I Will –Billy Gillman

I had no idea why but it felt right to bring Maria to the hospital; which was strange because I also had a strange feeling of foreboding too. I mean how something can be good for you and bad for you at the same time.

I pulled up to most likely the largest building in Forks: the hospital. It was also the same hospital my father worked at until his death; maybe that is where the foreboding had come from.

I walked up to the desk and asked if any of them knew where my sister was since I didn't see her.

"Your sister is in the maternity ward." A nurse that recognized me said. "She could be looking at the babies back there if she hasn't left yet."

"Thanks." I said pulling Maria along behind me.

She didn't seem to like that she had to follow but I really wanted to see my sister and make sure she was okay. She had sounded really worried for her friend slash sister in law. Before I even got two feet into the maternity ward I heard my name called in a quiet but loud whisper.

It was my sister. She was standing in the door way of one of the rooms.

"He Rose." I said. "This is Maria. Maria this is my sister Rosalie." I added stepping back.

Rose shifted to shake Maria's hand and I caught a glimpse of the girl in the room behind her. She was a small brunette with pale skin very much like Bella only this girl was pregnant and far a long by the looks of it.

"Is that your sister in law?" I asked Rosalie.

"Yes it is. I'm sitting with her while Charlie took Annie home and Emmet 'quote' went to get real food." Rose said.

"I couldn't agree more. Hospital food did always suck." I said.

"Which is why you never lasted long in the hospital." Rose said.

"I did when I had my accident." I told her.

"Only because you had to," Rose said.

"Jasper I'm going to go get something to drink. Do you want me to get you anything?" Maria asked.

"No I don't need anything. I'll text you if I change my mind."

Rosalie and I stood in the door way of the hospital room staring after her.

"Not your usual type of girl but she seems nice; but we will have to wait so we can see her true colors." Rose said.

"You are right but we just seemed to click."

"Oh Jasper I don't want to hear the details."

"Not like that rose. Do you seriously I would talk about stuff like that with you."

"No."

"Which is why I go to Peter but he and Charlotte are out of town until tomorrow." I said. "And I haven't even come close to doing that with her."

We heard the girl from the room moan in pain and flipped to face her. Rose rushed right over to her.

"Bella are you all right?" she asked over and over again.

"Pain," Bella said.

"I'll go get the nurse. You stay with her Jasper."

I sat down in the chair Rose had vacated. I scooted the chair father from the bed because I didn't know the girl and didn't want to freak her out. When I looked up I saw the girls face. It was Bella; the Bella that I hadn't seen in roughly a little more than six months maybe more.

I could hear the foot steps leading back to the room. I stood and went back by the door and waited for Rosalie. I needed to talk to her soon.

"Rose I need to talk to you." I said once she got closer.

"We got to leave while the nurse checks her over anyway." She said leading me to a small waiting room a few doors down from Bella's room. "Now what do you need to talk about?"

"I think I might be the father of that kid."

"You how you haven't even met her."

"Yes I have. I met her almost two years go after my accident. She gave me her e-mail address and I gave her mine. Then about six seven months ago we ran into each other again. We had dinner and I kissed her and then one thing led to another and well here we are."

"And you think you are the father of the Baby?" Rose asked.

"Yes. I really think I am the father of Bella's baby."

"It was you that did that to my daughter!"

I flipped around and spotted an older man with brown hair just like Bella's peppered with grey. He was seething in anger. I gulped down my fear at what he might do. I could spot Maria behind him.

"I don't know if I actually did but I might have. I had no clue until a few moments ago." I said.

"That's a lie and you know it." The man seethed.

"I'm not lying. I didn't even know her last name was swan." I countered.

"So you slept with my daughter without knowing her last name."

"I hadn't planned on sleeping with her." I said. "I only planned on eating with her."

"Then why haven't you responded to her e-mails?" he asked.

"I haven't gotten any from her since before we were together." I told him.

"But she has sent you two." Rosalie said.

"I haven't received them." I whispered. "And I think I know why."

"How?" the man I assumed to be Bella's dad asked.

"Maria could you come closer please." I said.

She did while asking "Why?"

"I noticed that my computer last night was warm when I hadn't even been on it for at least a day."

"Yeah so." Maria said.

"The point is you were on it when I told you not too. I have important cases on it that you can't be privy to."

"That doesn't prove I had anything to do with your e-mails." Maria said.

"Rose do you have Bella's computer."

"No but I do have her phone and she had the e-mails sent to her other account to make sure they went through because of a few problems she was having with her e-mails not getting through."

"Can I see her phone?" I ask. "Please."

Rosalie handed me her phone.

"Do I have permission to look through it?" I asked looking at Bella's dad.

He gave me a nod.

I scrolled through her apps until I found one for her e-mail. I looked through the e-mails for the ones her family had been talking about. I found one at the bottom of the list.

Read it:

Jasper,

I really need to talk to you. Like I told you the last time I sent an e-mail. I am pregnant and the baby is yours. I have not been with anyone one else since that night and the last guy I was with before that night was in college.

Love

B

The e-mail was sent around the time I went looking for food last night so there was no way I could have read the e-mails because I don't have that option on my phone. The other one was sent a few months ago just before I met Maria's family it might have even been the day I met her family for all I know.

"Maria!" I yelled. "You were on my computer around the time I received both e-mails. You deleted them didn't you?"

Maria didn't say anything.

"Tell me now!" I commanded her.

"Fine I did. Did you expect me to sit around while you played house with that little whore?"

"She wasn't asking me to marry her. She just wanted me to know that I had a kid on the way and you took that from me. I should have been there for her but you didn't allow it," After I had yelled at her.

Emmet had walked into the room.

"Hey Jasper." He said not knowing what I had yelled moments before or how I was connected to his sister.

"Come on Jasper I think we should leave." Maria said.

"You can leave I'm staying." I said.

"But you have the car keys."

"The Inn is only three blocks away you can hoof it that far," I said. "It wouldn't be wise for me to be in the same car as you right now."

"You are choosing that little whore over me." Maria screeched.

"One she's not a whore and two of course I am." I yelled back.

"You two need to shut up. Your arguing will do nothing but cause our patients harm if you keep on causing them distress if it continues." A nurse yelled at us from the doorway.

"Sorry I was just trying to tell this woman she needed to leave." I said pointing to Maria.

"Do I need to call security?" the nurse asked.

"No Mrs. Newton. I'll escort the woman out and Mr. Whitlock it would be wise to come with me to get your things out of the room you booked so she can't take revenge on it."

"Of course I was just going to ask Emmet if he would take me to get my things." I said.

"Well let's get going. YOU and I have some things to discus."

I knew that was coming but at least he hasn't killed me yet. I sat in the front of the car –which was a police cruiser- and Maria sat in the back. I thought it was funny and had to keep myself from laughing. It didn't take us long to get back to the Inn. I quickly went inside.

"Hello Mr. Whitlock is there anything I can do for you?" the clerk asked.

"I just wanted to finish the room out for the week. I will stay somewhere else but I have a friend in need of the room. I won't pay for anymore time past the end of the week." I told her.

"We can do that but we'll need a credit card."

I handed over the card and went to collect my bag. I grabbed it and left the door unlocked. Maria was standing outside the car when I got back to it.

"Here is the key to the room. You can stay till the end of the week because that is how long I paid for the room. I won't put another penny toward you."

I then placed my bag into the truck Mr. Swan had popped open.

"Can't you forgive me Jasper? I just didn't want to lose you." She pleaded.

"No I can't; at least not right now. You nearly made where I wouldn't know about a child. My child." I snapped.

I slammed the trunk closed.

"You will regret this." Maria said stomping away.

I slipped back into my seat and buckled myself in.

"So how did you meet my daughter?" Mr. Swan asked.

"I was waiting for a plane just under two years ago. I believe she said a close family friend had passed away."

"I remember. Continue." He said.

"We got to talking and after our plane landed she gave me her e-mail address; saying that if I ever need to talk I could talk to her. I sent her a picture of my family because she said my family sounded interesting and we kept on going back and forth from there." I said. "And then about six months ago we ran into each other at the hotel. We ate dinner together and well you know what happen after that."

"You are right and the next morning?" he asked.

"She was gone." I said.

"How come you didn't you e-mail her?" he asked.

"I was too scared to because when I woke up the next morning your daughter was nowhere to be seen I knocked on her door and nobody answered. I also thought that maybe I had hurt her in some way and she didn't want to see me again after that night we hadn't talked much."

I had continually tapped my fingers on the door.

"How do you feel about my daughter?" he asked.

"I like her a lot. I'm attracted to her now if it's more than that I can't be so sure." I told him. "I know I don't want to hurt her but in her eyes I already have hurt her by not answering her e-mails about the baby."

"She's a very forgiving person. If you explain to her what happen she might forgive you but I am warning you no matter what it will take time." He said. "She hasn't even forgiven her mother for a fight they had three months ago which I now believe is about the baby."

"When did she tell you?" I asked.

"I found out today." He said. "How do you feel about it?"

"I don't think it has quite hit me yet." I said. "It would probably hit me when I let it slip to my mother after she begs me to give her grand kids again."

"And you and Bella didn't realize that you had siblings that had married each other."

"Nope because my sister still uses Hale for business."

"What is with all the different last names?" he asked.

"Edward and Peter were adopted but Rosalie and I were biological." I said. "I decided to use Whitlock as my last name because I didn't want any hand outs because of the Cullen last name and Rose chose to do the same but had picked our grandmother's maiden name Hale."

"What do you do for a living? I heard you yell at that Maria girl that you had case files on your computer."

"I'm a cop down in Texas. I was a PI for a while after my accident because I wasn't in the physical condition any police force needed me to be." I told him.

"Well we're here if Bella is awake and wants to talk to you; you can go in. if she doesn't then go back to the waiting room or your mother's house. Whichever you want to do." He said.

I got out and then grabbed my back out of the trunk after he popped it and put it in my car. He had closed the trunk after I grabbed my bag out so I went back inside after I made sure my car was locked.

It wasn't hard to find Bella's room this time and it wasn't hard to find because Emmet and Rosalie were standing outside talking in hush whispers.

I walked up to them and asked. "What?"

"Bella knows you're here. Dips**t here let it slip." Rosalie said pointing at Emmet.

"You can go in she's waiting for you but if you—"

"I wouldn't hurt her and your dad already gave me that speech." I told him.

"All right. Rose and I will be down the Hall with Dad." He said.

The door to Bella's room was closed. I took a deep breath and knocked on it.

"Come in." Bella's soft voice answered.

I took another deep breath and opened the door. She wasn't looking at the door when I walked in. She was looking at the TV. I sat down in the chair beside her bed. I said nothing figuring that it would be better to let her speak first. She turned off the TV and turned toward me.

"I tried to tell you but you never responded." She said.

"I know you did now but I didn't get the messages when you sent them because my crazy girl –well now- ex girlfriend deleted them because she didn't want me to leave her."

"But you left her anyway."

"Yes not because I wanted to date you –which I do but that's up to you- but because she invaded my privacy and deleted my messages from you and because of that I could have missed out on that little guys entire life and that just—"

"You don't have to finish. I get it." She said. "It would have made me mad if it happened to me."

We had lapse into a comfortable silence after that.

"I'm not looking to date or get married Jasper. I wasn't looking to trap you or whatever when I told you in those e-mails. I just thought you should know."

"Bella I understand that and I wasn't saying you had to date me but to allow me the opportunity to try and get you to open up about it." I said taking her hand in my own.

"I agree but you have to make it interesting considering we have already skipped a step."

"How about we at least go to dinner, whether we make it ourselves or go out after you get sprung from this place."

"That sounds like a good idea." She said. "Ooh."

"Are you alright do I need to get the nurse?" I asked.

"No the baby was kicking." She said.

"You don't know the sex?" I asked.

"Nope. They didn't want to show their privets to anyone." She said

Bella and I talked about her book and then the idiot doctor came in telling her that I had to leave. I did leave after Bella and Charlie made him leave but only to call Edward because that was who Bella wanted to be her doctor. I walked back into the room after I called Edward.

"What did Edward say?" She asked.

"He will be here in an hour after Alice get's back from the store because they had to watch the grandkids." I told them.

"That is perfectly fine as long as that creepy doctor doesn't come in here again."

"Bella you have Emmet out there like a junk yard dog guarding you. I don't think that will happen." I said.

"Are you telling the truth?" She asked me.

"It's true. I'm even tempted to buy those studded collars you see Rottweiler's wearing."

"Oh please; please don't. People might think he was one of those weird gay guys that dress up like biker dudes." She begged.

"Fine I'll give the collar to Rose and she can use it."

"TMI, Jasper." She shouted with a grin.

I looked over at Charlie and he was smiling too.

"Okay why is my newest patient screaming?" Edward asked walking into the room.

"They were just talking about buying dog collars and well you really don't want to know." Charlie said leaving the room.

"Now, Jasper told me that you were having problems with another doctor."

"Yes he wanted Jasper to leave the room because he said it was against hospital policy and I know it's not but he still tried to push for it until Charlie made him leave." Bella told him.

"Well you won't have that with me. I'm going to start by drawing blood and after that we will do an ultrasound and see how the baby is doing."

I watched as they prepared my arm to draw blood and looked away when they brought out the needle. I flinched a little when it first entered my skin but I was completely fine after that.

"I'll just have these sent off to the lab we should have the results sometime in the next few days depending on how back logged they are." He said. "I will be back in a few for the ultrasound."

"Okay," Bella replied.

"Do you want to find out what sex the baby is?"

"I go through periods of wanting to know and periods of not wanting to know. Right now I do because it's something I can share with you. It will be a memory that we have that nobody can take from us. I have pictures for you and your mom from all my other ultrasounds or sonograms including one that Edward did." Bella said.

"Where are they?" I asked.

"In my bag over there." She replied.

I picked up her purse and asked. "Which pocket?"

"Front." Bella told me.

I knew she was watching me as I pulled the pictures out. I flipped through them all going back to look at others I gulped looking at them all but the biggest one was the last one taken.

"Bella are you having twins because this one picture looks like you are." I asked her.

"What? Hand it to me." She demanded.

I gave her the picture I was referring to and she looked at it.

"Look at the bottom of it near what would be the baby's but. It's either a boy and that's his junk or there are two babies in there." I said.

"We should keep this to ourselves and see what the news ultrasound says." She told me.

"Of course." I tell her.

"You want to know the funny thing is?" I asked.

"What?"

"This is from the first ultra sound your brother did." I said.

"Are you two ready to see your baby?" Edward asked upon returning to the room.

I stepped back as she pulled her shirt up. Edward squirted some kind of goop on to her belly. Edward them stuck the plastic wand against her stomach. The image flickered after a few minutes before a clear image of what we would be having appeared on the screen.

I watched as Bella smiled. I was glad to have her in my life weather we dated or not. I would always be there for her and my kid whatever gender it may be.

"I guess we won't find out this time." She told me squeezing my hand before turning to Edward and asked "Can I go home today?"

"You can but you will have to be on bed rest for the remainder of your pregnancy." He told her.

"Seriously bed rest is going to suck." She groaned.

I couldn't help but laugh.

"You don't have to stay in one room you just can't be up and around like you are used to doing and if you do have to move around a lot then try using a wheel chair." Edward explained to her. "I'll go get the paperwork."