Blood Moon [a Twilight Saga FanFiction]

Denmark ~~ Igor's POV

Hunting with my wife and daughter was a nice, much needed, reminder of what I had now. Needed after the talk with Natalia about one thing I'd rather forget about.
    "I'm going to head back," Verity said after she'd finished a few deer. "Finish packing. Check on Nat."
    I nodded and her mother smiled at her. The smile that even after two lifetimes, still took my breath away.
    Once she left, Elizabeth looked at me, her beautiful smiled faded to replace with one of worry.
    "Are you okay?" she asked.
    "I will be."
    She slid her hands around my waist.
    "How is she? She looked..."
    "She took comfort in that she wasn't alone," I explained. "But, as you know, it doesn't change anything."
    Miss Elizabeth nodded.
    Her brows pulled together in her worry, creating that little crease. I tried to smooth it out with my thumb and she smiled again.
    "I'm always going to worry about you," she whispered. "Really, Igor." She took my hand from her face and held my palm to her lips.
    It made me want to pull her closer.
    "Are you okay?" she asked again. "Having to relive that mustn't have been easy."
    "It wasn't," I confessed. "But I will be okay. After all." I grabbed her face and pulled her in. Kissing her deeply. I could feel her smile against my lips. "I have angels looking after me."
    She giggled against my lips.
    With a sigh, I pulled back. Briefly my forehead rested on hers before she moved to rest hers on my shoulder.
    I had to move some of her hair out of my face so I could kiss her neck and her shoulder.
    "I love you, Miss Elizabeth," I whispered.
    "I love you too, Igor. So much."

    We stood like that for what felt like quite a while. It was nice to just hold her. Embrace her. But with the return of the sun we both knew, there was things still to do.
    "We should head back and check on things."
    She nodded against my shoulder.
    I kissed her one more time before taking her hand in mine, kissing that and making her shake her head with that beautiful smile of hers that lit up my night, and went back home.
    We weren't running for long. We found Verity sitting under a tree, picking petals off flowers. She'd been through a few.
    "Natalia's better," she said with a smirk. "Or, at least, she will be when they calm down."
    It didn't take me long to pick up what she was meaning. She smirk said it all.
    "About time," I said and laughed.
    Elizabeth let go of me to bury her face in her hand with a groan.
    "Now I really am the only single bud," Verity said.
    Elizabeth pulled our daughter up to hug her.
    "I'm not complaining! I know it's in my future, a long time in my future," she repeated and looked at me. "And I love that everyone's happy. And hey, while they break their bed, we can study up on our Danish!"
    "Danish?" I repeated and looked at Elizabeth.
    "Johann wanted to go to Greenland," she explained. "I thought that we might as well. It's another day and night swap and the days are long, but it's different."
    "And cold," I pointed out and looked at Verity.
    "And close enough to Scotland so you can see Svend ever so often without being too far away," she stated.
    I had to laugh. Svend. The viking friend who always brought the childish out in me. Probably not the best person for me to be around when I'm trying to set a good influence for a newborn.
    "Let's go study Danish," I said.

    We ran to the next city over, not wanting to be seen, found their 24/7 library much to our happiness, and got studying on Denmark, aka Greenland.
    "You'll let us know when it's safe for us to break them apart?" I asked, looking over my book to Verity.
    She quietly chuckled and nodded.
    "They can break in the house, first," Elizabeth muttered, flipping a page. "They jsut have to help us build it first."
    An hour of study's past. Verity returned to our table with a book on wildlife.
    "Polar bears in Greenland," she said.
    I nodded. "And caribou. It'll be an interesting feast."
    "A different hunt than we're used to, that's for sure," Elizabeth chimed in. "It's a bit interesting."
    We spoke about the game hunt in Greendland while each of us practiced our Danish, and when it began to cause attention and the humans began to wonder why we were still here, we left for another library. Then another.
    Then another in the next town.