Sorry for the HUGE delay everyone. I have good reasons to the most recent absence. I started back to school January 11, had my wisdom teeth taken out on the 18th and then last week was makeup work. Due to my absence, I am hoping to get another chapter or two out this coming weekend. But no promises. Next Wednesday there WILL be an update. My busy schedule is winding down so it shouldn't be a big problem.

Thank you everyone who reviewed last chapter and this chapters kind of boring. But at least it's an update, yes? Enjoy and be sure to review when finished!

Chapter Twenty-Three

The Unknown

"You don't play with them?"

"No, I prefer to referee -- I like keeping them honest."

"Do they like to cheat then?"

"Oh yes -- you should hear the arguments they get into! Actually, I hope you don't, you would think they were raised by a pack of wolves."

I woke up in the backseat of a dark vehicle. I glanced out the windows but could see nothing but complete darkness. Alice and Rosalie sat in the front of the vehicle, staring out at the road ahead.

Their silence was unsettling.

"You've been out for a while now," Rosalie's voice came from the passenger seat.

"We're almost to Vancouver," Alice added.

With a sigh, I stretched and rubbed my eyes. "Have you heard from Edward?"

"No."

Rosalie was curt and I could easily tell that she was annoyed. I just wasn't sure why. Because no one had heard from Edward? Or because I was asking about him?

It was then that I was practically thrown out of my seat by the sudden stopping of the car.

"Jeezus, Alice! What the hell?" Rosalie shrieked.

APOV

"Hello?"

"Rosalie? It's Bella. Please. You have to help me."

It wouldn't end. Flash after flash. They just kept coming.

"What's the deal, Bella?" Jacob was mad. Short with Bella as always. "I thought the whole point was that you wanted your vampire more than anything. And now you're just giving him up? That doesn't make any sense. Since when are you desperate to be a mom? If you wanted that so much, why did you marry a vampire?"

Bella let out a sigh. "It's not like that. I didn't really care about having a baby. I didn't even think about it. It's not just having a baby. It's… well… this baby."

"It's a killer, Bella. Look at yourself."

"Alice, get her out of here!" Edward yelled. "Take her to Jasper and keep her there! Jacob, I need you!"

I was gone in a blink of an eye.

"CPR?" Edward growled at Jacob.

"Yes!"

"Get her breathing! I've got to get him out before --"

A shattering crack filled the room. It had come from Bella. She was motionless.

"Her spine…"

I jerked out of my visions. Things I shouldn't be seeing were coming at me full throttle. Why was it that now, after all this time, was I seeing things of an actual future? No one had made these decisions. It didn't make sense.

"Alice?"

I glanced over at Rosalie and tried to reassure her that everything was fine. That I was fine. The look she gave me was skeptical. She didn't by it.

My foot slammed back on to the gas pedal and we took off back down the road.

Looking in the rearview mirror, I glanced back at Bella. She was looking out the window, lost in thought.

BPOV

Ever since the Cullens came back into my life, it seemed like Alice was having more visions than she usually had. Normally she kept on driving while she was out of it. This vision seemed to really have left her thinking. She didn't speak to me or Rosalie but she kept glancing at me through the rearview mirror.

It was like she was waiting for something to happen. To me. To her. To everyone that was involved with her latest vision.

I was more creaped out this time around than I was ninety years ago.

The vampire-werewolf rivalry worried me. Things seemed more instense between the two mythical creatures. And I had a hunch as to why that was.

To the werewolves, I was still considered a pack member. I was Brian's no matter how much I kept finding my way back to this Earth but in my mind, in my heart, I was a Cullen. I belonged to Edward too. I wouldn't ever find happiness unless I ended up being with Edward. Until I was a vampire.

It was that simple.

APOV

What I was experiencing couldn't even be called visions. What I was receiving was a small flash.

Bronze hair. Edward's bronze hair. Curly and a bit unruly.

Brown eyes. Bella's doe-like eyes. Beautiful and full of innocence.

A mischievous smile. Crooked but up to no good. A mixture of Edward and Emmett.

Then a face came in to view and the child I saw was absolutely gorgeous. She was the epitome of perfection and the perfect combination of Edward and Bella.

She was the baby that Bella would carry. She was the creature that would nearly kill Bella, causing her to become a vampire. Edward wouldn't be happy but Bella's transformation would become complete the way everyone wanted it to happen. She would be close to death just like the rest of us.

I glanced once more time back at Bella before looking over at Rosalie.

"Rose."

My beautiful sister glanced over at me then back at Bella. "What is it, Alice? You're acting weird."

"I keep seeing this child. She kills Bella, Rosalie."

"We can't just go off and kill a child, Alice."

"I know that."

"Then what do you suspect we do?"

I left out an agitated sigh. She just didn't understand. "She's not your typical child, Rosalie. She's Bella and

Edward's child."

"What?!" Rosalie shrieked. I knew I shouldn't have told her but I had to tell someone and right now,

Rosalie was the only option. Of course she would be furious. Rosalie wanted a child more than anything in the world. It was the one human experience that she wanted and would never get. "How the hell does that even happen? Vampires can't have children, Alice!"

"But this is the first time we've really been around a male vampire who was in love with a human girl. Who said that the males of our species couldn't get the human female pregnant? I'm almost positive that there are more creatures out there just like that little girl. Rosalie, we're going to be aunts!"

"How can you be sure that this child will actually exist? We don't know, Alice."

"I do know, Rosalie. I felt it. This child will bring us all together."

"The Volturi won't like it."

"Screw the Volturi. I'm sick of their damn rules."

"Alice --"

I shook my head and reached over a hand to pat my sister on her thigh. "It'll be okay, Rosie. As soon as we get the chance, we'll talk to Carlisle. Do not, under any circumstances, tell Edward. He'll freak."

"My lips are sealed, sister dear."