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Crazier Than It Seems

A/N: This story is written as a collaboration by both Xo Bella Italiana oX and Casey21791. If you have any questions or comments, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note! We hope that you enjoy the story and look forward to hearing your thoughts. – B

Previously…
(Emma's POV)

"Speak Carlisle! Why did you approached my mate like that?" Growled Jasper. But something was different about him. His accent was stronger, his posture was tense, and he had a presence about him that screamed 'dominance'. Somehow, I had a feeling that this wasn't my Jasper.

"I'm sorry, Jasper. Forgive my lapse in judgment. I believe I remember where I've met her before and just needed proof of it. If it is her, then she'll have a birthmark behind her right ear." Carlisle spoke calmly and to reassure Jasper that he meant no harm, he backed away so that the two of us could have some space.

I placed my palm onto the center of his back as I spoke. "It's okay, Jasper. He didn't hurt me." My eyes flickered towards the doctor as I addressed Carlisle, "I do have a birthmark behind my ear, but how could you possibly know that?"

Carlisle looked to me as he replied, "I was the doctor who delivered you. I was your mother's doctor."

Oh my God. All of this was beginning to be too much today. It all was piling up in my brain and was starting to overwhelm me. Learning was just the final push I needed over the edge for me as black spots began to cloud my vision and I was feeling light-headed. Jasper was looked at me wide eyed with worry, which was the last thing I saw before the blackness engulfed me, surrounding me as the ground began to get closer as the dark finally completely took over.

Chapter 10
(Carlisle's POV)

18 years 9 months 9 days earlier…

I had just finished a 23hr shift and as I was driving home when I come to a red light. I had my window down as the fresh night air come through, but it wasn't until I heard a faint female scream did I pause and I decided to follow the sound as a deep pull inside my soul was just insisting that I find her.

Barely 10 minutes later, had I pulled up outside a small two bedroom flat that was surrounded by abandoned homes and parks. I exited my car and headed for the front door. I knocked and I waited….

A woman of fifty answered the door, but the sight of the blood that covered her front and dripped from her hands was cause for my immediate concern.

"What do you want?" demanded the woman, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning against the door frame.

"Madam, are you alright? I heard screaming from the road. I'm a doctor I can help you!" I asked her.

She nodded her head and gestured me to come in. "It's my niece, sir. She`s gone into early labour and -" but she was interrupted by a piercing scream that ripped through the house.

We rushed to the room where the sound had come from and I took in the sight of a young girl who twisted in agony as a contraction ripped through her body.

"Mary, love, this man is a doctor and he`s going to help you deliver it." the woman reassured the girl as she took a damp cloth and dabbed her forehead with it in an attempt to remove the sweat from her brow.

I noticed the woman say 'it' so I could only assume that she hadn't been seen by an OBGYN, so all I could do was this.

"Mary, my name is Dr Carlisle Cullen and I need to check you so that I can see how far along you are. Now, when have the contractions started?"

She gritted her teeth before she spoke, "By my calculations, I had two weeks to go before I was due. I had this pain in my lower back since yesterday, but I thought it was normal back pain that came with the pregnancy, but it got worse about five hours ago."

I opened up my medical bag and pulled on a pair of latex gloves to not only protect her from any disease since I didn't wash my hands, but to hide the coldness of my skin, as well.

"Okay Mary, I need you to lie back so that I can have a look and see if I can get a feel of how the baby is and how far along you are in your labour. It will feel a bit uncomfortable, but it's necessary".

As I checked the baby`s position, I began to feel something that I shouldn't have. I felt the baby`s feet, so I spoke to the women in as calm of a tone that I could muster as to not cause a panic.

"Okay, the baby is coming feet first; it's 'breached'. So that is why it's hurting so much more than normal. It also means that unless we get this baby out soon, there`s a high chance that the child could suffocate." I briefly paused, letting this news sink in before I made eye contact with my patient. "Mary, I need you to sit up and Madam, could you please sit behind her? This way, she has some leverage to push from."

I lifted her legs up so that I could check the baby once again before I sent a quick prayer to the Gods. I might be over 300 years old as well as a vampire, but this was a first for me since my change.

"Mary, on the next contraction I need you to push." I paused, waiting for the contraction to begin. "Okay, are you ready?" I asked her as I felt it coming, causing her to suck in a breath and scream as we prepared to bring a new life into the world.

30 minutes later…

"Congratulations Mary, it's a beautiful baby girl" I announced as I lifted the squirmy little bundle up after having cut the umbilical cord and wrapped her in a fluffy blanket. This beautiful baby let out a wail as I handed her over to the older woman so that I could finish with Mary. I still needed to deal with the after birth and clean her up.

But my vampire instincts were at its peak, because this child was special. She was my blood singer, La Tua Cantante.

It wasn't until I cleared away the soiled blankets that I heard the older women speak, "Come Mary, you should at least hold her before I take her away!"

"I don't want to, Meredith. It's hard enough as it is. Why can't you just leave it alone?" Whispered Mary.

"Because I don't want you to regret this in a few years. Once we get rid of her, you`ll never see her again! Don't make the same mistake I did!" replied Meredith, who I learned was the name of the older woman.

I had to muffle a growl at what I was hearing, but I calmed myself as I cleared my throat so that I had their attention.

"You're all cleaned up, Mary, but I still recommend seeing an OBGYN to make sure that nothing internal has been damaged. Now, I`ll just check over the baby!" I suggested as I gestured to take the infant from Meredith.

"Of course, thank you, doctor." Meredith replied as Mary turned her back to us.

I took the baby and laid her carefully down on the table, but with several blankets for comfort as I unwrapped her so that I could check her limbs, make sure she had ten toes and fingers, but the most outstanding thing that I've ever seen was when she opened her little eyes. I saw the normal shade of blue that all babies are born with, but with my enhanced vision, I could see the rare abnormally where she has one eye with a shade of green and the other a more brownish colour.

Mix matched eyes.

Meredith later asked me to take the baby out into the sitting room so Mary could rest. I walked around the room as I swayed the baby to sleep, but I knew I soon needed to leave here. It's just so hard to leave my blood singer and knowing that they are going to be getting rid of her. But deep down, I wished I could take her home for Esme and myself to raise as our own, but I knew I couldn't put a constant temptation like that in front of my family for my selfish gain, no matter the joy that she would most certainly bring.

So with a heavy heart, I handed her back to Meredith as I spoke, "She`ll need feeding as soon as Mary is ready, or you can have a bottle prepared. I'm sorry, but I really must be leaving now and head home to my family"

"Yes, thank you so much, Dr Cullen. You really are a life saver! I really wasn't sure what I was going to do!" An exhausted but grateful Meredith exclaimed quietly, since Mary was asleep.

But with a moment hesitation, I asked, "Could I take a picture of her? She is the first baby that I've delivered and I would like to remember this moment!"

Meredith smiled and said, "Of course, you can!"

So, I took out my phone and snapped a picture of this beautiful baby who opened her eyes as the picture was taken. (A/N: I know camera phones weren't invented then, but my co-author and I liked the idea of Carlisle having a picture of her.)

After I left that house, I made a promise to myself and that was that I would find her again one day, and I could only pray that the family that adopts her will raise her to cherish her like she truly deserved to be.

(Jasper's POV)

Present day…

I sat with my arms around Emma's waist as she sat on the couch with her head in her hands after we heard Carlisle's story. She was still a little groggy after fainting, all of the information too much for her human brain to handle in such a short time. Her emotions were erratic as if she didn't know what to feel.

After Emma had fainted, the rest of the family and Bella came rushing down the stairs to see what had happened, having heard everything from where they were in different parts of the house. It took Emma about twenty minutes to wake up, though during that time, I had freaked out, my instincts taking over and not letting anyone near my very vulnerable unconscious mate. The only way that we knew she would be alright was because Alice had said that she saw her waking up and when that would happen. I had caught her before she hit her head, so luckily, she didn't have any head trauma.

"There's one thing that I don't understand," Bella spoke from the loveseat, where she and Edward were sitting. "If Emma's your singer, then why are you able to be around her without wanting to drain her? And why do you feel a bond to your singer?"

"Yeah," Emmett nodded in agreement. "When I met my singer, I drained him before I realized what was happening."

"Well, this is Carlisle that we're talking about." Alice chimed with a shrug.

"True." Rose agreed.

"But that doesn't explain the bond." I interjected, wanting to know about that more than anything else, my possessive instincts screaming at me.

Carlisle sighed, rubbing his fingers down the side of his face in exasperation at being interrogated. "Emmett, I am sure you would have felt the bond to your singer, had you been able to resist draining him." He looked over in mine and Emma's direction. "Now, as for the bond, it is almost like the familial bond that a vampire has with their biological family members. It's an instant protective instinct that comes from the way that their blood sings to its vampire."

"Do I have that with Bella?" Edward asked.

Carlisle nodded. "It's one of the reasons that you are so overly protective of her, more so than most mated pairs, but not as much as a vampire like Jasper has towards his mate, since he has a split soul."

"A split soul?" Emma spoke up for the first time.

I looked down at her, giving her a gentle squeeze. "It's a long story, sweetheart, and it has to do with my past. I'll tell you about it sometime soon, though." I explained soothingly, not wanting to overwhelm her with anything more. "However, I will tell you this, since I have a split soul, it's like double the instincts that a normal vampire would have."

She nodded, giving me a small understanding smile before turning to Carlisle. "This is a lot to take in. I'm not putting you in any unnecessary pain, am I?"

Both Carlisle and Esme gave her an affectionate smile, appreciating the fact that she was worried about making him uncomfortable.

"Normally, I don't have any blood lust anymore since I've built up my tolerance, especially with me being in the medical profession. Being around you feels like I'm around a person with sweeter smelling blood that is bleeding. To a normal vampire, that would send them into burning pain and most of them can't handle it, while others need to leave and walk away from that person because of the scorch in their throat."

Emma's eyes were wide. "And it feels like that for you?"

He chuckled, shaking his head. "Like I said, I've built up a tolerance. While it feels like that for the average vampire, it only feels like an itching, tingling feeling to me."

"What does being someone's singer mean, anyway?" Bella asked. "All I know is that I smell especially sweet to Edward. He has never explained anything more to me." She said shooting a look in his direction.

It was me who answered the both of them, having had lived the longest out of everyone, aside from Carlisle. "Yes, it means that your blood smells irresistibly sweet to the person that your blood sings to, but it also means that your blood will be sweeter to vampires in general. The reason why you both are a vampire's singer is probably because you're related. I wouldn't be surprised if Charlie turns out to be a blood singer, as well. It gives you a stronger tie to the supernatural world, and usually most singers turn out to be very gifted creatures if they survive being turned. Sometimes, they even have gifts showing as a human." I explained.

Just then, Bella's cell phone rang, causing her to look down at it before looking back at Emma.

"Charlie," she answered her sister's unasked question, answering the phone and putting it to her ear. "Hey dad."

"Hey Bells," Chief Charlie Swan said to her daughter. "I was just calling to let you know that you don't have to bother cooking dinner. Jake and Billy are picking up a pizza on the way over for the game tonight. They wanted to meet Emma."

A growl erupted in my chest at hearing that two if the Quileute's would be around my Emma, though I could only thank my lucky stars that I knew for a fact that the boy, Jacob, had not yet shifted. Though, I knew that it would be happening soon, and the thought of him shifting too close to my new human mate brought a fear through me; something that I hadn't felt in a long time. I could feel that Edward felt the same way as his eyes flickered over to Bella with worry.

The family shot me an uneasy warning look while Emma and Bella looked at me with cocked brows and confusion and concern coating their emotions.

"Bells? You hear me?" Chief Swan said, effectively getting Bella's attention.

"Huh? Oh yeah, alright. That sounds good!" Bella smiled uneasily, everybody's eyes still on me.

"Are the two of you home, yet?" He asked.

Bella shook her head, even though she knew Chief Swan couldn't see her. "No, we stopped by a friend's house really quick to introduce Emma. We'll be home in about a half hour."

"Okay Bells," Chief Swan answered. "That was a nice thing to do. I'm getting ready to leave the station now, so I'll meet you back at the house in about forty-five minutes."

"M'kay, dad. Bye." Bella said closing the phone and looking towards Emma to explain what their dad had said since she couldn't hear both ends of the conversation like the rest of us could. "Charlie invited company over for dinner and the game. He's going to be home in forty-five minutes. So, we'd better get going."

Suddenly, an emptiness filled my chest at the thought of Emma already leaving my presence after only just finding her and I held her tighter to me.

"Okay," she turned to look at me. "Jasper, will you come with Bella, Edward and I to drop us off?"

I smiled down at her affectionately, knowing that she felt the same way about separating that I did. "Of course." I leaned in to kiss her temple before helping her up off of the couch, preparing to leave.

A/N: Emma's getting ready to meet Billy and Jake! Any idea's what will happen?! Will they see her with the Cullen's?! What did you think of the flashback to Emma's birth?! Review!

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