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And without further ado…

I clutched onto my stomach as my dinner and breakfast left my mouth in a horrid way. I coughed a little and felt some vomit still remaining inside my mouth. Grabbing onto the bathroom counter to help myself get up and then quickly brushed my teeth to get rid of the foul after taste and smell. I decided I'd just take a shower to get rid of the tension I'd had. It wasn't a busy day, I'd spent it at the Newton's working a little over time since Mrs Newton was away on vacation with her husband, so it was just Mike and myself. I dried myself and changed into a loose t shirt and cotton shorts.

Ding Ding!

I turned around to face my laptop, another email notification from Alice.

Hey Bella!

So Edward called me today and told me he's returning tomorrow. Thought you'd want to know

P.S please don't wear that brown parka with your dark green top when you go see him, you'll look like a walking disaster. :)

Love, Alice.

The thought of Edward returning made me smile, yet feel a little upset that he hadn't informed me himself. He'd been so distant lately. At least Alice was still connected to me, in a way. Taking a deep breath I pulled open my drawer that contained all my 'Edward things' a t shirt he had left from when he had slept over, a copy of my lullaby, his spare iPod which contained some his favourite songs and some he had composed himself. And there they were. Just staring at me. The pink line, and the smiley face on those two sticks I had hidden away, wrapped up in his t shirt. I had known for a few days but the news still surprised me. Not because I was pregnant, but because I was pregnant with a vampires baby. A part of me wanted to contact Carlisle and ask him for help, a part of me wanted to rush to Edward. But I knew he would never believe me at first. So I ended up researching things myself. Articles about babies with red eyes and some legends about children with supernatural abilities. They all seemed so fake to me. One was talking about how a baby had killed its mother by ripping her apart from the inside. After researching and freaking out mentally over some articles, I stopped and started to think about what our future would be like.

Right now my future looked like I would be raising a child by myself as his or her father was currently a statue. Edward had been frozen still for a while.

"Edward, please just say something." I said softly. I wasn't entirely expecting him to jump and up and down and scream over the hills that he was going to be a father, but I did expect a word or two. As if he read my mind, he finally spoke up.

"It's not possi-"

Perfectly timed, his phone buzzed as it vibrated in his front pocket. He swung it up and put it to his ear. The conversation was hard to understand since he was speaking at a speed that was nearly impossible to catch up with. I caught a few words like 'yes' 'please stop' and the regular 'no'.

"Was that Alice?" I asked quietly, curiosity was dripping through my tone that it could be mistaken with desperation.

"Yes, she wants us to meet her in ten minutes," I wondered if she knew about the baby, I wondered if she knew about the night we created the baby. If I wasn't in an upset mood, a deep blush would've taken over my face. But I wasn't feeling anything close to embarrassment. Edward hadn't said anything about this situation. But he hadn't mentioned anything about leaving either for the past few minutes.

"Come on," he took my hand and led me to another part of the forest. I could see his house from here. "Alice said she's meeting us here," his voice was still low, like he was about to be sick. Ironic. He had one arm wrapped around my waist gently and I so badly wanted to hold his hand in mine and just tell him how much I had missed him in the weeks he was gone. The silence was getting sadder rather than awkward, and I decided to break it.

"I missed you when you were gone," he looked down at me and finally, the pained look wore off. He didn't say anything in return, but he gave me a saddened smile. Did he still want to leave?

"Bella, there's something I have to tell you," Edward started speaking. He sat down on the damp grass, motioning me to sit down next to him and join him. I gave him a little smile to tell him to continue.

"Emmett, Jasper and I were not on a hunting trip in Alaska for the past few weeks," he stopped and swallowed before speaking again "My family and I were in Italy, to speak with the Volturi. About you."

I gulped so loudly that even I was able to hear myself. Of course they were in another problem because of me.

"Aro has somehow kept tabs on us through mine and Alice's abilities. And he heard what happened with Jasper. He isn't fully convinced that you are to be completely trusted with our secret, so we had to make a deal with him."

I could feel my heart beating louder each beat, and my throat beginning to feel like blades had filled it up to the top. Edward noticed my change quickly. "Shall I stop, love?" he asked smoothly. Him calling me 'love' helped a little, but it sounded more like he wanted to stop for himself. I knew what he was going to say wasn't going to be happy news.

"His offers were, we either change you," I nodded, signalling him to keep going "or we leave you, I leave you." The last part sounded broken.

In that moment I saw how much Edward wanted me to remain human, but it killed me deeply. Knowing that not even half hour ago, he was ready to give up on me. On us. Emotions were flooding through me. Tears began pouring down my face; for some reason this hurt more than when he was about to leave me. He was given a choice, and he chose to leave. I was praying that this was just a nightmare, hoping Charlie would burst into my room telling me he had to leave for work. Or Edward climbing through my window to stay the night just to hold me.

But this wasn't a nightmare. This was real. This was happening.

"Alice will be here soon." My tone was flat, as if I felt no emotions whatsoever. Even though it was the opposite at this moment. Edward looked ashamed and bowed his head down, away from my gaze. We sat through another short period of silence until Alice's tinkling voice filled the air.

"Bella!" she threw her arms around me and hugged me tightly. I pulled away after a few moments and gave her a small smile. "Hey, Alice."

She turned to glare at Edward in a murderous way "You. What have you done to her, Edward? She looks like she's about t-" she stopped abruptly before realising what Edward and I had been talking about. Edward and Alice exchanged a few looks, Alice mostly shot him some 'you're an idiot' glares. I stood there waiting quietly for someone to tell me what was going on.

"Bella, you know Edward isn't actually going to leave you, right?"

"So go on, ask any questions you need to."

I cleared my throat, trying to process in everything they had just explained. "So, you kept in touch me through emails and phone calls, not because you were busy colour coordinating everyone's closet, but because you were in Italy, with the others,"

Alice nodded.

"And you knew Aro would give you two options, and you let Edward go on with the one that would involve him leaving me. But you knew once I told him about the… baby, he wouldn't leave me, and Aro would see it."

"Yes."

"And you blocked out Edward from this plan, by chanting the American national anthem in four different languages throughout the trip,"

"Six, actually." Alice replied, proudly. Edward frowned at her before actually speaking since Alice had gotten here. "Why did you block me out of your head?"

"Because if Aro had caught even just a glimpse of yours and Bella's future, he would not spare either of you, Edward. And you have zero self-control when it comes to worrying about Bella."

"Um okay, so you lied to me and flew to Italy, Edward comes up to me and tells me he can't be with me anymore because the Volturi thinks I cannot be trusted, I find out this break up was just an act, and you knew that Edward wasn't going to leave me; because of the baby."

"Pretty much, yes."

"And you did not know about this?" I snapped at him. Edward was lost deeply elsewhere, I noticed when I said the word 'baby' he had flinched a little, probably hoping I wouldn't notice. Alice's expression softened and quietly whispered something. With the words following "It's true, look."

I was assuming she was showing him a vision she had, of me or the child. Edward gasped and his sadness had been replaced with hope, joy. For the first time today, he smiled. A real smile. I could see the delight in not only his smile, but his eyes and voice as well. This was the Edward I had been missing. As much as I was happy to see him smile. The past few news I had just received were still trying to gather through.

"Alice, would you be able to drive me home?"

Edward stepped out to reach to me and opened his mouth; about to say something before Alice interrupted him.

"Of course," she smiled awkwardly "I'll go… start the car,"

I nodded and watched as Alice left, giving us as much privacy you could get around vampires. Turning to face Edward, I could see he wanted to say something. And he did. "I understand if you're angry with me, I'll give you all the time you need. But please know, I am sorry. For… for this, for almost going through with this. For even thinking about it." His voice was gentle yet full of guilt. My breathing hitched and my heart was beating faster than ever, I wanted to forgive him. But the roaring emotions flooding through me; sadness, exasperated, even feeling offended. It was too much to deal with right now. I needed space, and time.

"I… I have to think… about this." My voice was surprisingly calm for someone who had nearly been fake dumped.

It had been exactly nine hours and twenty eight minutes since I'd seen Edward. I realized at some point we would have to talk this through. I knew from the very moment that Jasper had jumped towards me, it would cause a lot of complications between Edward and I. He would use that as an example as to why he's not normal, or not good enough for me. And I would use that as an example as to why he should change me. But the news of the pregnancy would change a lot of things, it would change everything. I picked up my cell and texted Edward.

Are you coming over tonight?

Within a few seconds I received an answer.

Only if you want me to.

My fingers already touching the screen, typed out a quick reply.

Come over.

I'm on my way, my love.

A small smile started to appear at the corners of my mouth. It hadn't even been a full five minutes since my request to him, and I could feel his signature whoosh entering my bedroom.

"Were you close by?" I asked him as I patted the spot on my bed, motioning him to sit next to me.

He chuckled shyly "Uh, yes." He looked at me, properly. Not half gazing away, and not faking smiles. He was looking into my eyes and stroked my cheek. "You are so beautiful, Bella." The polite thing would be to say thank you. But I wasn't exactly in the nicest mood.

"No amount of apologies from me would excuse what I said today," his voice was a croak "but you have to know, I am not going to leav-"

"Edward, you nearly did leave!" I shot at him, standing up quickly. And immediately regretting it as a wave of dizziness took over and I stumbled back a little, Edward got up quickly and wrapped his arms around me, holding me tightly to him to make sure I wouldn't fall over.

"Easy," he said quietly. I forgot for a moment that there was a baby inside of me. I would have to start being more careful, lucky for the child that his or her father is Edward.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes. Sorry I yelled," I muttered.

He scoffed at me "I nearly left you today, and you're sorry that you yelled at me." He shook his head and sighed before looking at me. It was pointless, this was pointless. Within a few days, this whole thing would be forgiven and we would've moved on. What was the point in trying to argue? I focused on the fact that Edward hadn't actually left, he was here. Next to me. But there was still something bugging me.

"Why did you choose to leave me?" He did have another option, of course that option isn't appropriate given the situation now. But Edward didn't know I was pregnant until I had told him.

He didn't think about his answer before speaking. "Because I wanted you to have a chance at a normal human life, Bella. Today when you asked if it was about Jasper, to be honest. I hadn't thought of it as a reason to leave you, but when you brought it up, I realised that was reality. It is dangerous for you to be around vampires," he went down on his knees, sitting in front of me and held my hands in his.

"You said I made you vulnerable, and that you were a mess."

"If I had known, this was an… act, to actually keep you around and not break up with you. I would have contacted you and told you. But Alice is right, I have no control over myself when it comes to you. I would not be able to say those things to you without reason,"

"So you meant them?"

"No. Of course not. You have made me the opposite, Isabella. Before you, I was worthless. After you entered my life, I felt complete, happy. Emotions that I had never imagined I would feel. I love you so much that I was willing to let you go and share a life with another man, and start a family."

There really was no point in arguing anymore. I was scared if we continued, I would blurt out something that I would regret. Edward felt like crap, and I could see it. Hell, I could sense it. I pulled his chin up to face me before leaning in to kiss him. It was a sweet kiss that had a combination of my salty tears and his smile widening.

"What was in Alice's vision?" I asked softly. Hoping he would go along with the sudden subject change.

Thankfully, he did. "We were shopping, and you had a very pregnant belly. I was standing behind you with my arms around it and we laughed at something. The other one was a very short one, but it was of Esme holding a baby and looking back at us saying she was proud of us." By the end of this he had a massive grin on his face that he was unable to get rid of.

"It sounds quite beautiful,"

"You were so beautiful Bella," and this time I did say thank you. "Tell me again," he whispered.

"Tell you what?"

"That you're pregnant,"

I grinned at him "I'm pregnant."

"Again," he reached up so his lips were millimeters away from mine.

"I'm pregnant."

"You're pregnant."

"You're going to be a father." I said breathlessly, I could feel happy waterworks starting again. Our foreheads were touching and our fingers intertwined. And right now, I had everything in place.

"We're going to have a baby." There was a joy in Edward's eyes that I had never seen before, I prayed in my head that I would be able to see this joy forever.

Soooo, second chapter re-written.

Sorry if its a little confusing with the whole Volturi thing. It'll get clearer later on. I know its a little all over the place. Apologies for that.

I know in many fanfics that contain Bella being pregnant with a vampire baby there's always that Edward moment where he's like "This isn't real" or "No, its not true," so I slipped in Alices' vision for him to see himself so there wouldn't be any of those moments.

Another thank you for all the support you guys have shown me. Hope you all enjoyed it.

xxx