Thank you to the reviewer to suggested I used a poll the next time, thanks I honestly forgot about that.

I tried to find a story describing a c-section to get a general idea of how it's done because I really didn't want to watch one on youtube or something like that on the internet so I hope this isn't too bad.

The birth is here!

June and July passed relatively quickly with preparation for enrolling in school, with Carlisle going to work at Forks Hospital, and then with the increase of Cassie's disappearances which Jasper had assured the family that Cassie was just looking for a nest. But they could all see that the closer August came and with that came school the closer Jasper came to breaking and seemed to be about to tie Cassie down and keep her where he could see her. Of course he never did but they all honestly thought he would. Rosalie had finally come around and talked to Cassie about her issues with the fact she couldn't have children and her jealous about how Cassie was able to. With the rift healing slowly especially when Cassie enlisted both Alice and Rosalie to shop for baby clothes which they took to with relish and enthusiasm. But Jasper was the only one who saw Cassie cuddle with the baby things that Esme had knitted for them.

Something that had come from healing the rift was that Rosalie agreed to take all the babysitting while Jasper and Cassie hunted or needed them to. Rosalie and Jasper where the two that held the group of five back that Monday, August 12th, Rosalie wouldn't stop talking about all the things that Cassie needed to do and not do and that she shouldn't touch the nursery as Rosalie was having the boys finish it when they got back, while Jasper just didn't want to let go of her.

Laughing and giving Jasper a good bye kiss, she shoved the two hoverers out the door and watched as Emmett and Alice grabbed ahold of them and dragged them off. Walking back inside, Cassie gathered all things that she would possibly need for the birth that was coming up in a month. She would be heading out to the little burrow she found and see about storing all the animals she had caught and drugged to stay asleep.

She knew the time was coming soon, as her child struggle ever now and then but the babe always settles so she knows that it wasn't time yet. Cassie sighed, she had thought that immortal life with her husband and children would be filled with the usual problems, like who would stay with the kids, who would go hunting for their next meal, or who would go out first? Things that seemed so far away now, she didn't expect the stress that was accompanied by living in a coven. Sure the Cullens were great. Esme was a sweetheart, Carlisle always there to lend a listening ear, or Alice how Cassie saw as a little sister, smiling and always trying to brighten the day. But Edward was still ignoring his bond, the la push pack was watching them too closely for comfort and she would have helpless newborns to take care of soon with all this on top of them.

She couldn't honestly say she would change anything especially since she and Rosalie were getting along now and building a bond and Cassiopeia was hoping her little one would be able to see Alice and Rosalie as aunts. She placed a hand over her bulging stomach as she walked lazily towards the burrow she found just off the base of a waterfall. She figured that animals would be coming to drink and she would have easy pickings of blood when her supply ran out.

Coming up to the burrow, Cassie nose was assault by the scent of wet mutt. Her steps became hurried when she saw the place she had been planning on using to give birth. It was wrecked. The ground was in upheavals, all the animals that she had already stored there were dead, the opening was covered with mounds of dirt, the smell was feces and urine reeked everywhere and black and brown fur were littered the ground. Those freaking mangy flea bags destroyed her nest.

Cassie lips twisted into an ugly sneer and a snarl broke away from her chest. If she wasn't so close to birth she would have hunted them down and snapped their furry necks. Vampires were known for being territorial and these little bastards had decimated her nest. It seemed that the young one knew its mother was furious as they began struggling to remind her that they were still there. She rubbed a hand over where she felt her baby struggling to sooth it, she smiled at the thought of soon they wouldn't be struggling inside her but whining out in the openness of their home. She breathed in deeply unnecessarily and released the breath to try and calm her raging emotions, she turned sharply on her heels and tried to walk unhurriedly back home hoping that it would help her calm down as well.

Walking into the kitchen she saw Esme watching her in concern. Cassiopeia just grabbed a cup and filled it with blood to take a sip and sat down contemplating on her next move.

"Are you alright honey," Esme's voice overflowing with concern.

Cassie looked out the window before turning back to Esme, "not really. The shifters destroyed my nest so now I'll have to scout of a new area and stock up on animals with little more than three weeks deadline so that I can be ready for when the baby wants out."

Looking at Esme showed that she was appalled by what the shifters had done.

"That's cutting it a little close, will you not be able to use the first place or do you really have to find a new place?" Esme asked.

Cassie shook her head, "they know where the burrow was if I went back then they would know where I was with my new born child. That's too dangerous, I'll just have to search and search quickly. I have about three weeks till I'm running the risk of giving birth without a nest."

Esme walked over and kissed the top of her head, "you'll find something dear. We can all see that you only want the best for your baby."

"I just don't want to take any longer than necessary. I mean I already spent the last month and two weeks finding that little burrow and now I don't have six weeks like I did before I have half of that." setting the empty cup in the sink, Cassie walked to the door, "I'm going to head on out and start searching. I'll try to be back before the others get home, alright?"

She left with Esme nodding her head behind her.

She was out for almost the entire school day, only appearing in the kitchen entryway an hour before Jasper ran into the house and gathered Cassie in his arms. He nuzzled her throat and inhaled her scent and with her scent he could smell twinges of anger and some sadness. It was faint and wouldn't be noticeable by the others but Jasper knew his wife's scent by heart and he knew the mixture of her scent and their baby's and these twinges weren't usual.

"What's wrong?" his tone was soft and quiet even if they knew that all of the others could hear them. And when all the attention turned to them they knew that they heard him ask his question.

She just leaned her forehead against his shoulder, "the shifters found my nest."

Jasper growled and flexed his hands, he made sure that his claws didn't go into his wife.

"They destroyed it, I'll need to find a new one and quickly." That had them all looking at her like she was crazy, they all knew it took her forever to find the one she had and now she had to find another one with her eighteenth month mark coming up in three weeks and with that the high chance of labor.

Jasper didn't know what he wanted to do, no scratch that he knew what he wanted to do. He wanted to hunt those damn shifters down and carry through with his promise of killing them. But he needed to stay with Cassie, to comfort her. She might not show it to them or even smell of the emotions, but Jasper knew that she was feeling strained with such a close call as this.

"You'll find a new nesting area, love. I know you will, now have you fed today?" he was running a hand through her hair while holding her close to him.

She nodded against his chest, "I had a cup of blood when I came back from my destroyed nest and then I found a couple stags and does when I was searching for a new nest."

"Good," Jasper set his chin on the top of her head, "do you have enough animals for when you do go into labor?"

The others started going about their way and doing things on their own, Rosalie tugged Emmett and Edward after her to set up the nursey, well it really wasn't a nursery until they figured out how many children they were having. Since Cassie had such hard skin as a vampire they weren't able to get an ultra-sound to figure out how many babies Cassie and Jasper would have. She could be having one or two or even three they didn't know.

Looking around trying to give the couple a private moment Rosalie looked at what they had gotten done of the nursery. The far wall was one sided windows that looked out the forest that was at the back of the house but blocked people from looking in. The other three walls were a light sky blue that wasn't too delicate for a guy but was pretty enough for a girl, the changing table was off on the left wall and was made of rich deep colored mahogany there were no designs on the changing table as they felt it would only be able to go one way or the other and not stay unisex, however the rocking chair that had a knitted cyan colored blanket hanging over it had cravings of lilies of all kinds – tiger lilies, Easter lilies, lilium auratum, lilium speciosum, etc. – it too was mahogany and the two woods matched.

Rosalie had Alice help her since until recently Rosalie and Cassie were at odds with each other. Rosalie hoped that Cassie loved it and that it helped her release some stress.

The next couple of weeks were stressful…or as stressful as it can get for vampires. Cassie was out of the house for long periods of time searching for a nest and storing animals, Jasper always gave her a kiss before she left and a kiss when she got home if he was home before her. And then finally it happened.

Sunday, September 5th, she felt her child first start struggling in her at around 3:00 that morning. Everyone in the family would know that she had left to give birth soon, she thought as she stood up from the sofa that she was laying on. Peaking Jasper on the cheek she waddled off out the back door off to the side of the kitchen and into the woods. She had had to find a new nest after the shifters raided her old one and now it was about three miles east of the isolated house and also in the opposite direction of La Push and its shifters.

She didn't want them anywhere near her when she went into labor and gave birth. The new place seemed to be an abandoned bear cave not that it matter to her but she didn't want a bear just to wander in on her when she's give her newborn its first meal, of course the bear could always join the collection that she had built up to feed on it would have gotten her through two meals might only have gotten her little one through one but that didn't matter. The scent of bear was old; maybe Emmett tracked it down and ate it. He did have an attraction to them after all.

She was getting off topic with her thoughts. She made sure that all of her animals were still asleep and stunned as well as in easy reach to feed from them when she needed to without too much hassle. She grunted at one harsh kick from her young one. If she was mortal she knew that they would have ripped open her stomach. Pulling her maroon maxi-dress over her head she threw it out of the way so that none of the amniotic fluid or blood got on it.

She squirmed around on the fleece blanket she put on the ground as it was now 3:10 am and raining and foggy just as she had learned was the normal weather for Forks. She made sure to have easy access to the cord clamps for when she got the little one out. With everything ready for the birth, Cassiopeia took a deep breath she felt underneath her bump gently, pressing her finger knuckle into the flesh there to check where her child was lying and for the perfect incision site.

The claw on her index finger sunk into her stomach, through granite hard flesh, fat and muscle, her middle claw slipped in behind it to make the incision wide enough for the baby to get through and clean enough to ensure a quick recovery with a simple meal.

She screamed through the agony of it, screamed as she felt around inside herself for the membrane of her uterine, she pressed on it, feeling for the position of the precious child within her, this was such a delicate part of the process, she would not catch them with her claws, she refused to put her baby in any danger and especially not from herself, never from herself.

Her hand and wrist now covered in blood, she found an area of her womb that had a little space between it and then another hard; she felt another hard spot. She would have stopped in shock had she not been in a hurry to get her struggling children out. Yes children, Cassie was going to love showing off two babies to Jasper instead of one. So with the very tip of her index claw, she slit open the membrane with a smooth, swift movement, her other arm up, her hand poised to guide a head through her womb and out into the open.

She pressed gently, slipped her hand against her womb and tentatively fingered around inside herself for a head, she found one and cupping the back of it with her hand; she directed the bloodied baby out of her and onto the blanketed ground, freeing her first baby and welcoming them into the world.

She checked them over, just enough to ascertain that they had no injuries or obvious deformities that needed to be immediately addressed before she reached back into herself and eased her second little one out into the world, she cupped the back of her baby's head and eased their body from her's, laying them next to their sibling before reaching out and grabbing two cord clamps. She checked them over and made sure they were physically alright before she snapped them low down onto the cords and severed them, only then did the two wet wails of newborns fill her nest.

Rumbling with force, she let out a hoarse scream that hurt her ears as she pulled out both placentae and threw it out of her cave. She made sure her insides were clean and she'd left nothing erroneous inside herself before she snatched up the body of a stag and drained the blood chugging it down she made a mess of herself but she didn't care about the mutilation she'd done to herself to get out her babies the slash was slowly knitted itself back together, leaving behind a faint red line that would disappear with her next meal.

Rechecking her babies showed that they were fraternal twins. Her little boy looking just like his daddy, little tuffs of honey blonde hair with pale sunless skin, his eyes were crunched close due to his whining, but she couldn't help but hope that he had her eyes not that she didn't love her husband's deep gold eyes, as well as his height. Cassie was sure that her little boy was the longest baby she had seen, and her husband was 6'3" after all. While her young son had a slight roundness to his face like all babies she was sure that he would have the same sharp features as her mate.

His little sister however, was far more delicate in looks while she was born with a head full of hair. Her black hair, she wasn't sure if the little girl had her curls or Jasper's wavy hair yet as it was weighed down with fluids from spending the last eighteen months in her body. Her skin was just as pale as the family's and her eyes were slivered while her mouth was just gapping trying to root around for a meal, and through those little slivers Cassiopeia could see the traditional vampire gold, except it was more a deep gold just like Jasper's was when she first met him. The little girl had her slender frame from what she could tell and seemed as she would inherit Cassie's short height, but the look of her face Cassie could see that her daughter would have the features of an aristocrat lady.

They were prefect to Cassie and she couldn't stop the smile from spreading across her face when she made a meal of a much larger and filling mountain lion as well as a brown bear that she had come across. With the bodies drained she brought her two little ones to her chest and situated them to bite into her nipples and feed them at the same time.

The sounds of whining immediately stopped when they sucked out the blood. She grabbed a small white rabbit to finish healing the faint red line on her abdomen. She watched as it disappeared before turning to run a finger down her little son's cheek.

"I'll have to figure out your names little ones. What do you say; any ideas to what you want to be called?" Cassiopeia smiled softly at her two children. They just continued their meals.

"I guess I don't have to worry about that for a little while, huh," she just continued talking to them as if they understood her.

Once they unlatched from her breasts, she placed one over each shoulder and shrugged her shoulders and gently patted their backs one handed, "I love you little ones. And our family will love you too."

Jasper was ready to pull out his hair, he hadn't been back to school Friday last week on the 3rd, it was now the 9th, four days after his Cassie had gone off to give birth. He knew he was being unreasonable about this but all he could hear was his wife's screams that Sunday morning. Carlisle got all the others to go about their days like normal but no one was going near Jasper until he had his wife and baby back, Rosalie was just as anxious to see her little niece or nephew but she went to school with the others, although a little more snappy than usual.

Jasper was more than just anxious he want to see his wife and he wanted to see her now, he wanted to know that she was okay, to know that their little one had made it just fine. They were all sitting in the living room all trying to not stare at Jasper who was jitterier than humans were, and then they all caught the smell. Jasper was up and out the door before anyone could stop him, he knew his wife's scent better than anyone.

They came upon Jasper standing there staring at his wife and the two little bundles in her arms, Cassie just laughs as she moved past them to the house. Jasper was quick to snap out of his daze and ran after his mate. Helping her sit down, Cassie slipped one of the bundles into his arms. He looked so scared to hold one of his children. The little girl was looking up at her daddy with burgundy gold eyes, her mouth opened slightly before closing again and his eyes,

"Jasper love, meet your daughter Celosia Nerezza Senka Whitlock and your son Anubis Hamal Khonsu Whitlock."

"They are so adorable," Rosalie squealed looking over their shoulders at the two little ones.

"And they will be loved." Cassiopeia watched as they were handed around the family while Jasper handed her a cup of blood.

Now if only Cassie could get Edward to get his head out of his ass and see what is right in front of him. But that seems a little harder than she thought it would be, if only she knew just how hard.

Celosia: Burning; old Greek

Nerezza: Darkness; italian

Senka: Shadow; Serbian

Anubis: Egyptian god of the Dead

Hamal: main star in Aries

Khnosu: Egyptian god of the moon