I'm in Love with a Vampire

IV

Can't forget

Forward

The deck, frozen, cold, at least to me it felt that way. There was only one thing that didn't feel frozen, a thick liquid, blood, my blood, pooling up. Pain shot through my chest starting from my back coming up through my chest. Then down again in a different spot some where down the left side of my chest, spilling onto the seemingly frozen deck. My lips parted, blood spilled from them. I looked up, All I could see was the stars. Those bright balls of fire millions and millions of light-years away, giving off a small twinkle, just for us on this putrid little planet called Earth.

Chapter 1Samuel's point of view.

It had been here weeks after The Eclipse. Ana's stomach had been growing rapidly, every evening her and Melissa had to measure to see who's stomach was bigger. Children of mixed blood grew very quickly in the womb, after they were born the human side of them made sure that they grew like normal humans but once they hit sixteen or so, they started to age slower and slower until it was so slow that it seemed like they didn't age at all. All fetus's grew at different rates though, so even if Ana was only three weeks pregnant she looked like she was at the seven and a half mark, while Melissa looked around six.

Ana and I had yet to be married, she didn't want to get married until she was sure her parents would be there. I didn't have the heart to tell her that they were missing. It was possible that my father killed them, but he hated humans he wouldn't hide their bodies, it was more likely that they were kidnapped by Vergal my brother, Kirien, my ex-girlfriend, and Silla my little sister's nanny with whom I have bad blood with. They took off when they realized that my father would most likely kill them for failing to kill my beloved Ana.

Thank Paradise for my wonderful mother. She told Ana that she should stay with Keda, Melissa, John and I on Keda's ship, to help the baby grow better. Though it was a lie it kept Ana from worrying for now. While Mother and a few of her old friends search around for them. Mother asked me to stay with Ana so that my beloved wouldn't get suspicious of anything strange going on.

Jeremy Tillerman went back to work the day after The Eclipse, now that Ana was getting married to me, and having my child and not his, he knew that he had no chance with her. I felt bad for him, if it wasn't for the fact that Ana was the Alnimomi his life wouldn't be as cluttered and difficult as it was then.

I walked out onto deck, the night was clear, the stars were shinning brightly in the sky tonight. This evening was important, the baby had been very modest with its gender every night sense about two weeks ago, so tonight we hoped that tonight we could find out the gender, tonight was our eleven month anniversary, it would be perfect. I walked to the railing and looked out at the water and large Mother Moon in the sky. I heard some movement behind me, I turned to see Oprin coming over the railing behind me. "Ah, Oprin, good to see you."

He came to me, giving me a strong manly hug. "How is Ana?" He asked I knew his love for Ana was as strong as mine, but he did try to keep it more hidden from us than Jeremy did, trying to preserve our friendships with him.

I smiled a big smile. "She grows more beautiful every day."

"No I don't!" Ana exclaimed to us; glaring as she came up the stairs from below deck, one hand on the railing, the other hand on her stomach. "I'm fat and it’s all your fault!" she teased me, still glaring.

"You're lovelier than ever Ms. Ana, or should I say Mrs. Samuel Wethers?" it was a common question when somebody came to see us, it was a coded message, he was asking me if there was any sign of her parents while asking Ana the cover up question of we had been wed.

Ana shook her sweet, beautiful, angelic face; making her dark red hair bounce slightly. "No, not yet Oprin, my mother seems to have come down with some sort of flu, she is pretty much bedridden, Isabella and my father are taking care of her for now, I wish I could have gone on shore to take care of her too, but Isabella said that the baby would get sick," Ana smiled up at me, taking my hand in hers, wrapping it around her waist. "And we wouldn't want that, besides my father is there, everything will be okay." That was the story my mother told her for why it was taking her parents so long to get here. I was very tempted to check the gender myself but Ana wanted it to be a sort of surprise for me as well so she asked me not to check for myself, but it was getting very tempting.

I took a gentle hold of Ana’s hand. "So?" I asked gently prodding for the information I was getting anxious for.

Ana smiled a gentle smile, the one that I loved so much, so dearly. "It’s a little girl." She gave my hand a gentle squeeze, giving me that adorable smile of hers.

Oprin smiled and congratulated me. "Really? A little girl?" I asked her pressing my hand to her stomach, I had been hoping for a girl and couldn't believe it.

Ana smiled and bit her lip gently. I smiled and wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her close, our child between us, pressing against my own stomach; I kissed her tender, sweet, life-filled lips of hers. "Thank you." I whispered to her.

She smiled and giggled. "For what?" She asked as I rested my hands on her round belly gently.

I looked down at her belly in my hands, resting our foreheads together. "You gave me everything I have ever wanted, a loving, beautiful wife, and soon, a beautiful little girl, a little clone of her mother." She gave me a big smile, her warm hands gently pressed my cold ones to our beautiful little girl. There was a sudden movement, Ana breathing quickened for half a second. We both smiled, our little girl was kicking. I loved feeling her move.

"Have you two decided on a name yet?" Oprin asked watching us quietly, I could see the jealousy in his eyes.

Keda suddenly appeared on deck. "I think Ophelia would be pretty." My older sister had a very old fashioned mind, from the way that she looked she always struck people to be around twenty seven if that, but in reality she was 789 years old, her age fueled her old mind. She seemed to be in a very relaxed, happy state of mind.

Ana shook her head again. "No, no," She paused, her eyes lit up. "Terra, Terra Janice, Terra Janice Wethers." I caught what she was doing rather quickly; I didn't even check her thoughts to see if I was right.

"Love, calling her TJ won't bring him back." I was trying to be gentle but everything in her life seemed to revolve around her lost brother, I could understand a few things but my child's name?

Keda gave me a look. "You are so stupid," her mind stated quietly.

Oprin rubbed the bridge of his nose with two fingers. "Sam you just screwed up everything in your relationship, tell me you're so happy that you can't think clearly or something along those lines." His thoughts were starting to annoy me.

I gulped realizing what I had done. Ana gave me a cross look. "I wasn't saying we'd call her TJ." She paused, "I'm not going to explain myself to you." she pulled away from me and walked away towards Keda's quarters. We all flinched when she slammed the door to the bedroom.

"Wow Sam, can you screw up any worse?" Keda's thoughts were annoying, I tried to ignore them.

Oprin's thoughts had to jump in as well. "That was VERY smooth my friend, VERY smooth."

"SHUT IT!!" I yelled jumping at him, he welcomed my attack with opened arms, and we collided and hit the deck surface hard.

A shot rang out through the air; I thought my ears were going to bleed.

"Now stop it both of you I will not have any squabbling on my ship, I don’t care if I have to tear you limb from limb I will have peace!" Keda yelled at us bluntly, I'm still not sure how she got use to the loud sound of a gun going off without a silencer. Both Oprin and I hissed and held our ears along with several others who were on deck at the moment. "This is no way to handle it, for your information Sam, she wasn't thinking of her brother when she thought of the name Terra, if you had checked her thoughts you would have seen that and wouldn't have caused this problem, you really hurt her, saying that to her was unjust especially when she was doing so well with it!"

I was ashamed and shocked, I had never seen my sister defend someone so strongly verbally, she always did all of her defending with her blades and her guns, they did most of the work. I couldn't believe I had hurt Ana that badly I just tried to make sure that she had let that bit of the past go. Keda turned towards Oprin. "You shouldn't talk about making mistakes with loved ones should you?" That was all she had to say, he kept his mouth closed, he looked down at the floor and I swear I saw a tear fall from his face.

Keda looked me over disapprovingly. "You know Sam, you have been protecting her for eleven months straight, no breaks, and you two are going to get married, did you ever think about why you loved her?" Her expression was twisted and seemed slightly daring, she crossed the line. I was wanted to fight her, I knew better in the back of my mind. She was better armed, and better skilled. Though I had training, she had experience. I knew she could read my cursing thoughts, she dared me further. Her strong stance and her silent mind brought no hope of winning if I did fight her.

In the back of my mind the small part of me that was telling me that it wasn’t worth it, to just let it go was screaming for me to listen. The rest of me was edgy for a fight, Keda was more of a challenge than Oprin, he would welcome my thrown punches, where Keda would impose more of a threat to me, throwing some punches back. My hand balled into a fist as the rest of me choked out the sound of the screams from the more reasonable me. Keda watched my moves, but made no action of trying to protect herself. I raised my fist and took three steps into her face.

I hope that was enough of a cliff hanger, its the best I could do without having to slightly changing the plot, that wouldn't have been very good...

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