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C/N:Last ch...Bella hospital. Edward finds out about the baby. Runs into Jacob in the hallway.

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EPOV

My blood was pumping rapidly in my chest as the adrenaline surged through me. After the hell of a day…well the hell of a week I had, had, I was ready to explode and I figured the person standing in front of me was perfect to do it to. One of the only things immediately stopping me was the people surrounding me, who would be on me before I landed one punch I so desperately wanted to. The other...well the other was the beautiful woman laying broken in a room upstairs. Inside of her, the result of our connection, our baby. So instead I stood here. Toe to toe. eye to eye, nose to nose, with the one man in the world I wouldn't hesitate to kill with my own hands. I tried to gather myself and stay as calm as possible.

"I will only say it one more time. What. Are. You. Doing. Here. Jacob?"

I couldn't tell if he was nervous, scared, wanting to hit me, or wanting to run away.

"The same reason as you Cullen. I'm here for Bella, I came to support Charlie."

"She doesn't want you here Jacob. Leave now." It was taking every bit of strength I had to be as calm as possible.

"I'm not leaving Cull-"

"NOW! Before I remove you myself."

We stared each other down for a few moments before I saw Leah step forward, wrapping her hand around his bicep and gently tugging him.

"Come on Jake, Let's go get some coffee."

Before she could get him away completely I felt someone wrapping their hand around my own tense arm.

"Edward come on lets go get some air."

I was brought out of the tunnel vision I had induced on myself. I blinked my eyes a few times swallowing the lump in my throat that threatened to take over. Alice tugged a few more times before I finally started to follow her down the hallway leading to the outside, stumbling along the way. Before she could fully pull me away I yelled over my shoulder.

"You better not be here when I get back!"

Alice finally stopped tugging on my arm once the sliding doors let us out into the world. I immediately walked up to some stranger who was sitting on a bench away from the doors pulling a cigarette from a pack.

"Hey can I get one of those?"

He wordlessly held the pack out to me. I plucked one out and lite it as he held up the lighter.

"Thanks man much appreciated." I told him as I blew out the smoke.

I hadn't smoked in a year.

This sorta calls for it man. Its either that or getting yourself tanked at the closest bar and that's defiantly not a good idea.

I began pacing along the pathway surrounding the hospital as I puffed deep breaths off the stick at my mouth. Alice stood near me with her arms crossed in front of her not saying a word.

As I finished the smoke and stubbed it out in the given tray as I took a seat on a bench. My elbows rested on my knees as I rocked back and forth. My hand would come up to thrust through my hair of its own volition as I tried to make sense of all the thoughts flooding through my mind.

How had this happened?

How could she be pregnant?

Would she be ok?

Would we be ok?

She had been coming to me so what did that mean for us?

Alice took a seat next to me and let her hand rest lazily on my back slowly stroking it up and down.

I knew my voice was weak and trembling but I had to know what she knew.

"Alice...how? I just dont get it. We were so careful." I was pained.

She was thoughtful as she answered. "You know...she said the same exact thing. How long have you been seeing Bella, Edward?"

I was confused as to where she was going. "I don't know just over 2 months I think...Beginning of November why?"

"How many weeks is that?" She was being typical Alice. Not giving you the answer to your question, making you figure it out on your own.

"8 or 9 I don't know...Alice what are you getting at?" I couldn't help the agitation that was rising in my voice.

She just smiled her all knowing smile at me. "She's 9 weeks Edward. Your two's first encounter was 9 weeks ago. And I don't know the details but Bella does...You guys didn't use protection that night." She finished in a low whisper.

I froze.

The first time we met each other.

I had been thinking of that night so often in the past week. From the time she opened her door to me for the first time, through our first sexual encounter with one another. To when I had snuck out. Never had it occurred to me that we hadn't even been protected that night. I had been so enthralled with the passion of the night. I had never felt anything like it before and I now for the first time came to realize that was partially due to the fact there had been no barriers between us apparently. Which is something I never did.

I closed my eyes at the thought of that night. When I opened them to look in Alice's direction one single tear crept out over my lid, spilling out till it hit my jeans immediately soaking in.

"Oh god Alice. Does she regret it?"

Alice's hands immediately came up cradling my face. "Stop it Edward. Just stop it right now. Don't do it to yourself. Don't you realize what it all means? You two were meant to be. Fate. Destiny. Magic. Soul mates."

I had to huff at my sister's constant optimism. "I seriously doubt she sees it like that Alice. She knew she was pregnant the day I asked her to marry me and she ran. Hell I didn't even ask her I just asked her to promise me she would say yes one day in the future when I asked." I was back to pacing in front of the bench as my sister watched.

She limberly climbed up standing in front of me. She grasped my upper biceps in her tiny hands.

"God Alice...She's it for me...what am I going to do if she doesn't want me back? What if she wasn't coming to me to be with me? What if it was her way to let me go?" By the time I finished the strain was evident in my voice. My chest was back to physically hurting at the thought. What if she didn't want any piece of me? What if she didn't return the passion I felt for her? Would I be able to move on? Could I just go on with my life without her in it?

"She will Edward. I see it. She just needed time to understand it. Why do you think she was really coming for you?" Her eyes searched my own.

We stood on that sidewalk for a few moments. We were interrupted by Rose exiting the hospital.

"Edward! Alice! Shes out of recovery and in her room." I took off in a full sprint back to her room.

Back to my love.

Back to my heart.

Back to my soul.

Back to my puzzle piece.

Back to my...baby?

Luckily as I made my way down the hall to Bella's room it appeared the scene had cleared out. As I quietly slipped into the waiting room I was met with Emmett, Jasper, and Sue. Rose and Alice each entered in behind me.

"Charlie's in with her now" Emmett informed me. Before I could make it across the room to the door leading to where she lay he reached out to stop me.

"Give him a minute Edward." His face was solemn.

"Is she..."

"She's still out. Their going to keep her down till the swelling dissipates."

I knew I should stay out and let her father have his time but something was pulling me into the room. I had to at least see her with my own eyes. I slowly made my way to the door. My hand rested on the handle as I took a deep breath and tried to pull my self together. Opening that door was going to either be the beginning of my future or the beginning to my end.

As the room came into view my eyes fell upon the crumpled heap of man sitting next to the bed. He was bowed over the side. His hand laid upon the smaller form in front of him. He appeared to be murmuring to himself. He didn't notice me till I was fully in the room and had closed the door behind me. I bit down on my lower lip ,much like Bella did so many times before, as I made myself tear my eyes from him to the body laid out on the bed. She looked pale. Her arm was laid upon her chest, wrapped in a sling. Other then that there wasn't too many physical reminders of what she had been through. She had a few minor cuts that I could see and bruising but other then that she was still there. I could feel her essence around her like I had so many times before.

She was still my Bella.

My breath came out in a rush as it all hit me.

The sound was enough for Charlie to look up and take notice of me.

"Edward." Was his only acknowledgment. I willed my self to move closer to the other side of the bed. I reached out to take her hand in my own. I was excruciatingly careful. Like I thought any sudden movement would have her break completely in front of me. Only to loose her forever. I bent my form down to lay a gently breath of a kiss upon her knuckles, soothing it with my hand as I laid it back on the bed. My hands reached out to brush back her hair behind her ear as I took in her face. She looked peaceful and I could only wonder what was happening below the surface.

Before I had too much time to think the door to her room opened back up. A nurse came in followed by a large machine and Dr. Wood.

"Gentleman." He acknowledged us. "We just wanted to do a quick ultrasound and get a reading on the fetus."

Before I could even comprehend what he was saying I had unknowingly moved to the other side of the bed near Charlie to make room for the machine.

They worked methodically as they lowered the blanket to Bella's thighs. Lifting the gown that covered her to above her belly. I suddenly found my self needing to protect her. Like they were violating her in some way while she was unconscious. I had to remind myself they were doctors and if they needed to do this to help her they should. So in turn I just trained my eyes on her bare stomach, and what ever was going on under there.

The nurse took a tube from the side of the machine and squirted something on Bella's stomach. She then flipped on the machine and black screen with fuzz came on the monitor. She took a wand and began rubbing it all over Bella's stomach spreading the gel out. I tried to make sense of everything that was happening but my mind was still fogged. A small circle appeared on the monitor. Inside of it was a white peanut shaped bubble. The nurse continued moving the wand around clicking buttons on the keyboard in front of the monitor, every so often, as she changed positions of the wand. Dr. Wood kept murmuring things to him self as he watched. Neither was saying a word and it un-nerved me.

"Um...excuse me but could you explain what your doing?" I spoke up finally.

They seemed to have forgotten we were in the room as they acknowledged us.

"Oh sorry of course. We just want to get a read on the baby's heartbeat. Make sure her fluids are proper things like that." They talked so nonchalantly I barely had time to register what they were saying.

"The baby's heart beat...you mean..."I motioned to the monitor.

"Yes that right there." He pointed to the white peanut shape on the screen." That would be the baby ."

My breathed hitched into my throat for the millionth time today as I stared at the screen in front of me.

Charlie spoke up for me. "He's the father."

I glanced at him wide-eyed and gaping mouth, only to see his eyes red and full of tears. He gave me a tight lipped smile and a slight nod as if acknowledging the truth to me.

I looked back at the monitor with wide eyes. I didn't realize I was gasping in breaths until I began to get light headed.

"Well then...Say hello to your little one. Now we can't get an audible heartbeat yet...its just too young. But if you look closely, you see that little twitch in the middle of it?" I nodded to him that I did in fact see what he was explaining. "Well that is the heart beating. We can get a read on it by that. Now right here you see the dark area right outside. Well that's the hematoma. Were going to keep taking measurements of it and keep an eye for it to worsen. Other then that from what I see here everything else looks good to me. Well keep monitoring it all. Right now all she can do is rest though."

The nurse wiped off Bella's stomach and was about to return her gown when I stopped her. I took her gown in my hands myself and soothed it back down on her before pulling the blanket back up to rest across her chest. It wasn't much but it was something I felt like I had to do. Just as I finished the doctors hand came across the bed holding two shiny sheets of paper no bigger then 3x5. As I turned them over I realized they were snap shots of the video we had just seen. It was a picture of my baby. My little peanut shaped baby fighting for its life.

"Figured you two would like those." He nodded his head in acknowledgment as we thanked him and made his way back out of the room, nurse and machine in tow.

I held the picture to my chest and breathed it in. I was holding in my hand everything in the world I never knew I wanted. Now I couldn't think of my life without it.

I opened my eyes to find that the room was full. Everyone was staring at us trying to figure out what had happened. I looked down to see Charlie and I were probably a sight to behold. Grown and young alike. Two men brought to their knees at the idea of this baby.

"What's going on?" Alice spoke.

Charlie must have been able to sense I wasn't willing to part with the picture in my hand and offered up his copy for Alice to see. Alice took the photo, her eyes dodging back and forth between ours before resting on the picture.

Her eyes filled with tears as she looked at it. One hand came up to cover her mouth as she gasped.

"Is this?" She whispered.

I closed my eyes and nodded.

"Oh...oh...did you guys get to see? Is that what that machine was?"

I nodded again.

"Oh wow...just wow." She shared the picture with the rest in the room to look at.

A hushed silence over the room.

It was ruptured by the resounding echo of Emmett's stomach growling. We all let out hushed laughs.

"I think we should go get some food. Before the big Oaf here collapses on us" Rose joked.

"That's a good idea I need to go out and make a call to Sue...Let her know the latest." Charlie seemed to be trying to put on his in charge face.

They all started making their way out of the room. I made my way back to the other side of the bed. Alice stopped at the doorway and looked back at me. "You coming Edward?"

I couldn't take my eyes away from Bella's form on the bed. "No I think I'm going to stay here."

Alice made her way over to me as I sat in the chair near the bed. She leaned over brushing my hair back and leaving a kiss on my forehead. "Well bring you something back" she whispered.

"Thanks Alice."

I watched her form as she made her way out of the room closing the door softly behind her, before returning my eyes to Bella's face.

I took her hand in between both of mine more confidently this time. I kissed it gently before leaning my forehead agianst it as the tears began to fall. I wasn't sure of what her thoughts had been before. Or what her thoughts would be when she woke up, but I closed my eyes and whispered reverent promises and wishes under my breath.

I promised her I would be here as long as she came back to me.

I promised to do what ever she asked of me.

I wished for her to fight for us, to fight for our child.

I promised that if she couldn't do it I would do it for the both of us.

I promised to fight.

As long as there was a breath in her body...

I would fight...

Until there was no breath left in mine.

I just hoped it would be enough.

C/N: What do you think? Is poor Eddie holding out false hopes? Next ch we will get some insight to what Bella's going through

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