Heyya everyone :) im updating quicker this time. go me. Coming to the end of this story slowly, i think i can get two more chapters out of this and a taster for the sequel :) i hope everyone likes this chapter. im trying to tie everything together now, so that i can have a clean slate for the next one :) anyway, enjoy and i will see you at the bottom.
Jasper's POV
The Journey back to the house seemed to take longer than I thought it would. I really couldn't tell you why it took so long, but it felt like eternity to me. I continued to hold Bella in my arms all the way back. I refused to let her go until she woke up.
As soon as the car stopped, Peter jumped out and opened the back door for me to get out.
"How is she?" he asked me.
"I don't know. She hasn't moved since we left the castle. I'm going to lay her down upstairs." I said as I got out of the car and headed upstairs with Bella in my arms.
I didn't look behind me as I walked up the stairs even though I could feel how worried and scared Charlotte was behind me.
I opened the door to the bedroom with my foot and placed Bella in the centre of the bed. I sat on the bed next to her, and stroked her hair away from her face. I never realised how beautiful she was when she was asleep. Granted it wasn't something I saw on a regular basis.
"Bella please wake up. Everything is fine, you got Charlotte back and she is safe. Now please wake up" I begged her, not even knowing if she could hear me or not. I moved my head down to her perfectly flat stomach and placed my ear against it. When she first told me that she thought she was pregnant, I honestly thought she was going crazy but the more I thought about it, I knew that she was a unique vampire and I honestly believed that anything could happen, even a pregnancy. As I held my ear to her stomach I heard something that made me jump. A very small and very faint beating coming from inside Bella. This only confirmed Bella's suspicions about being pregnant.
I looked up at Bella and saw that she was still unconscious. I sighed, hoping that she would wake up soon. I leaned down and kissed the centre of Bella's stomach and listened again to the small heart beat of the baby inside her. Our baby.
I don't know how long I kept my head on Bella's stomach listening to this small, addictive sound, before I felt someone running their fingers through my hair. I looked up at Bella to see her smiling at me.
"Anything interesting down there?" She asked me.
I didn't answer her, instead I moved back up her body so that I could kiss her. I held her face in my hands and I kissed her for as long as I could. When I finally broke the kiss, I looked down at her smiling face.
"What are you so happy about, you scared the shit out of me." I said as I ran one of my fingers down her face.
"I sorry. I don't know what happened. I can remember taking away Aro's memories of me, but after that nothing." Bella said.
"Not a lot did happen after that. You pretty much passed out straight away." I told her.
Suddenly Bella sat straight up in bed, nearly head butting me.
"Where is Charlotte?" she asked, panic clear in her eyes.
"She is downstairs with Peter. She is fine. I've been waiting for you to wake up so that you can see her before I tell her to go hunting." I said as Bella tried to get off the bed.
I took her hand and steadied her, as I didn't think she had enough energy to stand on her own quite yet.
"I need to see her." Bella said, as she held onto my arm to keep herself up.
"You will. When you see her now, are you going to tell her your pregnant?" I asked her.
I saw he smile widen quite a bit when she heard me admit is out loud.
"You think I might be pregnant now as well?" she asked me.
"I thought you were pregnant a few days ago when you told me. Now I know your pregnant, unless you have a little drum inside you." I told her.
"It has a heartbeat?" she asked me, sounding surprised and happy.
"Yes, apparently, but we need to tell Carlisle about this, if not anyone else. He will need to know what is going on, since he is the only doctor we can go to at the moment. Now Charlotte needs to know tonight, and you have to tell her." I told her firmly.
"I will, I promise. But I need to see her first. I need to see that she is actually here with me. Please let me go see her." Bella, begged as she tried to move away from me.
"Ok fine, but you have to stay here. I will bring her to you." I said as I placed her back on the bed. I kissed her on the forehead before I left the room and went down stairs.
Peter and Charlotte were sitting in the living room. Charlotte was sitting in Peters lap, while he had his arms wrapped around her so that he could keep her close to him. I was happy that my friend was beginning to feel normal again, but I knew it was going to be a while before he would be able to do anything by himself. He was going to be keeping Charlotte by his side for a while, but I didn't think she had a problem with this.
"Char? Bella's awake, do you want to go see her?" I asked her, knowing the answer. She kissed Peter lightly on the lips, before getting up off his lap and went up the stairs. I followed her to Bella's room.
As soon as we were outside Bella's room, I opened the door and leaned my head inside.
"Bella, Charlotte is here." I said, moving aside so that Charlotte could come into the room.
As soon as Bella, laid eyes on her daughter, I could see a new round of tears forming in her eyes. Charlotte ran into the room and jumped into Bella's arms, which were open ready for her.
I decided that now was the time to leave them alone so that they could talk about what had happened.
I went back down stairs to see Peter. Now that Charlotte back he would be in a considerably better mood that he had been of late.
He wasn't doing anything in the living room, just sitting there. It didn't take me long to get a gauge on his emotions for me to realise how happy he was now.
"God that is a nice change." I said as I sat on the sofa next to him.
"What do you mean?" he asked me.
"You feeling happy again. Between you and Bella, I've been having a hard time over the last couple of days. I was worried about Char too, but I seriously couldn't do anything about it when I was catching the emotions of you two every day." I said, as I leaned back against the sofa, finally allowing myself to revel and relax in the positive emotions that were in this house.
"I know it has been rough for you lately and I'm sorry. But I was so worried about her Jas. I'm just happy she is back with me." He said smiling to himself.
"Im glad she is back too. I think she needs to go hunting soon though. She hasn't been able to go while they had her." I told him.
"I know. Her eyes are black. We will go out when Bella has had her time with her. I bet she is happy to have her back." Peter asked me.
"She is. I've never felt anything like what she was feeling when Charlotte went missing. I'm just glad she wont have to feel like that ever again." I said.
We didn't say anything for a few minutes. I was content to sit in silence that didn't involve having a very heavy, negative atmosphere around me, and Peter was just happy.
"What do you think they are talking about up there?" Peter asked me. This house had surprisingly thick walls, so even vampire conversations could be had in private.
"What the fuck!" I heard Charlotte scream from upstairs.
"I think I know." I told Peter, as we got up from the sofa to go upstairs.
Bella's POV
I saw Jasper close the door behind him as soon as Charlotte came into the room. I don't think I was able to register anything apart from the fact that I had my daughter back with me. I don't know how long I held her for, but I was just so happy that I knew she was safe now.
I moved her back from me and looked at her. I didn't get a good look at her when I got her back at the castle. There were dark bruises under her eyes showing just how thirsty she actually was. Her eyes were not the dark orange that they were before she left my place, They were black pits in her face.
"You really need to go hunting." I told her, stroking the hair away from her face.
"I know, I'm going to go soon. I only stayed because I wanted to see you before I went. What happened back in the castle?" she asked me.
I forgot for a moment that Charlotte didn't know what my power could do. I explained it to her as simply as I could. I could tell from the look on her face as I was telling that she was confused.
"What do you mean, I can control everything?" she asked me.
"Just that. I don't know how I can do it, but I can make anything do what ever I want. It is hard to explain in any other way. You have to actually see it be understand what I mean." I said, running my hands over my face.
"Is that what happened to those two vampires in the castle?" she asked, sounding shocked.
"Yes. I didn't intend to kill any of them, but Aro played around with my emotions and I lost control. There was no way I was going to let him hurt either you or Jasper." I told her.
"Did he want you to join them?" she asked me, sounding like she had put two and two together and realising why they had taken her.
"Yes. I was with them for a while after I was changed, and when Aro realised what I could do, he doted on me and encouraged me to stay. But I couldn't live their way of life. And I found it very hard to feed of animals when it was hard to get out of the castle, so I left. And he has been after me ever since. I don't know how he found out about you, but he obviously knew I would do what ever he wanted to get you back." I said.
She came to hug me again, and I willingly wrapped my arms around her and held her to me.
"I'm glad you got me back." She said with her head still rested on my shoulder.
"You have no idea how glad I am to have you back." It told her, as I stroked the hair on the top of her head.
"There was actually something else I wanted to tell you, and I need you to promise that you wont over react." I asked her.
She moved away from me and looked at me, confusion written all over her face.
"What is it?" she asked me.
"I think I'm pregnant." I told her, quickly, as if saying it faster would make it easier.
I was not expecting the reaction that I got from her. Instead of saying anything at all, she simply laughed at me. She obviously didn't believe me. I waited a few minutes for her laughter to subside before she spoke to me.
"Mama, you cant be pregnant. Why do you such a strange notion?" she asked me.
"I know I shouldn't be able to get pregnant, but believe me Charlotte, I am." I told her in a tone of voice that left no room for argument.
"But how? We cant have children." She said.
"I don't know, but I am. If you don't believe me, give me your hand." I told her, holding mine out to her.
She held back looking at me as if I had gone mad.
"Charlotte." I needed her to believe what I was saying.
She sighed and give me her hand slowly.
As soon as I had her hand in mine I held it to my stomach. If Jasper could hear the babies, I hoped that with our heightened senses we would be able to feel the heart beat as well.
"Focus on what I have told you. They will only be light, but if Jasper can hear them I'm hoping we can feel them too." I told her.
She continued to hold her hand to my stomach. It took a while, but soon she felt something on her hand.
She jumped away from me quickly when she felt something.
"What the fuck!" she yelled.
"Language Charlotte! I know it is a shock but there is no reason to swear like that." I told her as I get out of bed and walked towards her.
Just as I got to Charlotte on the other side of the room, Jasper and Peter appeared in the door way.
"What's going on up here?" Peter asked looking from Charlotte to me.
"Nothing, Charlotte just took some news badly that's all." I said.
"What news?" Peter asked.
I looked over his shoulder to see a grinning Jasper. I knew I wasn't going to get any help from him when it came to explaining the matter of my pregnancy to anyone else. I looked at Peter before I began telling my news again.
So, Charlotte knows about the baby. just letting you know now, Peter and Charlotte are going to be back in the next story. I want to have Charlotte involved with the pregnancy and the baby when it arrives :) so i hope you like her lol.
Right, that is it for now, but i'm going to try and get the next chapter up as soon as possible, so i'm going to start writing it now. i dont know when it will be posted, ill try and do it within the next few days, but you know what im like :P
See you all soon.
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