Chapter Fifty One
Rose
I had no idea what to do and I longed to hear Carlisle's calm voice telling us exactly what we needed to do to help Bella. When the phone rang again I crossed my fingers leaving Jasper to answer it, I'd got the sharpest knife I could find but I just couldn't do it. I couldn't cut into Bella's body. When I heard Jasper mention Carlisle's name I heaved a sigh of relief. Jasper took the knife from me
"What do I do?"
Carlisle sent his instructions and Jasper sliced into Bella's stomach, I smelled the blood and stopped breathing. The knife refused to cut through the next membrane and Jasper gave me the knife and sliced through it with his teeth. Then I saw it, the baby struggling to break free of its mother. Jasper gently removed it and detaching it from Bella handed it to me without another glance. Bella lay unmoving and I saw her chest had stopped rising and falling.
"Jasper she's not breathing" I shouted and he moved to her side,
"Bella?" he cried as he pumped her chest,
"Get Charlotte, I need help"
I ran down to Charlotte,
"Jazz needs help"
She looked at the baby and the blood and shook her head "I can't Rose."
Peter ran past us and up the stairs "I'll do it"
Peter
When I got to the bedroom the smell of blood hit me and my mouth filled with venom. I swallowed it with difficulty and went to Jaspers side,
"What do you need?"
"Keep her heart beating so I can change her. I need the venom to pump round Peter, I can't lose, her I wont." I nodded, "It looks like a fucking slaughter-house Major"
He grunted as I pumped her chest. How he did it I've no idea but he bit into her neck injecting venom then running his tongue over the bite to seal it. He followed this with bites to her femoral artery and her wrists. He just kept biting and pumping venom into her blood supply until I had to stop him,
"Enough Major. You've done all you can. Now we wait."
His eyes were filled with venom and his hands clenched.
"It'll be OK Major. She'll be fine. I can keep her heart beating until the venom does its job."
He stood watching Bella as I continued to pump it, forcing the venom round and into her tissues.
Rose
I took the squirming bundle into the kitchen to wash the blood from its tiny limbs and saw it was a little girl. She was so beautiful with bright red eyes and a fuzz of blond hair. As I looked she studied me, not like a new-born baby at all. I wrapped her in a clean towel and cuddled her while Charlotte filled a bottle with animal blood Emmett had just provided. The little one started to suckle straight away and I sat with her on my lap mesmerized by her. Charlotte came to sit beside me looking at the tiny figure.
"Hows Bella?"
I shook my head, "Jazz is trying to change her but I'm not sure it's going to work. Her heart stopped so Peters working it to get the venom around her body. We can only wait and see."
"I'm sorry Rose I just couldn't cope with the blood. I'd have been more of a danger to her."
"It's OK Charlotte it nearly overwhelmed me. Jasper was the only one not affected by it all. Thank God we got through to Carlisle in time"
Charlotte looked at me and shook her head,
"We didn't. I read some stuff on the internet and rang through so Bella and you would think it was him, just to make you feel better."
"He never got through? Esme never told him?"
She shook her head, "No, and I have to tell you Rose. If Peter or Jasper get hold of the bitch she's dead."
I had to agree with her, nothing could make her actions acceptable.
Peter
I'd kept it up for ages but there was no response, no attempt by her heart to beat on its own or her lungs to take in air.
"I think its over" I said looking at him.
He shook his head, "No. She will make it. Bella's strong and determined. She won't leave me."
He cradled her head in his bloody hands, kissing her lips gently.
"Major she's not responding. Her heart stopped and she's lost too much blood. We have to stop."
He turned to me with a murderous look in his eyes. "We keep trying Peter."
I shook my head, "No its too late."
He pushed me away from her and took over. "Go Peter. You give up on her if you want, but I won't. Just go" I'd heard that tone of voice before and knew when to get the fuck out. At the bottom of the stairs Charlotte caught up with me,
"Anything?"
I shook my head, "She's dead Char but he wont accept it. He's too stubborn to see what's in front of him". She shook her head looking up the stairs but he'd heard me.
"Go Peter. If I see you again I'll take you to pieces. She's not dead."
I ran out and straight into Carlisle's car.
"Great. You always seem to appear when it's all over Doc."
He looked at me fearfully, "What do you mean?"
"She's dead Carlisle. You're too late. I've pumped her heart for hours but nothings happening. You need to explain it to Jasper."
He pushed past me and straight up the stairs.
Carlisle
I walked in on a scene of carnage, Bella's still pale body looked as if it had been in an explosion and Jasper was soaked with it.
"Carlisle help me" he whispered without turning round.
I looked at Bella, "She's lost too much blood Jasper."
"Do something" he begged.
I looked again, "OK First we need to tie off the broken blood vessels. Keep what blood she still has inside her body. Move round and let me see".
It looked hopeless to me but I would try for his sake. "She needs blood."
"Well were right out of human blood Carlisle." he snapped.
"Yes well..." then it hit me. "Rose, bring up the blood from the fridge in my study."
Rose appeared, "Its been used Carlisle"
"What?"
"I gave it to Bella. Baby needed blood and that was all we had until the guys went hunting."
"So Bella had it? She drunk it?"
Rose nodded.
"OK Then we might have a chance. I'd been working on a way of increasing blood cells from a transfusion. Bella drank the modified blood so its still in her system. Rose get the bags of saline up here."
Jasper continued to stroke Bella's hair then compress her chest.
"Just keep doing what you're doing Jasper."
He nodded as Rose came in with the saline bags followed by Charlotte.
"You're going to need someone to hold those bags."
I smiled at her "Yes thank you. Where's the baby?" I asked as I set the drips up.
"Down with Peter and Emmett."
Jasper looked up as Charlotte said this. "Peter?"
"Yes. He knows you don't want him up here but he still wants to help"
He nodded, "Yes."
