Demetri's POV

Sophia fell asleep against my shoulder and I sighed hating being here but it was what's best for Sophia and the only way there was the slightest chance that she was going to live through this but I was still terrified of the possibility that I could lose her and I really wish she wasn't going through with this, I'd give anything to have been able to convince her not to have this child.

When Sophia was asleep last I'd grilled the doctor on everything that I should expect and I knew this whole situation was going to kill me, seeing the life being drained out of my mate by the very thing that she was insistent on protecting and loving but at least the doctor had more of an idea on what to do this time than he did with the mind readers mate and that gave me a tiny bit of hope but not enough that I didn't hate this entire situation.

She nuzzled closer into me wrapping her arm tightly around my waist and I frowned since she felt warm to me now and that was worrisome, she was running a fever and I didn't think that was normal...mind reader, I need the doctor up here.

"I have a name you know" I rolled my eyes since I didn't care, my focus was on the doctor that followed behind him and he immediately began fussing over Sophia, taking her temperature and checking her pulse by her wrist.

"She's got a small fever, your body temperature is keeping it to a minor scale right now but Bella was constantly either cold or warm so if she starts getting a chill you'll need to remove her from your body and wrap a blanket around her" I nodded my head since that was just common sense and I've been doing that the entire time I've known her.

Sophia's POV

I woke up feeling feverish and felt the sweat beading down my neck as I sat up frowning as I noticed the lack of Demetri and the fact that I was surrounded in blankets so I quickly threw them off me and stood up walking into the bathroom to wash my face feeling a little sick to my stomach so I tried to drink some water to settle it but it only served to upset my stomach more and I couldn't hold back the urge and let out my stomach contents.

Once I was finished I rinsed my mouth out still feeling sick to my stomach and my hand instinctively dropped to my stomach but frowned when I felt an increase in the size of my stomach and couldn't help lifting my shirt looking at it in the mirror seeing it had grown at least a few centimeters and I didn't know if that was normal, I mean I knew I was going to get super big in a really short amount of time but to grow overnight this much seemed a little strange.

I looked up when I felt eyes on me and saw Demetri in the reflection of the mirror standing in the doorway and he was staring at my stomach with a hard stare, his eyes a brilliant crimson red which told me he'd hunted recently which is why he'd been gone most definitely, I quickly went to cover my stomach but he appeared in front of me and stopped my hands brushing his fingers over the skin on my stomach and I understood why, there was a couple of yellowing bruises that I hadn't noticed before.

"It's hurting you" he glared down at them.

"It's okay" I quickly argued pushing my shirt down. "I'm okay"

"The doctor wanted to see you when you woke up" he told me and I sighed.

"Just let me shower, I feel like I'm in a sauna" I told him seeing the large lavish shower in the corner of the bathroom, it wasn't quite like the one in Demetri's room but right now was not the time to be picky since I still felt the sweat running down my face.

"I'm sorry, I was keeping you cool all night but then you started getting chilled and I needed to hunt and these vegetarians made me swear not to hunt in the area which meant I was gone longer than I should have"

"It's okay, you need to hunt so that you can be at your strongest" I placed my hand over his cheek. "Now go" I told him with a small smile, he sighed before kissing my forehead and left the bathroom letting me shower letting the water soothe and cool me down.

"Sophia...I have some spare clothes for you, can I come in and leave them for you" I heard Alice's voice as I shut the shower off and grabbed a towel.

"Yes" I agreed quickly wrapping the towel around myself before she came in with a stack of clothes.

"I think these will fit you" she placed them down on the vanity.

"Thank you" she smiled with a quick nod before leaving me to get dressed and once I was done I left the bathroom seeing Demetri sitting on the edge of the bed and he looked up as soon as he heard me and frowned, I hated that he was so upset but we knew this was going to be hard and I knew it wasn't our baby's fault.

"You ready?" he asked and I nodded before he suddenly swept me up in his arms making me squeal a little and wrap my arms around his neck.

"What are you doing?" I asked as he carried me down the stairs.

"I don't want you to fall" he argued and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not invalid Demetri"

"I know" he smiled continuing down to the first floor and into Carlisle's office placing me down on the table as we saw Carlisle sitting at the table with books surrounding him but once we were in the room he stood and approached me with a kind smile of a doctor.

"How are we feeling this morning?" he asked.

"I woke up a little feverish but that was possibly due to the six blankets that I had covering me" I replied shooting Demetri a look and Carlisle smiled at that nodding his head before he began going over the routine procedures and measured the growth of my stomach making me frown when I saw his concerned look while Demetri once again glared at the bruises.

"Interesting" Carlisle mumbled writing his findings down in a black notebook.

"What is?" I asked sharing a nervous look with Demetri.

"Nothing to worry about"

"Let her be the judge of that" Demetri spat so I grabbed his hand signaling him to cut it out but also for some comfort.

"Your growth is just a little surprising, you seem to be growing at a much quicker rate than I'd observed Bella in the first week of her pregnancy"

"Does that mean somethings wrong?" I panicked.

"I'm not sure, we'll measure again in a few hours but I don't want you to worry since it's perhaps nothing more than your baby being larger than Renesmee, could be a boy" he joked seemingly to ease the tension but it didn't do anything for me or Demetri as his hand tightened around mine. "I would however like to start supplementing the blood into your diet so that you don't start getting weak"

"This soon?" I questioned feeling nauseous with just the thought of consuming blood while I was still human, I was only two weeks pregnant.

"We don't want you to become as sick as Bella was" Carlisle argued and I sighed sharing a look with Demetri who was frowning towards the ground and I knew he'd have to leave since he wouldn't want to risk losing control. "How about we leave it a few days, let you adjust a bit more but the sooner would be better" I nodded my head. "Esme is making you some breakfast, it'll be ready when you are" he left leaving me alone with Demetri.

"I never thought I'd be drinking blood before I'm even a vampire" I sighed feeling tears come to my eyes.

"If it's going to help you stay healthy enough to survive then you have to do it" Demetri replied grabbing my hand.

"I know, I'll do anything to survive this and have our baby safely but I countered on the bloodlust of being a vampire to get me through having to drink blood, I always knew it'd be the part I hate most about becoming like you because I don't want to hurt anyone"

"You won't have to worry about that mi amore, after your changed you'll want blood and your body will know what do to" he cupped my cheeks and I tried my best to smile placing my hands over his on my cheeks since despite everything between us and being in a weird place right now I was glad to have him by my side.

It was a week later when I finally felt the extremities that I was actually pregnant since I actually felt my first full on movement of painful kicks and punches which left more bruises and I looked like I was six months pregnant instead of only three weeks and was only growing bigger with each passing day but the most drastic had been the cups of blood I'd been stomaching down since a few days ago and I understood what Bella meant by I'd begin to crave it since I had felt myself getting sicker and weaker with each day before Carlisle told me that it was time I tested his theory of consuming the blood sooner than Bella had and I remembered the first time too vividly for my liking.

I was laid in the bed upstairs feeling my entire body aching and sore from the waist down and my body couldn't decide whether it wanted to be hot or cold which meant Demetri had barely left my side switching out his body and blankets whenever my body decided to change temperature but now I was just irritable and felt like I was dying which in a way I guess I was and I could see the pain I was causing Demetri for making him watch this especially as I was hooked up to IV fluids.

"Are you warm?" Demetri asked and I frowned forcing my eyes open to see him sitting in the chair next to the bed which is where he remained constantly when he wasn't needed to cool me down.

"A little, and hungry" I told him rubbing the huge swell of my stomach and the other vampires in the house hearing this would already be preparing food as Carlisle tried to get food into me regularly so I wouldn't grow even weaker than I already feel.

Carlisle, Edward and Bella we're the only ones that I saw frequently with Edward and Carlisle taking turns checking on me since apparently Edward also had a medical degree and I just liked having Bella to talk to and sympathize with me since she knew exactly what I was going through and I could tell Demetri despised the relationship I was beginning to form with all of them but I just wasn't in the mood to be hostile just because they're covens didn't get along and the time for hostility would be after I was changed and a part of the Volturi coven.

"Do you want me to cool you down?" I didn't answer since it took too much energy just to do so and he took that as an answer as he moved to sit next to me on the bed sat against the headboard and I rolled over to cuddle against his arm which was cool against my feverish skin.

"Sophia" we both looked up as Carlisle and Bella walked into the room, the former with a tray of food and a paper cup with a straw. "I think it's time we start you on some blood, you're starting to grow weaker and soon you'll start starving by the hour" I frowned shaking my head since I didn't want to do that.

"Soph listen to him...please" Demetri begged actually letting himself sound worried in front of the others for once. "You're getting paler and thinner already"

"I don't...I don't want to do that" I cried before I felt bile rise up my throat and choked a little as Demetri carefully but quickly sat me up and Carlisle had a bucket ready on hand but nothing came up.

"Sophia, believe me it's only going to get worse" Bella tried and I frowned before meeting Demetri's eyes and he gave me a pleading look so I turned to Carlisle and finally nodded my head agreeing to try so he reached for the tray which he'd placed on a table nearby and picked up the paper cup.

"This made it easier for Bella to take" he told me and I grabbed it of him trying to keep my shaking hands steady and I peered down through the lid seeing the dark red liquid which sloshed around as my hands shook a little...it's red cordial...red cordial...I chanted as I placed the straw between my lips and closed my eyes as I sucked in jumping in shock when I felt the liquid enter my mouth.

"Soph-" Demetri asked worried by my reaction but I swallowed surprised by the taste and couldn't help myself from drinking more like my body reacted to my baby's primal need to its father's diet.

"It's...not so bad" I commented and they all smiled a little while Carlisle checked my pulse from my wrist and nodded his head signalling that it was good and I drank a bit more.

"Your baby knows what it needs" Bella smiled at me knowingly and I smiled back at her...

I started drinking a few cups of blood every couple of hours and now I'd grown even more with my baby getting the fullest nutrients that they needed and Carlisle was happy with my progress and writing all his findings down stating that it was a good idea for me to have started drinking blood sooner than Bella but I still felt drained which I expected was to be normal and I was told to limit moving too quickly since breaks and fractures were still a possibility that Carlisle and Edward were worried about so I was pretty much bedridden unless I needed to use the bathroom and bathe which Demetri always helped me by carrying me around and he's lucky he has vampire strength because I looked like a fat whale these days and I'm sure I would feel like it.

"Yeah she's fine...for the most part" I opened one eye seeing Demetri was on his phone standing near the window that overlooked the forest like every window did in this place. "She's been pretty tired lately" he looked over at me and I gave him a curious look so he mouthed 'Felix' at me and I smiled since Felix called twice a day just to check up as he'd gone back to Volterra since the Volturi couldn't afford for both of them to be out of action while Demetri stayed with me. "Yeah I'll send her your well wishes" I laughed moving slowly onto my back before I started pushing myself to sit up stopping when I felt a sharp pain and groaned grabbing that spot knowing it's where our baby was sitting. "I gotta go man, tell Aro I'll update him at midnight tonight" he hung up and was at my side instantly. "Slowly" I nodded and let him help me sit against the headboard with pillows supporting me on all sides.

"They're just running out of room" I placated him when I saw his worried look and I touched his cheek raising his eyes away from my bulging stomach seeing they'd gone dark and we're nearly pitch black seeing as he hadn't left my side once not even to feed and I had noticed the Cullen's were beginning to grow anxious around him since his temper wasn't practically good in the best of circumstances so I knew I had to convince him to hunt soon.

"Carlisle thinks you'll keep getting bigger over the next few weeks" he sighed despaired that I was hurting but it wasn't our child's fault.

"I know, I just have to move slower" he nodded pulling his chair over and sat beside me holding my hand and I could see the haunted look in his eyes as he stared at our entwined fingers brushing his fingers over my knuckles until I reached over and lifted his face again. "Don't look like that please" I begged him since it broke my heart that I was causing his suffering.

"How do you want me to look?" he asked being completely honest, he barely spoke to me like he used to anymore and I felt like we were broken.

"Like you used to" I shrugged saying the only thing I could come up with.

"Well things arent like they used to be, I'm watching my wife deteriorate in front of my eyes"

"Demetri-" he cut me off with a kiss and I knew what he was doing so I turned my head away.

"Don't do that" I warned him and he sighed.

"I'm trying Sophia but I can't pretend to like this" I frowned since I didn't want him to pretend that he was on board since I knew he wasn't but I couldn't keep feeling guilty.

"I'm not asking you to pretend, you're not happy and I know that" I argued with him. "But don't look at me like I'm not here, you always detach yourself whenever you look at me and it breaks my heart so please...just don't" I cupped his cheek and moved my thumb over his cheekbones watching his eyes close. "You need to feed" I decided to change the subject and his eyes snapped open.

"I'm fine"

"Demetri...please you need to feed, even I can tell your making the Cullen's nervous and I need you to be at your strongest especially with how much blood is around me right now"

"I'm not leaving you" he argued being stubborn.

"I'll be fine for a few hours while you hunt"

"Sophia...no" he said it slowly like he was talking to a child and I rolled my eyes.

"Then please just leave me alone" I told him turning my head so I wasn't looking at him. "I don't want you around if you're going to continue being a cranky old man"

"Excuse me?" he spat sounding angry which just proved my point on how thirsty he was since he'd have found that funny any other time.

"Your snappy and I don't want to hear it anymore so if you won't leave me for a few hours to take care of yourself then I need you to leave since your killing my Zen faze"

"Zen faze?" he questioned.

"I'm calm right now and need to remain calm for our baby's sake and your being stubbornly frustrating"

"Stubbornly frustrating?" he asked and I could hear the smirk in his voice meaning he was finding the humor now.

"Stop repeating me Demetri"

"Drink time" Rosalie announced walking into the room without a care with the usual paper cup of blood ignoring Demetri's glare for the interruption which made me smile since I liked Rosalie for these reasons and took the cup from her drinking it quickly to satiate the parched feeling and to stop myself from overthinking what it was. "By the way Volturi, we wouldn't let anything happen to her or your demon child for you to hunt" she spat at him before she left and I was unable to stop from sniggering a little earning myself a glare from Demetri before his eyes lowered to my cup and I saw the deep gulp he took and noticed him holding his breath which signaled to me just how thirsty he really was.

"Demetri, your suffering please just go and hunt"

"Sophia" he sighed deeply before he looked up and rolled his eyes. "Fine, fine..." he trailed off with curses in a Greek tongue.

"Watch your language" I scolded him and he turned to look at me before he finally smiled a genuine smile for what seemed like forever ago.

"I'll be back in an hour, mi amore"

"Don't rush" I argued and he nodded leaning down to kiss my forehead. "I love you" I told him watching his smile grow before he stood up.

"If anything happens to her I'll kill you all" he said clearly speaking to all vampires downstairs before he was gone in a blink of an eye and I sat finishing the blood placing it on the side table just before Carlisle walked in.

"Thank you for getting him to hunt, Edward was getting quite nervous especially with Renesmee in the house" I smiled nodding my head at him. "How are we feeling today?"

"Like I giant balloon" I told him and he chuckled a little before he went through the standard and tedious checks nodding his head.

"Your vitals are all strong, the blood is certainly helping" I nodded since that was the one good thing about having to drink blood. "I'd say you could deliver any time next week at the earliest"

"That's good" I agreed since this whole growing a baby was taxing.

"Would you like to go downstairs, perhaps see something other than these walls" my eyes lit up since I'd been in this room for weeks now and eagerly nodded my head and before I knew it the big guy...Emmett was in the room with Edward behind him.

"Emmett" Edward warned and I frowned confused.

"What she needs someone to carry her and with the buzzkill gone we can properly get to know the Volturi human" I rolled my eyes at the nickname and him calling Demetri a buzzkill.

"I'll take her" Edward argued and he came over and asked me if I was okay with it with his eyes, I nodded my head and let him lift me up into his arms and carry me downstairs where I saw most of the Cullen family with only Jasper, Alice and Rosalie were missing.

"Hi Sophia" Bella smiled at me as Edward set me down on the luxurious couch and placed a blanket over my legs to keep me warm and I looked up at the TV seeing they were watching the Loony Tunes and laughed a little at how normal that seemed but with the way Renesmee was fixated on the screen I was guessing it had been her pick.

"So Sophia, I'm sure the Volturi have told you all about us" Emmett said sitting by my feet.

"Only that your vegetarian diet sickens them" I smirked at him.

"Boring, what else?" he questioned and I rolled my eyes.

"That's it unfortunately"

"Those entitled wank-"

"Emmett" Esme cut him off and looked at Renesmee who was looking at us and I smiled since he literally just got told off as he was about to swear in front of a kid, these guys really were like a family not that I'd known since I've never had one apart from the Volturi.

"So tell me what's it like living in that castle?"

"It's cool I guess, I love architecture and the building history a part from the vampire aspect fascinates me"

"You and Esme would get along" Edward smiled at me before he turned towards Renesmee when she went up to him and they seemed to be talking in her head. "Ask her?" he said and Renesmee turned to me as did Bella.

"Can I feel the baby?" she asked and I smiled since she was so cute.

"Sure" I smiled and she came over, I grabbed her hand and guided her to where the baby was sitting right now and we waited a second before I felt the baby move and kick right beneath her hand and she jumped a little.

"Did I do that?" she asked looking at Bella.

"Yes, you liked kicking me in the ribs" Bella smiled and I nodded since I got that treatment sometimes.

"I know how that feels"

"At least you haven't broken any ribs yet" Edward said too low for Renesmee to hear and I nodded since they'd warned me about that and Bella rolled her eyes at his snide remark before Renesmee reached out and placed her hand on my cheek.

'Is the baby a boy or girl?' I smiled.

"I don't know, what do you think?" I asked her.

'Boy' she smiled and I laughed nodding my head.

"I think so too"

"Oh come on don't have secret conversations, your daughters just like you Ed!" Emmett exclaimed and they all laughed meaning it must be a running theme in this family especially with a mind reader as now one that could project her thoughts.

I hung out with the Cullen's actually finding myself smiling and laughing with them before I felt exhaustion take hold and I fell asleep on the lounge but didn't feel like I was asleep long before I woke up to a painful kick straight to my chest and groaned wincing before I felt the cold presence next to me and saw Emmett was still sitting with me but closer now and I felt the sweat on my skin meaning I must have started running a fever.

"Your lucky Demetri's not here" I commented and he turned from the TV which was now playing some baseball game.

"You got hot, that looked like like a painful kick"

"Straight into the ribs" I nodded and tried sitting up only to feel pain and something definitely felt wrong as I yelled out.

"What's wrong?" Carlisle was at my side in an instant but I felt breathless.

"She got kicked, maybe she broke a rib like Bella" Emmett answered for me.

"Emmett pick her up we're gonna do an x-ray" I was in Emmett's arm and rushing to Carlisle's office where he put me down on the bench and Carlisle quickly took x-rays before putting them on the light board looking at them.

"Is she okay?" Emmett asked when he was silent and I thanked him since I still felt breathless and in pain.

"No broken ribs and doesn't look like she's punctured anything" I looked at the pictures seeing the blacked out circle which was my uterus and where my baby was. "We'll need to be more careful, maybe moving you was a bad idea especially since you appear bigger than Bella had been, the bloods doing its job and letting the child grow to full size, Renesmee was on the smaller side of the percentile" I nodded since that made sense as my baby was getting a lot better nutrients than Bella had while pregnant. "We'll take you back upstairs-"

"What happened!?" we all looked up and saw Demetri back and standing in the doorway before he came over, his eyes now a brilliant crimson red.

"I'm okay" I told him still feeling like I got the wind knocked out of me.

"Sophia was in pain, we brought her here just to check things out and make sure she hadn't broken any ribs or splintered anything"

"Did she?" he asked worriedly.

"No but we'll have to avoid moving her as much as possible" Carlisle replied and I breathed since it seemed my one and only trip to the couch was over.

"See what happens when I leave" Demetri sighed looking at me before he gently picked me up like I was a delicate feather and we went back upstairs where he let me use the bathroom before returning me to the bed.

"Demetri I'm okay, the baby just kicked a little too hard and I got the wind knocked out of me, it's fine"

"It's not fine Sophia, why can't you see that...you heard the doc you could have broken something, it could have broken something"

"It's not an 'it'!" I yelled at him glaring at him. "It's a baby, it's our baby!"

"It's yours" he spat at me letting his temper show. "I told you I don't want to be a father Sophia, this thing is yours and I want no part of it"

"Then leave" I spat angry and moved to my side so I faced away from him. "If you don't want our baby then you don't want me so just get out of here Demetri" I played with my ring before I took it off and threw it over my shoulder. "Take that with you since it clearly doesn't mean anything to you"

"Don't you dare say our marriage doesn't mean anything to me, you're the one that chose to die, you chose this thing over me" he yelled.

"Walk away Volturi" someone growled out and I looked up seeing Emmett in the room through the tears clouding my eyes.

"This is none of your business Cullen" Demetri spat back and I could hear the menace in his voice.

"Don't!" I yelled at him before turning to Emmett. "Both of you just leave me alone, I want to be alone!"

"Fine" Demetri spat before disappearing and Emmett turned to me.

"We'll be downstairs" I nodded and watched him leave before I broke down into sobs clutching the pillow to my face to muffle the sound as much as I could in a house of vampires.

"He has to know that your not dangerous, why can't he love you as much as I do" I sobbed feeling like my heart was breaking and I don't know how long I cried before my tears ran dry as I just laid there staring at the wall feeling...broken and empty and I just hope that nothing goes wrong because I fear for my baby because from everything that I've seen I don't know what Demetri would do.