Enchantment

Enchantment

By: RozaHathaway17

For: Christmas/New Year's Contest by LFMH-A VA Lovers Group

Penname: RozaHathaway17

Word Count: 1,555

Rating: T

Progress: In progress

World: AH

Beta: ItaSaku1

Summary: Rose and Dimitri were high school sweethearts who got married. They have a ten month old son named Ivan. This is their first Christmas as a family.

I run away from Dimitri after throwing a snowball at the back of his head. He chases me across the pure white front yard. It is Christmas Eve and also the first snow of the year. This is little Ivan's first snow and he is thrilled. He sits next to Lissa and Christian, squealing and patting the snow happily. Dimitri catches me and lifts me off the ground, spinning me in circles. I laugh until he drops me out of nowhere. Our son laughs happily over by his Aunt and Uncle. Christian smirks at me so I stand up, gathering a big pile of snow in my hands. I charge at Christian, whose eyes widen. I tackle him, throwing the snow right in his face. He shoves me off him.

"Rose!" he shrieks, making Ivan laugh harder, "What the hell is your problem?"

"Sorry, Sparky, but it looks like you're the only one with a problem," I say mockingly, picking my ten month old son off the snow covered ground. I tickle his chin and make him giggle. Dimitri wraps his arms around my waist from behind and kisses our son's head, pulling his little red hat down farther to keep him warm.

"You had it coming, Chris," Dimitri tells our friend, grinning. I study Ivan closely and see his little nose is turning red.

"We should go in for a while. Ivan's getting cold," I whisper. Lissa smiles at me and stands from her chair.

"Who would have thought you'd have kids first and be such a good mommy?" she teases. I laugh at her.

"That's only because Christian won't grow a pair and put a ring on your finger," I explain, still laughing. We go inside Dimitri's and my house and he starts a fire. We live in a small cabin like house near a large forest. It's so peaceful out here and looks so enchanting in the winter. Ivan does a big yawn and I smile down at him. Lissa and Christian stand together.

"He looks like he's ready to sleep," Lissa says, "And you guys deserve some alone time for once. We're going to head out." She hugs me and kisses Ivan's cheek. I smile at the two of them. Christian ruffles my hair and pats Ivan's head. They both say good-bye to Dimitri then head out.

"Would you like me to put him to bed?" Dimitri asks but I shake my head.

"I want to feed and change him first so he'll sleep longer," I whisper, staring down at my sleepy baby. I carry him to the nursery but as I walk through the doorway, Dimitri puts a finger in my belt loop, pulling me back. I look up at him quizzically. He leans down and kisses my lips gently.

"Mistletoe," he mutters against my lips. I grin and kiss him again. He kisses Ivan's forehead and we go into the nursery together. I sit in the rocking chair and feed him. Dimitri sits beside me and rubs Ivan's hair. I lean my head on Dimitri's shoulder. Ivan finishes up and Dimitri takes him from me gently and changes him. His little eyelids flutter closed and don't reopen this time, like they had been. I carefully place him in his crib so he doesn't wake back up. Dimitri lifts me off the ground and carries me back to the living room, stopping to kiss me under the mistletoe once again.

"Dimitri?" I question, as he sets me on the couch and sits down next to me.

"Hmmm," he says, pulling me into his side and placing his chin on my head.

"Do you think we only feel in love because we were always so close to each other?" I ask, still a little surprised that he has been with me all these years.

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love," he tells me, tilting my chin up to look into my eyes, "I feel in love with you, because you're you, Roza." I kiss him passionately. We talk and kiss for hours until we fall asleep on the couch together. I wake up to the sound of Dimitri singing. I open my eyes and see him sitting in a chair by the fireplace, singing to Ivan in Russian. I get up and walk over to them, sitting on the arm of the chair. He finishes the song and Ivan claps happily.

"What did you sing to him?" I murmur. I still haven't picked up much Russian. Dimitri smiles up at me and Ivan coos and holds his arms up. I take Ivan and Dimitri sets me in his lap.

"Silent night," he tells me, smiling at the two of us. I grin happily and snuggle closer to Dimitri, holding Ivan securely in my arms.

"It's not morning yet," I say, puzzled, looking out the window and seeing it is still pitch black out.

"No, it's about midnight," Dimitri tells me chuckling, "Otherwise, I would have woken you up as soon as I got Ivan changed." Ivan coos some more and I smile at him while Dimitri kisses my neck softly.

"I have the two best men in the world with me right now," I tell Dimitri.

"I have the best woman in the world and the best baby in the world in my lap," he says back, "I couldn't ask for anything else." Ivan starts to dose off again so we put him back in his crib. I crawl into bed and turn the baby monitor on. Dimitri goes to put all the presents under the tree. He comes into the room about ten minutes later, climbing into bed and pulling me close.

"You got a bit carried away with the presents for him, Roza," he states, chuckling, "He's not even one year old yet."

"Exactly," I say back, "It's his first Christmas and it needs to be special." I kiss my amazing husband and fall asleep. I wake up to a high pitched crying and see that it's now light outside. I smile and roll Dimitri out of bed and onto the floor. He lands with a thud and sits up, glaring at me.

"Not funny," he growls. I laugh and shake my head.

"Very funny," I stick my tongue out at him and go to pick Ivan out of his crib. The first thing I do is change his diaper and feed him. Dimitri walks into the nursery and offers to get him dressed and I let him. We bought him a little Santa baby onesie the other day and it looks adorable. We sit in the living room and help him open his presents. We got him so many toys but his favorite is a little stuffed horse. He won't put the thing down.

"Looks like he's going to have your obsession with westerns, Comrade!" I joke, nudging Dimitri. He laughs and hands me a small wrapped box. I smile and hand him a slightly bigger box. We agreed to only get each other one present this year. Ivan sits entertaining himself with his new horse and I sit on the couch next to my husband.

"You first," he says, putting his arm around my shoulders. I nod and unwrap the gift revealing a velvety red box. I open the lid and gasp. I take a beautiful necklace out of the box and examine it. The chain is a delicate white gold and a medium sized heart pendant hangs from it. The heart glimmers with rows of diamonds and rubies. "To my Roza, I love you always, Dimitri," is engraved on the back.

"Dimitri, it's beautiful," I whisper, as tears fill my eyes. He smiles and kisses me, clasping the chain around my neck. He places a kiss to my shoulder.

"Open yours," I tell him excitedly. He grins and opens it. I got him a leather bound western novel. It also happens to be the only one he doesn't own. He grins and opens the cover, knowing I wrote something in there. I wrote, "To my cowboy, Love always, Your Roza." A little cheesy, yeah, but true.

"How did you find this? I've been looking for years," he says to me, smiling widely. I kiss his nose and pick Ivan up.

"I had to go to like, ten vintage book stores but I finally found one that would order it for me. No, they didn't have it there. They ordered it and it took two months to get here. I thought it wasn't going to come," I told him, grinning. He stands and hugs me, kissing Ivan's forehead.

"Thank you, Roza," he says, solemnly. I kiss him.

"And thank you, Dimitri. Let's get dressed and put some pants on him, then we can go meet everyone at Baba's house," I tell him. He nods and we get ready. He throws on a pair of black pants and a red dress shirt. He takes Ivan to put pants, shoes, and a coat on him. I put on a blood red dress that falls to my knees. It has a sweetheart neckline and three quarter length sleeves. I slip on some black heels and my coat, hat and gloves. Dimitri meets me at the front door with Ivan and we head off to my father's house.

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