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Double, Double, Toil, & Trouble	By : gypsybaby21 Category: M through R > Night World Series Views: 2072 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own the Night World series,nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
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My overall plan for this story was to have it at least seven chapters (may or may not happen) and to have the baby or babies fully born with names. Perhaps even a few chapters with Ash and ML taking care of them and/or interacting with them? I'll take suggestions.
This chapter is mostly dialogue.
Poll on my profile (at ff.net) page to choose baby names!
Also, for those of you that don't like waiting and are interested in getting teasers, extras, or music that inspired some of my stories join my yahoogroup Writing on the Clouds, I'll post the link in my profile. When you join I should have something for chapter four to DDTT and something for Jezebel out shortly.

Are you interested in a L.J. Smith, fan fiction, gift exchange for the holidays?
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From the Devil's Playground Forum, posted by Incanto (runs the LJSanta):
"I'm thinking of instituting like, an LJSanta street team so people who can't (or are afraid to) write a story can still participate in a smaller capacity.
Tentatively the agreement would be something like, you spend the weeks while LJSanta sign-ups are open promoting the hell out of it everywhere - forums, social media, wherever there are LJS fans - and in return for your hard work, I or another volunteer writes you a drabble-ish length short for LJSanta. You don't get as big a story as people writing their own, but you still get a little present as a thank you for helping us find people to join the fun.
Anyone interested in something like that?"
Please be interested! Reply to the forum if you are so they can apply this. Links for this will also be found in my profile. Of course, writers, clearly, are welcome! There will also be a link to check out previous participant.
Chapter Three:
"Descouedres residence."
Her heart stopped and her eyes widened at the formal tone in the man's voice, the butler, most likely. He was a man who could strike fear in the faint of heart with just his voice…or it could just be what she was calling for and that she was just a bit off her rocker now. Her heart was in her throat, her mouth full of cotton, oh yeah, she could do this.
"Hello?"
Mary-Lynnette cleared her throat nervously as she clutched the phone in her hand, "Um, hi."
All she had to do was ask Ash for James' phone number, she even had a potential connection with Poppy being a made vampire and all, but did she ask? Of course not, that would've been too easy. She could never take the easy way out, not Mary-Lynnette.
Even my own sarcastic thoughts are getting on my nerves, she thought as she chewed a hole into her bottom lip.
"May I help you?"
"James Rasmussen, please," she practically whimpered.
Mary-Lynnette rolled her eyes at the quivering sound in her voice and tried to refrain from vomiting into the receiver. She needed to cut herself some slack with the eye rolling at her ridiculousness because in her defense she had good reasons. They weren't only good reasons, they were the best reasons on the planet, a vampire baby fetus inside her couldn't get any better.
With the phone still in her hand, she quickly jumped up and down, staying in the same spot, as she patted her chest, trying to calm her nerves.
What the hell was the matter with her? It was just a phone call.
No, wait, she knew what was wrong, she was pregnant with a vampire! In reality the phone call was child's play, it was definitely the topic she was going to talk about, she was positive now. Not that she cared she was having a vampire baby as long as it didn't suck her blood dry, it was just, you know, the whole idea of actually having a baby that freaked her out. Oh, and not to mention it could be double vamp city!
"Yo, this is James," a deep, smooth voice filled her ear.
Being lost in her thoughts, she hadn't heard the ruffling of the phone switching hands. She didn't have time to figure out exactly what she was going to say and it was like she was experiencing stage fright. Her mouth dropped open, trying to force herself to mumble at best, but absolutely nothing escaped. She tried again.
Child hood trauma's surfaced in that instant and fear is a dangerous thing, so she simply blurted it out. "I'm pregnant."
Take that fear! Fear is my bitch, not the other way around.
Her enthusiasm over her two-word outburst was short lived when silence followed. It's to be expected, the pure silence, and in this great opportunity for comic relief, a cricket chirping was not provided, although it was needed.
This guy's probably trying to remember if he'd gotten busy with some human girl before fully committing to his soul mate. He's thinking 'fuck, who did I fuck?' and 'how badly am I gonna die when Poppy finds out.'
"Hello? I asked you a question."
Oh right, pay attention, she chided herself.
"Y-yes, I'm pregnant," she stuttered again, feeling a little less like fear was a bitch of hers.
"Excuse me? Who is this?" the disbelief and slight irritation coming from his snappish tone was very, very clear, but surprisingly no panic. He must have been sure about Poppy even before he was actually with her.
That's so sweet.
"Are you going to tell me your name or is this a prank call?"
Fuck. A name would help and really, she's never prank called anyone before!
"Mary-Lynnette," and just to be sure she added, "Ash's human soul mate."
A whoosh of air whistled from the phone, the second bout of silence started, and she couldn't help but wonder if she'd missed the hint of panic in his voice, if that huge whoosh of air was relief. She really couldn't expect a man to wait for his soul mate, even if he grew up with her, as Ash had explained. The silence was grating her nerves though. Mary-Lynnette feared if it lasted any longer her teeth really would tear a hole into her lip.
"Are you sure?" he asked after another minute.
She frowned, tempted to pull the receiver from her ear and stare, her eyebrows drew together in confusion. "Huh?"
He sighed softly. "Are you sure you're pregnant?"
"Oh, that, right. Yes, absolutely sure. I'm only a little pregnant."
James snorted loudly."You either are or you aren't."
"I'm fully pregnant, but maybe only a few weeks is what I meant," she explained.
"And what does Ash think about this?"
Mary-Lynnette chuckled, clearly in a state of denial over the situation. "You think I'm gonna tell him?"
"Um," there was a pause, "I'd like to think so, assuming he's the father."
"Well who the hell else would be?" Mary-Lynnette snapped a little more harshly than she intended, but here he was thinking generally the same thing she'd thought about him, only now it was directed at her. That was something she wouldn't stand for.
Irrational. Not his thought, her thought. Was it starting, those weird pregnancy emotions she'd read about? Was she becoming irrational and too emotional?
"I simply meant that if he wasn't then…"
"Stop, Ash is my first and only, but I'm not telling him. So I'm calling you," she added the last.
Her diarrhea of the mouth was about to be in full effect. She could feel the cramping accumulating around the sides of her lips.
She heard a tsking followed by a chuckle. "What do you expect me to do about it?"
It was a typical male response, why should she have been surprised? Being a vampire didn't make any difference, she should've known that.
"I-um because I don't know what to do," she practically whispered, hating herself for allowing her voice to tremble.
"Are you going to keep it?"
She let out another nervous yet hysterical laugh, gripped the phone tighter, and raised her free hand up to twirl a curl around her finger. "Them."
"What?"
"Twins, er-well, possibly."
"Holy fuck!" he cried out in surprise. "When Ash does something he does it through and through."
Mary-Lynnette let out a gasped laughed, pure disbelief jolting through her. "Did you really just say that?"
"Sorry," he responded sheepishly.
Mary-Lynnette couldn't imagine his face, she'd never met him, but she could figure out the expression and she tried to stifle her laugher. This was definitely not a time for it because honestly how could she think of laughing right now?
"Are you keeping them?"
"Of course, I just don't want to die."
"Okay, I'm not following," he informed her, sounding clearly confused.
"Being human and having vampire fetuses. Are they gonna suck me dry?" she asked, more calmly than she expected.
"That sounded really dirty, you realize that?" he asked amused.
"Oh come on. Am I going to die?"
"No! There are such things as mixed breeds where the human carrying them survives."
Mary-Lynnette gasped in horror. "Don't you call them that!" she yelled into the phone.
James cleared his throat, "My apologies. I don't know much about human and vampire offspring's, I do know it's possible and that the mother was fine in most cases," he said reassuringly.
"Most?" she raised an eyebrow, hoping he would elaborate.
He didn't.
Mother fuck…whoops, could she even curse anymore? Did they already have super hearing and teeth that would, no, she wouldn't go there.
"I can do some research. I have some witch friends…"
"Why not ask a vampire?"
James paused before answering. "Do you know of a lamia vampire with a human soul mate that's pregnant? I said it happens, not that it happens often."
"Oh. What about Poppy, can't she get pregnant?"
"No, once she became a made vampire everything stopped. Her mortal life, her growth, and her reproduction cycle," he informed, somewhat like an afterthought or a build up to his real question. "Ash said he was changing you," his abrupt comment made her blink in surprise.
"Yeah and we will, but after. I just told him I wanted to wait, he was confused at first, but I think he may understand now."
"Jamie, are you talking to another girl?" The soft, almost childlike voice filled Mary-Lynnette's ears.
Her voice was hypnotic and playful at the same time. It gave Mary-Lynnette a creepy chill and she found herself wondering if the girl was as beautiful and deadly as she sounded.
"Hey Pop, it's Ash's soul mate. She's pregnant," James responded.
A scream pierced her ear drum and she jerked the phone away, staring at it with horror and disbelief.
"You have to come here! We'll go baby shopping, I'll even throw you a baby shower. It'll be great to finally meet the woman who completely changed Ash, even when you weren't with him. You do know he was like real evil before right? Like totally kidnapping evil?"
Mary-Lynnette bit her bottom lip vaguely recalling Ash mentioning a kidnapping ordeal, only he down sized so much.
"I didn't think he was that evil," she mumbled. "Just annoying."
"Well that too, but really sadistically evil," Poppy concluded.
"Hey!" Mary-Lynnette snapped. "Well your soul mates an ass!"
Poppy paused over line, but she distinctly heard a male snort of amusement. "Okay, I'm sorry for raggin' on your soul mate. Seriously though, you should come out."
"We kind of planned on it. You're a witch right?"
"…yes, why?"
"Well, maybe you could you know wave a wand and make sure all is good?"
"A wand? Please! We don't use wands, but there is a potion I remember seeing in Thea's Book of Shadows that guaranteed healthiness when in labor."
"So I won't die," Mary-Lynnette added with relief.
"Um, I don't think so. Jamie?"
"You will not die," he spoke in monotone.
"Don't be a jerk Jamie," Poppy scolded him.
"Babe-" he started.
Poppy made a shushing noise. "So Mare, can I call you Mare? When are you all coming over? I could use some more girl friends."
"Soon, if it's alright, honestly I'd like to leave tonight, but in reality probably by the end of the week."
"Fabulous, but I bet we can get Thierry to work his Night King mojo and pull some strings with the airport to get you over her by tomorrow afternoon."
"Night King? Is he a king?" Mary-Lynnette blinked with surprise, dropping her free hand to her chest.
"No, he's just a Lord on the Night World Council," James supplied. "Poppy just over exaggerates."
"Well, he reminds me of one of those nice kings that does everything he can for his wife and subjects," Poppy stuck up for herself.
"He's not married though," James informed, as if that piece of information was the reasoning behind his earlier statement.
Now was time to intervene, ask a question she'd been wanting to ask for awhile, though she'd never actually voiced it, not even to herself. She'd heard things, even with regular pregnancies that sometimes it was only allowed at certain stages of it. She needed to know, she wanted to know, Ash was just too sexy to resist for nine months. She'd been a virgin her whole life and then Ash with his suaveness and amazing tongue made her bloom into a lustful flower. Wouldn't it figure that it had to be taken away so soon?
"So, can I still have sex?" she asked cautiously.
Laughter from the soul mate couple was her only answer.
To be continued…
I'll put some Ash/Mare action in the next chapter. Trying to get things moved along, I think this may be longer than The Seven Deadly Sins. I'm getting some ideas brewing. I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and please don't forget to comment.
Soon to come or main points that WILL happen:
Poppy does a spell that causes havoc (hilarity ensues)
Thea finally comes in as a voice of reason, helping Poppy fix the spell, and they go to a vampire midwife.
Ash is curious about the chemical changes he's noticed inside Mare's body and he can't seem to figure out why he hears three heart beats when he's around her.
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