A/N: I have to say it guys, I was expecting a more outraged reaction, that'd have me cowering a corner. I'm afraid this won't make lots of sense if you keep reading it chapter by chapter as I put them up - every so often, I would recommend you read the whole thing, and defiantly when I've finished it, to read it start to finish, because I'm developing a little sub-plot! Now, I'm going to keep this short, because I guess that you want to get back to the action!

PS: Look out for the speeches!

Secrets and Dresses

JPOV

"What do you mean, pregnant?! How can you be pregnant?" She shrugs helplessly. And in that second she looks so vulnerable and small, I almost think she's human and a child again.

"I don't know how it works. I don't know how it happens."

"Wait, so this has happened before?"

"Yes," she whispers. "Once. I had a little boy."

"Did he survive?"

"Yes. Jay, sit down, please. I know I have a lot of explaining to do."

"Start from the beginning. Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure. I couldn't do a test - but I feel sick and almost like I've eaten too much."

"But this isn't possible. Vampire's can't get pregnant."

"We shouldn't be able to, that's true. Before I was changed, I was due a period. I think, that, somehow, I carried that into this life. Perhaps I was extraordinarily fertile, and it intensified. But you need to listen. Very, very soon, my body will change - I will be visibly pregnant. We have to go away. I cannot stay here. It would kill Rose, and it would be awkward, to say the least."

"Why don't you want to tell them anything?"

"And if Aro finds out?" she cries, holding my hands. "Do you have any idea what he'd do?"

"Your boy - who was his father? Where is he now? Are your children vampires?"

"I can't tell you who the father was. I don't know where he is now. I left him in an orphanage when he was a baby - and I did that to keep him safe. My child was able to pass for mortal - he had beating heart, and blood within his veins. But my son is immortal - and he would have stopped aging at twenty one, the age I was changed at."

"How do you know all this?"

"James explained it to me. I went to him, panicking. He'd seen it. He, like Alice, can see the future, and he told me everything I needed to know. I think he wasn't pleased to see me because he thought I was pregnant again." I hear the other's voices.

"Will Alice have seen -"

"No."

BPOV

Alice was arranging my dress. I had been quiet all day, preoccupied, scared. We'd announced our intention of a world tour - we would be away nine months. Although Jasper had wanted to try and keep the child, I insisted. We couldn't. It wouldn't be possible.

"Bella, are you alright?" Alice broke my train of thought. "You've been so quiet all day."

"I was just wishing my parents had seen this," I said, quietly.

"They can - any time they want. And I bet they're proud of you, beautiful. Look at you - marrying a decent man, and settling down."

"It's only taken a century and a half."

"You look wonderful. And Jasper is a very lucky man."

"Thank you, Alice. For all of this."

She's done a wonderful job. She looks so beautiful in the bridesmaid dress Rose picked out, and more to the point, she found my perfect dress. It's pure white, strapless and the silk body is sheathed perfectly in lace. She's dressed my hair with flowers. I look like I have stepped out of the nineteen-fifties. The bridesmaid dresses are silver and grey, delicate cap-sleeved numbers. They match our engagement rings. I haven't seen Jasper since last night - when the boys took him out for a bachelor party. Alice is already in her dress.

"Are they back yet?"

"Yes, they're back," Rose smiles, coming in. "And Edward is taking his place at the piano."

"You look beautiful, Bella," Carlisle says, coming in with Esme on his arm.

"You all do," I choke, wanting to cry. I sob dryly.

"Don't you dare," Esme says, pointing at me sternly. "This is the happiest day of your life!"

"I know," I wail. "Sorry."

"Oh, sweetheart."

"People, we don't have time for this now," Rose laughs. "Edward is beginning to play. The town is waiting for Esme and Carlisle's troubled son to finally sort himself out."

I take one very deep breath, and slip my arm through Carlisle's. I am determined not to look at anyone.

"You look stunning." I walk down the stairs, and I manage not to fall. Edward's playing hitches slightly, before continuing. I have to peek then. Alice is glaring at him. And every single person in the room is staring at me. Jasper. Jasper is waiting at the end of the aisle, and he's just staring.

I can't remember what the vicar said. I can't remember what I said. I remember staring at Jasper for the whole thing, and murmuring the words "I do" twice - once for him, and once for everyone else.

And I defiantly remember him sweeping me off my feet and carrying me back down the aisle. We have a little reception, during which Emmett makes his best man speech. None of us eat, discreetly slipping food into bags under the table.

"I have known Jasper," Emmett begins, looking very serious, "for just a little time, and yet I feel as though I have known him for years. Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen - I must admit to being rather nervous about today's speech. And as it's a family occasion, the last thing I want to do is cause offence by talking in too much detail about Jasper's colourful past. I therefore decided to edit out anything that might upsetting to anyone present. So thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, and goodnight. I would like to start by thanking Jasper on behalf of the bridesmaids for his kind comments and echo the fact that they look wonderful and performed their role fantastically well, despite the inevitable and healthy rivalry that can sometimes occur. In fact, just before the service I overheard a furious sisterly argument about who was going to be first to dance with the best man. Understandable, I thought - until I got closer and heard them saying, 'You!', 'no, you!' Is it actually possible to be more demeaned - I think that the shatter of my hitherto immense ego, to match my manly muscles, was perhaps audible at the back of the room where Carlisle was hiding from Alice as he has torn his suit jacket. There was a slightly tense moment when Bella and Jasper did threaten to make me pageboy - I said I would, but Rose would get far too excited. I won't keep you long, if only to reflect Jasper himself better, as he won't be keeping Bella long tonight." General laughter runs through the audience. Emmett grins. "I do think that it is safe to say that at a wedding with so many beautiful women, only the bride manages to eclipse all, if only because she is wearing a garden." Alice puts her head on the table. "Edward, I think that on behalf of bride and groom, you are owed a thank you for your playing today, although there are a few problems with having a fit part way through the wedding march when you see the bride - always assuming it was a fit, and nothing more sinister. The day Jasper hatched - oh, sorry, that should have been born, there - the day Jasper hatched out, I'm sure Bella, being older, would have felt a little jolt of something, if only because she knew her soul mate had been born, and that she'd now have to put up with him. When Jasper proposed to Bella, he actually had two engagement rings - I did question whether he was going to move in on Rose if Bella said no, and needed different rings in case Bella became suspicious. I would like to ask you all now, to raise your glasses to the new Mrs Whitlock and wish Jasper all the best luck with married life - because god knows, he will need it."

Jasper's speech was something else.

"When I first met my beautiful new bride, we were babies. We grew up together, and when we were eight, I gave her some daisies for her birthday. When we were ten, we were split up - and when I saw her again, she got me through some of the scariest, darkest places I have ever been in. Why she agreed to put up with me, I shall never know. But in agreeing to marry me, she has made me the happiest man on earth, and I don't believe that I could ever regret a single moment that I have had and will have with her. There's nothing to say that will ever tell her enough - but I needed to tell you that I loved you."

Carlisle broke in when Jasper sat back down. I was so preoccupied with him. I kissed him, and a round of applause interrupted.

"Whilst I may not be Bella's blood father, having the honour and the privilege to walk her down the aisle today has been wonderful. Even in the short time Bella has been with us, I have come to regard her as my daughter, and nothing gives me more happiness than to see two of the most important people to me in the world happily married and ready to begin married life. Ladies and gentlemen, Father, I would like you all to please raise your glasses to Isabella and Jasper."

Jasper holds me on the dance floor like I'm made of glass, and could shatter any moment.

"Glad it's over?"

"Very," I sigh, laying my head on his chest.

"You look unbelievable, you know," he whispers to me. "Everyone was staring at you. I was quite jealous. That wedding room looked like a scene from a horror movie."

"There were more than enough vampires present," I laugh.

"Bella, I demand that you allow me to dance with your husband for a while," Esme laughs. "And Carlisle wants to claim his dance."

"Of course, Esme. I'll get you back later," I promise Jasper.

I am whirled around the dance floor with startling rapidity. Soon, I am back in Jasper's arms, and all too soon, Alice snatches me away to get into a travelling outfit.

And then we're gone and he puts his arms around me from behind. His hands rest very lightly on my belly.

"Will I be able to feel the heart beat?"

"Yes," I sigh, putting my own hands over his. "Soon, we'll be able to hear a heart beat, and I will feel the baby kick."

"OK," he says, and rests his chin on my head. The boat moves silently out into the Atlantic, and I get ready to change his life forever.

A/N: Sorry for the cliffy at the end of the last chapter. I resolved it as soon as I could. Well, how about dropping a review my way? Let me know what you thought of Emmett's best man speech!

Also, I'm putting links on my profile for Bella's wedding dress, and the bridesmaid dress. Also the wedding rings, although they weren't exactly described.