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A/N: Yeah, I know the chapters are short, but hey, I wrote chapters one and two during the 2 o'clock hour of the morning on Easter Sunday. I will be writing longer chapters later.

And please excuse any geek-speak, I'm trying desperately to work around the MASSIVE plot hole in Breaking Dawn.

Chapter three: Carlisle

Alice POV

We all saw Bella wake up and be shocked by the true clarity of the world that she had been blind to as a human. She was beautiful, as all of us are. Of course she had always been beautiful to Edward, a fact Rosalie was never able to understand.

After I dressed her up a bit, Edward took her out hunting for the first time, and I pulled my father aside.

"Carlisle, may I speak with you?"

"Of course," I followed him into his study and closed the door.

"I just want to know how it's possible."

"How what is possible?"

"Bella's baby," I paused to collect my thoughts, "We've all taken so many classes and have degrees in so many different things, from what I've learned in all of my biology classes, that baby can't exist."

"I'm not exactly sure what you're saying."

"Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes and vampires have 25. Meiosis splits that number in half and they all pair up again in the embryo, right?"

"That is how sexual reproduction works." Carlisle shrugged slightly

"But how will they pair up if the vampires have two more chromosomes than humans do? There are no matches for 24 and 25."

"I think in that case that the vampire chromosomes would pair with one another, making an abstract match, and thereby giving the baby 24 pairs of chromosomes. Remember, Alice, this is all based on speculation. I have never heard of a vampire and a human producing a child before."

"Right, and another thing, for men to be able to… have sex…" I'd known Carlisle for years, but it was uncomfortable for me to talk about certain topics, "they have to have an erection… which means they have to have blood in their body. We all know that a newborn's human blood is all used up from their system after about a year, so, I'm kind of confused about how that works."

"We do feed on blood. Have you ever noticed that Jasper's virility is lessened the longer it's been since he fed?" Carlisle seemed perfectly at ease, but I would have blushed were I able.

"Yes," I admitted sheepishly, "alright. But back to meiosis. When a human turns into a vampire, their body becomes frozen in that state. No more biological changes occur, which is why the women don't ovulate, so how could the men have sperm?"

Carlisle sat back in his chair and placed a hand on his chin. A thin crease appeared in the perfect alabaster of his forehead and he sighed

"I don't know, Alice. I never stopped to think about it before, but you're right. It seems impossible." He pondered for a few more moments before saying "I could take samples of the ejaculate fluid from each male in the house and analyze them to see if the sperm they had when they were human is still at all viable. I would imagine that the amount and the stability would degrade with age."

"If you could, Carlisle, I would really appreciate it. I don't want to put a damper on the joy of everything, but I just want to make sense of how that baby downstairs came into being."

"Alice…" He paused, "I know this must be difficult for you." Wordlessly I slowly sat down in the chair in front of his desk and nodded solemnly.

"It's only natural to want what every woman should have. Poor Esme, I…" He stopped in his sentence, "it will always be difficult, as long as she lives here, for all of you. And pass it along to Rose to give us men a break, we can't imagine what it must be like for you."

"Thank you Carlisle." I smiled through the pain and he got up from his chair and walked around in front of me. I stood up and faced him, and he wrapped me in a hug.

"You may not be my daughter, even in the vampiric sense, but that doesn't mean I don't have a father's love for you."

I gripped him tighter and then released him. He smiled down at me and gestured toward the door

"Come on, we both have things to attend to."

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