AN: Hey guys I'm back, this is the new story, I'm still writing it, have a few chapters but its still going on, its gonna be a LONG story, maybe i'll devide it to two stories since more to the end its not really...never mind, anyway enjoy, I will try and update as often as I can but no promises, I think the next chapter will be up by friday though. Hopefully. Reveiws are appreciated as well, thanks!
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Bella P. O. V
It's been about a year since the voltury once again tried to tear my family apart, Renesmee was physically 5 now, Carlisle's theory was that from now on she would age physically two years per year until she was 7.
"Bella! come on!" Alice was urging me and pulling my wrist, I sighed, today was my 'birthday'.
"Alice, I'm not 20, I'm 18, and that is the age I will be forever, no matter how much parties you throw." I said annoyed.
"Hey, this is for Nessie too, she's 1/5 today." She chirped, nothing could kill her mood at all.
"How, do you manage to stay so happy all the time, seriously it is creepy." i pretended to shiver.
"Ha, ha Bella, funny." she said sarcastically as we reached the back door.
As usual she had gone all out with the stupid party, she had bars stretched over the entire back yard and the bars were coated with flowers, balloons, streamers and tinsel. There were tables and chairs scattered casually yet elegantly over the yard, there were several tables groaning under huge dishes of food, I knew that's where the wolves would be hanging out all night.
"Come on Bella, say you love it, you know you want to." Alice sang.
"Oh, like you don't know." I rolled my eyes.
"I still want to hear you say it." she smiled gloating and crossed her arms.
"I like it." I mumbled barely audible, a human would not have been able to hear it but Alice did.
She clapped and skipped off, probably to go annoy someone else. I saw Jacob sitting on the lawn with Renesmee, he was reading her wuthering heights, it was one of her favourite stories.
"I wonder how someone so tiny can be so extremely annoying." I muttered as I sat down next to Nessie.
"Momma, when can we go shopping again?" Renesmee asked, I sighed, Alice was rubbing off on her.
"I seriously think that Alice is your sister just you were born waaaay later." I smiled at her and she laughed.
"Bella! you and Nessie need to get dressed!" Alice whined and appeared at my shoulder.
"No, I don't wanna!" I said sounding like a five year old.
"Come on Bella, everyone's gonna be here soon!" she whined again.
"No!" I said stubbornly and crossed my arms.
"Bella, need I remind you that I know how this ends." she said.
"You'll have to drag me before I set a toe in your bathroom." I said.
"Fine." she said, I actually thought she'd given up. Until I felt her hand grab my ankles and she started dragging me across the yard into the house.
"Alice! No! Stop this instant!" I screamed as i clawed the ground like one of those horror movies when the victim is dragged away by the villain, how I wished I still had my strength from being a newborn.
By the time we were in the house I had given up, Alice kept dragging me all the way upstairs into her bathroom.
My family stared at me as she dragged me and Emmett was the first one to laugh, he actually rolled on the floor and the rest joined in even Edward. I glared at him but he continued to laugh.
"Why can't you use Rosalie as your Barbie? She has the blond hair and everything!" I whined.
"I heard that!" Rosalie snarled from downstairs and everyone laughed again.
"Renesmee you need to come too." Alice said barely louder than a normal tone.
Renesmee heard her though even though she was at the opposite end of the yard and down several flights of stairs.
"Momma why don't you like playing dress up it's fun." Renesmee's bell-like chuckle came from the doorway not even a second after Alice called her.
"Because sweetheart, I do not really care about how I look, all I need is my family, now come sit down so Alice can make you pretty.
Ness sat opposite me and as soon as Alice went to go inspect Ness I dashed for the door.
"Please Bella, I saw that when I called Nessie upstairs." Alice said her hand on the back of my T-shirt as she pulled me easily back in the bathroom.
I pouted.
"Nice try but not gonna work." She said.
I sulked for the two hours she kept us locked in her bathroom.
When she was done I knew I was beautiful, I just didn't care much. But Renesmee was just way too adorable, her bronze hair was in perfect little curls at her waist, her cheeks were all rosey and her pink lips shined from the lip gloss, she didn't have much make-up on.
She finally opened the door for us to leave and I was out of there before she finished her sentence.
"Hey Ness, Hey Bella, you both look so pretty." Jacob said as Renesmee jumped into his arms.
"That does not make me feel any better Jake." I scowled and walked outside.
The people started arriving then and I sighed.
"Hey Bella." Seth said as he walked in with Leah and his mom.
"Hey Seth, Leah, Sue." I greeted them.
"Why do you look so down, you're supposed to be happy it's your birthday." Seth smiled.
"It is not my birthday, I am 18, Alice just won't accept it." I crossed my arms.
"Then happy 18th birthday Bella." Leah smiled. We had grown closer in the last year.
I cracked a smile.
The rest of the people arrived, most of them were supernatural only a select few were humans.
"Happy birthday kiddo!" I heard my dad shout over the music behind me.
"Thanks dad." I said with mock enthusiasm.
"Oh right, for some reason you hate your birthday, you're not like normal kids Bells." He chuckled and walked over to Billy and Sue.
The party ended at one, Alice decided to get a head start on cleaning everything up. She was like a mini tornado moving around the yard.
Renesmee was asleep on Jacob's chest, we decided to leave her there, if we moved her she would wake up again.
Edward and I ran home.
"Is there a cure for you sister? Some way to make her less annoying?" I asked Edward as we reached the cottage.
"Bella, I've had to live with her for half a century, if I knew trust me she would have been way different than she is now." He rolled his eyes. "Time for your birthday present." He smiled and led me to our room.
"Who wants to go hunting?" I asked.
"Me!" Renesmee jumped up, which meant Jake was coming too.
"I could fit in a few." Rose said.
"I'm in." Emmett.
In the end almost everybody except Esme, Carlisle and Alice came.
"So little sis, how was your birthday present?" Emmett asked grinning.
I sped up so I didn't have to answer.
"Oh come on Bella, I'm only teasing." he laughed.
We were only gone for two hours when we decided to go back home. All of us went out separate ways, Jasper went straight to Alice. Em and Rose were laying out the foundation for a palace of cards, they used the attic to build it because there was hardly anything in there and it was spacious. Renesmee and Jacob were watching TV, Esme was designing a new house, Carlisle was in his study, Edward was playing the piano and I was reading wuthering heights for the umpteenth time.
Edward suddenly stopped the piano and ran outside in a flash and into the forest just before I heard someone scream in the forest.
"Jacob stay here!" I told him and raced after Edward followed by Jasper, Emmett, Alice and Carlisle.
"Help!" I heard a girl screaming.
I used all of my speed and got there in seconds.
A girl, no older than 25 was in tattered clothes, she was pregnant, very pregnant and a vampire was chasing after her.
She saw us and tried to run but the vampire caught her wrist and I heard a snap. She screamed out again in pain.
Edward ran and knocked the vampire down, Jasper and Emmett help him dismantle and burn the vampire as Carlisle, Alice and I went to help the girl. She wasn't clutching her wrist as expected but she was clutching her stomach.
"Let's get her to the house, I can do an X-ray." Carlisle ordered and I took the girl into my arms, Edward tried to take her from me but she clung to my neck.
I shook my head and started running, she was crying and hyperventilating, when I suddenly stopped moving as I came into Carlisle's study she opened her eyes, she had startlingly blue eyes with green around the edges, even though her eyes were red she was still extremely beautiful.
I tried to lay her down on the bed but she just clung tighter to me.
"Shh, it's okay, he's gone." I tried to sooth her and she slowly started to relax.
"Are you okay?" I asked her and she nodded, her sobs had stopped and she hiccupped slightly.
"My name is Isabella, what is your name?" I asked her.
She swallowed, "I-I'm Ch-Chanell, Chanell Hale." She hiccupped and I looked up, everyone had piled into the room and everyone turned to Rosalie. I remembered Rosalie's surname was Hale. Rosalie turned and dashed downstairs.
"Well, Chanell, do you mind if I do an X-ray, I heard something snap in the forest and I want to make sure you and your child are okay." Carlisle said looking genuinely concerned for this girl.
She nodded. I carried her to the X-ray machine and dashed downstairs to Rosalie, she was on one of the computers on a search engine.
She was staring at the computer.
"Rosalie? Are you okay?" I asked.
"She's my brothers granddaughter." she whispered barely audible.
"How do you know that, she might not be." I said.
"Bella don't tell me that you cannot see the resemblance between this me and that girl." she said. She was right, Chanell had golden hair that bounced at her waist, she had flawless skin and rare beauty, it was extremely hard to find a human as beautiful and Chanell, if it wasn't for the fact that she had her natural eye colour and soft, warm skin I would swear she was a vampire.
I sighed.
"Bella, come here please." I heard Edward call for me.
"What is it?" I asked.
"She wants you." He said, Rosalie followed me in.
Everyone's eyes followed Rosalie as she walked in, Chanell's eyes were closed as she laid on the hospital bed, I touched her hand and she flinched. Her eyes shot open.
They looked around frantically before they landed on me.
"You're Bella." she stated. I nodded.
"You're like him, that man who was chasing me." she stated looking curiously at me. Edward signalled everyone to leave only Carlisle stayed.
Emmett was tugging Rosalie's hand but she didn't move. "Go Emmett I just want to make sure." she told him caressing his face, he sighed and left.
"Yes, how did he find you?" I asked her. Her breathing sped up.
"I remember walking home one night, from work. It was dark and my car was the last one left in the parking lot. I didn't see anyone and then someone picked me up and started running, I started to scream but a cold hand covered my mouth. He took me to an abandoned house and raped me there, he said I was part of his experiment. A week after he took me I got sick and puked, he fed me blood. I was drinking so much that he couldn't keep up with supplying me. This morning I had exhausted his supply and he went to get more. I ran five minutes after he left, I ran as fast as I could, we were in the middle of the forest and I ran in the opposite direction that he left. About half an hour ago he caught up to me, I tried to run faster but he was inhumanly fast. I screamed then you came." She said, she hadn't noticed that Carlisle had stopped walking to listen to her story or that Rosalie was the only one besides Carlisle in the room.
"How long have you been pregnant?" I asked her.
"Three and a half weeks. The baby keeps breaking my ribs, she's strong." she smiled as if she didn't mind if the baby broke her bones, she reminded me of myself when I was pregnant with Renesmee, I loved her even though she was killing me.
"I'm dying, I know." she said, she had accepted that fact.
"We could save you if you wish." Carlisle said sadly.
"No, I don't want to be a vampire." she said. I was startled at how much she knew.
"How much do you know about us?" I asked her.
"He told me everything, I knew you were vampires but your eyes are different." she said.
"We don't drink human blood, we drink animal blood. My entire family does." Carlisle said.
"I still don't want to be turned." she said looking at him, she noticed Rosalie standing behind him.
"You...you look like me...like...her." she said, she had opened the locket that hung around her neck.
The locket was silver and gold, when it opened it had many folds, I was sure it could hold at least 20 different pictures.
Chanell flipped the photos until she came to the second last one. There was Rosalie, she was beautiful, even as a human. Many girls would envy her beauty.
"My grandfather gave this to me when I turned 18, a year before he died. He said this was his sister, she had disappeared when she turned 18, a week before she was to be married." she said handing the locket to Rosalie, next to Rosalie's picture was, I'm guessing her little brother.
Rosalie let out what sounded like a choking sob at the picture of her brother.
Compared to when she was human there was very little change when she turned, she was already so beautiful that it did not change much. Just her slight blush had paled and her blue, green eyes had turned red then gold.
Rosalie slid to the floor clutching the locket, she was staring at her brother and then flipped it to her parents pictures. She sobbed tearless for half an hour before she talked.
"I miss them...everyday. I wish I could go back. But their gone." she whispered.
"Do you want to know where their buried?" Chanell asked softly.
Rosalie nodded and Chanell gave the location. They talked for a while after that and I decided to leave them for a while and went downstairs. Emmett went up when I came down.
"How are they?" Edward asked when I sat next to him on the couch, Jake and Nessie were asleep on the couch.
"Like you don't know." I rolled my eyes.
The next two days Rosalie would not leave Chanell's side. She made her food and gave her blood, she helped her to the bathroom and back, she made sure Chanell was comfortable all the time, when the baby broke Chanell's ribs she held her hand tightly as Carlisle fixed it.
"Chanell, are you sure you do not want to be turned? It's too late for an abortion but what about your child?" Carlisle asked her, she was due in two days.
"No, I don't want to be a vampire. Rosalie, I want her to take care of my baby." she whispered.
"Chanell, I know that I have always wanted a baby but not at someone else's expense. I hate that I have to outlive all of my family. You're my grandniece, it would not be right." Rosalie said, she was being selfless.
"I won't be alive Rosalie, and you'll be it's family. I don't want to live forever while I watch my family die. You will make a wonderful mother and I trust that you will be the best mother in the world...Please?" Chanell said tears forming in her eyes, if Rosalie could produce tears this house would probably be flooded by now and I knew that she loved her brothers granddaughter.
She nodded slowly and Chanell smiled and hugged Rosalie.
While all this was going on I had asked Jacob to keep Renesmee busy. She was also staying at Charlie's for the rest of the week. Not that we didn't trust Jacob it would just be very inappropriate for a five year old girl to be staying with him while also being his imprint.
"Hey kid!" Charlie greeted me enthusiastically as I came to fetch Renesmee for a hunting trip.
"Hey dad, is Renesmee ready?" I asked walking in with Jacob behind me, Edward had gone with Carlisle to get more blood.
"Yep, she should be." He said.
The kitchen had cereal bowls all over.
"Dad! When last did you clean up? You can't let Sue clean up your entire weeks dishes every Sunday!" I said sternly.
"Sorry Bells but I've been busy at the station." He said smiling sheepishly.
I rolled my eyes as Nessie came down the stairs, she was staying in my old room.
"Momma!" she squealed and ran to my arms.
"Hey baby! Did you have fun?" I asked and she nodded.
"Have fun kids!" Charlie called as we left.
We went to a park with a grizzly problem, Emmett would have loved this. I admit I was a bit sceptical with Nessie fighting a bear but I knew nothing could hurt her so I let go.
She was as clean as Edward, she never spilled. With me, I needed 5 hunting trips before I stopped messing. Emmett teased me for 5 months after I stopped.
We were on our way home, we came to the river, Renesmee easily jumped over it and Jacob followed but I stopped and looked at my reflection. My skin was ghostly pale compared to my human pale. My eyes were no longer bright red but butterscotch gold. My brown hair gave off a slight glow and had more volume compared to when I was human, my lips were pink and full, but humans would not be able to see the tiny flaw, my lower lip was slightly fuller than my upper lip. I smiled, I loved knowing I was not perfect, it reminded me that I could make mistakes.
Suddenly there was and ear-splitting scream from inside the house followed by a sharp snap.
I ran and was inside in a millisecond.
"Jacob take Nessie to Charlie!" I shouted, I glanced at her face and she started crying.
I went to the sound of the screaming, it was in Carlisle's office.
When I reached the office Chanell was screaming and covered in blood. Rosalie was motionless but I could see in her eyes that she was panicking.
"Rosalie! Do it! You're the only one that can!" I shouted to her and she looked up and shook her head fast.
"Rose! You can do it, please?" Chanell whispered barely audible.
Rosalie looked her in the eyes then nodded. She brought her mouth to Chanell's stomach, she hesitated and then sunk her teeth into her flesh. Chanell screamed as Rosalie opened her stomach and then I heard a baby crying.
The sound was like an orchestra of tinkling little bells. I took the baby and wrapped her in a cloth. I offered her to Rosalie who shook her head and pointed to Chanell.
She was still alive and smiled at the beautiful baby girl. I handed the baby to Chanell and she took her weakly, she then bekond for Rosalie to come nearer and handed the baby to Rosalie.
"Please take care of her." She asked weakly and Rosalie nodded, her face was full of grief, she looked like she was choking as she tried to produce the tears that would never come.
"What's her name?" Chanell whispered.
"M-Megan Chanell Cullen." Rosalie whispered wiping her eyes out of a human habit as if expecting it to be wet.
"Thank you so much Chanell. I love you. Tell my brother that I love him and miss him so much." Rosalie said holding back sobs.
Chanell smiled, "I will watch over your family." she said then her eyes fluttered closed and I heard her heart give one extremely weak thump and then stopped.
Rosalie was really sobbing now, her breath coming out in sharp gasps, she sounded like she was being strangled.
"Emmett!" I called and he was up in a flash, he took Rose into his arms and she collapsed, Emmett caught her and handed Megan to me.
She had vivid green eyes with flecks of blue in them. Her lips were full and pink, she smiled at me with a full complement of milk teeth.
I could actually see her growing before my eyes, when she was born she had very little hair, now however her hair had reached her shoulders and they were a rich, gold, blond. Even though this child was not hers physically she had an amazing resemblance to Rosalie.
She was still covered in blood so I decided to rinse her off in the bathroom opposite the office. When I was done I went downstairs just as Edward and Carlisle came into the house.
"She was early?" Carlisle asked looking at Megan in my arms and looking sad.
"Yes, Rose is still up there with Emmett." I said to Carlisle and Edward came to stand at me.
"Who delivered the baby?" Carlisle asked me.
"Rose did, she didn't wanna but she was the only one who could, I haven't tasted human blood before.
The smell of blood had hit me immediatly and I had stopped breathing just in time.
"Edward, go check on Nessie, Jake took her to Charlie but I think she's scared, she heard Chanell scream." I told him.
I looked down at the gold haired child in my arms, her eyes were staring into mine.
"Welcome baby girl." I said to her and she smiled.
