Chapter Twenty-One

Moving

When Aurora and Jax got home they went straight to their house to sleep, jet lag setting in. The house was exactly how they left it, despite the construction of the nursery supposed to be going on.

"I'm going to go see what's going on," Aurora said.

She went to the main house followed closely by Jax. When they got there they were met by Kele. "Don't go in there."

"Why not?" Jax demanded.

Because you can't," Kele said, trying to be evasive.

"Why can't we," Aurora wanted to know.

"Because they're still fixing the house up for you. Shit!"

"Jax went to push him to the side, but Kele stopped him. "Bro, that only worked when I was human."

"Kele, tell me what the hell is going on," Jax insisted.

"I can't. I promised Nika. I've already said to much. Look, you both look dead on your feet, go home and take a nap. When you get up come back over. Everything should be ready by then."

"Jax, let's just go. He's right, I could fall asleep here. " Aurora was already having a hard time keeping her eyes open. Jax grabbed her around the waist and led her back home.

After their nap they went back to the main house. When they walked through the door they could smell the paint fumes. Aurora covered her nose with her hand to keep the smell down. Usually she didn't mind the smell of wet paint, but being pregnant, the fumes could be toxic.

They made their way upstairs and into the lavender room everyone else was in. "Wasn't this Jasper's study three days ago?" Aurora asked. When they left this room had wood paneling and darker paint on the wall.

"Um, yeah. What color do you want your room to be?" Alice asked. She was paint smeared from head to toe and was obviously having a little too much fun.

"What?" Aurora and Jax asked together.

Alice laughed her musical laugh, then explained. "The other houses are already being built. As they're finished we're moving into them and you're moving in here. We'll all be out by the time the baby comes."

"Other houses?" Aurora asked.

The musical laugh rang through the house again. "Each couple is getting their own house. We're giving you this one, since you'll need the room when more kiddos come along," Alice said running her hand down Aurora's stomach to be met with a kick.

She pulled her hand away rather quickly with alarm. Jasper was at her side in a split second. "Alice, what's wrong?"

Instead of answering his question she asked one of her own to Aurora. "What was that?"

Aurora smiled at her. "The baby kicked. It started yesterday at my mother's house."

Carlisle smiled, glad to see she wasn't alarmed. "Alice, it's normal for human babies to kick at this stage. Aurora is fine and it means the baby is healthy."

Alice smiled at him, but no longer touched Aurora. Nika on the other flitted to her side. "Can I feel?"

Aurora nodded and Nika put her hand to Aurora's stomach. While everyone in the house took their turn feeling the baby kick, Aurora turned to Alice, "How did you know what color to paint the nursery?"

"I saw a vision of you telling your mom you liked purple and mint green. We're going to decorate in green."

"It was the color of the sex of the baby. I had to talk her out of it," Nika spoke up.

The rest of the house broke out in laughter as Alice stuck her tongue out at Nika.

"Looks like we'll need to take off the soundproofing of Nika's room. None of my kids are sleeping in a soundproof room," Aurora said.

"They might want to put the soundproofing around our new room though," Jax whispered in her ear. Much to his chagrin the vampires still heard him.

"Which is our room anyway?" Aurora asked.

"Any of them. You choose then let us know. We'll paint it for you." Alice was far too excited about the prospect of painting another room.

Two weeks later, the house was ready for them to move in. There was another house across the clearing that belonged to Nika and Kele, and of course the dog house still remained to the side of the clearing. They decided to go ahead and build onto the small house for Leigh and Phalyn and Rom and the baby which would be here in a couple more weeks.

In a clearing a few miles over, but still in walking distance, even for the humans were a cluster of smaller houses. One for Carlisle and Esme, one for Alice and Jasper, and one for Rose and Emmett. Edward and Bella still had their cottage. Their was one extra house that stood empty. No one would say who that house was meant for.

Aurora was getting more and more excited about her baby. She was also getting bigger. Moving had been an interesting experience for her. The vampires had moved all the heavy furniture for them. Jax and Aurora were allowed to move the small things and their clothes. Jax packed up the kitchen and took the boxes over, but Aurora was only allowed to carry one small item at a time. Carlisle tried to help out of that one, telling them that she was fine to lift, but Jax was having none of it. She finally got so exasperated with him, she grabbed a few books and let him finish.

He found her a few hours later in the bedroom they had chosen as theirs sprawled across it asleep, the open book still in her hands. Aurora was a stomach sleeper so getting to sleep on her back and side was proving to be a challenge. So she got sleep whenever she could. Jax took the book from her marking her page and turned off the bedside lamp she had been using as light, and crawled into bed beside her. He slipped his arm around her and held her while she slept, which was a luxury he didn't get often since she wasn't sleeping well at night.

Leigh's baby was born, only it was twins. They named them after famous werewolves in history so they had French names. Pierre and Michel, French for Peter and Michael. The went by Pete and Mick. They were just as cute as their older brother and Rom was ecstatic to have brothers. Aurora herself couldn't wait for her baby, which was still three months away.

She decided to visit Nika to get away from all the babies. She found Nika in the living room of her home knitting a pink baby blanket. "It's a girl?" Aurora asked. Nika only smiled and held up the blanket. It was blue on the bottom and purple in the middle. Only the top part of the blanket would be pink. "Are you doing just to be safe?" Aurora asked. Again Nika nodded.

The nursery was completely furnished thanks to Alice. The carpet in the room was a purple slightly darker than the walls. She had decorated the room with mint green trimmings just as she had promised. The furniture was the white wood that Aurora wanted. The bedding was done in Disney babies. Around the top of the room Alice had set up shelves and on the shelves were more Disney babies and Care Bears.

A/N: I know this chapter is short and unlike Nika I write long chapters. The next one should be longer. I won't promise anything though. Reviews are appreciated. What are we doing wrong or right? Let us know.