A/N - here you all go a little something! I also forgot to mention in the last chapter to check out my bio for pictures and links to Bella's wedding dress and the Lodge where the Cullens are staying! Thank you all for the wonderful reviews and please don't hate me! You will see why?!

Chapter 18

Edward's POV:

My eyes have been focusing on Bella's peaceful face. It unnerved me at how peaceful she was, even with the screams of pain every few minutes as the venom of a stranger seeped through her veins. I picked up her hand bringing it up to my face to memorize the feel of her warm soft skin against my cold hard layer.

My mind kept replaying the words that came out of Alice's mouth a few moments later, not paying any attention to her visions that have been changing drastically over the course of the hour but focusing on just the words that were spoken.

"It's too late, Carlisle," Alice said her voice sounding lost and even for her it was unsure sounding.

Carlisle quickly finished up stitching Bella's massive cut on her belly before turning his full attention to the baby even though it appeared to be a wasted effort as Bella already began to show signs of healing.

Carlisle looked up to Alice who was holding the baby in a towel trying to wipe the blood and the remainder of the placenta off of the little one. Still no sound came from the baby no matter how hard Alice massaged the chest and stuck her finger in the mouth to make sure it was clear. After one final wipe down of Bella's skin Carlisle stood up and went to take care of the child.

"What is it Carlisle?" I asked my voice short almost in pain.

Carlisle continued to clean the baby up and then gently patted the back. "She is going to be okay," he finally spoke when a small cry came out of her tiny mouth. "But I am not sure what to do."

He came over to me carrying Bella's little bundle of joy in his arms wrapped professionally in a hotel towel. He handed her to me mentally asking if I wanted to hold her but I was unsure. Right now my life, my being was already occupied for my love of my new bride that I did not know if I had room in there for someone else. Carlisle pulled the towel away slightly and I tilted my head to look when I heard it.

"Her heart beat, it isn't normal," I stated.

Carlisle nodded. "It is slow, much slower than that of any normal human baby."

My eyes flashed up to his at the choice of words that he used. "What do you mean any normal human? Both Bella and the baby are human, until that bastard decided to take a bite."

Carlisle nodded. "Exactly, Edward. They are both human, but I am sorry, I did not get the child out in time, I am afraid that she is changing herself."

"No!" Alice screamed and stomped her foot much like a two year old. "That is not what is going to happen, you'll see."

"See what, Alice?" I asked. "Was that what you meant that it was too late?"

Alice shook her pixie head her spiked hair moving in the opposite direction. "No, what I saw is that it is too late to save Bella and her child. Bella will become one of us, in three days, but the child, she will be different Edward, Carlisle got her out just in time for the venom to make its way completely through, but just enough to do something else."

I pinched the bridge of my nose frustration rolling off of me. "English please, Alice."

"I see her living the life of a vampire and a human; she is half of both worlds."

"An immortal child?" I asked as my eyes began to grow at all the dangers this will bring, especially when the Volturi find out.

"No," Carlisle spoke up. "Immortal children were turned as babies and toddlers, not as they were being born. Alice, I am confused as to what you think you are seeing and how she will be of both worlds."

"Listen Carlisle, what do you hear?" Both Carlisle and I tilted to listen more to the baby.

"A heartbeat?" I guessed.

"Exactly, she will always have a heartbeat, but she will also be half of what we are, you'll see," Alice nodded toward the baby that was squirming in Carlisle's arms. "See?"

Both Carlisle and I looked up to one another our eyes growing large. Just a few moments ago she was the average size baby, but currently she looked to be closer to that of a two month old already reaching her hands out into the air.

"She's hungry," I said.

"How do you know that?" Carlisle asked.

"I don't know her mind seems to be telling me but not in so many words, it's jumbled sounding."

I looked up to Alice to ask her to go shopping and find some milk and get diapers but before the words even left my mouth she held up her finger to stop me, her eyes beginning to glaze over as another vision came on.

"I'm on it, Edward and I will ask Esme and Rosalie to come with me," Alice danced from the room closing the doors behind me. "Oh, there should not be any more trouble from our new friend until after Bella wakes up, in two days, twelve hours and nine minutes."

Alice left Carlisle and I in the hotel room alone with the baby and Bella. Bella's breathing becoming slower and more ragged. Carlisle took out a syringe and put the point into the crook of her elbow. I looked at him confused.

"A little morphine, to help with some of the pain," he explained. "Even though it looks like she is not in much, I know that she is still fighting hard."

I picked up a cold cloth and wiped the sweat that was forming on her brow. The baby was sleeping peacefully in Carlisle's arms as he walked and rocked the child that continued to grow at an incredibly fast pace.

"What do you think this will mean, Carlisle?" I asked after a few moments of quiet.

Carlisle turned his attention to me. "I'm not sure I understand."

I looked toward the baby and then down to Bella. "She is going to be so mad at me for not being here, for not being able to save her and her child."

"Here," Carlisle held the towel wrapped baby out to me again. "Just hold her and look into her eyes and tell me what you see. "

I took hold of the small child, my hands shaking and for the first time I felt nervous knowing that with the slightest move I could crush her. I lowered the towel and looked into her eyes, chocolate brown just like Bella's and for a slight second they flickered and flashed.

"Something is wrong with her eyes," I said quietly as Carlisle came over to look over my shoulder. "There did you see that, they changed."

"It's a power," Alice said walking through the door with Esme and Rosalie hot on her heels carrying bags after bags more than likely buying out every business and small shop on Lake Tahoe. "Now, let us girls take care of the baby while you take care of your wife."

Esme came over and peered over the towel her motherly instincts already taking over. "Ohh, she is beautiful. May I?"

I nodded and handed her over to Esme who immediately began to hum and walk. "Please be sure to feed her, she is getting very hungry."

Esme shot me a look. "I do believe I know how to take care of a baby, don't fret, Edward."

I nodded my head as I watched my mother and sisters walk out the door Carlisle following saying something along the lines of wanting to hunt and check in with the boys. I stayed, sitting with Bella on the bed, constantly keeping the sweat beads away with a cold cloth. And I did not move until I was told that it was time to leave when Alice came in saying that Bella cannot be here around all the humans at the lodge when she wakes up.

"Jasper and Emmett are loading up the plane now, we leave in ten minutes," she said quietly kissing Bella on the cheek. "God, look at how beautiful she is going to be and she is only half way through the transformation."

I quickly helped Alice get Bella changed and carried her outside into the cool air that the lake provided with the deep covering of low clouds behind a full moon. In the distant I could hear the cry of a wolf and more thereafter.

"Is that…?" Alice asked.

"Yes," I nodded. "They've picked up a scent and are tracking it."

Emmett rubbed his hands together. "Dang it, I was really hoping to kill me some vamps, soon."

Alice's eyes glazed over as yet another vision took place. "Never fear, big brother, we will have a fight on our hands soon enough."

I looked into Alice's mind and cringed at the sight, a fight is on the horizon and Bella with her baby stuck in the middle.

I gently rubbed my lips across Bella's lips giving her a small kiss, vowing to never break a promise to keep her and our child safe.