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A/N: Apologies for the delay in the writing of this chapter. I suffered some severe writer's block, and I've just been extremely busy. Thanks for reading. :)

LEAH'S POV

No one moved or said anything. I think we were all in shock. 'Pregnant? How can Bella be pregnant? I don't understand...'

My mind was swimming with how's and what if's. I looked around at my family, and saw that they all wore identical looks of worry and shock.

Esme snapped out of shock first and asked the question that was on every one's mind, "Carlisle, how could this have happened? What are we going to do?"

Carlisle looked around at us gravely, and then he spoke, "I don't know."

Everything moved quickly after that. Plans were arranged so that Edward and Bella would be coming home as soon as possible. Carlisle was moving medical equipment into the living room, so he could track Bella's progress.

The house was divided on the subject of Bella's child. Edward wanted to get it out before it had the chance to hurt Bella. Bella wanted to keep the baby. Jasper, Alice, and I agreed with Edward. Rosalie wanted to help Bella, and Emmett went along with her. Carlisle and Esme just wanted Bella to be safe. Seeing as how there was an evil half-breed mutant vampire baby in Bella's womb at the moment, I wasn't entirely sure how Bella was to be kept safe.

Mostly, it reminded me how fragile everything was. In our world, things could go from perfect to terrifying in an instant.

Also, the... baby, for want of a better word, apparently could not be seen in Alice's visions. This worried Alice because she relies so heavily on her visions. She wasn't used to living without already knowing what was going to happen first.

The day that Bella and Edward were to arrive home was a hectic day indeed. Everyone was bustling around making preparations for their return. Emotions ran high and everyone was scared. Alice was beside herself with worry. She tried and tried to see into the future, but to no avail. I guess I could understand her plight if I put myself in her shoes. To always see what was coming, and be forever prepared for the worst, only to be then flying blind in one of the worst predicaments this family has ever seen. I tried my best to comfort her.

A knock on the door of the Cullen's house startled everyone. It surely wasn't Edward and Bella. They wouldn't knock on the door on their own damn house. Who would be coming to visit? And why did they pick today of all days?

I opened the door to find myself face to face with my mother. I stared wide eyed ahead of me. I hadn't seen her since the day Sam banished me from the reservation.

"Well, hello Leah, aren't you going to invite me inside?" she asked.

"Yes, sorry Mom, come inside."

I opened the door for her and led her inside to the Cullen's living room. We sat down in awkward silence. She peered around and marveled at the Cullen's beautiful home. I didn't blame her. They certainly had taste.

"So Mom, what brings you here," I asked.

"Can't I come visit my own daughter anymore?" she replied.

"Well, I suppose you can, but seeing as how you haven't since I left the reservation please forgive my surprise at seeing you here now," I replied sarcastically.

"Leah, come on. I miss you. I know you can't come the reservation anymore, and Seth says he comes to see you here all the time. I figured I would be welcome as well."

"You are welcome. It's not you, today is just a bad day," I said.

"What's going on, Leah?"

I eyed her warily, not sure what to say next. I wanted to tell her about Edward and Bella, but I wasn't sure it was my secret to tell.

She sensed my indecision and eyed me curiously.

"Leah, whatever it is, you can tell me," she said seriously.

"Well.. it's Bella. Mom, she's... pregnant. Bella is pregnant. And no one knows what to do. We're all terrified," I said nervously.

The look in her eyes told me immediately that I had made a mistake in reveling this bit of information.

"What? How did this happen, Leah? Have you told Sam and the others?"

"Well seeing as how Sam won't let me on the reservation, no he was not the first one I called when I received this happy news," I replied sarcastically.

"Sam has to know. The elders have to be informed immediately," she said hurriedly.

"No, Sam doesn't need to know anything. No one does. It's no one's business but the Cullen's," I said.

"Leah, you abandoned us, you left us alone for these vampires, and now you don't want to protect your home when the vampires are closing in on us? You're a disgrace," she said and she got up, and slammed the door shut before I could reply.

I knew what I wanted before it could even register in my mind where I was going. I walked up to the room I shared with Alice, and saw her laying on our bed waiting for me. She sat up and opened her arms for me. I crawled to her and wrapped my arms around her neck.

I sobbed into her shoulder until no more tears could fall.

ALICE'S POV

I hated seeing Leah upset. It made my blood boil thinking that someone could hurt her so much. Even if that someone was her own mother. She quickly reiterated the story to me. I knew she didn't mean us any harm when she told her mom, but now I had to wonder what was coming from the wolves on top of everything else.

She sat there with me and cried for quite awhile. I didn't understand what it felt like to cry, but I was glad to be of some comfort to her.

The arrival of Edward and Bella halted our time together. I grabbed Leah's hand and walked with her downstairs to see them. When I got there, what I found absolutely terrified me.

Edward looked like a broken man. He had dark purple bruises under his eyes, and he looked like he hadn't fed in weeks. His normally golden eyes had faded to black, and he seemed exhausted.

If Edward looked bad, Bella looked like hell. She hunched over clutching her stomach, which was jutting out in a most grotesque way. It didn't look like a normal baby bump. It looked deformed and twisted. It was sickening.

Edward helped Bella to the couch, as the rest of the family filed into the room. They all gasped in sight of Bella.

Carlisle immediately begin working to make Bella more comfortable. He set up an IV drip of morphine to take the edge off. She appeared to be in extreme pain.

"Bella, we have to get it out. It's going to kill you," Edward said gently.

"No, it's my baby. I won't let you or anyone else hurt it," Bella replied angrily.

"You're not going to hurt the baby," Rosalie said.

"You would be on her side, you depraved bitch. You just want to have a child! You don't give a damn what happens to Bella!" Edward replied angrily.

"Everyone needs to calm down. What's done is done, and I assure you Edward, everything will be done to take care of Bella," Carlisle said calmly, trying to relieve the tension in the room.

"You can't hurt Renesmee. Or Edward Jr. I won't let you," Bella said.

"Renesmee?" Rosalie asked.

"Like Renee and Esme combined. Do you like it?" Bella replied happily.

"I love it," Rosalie replied smiling.

I clutched Leah hard, and she held me up. Without her I think I would have fallen over. The talk to Bella dying unnerved me a bit. For the first time in my life, I had no idea what to expect.

LEAH'S POV

A loud banging on the door broke all of us from our thoughts. I let go of Alice for a second, to answer the door. I opened it slowly, and Jacob burst in, screaming obscenities at the top of his voice.

I grabbed Jake and held his arms back before he could get after Edward, his obvious intended target.

"Jake, calm down. Everything is okay," I tried reasoning with him.

"No, it damn well isn't. The bloodsucker has gotten Bella pregnant! I always knew the son of a bitch was going to kill her!" Jacob raged.

Edward didn't even try to defend himself. I guess he felt like he deserved everything Jacob was saying about him. He merely looked at Jacob with dead eyes.

"Jacob, may I ask how you found out about all of this?" Alice asked.

"Leah's mom. She told the entire reservation," Jacob spat.

I let go of Jacob, and shrank back against Alice when I heard this. It was my fault.

"Jake, what did Sam and the rest of the pack say?" I asked, fearing his answer.

"He said that we're going to end the little half-breed mutant monster," Jacob replied.

"You can't do that!" Rosalie screeched.

"I can, and I will. I won't watch the girl I love die!" Jacob screamed back.

"Jake..." said the feeble voice of Bella.

Jacob walked towards the couch, and got his first good look at Bella since he walked in the room. He gasped at the sight of her so weak and defeated. He sat down beside her and took her hand.

"What is it Bells? I'm right here," Jacob replied. His voice had lost the harsh edge it had earlier when he was screaming at Rosalie.

"Just stay," Bella replied.

The next couple of day passed slowly and agonizingly, with a somber air penetrating the whole house. We hardly left Bella's side, and Alice was more worried than I had ever seen her. I never left her side. I knew she hated being away from me, and me leaving would only make things worse for her. I offered comfort and said little. There was nothing more to say. Bella was dying right before our eyes, and no one knew what to do.

Carlisle said the baby was growing at an alarming rate, and that he worried for it and Bella's safety. It seemed to me like neither could live while the other survived. It seemed as if it was all a choice between which one got to live: Bella or the baby?

We sat in silence mostly, tending to Bella's needs and just waiting. There wasn't much we could do. The baby was starting to crack Bella's ribs and still, she refused to let us hurt it. The more it hurt her, the more she seemed to love it. It was so masochistic, and so bizarrely Bella.

On the fourth day of just waiting, things seemed to shift. Bella lolled in and out of consciousness, and Carlisle said he thought this was it. It's coming.

Bella let out the most blood-curdling scream and everyone snapped into position for the end.

We heard several snaps and listened to Bella scream in agony as the creature broke more ribs and snapped her pelvis.

Rosalie bit through her skin in a bizzare vampire attempt at a C-section, trying desperately to free the baby from Bella's dying body.

Finally it was out. The evil mutant half-breed was in Rosalie's arms, and she tended to it, leaving the rest of us to figure out how we were going to save Bella. Edward disappeared for a moment, and quickly appeared with a syringe.

"What's that?" Alice asked.

"My venom,' he replied, as he stuck the needle in and pushed the plunger down straight into Bella's heart.

This was it. She was finally changing.

Alice pulled me away from Bella, and Jacob followed me into the kitchen where Rosalie was looking at the baby with adoring eyes.

We all took our first look at the baby girl in Rosalie's arms.

Jacob suddenly seized up. He looked like a blind man seeing the sun for the first time.

"Renesmee..." he whispered.