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Previously

"Thank you," she said as she kissed me.

"What for, beautiful?" I asked. She had nothing to be thanking me for.

"For knowing what I needed. I can't believe the only times I've ever been with you have been while I was pregnant," she sighed and a contemplative look crossed her face as she shook her head, clearing whatever thought had been lurking.

"Sleep now, beautiful. I have a feeling that when this little one gets here we won't be having many mornings like this," I reminded her. I heard the sound of her rhythmic breathing alerting me that she'd fallen asleep, and I felt myself drifting under as I heard the phone ring off in the distance.

EPOV

"Dr. Cullen, can I see you in my office?" Addison hollered at me as I walked through the doors of the maternity ward.

I'd taken the last couple days off while I recuperated from the disaster that had occurred during my last delivery. Bella's constant presence was what I needed, and we contacted a preacher to perform our wedding ceremony this weekend at my parents' home. I made the decision before we got out of bed the next day that I didn't care whether Bella preferred to wait until after the baby was here. After Jane's sudden death during delivery, it took everything in me not to beg Bella to go to the courthouse the next morning, but I would not want to deprive her of her day, so I mustered up the courage to wait a few days.

I was sitting at the dining room table when she came out of our room in the silk robe she'd been wearing one of the first times I'd spent the night at her apartment. It was getting a little snug, but the way it showed her ample cleavage was enough to shake me out of my depression of having to break it to her that I just couldn't see us waiting any longer to get married.

"Good morning, handsome," she yawned as she sat in the chair next to me and propped her feet in my lap.

"Morning, beautiful," I said as I leaned over and greeted her with a kiss before I kissed her belly. "And you, too, baby girl."

I sat back and started to rub her feet as we sat in silence and appreciated the New York skyline from our apartment.

"Edward -"

"Bella -" I chuckled and she giggled right along with me.

"You go first, love," I said.

"No, that's okay. You look like you've been thinking about whatever it is you have to say all night. Why don't you get it off your chest?"

"I think we should get married before the baby comes. Nothing extravagant, because we don't have time. I just want you to be my wife. I know that you said you wanted to wait, but I just feel like I want to be the one to have the say. I don't care if your parents are there. I want to be able to tell them to save my wife over our child, because we can always have another child, but there will only ever be one you."

"Okay."

I sat there as I waited for her response, only to realize that she'd already said something.

"What?"

"I said okay. I think we should get married beforehand, too."

"You do? But I thought-"

"I did want to wait, but I agree that it'd make sense to just do it now. We can have a huge reception after she's here."

That had brought us from the discussion of getting married to baby names, and we'd decided that we'd just do it the next weekend, which was already here.

I had a twelve hour shift that Addison had insisted I come in for so that she could take a break, and also so we could discuss what the coroner's lab had found.

"Well, Edward," she said as I took a seat in her office. "It looks like it was a non-obstetrical maternal death. According to the autopsy she died of an aneurysm. With her age, they never had any reason to look for it. When she started having headaches, her boyfriend said they'd just chalked it up to the pregnancy."

"So there was nothing I could have done?" I asked as I breathed a sigh of relief. I'd been plagued with thoughts that there was something I could have done that would have spared her young life.

"Nope, if she didn't die while she was here, she probably wouldn't have lived for very long once she was released."

Relief swept over me as I accepted the fact that there was nothing I could have done. Still, knowing that she had died on my table would haunt me for the rest of my life. Addison released me from her office so she could go home to sleep. We had one false alarm come in, and after I examined her and sent her home, I remembered the false alarm that had woken Bella and me up last Saturday morning.

The phone continued to ring as I reluctantly disentangled my body from Bella's and got up to answer it.

"It's about time you answered your phone, fucker!" My brother yelled as soon as I answered. "You better get your lazy asses out of bed because we're having babies."

Emmett was booming with excitement as he talked about how Rosie woke him up that morning and they were now on their way to the hospital. I explained to him that if he wanted us there we needed to get off the phone so I could wake Bella and we could leave.

After I'd gotten Bella up and both of us were dressed and literally ready to step out the door, Rose called us, apologizing about the false alarm. Bella and I had decided since we were already awake and dressed that we'd spend the day doing something as a couple since we wouldn't have too many more Saturday mornings like this.

"Edward," Bella whispered as she stepped in front of me in the hallway, startling me. I'd been so lost in thought that I hadn't even seen her approach me.

Leaning down to kiss her, I felt her smile against my lips as she awkwardly wrapped her petite frame around me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked as I broke the kiss and leaned my forehead against hers. "Aren't you supposed to be getting pampered with my sister and Rose?"

"Ugh!" she sighed heavily as she stepped back and crossed her arms above her stomach. "Yeah, I suppose. But I really don't want to be doing anything but spending time with you, and now Alice has it in her head that we shouldn't sleep in the same room when we stay at your parents' house for the wedding."

"Nope, not going to happen," I reassured her as I pulled her back against me. "Trust me, if anyone can handle my sister, it's me."

She seemed happy with my answer as she hugged me against her as much as she could before my pager went off and I told her I'd see her later. The last hour or two of my shift dragged on as I met with a new patient and spent some of my time in my office studying the books I'd picked up about being a new father. To be honest, I was scared shitless about bringing a child into this world, and as much as I wish Bella didn't know that, I had a feeling she knew. I was in the middle of reading when Addison poked her head in my office, letting me know she was back and I was free to go.

"Good luck this weekend, and enjoy your wedding. I wish I could be there," she added as she waved me out the door.

I hurried home to Bella, ready to start the whirlwind of events that would carry us through the next few weeks. We had the wedding and then the honeymoon this weekend. Next weekend we had her baby shower, with family and friends, and then one with her coworkers would be held during the following week.

"Honey, I'm home," I bellowed, taking off my coat and scarf, laying it over the back of the couch as I toed off my tennis shoes and padded down the hall in my socks.

I tugged on the string of my scrubs as I walked in our room to see Bella in the middle of the floor in a beginning yoga pose. She'd started doing yoga as soon as many positions become uncomfortable for her. I continued through our room to the bathroom as I tugged my scrubs loose, intending to shower quickly. When I turned around to put my dirty clothes in the laundry hamper, I realized Bella had changed positions. She was now kneeling on the floor with her back arched and her hands resting on her ankles behind her. My eyes fixated on the outline of her pink nipples straining against the white sports top she was wearing.

A low growl rumbled through my chest as I continued to stand in the bathroom doorway, naked, watching my fiancée as she moved her curvaceous body from position to position with precision. Mesmerized by her sheer beauty, I was a statue, while she coyly made eye contact with me from time to time. And then when she was finally in the same position she had begun in, she motioned me over to her.

"I thought you were going to take a shower," she insisted as I stepped in front of her, hard as a rock.

"Yeah, well," I stammered as Bella shifted to her knees and wrapped her fingers around my erection and smoothed the bead of pre cum around the head. Stupidly, I stepped away from her and my dick smacked against my stomach as she let go of me with an irritated look on her face.

"Sweetheart, we really don't have time and I know that position can't be comfortable for you."

She started to protest, but I cut her off.

"Please," I pouted. "You know I'm going to want more of you if you start that. Why don't we shower together," I suggested as I leaned over to help her up and peeled off her top as she slid off her bottoms.

"I promise, this evening I won't be saying no," I added with a chuckle as I followed her into the bathroom.

We fooled around a little in the shower and ended up rushing as we threw the rest of our things in the suitcase and headed to my parents' house. My tux and Bella's dress were already at their house, because after we'd done our fittings earlier in the week we'd requested they be delivered there.

When we arrived, my mom was all weepy as she prepared the house for our wedding. We had decided that since it wasn't going to be at a location, we could deal with whatever decorations Alice decided we needed and had given her free reign as long as she kept things simple. Looking at the candles that were charmingly arranged, along with a few other modest decorations, in the great room where the ceremony would take place, I was pleased that she had listened and I would have a blissful bride by this time tomorrow.

I still couldn't get over the fact that Bella and I would be married. When I asked her to marry me just a couple of months ago, I had known it would change my life forever, but she'd already done that. I quickly ran our bags up to my room and was standing in the doorway when she came up behind me.

"What are you doing up here?" she asked as she wrapped her arm around my waist and leaned into my side. I wrapped my arm around her before answering.

"Thinking."

"About?"

"Our first weekend here. At the time, I thought that was the best weekend of my life. I didn't realize that I'd have so many of them, but this one...this one will probably top them all for a long time."

"I know," she sighed. "I get to marry you," she beamed at me.

I gave her a peck on the lips, because anything more would lead to a romp in the sheets, and we were expected for the rehearsal dinner downstairs.

That evening after dinner, Bella and I retired to our room and spent some time curled up with each other on the bed as we talked about what our lives would be like this year. Our baby was due in just a couple of weeks, and as anxious as I was to get her here, I was even more eager to have Bella as my wife, and that was happening today. Bella had fallen asleep just before midnight, but I still had to finish my vows. I had tried writing them on my own, but couldn't seem to come up with more than you are the love of my life, my soul mate. Fail. How was I supposed to be able to spend the rest of my life loving her if I couldn't even put into words how she completed me in a way I never thought anyone could?

Fuck!

I'd just figured out what I needed to say.

The next morning was a hustle and bustle of activity as the house was filled with caterers as well as a few other people Alice had hired to make sure our small wedding went off without a hitch. I had a mere hour before Bella would be floating down the steps, bringing me my future. The guys hurried me off into our game room where we had decided the men would get ready so that the ladies could have the upstairs as a 'penis free zone'. I had argued that wasn't possible because Rose had two penis sporting babies in her belly, and Alice could as well. They hadn't taken the bait and had turned me away with a frown.

"So, Edward," Emmett bellowed from a few feet away. How Rose ever gets any sleep, I will never know. I just hoped that their sons wouldn't have just one volume like my brother.

"What Emmett?" I whispered. "And do you have to shout? I'm right here for fuck's sake."

"Sorry," he apologized as he popped his collar and knotted the bow tie in place.

"It's okay, I'm sorry, too. I'm just a little on edge."

"Didn't get any last night?" he asked with a straight face.

"What?" I asked as I shook my head, trying to organize my thoughts. "Not that it's any of your business, but no. Bella and I did not have sex on the eve of our wedding. I thought it'd be special if that's how we spent this evening together, so we just talked last night."

"What did you talk about?"

"Why?"

"Well, it's like the last night you could sleep with another woman or man before you're considered an adulterer, did you talk about that?"

Again, what is a correct response to a question like that?

"No, Emmett, we did not talk about that. Nor did we talk about anything related to sex, okay?" I still had a hard time believing he was my brother when this was his topic of choice as my best man.

"Hmm, she knows about the other women you've slept with?"

"Oh my God, Emmett, you are like the worst best man ever," I groaned as I ran my hand over my face.

"Boys," my dad announced as he knocked on the door and entered the room, followed by Jasper and the minister. "It's time," he said with a sappy grin as he ushered the guys out the door. "I'd like a minute alone with Edward, if you don't mind."

"How are you holding up?" he asked.

"You mean from the questions that Emmett was asking me about my sex life, or the fact that I'm going to be standing at the altar in a few short minutes waiting for the rest of my life to begin?"

He chuckled as I told him about Emmett's line of questioning and the fact that he definitely wasn't helping my nervousness, even though it did bring a smile to my face as I told my dad about it.

"You and Bella have shared your past experiences then?" he asked, concerned.

"Uh, yeah."

"That didn't sound very reassuring, Edward. You want to talk about it?"

"No," I sighed. "It's something that Bella and I need to discuss, but I don't want to think about it now. Let's go," I said as I walked past him and out the door.

The preacher, Emmett, and I stood at the doors to the patio where the seats were facing. I saw Rose, Jasper, Bella's mom, Jake, Nessie, and my mother seated in the first row. As the music started, my sister came walking down the aisle with Mike, Bella's gay friend, followed by Izzy as she dropped the first of her flowers. She made it about half way down the short aisle before she saw her dad, and ran to him. The music continued to play out as I watched Emmett try to get Izzy to stand on the other side, but she just wanted to stand with her dad. I couldn't wait for our little girl to be old enough to be sassy and adorable.

I heard the first chords of the traditional Bridal March and immediately looked to the top of the stairs. She was standing there with her dad, and as they walked down the stairs I had to hold myself back to keep from running to her. She couldn't get to me fast enough, and with each step she took I was reminded of the fact that this was only the beginning.

When she was within arms reach, I held out my hand and she took it as she giggled and remained connected to her dad.

The preacher started the ceremony and, as soon as she could, she let go of her dad and I held both her hands in mine. The preacher went into a brief description about marriage and the beauty of finding your forever. I watched Bella as she never took her eyes off of me and I couldn't seem to look away from her. It came time for her vows and she could barely hold it together as she teared up.

"I'm sorry," she apologized as she tried to compose herself. I reached up and wiped away the tears as they ran down her face and Alice reached for a kleenex from the end table.

"Okay," she said as she took a deep breath. "I love you, Edward, and I think I'd love you even if we'd never met. You're the other part of me, the missing piece that I was meant to find. I know a lot of things with us haven't necessarily been conventional," she said with a giggle. "I can't wait to wake up to you every day, to bring children into this world with you and spend forever with you, to someday leave this world a better place having spent my life by your side."

She finished her devotion by slipping the ring on my third finger and kissing my palm. All her tears had disappeared and she beamed at me as she waited for me.

I looked into her eyes and saw the other half of my soul as it resided within her.

"Bella, my Bella. When I look into your eyes, I see my soul's mate. Apart, we merely just existed, but together, we're living. I can't imagine a life without you and hope I never have to experience it. You complete me in a way that I never imagined anyone could. I love you so much that sometimes it hurts. You're my confidant, my lover, and my best friend. This is the beginning of our forever baby," I vowed as I placed a kiss against her engagement ring, just as I had done the day I asked her to marry me, before I slipped the wedding ring on her finger.

I was so lost in the fact that Bella was now my wife that I almost missed the preacher as he told me that I could kiss the bride. My bride. Smiling like the fool I felt like, I pulled her against me as my mouth met hers. I intended to keep it chaste, but Bella teased my lips with her tongue and I happily obliged as I opened my mouth to her. This kiss was the sealing of our oath to love each other forever.

Someone from the audience cleared their throat and I released Bella's mouth. We turned to face our families. Bella's bridal party was smiling widely at us as we walked over to them, and Mike gave Bella a tearful hug.

"I'm sorry I'm so emotional," he said as he wiped another tear from his cheek. "I just really wish Ang could have been here."

"Me, too," I heard Bella whisper as she rubbed his back and looked at me to save her.

"Mike, if you don't mind, man, can I have my wife back?" I asked as I pulled Bella away from him and kissed her bare shoulder. Even though it was still cool outside, she and Alice had found her dress in an early Spring line and it was perfect.

"Wife, huh?" she asked as she quirked her eyebrow and led me over to the cake table. "I like the sound of that."

"Mmm," I hummed as I kissed her. "Not as much as I do, Mrs. Cullen," I whispered against her lips.

There was a commotion in the kitchen that drew my attention from my lovely wife, and then we heard Emmett whooping and hollering.

"Whoo! We're having babies, ladies and gentleman," he yelled as he led his wife through the living area and out the front door.

"What?" Bella asked me as she looked around at the rest of my family that was still standing there.

"It's true," dad said as he came into the living room. "Her water broke when we were getting ready to serve the punch," he continued with a chuckle.

The announcement immediately sprang us into action and we followed them shortly after getting changed into warmer clothes. When we got to the hospital, dad met us at the door and informed us that she was already eight centimeters dilated, so it shouldn't be too long of a wait. Bella and I took a seat in the waiting room with the rest of my family. Bella and her mom were sitting in the corner of the waiting room while her dad took a seat by me.

"Thank you, Edward," he said quietly as he faced forward. "She looks so happy, and I know a lot of that can be credited to you."

"You're welcome, sir, but I don't really think it took that much effort at all. I love her, Billy."

"I know you do, Edward. I'm so thankful she found you. We were so worried when she came up here all by herself, and then once we found out that Jake was coming up here we didn't worry as much."

Our conversation continued in much the same manner as he talked a little bit more about what life had been like with both of their kids gone, how they'd dealt with letting Jake come here so soon after his accident. I wasn't even sure they would like me, let alone be thankful that I had given their little girl a reason to stay in New York.

Not even thirty minutes later, Emmett stepped out of the delivery room with a huge smile on his face. We all got up from out seats and crowded around, all talking at him at once.

"They're fine, both weighing a little over five pounds."

"Can we have the names?" Alice asked eagerly.

"Yes," he chuckled. "Ethan Jackson and Aiden James."

"When will we be able to see them?" Jasper chimed in.

Emmett explained that we'd be able to see them soon, but that he needed to get back in there before Rosie threw a fit. Just as he opened the door, we heard Rose yell for Emmett and he gave us a thumbs up as he disappeared into the room.

Well, what did you think?!? We're coming to the end of this little fic :( I only have four chapters outlined out after this one with a few epi's eventually and I'm busy outlining my next fic, Leave the Pieces which is a continuation of the Armyward I entered for the PPSS contest. Thanks to everybody that read, reviewed and voted. :)

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