Nightwing - CLOSED

Chapter 19

Lium brought Rain's dream back to his bedroom. Rain looked down at her black jeans and zipped jacket. She noticed that her baby bump was gone. As she patted her stomach, confused, Lium grinned at her. "I'm able to do something in your dreams that I can't do while you're awake." Rain looked at him, still confused.

Lium winked. Outraged, Rain gasped, but couldn't help blushing. "I'm not doing that..." she squirmed. Lium gave out a laugh and sat on the bed, leaning against the headboard with his hands weaved together to cup the back of his head. "But I want you, Rain." he stated.

Rain scowled as her blush deepened. "You can't always have what you want, Lium. Did your mother not teach you that? I think Javier beat that out of you, didn't he?" Next thing she knew, Lium had grabbed the sides of her arms, his feathery forehead hair lightly brushing hers. "well, you need to learn how to keep that gorgous mouth of yours shut."

He swiftly picked her up by the middle and carried her to his bed. He laughed when Rain struggled against his grip. "Don't worry, love. I won't make you." Then Lium sat on the edge of the bed, Rain in his lap, and scooted back towards the head of the frame. "Still not going to get whatever else you're wanting." she muttered under her breath.

Looking at her, puzzled, he commented, "What do you mean? I already have it." Rain shifted to look at his face. "I don't follow..." she hesitated. Lium brushed her hair out of her face and gave her a crooked grin. "You're on my lap, aren't you?" He kissed above her eyebrow as she scowled again. "Even in your dreams, you'll get wrinkles from frowning, love." Rain grumbled mixed up words, but lightened her face.

Lium pulled Rain into his chest, the top of her head placed under his chin. "Would you like to talk about Tony?" His deep voice's vibration made Rain's ear tickle a little. She was so absorbed in his heart beat, that it took her a while to regidter that her was tlaking to her. "No." She just wanted to his steady heart. Seems so alive for a dead guy. Breathes too. He nodded and stayed silent.

Time went by faster than Rain wanted. Lium shifted and sighed. "Time to wake up, love." Rain whined and shook her head, burrying herself further against Lium. He chuckled and ran the back of his pointer finger down Rain's cheek. "We can come back after my plans." She smiled at the thought of coming back. "If I go ahead and wake up, can I get some real clothes?" She didn't really like her sumo wrestler-styled bottoms. Lium chuckled, "Alright."

Instantly, everything went dark, and Rain opened her eyes. She noted that she had turned around to face Lium in her sleep; he was also watching her. She stretched her amrs out to her side. "Good." he mumbled. "Good what?" Rain countered, suspicious. "You'd sleep restlessly most nights, unless I climbed in with you. You didn't tonight, either." he replied simply. "Oh... well, what was it that you had planned?" She wanted to get it over with so they could go back to sleeping.

"Getting impatient, are we love?" Rain shoved him in a light, joking kind of way. Lium grinned and stood, then ran a hand through his brown hair. "Did you dye your hair?" Rain could've sworn that his hair was a dirty blonde. Lium slowly shook his head, as if condused. "Okay, never mind."

Rain swung her legs over the edge of the bed to stand, though Lium appeared in front of her. "No, get on my back. You're not walking with that bump." His serious tone made Rain laugh. "Wouldn't that be worse than walking? At least it wouldn't be squished." Lium grinned and shook his head. "With my genes, she'd be invinsable to that. But, you do have a point."

Instead of carrying her on his back, he picked her up bridal style. Rain grunted slightly with annoyance. "Not what I had in mind..." Lium shifted her so she could wrap her arms around his neck. "I get my clothes now, right?" Lium had walked out of the room, forgetting her blanket. He sighed. "Yes, we'll get them right now."

He turned into another room in the hallway. This time it had a small, flickering, yellow light bulb hanging from a thin wire in the middle of the ceiling. It also had a small dresser that only had three drawers. Lium set her down so he could dig around in the drawers. He pulled out a pair of baggy flannel pajama pants; from another drawer, he picked out a dark green sweatshirt from Colorado. "Here. Just pull them on over the others." He handed them to her and watched her slip them on.

After she tightened the string for the waist band of her pants, Lium picked her up again and walked to the camp room. "What're we doing here?" Rain was looking around nervously. Lium set her down. "I've got to straighten the order here." Rain grinded her teeth and nodded. "Can I get something to eat afterwards?" Rain whined. Lium grinned and kissed the top of her head.

Rain straightened and narrowed her eyes, putting her hands in the large pocket of her sweatshirt, when Leila skipped over to them. "Hey, Lium." She smiled at Lium, flirting, as if Rain wasn't even there. Rain shifted her weight, failing at swallowing the growl in her throat. Both Leila and Lium blinked in surprise at her. She quickly looked at the ground. Lium put his hand on the small of Rain's back and told Leila, "Can you gather everyone in here?" She looked a little disappointed, but flashed off anyways.

Everyone was in the camp room, standing in front if Lium and Rain. "We all know that Tony was put in the kiln," he began, "but do we know why?" Everyone stayed silent. He waited before continuing. "No one? Well, he tried killing Rain and the child she is carrying." Leila was glowering at Rain. "Anyone as so touches her will have the same fate as dearest Tony."

He turned his head to look at Rain, then smiled softly. When the crowd slowly began to shuffle away, Lium called after them, "Where do you think you all are going? I'm not finished talking here." His demanding tone made Rain shiver; everyone hurried back to their places. "It is my child inside of Rain, and when she is born, you will accept her as another of your leaders. Once she is of age, she will help us all take over humanity, along with her future siblings."

All of the vampires cheered, though Rain stood there, pale-faced, as she registered that Lium wanted her to bear more children.

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I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz - I just felt that this could fit in with most of this chapter...?