Hi, and here is another chapter and I hope that you enjoy this one and I will do my best to bring you the next one sooner rather than later. This chapter also has quite a bit of Seth Clearwater in it because he is an absolute darling who deserves everything good in the world.

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Chapter 10-Doubt Truth To Be A Liar

Bella's hormones get the best of her when she hears what has happened reminding all of the Cullen's that they have not fed in weeks. Seth Clearwater has no issues with bravery. Rosalie despairs she really does. (Rosalie's point of view for this chapter).

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us" Joseph Campbell.

Bella woke up a little after one.

Clearly she could see that something had happened. They were still waiting for the return of the wolves to tell them what had happened. They were waiting for the war cry that they didn't know was coming or if it was coming. It was hard to tell Bella that the people (the animals if you wanted Rosalie's opinion) that she considered friends were turning against her and the baby that she was carrying. Rosalie who had been sitting watching her in between watching Emmett felt sympathy which was odd because she had never felt anything other than sheer irritation at the wolves.

But then it was almost strange…

Bella had woke and they were just all having the mental conversation about who was going to tell her just what the fuck was going on and then…

"Jacob's back" she said her voice all dry. Rosalie passed her a cup of water. She took three small sips which was about all she could keep down and then passed it back to her. Her hands were like giant pale spiders, all the bones on show apart from that ghastly IV that Carlisle had insisted he put in her against Rosalie's better judgement. Then again with stuff like this Bella had always been a soft touch.

Edward shot her a poisonous look that Rosalie could easily ignore. She could easily ignore Edward and Edward easily ignored her. It was why their relationship worked so well.

Edward looked away at that. Rosalie didn't know if it was because he agreed with her or because he didn't. Either way she was fine.

"Jacob is back" Bella said pushing herself up onto her elbow and then on her back. She groaned as the baby pressed down on her bladder but her smile was genuine as if she expected Jacob Black to walk through the doorway.

The sick thing was Rosalie thought she did. There was something about Bella in this moment that made her think that even though she was carrying Edward's baby there was a part of her that wanted to be with Jacob. It was always one step forwards two steps backwards. She couldn't understand it. Maybe it was the new thing these days with humans, they had to love everyone. But Bella was beaming at the idea of Jacob Black, beaming at the idea of him coming back to see her and though she wasn't her brother's biggest fan right now Rosalie couldn't blame Edward for the confusion hew as surely feeling.

She did not know what was going to happen if Jacob was here purely in wolf form. If he was here just for the protection. If he had decided it was too much to be near the woman who had (and even Rosalie begrudgingly had to give him this) broken his heart, stomped on the pieces and then doused them in venom and set them on fire. If he decided that he was done.

She was genuinely not sure if Bella understood that everyone in this room fully thought he had that right. Even Rosalie. Even Edward…deep…deep down.

"He's with Seth, Bella" Edward said and his voice was horse from disuse. "They are patrolling the perimeter"

"Why?"

Shit.

"Because the wolves have decided the baby is a threat"

It was Emmett that said it, and her eyes slid from Bella to her husband. He was leaning against the wall watching with critical eyes. She started. She had not stopped to consider that it was Emmett who would tell her. Emmett who had stepped out of the way and let her and to some extent Edward deal with Bella. She had not expected Emmett, her straight forward and infinitely honest husband to tell Bella the truth that they were all afraid of saying out loud.

"A threat?"

"Yes" Emmett said and there was no softness in his gaze. His eyes snapped away from hers and back to the window as if he was raking what little of the forest he could see with his eyes (which to be fair, no doubt he was). Bella looked at him for a second and then her gaze turned to her husband as if she was desperate to have the words taken back. Edward could not do that though. Instead he shook his head at her softly.

"You mean…" Bella began her eyes filling with tears. "That they…that they want to hurt him…

"They won't get that far" Rosalie vowed and it came out more of a growl than a sentence. Bella shook her head slowly and she spoke slower than before as if she was piecing together what was playing out in front of her.

"Jacob wants to hurt my baby?"

"No" Edward said coming closer. Rosalie raised an eyebrow and shifted a fraction of an inch but Jasper shot her a look. He was looking a little…off colour for a vampire she supposed. Granted though if she'd have had his gift with everything going on right now she supposed she'd look much the same.

Good thing vampires couldn't go grey. Jasper would be in a permanent state by now.

"No Bella I promise you neither he nor Seth are here to hurt the…" he couldn't say baby she noted sadly. Still with his wife's hand over her straining belly he could still not say baby. He could still not see it as a child. Still he saw it as a threat.

To be honest at this point it made her more sad than angry.

"They are here to help" he said moving swiftly on. "They are here to help us"

"How…if Sam wants my baby then…won't he just order Jacob to do it?"

Damn. She knew more about pack law than the rest of them. Unsurprising considering the amount of time that she used to spend down there with the…dogs…Rosalie had to give credit were credit was due.

"Yes" Edward said and this time it was his turn to choose each and every word carefully.

"Yes darling that is true but Jacob…Jacob has split from the main pack. He has become an alpha"

Everyone watched as Bella processed those words. Rosalie had thought that it would have made her happy. She would have thought that this would have pleased Bella. It seemed her best friend had accepted her decision to have a baby. This was the living definition of having your cake and eating it too and she did not understand why Bella suddenly burst into very loud and noisy tears.

"Bella" she said slipping off the arm of the couch and she wrapped a thin arm around the girls shoulders. Edward shot her another look but she ignored it. Bella turned to stare at her, her face smeared with tears and snot and hair that really needed to be washed and soon.

"You need to calm down" Rosalie said soothingly. "You need to keep calm for the baby"

Unbidden her hand came out and touched the bump and she felt that little nudge. It was powerful for Bella and she liked to think it was powerful for her to. That the little boy or girl in there was recognising her voice and her touch and her smell and was recognising that he or she had an Auntie Rosalie that would love and protect it until she was ash on the floor blowing into the wind.

Bella looked at her for a second as if she was half mad and Rosalie had a second where she thought she was struck dumb and then she shook her head.

"No" she said and panic was in her voice. "Don't you realise Rose if they are coming for my baby then I have to get him away and get him to a safe place. You said you'd help me and—"

And she yanked out her IV. A thin spray of blood hit Edward directly in the face. Edward for the most part did not blink used to it by now no doubt and Carlisle for whom human blood smelt the same as animal blood did but for the rest of them it was like a grenade with the pin pulled out had been thrown into the room. It had been ages since they had hunted and it was showing.

Emmett stiffed his entire body locking together so tightly she thought that he was going to go through the wall. Jasper didn't even bother with calming down the emotions running riot in the room he just disappeared upstairs and Alice went with him. Esme managed half a second later and then she went into the kitchen shutting the door behind her. Emmett looked as if he desperately wanted to go with her but he stayed where he was not moving or breathing his eyes on her and she knew that he was staying to protect her, to have her back like he had vowed he would do and her love for him had never been as strong as it was in this moment right now.

"Bella" and this time it was Carlisle and the human sandwiched between her and Edward turned to her father in law. "You have to calm down. It is not good for the…baby…"

Well at least he was getting used to saying it. That had to be something. Right?

Bella looked between the three of them as if they were being dense. To be honest it was kind of insulting though Rosalie suspected that the human girl didn't realise it was.

"Bella" she said quietly. "Jacob and Seth warned us, we are prepared. And we don't think the wolves are going to attack us. Not soon anyway. They've lost the advantage of surprise and more to the point they've lost the numbers"

"Three now"

"Three?" Carlisle said sharply looking at Edward.

"Leah Clearwater"

"Leah hates me" Bella said flatly.

Edward took her hand and rubbed it between his cold ones.

"I think she loves her brother more" he said gently.

There was a lone howl.

"That will be Jacob telling us that it's Leah. See…there's no threat here. They know what they are doing, we know what we are doing. It's all going to be ok."

Bella turned from her husband's and then to Rosalie who smiled encouragingly.

"I want to hear it from them" she said finally. "If my baby and I are to be safe I want to hear it from them. Jacob."

"Jacob won't come in the house right now" Edward said with a certainty that even Rosalie felt was deserved.

"He's learning to be an alpha" he said when Bella showed every sign of interrupting. "Plus the Clearwater's were an unexpected complication. Jacob was expecting to be a one man pack I don't think he was expecting to be a twosome and then a threesome"

There was something else in that too. Rosalie suspected that Edward too did not understand her desire to have Jacob come and play lapdog.

"Seth then" Bella argued.

"You can trust what we are saying Bella" Emmett said quietly.

"I want to hear it from them" she argued back. "Seriously I am quite capable of walking. I will push myself up off this couch and I will find one of them to come in and tell me the truth and—"

"Oh alright" Emmett said shaking his head. "I'll go and—"

"Emmett do not whistle them in like dogs" Carlisle said firmly.

"Well how am I—?"

"Just ask" Edward said.

"You want me to go the porch and yell? How is that not treating them like dogs?"

Edward shot his brother a look that Rosalie didn't see but suspected that it wasn't very nice.

Emmett caught her eye and she nodded. He crossed the room in two strides and…

"YO SETH GET IN HERE A SEC WILL YOU! IN HUMAN FORM IF YOU DON'T MIND! HOLLAR IF YOU NEED US TO CHUCK YOU SOME SHORTS, THIS IS A RESEPCTABLE FUCKING HOUSE!"

"Oh dear Lord" Carlisle muttered. "You children will be the death of me. And I am dead already"

It was such a parental thing to say (even for the undead) that it cut through the tension in the room like a hot knife through butter. Rosalie felt herself smiling, Edward cracked something that might have been a smile and Bella calmed down enough to settle on the couch.

There was a pounding noise and then Seth Clearwater was there. His shorts were neatly on and he fist bumped her husband (fist bumped!) and then he was in running a hand through his short hair.

"Hey man, Dr C. Err…Mrs McCarty"

Emmett snorted. Rosalie felt something in her warm a little though she was loath to admit it. She was not, not now, not ever going to warm to a werewolf. Even if this one had something that resembled manners. He even knew how to wipe his feet on the mat before he came in.

Clearly someone had raised this one right.

"Hey Seth" Bella said softly. Seth looked at Bella dead on and it was only his hands turning into fists for a second that betrayed his emotions. His smile when he saw her was kind and Rosalie was loath to admit it but she was rather impressed.

"Heya Bella"

"Hey Seth"

"Jake and Leah are doing another sweep to make sure that all's okay. I can't stay long I promised to go back and help but I gathered you wanted to speak to me"

"You and half of the state" Carlisle muttered shooting Emmett a rather disapproving look that he had down to practice. Emmett grinned. Seth grinned too.

"Nah that's okay Dr C. I was about three hundred miles away so it was good to check the distance"

Carlisle snorted but said nothing.

"You wanted something Bella?" Seth Clearwater said as brightly as he could. Jesus the kid was enthusiastic. No wonder Emmett liked him so much.

"I just…" and now she had him in front of her Rosalie could see Bella deflate a little.

"I just wanted to check if you were…if you were good. I don't want Jake to fight against his brothers and…"

"Ah don't worry about it" Seth Clearwater said waving a dirt encrusted hand around as if it was nothing. "Were good Bella honestly. We know what were doing and Jake is…well…he's in wolf mode now. He's not too happy were here with him but we wanted too…well…I wanted to. Leah's here for me but she'll do anything to get away from Sam too"

Yeah Rosalie didn't know what that was but she was rapidly tuning out. Also the smell was beginning to get a bit much. Seth was half dog, half teenage boy and neither one of those things smelt very good.

"I just…can you ask him to come and see me?"

"I can ask" Seth said and his eyes hardened a little. "But it might be a while Bella. He's mind is a mess. He didn't realise until six hours ago that he could do this and now he's got to figure out a whole different headspace"

Bella nodded but she seemed satisfied with her answers and Seth scratched behind his ears.

"Eh…Dr C?"

"Yes Seth"

"You mind If I use the bathroom before I go out? I'd murder the chance to use a toothbrush if you've got a spare"

Rosalie rolled her eyes. She could practically hear Esme know. The woman would love every minute of this. She could see the food being cooked now, the beds being made up with fresh sheets, the clothes that were going to be ironed.

"Of course Seth"

She could hear Esme in the bathroom setting it up.

"One on the left" Emmett said catching her eye and grinning. Rosalie did not see anything about this that was funny.

"And…and Leah left a note for my Mom which was so not what I needed but she's done it anyway and…and while I think Billy will talk her out of coming here she might ring and she won't be too impressed so…"

"If your mother rings I will call you" Carlisle said with a smile. "She has nothing to fear from us I can certainly assure her of that. And she is more than welcome to come and see that for herself"

So now they were inviting the werewolf's Mom down?

"Oh that's fine" Seth said looking rather alarmed at that thought. "It's just…she'll be pissed"

"No Seth" Carlisle said with a soft smile. "She'll be a Mom"

Seth looked as if he wanted to say anything but then he nodded and disappeared out the door.

"You do realise" Rosalie said into the silence. "That now we will never get the smell out of the carpet"

Carlisle shot her a look that was undeniably fond.

"Yeah my dear" he said smiling. "But none of us can choose who are family are"

Oh fuck Rosalie's life.

Emmett the traitor was grinning.

And there you go, I hope you will enjoy and I will bring you the next chapter sooner rather than later.

Again this might not be cannon to the book so some events might be jumbled. But i never promised this to be a perfect cannon version so please keep that in mind as you are reading.

Next Chapter-Seth Clearwater becomes part of the household, his sister not so much, Jacob dares to come inside. Alice finds a new drug (much to Jasper's annoyance) and the wolves make their presence known to the new pack and to the Cullens.