World of Alvarra: Rise of the Vampire Lord

Chapter 177 Not Pregnant... (nsfw)

It was an awkward few days, to say the least after that. Luna heard everything and felt very bad about it, feeling like she somehow disappointed Van, even going so far as to feel like a failure for not providing a child.

Van of course, made it clear under no uncertain terms that he wasn't unhappy that she didn't give birth, and that in fact he very much wasn't ready for a child anytime soon. More importantly, he tried to comfort her and assure her that everything was going to be alright and that he was happy with the way things were as they were now.

It took a full week for Luna to go back to any semblance of her old peppy self, though she still didn't feel in the mood to have sex anytime soon, as she was still depressed about everything...

Despite that, Van and Luna were immensely happy for Thea, a mix of excitement and nervousness for their future baby brother or sister. More importantly, it gave a huge relief off Van's shoulders to know that should anything happen to him, there was now an heir to take over should things go south. Not that he was planning to die anytime soon of course...

Oddly enough there were talks that if it were a girl she should breed within the family. Van made sure to quickly leave the room whenever that was brought up, not wanting to hear it. Hopefully, his parents got the message...

A few days later, Luna came up to him to ask him personally what he thought about having a kid. His true feelings on the matter.

"Honestly Luna. I have said everything I wanted to say about it." Van replied to Luna's question of whether or not he really didn't want a kid.

"I really don't feel like we are ready for a child yet. Not to mention we are going to school for the next few years near the wastelands filled with terrifying monsters and worse. If we have a kid we would have to delay our trip so that you could give birth here and have our parents take care of the baby. Which means by the time we return, the baby would be already five years old and maybe not even realize we are its parents." Van explained.

"Not to mention after that we were selected for a program to study in Istra. Which means another few years gone away. And the fact that after that we were planning on traveling the world. We simply can't take care of a child during all of that, nor do I think it would be right to give birth to a child who will practically if ever, see their parents." he finished, hoping Luna would understand his concerns.

"Ya but, I heard Bloodhaven as a daycare!" Luna said.

"Luna..." Van replied, arms crossed.

Luna looked down dejected. "Do you really not want a baby with me?" she asked, looking like she was on the brink of tears. "We can make it so you can take her as a concubine when she grows up if you want! And what's so wrong if our parents take care of her! I just!-! Don't know..." looking like she was going to cry.

"Luna..." Van felt bad now. At first, he thought it was because she thought it was something he might want and that she failed to provide. Now it was clear that it was that she actually wanted to give birth to a child of their own.

"Hey... it's going to be okay..." Van said, bringing Luna into a hug. "We'll figure something out. Let's talk about this a little more later okay. Sh sh sh sh... don't cry... don't cry..." he said gently as Luna began to sniffle into him.

"Maybe... I should talk to Ren about this... he may have an idea on what to do... maybe if it comes down to it, we can somehow speed up her pregnancy to allow birth before we leave... agh! I don't know anymore!" Van's emotions were all confused and jumbled up, he didn't know what to do...

In the end, Van decided to ask around to see what everyone else thought about whether or not they should have a kid. This was something he really was worried about so figured he should get everyone's input on the matter.