Ch 15

Back at the house we learned that Seth had gone home to tell his mother that Leah and him were safe... Charlie was kept in the dark about this little battle. Edward was laying in his room, he was pretty much all healed but he was still a little sore. We also learned that news had traveled to Italy about Aro's defeat and other vampires had attacked the Volturi and that none were left. So we were truly free of their rules, everyone was celebrating all through the night; around 2am Edward joined the party feeling completely better. When he came down and I saw that he was fine I left the house so that I could think about what was going to happen now. Do I still have feelings for Edward? I thought to myself as I walked, Sure he's turned into an over obsessed ass but when I saw him get hurt it tore me apart inside. As I walked and thought to myself I realized that Quil and Embry were walking beside me if wolf form. "Hi guys." Quil cocked his head to the side, asking if everything was OK. "I'm fine Quil. Embry you can stop sniffing for danger..." I said with a laugh. "I just wanted some time to myself. So go on back to the Cullens and tell Jake that I'm fine." Embry shook his head. "Jake doesn't know you're here?" Quil joined Embry in shaking his head, "Then who sent you?" I looked from Embry to Quil and then back at Embry, both of them had their heads down.

"I sent them." I heard Edward say. I turned around and saw him about 5 ft. away and I backed away from him getting into attack position. "Bella..." he reached his hand out toward me, "I'm not here to hurt you. I just want to talk to you."

"Oh now you want to talk?" I said getting pissed. "You send the Volturi against your family just to get even with me for dumping u?!"

He sighed, "I know I messed up and I want to apologize for the way that I've been acting. I don't expect you to take me back I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for everything and that I'm not going anywhere. We can still be a family and Malachi can join our family. If you want to stay with him I won't get in the way." He finished talking, took my hand and kissed the back of it lightly, then he turned and went back to the house.

I stood there and watched him walk away from me and thought, Oh crap... now what am I going to do? I walked around for a little while longer and headed back to the house, Seth greeted me in human form when I returned to the house. "Hey Seth. How's your mom and Charlie?"

"They are great. Charlie has no clue about what happened today and mom is good. She had a Dr. appointment today and her Dr. thinks that it won't be much longer before she has the baby." He smiled. "How are you doing?"

I sighed, "I'll be OK... it's just been a long day."

"Embry and Quil told us about Edward sending them to find you and then keeping you there so he could talk to you..." he said.

"Yea... I thought Jacob sent them to make sure I was OK."

"Jacob had no idea. He really let them have it when they got back and told us..." I rolled my eyes and Seth laughed, "So you're not mad at them?"

"No, they were doing what they thought was right."

"So, what are you thinking?"

"To tell the truth Seth, I don't know what to do... I mean I love Malachi but seeing Edward being hurt earlier tore me up inside."

"Well, I can't talk from my experiences but I've seen weird shit with Leah and Sam. Even after Sam found Emily when Leah is in trouble or she's hurt Sam still goes rushing to see or help her. I think it's because they have a very long history together that he will always care about her and vise versa.... Do you get what I'm trying to say?"

"You're saying that even though I'm with Malachi I will still have feelings for Edward?"

"Basically." he replied and smiled. "Now come on inside, Malachi is looking for you." He gave me a hug and wrapped his arm around my waist as we walked into the house. "Look who I found!" he called.

Jake came running over and started apologizing for Quil and Embry. "Jake, it's fine. Edward just wanted to talk and I was OK with it. Don't give them too much hassle OK?"

He tried to protest but I place my hand over his mouth to shut him up,turned to the everyone else in the room and said, "Hi... Sorry I walked off."

"It's fine Bella, a few of us did the same thing to think things threw." Carlisle said.

"Umm, Bell?" Jasper said. I turned to face him and he said, "You might want to let Jacob breath... he's turning blue."

"Oops." I said laughing and removing my hand. "Sorry Jake." he nodded and went to sit down. Everyone started laughing along with me. I felt bad that we were laughing at Jacob's pain but it was good to laugh again with my family. I guess I was laughing too hard because my stomach started to twist in pain inside me... it was so excrusiating that I screamed out in pain, causing everyone to stop laughing and stare at me.

"Bells are you OK?" Malachi asked.

"I don't know..." I grabbed my stomach and growled out in pain. "My stomach is killing me."

Hearing this Carlisle went into Dr. mode, "Where is the pain exactly?"

I moved my hand to my lower stomach, "It's here... it's a sharp shooting pain."

Carlisle looked at my face and looked at Esme, "Help me get her to my office." That was the last thing I heard before passing out.

Two hours later I woke up, at first I didn't know where I was all I knew was that I was laying on a hard cold table and could sense Carlisle standing next to me. "Carlisle?" I said just barely over a whisper.

"I'm here Bella. You scared us there for a little bit, how are you feeling?"

"Numb... I can't feel any pain right now." I sat up with Esme's help. "Thanks. What happened?" I asked.

"I can't be sure but I think your pregnant..." Carlisle said.

"Pregnant! How can I be pregnant?! I'm a living dead!"

"That's why I said I wasn't sure Bella, now please calm down. Is this the first time you've felt this pain?" I nodded. "Have you had sexual relations recently?" I blushed and nodded. "With who?"

"Dear that's a bit personal." Esme spoke. "Let me talk to her OK?" He nodded and walked out of his office closing the door. "Bella, who have you have relations with recently?"

"Malachi... the night before you all left to find friends to fight against the Volturi" I said embarrassed. Esme nodded. "Do you think I'm pregnant Esme?"

"It seems that way honey." she said setting up a machine. "I'm going to see if I can get a better picture than Carlisle did." she said with a laugh. She squirted the sonogram goo on my lower tummy and place the tool that will look into my tummy to see the baby on it. "Hmmm.... Oh there it is..." she pointed to the screen and I saw my baby for the first time. "Carlisle." she called. He must have been right outside the door because he was there in no time.

"You were able to find the baby?"

"Yep come look." Esme said with love in her voice.

"You deffinetly are pregnant Bella." he said with a laugh. "Looks like the baby is almost ready to be born and that's why you had the sharp pain."

"I need to talk to Billy..." I sat up realizing what was about to happen.

"Bella there is pleanty of time for that..." Carlisle started to say.

"No she's right, Carlisle." Jacob said from just inside the door frame. "She needs to go talk to my dad. You've always thought that vampires couldn't reproduce, it's the same with us wolves but if you find that one special person, the one you imprint with, you can concieve." Jake walked over to me, "Come on I'll help you get there."

I slid my legs off the side of the edge of the table and Jake helped me slide down off of it. When I was on the floor I looked down, "How did I not realize I was pregnant? I mean look at me Jake, I'm huge!" I said with a laugh.

"You look beautiful to me Bella." Jake said wrapping his arm around my waist keeping me from toppling over. "Come on we will go out the back so no one will see you, until after you talk to my dad... I think Carlisle is going to meet you there to hear what my dad has to say. And I'm staying with you."