The accident & the snowstorm (A VA fanfic)

Six

DPOV
F***! Now I'd done it. I had officially royally screwed up. Rose was hiding something about me from me, and I'd pissed her off to breaking point. I hardly paid attention to the facts pouring in about the Strigoi attack and its follow up.
"Go to bed, Belikov," Petrov ordered. "You're of no use right now, so go."
I nodded numbly and left.

When I approached my bed I spotted a white speck of plastic. Upon closer inspection it was a positive pregnancy test telling me someone was two weeks along. I flipped it over and noticed her handwriting. One word had my world shaking at its core. Yours. It and I dropped to the bed. How? was the one thing running through my head. I guess it didn't matter anymore because the only male she could have slept with two weeks ago was me. She was having my baby, and there was nothing I could do to support her.

"Dimka?" Mama answered before I processed I was calling her.
"Help me, Mama," I cried in desperation.
"What is it, my boy?" she asked gently.
"I got her pregnant, Mom. Roza, I somehow got her pregnant. Another dhampir! I'm the only possible father of another dhampir's baby! And I can't help her, Mom. I can't support her! I love her, but I can't support her!" I wailed unintelligibly.
"Dimka, breathe," she ordered. "Now explain what you're a mess about."
"I love her, Mom, but I can't support her. Another dhampir is carrying my child, but I can't be there. And on top of that, no one can know."
"Can't, as in she isn't letting you? Or can't as in you won't?"
"Can't, as in I fell in love with a girl I can't have, a girl I'm not supposed to have." Rose wasn't a girl, she was a brave, extremely independent young woman, but I was trying to tell my mother without actually telling her. I couldn't afford someone overhearing, for Roza's sake.
"Are you, Dimitri Belikov, trying to tell me you somehow impregnated an underage dhampir?"
I nodded, forgetting she couldn't see. "I may be. I love her so much, though, Mama. And she loves me too, I know she does." If her anger and jealousy weren't sign enough then attempting to keep me away from our baby for my own safety certainly said something.
"Then do what you can from afar to help her, protect her."
"She's a Hathaway, Mama, she'll be able to tell and then will get pissed off at me for it." She's far, far more observant and intelligent than people realise. It's sad, really.
"You need to try, Dimka. For her sake, for the baby's. She'll thank you for it later. Trust me, pregnancy is a bitch at times, but creating a child, a family, is worth it."

I eventually fell asleep. They were beautiful. Our babies. Our son and daughter. Rose was barely twenty but was juggling family and guardian life well. Our twins played well together at the tender age of two. Both looked remarkably like me, yet had gotten Rose's hair and eyes. We were in the middle of sending them down for their nap so Rose could leave for her shift when I was awoken.

By a fuming Tasha.
"When were you going to tell me you had a pregnant girlfriend!" she screeched. It took me a few moments to realise she was waving Rose's positive test around.
"Give that back, Tasha," I growled. "I didn't tell you because I didn't know. Hell, she didn't know until the last day or so. And I'd hardly classify her as a girlfriend." A lover and my soulmate, sure, but she couldn't be my girlfriend... yet. My mother had given me a solution or two, and I was going to tell Rose as soon as possible. I had to.
"Then what would you classify her as?" Tasha dumped the test on the bed.
"The mother of my child, the one who holds my heart in her hands, the one who sees my soul, and I doubt she realises the power she has over me because of it."

And Janine was going to be her main source of opposition, the main person I'd have to protect her from.