Chapter 16
All three of them looked down to her stomach, and in perfect timing the little lump rose and fell. Carlisle and Edward gasped whilst Jacob was still trying to figure it out. Renesmee was still screaming, and her hand was clutched to her stomach.
"There's another baby. She's having twins, but this one isn't human."
The silence that filled the room was not awkward, but it was definitely uncomfortable. Carlisle and Edward were stood in shock, and Jacob was probably even more shocked than they were.
"W-What?" Jacob stuttered. His body was shaking again, and I knew the information was a lot to deal with. None of us had expected this at all, not even our future-seeing vampire.
"She's not human Jake." I started, "Think about it, the past few months, we assumed it was part vampire. The speed of the babies' growth, the fact Nessie had to start drinking more blood than usual. Even it's strength took a toll on Ness, the bruises are proof of that." Jacob still looked at me confused, but his tremors were reducing. "Then when she gave birth to Jordan, that baby hasn't got any vampire traits. He is totally human."
"Ok, I get that he, she, whatever it is, is more vampire, but how come we didn't know." His voice rose slightly, and I was about to answer when Carlisle answered before me.
"The void." He whispered, looking at me and I nodded. "Of course how couldn't I see that?"
"What? I'm still confused."
"When I was having Nessie, we couldn't see her on the scan because of this protective casing that surrounded her. The scan couldn't pick it up. Likewise with the scans we had now, there was a random void, but now we know it was the baby Ness is carrying now."
Everyone in the room nodded in understanding, but then Nessie let out another cry, "Speaking of Nessie, I'm still in pain here!" Nessie shouted at us, and she grasped my hand again and squeezed it.
"What do we do?" Jacob asked Carlisle, and he returned to his place besides Ness.
"I'm not sure." Carlisle said, and our heads – Mine, Jacob's and Nessie's – turned quickly to Carlisle. "What!" We all screamed in unison.
"I wasn't here last time, it was Edward." We turned simultaneously back to Edward who stood there with his eyes wide. It was now all up to him, no pressure at all. I reassured myself that he had done this before with me, I couldn't remember totally as it was still a fussy human memory, but I knew nearly everyone was out hunting. Now he had more people who would do anything to help, and plus, Renesmee wasn't completely human.
Edward ran to the table and grabbed a scalpel and moved back to Nessie. His hand froze, hesitant to proceed. He looked to Jacob who nodded, then finally to me. His eyes held a slight sadness, and I could only imagine what he was remembering, and now replaying with his daughter.
"Nessie, this might hurt." She nodded but laughed to herself. She had already gone through the pain of childbirth what could possibly be worse? I smiled at her and she knew I caught on the irony.
Edward slowly placed the scalpel to her stomach, and moved it across, leaving a red trail of blood behind from where it cut through. Nessie's responding scream made him flinch and pull away the knife. The cut was large enough so he pulled back the skin to show the little protective sack the baby was in. It rose up and down as the baby moved around, eager to get out.
Edward took a deep breath then moved down to her, his teeth grazed over the protective layer, and it cut open. I leaned forward to get a closer look and watched as he placed his hand within and pulled out the unexpected child.
He quickly handed it to Carlisle while he stitched Nessie back together at vampire speed, and it was done in a few minutes.
Nessie was still breathing heavily, but now that the main reason for her pain had left, her hand released from mine slowly. Her eyes looked towards Carlisle who was still holding the baby, but his back was facing us so we couldn't see.
He slowly turned around and held the baby infront of us. "Nessie, Jacob, here's your little girl." Again, Nessie's smile reached from ear to ear, and she hugged Jacob. The baby was completely contrasting to Jordan. The main difference was their skin, and that still shocked us.
It had only been recorded twice, ever. For twins, with different coloured parents, to have each baby a different colour. So you can imagine how we felt to happen before our very eyes.
Her skin was pale white, totally contrasting to Jordan's darker skin. Her eyes were chocolate brown, and her hair was also brown, but darker than mine or Nessie's. It was also straighter, and more like Jacob's hair.
Like with Renesmee she physically looked older, and in age you wouldn't have believed that Jordan and she were twins. One child could barely open his eyes, whilst the other was fully supporting herself.
"Can I hold her?" Nessie whispered, her eyes filled with tears again.
Carlisle moved over to the side and placed the baby into her arms. She smiled at her showing rows of white teeth. She gasped in shock but then smiled in response.
"Have you got any ideas for her name?" I asked.
"No, not really, how 'bout you Jake?" she said, turning her head to him. He kissed her on the forehead, then whispered, "not a clue." We all chuckled for a bit, but were interrupted.
"I thought you've already given him a name." Alice questioned as she walked in. They mustn't have realized all the panic that just occurred in the room. She looked at all of us then finally looking at the baby girl. Her eyes moved from the baby, to Nessie's stomach, to Jacob, to outside the door. She was speechless. For once she was actually speechless, but it didn't last long as she let out a squeal and ran over to the bed.
"Jazzy get in here, you'll never believe what's happened."
In two seconds he entered the room, his eyes filled with fear and worry, mistaking Alice's tone, but when he saw her bouncing ecstatically besides the bed, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "What's happened?" She stepped to the side that was obscuring his view from Renesmee and gasped.
"I had twins." Nessie stated happily.
"How?" Alice rolled her eyes as if he was dumb, but we knew what he really meant. "We'll explain later, to everyone."
"Explain what to who?" boomed Emmett from the door. He looked at the baby and we waited for the reaction. "Hey, how'd the baby get up here so quick? Rose just had hold of him. He's grown too." We stared at him in total amusement at how he had not realized. The baby was different in looks, size, and is a girl. For a vampire he was totally unobservant.
Rosalie walked in with Jordan in her arms and stood next to Emmett. He looked at her and the baby and then back to Renesmee.
Rose worked it out straight away, and a hand reached up to her mouth in shock. "What? What's wrong?" Emmett asked. We waited until he made the connection. Finally, his small brain worked it out and his eyes widened. "There's two of 'em"
"Really Em, we didn't realize." I said sarcastically. The others laughed whilst he pouted.
"How did you figure out?" Rosalie asked, whilst swapping the baby she was holding with Renesmee.
"She was still in pain after Jordan was born. Bella pointed it out."
"Yeh well, she's born now, what are you going to name her?"
"We don't know." Jacob said. "We weren't exactly expecting her."
"Wait." Alice spoke out. She closed her eyes and focused on what I assumed to be the future. She reopened her eyes and smiled. "I know what the name is, well, will be." She sung.
"Me too." Edward said with a smile.
"Aw no, tell me what it is." Nessie pleaded. "Alice please." Alice shook her head and she turned to Edward. "Daddy please."
Edward looked over to Alice who was glaring at him. She mouthed 'don't' to him, but he sighed and faced Ness.
"You were going to call her Caitlin."
"You ruined it, she was going to guess." Alice said hitting him lightly on the arm. We all turned to Nessie to see what her reaction would be. She smiled and looked at the child being held in Rosalie's arms.
"It's perfect. Caitlin Isabella Black." Her eyes looked around the room and finally landed on me. My heart swelled at the sound of my name being a part of her daughters.
"I purposely left that bit out." Edward muttered.
"What do you think?" She asked. We all nodded in agreement and so the names were decided. Jordan and Caitlin Black.
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We all gathered in the living room, Nessie and Jacob went to bed with their children. My grandchildren. It was going to be a while whilst I got used to being a grandma.
We told everyone what happened and how we knew Caitlin was a vampire. Once we finished our explaining the room was silent.
"So the genes are divided separately." Edward acknowledged after fully accepting what happened. "The vampire genes and the werewolf genes separated like the colour of the skin."
"I wonder if she'll have an ability." Emmett thought aloud.
"Is that all you can think about. Whether it has some sort of power."
"Well, not exactly, but think about what it could be. Ooh, how cool would it be if Jordan had a cool power along with turning into a wolf? That would be awesome." We rolled our eyes at him but in my mind I wondered what it would be like. Whether they did have an ability, especially Jordan.
We would just have to wait and see.
A/N. Thanks for reading. I don't know whether that was what you all expected. Next chapter I'm going to skip a few years.
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Thanks to all my readers!
Jaimie xx
P.S. RIP Michael Jackson
