Chapter 20

Third Person

"You let her GO!" The red haired venomous creature screamed at the top of her lungs. The windows in the abandoned house began to shake and eventually shattered.

James paced back and forth blocking the front door as Laurent sat idly playing with a strand of his dread locks looking bored.

"I didn't want the kid," Dean said who was standing the middle of the small living room watching the red flames from the crackling fire.

Outside a small army of twenty or so newborn vampires were practicing with one another. The act of warfare was loud. Thankfully with the small coven and large army being in the middle of the Olympic Mountain Range and the constant thunderstorms that the area has been having that helped hide some of the noise. Then again with Victoria's new found rage, she will more than likely dismember a couple of the noise makers and throw them in the fire like she did a few hours earlier when Dean came back to the house empty handed.

Dean smirked at the last image. "What are you smiling at?" Victoria said flying at him.

"Just my parting gift that I left with Bella," Dean spoke not locking eyes with the red head.

Laurent sparked some interest and James stopped his pacing to look over to Dean.

"And what gift is that?" Victoria hissed.

"I bit her," Dean's face held a triumphant joy. "I created her, she's mine."

Victoria lifted her hand and slapped Dean hard across the face throwing him in to the wall. The old plaster and wood beams breaking and shattering on contact. Victoria pounced and was sitting on his legs to keep Dean from moving.

"You idiot," she hissed. "You bit a pregnant girl. You do know that she will forever be pregnant?"

Dean looked up to her with a smile that the devil himself would be proud of. "Not if they got the baby out in time, Bella was already going into labor when I left. I am sure that lover boy would do anything to save the child."

Victoria looked at Dean as a slow smile began to spread across her beautiful face. "So, where is the child now?"

Dean shrugged his shoulders. "Got me, but is that not what you have James for, why don't you send him out and find them. I did my job. I can say that Bella will be mine for eternity."

Laurent let out a small chuckle. "James, I seriously have no idea what was going through your mind when you picked this one up out of his drunken stupor." Laurent jumped from his chair and came to stand next to Victoria. "You will never have Bella, now that she is married and she is in the process of turning into a vampire, I can guarantee that her new family will not let you come within a ten thousand foot pole."

Victoria looked back and forth between the three men now in her life as her own plan began to develop in her mind.

"What are you thinking, love?' James whispered into her ear.

"How I will just need to send a woman in to do a man's job," Victoria reached out and snapped off Dean's head in one fluid motion and tossed it into the red flames, quickly turning purple as more Dean's body parts where added. "I never trusted him to get the job done to begin with."

Victoria stood up and dusted her hands off on her jeans walking outside tot eh open field in front of the house. She placed her fingers in her mouth and let out an ear piercing whistle. Quickly about twenty or so newborns came running and circling her, waiting for their instructions.

"Come, let's go hunt and have some fun," Victoria lead the trail of vampires over the mountains toward Seattle.

Edward's POV:

Fear began to creep through me. Alice has mentioned in a numerous visions that Bella should have been awake by now, but still she slept, her heartbeat getting slower and her sweet smell changing drastically.

"Edward you need to go hunt," Carlisle placed his hand on my shoulder as I shook my head. "Son, I will stay with Bella, please."

"And what if she wakes up?" I asked my eyes locked onto the slow motion of her chest rising up and down.

"Then we will call you."

Begrudgingly I stand up my legs tight from sitting next Bella for the last twenty-four hours. Ever since coming back from the encounters with the wolves I have not left Bella's side in fear of her not only waking up but that the vile woman that was after her will show up. I would never forgive myself for not being here to protect her, or her new child.

I walked slowly to the door looking back one last time as Carlisle held Bella's eye open to check for movement. Once I was out in the hall I ran down the stairs but was halted by the sounds coming from the television.

"The second body was found just a few blocks from the first," a female reporter had a large microphone. "Police are baffled at the lack of blood and trying to figure out the connections. This will be the seventh body in the last three days.

"Seattle, I am here to warn you that the police are saying that we have a serial killer or killers on our hands. Take precautions. This Sally Gibbons reporting."

"How long did she say the killings have been going on?" I asked stepping into the living room.

Alice looked up as did Jasper. "Three days, why?"

"The wolves mentioned that there has been more activity, that the scent has been strongest coming from the Seattle area," I reminded them. "Jasper, new born armies, rings any bells?"

Jasper narrowed his eyes to look at me and then cocked his head to read the paper that he was holding. "All the victims have the same markings on the neck or wrists, at first police and detectives thought they were suicides but after finding the first handful they began to question if it is done by the same one or two people. And here is a picture of the marks on one of the victims."

Jasper passed around the photo that was in the picture and we each studies it quickly before handing it off to the next person.

"Carlisle, I think you should come down here," I called up the stairs.

Within seconds Carlisle was standing next to and I handed the Seattle Times over to him. He scanned the article quickly. "Is that what I think it is?"

"If you are referring to the teeth marks in the jugular," Rosalie quipped. "Then yes."

My head snapped up to look at Alice as I saw the flashes of images spray through her mind, my stomach twisting at the sight of Victoria going on a killing spree through Seattle and making her way through the neighboring towns up to Fork.

The final image was Bella's face looking scared holding her daughter tight against her chest.

"How long Alice?" I asked.

"I'm not sure, since Bella has not even woken up yet and it should have happened by now," Alice spoke quietly. "I can't get a clear time frame."

"Why do you think that is?" Jasper asked rubbing circles around his lower back looking up toward Carlisle for an answer.

"Um, guys," Emmett said looking out the window. "I think we are about to have a bigger problem."

All of us walked over to the windows and saw the police cruiser turn of the street and onto our long driveway.

"What's Charlie doing here?" Rosalie asked.

"He's concerned about Bella, he thought that she would have called to let him know that she was alright and where we went for a honeymoon," I said after reading his thoughts.

"Esme," Carlisle called up the stairs. "Can you bring down the baby, Charlie is here."

A few moments later Esme came down with a pink bundle perfectly dressed thanks to Alice.

"Okay, here is the game plan," Carlisle stated as he began to fill us in on what our roles will be.

Carlisle greeted Charlie heading him off just as he was getting out of the cruise. I made my way up the stairs to my room where Bella was still sleeping. Thankfully she has not been showing much sign of pain anymore, but many of her features have already changed. Her nose and chin much more angular and even though Bella has always been pale, she was slightly more pale. On the last look of her eyes a few moments earlier when Carlisle had the lids open they were already turning a deep crimson color. AS long as she did not wake up, the plan was to say that she lapsed into a coma after having an emergency c-section.

"If we can get Charlie in and out quickly, the plan will work perfectly", Alice mentioned as soon as Carlisle began to speak. "But if he lingers, he will begin to think something is up. And it will all depend on you, Edward."

Now as I sit on the side of the bed holding Bella's hand listening to the conversations float up to me, paying the most attention to Charlie's thoughts than his words I kept humming Bella's lullaby. I missed her and it pained me that she has been in this state of pain for so long, but it was odd at the same time. Not once since the bastard bit Bella has she moaned, moved or even screamed out in pain. Any human that came in and saw her would have either thought she was sleeping or actually in a coma. There have been times that I sat here with Bella thinking my dead heart was tearing into two, that slowly I was losing her and we never even had a chance to truly explore our relationship. At least not on a level that either one of us wanted.

She's so big. Charlie's footsteps sounded on the hardwood floors downstairs as he crossed over to where Esme was holding the little girl that thankfully named herself. Carlisle was guessing that Bella must have been calling the baby by name or picking names out rather recently and since babies can hear and recognize sounds early on in the womb, then this genius of child must of picked the name that she liked.

"Ohh, look at you," Charlie cooed. "When did Bella have the baby?"

"The night of the wedding," Carlisle spoke. "Charlie, I think you should sit down."

I could see the living room in Charlie's mind as mentally looked around naming off the ones in his head. "Where are Bella and Edward?" Please, God tell me she is okay.

I had to choke down a dry sob as the pain my chest increased at how I wished I could go to Charlie and tell him that his daughter is alright, but I knew that would never be the case, nor would he probably ever see his daughter and granddaughter again.

"Charlie," Alice said in a voice that sounded like a bell. "Can I get you something to drink?"

Charlie nodded. "Some water would be nice, thank you."

"Charlie, there were some complications," Carlisle started off and I grimaced at all the images at how bad the complications could have been in Charlie's head. "I had to perform and emergency C-section on Bella at the hotel. Her water broke just as soon as my daughters and wife helped her up to her room to change. By the time that I got to her I and checked her I could tell that the baby was breech and it felt like the cord was wrapped around her neck. Edward authorized for me to do whatever I had t needed to do to save the baby and Bella."

"Bella?" Charlie asked.

"She lost a lot of blood," Carlisle said in a low voice. "I'm sorry Charlie. I got the baby out quickly and as soon as we could we transported her back here and she has been in a coma ever since. Going close to four days."

I could hear Charlie let out a sigh of relief. "She's not dead. People wake up from coma's all the time, right, Doctor Cullen."

I could hear his please for reassurance as well as Carlisle's thoughts on how this time will be different.

"I'm not sure when Bella will recover," Carlisle stated.

"And Edward, where is he?"

Esme let out a small choked cry, playing the human charade perfectly. "He has actually not left Bella's side. He has been refusing to eat, the only time we see him is when one of us goes in to check on Bella."

"What about the baby?" Charlie asked and I watched as the baby face's flashed through his mind, her tiny fingers curled around his ring finger. "I don't know if I can take care of a baby."

"Edward loves Bella and her child. He would give the baby the world," a sad tone in Esme's voice. "Our whole family has quickly become attached to her. You do not need to worry about Reneesme, she is being taken care of and we will continue to."

"Reneesme?" Charlie questioned. "Is that what Bella named the baby?"

"We are not for certain," Alice said. "Edward and Carlisle hear Bella mumble the name a few times so we are assuming at this point."

Charlie nodded his head. "Can I see her? I just need to let her know that I am here."

Carlisle nodded. Edward is it safe to come up? "Yes," I said in a low voice that I knew my family would be able to hear.

"Charlie, come with me, I will show to Bella's room," Esme and Charlie stood.

I took in a deep breath knowing that it will be just a matter of minutes before Esme would knock and she would enter the room with Charlie. I lowered my head and rested it on the bed pretending to be a sleep.

"Edward?" Esme said quietly tapping the door and opening it. "Charlie is here."

I straightened up and rubbed the "sleep" out of my eyes. I walked over to Charlie. "I'm so sorry."

Charlie forced a smile as he looked over to beautiful angel asleep on the bed. "For what, son. You did not do anything wrong. It was time for the baby to come and make her grand entrance, you can't foresee complications."

Charlie walked closer to the bed and sat down in the chair that I occupied just a few minutes ago. He placed her hand into his. "She seems so peaceful, but her hand is cold, almost like ice."

"It's because of her blood lose and the lack of proper circulation," I explained. "Alice and Rosalie have been doing great with giving her messages to keep the blood moving."

I could hear Rosalie laughing. Good one, Edward!

For the next thirty minutes Charlie sat with Bella and I left the room to go outside with jasper who was having a hard time with all the emotions rolling of him and then add my array of feelings it was like a semi-truck plowing forward and running Jasper over, so he said.

When Charlie was getting ready to leave I walked with him to his cruiser. He made me promise to keep him up to date on Bella's condition. And then he did the one thing that I truly was not prepared for. He took a step forward and opened his arms. I actually collapsed into them and returned his hug. I could feel and smell the salty tears run down his cheeks. It was in that moment that if I could cry I would have flooded the area.

"You take care of her and my granddaughter like your life depended on it," he whispered into my ear. "She and that child need you more now than they will ever need you in the future."

"I will sir," I said and I could hear my family's thoughts of agreements.

A/N: I hope that you all have a wonderful New Years! Thank you all for the great reviews and I think that this chapter helped answer a few questions. Many have also stated how they are enjoying the fact that I am throwing in parts of the entire Twilight Saga. Remember to review!!