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Callidora's POV

I blinked for about five minutes straight after my mate said those six words. No, a baby? That couldn't be right. Vampires cannot have children, that's a known fact. It couldn't be physically possible for a vampire and a goddess to have a child without some sort of help. Besides that, how would he be able to hear a heartbeat coming off of me two weeks after we completed the bond? For any normal baby it would take five to seven weeks, not two!

"Oh, Callidora, it's so precious," Marcus mumbled against my stomach, never leaving my side, "That's what was making you smell so different. You have my baby inside of you! I never thought it would be possible, my love, but you're pregnant with my child."

"That isn't-" he cut off my denial.

"My hearing is impeccable," he hissed out, fitting himself into my shirt. He never did things like this. My shirts did not have my vampire mate inside of them! "Get someone else to check it, but I can hear their heartbeat and you have only slept with me."

As much as I wanted to believe it was true and as much as I wanted to believe my mate's frenzy was in fact justified, I knew that vampires were infertile. To test that fact with the possibility that I am popping out a child in a few months would be horrifying. No vampire has been known to father or mother a child, so how could I possibly be pregnant right now? That would be testing everything that anyone knows about creatures of the night as an entire species!

I love my mate more than anything, but this was getting out of hand. "Marcus, I can't be pregnant. I'm sorry that we can't have children. I know that you always wanted children but it's impossible as a creature of the night."

He just wouldn't listen to me, denying everything that I say, "I can hear the heartbeat and I can hear yours. They are different heartbeats, my love. I know that it may be hard to believe, but just give me a chance. Give me a chance to prove it."

At that moment, our door slammed open, revealing a very frantic Alec and Aphrodite.

"Second opinion, now!" Aphrodite ran over to Marcus, who was still huddled up against my chest, "Am I pregnant? You guys can hear heartbeats, right?" I gulped, seeing my cousin was in the same situation as me. "Alec said there was a heartbeat that is not mine coming from my lower half and he is the only one who could have gotten me pregnant! He can't even get people pregnant, but he refuses to see that fact and insists that we are having a child!"

Marcus shuffled away from my belly but still kept me close. My mate carefully listened to my cousin's stomach and nodded, "Most definitely pregnant, lady Aphrodite."

She huffed, not knowing what more to say. Alec kissed her head, wrapping his arms around her waist and hoisting her up happily. "I knew it! You didn't believe me, but my ears do not deceive me! Oh, my beauty, we will have a child! I love you so much!"

"Everything I've been told is a lie," she exhaled, almost terrified by the mere mention of being pregnant. I knew she had children with other people, many children, actually. This was not a new state for her, but to be pregnant with a vampire as the father, that was something unheard of, previously thought impossible. She had broken all of the barriers making things impossible. Impossible has been reached with that little heartbeat-

A heartbeat. Marcus heard a heartbeat inside of me. Inside of my cousin as well! Could it be true? Could I actually be pregnant with his child? It would be a dream come true, but after everything that I've learned...

"How?" Aphrodite almost exclaimed, trying to wrap her head around what she had heard Marcus and Alec say to her before. "How can I be pregnant?"

"Maybe things aren't the way that we thought, my love," Alec tried to calm her, bringing my cousin into his arms. He shushed her as hot tears ran down her beautiful cheeks. Overwhelmed with emotion, Aphrodite shrunk in her mate's arms. "Sweetie, oh my sweetheart, please don't cry. Darling, it's okay. Everything's going to be okay. We can get through this, my love. I love you so much."

My own heart hung low in my chest. Everything that I once thought impossible was now being proven very much possible. I was only about two months old now, how would I handle becoming a mother to a very strange child? They wouldn't be a full god or goddess, but half divine and half vampire, what would that mean for them? I didn't want to think of what my uncle would do. He has control over all of this world's vampires and their souls. If a half-vampire were born, wouldn't that mean he has control over them as well due to the vampire curse?

So many new things. I had to figure out so much in such a short period of time. If a heartbeat is already here, that means this child is growing inside of me at a faster rate than any godly child. How long would I have before giving birth? Before I had to actually get myself together?

Nature, what would Mommy and Daddy think of me now? I'm a pregnant two month old! A baby having a baby, that's what I am.

"Callie," Marcus whispered, taking my hand in his, "You're quiet."

Perhaps it was that I had no clue what to say, or maybe I didn't want to think of the consequences that bringing a child into the world would bring, but words did not form in my mind.

Children, what a thought. Marcus had said he wanted them once upon a time, and somehow he managed to bypass his genetic limitations to give us a little heartbeat, a sign of a baby. I wanted a baby. I really did want a baby. I couldn't think of anyone else I would want to have a baby with. Marcus, he's the only one I would want to raise a child with.

To have a family of my own, just like on Olympus.

"My Callidora," my love crooned, pulling me close to his chest, "I love you so much. I love you with all my heart. I promise I will do right by you, to be the best father I can be. I know you'll be an amazing mother."

His words of encouragement brought me back to reality. This wasn't just me, or him, this was a team effort. It takes two to have a child, and it would take two to raise a child as unique as our own. The same went for Affie and Alec, who always did everything together anyways. We would all have to figure this out together. Olympus meant family. The Volturi was a coven, just a fancy name for a vampire family. We all had each other's backs.

"How do we tell everyone?" Affie asked Marcus, who didn't seem to have a good enough answer. "This has never been recorded before. We may have to bring in Selene and Hades for this one. I... Why does this have to happen to me? Why can't I just have a normal year?"

"Darling, you're a goddess," Alec snarks, nosing at the crook of her neck, "Normal is beyond you. Impossible."

"Just like vampires having babies."
"Well, we've reached that impossible, darling."

"Damn you, handsome man."

"Says the most beautiful woman alive."

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Alec's POV

There were few people inside of my coven that I could consider myself close with. Whether that was because of my gift or because of my own shyness, I didn't know. My twin sister, the girl that I've spent so much time with, had the right to know about my child. I still had no clue how she would react to such a notion. Neither of us have discussed children, knowing that as immortal seventeen year olds we would never find comfort in the idea of more biological family members outside of our twinship.

Jane and I hadn't shared a room in about three centuries, mostly due to our conflicting tastes in music and design. She preferred to have music blasting at all hours and I preferred peace and quiet. We're still as close as can be, it was just better for us to live in separate quarters as to not disrupt the rest of our coven with quarrelling.

I didn't care to knock on my twin's door, opening up the door. Jane was stationed at her desk, filling out whatever paperwork Aro had assigned to her for the day. She turned her head, smiling once she realized it was me who had disturbed her work. "I thought you were going to be with your mate today, Alec."

"Some things came up this morning," I started with. It wasn't my intention to frighten my overly anxious sister, but I noticed her tense up. "Nothing awful, I promise. I heard something very interesting when I was giving her that mixtape you thought she would like."

"Well, did she like them? There were two." I chuckled at her snappy attitude. Anyone else would find her tone insulting, but I knew she was just stressed. "Spit it out, you dullard."

"Right, right, two, Janey," she scowled at the childish nickname, but turned around and allowed me to get closer to her, "Just like the double heartbeat I heard from my mate when I gave her those two mixtapes. I know she loved them, just like she loved the idea of the little pittering of a-"

My twin cut me off with an eye roll. "Absolutely not, Allie, no more pranks for this century. Joking about something like that. You're mean and cruel and need to be locked up for a few decades before you can think of doing that again. Heartbeats, what do you know about those? You haven't had one in twelve-hundred years."

"Ah, ah, ah, if you would just let me finish," her scowl was apparent and horrific at the best of times, but now she looked like she wanted to throw me into a volcano, "Little Janey, I was just trying to tell you about your future niece or nephew. There is no need to be so aggressive with your twin brother-"

"You've gone insane!" she exclaimed, looking me dead in the eyes, "We cannot have children as vampires, you know this!" She gaped at my smirk. I think she knew that I wasn't joking with her. "Alec what in the name of the gods have you pulled off? Who knows? How is that possible?"

"We have no idea, Jane, but I know that it's mine and that a certain friendly goddess queen of ours is also expecting," I announced the news of queen Callidora and king Marcus' upcoming baby as well, seeing as we were already on the subject of miracle babies. "Two little hybrid babies on the way, dear Jane, and I have no clue what we are going to do with ourselves. Any suggestions?"

Jane stuttered for a second, not knowing what more to say. I chuckled once more before giving my twin a kiss on the forehead. "Oh, Jane, I'm just teasing you. Although I am going to be a father. I wasn't joking about that part. Imagine it, me as a father. Never thought I would see the day."

"Don't let this go to your head," she snickered, "I'll spoil them rotten."

"Oh I know you will, Janey."

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Marcus' POV

I didn't think I would have to explain away something so complicated so early on in the day, but since my lovely mate had decided to fall asleep with her favorite life-sized pillow I had a chance to get this over with. Aro would have to understand and hopefully his love for learning would make sure that I didn't get run over by Caius and his questionings on the matter of my future child with Callidora.

The east towers, while almost the most protected area in the world, are far away from my room. Knocking on Aro and Sulpicia's door, I waited for a response, which came quickly. "Come in!"

Sulpicia greeted me at the door, "Marcus, how are you? You never come in here."

"I needed to speak with you and Aro," she nodded, leading me into their room. I tried to stay away from these chambers as much as possible, knowing the reason why they were made just forced the memories of times I wished to forget to resurface. "Some things have come up and as fellow leaders of this coven you have a right to know what's going on."

My old friend pursed her lips, almost thinking of what more to say. Aro came into this side of his and his mate's chambers, looking me up and down. "Brother, what seems to be the matter? You haven't come into my chambers for centuries. Are you and Callidora doing alright? You can always ask-"

"Aro, I'm alright," I stopped his pestering questions, "Is Caius anywhere to be found, or will you have to relay the information I have for you?"

"The latter, I suppose," Aro mused, looking down at the ground. Sulpicia smiled at her mate, pulling him down to sit with her on their red and gold couch. "Well, go on then. What is it that you need to say, brother?"

"Callidora is pregnant," Aro gave me a confused look, "I know what you're going to say. No, Marcus, that's impossible. You can't have children as a vampire. Well, turns out everything we once thought about that is incorrect because Callidora is pregnant and the child is most definitely mine. Maybe in a few weeks we will be able to see the newly formed bonds, but for now you can just look at all of my memories from the past three-"

My brother cut me off with a hand to my neck, where his eyes glazed over, the sign of him using his gift.

"O- Oh my gods," I had never heard my brother stutter before, "I- Marcus, what- I didn't know that you- She really is expecting a child, isn't she? Never in three thousand years would I have expected such a thing, especially not from you, Marcus. Caius will be overjoyed, he's always wanted to be an uncle. I suspect that this is good news, yes?"

I was happy that he didn't question me further. Aro, while I would always love him like a weird little brother, had the tendency to break down whatever boundaries people tried to put up, often leaving others feeling a bit violated in some way. I wouldn't put that against him, he's just more open about everything than anyone else. It played into his gift, that damn thing that made everyone around the globe terrified of him. Imagine everyone knowing everything about you with a single touch, that's just friendship with Aro.

"A child," Sulpicia hummed, draping her legs over her mate, "What an idea."

"Don't go off getting any new ideas, darling, we already have the twins."

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Callidora's POV

Rubbing that little charm that Mommy gave me right about now wouldn't do much harm, right? Wrong, I had to tell her that I had done goofed and not used protection and had gotten myself into a baby pickle. This baby pickle actually involved a baby, or a fetus if we're getting specific. Why do I do this to myself? Things were going so well! Things actually made a fair bit of sense and now I have a baby on my hands. Or on my womb. In my womb? Yeah, in my womb. I have a baby inside of my womb. Placed there by biology and made into an actual being by my Marcus. Damnit.

I wanted to both curse myself for my lack of precautionary action and Gaia for giving me the ability to bare children of my own. To be mad at life for making me a woman would be the next step in my annoyances since that very fact had also brought on this miracle child. Everything about me had brought this idea into the world. I wouldn't be mad at my mate, as being mad at him would do me no good.

Even if this was half his fault.

"She'll be upset with me!" I raged into the pillow that Marcus had given me last week to help with my sleep. Who knew that I wouldn't be able to sleep without snuggling up to and wrapping my legs around a life-sized pillow or being? "It's not like I'm two months old! She probably trusted that I wouldn't do something like this yet! Now she'll know that I had sex. Nooooo!"

The baby inside of me that I would not name yet has brought about more problems with their general existence than I would have thought two hours ago when I first fell asleep on the knowledge of my pregnancy. Firstly, I was pregnant with a half-vampire demigod child, a species never known to have been messed with before. Second, the rest of the vampire world could find out about this and try to recreate it with human women, which would be awful and could result in death and destruction. Third, I would have to tell Olympus, meaning that I may have to move along faster in my relationship than I'm comfortable with.

Whether or not Daddy would make me marry my mate now that I'm pregnant with his love child... remains unknown. That makes me very anxious, the idea that I could be forced to marry him sooner rather than later. I wanted to marry him, but not right now. We may have completed the bond, but we still need time to just be boyfriend and girlfriend, not fiancees and most definitely not husband and wife.

"To tell Mommy that I'm gonna be a mommy or to not tell Mommy that I'm gonna be a mommy, that is the question," I played through my options out loud, "If I tell her will she be upset with me or will she be upset with Marcus? I can handle her being upset with Marcus but I'll cry if she yells at me. By nature please don't let Mommy be mad at me."

I fumbled my way through some of the blankets on my bed in order to stare at the charm bracelet on the nightstand. So many outcomes, so little time. I was already two weeks in by my scent and newfound heartbeat, how long would this last? I had to tell her while I still wasn't showing or she could think that I'm trying to keep secrets from her. If there is something that Mommy hates more than anything, it's when people try to keep things, mostly information, from her.

She's my mother, she deserves to know this sort of thing. Picking up some courage, I call her through that little peacock charm she gave me. Within a few seconds Mommy stood right in front of me, looking both frightened and relieved to have found me resting with my pillow. "What happened, my darling? You're so flushed!"

I giggled awkwardly, knowing what was to come. Here goes nothing. "Mommy, I have some news that I need to share with you."

"News? Do tell," she listened in, sitting down next to me on the bed. "I'm always available for news."

"I'm pregnant," I muttered under my breath. She gave me a confused look and I assumed that she hadn't heard me the first time. "Mommy, I'm pregnant."

"That's not possible, little one," she said, running a few fingers through my hair. I scrunched up my face, knowing what lecture was to come next. "Oh, little one, I wish that I could give you the ability to have children with your mate, but vampires cannot procreate. It has never happened-"

"Well, it happened to me." It was Mommy's turn to scrunch up her face. "I've only done that once with him and now I'm pregnant with his baby. He said he heard the heartbeat and unless I have a heart in my womb I am carrying a child inside of me. I just wanted to let you know because you're my mommy and I love you very much. I have no clue what I'm going to do but hopefully this will be a good thing for the two of us."

I yelped as Mommy flipped me over, running a hand over my lower stomach. She hummed before finding her head against me, making shivers run down my spine. This was completely embarrassing and I had no clue what to do about it.

Her hands ran down my waist and she gasped. "Not two heartbeats, Callidora. Three. How did he miss the third one, it's so loud!"

A third. Two children. Why? Why me? Twins! Oh my nature why do twins have to run in my family? Half of Olympus consists of sets of twins and triplets and now I'm adding to that sort of chaos! How am I supposed to care for two babies? One baby was one thing and now we're just going to have another? I've never had a single child before and now I have two!

"I have no clue how or why this has happened, my dear Callidora, but it is a blessing, just as all children are. Oh, we should bring your uncle down to see if he has any clues as to how the curse did not affect you and Marcus' coupling. Where is that skull-?" Mommy searched around for a second before finding the little skull on my bracelet, "Do you think he would know that it's me and not you calling him? Would he be mad, Callidora? Oh, my older brother should be fine, if he isn't I'll just smack him upside the head."

Mommy rubbed the little black and white skull. It took quite some time to even light up, but when it did, I saw a very tall man appear in my room. His shining blue eyes contrasted his stark black hair. "Someone called? Sister, you have your own skull-"

"You wouldn't have answered if I used my own, you dullard," Mommy deadpanned, looking at my uncle with annoyance, "You never said that vampires could reproduce."

Uncle Hades gulped, knowing he had been caught. "Uh, I didn't think that would come up within this century, little sister, so I just didn't care to say anything-"

"Now my daughter is pregnant-"

"The father must have control-"

"Well, Marcus certainly does have that-"

"Marcus is having a child-"

"With my daughter, Hades-"

"Why is this my fault-"

"YOU MADE THE CURSE, HADES!" Mommy finished the battle, "AND THIS IS A BIG DEAL! Since we have no other instances of this occurrence to go off of, what will happen? We are completely in the dark when it comes to this subject since you decided that it would be best to keep us in ignorance! Callidora could have been prepared if you warned us!"

"This is the first time someone has called me in three years, Hera! None of you seem to want anything to do with me. Sorry if I have my secrets," Hades snapped. I shrunk back, not wanting to see my family fight with me still in the room. "It is nice to meet you, Callidora. Your child should be born in a few months time, as the venom will begin to age them rapidly-"

"Get rid of that damn curse!" I shrunk back further at Mommy's tone. She often got demanding, but now she was just shouting. "I will not have my grandchild belonging to you!"

"The vampires don't-"

"YES THEY DO-"

"Stop!" I whined, not wanting to deal with them anymore, "If you two are going to fight, do it somewhere else. Preferably somewhere where I can't hear you. No curses on my babies. If I hear that someone is cursed I will annoy whoever did it until they take the curse off."

"It would make them age normally if I made sure that they don't have the full vampire curse," I nodded, wanting that, "Alright, Callidora, no curses for babies. Please don't harass me for the next century. Where is your mate?"

"Somewhere....?" I didn't know where my Marcus was. "Do you need him?"

"I'll fill out the paperwork tomorrow for his release from my hold," I raised my eyebrows, "He'll be decursed as well. Your father would yell at me if I didn't do that for his child. Mates being sacred and all."

"Thank you, uncle!"

"You're welcome, little Callidora."

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