Chapter 9: Danger all around us.

Bella wakes to find that everything is normal and that her son is safe, can she and Edward now finally move on from their past or will one of them remain there forever?

Jacob POV

The next day Jack seemed to be even worse. He woke up three times with screaming nightmares, never waking Bella, and took an hour to get settled afterwards. My dad and Charlie each offered to look after him after the first time but he simply refused, leaving me exhausted and desperate for Bella to wake. After lunch he fell asleep and I used this rare moment alone to go and sit with Bella. Carlisle had popped in again this morning to check on Bella and after saying that her vitals were good, and that she should wake soon, I began to feel more at ease. He tried once again to check Jack over, but no luck.

"Hey Bella baby" I said as I walked into the room, I shut the door and gently sat beside her on the bed. "I miss you baby, Jack is fine, he's perfectly safe but needs you, he's having terrible nightmares and needs his momma, and so do I." I sat stroking her hair for about half an hour before I said anything else.

I could smell them, the Cullen's they were all here again, and Carlisle was tending to Jack whilst he was asleep. Edward was standing outside our bedroom door so I took this chance to say to Bella how much she meant to me, say to her the things she knew, but things he needed to hear after his little stunt on the mountain top that Seth told me about.

"Bella baby, I love you so, so, so much. You mean the whole entire world to me, I'm never going to love anyone as much as I love you. Not ever. I feel so lucky to have you, and our boy and our new baby, which I hope is a girl this time." I paused as I heard some shuffling outside. But I knew he was still there as his sent was still overpowering. "I have to say this now, because I don't have the guts to say it to you when you're awake, but when I left you it broke me completely, I was a mess, I wasn't myself...I couldn't even phase. That's how much I love you baby, without you nothing makes sense and I feel like there is no point in carrying on. My dad was going to admit me into a psychiatric centre in Port Angles the day you showed up. I wasn't expecting you and you looked so beautiful that I couldn't breathe, my dad actually had to nudge me to remind me to breathe. You looked so nervous that day, now I know why of course, it was because you had to tell your ex that you were carrying his baby. I couldn't believe it, I certainly wasn't expecting it, but when you showed me that test, and the scan my heart began to heal, and had been healing every day since then, but it wasn't until you took me back that I was whole again. Because I'm nothing but a broken man without you baby." I choked back the tears and gave her a kiss before heading for the door ready to confront Edweirdo.

"I'm broken without you too" Her soft voice whispered hoarsely. I looked at her shocked, she was looking at me with loving eyes and had tears trickling down her cheeks.

"You're awake" I said happily I rushed over to her and gave her a long-overdue kiss.

"Jack" She whispered and sat up.

"He's fine, I got him. He's safe" I replied.

"Thank you" she cried and kissed me.

"I'm just glad I got to him in time. He's been having terrible nightmares though." Just as I said that a blood curdling scream came from Jack. We both dashed to the door and rushed out. Bella didn't even register that Edweirdo was there as she rushed down the stairs at inhuman speed.

"Shush Jack baby, momma's here." She said scooping him up and hugging him tightly, he responded with the same desperation as our fathers looked on in shock.

"She just woke" I explained as we sat down on the sofa. Just then Carlisle, Alice and a very upset looking Edward came into the room.

"Bella, good to see you're awake, you look like you're in good health." Carlisle said examining her from afar.

"Yeah, I feel like I just woke up from a very long, deep sleep. What happened?" She asked as she stroked Jack's hair.

"Your body shut down to protect our baby." I explained to her stroking her hair.

"And with Jack?"

"Later love, when he's asleep." I responded and she nodded.

"Jacob was amazing, what he done took some strength" Carlisle said and he and his family walked out silently.

It was a few days before Bella and Jacob actually got to talking, as they were so preoccupied with getting Jack better, which was a long slow process. His nightmares had subsided, but he was still terribly clingy. He would no longer see or speak to the Cullens and ate less than usual. Carlisle had said that there was no immediate danger, but Bella still worried. She hated seeing her boy in this way, which is why when Edward called to her door, she agreed to go walking in the forest with him to talk. Jacob was angry to say the least, but he wanted Edward away from the house as much as she did.

"I can't believe you came here, you know the problems Jack is having." She whispered harshly as she walked a head of him.

"I needed to talk to you, and you won't answer my texts." He replied politely.

"I thought you would've gotten the hint, me and my family need some space right now." She snapped, she tripped over a tree root as she walked, but caught herself before she fell. Edward had instinctively went to catch her, but she shrugged him off and continued walking. "So what was so important that it couldn't wait." she asked as she continued to walk.

"I wanted to say, that I get it now." This stopped her in her tracks, she swivelled around so fast that Edward wondered how she didn't topple over.

"Get what?" She asked sceptically.

"Why you chose him over me, it wasn't just love for him, it was love for your child. I seen it the other day with Jacob, when he went to save Jack he completely ignored his wolf. I heard him fight with his wolf in his mind, it was aggressive and I wasn't sure Jacob was going to be able to keep his wolf at bay, but he did because he didn't want to scare Jack. Then when he found him, in a clearing Victoria was running for him"... at this point Bella let out a sob, Edward stopped but she motioned for him to continue... "Jacob was running for him as well, faster than I've ever seen any human run, we were lucky that Jack ran towards Jacob, otherwise she would've caught him. Bella, I've never seen anything like it before, Carlisle said it was practically unheard of, instead of phasing to take out Victoria like his mind and body told him to, he grabbed Jack and bent over him, shielding him from her. We took her out seconds later."

Bella was stunned, she didn't know that what Jacob had done was even possible, normally when a wolf has a child they have chosen to stop phasing, but Jacob chose to become an alpha, his wolf became stronger by sevenfold, for him to ignore the wolf took some strength. "Wow" she breathed. "I didn't realise a love for a child could overcome a wolf as powerful as Jacobs."

"That's when I realised that if Jacob could do that, then I had no chance. Not against your children" Bella looked at him and smiled sadly. "It has a really good strong heartbeat" He added nodding to her belly.

"Really?" She smiled and cradled her slightly swollen belly.

"The events have had no bad effects on it." He smiled and she breathed a sigh of relief. "Something else has happened and I can't figure out why. Your blood no longer sings to me. Carlisle has never heard of it and it's not in any of the journals he owns either."

"What do you mean?" Bella asked, she was slightly confused, but also hopeful as she knew she wasn't in love with Edward any more, the love for her children and for Jacob completely over took that and she felt bad that he was in such anguish watching her move on and fall in love with his rival.

"I thought it was me at first that there was something wrong with my scenes, your blood no longer appeals to me, I think I am falling out of love with you." He paused there waiting for me to respond, I thought for a minute before I replied.

"Well that's good, I have been tearing myself up over how much pain I have caused you. But, if it's nothing to do with you, which I am glad about, then what is it?"

"Firstly, Bella you shouldn't be feeling bad about making the choice that was right for you, that's what I wanted all along. Secondly, Carlisle thinks it has to do with Jacob's blood being in you. Jacob is such a powerful wolf and I can tell that this baby is the same and Carlisle thinks that once it is born then your powers won't go away, because Jacob's blood is in your body."

"So I will be like this forever?" She asked in shock.

"For as long as your children are in danger." Edward replied solemnly.

"But you all got rid of the danger." She shrieked in panic. "How can my children be in danger?"

"Carlisle said that he got a message from some close friends, but he wouldn't tell me anything else. He wanted to tell you himself, he wants you and Jacob to come to ours tonight."

"Of course" Bella nodded her heart thudding in her chest.

"Bella things will be alright, we can beat anything that is thrown at us."

"I know, I'd rather kill than let anyone get to my kids." She replied defiantly. "I got to go and tell Jake." She added and started to rush back.

Bella POV

I rushed home to Jacob as fast as I could, which was a lot faster than what I normally ran. I knew Jacob would be worried about me, he still distrusted Edward greatly and I knew he would be thinking the worst thing possible. I felt my heart begin to break at the thought of Jacob being so miserable and what threat there was on our kids and I ran, if possible, even faster.

I ran in through the front door and too the kitchen where I knew Jacob would be. He of course heard me coming in and I could hear him breath a sigh of relief, since when did my hearing become so clear.

"Hey babe, Jack is in bed and he's really settled." He began, he turned around with a huge smile on his face, but it dropped when he saw my erratic state. "Baby what is it? What did he say to you this time? Oh I am going to kick his ass." I shook my head and took a minute to calm myself down.

"It's our babies, they are still in danger." I cried and started hyperventilating. He came and hugged me trying to calm me down.

"What do you mean our babies are in danger? We killed Victoria, she's gone." Jacob was angry and I could feel the anger rolling off him in waves.

"Edward was talking to me about some stuff, about how he was no longer in love with me because of your blood running through me, Carlisle seems to think that I will always have power. But one of Carlisle's friends contacted him to say that our kids were in danger, but he wouldn't tell Edward how." I explained, I was still hyperventilating. "That means that it is something serious, Jake our babies."

"Bells, I promise you with my life that I will protect you and our kids." He said sincerely. I nodded and went to hug him. But he stopped me. His face was serious, he was straining to hear something. His face started to go a deathly white and he bent down to my stomach and put his ear close to it.

"Jake what is it?" I asked fear began to rise in my chest.

"We got to get you to Carlisle now, I can barely hear the babies heartbeat." He said getting up, he was crying and looked on the verge of a panic attack.

"But Edward said it was fine" I said clutching my stomach in disbelief.

"It was, it's heartbeat has just started to drop." He replied, still crying. As I stood in shock, with tears running down my own cheeks, Jacob arranged for Charlie too look after Jack, he explained the emergency and then lifted me and carried me too the car. My heart was shattering into a million pieces and I could only pray that my baby was ok.

A.N. Sorry again for the long update, but chapters just aren't coming fast in my mind. I am planning a sequel to this and there is a poll to vote for what you think is the best name for it. You can't find the link by clicking on my pen name which will take you to my profile page. Many thanks, and please review :).