SO very sorry I haven't updated in a month :( Like I said before this pregnancy is kicking my ass, so it's hard to concentrate on anything other than not throwing up then passing out from the tiredness. The nausea is slowly backing off since I will hit 11wks on the 3rd. Hopefully I can get more updates out to all of you wonderful readers. No song for this chapter. Nothing was coming to mind. There will be a time skip here since I'm impatient and my muse gave me no in between inspiration.
Jasper/Major's POV
We are nearing the end of Bella's pregnancy and closing in on the time to go after Victoria. Our lives have been pretty hectic since Charlie woke up to this life and mated with Rose. Who would have thought the ice queen and Charlie would be two halves of a whole?
Bella took it surprisingly well. She likes to tease Rose calling her Mom. Rose acts like it bothers her, but she can't hide how it makes her truly happy around me. Rose and Bella's relationship has gotten strong. They are starting to form an odd little mother/daughter relationship even if they don't realize it. That makes me happy. Bella needs all of the motherly type love she can get since her own mother is a worthless piece of shit.
"Jasper, could you get me a cup of blood and some chocolate chip cookies" Bella asks me while staring into my eyes from her position on my lap.
"Sure thing Darlin' I'll be right back. Rose, can you sit with her for a few minutes while I run to the store for her cookies"
"As if you have to ask Major. Just go on and get the woman her cookies. I'll get her the cup of blood so you can just head out" Rosalie says while in the kitchen.
Bella had wanted more and more blood lately. The baby had slowed it's movements down as much as possible after breaking a few of her ribs. Edward had been throwing of disgust and resentment when that happened which almost made me have to teach him a lesson until he realized what he was doing and threw me some apologetic emotions while whispering that his feeling still get the best of him every now and then. I understand. If I had lost Bella to someone else. Someone I had thought of as a brother of sorts no less, I would have some lingering issues with it too.
Pulling into the only store in Forks I get out of my truck and walk at a fast human pace to get in out of the rain. I find her favorite type of chocolate chip cookies, the chewy kind. As I'm heading back out to the truck I feel Bella's anxiety and fear spike. I jump in the truck and barrel ass down the road and get home in record time. About a half mile away from the house I hear her screams and hear Carlisle trying to get her to do her breathing.
I make it into the house and up the stairs where Bella is positioned on the medical bed with her feet up in the stirrups on each side. From Pire's birth story we know the birth will be like any normal all human birth only quicker.
"How is she in labor already" I ask as Carlisle is giving Bella an epidural.
"She was walking to the bathroom with Rose's help when her water broke. It was just time" he replied while helping Bella settle back onto the bed.
The anxiety levels in the house are beginning to get to be too much so I push out enough calm to take down a raging bull. Maybe too much calm as Bella suddenly becomes very sleepy. I quickly push in a bit of excitement to her waking her up.
"Thanks Jasper" she whispers while grabbing my hand.
"She's dilating quickly. At this rate she'll be ready to push in just a few minutes" Carlisle says while watching the monitor that is showing the intensity and frequency of her contractions.
"I'm glad I decided on that epidural. I thought I was going to split in half a few minutes ago" Bella says jokingly.
Suddenly the contraction monitor goes off the charts. Bella makes an odd face and I worry that the epidural isn't strong enough to combat the pain. My worry must have leaked out to her.
"No, it's not pain just extreme pressure. I feel like I should push now" Bella says with her face still scrunched up.
Carlisle examines her again and tells us that it is time. I grab Isabella's hand and Carlisle watches the monitor and tells her to push. Her face turns red as she pushes with all she has in her. At the end of the push her breath comes out in a long whoosh. I can feel the excitement and nerves from the other occupants in the house and I hear Charlie going on and on about how he is going to be a grandfather. His happiness is so intense that I let it flood out to everyone in the house.
Thirty minutes of pushing and we hear a tiny cry. Carlisle holds up the tiny bundle.
"It's a girl" he exclaims with a grin.
"Jasmine Ruthanne Whitlock" Bella says as she is reaching out for the baby.
"Thank you" I whisper in Bella's ear feeling myself well up with emotion.
"I thought you would like to use your momma's name as the middle name. And Jasmine fits with Jasper" Bella says while cuddling our baby girl in her arms.
I look down at our beautiful baby girl in my wife's arms and my dead heart fills with so much love it feels as if it will burst out. She's gotten my blonde curls and Bella's chocolate eyes. The brown eyes were inevitable since I too had brown eyes as a human. Jasmine is radiating love and contentment as she looks in my eyes.
The family starts to come in in pairs. Charlie and Rosalie first.
"She's beautiful baby girl" Charlie says as he gazes down at her. He doesn't try to hold her since that is the only normal newborn problem he has, controlling his strength.
"I'm a step-grandmother" Rose says while pushing the curls out of Jasmine's face.
"Not step Rose. You and Esme are the only grandma's she's going to know" Bella says.
Alice and Freddie come in next. Alice her usual bouncing bubbly self going on and on about all of the tiny baby clothes she can buy now. Freddie just shakes his head mouthing sorry to us as he leads her away still babbling.
Carlisle and Esme come in next. Esme is overly emotional about holding a baby again. It brings back some of her murky human memories of her son. Carlisle leads her out before she can get herself too worked up.
Edward and Emmett are the last to come in. I feel it immediately.
I'm suddenly crouched in front of Bella and Jasmine baring my teeth with a low growl vibrating out of my chest.
"My fucking daughter?" I growl out while staring straight at Emmett who hasn't been able to look away from Jasmine since laying eyes on her.
"I'm sorry man. You know I can't help it. I don't want to be mated to a baby" he says to me.
I feel it. The love, devotion and protectiveness rolling off of him. My mind jumped to conclusions when I felt the mating love roll off of him when he walked into the room. He feels no lust towards her. Good thing too, he wouldn't live past the night if he had. I should have known. This is Emmett.
Edward is standing there with a deer in headlights look plastered on his face. I can tell he's trying to pick up on both of our thoughts so he can try to intervene if a fight were to break out in front of Bella and Jasmine. I stand out of my crouch stiffly nodding my head and heading back to the side of the bed to stand beside Bella whose confusion is rolling off of her in waves.
"Emmett mated on Jasmine. It's not romantic yet. If it were he wouldn't be standing there" I explain to her.
To my surprise happiness and understanding burst out of Bella followed by a bit of sadness.
"Well, she'll have a great protector when she gets older" Bella says while lifting Jasmine up towards Emmett for him to take.
Emmett pulls the tiny girl into his arms cradling her and looking down as if she were his world. She is though. His world I mean. I know Isabella is my world. I feel a bit bad for Edward who is now the only unmated vampire in the house. Alice swears he will find his other half before the year is out though. And no one bets against Alice.
I know, it's short :( Tell me what you think! I do already have Edwards mate in mind. I've had her picked out since before I started this story. Let me know what you think. Once again, I'm not sure when I will be able to update again. Life is hectic for me right now!