Every sat as still as they possibly could, listening to three heartbeats. "How...how is there three?" Emmett asked, asking the question, everyone wanted to know.
"I'm...i'm not sure." Carlisle said, suddenly getting up from the couch and running up to his office. Within moments he was back with his stethoscope in his hands. Placing the ear-tips in his ears and placing the diaphragm on her chest, he could clearly hear Esme's heartbeat. Moving the diaphragm around, before settling it on her stomach did he fully hear, the faint but strong heartbeat.
"Oh..My..God." What all Carlisle could get out.
Losing patients, Esme finally spoke up, "What is going on?"
"Esme, darling, I want you to listen to something." Carlisle said. He took the ear-tips out of his ears and placed them into Esme's, placing the diaphragm on her chest again. "Sweetie, that is your heartbeat."
Esme looked at Carlisle. "Yes, we have established that I am human again. Why is everyone so surprised by this?"
"Sweetie, we hear three heartbeats." Carlisle said. "We can hear your heartbeat. We are a able to hear Nessie's heartbeat. Lastly we can hear, a new heartbeat within you." Carlisle places the diaphragm on Esme's stomach, where she was a able to hear a very soft heartbeat.
"Am….am I….." Esme was unable to says the words. This was too good to be true. Vampires can't have children of their own. Vampires also cannot turn human again. What was going on?
"Sweetie, my love, we are going to have a baby." Carlisle couldn't help but smile. His one true love in the the world was going to give him a baby, and not just any baby. A baby of their very own. Words couldn't express how he was feeling.
Esme took out the ear-tips out of her ears and places the stethoscope beside her on the couch with one hand, and with the other she carefully placed in on her stomach. "I'm pregnant?!" It was a question and a statement all in one. She had a million questions running through her mind, but all of her questions and concerns were overpowered by how much joy she felt in her heart at that very moment.
Letting her tears hit her cheek, Esme reached over and hugged her husband, whose shoulders where moving in away to make her believe that he to was crying. Pulling away, they places their foreheads together, wanting to live in this moment together.
Suddenly they were interrupted. "Is anyone going to as the big question?" Emmett asked, causing everyone to look up at him.
"What big question?" Renesmee asked
"How is Esme pregnant?" They all heard Alice say. She was standing by the front door with a smile on her face.
Esme stood up quickly and ran over to her daughter pulling her in for a hug. "Please don't leave like that again. I was so worried." Esme said, tears still streaming down her face.
"I'm sorry mom, but I wasn't supposed to say anything. I had a vision of this a week ago, it was hard enough to keep my mind quiet from Edward, but when you started crying I knew it was time for me to leave, before I told everyone."
Keeping her daughter at arms length Esme brought her over and they sat on the couch, causing Carlisle to gladly stand up. "But why did you not want to tell us?" Esme asked
"I had two visions the day that I found out you were pregnant. One was Carlisle finding out like he did today, and it leads to a wonderful and happy life, with a smiling and happy baby." Alice said, smiling slightly, which caused Esme to smile, thinking how in roughly 8 or less months, that was the life they were about to live.
"And the other one?" Carlisle asked.
Alice's smile faded. "I don't wanna go into too much detail but let's just say, it's not a happy ending. I really hate to think about it. When I saw the vision of me telling everyone, I got so distraught that it took all jasper had to calm me down."
"It's true. I could feel her hurt about 2 miles away." Jasper said, placing his hand on Alice's shoulder.
"Alice, what was it?" Emmett pushed, causing him to get pushed by Rosalie slightly. "What, i wanna know. How could Alice telling us of Esme's pregnancy really be such a bad thing."
"Well, what matters is, we are all together now, and we are all healthy and happy." Esme said. Carlisle noticed that she was practically beaming with joy.
"Yes dear, we are. There is one thing though, that I don't understand." Carlisle stated, taking Alice's spot on the couch. "I don't understand how you are human, or how this baby was conceived in the first place."
"Sounds like somebody didn't pay attention in sex ed class" Emmett joked, only to receive another push from Rosalie.
"Honey, you can run as many test as you possibly want and we can even talk to your cousins to figure out how this is even possible, but for now, let's just live in this moment. We are going to bring a baby into this world. We have talked about this for years, and dreamed of being able to do this. It's finally hear. Someone heard our hopes and prayer, and now they are being answered. Let's figure out the what, whens, hows, and whys later, for now, let's just feel happy." Esme hadn't felt this happy since the day she and Carlisle got married.
"Can i just ask one question?" Bella asked in a small shaky voice. Her confidence may have grown since became a vampire, but when it came to asking questions she thought maybe crossing a line, she would revert back to the old Bella.
"Of course sweetie, you can ask us anything." Esme said, turning her attention fully to Bella.
Taking in a deep breath, unnecessary breath Bella finally spoke again. "I guess I don't understand why everyone is question how this is happening. I mean Edward and I had Nessie." Upon hearing her name, Nessie perked up a bit, and leaned a bit on her mother.
"Bella, you were a human when you had her. Your body was still able to conceive children. Esme's body has been frozen for over 90 years. Carlisle stated.
"What does conceived mean?" Nessie spoke up, reminding everyone that there was a minor in the room.
Edward made his way over to his daughter and picked her up. "How about we answer that question and others you may have if you continue to hear this conversation on a different day. How about we go back to our house and we put on your favorite movie and eat some ice cream. We can come back later so you can see everyone. How does that sound."
Nessie's eyes grew large. "I can have Ice Cream before lunch?" Laughing slightly, Edward made his way outside, heading to Bella's and his place. With an excited Nessie in his arms.
"Well, since Nessie is out of the room I am going to just come out and say this." Bella stated, causing everyone to focus back to the matter at hand. "I understand that I was human at that time so everything was working, but Edward is older than Esme, everything of his has been frozen for a bit longer, but clearly all of his parts were working."
The room was silent, everyone taking in the information that Bella just said. Bella began to fear that she overstepped.
Finally Carlisle was the first to break the silence. "You bring up a good point Bella, and we will have to think about that, but as of right now we should just take this all in and be happy."
"Well I guess we are all sure of one thing." Emmett, trying to hold back a smirk.
"Emmett, so help me if you ruin this moment I kill you." Rosalie spat, causing Emmett to move across the room.
"Relax babe, I not gonna ruin the moment. What I was going to say was, we are all certain that all of Carlisle equipment works." Emmett said, thrusting his hips up slightly, causing Carlisle to shift uncomfortably.
In a flash Rosalie was slapping Emmet upside the head. Carlisle looked over at Esme and smiled. "Esme, oh my sweet beautiful Esme."
"What?" Esme asked, feeling her cheeks grow hotter.
"You're blushing. I haven't seen you blush since you were sixteen."
The comment made Esme blush even more. She knew they had so many question that needed answers, and they were going to have a long road ahead, but Emmett was right about one thing, there was one thing for certain. Esme was happy and that was all that matter.
There was one thing that kept nagging her, in the back of her mind that she really wanted to know. What happened in Alice's vision?