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Chapter 2
"What?"
"You can have baby! Tell her Carlisle!"
"Is this some kind of joke because it is the farthest thing from funny," I was practically snarling at her. I looked at Carlisle as if to accuse him with my eyes, he knew this wasn't something to joke about.
"Rosalie, we would never joke about a matter this important to you. Furthermore, Bella is in no way joking. I have found a way for you and Emmett to have a child. That being said, I do not want to get your hopes up because it is highly experimental and I do not know how well the procedure will work."
"I'm up for anything!"
I moved across the room and collided with Carlisle hugging him tighter than I ever have before. My body began to silently and tearlessly sob. I knew that if I could produce tears they would be steadily flowing from my face. I hugged everyone in the room, ending with Emmett. I kissed him, held his face in my stone cold hands, and whispered,
"We're going to have a baby."
I whirled around then to face Carlisle, my own personal miracle worker, "When can we start?"
"Wait, Rose…" Emmett began to interject and I shot him the dirtiest look I could possibly fathom trying to telepathically tell him to shut the hell up. "What exactly is this procedure? How high risk it is?"
Like I cared about the risk.
"Well Emmett that is exactly what I was about to explain to Rosalie. The process is very similar to the human process of invetro fertilization. I will have to go into Rosalie's abdomen and extract eggs from her ovaries. Yes, the eggs are still there, her body is just frozen and therefore unable to drop the eggs into her fallopian tubes which is what allows human to conceive. Then, I will have to fertilize the eggs with Emmett's sperm. If, and this is the big IF, this process works like I hope it will, we will have a test tube baby. Finally, we will implant the fertilized egg into a surrogate who will carry your baby to full term and deliver him or her exactly as we did with Renesmee."
"So…we're going to have to find a random human willing to go through excruciating pain and possibly death to have a child for me?"
Here was the catch; the universe never works in my favor. No human could possibly want to go through what Bella went through. The human would most likely die in the birth process anyway.
"Actually, Aunt Rose, I'd like to carry your baby for you, if you'd be okay with that."
Renesmee? I wanted a baby more than anything else in the world but enough to kill my own niece? Absolutely not, that was a line I was not going to cross. Why is Bella not telling her no? This is a suicide mission. One I would gladly dive head first into but I couldn't put my niece in the cross-fire.
"Absolutely not. No way, no how. You are not risking your life for me to be able to have a baby. No." There go my dreams. Shattered.
"Actually Rosalie, let me explain. I came to the same dilemma you seem to have occurred when I was first, shall we say inventing, the process. A human would not be able to carry your baby full term. More likely than not she would die before she had the chance to give birth which is not something I would even consider, as I'm sure you know. Renesmee overheard me discussing the dilemma with Esme and she came up with her brilliant solution. Her body is not nearly as weak as a human; however she is not as strong as a vampire which makes her the perfect candidate for your surrogate."
"Is it 1000 percent safe?"
"I have not been able to come across any problems that could arise during my research."
"Bella? Edward? Dog..er Jake? How do you guys feel about this?"
"Rose, I know this is something you want more than life itself and have wanted since you were a human girl. I would not be allowing Renesmee to put herself in harm's way, if that was what I thought she was doing. I got my happily ever after, I want you to have yours as well. You deserve it." Bella beamed at me and I was so glad she was my sister. The bonding we shared throughout her pregnancy was closeness unlike anything I have felt before.
"I mean, I'm not really onboard with my girl carrying another guy's baby, unlike some people in this room…*Cough*" Jake shot a glance at Edward. "But I mean Rose as self-centered and Barbie-like as you are, I love ya and I want you to be happy."
"Thanks. I won't even make a joke about your tail for now." My way of saying, 'I love you too.'
"So let's get started!" Renesmee seemed more than enthusiastic for this to begin.
"I have to think about it." I ran out the back door and I suppose the shock of my announcement meant that no one would be chasing after me, for now. I ran until I was at the ocean's edge and I didn't stop there, I dove into the water and started swimming. Soon enough I was there. Dead center of the ocean, surrounded by the magnificent undersea world filled with all different colors. I dove deep and began to just float underwater. Could I really let Renesmee take this risk? I loved that girl like she was my daughter. I had lived with her and taught her for the first 25 years of her life. I, not Bella, had been the one giving her relationship advice. Renesmee didn't exactly feel comfortable talking to her mom about her boyfriend who used to be in love with her…I can't blame her, awkward.
Everyone seemed confident that this was 100 percent safe, no chance of anything going wrong. What if Carlisle had missed something? What if Renesmee's body was not nearly as strong as he thinks it is? What if her body can't heal fast enough? I could not live with myself if Renesmee didn't make it.
Did I want a child? That wasn't even a question. I wanted a child more than I wanted to see another day. This was exactly what I have always wanted. But is it worth the risk? If it were going to be my life on the line, I wouldn't be thinking about this. I would be in there, on that operating table. If it were a human's life that I did not know, I would have said yes in a heartbeat. I know that isn't fair but I want a child more than I care about an innocent human's life. But Renesmee's life? My beautiful, perfect, innocent, and willing niece? I can't. I can't take that risk.
I looked up above me, towards the sky and I saw something that made up my mind right there. A dolphin circling his mate. Attached to his mate's stomach, the reason the male dolphin was circling his mate, was a small, newborn, baby dolphin. I watched as they swam off together and knew that everything would be okay. This was my sign.
I swam back to land and waiting there on the beach for me was Emmett.
"I knew you'd be there. Figure everything out?"
"Actually, yes. Are you ready to make a baby?"
