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Trinity
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After Reece and I entered the waiting room that we had been in before, I took a seat and motioned Reece over toward me. I wanted to be as close to him as I possibly could right now. I still needed that reassurance that he was there. I knew that we had just announced to the others that he was alive and well, but that didn't stop me from worrying about him. Hell, I might not let him more than an arm's length away from me for the rest of our lives.
Alright, that would be too much. I wouldn't be able to handle that much closeness with Reece. Maybe it would only last about a year or so. Long enough for me to be sure that he really was here with us still, and that he wasn't going anywhere.
Reece was pulling me onto his lap as the others came into the room. I saw that they had expressions that were all different, yet they all held similar qualities. They were annoyed, laughing, and curious, that was what made them all different. However, the similarity was that they were all relieved to be seeing Reece alive.
Shawn and Dietrich were the first ones into the room, bounding through the door together and calling out jovially.
“I knew you wouldn't die, Reece. I knew that you wouldn't let that happen.” Dietrich was grinning at us both. “This is a wonderous turn of events.”
“I am so relieved, Reece. I had been so worried about you.” Shawn's face was literally glowing in his relief. It practically illuminated the scar on his cheek. The scar that permanently marred his face and made me think about how he had almost died, and then how Vincent had almost died, and of course it led me back to Reece who had so recently almost died.
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“I am alive and well.” Reece told them calmly.
“DAMMIT, REECE!” Shane came barreling into the room next. “Why did you scare me like that?”
“Ha ha ha. I am sorry Shane, but it was so late last night that I told Trinity not to spread the news right away. It would have been rude to wake people up like that.”
“Since when are you considerate of people like that?” Shane was still laughing, but his relief was more than clear to see on his face.
“I am happy that you're OK, Reece.” David said in a gentle tone. “We were all worried about you. And I see that Vincent there,” he glared at the other man who had been with Reece and I this whole time, “knew what was going on and didn't tell us. Why didn't you set the record straight last night.” David was glaring playfully at Vincent and they all started to laugh.
“I am sorry.” Vincent looked embarrassed. “I was tired as well. It had been a long night and I just went to my room to sleep. Heather was worried about me and I wanted to get home to her to assuage her worries and frustrations. I wanted to make sure that she didn't drive herself crazy with worry. And it was nearly too late.” All of the men laughed, and I will admit that even I laughed a little. It was funny because Heather always worried about Vincent, and it always made her crazy. She would go back to normal afterwards though. So, at least it was just temporary.
“Well, I, for one, think that this day is due for a celebration. Multiple ones, all things considered.” Dietrich was looking between Reece and I with excitement.
“What do you mean? Because of the battle being over and Reece being alive? I guess that could warrant a double celebration, but I see it as one really.” I shrugged. “Keeping everyone safe and alive was the point of the battle. And with Reece being alive now, it means that there was no one that died, on our side anyway, during the battle.”
“That isn't what I mean. At least, not all that I mean.” Dietrich shook his head and chuckled.
“Yeah, he is talking about your news.” Shawn was grinning. “I am not surprised though. Knowing Reece, it was definitely what he had in mind after coming back to life last night.”
Shawn's words made no sense to me. They made even less sense than Dietrich's had, and I was still confused about what celebrations he was talking about if it wasn't the battle and Reece being alive.
“What are you on about?” I asked them, showing them just how lost and confused that I was right now.
“We are talking about the fact that Reece's first instinct after not dying is taking his mate. I am not blaming you two of course, I am just trying to congratulate you.”
“Huh?” I asked Dietrich in confusion.
“What?” Reece's tone was the same as mine. It was filled with confusion. “I didn't take her last night. I was too fucking sore for that. Granted the hot bath did help, but we didn't have sex last night.”
“B..but, that doesn't make sense.” Dietrich shook his head now, mimicking the confusion.
“Ahem.” I cleared my throat. “W..we made love yesterday morning before we took that nap after Talia's vision, but not since then.”
“No, that doesn't seem to fit. If it had happened at that time, then we would have seen it earlier. We would have noticed it last night.” It was Shawn's turn to be confused now. The furrowing of his brow made the scar on his face stand out more.
“What are you talking about?” I demanded of them. This was getting old really fast, and I wanted to know what was happening.
“Trinity, you're pregnant. And you weren't pregnant last night when we saw you.”
“WHAT?!” Reece and I both said that one word as a question at the same time after we heard what he'd had to say. It was like it was synchronized to be in perfect harmony.
What were they talking about? I mean, yeah it was possible for me to be pregnant. I mean, we did go at it yesterday. Quite thoroughly at that. But how could I be pregnant now when I wasn't last night? What had happened? What had changed?
I turned my head, taking my eyes off of Dietrich's intense face and turning to look at Reece. He looked about as surprised as I felt. He hadn't noticed it yet either. I could see it in his eyes.
“I..I knew that there was something.” He said leaning in and pressing his nose against the curve of my neck. It tickled when he inhaled deeply, drawing in my scent and checking the validity of Shawn and Dietrich's claims for himself.
“Reece?” I shuddered a little at the feel of his face against my neck.
“I sensed something last night. As I was drifting off to sleep. I knew that something was playing on the edge of my senses, but I was too tired and too distracted to notice.”
“No one is going to blame you for being distracted, Reece.” Vincent called out to him. “There was a lot that I either ignored or didn't notice after I almost died. It was like my mind was telling me that it didn't have the room for it at the moment.” I looked at Vincent with sad eyes. He had been as close to death as Reece had been, so he knew this for a fact.
“I sense it now.” Reece's voice was deeper than usual, growling low and menacing when he spoke. “And they are right, Trinity. You are pregnant.”
“Like we would be wrong.” Dietrich harrumphed and crossed his arms.
“What do you take us for?” Shawn copied his noise and his pose as he turned away a little, making it so that we couldn't see either of their faces clearly.
“It's not that I doubted you.” Reece's voice was a little less menacing now. And there was definitely a playful edge to his lips. “I just needed to be sure for myself. I mean, I didn't think that my wife was pregnant. And that kind of annoys me.” He narrowed his eyes. “I missed the last two. One was because you ruined your own smell with stress and overwork, and this time because I almost died, but neither is an excuse.”
“Both are perfect excuses, you moron.” I slapped him on his chest. “We have had a lot going on.”
“Still, I am sad that I wasn't the first to know. They were.” He pointed at Shawn and Dietrich.
“The benefits of being the best uncles in the world.” Dietrich flipped his hair playfully as he complimented himself.
“Well, what I want to know is how Trinity seemed to have that delay?” Vincent asked as he moved the subject forward.
“Well, I know that for some human women, they will have sex just before they ovulate and get pregnant that way. Maybe this is what happened.”
“Were you at that point in your cycle?” Vincent's eyes were quizzical as he asked.
“No.” I shook my head and answered honestly. “It would have been too soon.”
“So, what caused it?” Shane seemed to be buzzing like a hyper child. “Oh, congrats by the way.” After he said the word, all of them congratulated me before moving on with the conversation.
I thought about last night and what might have happened to cause me to ovulate before I was supposed to. How was it that I got pregnant when I knew that I shouldn't be? There had to be something to cause it, but what was it?
After a moment, something dawned on me. We had saved Reece's life. We had all pooled our magic together. There was life bringing magic in the room.
“The magic.” I said as I looked up. Vincent and Reece understood it right away, but the others didn't.
“Last night, Trinity, all the kids, and all the members of their family, poured magic into Reece, as Trinity said during the meeting. It was powerful, very powerful. I could feel it across the large room they were in.” Vincent's voice was in awe.
“It was life magic. And I guess that it had somewhere else to go at that moment. I saved a life, Reece, but it also created one as well.”
“As long as it is our baby, I don't care.” He grinned at me and leaned in. “I love you, Trinity.” Reece held me tight with the others watching. This was an amazing turn of events. It was something that I hadn't thought was going to happen, but I wasn't upset about it either. We were going to have another baby. Who would be upset about that? I know that neither Reece nor I were. And I had a feeling the kids would be happy as well.
