Disclaimer: I do not own the Twilight Saga or The Vampire Diaries. I do not own Wuthering Heights either.

There will be profanity; you have been warned. (By the way, this is the last chapter of the day. I might post again tomorrow, or in a few days - not sure yet.)


The one in which Rosalie and Stefan and Bella team up to save the baby, Jacob hangs around, Damon meets Leah, and Some Serious Whacked Up Shit happens. (So basically, it's just another day at the Cullen house nowadays.)

Stefan worries about Bella (she's practically his best friend, now) and he worries about Edward (who is, Stefan's not going to lie, Stefan's favorite Cullen brother) and thinks he might go stir crazy waiting for everyone to get ready to go to the airport when Rosalie's phone rings. No one pays it any mind (except Stefan) and she answers it quickly. ("Hello?" "Rosalie, it's Bella") Stefan perks up and his head snaps to attention. He opens his mouth but Rose puts her finger over her lips to silence him. (Of course he should be silent, how else is going to hear news about Bella and the mysterious baby?)

Bella asks Rosalie to help her – she wants to keep little E.J. (Edward Jacob, Stefan's mind supplies) and she knows that Rose will help her. ("Why me?" "I know you'll put this baby before my life if you have to") That's why she's called Rose and not Alice or even Stefan (because both of them love Bella, while Rosalie remains barely pleasantly aloof). ("Okay" "Thanks, Rose") Damon's been eavesdropping as well ("Ouch, Blondie. You care for an unborn kid more than you bro's wife? That's sick" "Shut up, you fucker") Stefan's found out that Rosalie absolutely loathes Damon (He's okay with that. He hates Damon sometimes too).

They all pile into their cars to meet Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cullen, and who does Bella run straight towards? (Not Stefan, but he's standing next to Rose, so does that sort of count? *He's kidding*) Edward reads Rose's mind and snarls aloud ("It'll kill her" "It's her choice!") The ride home has a nasty tense sort of silence hanging around and just when Stefan thinks Edward couldn't be even more furious, he catches sight of Damon (and subsequently sees everything's that's happened in the past few weeks) and flies off the handle. (Stefan thinks he would have brawled right there if it weren't for Bella.)

("Stay away from Bella" "Sure, Eddie, whatever you say" "Can I kick him out?") (Stefan worries that this will be his life now. It's kind of depressing.) Bella's frowning, and wonders aloud ("What's wrong?" "Nothing, it's nothing")


The next few days fly by and Jacob stops by (And never seems to leave, damnit). He hangs around Bella like she's going to disappear (Rosalie doesn't like this, "That's close enough" "What's your problem?") and he and Damon are always at each other's throats (it seems the only thing Edward and Jacob can agree on besides that the baby is a monster is that Damon is an annoying, sarcastic, snarky fiend Who Has To Go). (Stefan's inclined to agree with them, but alas, Damon's an annoying, sarcastic, snarky fiend who's like a zit that just won't clear up. *Yeah, that was a gross comparison*).

Bella's stomach grows bigger and Rosalie becomes even more protective, and tries to allow only certain access to Bella (i.e. people who like the baby – and Jacob, because Bella nearly throws fits when she can't see him).

Bella's lying on the couch, her belly distended and straining against her shirt and Stefan's sitting on the floor next to her head. Rosalie's only in the next room with Edward (they're having some kind of stare down. Or plotting Damon's demise. Either or is pretty likely.)

"How are you feeling?" Stefan murmurs, looking at Bella. She has bags under eye bags, and she's beginning to look like a war victim – her cheeks are sallow and sunken in and her joints are pointy.

"Eh," Bella laughs weakly, "I've been better. But how about you?" She peers around carefully, looking to see if Damon's lurking. "Damon's back. How do you feel?" (One of the reasons Stefan loves Bella is that she cares so much for her family. She considers Stefan family.)

Stefan rubs at his face tiredly, "He's getting on my last nerve. Everyone else's, too. At least he's stopped ravaging the town for meals – he's getting them at a blood bank from Seattle."

Bella frowns, making lines appear on her strained face, "I feel so bad about Mike and Jessica." She tears up and Stefan hurries to wipe them away.

"Hey, hey, it's okay. I'm so, so sorry that he did that," Stefan pulls out a book, and shows Wuthering Heights to her, "Here, I brought your favorite from your house."

Bella laughs through her tears and teases, "You're breaking and entering into people's houses now? I shouldn't have stayed away so long – your morals are wavering."

"Yeah, yeah," Stefan says and opens the book, "Would you like for me to read it to you?"

"That would be nice," Bella settles down into the couch, rubbing her baby.

"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still farther in his waistcoat, as I announced my name."


When Jacob finally leaves, he returns scant hours later with two other wolves on his heels ("Get ready. They're coming for Bella" "They're not going to touch her" "Agreed") Stefan manages to persuade Damon to get onto the 'Save Bella' bandwagon (not that it's a hard sell – even Damon's heart of ice is melted when Bella turns her chocolate eyes onto his. Not that he'll admit it).

"Sam's lost the element of surprise and he doesn't want to take you on outnumbered," Jacob's explaining to them all in the Cullen living room. Damon's hanging around, lounging on the wall with an air of disinterest, but Stefan's not fooled (Damon's begun to care for Stefan's new pseudo family. Maybe one day he'll feel like it's his own.)

"He's not going to face you head on. He's got the place surrounded and he'll wait for his opportunity," Jacob continues.

"He won't get through without a fight," Emmett promises. Bella shivers and her weak hands flutter. Stefan takes one of hers into his hand, rubbing circles onto it.

"No fights," Carlisle protests, "No one wants to break the treaty."

"The treaty is void," Jacob says immediately, "At least in Sam's mind."

"Not in ours," Esme corrects.

"Carlisle, no one's hunted for weeks," Emmett protests and his eyes flit over to Stefan and then to Damon. They have to hunt more than the Cullen's.

"We'll make do," Esme says, but she has a worried crease in her forehead. (Stefan wishes he and his brother weren't so different from the Cullen's right now.)

"You've done us a great service, Jacob. Thank you," Carlisle says and Jacob nods. Damon shoves himself off the wall and Edward's head flashes in his direction.

"I think that your hunting solution is obvious," Damon drawls.

Edward's eyebrows are furrowed when Stefan looks at him for clues, but eventually turns back to his brother, "What's obvious?"

"I lead our wolfy friends on a merry chase while you all go hunting. It'll be fun and they won't touch me." (This is something incredibly selfless for Damon to do, and Stefan wonders if there are other motivational factors are causing this decision. Edward nods out of the corner of Stefan's eye, and he knows that this is what Edward's thinking too.)

Despite everything that he's done, Esme is worried about him, "You'll be injured, or worse."

Damon gives a small smile (it's small, but there, and true) as he promises, "They won't."

(Stefan believes him; his brother has always been good at alluding people and diverting unwanted attention. Plus, the wolves are able to be compelled, so Stefan's not too worried.) (Not to say that he's not at least a little bit worried. Just a little.)

The Cullen's exchange glances, and eventually decides that this sounds like a good plan. (They have no other choice, truly, that will result in no bloodshed.) Damon goes off that evening and practically everyone goes to hunt (except Carlisle and Esme, who've fed the most recently.) (It takes nearly three hours to persuade Rosalie to go with them – her eyes are black as pitch.)

Everyone else hunts and when they return, nothing is amiss. (Except for the fact that Damon's still missing, but Stefan tries not to dwell on that. Or else he'll really start to worry.) But thankfully, Damon returns mostly intact and almost jolly.


Bella's gets worse and worse. Her body is rejecting food, and Stefan wonders if maybe she needs blood – Edward jerks up ("I should have thought of that" "Of what?" "The fetus needs blood, not food" "Of course"). They try it and it works (a miracle among miracles) but soon they're depleting Damon's stock pile ("That's just great"). Everyone keeps their eyes out for the wolves, and Alice moans about not being able to See (Jasper comforts her). Stefan keeps reading Wuthering Heights to Bella until they finish it ("Let's read something else now" "What do you want to read?" "Alice in Wonderland?" "Of course")

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'"

Stefan leaves the room when Edward comes in with Carlisle ("It's crushing you from the inside out") Stefan walks faster.


They run out of blood quickly, and Carlisle has to make a run to a hospital in Seattle. Jasper, Esme, Emmett, and Alice need to hunt again. (Damon volunteers to run interference, but Jacob takes care of it.) Jake comes back and soon thereafter Bella drops one of her last cups of blood ("I've got it" "Let get that" "No!") Something's ripped inside of Bella and she seems to be stuck in suspended animation until she just flops to the ground ("Is she okay?" "The baby!" "Bella!")

Edward, Rose, and Stefan get Bella to the room with the operating table in it (Carlisle was planning on performing a C-section soon) and try to help. Damon flits around the door, but eventually decides to go outside – he's not going to be of any real use in there.

He sees Leah outside of the house. "Hey, Wolfgirl."

"Leech," She says flatly, "What's going on?"

"Bella's gone into labor," Damon explains.

"Huh."

There's a piercing shriek and they both can hear Stefan dragging Rosalie out of the room because of her bloodlust. Jacob and Edward race to save Bella's life – they get the baby out. Bella's fading.

"So you're Edward's mini-me's brother?"

Damon laughs out loud, but he freezes when he hears them.

Leah does too.

"Sam," They said in unison and blink at each other.

Damon runs into the house and sees Rosalie and Stefan in the living room with the new baby, Jacob five paces behind them, this mesmerized look on his face as he stares at the baby in Stefan's arms.

"Sam and the others are coming," Damon warns, and Stefan's mind freezes for three seconds (shitshitshitshitshitshit). Stefan's freaking out now, and he hands the baby (Renesmee – Bella was wrong, it was a Renesmee, not an Edward Jacob) to Rosalie to hold. She takes her gratefully, scowling at Damon. They hear Edward come down the steps (flying, truly, Stefan thinks) and the vampires go outside to meet the werewolves head on. Jacob doesn't come (It's weird, why's he staring at the baby like that? He looks like he's in shock.)

Sam and his back descend on them, vicious. Leah and Seth help the Cullen's out, but it's not enough. (The other werewolves are strong, and Stefan knows that he and his family are out numbered 5-to-1, and he's pretty sure they're doomed, but there's a baby in there – a helpless baby – and that spurs Stefan on to fight harder.) Jacob runs out of the house, phasing and jumping in front of them, nose-to-nose with Sam. Stefan wonders what's happened, (What's caused this?) and Edward murmurs aloud ("He's imprinted") and his voice is so relieved, but all Stefan's thinking as he exchanges glances with Damon is ("Oh, shit, Bella's going to be really pissed when she wakes up as a vampire") (Edward probably will be too, after he gets over the shock of his life being spared by half of a second.