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This I think is the longest chapter I have done? And I hope you enjoy it and in a few chapters there will be an Army being gathered, and they all have a purpose, they will fight for this.
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Chapter 25
It has been two weeks since Hermione had arrived at the Cullen's and two weeks since they had put Bella on a diet of…blood. Ginny had come the day after and they tried giving Bella a blood replenishing potion but it didn't work, nothing they tried worked except the human blood packets.
Harry and Ron were here hanging around with Luna, Hermione and Ginny one morning. They were all in one of the rooms chatting and laughing when Hermione felt another kick.
"Guys here!" she said as she lifted up her shirt. Luna and Ginny had felt it kick before so now it was Harry and Ron's turn. They hesitantly placed their hands on their best friend's swollen stomach and gasped, the baby was kicking.
"Bloody hell."
"Wow," Harry gasped. They pulled their hands away and turned to the window when they heard a howl.
"I really wish you would let us hurt him," Harry growled. When he found out what had happened it took Bill, George and Arthur to hold him back. Ron would have been holding him back too but he was too busy fighting against Charlie, Lee and Percy.
"I do not want a fatherless baby Harry, and despite everything I still love him, very much," Hermione whispered. Harry sighed and nodded.
"So…Harry Junior is growing nicely," he grinned innocently.
"No it's Ron Junior," Ron retorted. They started arguing and then wrestling. Ron made a bad turn and they both ended up on the floor with a loud thump and a shout. The girls broke down into laughter and Hermione lay back against the pillows.
"Oh I missed this," she smiled. They all nodded as Harry and Ron got off the ground and mock glared at each other.
"I already have a named picked out actually," Hermione smiled and they leaned forward to hear it.
"She won't tell you," Luna smiled.
"Why not," the others asked with shocked faces.
"Because it is a surprise and only I know," she smiled.
Suddenly they heard the door shut below them and they all went to the living room. They knew that Esme, Carlisle and Emmett were going out to hunt tonight just in case the baby came and they would need to be at full strength.
They also knew that Jacob was going to distract the pack as much as he could. They walked into the living room and saw the three vampires had come back from hunting and they sighed in relief. Minutes later Jacob walked in.
"You made it back," he observed. He immediately moved to Luna and grasped her hand and held her close. Carlisle nodded and thanked Jacob and Hermione sighed, she really wanted this to be over.
"Let's go see Bella," Ginny said as she moved them to the front medical room. It was downstairs and had large glass doors facing the woods. They had moved her there two days ago in case of an early labour. Alice and Rosalie were there, Alice having come around after Edward heard the baby in his mind.
When they entered Bella, with the help of Rose and Alice, stood up to greet them. Jacob stood behind Hermione who was looking at her cousin painfully. The rest either stood behind or beside but Edward was standing next to Hermione watching his wife with a worried expression.
"What's the matter?" Hermione asked.
"Rosalie is trying to talk Bella out of her baby names," Edward smiled.
"She hates them," Bella said.
"This is pretty important Bella, why don't you tell Jacob," Rosalie said.
"Tell me what?" he asked. Everyone was now sitting down around Bella who was looking sheepish.
"I was playing with our parent's names and for a girl I was thinking Renesmee Carlie Cullen," she said, "And for a boy I was thinking Edward Jacob Cullen."
"Oh," Jacob said with a shocked expression, I um…think they're…unique?"
"You don't like them either," she more or less stated.
"It's not that I don't like them but…don't you think Edward Jacob is a little…strange?"
"Well…yes but I want it to be names after people that I love," she replied.
"Well how about…Elliot Edward? Elliot was going to be my name before my mother put her foot down and chose Jacob," he said.
"I like that," she smiled, "Elliot Edward Cullen."
Hermione smiled, she too knew that the name she originally chosen was ludicrous and strange and luckily Luna had talked her out of it and suggested another name, it was perfect.
"Oh thanks," Bella said as Rosalie passed her another cup of…blood.
She was just about to grab hold of it when it slipped from her fingers. Everything slowed down as the cup fell to the floor and split. Blood was everywhere but what scared everyone the most was Bella.
She had reached down to pick it up when something inside of her snapped. Her back snapped at an odd angle and the pain radiated in her eyes. She fell to her knees with wide eyes and everyone rushed forward.
"Carlisle!" Edward shouted. The four vampires moved her onto the bed as the wizards stood over at the far wall in case they were needed. Luna had to drag Hermione back with her since the girl was in shock.
The vampires and Jacob were moving fast to try and save her and Hermione suddenly came too.
"Accio bag," she whispered. Her magically extended purse cam flying towards her and she grabbed it. She summoned her potions case and rummaged through them quickly. She quickly removed three bottles and called Carlisle.
"This is a blood replenishing potion in case she looses too much blood, this is a potion that will numb most of the pain and this is a potion that should cause her muscles to relax. You are not going to get that baby out unless you take it out," she commanded. Carlisle nodded and quickly administered the potions to Bella.
Rosalie cut into her to get the baby out but she couldn't handle the blood. Alice took her away as Bella lay their bleeding. She was gasping for breath and blood poured out of the wound. Carlisle was doing his best but with the rate of the blood loss, even with that potion…she wouldn't make it.
Bella started screaming when they ripped the wound open and cut out the baby. Hermione was crying in the corner with Luna as Ginny was sheltered in between Harry and Ron. Even the numbing potion wasn't enough for her not to feel this pain.
Hermione tried to slow her breathing knowing that her stress would cause her own baby harm. They took the baby about and everything was silent apart from the babies cries. Edward smiled and looked at his child, his little boy. He passed his son to his mother who looked at him with such love. Suddenly she winced and everyone was back in action, she was still dying.
"Hermione I need you to take him," Edward said and Hermione lurched forward. She robotically took the baby while breathing in deep breaths. She walked over to a large sink and placed it on a towel. She grabbed a cloth and wet it. She started wiping off the baby to remove the blood and offal. She cut the umbilical cord and the tears started falling. She tried wiping them away but they came back even stronger.
She glanced back at her cousin and then the baby and lifted her wand.
"Scourgify," she muttered and the baby was cleaned off. She quickly wrapped it in a new towel and held it close to her, it did not look a like a newborn baby, it looked at least a few weeks, if not a few months old. She walked out the door and Rosalie was there in an instant. She took it away and Hermione waddled back into the room to see Edward push a large needle into Bella's chest.
"What is that?" Jacob shouted.
"My venom," Edward answered. He then used gentle, for a vampire, CPR on her to try and get his venom to run through her system but she lay their unmoving with her wide glassy eyes staring into nothing.
"Bella," Hermione choked.
"I won't kill you," Jacob said to Edward, "You deserve to live with this."
Luna walked over and gently took Jacobs hand, they walked outside past the porch with the others and that's where he broke down. He fell to the ground hugging Luna all the while crying out his pain, his pain of losing his best friend.
Harry and Ron hung their heads and held a crying Ginny as they watched this man break down.
"Bella," Hermione whimpered as the feeling of complete and utter despair rose up.
"Bella!" Hermione screamed as her cousin lay still. Hermione couldn't take it, she ran out onto the balcony and sank to her knees and cried, and after all they did they still lost her. She had failed again!
Ginny sobbed and ran over to Hermione and embraced her. She quickly muttered a few spells to protect Hermione's baby just in case but she couldn't stop the pain her friend was feeling, to loose another family member. Seth and Leah had runback to the house when they heard Jacob's cry and looked at the scene in front of them.
"Hermione," Seth whispered. He ran over to her and held her other side and rocked her back and forth. Leah grew angry, how dare that thing cause her friends so much pain, how dare it cause her family such pain! Sam was right…it didn't deserve to live!
She silently crept into the house and sniffed out the demon. It was mixed with the blonde vampire's scent so she followed it. She found them sitting in a small room with a single light on. Rosalie was facing away from her holding the baby on her thighs.
Leah crept up behind the couch and snarled. Rosalie's head snapped back to see Leah about ready to rip the baby to shreds when something changed, her expression changed.
Leah was about ready to snatch the baby and rip it to pieces with the blonde's head snapped back to reveal the baby's face. The baby was looking at her with large brown eyes and suddenly everything changed.
Leah saw a vision of a small curly bronze haired boy smiling at her and then he changed to a child, then a teenager and then, finally, a man. This man stood tall with pale skin and warm brown eyes. His bronze hair shone in the sun and he looked at her with such loving eyes and Leah knew this was it, she was his.
He was what was holding her to earth, tethering her to this place. She no longer felt lonely; she now had a purpose, a purpose she was all too happy to fulfil. She didn't care that he was half-vampire, it didn't matter because they were supposed to meet, they were supposed to be together. She was going to be his sister, his best friend or his lover and his protector. She was going to be whatever he wanted her to be.
"What's up with you mutt?" Rosalie snapped.
"That baby," Leah whispered too shocked to sound angry, "Is my imprint."
"You're kidding right?" Rosalie gasped. Leah glared at her and Rosalie sighed, she knew it was true she saw the way Leah looked at the baby, she wasn't stupid.
Outside Seth suddenly stopped rocking Hermione who was now just leaning against him. Ginny has stood back with her brother and fiancé as Jacob sat with Luna.
"They're here," Seth whispered as Jacob stood up and pushed Luna back.
"You don't fight Luna, not this time," he growled. Luna nodded and stood back with Ginny. Hermione's eyes had shot up to look at the tree-line. Slowly the pack emerged in their wolf forms.
"Edward! Alice! Jasper!" Seth shouted and seconds later the three vampires were there.
"We're outnumbered," Jasper murmured.
"I won't let them hurt my family, no matter what," Edward snarled and then everything happened at once. The three Cullen's lunged forward and met the wolves half way. Jacob immediately phased and attacked his old pack. Seth was clutching onto Hermione who was watching the fight with wide eyes. She went to pull out her wand but Seth stopped her.
"Not this time Hermione," he whispered. Hermione nodded and whimpered as she moved back with her friends. Seth phased and pushed Jared off a struggling Alice. They were tearing at each other and Hermione's eyes were swimming with tears, Sam wouldn't even look at her.
The rest of the Cullen's quickly came outside and Hermione wandered who was watching the baby since Rosalie was fighting Embry. The Cullen's were now backed up against the house with Seth and Jacob. Luna and Hermione couldn't take it any longer they needed to help.
They ran (waddled) as quickly as they could and intercepted the wolves and stood in front of the Cullen's.
"Stop, please, "Hermione whispered. The pack looked at her and Embry whimpered, he never really wanted to fight but…that demon had taken his best friend from him, it deserved to die.
"Please it doesn't have to be like this," she continued as Harry, Ron and Ginny came to stand behind them. Sam was looking at Hermione's stomach with sadness and Hermione almost walked over to him, almost. Suddenly he shook his head and started growling again and Hermione was shocked. Seth and Jacob quickly phased back, they didn't wan to fight anymore, not if they didn't have to.
The pack stood growling in front of the Cullen's. Hermione stood there with wide eyes as Luna stood back with Jacob. Seth was standing beside Hermione and Leah then came running outside to stand in front of the pack.
"You can't kill him!" she shouted and the pack looked at her, "If you kill him you'll have to kill me!"
Sam jumped forward in warning and she jumped back, almost hitting Hermione. Leah growled and started to shake as she punched Sam in the jaw. His head snapped back and then he looked at her with menacing eyes.
"You will not touch-"
"Leah no!" Hermione shouted. Sam lurched forward again and raised his front paw ready to swipe at her. He brought his paw down heard and a deafening sound echoes through the area.
Rip.
The sound of tearing fabric and flesh sounded throughout the area and a moment later it was accompanied by a gut wrenching scream. Leah looked on in shock at the place she had just been standing only too see blood.
Blood was pouring out of the wounds and onto the dirt. Carlisle immediately jumped into action and took her inside. Ginny followed quickly as Sam phased back and stood in shock.
"You dumbass!" Leah screeched. She stormed over to Sam and punched his square in the nose. It broke but in only a few seconds it was healed. Sam stood in place looking at the place where Hermione had just stood before she was whisked away.
When Sam had swung at Leah he didn't realise Hermione was behind her and he was too close. His forearm had hit Leah and sent her flying while his actually paw went behind her and hit Hermione.
He had hit her, he had wounded her, and he had hit her in the stomach. Terror filled him as he rushed inside forgetting about everyone else, he had just attacked his own soul mate and unborn child.
Leah watched as the rest of the pack ran inside after phasing back and noticed that she was the only one left standing outside. She sighed and knew that there would be too many people near Hermione right now. Instead she went and retrieved Elliot from his basket and brought him into the medical room where Bella was still laying, though now her eyes were closed.
Upstairs a commotion was terrorising the place. Sam was being held back by Emmett and Jasper as he tried to get into the secondary medical room to see Hermione. Carlisle was inside with Edward. The pack was standing in the living room getting an earful from a crying Ginny. Harry and Ron and disappeared and Rosalie was pacing the room.
"Two in one night," she muttered.
Inside the medical room Hermione was screaming bloody murder.
"Get him out, save him please," she sobbed. She could feel her baby in distress and she needed him to be safe, that's all she cared about. Sweat was forming of her skin and she was getting shaking. Her water had broken and she was going into an early labour.
"Hermione if I don't fix this up you will both die," Carlisle said.
"I don't care," she screamed, "Just save him please!"
Carlisle sighed and got to work while Edward connected her up to some fluids. Carlisle injected Morphine into her system and waited a few moments for it to take effect.
"The wounds are to fatal for me to perform a C-Section, if I open them any further you will die before I can get the baby out," he said.
"Then let me help," Luna said as she opened the doors. She walked in with her wand raised and muttered a few spells. The blood flow slowed down but she had already lost so much. She muttered another spell and the wounds started to slowly stitch themselves back together.
Hermione suddenly let out another loud scream and jumped forward on the bed.
"It's already coming, Hermione I need you to push," Carlisle instructed. Edward suddenly stilled and looked at Hermione who was gritting her teeth and looking at him. He gave the slightest nod, he was determined to save her, and maybe if he could save her then Bella would be happy?
He left the room and looked at all the wolves who looked at him.
"She needs you Seth," he murmured and Sam's eyes widened and snapped to the younger wolf that completely ignored him and rushed into the room. Seth jumped to Hermione's side and grabbed one of her hands.
"The morphine is wearing off the magic in her blood is burning it up in her state of distress," Carlisle muttered. Blood started pouring out of Hermione's lower region as she pushed. A moment later the doors burst open again and Harry and Ron rushed in with an elderly witch.
"Don't tell me she is giving naturally?" she gasped and Carlisle nodded. He knew this was the Madam Pomfrey Luna had spoken about before and was hoping that he could help. Luna stood at the base of Hermione's bed keeping an eye out for the child.
"Here Miss Granger, take these," Poppy said. She gave Hermione two vials and Hermione downed them and held back a scream. The first potion set her body feeling like it was on fire for a few seconds before it settled down and she felt her skin patching itself up as quickly as it could while the second one she knew was a blood replenishing potion.
"And now this one Miss Granger and then I need you to push for this little one," she instructed. Hermione was crying loudly from the pain and quickly downed the third vial, a Pepper-Up Potion. She felt some strength come back to her and she pushed with everything she had.
"I see the head," Carlisle murmured as Poppy muttered spell after spell trying to keep Hermione alive. More blood seeped out of her as she pushed; it seemed to come in small waves. She was clutching Seth's hand hard and he was afraid that she might break his hand, his hand.
She was screaming and pushing as hard as she could but the pain was so bad, this baby was not letting go.
"Get him out!" she screamed as sweat dropped onto the sheets. Her hair was plastered to her face and she was flushed from all the pushing. The only contrast was that the rest of her skin was so pale, almost as pale as the Cullen's…so much blood had been spilt and it was still coming out at an alarming rate.
"Baby please let go, let me have you," she sobbed as Seth held her hand.
"You can do this Hermione, you can do it," Seth encouraged. She sobbed and groaned as another contraction hit her.
"Sam!" she screamed and moments later the door were thrown off their hinges as Sam rushed into the room. Seth moved away and let Sam sit in the chair. He grasped Hermione hand and held her face.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" he whispered over and over again. She just smiled at him and clutched his hand but another contraction ripped through her. She screamed and screamed and everyone watched from outside as Carlisle and Poppy tried to save her life.
"I see shoulders!" Luna said happily as she held towel after towel underneath Hermione. Hermione laughed and then suddenly grunted.
"Let me go," she ground out. Everyone looked frightened, would they loose another mother tonight? They hoped not. Harry, Ginny and Ron looked on as their friend was dying and they couldn't do a thing about it. Harry had tears running down his face as he watched his sister figure withering and screaming in pain. She had protected him for so long and now when he was needed to most he couldn't do anything, he didn't know what to do.
Ron and Ginny were also in turmoil, they were watching another family member die and they could do nothing about it. It was Tonks and Bella all over again; would this cycle never stop, would children never stop losing their parents?
"Let me go," Hermione gritted. Suddenly she screamed once again and leaned forward.
"Let me go! Let me go!" she sobbed.
"Almost there Miss Granger!" Poppy shouted as she placed another spell on Hermione and forced a potion down her throat through her screaming.
"Let me go!" Hermione screamed once again and this time it was accompanied by one long lasting scream and a small cry. Hermione fell back into Sam's arms limply with her eyes closed. Poppy soon saw this and gasped.
"Miss Granger!"
"Hermione!"
"Wake up Hermione!" Harry shouted as Emmett held him back. Jasper had left to hide in the woods as soon as Hermione was hurt, he couldn't handle all the intense emotions flowing through him.
"Hermione wake up please," Ginny cried as she sunk to the floor.
"No no no," Sam muttered and everyone could hear him breaking, "Wake-up Hermione! Hermione please don't leave me please! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Please wake up! Look at him, look at our son please, Hermione he needs you, he needs his mother…I need you!"
His pleas fell of deaf ears, she wasn't waking up.
Here you go everyone! I hope you like it, I was almost in tears writing it so I hope you lot are faring much better! R&R please, I already have the next chapter ready so to find out what happens please review!
