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Bella's point of view
Ok. This
is seriously NOT cool.
"Breathe,
Bella! Just breathe!"
Was all I could hear, coming from Carlisle's lips.
Yeah, right. Breathe. How simple! How easy it was for him to say that—After all, he was not the one who was about to give birth to a half human, half vampire child. Well, it didn't really matter if it was a dhampire. The thing was: a baby was about to come out from me, and see our strange, twisted world for the first time. Great.
Edward was there, of course. He had been there for twenty-two excruciating hours, holding my hand and whispering things he never thought I would be able to hear. But I did. I heard it all, shouting my desperate responses inside of my head. He would never know how much I had suffered then, trapped inside my own body; not being able to comfort him…to tell him how much I loved him back.
Things didn't change much though. He was still holding my hand, franticly trying to help me through the pain. But there wasn't much he could do. I mean, it wasn't like as if he could stop those terrible contractions…And yet, I wanted it so badly.
There aren't enough words to describe the physical hell I was going through. After a few minutes, the numbness provoked by the potion was long gone, and I was left to face the pain all by myself. No shields. No ways around it.
"Everything is going to be okay, Bella. Do you hear me? I love you." Edward said, staring at me with his penetrating, golden eyes.
For a long second, I could not help getting lost in his perfect face, wondering what had I done to deserve him. I must have been a saint in another life, or something like that. For that second, and only that second, everything else just vanished.
"I lov—" I started saying, but an exceptionally strong contraction stopped me, breaking the magical bubble I was in.
"Shh…Shh" He tried to calm me, getting my fringe out of my face.
Oh, but I didn't want to shut up! I wanted to tell him that I loved him…even though he was the cause of my current situation. He was the one that had gotten me pregnant after all…and I kind of hated him a little for that now (Irrationally, of course).
Edward suddenly sighed, sounding somehow tired.
"A man from the hotel staff is on his way. He wants to know what's happening up here." He said.
Woo hoo. More public. That was just what I was needing.
"I will take care of it…" Alice murmured before she stood up and walked towards the room's entrance, disappearing behind it.
It was becoming extremely difficult to breathe evenly…And if I had thought the last contractions had been painful, I had been wrong. Very wrong. What I was feeling now, was real pain. And I wanted it to end. The sooner, the better. I just wanted the baby to be finally born, so that I could forget about this whole thing and sleep.
Yes, sleep. Because even though I had spent the last twenty-two hours in a complete state of immobility, my mind had never stopped working at its highest speed, making me feel amazingly defeated right now.
"It's time, Bella." Carlisle's voice said.
"…Time?" I repeated with a certain amount of panic while I tried to get some air into my chest.
He nodded, staring at me with serious eyes while Edward gave me a soft kiss on the cheek, holding my hand even tighter than before. His lips felt much too cold against my red skin.
"On the count of three, I want you to start pushing, okay?" Carlisle continued. Not okay, not okay… I thought desperately in my mind, afraid of what was coming. "One…two…" No, wait! "Three! Push!"
And almost as if I was a robot, I obeyed his commands, pushing with all the strength I had…and hoping it would be enough to get that child outside of my weak body. It wasn't really a thinking process; my instincts completely took over while I pushed.
All of my senses were focused on it as I let the natural reflexes of my body assist my urges…And although I didn't want to start pushing at first, it was all I could do now. 'Just push; forget about everything else and push. It will be over soon.' I tried to convince myself.
"You are doing great, Bella!" Carlisle encouraged me. "Just one more little effort…"
His voice distracted me, suddenly making me realize that Edward was still by my side, reciting motivating phrases for me. Trying to ignore the pain, I stared into his eyes before I could close them tightly…and I found everything I needed to gather some strength.
"…It's a boy!" Carlisle exclaimed a couple of minutes later, deep in his amazement.
'A boy?' I asked myself, a little bit surprised. It wasn't like as if I had thought too much about the gender during my pregnancy…but it was just weird to finally know.
A boy. My little boy.
As soon as I could catch my breath, and as soon as I felt strong enough to lift my lids, I opened my eyes…and there he was: looking almost as pale as his father, and crying his beautiful green eyes out. My baby. The one who had been hiding inside of me all of this time…
A weak smile appeared in my face as some warm tears fell down my cheeks. I had just had a baby boy. That doesn't happen every day (And I thanked God for it). Amazed, and incredibly happy, I received my son when Carlisle gave him to me, all wrapped up in a white hotel towel.
"Hello." I said softly as I held him in my arms.
He was just…beautiful. A very short mop of dark hair covered his little head, bringing out that stunning pair of innocent green eyes. Green eyes that had once belonged to Edward, during his human days.
Absorbed by the moment, I looked for his golden gaze, and as soon as I found it…my felicity fell suddenly to my feet. Why was he staring at him with such a strange, unreadable expression on his face?
"What is it?" I mumbled with some difficulty; my heart was still racing.
Carlisle's attention was immediately focused on his son's face.
"It's…his heartbeat. I hear it just as low as when he was still…inside of you." Edward explained, frowning as he leaned closer to the baby.
Heartbeat? Frowning too, I reached out to touch my son with my hand for the first time. He was cold; but not as cold as an ordinary vampire… And there was no beating heart to be felt in his small chest.
Bewildered, I looked up at Edward. If this baby had no heartbeat, and Edward could still hear one…That could only mean one thing…
"Holy crow." I was able to whisper right before a contraction attacked my swollen stomach.
"Twins." Edward concluded with his eyes wide open.
Oh, no. You've got to be kidding me! TWINS? No, please, no. This thing was supposed to be over! Why did I have to endure two births? Hadn't I suffered enough with the first one?
In that very moment, Alice entered the room again, walking freshly towards us.
"I made the receptionist go away." She told us before she could even notice what was happening, sounding proud of herself.
"Alice!" Edward called her anxiously as he took our little baby away from me, apologizing with his eyes. "Hold him, please."
A second later, my son was in the arms of his aunt, who received him with a very surprised expression on her face; an expression that was soon replaced by one full of sweetness. And although I was a hundred percent sure that she would take real care of her nephew, I still didn't want to let him go. We had been close for so long, that it was almost impossible for me to see him from far away now.
"Alright, here we go again, Bella," Carlisle said. "I need you to breathe deeply until I tell you when to start pushing again."
"I can't do this," I said with a faltering voice.
"Yes, you can." Edward told me –although it sounded as if he was begging me-, positioning himself by my side again.
"I CAN'T!" I choked out in the middle of another contraction, panting again.
"Now! Push, Bella!" Carlisle ordered, ready to deliver my second child.
Feeling like as if I was about to pass out, I pushed again, doing the best I could. Right then, I remembered how my mother used to tell me that God never puts something you cannot handle in your path…and I had always had my doubts about it. But I guessed it was somehow true. I had always survived everything I had found in my way. Hadn't I lived to tell the story when James tried to kill me, so long ago? Hadn't I been able to endure all those months of solitude when my reason for being left me? Hadn't I travelled all the way from Forks to get him back?
If I had done all those things, I could certainly put up with another childbirth, couldn't I?
So I pushed. I pushed once and again until I started to hear the voices that were sounding around me like as if they were coming from the other end of a long tunnel.
And then, finally, it was over.
"A baby girl!" Announced Carlisle joyfully.
A girl. I smiled mentally as I started to close my eyes. They were ours. We had a little boy, and a girl. And although I really wanted to see her, my lids were just too heavy for me to lift them... So I surrendered with a soft sigh.
Time for me to sleep now. I deserved it.
I
bet you didn't see that one
coming. All the details about the twins will be explained in the next
chapter :) Do you think I should name them Renesmee and Edward
Jacob, or what?