A Dead Life (8)

I dreamt of a beautiful baby girl nestled in my arms, she had muddy green eyes, with flares of orange around her pupils. She wore a loose red gown that flowed in a waterfall of red off of my arms. I took in my surroundings of the dream, and everywhere I looked bright flowers grew and swayed in the breeze. I pulled the head off a deep violet colored plant and placed it behind my ear. The baby girl started to cry, it was a sound off despair, and sorrow….I took her in my arms and cradled her to my chest humming a sweet lullaby. It was such a pleasant dream, I never wanted to wake to the rest of the world, I just wanted to hum this sweet lullaby to the lovely baby forever…all of a sudden the lovely baby that was cradled to my chest vanished in a puff of smoke leaving my arms empty, but as quickly as that baby vanished another one re-appeared. This time with a boy. He had lovely black eyes like mine, and was wearing a midnight blue robe draping gently across his pale skin, a whisper of silk. His soft, rose colored lips began to part in a smile, he was just as beautiful as the baby girl. I rocked him in my arms, ever so gently as his eyes began to close, soon his dark lashes rested on his cheeks, and his breathing slowing into a rhythmic song…

My eyes opened holding on to the dream that I never wanted to end. A soft sigh escaped my lips, I turned my head and saw Antonio looking at me lovingly. I smiled his way as my stomach growled, demanding blood. I heard his laugh as he reached behind him and grabbed a clear, plastic bag filled with red liquid. I moaned, imaging the liquid in my mouth….I snatched the bag from Tony’s fingers, and stuck my sharp, pearl gray fangs into the bag and slurped greedily. As soon as the blood touched my tongue, a burst of release hit me so strong it was almost orgasmic. The bag disappeared all to soon, leaving me full and satisfied. I wiped the blood off of my face with the back of my hand. I sat up gracefully and combed my fingers through my twisting mass of locks. I swung my legs over the side of the bed –leaving the covers in massive lumps- and stood on my own two feet, stretching my arms above my head and letting them fall limply to my side. I took Antonio’s hand he was offering my and pulled him close to my body, as I kissed him full on the mouth. "Well that was nice." He said in low grumble.
"Hmm," I replied. He placed his hand that was not interlocked with mine on my stomach, and rubbed the tiny bump there.
"We need to find Trixie."
"Why do guys call her that, her name is Zara."
"You now Azzurra, I have no clue." I laughed silently as we walked together hand in hand.

We found Zara sitting at her work table writing in quick cramped hand motions, not even looking up when we walked in. We stood awkwardly for a few seconds waiting for her acknowledgement.
"Oh hey guys, I was doing some research on your pregnancy since I’ve never dealt with a case like this before."
"Did you find anything?" I asked eagerly.
"Lots. It looks like you’ll have an advanced pregnancy, lasting less then the normal nine month period. Since you guys both were vampires when you conceived, the baby will also be a vampire and grow at an accelerated pace. But the bad news is since you are a vamp. When your in labor the pain will also be irregular."
"What do you mean by ‘irregular’?"
"The pain will be advanced and with the facts I’ve researched and talked about with other vampire doctors who have dealt with something like this all say pain will be amplified immensely. Seeing that vampires are already sensitive and have enhanced senses, ect."
Antonio’s hand that was cupped in mine turned purple-y black, from me gripping it so tightly. So this was going to hurt. Bad. Tony patted my back reassuringly. "It will be fine." He murmured in my ear. Of course take a man to minimize a woman’s suffering, he’s the one who didn’t have to go through the agony of childbirth, screw him.
"In the mean time, we will conduct weekly ultra sounds to make sure the baby will grow to be strong." Zara continued, as she riffled through her papers to retrieve several CD-ROM disks labeled "Vampire/childbirth."
"You both should watch these to get a better understanding on what’s going to happen. And I’ll see you tomorrow for your ultra sound. Oh and watch one of the tapes today."
"Do we really have to watch the tapes." I asked and cringed. Tony laughed and nodded
"It would be a smart idea. Oh come on it wont be that bad, we can watch it in your room." We made our way in silence to my room, my hands were damp with sweat, I really didn’t want to watch those movies, no way would I put my self out like that, it was just to gross to see the blood and here the screaming I shuddered inwardly. I didn’t notice that Tony had already set me on the couch in my room right in front of the T.V. He fed the disk through the DVD slot and turned towards me with remote in hand. He sat down on the sofa and took my hand. Its wasn’t bad at first it was just explaining the simple facts of a vampires pregnancy, when all of a sudden a female vamp. Was on the screen, legs wide open, as purple, white and yellow liquid oozed with the running blood, she was screaming bloody murder as soft ripping sounds came from her stomach and thighs, a doctor was holding a sharp knife slicing open around where the baby would emerge. I looked in horror and turned my face into Antonio’s chest. I saw the same look of horror on his face as a weird mix of bodily liquids coated the T.V screen blurring out the picture for a moment. As the focus came back on the lady giving birth while screaming, a loud rip came from the screen and the doctor held up a messy baby, then –thank god- the screen went blank. I felt like vomiting, in the next couple of months I would be in the same position as that.
"Oh my god." Was all Antonio said, but it pretty much summed it up.
"That was horrible, and I’m going to have to go through that." I cried out helplessly. I leaned over and grabbed the garbage can that was sitting by my feet and vomited. This was not going to be fun I thought with a full body tremor, Not fun at all….

*I did this really quickly and had no time to check for mistakes, sorry.*