a/n: Hello one and all, thank you for the lovely reviews on the last chapter. There are only about two more chapters left on this story and then we move on to the sequel. Also, I will be starting up another twilight fanfiction as well, but my main focus will be the sequel to this story once I have wrapped up.
Disclaimer: I do not own twilight, just this plot.
Ch.35: Agony
Kevin's POV
Jacob and I knocked lightly at the leech's door.
The sweet looking one, Esme, answered the door with a half-smile, and ushered us into the den where everyone was standing around Aiyanna.
She looked in even more of a worse condition, her breathing weak and barely noticeable, and her stomach had gotten even bigger. Her skin now had a greenish tint to it and she was sweating bullets.
"So, you'll let her die then right?" Edward turned on Jacob.
All of the bloodsuckers looked at Jacob with unreadable expressions, except for Blondie's which was obviously anger, as always.
"I rather get those things out of her without her dying to begin with, her ribs are broken now, and she's barely breathing," Jacob replied.
"Yes, but she loves these children for some reason I can't explain and you would kill us all and your grandchildren, also your daughter?" Edward growled.
"These things are not my grandchildren by choice," Jacob snarled.
"But she loves them; you would kill someone she loves?" The pixie one asked sadly.
The room became deathly quiet and I looked back down at Aiyanna, I could practically see the cord that held us together as soul mates dying in front of my very eyes along with her.
"Let them do it," I whispered, "this pain of feeling a part of me die is too much, I rather her become the very thing I hate than just die completely."
I looked over at Jacob whose eyes were sad and angry all at the same time, I waited for him to boom at me in the alpha voice and make my knees buckle, but he didn't.
"She can decide," Jacob said flatly, "I thought maybe my daughter would join us wolves, but it is apparent that she will not be, so she can decide."
"Will you still bring about a war Jacob Black?" Edward asked.
"Not if she wants this…way of living, but I don't really approve." He stated.
Jacob kissed her silently on the forehead before turning on his heel and exiting the house for what was probably going to be the last time, and I collapsed to my knees at her side like I had done the first night she was found.
"She's practically gone," I spoke quietly.
I felt a cold hand grip my shoulder and looked up to see the doctor nodding down at me in empathy.
"She only has a few more hours it seems," He said.
I stared down at her as her eyelids began to flutter and shift before opening and staring at me intently. She smiled weakly and tried to sit herself up before letting out a sharp gasp of pain and flopping back down like a dead fish.
Edward and I grabbed each side of her and helped her sit up as tears filled her eyes.
"Your thoughts are both so sad," She quivered, "blood please."
I looked at her and made a face I'm sure was far from supportive as she let out a weak, breathy laugh, and then chugged down three glasses of blood which made my stomach sit on edge.
"I don't have much time right?" She spoke airily.
She rubbed her huge, distorted belly with her right hand that looked fragile like a thin piece of driftwood.
"It seems they will be joining us soon," Carlisle said.
"Kevin, can you put some gloves on?" She asked; looking at me with her piercing chocolate doe eyes I could still see through the emptiness.
I checked my pockets to see if I still had my riding gloves from when I was helping my mom with some hard labor, but I could only find one, the other must have fallen out from throwing them off.
"I have one, will that work?" I asked; holding it up sheepishly.
"Sure," She gave me a half smile.
I pulled the glove on and put my hands back at my sides, but I felt her cold shaking hand slip into my gloved one.
"I need you," she breathed, "don't leave me, where's my dad?"
"I'll stay, I'd do anything for you," I said; tears filling my eyes, "your dad couldn't handle this Aiyanna."
I looked over at Edward whose face was blank and pain stricken like he was suffering greatly.
You should tell her. I thought directly to him.
"Aiyanna love," he began; the pain present in his voice.
Aiyanna looked at him and beckoned him over with her free thin hand, and when he sat down she snuggled into his chest, I was reduced to holding a hand, but that was better than nothing; it could be the last time.
"Your father has left quite a big decision in your hands," He said carefully.
"To help you make it, I thought you would want to see someone," The doctor said, walking into the den; I hadn't noticed his absence.
Aiyanna's mom slowly came into view behind a corner – her heartbeat slow and steady as if she were preparing herself, and Aiyanna let out a sob.
"Mom," She whispered.
Mrs. Black walked over to her cautiously with one hand over her mouth and Edward moved so that she could hold her instead. She cooed to Aiyanna softly and stroked her hair with gloved hands as tears rand down her cheeks.
"Aiyanna, you have to make a choice sweetie," Bella said; choking up, "you can become a vampire, or pass away."
I looked down at Aiyanna who was chewing at her cracked lips and crying as well.
"That day I saw Edward for the first time again in nineteen years, I said I couldn't handle you becoming one of them," Bella admitted, "but I rather you join them like I once longed for then lose you forever."
"Me too," I threw in; squeezing her hand gently, "I rather you become a leech then not see your smiling face ever again."
"But dad, and the pack, they'll hate me forever," she sobbed.
"Your dad will always love you, no matter what, promise," Bella smiled.
The whole room was staring at Aiyanna as she calculated and breathed weakly.
"I want to become a vampire," she breathed, "I want forever with my children, and forever with you."
She looked at Edward as she said the last part and he bent down to kiss her cheek gently. I felt my heart clench in pain at the idea of her heart stopping, her skin becoming ice, the idea of my soul mate becoming a monster and spending eternity with one; but I couldn't do anything about it.
Aiyanna's POV
Breathing was becoming harder and harder to do by the hour.
The twins were growing so large that they began to press on my lungs and spine and I felt myself slowly begin to slip away.
"Perhaps we should take her to the spare hospital bed I have upstairs," Carlisle said, "She needs oxygen and normal food again."
I thought of the little human food I had eaten over the last few days and I felt the sudden craving for a chicken salad with some more blood to dull the pain.
"Chicken salad," I gasped, "more blood too."
Edward nodded at me and disappeared into the direction of what I assumed was the kitchen as Carlisle picked me up and ran me up the stairs. I hated feeling so dependent. Before the blink of an eye I was in a comfortable hospital bed with an oxygen mask covering my nose and mouth with all of the Cullen's staring down at me.
"Edward is bringing your salad and blood in a few seconds," Alice smiled.
"After your food I wish to maybe start injecting you with morphine to ease your pain, plus, if you are to be changed hopefully it will not hurt as much," Carlisle looked at me tenderly.
I looked at him and nodded, "What's it like?"
"Changing?" Esme asked softly.
I looked at them and nodded, I could see the uneasiness in all of their faces.
"It is excruciating," Rosalie hissed.
She had this drawn out look on her face like she was remembering a time from very long ago and her eyes darted back to my face as she smiled.
"Don't worry," she touched my hand gently, "It does hurt very badly, I cannot lie about that, and screaming and wishing to die honestly does you no good, but look what you have to look forward to."
I glanced around the room again to see all of the nodding faces of the Cullen's, my future family, and I thought of Edward and my children as I touched my moving stomach.
Edward walked into the room carrying a huge plate of chicken salad and two black cups I recognized all too well by now. He came over to me, removing the oxygen mask gently from my face, and handed me everything.
I wolfed down the plate of salad as if there hadn't been any there at all, and then guzzled down the blood as well. I began to feel stronger – the color in my cheeks slowly returning from what I could feel, and I actually managed to sit up on my own; placing the oxygen mask back on my face.
Edward sat down on the small bed next to me and I placed his covered arms around me carefully; placing his hands on my stomach. Everyone began to shuffle out of the room – Kevin and my mom saying they'd be sitting right outside the door, and the door shut soundly behind them all.
"This is really happening," I whispered softly, "you remember your promise right?"
He looked at me and nodded, "I promised if you were dying I'd change you, and I will."
I looked at him and smiled as he gently brushed stray hairs from my face, I loved no one more than Edward in this moment, except for my children.
"I love you Edward Cullen," I breathed.
"And I love you Aiyanna Black," He said quietly, "I'll be right back."
He got off the bed and I barely saw him leave but he was back in a flash of movement, holding a small box. I looked at him - my eyes widening in shock, and he got down on one knee next to my bed as I started crying again.
He opened the box and inside sat two rings; a Victorian style, oval shaped ring with round diamonds that glittered inside of the thin golden web that nestled around them, and a white-gold ring with a brilliant, medium sized diamond nestled between two ocean blue sapphires.
He took both of my hands – slipping the golden, older ring on my right ring finger, and the white-gold ring on the official left ring finger. They were kind of loose because of how thin my fingers were, but they were more than perfect.
"This old fashioned ring was my mothers and I wanted you to have it, I had planned on asking your mother to marry me with that ring," he admitted, "but, nonetheless I wanted you to have it, and I wanted a ring that would be yours and only yours. If we are to spend forever together, I want to be married to you."
The thought of marriage terrified me completely, but with his golden eyes burning into mine and the beautiful rings, there was no way I could refuse him.
"Yes," I breathed, "I will."
He kissed my lips tenderly and we smiled at each other in silence, I couldn't ask for anything more perfect. Before we could fully enjoy our moment for a longer amount of time, Alice busted through the door clapping with a smile of pure happiness.
"I get to plan a wedding, how exciting!" She beamed.
I could see Kevin lingering in the doorway with a broken look on his face as if his heart had been ripped from his chest, but no matter how much I cared for him, I didn't love him like I did Edward.
"Alice, we would have to wait until after she's been changed." Edward warned her.
"Fine, her seventeenth birthday is four days away, I'll just plan that," Alice retorted back.
She glided out of the room like she always does gracefully, and I slumped back against the bed.
"So, Selene and Charlie," Edward wondered.
"I don't know if I like the name Selene, but I wouldn't mind the name Charlie," I smiled, "what was your mother's name Edward?"
Edward looked at me cautiously, "Elizabeth."
When the name left his lips it felt like the perfect fit, I just knew that was my daughter's name.
"Elizabeth Sarah Cullen," I said out loud; rubbing my stomach, "what do you think?"
I felt the movement inside and giggled carefully.
"Why the name Sarah just wondering?" Edward asked curiously.
"It was my grandmother's name, my dad's mom who passed away," I said sadly.
Edward nodded, "I like it."
"And Charlie…" I trailed off.
"Anthony Cullen," Edward finished, "Anthony is my middle name."
I put my hand on his covered arm and sighed happily at how great things were going, but soon agony started ripping me from my happy moment with my future husband.
"Carlisle!" Edward yelled.
He laid me on my back as I writhed in pain – my insides felt like they were being torn apart, and the pressure on my spine was unbearable. Black spots began to cloud my vision as the pain became more excruciating and I felt the sharp pinch of a needle entering my arm.
"They're coming Edward," Carlisle's voice sound far away, "Aiyanna, I need you to stay with me."
I tried to nod but it felt like my head was just flopping backward and there was nothing I could do to not have that happen. Cold hands were gripping my ankles and wrists to keep me from thrashing around, even though I couldn't move, and ear piercing screams tried to escape from my throat.
I felt as if someone had shoved a nail gun against my stomach and fired numerous amounts of nails into my insides, bricks crashing against my chest, a huge truck running me over; all the pain melted together making me wish for anything but this.
"Carlisle, her heart is weakening fast," Edward panicked.
"They're still not out Edward; I gave her a very high amount of morphine but we can't change her just yet," Carlisle replied.
Suddenly there was a horrible sound, loud tearing that made my ears hurt, and I wanted to scream louder as I felt like the skin above my stomach had been sliced off. I was giving up, trying to focus and tell myself to keep my heart beating, telling myself to breathe, but I couldn't fight it any longer; I was dying.
I opened my eyes as much as I could manage when I saw them for the first time, my children. They both were letting out cries as Rosalie and Esme cradled them and I felt myself trying to smile, but I couldn't. They looked at me with wide, curious eyes, their dark hair matted against there scalps with blood, but even though they were coated with blood, they were beautiful.
My eyes began to grow heavy as Carlisle ordered everyone but Edward to leave and I tried to reach out for my children, but it was useless. If I was going to die, I wanted to say goodbye, but as the pain slowly started to numb, something began to burn me like acid.
This pain was a new kind of pain, far worse than anything I had been feeling moments before, and it began to spread throughout my whole body slowly. The sensation was terrible, as if someone had injected gasoline into my veins and then dropped a match in as well. My heart felt like a hot piece of metal sitting in my chest, beating in time with the pulsing agony, and as I tried to open my mouth I couldn't move it at all.
I wanted to scream for death, I wanted to kick around and tear apart my body more to stop this suffering, but I couldn't move, I was trapped and my body was the cage.
I had no sense of time after laying here for what felt like a century as the venom made its way slowly, trickling through my veins until it finally reached the rest of my body. I would have taken death as a happy birthday present compared to feeling like a doll trapped in some torture scene.
I tried to focus on counting or song lyrics, but no form of thought could pull me away from the pain consuming every inch of my body, and as I continued to lay there motionless, the only thought I could muster up was the struggle to think of my children and fiance who needed me. I was going to get through this for them, Elizabeth, Charlie, and Edward, my reason for existing, and I was going to kill Jareth for the pain he had caused me.
Edward's POV
I sat by her side with my hands clenched under my chin.
My body was tensed and I felt uneasy as I tried to block out the thoughts of all the anxious people in our house. I didn't want to touch her because I was afraid she still might be able to read my mind, even though Charlie now harbored that ability, but I wanted so badly to hear her say she was okay and stroke her hair gently.
Charlie and Elizabeth were growing at an accelerated rate, but we assume that the growth process will slow down, seeing as how they're only a quarter vampire. We've learned so far that they love oatmeal with bottles of deer blood, a combination that wasn't my preferred dish.
Kevin had taken off in the forest howling in pain like he could feel every little thing happening to her, he was the first I tuned out. Everyone had seen the children except the dogs – they refused to even be a part of anything, I would be lying if I said the kids hadn't won everyone else over though.
They were beautiful and highly intelligent, absorbing everything around them like small sponges. Charlie's eyes were the same ones that belonged to Aiyanna and Bella, eyes I knew I would no longer see when I gazed at Aiyanna's face. Elizabeth looked almost identical to Aiyanna in certain ways, but she had Jareth's eyes.
I grew angry when I thought of Jareth and how he was still out there, we were all able to agree that the demonic duo were going to pay for everything, but the children were no longer a regret at all, to our family anyways.
"Edward, she's going to be absolutely perfect," Alice giggled delightfully; pulling me from my original track of mind.
"She was perfect the way she was Alice," I grumbled.
I looked back at Aiyanna who was still not moving; it had to be soon she would awaken.
"How much longer?" I asked quietly.
"From the way my visions look, another day, if that" she replied.
I groaned internally at the idea of having to wait another day to hold her again, but I was glad at the same time that I had done the deed right; I almost killed her. I was struggling with myself to just bite and suck enough to have her blood stream take in my venom, a struggle I almost lost. Now after three days, I was being told I had to wait just one more, I was suffering.
I wonder when she'll finally die and become a monster…then I can destroy the very things that did this to her… Kevin Uley thought roughly; he was right outside the window.
I hissed under my breath and Alice looked at me – her eye brows knitting together in confusion.
"Kevin is still planning on killing Charlie and Elizabeth," I growled, "Jacob said there would be no war, but Kevin won't stand down when it comes to his imprint."
"I'm sure when he sees Aiyanna changed and happy with her kids he won't go through with it," Alice spoke gently.
"If he'll wait that long," I retorted.
"We'll make him wait," Alice smiled wickedly.
She ran from the room and I laughed at the images running through her head, Kevin probably wouldn't like what she was planning too much.
I glanced at Aiyanna once again and thought about how our wedding would be coming soon, how our children would grow to be even more beautiful, they knew me as daddy in their minds, and I smiled at how I had gained a new part of my family that I would cherish forever; I was the happiest vampire in existence, now all I had to do was wait.
So, Jacob no longer wants to kill his daughter, don't worry, but Kevin is out to kill Charlie and Elizabeth :[
The sequel is called: Masquerade: A Tale of Two Twins
When I finish this story, I'll post the summary on the epilogue as a preview.
Thank you all again!
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-Keely