READ ME--- A/N

So I'm sorry :[ I have a nine to five now, well more like a eight to eight, standing on my feet in a hot kicthen all day. So I've been way to tired to write. But thanks to a little inspiration, here is the next chapter. But first!:

--Thanks to my awesssssome beta letempspasse(everyone clap for her, she deserves it) , trust me, my writing isn't getting better, just your beta-ing skills.

--Also to thanks to beaandmarco for listen to me complain about how I don't know what to do and for listening to all my stupid plot ideas through a million texts and AIMs.

-- To holnico for PMing me and basically kickin my ass into getting this chapter done, and giving me a brilliant idea to toss into the plot!

--Last (but not least) Thank you soooo (times a million Os) much to HerAlice09, for letting me use your 'ultra sound story'. Its so cute and my verision isn't nearly as cute as yours, but I hope I do it alittle justice at least!

OH AN at the bottom is important please read it!

Bella POV

I laid in my hospital bed, eyes closed, my hand making small, circular movements on the bulge under the blanket. The soft sound of monitors beeping and my IV dripping was making me feel heavy-eyed.

I had to keep focused though, I had to stay awake and wait for any word from Carlisle.

Yet the steady dripping was getting to me and before I knew it, the soothing noise was leading me into unconsciousness.

I was laying in the meadow, soaking up the sun, when two small children appeared to my left. They both had pale skin, brown hair with deep amber-colored highlights, and were dressed fully in soft blue colors.

They were identical; one male, one female, hands closely knitted together.

As they walked closer, I stood up, trying to meet them half way.

As I approached, their faces began to sparkle; their eyes were a dark and vivid shade of red.

I was slightly taken aback, they were vampires.

Vampires who looked like mini versions of Edward, but had obviously consumed human blood.

I felt my whole body shudder.

"Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you," The girl whispered, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of her mouth.

"I believe you." I whispered, truthfully.

The couple loosened their grip and the boy walked towards me.

"They say…that it was you who gave us life. But we and our family are youthful and you are…aged."

I was perplexed. What were they talking about?

I'm not even twenty five yet! I tried to make sense of her cryptic message.

I looked at them, their smiling faces with their red eyes, pale skin and blood stained lips.

I searched my surroundings with my curious eyes, all around the meadow, trying to find some clue as to what was going on.

Still nothing.

When I turned back to the two vampires, they had their backs to me as they slowly walked away.

"Wait!" I shouted, my hand reaching out to them.

No, it wasn't my hand.

This hand was old, wrinkled, cracked, and well lived in.

No, this couldn't be happening, not again.

Flashes of my eighteenth birthday were coming back to me.

The dream of Gran, my birthday party, Edward leaving me, the depression, the emptiness.

So I started to scream, scream for the two of them to come back, to explain what was happening. And before I knew it they were there, at my side. The girl on my left, the boy on my right.

They were each grabbing at my arms, trying to yank me in their direction.

"Father wants to see you," The boy spoke for the first time. His voice was smooth like velvet, just like Edwards.

"Where is he? Where is Edward?" I asked, trying to keep my voice even.

"I'm over here, love." Edward appeared out of nowhere. One minute he wasn't there, the next he was in front of me, his cold palms grasping for my face.

"You are so beautiful Bella, my lovely wife," He whispered.

"Edward, I'm old! Why didn't you change me, why didn't you change me, before I became this way?!" My voice shrieked.

"Bella, my sweet Bella, you will always be human. I would never take that away from you."

"But Edward, I'm old! I'm going to die! I want to be with you forever!" I shouted.

"Love you will always be with… as a human." He whispered.

"No, no no! Please no!" I started shouting.

"No,no, no!"

"Bella wake up!" I felt some one shaking me.

My whole body shot up, my head whipping to the side.

Standing in the tiny room was the whole Cullen family with the human addition of Charlie.

"Edward?! Oh my God, you're back. Please don't ever leave me again." I breathed out, grabbing him around the neck and pulling him down onto the bed with me.

"Love, I will never, ever leave you. You can't seem to stay out of trouble. The first time I left you married a mutt, the second time you end up in the hospital."

As he said this, I scooted to the edge of the bed, so Edward could come up. I wanted nothing more than to snuggle into his arms.

Instead he scooted in, placing his hand on my stomach.

"Come on, guys. Let's give them a minute." I heard Alice suggest behind me.

"But Alice, I want to know what's wrong with the babies!" Rosalie whined.

Alice must have given her the infamous Alice stink eye, because we were left alone with only the beeping to keep us company.

"Tell me what happened, love.," Edward's voice sounded pained.

I took a deep breath, "There was pain…and bleeding, and Edward I thought that I was losing them."

I had to stop, because I felt tears rolling down my checks. I waited to collect myself so I could continue.

"Good thing Jake was there or I wouldn't have made it. The beans were changing, turning into vampires. They weren't hurting me; they just needed food, just like a human baby would. But instead of feeding off of what I was eating, they were feeding off of my blood supply. Carlisle took good care of us. We are fine, don't worry."

I tried to reassure him, placing a tender hand on his cheek. Edward was shaking and muttering something under his breath. It sounded like he was blaming himself, that he shouldn't have left.

"Edward, listen to me, please. This isn't your fault. This would have happened even if you were here."

My hands found themselves sliding over Edward's, the two of us subconsciously soothing our unborn children.

"This little duo, they know what they are doing. They have a bigger plan than what we have for them. They want to be beautiful and vampires just like their daddy."

I looked up and Edward. His eyes were glued to our hands, a smile spreading across his face.

"So Carlisle thinks they will be born vampire now? Then what? Stuck at infancy?" Edward questioned. His voice was a mixture of irritation, confusion and anguish.

"We haven't really discussed it yet. We were waiting for you to come back. What's that awful smell?" I inquired, crinkling my nose.

Edward's usually fresh-smelling clothes smelled like burnt hair and smoke.

"Maybe everyone should come back in?" Edward dodged my question.

Lamely, I just nodded my head, "Sure."

One by one the Cullens shuffled in, with Charlie and Carlisle at the end, having a private conversation.

The Cullens lined up adjacent to the wall, casually leaning against it, looking like models. As for Charlie, he unhurriedly marched over to the bed and grabbed my hand.

I could smell the same scent if burnt hair and smoke on him. His hands and face were slightly blackened, his eyes puffy and red as if he'd been crying.

"What's wrong, Dad? Is it Mom, or Phil? Is Sue ok, the pack?" I asked, panic seeping into my voice.

Charlie cleared his throat, "No sweetie everyones fine, it's something else." He then looked very deliberately at Edward.

"Maybe we should wait to do this."

"She needs to know, sir. Now being the preferable time, minding the sooner than later urgency of getting the proper arrangements in order, where they are needed."

"Tell me what?" I looked between them.

Charlie took a deep, deep breath and slowly let it out.

"Bella that house fire I went to, well…it was our house. It was almost completely destroyed, just a few things survived here and there."

The room went silent, just the small gasping noises I was making.

"Oh my God. Who did it? Are the twins fine, did they make it out ok?" I breathed out.

"It was Victoria, she was hoping you were there. I'm sorry I didn't see it, Bella. The mutts followed one of her minions there. Paul said it was too late, there were too many flames. Don't worry, the minion was killed and tossed into the flames."

I was trying to take it all in but it was too much. The twins and now this?

I just let it all out; all my built up angst and deprivation came crashing down onto my shoulders and I couldn't keep it in anymore.

I leaned my head against Edward's shoulder and just cried into his wrinkle free, yet smoky smelling shirt.

The smell just making me cry harder.

"Where am I going to live?! My babies and I are homeless! My childhood home, the house my family grew in is gone!" I wailed out.

I felt a warm hand on my back; Charlie was trying to comfort me.

"You can live with us again Bella, it will be fine." He said trying to console me, even more.

The thought of all of us, plus two more babies living in a three bedroom house made me cry harder.

Next to the door I heard Alice gasp. "That's perfect Esme!" I looked up to notice her run out the door, yanking Jasper behind her.

"Ok, what was that about?" Rosalie muttered.

"That actually is perfect, Esme. I can't believe we didn't think about it sooner." Edward mumbled into my hair.

"What's perfect?!" Rosalie shouted, throwing her hands up in the air.

"I was just thinking about how Bella should move in with us. We can help with the twins and the new two little ones on the way. Plus, Bella if plans on going back to school, she'll need even more help. We have extra rooms that no one ever uses." Her voice was so bright and happy, it made me smile.

"I'd love to live with you guys. Carlisle, when do you think I will be able to leave?" I turned my head back to Carlisle.

"Well, we can discuss that now if you'd like. Would everyone please excuse themselves, I'll need to talk to Edward and Bella alone."

Esme, Rosalie and Emmett said goodbye and left the room.

"I love you, Bells. If you need help moving into the Cullens let me know. Call me and keep me updated," Charlie gently squeezed my hand and patted Edward on the shoulder before leaving.

"Tell me everything that you know Carlisle." Edward probed, while running his fingers up my arm over and over again.

"Well Edward, I'm afraid there's not much that I know. The twins have changed into our kind. I'm doing as much research as I can, but there isn't much. There are stories about young human women giving birth to our kind, but neither lived long. This is going to be a learn-as-you-go process. Personally I don't think the babies will be stuck in an infant state, they might mature; grow to adolescent age, maybe even to old age. As long as they consume blood, they will survive and thrive."

He paused, collected himself and continued in a lower voice.

"We can't let the Volturi find out, they would kill the babies and probably Bella as well. They highly frown upon creating infant vampires. The Denali Clan's own mother was brutally killed for creating them."

I heard my own gasp. "What do we do then?" I asked, feeling dread.

Was I putting my own children in harm's way?

Carlisle sighed; I could feel his anxiety on the matter radiating from him.

"We pray that they grow and age, just like their mother. Now, let's talk about your discharge. You may leave today if you'd like, I will give you some blood that you may have to consume orally. I don't want to put you on bed rest, so just try to stay off your feet as much as possible. If you start having cramps, headaches or feel light headed call me right away."

I cringed: Blood. Orally. Nauseating.

Carlisle stood, walked over to all the equipment and stared turning them off. Then turned to me and started taking equipment off and out.

"I'll let you get dressed, and be back in about ten minutes with some paper work. If you'd like we can still keep your appointment for tomorrow. Or you can wait to find out the sexes?"

I shook my head, "Tomorrow will work out perfectly."

As he made his exit, Carlisle turned to face us.

"I was waiting to see how long before you moved in with us. I hope to see you, Eli and Masen when I get home tonight."

-:- -:- -:-

"Why do I have to be blindfolded again? I am 7 months pregnant, you know and clumsy as ever." I complained, feeling the soft fabric with my fingers.

We were walking up flights of stairs, so I was assuming we were heading to the third floor of the Cullens' house. Well, I guess my house now, too.

"Oh darling, you know Alice, you can't reel her in. Don't worry we are almost there," Esme replied.

I walked up at least ten more stairs, down a long hall and was then stopped.

"Can I take it off yet?" I asked, reaching for the blind fold. Cold, slim fingers stopped mine.

"Not yet, love." Edward whispered.

I huffed, "Fine."

I heard some rustling around in front of me and then Alice said it was fine to come in.

"One, two, three!" She giggled and removed the blindfold.

We were standing in the doorframe of a room. The room was divided in half, on one side for a girl, one side for a boy. On the girls side was butterflies hanging on the walls and dangling from the ceiling. A massive, plush purple rug was covering up most of the hardwood floor. On top of it, were toys galore; dolls, bears, a castle and a chest opened to reveal dress-up clothes.

A white armoire was slightly open, revealing stacks of clothes. A matching bed was sitting against the wall.

It was too big for a four year-old, with white and purple sheets and a colossal castle as a backboard.

On the boys side, there were trees painted on the walls, their branches stretching across the whole wall. There was a forest green rug laying on the floor, covered in action figures, train tracks and a TV with a Wii sitting next to it.

His armoire was made from dark wood and matched his bunk beds to a T. Both beds had dark green bedding and there was a stuffed wolf sitting in the middle of the bottom bunk. I chuckled.

On the floor next to the bed, there was a giant box, over flowing with pillows and a sleeping wolf lay within.

So, Spunky had made it out alive!

"There's more! Come on Bella, don't start crying now." Alice grabbed for my hand, dragging me down the hall to Edward's old room.

Alice skidded to a stop right in front of the closed down. "Ok Bella, close..."

I interrupted. "Just open the door Alice, I'm not closing my eyes again."

She muttered something under her breath that sounded like, "Everyone always ruins my fun."

She opened the door, and it was completely different from what I saw years ago.

The couch was gone, and in its place was a king-sized bed with a dark golden bedding, the same color of my Edward's eyes. One dresser became two, and the closest was half filled with women's clothes.

It was what I saw last that made my eyes water.

Edward's beloved, huge music collection and sound system were gone. In its place was a mammoth sized crib, big enough for two. It was a dark chocolate color with light brown safari bedding. Hanging over the edge was a lamb skin blanket, just like the one I bought.

"Unfortunately it's not the same one," Alice whispered behind me.

I nodded head and let my eyes wander around.

A matching dresser/changing table combo was sitting next to the crib, already stacked with tiny, unisex diapers.

The wall behind the furniture was decorated with lions, monkeys and other jungle animals. It was perfect.

Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry. Oh God, I'm crying.

"The best part is right behind you, love." Edward whispered into my ear.

I quickly turned around to see two little faces behind me.

"Elizabeth! Masen!" I cried out, quickly walking towards them.

I bent down to my knees and hugged them so tightly; I'd idly worried they might pass out from lack of oxygen.

"I've missed you two so much! God, I love you guy!" Tears streamed down my face.

"Mommy, Mommy! Did you see our new room?! It's so cool! Emmett is going to teach me how to play video games."

"And Rose and Alice are going to play with me all day!" Eli chimed in.

"So you two don't mind living here? You don't have to, you can live with Daddy if you'd like and just stay with Mommy a couple days."

Please say no, please say you want to stay here. My heart silently begged of them.

"You mean we can stay here too!? Yay!" They both screamed and started jumping up and down.

Relief washed over me. "Did you hear that, Emmett?! We get to stay!"

I looked up and saw all the Cullens in the hall way.

Thank you, I mouthed to them.

Masen ran up to Emmett and jumped into his arms.

"Come on, squirt. Let's go play that new Wii. I bet we can bet Rosie and Jasper!" His booming voice turned into a booming laughter.

As they disappeared down the hall, Jasper and Rosalie were muttering about betting wages, and Alice kept egging them on, of course already knowing who would win.

Esme politely excused herself, saying that she was going to make the twins a bed time snack and wait for Carlisle to get home.

I was left alone in the room with Eli and Edward. I walked over to the gigantic bed and flopped down, patting the spot next to me.

Eli got a running start and joined me with a lithe jump up to the bed.

"Come on, Daddy! I want to sit on your lap!" She squealed with joy and excitement.

A smile spread across Edward's face like nothing I've ever seen before.

He jogged over to the bed, picked Eli up, spun her around in the air and brought her back down, sitting her gently on his lap.

"Isn't it almost your bed time, little Eli love?" Edward gently asked.

"I was waiting for you to come home with Mommy. You and Mommy were gone for too long." Eli frowned.

"I know, but we are never going to leave you again, angel. Now do you want me to read you a story?"

Eli grabbed Edward around the neck and kissed his cheek. "No! Sing to me please!"

Edward looked over at me with his crooked smile then started to sing.

He sang until Eli fell asleep in his arms, then walked her down the hall and tucked her in. At vampire speed he ran back to our room, just as I was walking out bathroom and crawling into bed.

"You and that mutt made the two most beautiful children," Edward said, taking his sweater off and crawling into bed. He lay above the covers, tucking me tightly underneath and nuzzling up against my neck.

"I dreamt about them you know." I turned to face the father of my unborn children.

"About who, love?" He was nuzzled into my hair now.

"About our babies. They looked just like you, down to the hair," I paused, almost letting the part about their red eyes slip out.

"You were there, too; we were in our meadow. I was…old. And you kept telling me that you weren't going to change me, that I would always be human. My own children didn't even know who I was. I was only the person that gave them life, but you…you were their family. I was nothing to them."

Edward's sigh interrupted me.

"Bella, do we really have to discuss this now? I'm not going to change you, I'm not going to damn you to this life. You deserve to have a human life."

I sat up and pushed away from Edward. "Edward, you do realize that I will die someday. That I-"

"When you die Bella, I will follow you." He interrupted again.

This statement really infuriated me. "And leave your children orphans?!" Just the thought of my children losing not only me, but also their father, made me feel empty inside.

Edward scooted closer; wrapping his arm around me and pulling me back down. "Bella, how about we agree to cross that bridge when we get to it, ok, Love?" He picked up my hand and placed cool kisses on my knuckles one by one.

"Edward, I just want to be with you for eternity. I love you too much to ever let you go again," I whispered.

"I don't want to ever live without you either, but right now we need to focus on these little ones right here," he placed our hands on my stomach.

"Our children are the most important thing right now, all four of them. Just think, tomorrow we find out the gender. Let's focus on that, the little joys from our creating life together. Now sleep, my love. I will be here when you wake up."

"I love you Edward, more than life itself." I said, before falling asleep.

-:- -:- -:-

Victoria POV

Another minion has failed me, and presently I was furious. Fuming. I'd given the nameless slave the most simplistic of all instructions.

-Wait until the Cullens are at least one hundred millions away.

-Make sure the Bella and her little brats were home.

-I'd distract the protective four-legged freaks, and get them as far away from the house as possible.

-Set fire to the house.

-Make sure no one survives.

Bella wasn't there, though. She'd escaped and made it to the hospital, the dog never leaving her side. It was proving to be harder to get to her then I'd thought.

Lucky for the minion, the dogs got him before I did, because I would have made him suffer.

I stood one hundred yards away from the Cullen's house, Bella's scent tormenting me as I twisted a plot to get her alone.

Her scent was different than I remembered; not as sweet, a slight bitter scent tingled in my nose.

The house had five beating hearts in it. Five bodies filled with warm, flowing blood. My mouth watered at the thought.

I'd kill her little brats first as she watched. Her death would be slow and painful. She would endure pain just like my James did. And Edward would know who did it, and I'd wait for him to come to me.

A plan began formulating in my head and I really needed to get back to Seattle. I'd be needing more minions if this was ever going to work.

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Bella POV

"Do you all feel the need to be in here? I don't want Bella to be uncomfortable. I don't want anyone to be in the way of Carlisle," Edward's irritation was obvious.

"Edward, really its fine. They just want to be here when we find out the genders." I tried reassuring him.

"Edward, it's fine, as long as everyone stands back. Just remember this moment belongs to you and Bella, no one else." Carlisle was also trying to calm him down with comforting smile.

"Ok, you two, let's see if you're ready to be a boy or girl," Carlisle said, looking at the screen.

I grabbed Edward's hand and looked up at the screen.

"Ok the one on the left is a…" Carlisle didn't get to finish, before I felt two more bodies shoved into the small space, and Edward and I were torn apart.

Alice gracefully jumped over the table and landed two feet away from the screen. Rosalie was right on her heels, shoving Edward to the back of the room.

"Get out of my way, Rosalie! I was here first and I'm Bella's best friend!" Alice shouted, bumping Rosalie away with her slim hips.

"Yeah right, Alice, can't you just tell the future? Get out of my way, or so help me God Alice, I will shred all of your credit cards with my teeth." Rosalie spat out.

"I can't see until Carlisle sees. Plus I don't want to look ahead, I want to be surprised!" She returned adding, a threat if Rose ever touched her black card.

"Yeah well, some of us can't be so lucky to have these powers, so budge off!"

"Rosalie, Alice, geez! I'm the father, now move." Edward elbowed them both.

Instead of moving them, he only got caught up in the fight.

"He's right, Rose. He's the parent, so move so we can see!"

"Both of you move! Jasper, Emmett put them on their leashes." Edward was getting even more irritated now.

So was I. I just wanted to know the sexes of the babies. MY babies. I was about to kick everyone out. I glanced back to Esme, and mouthed a plea for help.

"Ok, ok. Enough is enough you three!" She chided, placing herself between the offenders and the coveted monitor, and lightly shooed them to the back of the room. Esme grabbed my hand and told Carlisle to continue on.

"Ok, let's see, they've shifted slightly, but maybe we can….yes here we are," Carlisle lifted his slim finger and pointed to the fetus on the left.

"See this right here, this one is a…" Once again he was interrupted.

"Esme! You just wanted to get closer to the screen. Does no one understand that I'm the father? Get out, everyone get out!" Edward barked across the room.

I was slightly taken aback as one by one the Cullens hobbled out, their heads hung in shame.

"For two girls they sure can throw an elbow," Edward muttered, rubbing his chest.

"Ok, are you two ready?" Carlisle sighed.

I grabbed Edward's hand and nodded yes. Carlisle placed the Doppler back onto my stomach.

"Well, proud parents, you two are having…"

READ ME-- A/N:

Ok so this is where my awesome readers come in. I'm putting a poll up on my page of what you guys want for the genders; because you guys are awesome and I wrote for you, so why shouldn't you pick?!

A. Two Boys

B. Two Girls

C. One Boy One Girl

Don't let the dream in the beginning make your decision, it was just a dream. Also, for everyone that reviews this chapter, a sneak peek will be coming your way soon. I hope I'm not forgetting anything else. hmm (sits still for ten minutes and thanks) ok I can't think of anything. Love you guys and hope to hear from you soon, through a review, PM or anything else. haha!

-BB