He kissed my head.
“Yes comrade, I’ll be fine.” I smiled as I shook my head. He was so worried since we found out I was carrying our child. I knew he couldn’t help but be overprotective but sometimes it was a little much. Lissa already knew all the details as I had to tell her them. That being said, we hadn’t told anyone else quite yet. Apparently we were still in the time frame most people can lose their pregnancy so we didn’t want to jinx it. Now that I had passed the 8 week mark we felt more comfortable telling our friends.
When we got to Sydney and Adrian’s house I was met by a lot of hugs from everyone. Since I was at work and we had the kids over we didn’t see our friends much in the last few weeks.
“Rose, it’s so good to see you.” Sydney smiled and she pulled me into the house.
“Auttie Wose!” Declan smiled and I reached down and picked the little man up.
“Hey, dec, how are you doing buddy?” I smiled as he just smiled at me.
“Dimi!” He said reaching for Dimitri and he smiled taking the small kid and I gave Dimitri a small wink.
“Are we the last ones to arrive?” I asked, looking around the room.
“Yes, you are always the last one to arrive, Rose, the rest of us aren’t late like you are.” Lissa laughed.
“Hey, we had to stop at the airport and drop two minors off on a plane to Siberia.” I spoke and as I said it I realized if you took that sentence out of context it sounded really horrible. Sydney took Declan and went to put him to bed. After we all ate we made a big circle in the living room.
“Look at us all, we all have significant others. Some of us are married or engaged.” Lissa smiled. “We are the grown ups.”
“Oh I wouldn’t say we grew up. We got older cousin, but let's be real, adults don’t play games like I never, spin the bottle and truth or dare.” Adrian smiled. “So what’s the starting game tonight?” He smiled looking around for suggestions. We decided on truth or dare to start.
“Rose,” Sydney started and I looked up at her.
“Truth.” I spoke as my stomach did a flip. I was so nervous to tell them about being pregnant that her question took me by surprise.
“Have you decided on a wedding date?”
“Actually we have.” I looked at everyone, seeing surprise on all the faces looking at me. “We are going to get married on May 23rd. Next year” I smiled and we got swamped with everyone saying congrats and hugging us.
“Fire boy, truth or dare?” I smiled and I saw he really didn’t want to get up.
“Truth.”
“Are you going to ever marry my sister?” I asked, smiling.
“Rosemarie!” Lissa scolded.
“Yes, I just want to give her time getting used to being queen.”
“Dimitri,”
“Truth,” He spoke and he squeezed my knee softly.
“Do you think Rose will get cold feet before the wedding?”
“I think she will get scared at some point but I know she will make it down the aisle.” He kissed my cheek.
“Okay time for a new game.” Jill said, getting up. “Since this house is now dry, thanks Adrian, we will have to use bottles of water instead of alcohol. We are playing I never.” She handed out a bottle of water to everyone before snuggling into Eddie.
Eddie spoke first. “I never had a period.” All of us girls opened our water and took a sip.
“I have never slept with a woman.” All the guys took a drink. Christian was up next.
“I never has sex with a teacher of mine.” I took a drink and so did Adrian who got smacked in the arm by Sydney.
“Sorry sage, what can I say. I was young and stupid.”
“I never have yelled at my husband.” Sydney was the only one to drink.
“I never ruined a beautiful, amazing car.” Adrian drank.
“I never cheated.” Dimitri said softly and I drank.
“I never woke up with a woody,” I smiled and all the guys took a drink and all of us girls giggled.
“I’ve never been a parent.” Jill said and Dimitri and I both hesitated before taking the smallest sips hoping no one noticed.
“Belikov!” Christian said standing up, making Lissa tumble on the couch they were sitting on.
“You have a kid? I knew it, Paul is yours!” He yelled.
I stood up. “Relax fire boy, no Paul is really his nephew. I’m pregnant.” I said hands on my hips glaring at him to challenge me.
“Seriously? Come on Rose, don’t lie.” He spoke harshly.
“Lissa, look at my aura, am I lying?” I smiled.
“No she’s not, I saw the test results. Christian, sit down.” Lissa said and pulled him to the couch.
“How far along are you?” Sydney asked softly.
“Just hit eight weeks.” I smiled, shaking off the dizziness from standing up too quickly.
“How are you feeling?” Jill added.
“Usually fine, but when I feel horrible I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck.” I smiled softly and Dimitri pulled me back to his lap.
“I have another doctor’s appointment tomorrow.” I smiled and my hands and Dimitri’s rested on my stomach. I didn’t look much different yet but I felt extremely bloated. “I’ve got a high amount of some hormone.” I sighed, breathing heavily as I leaned against Dimitri.
“Progesterone.” Dimitri added looking at Sydney.
“Any clue if that’s good or bad?” I saw as the wheels began spinning in her head before she grabbed her phone.
“I don’t think it’s bad, it could be just your body is dumping more hormones than your body knows what to do with.”
“Yea, well it’s making it hard to breathe.” I sighed.
“It’ll be okay Roza, the doctor said that should get better soon.” He held me close.
“Oh god, little Rose and Dimitri babies. They’ll be killing Strigoi before they’re 16.” Adrian spoke.
“No they will not.” I snapped at his direction. “My children will not be put in a situation like that.” I snarled and looked over to Eddie. “I can’t let them go through what we did at such a young age.”
“Yep, she is pregnant.” Christian said seeing my mood flip so quickly.
“Shut up, Fire boy before I knock you out. I can still punch ya know.” I growled.
“Sorry,” He held his hands up for a moment before I let go of the stare.
After a bit more of hanging out we all started to head out. As we walked to the car I ran over to some bushes and threw up everything in my stomach. Dimitri brought me water and I swished my mouth and spit it out.
The next day we headed to our doctor's appointment and I smiled. I was feeling a bit nauseous again. We were going to talk to the doctor if they could do something to help as I was feeling horrible most of the time. I smiled, I was so lucky to have the most amazing partner through all of this.
After we got into the doctors they took more blood and I hated it. I hated needles. Dimitri was really good at distracting me and calming me down though. The doctor smiled as he pulled the ultrasound machine out. “Alright can you lift your shirt? Time to see that baby.”He smiled and he put a cold gel on a tool and gently pressed it to my stomach and there was a grey and black image on the screen. After moving it around he smiled.
“Ahh, there it is.” He smiled and pointed to a little grey blob in a circle of black.
“That’s our baby?” Dimitri said, amazed at the fact that he was seeing his child.
“Actually, see this over here?” He said pointing to another right next to it and we nodded.
“Wait, doctor, are you telling me what I think you are?” Dimitri spoke and I was so confused.
“Yes, congratulations, you are actually expecting two children. Baby A is doing well and so is baby B. This may explain why your progesterone levels are so high and why your symptoms are so strong.” He looked between the two of us.
“Wait wait, there’s two children inside of me??” I snapped out of the daze.
“Yes, Guardian Hathaway. Don’t worry this doesn’t put any more risk on you or the babies. Now that we know we can make sure that both are doing healthy. Are you still dealing with extreme fatigue and Nausea?”
“Yes, of course I’m sick. I'm growing two humans. Two of his children. Have you seen him? He’s not that little.” I sighed heavily.
“It’s okay Roza, relax.” Dimitri said softly and kissed my head as tears rolled down my cheeks.
“I’m sorry Doctor.” I said softly, wiping my tears away. “I don’t know what came over me.”
“Don’t worry about it.” He smiled and typed something onto the ultrasound. “Would you like to hear their heartbeats?”
Dimitri’s head snapped up and he nodded looking at the screen. He clicked something and we heard a whooshing sound and a quick thumping.
I wiped tears falling from his face. “Hey, don’t get too soft on me Comrade.” I smiled, speaking softly and the doctor switched off the sound and clicked a few more things.
“I’m just going to get these photos for you, I got you some extra copies in case you want to hand some out. There are wipes to get the excess gel off.”
Dimitri lovingly wiped my stomach off and smiled up at me before saying something in Russian to my stomach before giving it two kisses.
“Great, more news to tell people.” I sighed.
“Well, we were going to tell your parents at dinner.” He said smiling, kissing me softly.
“Okay, but Liss and Christian have to be there too.” I’m not leaving us alone with my parents.
“Whatever you say Roza.” He pulled me up and the doctor came back in with an envelope with the photos inside. We made my next appointment for a few weeks out and the whole way we walked back to our house in peaceful silence.
Dimitri texted Christian and Lissa telling them that I requested them to come to dinner with our parents. Dimitri was going to be cooking for us all tonight at the house. Lissa and Christian came a bit early and I laid in my bed with my head on Lissa’s lap.
“She’s going to kill me.” I sighed.
“She will be excited.” Lissa smiled while playing with my hair. “She loves you.”
“She still might try to kill me. Damn Dimitri and his fertile sperm.” I sighed, putting my hands on my stomach. “I’m gonna get really really fat. I’m glad that we started letting that rumor of us doing IVF get out. I don’t want anyone thinking something is different about them.”
“Don’t worry they’ll be protected their whole lives. No one will get through both you and Dimitri and all the rest of your family.” She smiled and kissed my forehead.
“Maybe when I get a little bigger and can’t work Dimitri and I can go visit Baia.” I smiled, rubbing my belly. “We haven’t told anyone out there yet but I wouldn’t be surprised if Yeva saw it in one of her dreams.” I sat up.
“That sounds like it’d be good for you guys, but you can’t have this little one out there. I have to see them be born.” Lissa was already so protective of these little kiddos.
“Of course Liss,” I smiled and pulled out my phone and started looking at baby clothes and items showing them off to one another as we oohed and ahhed over the cute items.
“Girls dinner’s almost ready, Roza, your mom and dad just arrived.” Dimitri said, looking into our bedroom and I smiled, putting my phone in my pocket as I stood up. I was so thankful for having a lot of Dimitri’s t-shirts that hung loosely around my body. Lissa followed behind me.
“Hey Rose,” My mom hugged me and let go so I could hug my dad.
“Kiz, how are you doing?” He smiled looking at me.
“I’m fine. Dimitri cooked for us tonight. Let's dig in.” I smiled and sat next to Dimitri.
I smiled and as we started eating my dad spoke first.
“Kiz, I love you but why did you want a small family dinner with us and Lissa and Christian?”
“Well, we actually have some news to tell you.” I smiled and Dimitri nodded for me to continue. “We picked a wedding date. May 23rd.” I bit my lip.
“That’s great, but what are you not telling us? You are crap at hiding information Rose.” My mom spoke with what I now know as her mom voice.
“There is some other news.” I looked at Dimitri. It was his turn to drop the bomb.
“We would like to tell you that we are expecting. Yes it is both of ours, however we don’t want that to become public information. So we let some rumors spread that we had been doing IVF.” Dimitri spoke very softly.
“Oh my,” My dad stood up and hugged us both. “Congrats. My kiz, you will be so good at parenthood.
“Well, we just went to the doctors today and got some ultrasound photos for you.” I smiled and Dimitri handed me the envelope. I handed my mom and dad a copy and one to Lissa.
“Rosemarie Anne Hathaway, Please tell me you are not joking about this!” My mom said, wiping a tear from her face.
I shook my head. “It’s not a joke mom. Dimitri can prove it, he saw it.”
I looked over to Lissa as she let her finger touch the little letters. “Rose, you’re having twins??” She looked up at me, eyes full of tears.
“Yes, we just found out today Liss, I’m going to be a whale.” I sighed as my mom and dad insisted on seeing my stomach. I stood and pulled my t-shirt up showing my slightly bloated belly. “It’s not impressive. I just look like I'm really bloated.”
My dad smiled and touched my stomach and said something in turkish.
“Annenize iyi davranın çocuklar.(Behave for your mother,children.)” I looked at him very confused before he stood up and smiled, kissing my head. “Don’t worry I just told them to behave Kiz.”
“Okay ihtiyar.” I smiled. I had to look up how to say, old man in Turkish. He laughed and he rolled his eyes.
Dimitri came over and wrapped himself around me, his hands sitting on my stomach.
“So what language will they learn first? Russian, Turkish, or english?”
“Well, Comrade, you’ll have to teach me Russian first and turkish. We better get started, we only have 7ish months.”
Christian got up and hugged Dimitri and I. “congrats.”
After a little while Dimitri started cleaning up the food and putting it away with Christian as the rest of us sat in the living room talking.
“What do you think you will have?” My dad asked.
“Ihtiyar, I just learned there's two little baby Belikov’s in me. I just want to not break.” I smiled. “Honestly I don’t care what we have.”
“If you have a daughter I hope she's just as difficult as you were.” My mom said, smirking.
“Thanks mom. Love you too.” I sighed, rolling my eyes.
“I think they will be the happiest little babies.” Lissa said smiling. “Christian, can we have babies?”
“What?” He peeked into the room.
“Just say yes.” I smiled
“I don't know what you asked but since Rose told me to say yes I’m going to pass on the question.”
“Don’t worry, as soon as he holds these kiddos he’ll want one of his own.” I smiled.
Chapter 6: Chapter 6
Chapter Text
It had been a few months since we found out we were having twins. As I was now unable to hide my pregnancy I was now 4 and a half months pregnant. Since we had announced our pregnancy I had been given lighter duties.
Since we Dimtri and I both had vacation we told Dimitri's family we would come visit. We told them that we were coming and that we had some big news. Dimitri wanted to tell them in person.
“Roza, we are all packed.” Dimitri said smiling and I walked out of our bedroom in sweats and his shirt that was a bit tighter now that my belly held it out a little.
"Thank you babe," I smiled, kissing his cheek. I smiled, rubbing my growing belly. "Do we have any more bread?" That was my latest craving. I was eating a lot of fruit and carbs.
"Yes Roza," he smiled and got me the food and I gave him a loving kiss.
"What do you think Paul will say?" I asked as I ate.
"He will ask if they're boys."
"But I don't know that answer." I stated looking down at the belly.
"Honestly I don't know what they'll be except cute and very hungry."
"That's a given because they are your children."
"And yours comrade, remember you got me double pregnant without trying." This always made him laugh and it usually got him to drop whatever he was talking about.
I smiled and got up. I slid my jacket on after I put the plate in the sink.
"I'm gonna go for a walk." I slid some shoes on, I was starting to struggle with this belly in my way.
"Okay Roza, be careful, you are carrying precious cargo." He kissed me softly for a moment.
"Yes yes I am well aware." I smiled as Dimtiri whispered to my belly in Russian and gave it two kisses. I pulled him up and gave him a soft kiss.
I walked out the door and just wandered, feeling the sun on my skin.
"Hey babies, we are going to meet daddy's family. You'll get to meet babushka, aunt Sonja, Karolina, and aunt Vika. You'll also get to meet yeva. I swear she's going to outlive us all. Your cousins will be there too. We won't be there that long. Just a week." I smiled and sat down on a bench near the edge of court property.
I was happy to see Dimitri sit next to me. "How are you doing my love?"
"I'm alright. Better than I was a few weeks ago except my stomach is growing so quick." I rubbed my belly and he laid his hand on mine and kissed my neck.
"You are incredible," he whispered.
"I know I am." I smiled and tossed some of my hair. "But don't forget I'm still a troublemaker." I kissed his cheek and ran.
"Roza,"he sighed and ran after me, easily grabbing me and tickling my sides as I squealed. "We need to get back to the house. We have to get to the airport." He kissed my cheek.
"Fine, but you carry us." I smiled as he scooped me up and threw me over his shoulder. I was facing his back and I giggled. "Nice view back here." I giggled and I felt his free hand gently smack my ass playfully.
"Not as good as mine." He laughed as he carried me back to the car. "Now please get in the car before we miss our flight."
"Babe, Abe's paying for it, it's a private jet it can't leave without it's only passengers." I smiled rolling my eyes.
"I like to be on time occasionally Roza,"
"Do you think the babies will come early or late?" I smiled deep in thought.
"I don't know. But usually twins come early. Once we come back we should talk about getting the nursery ready." He spoke as I looked down at my belly.
"What do you think about moving back into the royal suites? When I'm close to having them I'd like to be close to Lissa."
"We could do that if you'd like." He spoke softly before turning the car off and getting out. I got out and went to help grab our bags and I got a hold of one of the bags before Dimtiri could tell me no.
I slept the whole flight and car ride to baia. When I woke up I stretched and yawned. "I'm hungry." I whined, it was something Dimitri heard a lot these days.
"Can you wait 3 minutes? We are almost there."
"Fine," I pouted. As we pulled up Dimitri didn't let me grab a bag this time and knocked at the door.
"Dimka! Roza," Olena smiled and I was glad I wore my jacket. "Come in." She pulled us into the house.
"Hi mama, is everyone here?" Dimitiri said, setting our bags next to the couch.
"Yea, Karolina is outside with the kids. What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong mama, but we do have some news." We were now standing in the living room. I saw everyone look up at us.
I squeezed Dimitri's hand reassuringly.
"Roza's pregnant, and yes it's my child. We don't know how but being restored does something to the infertility problem." We got swamped with women hugging us and screeching Russian when the back door opened.
"Dimka!" Paul came running and hit Dimitri in the back of the legs. I heard the door open again and saw Karolina holding two toddlers. She set them down and shut the door. "Dimka, Roza, welcome, what's going on?"
"I'm pregnant. Spirit magic that saved him made it possible for us to have kids." She squealed and ran into the group hug.
After a moment DimItiri calmed the women down. "We aren't done with our announcement." He spoke softly.
"What is it Dimka?" Olena asked.
"I hope you're ready for two more grandbabies." I smiled and I saw they were all tearing up except Paul.
"Prove it." He said sternly. I smiled and took my jacket off and showed off my protruding belly.
"Remember when you came to visit and I was sick? That's when I found out I was having a baby."
"Wow. Do you know if they are boys?" He looked between me and Dimitri.
"We don't know what they are yet. But we will love them no matter what."
I stood up and the girls all started rubbing my belly. I looked over at Dimitri and smiled and blew him a kiss. I loved seeing his smile when he was here around his family. His stoic demeanor was pushed back a little more than normal. He felt more comfortable showing his emotions around everyone here. Don’t get me wrong he was still my strong scary russian battle god and I knew if he had to fight that guardian face would return without hesitation. That night the girls all ran around making plans and I smiled leaning on Dimitri’s arm watching everything as I rubbed my belly. Paul walked over and smiled and spoke to my belly in russian before looking up at me and speaking in english.
“Auntie Rose, are you going to quit being a guardian?” He asked curiously.
“No Paul, Uncle Dimka and I decided that I’m going to keep working but I might do something other than being the queen’s guardian. We haven’t decided on the details but I am going to work somehow.” I smiled as he nodded.
“Good, I want you to keep being a guardian.” He kissed my belly twice and then ran away to go play.
I smiled and realized Dimitri had Zoya in his lap and she was looking at my belly and he spoke to her in russian. As I had been learning I thought I knew what they were saying given that it was a conversation with a small child it couldn’t be that hard.
“Тетя Роза носит там двух младенцев.(Aunt Roza is carrying two babies in there.)” Is what Dimitri said and I was pretty sure he had said something about me and babies.
“двое младенцев?(Two babies?)” Zoya said back.
“Да двое младенцев.(Yes, two babies.)” Dimitri said and she looked so confused but leaned closer to my belly and I nodded and she touched it gently.
I felt a sharp jolt inside of me and I knew one of the babies was kicking. They kicked where Zoya’s hand was and I looked at Dimitri and down to my belly in surprise.
“Dimitri,” I spoke softly.
“Yes Roza? What’s wrong?”
“Nothing but I think one of them just kicked.” I nodded to the little hand that was now off my belly and Zoya was staring at my belly with anger on her face.
“Зоя, все в порядке. Они любят тебя. (Zoya, it’s okay. They love you.)” She looked up at him for a moment and slid off his lap and went over to some of her toys that were in the corner. Dimitri leaned over and placed his hand where Zoya’s was when the baby kicked.
“Здравствуйте, дети. Уже пытаешься надрать маме задницу?(Hello children. Already trying to kick momma's butt?)” He knew I was learning but I wasn’t the best at russian quite yet but I knew that he started with hello children and mama was in there so he said something about me. I looked at him for translation. “I asked if they were trying to kick your butt already.” He smiled and kissed my belly softly. “Do you want anything?”
“Chocolate sounds amazing right now.” I smiled and kissed his hair. I loved seeing how he worshiped my belly and I knew this was just the beginning of how much he was going to love these children. He might love them more than me, but I think I could understand that. He went and got me a slice of the chocolate cake Olena had made earlier to celebrate our visit. I smiled and realized it was a giant piece of cake as I started eating. As I swallowed the first bite I let out a little groan of delight as I kept eating the cake quickly.
“I’m glad you like it.” Olena smiled at me and Dimitri took the empty plate. I stood up and walked over to the bookshelf that housed all the old books that Dimitri used to read as a child.
“Thank you. I can’t believe you’ve kept these books all these years.” I smiled letting my hand trail down the spines of the books.
“Well of course. They’re very special to me, and now they are special to my children and grandchildren.” She walked over and gently pulled out one of the books and handed it to me. “This was Dimka’s favorite.”
“My favorite what,mama?” He said before realizing we were looking at the books. “Oh yes it was.” He smiled seeing the book in my hands as he wrapped himself around my body.
I smiled and held it. “Do you mind if we borrow the book for a little while this evening?” I looked up at Olena.
“He likes to read to the babies before bed.” I smiled and Dimitri’s hand rested on my belly and I felt another jolt against one of his hands. That definitely felt like something made a kick or punch move. “Oh, I think the babies liked the chocolate cake.” I smiled looking at my belly.
“Did one just kick?” Olena looked and I nodded. “First time?”
“Second mama, first was when Zoya was over with us a few moments ago.” Dimitri smiled rubbing my belly which seemed to make the baby that kicked even more active, it felt like a fluttering, kind of like butterflies in your stomach.
“Congrats.” She smiled and nodded. “Of course you can read the book to your little ones.” She smiled and kissed both of our cheeks.
“Dimitri, I love you holding me like this but I do have to use the restroom.” I smiled and turned to hand him the book.
He smiled and nodded as I walked to the bathroom. As I was coming back to the living room Yeva smiled standing in my way.
“I knew it.” She smiled and placed her hands on my belly. “Два чуда(two miracles)”
I smiled and she kissed my belly twice before walking away. I knew Dimitri loved Yeva but sometimes she was just strange and kinda creepy to me.
I got back to the living room and sighed realizing how exhausted I was already. Dimitri must’ve seen it on my face and we told everyone that we were going to bed for the night. As we got upstairs I smiled and sat on the bed as Dimitri insisted on running my bath and getting everything for me like he did ever since I started showing.
I didn’t mind the little extra love and Dimitri always insisted on helping me into the bath and washing my legs and feet since it was starting to get difficult for me. He even shaved my legs every few days. I couldn’t believe we still had roughly another 4 or so months left of this. How could I possibly get bigger. The doctor told me that I had gained more than necessary for how far I was and Dimitri had to tell me quite a few times not to punch the doctor.
“So, mama and the girls wanted to throw a party to announce the genders of the babies.” Dimitri said as he was rubbing my feet as I was sitting in the tub.
“Oh, yeah I never thought about finding out what we were having.” I smiled. I never thought about it because all I cared about was that they were healthy.
“What do you think? Is that something you’d be okay with?” He smiled and kissed my belly as it stuck out of the water.
“Honestly, I never thought about finding out. It might help with names given we have no clue what names we want.” I smiled as we were almost finished with our bath routine. I smiled as I stood up and Dimitri handed me a towel as I dried off getting out of the tub. “I think it’d be nice to find out and pick out names. We could even surprise everyone when we come back to court somehow.” I smiled knowing it would drive Lissa crazy given she went crazy about planning a gender reveal party for me. It’d be even better knowing there was at least one thing out of her control. “Liss wants to throw a party and I’m sure it would be hilarious even if she didn't know.” I giggled.
“She’d get so frustrated at you.” Dimitri said with a small smirk on his lips.
“I know, it sounds like the perfect way to get her all riled up.” I grinned. After all, I am Rose Hathaway. I do have to shake things up every now and then.
“So, I’ll get a hold of the doctor and set up an appointment for us to find out.” He smiled, kissing me softly and I let go of the towel to wrap my hand around his neck and I felt him laugh as I realized that my belly caught the towel.
I looked down and dried myself off before getting the sweatpants and big shirt Dimitri grabbed for me as my pajamas for tonight. Once we laid down in the bed Dimitri curled up next to my belly with the book and he started reading in russian with his hands resting on my belly and I smiled as I reached down and played with his hair. I realized that he had read the book so many times he probably didn’t need the book in front of him to tell the story.
After he kissed them goodnight and told them to behave through the night he laid next to me pulling me close to him. “What do you think we are having, Comrade?” I smiled up at him through my eyelashes.
“Two beautiful amazing children. Gender is not important to me, but I think it’d be quite a handful to have two little girls, but I think two little boys could be just as difficult in different ways. But if I had to guess, the one that kicked I think is a little girl like her momma and the quiet one is a little boy.” He smiled and kissed my head.
“Or the one that kicked is a little boy like his daddy, getting some practice in already and the little quiet one is an innocent little girl like her momma.” I smiled giggling before we both burst out laughing.
“You are anything but innocent, my Roza.” He smirked before kissing my forehead. I snuggled into Dimitri close and fell asleep easily.
The next morning Dimitri woke me smiling. “Come on Roza, you need to get ready. We have a doctor’s appointment today. They had a cancelation this morning.”
I sighed as I sat up and yawned. “Ok ok Comrade, first, bathroom and clothes.” I said as I stood up and walked to the adjoining bathroom. I was so confused how we would find out the gender. After we got breakfast Dimitri smiled, pulling me to the car and I was grateful he wasn’t going to make me walk more than necessary. I could walk more than the typical pregnant woman but that didn’t mean I wanted to. “How are we going to tell your family?” I smiled. “Or are they going to tell us?”
“I think,” He said slowly and I saw a playful smile come across his face. He had an idea. “I think Yeva should be the only one to know and I have an idea of a way for us to tell us.” He kissed my cheek before starting the car and driving us to the doctor.
When we got there Dimitri did most of the talking given I didn’t know much Russian. I was glad I got to see my babies again and I smiled seeing the baby on top was moving around all crazy and elbowing me while the baby on the bottom was being quiet and more cooperative. The woman doing the ultrasound looked at me and asked, “Do you want to know gender?”
“No, could you write it down? We are doing a gender reveal.” Dimitri spoke softly before his eyes went back to the screen. He was smitten with these two kiddos already and I was a little jealous, they held his attention in a way I never could. I knew it wasn’t anything personal and I had to get over the idea of sharing my man with these little humans.
He softly gave me a kiss as the person wrote something on a piece of paper and placed it in an envelope and sealed it. Dimitri wouldn’t tell me what his idea was but he was very excited about it. Everyone mobbed us as soon as we entered the house. Dimitri held the envelope above his head making it out of reach of everyone trying to grab it. These girls were vicious. I saw one of them try to kick Dimitri’s knees out and knock him off his footing but he must’ve been expecting it because he never faltered.
“Girls, yeva will be planning the reveal. I want everyone else to be surprised with us. If you don’t like that, well too bad.” He smiled with a big grin on his face. “Now, only Yeva will see what is in here and she will arrange the surprise I have already thought of. Now if you will relax I would like to give this to her so she can get started on the surprise.” Everyone let Dimitri walk over to Yeva who smiled and nodded to Dimitri. He must’ve either talked to her earlier or would after everyone else was gone. He followed her into her bedroom and after a few moments he came back out and I rubbed my belly subconsciously. I really had no clue what we were having or how long this surprise was going to take to set up.
“Yeva says she will need privacy. None of us are to enter her room unless she says it is okay. She should have the surprise done in a few days, maybe earlier but plan on it being a few days.” He spoke looking over all of us. “Just be patient. I don’t know what it is either and she said if any of us peek we won’t know until Roza gives birth.” His eyes lingered over every person individually trying to guarantee no one would even attempt to peek. “And none of us want to wait any longer than necessary.” He smiled and we all nodded and agreed before everyone dispersed and continued about their day.
Dimitri and I took the kids to the park and walked around Baia. We went shopping and Dimitri was so excited to get some baby items and I had to remind him that we didn’t know what gender the babies were but I knew we didn't care if we put a little boy in pink or girl in blue. I mean I’d never force my kids into colors they didn’t like. I never liked pink so if we had girls that weren’t girly I’d be fine with that. I smiled as I held Sonja’s little boy, Nikolai, and Dimitri had Zoya and Paul trailing behind us and I smiled as I looked at the baby store we had just walked in.
“Auntie, can I train your babies when they are older to be guardians?” He smiled and I looked over my shoulder.
“We will talk about it later but you can help teach them a lot of things, okay?” I smiled as I looked at Dimitri sitting in a glider and Zoya was laying against his big chest and I noticed her eyes shutting. “Well, I think she approves.” I smiled, kissing Dimitri softly.
“Ewww, gross.” Paul made a stink face as he saw our kiss as we both laughed.
“It’s not the most comfortable, plus I think we should get furniture in the states. Shipping across the world would be expensive.” He smiled and kissed my head as he stood up.
“I agree, plus if I sit I won’t get back up. At least not while holding a toddler.” I smiled and I saw a look of understanding in Dimitri’s face. Even though we weren’t going to buy furniture we still looked and took note of the styles we both seemed to like. I kissed little Nikolai’s hair as he was now asleep, his head resting on my shoulder as I held him on my hip. Once we hit the clothing is when my eyes went wide and I thought you could put anything on a baby onesie and I’d think it would be the cutest thing ever.
Dimitri smiled and we got a few outfits that would be pretty gender neutral and would be easy to pack into our bags.
“Auntie, can I pick something out for the babies? Paul asked, smiling up at me and Dimitri.
“Of course you can. Do you want to pick something out today or do you want to know what the genders are?” I smiled, letting my free hand ruffle his hair.
“Umm, I want to wait and get it after we know and when I go I want to go with someone else. I want to surprise you two.” He said his eyes glittering with excitement.
“ You know your aunt doesn't like surprises usually.” Dimitri smiled and I narrowed my eyes at him. “Don’t lie, it’s true Roza.” He smiled even bigger.
“Of course it’s okay to surprise us, Paul. I’m sure the babies will love whatever you pick out for them.” I spoke,kissing his hair.
Shortly after finding a few outfits we decided to buy we walked to the register and Dimitri paid before we left and walked home. We were nearly back to the house and I felt another sharp movement in my belly. I held my breath for a second hoping it didn’t wake the toddler who I was holding. After walking inside I handed Niko to Dimitri and he nuzzled right in as Dimitri took them upstairs to put them down in their cribs for a nap.
“How was the park?” Olena smiled and then she saw my bag and we showed off the clothes. I sat down on the couch and I immediately regretted not going to sit in the kitchen.
“Hey Paul can you go grab me some bread and butter?” I asked sweetly.
“Sure,” I’ll be right back.” He smiled going to leave the living room and ran right into Dimitri as he came down the stairs.
“I’ll get it Paul. You can go do whatever you’d like.” He smiled and winked at me before disappearing into the kitchen. I swear he was the best man I ever met. I got snapped out of my thoughts when I got a text.
Kiz, How are you and my grandbabies doing? We miss you. Hope you guys are enjoying your romantic vacation. -A
I rolled my eyes and knew if I didn’t respond he’d text again and again and call over and over until Dimitri thought someone was dying and would answer.
Old man, They’re doing well. We are finding out the gender in the next few days. We are visiting Dimitri’s family. I wouldn’t say it's a romantic vacation, but we are enjoying ourselves. P.S. One of the babies started kicking. Tell mom I say hi. I’m not stupid I know you guys are a thing. - R
I rubbed my belly and I swear I looked bigger than I did yesterday. I was still so stunned by the amount of change my body already has undergone let alone how much more it would change before these kiddos came out.
I pulled up more baby name registries and scrolled saying yes or no in my head before scrolling. Dimitri tapped my hand with the plate. I looked up and set my phone down and took the plate greedily eating the food on it.
“Whatcha doing?” Dimitri asked, nodding at my phone.
“Looking at baby names.” I said finishing off the plate quickly and set it on the table next to the couch.
“We should start making a list of names we like."
"I'll start a list on my phone. I kind of want them to have Russian origin names if possible, something that goes well with your last name." I smiled looking at him as I felt the top baby kicking and rolling around. "Well, someone's active." I smiled, rubbing my belly.
Dimitri spoke softly to my belly as he kneeled in front of me. He rubbed the belly as he spoke softly in Russian and the babies started moving even more than before. I smiled as Dimtiri kept speaking to them as he looked at my belly with wonder.
I spoke softly, "They really love it when you talk to them in Russian." He stood up before sliding into the couch with me pulling me tight to him. I always loved laying against him the smell of his cologne was intoxicating and calming all at the same time. "I can't believe you are going to be a dad to not one but two kids."
"You are amazing. I can't imagine how hard it is for you to make all these sacrifices for our family. You are already such a great mom." He spoke softly and I looked up at him trying to hold back the tears but fighting it was futile. "Roza, I didn't mean to upset you. I'm so sorry."
"I'm not upset. I'm so happy. I feel like this is all a dream and I'm going to wake up and something bad will happen." I whispered.
"It will be okay Roza. Everything is great. Everyone is safe. All you need to worry about is making those little humans in there. Let me worry about everything else for you. I will protect us and our friends and family."
I nodded and pulled up the name registries on my phone so Dimitri and I both could look at the list of names and I put our favorites into a list along with the meanings of the names.
To my surprise Dimitri liked some that weren't Russian origin but they made it onto the list. Later we would go through and take some off the list and work on names from there but since we didn't know what we were having we would need at least two boy names and two girl names. After a little while I got up to use the bathroom and I wanted to peek so badly to see if I could figure out what I was having but I knew I would never be able to catch yeva off guard especially since I wasn't allowed to do too much working out.
As I walked back to Dimitri I noticed my hips hurt. The doctor told me that it could happen especially if I walk or push myself more than I should. Dimitri saw me rubbing my hips and he ran over to me and picked me up off the floor.
"Are you okay my Roza?"
"Yes, I'm just sore." I said breathing heavily.
"Time for you to rest." He said carrying me to the recliner in the corner and he pulled me close as he leaned back pulling me tight to his chest as I laid on my side. I laid down as he told me stories about growing up with Ivan.
"Dimitri, what do you think about the name Ivan Mason Belikov?"
"Maybe, it's worth adding to the list. Oh I checked in with Christian and he said everything is fine. I talked to him about maybe moving closer to them and he said there is a house that is right next to the palace and we could afford it." He said before kissing my head and I just nodded as I felt the exhaustion sneaking up onto me again. "Rest Roza, you walked a lot today. It's been an eventful day. I hope yeva has that surprise soon."
I let my eyes closed as I nodded and landed a kiss on his cheek. I rested against him with my eyes closed but I didn’t sleep. I wish I could stay like this forever with him. It felt like a dream. I was so worried that I’d wake up any minute and I would be alone.
Ever since I helped Sydney with some of her worries and trauma from when she was in re-education it re-instilled that the scariest thing was people messing with my head and memories. She had to tell me that I couldn’t hunt down that bitch that did that shit to her but someday I’d get a chance to get back at that whore for hurting my friends. It might be a while now I had to have a few kids and get married before I could hunt that asshole down. I may not have connections like Sydney used to but I knew enough and I did have Zoe’s contact information.
The next morning I stretched and stood and I ignored the worried look on Dimitri’s face as I headed to the bathroom. Man, was it getting annoying at how frequently I had to go to the bathroom to pee since these kids liked to play with my bladder like it was a toy. How the hell am I supposed to go another four and a half months with these kids in me? My full time job was practically eating, sleeping and doctors appointments already. Then again I was getting an IV for my nausea and fluids when I got so nauseous I couldn’t get myself to down my vitamins and medications. This is the hardest thing I did in life and I was convinced I killed my love for good, that was more emotionally difficult than physically. I always felt so strong until I got pregnant.
I always just assumed it’d be a breeze. I never realized how your whole body can hurt and sometimes I felt so unlike myself. At least I could still do very mild exercise, which I pretty much was just the punching bag and walking because even running was a bit difficult but I could do it for a short time. Even though I didn’t even know these kids yet and who they were but I knew I would do whatever I had to to make sure they are taken well care of for the rest of their lives. I would go through whatever my body has planned for me as long as it kept these kiddos safe.
When I came back to the living room after grabbing breakfast from the kitchen I saw Yeva standing in the middle of the room talking to Olena and Dimitri. I had barely seen her since she was given the task to work on the gender reveal.
“What’s up?” I asked them as I walked up to them.
“Roza, Yeva finished the surprise and we are just making plans for us all to find out at a party tonight.”
“Tonight?” I asked I mentally went through if I had anything party worthy and I couldn’t think of any clothes that I brought that’d be party worthy.
“Yes, would you like us to wait,Roza?” Olena asked questioningly.
“No, but I just don’t have anything to wear.” I sighed leaning on Dimitri feeling a little winded still and saw Dimitri roll his eyes.
“Roza, there are stores here in Baia, we will get you something. The only plans for today were that I was going to train with Vika and Paul. I don't think they’ll mind missing training if they get to find out what those little babies are.”
“I guess that’s true.” I smiled as Dimitri pulled me a little closer, my back against his chest.
“Alright, I’ll start on the party, I have to go get the girls up to help with decorating.” Olena was beaming with excitement and gave both me and Dimitri kisses on our cheeks before leaving the room.
“Yeva, thank you for everything you’ve done for us and I can't wait for my children to meet you.” Dimitri smiled and I saw a small coy smile play on the old woman’s face and I got a glint of the cheeky woman I imagine she used to be when she was younger. She left us in the living room and I heard Dimitri’s sisters fly down the stairs.
“Rose, oh my goodness, we are finding out what you are having today!!” They squealed in unison.
“Yeah, I know. I need to go shopping for something to wear.”
“We have to go with you!” The girls insisted and I smiled and looked up at Dimitri.
“Dimitri, you train Paul. Not too hard, he still has to be able to attend the party.” I smiled and he rolled his eyes.
“Go have fun, I’ll stay here and help out and maybe get some training in with Paul if we can.”
After everyone had gotten ready we headed out to the stores and got some cheesy decorations from the store to decorate the living room in pink and blue. Once we had the errands done we went to a baby and maternity store and I tried on quite a few outfits and I got a cute dress that fit me and I still had room for if I grew a little for tonight and I would probably wear it for the gender reveal back home since we were coming to the end of our vacation here in Baia. I got a couple other shirts that showed off my belly and one said “Mama Bear” and I had to get it because I know it’s true. They’re not even born yet and I’d kill millions of Strigoi on my own for them.
After we came back I walked into the kid’s room and played with Zoya and Niko. I loved seeing their smiles and their little personalities that were just as strong as the adults in the family. Zoya enjoyed having my belly being the hill that the little toy horse climbed up and down. After a little while Niko walked over and just laid himself on my chest and belly. I did my best to hold Niko as I kissed Zoya’s head as I waddled over to sit in the glider.
Niko looked up at me sleepily and smiled. “‘ntie Woseahh wuv u,”
“I love you too buddy, I hope you like your cousins. Rest up for the party tonight.” I smiled as I rubbed his back and saw his eyes flutter shut and shortly afterward Zoya climbed up and I moved Niko over a little so I had a toddler on both sides of me and she snuggled in close. I smiled and held them close rubbing their backs and feeling myself drifting off as well as the rocker swayed gently back and forth.
I heard the door open a while later just loud enough to wake me but not disturb the kids. It was Dimitri and he had a big smile on his face and he pushed the button that lifted the footrest and took one of the kids blankets from nearby and draped it over us making sure to cover all three of us.
“Dimitri,” I whispered.
“Shhh, you’ve got time to rest, you look comfortable, anything you need?” He asked quietly.
“No, but Niko spoke English to me. He called me ‘ntie Woseah and said he loved me.” I smiled from ear to ear.
“I’ll tell Sonya,” He smiled and kissed me quietly and then kissed my forehead. “Rest up, you are growing two humans. You need to make sure they are big and strong.” He smiled.
“Your kids don't need help being big or strong, Comrade.” I smiled. “I just hope I dont split in half or tear my whole downstairs when they come out.”
“You’re stronger than I am, and I know Roza, we will get through it all together all four of us. Our family.” As he said the last two words the sparkle in his eyes glowed with more amazement.
“So, when do we tell our children about the whole crazy story of what happened in Novosibirsk?” I raised an eyebrow.
“Hmmm, how about we get that conversation out of the way, we will tell them the story tonight and then they’ll know.” Dimitri smiled and I narrowed my eyes at him letting him know his sarcasm wasn’t funny.
“Haha, funny.” I whispered sarcastically. “Now, I’m going to nap with the professional snugglers.” I nodded to the kids and I gave him one more kiss before he turned and left, shutting the door and I fell asleep shortly after.
I woke when I felt someone take Niko from my arm and I realized Zoya had already woken up and was now getting her hair brushed and put into a ponytail by Vika.
"How was your nap?" Olena smiled at me as she got Niko changed for the party.
"Good, it felt-comforting to take a nap with these little cuties." I smiled.
"Well, it's time for you to get ready. Dimka is in your room."
"Thanks," I said as I got up, leaving the blanket on the chair.
I waddled down the hall and knocked on Dimitri’s door and opened without waiting for him to respond.
"Roza, how was your nap?"
"Good, it felt so natural to nap with a kid on each side of me. I can't wait to do it with these kiddos." I rubbed my belly before walking over to the closet and pulled out the dress for the party tonight. Dimitri helped me get dressed and nuzzled into my neck as he rubbed my belly. “Last chance to guess what the genders are, Comrade.” I smiled playing with his silky dark hair.
“As long as they are healthy that’s all I care about.” He smiled, kissed my neck and moved his hands to the lower half of my belly. “I think this little one is a boy, and the one on top is a girl.” He smiled against my neck.
“I think I’m going to guess the opposite of you.” I smiled before squirming as I had to use the bathroom. I wiggled out of his embrace and I looked at him and winked before turning towards the bathroom and shut the door behind me.
Chapter 7: Chapter 7- The first reveal
Chapter Text
After we were both ready Dimitri walked behind me down the stairs, his arm on my side. As we walked into the living room I saw the living room was all decorated in blue and pink everywhere. At one side of the room there was a big pile of presents. We were greeted by everyone cheering and I smiled as we said hello to all the guests and you could feel the excitement.
“Come come sit.” Olena spoke smiling, pulling Dimitri and I to the recliner. We smiled and Olena called the room to attention.
“Thank you all for coming to our party to celebrate the new baby Belikovs. Dimitri asked Yeva to make a surprise gift to reveal the genders of the babies but first we have to eat and then Yeva will give Dimitri and Roza the reveal gifts. Please enjoy!” She smiled and encouraged everyone to get a plate of food. Dimitri smiled and got up and brought back a plate for myself and one for him.
After a while of talking and eating it started to get quiet again and Yeva stood up with a small gift box for both me and Dimitri, one each. “Dimka, you have baby A which is the one closer up top and Roza you have baby B, the one down lower. Now, I’ve made these so you better keep these safe.” She said looking between the two of us before going to sit down in the corner.
“Roza, would you like to go first or second?” Dimitri questioned holding his gift in one hand and squeezed mine with the other.
“Go ahead comrade,” I gently gave his hand a reassuring squeeze before letting his hand go.
“Ready mama?” Dimitri smiled looking at his mom and I saw almost everyone pointing phones towards us.
“Yes, go ahead Dimka.” She smiled
He carefully unwrapped the box and I saw just a small box saying baby A on it. He opened it slowly and pulled out a russian nesting doll that looked like it was designed to look like Dimitri. He opened the doll and I saw a doll that was made to look like me. The next doll looked like Paul, then Zoya, then Niko, then the next doll had to be the baby given how small the dolls were. Dimitri stopped and gave me a beaming smile stretching from ear to ear and I felt so lucky to be able to let him experience this after all he’s done for me. Then he opened the little doll and grinned, shaking his head amusingly as he rolled his eyes to me for a second before pulling out the tiny doll that was painted in a little lilac color with some simple floral designs along the body.
“It’s a girl!” I exclaimed, smiling and kissing him gently as we got cheers erupting through everyone watching.
“Thank you Roza,” Dimitri whispered quietly to me.
“She’s gonna be a daddy's girl, I think.” I smiled. “Now my turn.” I smiled and followed the same suit, all my dolls were different, they were Olena, my mom, and one of each of Dimitri’s sisters. Inside the last doll, being Dimitri’s youngest sister Viktoria, I hesitated before looking around for confirmation to continue. Dimitri smiled and nodded and I opened it and before I could hold it back a little laugh came out. Dimitri looked at me confused and I moved the doll away before he could see.
“Well, Comrade, we got a little daddy’s girl and a momma’s boy.” I smiled and held up the little doll in front of him. The baby doll was painted in a light blue with the smallest trees he painted randomly on the tiny doll.
Yeva smiled and handed us each a small gift bag. “Now you know what you are having, I have a present for each of your children.” Yeva smiled.
We both opened these at the same time and I pulled out a blanket and outfit to match the little nesting doll of the baby girl. The pattern was a dead match down to how far the spacing was. Dimitri was holding the same to match the pattern on the baby boy nesting doll.
“Yeva, where did you find these?” I asked softly about the blanket and outfits.
“Silly girl, I didn’t find them. I made them. It’s a family tradition for the matriarch to make the first blanket for the baby.”
“Thank you Yeva.” Dimitri stood up and kneeled in front of his grandmother and hugged her tight as I saw he was about to lose control from holding those tears back. After a few moments we talked a little amongst ourselves before Karolina whistled so loud it sounded like it was a dog whistle.
“Thank you for coming. I cannot be more excited to have another little boy and girl joining our family. Roza, good luck with those little ones. Knowing the two of you they will be pretty wild. Now, it's time for presents.”
I smiled at Dimitri and I took turns opening gifts and I giggled when Dimitri grabbed the one present that I was told to open. He seemed very embarrassed seeing that it was a breast pump system and he didn't know what it was for.
“Comrade, I'll tell you later what that’s for.” I giggled.
“Dimka, it's to help Roza’s chest if she can breastfeed.” Kaolina said matter of factly.
“Oh, nice, thank you.” He smiled nodding in appreciation.
After opening way too many gifts of baby items ranging from sheets and bedding to baby outfits and baby books in russian and some in english.
After all the presents were all opened and we thanked everyone again for coming. Olena encouraged people to grab more food and dessert. Dimitri got up and got me a big slice of chocolate cake and I smiled. That’s when everyone was talking about how big they thought the babies were going to be.
“Roza, I’m sorry but when I had Dimka he was my biggest baby and when he was born he was 4.76 kilo and 59.43cm.” Olena smiled softly at me.
“That's 10.5 lbs and 23.4 inches.” Dimitri whispered knowing my brain wasn't the best at doing math quickly in my head.
“Holy shit, these two better not be that big.” I looked at Dimitri and then at Olena.
“Because they are twins they should be on the smaller side.” Sonja said smiling. “I've been learning a lot since I’ve been in nursing school here. I want to specialize in labor and delivery.”
“That’s great Sonja. If you want you’re more than welcome to be there when these two decide to make their grand entrance.” I smiled. “We can work on the details later.” I smiled and leaned against Dimitri, breathing a little heavy again. “You know I thought I was in the best shape in my life before this, and now talking makes me exhausted.” I sighed.
We kept talking and visiting with the people who were a little closer to the family and some russian vodka and something else that smelt like lighter fluid came out and I was so excited to have an excuse to not drink. People kept trying to push Dimitri more and more drinks and I could tell he wanted to celebrate but he didn’t want to overdo it. But I knew we were safe and I knew he needed to relax and enjoy the night so I pushed him to drink a few “for me”.
After we were hanging out and talking about names, Vika had mentioned a name suggestion that unknowingly made me go as pale as a dead moroi. “What about Viktor for the boy?”
“Vika, I love you but I will never name my child Viktor or Natasha. Those are the two Moroi who tried to kill me.” I said somberly.
“Oh my god I knew you had told us about people trying to kill you but I never heard a name. I'm so so sorry.”
“It’s okay, they’re both dead. I saw both of them die.” Dimitri said still clearly buzzed off the alcohol. “Tasha, grew up with me and Karolina, she was a friend and she’s dead cuz she wanted to take my Roza.”
“Rose, what did she do to you?” Karolina asked after she shooed Dimitri out of the room and told him to go help clean the kitchen with Olena.
“You don’t know? He didnt tell you?” I looked very shocked as all three girls stared at me intently.
“Well you know that Queen Tatiana was murdered, well Tasha framed me and when Dimitri broke me out of prison to save me from a death sentence. Well when I came back, I called Tasha out and she grabbed a guard’s gun and tried to shoot Lissa. I protected her. Dimitri didn’t tell you I almost died?” I looked so confused.
“Well he talked to mama but she said he was just checking in.”
“Where did you get shot?” Vika asked.
I moved my dress just enough to show a little of it. That's when I heard Olena hushed yelling at Dimitri in russian.
“Не надо так ко мне относиться, Димка.” (Don’t give me that attitude, Dimka.)
I heard her smacking him with a towel and she chased him up the stairs with the towel. All of us girls giggled and stopped when Olena came into the room. “He can be a pain in the ass sometimes can’t he?” I said smiling. “You should’ve seen him the one time after game night. It was annoying. He insisted on guarding the bathroom for me. In our own house, in the middle of court.” This got a laugh from all of them.
“Olena, did Dimitri tell you about Tasha?” I asked as I remembered what we were talking about before slightly drunk Dimitri.
“Yes, but he asked me to keep it to myself and Yeva. He said he didn’t want to hurt Karolina and if you wanted to tell us, well you would.”
“It’s okay mama,” Karolina said softly, standing and hugging her mom.
I sat between Karolina and Sonja and looked between the two. “So anyone wanna help me get into my pjs since my man is probably asleep already?”
“Yes, I’ll help.” Sonja said smiling, helping me up and protectively keeping an arm around me. Sonja smiled as she helped me get changed after I brushed my teeth and washed my face. “Rose, I do have to say you are in the best shape I’ve seen a pregnant Dhampir. If you didn’t have the belly you couldn’t tell you were pregnant.”
“Yeah, I just hope these two dont kill me when they come out and we will see about doing this again, the pregnant thing, not twins.”
After I was ready for bed she gave me a hug and smiled and kissed my belly. “Goodnight my nephew and niece.”
I sighed as I went to lay down seeing Dimitri spread out on the bed. I pushed him as best as I could and within seconds he sat up throwing a punch, however we knew each other so well that I caught his hand and pushed it down.
“Dimitri, it's just me and the kids. We need to go to sleep. We have a long day planned tomorrow. Last full day here.” I sighed and put Dimitri’s hand that previously was a fist on my belly. I turned some music on softly as I closed my eyes.
I woke when I felt a sharp jab from the baby boy down against my lady area and I sighed rubbing my belly. “Shhhh sweet boy, it's still bedtime. See even papa is still asleep. That's how we know we still need to sleep.” I whispered looking over at Dimitri laying on his back with both of his hands under his head and I smiled. I still felt so lucky to be able to have the man of my dreams with me for the rest of our lives and I get to give him a son and daughter.
I felt another quick jab right into my bladder and I sighed before getting up and walked to the bathroom muttering softly, “You better be cute when you come out.” I then got a jab from the little girl that knocked some of the wind out of me. These kiddos are already working on being grounded before they’re born. After trying to lay back down and with no avail of falling back asleep or even getting close I decided to walk downstairs and I smiled as I saw Olena was up.
“Roza, is something wrong? Are you okay?” She asked softly.
“Yea, just the kiddos are keeping me up for some ungodly reason. They better behave for the next few months, then Dimitri can get up at any time they want to be awake.” I smiled and made myself a plate of Olena’s black bread and butter.
“I’m so excited for you two. Thank you for letting us throw you a party and a gender reveal. If it’s okay with you I’d like to be able to come out and be with you guys when you have the twins and maybe stay for some time to help you guys the first few weeks of parenthood. I remember how rough it can be when you are first adjusting to it.” She smiled and laid a hand on my shoulder as I looked up at her sitting in the dining room chair.
“Of course, you know you are more than welcome to stay with us and Dimitri would love to have you around. Plus I want these little ones to know you all not just from stories but actually get to know you all.” I said rubbing my belly.
“So which one is keeping you up?” She smiled.
“Mostly the mini dimitri. Is it bad I’m scared of birth but I can’t wait to not be pregnant anymore. God what I’d do to just go work out like I used to be able to. I don’t mean to complain or be any less grateful that I can house two humans but I lost so much of myself because I physically can’t do it anymore. I just want them to be happy, healthy and out of me soon.” I felt tears welling up and I shook my head to hide them.
“Roza, this is not an easy thing you are doing. It’s okay to miss the physical aspects you were able to do before you were pregnant. You will get that back, right now your job is not protecting your charge, it’s taking care of my granddaughter and my grandson. I know Dimitri’s a bit on the protective side but you will get back into the groove of things before you know it. I survived and you have tons more support than I did when I was pregnant with Karolina.”
“Thank you Olena.”
“Olena is so formal, you are practically my daughter. You can call me whatever you like sweetheart.”
“Of course, mama Belikova.” I smiled and we both giggled and I put her hand on my belly and I felt a sharp kick near the top of my belly.
“Be good to your mother, children. That’s an order from your бабуля.” (grandma) “Roza, has Dimitri really forgiven himself for what he did when he was……?”
“For the most part, yes. He still has bad days and some ptsd episodes but usually I can get him grounded before they go too far. There was a time there between his ptsd from being….well what he was and when I was recovering from my surgery, there were some pretty rough days.” I chewed on my bottom lip.
“I know, I’m so proud of you both.” She smiled and we stood and she helped me pack all our presents into a couple boxes and load them into the car we would be taking back to the airport. “Your children couldn’t have better parents if they could’ve picked. Also I can’t wait to see what Dimitri does when he finds out his little girl is going to date someday.”
“Oh lord pray for anyone she dates. Between just our reputations.” I snickered. “Babushka, would you ever go back to being a guardian?”
“Maybe, but I wouldn’t want to be away from my family.” She said softly.
“Well, we need more guards at court if you ever would like to. I know Vika wants to work more. She was so worried about letting you down that she wanted to work.”
I saw her face show a little concern. “Of course she wouldn’t be letting me down if she wanted to guard. I would be a little nervous just as I was and still am about Dimka. But I want all my children to do what they want. I worry about all of you no matter what you are or aren’t doing for work.”
“That’s what makes you such an amazing mother.” I smiled while hugging her as we walked back into the house.
I saw Vika coming down and getting her breakfast as she waved at us and yawned again.
“Why are you up so early?” I asked.
“Ummm, Rose, mama. I’m just up.”
“She's cool with you being a guardian.” I nodded to Olena.
“Oh thank god.” I saw the tension release in her body as she relaxed. “I got up early so I could practice with Dimka but I think he’s still asleep.”
“Don’t worry I can work with you a bit, I have something I wanted to talk to you about after you are done with breakfast.”
“Okay. Is it private?”
“Yeah,” I sighed thinking of the topic I wanted to talk to her when she was over at our house but I was a little distracted by finding out I was pregnant.
After a few minutes Vika met me outside on the back porch on the little outdoor couch facing the yard.
“What did you wanna talk to me about?” She asked, seeing the sadness on my face.
“Being a guardian is not easy.” I spoke frankly. “It’s very dangerous.” I sighed as I could still remember what happened in Spokane like it was only a few days ago. “You could die.” I said with pain in my voice as I looked at her.
“I know Rose, but you could die too.” She looked at me seriously.
“ I know, but please please promise me you wont jump into something without having back up. Don’t go hunting Strigoi without a plan and backup and a contingency plan.”
“Ohhhkay?” She said looking confused.
“I told Paul about my first kills, but I want to tell you how that happened because I want you to learn from it so you don’t make the same mistake.” I said looking out into the yard thinking about Mason’s face.
“So I told my friend where some Strigoi that were hunting big royals were hiding. Well he and a couple of our friends went to go hunt them, I found out they were missing and one of my friends, he’s married to the queen, went with me to Spokane to go get them before something bad happened. Well, the five of us got captured by Strigoi.”
“Two moroi, and three of us novices. The Strigoi had used my friend Eddie as a juice box, they tried to starve the moroi to turn. Well, Christian is a fire user and he finally burnt my restraints and we got out of the room and luckily we almost got out, everyone but myself were in the sun with two strigoi behind me. My friend Mason, who totally had feelings for me, saw me in their grasp and turned and came to help me. Well with the distraction I got out of their grasp and they said if I gave up they would let him go. I did as they asked and they still snapped his neck. The other moroi that was there helped distract the one Strigoi while I threw one on the fire and then took a dull decorative sword off the wall and kept chopping at his head after he was long dead. I stayed in that house with the sword in my hand as I held Mase’s body until Dimitri found me. He deserved to have a full life. He never even got to take his final trial or get his promise mark.” I said sadly, feeling tears in my eyes. “I miss you Mase, thank you. Being a guardian isn’t just the willingness to die. It’s also seeing the ones you love get killed or hurt or even having to face off with those we know that turned.”
“Rose, I had no idea that that happened to you. I’m sorry you had to go through that.”
“Vika, could you kill me or Dimka if we were Strigoi?”
“I mean, I’d try.”
“Vika, I will teach you as best as I can but if you want to really be a guardian. You have to work and be willing to kill anyone you know if they are Strigoi. When I left here, I didn’t go home right away.” I sighed and I had to choose my next words carefully as I didn’t want to have Dimitri overhear and ruin all the progress he had made to forgive himself. I pulled her closer and lowered my volume. “I found Dimka when he was, well you know,” I trailed off and she leaned closer.
“You did? And you didn’t….” She couldn't bear to finish the sentence.
“I thought I did but, I missed just slightly because I hesitated. I don’t regret my actions now but, I did break our promise we made to each other. I beat myself up for quite the length of time for that mistake until well until we got him back to himself.”
“Rose,” Vika offered to give me a hug and I accepted and I brushed her hair off her face as I kissed the top of her head.
“You can’t hesitate, even if it’s me or Dimka or anyone.” I sighed thinking about Dimitri teaching me the same lesson.
“Dimitri told me not to hesitate.” She said softly. “But I didn't realize how important it was.”
“It’s life or death, and learn all you can from your brother. He’s a great guardian. So good I’m sure he heard this whole conversation.” I giggled. “Also if you do end up moving to court after school good luck he’s going to watch you like a hawk. Enjoy your life but also know that if you want this as your job, you have to take it seriously.” I smiled as she rubbed my big belly.
“Rose, are you going to name the baby boy after your friend?” She asked softly.
“I don’t think so, I think Eddie should have the honor of using the name. Plus Mason Belikov doesn’t sound right.”I smiled and sat cuddling with Vika for a little bit before I saw Paul running out and smiled as he saw us.
“Dimka, she’s out here with Vika.”
“Please tell me she’s not sparring.” He sighed and I saw a wave of relief when he saw me sitting down.
“Nope no sparring for me today.” Vika and I both got up. “I can’t spar, I’m making two dhampir children. I’m working on my physical exertion that way, also I gotta save all my energy for pushing two children out of me in like some months from now.
I watched as Dimitri worked on some defensive measures and escape moves with Vika as I talked to my babies and comentated through it as Paul sat on the deck in front of me and watched and wrote some things down every now and then.
After watching for a while I fell asleep watching the sparring and awoke when Dimitri kissed my forehead.
“You were up early this morning.” Dimitri said softly.
“Your son wouldn’t let me sleep and then woke his sister up so I really couldn't sleep.” I pouted.
“Just a few more months and I will take the early shift with them.” He smiled knowing my thoughts already. “Did you tell Vika about Spokane?” He asked softly and I saw Paul sitting nearby still.
“Yeah, I wanted her to know all the dangers of the thing she’s considering and I want her fully informed before she makes a decision.”
“Okay, it seemed to resonate well with her I think. She was working harder today.” He smiled as he helped me up off the couch.
“We packed up all the presents and stuff that everyone bought for us.”
“Auntie, Dimka, I still have to get you your surprise. Don’t leave until I get it to you. Babushka said she’d take me to the store this afternoon.” And as if on cue Olena was calling Paul to be ready to leave in a few minutes and I hugged him before he ran off.
“So we just need to pack up all our clothes and stuff from the room.” He said softly. “I can do that, you enjoy the last day here in Baia my love.” He kissed me softly and let his hands rest on my belly. I knew I hadn’t gained tons of weight but with it all being right in my stomach I felt like it always was more weight than the doctors told me.
I spent the day talking with Karolina, Sonja and Vika. I learned a lot about postpartum and it kind of terrified me of what could happen but I knew there was nothing I could do about how the babies decide to come out. I just knew that surgery was my last option. If that’s the only safe way then yes but if there was even an option, I wanted to avoid that if at all possible. The girls gave me a list of things to make sure I have for myself before and after the babies are born and told me to enjoy the pregnancy. It was kind of nice being able to talk about my pain and the not so nice symptoms with women who understood and could give me helpful suggestions on how to help with the pain and give me tips on the basics that people might not teach you about babies.
“I never changed a diaper.” I said softly when they asked if I had any other questions.
“Oh we can teach you, there are two children upstairs that are not potty trained.” Vika said proudly.
“Vika, you get to teach her with the toddlers.” Both sisters said in unison. “She is great at diapers.”
I laughed softly and then I was handed Zoya and Vika showed me with the boy and explained the difference between changing a boy and girl and I followed all of her directions and she smiled when I had a clean diaper on Zoya that was a bit loose.
“Close, just take those tabs and pull them a little tighter, you aren't going to hurt her. If a diaper is that loose on a little newborn they might have pee or poop come out and go down their leg. That being said, blowouts do happen.”
“Blowouts?” Both mothers in the room started laughing.
“Yea, it's when they basically explode out of their diaper, either up their back or down their legs, or worse, both. It’s so gross.” Karolina laughed.
I felt myself get a little more pale and they all laughed and reassured me I would be able to get through parenthood.
“You know I thought killing Strigoi was harder than being a mom.” Sonja said softly.
“Really? That’s easy and practically just a hobby for me.” I smiled softly.
“I know, you’ll master being a mom easily. Before you know it they’ll be grown and have their own kids.” Karolina smiled. “God, Paul is such a perfect clone of his uncle.”
“When he was at court with us I was calling him mini Belikov.” I laughed as I heaved myself up off the floor using the couch for help.
After a while later I saw Paul come in and dart right upstairs and I assumed he was wrapping whatever he bought. Dimitri came down with our bags and smiled as I walked over and kissed him.
“I learned a lot today, including how to change a diaper.” I smiled
“Well, we will be doing parenting classes when we get back and birthing classes.” Dimitri said matter of factly.
“Don’t I get a say in this?” I called as he took our bags to the car.
“Sorry Roza, you don’t. I already paid in full for private classes.” I pouted and bit my lip so I didn’t swear knowing the children were running around.
Paul came down with two presents and handed them to me and Dimitri.
“I hope they enjoy them.” He smiled and we opened the gifts and there were little pacifiers and little baby toys and animal hats. There were a couple outfits for each baby that were adorable. They were all wild animal themed. There were also a couple onesies that had some dhampir theming on them. I held one up and it said “My mommy is stronger than your mommy.” Dimitri held one up and it had a little steak on it and said. “Protector like mom and dad.” I giggled. One said, “Future star athlete.” I hugged Paul as tightly as I could with my big belly.
“They say thank you and they will love all the things you got them.” I felt them kick as he was squeezed tight against my belly.
“Thank you Paul.” Dimitri said ruffling his hair as he stared at my belly mesmerized that he could feel them moving.
“Doesn’t that feel weird? When they’re moving.”
“Very, it's not the most comfortable but I’ll let them do whatever they want for now.”
After a while later we packed up our last minute things and our last presents from Paul and we all hugged and thanked everyone for having us and we would keep in contact soon and let them know we got home safely.
Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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When we arrived at our house Dimitri brought in our bags and boxes of gifts and I texted Olena, Lissa, my mom and my dad we got home.
I sighed and was about to throw myself onto the couch but Dimitri stopped me and seeing the exhaustion on my face he carried me to the bed.
I got a response from Lissa asking to come over and tell us how the trip went and how the babies were doing. Dimitri told me that I could have everyone over after we both got some rest and everyone seemed okay with me telling them we would ask them over. The length of the trip really hit us since Dimitri was paranoid of something happening to me and every time I got comfortable someone had to kick a vital organ or roll around like they were practicing somersaults already.
I changed into Dimitri’s shirt he threw to me for my pajamas and I left my underwear on. I was so glad to be back in our bed. I loved Baia but this bed was much bigger and I had so much more room to stretch out. Once I got all comfortable Dimitri kissed my head and gave me a goodnight kiss.
“Rest up, моя любовь.” (my love) He laid a hand on my belly as he told them to rest as well.
We slept in quite a bit as we were trying to adjust to the different time zones and Dimitri’s family ran on a human schedule instead of a vampiric time table.
I woke feeling quite refreshed and smiled, kissing Dimitri’s cheek as I got up to go to the bathroom. I took my phone and texted Lissa telling her she could come over. We sat in the living room and it was so hard to keep the genders a secret and I showed her some of the gender neutral things that we got for the babies and put them back in the boxes.
“Rose, when are we going to have the gender reveal party and when will I get the information from the doctor?”
“Well, we already know. Olena and Yeva wanted to surprise us with that information and it was an amazing moment. I’ll show you footage after we tell you, but I will be the one who will order whatever it is that tells you the genders.”
“You know?!” Lissa screeched a little too loud and I knew Dimitri probably woke up.
“Liss, he was still asleep.” I sighed softly and got up making sure Dimitri didn’t walk out in his boxers. Luckily he stopped to put sweats on.
“Roza, are you okay? What’s wrong?”
“Nothing Comrade, just some royal is in our living room and mad at me cuz we know the genders.”
“Lissa?” He raised an eyebrow.
“Of course. You can go back to sleep.” I said softly.
“No it’s okay. I’m already up but I’m going to shower.” He smiled, kissing me softly. “Care to join?”
“Lissa’s in the other room.” I hissed.
“And that would stop you? You’d just have to be quiet.” He winked.
“I would love it if I didn’t have my sister in the other room and a baby using my crotch as a punching bag.” I said half heartedly.
He kneeled down and looked at the belly and rubbed the bottom. “You be nice to your mother. You behave, relax, you've got a while before we can start practicing how to hit and kick okay?” He kissed my belly below and up top and smiled.
“Baby said they’d behave.” He spoke making sure to not use any specific gender in case Lissa was eavesdropping.
“Have a nice shower babe.” I giggled and winked as I walked back out our bedroom and shut the door.
“So I set up a time for you guys to go look at that house near the palace today.” Lissa said as she was texting. I assumed it was Christian as I walked to the kitchen and realized that we didn't have any food cuz we got rid of all the perishable food before we left on our trip.
“Okay, Liss, I’m hungry.” I pouted and she just rolled her eyes at me and pointed to the box of doughnuts she brought with her.
“You are the best sister.” I smiled and hugged her and ripped open the box.
“I know I know.” She giggled and rubbed my belly after I was finished eating.
“I think they’ll be big. I also think I know what the genders are.” She smiled, her lips curling into a cunning grin.
“Go ahead and guess, I’m not giving you a single clue. I did feel both of them kick and they’re both active.” I said as the baby girl jabbed towards the one side quickly. “Okay okay no need to throw elbows children.” I sighed and Lissa just laughed.
Lissa and I talked for a while longer as Dimitri finished his shower and got ready for the day. When he came out I told him that we had an appointment to see a house near the palace with Lissa soon.
“Good to see you Lissa,” Dimitri smiled and gave her a big hug.
“Good to see you too. I’m glad you kept my guardian safe.” She smiled.
“Hey, what if it was me keeping him safe? There was a point where he did get pretty much attacked by 4 dhampir women.”
“They were just going for the test results. I happened to be holding Roza. None of them even left a bruise.”
“Vika did later during training.” I smiled the one time Vika got a little too worked up by Dimitri’s teasing. She hit him a bit harder than necessary and gave him a decent bruise on his chest.
“I think she’d make a great guardian if she could give Dimitri a bruise.” Lissa said giggling. We set off to go meet Christian for breakfast before heading to the house we had an appointment at.
After we looked at the house thoroughly Christian and Lissa gave us some space to talk about it while they talked to the realtor.
“Dimitri,what do you think?” I said looking around the room we were in was decorated like a little office right off the main entrance.
“It’s close to the palace.” He said curtly.
“What’s wrong with it babe?” I asked, seeing the look on his face, he was telling me what I wanted to hear.
“I don’t know.” He said softly. “It seems a little too good to be true.”
“That’s what I was thinking when I found out I was pregnant.” I smiled, kissing the palm of his hand. “We would be close to Christian and Liss, the commute would be maybe a few minutes of walking at most and we would have extra rooms in case we have visitors from Baia.” I smiled looking up at him.
“I guess that’s true. We could also just keep having kids too.” He smirked as I rolled my eyes.
“Let me see how this goes first before we talk about more, okay?” I laughed softly.
“So?” He looked at me for an answer.
“What do you think, fiance?” I grinned.
“Whatever you want, love.”
“I like it. Don’t get me wrong we will need to give it more of our style but it’s not bad.”
“Okay my love,”
We walked back over to the realtor and Lissa and Christian.
“Well, what do you think?” She said softly.
“We like it, do you have any other houses around the area for us to look at also?”
“Well, there is a condo in the palace that’s unoccupied.Well, a few of them.” Christian spoke up.
“Christian, they don’t want to live in guardian condos.” Lissa chastised him.
“Well they asked my queen.” He grinned.
“How big are they?” Dimitri asked.
“The largest is the guardian condos right next to us and it’s a little smaller than this but your condo does connect to the rest of the palace so it’s right next to our living quarters but it’s more like living kind of in a hotel.” Christian spoke.
Dimitri and I looked at each other for a moment thinking the same question. “Is it soundproof between the rooms?”
“Somewhat, but not completely.” He looked confused and then it clicked. I got close to seeing some things happen with Christian and Lissa through the bond and I really didn’t want to hear those things.
I looked at Dimitri and pulled him close and without saying anything we both agreed that privacy was a better option so we didn't hear all the details of our best friends' love life.
“We would love to purchase this house.” Dimitri said, smiling at the realtor.
“Great, I’ll get the paperwork all set and your majesty already paid the house in full and she said bills will be sent to her.”
“Lissa,” I sighed.
“No Rose, it’s barely anything for us. I’m going to take care of our best guardians and family, just don’t tell anyone.” She winked. “Your kids need a house they can run around in and a backyard.”
We filled out all the paperwork that day and got the keys as Lissa and Christian must have made sure it would be ready that day.
I sat on the couch that they had the living room staged with as Dimitri moved our stuff in as I wasnt allowed to move anything heavier than a handful of pounds since he was so nervous I’d fall and hurt the babies. With help from Christian, Eddie, my mom, Sonya, and Mikhail all of our boxes were brought in rather quickly and the few things we needed right away were pulled out and put away. As people were unpacking around us Lissa had to run and attend a few meetings so I was left to be entertained by my father.
“You said they were kicking?” He asked, smiling as he was almost as amazed at my belly as Paul and Dimitri were.
“Yep old man. Already practicing to beat your butt. Also we know the genders too.” I grinned teasing him and walked into the room that would soon be their nursery. It was a decent room right next to the main bedroom on the second floor and the master was nice with big windows which is why Dimitri and I both loved that room. I smiled leaning against the wall.
“Can I decorate their nursery?” My dad asked and I laughed so hard I started to pee a little.
“Absolutely not.”
“Well I tried.” He said softly.
“Your taste is a bit too loud for a nursery.” I said softly.
“I was teasing you Kiz,” He snorted and I walked to the bathroom. After I was finished in the bathroom I walked into the bedroom and sighed seeing that our bed was put together and I laid down on it.
“Tired my Roza?” Dimitri asked, sitting next to me.
“No, not at all I could go run a marathon.” I sighed sarcastically.
“Okay I deserve that one. Is there anything I can get you?”
“I’m dizzy and tired. I should call the nurse tomorrow to get that IV infusion thing.” I said, sighing. Dimitri knew how much I hated needles when it came to the medical sense. When I got my marks it didn’t even feel the same.
“I’ll call her right now.” He spoke softly and pulled out his phone and he disappeared as my mom appeared at my side.
“Are you okay honey?” She said trying to be the kindest she could.
“Thanks mom, ‘mitri’s calling the doc to bring the IV infusion crap. That usually makes me feel better. I think I just over did it today.” I sighed and seeing people move things in and out as I laid down made my head spin and I felt nauseous.
“Trash.” I ordered my dad who was standing behind my mom.
“Excuse me young lady, I am not trash.” He stood taller and ran his hand over his shirt.
“Ibrahim, she's asking for the trash can, idiot.” She didn't take her eyes off me and she looked at me from top to bottom.
He handed me the trash can just in time for all the contents in my stomach to come back up and my mom got me some water to rinse my mouth and had me spit into the trash and she even had someone grab my toothbrush. After my mouth was all cleaned out my mom pushed the trash to Abe to take care of.
“Feel better sweetie?” She asked as she rubbed my back.
“The movement.” I sighed and closed my eyes and I heard heavy steps and even with my eyes closed I knew who those were. That was my man, my Russian god.
“Janine, is she okay? What happened?”
“She said the movement made her sick and she threw up. We got her all cleaned up and she made it in the trash can.”
“Roza, it’s me. The doctor is coming to give you the IV. I need you to stay awake for me.”
“Okay but can I keep my eyes closed? Everything’s moving a lot.”
“Yes but you need to keep talking to us,okay?”
“Kiz, what are the genders?” I kept my eyes closed but I had a feeling that Dimitri and my mom were giving him the death glare. “What I was trying to get her to focus on something more exciting and distract her.”
“Ibrahim, if you are not going to behave, get the hell out.” My mom said and I could feel the ice in her voice.
“We will tell you at the party. We will let you know when we plan it okay?” Dimitri said, trying to answer the question without giving anything away.
“Old man, why do you want to sneak information out of me? I’m not gonna tell Lissa till the party, or mom. If you dare, you can go all the way to Baia and try to get it out of yeva.” I smirked and shivered as I heard Dimitri let out a snort as he laid down with me pulling me close along with adding another blanket over me.
I snuggled into him and buried my head in his chest. I let the smell of Dimitri calm me as his warmth surrounded my body.
"We will give you some privacy while we wait for the doctor downstairs." My mom spoke softly and I heard her pulling my father along with her.
"Thank you." Dimitri spoke softly to them. "Roza, what do you want to talk about?" He asked softly knowing he had to prompt me because I would fall asleep if left in silence.
"We need to work on names." I said softly.
"What do you think of Anya?"
"That's pretty. What's it mean?" I looked up at him.
"It means grace." He kissed my head.
"I like it, add it to the list. I'll forget if we don't write them down. What about Luka?" I offered.
"That's nice, a little more unique." He said, smiling at me.
"Well I don't want them to have boring common names." I said smiling.
"Of course not. Their names will be perfect no matter what we decide." He rubbed my belly and I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. My mom ushered the doctor in and she sat next to the bed and I wiggled away from Dimitri begrudgingly.
"Guardian Hathaway. I hear you're not feeling well." The nurse said as I sat up a little.
"Yep, I think I overworked myself today and I'm really dizzy." I sighed, holding onto Dimitri's hand knowing I hated getting the IV infusion.
"Alright, well let's get you some fluids. I'm going to give you saline with some vitamins and some B12 to help with giving you some energy back but I think you might need to start listening to your body's limits. I'd hate for you to push yourself and put you or your children at risk."
After a few hours my body had absorbed two bags of fluids and I was feeling a little better. The dizziness subsided from sitting up in the bed and the vitamins. After the nurse made sure I was feeling much better she reminded us that I was probably going to need to get a check up with my doctor soon now that we were back from our trip.My dad ran out and got us some food and I ate so much that I felt like my belly would burst. After my mom was convinced that I wasn't going anywhere anytime soon and that I was feeling better she told Abe that they were going to leave us for the evening and they would check in later.
"How in the hell am I supposed to grow any bigger?" I asked, looking down at my belly.
"You will and you are amazing. You always surprise me with how strong you are. You always outdo yourself." He smiled and slid down to lay next to my belly. I leaned towards him a little and I put a small pillow under my hip to prop me towards Dimitri. I played with his hair as he talked to our son and daughter. "My little girl, please be patient and less wild than your mama. My little boy, please don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. I love you both with all of my heart and then more. I couldn’t believe it when I found out about you two joining our family. I can't wait to meet you."
"My skin so so tight and itchy." I rubbed my hand over my belly.
"I'm sorry Roza, It just means they're getting bigger." He then turned his attention back to the belly in front of him. "Rest well my children, grow nice and strong. Behave for mama. I love you now, goodnight." He kissed my belly twice where the babies tended to stay.
After he said goodnight to the babies he slid back up the bed and laid his head on his pillow laying on his back. I was now too big to sleep on my back and I had to sleep on my side. I laid my head on Dimitri's chest hearing his heartbeat. I nuzzled into his chest even more and closed my eyes and fell asleep.
When I woke I saw Dimitri putting together a dresser and I smiled watching him from the bed.I pulled the blanket up over my shoulder. The sunset gave a beautiful glow to the room and Dimitri. Once he finished the dresser he came over and kissed my head.
“Good morning Roza.”
“Good morning Comrade.” I smiled and kissed Dimitri softly.
“You have to take it easy today.” He said sitting on the bed next to my belly and rubbing my belly through the blanket.
“Okay, but we do need to get the nursery ready and buy the things we need.”
“Do you know how you want the nursery decorated?”
‘Well, I haven't gotten that far. What do you think?”
“I thought maybe something gender neutral and relaxing, maybe a little outdoors theme.”
“Sounds good to me. So what are the plans for today?”
“Well, we need to go check in with Lissa, but I think we are both off for the day so we can go shopping for paint for the nursery and maybe cribs but we will see how everything goes. I want you to take it easy.” He looked at me with a little concern and I could see the worry in his eyes.
“I will listen to the doctors and my body. I promise.” I smiled and held his face with my hand before letting it drop and I pulled the blanket off as I slowly got up. Once standing I smiled and kissed Dimitri’s cheek. “Where are my clothes?” I asked since nothing was put away yet.
“In the closet Roza, I unpacked all the clothes this morning while you were asleep.”
“Of course you did, Comrade.” I shook my head and smiled. “I’m going to get dressed and then we can go over to see Liss and get the debrief from when we were gone, and our schedules.”
After finding some clothes that fit I sighed and walked down the stairs where Dimitri was waiting with a few doughnuts and water for me. I smiled and took the doughnuts and ate them quickly in just a few bites before taking the water and drinking it quickly. Dimitri took the glass and set it in the sink before returning to my side and helping me get my shoes on as I couldn't see or reach my feet anymore. After we were both ready we headed over to the palace. It was the weekend so I assumed Lissa wouldn’t have many meetings today as it was a day that court wasn’t in session. When we walked up to the palace Dimitri asked one of the guards that we knew well where Christian and Lissa were. Once we found out they were indeed not busy and in their suite we headed right over.
Once we got to the suite Dimitri smiled at the guardian on duty outside the door and he nodded towards us. “Welcome back Belikov, Hathaway.”
“Nice to see you again Dean.” I said using his last name like he referred to us.
“Hathaway you look like you’re about to pop. How long do you have left?”
“Oh just another 4 months.” I said casually. “You can blame this guy.” I nodded towards Dimitri.
“Well, we can’t wait to have you back when you can be. Until then you know we will keep them safe.” He looked serious as he usually did.
“I know you will.” I smiled and knocked on the door loudly and repetitively until an annoyed Christian answered the door.
“Ughh why do you have to be so annoying?” He looked at me with disdain. “At least you brought my guard back in one piece.”
“Move over fire boy, I need to sit down. These children are heavy.” I sighed holding my belly.
“Rose!” Lissa came over and hugged me tightly. “How are they doing?” She pulled away and looked at my belly. “You’re huge!”
“ You saw me yesterday.Thanks for that reassurance, Liss, I knew I was turning into a whale.” I rolled my eyes sarcastically. “Can I sit down now?”
“Of course, come in.” She smiled and gestured to the sitting area. Dimitri sat next to me and Christian sat down in a cozy chair and Lissa snuggled up to him.
“So how was Baia?” Christian asked, looking at Dimitri.
“It was great. I loved seeing my family.” He smiled looking down at me.
"Just wait till you get to meet Yeva Christian." I giggled.
"Who's that?" Lissa looked confused.
"She's my grandmother." Dimitri smiled one of his big smiles that have now become more common but we're still reserved for friends and family mostly.
"Your grandmother is still alive?" Christian looked genuinely curious.
"Well with how stubborn she is I think she'll outlive our grandkids." I laughed only half joking. "I don't think anything could take her out if she didn't want it to."
"Are they coming here?" Lissa looked confused.
"Yes,nothing has been finalized but everyone wants to be here to help welcome the newest members of the Belikov family and my mama wants to help us out with the twins for the first few weeks at a minimum." Dimitri smiled down at me knowing how much I wanted Olena to teach me all of her tricks when it came to raiding such great kids.
"That's amazing Dimitri. We can't wait to have them all here. I know we met Paul and Viktoria. Have you guys picked out names?"
"Still working on that one, we are gathering a few names we like and then we will slowly cross the ones off our list that don't feel right." I laid my hand over Dimitris that laid on my belly as the little girl on the top decided to show off her skills and kick against my stomach quickly and Christian saw it and shock mixed with horror showed on his face.
"Rose. Something just moved inside you."
"Silly, that's the baby." Lissa giggled and kissed his cheek.
"Yea just wait till they're really crammed in there." I said dryly.
"It'll be fine Roza." He reassured me softly and kissed my hair.
"Says the guy who has the easy part. You get to have the fun part and then watch me do the extra hard part." I said sarcastically as I rolled my eyes knowing he would take that task if he possibly could.
"Well, I'll email you guys your schedule. Rose you're still on for now but you said you had a doctor's appointment soon?"
"I'm not quite sure when we need to call and confirm."
"Okay no problem." Lissa smiled. "Any plans for the day?"
"Just maybe looking at paint for the nursery and cribs, maybe carseats too." I smiled. "And the room is going to be gender neutral so no you can't get any hints from it."
"Damn," I heard Lissa murmur softly and I just shook my head. "Well, we don't want to take up any more of your time doing all that fun stuff."
"Well you could come over and help Dimitri set up the cribs." I giggled. "Since I'm not allowed to help build anything."
"Not my kids." Christian snorted.
"No but they will probably be able to kick your ass by the age of 10." Dimitri smirked confidently.
After saying our goodbyes we got up and headed to the store and we grabbed some paint swatches, most in the softer greys and a few soft blues. Dimitri mentioned painting some animals on the wall and some trees with stencils, so we grabbed a few other colors for the tree and leaves.
After that store we headed into a baby store and I went right to the sample cribs. Dimitri quickly found one that we both really liked and would look good in the room with whatever colors we decided. It was wood with a medium dark stain and it had a more modern spin on a classical crib.
"That's our crib." I smiled seeing it was on sale if you bought two. Dimitri left to go get a big cart like thing and set both cribs on the bottom of the cart. After we walked towards the carseat and stroller area. I had no idea there were so many kinds of carseats and strollers. That was something I probably had to do more research on.
We walked around a little longer before heading to the checkout and I knew Dimitri wouldn't let me do much after being out for this long today. The cashier was polite but she looked shocked when she saw how big I was, apparently she thought we waited till I was about to pop to get a crib.
Chapter 9: Chapter 9
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A few weeks after we got back from our trip all of our things were out of the boxes and the room was fully painted and Dimitri had the cribs built and against one wall with a tree between the two. He really did enjoy painting the mural of the tree and the owl in it along with the flowers coming up from the floor and a few flying birds. Now that everything was set up we were going to have our gender reveal party and I was told about a small baby shower here hosted by Lissa.
"I can't wait for Lissa to know about the genders so she can stop hounding me about it. The amount of times she tries to get me to slip up about it."
"I know my love, she's not the only one testing us about gender. You know I have all the respect in the world for your parents but Abe is on another level with this." He rolled his eyes, my dramatic nature may have been wearing off on him a little.
"I'm sorry he's been bothering you about it too. I'm glad you asked him to help with the nursery. I think he wants to help a lot, especially that he wasn't there when my mom was going through all of this with me."
"Of course my love. He has been a big help. So when did Lissa say the party was?”
“You know the pregnancy brain is in full effect. I can barely remember if I work or not.” I rolled my eyes dramatically.
“Don’t worry moya lyubov. How are my babies doing?” He came over to the couch and knelt on the floor as he laid his head against my bigger belly. “Are you being good for momma?” He asked them sweetly and the little boy punched me right in the hip.
“Well he just punched my bone so no.” I giggled and rubbed the top of my belly where my little sweet girl was hanging out quietly for now.
“Not many weeks left before they could come.” He said kissing my belly as it tightened for a solid minute before relaxing again. My doctor told us these were braxton hicks contractions. They’re super common and start earlier with women who are expecting twins.
“Yeah, I need to stay in there a bit longer, get all nice and chunky before they come out first. Also we need a lot more things before they come.” I smiled, holding out my hand for Dimitri to help me get up. It was getting harder and harder to do the easiest things.
I heard footsteps walking up to our house and I stood in front of the door and grinned knowing the perfume of my best friend from anything else. Dimitri kind of hated that my sense of smell was so strong I could tell almost anything in what we were eating. He was so sweet dealing with all my food aversions and cravings. Once Lissa was about to open the door I opened it and giggled.
“Jesus Rose, you scared me!” Lissa said with her hand on her chest.
“Sorry but I live here.” I winked.
“I know you do. How are you doing? I came to talk about the party and about some work stuff.” She smiled at Dimitri and walked past me to sit at our dining room table and I shrugged and followed with Dimitri trailing behind.
“Okay Liss get it over with, what work stuff are we talking about?” I asked.
“Well, I’m putting you on maternity leave starting today. You can’t let anything happen to those kiddos and I have plenty of guardians.”
“No work at all?” I asked so confused. “I can’t even watch the gates?”
“moya lyubov, it’s best for the babies.” Dimitri said, standing over me with his hands on my shoulders.
I nodded. “Okay but you know I’m just going to hang out with you all day when you aren't in meetings.” I looked at Lissa giggling.
“Fine with me but after the party so I know what your children are. I need to know if I’m having nieces,nephews, or both. Speaking of, you said you wanted to have it here correct?”
“Yes, but no stupid games please. Also I’ll need help decorating since Mr. Paranoid won't let me do anything.”
“Of course, we will keep it tasteful and I’ll bring everything. All you need to worry about is the gender reveal.” Lissa smiled.
"Whatever you say, your highness." I rolled my eyes giggling.
After a little longer of spending time together Lissa had to leave for some meeting. I laid on the couch with Dimitri. I loved these calm moments between us, just us. It was as if the rest of the world melted away. After a while Dimitri turned our TV on and signed into Disney+.
"Since when do we get outside streaming services?" I looked questiongly at him.
"Since we are special and they work anywhere in the world if you pay for them. Also I knew you'd get bored being on bedrest. I also got Netflix too. What would you like to watch,moya lyubov?"
"You pick." I reached up and kissed his cheek.
"This looks good." Dimitri had the box around something called princess bride. He put it on and we started watching. I wasn't sure what I thought at first but after a little while into it I found myself so interested.
"The prince is a dick." I admitted rubbing my very itchy belly and sitting up to help with the heartburn.
"He's not dead." I said softly, looking at Dimitri and he smiled, kissing my forehead. "He reminds me of you." I smiled and nuzzled into Dimitri, my head on his shoulder as we watched.
After the movie I yawned and tried to keep my eyes open. "Roza, you need rest." Dimitri said softly, holding me against him. He carried me up to the bed and laid me down gently. I fell asleep shortly. I had a feeling I'd be spending a lot of time sleeping, watching shows, and movies and eating. I knew this would be hard but I didn't think this would be this hard.
After taking a long nap I smiled feeling a bit more refreshed. I walked down the stairs taking my time. Once I got to the landing in the middle of the stairs I sneezed and my eyes widened as I realized that I accidentally peed as I sneezed. I walked back up to our room and washed up and changed clothes.
After I was done I walked back down the stairs and walked to the kitchen and grabbed a tangerine and peeled it over the trash and walked to the living room eating it. Dimitri had a late shift today checking the wards. I texted Lissa to meet me so we can go shopping for more baby items.
Before getting pregnant I had no idea the sheer amount of things you need for a tiny human. No wonder Sydney brought a crap-ton of stuff with her when she had Declan with her. And I am going to have two of them at one time.
I looked up some more information about preparing for parenthood and learning about breastfeeding. I'd have to talk to Dimitri about if he wants to bottle feed or breastfeed or a combination.
Lissa walked in smiling and I hugged her and threw my jacket on even though my jacket wouldn't close. She took a photo of me making a silly face.
"What are we going shopping for?" Liss asked, looping her arm around mine.
"Oh lots, apparently there are a lot of things I need for giving birth and preparing for not one but two babies." I smiled and led Lissa towards the store.
"I did some research, but I don't know what choices you and Dimitri want to make but you definitely need more sheets and baby clothes, even though I don't know gender yet." She shot me a look letting me know she still wasn't happy that she was out of the loop.
"I definitely want to try breastfeeding but we might pump or use formula also but that depends. I need to get pacifiers, also I want to see if they have any good twin strollers that will be good and safe for them. I also need to get some big pjs for me in the hospital and when I'm home. I heard white noise machines are helpful, maybe a baby carrier because I'd like to be able to carry them and still have my hands free." I smiled thinking about working out with my babies as weights. "I wonder how difficult it'll be to run with two babies strapped onto me."
"Rose, of course you'd think that. You just can't wait to get back to training can you?"
"Liss, I've never taken this long without some level of training. Not even when I was, well, not even in Novosibirsk."
"I'm sorry, I know how hard it is." She smiled as we walked into the store and I grabbed a shopping cart leaning forward on it to take some of the weight off my body. We got some really nice comfortable pajamas that were made for nursing. Don't get me wrong they weren't very cute they were mostly solid colors but they would work.
After getting the stuff for me we started looking at the baby stuff. I found the pacifiers right away and made sure to grab the most gender neutral ones just to throw Lissa off. We walked past some nursing pillow things and I saw one nice one for twins and got it. I looked at the strollers briefly and made note to come back with Dimitri for some things.
Lissa was so excited once we got to the baby clothes. She squealed seeing the adorable baby clothes. "Remember Liss they'll be coming late November or early December probably." Since twins happened to come early I was expecting them to come at 36 weeks or so.
"I know. They won't be outside more than to go to other houses for the first few months." She found some amazingly adorable clothes and she grabbed a few sizes since we didn't know how big they were. All my doctor had said was that they were huge. But nothing that could fit in this little tiny outfit was huge. Lissa grabbed some that said There's no one like my Auntie. I smiled
"They're auntie is a queen." Smiling and giggling with Lissa. I smiled and reached for a set of onesies that said "daddy's snuggle buddy." And it had one that said mommy's snuggle buddy. I smiled and put it in the cart. I grabbed another set that was mostly neutral with one having rainbows on it. "Also I'll tell you their Christmas lists now. Clothes, diapers, wipes and possibly formula."
"Those aren't very fun for their first Christmas."
"Liss at the oldest they will be is may 6 weeks old."
"You have a point there." Once we had decided this was it for today we made our way to the checkout and we both bought our stuff even though Liss tried to pay for mine but I refused to let her. Once we got back in the house I left the bags of items in the living room flopping down on the couch rubbing my belly. It felt so itchy and tight. Lissa stayed for a while and I ended up laying my head in her lap as we watched some show that Lissa picked.
"I hope they're proud of me." I said barely audible but with Lissa's Moroi hearing of course she picked it up. She petted my head softly.
"They will be. Plus I will be there just in case you need anything."
"Okay but you can't waste all your magic healing me. Got it?"
"Fine." She said knowing it was less of a question and more of a plea. I must’ve fallen asleep because I woke up when I felt my head move. Lissa had gotten up. By the time I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes Dimitri was kneeling in front of me. "Hi," he said softly.
"Hi," I smiled and leaned forward cupping his face in my hands as I saw his big smile before I gave him a sweet long kiss. "I got some things for the babies."
"I see." He smiled and murmured to my belly. "Come on kids, it's time to get you in bed." He stood and gently picked me up like I was a doll and carried me up the stairs. He tucked me in and went about the end of night routine that he followed every night. I watched as much as I could from the bed.
“Hey, I wanted to talk to you about what your thoughts on breastfeeding or bottle feeding were.” I spoke knowing he was just about done flossing.
“Well,it’s up to you and them if you would like to, moya lyubov. As long as they are fed, that's what matters.”
“Well, there are benefits of them being breastfed but I don't want to exclude you from feeding them. What if I breastfed and pumped so you and others could feed them too. If I don't make enough milk we can always use formula too. Also we need to go get a stroller, swings and car seats together. Not that we drive a lot but we will need them when we do go outside of court.” I smiled at Dimitri as he walked back to the bed from the bathroom door.
“We can go together the day after tomorrow. I have off. Did you think about how you want to announce genders to your family?”
“I hate the balloon popping and having balloons come out of a box. It's so cheesy and well with the queen I don’t want anyone to take it as an attack. I think it’d be special if my mom did one and my dad did the other. But I think I want it to be more tailored to their personalities.”
He smiled and nodded sitting on the bed, his eyes intently on me. “What if we did something like a bag of powder in a punching glove and let your mom punch it and it explodes showing the color of the baby?” He looked all over my face and I could tell that I was just as excited as I was for that.
“Oh my god yes. She would love that. Now gender reveal for my father,” I sighed. “It’s gotta be dramatic. What if we made him figure out a riddle.He then has to guess the gender by picking either a blue or pink flower and if he gets it wrong I get to dump a whole bottle of glitter and the other powder packet over his head that's the color of the correct answer. I’ll tell mom to make him wear white.”
“That is a smart idea, moya lyubov, but sometimes you scare me with how evil you can be. I can talk to the florist that Lissa is using and have her bring a single flower of each color. I'll buy one bag of each color of powder so no one is suspicious.”
“You are amazing. Even if he gets it right I’m still doing the glitter and the powder packet over his head. Thank you, my amazing Russian god.” I smiled and winked before rubbing my belly as I felt huge.
“You look more beautiful everyday. Have I told you how amazing you look lately?” He smiled a big smile on his face.
“I mean I know I look good but it’s nice to always hear you tell me.” I kissed his cheek and gently kissed his neck.
The next day when I woke Dimitri must have already been at work and I smiled rubbing my belly as I got up and walked to some of the other rooms. I wondered which one Paul would like to stay in when he comes to visit. I smiled thinking about maybe adding a small gym in one of the rooms. Once the babies are born it'd be nice for me to be able to get back into shape.
I walked into the kitchen and grabbed some food and saw a text from Lissa.
Ready for the party tomorrow? I will be there with Christian to help set up early. Got the gender reveal stuff set up?
Liss
Hey Liss, yes Dimitri has it all covered and I am so excited to tell you all the genders. Planning on coming over tonight or tomorrow morning to start setting up?
Rose
No. We can get everything done tomorrow morning. Also that way you and Dimitri can have the night together without anyone disrupting you.
Liss
As I sat down I set my food on the coffee table and brought a drink over with me. I smiled as I pulled a blanket over my legs resting my feet on the coffee table and I turned the tv and turned on a movie.
I smiled and pulled my shirt up and rubbed my belly. “Tomorrow auntie Liss and grandma and grandpa will learn what your genders are. Then momma and daddy have to pick out your names. It would be easier if you could just tell me what your names are? I know I shouldn’t tell you this but I’m excited and scared to meet you little kiddos. Please be kind to me. I have know idea what I’m doing, but I will love you with every fiber of my being.”
I went back to watching the movie and smiled as I snacked on my food and drank my whole bottle of water. Once the movie was almost over I heard my phone chirp and I grabbed it and looked at it and saw a calendar reminder for a doctor's appointment. I still had an hour so I got up and put my food away and refilled my water bottle before I headed upstairs to the bedroom. Once I showered and was ready to go I sat down on the edge of the bed and texted Dimitri and he said he would meet me at the doctor.
I made my way over to the doctors and as I was looking around at the soft light breaking through the trees indicating the start of the human day I felt an arm wrap around me and I jumped a little in surprise and turned and smiled when I saw the most amazing man in my life.
“Just me Roza,” He reassured me, kissing my head. “Let's go see the babies.”
I smiled, kissing his cheek and nodded as I walked in. After getting all checked in we sat down and I smiled looking around the room as we waited.
After a little while we went back and talked to the doctor a little and she talked about some things as she checked my weight and measured my belly before we did the ultrasound and I smiled seeing them moving around and the little boy was sucking on his hand. I was glad to hear the babies were doing and we found out that they were measuring bigger than they were and they were hitting all their developmental markers. The little girl was rubbing her face with her little hand and the doctor.
After our appointment we walked home and I leaned against Dimitri feeling happy seeing that the little ones were doing well. I didn't think I was worried but it's always a relief to hear that the babies were doing well and that they just need to get bigger before coming.
“I’m so excited to hold them and give them kisses.” I smiled.
“I can’t wait to see you be a mama moya lyubov'.” He smiled as he opened the door for me and carried me in. He sat me down and kissed me softly before pulling away to start work but I grabbed his arm.
“Can we order in? I want to spend as much time with you.” He smiled and nodded, and sat down next to me and pulled up the app to order our food. After a little while Dimitri got our food from the delivery guy. I smiled when I saw him walk in with food. After a while Dimitri refilled my water bottle and handed it to me and I took it and he wrapped me up and carried me to our bed and I smiled snuggling him tight once we were both in bed.
“I can’t believe tomorrow everyone will know the genders of the babies. That’s so crazy.”
“I know my love, did you know which baby you want your mom to reveal and your dad?”
“I want to do the pink all over dad. Plus I know he will go crazy when he realizes he gets to spoil a little girl and a little boy."
"Okay, my love. I will get that all set up in the morning. I want you to relax as much as you can. We don't want them coming too early. I know they might be early but the best place for them right now is to stay put until they are big and healthy enough to come home."
"I know. There might be a chance they have to stay at the hospital anyways. But I don't know, I really hope not."
I bit my lip softly as I adjusted my pillows and gave Dimitri a soft kiss. I laid my head on his shoulder and he kissed the top of my head murmuring to me and the babies as I fell asleep quickly.
Chapter 10: Chapter 10 the second reveal
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A few weeks after we got back from our trip all of our things were out of the boxes and the room was fully painted and Dimitri had the cribs built and against one wall with a tree between the two. He really did enjoy painting the mural of the tree and the owl in it along with the flowers coming up from the floor and a few flying birds. Now that everything was set up we were going to have our gender reveal party and I was told about a small baby shower here hosted by Lissa.
"I can't wait for Lissa to know about the genders so she can stop hounding me about it. The amount of times she tries to get me to slip up about it."
"I know my love, she's not the only one testing us about gender. You know I have all the respect in the world for your parents but Abe is on another level with this." He rolled his eyes, my dramatic nature may have been wearing off on him a little.
"I'm sorry he's been bothering you about it too. I'm glad you asked him to help with the nursery. I think he wants to help a lot, especially that he wasn't there when my mom was going through all of this with me."
"Of course my love. He has been a big help. So when did Lissa say the party was?”
“You know the pregnancy brain is in full effect. I can barely remember if I work or not.” I rolled my eyes dramatically.
“Don’t worry moya lyubov. How are my babies doing?” He came over to the couch and knelt on the floor as he laid his head against my bigger belly. “Are you being good for momma?” He asked them sweetly and the little boy punched me right in the hip.
“Well he just punched my bone so no.” I giggled and rubbed the top of my belly where my little sweet girl was hanging out quietly for now.
“Not many weeks left before they could come.” He said kissing my belly as it tightened for a solid minute before relaxing again. My doctor told us these were braxton hicks contractions. They’re super common and start earlier with women who are expecting twins.
“Yeah, I need to stay in there a bit longer, get all nice and chunky before they come out first. Also we need a lot more things before they come.” I smiled, holding out my hand for Dimitri to help me get up. It was getting harder and harder to do the easiest things.
I heard footsteps walking up to our house and I stood in front of the door and grinned knowing the perfume of my best friend from anything else. Dimitri kind of hated that my sense of smell was so strong I could tell almost anything in what we were eating. He was so sweet dealing with all my food aversions and cravings. Once Lissa was about to open the door I opened it and giggled.
“Jesus Rose, you scared me!” Lissa said with her hand on her chest.
“Sorry but I live here.” I winked.
“I know you do. How are you doing? I came to talk about the party and about some work stuff.” She smiled at Dimitri and walked past me to sit at our dining room table and I shrugged and followed with Dimitri trailing behind.
“Okay Liss get it over with, what work stuff are we talking about?” I asked.
“Well, I’m putting you on maternity leave starting today. You can’t let anything happen to those kiddos and I have plenty of guardians.”
“No work at all?” I asked so confused. “I can’t even watch the gates?”
“moya lyubov, it’s best for the babies.” Dimitri said, standing over me with his hands on my shoulders.
I nodded. “Okay but you know I’m just going to hang out with you all day when you aren't in meetings.” I looked at Lissa giggling.
“Fine with me but after the party so I know what your children are. I need to know if I’m having nieces,nephews, or both. Speaking of, you said you wanted to have it here correct?”
“Yes, but no stupid games please. Also I’ll need help decorating since Mr. Paranoid won't let me do anything.”
“Of course, we will keep it tasteful and I’ll bring everything. All you need to worry about is the gender reveal.” Lissa smiled.
"Whatever you say, your highness." I rolled my eyes giggling.
After a little longer of spending time together Lissa had to leave for some meeting. I laid on the couch with Dimitri. I loved these calm moments between us, just us. It was as if the rest of the world melted away. After a while Dimitri turned our TV on and signed into Disney+.
"Since when do we get outside streaming services?" I looked questiongly at him.
"Since we are special and they work anywhere in the world if you pay for them. Also I knew you'd get bored being on bedrest. I also got Netflix too. What would you like to watch,moya lyubov?"
"You pick." I reached up and kissed his cheek.
"This looks good." Dimitri had the box around something called princess bride. He put it on and we started watching. I wasn't sure what I thought at first but after a little while into it I found myself so interested.
"The prince is a dick." I admitted rubbing my very itchy belly and sitting up to help with the heartburn.
"He's not dead." I said softly, looking at Dimitri and he smiled, kissing my forehead. "He reminds me of you." I smiled and nuzzled into Dimitri, my head on his shoulder as we watched.
After the movie I yawned and tried to keep my eyes open. "Roza, you need rest." Dimitri said softly, holding me against him. He carried me up to the bed and laid me down gently. I fell asleep shortly. I had a feeling I'd be spending a lot of time sleeping, watching shows, and movies and eating. I knew this would be hard but I didn't think this would be this hard.
After taking a long nap I smiled feeling a bit more refreshed. I walked down the stairs taking my time. Once I got to the landing in the middle of the stairs I sneezed and my eyes widened as I realized that I accidentally peed as I sneezed. I walked back up to our room and washed up and changed clothes.
After I was done I walked back down the stairs and walked to the kitchen and grabbed a tangerine and peeled it over the trash and walked to the living room eating it. Dimitri had a late shift today checking the wards. I texted Lissa to meet me so we can go shopping for more baby items.
Before getting pregnant I had no idea the sheer amount of things you need for a tiny human. No wonder Sydney brought a crap-ton of stuff with her when she had Declan with her. And I am going to have two of them at one time.
I looked up some more information about preparing for parenthood and learning about breastfeeding. I'd have to talk to Dimitri about if he wants to bottle feed or breastfeed or a combination.
Lissa walked in smiling and I hugged her and threw my jacket on even though my jacket wouldn't close. She took a photo of me making a silly face.
"What are we going shopping for?" Liss asked, looping her arm around mine.
"Oh lots, apparently there are a lot of things I need for giving birth and preparing for not one but two babies." I smiled and led Lissa towards the store.
"I did some research, but I don't know what choices you and Dimitri want to make but you definitely need more sheets and baby clothes, even though I don't know gender yet." She shot me a look letting me know she still wasn't happy that she was out of the loop.
"I definitely want to try breastfeeding but we might pump or use formula also but that depends. I need to get pacifiers, also I want to see if they have any good twin strollers that will be good and safe for them. I also need to get some big pjs for me in the hospital and when I'm home. I heard white noise machines are helpful, maybe a baby carrier because I'd like to be able to carry them and still have my hands free." I smiled thinking about working out with my babies as weights. "I wonder how difficult it'll be to run with two babies strapped onto me."
"Rose, of course you'd think that. You just can't wait to get back to training can you?"
"Liss, I've never taken this long without some level of training. Not even when I was, well, not even in Novosibirsk."
"I'm sorry, I know how hard it is." She smiled as we walked into the store and I grabbed a shopping cart leaning forward on it to take some of the weight off my body. We got some really nice comfortable pajamas that were made for nursing. Don't get me wrong they weren't very cute they were mostly solid colors but they would work.
After getting the stuff for me we started looking at the baby stuff. I found the pacifiers right away and made sure to grab the most gender neutral ones just to throw Lissa off. We walked past some nursing pillow things and I saw one nice one for twins and got it. I looked at the strollers briefly and made note to come back with Dimitri for some things.
Lissa was so excited once we got to the baby clothes. She squealed seeing the adorable baby clothes. "Remember Liss they'll be coming late November or early December probably." Since twins happened to come early I was expecting them to come at 36 weeks or so.
"I know. They won't be outside more than to go to other houses for the first few months." She found some amazingly adorable clothes and she grabbed a few sizes since we didn't know how big they were. All my doctor had said was that they were huge. But nothing that could fit in this little tiny outfit was huge. Lissa grabbed some that said There's no one like my Auntie. I smiled
"They're auntie is a queen." Smiling and giggling with Lissa. I smiled and reached for a set of onesies that said "daddy's snuggle buddy." And it had one that said mommy's snuggle buddy. I smiled and put it in the cart. I grabbed another set that was mostly neutral with one having rainbows on it. "Also I'll tell you their Christmas lists now. Clothes, diapers, wipes and possibly formula."
"Those aren't very fun for their first Christmas."
"Liss at the oldest they will be is may 6 weeks old."
"You have a point there." Once we had decided this was it for today we made our way to the checkout and we both bought our stuff even though Liss tried to pay for mine but I refused to let her. Once we got back in the house I left the bags of items in the living room flopping down on the couch rubbing my belly. It felt so itchy and tight. Lissa stayed for a while and I ended up laying my head in her lap as we watched some show that Lissa picked.
"I hope they're proud of me." I said barely audible but with Lissa's Moroi hearing of course she picked it up. She petted my head softly.
"They will be. Plus I will be there just in case you need anything."
"Okay but you can't waste all your magic healing me. Got it?"
"Fine." She said knowing it was less of a question and more of a plea. I must’ve fallen asleep because I woke up when I felt my head move. Lissa had gotten up. By the time I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes Dimitri was kneeling in front of me. "Hi," he said softly.
"Hi," I smiled and leaned forward cupping his face in my hands as I saw his big smile before I gave him a sweet long kiss. "I got some things for the babies."
"I see." He smiled and murmured to my belly. "Come on kids, it's time to get you in bed." He stood and gently picked me up like I was a doll and carried me up the stairs. He tucked me in and went about the end of night routine that he followed every night. I watched as much as I could from the bed.
“Hey, I wanted to talk to you about what your thoughts on breastfeeding or bottle feeding were.” I spoke knowing he was just about done flossing.
“Well,it’s up to you and them if you would like to, moya lyubov. As long as they are fed, that's what matters.”
“Well, there are benefits of them being breastfed but I don't want to exclude you from feeding them. What if I breastfed and pumped so you and others could feed them too. If I don't make enough milk we can always use formula too. Also we need to go get a stroller, swings and car seats together. Not that we drive a lot but we will need them when we do go outside of court.” I smiled at Dimitri as he walked back to the bed from the bathroom door.
“We can go together the day after tomorrow. I have off. Did you think about how you want to announce genders to your family?”
“I hate the balloon popping and having balloons come out of a box. It's so cheesy and well with the queen I don’t want anyone to take it as an attack. I think it’d be special if my mom did one and my dad did the other. But I think I want it to be more tailored to their personalities.”
He smiled and nodded sitting on the bed, his eyes intently on me. “What if we did something like a bag of powder in a punching glove and let your mom punch it and it explodes showing the color of the baby?” He looked all over my face and I could tell that I was just as excited as I was for that.
“Oh my god yes. She would love that. Now gender reveal for my father,” I sighed. “It’s gotta be dramatic. What if we made him figure out a riddle.He then has to guess the gender by picking either a blue or pink flower and if he gets it wrong I get to dump a whole bottle of glitter and the other powder packet over his head that's the color of the correct answer. I’ll tell mom to make him wear white.”
“That is a smart idea, moya lyubov, but sometimes you scare me with how evil you can be. I can talk to the florist that Lissa is using and have her bring a single flower of each color. I'll buy one bag of each color of powder so no one is suspicious.”
“You are amazing. Even if he gets it right I’m still doing the glitter and the powder packet over his head. Thank you, my amazing Russian god.” I smiled and winked before rubbing my belly as I felt huge.
“You look more beautiful everyday. Have I told you how amazing you look lately?” He smiled a big smile on his face.
“I mean I know I look good but it’s nice to always hear you tell me.” I kissed his cheek and gently kissed his neck.
The next day when I woke Dimitri must have already been at work and I smiled rubbing my belly as I got up and walked to some of the other rooms. I wondered which one Paul would like to stay in when he comes to visit. I smiled thinking about maybe adding a small gym in one of the rooms. Once the babies are born it'd be nice for me to be able to get back into shape.
I walked into the kitchen and grabbed some food and saw a text from Lissa.
Ready for the party tomorrow? I will be there with Christian to help set up early. Got the gender reveal stuff set up?
Liss
Hey Liss, yes Dimitri has it all covered and I am so excited to tell you all the genders. Planning on coming over tonight or tomorrow morning to start setting up?
Rose
No. We can get everything done tomorrow morning. Also that way you and Dimitri can have the night together without anyone disrupting you.
Liss
As I sat down I set my food on the coffee table and brought a drink over with me. I smiled as I pulled a blanket over my legs resting my feet on the coffee table and I turned the tv and turned on a movie.
I smiled and pulled my shirt up and rubbed my belly. “Tomorrow auntie Liss and grandma and grandpa will learn what your genders are. Then momma and daddy have to pick out your names. It would be easier if you could just tell me what your names are? I know I shouldn’t tell you this but I’m excited and scared to meet you little kiddos. Please be kind to me. I have know idea what I’m doing, but I will love you with every fiber of my being.”
I went back to watching the movie and smiled as I snacked on my food and drank my whole bottle of water. Once the movie was almost over I heard my phone chirp and I grabbed it and looked at it and saw a calendar reminder for a doctor's appointment. I still had an hour so I got up and put my food away and refilled my water bottle before I headed upstairs to the bedroom. Once I showered and was ready to go I sat down on the edge of the bed and texted Dimitri and he said he would meet me at the doctor.
I made my way over to the doctors and as I was looking around at the soft light breaking through the trees indicating the start of the human day I felt an arm wrap around me and I jumped a little in surprise and turned and smiled when I saw the most amazing man in my life.
“Just me Roza,” He reassured me, kissing my head. “Let's go see the babies.”
I smiled, kissing his cheek and nodded as I walked in. After getting all checked in we sat down and I smiled looking around the room as we waited.
After a little while we went back and talked to the doctor a little and she talked about some things as she checked my weight and measured my belly before we did the ultrasound and I smiled seeing them moving around and the little boy was sucking on his hand. I was glad to hear the babies were doing and we found out that they were measuring bigger than they were and they were hitting all their developmental markers. The little girl was rubbing her face with her little hand and the doctor.
After our appointment we walked home and I leaned against Dimitri feeling happy seeing that the little ones were doing well. I didn't think I was worried but it's always a relief to hear that the babies were doing well and that they just need to get bigger before coming.
“I’m so excited to hold them and give them kisses.” I smiled.
“I can’t wait to see you be a mama moya lyubov'.” He smiled as he opened the door for me and carried me in. He sat me down and kissed me softly before pulling away to start work but I grabbed his arm.
“Can we order in? I want to spend as much time with you.” He smiled and nodded, and sat down next to me and pulled up the app to order our food. After a little while Dimitri got our food from the delivery guy. I smiled when I saw him walk in with food. After a while Dimitri refilled my water bottle and handed it to me and I took it and he wrapped me up and carried me to our bed and I smiled snuggling him tight once we were both in bed.
“I can’t believe tomorrow everyone will know the genders of the babies. That’s so crazy.”
“I know my love, did you know which baby you want your mom to reveal and your dad?”
“I want to do the pink all over dad. Plus I know he will go crazy when he realizes he gets to spoil a little girl and a little boy."
"Okay, my love. I will get that all set up in the morning. I want you to relax as much as you can. We don't want them coming too early. I know they might be early but the best place for them right now is to stay put until they are big and healthy enough to come home."
"I know. There might be a chance they have to stay at the hospital anyways. But I don't know, I really hope not."
I bit my lip softly as I adjusted my pillows and gave Dimitri a soft kiss. I laid my head on his shoulder and he kissed the top of my head murmuring to me and the babies as I fell asleep quickly.
Chapter 11: Chapter 11
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When I woke I smiled, feeling Dimitri's hand in my hair. I turned towards him and yawned as I stretched as much as my body allowed.
"Good morning my love. Liss and Christian are downstairs." He smiled and I realized he was ready for the day. How long was I asleep? "Don't worry Roza, it's still early."
I smiled and got up throwing a pair of sweatpants on before walking down the stairs with Dimitri following close behind. I smiled seeing the decorations and seeing our house transform into a beautiful and classy baby shower with pops of both blue and pink throughout.
"Good morning." Lissa smiled and gave me a hug as I came down the stairs. "How are you feeling?"
"Well, honestly I feel extremely bloated and like I'm carrying two children in me. I'm starving." And without missing a beat Dimitri handed me a plate with some brown bread and butter and a chocolate doughnut. He held one of my bigger water bottles out for me too.
"Thank you my amazing fiance."
He smiled and nodded before kissing my cheek and disappearing to help Christian hang some decorations.
"He's going to be such a good dad." Lissa smiled and guided me to the couch. I sat with my plate and set my water on the coffee table and started in on the food.
"He will, I can feel their love for him already. They act differently, calmer when he's talking to them."
"That's amazing. Are you guys worried they'll come early?"
"The doctor hasn't said anything about them coming too early yet, but she did say once I hit 30 weeks it's possible. That being said, the earlier they come the more chances they have to stay in the hospital. That's what Dimitri's most worried about."
"So seriously you won't tell me the genders?"
"Nope, your highness, you gotta wait." I smirked and took a long drink of my water.
After a little while Liss went to help set up the rest of the things and I laid on the couch turning the TV on and saw one of my favorite movies recently and watched quoting the lines perfectly.
After some time Dimitri came over and carried me up the stairs back into our room so I could get ready. It was like he could read my mind, but I know that he just knew me that well and he was trying to make sure I stayed on schedule. I put on just a little makeup and clipped some of my hair back away from my face before getting my dress on with Dimitri's help zipping it up.
We took a second for ourselves, just us. He held me gently and we just gazed into each other's eyes all lovey.
"You look stunning."
"Thanks. Maybe I'll let you get me pregnant again sometime."
I kissed his cheek as he picked me up gently and carried me down the stairs. He was paranoid about me getting hurt or overdoing it.
My parents arrived early as well and I was glad to see my father was in all white but his tie was half blue and pink.
"Rose,why must I wear this boring suit?"
"Well, 1 it looks good on you. And 2 it's part of your gender reveal. Mom you're going to be doing one baby's reveal and dad you'll be doing the other." I smiled, not giving them a choice.
"Sounds like a plan."
"Do I get any say in this, Kiz?"
"Nope, but if you don't want the honor I know Liss would be more than happy to-"
"No, I'll do whatever you like." He said abruptly and I giggled, shaking my head.
Dimitri set the present they brought on a table to the side and greeted them both hugging my mom and shaking my dad's hand.
Slowly more and more people showed up and I was getting so excited and nervous about telling everyone the genders. Lissa greeted everyone and thanked them for coming and we ate. After keeping the suspense hanging just a bit more we decided it was time.
I stood up and cleared my throat. "Thank you all again for coming. It means a lot to our new little family. But I think it's time we tell you all, I'm having twins, just kidding. But we will be doing the gender reveal. The first one will be done by my mom outside and then my dad will be doing the other baby. So if you could all gather in the backyard in an orderly fashion we would appreciate it. Thank you." I smiled as Dimitri and I walked out the door with my mom and dad right behind us.
She smiled when she saw the punching gloves on a table next to three vases, one empty and two blue flowers in one and two pink in another. There were a few other things on the table wrapped all in black. It was the stuff to dump over my dad's head and a small step stool so I could reach above his head.
"So what are we doing Rose?" My mom asked, smiling as people trickled out the door.
"Well, you're going to show off your muscles. Dimitri has some punching gloves and is going to have you punch a bag open filled with a colored powder. Dad, you have a riddle and have to guess the gender of the second baby and if you get it wrong I will dump that bag of powder on you and a bottle of glitter."
"But my suit…" He looked sad and then he saw the cunning look on my face. "You are too much like me."
"That's what happens when you have kids, Zmey." I teased and he rolled his eyes. “Seni seviyorum ihtiyar. (I love you, old man)” I saw a little smile play at the corner of his lips.
Once everyone had made it outside I smiled and stood by the table and cleared my throat to get everyone's attention. “My mother will be showing off her amazing skills with the new dad. Once Dimitri has her a bit warmed up she will be announcing the first baby’s gender. We will then take that colored flower and put it in this empty vase. Then we will move onto the second baby’s reveal. Dimitri, go ahead.”
I smiled nodding to the two of them as my mom had taken off her shoes and was grinning widely and bouncing as if she was in a boxing match. The loud claps from her hands hitting the foam glove that Dimitri wore on his hands rang through the yard. After he let her show off her ability to duck his attack towards her he smiled and held out his other hand. This time without skipping a beat my mom punched the glove with all her might and I smiled seeing the bag of powder bust open and the color lay all over Dimitri, my mom and the grass around them. Dimitri’s black shirt now covered in blue powder as the bag opened mainly towards him. My mom dusted off her dress and smiled. Dimitri dropped the gloves and pulled my mom into a tight hug before she came over and hugged me. I took a blue rose and put it in the empty vase.
“Well, now it’s time for my father Abe here to answer his riddle and guess the gender of the second baby. If he gets the riddle wrong or the gender wrong I will be taking all of these items and dumping them on his head.” I pointed to all the items in the black.
Dimitri walked over and I smiled up at him and I took the big bag of powder and glitter before taking my stance over my father’s head. I nodded to Dimtri and he carefully opened the items behind us so no one could see the color.
“Abe, your riddle is as follows; You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it?” Dimitri spoke clearly with his Russian accent making anything he said sound so amazing.
“Hmmm, that's a good one.I think it is one of two things, but I have to go with the more traditional answer and say, your name?” He looked up at me trying to get confirmation of his answer.
“Now, choose what you think the other baby’s gender is. We have one boy, what do you think the other will be?”
“Sorry Kiz but…” He trailed off and reached towards the blue rose, “I think you’ll be surrounded by boys.” He grinned and I giggled.
I dumped the entire bag of pink powder and glitter onto his head and shoulders. After it was all dumped out I made sure to rub a lot of it into his suit and ruffle his hair with it and I heard the small crowd erupt in cheers and giggles. My mom came over and smiled as if knowing I was going to prank him.
“Janine, did you know she was going to do this to me?” He looked at her suspiciously.
“I did not know a thing until today. I just followed directions.” She smiled and I put the second blue rose back in the other vase and put the two pink flowers with the blue ones after brushing a lot of the powder and glitter off my hands.
“So there you have it folks, Dimitri and I are having a little boy and a little girl joining the Belikov family.”
Lissa flew up to me and hugged me as tight as she could possibly manage. “I’m going to have a little niece and nephew. Oh, Rose, this is going to be amazing.” She smiled and then let me go to plaster herself against Dimitri.
Slowly more people came up to give their congratulations, the two right behind Lissa and Christian were Eddie and Jill. I wanted to talk to Eddie about not using mason’s first name, I wanted to talk to him about that privately, I knew it was still hard on both of us and given my fragile emotional state if I thought about our friend who wasn’t here to celebrate this with us I wouldn’t be able to come back from such a bad mood.
I grinned at Eddie and he hugged me as he twirled me around and set me back down.
“Congrats, momma.” He smiled and poked my big belly.
“Thanks Eddie, I’m glad to see you could make it.” I smiled.
“We wouldn’t have missed it for the world. We’re family.” He smiled and hugged me again before moving onto giving Dimitri his congratulations.
After a little more time the crowd slowly made it back inside where Lissa told everyone to help themselves to food and beverages. I smiled as I took a seat on our recliner that had been moved to make more room in our living room. Dimitri was showing off the little nursery we had set up to everyone who hadn’t seen it quite yet.
“So, Kiz, are you excited to have a little boy and girl?” My dad looked at me smirking.
“Yes dad I’m excited and I know that now you and mom know they will be spoiled rotten. I mean I know the queen is their aunt but seriously I feel like you and Lissa will be fighting to see who spoils them more.” I smirked. “By the way, you look good in pink.”
“Don’t lie Kiz, it's not my color. May I talk to my grandson and granddaughter?” He spoke softly.
“Well, I mean yes but they’re kind of attached to me at the moment.”
He leaned towards my belly and smiled and started speaking his native language. “Seni seviyorum torunlarım. Anne ne olursa olsun kendinizi şımartın ve baba diyebilir. Dünyanın en özel insanları olacağınızı biliyorum. İkinize bir zarar gelmeyeceğine söz veriyorum. Seni tüm kalbimle seviyorum büyükbaba.(I love you my grandchildren. I will spoil you no matter what mom and dad say. I know you will be the most special people in the world. I promise no harm will ever come to the two of you. I love you with all my heart, grandpa.)”
I had learned a little Turkish but I surely didn’t quite know what he was telling them but I just let him tell them whatever secrets he wanted to tell them. I felt so excited that my children were going to grow up hearing more than just one language. I read somewhere that it helped kids learn or it was easier to learn multiple languages at the same time but I didn't really know much about that.
I smiled and we opened presents and smiled having a great day surrounded by family and friends. It felt so good to not hide the genders anymore. I didn’t have to worry about accidentally letting words slip out when I was hanging out with Liss or anyone for that matter.
After the party was winding down the last people hanging out were Sydney, Adrian, Jill, Eddie, Lissa, Christian, Dimitri and myself. Sydney had put declan down for the night in our bed since he was so tired and it was way past his bedtime. Given our group it was only natural to pull out some of our favorite games from our game nights. Tonight the game that got us all started was never have I ever.
I smiled as the game started with Dimitri who’s lap I was sitting on cuddled up against him.
“Never have I ever missed killing a Strigoi.” He said and I took a drink of my water since I wasn't allowed to participate in the champagne.
“You missed?!” Eddie looked appalled.
“Yeah, remember when I was gone from school. I almost killed my fiance. Good thing I missed.” I smirked, rubbing my belly. “Wouldn’t have these two If I didn’t.”
“Never have I ever made out in the gym with the student I was training.” This got Eddie to take a drink and be stared at harshly.
“What, I was kissing Jill, It’s not my fault she asked me to teach her.”
“Actually Eddie, you said yes so it kind of is your fault.” Jill pointed out giggling and giving him a soft kiss.
“Never have I ever been pregnant.” Adrian added, smirking at me as I took a drink.
“Never have I been with more than one man.” I smiled leaning against Dimitri, seeing only Lissa drink this round.
“Never have I ever been engaged.” This time Dimitri, Sydney, Adrian and I all took a drink.
“Never have I ever lived with a woman before.” This made all of us drink except himself.
“Jill?” Lissa looked confused.
“Roommates at school.” she clarified and we all shook our heads with understanding.
Lissa smiled as it was her turn. “Never have I ever been able to walk dreams.”
Adrian shot her daggers and took a swig of his drink.
“Never have I ever had a kid before.”
I smiled. “We havent had ours yet. I giggled snuggling up to Dimitri tighter I purred softly.
“Never have I ever been married.” I spoke softly as I drifted off to sleep without even realizing.
Dimitri must’ve been content because he just kept playing with my hair. Soon after being asleep I felt the all too familiar pull of the spirit dream.
“Adrian, get out of my head. Let me sleep, I'm exhausted.” I yelled as the ski lodge started to form around us.
“Come on Rosie, I just wanna hang out with you. Since you fell asleep this is the only way to wake you up without being strangled by mr. protective.”
“Thats because I’m pregnant with twins. Now please give me some time to rest. Lord knows I wont sleep once these babies are out of me and we’ve been really careful for everything to be going smoothly and for them to keep growing and me to be able to keep growing them I need sleep.”
He let go of the dream but even though he did I woke up shaking my head.
I looked at him scowling. “Never have I ever woken a pregnant woman because I wanted to hang out even after her fiance said let her sleep.” I felt Dimitri tense a little around me and I rubbed his arm softly calming him back down.
“It’s not like that….”Adrian trailed off as he got a scowl from all the women in the room.
“Adrian I know when you’re lying.” Jill said sternly and walked up to him and flicked his nose. “Bad dog.” She said sternly before coming over and giving me a hug announcing her and Eddie’s departure so we could go rest.
Lissa and Christian followed suit as Sydney went upstairs to go grab their sleeping son and she apologized again for Adrian and I assured her it wasn't her fault.
Once everyone had gone Dimitri locked the front door for the night while holding me and walked up the stairs before laying me gently in bed and handing me a big comfy t-shirt that I loved to wear to bed.
Once Dimitri was under the covers with me ready for bed I smiled and nuzzled into the crook of his arm using his shoulder as a pillow. I gently smiled and closed my eyes as he played with my hair lulling me to sleep.
Chapter 12: Chapter 12- Names
Summary:
Hey thank you all for reading! Any comments are welcome, I love hearing any feedback! Now to find out what Dimitri and Rose have picked for names for their little boy and girl! <3
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The next weeks weren’t very exciting. I had convinced Dimitri to let me order some gym equipment so we could still get some workouts in when we were home with the babies with the only exception being that I wouldn’t be able to use it until after the doctor said I could once the twins were born.
Once the news of the genders was out everyone kept telling me what they thought we should name the babies, even when I didn’t ask for their opinion. Dimitri and I wanted to keep the names from everyone until the babies were born. Honestly I wasn’t sure if they would have names till they were born or afterwards.
I started feeling more like a whale than before. Now that I was getting further along I was going to the doctor quite frequently and especially since I was higher risk because I was having twins. I loved seeing their little faces and trying to figure out who they more looked like, I couldn’t ever decide.
Dimitri was always at every doctor's appointment and he had been so nervous about anything happening to me or the babies. I guess after 30 weeks the babies could really come anytime, especially since they were twins they had a chance of coming as early as 32 weeks; even though I did not feel ready at all to be a mother.
At our last doctor’s visit, which we were walking home from. The doctor told us to get a hospital bag ready as soon as possible just in case anything happened we would at least have our essentials all ready.
“Roza, do you want me to pack the hospital bag?” He asked softly knowing I was still so nervous about being a mom. I was excited of course and I couldn’t wait to hold my babies and meet the most amazing people in the world but being responsible for them was still scary. What if I messed up? What if I didn’t know what to do?
“It’s okay, I’ve been doing some more research on the internet mostly from other moms and moms with twins on what they recommend to take to the hospital and what really isn't necessary. Like we really don’t need to bring diapers because they will be supplied but some other things are kind of nice to have. Also the doctor said the babies are in the right positions to be born vaginally and I want to do that but I think we should have a backup plan in case I need to have a c-section.”
“Just as long as you are all healthy is all I care about.” He said smiling kissing the top of my head as he played with one of my loose curls. The benefit to not working for a while was I had time to actually look nice when I had energy to do things. This had also been the only time that my nail polish stayed without chipping within the week.
“Is it normal to be overwhelmingly excited and also the same amount of nervousness?” I looked up at him hoping he understood what I meant.
“Of course, moya lyubov'. It is only natural,it’s a new thing for you of course you are scared. Just like you were scared the first time you saw a real Strigoi. But now, you know what you are doing and you are the best at what you do. It will be the same with our little boy and girl.”
“And I’m sure they won't date until they are in their 20’s, given the legends of their parents.” I smirked as he pulled me close, kissing my head before gently pulling me up the stairs and into our house.
“Maybe, it depends on how brave their companions are.” He smirked and shrugged off his duster and helped me out of my jacket. I sat down on the couch and flipped the tv on and started scrolling through the channels as Dimitri went straight to the kitchen to start making dinner.
I looked at my belly and poked gently. "You two aren't allowed to come out yet. The doctor said you have to be in me longer so you don't need a bunch of machines attached to you." I never even realized that this was a common thing and that it was a very real possibility that my babies might need to be in the intensive care unit even if they were healthy. This was the truly big thing that scared Dimitri and I knew because since our doctor mentioned it was a possibility he had been extra careful about not letting me do certain things that the doctor said I could, and I completely understood his concerns.
I pulled up a new note in my phone and started a checklist of what I knew I would need in my hospital bag and what Dimitri should have in a bag as well. His bag was pretty straightforward; clothes, toothbrush and toothpaste, deodorant and shower necessities, etc. Mine, however I knew I’d need more things. I started my list starting off with what I needed for myself, clothes, my bathroom necessities, and some things I was told made a big difference with vaginal deliveries. After my list was decent I started on the things I needed for the babies, a few sets of outfits of various sizes since we weren’t quite sure how big they’d be and their outfits for them to come home.
The stroller that Lissa and my mom gave us was already set up and ready to go near the front door. We wouldn’t need it when we left but Dimitri would probably need to run back and get it before we can go home. Since medical wasn’t that far away we didn’t need to worry too much about our car even though we had their car seats installed just because being guardians we wanted to be prepared if we needed to evacuate court quickly that the car seats were all set to go.
I smiled, rubbing my belly mindlessly. “Can you just tell me what your names are?” I heard Dimitri chuckle from the other room.
“They can but they’d tell you in Russian.” He peeked around the corner and came over and kissed my big belly where they were positioned.
“If they are going to come any time I think we really do need to decide on names or to name a few names for sure.” I looked up at him, I hated just calling them boy and girl. It felt weird not calling them by a name.
“Well, moya lyubov' I’m willing to hear your suggestions.” He nuzzled my belly and I felt a small jolt knowing that the little girl was elbowing where he was nuzzling.
“Well, I was looking up names and their meanings and there was a boy name in Russian that means bringer of light, and I think that definition fits him perfectly, he is our light. Everytime I see him in our ultrasounds he makes me feel like I’m covered in sunshine.” I said tracing patterns on my belly.
“Okay, so what’s the name Roza?” He looked up at me from my belly.
“Luka, but spelt L-u-k-a, Luka Belikov.” I smiled blushing hoping he liked the name that I had liked the most.
“I love it but he needs a middle name, what do you think of Luka Cyrus Belikov?” I looked up at him shocked.
“I love it.But we might want to think of other middle names also. Now for our little spitfire.” I smirked.
“Her name should be Rosemarie the second since I have a feeling she’s going to be your little clone.”He smiled and nuzzled my belly again, getting another jab from the little girl.
“Ha,ha, you knew that was a possibility and be lucky they aren’t both little crazy girls just like their momma. I like Nikkita, Sasha, Nadja,and Mila.” I smiled.
“I like Mila or Sasha, I like Mila a bit more.” Dimitri said, muttering to my belly in russian. “Тебя зовут Мила или Саша, маленькая девочка? (Is your name Mila or Sasha a little baby girl?)”
“What about Mila Sasha Belikova?” I smiled proudly.
“Moya mila,” He nuzzled and she jabbed him hard this time. “Yes, I think that’s exactly your name.” He kissed where he was nuzzling before kissing me softly.
“Did we just agree on names for both the boy and girl?” I smiled brightly.
“Yes.” He smiled brightly giving me a wink before going back to the kitchen.
“Luka and Mila, momma and daddy love you both so much. More than you can imagine.” I smiled and turned to watch the tv as I waited for Dimitri to finish up dinner. I picked up my phone and saw Lissa sent me a text.
“Have you heard of tiktok? It's really popular with the humans. They’re short videos, I think you'd like it.”
I looked it up in the app and downloaded it while making a fake profile and started scrolling through videos. I smiled and giggled and Dimitri came out of the kitchen and I smiled.
“Look at this new app, it's full of videos. Lissa suggested that. She knows I’m getting really bored being laid up with these kiddos.”
“You are pregnant with twins. The first Dhampir with pure blood Dhampir twins. We are all going to be a little extra careful, plus the doctor said we don't want them to come early. The best place for them is where they are now.”
“I know. I want to keep them away from being attached to a bunch of machines but I’m so excited to have them here and not be pregnant so I can do things again.” I smiled and swiped the video and the song on this next video had a great beat too and I smiled moving a little and Dimitri’s eyes went wide.
“Roza, Do you know what that song means?”
“No but it’s got a good beat. Why it can’t be thaaat bad.” I sighed, rolling my eyes pausing the video.
“Roza, the name of the song is I will fuck.” He shook his head. “Ivan loved that song, I thought it was a little over the top with being so vulgar.”
“Well, I think the babies like Russian music, regardless if it’s family friendly or not.” I kissed his cheek and I saw him stop himself from saying something, probably me being a bad influence on our children already.
I rubbed my growing belly as I sat down at the table and Dimitri fixed me a plate and smiled, kissing my cheek. “I hope you enjoy it.”
“Thank you.” I smiled and dug into the amazing food that Dimitri always cooked for me. I’m sure he picked this meal knowing if it were up to me for dinner I would order pizza or a burger or something else just as equally junky. “Tomorrow I have another appointment with the doctor. Do you want me to wait here or meet you there? It’s just to check up on them since now we are getting to the last few weeks.”
“I will meet you there, Doctor Lee said that starting this one they will want to do a routine non-stress test. It’s nothing that you have to worry about. You get to sit or lay there, they just are checking their heart rates.”
“Okay, you're the most amazing dad already.” I smiled, kissing his cheek. “I just don't want to go into labor when you’re working.”
“I know Roza, that's why we live here. Someone can always cover for me. It’s not like I’m leaving Christian unguarded. Most of the time he’s around Lissa and I know all her guardians are more than capable of guarding him along with her.”
“But her best is currently on maternity leave.” I smirked.
“Yes Roza, I’m aware. We all know you win best guardian, you literally showed everyone of those questioning you that you’d take a bullet for her.”
I smiled and threw my hair over my shoulder. “And no one has questioned my loyalty since. Other than the rumors that I cheated to get pregnant, but that’s not true.” I smirked. “They’re just jealous that I got the dream job, dream man and I get to have a family with him.”
“Oh I’m the dream man?”
“Of course you are. I would not change anything about you, not even what happened between us in the dark times.”
“I’m so lucky you saved me.”
“I’m so lucky you saved me from living out in the world all those years ago.” I stood up and put my plate in the sink and grabbed a water bottle from the fridge and walked into the nursery.
“What do you think about putting their Initials above their cribs?” I smiled hearing him behind me.
“That’d be nice. Have you told Liss the names yet?”
“Don’t be silly, I have to tell her in person. I’ll tell her tomorrow.”
Chapter 13: Name Announcement
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Today was my 36 week doctor’s appointment. At this point Dimitri was now off of work so he could help me get the last minute touches on the house before we had the twins.Although most twins were considered full term at 36 weeks and usually were born around this time. I had become more excited to meet the babies over the last few weeks but I’d done more research and I was a bit more scared about the actual birthing part than I had imagined. I knew I was strong enough to kill beings that were stronger and faster than me, but this, this was utterly terrifying.
“Alright, momma. How have you been since I’ve seen you?” Doctor Lee asked, smiling as she rubbed hand sanitizer into her hands as she sat at the little wheeled stool.
“More of the same Doc, just really tight nudges and jabs here and there and it’s incredibly hard to move.”
“That’s normal, and have you noticed any other changes? Any tightening around the belly?”
“Sadly, no.” I said chewing on my lip as she typed on the computer. Dimitri held my hand and I squeezed it hard. He was being so amazingly patient with me even though I knew I was a handful the last few weeks.
“Alright, just like we have been doing, I want to do a non-stress test just to make sure they’re doing well. Then we will do another full scan of them to measure everything and make sure they’re still developing well and seeing their position. If they are in a good position and stay in that position I don’t see much of a reason to not let you try to deliver them naturally. I know you said that you wanted to so we will try to make sure that a Cesarean is a last resort.” She turned and smiled at me and Dimitri. I was so glad that Dr. Lee was so amazing and she had told me that she’s been through this process, with a single kid,and helped me feel a bit more at ease with this process.
Twins weren’t as common with Dhampirs’. But nothing about Dimitri and I was common, let alone normal. But I was so happy to have my little babies. Even if I had never seen them in person yet. Once Dr. Lee got me all hooked up to do the non-stress test. She asked us if we were ready for the twins to come.
“Well, we are a step closer.” I said looking up at Dimitri. “I’ve unpacked and re-packed my hospital bag about a million times and we picked out names for both babies. Spoiler, their last names are Belikov and Belikova.” I smiled.
“Well congrats Rose, Dimitri. I can’t wait to meet the little kiddos soon. Just remember that even if you have them now they might need some time in the NICU. I’m not saying that to scare you at all I just want you both to be prepared. It all depends on how they are doing in there and how they handle the birth. Knowing they’re your children I have a feeling they’ll be the strongest little fighters and will do amazing no matter what, but it might be hard for a while.”
I nodded, Dr. Lee knew that this was something that was a big concern of ours and she was very honest about it but also very positive. Dhampir babies usually did very well but at the end of the day they still are newborns and just like human babies they are fragile. Sydney was coming into town with Declan and teaching me some things about being a mom. Obviously she didn’t need to heal from the whole birth, but her wisdom let me watch Declan and show me what to and not to do. I was glad that Declan was such an easy guy and usually wasn't too fussy. I knew with two newborns they probably will be more of a handful but I was grateful for the practice.
After we were all done at the doctor’s we headed over towards the palace to go hang out with Lissa and Christian. Dimitri got a text and he stopped making me halt my awkward waddle.
“What’s wrong Dimitri?” I looked up at him confused.
“Mama, Yeva, the girls and kids will be here soon. You go spend some time with Liss and I’ll get the house ready and pick them up. I’m sure they’ll want to come see Lissa and you soon just so you know. Keep your phone on and let me know if anything happens.” He turned to me pulling me as close as he could and kissed my forehead as I leaned against his chest.
“I forgot they were coming in today. Then again I’ve been forgetting everything lately.” I smiled looking up at Dimitri.
“I know, I didn’t realize that the doctors would take that long. I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay Comrade. Remember to be nice to your sisters.” I smiled as he turned to walk away from the palace and I stood and watched him for a moment as he walked away letting my eyes linger on his lower back hidden by his long leather duster. I turned and started walking back towards Lissa’s home.
As I stepped up to the entrance I got a small nod from the guardian on duty outside of the door as I opened it and smiled, waddling in and throwing myself onto the couch. “Liss? Liss your whale of a friend is here.” I sighed.
“Hey Rosie,” Christian said as he walked out from the bathroom. “She was changing, something about wanting to look good for your man’s family. So how’s it feel carrying around a watermelon?”
“Shut up, fire boy.” I glared daggers at him. “I can still kick your ass.”
“Yea? You’d have to get up to catch me first though.” He smirked very well knowing I was not going to get up.
“Remember, Dimitri does what I tell him to. And in about 30 mins there will be 5 Belikova women in the court. Women, even Dimitri won't piss off, so you might wanna shut up before you get yourself in real trouble.” I narrowed my eyes.
“Rose, ignore him. Christian, behave, we have guests coming. I can’t wait to meet Olena.”
“You’ll love her. But seriously I need to learn all of her secrets of being a mom. I can’t wait to tell our parents the names.” I smiled looking at my belly.
“That’s great that you have names. Please tell me they are like Igor and Svetlana.” Christian said, smirking and moving so I wouldn't kick him.
Lissa smacked him lightly upside the back of the head. “Christian, that’s exactly what we don’t say in front of Dimitri’s family. Remember he is your Guardian. He gives up time with them to make sure you don't die.”
“That’s his choice not mine.” He pointed towards Liss. “But I’ll behave, mostly. It’s just funny seeing Rosie get angry but she can’t get up.”
Lissa came over and offered me her arm and helped pull me up off the couch. Christian immediately dropped the smirk on his face and sat down.
“There’s a tiny human kicking me in my ribs and she had dislocated a few along with another baby using my bladder as a punching bag. I’m not in the mood for your sass. I need to focus on sleeping and keeping them from being born too early and being attached to machines. So shut up and behave, before the Belikov’s make you behave.” I breathed heavily.
“Relax Rose, let’s sit down and relax.” I nodded and sat on the couch with Liss laying on her stomach, her face in her hands as she looked and talked to my belly. “How’re the little babes doing?” Liss looked from my belly to me.
“Good they’re looking slightly big for their age but given that Dimitri was so big I’m not surprised. She tried to take some photos but they’re just too squished in there. They’re both in the correct position and little boy’s all positioned perfectly. “Dr. Lee told us again at this age they could come whenever, but they might be in the NICU. It all depends on how long it takes for them to come and also how they are doing when they’re born. They each have their own team of nurses and doctors when they’re born. So there’s going to be a decent amount of people in the room when I have them. And they’ll all be looking at either a very sensitive area of me or my guts.” I said tracing patterns on my belly.
“Who are you having in the room with you, obviously Dimitri, but who else?”
“Well, I’d like you to be there. Strictly as a friend and aunt, no healing me. I need to do this on my own. You can only heal me if I’m actively dying. I kind of want my mom and Olena there also.”
“I’d love to be there and I agree I will not heal you unless absolutely nessicary.”
After about an hour there was a knock at the door and the guardian at the door cautiously opened the door. “Madam Queen, you have some visitors, the Belikov family. Would you like me to let them in?”
“Of course, let them in.” He gave one nod and shut moved out of the way and gestured the family in.
I smiled and stood up with some help from Liss and waddled over to Dimitri and gave everyone hugs and said hello.
“Lissa, Christian, this is my family. My grandmother Yeva, my mother Olena, my sisters Sonja, Karolina, and Viktoria. My nephews Paul and Nikolai, and niece Zoya. I know you’ve met Vika and Paul.”
“It’s nice to meet you all. How was the trip?” Lissa smiled and gestured to everyone to come in and sit.
Paul held tight against me. “Auntie, your belly is huge. You look like a balloon about to pop.”
“Paul, that’s not polite.” Sonja warned.
“Sorry auntie. I didn’t mean it in a mean way.”
“No, I get it little Belikov. Just calling it like it is. I don’t know how I even got this big. I feel like a balloon about to pop.” I ruffled his hair. “How are you, little one?” I smiled asking Zoya, who was very carefully studying Christian.
“Кто он такой?( Who’s he?)”
“Он друг, в основном (He’s a friend,mostly.)” I said back, taking all of Dimitri’s family by surprise. Since I’d been bored and off of work I’d been practicing my Russian. Mostly with just Dimitri and Sydney as I was still learning.
“Теперь ты говоришь по-русски?(You speak Russian now?)” Karolina asked as I took Zoya from her.
“Совсем чуть-чуть. Я все еще учусь(Just a little. I'm still learning)” I smiled and rubbed my nose against Zoya’s. “Hi sweetie, I missed you. You grew so much.” I smiled, kissing her cheek as I waddled over to a chair and sat with her on my belly and legs. “This is Lissa, and Christian. They’re my family.” I smiled.
“Семья Розы,(Rose’s family,)” She repeated, looking at them.
“Yes. Did you bring your щенок?(puppy)” She nodded and climbed down and walked over to her mom looking up at her asking for her puppy toy. She got it and showed it to me and then showed it to Lissa.
“Wow, that's a beautiful puppy.” She smiled and kept showing it to everyone before snuggling up with Dimitri. He took the toy puppy and pretended to make it bark and kiss her face, getting her to laugh as everyone started to have their own conversations. Shortly afterwards the guardian popped his head back in and all of the adults turned to look cautiously.
“Sorry to disturb you, but Mr Mazur is here along with Guardian Hathaway.”
“They can come in. Thank you.” Lissa said, smiling as I rolled my eyes.
“You should’ve said no.” I murmured.
“Hey mom, hey dad.” I said not even attempting to get up.
“ Hey Kiz, Miss Belikova, it’s good to see you again.” He smiled, nodding at Olena and nodding towards Yeva.
“Zmey.” I heard from Yeva and I smirked.
“I’d like to introduce you to my lovely guardian and the most amazing partner I’ve ever had. Janine Hathaway.” He smiled and I saw a little blush fall over her cheeks.
“It’s nice to finally meet you.” Olena smiled and came to give them both hugs. “Your daughter is truly a blessing to our family.” She smiled and I felt a little embarrassed.
“Alright, since this is getting a little sappy it's time to change the subject. Dimitri and I have picked out names for both our babies and remember the names are final and we are not changing them. Dimitri.”
“Yes. So the little boy’s name is Luka Cyrus Belikov, that's spelt L-u-k-a.”
“And the girl’s name is Mila Sasha Belikova, that’s spelt M-i-l-ayee.” I trailed off as I got a hard kick in the ribs. “Don’t worry just Mila dislocating my rib again. I’ll be okay.” I said holding up my hand. “You are going to be so grounded.” I warned her.
We had pizza delivered and it was so funny because Yeva,Olena,Karolina, and Sonja had never had pizza before.
After dinner I sat back down smiling and softly speaking “Лука Сайрус Беликов и Мила Саша Беликова Я люблю тебя. (Luka Cyrus Belikov and Mila Sasha Belikova I love you.)”
“Hey Vika, there’s this really popular song on the internet right now. I wonder if you’ve heard of it. It’s in Russian but Dimitri won’t translate it.” Christian said before seeing the absolute look of disapproval in Dimitri’s face. “Nevermind we can talk about it later.” He winked.
She just looked so confused until I waved her over and pulled the song up on my phone. As soon as she saw the title her face went completely red.
“I’ve never heard of that song before Christian. So I don’t know what it’s about.” She stared at the ground.
“Maybe yeva will translate for you.” I giggled.
I hadn’t realized but she was analyzing the group and specifically Lissa and Christian, more on Christian. Her name must’ve snapped her into action and she walked up to him and just spoke in Russian just to confuse him.”Королева любит тебя всем сердцем, и я вижу, что она доверяет тебе во всем. Если ты разобьешь ей сердце, у тебя будут серьезные неприятности. Я видел, что ты женишься на ней, и она будет носить твоих детей. Просто сделай уже предложение, идиот.(The queen loves you with all her heart and I can see she trusts you with everything. If you break her heart you will be in serious trouble. I've seen that you marry her and she will carry your children. Just propose already you idiot.)”
Everyone who spoke Russian looked at each other and were biting their lip meanwhile Christian looked like he had just gotten scolded in front of the whole class after she walked back and sat down and started talking to my dad in Russian he leaned over and asked Dimitri for a translation. “Don’t worry about what she said.It’s not anything you don’t know.” Dimitri said diplomatically.
“Great so I’ll have to ask little Dimitri for translations now.” He rolled his eyes dramatically.
“Or you could learn the language and not need a translation. If I can learn, you can too.” I stood up and waddled over to Niko and picked him up and snuggled him against my chest rocking him softly. “You look like you’re ready for bed. Should we go home? I’m ready for bed.” I kissed the little boy’s head as he leaned further into me, melting into me and I smiled.
“I think Roza is right. It’s really late for the kids, and it’s past her bedtime too.” Dimitri gently held a hand on my back escorting me and the rest of the Belikov clan with us to our house.
Once we were inside and Niko was completely asleep I looked up at Dimitri. “We’re going to have two of these. It still doesn't seem real.”
“I know, I think it’ll be all too real when you’re in the hospital.” He smirked.
“You mean when I break your hands and scream that all this is your fault and that you did this to me?”
“Sounds accurate.” He smiled and kissed Niko’s head. “You go get ready for bed .I’ll put him down in the crib in the nursery. Zoya will be in the other crib.”
I nodded, handing the little boy over and immediately feeling the emptiness of where he was a moment before. I got ready for bed and laid down in the bed and smiled feeling comfy and cozy. That’s when a little bullet entered the room and jumped on the bed. It was Paul. He landed right next to me and nearly gave me a heart attack.
“Auntie, I missed you. I can’t wait to spend time with you and the babies.”
“Well, you are right now, they just aren't born yet.”
“I know, and I hope that you aren’t hurting too much after you have them, but I can help.”
“Thank you buddy. I can’t wait for them to be home either. Now I need to go to bed because carrying two babies is very tiring.” I said as I closed my eyes.
“Night auntie. I’m so proud of you and uncle.” He kissed my head and moved my hair out of my face and I heard Dimitri scold his name.
“Dimka, he was just bein nice n sayin night.”I mumbled into the pillow.
“I just didn’t want him harassing you.” He said softly.
“I know thank you.” I half smiled. “Now come to bed so I can sleep.” I said softly and I nuzzled into my spot and fell asleep before Dimitri even came to bed.
The next morning when I woke up I felt Dimitri’s side of the bed empty before I even opened my eyes. I could smell all the amazing food that Olena and Karolina were making. Once I was dressed and brushed my teeth I headed downstairs to the kitchen letting my nose and stomach lead the way. As I turned the corner and walked into the kitchen I was happy to see Dimitri with Sonja and Yeva at the table as Olena and Karolina were cooking. I smiled and sat down next to Dimitri and smiled leaning against him from my chair.
“Morning everyone. How are you guys doing?” I smiled. It was great to have everyone around. I felt a bit more comfortable knowing we would have more help and some more experienced parents here to help us prepare for the little kiddos that were going to come soon.
“Good.” Everyone collectively said.
“How are you doing Roza?” Sonja asked. “Once I hit 30 weeks I just was sick of it.”
“I’m okay, but it is starting to get harder and harder to do things. I didn’t realize how difficult it was to get shoes on once you were this far along with twins.”
“Even with just one it's nearly impossible.” Sonja said smiling.
“Where’s everyone else?” I looked at Dimitri.
“Paul is watching tv and the little ones are still asleep, same with Vika.” Dimitri said, smiling and kissing the top of my head. “Is there anything you want to do today?”
“Well, I want to go kill strigoi but I know that isn't going to happen and someone doesn't want me training either so maybe show everyone around court.”
“Oooh that sounds like fun.” Karolina turned and smiled.
“We can make a list of any other items you don't have and get them while we browse around court too.” Sonja added smiling. “Vika will love it, she was very happy to spend some time here with you guys.”
“It was our pleasure to have her stay. Mama what do you think about her coming here and getting some extra training since she hasn’t had her assignment placed yet. She could have some private training with us or some of our co-workers if they are willing.” Dimitri said softly as he walked over and gently laid his hand on her shoulder.
“Well, she's completely free to do what she likes but I do trust you both. Just remember she’s still young and if she’s here could you please keep an eye on her for me?” She asked him softly as she hugged Dimitri.
“Of course mama. I’ll always protect you all. Nothing will harm you without going through me first.” He smiled resting his head on hers as he held her in a hug for a moment before the oven timer went off and his mom sprang back into action.
I waddled into the living room and smiled plopping down onto the couch next to Paul and he smiled. “Auntie you’re awake. Are you going to have the babies today?”
“You know what Paul, i don't think so but you never know. I learned that every time I thought I knew what was going to happen, it went completely differently.” I smiled and pulled him into a hug. “Can you believe it, the best guardians in the world are going to be parents.” I laughed softly.
“It is a bit strange, but you will be great parents. I know it. They’re lucky babies.”
“Thank you little Belikov.” I smiled and cuddled with him as we watched the tv show until we heard Olena call him for breakfast. He smiled and waited for me to follow and made sure I was right behind him. I smiled and sat down and quietly ate my breakfast listening to everyones latest stories and drama.
Chapter 14: Chapter 14 - Sparring
Summary:
The Belikov family finds their way to the Court gym and obviously they cant leave without a little sparring.
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Once I was done eating I leaned on Dimitri’s arm smiling widely. I could get used to being here with all of our family. I bit my lip happily until I felt a jolting kick towards my bladder by little Luka. I abruptly got up and I saw the flash of worry in Dimitri’s eyes.
“Excuse me, Luka thinks it's funny to play with my bladder like it's a toy.” I smiled as I walked to the bathroom off the kitchen.
Once I was done I walked back into the kitchen and saw everyone had moved into the living room. I smiled seeing Dimitri holding onto my shoes and socks for me. Since it was so hard for me to get my shoes on and off he had taken to helping me and it was such a simple and amazingly sweet thing. I sat down and he kneeled and murmured to the babies before leaning down further helping me slide my socks and shoes on before tying them.
I showed everyone the nursery as Karolina took out her phone and took notes of what we were missing while Sonja and Olena only spoke to have her add stuff to the list.
“Thank you guys for everything. I really have no idea what we will and won’t need.”
“Of course. Are you going to breastfeed or bottle?” Karolina said as she kept typing away furiously to only look around the room.
“Well, I’d like to breastfeed but honestly as long as they eat I don't care how.” I said blushing a little as I thought of them seeing my breasts even if it was for feeding my kids.
“Well then you’ll need a pump. I’ll help you pick out a good one. I used it when I was working and still breastfeeding Paul and Zoya. Also you will want a small fridge in here or your bedroom, somewhere to store your pumped milk. You can freeze it too but having some in the bedroom or nursery is always a good idea. If you think you’ll be going with formula, have some in the kitchen and either in here or the bedroom along with a bottle maker. That will make your lives easier especially since you’ll have two little ones.”
“Binki’s, get a bunch of types. Sometimes babies can have a preference for specific things like that. Also that way it’s easier to keep them from waking the other, but I’m sure they will wake each other up regardless.” Sonja added softly.
“Get a carrier of some sort.” Olena said smiling. “You’ll have time when you need to hold them but you need to do stuff with your hands, like laundry. If they are anything like Dimka they will want to be a part of it all. The easiest way is to have them strapped to you. There's a bunch of different ones but we will find a few that work best for you two. Also get the breastfeeding pillows.”
“Yes they will help a lot with breastfeeding. They will save your arms and you should bring one with you to the hospital.” Sonja spoke softly. “It was a life changer for me for the first few months. Also get a decent amount of covers.”
“Swaddles.” Yeva spoke softly as she looked and took in every detail of the room letting her hand run along the baby clothes Dimitri had hung in the closet. I was so glad Karolina was taking notes because even though I was trying to memorize what we needed and why for everything I was already lost.
I think Dimitri saw that I was so confused and overwhelmed as he leaned in and whispered into my ear. “Don’t worry they’ll be here for a while to help. You got this my badass fiance.” This got me to look up at him and smile as I felt tears threaten to spring up in my eyes as I pushed them away.
After a while the women decided our list was extensive enough for us to head out and get the tour. Vika was so proud to show off Court to her family. She even told them that they had to see the gym. Paul smiled proudly and announced where he first knocked Dimitri over as we all smiled and cheered.
“We can’t leave the gym without a show.” Vika said, whining.
“Well, I can’t. Medical exemption sadly.” I shrugged. “You know I’ve never seen you girls train.” I said looking at Sonja and Karolina.
“No I couldn’t.” They both spoke in unison.
“It's what your niece and nephew want.” I said smiling as I heard Dimitri let out a small laugh.
“I’m in only if she is too. But I want to fight my little brother.” Karolina said, smiling as I saw Dimitris' smile falter.
“I’m in too but I will fight the winner.” She smiled, seeing the fire in their eyes I had a feeling they were just as stubborn as Dimitri.
“Alright, but this is your warning. I won’t go easy on either of you because you are my sisters.” Dimitri said as he looked between them Karolina had already squared up with Dimitri and threw a hard punch landing on Dimitri’s shoulder.
“Nice hit momma.” Paul cheered. I didn't know who I wanted to see win but It’d be nice to see how worked with his sisters.
They didn’t dance like Dimitri and I did. Dimitri didn’t know what to expect when he was fighting Karolina. He did get quite a few hits in and almost won pinning her before she whispered something that we couldn’t hear that caught him off guard. He shook off the look on his face quickly but it was enough for her to get out from under his grasp and flip him so he was laying on his back kneeling over him. He smiled and leaned up, slipping one hand out of her grasp and grabbing her wrist and spinning her, pinning her face first on the mat with both hands pinned behind her back.
“Good job little brother.” She said as he helped her up. Vika will be in good hands.” She smiled as she high fived her sister in as she took her seat.
“Now it's my turn, little brother.” Sonja said, smiling as she took her place on the mat holding her hands up.
Sonja made the first move and made contact with Dimitri’s face before he grabbed her hand and spun her around as she tried to right herself she landed on her ass and smirked. “That's all you got little brother?” She taunted.
“No, but that was me being polite.” He smirked as she came at him with more fire in her eyes. “I’ve had more difficult training with Paul.” He laughed and he caught every punch and expertly dodged all of her moves. I have a feeling is the one who he really trained with at home. I could see it in their eyes. This is how the two of them solved any disputes. It was kind of funny seeing Dimitri be the one antagonizing someone else. I wondered if this is what it was like to see how I fought. I always had to be sarcastic and antagonize who I was training with.
“Dimitri, don't let your kids down!” I cheered and he looked over at me and winked, smiling as he jumped over his sister's leg that she tried to sweep him with. This just made her even more angry and I had a feeling I was going to see just how mad she could get with her little brother.
“Remember little brother. I have a lot of dirt on you.” She giggled as she nailed a hit to his stomach.
“Yes you do, but so do I.” He smiled. “You think Vika didn’t talk and tell us all the drama when she came to visit.” He grinned and finally grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder holding her like a bag of flour. She was kicking and hitting him as he laughed. “Don’t worry big sis. I won't tell your secrets if you don't tell mine.” He set her down and smiled as he walked over to me and helped me up. “We can train more while you are here.” He smiled looking at his family before kissing my cheek. “Now let's move on with the tour. Roza will want to break her restrictions if we stay much longer.”
After that we went around Court after a while Sonja, Olena, and Karolina took me into a few maternity stores and baby stores and explained exactly what I would and wouldn't need and helped me purchase some items. The girls wouldn’t even let me help carry anything. I felt a little bad not helping carry things but then I remembered I was carrying plenty when you added how much the babies and all the stuff that came with them weighed.
Chapter 15: Chapter 15- Early labor?
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After a few days after all of Dimitri’s family arrived we settled into a sort of rhythm. Vika usually was off training with someone either from the family or she had gotten some of the other guardians to help train her when they were off duty. Most of the royal guardians that met her when she came to visit seemed very excited to help work with a new graduate and help her hone her skills.
Paul was usually attached to me or Dimitri unless his mother pried him off of us or convinced him to help with his cousins. I was so happy seeing how relaxed and perfect our families meshed together. I wished that it could always stay like this. I helped with Zoya and Niko as much as I could with my stamina and giant belly in the way. I was happy taking them on walks around Court with Paul and usually another adult with us also. There weren’t too many playgrounds around since there weren’t many little kids that lived here but there were some and it became a routine to take the little ones out to get some of their energy out before they could destroy the whole house.
Today we were at the park and Paul was playing with Zoya. He was so good with her and little Niko. At this point Niko was tired of going down the slide and came over to where I stood watching them. He looked up at me and raised his arms as I picked him up and he nuzzled closely into me. I smiled as he rested his head against me and I looked over at Olena who happened to be the other adult with me today.
“You will be an amazing mother Roza.” She smiled, touching my arm.”I know you are scared, I was too before I had Karolina. It’s part of it.”
“Thank you Olena.” I smiled as she pulled me in for a hug. I leaned in with Niko and felt a sharp jab as little Luka kicked into some sort of vital organ hard enough for me to wince and Niko to look down at my belly.
“Are you okay Roza?” Olena asked.
“I will be, once this little boy can learn that he doesn't need to act so crazy in there.” I said looking down at my very tight round belly.
“Oh I know what you mean. Dimitri was very active and he had no mercy for my organs.” She smiled and we both noticed Zoya was starting to get tired. “Paul, Zoya,Пора заканчивать. Мы скоро уезжаем.”(Time to finish up. We are leaving soon.) She called and Paul looked at us and nodded as he looked back and encouraged Zoya to be done. He was going to be a great man someday.
As we started walking back I smiled holding Paul’s hand as I carried Niko. If Dimitri were here he would have insisted on not letting me carry Niko but the doctor said I was fine to help with the children. After we got back to the house I laid the now sleeping Niko in his mother’s arms as she was sitting in the living room.
“You took him when he was all crazy and wound up and brought me back the sweetest little snuggle bug?” She smiled looking between him and I.
“Well yea,” I smiled, rubbing his back. “All I did was hold him, He was the one who did all the work. I just carried him.” I kissed his dark hair.
“Just wait, these are the moments that make life worth living Roza.” She smiled looking down at her sleeping boy. “And you get to have two of them at the same time.” She smiled and rubbed my belly. As she rubbed I smiled and she looked a little confused. “Are you having a contraction?” She asked, looking at my belly. “It just got tighter.” She explained.
“I didn’t feel anything. Probably another one of the fake ones. I’ve been getting them on and off since I was like 30ish weeks.” I said casually as she just looked at me as she felt my torso relax again.
“Whatever you say Roza.” She smiled up at me before nuzzling her face into her little boy's hair.
I walked up the stairs and I swear it was like every passing day these stairs just got harder and harder to climb. Once I was at the top I walked into our bedroom and flopped onto the bed sighing loudly as I heard Dimitri in the bathroom.
“Roza, how was the park? Did the children behave?” He asked, seeing how exhausted I was.
“Yes they did, however I’m exhausted.” I sighed curling up on the bed. Dimitri followed and curled up with me.
“Well then my love, take a nap. You are using up a lot of energy just by carrying Luka and Mila around.”
“And I’ll need all the strength I can before labor comes and tries to kill me.” I said half joking. “The way your son kicked, or punched or whatevered me was uncalled for.” I sighed snuggling into his chest.
“I’m sorry my love. I’ll tell him to be a little more respectful in his cramped quarters.” He smirked.
“How about the next two kids you get to carry and grow for 9 months.” I said opening only one eye.
“Sorry, not how that works.” He smiled as I glared at him. He kissed my hair and played with my curls as I fell asleep against him.
I must have slept for quite a while because when I stretched I was stiffer than normal. I got up and went to the bathroom and washed up and changed back into some sweatpants and one of Dimitri’s large t-shirts over my nursing bra.
As I walked downstairs I put a hand on my lower back feeling a little pain but carrying around this much weight of course my back was sore. I kept the hand on my back as I walked into the kitchen and Dimitri flew out of his seat and over to me and he rubbed my back. He helped me over to a seat and I blushed.
“You okay Roza? You slept a lot longer than your usual naps.” He softly kissed my temple.
“Yeah, just exhausted and sore.” I leaned against him and bit my lip trying not to let people know that Luka had hit a position sending a shooting pain through the most tender area of my body. “I swear Luka you will be born grounded.” I rubbed my belly as the little girl moved and tried to wiggle around up top knocking some of the air out of my lungs.
“It will come to an end eventually.” Karolina spoke covering her mouth as she ate.
“I’m sorry Roza, I’m so sorry you are miserable.” He spoke softly.
“Dimitri, I’m only miserable because they are our stubborn ass children and I know I still can’t wait.” I smiled looking up at him before kissing him gently. As we kissed gently I felt a sharp pain in my back and I pulled away and tried rubbing my back.
“What is it? Are you Okay?” Dimitri started to panic.
“She’s fine. Well, her back is hurting because her body is getting ready to go into labor.” Yeva said curtly.
I looked over to her and whimpered. “This is before labor?” Oh good god. “Please tell me this doesn't last long.” I sighed looking around knowing by their faces I wasn’t going to like the answer.
“It could be hours, it could still be weeks.” Sonja said, looking at me sweetly. “Every woman is different and every labor is different.”
Dimitri held me close and I laid my head in the crook of his neck. Being like this made me feel so safe and helped my pain subside. After a short while we all went into the living room as I stayed close to Dimitri. I had a few strong cramps every so often but according to the women it wasn't even worth warning Lissa and my family about yet.
I know this is a short Chapter but the next will be longer i promise :)
Chapter 16: Chapter 16
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After a while of me ignoring my phone Lissa stopped by to check in on me. Her guardian waited outside the house even though they knew they were welcome. I barely noticed she was there until she rubbed my arm.
“Liss, Sorry, I don’t feel very good.” I sighed as I gripped Dimitri’s shirt tightly as another contraction rolled over my tight belly.
“It’s okay. Vika told me. I just wanted to check in on you.” She said keeping her eyes on mine. I noticed her intense look on her face.
“Queen Lissa, you are not using your healing powers on this.” I warned her harshly and I could only imagine how some of the girls would react to hearing someone talk to their queen that way. But before she was my queen she was my sister and my family, and as I wasnt shadow kissed anymore I couldn’t absorb the dastardly side effects of her spirit magic use.
“Rose, we don’t want to see you in any pain.” She whispered.
“And I don’t want to see you go crazy over trying to heal me when I know this will pass. Liss, I can get through this.” I sighed, shrugging her arm off me. “Don’t touch me until you promise not to heal me.” I stared at her with fire in my eyes. She knew that I wasn’t going to back down. She must have realized it was pointless fighting with me.
She rubbed my shoulder as she nodded silently, agreeing to not use her magic. I relaxed a little more into Dimitri’s lap and I must’ve dozed off because when I opened my eyes again Lissa was gone but I could hear my parents on the phone with Dimitri. He was informing them of how everything was going and that if anything got closer or progressed any further we were going to let them know and head to the hospital. After he hung up he wrapped his other arm around me. He must have known I was awake but he didn’t want to disrupt my rest. Once I winced, tensing up my arms tightening around his neck.
“Shhhh, shhhh. It’s okay moya lubov.” He said softly as he rubbed my back softly. “I want to get you checked out if you are okay with that.” He softly kissed my head as I nodded.
There was no way I’d be walking with my back hurting this bad. Another reason to be grateful for having the most amazing and strong man here to carry me all the way there.
After we got there we waited in the room for Dr Lee. She asked if she could check me and Dimitri came over and held my hand as I tried to focus on what was going on. The pain clouded my brain and I was glad to have Dimitri there. After she did her exam she took off her gloves and smiled.
“Well, you are 100% effaced and you are just starting to dilate. Which means you are starting but you aren’t too far in to stay here quite yet. I want you to call when you are on your way. Dad, bring her in once she is having contractions within 5 minutes apart. I suggest keeping track of how far apart they are until they start to get closer. Bouncing on an exercise ball will help so will walking if she’s up to it. Any movement will really help move this along.” She looked over at him as he nodded.
After we were done at the doctor I insisted on walking back with his arm around me. I was going to do anything I could to help speed this along. After what felt like forever we got into the house and we went to our bedroom. Dimitri told me he’d be right back and came back with an exercise ball we occasionally used for workouts. Dimitri pulled me in close and twirled me around as we stayed quiet trying to keep as relaxed as possible. After we danced he told me to sit and bounce on the ball. After a while of this I was getting bored and Dimitri had agreed to let me take the ball downstairs and be around everyone while I was trying to progress through my labor. I walked down the stairs with the ball and I saw our family, Dimitri’s family, my parents, Lissa and Christian.
“Hey guys, sorry I’m kinda out of it.” I said softly as I found a spot and sat on the ball and bounced.
“Auntie, why are you doing that?” Paul asked curiously.
“Well, it helps her not feel as much pain and it helps luka and mila come.” Dimitri said, smiling at the little copy of him.
“That’s weird.” He said looking at his mom and then Sonja.
“Auntie Sonja didn’t need one with Niko.”
“That's because little Niko didn’t need a lot of help convincing him to come out.” Sonja said softly.
“Luka, Mila, just be nice okay? We want you and Auntie Roza safe, okay?” he said softly to my belly rubbing it.
Dimitri was watching me carefully and I knew he was looking for any signs of contractions and announced how long they were and how far apart. Lissa kept bringing me water and for this I was grateful.
When the next contraction came on it was more painful than the others and I had to bite my tongue to not swear in front of the children. Abe came over and offered me his hand even though he was warned not to. I took his hand and squeezed it hard as I let a sound between a growl and whimper out.
Abe took his hand away and rubbed it and showed it to my mom who kissed it and told him that he’d be fine. Dimitri sat next to me and replaced his hand in mine and nodded as if telling me not to hold back. He knew the risk of him having a broken hand even before the hard part came.
“This isn’t even the hard part” I mused, sighing heavily looking at the women.
“Yea, but you can get an epidural if you want. It’s just an injection into your spine.” Lissa said calmly as if telling me that would help me relax.
“I’d rather take all the pain than a needle in my spine sis.” I said as I bounced rubbing my belly. I leaned against Dimitri as he sat next to me in the chair.
He smiled and rubbed my shoulder kissing the top of my head. “Ты отлично справляешься, любовь моя.” (You are doing great my love.) I smiled and nodded, closing my eyes as I held onto him tight. It had been a long while since I felt vulnerable. The last time I showed this much vulnerability was when I was in Baia and we had Dimitri’s funeral. I kissed Dimitri’s hand softly trying to push the memories of the funeral out of my head. There has been a lot that has happened since then.
He smiled whispering encouraging things into my ear as I bounced on the ball.After a while I started pacing around the house before Dimitri led me outside and walked with me. I smiled having some more alone time with him while it lasted. I loved having everyone around but sometimes it was nice to just be with Dimitri.
“It still doesn't feel real. I mean we are going to be mom and dad soon.” I said, looking at him smiling.
“I know, I’m excited and nervous. I don’t want to disappoint them.”
“I know but you are not going to be like your father. You know I would never let that happen.” I looked up at him smiling. “You are the best man I’ve ever met and you are the sweetest uncle. I can’t wait to see you with our children. We get to teach them everything.”
“Thank you Roza, even in labor you are trying to make sure I am excited and happy. You will be amazing with our children. I know you are scared without having much practice but your intentions are what matters. I’m so proud of you. You’ve come a long way from the day we met to now.”
“Back then I never even thought about anything but my job. Never expected to fall in love with an amazing Russian or get engaged or pregnant.” I smiled looking up at him letting him lead the way.
I only stopped when I felt a contraction and Dimitri talked me through the breathing techniques we were told to use by the doctor. After what must’ve been around an hour of walking Dimitri guided us back to the house.
“Roza, I think it’s time to grab the hospital bags and check in at the doctor. She said once the contractions are roughly five minutes apart and we are currently at five and a half minutes apart.
Chapter 17: Chapter 17- Labor Part 1
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I nodded as we walked back to the house and I stood downstairs in the living room as Dimitri went upstairs and grabbed our bags and my breastfeeding pillow. I took the pillow as it was the only thing he allowed me to carry as we walked back over to medical. We walked quietly towards the doctor. Once we made it there Dimitri insisted on taking a photo of us in front of the building showing off my giant belly. After we took the photo we walked inside and a nurse pulled a wheelchair up and asked me to please sit and I took my bag from Dimitri.
They wheeled us into a room and got me all set up with monitors on my stomach and they gave me an IV and a heart rate monitor on my finger. They also made me change into a horrible hospital gown. After I was all settled Dr. Lee came in and smiled trying to make conversation, luckily Dimitri was there to answer for me.
“Alright Rose, I’m going to check how you are doing okay? This might feel a bit uncomfortable but I’ll try to be quick.” She said smiling as she had me pull my feet up and she ducked her head under the gown and checked to see how far along I had progressed. Once she was done she told me I could relax and lay my legs down again as she took her gloves over.
“Well, Rose looks like you are progressing nicely, you are at about 5 cm currently. Which means we are halfway there. If you can, I recommend getting some rest. You will need all the strength for the rest of the laboring process. I know it’s not easy resting now but I’d recommend getting some sort of rest, you too Guardian Belikov.” She said looking over at him as he nodded. I knew if he slept it’d be light sleep and he would only sleep for a little while. I knew he was too excited and nervous to sleep well.
Dimitri slid into the bed as I scooted over making some room for him. He pulled me close and I smiled as I felt Mila kick. Dimitri rubbed my belly, shushing the twins. This labor thing was really killing my stamina. I could tell Dimitri was exhausted also. After a short time of laying together I saw Dimitri fall asleep before I joined.
I woke up smiling at Dimitri as he looked down at me lovingly. “Rest well?” I smiled and nodded before wincing, feeling a contraction; this one was worse than the others and I clenched. Dimitri rubbed my back whispering encouraging words in my ear. I heard the door open and looked up to see Dr Lee walking in with a few nurses. She introduced them and we both said hi.
“How are you doing, Guardian Hathaway?”
“Well this hurts like a bitch.” I said honestly rubbing my extremely tight belly.
“Alright I’m going to check you and see how far along you have progressed and then we can talk about medications if they are possible.” She smiled and I agreed. Once she was done examining me she took her gloves off and smiled. “Well, I have good and bad news. The good news is you are progressing very nicely, I think these twins will be here before the end of the day. The bad news is that you are so far progressed we can’t get you an epidural but we can give you some pain relievers. We will be getting them here in a moment and adding them into your IV. If you have any questions just let us know.”
“Thanks. Can I go to the bathroom by myself?” I asked curiously as I felt luka punch at my bladder.
“Yes you may, Just take the IV with you. If you need anything feel free to let me or your nurses know. This is what we are here for.”
I stood up and Dimitri walked me into the bathroom before shutting the door as he stayed at the door. After I was done I came back out and saw the nurse standing there holding a new bag of fluids.
“I’ve got your meds here.” She said as she smiled and hooked it up to the IV stand I had taken with me into the bathroom. I looked at the nurse and realized that unlike the majority of people here at medical, she was a dhampir. As she saw me looking at her I saw her blush a little and look away.
“Is there something wrong?” I was confused. “You’re a dhampir. Do you know me or something?” I wondered why she was staring at me with that look on her face.
“Well, You are the most amazing Guardian in the world in my opinion.” She said, looking between me and Dimitri. “Along with Guardian Belikov obviously.” She smiled as she helped me back towards the bed. I smiled sitting down feeling another contraction roll over me like a wave. Dimitri quickly grabbed my hand and smiled reassuring me as he pulled me close to his chest. The nurse seemed to take this as her que to leave as I whimpered in pain leaning on Dimitri.
I heard Dimitri’s phone chirp and he waited till the contraction was over to grab it and use his free hand. “It’s Mama, she wants to know if you are close and if you want anyone to come here when the twins arrive.”
“Yes, I want my mom, Olena, and Liss here.” I said laying back on the bed sighing after the contraction. I let go of his hand so he could respond with both hands as I closed my eyes for a moment.
“Alright, they are on their way.” He said softly, kissing my forehead.
“Promise me you wont hold anything I say against you. This is already the hardest test of my life.” I said looking down at my belly.
“I know, but think about all the snuggles we get to have tomorrow. We get to have our two miracles in our arms.” He smiled, leaning his forehead on mine.
“I can't think of anything better, Comrade.” I smiled and winked before closing my eyes and gave him a soft gentle kiss. He returned the kiss just as tenderly and I wrapped my arms around his neck as I smiled. “Wanna dance? Didn’t they say that’d help?”
“Of course I would love to do anything with you my Roza. Yes, it will help the labor move along also.” He smiled making sure to move the IV as we moved away from the bed and we slowly danced in the room. Dimitri grabbed his phone and put on some slow music and danced. It was more of us swaying together and occasionally he twirled me around and I smiled seeing how happy he was.
“I’m so glad I get to do this for you, for us.” I smiled looking up at him. “Did you ever think when you first met me in Seattle that we’d be here now, engaged, waiting to meet our little boy and girl?”
“Honestly I had no clue how much my life was about to change. But I wouldn’t change it for anything. The dark times, I wish I could’ve been with you in a better way. But you always have saved me. Even if it was from myself. I am so proud of you. You are the most amazing woman. I hope our daughter is like you, well maybe a little less stubborn.” He smirked, twirling me once again.
“And I know our son will be just like his daddy. I know there’s a lot that we don’t know and I’m scared but I know we will be great parents. Even if I don’t understand why such little humans need so many things. I mean why would a baby even need little shoes, it’s not like they’re walking anywhere. I mean other than to be cute. Hehe.” I giggled.
This got a giant smile from him, the kind that tickled my heart in a good way. As we danced I occasionally held my breath and then remembered to breathe through the contractions. After dancing for a little while we heard a soft knock on the door before a nurse opened the door. Dimitri reached over and paused the music.
“Sorry I don’t mean to interrupt but you have some visitors.” She smiled and Dimitri waved them in softly as he held onto me. The visitors were my mom, Olena and Lissa. I’m sure that my dad was around but they probably convinced him to give us some more time.
“How are you doing?” Lissa asked concerned as she looked at me over trying to study me as if my appearance would give her a clue.
“Liss, relax. I’m in labor. It's not fun but it’s kind of a part of the deal of becoming a mom.” I smiled blushing a little.
“And how is the labor going sweetie?” My mom smiled, coming over and hugging me and shaking Dimitri’s hand before he pulled her into a hug.
“It’s going okay I think. It's starting to get more painful but they just gave me medication so I’m feeling a little better now.” I smiled as I pulled Olena into a hug.
“Olena said you’d like us here in the room.” My mom spoke cheerily.
“Yes, I’d like you to both see your grandchildren enter the world. I don’t really want dad to see that. And Lissa, well I want you to be here since you’re my closest friend and honestly you’re going to be their aunt. Also I need you to promise me something.”
“What is it?” She asked, concerned.
“You are only allowed to heal me if I am, or the twins are actively dying. If you heal me for a few stitches then, I don't know what but I’ll do something.” I said, crossing my arms across my chest.”
“Okay, but you know how I hate to see you in pain.”
“I know but I need to heal from this naturally.” I said seriously. I knew she understood that I hated her using her healing on me when she knew I would heal quickly given my dhampir genes.
After they got all comfortable, mom went and got some ice chips for me to chew on since it had been a while and she said I needed to stay hydrated. Shortly after I was given the cup and was chewing on the ice the doctor came in.
“Alright, I have to check mom,” The doctor said smiling.
“Don’t worry they’re here for the long haul.” I said as I got ready for her to check and see how far along I was. No matter how many times she did this it felt so weird and invasive. I knew it had to be done but damn it was weird. Dimitri leaned down and kissed my forehead again and murmured something soothing in russian.
“Okay,” She said as she set my feet back down after she took her gloves off. “Well we will definitely have babies soon. You are currently just shy of 8cm so we should be having babies here shortly. If I had to say I’d say probably in the next 3-4 hours here you will have your children in your arms.”
I heard a cheer from the hallway and I knew my dad must’ve been waiting out there. I looked over at mom and she nodded before heading out of the room as she heard his cheer also.
I looked at everyone and smiled. “Well, good to know this won’t take too much longer.” This got a giggle out of Lissa. I asked Dimitri if we could take a walk and go say hi to my dad, he obliged but Lissa and Olena stayed in the room. We wouldn’t be going far.
Once we opened the door I saw my dad and mom down the hallway and I saw pure excitement on my father’s face.
“How are my babies doing?” He ran over and rubbed my belly.
“Well, old man. Your baby is currently having her own babies. And I just wanted to see you one more time before I’m a mom, and you are officially an old man and before you are a dede.” I smiled and I saw tears spring up in his eyes.
“You know what grandpa is in turkish.” He sounded astonished.
“Yes ihtiyar, it’s called the internet.” I smiled. “Also I want to know what my kids are going to call you. I mean once they can speak and everything. I smiled. He kneeled down and spoke to my belly in Turkish again and I smiled at the interaction before I heard a small click and looked up. My mom must’ve taken a photo or two with her phone as it was pointed right at me and dad. Once my dad was done we had to convince him that mom would come get him as soon as he could come into the room. He wanted to be in the delivery room too.
“Sorry dad but I really don’t need you fainting or looking at that area of me.” I said softly, hugging him.
“I don't really want to see that either. I’ll be here. Remember as soon as you are decent I am the first one allowed in.”
“Well, as the only grandfather of our children, yes we will make sure you are the first to meet our children.” Dimitri said softly. “I’m glad our children will have one great grandfather.” He said softly, nodding towards my dad.
“Even if he goes by Zmey.” I sarcastically added giggling as I threw some hair over my shoulder and gave him one last hug before going back into the delivery suite or whatever they called it.
“Hey Rose, you might want to put your hair up. Off your neck when you have to be pushing.” I nodded and she handed me a hair tie and I pulled my hair up into a messy bun atop my head so it’d be out of the way. I sat on the bed and shivered.
“Is it me or is it chilly here?” I asked, realizing I was very very chilly.
“Sadly that is just you dear. It’s common at this point in delivery.” Olena said softly rubbing my shoulder as she pulled a blanket up over me. Dimitri sat on the bed and I knew that no matter what he was always going to be there to help me through this.
I smiled and leaned against him as I felt a contraction, they still hurt a bit but the medication made it more manageable. Also with all the pain I’ve been through before this seemed more tedious. I was used to pain, but not this prolonged kind of pain. After about an hour since the doctor came in I started to feel my eyes droop. I was exhausted and Dimitri noticed
“Roza, come on just a few more hours.” He whispered in my ear. At this point it felt like forever since we took that nap. “I know you’re tired but we are almost there. Soon we can all take a nap as a family.” He whispered and I rubbed the sleep away from my eyes and I nodded. I started to get up and he grabbed onto me “Where are you going Roza?” He asked worriedly.
“The bathroom. I need to go to the bathroom.” I said softly. “Is that okay?” I asked looking up through my eyelashes.
“Okay but one of us should go with you.” He said softly, noticing just how exhausted I was. I sighed and nodded.
“Okay Comrade, given that you are the fiance i guess you get to come with.” I said softly as I walked to the bathroom with my IV still attached to me.
Dimitri waited right at the door after helping me sit down. I did my thing and stood up carefully after flushing and washed my hands.
“See, I just had to pee.” I said softly as I felt another contraction waving over me. This one was strong enough to knock the breath out of me.
Once we came back out the doctor was in the room. “I just came in to check on you. I’ll give you a minute to get comfortable again.” She smiled and I got in the bed and got ready as I was slowly growing used to this. She nodded as she checked me and then she took off her glove. “Well, you are completely dilated, now all we are going to wait for is your next contraction we are going to have you try and push.” I saw a look of shock hit Dimitri’s features and then fall away. He must’ve gained his guardian composure with everyone around as everyone’s attention pulled closer to me.
I followed the doctor’s orders as I pushed for 10 seconds for every contraction. It only took a few pushes as I cried out as I was pushing Dimitri holding my hand and whispering sweet nothings into my ear.
“Good job Rose, you are doing amazing.” She said coaching me as the nurses coached my breathing along with Dimitri. “Baby boy is so close.”
I groaned as I was sweating, putting all my strength into pushing. I felt an intense burning pain and the doctor told everyone she could see the head. I took a minute to catch my breath between pushes.
“Rose, give me one really good strong push.”She said as I felt my next contraction.
I did as I was told, pushing as hard as I could and the sharp pain ceased. “Good job, baby boy’s head is out one more good push.” I took a deep breath in and looked up at Dimitri for a second before closing my eyes and tucking my chin close to my chest as I gave another push and I felt the pressure release. “Congrats, Baby boy is born.” She said as she took the baby and a nurse pulled my hospital gown open so she could lay him on my chest. He was already screaming and I just stared at him and then looked up at Dimitri who had tears falling down his face. I hadn’t realized but I had streaks of tears down my cheeks.
I felt Dimitri’s hand on my cheek as we both instinctively rubbed the baby boy’s back. “Good job Roza.” He said kissing the side of my face.
“Hi baby,” I said softly to the little slimy baby laying on my chest screaming. “Shh, it's momma and daddy. It’s going to be okay. I promise.” I said softly, kissing his head gently.
Chapter 18: Chapter 18 - Labor part 2
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After a few minutes the nurses took him and they asked for Dimitri to come over once they were ready for him to cut the cord. Meanwhile the doctor told me to give a few more pushes. I did as was instructed and she said something about the placenta being intact. I was too busy looking at Dimitri being so consumed by our little boy. From the little I could tell he was going to look just like his daddy. Boy did he have no problem with his lungs as he was loudly protesting to the nurses. I was so happy and after he was done and they had a diaper on him Dimitri was told to lay him back on my bare chest. I took him so gently and getting a closer look he was definitely my son with beautiful dark brown hair.
After a minute or two he started to nuzzle my chest and I looked between my mom and Olena not knowing what to do.
“He’s hungry. He’s looking to nurse.” Olena said smiling. “We can leave if you’d like your privacy.”
“Umm not so fast I don't know how to nurse him.” I said softly looking between Olena and my mom and Dimitri. Lissa looked just as confused as me and Dimitri.
Olena came close and helped me get Luka close to my breast and once he found what he was looking for he latched on and pulled and sucked. It didn't really hurt, it was just very strange and uncomfortable.
The nurse checked and verified that yes he was feeding the way he was supposed to be. The nurse praised him on his natural instincts and how well he was feeding. I looked up at Dimitri smiling.
“Of course he’s good at eating. I mean he is a growing Dhampir, your son, and I’d be surprised if they both don’t have your appetite.” Dimitri said smiling looking at me as he kissed my cheek then Luka’s head. After Luka drank a little he fell asleep and Dimitri wrapped him up in a blanket and handed him off to Olena. They all passed him around.
I smiled and then I felt another hard contraction. I hadn’t noticed but the doctor wasn’t here anymore. I quickly motioned for the nurse to come over and I told her that we needed the doctor. She quickly and quietly left the room. All the girls were huddled around the little boy. They were all cooing at him and the doctor and nurse came back in.
“So, it sounds like little girl’s on her way?” She asked as I nodded. “Alright, it looks like she has dropped into position and she's not quite crowning but you are ready to push at the next contraction Rose.”
Dimitri looked over at me and nodded, noticing I needed his focus again. I pushed a few more times before feeling the pressure that I felt when Luka was crowning. After one more push her head was out and the next contraction I gave a good push and she slid into the doctor's hands and the pressure was relieved.
Like with Luka the doctor set her right on my bare chest. “Welcome to the party my little princess.” Dimitri said softly rubbing her head. I couldn’t imagine I had just met my little girl and boy that I had been carrying for the majority of the last year.
“Hey little one.” I said to her softly as she stretched out along my chest. The nurses took her after a moment and got her all cleaned up and Dimitri also cut her cord as I delivered the Fplacenta again without paying any attention to the doctor.
“Rose,” The doctor said, trying to get my attention.
“Yeah?” I said, peeling my eyes off the little girl in Dimitri’s hands.
“You did wonderfully. I’m just going to clean you up a little bit. No need for any stitches. Once I’m done you can lay your feet back down. We will need to keep checking on you to make sure you are healing up well but you did wonderful. Congrats.”
“Thanks.” I said smiling before looking at Dimitri who was cooing at our little daughter before bringing her over to me. Once she was laid on my chest she went digging around right away for food. We had to encourage her to use the other side of my chest. Just like Luka she latched perfectly right away and drank amazingly. Once she dropped my nipple I looked over at mom and as she noticed me glance she nodded.
I sat up a little and Lissa brought my son over to me. Dimitri was now holding his little princess Mila. My dad smiled as I laid in the bed holding my little baby boy.
“Hey old man.” I said smiling. “Wanna meet your grandson and granddaughter?” I smiled. He smiled and sat next to me and I handed him the little baby Luka who was staring up at him with blue eyes. My dad cooed and smiled holding onto him smiling from ear to ear.
“I know Luka, he is a little funny looking, right?” I giggled and I heard my mom giggle a little as well.
“Would you like to meet your granddaughter?” Dimitri said softly as he extended Mila to him as my dad handed Luka to Lissa. She brought him back to me.
“Rose, if you don’t mind I’m going to let everyone know how it went.” She smiled and kissed my hair. “You did beautifully.”
I nodded and smiled as I asked Dimitri to hand me the feeding pillow and I laid my arm holding Luka on it. I looked down at him smiling and making faces at him.
“Little Luka, you are going to be a sweet sweet man.”
“How big are they?” My dad asked and I realized I hadn’t heard any of those details. I was too preoccupied but I knew Dimitri wouldn’t forget.
“Luka was 9lbs and 20 inches long. Mila was 8lbs and 8 oz and 18 inches long.”
“Is that big?” He looked up at my mom.
“If they were single babies that’s normal. However, twins, that's HUGE.” She whispered.
“How are you doing, Kiz?” He asked, staring at the little girl in his lap.
“Fine, they said no stitches.”
He ran his hand over her little head where she had some dark hair. I knew he hated not being there when I was born. My mom must’ve been thinking the same thing. “Rosemarie was much more vocal. Her face was a little different but she looks a lot like Rose did.” She smiled.
“Well Janinie, we could always have a re-do.” He smirked, earning him a smack across the back of the head. “Ouch, I was being kinda serious. Why not? The first one turned out well.” He pointed over to me.
“Well if you are serious that's a conversation for later, and privately.” She said using her best guardian voice. She smiled and laid Mila in my free arm as she excused herself and my dad. He gave me a look of panic before smirking.
Olena excused herself to go let the girls know that everyone did well.
I smiled looking up at Dimitri. “So, what do you think we should do, dad?” I smiled looking at him then at the twins.
“I think you need a nap.” He said softly. “But I think they look hungry.” He said as they both were looking around. I handed him Mila as I got Luka situated then I had him lay Mila down and he helped make sure she was aimed at the right spot. They both started drinking and I felt them both fit into a rhythm.
I heard a knock as someone opened the door. Dimitri tried to cover me a little.
“Hello, I'm Liliana, the lactation consultant. I was coming to check in and see how you guys were doing with feeding.” Dimitri sat back down in the chair and she clapped softly seeing they both were drinking. She inspected their latches and how they were drinking at a good rhythm.
“All three of you are naturals at this.” She said looking between me and the twins. “Sorry you can’t help dad.” She said softly. “But you should be proud of your little ones.”
He smiled and nodded. I could see how exhausted he had become. How long has it been since we slept?
“Well I will let you finish up and if you need anything just let me or one of the nurses know.” I nodded and she left swifty.
“Dimitri, when was the last time you slept?” I asked softly.
“Hmm? Oh that was about 6-7 hours ago, but I only slept for a little while.”
“Well, once they are all done feeding we can take that well deserved nap. I know I need one. I’m exhausted.”
“Yea, well birthing 17 ½ lbs of children will tire you out. Not to mention that you were in labor for around 23 hours.” He said quietly, his eyes closed.
“Oh, I didn't realize the amount of time that took.” I said softly. “It definitely was worth every second.And now, now momma gets to work again, soon.” I said softly as I looked down seeing both babies had relaxed and fell asleep. Luka had some milk spilling out of his face. “Dimitri, can I borrow an extra hand?” I asked hoping he wasn't too far asleep. He stood up and helped hold Luka so I could clean up his face and my chest and he held him up and burped him and I got Mila all detached and cleaned up also. I went to burp her but she was dead asleep. She didn’t burp. I laid her on my chest softly and she nuzzled in. Luka did the same with Dimitri and he laid on the bed with me and I kissed his cheek and his lips softly.
“Now it’s Belikov family nap time.” I said softly as I laid my head on his shoulder and we both held onto our respective newborns as we slept.
Chapter 19: Chapter 19
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It had been 12 weeks since we had the twins and all of Dimitri's family had gone back home to Baia except for Vika who was staying to train more with us and some other guardians. I had gotten the all clear from my doctor to resume my work duties as usual. I had to work a little harder to get back after not being able to work out for such a long time.
The biggest change was when we had work out days I would wear the babies in a carrier, one in my front the other in my back as I ran and worked the punching bag. When we spared the third person would hold onto the twins.
We had talked and Dimitri and I agreed that when we both had shifts that Vika would watch the twins. She seemed very happy with the plan as well. I hated leaving my kids when it came to my first day of going back to work.
I was so excited to have a work day with Dimitri again and as we got to Lissa and Christians room. We held hands and I rested my head on his shoulder.
After we got in I saw the frustration on their faces and I knew there was news that I didn't want to hear.
"Dimitri, Christian has been summoned to check the magic defense classes at St. Vlad's. I'm sorry I know it's bad timing but the council is demanding." Lissa said calmly.
He nodded understandingly. "When do we leave?" He spoke quietly.
"In an hour or two. You can bring Vika if you want to show her the school where we all went. I'm sure she would love to learn and the council would like to hear more opinions." Christian said, slightly annoyed.
"I will ask her. How long will we be there?"
"We will be gone for 6 days. They want to test them extensively."
"What?! No you can't leave me and the kids." I said looking at Dimitri with panic in my eyes.
"I'm sorry Roza but if he goes I have to." Dimitri said softly, reaching for my hand and I stepped back.
"No, he can take someone else. Take one of Lissa's guardians." I offered.
"Rose, they want Dimitri there to help test as he helped as an instructor in the past." Christian said calmly.
"Rose," Lissa spoke softly. "It's just a short trip to St Vlads they'll be back soon. Everything will be okay." She said adding a bit more soothing tone to her voice and I could tell she was putting just a little extra honey into her voice, adding barely any compulsion but it was enough for me to notice.
"Do not use compulsion to calm me down, Liss." I said, staring her down, challenging her, even though I knew that put me at more risk of her using it on me.
"Roza, I will be back as soon as possible. You can take care of the kids for a week. I have faith in you." Dimitri grabbed me gently and pulled me close, lifting my head to look up at him. "You are the best mother I've ever seen. It will be okay. You have plenty of help. With everyone that we trust here they will be safe.Vika and I will be back in less than a week." He said and kissed my forehead softly. "I'll call you and talk to you and the twins every day. I have to go tell Vika and pack. We will drop off the twins here." He said softly, giving me a kiss before leaving.
Christian left and started to pack his own stuff. Clearly he did not want to be around me either. He knew that I wasn’t comfortable with us leaving the twins. They weren’t that old. They needed both of us, and I was still scared. I was competent but I was terrified, Lissa, Christian and Dimitri knew I still wasn't sure of being left alone while working.
"Rose. Don't start. I don't want them gone either but it is their job. They're trying to make sure more people can defend themselves. This is the beginning of a revolution when it comes to fighting Strigoi. You can't stand in the way of that. Adrian Sydney and Eddie are already coming in. They'll be here before Christian and Dimitri leave." Lissa said sternly, snapping me back to focusing on my duty and the bigger picture. She was right, this was vital to changing the way our culture lived.
I nodded. I followed Lissa for the next hour. Once Vika and Dimitri were all packed they came with the twins and their bag. They were saying their last goodbyes to us all and the twins. They were just about to leave.I held my twins protectively hearing the door open. I let out a relaxed sigh when I saw it wasEddie,Syd, and Adrian.
"Hey cousin, other cousin." Adrian said to Liss and Dimitri. "I hear we are here to help babysit. Come on Rose, hand em over." He held out his empty arms. “You guys have gotten so big.” This time he spoke to my children. I handed Mila to Adrian and Sydney came over and took Luka.
Sydney was talking to Luka in russian. She smiled and I knew they would do anything to protect our family. Especially once we found out that Adrian and Dimitri were actually related, the tension relaxed more between the two of them. As the twins were on a human schedule they were starting to get tired and groggy. I handed each of them a bottle knowing if they didn’t get their bottle in the next five minutes tantrums would occur.
As it was late for the twins,Adrian, Sydney and Eddie as they were on a human schedule, those of us that were on a night schedule were just starting our day. I gave them the recap of where everything was in the house. They hadn’t ever actually come to help take care of the twins but they did help out here and there when they came to visit them, given that it did match with the schedule that they were on.
Sydney nodded and smiled hugging me tightly after I handed her the bag holding onto Luka. I smiled seeing Eddie coming over and playing with his hair. “I still can’t believe that you made them, Rose.” Eddie said looking at the little dark eyes that looked up at Eddie.
“I know right.” I smiled. What I would give to have Mason meet them and as if he read my mind Eddie spoke again.
“He’d be proud of you, and them, Mase.” Eddie said using Mason’s old nickname.
“I know,” I smiled and hugged him and kissed my babies. It wouldn’t be long for me to be home but I felt better knowing that Sydney, Adrian, and Eddie were there to watch over them. “Hey, where’s your little one?” I said not seeing Declan.
“He’s with my mom. She adores him.” Adrian added smiling and went back to whispering to Mila.
“I’ll keep an eye on them. I promise you no one is getting through us.” Eddie said softly. I knew he meant this. He would give his life to protect any child, especially mine. He was so passionate about keeping everyone safe.
Once they left I went back to work mode as Lissa finished getting ready for the day. I accompanied her to the feeder before we went to the administrative building where they conducted the council meetings.
Usually these meetings were all about boring politics but today the first topic pulled my attention. I stayed ever vigilant but I definitely wanted to know what they were saying as they were talking about the magic defense classes.
“I still don’t see why it's necessary. Your majesty, it seems like if we just force the women dhampir to fight it would solve the issue of not having enough guardians.” One person I couldn't quite remember what family he was from spoke. Most council meetings were conducted publicly, meaning you could come watch. Sometimes royals spoke up even if they had no say.
“Marcus, I don’t see how that would help. Forcing dhmapir’s to fight. It sounds to me as if you are suggesting we enslave the dhampir race. If they don’t want to fight they shouldn’t be forced to. Just like how Moroi are not forced to participate or use magic for their own safety. They should have just as much right to their own lives as we are.” Lissa spoke with a soft but stern tone.
You could see just how much pain was on his face from Lissa’s response. He didn’t like how she had just dismissed his idea but honestly he was suggesting enslavement. I’m sure that’d be a great thing to do to the race that was taught to fight and protect the Moroi race once they are old enough to go to school.
“Lord Ozera is currently testing the trial students at St. Vlad’s. He will have more information when he returns in 6 days. He will also have witness accounts from Viktoria Belikova and Dimitri Belikov, along with Alberta Petrov and some other faculty from St. Vlads. We will table this discussion until then.” Lissa said seriously before pushing onto other issues that I spaced out and didn’t pay any attention to.
I couldn't bother to pay attention until Lissa adjourned the meeting. I followed her as I was supposed to. Once my shift was over I gave my replacement all the pivotal information before giving Lissa a hug and a kiss on her cheek.
“Gotta go eat and be a mom.” I said softly. “I already miss Dimitri.” I whined. I hated when we were apart.
“I know it won't be too long.” Liss said softly and I noticed just how much she missed Christian when he was gone too.
Once I got home I saw Sydney at the table reading a newspaper as she drank a coffee. I saw a slightly tired Eddie sitting up on the couch when he heard the door open.
“Don’t worry, just a queen's guard.” I said smiling. I walked towards the kitchen and grabbed out some of the brown bread that Dimitri had made recently. I grabbed out a big chunk of butter also and sat at the table slathering the bread with the butter before I ate.
“How were the twins?” I said between bites.
“They were fine, Dec is fascinated by them.” Sydney said softly, looking at me.
“Maybe it's time he has a little sibling then.” I smirked as Sydney glared harshly at me.
“That’s what I’ve been saying.” Adrain said, striding into the kitchen as he perused for food.
“Seriously, you don't have any good food here.” He whined looking over at me.
“Well that's because those of us who live and usually eat here are me and Dimitri. And I’m breastfeeding so I’m trying to not eat too much crap.” I said honestly. “You are more than welcome to go to the store, buy groceries and make whatever you like if that’d suit you better.” I looked at him challengingly.
He scoffed at me. “Maybe, maybe I don’t want to cook. I mean I am on vacation.”
Once I was done eating I walked into the twins nursery and smiled as I saw them stirring. I smiled seeing Declan wide awake and asking to be picked up. I picked him up and hugged him.
“Hey Dec, how’s it going little budd?” I said softly, rustling his hair as he looked at me and giggled. “You like your little cousins?” I asked softly looking at the twins and he nodded.
“Bayybees,” He said, looking at them.
“Yes they are babies, but you guys will be good friends, I feel.” I smiled and kissed his head before carrying him out to the kitchen. Sydney took him on her lap and Adrian found some baby food for him and handed it to her along with a spoon. He fed himself sitting on her lap and she sipped her coffee.
I heard Mila’s soft whine and I went back to their room and picked her up holding her close. She kept whining and I knew this was usually the time of day that Dimitri spent with them. Usually he would let me sleep first.
“I know sweetie, daddy’s still working. We can call him in a little bit.” I said softly as I rubbed her back. I quietly reached in and picked up Luka too who was still dead asleep. He slept like me, barely anything woke him up. Once I had both of them I sat in the rocking chair in their room and I was so happy with this chair. I swear it was a life saver.
As I got comfortable I pulled out my cell phone and smiled taking a quick photo of us. Mila wide awake looking at it and Luka dead asleep against my chest. I sent the photo to Dimitri and he sent back a few hearts before he called.
I answered the video call showing the same view as the photo. He smiled and spoke his soft russian he always did. I brought the phone closer to Mila showing him her dad and she stared at him intently. She loved him almost as much as I did. She smiled hearing his voice.
“She wasn't thrilled when it wasn't you to come get her out this morning.” I said softly, kissing her head.
“She likes her alone time with me.” He said smiling. “I miss you Moya Mila.” This got her to giggle. “How’s my little man doing?” He asked and I pulled the phone closer to me before showing him the little boy nuzzled in my chest dead asleep. “He looks comfortable.”
“He is, he likes sleeping like his momma.” I smiled, this was not news for us.
“Of course he does, I mean he is a growing boy.” He said smiling as his Russian coaxing and me tickling Luka a little got him to open his eyes groggily and once he saw his dad's face he cooed. “Hey buddy. Are you a good boy?” He asked and Luka snuggled back looking for his breakfast. “I’ll take that as a yes. Time for breakfast?” He questioned and I nodded, feeling the ache in my chest knowing I had to feed them. “Okay, I’ll let you go so you can take care of them. I love you all.” Dimitri said smiling.
“We love you too. Now go rest, you look tired.” I said softly, blowing him a kiss. He hung up and I looked over at the open door and hoped no one would come in while I was trying to get these two started on feeding. I didn't mind once they were latched, you didn't see anything then but I really didn’t want Eddie or Adrian seeing my naked chest as I was feeding my kids. Once I decided I was safe I pulled my shirt down and unlatched my nursing bra on both sides getting Luka on first as he acted like he was starving. Afterwards I tried to get Mila to attach but she was a bit more distracted. She was used to having more snuggle time before breakfast. As I was struggling to get her to focus I heard someone enter the room.
“Rose, Declan asked for his blanket. I’m sorry I didn’t mean to interrupt.” Sydney said softly.
“You’re fine. Just my little stubborn girl wants her bottle but I need her to drink this way before I explode.” I sighed and finally got her attached.
“Rose, can I ask you something personal?” She said walking closely to me.
“Does that hurt?” She asked, nodding to the twins.
“Not really, I mean it's weird and if they don't do it right yea it can hurt.” I said thinking back to the few times I had some pain feeding them like this.
“With Dec I never, well we did formula and I’m scared. About doing it all again, well and the part that I didn’t have to do.” She said and I saw a little red on her cheeks.
“It’s completely worth it. Syd honestly you will do great when you two decide you are ready for another.”
“Thank you.” She said softly and I offered her a nod instead of a hug. She grabbed the blanket she came in for and left smiling and shutting the door most of the way. I’m sure she would try and keep the boys from entering for a little while. I played with the twins' hair as I talked to them and smiled.
“Momma’s gonna talk to Auntie Lissa if her and uncle Christian can watch you soon so momma can have some time with your dad alone.” I said softly, kissing their heads. “I’d like to give Dimka a surprise.” I said softly as I started thinking of how to plan this. As they drank I texted Lissa
Liss, is there any chance you could watch the twins when Christian and Dimitri come back? I want to surprise Dimitri with something.
The response was almost immediate.
R, I was hoping to do the same. Could Abe and your mom watch them? I know they are still planning on coming to town.But I’m not sure how long they are staying.
I texted my mom quickly.
Hey mom. I was wondering when you’ll be in town. Would you like to come visit the twins? I was hoping to surprise Dimitri with a date night when he comes back from St. Vlads.
We are coming in a few days and yes we would be more than happy to take the kids for a while. If you’d like I could convince your father to come in earlier and help you out. We all know how much he loves the twins.
The rest of the week was uneventful. Once my mom and dad came into town they stayed at the house and Eddie, Adrian and Sydney left. Before they left Eddie asked me a question when it was just us.
“Rose, I gotta ask. Do you tell them about Mase? I mean they’re too little to know exactly what happened but I mean I’m not trying to butt in but they deserve to know about him.”
“Yes Eddie, we talk about uncle Mason and that he’s happy now and he is so proud of them and you and momma. Sometimes I hear Dimitri tell them about some other people that he used to know. We show them pictures and tell them as much as we know but I know you had a closer connection with him. As long as it’s age appropriate I want them to know as much about him. When we take them to St. Vlad’s we are going to visit him.” I didn't have to say it but Eddie knew I meant the gravestone that was in memorial for Mason.
Chapter 20: Chapter 20
Summary:
After being gone for a while Rose and Lissa plan surprises for Christian and Dimitri's home coming. WARNING talk of Spicy activities
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Today Dimitri and Christian were coming home. My mom and dad had taken the twins to their place at guest housing and I smiled heading over to the spa with Lissa. She was getting a myriad of things done and so was I despite my protest that I didn't need to be spoiled.
Lissa had full body massages on the docket and manicures and pedicures. I had enjoyed the manicures every now and then. It was the little girly things that I don't usually do but I loved doing it every now and then and I knew Dimitri would be happy seeing me all dolled up. It had been a while since we had a night alone that we could really enjoy ourselves. After we were all done up here at the spa Liss walked me into a lingerie shop and I smiled and giggled looking at all of the options.
“Oh come on Rose, pick something.” She smiled as she had a few things in her hands that looked very very skimpy and I was so glad that our bond was gone, but I had a feeling of what I had planned for Dimitri and I that I wouldn’t even think of them tonight. “Get something you’d like to surprise Dimitri with.” She giggled and I saw a beautiful red corset with black brocade on it and a matching pair of cheeky underwear that I knew my ass would hang out of. It had some straps that looked like you could add them along my neck and chest. Damn Dimitri would love that. I grabbed it and kept looking. I found one outfit that was extremely skimpy chemise that had white lace all over it and was very see-through and I grabbed that also.
When I looked up I saw Lissa giggling. “Wow, really?” She said looking at the items I grabbed.
“Oh Liss, you have no idea. You remember how when you and Christian tried to learn steaking and you felt that heat from sparring. Now ramp that up about a million, that’s what we are like.” I giggled. “Plus it’s kinda fun getting Dimitri riled up, it's like a deep primal desire.” I said feeling my cheeks turn red before we walked around and found some accessories.
“I see,” She said softly and nodded towards a bondage set. “That kinda stuff eh?” She giggled and I looked at the set before setting it back down.
“That’s too cheap, we gotta use the expensive shit. We are powerful vampire killers.” I giggled knowing how that word made her uncomfortable.
“Oh lord,” She shook her head. “All I have to do is put one of these on and Christian, well if he had his way half the time he’d just burn them.” She giggled
“But that’d be a waste of good lingerie.” I whined.
“I know that’s why he's not allowed to until I’m tired of them.” She snickered. “Sometimes I wish he would just slow down and take his time enjoying it.” She whispered.
“The poor queen Lissa. Her and her boyfriend don't get time to enjoy sex.” I whispered and this got me an elbow in the side and I grinned. “Force him to take the time.” I purred softly, nodding towards the bondage set she pointed out earlier. “It is hot and very fun.” I giggled and saw something I needed for tonight covertly grabbing it while Lissa was distracted.
After we looked around a little longer we walked into the dressing rooms and tried on our outfits. This corset outfit looked like it was made for me. It must’ve been made out of the same material good corsets were because it cinched my waist tight and gave my chest quite the lift. It made me look like my chest was another cup size bigger. I giggled and blushed looking and admiring myself in the mirror. I knew how great my ass would look in the underwear and didn’t bother to put them on. After I had ensured both outfits would get quite a good reaction out of my Dimitri I put my clothes back on and smiled as I had a collar in hand and a ball gag. I also grabbed a flogger and tested it on my hand and thigh. It was more of a deep thud than true sting and I smirked. Dimitri would totally use this when I didn’t want to behave. Honestly I liked it better than his belt. I saw some candles marked for wax play and grabbed them, some lube, a small little remote controlled vibrator and leash for the collar.
Once I had all my things I walked over and paid for my items and was very happy that the bags were all discrete and the store girl wrapped everything up well. I didn’t want Liss seeing everything I got. If she hadn’t tried anything like we did then some of this would be a little too intense for her. Especially given that no one knew how submissive I was when it came to Dimitri and our sex life. Don’t get me wrong there are times where I’m more dominant but usually that wasn’t what I preferred.
I liked being a little bratty and getting just a bit naughty and him dominating me. He loved it,he loved hearing me beg him for things. The thought of Dimitri coming home to me all dolled up with all our new things. I’m sure he’d want my parents to keep the kids for weeks. I was glad they were keeping them for a few days since usually after trips like this Dimitri and I both had a day or two off. The only downside to not having the twins around meant I’d have to pump, not that it was bad it just felt so strange.
Once I saw Lissa walk to the door where I was with her stuff. I tried looking in her bag which was wrapped up just as good as mine. I couldn’t see anything in there. Damn. “No peeking Rose.”She said giggling and smacking my arm. We stood just outside the door and I gave her a big hug. “Have a good night.” She giggled and wiggled her eyebrows at me.
“Good luck with Ozera.Remember, be careful.” I whispered back laughing loudly.
“Have fun with Belikov,” She giggled back.
“Oh don’t worry about him. He’ll be fine.” I winked giggling. “That is if he can handle all this beauty.” I wiggled my body. I kissed her cheek and gave her a big hug before nodding at her guardian who was a few feet away giving us our space. I knew her and I knew that she was great at keeping secrets. When it came to Lissa’s other guardians I was technically their boss as I was Lissa’s lead Queen’s guard. That being said, one of my few rules was if they overheard me and Lissa talking about our men. It was not to be repeated or they’d fear my wrath, and since I had a killer reputation, quite literally, most obeyed the rule.
I had the most kills of any dhampir my age. Now that I think about it I had just as many marks as my mom, maybe more. With a 20 year age difference that was very unheard of for my kind. Then again I had my first kill when I was still technically a student. I also did some very stupid and dangerous things like go hunting for the most feared Dhampir when he turned Strigoi. However every time they brought up sending novices out earlier I had been strongly opposed. I was the only one who had firsthand experience in this area of expertise. Between my and Dimitri’s testimonies this shot any chance of graduating dhampirs at a younger age.
Once I got back home I tidied up the living room and kitchen. I washed all the dishes and put them away and then took my shopping bag to the bedroom and smiled. I set out the new toys and got out some of the other toys we had. I also set out the giant box of condoms we had. As much as I loved my twins I really didn’t want to get pregnant again soon after. If it happens well then it was meant to be, but I was not trying to not go through all that physical transformation again this soon after getting myself back into the shape I was before the twins.
I took a long shower before I took a nice bath with a bath bomb and shaved my legs and trimmed up some other hair for Dimitri for later. I knew he didn’t care too much about if I shaved down there but I wanted to look nice for my man. Since we only had one or two quickies since the twins were born I was going to relish tonight. I purred as I laid in the warm water listening to some soft music from my phone’s speaker.
I sat up when I heard the sound of a notification and I dried my hand off and grabbed the phone. I saw a text from Dimitri.
Everything went perfectly. Can’t wait to come home to you all tonight. I will be home before you know it. <3 D
Well, I have a surprise for you tonight so don’t delay. Come straight home. Love you more Comrade.
I could tell that even thousands of miles away that brought a smile to Dimitri’s face and a little confusion to his face. I set my phone back down and smiled thinking of all the ways Dimitri was going to please me tonight. I doubt he’d use the flogger unless I was especially bratty because I went out and surprised him with new lingerie. A whole day or two with no keeping quiet, then again that was as much for me as it was him. I tended to be much louder in bed than most people. Then again I was never going to apologize for being enthusiastic about how damn good he made me feel.
I made myself an easy lunch by throwing together a turkey sandwich with some lettuce. I also placed a decent sized amount of sour cream potato chips aside the sandwich and grabbed out the pitcher of lemonade and poured myself a decent sized glass. I put the tv on and flipped through movies and shows before I picked a movie that I had seen many times before. It had been an action movie and now I watched and studied the fighting choreography in the movie and decided I knew how better write the fighting and what would work most effectively for the main character using his strengths and concealing his weaknesses. Well if I ever needed a back up career I could always go out to hollywood and be a fight coordinator, or stunt woman, I decided.
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