Rose petals in the ashes

Chapter sixteen:

~Rosemarie's point of view~

"How do you feel?" Bennett asked, poking his head round the door. "Dead." I answered, bitterly. He flinched. "I meant do you still feel sick?" I rolled my eyes, sleep had not came easy to me in the last few hours "Yes. I do still feel sick" he acknowledged this with a small nod "Would you like a glass of water?" I softened slightly. "Yes please" he smiled "Give me a second" he went downstairs and I felt my eye lids beginning to fail on me, I was tired and deprived of blood. He returned, glass in hand and set it on the bedside cabinet. "Thanks for taking care of me, I know I'm not the most pleseant of people to be around but I'm glad your here" he gave me a nod "Well to death do us part was in the deal so we're kind of stuck together" I smiled, his humor the only thing keeping me from hitting insanity "To have and to hold, to love and to cherish... to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah till death do you part. You know doesn't it bother you that you'll be the only one doing the dying?" he smiled at me and sat on the bed next to my legs "It bothers me when you say it like that" I showed him my bare wrist "It only hurts for a second" he laughed "I remember you telling me it was the worst pain imaginable" I shrugged it off and said "Yeah for normal people" his smiles and laughter died "Normal?" I nodded. Becoming serious, bracing myself to tell him what I'd kept from him for so long now "Bennett, I'm not just a vampire... I'm also a witch, an angel, a demon and a fairy" he looked as though he were going to pass out. He sat there, mouth hanging open, eyes wide with shock. "Bennett? Bennett! Are you okay?" he shut his mouth finally. "Um yeah... are you serious?" I giggled. "Deadly serious" he stuttered "So um... you're like a fairy... and a demon... and a witch... and an angel?" I nodded, dreading the reaction that was bound to happen next but all he said was "Cool" and smiled.

I look at him expectantly, waiting for his cool composure to slide, to show the true anger boiling within, but he remained smiling, showing no signs of any malevolent feelings towards me. "Thanks for understanding" I smiled up at him. "No problem, but I know why you didn't tell me, you thought I would get angry, well I won't, I don't expect you to tell me every aspect of your three thousand years of age" I chuckled. "And I don't expect you to tell me your life story of eighteen years" his laughter came out soft "Should I be repulsed that I'm dating someone older than my great grandmother?" I shrugged and he smiled. He got up. "Get some rest" I nodded and stifled a yawn before getting comfortable. He made his exit and I shut my eyes, letting sleep over come my body at last.

~Bennett's point of view~

"Well what's your diagnosis?" he laughed "Bennett it's not that simple, I can't just tell what's wrong with her from observing her, okay? It might be nothing, she threw up once this morning and hasn't since" I frowned "But vampires don't get ill! Remember?! You of all people should know about that!" he shrugged "Look I may be older than Rosemarie in vampiric age but I'm not an expert, I've never been ill like this and neither has she. Well except for..." I raised an eye brow at him. "Except for?" I waited for his answer expectantly, if Rosemarie was going to die from some fatal disease then I needed to know.

He took a deep breath, readying himself for what he was about to reveal to me. "Except for when she was pregnant with my child" I gasped and knew my mouth was hanging open. All I could do was stare at Dimitri. "So you think... you think Rosemarie is... pregnant... again... to me?" he smiled, some how enjoying my surprise. "Congratulations. Daddy Bennett" his smile was growing by the second. "Do not call me daddy. She is not pregnant... she's just... sick." he rolled his eyes "Dude so what if she's pregnant. I coped with it. So can you." I felt faint. "I'm going to have a child? With a hybrid?" his smile some how got even bigger than before. "She told you" I nodded "Yeah she did a minute ago" he sighed "Look I know you love her dude but don't be too upset if I'm wrong about this pregnancy, like I said, I'm no doctor, she could just be ill" I nodded "Yeah. Sure" he left my office at that. Leaving me to my own thoughts, the sad part is I wanted to have a child, but my thoughts worried me so much it might as well have been that Rose was dying and the tragic part was... she could be. Dimitri had said that he was no doctor and that he could be wrong, what if he was? Could I really live with losing my mate? Or would I grow suicidal in time? It had been known for werewolves to kill themselves after the loss of there mate. What if I did? I couldn't think like this, I had to be strong. For myself and for Rose. 'In health and in sickness' that's what the priest had said and that's what I'd do. Presumably.

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(A/N) I know, I know, this is really short but it simply had to be posted, please don't hate me! But it is two updtaes in one day, chapter sixteen and fifteen have both been written and uploaded today so you people should be happy. *nods head matter of factly* please fan, vote and comment. I love hearing what you guys think of my works.

The song for this chapter is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=lDWz2EUz0sg

Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah - Earthquake

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