Chapter Ten - Dr. Cullen

We pulled up to the tiny practice at one fifty o'clock. It was a small brick building with trees all around the small parking lot. Jacob got out of the car and walked around to my side to open the door for me. He took my hand silently and we walked up to the glass door. We crossed together across the little waiting room with only twenty or so chairs in it, and I signed my name on the clipboard at the front desk.

"Have a seat," the little old lady behind the desk said with a smile. She had wiry gray hair all piled sloppily onto the top of her head, and she was wearing glasses that were connected by a long chain going around the back of her head. Jacob and I went to two open chairs and held tightly to eachother's hands.

"Ren....Ms. Cullen?" a cute little brunette nurse in Winnie the Pooh scrubs called from a different doorway. She looked back at her clipboard, probably confused by my last name. "Dr. Cullen is ready to see you," she smiled.

Jacob stood up and I followed him to the nurse. She led us through a short hallway and into a white room with a small bed on it. I hopped up onto the bed and Jacob held tight to my hand as he stood.

"Are you Carlisle's daughter?" She smiled as she took my blood pressure.

"No...." I thought for a moment. "I'm his son's brother's daughter. Edward and Bella adopted me a few years ago after my parents died. We live down in Forks. Carlisle is pretty much my grandfather," I explained as best as I could.

"Wow, he's so young though," she said in amazement. "So how far along are you?"

"I'm not sure exactly.... I guess somewhere around two months."

"Well you look great! Are you the proud father?" she asked, turning to Jacob with a huge smile on her face.

"Yeah," he grinned back widely. I smiled at him, and the nurse became dazed when she looked back at me. It took a full three minutes for the serenity to cloud her face.

"You're so beautiful..... what a nice looking family," she smiled at me. I turned my head away from her to laugh, not wanting to befuddle her anymore. "Your baby is going to be the cutest one ever," she said to me, slightly more aware of herself. The door behind her opened quietly.

"Well, Trish, I see you've become acquainted with my lovely granddaughter," Carlisle laughed lightly. Trish blushed a little bit at the sound of his voice; women could never resist someone as good looking as Carlisle.

"You going to take over from here?" she said as she turned to look at him.

"For now, I'll need you to do the OB exam, though," he told her. That should be interesting, having this woman prodding around at my private's.

She turned back to me and smiled, almost like she'd heard my last thought. "Don't worry, it won't be so bad. I'm very gentle," she reassured me. I smiled again, and she became completely dazed again. Carlisle crossed the room and took the hand that Jacob was not holding. He led us into a different room, one with a larger bed and stirrups at the foot of it.

I laid down all the way as Carlisle prepared the machinery for my ultrasound. I rolled up my shirt to just below my breasts as I smelled the disgusting goo smell again. Carlisle spread the cold stuff over my belly with what looked like an extra wide popsicle stick, then sat down on a rolling stool beside me. He pulled out the wand thing and started rolling it over my stomach like the last time.

Jake and I kept our eyes on the screen, trying to figure out what was what. There were black and gray spots moving around on the screen, none of it decipherable to my untrained eyes. Carlisle stopped on a gray area with a small black spot in the center of it. I recognized the black spot as my baby - it was slightly larger than the last time I'd seen it, but just barely.

"Ah, there we are," Carlisle smiled. He turned his eyes to me, and then to Jacob. "Are you alright Jacob?" he asked.

I looked up to Jacob, who had tears in his eyes. "Yeah, I'm fine," he sniffled. I laughed a little and squeezed his fingers in mine.

"Oh Jacob, you're such a softie," I joked. He quickly wiped his tears away and smiled back.

"Am not," he said. "There's somethin' in my eye."

Carlisle and I both laughed. "Everything still looks good," Carlisle told me as he printed out my ultrasound picture and handed it to me. He pulled his gloves off and rolled away to a cabinet, pulled out a file and started writing things down quickly. He stood up and reached below me on the bed, pulling out a large peice of paper and handed it to me.

"Take off all your clothes and cover yourself in this while I go get Trish. Do you want Jacob to stay?" he asked me.

I looked up at Jacob. "Do you want to stay? It might be kind of weird."

"Do you want me to?" he asked. I could tell he didn't really want to leave my side.

I smiled slightly, not wanting to dazzle him. "You can stay if you want. Just don't get jealous when Trish starts to fondle me," I joked.

Him and Carlisle laughed as Carlisle left the room. I stood up and pulled my clothes off while Jacob held my paper for me. I laid back down and let him drape it over my now nude body before he came back and put his hand into mine.

There was a light knock at the door as I scooted down and put my feet into the stirrups. Trish walked in with some weird metal thing in her hands as she pulled the stool around to sit at my feet. She grabbed a triangular white light and moved it down so she could get a good look at my stuff as she lifted the sheet lightly.

"Tell me if you feel any discomfort," she said with her eyes still on my private areas. She coated her strange instrument in more weird goo, and then pushed it inside of me. It was cold and hard and horrible, so I squeezed Jacob's hand hard. I closed my eyes while she did her exam, and kept them that way until she was done.

"When's the last time you had a pap?" she asked me as she pulled off her gloves and threw them in the trash. She stuck a long thin q-tip into a plastic bag and set it to the side.

"Ummm, I've never had one actually," I admitted. I wasn't really old enough to need one, and I knew there was nothing physically wrong with me.

"We better go ahead and do the breast exam too then." She pulled my paper down and made Jacob move to above my head. He was still able to keep ahold of my hand since I had to keep my arms up. She rubbed her hands around my breasts, making me feel very strange and uncomfortable. I looked up at Jacob; his eyes were wide as he watched what she was doing, but I couldn't tell what he was thinking. I hoped he really wasn't getting jealous, as this was obviously not that type of situation.

"Alright, we're all done here. You have a beautiful body, by the way," Trish said as I covered myself back up with the paper. I blushed scarlet as she left out of the room. I stood up and Jacob handed me my clothes to put them back on.

"Do girls always have to do all that stuff?" he asked as I was pulling my pants up.

"Yeah. You're supposed to have everything done once a year after you turn thirteen."

"Wow...." he said, his mouth forming into a little 'o'. "That was kind of hot though," he smiled.

"Jake!" I pushed at him lightly.

"What? She was totally into that, getting to feel all over your boobs." I blushed again; he'd never said the word "boobs" to me before, and he'd never said anything before about another girl liking me like that.

"She was not. It's her job," I told him with my hands on my hips.

"Then how come she told you you have a beautiful body?" he asked, placing his hands on my hips as well.

"I don't know, I guess 'cause that's what she was thinking."

He brought me to him and placed his lips to mine for a few wonderful moments. He pulled away and smiled mischeviously. "Exactly," he said, as if I'd proved his point for him.

Carlisle knocked lightly on the door and opened it. He stuck his head in with his hands covering his eyes, making me giggle.

"Are you decent?" he asked.

"Yep, fully clothed again." I picked up my ultrasound picture and looked at my tiny little baby, hoping more than anything that he or she was going to be okay as my worries quickly came back to me.

"Carlisle?" I whispered as I felt tears filling my eyes.

"What is it Renesmee?" he asked worriedly.

"Do you think..... what do you think it's going to be? If it has vampire venom in it and werewolf blood, it would die from the combination," I cried quietly.

"I don't think you have to worry about that. Everything looks fine so far, and that should mean that it doesn't have both. Maybe since you're not venomous, it only has werewolf blood in it. It must have some bit of vampire to it since you do, but it's obviously handled that well enough so far." He looked like he was deep in thought, and Jacob was staring at me like I was crazy.

"I can try to do some research, combine yours and Jacob's DNA to experiment a little if you'd like for me to," Carlisle offered. "I'll need samples from both of you, though."

"That's a good idea. How will you get my DNA? Needles can't penetrate my skin."

"I'll have to take it from your saliva I suppose. Let me go get a syringe for Jacob," he said as he left back out the room.

"Why didn't you say anything before?" Jacob asked me, his eyes still very wide and his voice tiny.

"I didn't want you to worry, too. Especially since I have no idea if there's a need to worry yet."

He sat down and pulled me into his lap. "It's going to be okay..... I don't know how but I have a feeling that the baby is going to be fine...."

I turned to look at him and tried to smile slightly. "I hope you're right. It's very possible that it will be just fine, it's been fine so far and that has to mean something."

Carlisle returned with a syringe and a few other things. A q-tip popped out of a small plastic container and I opened up my mouth so he could stick it around in there. I yanked out one of my hairs and handed it to him as well, knowing that two samples of my DNA would be better than just the one. I moved off of Jacob's lap so Carlisle could wrap plastic around his arm and take his blood.

"That should do it," Carlisle said. "Try not to worry yourselves; if the baby has made it this long without any problems, everything should be alright," he smiled.

"Thank you Grandpa." I wrapped my arms around him for a few minutes.

"I'll let you know within a week or two what I find," he told me. "Be safe."

We left the office and started the long ride home in silence. I turned on some music, then quickly changed out the CD; Agents of Oblivion was too soft and sad for the mood I was in right now. I popped in 'When The Kite String Pops' and blasted it. Jacob took my hand and intertwined his fingers with mine comfortingly.

"Do you want to stop and get something to eat?" he asked after a little bit of time had passed.

"Sure," I smiled. I was always up for a good meal.

Jacob pulled into IHOP and led me inside by the hand. A hostess seated us quickly and gave us our silverware and menus. There were more than a dozen cops sitting at three tables pushed together right beside of us, and most all of them took notice and stared at me.

"Look at her...." one of them whispered to another sitting beside of him.

"Damn," the second police officer replied. "I'd like to pull her over."

I shot them a dirty look and they both took their eyes away from me, looking down and drinking their coffee like they'd said nothing. Our waitress came over and introduced herself as Monica. She took our orders quickly and went to get our food from the kitchen.

"Whoa," a different cop said as he noticed me for the first time. He rose from his chair and walked right over to the table, leaning down and pretending that Jacob was not sitting there. "Hey beautiful," he said as he smiled at me. "I hate to tell you this, but you are in direct violation of the law."

"How's that?" I asked in a bored tone. Men could be so annoying.

"Well a girl as pretty as you can't come in to my town and not give me her number and let me take her out somewhere. It's illegal," he smiled again. I didn't find him quite so amusing.

"Well, Officer..." My eyes ran over his shiny nameplate, "Johnston, I'm only passing through, I have no phone, and I do have a boyfriend and a baby on the way. So, I'll have to pass."

He glanced over at Jacob for the first time; he was clenching his hands into fists, probably wondering how much trouble he'd get in for punching an officer of the law.

"What, this guy?" he motioned at Jacob. "Come on gorgeous, I'm twice the man he is," he smirked. Jacob's face turned a very dark shade of red.

"Is that so? Just because you have a badge and a gun doesn't make you better than anyone else," I shot back, trying to hide my anger somewhat. I hated when people said anything bad about Jacob, and this man had no right to put him down right in front of him when he'd never met him before.

"I think it does." He grabbed my hand and tugged at it. "Come on, forget this guy. Why have him when you could have me?" He pulled harder at my hand and yanked me up out of my seat. His arms wrapped around me tightly. I looked over at all the other cops, wondering when they were going to step in and do something about his disgusting behavior. They all turned their heads as if they didn't see what was going on.

"Get the hell off of me!!" I yelled as I pushed him away. He fell backwards into his table, all over stacks of pancakes and cups of coffee. His face turned bright red as he stood back up.

"Stupid bitch," he muttered. He went around to the chair he'd been sitting at and pulled on his hat and coat before leaving out the door. The rest of them followed just moments later after throwing bills down on the table. Every one of them kept their eyes away from me as they left. I glanced over and noticed for the first time that Jacob was standing, too. He looked extremely angry as his hands opened and closed, his jaw tensing and his teeth bared.

I returned to my seat and waited for Jake to sit back down too. He did eventually, but did not ease up his anger. I reached across the table and put my hand on top of his.

"It's okay, Jake. He's gone now," I tried to comfort him.

"I'd like to kill that guy. Putting his hands on you like that....." His face twisted back up with his anger.

"Let's just ask for our food to go," I offered. He only nodded in response.

I told the waitress when she came back and she got us boxes for our food. I chugged my orange juice and set the glass back down before we left. I froze as soon as we walked outside; the cop was standing there beside his cruiser. His belt and coat were laying on the hood as he paced back and forth, and one other cop remained with him, looking over at me apologetically.

"You!" the idiot yelled when he noticed us. His eyes sat on Jacob instead of me, leaving me slightly confused. "You're gonna fight me right now. I'd have it out with your bitch, but I can't hit a pregnant lady."

"James..." the other officer said in a restraining tone. The first cop spun around to look at him.

"Don't you start with me, Rookie. I'll have you demoted quicker than shit," he yelled to him. The second cop shot me another apologetic look as he backed off, defeated. The asshole cop spun around again. "Come on boy, I haven't got all day."

"You must think I'm pretty stupid," Jacob growled.

"Don't let the uniform back you down, this is strictly between us. No law involved," he replied. I doubted his honesty.

"Alright then, let's go," Jacob said back as he pulled his shirt off.

"Jake, no. Let's just leave," I said low as I tugged at his hand. He yanked his hand out of mine and crossed the parking lot in two steps.

The cop swung at him immediately and he dodged it. He swung twice more simultaneously, and Jacob dodged them as well.

"Hold still so I can whoop your ass!!" the cop yelled angrily. Jacob smirked at him defiantly and dodged two more punches. Jacob swung once and connected to his cheekbone. The punch lifted him all the way off of the ground and sent him flying downwards. He laid still on the pavement, unconscious but still alive.

I was still frozen with shock on the front step, and I could smell the blood that was running out of the cops wound. Jacob looked very satisfied with himself as he stood over the unconscious body. The Rookie cop ran over to his partner to make sure he was still breathing. He looked up at Jacob with shock on his face as well.

"Go now before he wakes up," he said quickly and quietly. Jacob came back to where I was standing. He picked up his shirt and pulled me into the car as he got in on the other side. He was careful to keep to the speed limit as he was driving away.

"You're not mad are you?" he asked.

"No...... That was just crazy."

"He asked for it. I could've done a whole lot more than that."

"I think you did enough. Any more and you would have definitely been in cuffs."

He smiled hugely and it stayed plastered on his beautiful face the whole ride home.