September 10th 2011

Bella POV

"Mrs Cullen I have been meaning to talk to you about the coloured boy..." Mike trailed off where he was stood hovering besides me in the staff room as I poured myself my tea.

"Who?" I asked and turned around, blowing on it and keeping eye contact with him as I took a sip.

"The coloured boy." Mike repeated.

I frowned, my hormones playing a part slightly. We only had one coloured child at our school, due to the fact that his mother had divorced a man from the reservation, and she had moved him from that school to this one during the split.
"What colour is he blue?" I tried not to snap, "His name is Max."

"Er yeh Max, well erm, his mother has put in an application to be on the board of governors..." He trailed off and my eyes narrowed.

"So?"

"So... I saw that you accepted." He said almost hysterically.

I nodded, "She's coming for an interview with me tomorrow, but apart from that there are no other formalities, she was the best candidate."

Mike answered in an almost shrill laugh, "But she's..." He stopped himself.

My eyebrows went high, "You know I knew you were many things Mike but I didn't think you were racist."

"I'm not." He answered too quickly.

"No?" I asked and raised one eyebrow, before stepping around him to sit beside Rose in one of the chairs, leaving him stood next to the sink blinking.

He took his seat and called the meeting to a start, well his wife did. I rested my cup of tea on the top of the table and glanced down at my open ring binder that was lying in front of me.

As I reached to pick up my pen I felt a twinge in the bottom of my stomach.

I moved my hand quickly to rest on the bottom of it and took a deep breath.

Rose's eyes landed on me and her hand came to rub my shoulders, "Bella what's wrong?"

I opened my mouth to speak but the pain came again, only this time it was worse, much worse.

I gasped and hunched forwards, Mike stopped speaking as I turned slightly to look at Rose.

"Something's wrong..."

Edward POV

(Ten Minutes Later)

"Dr Cullen?" Sasha, one of the young trainee doctors skidded to a stop beside me where I had been walking back to the nurses' station to fill out some of my paper work.

"Yes?" I asked.

She handed a chart to me, "I'm supposed to do a blood test on this one, but he's only six and he's upset, do I need to get someone to hold him or..."

"Hang on..." I said and delved deep into the pockets of my lab coat. I smiled when I found what I was looking for and handed it to her.

She turned it over in her hands, "Bubbles?"

"yep." I said and handed the chart back to her, "Get him to blow bubbles while you're doing it and he won't even notice, it will relax his arm as well, you just need to get someone to hold the bubbles for him."

She smiled, "Thank you."

I nodded, "You're welcome."

She turned and ran off just as a hand came down on my shoulder. I tuned to see my father.

"Hello what's up?" I asked as he led me to one side.
"We've just had an ambulance arrive; they are brining in a seven month pregnant women with severe abdominal cramps..." He trailed off and swallowed, "Its Bella."

"What?" I gasped ad nearly dropped what i was holding.

"She was in a staff meeting and she got pain in her cervix, she's being tested now, Rosalie's with her." He informed me.
"well where is she?" I demanded.

"Trauma 1."

I bolted past him and shoved my charts at him as I went. I flew through the door to see Bella sat on the Hospital bed facing the door, her legs swinging slightly as she sat there.

Dr Grenedy was stood beside her, taking her blood pressure. Rosalie was stood checking her phone and then smiled to look up at Bella, "They are going to postpone the meeting until you can come back..."

I cleared my throat and everyone's heads snapped up to look at me.

"Dr Cullen." Dr Grenedy greeted formally.

Bella bit her lip and looked down as I went to stand beside my colleague.

"Braxton Hicks." He told his both, "They are very common, and will probably come irregularly until you are ready for real labour, which will feel very different when the time comes."

"She has had a baby." Rosalie reminded him, I could tell she wasn't keen on this man.

His patronising attitude meant he didn't get one with many of his patients and colleagues alike.

Bella nodded, "Thank you."

He smiled and glanced at me before leaving the room, Rosalie following him.

Bella took a deep breath and looked down at her hands, "I know what you want to say."

I folded my arms and laughed quietly in disbelief, "I doubt it."

"you want me to know that you are mad okay, you want me to admit that you were right, that I shouldn't be at work, but you heard him, he said that Braxton Hicks were common..." her face seemed to harden as she spoke.

"But I don't need you to tell me what to do Edward. I can look after myself..."

"Really?" I asked in a low voice.

Her eyes snapped up to mine, "Yes Edward, I can. I don't need you to tell me how to look after myself or my baby..."

"Our baby." I said flatly, "It's our baby, mine as well."

She swallowed, "I'm not a bad mother Edward."

I sighed, all of the fight going out of me. I moved to sit next to her and put my head in my hands, "I know your not."

"I thought you were going to miss it." She whispered, and I realised that she must have thought she was in labour when she had felt the pains.

I moved my head slightly out of my hands, "I told you I'd be there."

She nodded and looked down at her hands, "We waited long enough before."

I chuckled despite myself at the memory, "yeh."

She smiled slightly, "I should have known you would come to me, you always do."

I sat up and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, pulling her into my side as I spoke into her hair, "And I always will."

She rubbed her stomach slightly and I kissed her hair, "no more work."

Bella sighed, "At least allow me to work mornings that is only admin work."

I frowned, "Fine, but allow me to dive you to and from work back to my mother and fathers."

She sighed, "But Edward..."

I raised an eyebrow and she leant back into my side, "Fine."

I kissed her hair, "Good girl."