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"Ready to find out the gender of your child, sis?" Asked Tatiana as she gently pressed her fingers into Anastasia's sore back. She stroked her 4-month pregnant stomach with her wedding band, excited. "Thanks Tatiana.. Mary and I have been using a white primer so we can either paint the room a soft shade of blue, gray, and lavender if it's a boy or red, pink and yellow if it's a girl." She explained to her sister who bummed in agreement as her own wedding band glittered in the sunlight. It had been a month since the wedding in Ireland, as Tatiana was happy now that she and Anne were finally married.
"Anastasia! Tatiana! You both coming or what?" Anne called out to her wife as she smirked. "Calm your fine ass down, Anne, we'll be there soon!" She said with a laugh as the former Irish pirate queen blushed. Tatiana helped Anastasia up as her orange maternity dress with soft tangerine short puffy sleeves, making her look like a doll. The left side of her hair was pinned back with a dark blue sparkly butterfly hair clip and on her feet were a pair of snowy white flats. "Easy does it, sis.. I wouldn't want you to strain your back." whispered the former 2nd elder grand duchess.
Anastasia smiled, even when they were younger, Tatiana always had her back. They walked over to the opaque black balloon that had the words 'boy or girl?' written in the gender's respective colors. Maria cleared her throat to gather everyone's attention. "Thank you all for coming to my sister's gender reveal party, I have known these two for many years and I am just as excited as they are to either have a cute nephew or a niece. Now.. Anastasia, if you would do the honors?" Maria handed her sister a thumbtack that was white. "Of course, sis!" She said, smiling. She took a deep breath and popped the balloon, seeing light blue confetti pieces. "A.. boy.." Anastasia was crying and smiling happily as Mary held her. "We are going to have a son.." she whispered softly to herself.
Maria was jumping up and down happily, causing her girlfriend to get her to calm down. "Settle down lass, your going to make Tatiana nervous." Briggsy said with a laugh as Maria sighed. "Fine." she said, obviously happy. "What are you going to name him?" Asked Tatiana as Anastasia smiled. "You'll see when I give birth to him, Sister." She said, smiling. Tatiana smiled brightly at her sister and handed her a glass filled with strawberry lemonade, topped with three ice cubes and garnished with a lemon slice. "Since your pregnant, I figured you should skip the alcohol." She explained to Anastasia who nodded in understanding and sipped the sweet yet tart drink.
Anastasia was talking to Dara who was keeping Lars away from her as Tatiana smelt.. something burning? Looking towards the source of the burning smell, she saw.. "a burning house?!" She shrieked, standing up as Maria's face paled with horror. "I'm calling the fire department!" She said, running into the house. Tatiana immediately ran into the burning building, hearing small coughs. She ran and ran across the house, until she stopped at where she heard the coughing. She kicked down the bedroom door and picked up two kids, a boy and a girl.
She ran out of the house, face covered in soot along with the children. "Oh my god.. these poor things!" Maria said, watching as the fire department extinguished the flames. "Come on, let's get these dears' faces cleaned up." Said Tatiana as she walked inside. She prepared a bucket filled with warm soapy water and drenched a wash cloth in the soapy liquid, placing it on the girl's face, removing the soot. "What are your names and where are your parents?" The kids stiffened slightly before the boy spoke in sign language. "Our parents ran away due to us being deaf, something we got from birth.. they abandoned us and the house caught on fire in an attempt to kill us. We.. don't have names.. our parents never named us after finding out we were deaf.." he signed, watching as Tatiana's face turned into shock and hugged him and his sister.
"WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ABANDON CHILDREN LIKE THIS?!" Anne shouted, obviously angry. She may have been a pirate, but once, she was a mother too. Her maternal instincts were rising as Tatiana held the little girl in her arms. "I know this might sound rude, but.. how old are you two?" She asked, cradling the girl. "She's 5, I'm 8." He signed again. "Let's adopt them, Anne. You know I can't stand to see children in pain or suffering!" She said, watching as Anne smiled. "Ok, I'll go to the adoption center and get the ball rolling on that." The kids looked at her as she turned to the boy. "Your name will be Ronan Elias Romanov." She told him as he read her lips.
She turned to the girl who had woken up. "Your name will be Marina Ruby Romanov." The little girl in her arms read her lips as she smiled. "Come on, let's get you two to your new home." She extended her hand out to Ronan who took it and held Marina as they walked out and took the C-5 car to their home in England which was a huge Russian-Irish mansion-styled palace on the outskirts. "This is your new home, kids." She said, escorting them to their rooms. That was then she took a good look at her son. He had Anne's eyes, a perfect shade of emerald green while having her dark auburn locks. His skin was fair like Anne's too.. she shook it off and went to take her daughter to her room.
That was also then she looked at her daughter. She had her eyes, a shade of storm-cloud gray while having Anne's striking red locks and Tatiana's fine features. She smiled brightly and placed her little girl into her new bed, pulling the soft lavender silk blanket over the girl's tiny form. Anne walked over to her daughter who was covered by the blanket. "Hey Mari.." she crooned softly as the girl giggled, reading her lips. "M-Mommy?"
"Yes, my little emerald?"
"Who were you back then?"
"Well.. I suppose I can sing who I was back then, before I married your ma." Anne cleared her throat and starting singing her tale.
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Anne Bonny: "I still hear the sea calling out to me, It's been sixty years.. or more. I suppose you've come to me for the story of Anne Bonny..~ they write that she was villainous, infamous, so full of sinfullness and wickedness. Crazy and scandalous, ferocious. Void of all conscience and womaness. I still feel the ship rocking under feet.. that happy smell of rum and brine~. It was all I wished to be, I was free as Anne Bonny and indeed, I was villainous, infamous. Full of ambitiosness and willfulness, wild and passionate, courageous.
Like a man, I was limitless and fearless. Oh, I'll tell you a tale of a pirate queen, a she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean Sea. With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen, the villainous, infamous Anne Bonny~"
"There.. she's asleep." Whispered the former pirate queen as she stared at the little girl who was sleeping from reading her mother's tale. "Oh Anne.. she looks like you, but with my eyes and features.." Tatiana said, her gray orbs glowing in the dim lighting of the room. Their family was finally complete with two children whom they adopted. Anne reached over to her daughter and petted her red locks. 'I'm going to protect you, your brother and your ma.. I promise, my little jewel.'
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