JPOV

It's been a week since Charlie was killed and we captured Victoria. Charlie was given an Honor in the line of Duty Burial. Bella was there in body. I haven't felt her mind since the day he died. I don't know what to do to bring her around. She as completely cut us off. It's like she has totally closed her mind with her shield. The women had to dress her for the funeral.

We allow the Clearwater's to take over his estate as Bella won't need his money. I have more than enough money to take care of her and Caius has more than I do. The only thing I asked is for them to save any mementos that Bella may want in memory of her father.

We decided to head back to Volterra. Another week goes by she hasn't eaten, she refuses. She is extremely pale and weak. She's lost so much weight. I stay with her most of the time when I'm not out hunting. Caius comes in to check on her, but of course, he is always in court.

Another week. I lay in bed with her, I read to her I bathe her. I do read books on physical therapy and exercise her limbs so that they don't atrophy. I continue to make her breakfast, lunch, and Dinner every day in hopes that today she will come back to me. She's so weak she has started to only lift her hand when she must relieve herself for a human moment. I lift her and take her and bring her back to bed.

Another week. Today I sit her up with her back against my chest as I read to her. I caress her skin as she just sits there between my legs. As I absentmindedly stroke her stomach, I feel a thump against my thumb. I continue to stroke her stomach and strangely, even though she is extremely thinned from lack of food. Her middle seems to have a convex shape, that I hadn't noticed before. Again, I feel a small thump against my hand.

Then I hear something that makes my heart leap. "How long have we been here?" Bella asks me. Although her tone is flat. She's speaking to me.

"Welcome back, Darlin'," I say to her.

"Jazz, you haven't answered my question. HOW. LONG. HAVE WE BEEN HERE." She asks like I'm a 2-year-old

"We've been here for three weeks Bella," I say to her.

"And how long since…" her voice quivers as she trails off her sentence.

I wrap my arms around her and hold her close. I don't want her to shut down again. "Baby girl, I love you. We love you. Let me get Caius. Baby, let me get you something to eat please". I continue to try to keep her mind from going back to that day.

I pull out my phone and call Caius. He asked me to call him if there was any change in Isabella. Tears start to fall down Isabella's face.

"Baby please come to our room, now". I tell him and hang up the phone. She snatches the phone from my hand. I look down at her like she's lost her mind. She brings up a calendar app. She looks at today's date and counts the days backward. She stops for the week before she originally came to Volterra with Alice. A total of six weeks. I look down at her face because the emotions she is projecting is total panic. I send her a burst of calm. She waives her hand for me to stop.

Just then Caius walks in and her emotions are pinging off the charts so fast its giving me a headache, Panic, confusion, shock, resolve, excitement, curiosity. Then there is one I am so happy to feel, hunger. But then queasiness, when she lunges from my lap, dropping the phone to the bed but her legs are so weak she falls forward.

Caius catches her as he is walking toward the bed when she lunged, but she vomits on him, but it's only bile as her stomach is empty.

He looks to me, then back to her, then to the green puke on his clothing. I hear his thoughts, why is she sick?

I get up to pick her up and take her from him as I feel the round of queasiness again when she says, "because I'm pregnant" before she vomits again. I take her to the bathroom. I think to Caius to have Jane bring her some crackers.

"You know, you may as well say it I can fucking hear you," she says as she continues to 'pray to the porcelain god'.

"You two fucking did this to me. OH GOD, UHAACK. How can something undead…UHAACK…knock somebody up. OH GOD, UHAACK." She then sits on the floor and leans her head on the toilet. I sit behind her and lean her back against my chest and place my cool hand on her head.

Jane then comes in with crackers and ginger ale "The chef said this would help."

"Thank you, Jane". I say to her. I pick Isabella up and go back into the bedroom.

Caius is still standing there frozen, with vomit on his shirt.

"Yeah, Daddy, quite a fucking shocker, Huh". She says to Caius as she takes a sip of the ginger ale before rubbing the cool can to the temple of her forehead.

Caius furrows his brow. "OH NO! DON'T LOOK AT ME, I HAVEN'T EVEN CLAIMED YOU YET."

Now it's my turn to furrow my brow "Oh shit, oh shit, OH SHIT!"

"Yeah, No shit Captain Obvious". She says as she finishes the ginger ale and throws the can at my head, before getting up and sitting in the chair and balling her eye's out. "I'M HAVING A DEMON SPAWN BABY!" She cries out

Caius finally takes off his puke shirt and throws it in the trash. "OH, my silly girl" Caius says finally coming out of his stupor and placing an arm around Isabella. You are not having a Demon Spawned baby. But if you are pregnant, he then looks at me, it will be a Vampire Hybrid.

Isabella then scrunches up her face. "Like the car?" she asks.

Caius just chuckles. "I guess you can say that. It will be half vampire, half human, and quite beautiful. How can it not be? Look at his mother and father

Caius then pulls out his phone and asks his brothers to dismiss court and meet him in our room. He then calls Gianna and asks her to go to a drug store and get some pregnancy tests. He then calls Carlisle and tells him he is sending the Volturi private jet for him that he as needed in Volterra at once.

When the Brothers finally join us in our room. Caius has become quite excited. "We're having a baby!" he sings songs. Brothers we have so much to do. We must set up a nursery and shop for baby clothes and maternity clothes for my Isabella. We must get the best tutors. And see if you can find that hybrid, from South America. We must get him here. We need to know everything about my mate's pregnancy". He then picks up Isabella and stands her in front of the dressing mirror, and looks at her barely-there belly. He then picks her up and the flitter off into the bathroom for a shower.

The brothers and I just stare at each other before I ask, "What had happened?"