A/N: more of a check in with everyone to see where their at, the next chapter will be more action heavy.

3rd Person POV:

It has been 4 months since Bellamy and Bella had embraced their lives without the other.

Bellamy and Embry's relationship kept getting better and better, even though he was still in high school the two had started to build their own house on the reservation together that they would one day share.

Bellamy had also gone back to school and was getting much better at managing her time so she wasn't stretched so thin between all her responsibilities.

Things were still unresolved between her and Charlie but overall she was very happy.

When Bella got back to the Cullen's it seemed like one bomb kept dropping after the other.

The first was discovering Rosalie was pregnant, she had developed extremely quickly and before every one knew it she was full term and waiting to pop.

The second big bomb was discovering she no longer had her shield, Edward was now able to hear all her thoughts.

She hated it, it was incredibly violating and she spent every second dreading the moment he would know what Victoria had made her do and decided he couldn't love a monster like her.

When it finally happened tho it somehow brought them closer together. Edward stopped placing her on a pedestal and Bella was able to become more comfortable in her flaws and shortcomings. She was finally starting to treat her and Edward like a real relationship instead of characters from a fairy tale they were never in.

Bellamy POV:

Even though I only stayed with Embry on the weekends, so I wouldn't distract him from schoolwork, it was so thrilling to be planning the house we would share one day. It was probably a year or two off but I could envision it perfectly, even the rooms that would one day belong to our children.

Don't get me wrong children are a LONG ways off. I am very adamant that Embry finish high School before we live together full time, we have our whole lives together there is no reason to rush into this next stage of life. So much of his youth had been sacrificed when he became a wolf I didn't want to take anymore of it.

Plus I wasn't exactly ready to become a mom yet either. I wanted to get my degree and start earning a decent living to help give my family stability before we added children into the mix. I watched my parent's struggle together and separately with trying to raise Bella and I on a kindergarten teacher and police officer's salary and it had put a big strain on their relationship.

I don't want that for Embry and I, I'm sure we'll have our own stressful supernatural problems that'll be more than enough with out adding more on.

Embry will most likely work in construction or in a garage as a mechanic after high school, with his long hours patrolling not much else is realistic so it will likely fall to me to be the bread winner.

My plan is to get a business degree with a minor in botany. I wanted to open my own apothecary shop selling bits and bobs to the locals but market more expensive concoctions online. It wasn't going to make us rich my any means but hopefully it would be enough to always keep the power on and food on the table.

Bella POV:

I was out running with Jasper, Rosalie had gone into labor and there was a lot of blood. So the two weakest links were sent away. When we first learned she was pregnant and most likely had taken my shield, Edward was concerned I would feel jealousy or regret at going along with our plan, that it would suddenly occur to me I would never be a mother and have a meltdown but honestly I think I'm too selfish to be a mom. It's not that I don't like kids I do, but I've learned I have a lot of growing up to do myself which will be very hard now that I'm a vampire, but lucky me I literally have all the time in the world now.

I had taken some small positive steps, I had begun to write my sister letters, only one a month but enough so I knew she wouldn't worry about me. I even called my Dad, it was difficult given what I'd done and the call didn't last for more than a minute or two before it got too emotionally difficult and I had to hang up but I was making an effort to think about those in the world who I knew loved and worried about me. Thinking about how my actions affected other people and teaching myself to care was tedious at first.

Jasper ended up being a lot of help. He could show me what others where feeling depending on my actions or inactions and that lead me to know what the right thing to do was.

It's not that I'm a bad person or that I have no concept of right or wrong. It's just I seem to see things through a lens of 'how does this effect me,' before I worry about anyone else.

I think its difficult to realize when your being a melodramatic teenager while you are one, but due to recent events, seeing how devastated my sister was, killing those people... I was determined to get perspective and become a better person. And perhaps most importantly to do it for myself and not because I was worried about keeping Edward.

Edward also recognized he had a lot to work on as well, how he broke up with me for instance was a window into his own flaws. He had to understand that just because he can hear people's thoughts didn't mean he knew better than anyone else, ESPECIALLY when it comes to relationships he was a beginner but we were committed to learning together.

Emmet POV:

Making a baby with Rosalie should have been a dream come true but it was more of a nightmare. My giant vampire spawn was killing her from the inside out but she stubbornly refused to let Carlisle to anything about it.

Even when we figured out we needed to give Rosalie blood so the baby wouldn't keep leeching off her I lived in constant fear of her dying and being left to raise a vamp baby I would always associate with her death.

But as usual when Rosalie wanted something, she was going to get and damn anyone who was stupid enough to get in the way.

"Emmet!" I heard a scream come from downstairs, I paused the game I was currently playing and went to see what the problem was today, another broken rib, maybe a severed spine.

I walked in the room and Rosalie looked okay so I looked around to the rest of my family,

"Whats going on?"

"Rosalie's waters have broken, she's going into labor," Esme gently tells me.

Holy crap this it.