A Place Only We Know

By: Forgotten Sunrise

Interlude: Faith

I have never seen either of these girls- women really- so bothered; let alone so bothered by one another. Alice, with her fairy height was on tip-toes, shouting and snarling with fist flailing in the air where as Rosalie bent her neck down low to her sister's height, eyes narrowed with hands on hips and lip curled back, matching Alice's shouts and snarls with her own sharp tounge.

The newest of the sisters, Bella, just stood back, not taking either side seemingly, but she just kept glancing over at me with a concerned look.

Why did she always pick and choose her times to be mad tough?

And why did they have to bring there squabble into my house?

Well granted, it was a house that I shared with their brother, Edward (I wasn't cruel enough to just let him stay in that luxury apartment of his doing nothing all day but rotting away at his fancy piano. There was also the fact that we were in love, but that was a differnet story.), but that didn't mean that they could just waltz right in here getting ready to throw down. I didn't even let my pack do that.

I wish Edward was here. He was good at defusing this kinda thing. Or Jazzy; Alice would listen to her man and he was capable of calming Rose down. Hell, even Jacob might be able to do something…Not so much Emmett, he'd only egg on the fight. I sighed.

At this point in time my gift was still too fizzy to do any really damage. In fact, it came and went as it pleased. I was going to have to get Jasper to train me more on how to control it for times like this.

"Bella! What the hell?" I lifted my tie-dyed goggles up into my growing hair and pointed a white gloved finger at the feuding women who were dancing dangerously close to my in-home lab. I'd be damned if they broke anything.

Bella (my soon to be sister in law according to Alice, which would be werid seeing that her daughter is married to my brother now.) just kept opening and closing her mouth like a fish out of water. What a fat load of help she was.

Finally, she cleared her throat and addressed her sisters feebly.

"Rose, Alice, you can argue all you want," She started. I didn't like how that sounded. Why on earth would she give them the okay to argue all they wanted? Wasn't she trying to stop them from fighting? She took an unneeded breath, then continued.

"But when it all comes down to it, it's Leah's choice, not yours. So what the point in you guys yelling at each other?"

They were quite for a moment and they all looked at me. It was a little intimidating having three vamp girls just stare at you with golded eyes, waiting. I knew that they won't hurt me; Rose was my best gal pal, Bella was going to be-god forbid, please- my sister, and Alice would never harm a hair on me. Unless it was for fashion. They looked at me as if they wanted me to answer yes or no, but I hadn't a clue what they were talking about in the first place.

Then Alice began to yell again.

"You selfish bitch! How can you even think to ask her such a question in the first place?"

"Because if anyone can do it she can!"

"Carlisle said it can't be done so just except that!"

"You said that you saw it happen! You said it yourself, Alice! It's going to happen!"

"What if she doesn't want to? What then? Are you just going to-"

"Urgh! Alice! You know I would never do anything to harm her- she's my friend!"

"Then why do you want her dead?!"

"She'll live, I know she can!"

"It will kill her and there's no way we can save her Rosalie. Can you even understand that much? There is no way to save her! No guarantee of any sort-"

"I can't let that happen Alice." Rosalie straighten her body up and the women looked more determined than ever. "Leah is my friend and Lord knows that Edward would kill me before he let something happen to her. But if there's a way where I can live out my dream and Leah can stay safe, well, I'm going to go for it the best I can."

She then turned on her heels and looked at me with her warm honeysuckle eyes. If she was human, she would have been crying right now; I could tell by the width of her eyes and the slight tremble of her lip. I could hear the sobs catching the back of Alice's throat as she shook her head and shout 'No, no, no, no, no, no, no!' over and over again in the background. Bella was sitting down, out of habit with her eyes shut tight and hand on her temple as she face screwed up. I could tell she was wishing that none of this was happening and that she wasn't here.

I wish I knew what was going on.

"Leah, I want you to have my baby."

Time stood still for the moment it took for me to process that information. Rosalie wanted me to be her surrogate. She trusted me enough to ask me to caring the one thing in life she wanted most, the thing she could never have on her own. I started to feel light headed and wobbly on my feet, and instantly the three women where there and helping me sit down. Regina would have had a fit if she was here but she wasn't, so to Hell with her. I loved the woman dearly, but she was too much of a Spartan for me.

Rosalie wanted me to have her baby.

"This is totally up to you, Leah; this is your choice. But I couldn't just let the opportunity go by. I had to ask. You understand right?"

Of course I did. Five years ago, I had though I was menopausal. I thought I was just like the vamp sisters. But Esme had her kids, Bella had her daughter before she was turned and Alice didn't want children of her own. Rosalie was truly the only one who knew what I was feeling for so long, it became the bond that made a close; almost as close as me and Jacob. Almost as close as me and Edward.

Neither of those two would support this. They would both throw a fit. A part of me wanted to console with Edward about this first; after all, there was a change that he was going to be my imprint( no matter how tiny it was) and he did live in this house too. He had a right in this moment as well.

And what a about Emmett? What did he think about becoming a father? He didn't seem fatherly to me.

I inhaled deeply and rubbed the side of my temple.

"You're damn right this is totally up to me. This is my body and my life that's going to be effected most, so don't you dare tell me what to and not to eat and what I can and can't do, and for God's sake, when I say give me that spinal taps, don't tell me what problems it's going to cause for the baby, because honestly, when I'm in labour, I don't think I'm going to care so much."

Rosalie jumped up to hug me before I even finished, overcome with joy that I decided to help her. But Bella and Alice were worried.

"Leah…Renesmee almost killed me. Actually, she did kill me. And she was only half vampire. This child is going to have vampire traits coming from both ends. And our venom is poisonous to you, Leah. At least talk to Jake or even Edward before you just go and say-"

"I'm a she-wolf, Bella. Like Regina, it's just my nature to nurture. And besides, I'm a she-wolf. I'm not dying easily. As for the posion, I'm sure I can work that minor detail out."

"I can't see you after seven months Leah. You vanish. I can only assume that this means you're dead if you decide to go through with this." Alice cried, her whole body shaking with fear, sobs and anger now. I looked at Rosalie. She was trembling slightly but her jaw was set with determination. It reminded me a lot of myself.

"If you decide to go through with this Leah, I swear to you that I won't let anything take your life- not even my baby. I'll do everything in my power to protect you."

I knew she wasn't lying.

I nodded my head in understanding.

Alice left the house soon after that with Bella quick behind her, neither women being able to stand the way i just signed my life over to fates hands like that. But neither of them would tell Edward or Jake. They would leave that up to me.

Rosalie embraced me in the tightest hug I've ever been in and cried with happiness and fear for what the future held for me. For us.

I wasn't worried about the baby; I wanted it for her, but oddly, I wanted it for me too. The idea of birthing a vampire babe just seemed important to me for some reason and I just saw this as a trail run.

And I wasn't worried about the Volturi either. Marcus (to Edward's great disappointment) was my friend. A good one. But even if he wasn't, I still didn't care.

Let them come.

Let them be pissed

I had faith that it was all going to work out for the better.

AN: To clear some things up quickly: this interlude takes place FIVE years after part one ends. the next chapter takes place SIX years after part one ends. Eddie and Lee are living together but aren't dating, which will be explained in the next chapter. And Renesmee and Seth are now married, more details on that as well in the next few chapters and in a short companion peice. I promise that I won't make such big times leaps for a LONG while now, because things will be moving at a fster pace anyways.

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