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AN: Finally, the next chapter is finished! I'm gonna do my best to give you an update of both stories this weekend! This one will continue during the period between 'Blossoming' and its sequel.
Enjoy!
Pregnant
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POV: Jake
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"What?!" I instantly dropped to my knees and looked at her unassuming flat belly, now positioned directly in front of me. I placed my palms on her sides while pressing my ear to her belly, a light and very fast drumming reached my ears.
"Oh god, I can hear a heartbeat!" words could not describe how I felt in that exact moment.
Millions of different thoughts swirled around inside my head, I felt a smile grow on my face involuntarily as one though rose to the surface, our baby… our baby… our baby! Nothing made sense apart from that, Nessie and me having a baby, that was good, great, prefect even. But the voice kinda spooked me, could that really be our baby?
"Can you really, oh Jake I can hardly believe this is happening" she sighed.
"Oh baby I love you so much and I'm so happy that I could give you the one thing you wanted most" just as two weeks ago, I pressed my lips to the bare skin just above the waistband of her jeans. This time it wasn't a gesture of hope, but a gesture of love towards her and our baby.
"I love you too" she said softly. As I rose, I scooped her up in my arms and twirled her around.
"Let's go home" I whispered in her ear as I started walking.
"What about the others?" she asked while tracing the inside of my neck with her nose, making me quicken my pace.
"Nadira and Embry will tell them everything and we'll talk to them later" I replied before claiming her mouth.
We stayed in bed until halfway through the afternoon, that's when my phone beeped and Embry instructed me not so subtly that we should make sure not to be home tonight in a text message. I chuckled when I read it and Nessie did as well when I showed it to her. It became even funnier when Nessie received a message from Nadira seconds later, saying tonight would be the night.
"Well, as much as we don't want to, we need to tell my parents anyway" Nessie sighed.
"How long have you known?" I asked her. It had to be a recent discovery, because only two weeks ago she had broken down in my arms, out of fear that she might not be able to have children.
"Leah suspected something yesterday, so she got me a test this morning, that's when I found out" Nessie answered a little sad.
"I'm so sorry I wasn't there Ness" we should have been together, I should have been the one to get the test for her, the one to hold her while we waited. But instead Leah had been the one to help her, sadness enveloped me.
"There is nothing to apologize for Jake, neither of us had any idea, besides without Leah it had taken me much longer to suspect something like a pregnancy, I'm just glad we know now" she had a point there, I reminded myself to thank Leah later.
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Two hours later we arrived at the Cullen house, we had taken our time in the shower, so it had taken us longer than planned. I chuckled as I thought back on our afternoon, Nessie and I were right in the middle of our foreplay, when she had leaped out of the bed.
When I asked her what she was doing, worried for a moment that I might have hurt her. But she put her hand on her belly, looking up at me with disgust written all over her face, saying "what if the baby can hear us?"
She had a very very good point there, I would hate to scar the kid for life, by… you know. I wondered to what extent this communication thing goes, I knew it had commented on Nessie's thought twice, but we had no idea if the baby could hear everything Nessie was thinking. I opted to continue with caution, after all, this was new territory for everyone of us. Since nobody would be able to tell us much about Nessie's pregnancy, we would have to go by trial and error, I predicted much drama to be ahead.
Thankfully our baby didn't make itself known during our love session, I had missed her so much, even though I hadn't been gone that long. It was the thought that Nessie had been hurting and frightened when I was away that did it most, I felt like reassuring her in every possible that nothing would be able to keep me from her.
Clear your mind Jake, I thought to myself as the big house came into view. Again this facing the parents thing, how come Embry never has to deal with this?! Well smart ass, first of all he didn't imprint on a girl with two vampires for parents, secondly and probably most importantly he wasn't rushing his imprint into marriage and now motherhood. Yeah Jakey, you've gotten yourself into this, now you see how you're going to get yourself out.
An extremely worried Edward appeared in the doorway, a very confused Bella right behind him. As I pulled op and put the car in park, I got out slowly to get Nessie's door. She had admitted to some physical pain, which she initially thought was caused by us being apart, but it didn't disappear when I returned to her. So we assumed it was a side effect from the pregnancy, but other than that she felt fine.
"Nessie, what's wrong with you?" Edward was at her side the instant she got out of the car.
"Nothing is wrong with me dad, now give me a hug, I haven't seen you since you got back!" she threw her arms around her father's neck, as he hugged her back he glared angrily at me.
"Hey sweetie, we missed you too" Bella had pulled her daughter from her husband's arms and was now holding her tight, not too tight I hoped.
"Why would she be holding her too tight?" Edward asked me, oh great he was already sifting through my brain.
"Nothing Edward, stop worrying" I sighed.
"Let's go inside, get you two something to eat" Bella said, ignoring her husband attempts to grill me.
As we sat down in the kitchen, Nessie's family entered the room one by one, hugging her close since she was happy they were all ok.
"Nessie, you look a little tired, when was the last time you went hunting?" Carlisle asked as he looked at her examining.
"Last Friday, besides I feel fine" Nessie replied.
"Well, you most certainly don't sound fine" Edward stated angrily.
"What do you mean by that?!" Bella questioned.
"Her thoughts are chaotic to say the least, it's like one moment I hear her just fine and the next her regular thoughts are interrupted with incoherent ones. These are so different, it's like they were someone else's, but well not from a normal person" he concluded.
Fear overtook my mind and I was no longer able to keep my thoughts away from our child any longer. What was Edward saying, was there something wrong with our baby?!
"Baby, what baby?! What the hell is going on here!?" Edward yelled. Shit I had never seen him this angry, he was always so capable at hiding his emotions.
"Oh Jake, did you have to do that?" Nessie groaned.
"Babe, it's really hard to keep something from your father-in-law, if he's a mind reader" I pointed out.
By now the whole kitchen had erupted into chaos, everybody was throwing questions at us, but I kept my eyes on Nessie, making sure she was ok. Just as I was starting to get worried when she didn't say anything for a while, she suddenly started laughing loudly, effectively shutting everybody up!
"Would you stop overreacting, you're acting as if the president's daughter just got herself knocked up!" Nessie said smiling.
"So it's true, you're pregnant?" Bella was the first one to speak.
"Yes I am, after all this time of wondering if I would ever be able to have them, I'm pregnant just like that" she said with a warning look on her face, daring anybody to ruin her moment of happiness.
"But, I though Carlisle had prescribed birth control pills for you?" Esme asked Nessie.
"He has, and I have been taking them as I should, but apparently they don't work really well for me. I had planned to quit taking them as soon as we were married, but as it, is I'm surprised I didn't get pregnant sooner" ok she was officially freaking me out with her calmness!
"Honestly Renesmee, sometimes it feels as if you're constantly searching for new ways to upset us" Edward sighed.
"Dad, we're all vampires and werewolves here, age is insignificant, otherwise you and mom would have a real unusual relationship" Nessie stated. She was right of course, the age difference between Nessie and me was nothing compared to number of years between her parents. But nobody said anything, so Nessie resumed her lecture.
"It doesn't make any difference, I love Jacob and he loves me, we'll be together for what would be several lifetimes for humans. Why does it matter to you if we start with children now or a year from now?" most of her family looked like they agreed, but Edward still had a pained look on his face.
"You're my baby, you've grown up much too fast if you ask me, we've barely had time to enjoy your childhood. So you being a adult in general is what bothers me, I don't doubt you and Jacob or your ability to become parents. It just feels like you're not giving me any time to adjust to new situations, right when I feel like I can accept the path your taking, you're heading into a new direction or rather switch into higher gear" Edward explained.
Nessie jumped of the stool, almost giving me a heart attack, I agree with Edward on the rebel part, sometimes it feels as if she's doing it on purpose. She made her way to her father and wrapped her arms around his waist, snuggling into him as if she were sic years old again, well she was, but not like that.
"Dad, I love you, and in a way I'll always be your little girl. But I'm happy with everything that is happening right now, this is what I want" she said as she looked up at him.
"I know Ness, and I am happy for you" he said breathing into her hair, with that the conversation took a whole new turn.
Now that Edward seemed to have accepted becoming a grandfather, Carlisle immediately jumped into the next point on the agenda. How were Nessie and the baby dong, how fast was she progressing, how did the consciousness of our baby work, how exactly did he or she communicate with us.
"Nessie, I think we should try to do an ultrasound, maybe we will be able to see the baby" he said while getting up.
"Do you think we can?" Bella asked worriedly.
"Well, Nessie's skin is much like ours, so there is a chance it won't work, but it's worth a try" Carlisle led the way to his office. I trailed behind because I wanted to talk to Edward without Nessie hearing.
"What is it?" Edward asked as soon as she was out of hearing range.
"Before, when you said that the thoughts didn't seem Nessie's but more like from another not normal person. What did you hear?"I was really worried, I mean who knew what would happen with a crossing of species as extreme as we were doing now.
"If the thoughts were Nessie's or even those of an adult human being, I'd say there's something wrong. But considering it's a baby in the very early stages of development, I think mentally your baby is fine, more than fine actually" relief engulfed me, now we only had to worry about the communicating thing.
"What communicating thing?" Edward asked as he came to a full stop.
"Yesterday, the baby talked to Ness, she could hear the voice in her mind clearly. Today, when I came back it happened again, but I could hear it too. We're worried that he or she can hear us too, that would be really complicated" especially when we were having sex, thoughts of that afternoon flooded my mind.
"Jacob! Can you keep your thoughts to yourself?! I don't want to think about my daughter like that!" Edward hissed angrily.
"Right, sorry" I mumbled.
"Jake, Dad! Hurry up, we want to get started!" Nessie yelled and we quickly joined the others.
The sonogram failed miserably, there was absolutely nothing visible, Nessie was so disappointed, she wanted to see her baby so badly. Carlisle was able to determine how far along she was by measuring the height of her womb with his hands. If it were a normal pregnancy, she would be about a month a long, so it probably hadn't even been a month yet.
He checked her vitals, and wasn't really pleased with how she was doing, even if she kept persisting she felt fine. He suggested she would alter her hunting schedule, making it twice instead of once a week, maybe more if her body needed it. It reminded me of Bella's pregnancy, the amounts of blood she consumed while she was still human.
Nessie didn't like it one bit, she hated that she craved blood at all, that she actually felt better because of it. She was fine with ordering a steak extra rare, but draining a living animal of its blood didn't sit well with her. But I insisted we would go hunting that afternoon, after some begging and pleading from my side she finally gave in.
"There's some elk over there" I pointed and looked at Nessie, she didn't look good at all, better get some blood in her system soon.
"It smells horrible Jake, I don't want it!" her face scrunched up with disgust.
"Nessie, please, you're getting weaker I can tell, you need blood, please do it for me?" I was desperate, I remembered far too well how Bella had sickened in the one month that she was carrying Nessie, I couldn't handle it if the same thing would happen now.
"Ok, Jake, but just a small one and if it doesn't make me feel better, I can go back to hunting less" she negotiated.
"Sure sure, that's ok" I was so sure she would want more if she had some, that I was quick to agree with her.
A few minutes later she had sunken her teeth into a small elk, draining it within moments. But before she was done she released the animal she was holding and lurched. Vomiting up everything she had just worked in, I closed the distance I usually kept between us if she hunted and held her as she emptied her stomach.
"What happened?!" I asked completely loosing it.
"It tasted horrible, I don't want to try again, can you please take me home?" she said weakly. I lifted her up bridal style and carried her home, where her parents were already in the door way, loving at me for an explanation.
"She couldn't keep it in!" I said panicked, as I felt her nodding off in my arms.
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