EPOV
I shook my head quickly, trying to clear it of my perturbing thoughts. How could I want to kiss her?! She was so…. Human. But at the same time I couldn't help but feel she was special. Not in terms of her incredible immunity to my power or her implausible impregnation by a vampire. But in terms of how she related to me directly… I couldn't help but feel that, somehow, she was important in my life. How ridiculous.
"Well," Carlisle hummed, smiling at me, "I believe that shows that Bella is completely impervious to your talent." He than turned to Bella. "Thank you for helping us Bella. Now I think that the family should be coming back soon. We'll all meet in the family room in ten minutes." With that Alice and I left his office, Alice pulling Bella along behind her.
"What's the matter?" I heard Alice murmur and turned to see Bella biting her lip and clutching her stomach. Just as Alice had reached a hand towards her, Bella moaned and folded upon herself; her body dropping to the floor.
"Edward get Carlisle…Now." I nodded at Alice. But as I turned to go back into the study I heard a winded voice whisper behind me.
"No! No, I'm fine… the baby was just kicking." Bella gasped, struggling to her feet. "My little future soccer player." She grinned, patting her slightly rounded belly. Alice didn't look satisfied.
"I should probably still get Carlisle. Babies don't normally kick this early into the pregnancy. Their not developed enough. You usually don't even feel movement until the 16th week" I told her, my eyes trained on her stomach. Alice nodded beside me. Bella shook her head vehemently at both of us.
"The baby's fine. I don't want to put anyone out. I'll tell him after the meeting in the living room." Alice, though still looking a little unsure, agreed. I simply shrugged, not truly agreeing with her but feeling that it was useless to argue. Bella smiled gratefully at us both.
"Thank you… again." She mumbled, her head suddenly dropping. Alice's tinkling laugh filled the air.
"You have got to stop thanking us! You're going to enlarge Edward's already huge ego!" I rolled my eyes good naturedly as Bella giggled.
"Come on, we should get down to the living room." Alice grabbed both of our hands and started dragging us behind her.
As we got closer to the living room I noticed that Bella began to close up; her answers to Alice's questions became one worded and she never volunteered information. She began to bite her nails and her eyes were kept staring strait ahead. As though she was afraid. Somehow, it made my sad that she feared my family even though it was what to be expected.
"Are you afraid?" I asked her gently, assuming that I knew her reaction. Her eyes swiveled to meet mine and she laughed slightly, then nodded.
"Is it stupid for me to still fear rejection by the rest of your family?" she questioned, her voice slightly wobbly. I felt my eyebrow come together.
"That's what you fear?" she pinned me with a quizzical gaze at my disbelieving tone and nodded again. I couldn't help it, a chuckle escaped my lips. What an utterly anomalous thing to fear around vampires…even tame ones. She frowned at me.
"What's so funny?" she asked quietly, her lips returning to her already mutilated fingernail. She is so strange…but in a good way…Alice's voice penetrated my mind. I nodded in agreement. She WAS strange… her self-preservation was almost non-existent. But… she was also…. I don't know how to explain it.
"You are about to go into a room full of vampires, 'Vegetarian' ones to be sure, but still… and you fear rejection?" she narrowed her eyes at me.
"How could I fear you… after all you've done for me already? Any other vampires would have eaten me by now…" she didn't know how close I was to doing just that. At the thought I sighed and took a few more steps away from her. And somehow, she noticed.
"Do I …. Do I annoy you?" she questioned sadly, blushing slightly at the boldness of her query. I shook my head quickly, my jaw tightening at the crimson in her cheeks.
"The why do you move away from me?" I sighed again. Just tell her… I sent Alice a look.
"We try… we try to be good Bella. Some times are harder than others." (I so stole that line, Sorry Mrs. Meyer!)Yeah, I think she understood that, Edward…not. Shut up Alice.
"So… around me, it's harder?" I looked at her in surprise. Seeing my expression, she laughed. "Yeah, I actually understood." I smiled as we walked into the living room. "James always said I smelled better than others."
"Well… if it isn't the human who knows just a bit too much, come to us for protection." Rosalie's icy voice filled the room from where she sat on the couch, making Bella's head snap up in surprise. Lying weak human… for some reason Rosalie's thoughts made me want to growl in anger; I caught myself just in time. Bella frowned at my lounging blonde sister taking in her arms wrapped around the overly endowed Emmett.
"I didn't come for protection…Just help… I do" Rosalie held up a carefully manicured hand to stop her.
"We've already taken you in, must you continue to feed us untruths?" she hissed condescendingly. There was much malice in her voice. I fully expected Bella to cringe away. But instead the little human rose to her full height, which wasn't much, and matched Rose's glare.
"I can understand you not wanting me to be here. Fine. But I will not take your hits on my 'story'. I am not a liar." Everyone, including the rest of the family who had wandered in during Bella's outburst, looked shell-shocked. Well, except Rosalie. Instead she rose gracefully out of Emmett's restraining arms and stood before the furious Bella, outraged.
"How dare you, you little nothing. You come here to my family… inflicting the impending wrath of the Volturi on us all and you have the nerve to speak rudely to me!" Carlisle calmly stepped between then.
"That's enough." He murmured and proceeded to sit beside Esme on a plushy leather loveseat that stood in the corner of the room. "Take a seat… all of you." We all obeyed; Rosalie resumed her place next a wary Emmett, Alice and Jasper beside them, and I pulled Bella beside me onto the loveseat that matched Carlisle. Bad move, I thought as her Scent hit me. I clenched my fists.
"As I'm sure you are all aware," Carlisle began, "Bella here has requested the help of our family in her predicament." Rosalie snorted and Alice threw her a glare. "I have thought it only fair for her to tell her story to you." Bella's eyes widened as he nodded to her, turning everybody's attention to her surprised face.
"Okay…umm… a few years ago...oh wow, I guess six now, I was living with my mom in phoenix when she had a terrible accident. We had been driving to my grandma's funeral when a heard of dear came cantering across the road and in her swerve to avoid them she crashed in to a tree. She was dying… I really can't remember thinking anything but how she needed to get to the hospital NOW and how we were in the middle of nowhere. I had called the ambulance but I knew they wouldn't make it on time. I remember crying at the thought when suddenly a man was knocking on the window and his eyes…they were red like poisoned apple. "Jasper's eyes darkened at this… it wasn't so long ago now that his eyes would have mirrored Bella's "Man's". "When I didn't roll down the window he smashed it to pieces ignoring my scream. Then he extracted me from the car and grabbed my mother. 'I can save her!' he said in the most beautiful voice I had ever heard. 'Climb onto my back." And despite every piece of my body screaming in protest, every bit of common sense moaning no, I did what he said. And then we were flying. Or that's what it felt like… I don't remember much after that besides the fact that we got to the hospital and my mother lived. After that James was always in our lives. That was his name, James. My mother was in his gratitude, a fact he would remind us of subtly every once in a while. We knew he was a vampire, he had explained it to us after the hospital. I…I don't know why he wanted us. He would have us bury the bodies of his victims and I never understood why… he could have easily done it himself. No, there was something he wanted from us that he never said. There was always a secret in his eyes. As the years past he became closer to me. He was like a father but… like a brother. I can't really explain it. There was never any romance though. He seemed to see me as precious. He told me all the secrets of his kind, all his wishes and dreams…I think he just kept my mother around because she is what kept me around willingly. Then on my sixteenth birthday he…" she stopped, her eyes down cast.
"Bella, I know this is hard for you." Carlisle whispered soothingly. I watched Bella's jaw tightened in determination.
"He forced himself on me… but it wasn't lustful or anything like that. It was like he was doing a long awaited job that he just wanted to get over with. My mother heard my screams and when she ran into the room to see what was going on he killed her…Ironic because he saved her in the first place. And then he looked at me smirked and left. I didn't move for the bed for days, I couldn't. I was hardly up to par in terms of sex partners for Vampires and he wasn't exactly soft. Then for weeks afterwards it was only to eat and use the bathroom. I had nowhere to go… I don't know who my dad is and have no other family. But one day I woke up and puked. And that's when I knew. One pregnancy test later and I'm at forks hospitals doorstep praying to god for help." The room was silent only Bella's silent sobs piercing through it. What God… Alice's thoughts rang through my ears.
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