Chapter 10: News

Nessie's POV

I cried myself to sleep that night. The horrors of that day were perfectly embedded in my mind. You would probably think that sleep would have offered me some sort of reprieve right? Perhaps a chance to rest and at least temporarily forget what had happened? No. Not exactly. For in my dreams I had relieved every single moment of that horrible day. Every single moment as if it were happening all over again.

When I woke up the next morning I felt as if I had gotten no rest at all. There was a huge part of me that just hoped and prayed that it had just all been one huge nightmare. That the towers were still there. That there had been no planes, no fires, no smoke, no jumpers, and no collapsing buildings.

Then I heard the sound of a crying baby. It was a baby boy. I remembered how it had been Jake that found him when the building was about to collapse. It could only mean one thing. What happened yesterday was not a nightmare. It was like something straight out of an action or horror movie. Only this was not a movie. This was reality.

I picked up the baby boy and tried to figure out what was wrong with him. Then it finally occurred to me that the last time he ate or had a diaper change was yesterday morning. I had no supplies or anything that could help him.

I felt a sudden wave of nausea hit me for no reason. It was strong enough to send me running to the bathroom. I emptied the contents of my stomach for at least two minutes. I didn't think too much of it. I was sure that it probably just had something to do with all of the stress of the events from yesterday.

I suddenly heard someone knocking loudly on the door. I opened the door and threw my arms around the man that was standing in the door way and he hugged me tightly to his body.

"Oh god Nessie you have no idea how scared I have been! I was so afraid that you were dead!" He had started to cry now. All I could do was cry as well.

"I'm so sorry Tyler" I whimpered. "Why didn't you just come over last night? I arrived here around 7pm" I told him.

"I was with my family. Actually we were looking for you all day and evening yesterday. We were so worried about you. Last night I stayed the night with my family mostly because of Caroline. She was scared and she didn't want me to leave her"

"I'm sorry Tyler. I didn't mean to cause so much worry"

"Nessie you didn't do anything wrong. You don't have to be sorry for what happened. We were just terrified that you didn't make it out. I mean, you were exactly at the impact zone. How did you make it out?"

"Well" I sighed. "I guess you can say that I was really lucky. I went down for coffee on one of the lower floors just before the plane hit so I narrowly escaped it. Jake did to actually. I was going to leave him in the office but before I could close the door he slipped out. At that point I just let him follow me. That turned out to be a good thing because he was the one that led me and a bunch of other people to safety when the room began to fill with smoke. First he led me to a window so that I could breathe better then he was the first one to discover where the staircase was. He barked to let us know that he had found it. Then after that happened he found a baby boy that I was able to save just before the tower collapsed"

"I'm assuming that is the baby over there? The one that keeps crying?" he asked me.

"Yeah that's him he-" I suddenly broke into a really bad coughing fit. I wasn't really surprised by it honestly. I mean I did inhale a lot of smoke and other crap yesterday.

"Nessie I think that we need to get you to a hospital. You went through a lot yesterday and I think that it would be wise to have a doctor check on you" Tyler said with a concerned voice.

"You're probably right" I said. "I'm taking the baby too though. He hasn't eaten or even had a diaper change since yesterday morning I'm assuming since I wasn't able to get any supplies for him"

When we arrived at the hospital it was a devastating scene. There were people was a long line of people there just to donate blood. There were a lot of people there, way to many to count, with varying degrees of injuries. Some of the people had out ran the falling buildings but were still injured by debris. Some of the people looked like they were barely clinging onto life. There were some doctors that were just standing around waiting to receive others. They were waiting for more ambulances to arrive with more victims.

When I looked out into the distance all that I could see is smoke coming from what used to be the world trade center. People were referring to it as ground zero now. Just the sight made me cry. It was enough to remind me of the horrors that I had witnessed yesterday. The once mighty buildings now gone. Possibly thousands of people now dead.

Even with my advanced mind I couldn't understand how someone can be so evil to do that. To kill innocent people. How is it that a human could be so evil? Yet, at the same time it was events like this that brought people together and also brought out the best in humanity. Everyone seemed determined to help each other. Everyone shared in the grief, the horror, the shock.

All we could do was wait in the lobby for some doctor to look at us. Eventually a doctor took me and the baby in. He looked at the baby first and was able to get him what he needed. The poor boy had been so hungry that he needed two bottles this time. I felt bad that I wasn't able to get him what he needed sooner. The good news is that other then that he was okay.

"So Nessie you said you found this baby in one of the towers yesterday?" the doctor asked me.

"Yes. He seemed to have been abandoned there" I told him.

"You have no idea who his parents or family are?"

"No" I answered.

"Well I'm going to have to report the baby and see if no one is looking for him. In the mean time would you like to keep taking care of him?" he asked me.

"Yes" I didn't hesitate to say.

"Okay, now I'm going to run some tests on you to see how you are doing" he said.

"Alright" was all that I could say.

He did run a lot of tests on me and I do mean a lot. He listened to my heart and lungs. He gave me an x ray of my lungs. He had me pee in a cup. I even had to do a blood test. I just hoped that the doctors wouldn't notice anything unusual about my blood or pee since I'm half vampire and all.

I waited in the lobby until I heard my name called again.

"Renesmee I'm going to have to do one more test on you" the doctor informed me.

"What? Why?" I asked him feeling a little bit paranoid that he discovered something weird.

"Well according to your blood work and your urine sample you're pregnant"

I was totally caught off guard by that. It seemed that Tyler had been as well. Pregnant? Tyler and I did have sex once about three and a half weeks ago but could a pregnancy test register that fast?

Pregnant. Pregnant. Pregnant. That was the only word that rang through my mind as the doctor connected me to the sonogram machine.

"Well Nessie you're definitely pregnant with twins. One boy and one girl. You're about four months along now"

"Wait four months?" Tyler asked looking heartbroken.

"Yes she appears to be about three months pregnant. She should start to show any time now"

I could only imagine the things that were racing through Tyler's mind right now. He believed that he was not the father of my children because four months ago I had just moved here. From his perspective that was the only thing that made sense.

"Nessie who is the father?" Tyler asked me, looking kind of sad.

"Tyler I don't know how to explain this but-"

"You know what? Nevermind. I don't care. I'm not sure that I want to know. I love you and I'm going to stick by your side no matter what. I want to be around for you and your babies if you'll let me"

"Of course Tyler!" I nearly shouted at him. "Of course I want you in mine and the babies's lives. I love you to Tyler" I felt the tears in my eyes.

I had to find a way to tell him the truth now. He was the father of my babies it's just that my babies weren't exactly human. He was going to know that something was up anyway when my pregnancy continued to go at a supernatural rate. My babies. I couldn't help but feel at least a little happy. A speck of happiness in all of the tragedy that is going on right now.

We walked out of the hospital and then proceeded to drive around the city.

"Nessie I love you and those babies that you are carrying. I don't care if they're not biologically mine. I just want you to know that" he said.

"Thank you Tyler" I told him. "I love you to and right now I can't imagine my life without you"

He smiled at me.

"Nessie can we go to the park right now? There is something that I want to do"

"Okay sure" I said wondering what he was up to.

He drove us to central park. He led me to a pond and we sat at a nearby bench.

I saw him get something out of his pocket. My heart skipped several beats when I realized that it was a ring.

"Tyler why do you have a ring?" I asked him.

"Well I have been carrying it around since yesterday. I was going to do this yesterday on your birthday because I thought it would be more special. And now after everything that happened yesterday I just want to enjoy life a lot more then I have been. I want to enjoy even the littlest things that I thought were unimportant before. But I want someone to share it with. I want that person to be you. I love you and the babies that you are having. I want all three of you to be part of my life and I want to be part of all of yours. I guess what I'm trying to say is will you marry me?"

"Oh Tyler! Yes!" I shouted.

Then he kissed me. For a minute I was able to stop thinking about the tragedy. I was able to feel a little bit of happiness. Maybe this is what I needed to help me cope with the tragedy of what I experienced. I needed someone by my side. Someone who loved me and someone who I loved equally"

Suddenly Tyler stopped kissing me.

"Um Nessie I don't mean to alarm you or anything but there are nine people staring at us"

They were all there. All of them. My family staring at me in a mixture of shock and anger.

First of all I went from looking like a 14 year old to a 24 year old and I neglected to tell them that little fact. I also went from being just over four feet to just over six feet in the span of four months. They just heard that I'm pregnant. And now they witnessed Tyler's proposal to me and I had neglected to tell them that I had even met a guy.

Oh hell am I in trouble!

Next chapter Tyler and Edward meet! I'll update again soon. In the mean time please review and tell me what you think.