Chapter 10: Ever felt so unlucky?
Will baby Black be O.K.? And what is the threat?
Jacob's thoughts
Have you ever been told that your children are in constant danger? That maybe one of them might die? If you have then you know what it's like...I feel like I'm drowning being punched repeatedly in the gut and having my heart ripped out from my chest and having it danced on. It's a nightmare...that I can't wake up from.
Jacob POV
I drove for Carlisle's house like a bat out of hell, but it still wasn't fast enough, the baby's heartbeat was barely audible to me now and I was scared to hell, one thought kept coming to my mind why us? But then I would think, why anybody? I knew we weren't alone in this situation but sometimes it felt like we were. Bella was struggling to keep herself calm, I knew that she was fighting her emotions and it was working "Bella what ever your doing keep doing it, the baby's heartbeat is picking up" I said to her, this seemed to help as she tried even harder to remain calm. I pulled into Carlisle's driveway and came to a screeching halt. I jumped out of the car and went round to pick Bella up as Carlisle came out of the house.
"What's wrong" Carlisle asked seeing my erratic state.
"It's the baby, it's heartbeat keeps dipping, I think that it's to do with the new threat." I growled. Carlisle knew that I was taking a dig at him, but he graciously ignored it, Bella was the priority now.
"Come with me." Carlisle said and led the way.
I walked through the house with all the Cullens watching me, Rosalie looked like she was on the verge of tears I certainly know I was. We walked into Carlisle's office and I set her on his chaise lounge and gripped her hand tightly. She looked at me with frightful eyes when he lifted out his stethoscope.
"What do you need that for?" I snapped at him.
"I just want to be sure that I'm hearing it clearly."
"But you can hear it can't you?" She stammered.
"Yes" He said in a somewhat strained voice. He listened hard for what seemed to be hours, but was probably only two minutes, Bella was breathing deeply and trying hard not to panic. "Bella as you relax more the babies heartbeat gets stronger. I think there has been too much stress for it to deal with the last few days. I am going to give you a sedative that will be completely harmless to the baby, it will put you to sleep for a short while but I am hoping that it's heartbeat will continue to get stronger in that time. Once you wake I'll take you over to the hospital for a scan to put you at ease."
"Thank you so much Carlisle." Bella said genuinely and I nodded still angry that his revelation was the cause of our unborn baby almost dying.
He gave Bells the sedative through a needle into her arm as I sat kissing her hand until it fell limp letting me know that she had fell asleep. I sat listening intently for a few minutes and was glad to hear the baby's heartbeat picking up. I breathed a sigh of relief and went to confront Carlisle about the new threat. As I walked into the room I was bombarded by Rosalie.
"Is Bella O.K? Is the baby still alive?" She asked me frantically.
"Relax Rosalie, the baby is still alive. Carlisle gave her a sedative to calm her because she's been under too much stress. She's sleeping and the baby's heartbeat is almost back to normal. Bells will be O.K once she knows that our baby is." I said feeling genuinely sorry for her. Bella had told me about her desire to have a baby, and the fact that she couldn't was tearing her apart. I knew that she was living her life through Bells, but I knew she loved her and my boy nearly as much as I did and she would always take care of them.
"Thank god" she said then did something that shocked me and the others, she hugged me. I only hesitated for a second before returning the hug, despite our differences I was starting to see Rosalie as a sister and knew she was worried. "How's Jack?" She asked pulling away, at this point Emmett came to her side to comfort her.
"He's getting there, having Bella awake certainly helps. I'm hoping you can see him soon." I replied truthfully. She nodded and lead the way into the sitting room where the others had convened.
"Jacob, I want to firstly say how sorry that I am that I upset you and Bella, I truly didn't mean to cause any harm to your unborn baby. I just didn't want to keep you in the dark about this ongoing threat." Carlisle said in apology. I nodded my head in acceptance, even though I was still angry I knew he didn't mean to cause harm, Carlisle was too good of a man for that.
"I know you didn't Carlisle and I accept your apology, but I want you too know I am still angry...not specifically at you, just this whole situation. I know to some degree you know how I feel, but your adoptive children can all take care of themselves and it would take a fair deal to kill them. My children are completely defenceless, especially my unborn baby, and it is breaking my heart knowing that they are in danger and I could loose them." I said struggling to keep my emotions in check.
"You will not loose them. I promise you that." Rosalie said in the fierce protective way that I liked, Emmett nodded his head in agreement with him.
"I know that you, and my brothers and sister will do everything to protect them, but I'm still scared." I whispered and she nodded in understanding.
"We are all still willing to protect you all, and I think we have more vampires who are more than willing to help, but first I need to explain the threat." Carlisle said. I nodded my head and took a deep breathe to prepare myself, ignoring the vampire stench that was burning my nose. "For several millennia now, there have been a group of vampires that exist in our world. They consider themselves royalty and go by the name the Volturi, as they live in Voltaire, Italy. They are made up of three leaders, one gifted and a guard, with some highly gifted vampires. They conceal themselves inside a castle and feed off the humans there, mainly tourists. Over the years they have grown in size, I myself was once one of their guard but never feasted on humans, I couldn't stand their lack of humanity so I left. They have one rule, which they regularly enforce, and it is too keep our kind a secret and anyone seen as acting too conspicuously then they are killed, no exceptions, no second chances."
"So Bella and Charlie could be killed?" I said more than asked.
"Yes, although they don't know about Charlie, but they unfortunately know about Bella."
"Well how?" I barked
"Before Victoria died, she told one of the Volturi guard about Bella, how she used to be with Edward, but is now mated with a werewolf. This is seen as a great disrespect to them and they want to kill her and any offspring that she bares."
"We can stop them can't we, we can kill the guard that Victoria told can we not? "
"Unfortunately the guard she told was a vampire named Jane and is high up in the guard because she has a very special gift of causing people crippling pain." Rosalie said.
"I don't care who they hell they are, no one will hurt my Bella and my kids." I growled, my wolf was becoming angered and I was having a tough time controlling him.
"We know and we won't let that happen." Rosalie replied. "We have a plan, there are a large group of vampires, a couple of thousand of them, certainly more than the Volturi, they have been planning a rebellion for the last millennium only they have been waiting for the revolution that was seen by some spirit warriors. There used to be a colony of wolves that lived in harmony with vampires, much like us and one of the wives of a wolf predicted that a woman will come to forks and build a relationship with wolves, and she and another would be able to help wolves and vampires unite against the Volturi."
"Who are these women, and what is special about these vampires?" I asked thoroughly confused.
"Bella is the first, she brought us all together and had formed a tight bond between us." She explained, I nodded not too surprised my Bells was always a special person. "And these vampires we speak about are vegetarians like us, they want to protect the human race, not destroy them."
"Well that's great, but how do we convince the rest of the wolves? I'm only alpha of one tribe."
"Yes, but you are an exceptionally strong wolf" Carlisle began, there was a sense of unease to his voice as he explained the next part. "Jacob, the second 'woman' will be your daughter" he paused to let this news sink in, I assumed that since the treat was so close, then Bella was pregnant with a girl.
"Bella's having a girl?" I asked in awe
"We assume so yes, the vampires we have been speaking to say that the time is nearing." Carlisle explained.
"So how will my girl help the revolution?" I asked
"She will have the same kind soul as Bella's one that will be able to unite wolves and vampires."
"How?" I growled I had a bad feeling. I stood waiting for them to explain and it suddenly clicked, Bella brought us together by falling in love with Edward then me. Our daughter will be half human half wolf, therefore would need to be paired with a vampire.
"Over my dead body" I bellowed. I heard Bella stir in the next room and inwardly cursed. I didn't want to wake her.
"Jacob it's what needs to happen." Edward said it was the first he had spoken throughout the entire conversation.
"It's you isn't it?" I growled, he backed away slowly as I advanced towards him. "Lets get this straight leech, there is no way in hell you are getting anywhere near my daughter." I picked up a vase and threw it at him, it narrowly missed him. I was still advancing on him when Bella came in asking what was wrong. "I'm telling you right now, you may run because if I get a hold of you I'll kill you." I lunged for him, but Bella gripped my arm and with her new powers she was able to stop me. Edward took the chance and escaped my anger.
"What's going on babe?" She asked, she held my head to hers and whispered it's O.K over and over.
"They're my kids, mine" I growled only calming down slightly.
"What has he done." She snapped to the others, she led me to the sofa and set me down, she sat beside me and held my hand tight, absent-mindedly stroking my arm as she waited for a response.
Carlisle spend the next half an hour explaining things to Bella properly, I tuned out and thought about my 'daughter' and how Edward wanted her as his own, it made my blood boil. Rosalie was the one to explain my outburst.
"Over my bloody dead body." She snarled, my chest tightened at that prospect.
"Bella..." Alice began, but Bella stopped her with a resounding no.
"There is no way in hell I am letting any child of mine be sucked into this world."
"Bella she will be well protected." Alice tried to say, this time I stopped her.
"Are you deaf or something?" I roared and jumped up. Jasper stood in front of her to protect her, but I wasn't going to hurt her. "I appreciate all that you have done, and are willing to do. But there is no way in hell I am letting that fucker anywhere near my baby girl."
"You can change fate." Edward said from behind, I swivelled around annoyed that he had the nerve to come back. I went to lunge at him again, but Bella put up her hand and walked forward herself with a dark look in her eyes.
"I am not even eight weeks pregnant yet and you are so fucking arrogant that you think that you have the right to decide what's best for her." She advanced on him quickly, picked him up and threw him across the room. Alice squealed and went to help him, but I blocked her as I stood beside Bella, she advanced on Edward until she was an inch from his face and spoke in a low deadly tone. "Now you listen to me, I don't care if I have to run all over this world, I don't care if I have to go against the fates. If you are the stupid Volturi come any where near my family again, and I'll kill you." He gulped as she stood up. She grabbed my hand and gave one last scathing look to Alice before storming us out of the house.
We hoped into the car and started the engine, we drove out of the drive way and onto the main road heading for the hospital. I let Bella calm herself before I said anything else.
"What are we going to do?" I asked.
"We are going to bring down the Volturi with the help of the vegetarian vampires and werewolves, but we're just going to have to find some other way of connecting them. I swear to you right now, Edward is not getting anywhere near our girl."
A.N. So what do you think of the latest chapter? I know Bella seems a bit bi-polar towards Edward but she's been through so much because of him and it has had a lasting effect on her. Bella and Jacob's reaction to Edward 'mating' with their unborn child is bad because they are both so scared of losing their children. But, what do you think? Was it too much?