𝐕𝐀 𝟏𝟎𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐍𝐄-𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐒 ▸ To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Vampire Academy, a small group of avid VA fandom writers on FanFiction teamed up to create a collection of themed one-shots based on our favorite VA cha...
Set directly after Last Sacrifice, Rose and Dimitri get some rather unexpected news.
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Pregnant. Of all the many things I'd thought Rose might need to say to me, telling me she was pregnant wasn't one of them!
It was six weeks since Lissa had been crowned Queen Vasilisa Sabina Rhea Dragomir, and Roza and I were sitting in the small living room of our unit at Court.
We were both Guardians; her part of Lissa's Royal Guard, me the Guardian for Lord Christian Ozera, the Queen's Consort. As such, we were each entitled to accommodations within the palace. But it was common knowledge, amongst the Royal Guardians and palace staff at least, that Rose and I shared an apartment; which is where we were sitting as she held my hand and nervously told me her news.
Today had been her final check up with the doctors after the shooting. Assuring me it was routine, and she didn't need company, Rose had gone alone. She explained they'd been concerned about the nausea she reported and the ongoing tiredness, so they'd run a few tests, one of which had turned up an anomaly. The pregnancy test.
Rose, my Roza, was pregnant!
I sat in stunned silence, holding my beloved's hand. She looked at me apprehensively, and I could see she was freaking out every bit as much as I was. It wasn't that long ago I'd told her my love had faded. That I'd pushed her away. Something shifted in the depth of her eyes, and I got the sense that she was mentally preparing herself. Putting up her barricades and readying herself in case I did it again. And at that moment, I made my decision to see it through. My biological child, or not, I would be a father to this miracle in every way possible.
"A baby?" I stuttered in shock. "How?!"
Rose let out the breath she was holding. "The doctors are looking into it, but they seem to think it's because of me being shadow-kissed. They've taken blood to run tests, but they suspect when Lissa brought me back to life, she changed my DNA. They're going to want to take your blood and test it, too. The other idea is it could be because you're restored..."
It was something I didn't talk about a lot. The fact I'd been Strigoi, and the many horrible things I'd done when I was soulless. But it seemed perverse, sick even, that something so miraculous could possibly come out of Rose dying or me losing and then regaining my soul.
"How far along?" I gasped inarticulately, not wanting to ask her the question that had suddenly occurred to me.
"Ten weeks. Looking at the timing, it had to be the motel," she whispered back nervously. The start of our reunion, and our second time making love together. After leaving the hotel, we'd returned to Court, exposed a murderer, cleared Rose's name of regicide, and then Rose had been shot. I nearly lost her that day – and if what she was saying was to be believed, we could have lost something else, too.
I shuddered, holding her hand a little more firmly before I said the words she might hate me for forever. But I had to ask.
"And there's no chance... I mean, you were with Adrian before we got back together..."
