Chapter 3: Carlisle and Bella

Bella's POV

Almost immediately Carlisle took me from Esme's arms and carried me upstairs. He had an office that was set up exactly like a hospital room. He gently laid me down on the bed.

My baby started to move and kick again. I bit back a scream when I felt something, probably a rib, break.

Carlisle started to examine. The expression on his face when he saw the bruises along my stomach was a horrified one.

"Bella are you okay? Are you in pain?" he asked me with concern evident in his voice.

"No, I really need your help. I'm pretty sure that the baby has broken a few things" I told him. He didn't say another word as he examined me. He did some x rays on my ribs and sure enough, I was right. A few of my ribs had been fractured. He was able to tape my ribs and make the pain a lot more bearable.

"Bella I am going to try to do some tests on you to find out more about the fetus" I didn't like the way that he referred to my baby as 'the fetus' but I didn't say anything. I just let it slide.

"Okay" was all that I could manage to say.

He was going to do an ultrasound in order to get a good look at the baby so that we could find out more about him or her. I was happy about that. It has been killing me not being able to understand what was going on with my body and with my baby. I hoped that Carlisle would be able to give me some answers.

"Hmm. Well this is weird" Carlisle said. Almost immediately I began to panic. Was there something wrong with my baby?!

"What is it Carlisle?" I asked. I could hear the urgency in my own voice.

"I don't know. I can't see anything. The amniotic sac that is surrounding the fetus is impossible to penetrate. It's hard, like vampire skin hard"

I breathed a sigh of relief. I had feared that it would be something much worse.

"This has me very worried. I'm sure that the fetus is incompatible with your body" What could that mean? Did that mean that my baby was in danger? My baby could not be in danger!

"What are you trying to tell me?"

"I am saying that this pregnancy is dangerous. The fetus has grown at an exceptionally fast rate. I mean, you were not even pregnant the last time we saw each other which was only a few weeks ago. But now-"

"So what should I do?" I asked him sounding pretty desperate.

"Bella I think that the safest thing would be to terminate-"

"No!" I screamed at him. "No! I am not going to do that! I am not going to abort my baby! I will not allow you to abort the baby!"

"Bella the safest thing to do would be to remove the fetus as soon as possible. The fetus is a hazard to your health. The baby is breaking your bones. The baby could kill you. At this rate your heart will give out before you can deliver-"

"Carlisle I am not going to abort this baby! It is my baby and it is my decision and I choose to have this baby. Even if it means giving up my own life I will have this baby!"

Carlisle placed his hand on my stomach in an effort to try and calm me down. But it was not working. He thought it was best for me to kill my own baby and I was not going to allow that.

"Bella I think it's for the best-" He stopped mid sentence when my baby started to kick again. The baby had started kicking the very spot where he was touching my stomach. The movement was light and gentle this time. It made me smile.

Even Carlisle was speechless. A minute ago he was sure that abortion was the only way to go. But now it looked like he was second guessing that decision.

"Carlisle that is your granddaughter or grandson in there. Do you really want me to kill your grandchild? Quite possibly the only grandchild that you will ever have a chance of having?"

Now I knew I had him. Thinking of the baby as his grandchild instead of a fetus seemed to do the trick.

"No" he finally answered me. "You're right. Maybe there is another way. Maybe I could perform a c-section on you instead. That would be much safer then letting you try to deliver naturally"

I thought about that for a moment and I realized that he was right. A c-section would be a lot safer than attempting to deliver naturally. This baby was different. This baby was strong because of it's vampire genetics. A normal birth probably would be dangerous.

"Bella I want to talk to you about what happened yesterday" Carlisle told me.

"Okay" I said as memories of yesterday's phone conversation flooded my mind. He had told me to stop bothering them. He had told me that my issues were probably not that big. He had even said that my human issues did not matter to him at all. What he said had really hurt me.

"Bella I am so sorry. I didn't mean any of the things that I said yesterday. They were all lies"

"But why did you say that to me? I mean, you have no idea how much that hurt" I told him.

Almost immediately he embraced me in a fatherly hug. We just stayed that way for a long time.

"You have no idea how much it hurt me to say those things to you. I thought it would be better for you if you thought that I no longer cared about your issues. I thought that it would help you move on faster. But I was wrong. I should have never treated you the way I did. I should have listened to you. I should have known that you wouldn't have gone through all that trouble if it was not extremely important. For a long time now you have been like a daughter to me and the way that I treated you was wrong. Bella I am so sorry. I am sorry for how I treated you and I am sorry for ever leaving you. Leaving you was a mistake. But I will understand if you never forgive me because what I did was horrible"

"Carlisle it's okay. I forgive you" I told him Carlisle just hugged me tighter.

We stayed that way until Esme came up. She wanted to speak with Carlisle. Evidently she was still upset about how he had treated me.

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