A/N: This takes place ten yrs after Edward left. Bella never jumped so Edward never went to Italy. Bella's twenty-eight, Jacob's twenty-six. You get the rest of the idea. Enjoy :)
10 yrs previously:
"Okay, lets talk," Bella said.
Edward took a deep breath. "Bella, we're leaving."
Bella took a deep breath. "Why now? Another year-"
"Bella, it's time." Edward cut her off. "How much longer could we stay in Forks after all? Carlisle can barely pass for thirty, and he's claiming thirty-three now. We'd have to start over soon regardless."
Bella was confused. "When you say we-" she whispered.
"I mean my family and myself," Edward said coldly.
Bella shoo her head. "Okay, I'll come with you."
"you can't, Bella. Where we're going…it's not the right place for you." Edward looked up at the tree tops briefly.
"Where you are is the right place for me," Bella said.
"I'm no good for you, Bella." Edward looked back at her.
"Don't be ridiculous." Bella begged. "You're the very best part of my life."
"My world is not for you." Edward informed her.
"What happened with Jasper-that was nothing, Edward! Nothing!" she was almost shouting now.
"You're right," Edward said evenly. "It was exactly what was to be expected."
"But you promised! In Phoenix you promised that you would stay-" Bella began.
"As long as that was best for you," Edward interrupted her.
"No! this is about y soul, isn't it?" Bella yelled angrily. "Carlisle told me about that, and I don't care, Edward. I don't care! You can have my soul. I don't want it without you-it's yours already!"
Edward took another deep breath. "Bella, I don't want you to come with me."
"You…don't…want me?" Bella asked brokenly.
"No," he said coldly.
"Well, that changes things." Bella reasoned numbly.
"Of course, I'll always love you…in a way. But what happened the other night made me realize that it's time for a change." Edward spoke. "Because I'm…tired of pretending to be something I'm not, Bella. I am not human." he looked at her coldly. "I've let this go on much to long, and I'm sorry for that."
"Don't," Bella whispered. "Don't do this."
"You're not good for me, Bella." Edward flipped his earlier sentence.
"If…that's what you want." Bella struggled for world.
Edward nodded. "Goodbye, Bella." Edward said quietly before kissing her forehead and fleeing. He could not stay there another minute, or he would surely change him mind.
The present: Bella's POV
I woke with a light sweat covering my forehead and the palms of my hands.
I sighed and carefully lay back down in the bed.
"Bella, sweetheart?" I hear Jacobs voice beside me. "Are you alright?" his arms are around me now.
"I'm fine," I tell him. "Just a bad dream," I mutter to him already half asleep.
"Tell me about it." he asks me.
"Later," I frown, and then I'm lost to the peaceful blackness of a dreamless sleep with my protector - Jacob - s arms around me.
I groan, rolling from my right side to my left, stretching.
"Good morning, beautiful." I hear Jacobs voice in my ear.
"Good morn-" I'm cut off my an uncomfortable pain in my stomach. My hand goes to my mouth and I lurch for the bathroom. After I'm done being violently sick, I rinse my mouth and brush my teeth before going back out to Jacob.
"Sorry," I apologize, climbing back into bed. I was five months pregnant and I was definitely showing more prominently than last month.
"It's alright. Are you hungry?" he looks down at me adoringly.
"A little," I smile back up at him.
"So," he began as we walked out to our little kitchen. "What was your nightmare about last night?" he asked.
"What nightmare?" I decide to play dumb.
"The one that woke you up." Jacob reminds me.
"I don't remember that, sorry Jake," I lie. He doesn't need to know that I still have the abandonment nightmares left over from…from…Edward.
"Oh," Jake grumbles.
"Good morning, mama." I hear as I look up to see Sarah waddling her way into the room.
"Well, good morning my Sarah. And how are you today?" I ask her as I scoop her up into my arms.
"Good," she smiles brightly.
"Do I smell bacon?" Mason walks into the kitchen, rubbing his eyes groggily. I feel a little pain in my chest as I see the boy that replicates his father so well; bronze tousled hair, bright green eyes, pale skinned…
Yes, Mason Anthony is Edward Cullen's child. The product of our love from my eighteenth birthday. Thank god Mason is like me more than him. He was human enough to give me a normal, nine month pregnancy with no vampire problems. He looked painfully like Edward, though. He was nine years old. Now that I think of it, he'll be ten soon, it's February and his birthday is in June.
"Morning, kid," Jacob greets him.
"Hey," Mason responds. Jacob was good graced with Mason. He saw him as a leech's offspring, but treated him like his own, seeing he was mostly human, and mine. Anything I loved, well, almost anything I loved, I amended my thoughts as I thought of the Cullen's, Jake loved too.
"Guess what?" I asked Sarah as I glanced at the calendar.
"What?" she lights up.
"Happy third birthday!" I began tickling her.
"Aah!" she screams in response to my firm tickling fingers on her belly. I pulled my fingers away and let her breathe while her giggling subsided.
Jacob put the eggs, toast, and bacon onto our small table so I put Sarah into her chair before sitting in my own. Jacob sat on my left, Sarah on my right, and Mason was across from me.
"Well, dig in," Jake said as he lunged for the bacon.
I whacked his arm. "Kids first," I grinned as he grudgingly passed the plate of bacon to Mason, who took a careful handful for himself before carefully putting three pieces in front of Sarah. Mason dodged Jacobs waiting hands to pass me the plate.
"Hey, kid," Jacob complained.
"What? Ladies first," he grinned a crooked smile that took my breath away. It looked just like that of my favorite smile of his fathers.
I grabbed a few pieces of the bacon.
"Finally," Jake grumbled, scooping over half of the remainder onto his plate. Mason had already scoped his scrambled eggs onto his plate and was passing me the ladle. I gave Sarah some before myself and then handed it over to Jake.
We passed around the toast and began eating. I was eating more than normal due to the other mouth to feed down in my womb.
We ate in silence mostly. Mason didn't have school to talk about for the time being, it was February break for them, Sarah didn't go to school yet, and Jake didn't talk about pack stuff in front of the kids.
"Mason, are you happy it's vacation?" I ask him.
"Yeah. Actually, Kevin and I were planning a sleepover too. Can we?" he looks into my eyes.
"We'll see." I allow, smiling at him.
"Thanks mom!" Mason smiles at me. I smile back and we finish out breakfast in silence.