Third Chapter of the Prequel for:

"Where's the Excitement?"

"Where we've been"

Over the span of four months, my belly had grown very large and I was getting worried. Aro had the wives come and watch me a few times a week, just to make sure nothing was seriously wrong with me, but I still had my doubts.

Seeing as my baby was half vampire, Aro had concluded that the pregnancy would be about half as long and progress much quicker than a human pregnancy.

This of course made me uneasy and scared for the childbirth. I had been reassured multiple times that I would be changed as soon as the birth was complete and my child was safe, but I was still really worried about being strong enough to withstand the actual birth. I had to be strong and prepared to take care of this baby, no matter what.

I am going to be a mother! I am having a baby! There will be no room for screwing up and making mistakes here, this is the real deal, fuck it if I can't do this! I cannot fail!

During the past few months, I have found myself growing closer and closer to Demetri. He has been so sweet and generous by devoting a considerably large amount of his time into helping me with my baby. At first, I was constantly nervous around him, probably because I knew I liked him, but it wasn't just that. Once Demetri was publicly helping me, I couldn't help the feelings of doubt from entering my mind. The idea of him helping me with Edward's baby weighed heavily on me and made me angry at times. Edward isn't even here to help, and now some other man is stepping in. It felt unfair and sometimes wrong.

Despite my unease, Demetri never wavered. He never let my fears or doubts stop him from being close to me or from helping me with my pregnancy.

He made his intentions obvious early on in our relationship. Demetri told me of his desire to find his mate or to have a companion, but unfortunately he had not found anyone yet, until he met me. I knew he was quite enamored with me, but everything with Edward had just happened and I was in no way ready to be in a committed long term relationship with another vampire just yet.

Although...the thought of him in my bed with me did make me quite aroused at times, and he did take advantage of my weaknesses, but not in a disgusting raping way, in a 'I'm here to help you, with anything you may need way.'

I had only had sex with Edward twice and he was so careful the whole time. It was barely even sex, it was Edward professing his love for me in some boyish way, and now thinking back, it kind of made me feel a little sick. I had let Edward use me and convince me of his love, but he never showed it to me the way a man should.

However, with Demetri…he knows how to make me feel like a woman, someone to be desired and sought after.

There were times when he would come to my room late at night and seduce me, but I welcomed it, I welcomed the feeling of a man touching me and not worrying about hurting me. He truly did love me in a way that I needed. Not just physically, but emotionally, he's a very sensitive man.

I noticed it in the beginning, how he would look at me with longing and hope for more. I hated to see him so sad. He had never been with a human before me and he had never been with a vampire that had cared about his feelings. I was different to him, I meant more and he enjoyed spending time with me. The warmth of my skin and the beat of my heart aroused him to no end, and sometimes I had to beat him away with a stick, or say I had morning sickness.

He was always persistent, and I welcomed it.

VvVvV

"Isabella…" Demetri cooed into my ear as he drew lazy circles on my thigh. The chilled air that came from his breath sent shivers down my back and down through to my toes.

We were taking a bath together because I hadn't been feeling well. He said the water would help ease my discomfort, and I shyly accepted his company in the tub. I wasn't opposed to the idea, but I knew he would want more than just to sit in a tub with me for a few hours. I didn't say anything, just blushed and walked to the bathroom. He followed suit and helped undress me while getting in the tub first then pulling me back to lie against his stone chest, wrapping his cool arms around me and holding me tightly in his embrace.

"Yes, Demetri?"

"I want you right now…" He whispered in my ear as he casually licked my neck and spread kisses over shoulders and back.

His touch had become so welcomed lately that I melted into him when he would do this. The charm, the affection, I still wasn't sure it was real, but his hands were and right now they were rubbing up and down my thighs. I felt the wetness begin to pool in between my folds, and Demetri's low growl, meant that he had noticed it as well. I moaned softly as his fingers began circling my clit.

"Isabella, are you ready baby?" He asked as gently pushed his hips against my lower back, making his prominent erection rub against me. I whimpered at the contact, needing and wanting more. I nodded my head and leaned back into him. I felt him chucked behind me as he leaned down to kiss my neck once again. He lifted me by my hips and angled me over his dick, careful not to apply too much pressure he slowly entered me from behind. The penetration always made me whimper, the coldness was so familiar, but so shocking that it would make me more aroused.

I felt him stretching me, and I welcomed the familiar feeling of fullness that surrounded me. He thrusted up into me slowly, and the feeling sent chills down my spine, he felt me shudder and began to suck on my shoulder. He pulled my hips back toward him, filling me more. His breathing was heavy behind me as he controlled his movements so he wouldn't hurt me or the baby. I put my hands on top his and thrusted a bit harder back into him, moaning aloud at the feeling. He responded instantly, he knew exactly how to play my body. He had gotten so used to it over these past few months.

"Oh baby you feel so warm and tight around me, fuck…I love being inside you…" He moaned into my neck. He was thrusting harder now, pulling all the way out before entering more forcefully back into me. His hands were tight on my hips, but the pleasure from having him inside me lessened the pressure. He moved one hand from my hip and cupped my breast, squeezing and playing with the nipple there until I was moaning aloud again.

"Oh Demetri!" I groaned loudly as he pinched my nipple and thrusted in at a different angle, hitting some spot inside me that made me see stars! He took my hand that was clutching the side of the tub and brought it between my legs to my clit.

"Touch yourself." He commanded and I obeyed. I rubbed my clit gently as he continued thrusting in and out of me. I could feel him leaving and entering my body with earnest, and I couldn't help rub the connection between us. His cool hardness bumped my hand as he pulled out of me before pushing back in, adding my heat to the combination, and I felt Demetri's breath hitch as I did this. I smiled as I realized he was speeding up because of my touch. The tightness began to increase in my stomach and I knew it wouldn't take long before I came.

"Oh god, please, Demetri faster!" I moaned.

"Fuck." He cursed as he quickly wrapped both of his arms around my body and began to speed up. I felt him using his vampire speed to pull me faster down onto his dick and I couldn't stop the nonsensical sounds that poured from my mouth. God the friction he was making with our bodies and the coolness of his skin made me cry out. The tightness in my stomach clenched tightly around him and I felt myself explode.

"Demetri!" I screamed his name as I came hard around his engorged cock. Moments later I heard my name fall from his lips as he let go.

"Isabella." He whispered as I felt his cool release inside of me. His arms tightened around me as he came, but I welcomed the tight embrace. I leaned back against his chest as he slipped out of me, and waited as my breathing went back to normal. Demetri kept his arms loose around me as we settled down. I felt him sigh against me and I looked back at him, his eyes were still dark as he looked down at me.

"Why have you been hiding from me all week? I needed you." His whispered as he looked at me. He seemed a little upset that I had avoided sleeping with him this week, but I had been feeling gross all week and I didn't know what to do. I had never said no before and I was worried about his reaction.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't feeling well." I said. The baby had been getting more difficult lately, kicking my bladder randomly and jumping around inside me. I didn't want any extra pressure from him, but as always, I was too weak to tell him how I felt.

"Oh baby, I could have made you feel better, I always do, don't I?" He smiled softly as he rubbed my shoulders. Yes, he did, he was right, I should have said something.

I laughed, "You're right, of course you are. I should have come to you," I turned around in the water and straddled him, "Do you forgive me?" I asked as I kissed his lips, lightly tracing my tongue over them. He smiled against my lips and nodded as he grabbed the back of my neck and pulled me into a deep kiss. I giggled slightly and pulled back to look at him, and he smiled at me. He looked into my eyes with such adoration.

"I love you Isabella." He said.

I closed my eyes and turned away from him. I knew he loved me, but I wasn't sure I felt the same way.

He sighed and whispered, "Don't worry sweetie. I can wait for you. We have a long time, remember?"

I turned back toward him, "Of course, how could I forget? Aro practically threatened me with it." I chuckled, but the thought still made me cringe.

He laughed and cleared his throat, "Maybe we should get dressed? It's still early. We could go for a walk around the castle, if you like?" He asked sweetly. This was his way of asking me on a date.

"That would be wonderful." I smiled.

After we dried off and got dressed, Demetri led me around the castle. He showed me more courtyards in the back left side of the castle, the ballrooms, and of course, he took me back to his room and fucked me so that everyone was reminded that I was his.

The spite was a bit much for me, but I let him have his fun and after when we left 'vampire row' as I liked to call it, there was growling and hissing directed at us. He was marking me with his scent, making sure none of the other males would come after me or harass me. I didn't think it really helped much, but it made him feel better.

When we arrived back at my room, he came in and sat on my bed. He hung his head and rubbed his eyes. He seemed frustrated, which confused me because he just fucked me against a wall and made me scream his name for everyone to hear, he should be fucking giddy.

"What's wrong?" I sat down next to him and ran one of my hands through his hair trying to calm him down. He seemed to relax a little at my touch, but his shoulders were still tense.

"You're not really mine, and I hate that everyone knows it. You're not my mate Isabella. I feel like I'm using you and I'm sorry. I mean you have another vampire's baby in you for fuck sake! I shouldn't parade you around. I bet they could even hear you from here, across the castle. God, I am such an asshole. I need to be more careful with you and the baby…I don't want to hurt either of you…" He kept shaking his head as he rambled on.

"Oh, Demetri. I know we aren't perfect, but clinging to each other for company isn't wrong Demetri, we are allowed to enjoy each other. If they have something to say about it, then they can talk, but I don't care if you aren't my mate. I still have feelings for you and you are not using me! And nothing is wrong with the baby or me." I spoke confidently, but he never met my eyes.

"But I was using you. I seduced you…When I saw you, I was captivated. I had never been so attracted to a human before, it was strange to me. You were so out of place here, you were scared and you had another life to look out for, but now, you walk around here like you're one of us. But when we see you, we see a human with two heartbeats and a sharp attitude. Isabella, you are not a normal human. You are not afraid of us, you don't even care that we kill humans. You lived with 'vegetarians,' this is a completely different setting for you and you just welcome the change. What did those Cullens do to you?" He whispered the last part, a question that I really couldn't answer.

"I don't know what they did. I was never treated as an equal there, but here I feel like I am held higher for being a human instead of the opposite. I feel stronger being away from them, this is more dangerous for me and I am still here. Aro may make passes at me and say he wants to kill me, but I have a baby to protect now. I was nobody at home, and the Cullens changed that when they came into my life. All of you have done the same thing for me here, but here, I don't care what everyone thinks because I know that soon I will be just like you." I smiled and cupped his cheek in my small hand.

"But the blood, the killings, you just don't mind, why?" He demanded as he held my hand in his.

"I don't mind because I know there is no way to change what all of you are. Why would you go drink from a bear, when you could have the real deal here and not hate yourself for it? You don't care about killing humans because this has always been your way of life, why would you change for no reason?" I mean if I didn't have all my morals and were not disgusted by human blood, I would consider drinking it as a vampire, but I know that I could never deal with all the lost souls on my shoulders.

"I have never thought about trying animal blood instead of human. I may be up to trying it...How would you feel about that?" He smiled at me.

"You would do that?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"For the experience, I guess. Do you want me to change to animal blood?" He asked.

"I don't even think you have the choice, and personally I don't mind that you drink from humans. I wish your methods were different, but that's the Volturi, not you. And to be honest, I think the red is sexy." I said with a smirk.

In a flash, Demetri had laid me down on the bed and was hovering over me, smirking back at me with a low growl.

"You think it's sexy?" He growled as he ran his nose down the column of my throat to the top my chest.

"Mmhmm, but the black…is irresistible." I whispered.

His head snapped back, and his eyes locked with mine. He looked at me as if I was something to eat...I felt the dark laughter fall from my lips, shocking me, but it turned Demetri on further. He growled down at me, and rubbed his growing hard on between my legs.

I moaned and grabbed for his hair as he leaned down and licked my pulse point, whispering against my skin, "I could kill you and you wouldn't even notice…Tell me Isabella, do you want me to drink from you?"

"Taste me." I moaned in response.

"With pleasure." He answered with a chuckle.

He moved down my body and lifted the hem of my dress up my waist and pulled down my panties. He smirked at my obvious arousal and took a full lick of my juices. I whimpered at the contact then moaned as he pushed two of his fingers inside of me. I shuddered at the intrusion and pleasure I felt, which I felt all night long.

We spent the night caught up in each other, erasing the tension from before, and Demetri proved to me how much he loved me with his touch.

VvVvV

I woke up the next morning alone, I was a little upset at that fact, but I guess he just wasn't the kind to stick around and watch me sleep.

I had just come out of the bathroom when there was a knock at my door. I smiled, hoping Demetri had come to say good morning. But when I opened the door, I found Felix smirking at me with an evil little twinkle in his eye.

"Hello Isabella." He said as he pushed past me and waltzed into my room.

"Can I help you?" What the hell is he doing in here?

"I heard you've been fucking the guard, and I wanted a little piece of the human too." He sneered as he stared down at me with pure evil in his black glistening eyes.

Oh no…

He moved toward me quickly, pushed me down on the bed roughly, and hovered above me sniffing my neck hungrily.

"Stop! Get away from me!" I yelled and tried to push him off, but he was much too strong. He felt like a wall had fallen on top of me, pinning me to the bed with no way to get out.

"Shut up!" He growled and slapped me across the face, and then all I saw was darkness.

I welcomed the darkness. At first, I couldn't see anything or hear anything, but I could feel a strong pressure in my lower regions. I realized quickly what was happening. He was raping me. I wanted to scream and cry, but no one would hear me.

I felt a sharp pain in my heart, it felt like someone was stabbing me, taking my power to love and be kind away from me and replacing it with an evil hate. My body felt like it was being set on fire and the pain in my stomach was becoming unbearable.

Someone make it stop!

The raw fear kept pouring from my soul as the feeling of my blood gushing from my body, and the baby kicking trying to claw its way out of my warm and frail body clouded my mind. I could feel my heartbeat giving out and screaming surrounding me. The sounds faded in and out, but I couldn't hear or feel anyone else in the room.

Help me!

Stop the pain!

Get the baby out of me!

"Isabella we are removing the child, please try to stay calm." A voice came through the darkness.

I feel the scream rip through my lungs as a blade slices through my thin skin. Liquid flows speedily from my open wound. The sound of wailing and baby cries fills the air. I scream along with my child, I scream for the life of my child and for the freedom from the pain. My heart is still racing and beginning to give way.

I'm dying!

Save me!

Change me!

Help me!

"Isabella we are going to change you now, we don't have much time. This will hurt a lot. I hope you can make it." The voice tells me.

The sounds of people around me fade in, and I can feel the hands on my body. They are speaking, talking about me, but I can't hear them. All I hear is the sounds of my baby crying and the screams falling from my mouth.

I have no idea what is going on, random sentences from conversations rush through my head as I feel someone at my neck, "It's going to be alright my sweet, just take a deep breath," and then the razor sharp teeth slice through the weak membrane covering over my pulse point. I feel the same pain on the other side of my neck.

"It's not over yet, just hold on Isabella."

Two more bites at my wrists and the burn is already flowing through my body. I can feel the venom attacking my heart, and attacking my living blood cells.

"Just a bit more my dear and you will be done, please hold on!"

Bites on my ankles don't change the pain I am already in, they just amplify the burning fire inflamed in my body.

It feels like someone broke all of my bones, and set them on fire. The molten lava flowing through me, attacking everything that is living makes me scream, but nothing is coming out of my mouth. Everything is silent, I am making noise in my head, but when I try to scream aloud, nothing is coming out. I am being silenced, dying in pain and in secret. I cry myself into oblivion.

The last thought I have before I silence myself is, my baby, where is my baby?

VvVvV

Days, months, years, decades…I don't know how long I have been burning in silence, but I can feel my heart take its last beat. It gives way and I open my eyes to my new life, a completely new world of expectations.

I can sense and see everything. There are five other vampires in the room, and something that smells different, I can pin point them all.

Aro is pacing the room like a mad man waiting for his 'creation' to come to life. Marcus is sitting in a chair waiting patiently but he is also very worried for me, and Caius is not even paying attention. Renata and Demetri are on the edge of my bed holding my child, the one that smells different. I can smell and feel everyone. Thoughts, emotions, I have a power over everything. I know everything.

"Give me my child." The voice that speaks is foreign to me, it flows like music in the air, but the anger is there and prominent.

Renata and Demetri get off the bed instantly and look at me in awe. I see my child for the first time and she already looks to be about a year old. I stare at her with wonder and such love that I feel my stomach flutter, and she smiles. Her teeth are white as pearls, her eyes are sparkling like diamonds, her short hair is curly and dark auburn, and she knows who I am. She reached out toward me and Renata smiled. Renata handed me my child, and she looked me in the eyes and touched my face. The images quickly took over my vision, I could see her happy, smiling, and running through the forest with me by her side.

"Oh my baby girl."

"Mama?" Her sweet voice asks as she stares into my eyes.

"Yes sweetie." I smile at her and kiss her forehead, keeping her tucked into my side. She looks up at me with dark eyes and a bright smile. She is the sweetest thing I have ever seen.

"Well Isabella it looks like everything is finally over; you were worrying us with such a long process." Aro commented.

I looked toward him and quickly noticed the thoughts and emotions coming from him. He was very cautious and worried about me, but something wasn't right. I caught the thought about my change, which intrigued me.

She burned for ten days! I wonder what kind of power she will have…we might have to move faster than we planned…

I collected the information from his head easily; it seemed that I was unresponsive for about six days, burning for four days and then nothing. How odd… I thought.

"You seem to be in good health now, are you thirsty?" Aro asked.

I thought that I would be crazed and be killing everything in a hundred mile radius, but I felt fine, there was a slight tingle in the back of my throat, but everything else felt almost normal.

"No, I feel fine." I responded

How odd…Aro thought to himself.

"Yes, well I would like to be alone with my daughter if you don't mind." I smiled as I looked back down at my daughter.

"Of course, we will leave you alone. Come my brothers, let Isabella get used to her new self. We will see you soon." Aro instructed his brothers, and they exited my room, leaving me alone with Demetri, Renata, and my daughter.

"Felix was killed I see." I stated plainly.

"I cannot believe what he tried-' I cut Renata off.

"You mean what he did do to me." I corrected her.

"I am so sorry baby. I had no idea what he was going to do! I came as soon as I could, but you had already gone into shock from the pain of the baby trying to get out. I tried. I am so sorry." Demetri looked and sounded defeated, but that was all in the past. None of that mattered to me now.

"You scared us. Ten days we've been sitting here, we didn't leave your side for a minute, which means we haven't fed in a while, so if you don't mind…" Renata smiled as she and Demetri got up to leave, but she turned back to me, "Are you sure you wouldn't like to come with us?"

"Oh, no worries, I am completely fine." I smiled.

That's exactly what we are worrying about… I looked at Demetri as his thoughts ran through my head.

She isn't hungry at all! When I was changed I killed over two hundred people in the span of an hour…What is wrong with her? And her baby! Her gift is so interesting, and she is beautiful, she looks exactly like Isabella. God, Isabella does look amazing, she's absolutely stunning, she almost looks better than Heidi, oh most definitely better than Heidi, she is fucking drop dead gorgeous. I hope she's horny when I get back because I want to fuck her for hours, and now I don't have to worry about breaking anything! Yes! Going to have the best sex ever!

Demetri's mind continued to fantasize about the two of us, while Renata couldn't stop thinking about my baby girl. I could see in her mind how my daughter had grown quickly after the birth. Renata was fascinated by the vampire and human mix; her eyes weren't just red, they looked like they were mixed with dark brown, so if she drank from animals her eyes would be a hazel color.

"Mama!" My daughter's voice brought me out of my thoughts.

I smiled down at her and picked her up, and went into the bathroom. My clothes had been ruined, but someone must have changed me. There was still dried blood on my skin, man I really needed to shower. Before I could think anything else, my eyes were drawn to the figure looking back at me in the mirror. I didn't recognize the woman staring back at me.

Her long wavy dark, almost black, hair hung low all the way down to her waist, framing her face, her eyes were huge, dark, alluring, beautiful, and they were a sparkling ruby color. Her lips were fuller, cheekbones were more defined, chest had filled out more than before, eyelashes were long full, and she looked very seductive. This woman was nothing like the small petite girl I had been before.

Wow!

Holy shit…

That will take some time to get used to…

My baby girl was playing with my hair as she stared at me in the mirror, she looked up into my eyes and she smiled.

"Mama you pretty!" She giggled.

"And you are the most gorgeous little girl I have ever laid eyes on!" I smiled and held her closer to me, "You need a name baby. I'm not just going to call you 'baby' all the time. I wanted to name you after my mother…Renee, but what about Esme…"

"Renesmee!" I laughed at her combination of the names, but that sounded pretty good to me. I couldn't have come up with anything better anyways.

"Okay, Renesmee, it is. Oh, we are going to have a lot of fun together!"

"I love you Mama!" She squeezed her arms around my neck with her vampire strength.

I stared at us in the mirror, awe struck by the little girl in my arms. I couldn't have imagined a more perfect child, and she is gifted, so gifted…

How much happier could I get?