Alice's POV

The pain was over-whelming, all the tears and screams from the pregnancy were nothing compared to this. I would happily take all that over and over again for the rest of eternity than suffer through this pain.

It felt like I was sinking deeper and deeper into open flames as my vision started to blur, screaming in agony as a ringing started in my ears, getting louder and louder in time with my racing heart. I barely heard Jasper scream my name, screaming Carlisle's name, it was a heart wrenching sound. Piercing through my heart like a knife. I wanted to reassure him that I was okay but that was a lie, I was anything but okay.

I could do nothing but succumb to the engulfing darkness….

— Alice Cullen x

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Jasper's POV

I caught her as she stumbled, chuckling lightly to myself, soon the baby will be born and everything I had ever hoped for would be true, a loving wife, loving family...a beautiful child. But this time it was wrong...she screamed...this wasn't right! No, it's too soon! I screamed in terror as she violently vomited blood, I screamed Carlisle's name and raced towards his office with Alice in my arms. Upon hearing our screams Carlisle had come out of his office and had met me on his way to us, panic was alive on his usually calm, comforting features.

"Jasper, Son, quickly, you must bring her through so I can get it out before it kills her." Carlisle spoke urgently, pushing me quickly back the way he had come, towards his office.

I nodded and flew into his office and placed her gently onto the hospital bed that he had brought home from Bella's pregnancy. I was followed swiftly by Edward who nodded at me comfortingly as he pinned Alice's wrists gently to her side, I quickly followed suit and did the same to her ankles because she was shaking in pain. I felt my eyes darken as a fresh, overpowering scent filled my nose, sending a flash of burning pain down my throat. I looked quickly at Carlisle to find him bent over my wife's blood soaked body, the scalpel sent out fresh blood as it ran its way across her stomach.

I heard the screech of the sickeningly familiar sound which I knew so well from my past life as I watched Carlisle rip open the vampire casing that protected the child so well. He lifted up his head and quickly delved his hands inside before the venom had the chance to reseal the wound, Alice's heart race was unsteady in its rhythmic pattern, growing faster with the internal beating and slowing as it failed, oxygen failing to reach the destination fast enough.

I watched her eyes wheel around uncontrollably, searching for someone, or something. What was she so content on searching for as she lay dying? No, I couldn't even bare to think about that possibility she will see this through! She had been so strong these past few weeks, smiling and drinking the blood we gave her in order to keep her alive and strong. Alice was a fighter in what she believed in and she believed in this too much to let it slip away easily!

"Come on Alice! Fight this! You can do it! Don't even dare think about giving up Alice Brandon Whitlock Hale! I need you to see this through! I can't even bare to think about the possibility!" Squeezing her ankle lightly; to give her a sign that I supported her in all of this as Carlisle urgently tried to get it out. "Please Alice… I love you… never forget that,"

I felt invisible tears well up inside my eyes as she winced in pain and let out a heart wrenching scream that had me pierced to the floor, I screamed at Carlisle to get it out of her as she continued to cry out in agony.

"I'm doing my best son, it's almost out. Just another few seconds and hopefully I can free her because she's tangled up in the detached umbilical cord. It's a tricky procedure," Carlisle calmed me in a fatherly but stressed tone.

"Wait, you said she, Alice was right? It's a girl?" I asked, pride welling up inside of me as I took in his words.

"That is correct Jasper," He confirmed as he pulled out something small, dripping with blood, blood with covered Alice's broken body and Carlisle's hand.

The little girl didn't scream like human babies did, she just breathed evenly and slowly as she gazed round the room with her liquid golden blue eyes. I noticed that her soft, black hair was matted in blood as she smiled, her gaze meeting with mine; her teeth were a pearly white. She seemed to recognise me instantly as she squirmed in Carlisle's arms, impatiently reaching for me with her small, delicate hands.

She was beautiful...

Jasper Whitlock Hale