Sorry it's late. School has been kicking my butt. Also, ignore any mistakes. I finished this up at school on my break (that's where I am right now). Any way, enjoy! I'm off to my music ed class.

Chapter 28

Hybrid

There was nothing but silence.

The Cullens, my so-called family, just stared at me like I had grown a number of heads. They claimed to care about me yet they were with holding important information from me. They were keeping thinkgs about me from me.

"Edward?" I questioned. My heart sunk when he adverted his gaze. He was doing it again. Protecting me when I didn't need protecting.

I wasn't a damn invalid.

"Bella," Alice piped up. I turned away from Edward to glance at my tiny best friend. "My visions… they've changed and I don't understand why. I can see the werewolves and I'm seeing the future before a decision has been made. You're still on track to becoming a vampire but the way I saw it happening has changed. We all thought you would have a choice. You're going to be close to death just like the rest of us."

I raised my eyebrow as if I was questioning her statement. She always said her visions were subject to change based on someones decisions but now she had the pack in her visions and everything sounded more set in stone.

"So," my voice cracked. I didn't sound like me. "How… how am I going to…"

"Die?" Alice questioned rather bluntly. She laughed. "You won't. Jacob and Edward will see to it."

"What happens, Alice? What did you see?"

alice looked over and I knew that she was asking Carlisle for approval to continue. I assumed he gave her the go ahead when she looked back at me.

"Bella, your near death experience is childbirth."

Now, I'm pretty sure my eyes bugged out of my head. Had I heard her correctly? I would become a vampire because of a child. I could survive a number of vampire attacks and meeting the Volturi but I couldn't survive child birth withouth becoming a vampire? That was seriously messed up.

"Ha. You're funny, Alice. We all know that vampires can't have children."

"We can't," Carlisle answered. "Our bodies will stay this way forever. That doesn't mean that the women some vampires mate with won't become pregnant. A mortal woman is still quite capable."

"But—"

"I'm afraid there is only one other known case about a vampire impregnating a woman. This is where the myth of the incubus comes from."

"Your child won't be normal," Alice explained. "She will have the characteristics of a vampire and human."

"She? Whenever I have this baby, it'll be a girl?"

"That's what my visions indicate."

"My life is royally screwed up."

"It'll only get better," Rosalie said as she glided up the aisle of the plane. She took a seat close to use. "Bella, you know that all I wanted was a child of my own when I was human."

"Rosalie…" Emmett warned. I had rarely seen Emmett be cross with Rosalie. I looked at Emmett to Rosalie when it finally dawned on me. Emmett thought that Rosalie was asking me to give the baby. She wasn't that delusional was she?

"A child is a wonderful gift, Bella," Rosalie continued, completely ignoring her husbands warning. "This pregnancy, when it happens, won't be easy but you have all of use to help you trhough it. I'm sue even the m—even Jacob – would help you."

"As much as I hate the idea of some mutant baby," Jacob said. "I'm game. You've been my best friend for years, Bells. I've been a complete ass but I still love you. I'll protect you to the death."

"Aw, Jake," I whined, fighting back my emotions.

This family has hurt me time and time again. After everything, I still cared about them. I still loved them with my very being. The Cullens and the pack have done everything to ensure my survival. No matter who did what, they always made it up to me in the end.

They'll just hurt you…

I tensed up, hoping that no one noticed. I was clearly going insane. No one, unless you're a telepathic vampire or completely psychotic, could hear voices. Why was I hearing voices now?

You know it's true, Isabella. Your werewolves… your precious vampires… they don't care about you. They just want your baby. They'll take your child and leave you to rot while they raise the hybrid to do their bidding.

No. no. no.

I couldn't be going crazy. Sure if I started talking about knowing werewolves and vampires the average person may think I've gone completely off the deep end. If I brought up hearing voices then someone would definitely lock me up and throw away the key.

Help us, Isabella. Help us and we will personally see to it that you and your unborn child will be protected.

"Bella?"

The sound of his voice snapped me back to reality. I glanced up at Jacob. He was crouched into the aisle of the plane. He reached over and took my hand. His warm body temperature was already causing my hand to sweat.

"You know it'll be okay, don't you?" he asked me. "We won't let anything happen to you. I promise."

I rolled my eyes and turned toward the window. This was all too much. How could someone deal with all of this? None of it made any sense. Vampire hybrids. Incubi. Maybe I was better off with the pack. At least I knew then that I would have a normal child. Not a… a.. freak show.

"How can you possibly say that?" I asked, glancing back at Jacob. I could feel the moisture building in my eyes. it wasn't right that they thought I'd be okay with all of this. Who in their right mind would be okay with it? All of this was completely insane.

"Bella…"

I shot my gaze at Edward. His eyebrows were narrowed. It was the same look that he always gave me when he thinking.

"What?" I snapped. I couldn't deal with him right now. I couldn't deal with any of them. This wasn't going to happen to their body. The Cullens were dead. They couldn't change.

"I understand that you're scared but once this happens, you'll get your wish. You'll be one of us.

My eyes narrowed into a glare. "You should have changed me while you had the chance."