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Alice POV

"Home?" Bella asked, "What do you mean?"

"Carlisle and I are taking you back to our family's new home, because he needs his medical equipment…" I explained.

"No!" Bella panicked.

"Don't worry, Edward won't be there," I assured her.

"But everyone else will be?" she asked, cautiously.

"Most of them, yes Bella, but don't worry, no one will tell him."

"Most of them?"

"Emmett and Jasper will be hunting when we get back," I told her, "But they will come back, yes."

"What should I tell Charlie?" Bella fretted.

"I don't know. Whatever works?" I suggested, forcing a pen and paper into her hands. She nodded and I threw things into a holdall as she scribbled a note onto the paper for her Dad.

Bella POV

Alice swept me up into her arms and we darted out of my bedroom window. Carlisle was right behind us with my bag.

"Where is your new home?" I asked Alice as the trees flew by. I didn't get motion sickness this time, although the hole in my chest where my heart had been flared at the memory.

"We've gone back to Alaska, just a different part of Alaska than last time," Alice replied, "So it won't take long to get there."

"About ten minutes away," Carlisle added.

"Crikey, Bella, you're a lot heavier," Alice complained.

"Sorry," I mumbled.

"Don't worry about it," Alice laughed, "It's not your fault."

As she bought up the subject of my baby, I began to wonder what was going to happen to it. Were they going to kill it? That was the last thing that I wanted. I'd rather die. As we ran - well, they ran and I was carried - I began to hatch a plan…

We got to the Cullens' new home within ten minutes, as Carlisle had predicted, and only Rosalie and Esme were there, as Alice had predicted.

"Esme?" Alice called.

"Alice? Is that you?" Esme called back, "Do you know where Carlisle is?"

"I'm here, Esme," Carlisle told her.

"Where on earth have you been? Both of you!" Esme reprimanded, "I've been sick with… oh!" she had come round the corner and caught sight of me, "Bella?" she asked, "Is that you?"

"In the flesh," I nodded as Alice put me down. I looked around their new home, which was barely any different from their old one in Forks, "This is a nice house," I complimented.

"Thank you… but what are you doing here?" she asked.

"Bella is…" Carlisle hesitated, "Sick."

"In what way?" Esme came over and pulled me into a cold embrace.

"I'm…" I hesitated, glancing at Carlisle, for permission to continue. He nodded and I took a deep breath, "I'm pregnant with Edward's baby."

"What?" Esme looked to Carlisle for a confirmation and her eyes widened when he nodded, "But… that… it's just not possible!"

"I cannot draw any other conclusion from it, Esme," he shook his head, and then turned to me, "Bella, shall we go and explain in the other room?"

"Yeah, sure," I nodded, relieved because this gave me a chance to put my plan into action, "But is it okay if I stay in here?" I asked, "I'm a bit tired." I eyed the couch.

Carlisle nodded and patted me on the shoulder before he, Esme and Alice went into the dining room, leaving me to rest, but I wouldn't be doing that.

"Rosalie?" I whispered, hoping that she could hear me.

She could. Moments later, she was stood next to me, "What do you want?" she sighed rudely.

"I…" I took a deep breath, "I need your help."

"What? Why?" she was surprised.

"I'm pregnant with Edward's baby…"

"And?" she asked, "Why does this require my help?"

"Carlisle thinks it's killing me. They want to get rid of it, but I don't want them to, and I would appreciate your help to keep it…" I trailed off.

"Oh," her brow furrowed, unsure of what to make of my request, "I don't know, Bella, I don't want to interfere…"

"Please, Rosalie," I begged, "You know that I wouldn't ask unless I was desperate."

"I know, Bella," she whispered, "You really are a nice person and please believe me when I say that I honestly think that. It's just that I don't want to get involved."

"They'll kill it, though, Rose," I whispered, tears beginning to stain my cheeks, "They'll kill it!"

"Bella… I…" Rosalie hesitated, "How would you intend on surviving though?"

"I can live through it," I tried to assure her, although I wasn't so certain myself, "I will live through it. I just might not be able to stay human, that's all."

"Oh no, Bella, you can't ask me to do that," she shook her head, "I'd kill you."

"No, I don't want you to do that, but I can't do anything about what Carlisle decides. I can't go against what he says because I'm not strong enough, but you are," I explained.

"Bella, I can't… I wouldn't want this life if I were human… I can't give you this," she gestured at her perfect body, "Let Carlisle get rid of it, Bella, please. Go and have a different baby, this one's not good for you."

"Please, Rosalie." Tears poured down my cheeks now, "Has there ever been anything that you desperately want, but you can't have? Has there ever been something that you would die for? I had something, but now I don't and this is all I have left, Rose, I can't let them take it! I'd rather die," I wept.

At that moment, Carlisle, Esme and Alice came back in. Esme rushed to my side, "Oh, Bella. You poor, poor thing!" she cried, and then caught sight of Rosalie, "Rose! Leave her alone! Can't you see she's in enough pain as it is?"

"It's okay," I whispered, "She was helping me. I'm fine."

"Bella," Carlisle knelt down in front of me, "We have to operate on you and get rid of the baby."

"No!" I screamed, cradling my bump, "No, I won't let you! You can't!" I looked desperately at Rosalie; she looked back, torn.

"Bella, calm down," Alice took one of my hands in hers, "Bella, Bella, listen to me! We have to do this or you'll die!"

"I don't care!" I wailed, "Please don't!"

"There's no alternative, Bella," Carlisle said.

"No! NO!" I shrieked, thrashing about, my arms flailing wildly.

"Bella…"

"Carlisle, don't do it," Rosalie spoke up, finally having made the decision.

"What?" Carlisle looked up at her, surprised that she had taken my side.

"It's not worth it Carlisle, look at her," Rosalie gestured at me. I was trembling violently and tears flooded down my face.

"Rose, it's killing her," Carlisle told her, as though I wasn't there at all.

"Don't do it; not yet," Rosalie said, and I smiled weakly at her.

Alice glared at Rosalie, before stalking out of the room. I felt horribly guilty for a moment, but then I remembered what Alice had wanted to do, and the guilt vanished. This time, it was Rosalie on my side, Alice on the other.

"Bella, are you sure that this is what you want?" Carlisle asked me gently.

"Yes," I whispered, thinking again of my green-eyed, beatific baby. My last part of Edward.

"We'll re-assess in the morning," Carlisle sighed, looking at Rose, who scowled, and left the room as well.

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I don't know how long we had been sat there when Alice came rushing back into the room. Emmett and Jasper had got back and accepted the story fine and I had presumed that Alice had been with her husband, making up for the time that they had missed together, but suddenly she was there and Jasper came in from the opposite direction.

"What is it, Alice? What did you see?" he asked her, and the rest of the family stared at her, but she looked at only me.

"I saw…" she hesitated, and then took a deep breath, "It's Edward- he's coming back."

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Yes, Edward is coming back!

And I know I've made Rosalie nice, I think she really is nice, just a bit misunderstood.

Sorry about the mini cliff hanger again, but I have got a quote from the next chapter for you this time!

"I'm happy, Edward. I don't care; all pregnancies have their complications."

"Complications? Bella, this thing is killing you!" he snarled.

"You agree with Carlisle," I realised with a horrified whisper.

"Yes, of course, Bella," he stroked my cheek gently, and I recoiled from his glorious touch, worried that it would hurt me even more when he left again, "Of course I agree with Carlisle. It's killing you and I don't want it to hurt you, Bella."

"Why do you care how I feel?" I whispered.

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