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Chapter 2: Only Us
EPOV
My angel was sleeping in my arms. She looked so peaceful that I didn't want to wake her up. She had slept through most of the day, I mean she did travel here all the way from California as a horse and she was pregnant. Thinking about the little girl that would soon be in our arms, I placed my hand on her bump. I could feel both Bella's and Ravenna's heart beat and if I were human, I sure would have cried. When Bella returned to me again, I felt like I was in heaven. I kept asking myself "How did this beautiful angel ever choose me?" and it never failed to make me appreciate what I have.
The sun was finally setting but I did not want to move. Alice had come in to our room a few times and tried to wake my angel, but I simply growled at her to stay back. Esme also came in once to see if Bella was hungry but as she saw her sleeping in my arms, she smiled at the two of us, "You are really a lucky man Edward. Never let them both go," she thought in her mind as she left the room. Slight movements in my arms broke my trail of thought as slowly, a pair of beautiful chocolate eyes looked at me and a smile matched the beauty. I couldn't help myself and placed a kiss on Bella's soft warm lips, "You know that I will expect you to do that every time I wake up," she said, teasing me. "I will always be here to wake you up my angel," I whispered in her ear. Out of nowhere she put her lips onto mine and kissed me with so much passion, raising herself onto her hands and turning me onto my back, never once breaking the kiss.
"Bella. You really should take it easy, what with the little one growing every day," I said to her once she had stopped, trying to get her breath back. As she looked down I followed her gaze and saw that her bump had gotten bigger again. "I think I had better go down to Carlisle to see how she is doing," she said and she placed a soft kiss on my lips again before getting off me and making her way to the door. I was by her side in a flash and I walked with her to the living room where Lucas and Emmett where playing a game on the Wii and Alice was sitting on the couch, styling Odette's hair and chatting. Carlisle had been called away to the hospital so I went and grabbed the machine and brought it into the room. Of course when they all saw me wheeling it in, all activity stopped and they joined us. I had watched Carlisle do this before so I knew what to do. Of course Bella did the usual, lying on the sofa whilst this time I applied the gel on to her stomach. I found the baby with no problem and she had gotten bigger in the past few hours. By this rate, Bella could have her within weeks.
I realised that she didn't have a baby scan picture yet so I paused the picture and printed it out for her. She smiled and thanked me, taking time to appreciate the picture in her hands. "Oh I can't wait to be an Auntie. I'll teach her fashion and have loads of fun showing her style," Alice thought. She seemed to be more excited than Bella and I combined and I was pretty excited.
A few hours later I could hear some commotion coming from the kitchen, "But Bella, you must let me help you get your wedding dress," I heard Alice whine to Bella. She had been on the war path since Bella told her that she was allowed to plan our wedding but she wanted to choose the wedding dress. They were fighting like cat and dog with no one giving in. "Alice, you are planning everything else of our wedding. Please just let Bella have this one thing to do," I pleaded with her. It took a while but she eventually gave in, but walked away in a huff. I just walked over to Bella and hugged her to me and she hugged me back. I knew how much she wanted this since I could feel the determination coming off of Jasper who was sitting still on the sofa.
BPOV
I really did hate fighting with Alice. She really wanted to plan the whole wedding, even my dress. That was the only thing that I wanted to do myself. She finally backed down and let me get on with the design in my head. I spotted Edward out of the corner of my eye looking at me and I looked back and smiled at him and just for a laugh, I gave a small growl and he groaned back. I decided that we both needed a little break so I decided a trip to the lake was in order. "How about we go for a little swim," I asked him whilst holding him to me, well as close as I could get because of my belly. "I thought you would never ask," he said. We quickly ran up to grab some swimming clothes and I put them in a small bag and all of a sudden, Edward threw me over his shoulder, "Hold on tight my angel," he said as he opened the tall window. He thought he was going to run, well I had another idea. He jumped out the window and as we fell to the ground I whispered in his ear, "No, you had better hold on," and I released my large deep black raven wings and we soared through the skies.
I slid my hands down till they were secured around his chest and he held on to my arms. Within no time, I landed us at the lake. The illuminated plants beneath the surface of the water lit up as we arrived and the place looked beautiful. "You always seem to amaze me Bella," Edward said as I twisted around to look at him. He placed a soft chaste kiss on my lips. I handed Edward his swimming stuff and I went behind a tree to get changed into mine. Since I was heavily pregnant now, I couldn't fit into my other swimming costume so I had grabbed a long maxi skirt with slits up both sides and a tank top to go with it. Edward was already waiting for me. He looked almost like a Cheshire cat with the grin he had on his face. He walked at a human pace over to me but I decided to tease him and ran for the lake, diving in as soon as my feet hit the lake's edge. The water was wonderful, all the plants lit up and it made the water feel a bit warmer. I stayed under for a minute and Edward still hadn't joined me so I broke the surface to see him looking at me from the edge, "Come on in. the water is so warm," I teased him but he just stood there. I started to swim towards him when something took a tight grip of my ankle, "Edw…" I managed to get out before I was dragged under.
The water forced its way inside my mouth as I looked to see what had me. There was a man with red eyes under with me. I saw Edward jump in and he was after the other vampire that was here. As they both fought, I swam for the surface, gasping for air and grabbing for life at the edge of the lake. I looked back to see that they were still fighting and I knew I had to do something and then my hunter instincts took over. I could feel my legs joining to form the tail of an orca and a long fin shot out from my spine. I took off under the water to help him. The vampire had Edward in a headlock, holding him tightly and I could hear the faint sound of marble cracking. Without thinking, I rushed at him and used my back to force him away from Edward. He was stunned a bit, but just enough for me to grab Edward and pull him out. The vampire grabbed my tail and tried to pull me under again but Edward quickly jumped back in and pulled him off me, tossing him onto the ground. He landed a few meters away from me and I quickly shifted my form into one of the wolves. I still needed to thank Jacob for allowing me to have this form. Without a doubt, I ran for the vampire, catching his neck in my mouth and I squeezed and pulled at him. Slowly, bit by bit, his head came loose and his body fell to the ground.
I walked away from the mangled form of the vampire and a wave of dizziness hit me. I walked over to where I could see Edward just standing and watching me, but my legs failed me. I fell face first to the ground and only just managed to tilt my body to the side and land on my side instead of my belly. "Bella!" I heard Edward shout. Then his hands where on me trying to lift me up but I just groaned. It took all my strength and energy but I eventually changed back into myself but I was too tired to get up, "hold on sweetheart I'll get you home," he soothingly said then darkness took me.
I was dreaming. I was under the water of the lake only this time there were two other vampires there. Two of them had a hold of Edward whilst one of them held me under. I summoned my gills and I was breathing but a figure stole my breath away. Victoria was there. She swam towards me and gave a vicious smile. She reached behind her and in her hand was a small blade. I was scared for my baby and for Edward, and then she stuck the knife part of the way into my stomach. The water started to turn red as she sliced along the base of my bump. Then she took my baby out of me and cut the cord, swimming out of the water and ran away with her
I bolted awake and gasping for breath, "Ravenna, where is she?" I said as I looked around. Edward and Rosealie where sitting by my side. I put my hands to my stomach and looked down. She was still inside me and I started crying. "It's okay, it's okay Bella. You are both okay and we are home now," I heard Edward say softly to me as he and Rosealie wrapped their arms around me. "She took her. Victoria, she cut me open and took Ravenna away from me," I cried. It felt so real and I kept thinking that I had been dragged back under after I collapsed. "She will never get you Bella," Rose promised me, "Over my dead body will she have my little niece," she added. "He was working for Victoria. He must have," I said. It all made sense, I mean who else could have known where I was now. She must still be around here.
"I'm not leaving. I can't go anywhere without her being around. I wish she would just go away," I said to Esme. Edward, Emmett and Jasper had gone hunting and I was too scared to go out of the house. "Bella dear. I know you are scared but you need to get some fresh air. It's not good for you to be cooped up in here. Come on, I will be with you and so will Odette, Rose and Alice. You will be well protected," she promised me. An hour later, we were all pilling into Rose's car and heading towards the cinemas. Alice had decided that we needed to see a film outside of the house so she had settled on making us go and see a romantic comedy. By the time the movie was over, I was still slightly sore from laughing so much, I definitely felt better. We decided not to stick around and head back to see our partners.
As we sped down the high way, I could feel myself being watched. As I looked to the window, I thought I saw something move. It looked tall and evil, like something I had seen before.
