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Dreaming Of Edward
Chapter 10
EPOV-recap
Tonight was the start of something new, I liked it. Watching Bella fall asleep all flush was a beautiful sight, I could watch her forever and planned on it. However, all of a sudden I was pulled out of my "Bella haze" by an unusual scent. Jasper must have caught the same scent that I did because he was growling just as loud as me. I quickly tossed on my pants and was crouching in front of the bed snarling when the door to my room burst open.
Bella's POV
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" I was startled awake by the loud growling of every vampire in house. "Jacob what the hell are you doing here?"
"Let's go Bella, you're going home NOW!" When he tried to drag me from the bed Edward started to lose it shoving him into the wall behind them giving Jasper space to move in so he was able to cover me on the bed where I laid.
"Like hell I am!" With Alice now by my side in the bed, I lost it.
"She's not going anywhere with you mutt!" Why did she just call Jacob a dog?
"Jacob you really need to leave now, this isn't any of your business."
"What the hell are you doing here Bella, these things are dangerous!"
"Jacob you don't understand, you need to leave. How did you find me anyway?"
"I followed your boyfriend the bloodsucker." Jacob was so mad, he was shaking.
In a feeble attempt to defuse the situation, I crawled out of the bed in an attempt to get Edward to release Jacob. Jacob started shaking even more when he saw my belly under my nightgown. "BELLA, what have you done! Is that his deadly spawn?" All the vampires snarled at that comment.
"Bella, please back away from Jacob now! He's going to phase!" Jasper yelled.
"Stay back Bella!" That's when it hit me.
Alice's POV
I watched in horror as Jacob phased before any of the others could move away from him. The room exploded it to flying debris as the sound of shredding metal echoed in my ears, but the worst sound was Bella's gut wrenching screams. When the drywall, wallpaper and furnishings finally settled, all I could see was the carnage left behind. I was stopped in my tracks by Jacobs's feral growls as he saw the same things that I did.
Bella had been thrown badly against the bed with five deep claw marks running from her right shoulder to her left hip. The blood was covering her shredded nightdress. It had gone from white to blood red in mere seconds. A few feet from her laid Edward, he was crawling towards Bella calling out to her. I could see he had lost his right leg above the knee, his left leg at the hip and his neck had received several deep claw marks.
I wanted so badly to go into the hallway where Jasper had landed when he was sent flying threw the wall, but Jacob wasn't letting me out of the room. Before I could calculate a plan of attack, Jacob was thrown past me and into the yard below. From the look on his face, he did not plan to break the treaty, but he did. I was never so relieved to look back and see my giant teddy bear of a brother Emmett bound into the room.
"Alice, call Carlisle NOW!" he screamed as he helped drag Edward to Bella before they both started trying to stop her bleeding.
I flashed into the hallway to find jasper hand landed on the first floor and Rose was kneeling beside him on the phone with Carlisle already. Jasper like Bella had the same five claw marks running from his left side to his right side. You could see the venom pooling under him. It was all I could do to get to him before he stopped moving.
"Rose, help them…please." She was gone before I could finish begging. I pulled Jasper onto my lap and listened to others.
"Bella, I love you, don't leave me please!"
"Rose find Edward's pieces, you need to start putting him back together while I help Bella."
"Emmett...the baby?"
"I don't know Edward, Carlisle will be here soon just keep praying, that's all we can do."
"I found them, Edward, please turn over. Please, I don't want to lose half my family in one night," Rose had never sounded so desperate since I have known her.
When the front door flew open the Denali coven came in followed quickly by Carlisle and Esme. Everyone seemed to scatter, some headed towards me and Jasper the rest headed upstairs to tend to Edward and Bella. Esme collapsed when she reached the second floor; apparently the sight of seeing her children hurt was more than she could bear. Eleazar started working on Jasper with Kate.
"Alice, focus! We need to get him to a bed, move – NOW!" I let them carry him to our room since I was barely functioning.
Carlisle's POV
It took us ten minutes running at full speed to reach our house. When we flew through the door I knew it was bad because the house was saturated with the smell of blood. That meant only one thing, Bella had been hurt and it was bad. Having been a trauma surgeon for many years, I knew you can never fully prepare yourself for carnage. However, I never expected to see Alice clinging to Jasper's motionless body.
I headed for Bella because with twelve vampires in the house it was dangerous even for the most behaved of us to be around so much blood. The second floor was utterly destroyed not that it really mattered, but it told me I was not going to like what I saw when I entered Edward's room.
Rose had already started on Edward and out of the three; he looked the best. He definitely would heal with time. Bella was a whole other story; her injuries were life threatening, not to mention the life of her unborn child, my grandchild! Pushing back the thoughts of wanting to search out the animal that would do this to my family, I set off to work. Thankfully, the Denali's were here to help. Eleazer knew as much about putting vampires back together as I did having lived with Volturi. I trusted him to treat my son, but I was the only one qualified to treat Bella and the baby.
I knew before I reached her that the amniotic sack had been ruptured in the attack. That meant the child was now in jeopardy for certain. I heard Esme collapse to the floor, it was too much for her to see three of her children and grandchild hurt so badly, but I could not stop working on Bella. She has never experienced an attempted willful destruction of life and wished I could have shielded her from it. Thankfully, Carmen was helping me with Bella while Tanya and Emmett helped with Edward. It tore at my soul to hear Edward begging to stay with Bella.
"Bella, please don't leave me. I just found you, don't leave me now. I won't survive without you." He didn't care about fixing himself.
"Carlisle…please save her for me, I don't care how you do it! Just save her," he begged, as they had to pry him away from Bella and the baby.
I knew he meant it when he said it and I would do it for him even if Bella hated me for it. He is my son; I would deny him nothing especially a mate. When Irina came in a few minutes behind us carrying my medical bag, I knew it was time to extract the child and hoped for the best. With the sack already torn open extraction of the child was easy. Unfortunately, the child's heart was not beating and I had one shot to try to save it.
"Kate I need you now!"
"What can I do to help? Oh…no…not the baby…," she cried out.
"Please Kate, try to shock his heart please…try!" With trembling hands she took my grandson and placed him on the bed. We waited for any sign if it had worked. Finally, on the third try we heard what we were praying for, a heartbeat and small breath.
She took the baby to Esme to coddle before going back to Jasper's side. I had finally finished assessing Bella's wounds. Everything seemed like it was taking hours when in reality it was only a few minutes. I could still hear Edward begging to be with Bella, but that was not going to happen right now.
"Emmett, flip that mattress so we can work on Bella up there," the second I said it, he had done it. As gently as possible, we moved Bella to the now clean bed.
With no other choice before me, I knew what I had to do to save her. With that in mind, for the first time in ninety years, I sunk my teeth into human flesh not once but four times, twice on her neck and once on each wrist. I could only hope for forgiveness over time from my new daughter.
No matter how good the blood tasted, it was something I did not relished doing. I tried to keep the amount of blood that escaped into my mouth at a minimum, but it was inevitable that I would have to take some in order to push the venom into her. I knew I could stop since I had four other times prior to Bella. It took a few minutes before I was sure I had given her enough venom, when it started circulating through her system.
Edward's POV
In a fraction of a second, my whole existence hung in the balance. With one phase, the mutt might have taken everything from me. Everything I could not exist without anymore. I don't know how much Bella heard before her eyes drifted shut. I hope she heard everything about how much I love and need her, but I cannot be sure. No matter how much I begged, they would not let me stay with her and my child. If I lost either of them, I would without a doubt track him down and slaughter him before I went to Italy and asked for death.
Once Rosalie had reattached my legs, she sealed my neck with venom from her own mouth. If Bella survived, at least I would still be able to keep her satisfied as Tanya put it. Before I had a chance to tell her not to think about it she floored me.
"Don't worry Edward. I am not interested in you that way anymore. I love Bella; she is absolutely perfect for you. I want you both to be happy and one day, I will find someone to love me the way you love Bella. I know you're not aware of this, but I have been spending a lot of time with her over the last few weeks getting to know her. She is quite remarkable."
"And what did she say?"
"That she loves you with all her heart and she loves the child. She looks at it as a gift from you."
"I think it was gift from God. I always thought he had forsaken me, but then he brought me my own personal angel, and he gave me a chance to be a daddy, not a father, but a daddy."
"Edward? I think you might need to see this…," Esme announced her arrival, but she was not alone.
Carefully cradled in her arms wrapped in a towel was a child, my child.
"Esme?"
"You have a son Edward, he had a rough start, but he made it back to us." I could see she was fighting to hold it together for us.
The walk from the door seemed to take forever before she found her way to me. Before I realized it my hands were out eagerly waiting for the greatest treasure I could ever imagine to arrive. Next to Bella's, his heartbeat was the greatest sound in my world. I couldn't help but chuckle when I heard his thoughts.
"He called me Daddy." I cradled him close and cooed in his ear, "Yes, I'm your daddy." He was absolutely the most beautiful baby I had ever seen, inheriting the best features from each one of us having Bella's gorgeous brown curly locks and my human emerald green eyes, he was stunning.
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