Except, things sometimes took turns that nobody could envisage. Thomas had fully expected the next few months to go swimmingly without a hitch. He had the two phone their sergeant at the police station and phone their families to tell them that they had left the city, just so nobody would wonder where they were. He had gone to their apartment and collected enough things to make it look like the two had left in a rush, just so their families wouldn't turn up, see the full apartment and grow concerned. Hell, Thomas thought he had it all covered up nicely, and he thought he could spend the next few months tormenting the humans for his own enjoyment. He'd killed humans in front of Orian to scar and torture him, while Elijah, he thought, would continue to feed from Brielle. That would have been the ideal situation he thought would play out--
But, of course, things hadn't gone exactly to plan. Everything mentioned had happened as he predicted, and things had gone perfectly for the first three months... until it became obvious Brielle was pregnant. With the dates working out to make Elijah the father (as well as the fact she had last slept with a man a year ago, so there was no question who the father was), Thomas had, quite easily, lost his temper. For weeks, he ignored Elijah, and whenever he did talk to him, he ended up screaming at him furiously for his idiocy and stupidity. All these decades, it had just been him and his twin brother. Never had he anticipated his younger twin impregnating some horrid little human and forcing Thomas to share his life with some crying child for the rest of his life. He had killed his parents simply because he wanted it to just be him and Elijah-- so obviously the news hadn't settled well. At first, he spent days trying to convince Brielle to go for an abortion. Hell, he'd gone as far as to kick her a few times when Elijah wasn't around out of desperation, though nothing worked. That was when all the fun he had hoped to have ended. Elijah couldn't feed from her, and Thomas couldn't even face looking at her, which meant that, instead of spending time fucking with Orian's condition, he just ignored them, only seeing them to give them food and water. Even then, he tried not to even look at Brielle - he didn't trust himself not to kill her, and, while he had the urge to, he figured it wasn't his place. If anyone could kill her, it ought to be Elijah.
The only brief hope Thomas had was that Brielle would get sick and die naturally, that would have solved everything. He could forget all about her and go back to focusing on Orian. Except, fate ruined that for him too. Brielle really ought to have gotten sick. The baby, because it was half-vampire, really should have fed from her and made her thinner and sickly and on her deathbed... except, the truth was that this was the healthiest Brielle had even been in her life. Did it make sense? Not at all, but she was perfectly healthy. Of course, she was far from happy with the situation. She hadn't wanted children, at least not until she was in her 30s, and by that time, she thought she would be married to some handsome guy. Not in her worst nightmares did she think she would be pregnant this young with a monstrous, violent vampire, locked up in the spare bedroom of his apartment alongside her best friend. It was hell-- but it wasn't like it was ruining her life. Her life was already ruined. Her parents thought she was travelling the world, the police department she worked for thought the same... nobody knew where she was, so it didn't particularly matter that she was pregnant, did it? It wasn't like her being pregnant was ruining her job or her social life - she didn't have either.
That said, she... was thankful for it, in some ways. Elijah couldn't feed off her or hit her when she was carrying his children, and she often stepped in front of Orian protectively to make sure Thomas didn't hurt him, so the pregnancy had some benefits-- and it was amusing to see how it had made the brothers so tense around one another. The fact Thomas was constantly arguing with his twin over this was pretty amusing to Brielle - she hated them both, so seeing their close-knit bond begin to tear and weaken because of her? Well, she was a little proud of it. They didn't deserve any happiness or kindness from her, so of course she was going to find their bickering delightful.
Of course, the pregnancy had genuinely helped her. Rather than being sick as Thomas had hoped, she was perfectly healthy, and she did carry it all incredibly well. It did enhance her natural beauty, really. She had always been pretty, but before, she had been slightly girlish and young. Now? Nobody could deny she was a woman, and a stunningly beautiful one at that... even if she was carrying triplets. Obviously, it wasn't easy. She had to deal with carrying around three children, which was no easy feat. The effects of pregnancy were tripled because of it, with her midsection swollen to accommodate the three little ones (though she seemed to carry it perfectly) and her chest almost tripling in size in preparation to feed the babies when they came along. That was probably the one thing she struggled with most. Her stomach was the main difference, for obvious reasons, but she could cope with that relatively easy. However, Brielle had always been flat-chested most her life, which she hadn't really cared about - she wasn't one of those girls who cared that much about her body. Yet, suddenly having a chest most women needed surgery for hadn't been particularly... easy. Hell, it wasn't something she was used to, so of course it was difficult dealing with.
Currently, the woman as, as usual, stuck in the spare bedroom, the only light in the dim room before from the TV-- not that she was watching it. She couldn't focus on the old movie even if she tried. She was more preoccupied looking out of the window and watching the snow fall, smiling to herself. If she wasn't stuck in the bedroom, she'd probably be out with Orian, sitting on some park bench with a hot chocolate and giggling about the latest gossip they'd heard about someone they used to go to school wish. Instead, they both had one hand tied to the bed and were prevented from leaving. That was so much more fun - not.
"...Oreo? Hey, buddy, don't... don't go to sleep, alright? Stay awake with me, I don't want to sit in silence," the woman smiled, nudging her friend playfully as best as she could, to keep morale up. Using her only free hand to rub her huge stomach comfortingly, she smiled a little wider at the flurry of kicks - it was hard to hate her own children, even despite who their father was. "Maybe Elijah will bring cheesecake. I did tell him I had a craving for it, and god knows he deserves to treat me a little. His children are fucking energetic..."