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The Singer Connection

Chapter 21

BPOV

"Edward, we need to leave now!"

"What's wrong are you okay? Is it the babies?"

"No, it's Victoria." Was all I said before he scooped me up in to his safe arms and started moving quickly for the nearest exit.

We were flanked quickly be Alice and Jasper who were looking over their shoulders. To say I was afraid would be a huge understatement. Jasper pulled out his cell and called Emmett telling them to meet us and why. Alice's eyes keep glazing over every few seconds. I could tell Edward wasn't happy with what he saw in her visions because by the time we exited the mall all three were openly growling. The jeep slid to a stop just in front of us it was Rose driving. Edward placed me into the jeep a little faster then usual, before joining me. Alice and Jasper followed behind us closely in the Volvo. It wasn't until we were on the road did I find out what the visions were. And they scared me more then anything I could have imagined. Her plan was a simple one she would slip in with Riley and take the babies and kill them as we watched on, then she would die happily at out hands once that was done.

Not a chance in hell of that happening! Edward was a wreak the whole ride home. Rose took care of calling Carlisle. Who you could hear was losing it on the phone. By the time we made it home the troops were all assembled. The wolves looked ready to attack anything that moved. The Denali's, Sebastian and Angel who had finally arrived and the family all had the house locked down like a fortress. After Edward scooped me up he carried me to the couch, were we would wait for Alice to explain more of what she saw on the drive home.

"Well, I can tell you that everything has changed. Before the wolves arrived I did see we were ready for her, I did see her die and I could hear the babies, Edward, Bella, Carlisle and Esme in the house. Then it goes blank when the wolves arrive."

"What about Riley he was never accounted for?" Edward asked.

"I see him staying out of the fight." chirped Alice happily.

"I wonder why?" quizzed Jasper.

"I don't know, honestly...I just see him standing there watching her die."

Jasper went into soldier mode, he was devising a plan to work with what Alice saw. And I was never so happy he did. He knew what we had to do. We would do everything to make it happen. We knew from Alice's visions that we had until the twins were born but just incase she changed her mind we made plans for before and after the impeding delivery date. The twins have been very restless today but now they're actually beginning to be painful. I winced rubbing my hands over my belly hoping they would calm down but that seemed to get them moving around more. When I winced again I couldn't hold back the whimper.

"Bella are you okay?" Edward asked as his hands were circling my belly as well.

"They don't seem to want to calm down. It's getting painful."

Edward's face spoke volumes when he closed is eyes and concentrated on what the twins were thinking. He really didn't like what he heard.

"CARLISLE!"

"What is it? What's wrong?"

"They're in pain. They can't move. There's no more room. They're trying not to hurt Bella but they can't avoid it." You could see the worry written all over both their faces.

That's when I felt and heard what Edward was worried about one sharp kick complete with cracking sounds. Yeah, I screamed, call me a wuss but it hurt like hell. Carlisle knew it too when he ran his fingers across the right side of my rib cage. Yep, one of the little darlings just broke one of my ribs. It's not their fault that I have a small frame and their size is just becoming too much for me. I just wish I could expand more for them. You should have seen the scene in Carlisle office it was almost funny. Carlisle was trying to take my shirt off to tape my ribs and Edward just about sent him through the new walls. Alice finally came in and stopped it before it got ugly. Fatherly love doesn't seem to cover me being nude in any way. Go figure! Regardless to say Edward had the pleasure of taping my ribs. Well, I guess that's going make us change our delivery plans back to Edward doing it.

"Does this change anything?" I had to ask.

"It might, we'll have to watch them very closely now. Alice can you see anything?"

"No, I still can't see them, I'm watching Bella around them." She was cute pouting like that.

"Jasper, what are you feeling from them?"

"They're getting inpatient, they are sorry for hurting Bella and they love us."

"Edward, what are you getting?"

"The same."

"Alice can you see what we're doing?"

"Carlisle is everything ready here medically for them to be delivered?" Please say yes!

"Yes, we're ready why?"

"Because I see us waiting in to living room pacing, I don't know where the wolves are but not there, maybe outside, I guess. While I hear Bella whimpering in pain. I hear Edward talking to you about getting started. But the thing is all the decorations from Christmas are still up."

"So...I won't make it to February to deliver them." I signed out.

This news wasn't pleasant. Granted I was in hurry for it to be over but not when it risked their health. Could I suffer without anyone noticing? I decided I would try to suffer in silence for as long as possible.

"LIKE HELL YOU WILL BELLA!" Screeched Alice and I knew I was busted.

"What's going on in the pretty little head of yours!"

"I'm sorry! I just wanted to give them as much time as possible!"

"YOU COULD KILL THEM AND YOURSELF!" He's never been so angry with me I can see it in his face.

The shame I felt forced me to lower my head. I couldn't stop the tears. In one thought I probably ruined everything, they all would hate me. I couldn't even look them in their faces. I couldn't stand to see the anger there. I just had to get out of that room, Out of this house. I pushed off the bed and away from everybody. I could feel them trying to grab me but I pushed their hands away. I didn't know where I was going, I was moving my feet as fast as they would scurry my weight. I knew they were saying things but I couldn't hear them, all I could hear was this buzzing sound. I think I made it living room but I'm not entirely sure, once my vision went black. I do remember hitting the floor.

EPOV

"BELLA!"

Yes I was furious with her but when she pushed me away I knew. I had pushed her over the edge. We were all calling to her but she just stumbled away swatting us away, I could hear her heart beating against her chest this was beyond a full blown panic attack. I wanted to chase her but everyone said she needed a minute. They were wrong. When I heard her hit the floor I knew I should have followed my heart when it went out the door with her. I cradled her in my arms sitting on the floor and just rocked her. Carlisle wanted to examine her but he was met with my snarls.

"NO ONE TOUCHES HER!"

Even tough I knew I should let him, I was afraid he would take her from me forever.

"Edward… I'm sorry." She mumbled still out of it.

"Edward please let me look at her!" Finally I just nodded my agreement.

I carried her back to bed, never letting her out of my arms. I could hear every ones panicked thoughts but I pushed them away as I clutched to my unconscious wife. It was five full minutes before Bella eyes started to flutter open. Carlisle had just finished examining her and said she would be on complete bed rest for remainder of her pregnancy. From this moment on she would never leave my arms, I would carry her

everywhere until the time came.

"Edward?" She said it so softly.

"Yes, my lovely wife, I'm here."

"Please don't hate me." It broke my dead heart to hear her cry out those words.

"Bella, I could never ever hate you. I love you forever. I am so sorry I yelled at you, this was my fault. It won't happen again, I promise."

"You're not leaving me for what I thought?"

"I'm never leaving you, now rest love. I'll never let you go."

I knew that was a promise I could keep. Because I've known since the first day when I tried to leave her, that I'd never be strong enough to try again. We spent the night down stairs in case Carlisle needed to check her again. But luckily she was doing fine. Everyone kept rubbing her head when they walked by. Just so she would know that no one was mad or hated her. She started rubbing her belly around five in the morning, I know she's getting more uncomfortable.

I peeked in on the twins they were getting restless again. They didn't want to hurt her but it was out of their control. I honestly don't know how long she's going to be able take this kind of pain. Not to mention the twins are at risk the longer they can't move. We would definitely be meeting our children sooner then later.

"Awe, no."

"What's wrong? Bella are you okay?"

"Yeah, I just need a human moment." She said trying to get up.

"No love, sorry. From now on its free rides everywhere you want to go."

"Seriously?"

"Yes seriously, so how about we go snuggle in the shower for a while?"

"Okay, but can we do more then snuggle?" She sounded hopeful.

"NO!" Everyone in the house called out all at once.

So we settled for snuggling in the shower. After all her needs but one were met, I brought her to the kitchen for breakfast. She needs two glasses of blood at each meal now a days. But still she looked paler today and that says a lot. After breakfast Bella and I finally got a chance to catch up with Sebastian and Angel. They were thrilled about the babies and would of course be keeping our secret. And of course they were willing to do anything to help protect them. Sebastian was actually glad Jean and Paulette didn't come because he said they were friendly with the Volturi and he didn't want them telling the Volturi about the babies. Honestly, neither did I. We did have another surprise up our sleeves since the remodeling was done by the family no one knew about the little extras, which had been made to secure the house from intrusions. With one push of a button the house would go into lock down mode. This of course will only slow a vampire down but that's one of the reasons for it. This would buy the family time to try and take out any one stupid enough to try. We spent the rest of the day just sitting on the couch watching the falling snow. We were expected to get 6 inches over the next day. This was fascinating to Bella she had only seen snow once and it was only a dusting back in Forks. With our family escort of course, I did bundle her up and took her for a small walk in the snow. She looked so cute with the snow landing in her hair. But the best part was listening to her giggle. She was having fun and I liked it.

Once all the gifts were under the tree I took Bella to bed she could barely keep her eyes open and it was only nine o'clock. She tried to protest but once I sang to her and the twins, they all settled in for a long night sleep. She moaned when ever the twins moved. She woke up early with a beautiful smile on her face I couldn't help but kiss her senseless.

"Merry Christmas Bella." I purred in her ear.

"Merry Christmas Edward." She cooed back.

"Alice is calling us down stairs, apparently Emmett is having a hard time waiting."

"Okay Emmett, just let me put on my new designer dress. I'm sure you've heard of him,

Omar the tent maker." This had Alice's gasping, but everyone else just chuckled.

For Pete's sake this girl could look ravishing in a tent. I swept her down stairs after she dressed in a festive red sweater and black leggings complete with black flats. Jasper gave us his seat and shared a patch of rug with Alice in his lap. They were in charge of passing out the gifts. I put mine in the back so it was the last one to come out. Everyone got what they wanted and was very happy. When Alice pulled mine out for Bella she just looked at the package and waited biting her bottom lip. Did she think it would bite her? Slowly and carefully she opened it. Her gasp could be heard through out the whole house. It was a platinum charm bracelet with a Cullen crest charm hanging from it's center link. She was the only Cullen that until today who didn't have one. The bracelet also had a heart shaped diamond on it, it was also one of my mothers. She was speechless.

"Do you like it Bella?" Maybe I should have asked how she wanted to wear her crest.

"Yes! I didn't think I was going to get one. I just hope you like my present as much."

"I don't need a present from you to be happy." You are my present everyday.

"Alice is it ready?" Alice answered her with a smile.

"Of course Bella it's out front."

What could she possibly have gotten me that would out front? I scooped her up and the whole family walked outside to see my present. Well what do you know it was a 2008 new black Volvo. With a huge red bow on top. It was the same model as my old one. And I loved it, it was perfect. How did see know I was looking into one of those?

"Bella, it's perfect!" I kissed her soundly.

"Really? do you like it? I was afraid you wouldn't." How could I not?

"No Bella, I love it! But how did you do it?"

"Alice of course!" Everyone chuckled with us.

I protested when Bella insisted I take it for a ride. She eventually wore me down and Rose held Bella on her lap in the house, while the boys took a really quick ride. I made it the end of the mile long drive way before turning around. It was quite a seen when everyone went into the kitchen to cook except Carlisle. He had been staying close to Bella just in case she tried to suppress her pain. And old Mother Hubbard was watching her and the twins every emotion for any signs of distress. It was nice to see, I wasn't the only overly protective vampire in the family. Of course, they didn't come close to me in the protection department.

Our guests showed up at exactly at noon. It was turning out to be a great party. When dinner was done it was a buffet styled meal since Bella and the wolves were the only ones eating. Esme and the family had done a great job. Bella and the wolves all eat happily while we sipped our wine glasses of blood. After dinner a snow ball fight challenge was issued by Emmett to the wolves. Of course they accepted the challenge.

With Bella wrapped snuggly in her blanket, we made our way outside. The teams were evenly divided up the Denali's vs. the Cullen's with Bella sitting safely on the sidelines, on the porch swing with Sebastian and Angel. A vampire snow ball fight has a simple rule once you've been hit you're out. Round one was over in five minutes leaving me the winner. I snuggled with Bella for round two and watched as Seth claimed the victory. For the next round I was back in and Emmett took it making the score 2-1. Round three which I sat out again was taken by Kate. And I was back in for the tie breaker. Everyone was throwing the balls as fast and as hard as they could. It was like a death match. It wasn't until I heard Bella scream, did I realize something was wrong. I was at her side in a second looking to see where she'd been hit. But she just keeps shaking her head and hissing out her breathes. Then I saw it a puddle on the floor under Bella's seat. I knew what that meant.

"Carlisle!"

"Get her to my office quickly!"

"Edward, I'm sorry didn't move, I didn't do anything!"

"SSShh Bella, it's going to be okay, they just need to get out now!"

"WWWOOOWWW" She panted out "It hurts."

"I know and I'm sorry. I'll make it better."

She nearly tore my shirt off from grabbing it to off set her pain. I held her to the bed so Carlisle could give her pain medication. I didn't want her awake for the C-section. Esme assumed her position at Bella's head, Carlisle stood over her stomach while I checked internally to see if I could feel anything. Since I didn't feel the babies' heads I assume they only cracked the sack and had not begun their decent, and she wasn't dilated like the books said. So we were going to proceed with the C-section. God I was so scared the thought cutting Bella on purpose it had me really freaked. I had done it once before but I was freaked then too. Carlisle had everything ready before Bella had her eye's closed. Esme being the ever awesome mom, just kept cooing in her ear keeping her comfortable. When Carlisle was ready we began and just like before I did what he told me to do. Once the incision was done we could see the small hole one of the twins had made. Now we just had to make it bigger. It was as hard as vampire skin but I did manage to do it. That's when the ciaos down stair ensued. The house emptied right before the lock down mode on the house was triggered. This was a bad sign it meant only one thing. Victoria was here!

JBPOV

I knew when they carried Bella into the house, it was time. But I had this feeling in my gut. So me and Seth phased and headed for the trees. It didn't take long for me to know why I didn't feel right. I could smell the friend of the bloodsucking bitch. Just minutes after we left, we found him. It was weird he wasn't even hiding from us. He just sat on a log and let us walk right up to him. We were ready to rip him to pieces when he said:

"Go ahead, she lied to me and I bought it hook line and sinker." Man, he was sad looking.

I actually felt sorry for him. He looked like a kid who had his teddy bears head ripped off. We couldn't talk to him and we couldn't phase back in case it was a trap. But I don't think this kid is that good of an actor. He's no Rob Pattinson that's for sure. But I wasn't taking any chances. We waited for his next move but it never came he just started ranting on:

"You know, I got my first clue when she wouldn't let me touch her, she kept saying 'soon love' but if tried to get close, she always move away."

"And talking didn't help, she just kept changing the subject. But when her newborn army went up in smoke, I knew. She didn't think I heard her but I did. Her vow to James that she would make the Cullen's pay then she'd join him in death."

"But the final straw was her plan to kill two innocent babies, now how sick is that!"

"Look, I don't mean to rush this along but would you mind killing me quickly so you can get back before she comes. Please for the babies just do it okay?"

Okay, now I've seen it all a bloodsucker begging for death. He really needs a shrink. I was just about to give him what he wanted. When I remembered the pixie's vision he was there watching the bitch die. So we pushed and shoved him the whole way back to the house. When we got there everybody was in the yard ready to put Victoria down for good.