Jasper's POV (from last chapter)
It was noon and I was trying to let Alice sleep for as long as possible, but it was hard, I was getting bored. This happened every time I went hunting and it cut into when Alice was suppose to be sleeping, she could never sleep when I was gone, although normally she stayed in bed and watched TV until she just couldn't keep her eyes open anymore, I had actually watched her do it once, but I guess she felt like talking to Bella last night. I felt Alice starting to wake up so I kissed her.
"Good morning, my Alice"
"Hmmm" I chuckled, she was still waking up.
The day went by fast, I took Alice to our new house to add all the furniture and that took up almost all of our day. We were back at our house and I was making Alice dinner, I had learned to cook because Alice now needed to eat and the only other people who knew how to cook in the entire house was Edward and Bella, Alice had learned how to cook, because of when I had gone hunting when Edward and Bella were on there honeymoon and Emmett, Rose and Esme had watched her. After I made her dinner, and she ate it, we went to watch some TV and Alice ended up falling asleep on my shoulder. I carried her up to our room, and tucked her in and climbed in next to her.
Alice woke up around eight in the morning and we went down stairs, and Alice ate some cereal, apparently she wasn't feeling all that hungry, a first since her fourth month. We went back to our new house and finished with all the installing of furniture and appliances, well I did all the moving and installing, Ali just gave directions, and washed all the sheets, and the nursery bed set. I packed up every thing from our old house and moved it into our new house. By the time we finished, it was almost eight at night and I cooked Alice dinner in our new kitchen. We were sitting in our new living room watching TV when Ali gave off a huge yawn.
"Ok, time for bed."
"Yeah, I'm exhausted." She gave another huge involuntary yawn. I got up and helped her up, and walked behind her as she walked up the stairs as we went into our new room and went to bed. As we were climbing into bed Alice gasped, as if she was in pain.
"What's wrong?" I asked, at her side in an instant.
"I don't know, I think it was just the baby kicking me, but I don't know it didn't feel right, I'm sure it's nothing."
"Ok," I said still worried. She climbed into bed and fell asleep within five minutes. She woke up several times and after the fifth time, Ali told me to call Carlisle and tell him that she thought she was in labour. Ali couldn't have our baby in the hospital for obvious reasons, she didn't have a heart beat and they would keep track of that. So we had decided that we were going to have our babies here in our new house, with the help of Carlisle of course and since he was a doctor, he could issue an official birth certificate, not like we would have had a problem creating a fake one. Carlisle was at our house within fifteen minutes, and knocked on the door, Ali had fallen back asleep so I answered the door and led him up the stairs.
Twenty-six hours later at 12:03:21 A.M. on March 21, we officially had a baby boy which we named David Carlisle Hale Cullen. He was 9 pounds, 11 ounces, had blue-green eyes, and black hair .Ten minutes later at 12:13:21 A.M. on March 21, we had a baby girl which we named Mary Nicole Hale Cullen. She was 7 pounds, 9 ounces, had blue-green eyes like her brother, and honey blonde hair About ten minutes after David and Mary were born, she insisted that their crib be brought in our room. She was being completely over protective. Carlisle had said he wanted to run some test on them, so he just took some blood right after they where born and then gave them right back to Alice who was completely paranoid about them disappearing. The only question we had for Carlisle was 'what do they eat?' Carlisle answered us with an 'I don't know, they could eat blood or they could eat formula, like every other baby, they do have a heart beat.' We decided to try formula first and if they didn't like it or got sick or something we would try blood. They had their first feeding about two hours after they were born and they ate formula fine, Alice fed David while I fed Mary, I let her she deserved it, I mean twenty-six hours of pain, man I loved her. Alice was ecstatic to get all of her abilities back, after she gave birth, she got too keep her new foot of hair that had grown mysteriously during her pregnancy, which she was very happy about. Every ache and pain that came with giving birth disappeared after the first ten minutes she gave birth, in other words she was a fully fledged vampire again. The rest of the family came the next morning. Alice got in the shower, while David and Mary were asleep in their aunts and grandmother's care. I sat on our bed, which had new sheets, and had been washed by Esme, watching my son and daughter like a hawk, not letting them out of my sight. Rose sat in a chair in our bedroom next to the crib, Emmett was in the doorway keeping an eye on Rose, as if she could die at any time, I didn't blame him, he was extremely worried about her, she was only 5'1", tiny, and it was dangerous for her to be pregnant. Carlisle didn't think it was possible for Rose to actually die, but he wasn't taking any chances, eventually she would be put on bed rest, she was already on severely restricted activities. Alice came out dressed in a pyjama set. She immediately went to check on David and Mary, a worried expression on her face as if they could have gotten deathly ill while she was gone for half an hour. Rose, Bella, Edward, Emmett and Esme all left after saying goodbye and we'll be by later. I came up behind Alice and wrapped my arms around her now flat stomach, and watched our son and daughter sleep.
"Is this what watching me sleep was like?" Alice asked.
"Yeah, only you it was way better, I got to watch all 3 of you sleep at the same time." She laughed quietly.
"I love you,"
"I love you too,"
Rose's POV
I had a nephew and niece!! I was soo happy, I was watching them sleep at the moment while Alice was in the shower, Jasper was watching his son and daughter closely, as if he took his eyes off of them for one second they would suddenly disappear.
I was three month pregnant and Emmett was staring at me as if I would keel over dead. He was worried about me I know. Carlisle had told Emmett and I that if I were human I would probably would have had major complications, so he was putting me on restrictions, I actually had a restriction on how many hours I could shop, and every time I went, Emmett went with me, I could see how worried he was about me, he was more protective now than Edward was of Bella, and that was saying something. I also couldn't drive, or go hunting; Emmett went hunting for me, no running any faster than human speed and no lifting anything heavy, and absolutely no stress. Alice came out of the bathroom dressed in a pyjamas set. She first when to David and Mary to check on them, Esme, and Edward where the first to say goodbye and we'll be back to Alice and Jasper. Then Bella and I left making one last pass by my nephew and niece's crib to say goodbye. As I reached Emmett he put his arm around my waist protectively, and growled when Edward came to close.
"Emmett, its ok, calm down." He sighed and kissed the top of my head.
"I'm sorry I'm just worried about you, I don't want you to get hurt."
"I know its ok, I love you,"
"I love you too,"
We drove home and went to the kitchen, where Emmett attempted to make me lunch, we were being taught how to cook from Bella, and occasionally Edward. I was thinking about what our baby would be like, what would happen to me, if every thing would go ok. David and Mary ate formula, which means they were mostly human, at least for now. Carlisle had determined that they had venom like the rest of us, but they had a beating heart, had to breathe, and had a human digestive system.
Three Months Later…
Bella's POV
I was nervous to tell Edward, I mean we hadn't talked about this since that day in the forest before David and Mary were born, and he hasn't said anything else about it. Would he be happy or angry? Would he leave? No he swore he would never ever leave me again, but did I believe him, stop it Bella, I thought angrily at myself. Your just being paranoid, that's all, he won't leave, besides you don't even know if it's true or not, but I still have to tell him. Ok here goes, "hey Edward,"
"Yeah," he was on the bed. I was currently in the bathroom; I just got out of the shower. I walked out of the bathroom and into our walk in closet and got dressed while telling him, "I need to talk to you."
"Ok," I walked into the bedroom and crawled up next to him; he wrapped his arm around my waist and waited.
"You remember when we went hunting like two days before Chris was born?" he grinned remember, probably not the hunting parts of that particular trip.
"Of course," he said still grinning and kissed me.
"You remember the conversation we had after I found out about my 'gift'?" I asked using his word for my ability to age to any age and back again, although we had discovered that I couldn't look under the age of 15, and that I could just my gift to let me age normally, and that I could do it to Edward and the rest of my family so we were now able to stay in forks for as long as we want, right now I was gradually adding people to my 'ageing' list. Edward, Carlisle, Esme, and I were the only people who were on it, next I was adding Emmett, then Alice and Jasper. Rosalie didn't want to be added, not yet any way. I was snapped out of my thoughts by Edward's voice.
"Yes, what's this about Bella?" I looked up at him shyly.
"Bella," he sounded a little concerned, so I decided to tell him, to prevent him from completely freaking out.
"Edward, I… I-I think I'm pregnant, but I don't know." I was about to break down in tears I was so scared that he was going to leave me. Edward lay there looking completely shocked until he heard me, take a shaky breath that sounded like I was about to cry. He quickly got over it and pulled me into his lap laying my head on his chest and saying "its okay, I'm staying right here." At that I did manage to burst into tears and wrap my arms around his neck and just cry, happy that he wasn't leaving, not right now any way and that there was a very good possibility of Edward and I having a baby. I was scared out of my mind; I mean what if Edward didn't want a baby, or what if he couldn't handle it? I finally calmed down enough for him to pull my face to his and kiss me, which soon turned into a make out session, he finally pulled away.
"We have to go and see Carlisle, he can do an ultra sound and make sure," he paused for a couple of seconds "Bella, I have to know some thing though first, ok?" I nodded my head to show I would answer his question.
"Do you want this baby, and don't say that we don't have any other choice if you are pregnant, I want to know if you want, truly want this baby." He looked directly into my eyes in a way that he knew I couldn't lie to him.
"More than any thing in the world, but I'm not willing to risk losing you to have it."
"Isabella, your not going to lose me, no matter what I'm right here, whether you like it or not." I smiled and laughed a little at that.
"I know, I love you,"
"I love you too," we were silent for an hour or so, we were laying down, me curled up in Edward's chest and he looked in thought before he broke the silence.
"you said you wanted this baby more than any thing," he paused, I could tell there was more to the statement so I stayed quiet and after a minute or two he continued, "Bella, did you want a baby before I turned you?" I decided that I hadn't been telling him everything for a little too long, and he couldn't go back on the change now, he could leave, but I don't really think he would do that to me.
"when I lived with my mom, I babysat these kids, they were twins, I started about six months after they were born and I sort of fell in love with them, I was only 13 when I started, they were like my little sister and brother, they were four and a half when I left, but a year before the family had another kid, a baby girl, ever since then I wanted to be a mom, I mean, I loved them, but I never told you because I didn't want to give you another reason to leave me." He looked at me appalled that he had never known about this part of my life.
"There names wouldn't happen to be Ash and Alex would they?"
"Let me guess I sleep talked."
"Yeah, I always guessed they were friends you left behind in phoenix. And the little girls' name was Amy wasn't it?"
"Yeah, I missed them when I first got here, then I met you, and if you don't want this baby than that's fine, we'll figure something out, I just need you." My eyes tearing up, but quickly dissipating.
"Bella, I want you, and our baby, if your pregnant that is, come on, let's go talk to Carlisle." We left to go to Carlisle' office at the hospital, Edward of course called before we left and soon we were back in Edward's car me holding an ultra sound picture of mine and Edward's babies, Carlisle told us that we were having twins like Alice.
When we got back home Edward called a family meeting and told every body including a highly ecstatic six month pregnant Rose who as soon as she heard was hugging me tightly until Emmett told her that unless she wanted him to come over there and forcibly remove her from me and lock her in the bedroom with nothing to do but sleep that she should ease up for both hers' and mine's sake. Edward called Jasper after all of this and told him as well and Alice and I spent a whole 2 hours on the phone. I didn't sleep that night or the next, but over the next week I gradually began to sleep a little more until I slept for four hours straight.
Two Months Later…
Rose's POV
Emmett, Bella, Edward and I were all sitting in the living room watching David and Mary while Alice and Jasper went hunting and had some time to them selves, I was sitting on the couch, while a five month pregnant Bella, who was looked more like seven months along rather than five, was on the floor with David and Mary playing with them I would be with them on floor, but my eight month pregnant belly made it incredibly hard. I was supposed to be on bed rest, but I had gotten way to restless and needed to at least walk around the house, Emmett wouldn't let me walk down the stairs, and was incredibly reluctant to let me walk around at all but I managed to talk him into it, at least for ten minutes. David was already proving that he was going to be as strong as if not stronger than Jasper, he had managed to throw a toy through his room wall unintentionally while he was upset at something, Alice had made Jasper patch the holes, and she had to repaint where it had gone through, it actually made it all the way trough his wall and made a hole in Alice and Jasper's room and a dent on the other side of their room.
Alice was still completely over protective of them, this was the first time, in five months that both their parents had been gone at the same time, Jasper had to practically drag Alice out of the house saying that they'd be fine and that he had Bella to look after them, which was a good point, Bella was a miracle worker with kids, she said it was just something that came natural to her, but given a choice David and Mary would still choose their mother every time simply because she understood her son and daughter better, all in all Alice had a very good instinct when it came to her son and daughter. Bella had changed her initial prediction that Emmett and my baby would be a boy, she said that she was getting mixed signals because Alice was pregnant and she had a boy and girl, but she said after a month's time with me she determined that I was defiantly going to have a girl. I wanted a girl, so did Emmett. we were actually planning on having a girl, the crib we bought was in our room and we had decided that she/he would be moved into Alice and Jasper's old room when she/he started sleeping all the way through the night, or when I could bare to let my baby not be in my room any more, although I didn't see the point I would just go sit in her/his room and watch her sleep.
Emmett's POV
Rose had insisted upon coming down for at least ten minutes, I knew she would be longer but when she unleashed all her restlessness and depression, frustration, and anger on me. I felt so bad about it that I let her wonder around the house, no stairs though, and I kept my eyes on her every millisecond of the way. She was currently in the living room sitting on the couch, 'babysitting' our 'nephew and niece'. A five month pregnant Bella who looked more like seven months pregnant, sat on the floor playing with David and Mary. Edward was on a chair watching Bella with an expression I'm sure I had on my face as I sat on the couch next to Rose. The expression was one as if Rose (or in Edward's case Bella) could fall over dead at any time, Rose originally thought that I would get less protective of her and our baby (wow, I still couldn't get used to that) as time went on, but it was the reverse, I grew more protective now I was about as protective as Edward was when Bella was human, which was now slowly doubling and maybe tripling due to the fact that he not only had to watch out for 'danger magnet' Bella, but the one life that was growing insider her. Bella had added us to what she called her 'ageing list', me just a week ago and Rose a month ago. Rose actually grew older, it was only slightly, but still. I had Bella take it off last week, Rose was actually getting close to the nine month mark, a remarkable accomplishment, Carlisle said (he also said it was probably due mostly to me being over protective, he of course didn't say this in front of Rose). I felt Rose's sharp twinge of pain and immediately asked her if she was ok.
"I'm fine, Emmett," she said a little annoyed but mostly she just felt a great rush of love towards me. I smiled slightly.
"Ok, if you say so,"
It happened again half an hour later and Rose told me it was nothing again, I was way more worried than normal, and when Carlisle got back I intended on asking him to have a look at Rose.
Over the next hour and a half she had 4 more of these and then she finally agreed with me that this might not be normal. Alice and Jasper came and got David and Mary half an hour ago and after that I had taken Rose back up to our room, and she fell asleep, I called Carlisle and asked him to take off early. He agreed and was home in fifteen minutes and was now talking to me, telling me that Rose was probably going into labour and that I should let her sleep, from what I'd heard from Jasper I wanted Rose to be as well rested as possible. I started thinking about the names Rose and I (but mostly Rose) had picked out for our baby. If it was a boy we would either name him Matthew Emmett McCarthy Cullen, or Joshua Ethan McCarthy Cullen. If it was a girl we would either name her Madison Sophia McCarthy Cullen or Olivia Grace McCarthy Cullen.
On August 17 at 3:04:34 A.M. after 30 hours of labour from Rose, our daughter was born, I officially had a daughter, wow. Right after she was born, Carlisle took a blood sample from her foot and handed her directly back to Rose whose happiness was staggering and mine was doubled, because I had hers added to mine. Rose was crying from happiness and if I could have cried I would have as Rose handed me my daughter, a daughter I never thought I would have. Carlisle left us and Esme came and cleaned everything then left us and after that I still couldn't speak so I just let go of all of the love I felt for Rose. She looked up at me and said, "I love you too." It was the first time either of us spoke since she was born. I spoke after a couple of minutes finally regaining the ability. "So, what are we going to name her?" I handed our daughter back to Rose and Rose sighed happily.
"Well, we have two choices either Madison Sophia or Olivia Grace." We both looked at our daughter she had her eyes open they were an emerald green and the little hair she did have was honey Blonde like Rose's. My favourite of the two names were Olivia Grace, but Rose was the one who did all the work, so I would let her pick our daughter's name. Rose spoke bringing me out of my thoughts.
"I want you to pick," I looked at her, why would she want me to name our daughter?
"Why do you want me to name her?" She shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know, I think because you're her father, and I think you should have the honour, and I think you deserved it."
"Me, I deserved it, you're the one who carried her for nine months, you're the one who was in labour with her for 30 hours and you're the one who had the mood swings and cravings, and not to mention the bed rest."
"Yeah, but you're the one who put up all of that, and you had to have a pregnant hormonal wife."
"Rose just tell me the one you like the best,"
"No, you first,"
"Rose," I growled. I could feel her stubbornness wash over me and I cringed, there was no way I would win this fight. I sighed and answered her.
"Olivia Grace,"
"Really,"
I could feel a great rush of happiness, the happiness that only came
with the times we managed to think alike.
"I take it that was
your first pick too,"
"Yeah," she smiled happily and continued, "here," she handed me Olivia, "hold Liv I'm going to get a shower." I looked at her worriedly, "Rose do you think that's a good idea, I mean," I gestured to the little bundle in my arms with my head.
"Emmett, Alice got over giving birth in 10 minutes, I've been sitting here for an hour and a half, I'll be fine, but one hair out of place on her head and me and you are going to have some issues." I chuckled, as I felt a great rush of love and protectiveness run through my wife.
"She'll be fine with me, and I'm sure Bella will charge in here any second demanding to see her niece." Rose laughed her wind-chime laugh.
While Rose was in the shower, not only Bella showed up, but so did Alice, Jasper, and Edward followed Bella naturally. When Rose came out she came out to see Alice holding 'Liv' as Rose had called her. Rose immediately went and took Olivia from Alice and settled down in our bed. The second Olivia was in her mother's arms she stopped fussing. I smiled at my girls. Rose had told me two weeks ago that it didn't matter to her which we got, just so long as he/she was healthy, she was happy, and that's what I wanted, Rose happy.