Moonrise

Prolouge

All A/N's will be in bold. XD, enjoy:

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My baby was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

Too bad I had to give her up.

Flashback

"How is that even possible, Bella?" Alice asked. Obviously she hadn't seen this coming.

"I know what you must be thinking," I said quietly, wishing I could die. "But I didn't cheat—"

"Of course you didn't!" she said instantly. I looked at her, surprised by her sudden outburst. She looked almost angry. "Bella, I can't see the past, but any idiot knows you didn't cheat on my brother."

I felt weak with relief, because really, I had no idea how I was suddenly moody, and my period hadn't come. I was married to Edward, yes. We'd "slept" together, except he didn't sleep. And to my dismay, I was still human! And now… now something weird was up, and Alice was gazing into the future.

Her expression was horrified, suddenly replaced by a nervous grin.

"He'll be ecstatic." Her tone was confident, but there was something in her voice. "You should tell him as soon as you can."

I hadn't been changed as of then, and when I told Edward, he was indeed ecstatic, and then we'd talked to Carlisle…

He said the reason was because a vampire's sperm didn't die as soon as the eggs did. I was blushing furiously of course, but Edward seemed smug and triumphant. At least, Until—

"Bella, Edward," Carlisle said heavily, as if he were telling a family member their husband had died in surgery, "if Bella's going to be changed, you need to give the baby up."

Now I knew why Alice had been so scared.

End Flashback.

I had cried, and Edward would have too. He blamed himself, as usual. And now I was sitting in the hospital, having just given birth, Edward smiling weakly at me.

"Who would want a vampire family, anyhow?" he told me, most likely trying to stop my tears. "She shouldn't grow up in that environment. And plus, she'd be in constant danger. She's human, and therefore she'll have running blood—you should have seen how upset Jasper was. Happy for us, but upset all the same."

"Yeah," I choked out.

"Bella," Edward said after a moment. "I'm so sorry. If we had just waited until you were a vampire—"

"If you apologize one more time I'm going to kill you," I said angrily.

It was true, I was still not a vampire (for the sake of the baby) and Edward had apologized about a gazillion times.

They brought the baby back to me and laid her against my chest. Edward leaned over my shoulder, smiling hugely despite the bittersweet moment. "What are you going to call her?" he asked lightly.

I hadn't thought of a name, I realized suddenly. It was because I didn't want to get attached. "I don't know," I said shortly. "What were you thinking?"

"I think Cara is a pretty name." His smile widened as I nodded. But then the tears started flowing again and I turned my face away.

"May I hold her?" he asked hesitantly, carefully, and I gapped at him shocked that he would ask.

"Of course," I handed her over, smiling at the father/daughter moment. I wished so badly we could keep her, but there was more than one reason that that my precious family could not be.

One, the Volturi. I wasn't acting of selfish reasons. When the due date for my change had been postponed for another nine months, they put two and two together and demanded that we give the baby up for adoption. Why? I guess because they were afraid of the child. There had never been a half-vampire, half-human being conceived in history. They said it was because the Cullen's couldn't have another human that knew too much, without the promise of it becoming a vampire. That set Edward over the edge. He would change me, but he was not going to "damn his only self and blood" at less than the age of a year. So, with my consent, the baby was put up for adoption, and a family was waiting for her after a week of age.

The second reason was because we couldn't risk my own or anyone else's bloodlust. I had to be changed within the month, and Jasper was still touchy. We couldn't have our baby only for it to be sucked dry.

And as I watched Edward smile at Cara, I felt my heart clench uneasily.

Edward's POV:

Bella couldn't do it. She couldn't drop off the only baby she would ever give birth to. Therefore, it was my task.

As I carried the bundle of blankets, sound asleep (and I was thankful Cara was dreaming. I didn't want to see any pain that might appear), I felt my gut wrench.

But then she opened her eyes. Green eyes—so like mine they made my face twist in agony. I couldn't help but look away from them as I knocked on the door of the orphanage in Vancouver, Canada.

The woman who opened the door glared at me with disapproval, and I deserved it. I handed her my child, and she gently snatched it from my hands. "Are you sure you want to be doing this?" she asked coldly. I smiled grimly.

I was sure, for all the reason's I told Bella. Completely sure.

"It's what is best for her," I said earnestly. She narrowed her eyes, saying,

"I don't doubt it."

The statement left me feeling numb and cold.

I turned, stealing one last glance at my daughter's green eyes. I had thought human infants could not show emotion for a certain amount of time, but Cara seemed to know that something was wrong. Her lower lip began to tremble as she blinked.

"For future reference," I said quietly, wrenching my eyes away from my daughter's and onto the caretaker's, "her name is Cara."

Her face softened slightly. "Of course." As I walked away, I no longer shut my mind to the wave of thoughts overflowing from her mind. One single sentence stood out from all the rest.

He never wanted to give her up; I guess I shouldn't have been so hard on him.

But then my train of thought was shattered as Cara's wail broke out over the overcast sky.

THREE MONTHS LATER

Bella was smiling for the first time in months. "Can you believe it?" she asked me, absolutely grinning. "I can't believe I'm immune to human blood!"

Then after a moment, Emmett said, trying not to grin, "Well, gee Bella—that's just odd. When are you going to stop being weird?"

She glared at him, but then turned back to me, whispering softly, "How do you think Cara is?"

"I think she's—"

Just then, Alice burst into the room, her eyes blank and wide. Her vision flowed through my mind, and I was puzzled by it. It was of a girl with dark brown hair—extremely like Bella's, except gold bronze strands etched throughout it—and she was writhing on the floor in pain. She reminded me immensely of Bella, until her face appeared, completely different than that of my angel's, although there were slight similarities.

"—fine."

I smiled. Could this be my daughter? My Cara?

But then my mind once again registered the pain that must have been causing her writhing. "Alice," I said slowly, my voice pained, "why are you showing me this?"

"We made a huge mistake," she wailed shakily. "We should have kept her!"

Bella looked from me to Alice, as the rest of the coven was doing. Jasper gazed at Alice silently. "Alice," he said, "what d'you mean, 'we should have kept her?'"

"I mean," Alice said quietly, looking me directly in the eye, "that on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she'll turn into one of us. There's nothing we can do to stop it. Nothing at all."

"But you have to be bitten," Carlisle offered unsteadily. "There's never been a recording of a newly fledged vampire with excess venom—"

"We don't know that," snapped Alice. Then, more calmly, "Carlisle, has there ever been a recording of a human/vampire relationship with one end being a la tua cantante? Or of a vampire conceiving a baby?" Carlisle shook his head. "And yet," she waved her hands at us, "it's possible!"

I had never seen my sister so aggravated.

"We'll have to find her and bring her back!" Bella exclaimed happily. I smiled. "Even the Volturi can't argue with that. She'll be extremely dangerous."

"Let's go," I agreed.

O

All hopes were shattered when we arrived in Vancouver. "I'm sorry Mr. Cullen," the caretaker said for the hundredth time. "She's been taken under foster care. You can't have her back."

I had tried to "dazzle" her a hundred times already. I needed my daughter back. Couldn't she comprehend such an easy idea? What was so difficult to grasp about this concept?

"You don't understand," I said futilely. The caretaker sighed loudly, and her mouth became a very thin line.

"Mr. Cullen," she said sternly and I raised my eyebrows. "You had your chance, and you decided not to take it! She is no longer under your care; therefore I cannot give out any personal information whatsoever. I cannot give out names, locations, pets, or even a tree type! Now, if you would so kindly leave." She began to organize the papers on her desk.

If only she knew of the danger this was causing! "Then," I said calmly, "could you put us on a list, to re-adopt her if this family chooses to send her back?"

"No, I can't do that either!" She snapped—as Bella would say—completely fed up with me. "You signed a contract. You can't have her back. That's the deal you made! Now, leave before you frighten the children!"

There were indeed little faces poking out from behind the stairwell. I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose, then grabbed Bella's arm and dragged her out of the orphanage. I did not even say thank you.

Bella sounded as if she were choking on something, for she could not cry, and I smiled ruefully. "This is wonderful," I said sarcastically. "I have a daughter who will turn to a vampire before she becomes eighteen and I can't even find her location."

"Scent?" Bella asked quietly.

"Not strong enough, and I wouldn't even know where to start. It didn't even linger at the orphanage. Cara could have been sent anywhere in the world."

"What are we going to do?"

"Wait," I replied crudely. "We'll just have to wait."

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PHEW

Ugh, that took forever for me to write. I hate it. GAWSH. I was going to alter this and make it into a story I might be able to publish, but I felt guilty, so here it is .

Most of the story for now on will be in Cara's POV. Don't worry, Edward and Bella will be in the background as well as other characters. But this is Cara's story, not Edward's, not Bella's, or Alice's… etc.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I didn't go into detail much because it will be explained throughout the story.

-Jamie.