The Miracle
Rosalie's POV
Damn Alice! She had taken my wallet out of my purse this morning in order to grab my credit card and forgot to put it back. Inside the wallet was my new ID that I was planning on using to register for fall classes at Settle University. Jasper, Emmett and myself had piled into the car shortly after ten this morning in order to make the trip to the city. On the way there we had stopped at the gas station to fill up the Jeep's tank, I had opened my purse to pull out my wallet to grab the cash necessary to pay for the fuel and realized my wallet was probably still sitting back in my room. Emmett had shrugged and pulled out the wallet from his back pocket when I had started swearing. The cash wasn't what I was upset about, we had plenty of that, Emmett and Jasper both carrying credit cards and lots of petty cash with them at all times, I was mad about the new ID I had bought sitting unused in the wallet. I would need the ID in order to register for classes. Emmett got back into the front seat and patted the passenger seat next to him.
"Come on Rosie, we'll turn around and go grab it." He smiled at me.
"That will take too long Em, the lines are probably horrible to begin with, and we'll never get through today if we go back to the house first." I started frustrated. "Tell you what, you guys go on ahead, I'll run back to the house and then drive back and meet you guys in line, I'll be two hours behind you max."
"You sure angel?" Emmett looked at me with adoring eyes.
"Yeah, it's easier this way." I leaned up and kissed him full on the mouth. I was going to miss him in the few hours that we would be separated, I always felt this way since the first time I saw him and the first time he saw me, after his transformation, I knew that that love was returned by the look in his eyes.
"Love you" Emmett whispered and winked at me, then closed his door. During our exchange Jasper had hopped up into the passenger seat and gave me a quick smile before Emmett put his foot on the gas and booked it out of the gas station.
I walked away from the pumps of the gas station towards the forest just behind it. Once I walked into the edge of the forest I started to run. I knew this area of the woods; Emmett and I had come over this way a couple of times to hunt. I knew that I would be home in a half an hour tops. Home, feels like I should have never left there today. This morning Nessie had come into my room crying, her parents had told her that she couldn't go hunting alone with Jacob that her father would be going with her. Nessie had been upset, thinking it unfair in her twelve year old perspective, even though she was only four, Nessie growing at three times regular speed thanks to her vampire genes, that she wasn't able to be alone with her best friend, she had done it before. Edward, Nessie's father had decided on those rules after last week when he had caught Nessie having daydreams about her and Jacob kissing. Why she would want to kiss that gross mutt was beyond me, but Edward felt that Jacob in his moony, imprinted point of view would not be able to assert enough self control and Nessie's parents didn't feel ready to lose there daughter to her soul mate just yet, she was only four. So Nessie had come crying to her Aunt Rosie to make her parents see reason. I had tried to help, but I agreed with Edward a little too much, if it was up to me Nessie would never see the mongrel again, Bella and Edward were way to soft when it came to Jacob. After Nessie had left in a huff with Edward and Jacob, I had a pang in my heart that had been becoming more frequent in the last couple of months. Over and over again all I could think about was a baby. A beautiful little boy or girl that would be mine… and Emmett's of course. When Nessie had first been born I had held her everyday, feeding her, comforting her, loving her. But I wasn't her real mother and more and more that was becoming apparent as Nessie was growing up. The one thing I had always wanted for all of my vampire life, even a half of my human life, was a baby. I was made to be a mother and the fact that I didn't have a baby was a grave mistake of destiny. I had even in the past year started praying to God that there would be some way for me to get pregnant, that maybe deep in the jungles of the Amazon I would find the secret to success. For four months I looked through all the information the Amazon coven had uncovered and nothing got me closer to my goal. When the family had gotten back to Forks, I had become depressed at my lack of options, that night Emmett had sat with me in his arms, holding me like a baby, as I despaired over the turn of fate I had been dealt. It had only been in the last couple of days that I was returning to the old Rose, accepting that I might never have an option when it came to this topic. I sighed.
I was closing on to the clearing of the house and I slowed into a walk when I made it onto the driveway. I needed to grab my wallet fast and get into my car, to Seattle, to Emmett; I would feel better when I was with him again. As I bounced up the stairs to the front door a movement caught my eye. I moved swiftly, crouching into a hunting pose and leaping in front of my attacker. When I focused on the source of the movement I stared down in awe. The movement had come from a bassinette. Inside was a tiny human baby, with tiny cheeks, rosy from the exposure to the elements, and yes a tiny heart beat that I could hear now that I was focused. The baby was smiling up at me, tiny hands grabbing tiny legs, the movement that had alerted me. Inside the bassinette with the baby was a folded piece of paper. I put my hand into the basket, daring not to breath, not wanted the temptation of sweet human blood to afflict me. I grabbed the paper and unfolded it, written on it was one sentence in delicate handwriting, 'Please take care of my little boy Daniel'. I looked down, Daniel, he was beautiful, perfect. I reached down in a trance and picked him from the basket. Holding him at the same level of my face a few inches away.
"Hello." I tested my voice, "I'm Rosie, nice to meet you Danny." The baby smiled at me, and let out a little shriek as if to answer my greeting. In that one moment, my heart melted and I fell in love for the second time in my life. I braced myself and took a small breath in. His scent was sweet, but surprised me, he smelt good, really good, but not in a food way. He smelt adorable. I am sure that if I had been a new born or had been starving myself in the last couple of days that he would have smelt like food, but at this very moment he smelt like a cute human baby. I fitted Danny in the crook of one arms and picked up the bassinette with the other, I opened the door and let us inside.
I dropped the bassinette in the living room and held Danny with both arms rocking him back and forth. I became completely absorbed in his movement, the way he breathed, the fluttering of his heart beat, the cooing sounds he made up at me. This was a dream come true, at last. I was so absorbed that I didn't hear the door open.
"Rose?" Bella's questioning voice sounded behind me. I whirled around, cuddling Danny a little more protectively to my chest.
"I-I came home and he was lying in a small bassinette on the doorstep. There was a note with him; it said 'Please take care of my little boy Daniel.' Bella, don't you see, my hopes, my prayers, have been answered. God has finally heard me, given me a baby, a little boy, Danny."