Hi! How are you all? I hope everyone is having a great day/ will have a great day. Here's the next chapter. I'm posting it early because I feel crappy and I need the love of reviews. Also, I only received two reviews for the last chapter, are people going off this story? If so, what can I do to bring you all back?

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Chapter 16-

Edward lays there and watches as his girlfriend sleeps, every now and then whimpering and calling out for her mother. He feels water drip off of his chin and looks to the ceiling trying to find the leak but sees nothing yet he can still feel the water. He brings his hand up to his face and realises that he's crying. She saw her mother shot dead in front of her, something that none of them even thought would happen when they both showed up at the front gate or they wouldn't have let her go near.

There's a knock on the door. "Come in." He calls quietly so he doesn't wake Bella.

Esme walks in with a crying Charlie held in her arms and Bella starts to stir. "How is she?"

"She saw her mother shot in front of her, how do you think she is?"

"That poor girl."

"Is Emmett awake yet?" Edward asks his mother.

Before Esme can answer, Bella calls out for her mother again.

"Yes, for a few hours. He knows." She pauses. "Charlie needs feeding." Esme tells Edward gravely, remembering why she came in. "There aren't any bottles here."

"Shit! Okay. Bella, Angel. Wake up sweetheart. Bella." Edward gently wakes his girlfriend.

She wakes up with a start and looks around with confusion. They see the exact moment she remembers as her face turns expressionless. Esme steps further into the room with a crying Charlie in her arms. "Bella dear, Charlie's hungry and we have no breast milk here." She tells her.

Bella reaches up for her baby girl. "Can I stay here? I'm not ready for the looks I'll get yet." She asks Edward quietly, rocking her baby girl to calm her down.

"Of course, Angel."

She sits up in bed, pulls her arm out of the top and pulls it down so her breast is exposed for Charlie to latch on to. Edward sits up next to her on the bed, wrapping his arms around her as she leans her back against him and Esme walks out of the room, softly closing the door behind her.

They sit in silence, the only noises coming from a feeding Charlie and their soft breathing. "My mum is dead." Bella suddenly says. "I saw my mum shot dead."

Edward doesn't answer her, he just lets her get it all out, but he wraps his arms tighter around her.

"I thought she was dead… but then she wasn't… and now she is… and I saw it happen. How crazy is that?" She pauses for a few seconds and then changes the subject. "What time is it?"

Edward looks at his watch that is on his left wrist. "Eight fifteen PM."

"Has Emmett eaten?"

"I don't know, mom said he's been awake for a few hours though."

"Can you go and see if he's eaten please?"

Edward leans down and kisses the top of her head. "Okay Angel. I love you."

"I love you too."

Edward then stands up and walks out of the room, down the stairs and into the living room where all eyes turn to him.

"How is she?" Emmett asks standing up from his spot on the sofa next to Rose.

"She's not really reacting." Edward answers, concern filling his voice.

"Is she mothering?" Emmett asks.

"What do you mean?"

"Is she worrying about everyone but herself?" Emmett asks.

"Yes. She wants to know if you've eaten."

"I need to speak to her. She did this when her friend died, worrying about everyone but herself." Emmett says standing up.

"Last room on the end of the hallway, top floor." Edward tells Emmett's retreating figure.

He nods so they know he heard and walks up the three flights of stairs to the top floor, down the end of the corridor and knocks on the door. "Bells, can I come in please?" He calls through.

"Yeah, I'm feeding Charlie. But yeah." She calls back.

Emmett opens the door and walks in, closing it behind him and walking over to the chest at the end of the bed.

"Have you eaten?" She asks him. "I asked Edward to ask you but I don't know if he did or not."

"He did ask me, but no, I haven't." Emmett replies slowly.

"You need to eat. I can make you something if you want."

"Bella-"

"No, don't 'Bella' me. I need to focus on something otherwise I won't cope. I just saw my mother, who I thought had been dead for the last two years, get shot in front of me. I need to focus on something else, I need to focus on you until I'm ready to focus on me." Bella says sternly.

"Okay Bells. Do you want me to make you something?" Emmett asks her.

"Not right now. Can you stay here with me for a while?"

"Of course."

They all watch Emmett walk up the stairs.

"Who was that man?" Edward asks the room when Emmett is out of earshot.

"His name was Eric Kevin Flynn. One of Aro's personal protection detail." Alice says slowly, knowing that if she tells him there's a better chance that he won't flip out due to her pregnancy and recent fall.

"He must have known he wouldn't survive." Edward says sitting on the sofa next to his mother and laying his head on her shoulder.

Esme wraps her arm around her son and places a kiss to the top of his head, no matter how old he is, he will always be her baby.

"He had terminal lung, stomach, and heart cancer. He was going to die anyway." Jasper tells his best friend.

"I opened him up and it had begun to spread to his bowel as well, it wouldn't have shown up on any tests yet though. He had a month left to live, best case scenario." Carlisle says looking at his son.

"She needs to eat, I'm going to cook her favourite." Edward says suddenly standing up.

"I will help, what are we cooking?" Esme asks her son.

"Chicken and pancetta ham covered in a cheese sauce in a pasta bake with loads of mozzarella cheese on top. She told me last week that her mom used to cook it for them both. She hasn't had it in years. I want to make it for her." Edward walks towards the kitchen.

Rose stands up and looks at her sister who nods her and so she helps Alice to her feet. "Babe." Jasper says grabbing hold of Alice's hand to stop her.

"I need to do something Jas. I'm going to make chocolate chip cookies; I'll be sat down the whole time. I promise." Alice tells her fiancée. "I love you."

Jasper sits forward and leans up to kiss her. "I love you too." He replies when they pull apart.

Rose links arms with her little sister and they walk into the kitchen together where they see their brother with his head in the pantry and their mother in the fridge.

"How can I help?" Rose asks.

Edward leans back and looks over to his two sisters in the doorway. "Rose, can you put the pasta on please?"

She nods her head and walks over to the packet of pasta sat on the kitchen table and over to the cupboard with the pans in it. She pulls out a saucepan, walks over to the sink to fill it with water and places it on the hob to bring it to the boil. She sits down next to her sister at the table while they wait.

"How can I help her?" Edward suddenly asks, pulling his head from the pantry and turning to look at his sisters and mother. "I want to be able to do something for her to help but she just saw her mother shot dead in front of her and I'm at a loss as to what to do."

Esme walks over to her son and wraps her arms around him.

"I'm making this about me now and she's the one in pain but I need help with helping her."

"Edward, you're in pain as well. You love her, her pain is your pain." Alice tells her brother.

"Just be there for her. Let her talk to you when she's ready and be whatever she needs. That helped me through the Royce thing." Rose adds.

The water begins to boil and Rose stands up and walks over to it to pour in the pasta.

"I'm going to make them both chocolate chip cookies." Alice suddenly says standing up and walking around the kitchen grabbing the ingredients she needs and a mixing bowl before walking back and sitting at the kitchen table.

They all move about the kitchen, Alice and Rose making a few batches of Chocolate chip cookies and some brownies. Esme makes a chocolate cake, and Edward makes Bella and Emmett their favourite dinner, with enough for the whole family.

An hour later, there is a cake, three batches of cookies, two batches of brownies cooling on the side and three pasta bakes made and placed on the table. "I'm going to go and get Bella and Emmett." Edward tells them all as the others come through from the other room and all sit around the table, drawn in by the smells coming from the kitchen.

Edward walks up the stairs and down the hallway where he hears laughter coming from his bedroom. He stops outside the door and listens to the two siblings tell each other funny stories about their parents.

"Remember that summer before I went to high school when dad put that pool in the back garden?" Emmett asks.

"Yeah. Mum invited the neighbours around for a barbeque but before they got there, dad pushed her into the pool with all of her clothes on and climbed in after her. Then that judgemental old woman from across the street just let herself in and walks around back and told them both that they should be ashamed of themselves." Bella laughs out.

"Then she tried to call the police for indecent exposure." Emmett finishes, struggling to get the words out between laughs.

Edward smiles and knocks on the door.

"Come in." Bella giggles out.

Edward opens the door and sees Charlie asleep in Emmett's arms who is sat cross legged on the bed next to his sister who is lying with her head in her brother's lap.

"Angel, I made you both dinner, your favourite."

"Cheesy chicken and ham pasta bake?" Bella asks in shock.

"Cheesy chicken and hand pasta bake." Edward tells her with a smile. "Alice made you both chocolate chip cookies, Rose made you both brownies, and mom made you both a chocolate cake. Although I'd come quick, Jasper's down there."

"Okay babe. Thank you." Bella says sitting up and climbing off of the bed and walking over to Edward who wraps his arms around her, pulling her into a hug. He kisses her and when they pull apart, takes hold of her hand as Emmett walks over to them and they all walk down the stairs and into the kitchen together.

Emmett walks off, places Charlie in the highchair in between Carlisle and Esme, and sits in the empty seat in between Carlisle and Alec and Edward pulls Bella over to the two free seats. "I need to ask you all a favour." Bella says to the table that had fallen silent as soon as her and Emmett walked in. "I need you to all act as normal as possible and not hover over us. I don't want to be treated differently and I need to work this through myself. Until I'm ready, can I not be asked how I'm feeling or whatever please?"

"Of course dear. No one will pressure you until you're ready to talk." Carlisle tells her, reaching across the table to hold her hand.

"Thank you." Bella says to him with a smile and tears in her eyes. "Emmett needs to eat. Can someone fix him a plate please?"

Esme smiles and reaches across to do just that and then passes Emmett his plate. "There you go dear."

"Thank you." He says with a smile as everyone fixes their plates and begins to eat. Bella watches Emmet takes his first bite and then Bella does the same.

"Mum makes it better, but it's still nice." Bella says turning to look at her boyfriend who has yet to take a bite.

He smiles, kisses his girlfriend on her forehead and begins to eat.

A week later, they're all still staying at Edward's house. Alec walks into the living room where Edward and Bella are sat on the sofa cuddled up together under a blanket watching a movie.

"The house still has major security floors. How did they break the windows?" Alec says to himself sitting on the chair next to the television.

Edward pauses the movie and turns to look at his uncle. "Insider knowledge. The only ones that were hit were bullet proof, not bomb proof. Have we figured out who knew the location of the control camera?"

"Almost. I've called a meeting for tomorrow night, ten at a time. There are 40 people so far." Alec says. He then looks over to the television and sees the screen. "Oh, sorry."

"It's okay. I want to go and check on Charlie anyway." Bella says standing up, grabbing her back in pain and pausing for a few seconds and then walking towards the stairs. "You two can talk business for the next ten minutes but then I want my boyfriend back."

Alec laughs. "Yes ma'am." He mock salutes her.

She walks up the stairs and stops on the first floor of bedrooms before walking down the hallway and stopping in front of Emmett's door. She knocks and wait but hears nothing so she knocks again, nothing. She walks further down the hallway to Jacob's room, knocks on the door and hears her brother and Jacob shout for her to come in. She opens the door and sees them in a competitive game of racing, Jacob appears to be winning.

"I just wanted to check and see how you're doing." She tells her brother.

"I'm fine Bells. I'm just trying to stay busy but you need to confront it sometime." He says knowing what she's referring to, looking away from the television screen allowing Jacob and even bigger advantage. "I'm not pressuring you but I want you to know that I'm here for you when you need it." He rushes out before his sister can get upset, angry, or interrupt him.

Bella smiles at her brother. "Thanks, Emmy. I love you."

"I love you too, Belly Boo."

"Yes! I beat you!" Jacob shouts dropping the controller and jumping to his feet.

Bella laughs as Emmett fakes sadness and then she walks out of the room and closes the door, grabbing her belly in pain this time. She ignores it again, thinking it's just the emotional pain causing actual pain, as happened when her friend died, and walks down the hallway and then up the stairs but stops when she sees Charlie's door open. She walks into the room and stops seeing Alice sat in the rocking chair that is placed in the corner of the room. She's talking to Charlie who is feeding from one of the bottles of Bella's breast milk they keep in the mini fridge of her room.

"Oh sorry, I never even heard her wake." Bella says rushing closer.

"It's fine. She didn't cry, I was watching her thinking about when it's going to be my boy in a crib, and she woke up so I changed her and thought she might be hungry. I warmed it up and she latched on straight away, she has been sucking like a mad thing, you'd think she hadn't been fed in years." Alice says smiling and looking down at the baby in her arms.

"I was coming to see if she was awake." Bella says. "If you're okay here, can you bring her to me when she's finished eating please?"

"Yeah, that's fine." Alice replies softly.

Bella suddenly has a rush of water down her legs and clutches her stomach in pain.

"Bella! What?" Alice rushes out trying to stand up but between her belly and the feeding baby, she fails.

Bella runs over to the baby monitor and lifts it to her face, switching it on as Alice had turned it off when Charlie woke. "Help." She says before crying out in pain again.

Edward and Alec are looking through the list of people attending the meeting tomorrow when they hear Bella asking for help through the monitor and they fall silent. Then they hear her cry out in pain and Edward is off the sofa and up the stairs like a shot, his gun raised and Alec following behind him. They run into Charlie's room and see Alice sat in the rocking chair trying to stand up and go to her best friend and Bella doubled over in pain. The two men look around to see for any danger but find none so they run over to Bella.

"I think her water broke." Alice says in shock.

"Not possible." Bella pants out. "How could I be pregnant?"

Alec runs to the door and shouts down to the floor below. "Carlisle! We need medical help up here!"

Carlisle runs up the stairs with his medical bag, Esme close behind him.

"What's happened?" Carlisle says rushing over to Bella who is still doubled over in pain and leaning against Edward.

"Alice says Bella's waters broke." Edward tells his father.

"What?" Carlisle asks confused.

Alice just points to the wet patch on the bedroom floor. "I don't know what's happening." Bella cries out.

Charlie unlatches from the bottle and Alice brings her over her shoulder to burp her.

"Bella, I need to get you laid on the bed in your room." Carlisle says soothingly, switching into doctor mode.

"Edward." Bella whimpers out.

"I'm here, Angel. I'm never leaving." He reassures his girlfriend. He grabs hold of her hand and wraps his arms more securely around his girlfriend, pulling her out of the door, down the hallway and into the open door of their bedroom.

"Can you lay her down on the bed please, Edward." Carlisle asks his son as he closes the door.

Edward walks Bella over to the bed and lays her down, climbing up behind her and lifting her head to lay it down on his lap. He strokes her hair gently and whispers words of love and encouragement as Esme walks over to Bella and removes her sweatpants, spreading her legs wide, pulling a blanket over her bottom half, and leaning down to examine her.

"Bella dear, I know this is scary and a shock for you, but you are having a baby." Esme tells her softly.

"What? How?" Bella sobs out confused.

Carlisle steps up to Bella and takes the place Esme just vacated between Bella's legs. "My best guess is that you have two uteruses. It's very rare and because you didn't have the correct medical care when you were pregnant with Charlie, it wasn't picked up on. Now Bella, you're crowning, we can talk about this later but right now, I need you to push."

Bella pushes and sobs for the next 20 minutes, Edward letting her squeeze his hand, wiping her brow and speaking more words of love and encouragement, and then baby cries fill the room. "Congratulations, you have a beautiful baby boy." Carlisle tells her as he cuts the umbilical cord, wipes him down, wraps him up and hands him to Bella. "Have a quick cuddle, I need to take him down to get checked out in a minute."

Bella holds him in her arms and kisses his tiny head as Edward strokes his full head of hair and his soft chubby cheeks. "Hi baby boy. I don't know what I'm going to call you yet because I've only just found out you exist but I will have one for you by the end of the day." Bella says quietly to her son.

Esme watches on with a smile and then steps forward. "Bella, can I take him please? I need to get him down to the examination room to make sure he's okay while you have the afterbirth and get checked out."

"Okay." Bella says handing her son over to Esme.

Edward begins stroking her hair again and saying more words of love and reassurance to his girlfriend as she has the afterbirth and Carlisle checks out. "Everything seems to be okay, but you need to take it easy for the next week and I'll be keeping a close eye on you. I'm going to check on your baby boy." He then walks out of the room and closes the door leaving Bella and Edward alone to process what's just happened.

"I'm sorry." Bella says trying to sit up.

Edward stops her. "You need to rest, lay down. What are you sorry for? You have nothing to be sorry for."

"I now have another child that isn't yours, Edward. Last week, you agreed to take on one child, not two. If you want to end this, I understand and will walk away."

"Do you want to end this?" He asks her sadly and unsure.

"No. But we aren't talking about me." Bella replies.

"You don't want to end this, I don't want to end this, so we aren't ending this." Edward says with conviction. "I love you Isabella Marie Swan and that isn't going to change anytime soon."

"But-"

"No Bella, trust me, please. I know it's hard for you to do that after James, but you didn't know you have two uteruses so you couldn't know you were pregnant. I'm not angry and I'm not going to leave you. Nothing has changed except we now have two beautiful babies instead of one. Now let's sleep, you must be exhausted, I know I am after watching that." Edward reassures his girlfriend, smiling when he sees the faint one growing on her lips.

Edward kisses her and then moves Bella's head off of his lap and stands up, gently pulling his girlfriend to her feet and changing her for the second time in a week. Then, he closes the curtains, pulls back the covers and climbs in to the bed, pulling her down next to him and wrapping his arms around her while she pulls the covers over them both.

"Edward, when we wake up… I think I'm ready to talk about it all." Bella whispers into the quiet of the room. He pulls her tighter to him, kisses the side of her head and they both drift off the sleep together.

Did you enjoy it? Please review. ~Megan xxx