Hello all. I hope you're all well and happy. Sorry I'm posting this late but I was swamped with work. There was some confusion after the last chapter about how someone can have two uterus's and not know it. It's very rare but it is possible along with her not realising she was pregnant still, this is due to the lack of medical care that she received. I hope this clears it up for you all, but yes, it is possible. This is a fluffy chapter, I felt like we needed it after the last few chapters.

Enjoy xx

Chapter 17-

Esme walks down the stairs and into the living room where the rest of the family is sat. Emmett jumps up, runs to her and looks down at the baby in Esme's arms. "So it's true. Bella's had another baby."

"Yes, Carlisle thinks that Bella has two uteruses but we won't know for sure until he does further tests. He's just making sure there's no bleeding and then he's going to let her rest while I get this little man checked out." Esme explains looking down at the baby in her arms.

"It's a boy." Emmett says with a smile. "Does he have a name yet?"

"No, Bella said she'll have one by the end of the day though." She replies. "I need to get him checked out, I'll be back up soon and then you can meet him properly."

Emmett walks back over to the sofa where he was playing with Jacob on the IPad and Esme walks down the corridor, through the door leading to the basement, down the stairs and into the examination room. "Hi little man. I need to get you weighed to see how big you are." She explains walking over to the scale, removing the towel from around him and placing him on it.

She smiles. "Seven pounds exactly." She picks him up, wraps him in a clean blanket and walks over to the portable crib in the corner for when Alice has her baby. Placing him in it, she rolls it over to the computer and sits on the chair in front of the monitor. "Since you have no name, we shall put you in as baby Swan." She says smiling down at the little boy. "Born October twelfth two thousand and sixteen." She types some more. "Weighs seven pounds."

Carlisle walks through the door as she says the weight of the baby. "Bella's fine. I'm going to give him an examination." He tells his wife.

"Okay." She replies as he picks the baby out of the crib and walks over to the examination table.

After a thorough examination that takes forty-five minutes, Carlisle dresses him. "Alice gave me some clothes for the little guy since Bella and Edward don't have any and she bought enough for her little one to change three times a day and still have some left over." Carlisle laughs and then turns serious, looking at the baby on the table. "She's lucky. Usually when a woman has two uteruses with a baby in each, the child has to be born through C-Section because it causes the other uterus to go into labour as well, especially when one is younger than the other. When that happens, usually either the baby, mother, or both dies. Bella is a very lucky girl."

Esme laughs at the irony of that statement.

"Well, in this respect she is." Carlisle amends as he walks over to his wife. "Did you see the way Edward reacted?" He asks her.

"He really loves that girl." Esme agrees, answering the unspoken words in her husband's sentence.

"She's lovely. He couldn't have picked anyone better." Carlisle adds before leaning down to give his wife a kiss on the top of her head and helping her to her feet. "Come on, he's hungry." The baby starts to fuss and cry as Carlisle lifts him out of the crib.

They walk up the stairs, down the corridor and into the living room where they see that Edward and Bella have joined everyone on the sofas.

Bella goes to stand up but is stopped by Edward. "Angel, we've been over this." He says to his girlfriend, giving her a kiss on the head and moving her so he can slide out from behind her. He walks over to his father, takes the baby from his arms and walks back over to his girlfriend. He passes her the baby and slides back in behind her. Just then, the baby starts to cry which sets off Charlie who is laying on the mat on the floor under the mobile.

Bella's face falls and she starts to cry. "How am I meant to do this?"

Edward slides out from behind her and runs over to Charlie, picking her up and bouncing her to calm her down. "Angel, you're not doing this on your own. You have me and our family at your disposal." Edward tells her as he sits down. "Now I'll hold our baby girl, you feed our baby boy."

"Then I'll be neglecting Charlie." Bella says, still crying.

"No you won't." Carlisle says sitting in front of her on the floor. "Charlie will be finished breastfeeding in three weeks and then she moves on to follow on formula. Until then, this little guy will need it more than her but you can still breastfeed her the same amount, you'll just make more because now you have two. Let Edward hold Charlie while you feed your son because his first feed is important. You can't breastfeed right now though." He pauses as Esme walks back into the room with a heated bottle of breastmilk and holds it out to Bella. "We need to see how much he drinks for his first feed and then you can breastfeed. It's not necessary for all new-borns, but after his unique arrival, I just want to cover all bases."

Bella wipes under her eyes and smiles. "Thank you." She takes the bottle of milk and begins to feed her son who latches on straight away.

Carlisle lays his hand on Bella's knee in a comforting gesture and smiles.

Four months later, everyone is back in their own homes and Bella and Emmett have moved into Edward's home permanently. Edward and Bella are in the living room with the children, Alexander laying on the mat underneath the mobile and Charlie sat on the mat on the floor playing with her toys. She crawls over to Edward, stands up using Edward's shoulders to help pull her up and wraps her arms around him giving him a big sloppy kiss on the cheek. She then pulls away squealing, getting back on her hands and knees and crawling quickly over to her mother.

When she reaches her mother, she giggles and falls into her arms before rolling out of them and crawling over to her brother. "Alal." She hits the mobile and watches as he smiles before clapping her hands.

Edward opens his arms. "Charlie, daddy needs some love."

"Da!" She squeals again, crawling over to the table and pulling herself up and bouncing herself up and down without lifting her feet off of the ground.

Bella stands up and walks over to her daughter, taking her hands in hers and helping her walk over to her daddy. When she gets there, he wraps his arms around her as Bella claps her hands. "Yay!" She cheers her daughter.

"Yaya!" Charlie mimics.

Edward then wrinkles his face. "Someone's stinky." He stands up with her in his arms and carries her upstairs.

"I'm going to make Em a snack, he'll be home from school in a minute. Do you want something?" Bella shouts up the stairs.

"Yes please." Edward shouts down to her before walking the rest of the way upstairs. "Mommy's going to make daddy and uncle Emmy a yummy snack. I love your mommy, or as she calls herself, your mummy. I love her accent, it's so sexy." He tells his daughter as he changes her nappy.

"Mummy can hear what daddy is saying." Bella's voice comes through the baby monitor that is in Edward's pocket. They bought two because the two babies are in different rooms as Charlie is sleeping though the night, but they link up to one receiver which is currently with Bella.

"I'm home!" Emmett sings as he walks in the front door and Edward walks down the stairs. Emmett walks over to Alex and picks him up. "How's my favourite nephew?" He asks.

"He's due for a nap." Bella says walking out of the hallway and into the living room carrying two plates. She hands one to Edward, kissing him on the lips and Charlie on the head, and one to Emmett before taking Alex from his arms and walking up the stairs.

As Bella reaches the top floor, Esme knocks on the door and let's herself in. "Hello?" She calls through the house.

"In here mom." Edward shouts from the living room.

Esme walks in and sees Emmett and Edward on the sofa eating sandwiches and Charlie sat on the floor putting blocks in tubs. When she sees her nana, she squeals again and throws two blocks in her direction.

"Charlie, no. We don't throw things at people." Edward tells her off.

Esme walks over and picks up the blocks off of the floor and moves to sit next to Charlie. "Hi Charlie. How was your day?"

Charlie hands her nana some blocks and babbles away at her while they place them in a tower formation. Bella walks down the stairs then and smiles. "Hi Esme."

Esme looks up. "Hi Bella, where do you want to go today?"

"Kitchen? We can talk while I'm making dinner." Bella says walking over and picking her daughter up off of the floor.

Esme stands up and starts to put Charlie's toys away.

"Don't worry about that, Mom. I'll do it." Edward says handing Emmett his plate and standing up as Emmett walks into the kitchen and places his and Edward's plates in the sink.

"I'll wash them up, Em. Just leave them there." Bella says walking in and putting Charlie in the high chair.

"Thanks Bells." He says walking over to Charlie and giving her a kiss on the head, then his sister before walking out past Esme and into the living room to Edward.

Bella walks over to the sink, rinses the plates and puts them in the dishwasher and then walks into the pantry. Esme walks around the kitchen, mushing up a banana in a bowl and walking over to Charlie and sitting next to her at the kitchen table. Bella walks out with the ingredients for dinner and starts to make it as Esme feeds Charlie the mushy banana. When she's finished, Bella makes her some juice and places it in front of her, wiping her mouth, as Esme rinses out the bowl and places it in the dishwasher.

"I'm coping a lot better. Edward has been a god send these last five months, I honestly have no idea what I'd do without him. I still have nightmares, of the fire, of James, seeing my mum shot… but they aren't as often now. Knowing that Emmett's safe, and in school, and doing well," She pauses looking into the mirrored surface of the oven, "it helps."

She turns to look at Esme. "This is going to be short, but I really am coping well. It's only been five months since I got away from him, but with Edward, and you, and the rest of the Cullen's… I have bad days, everyone does… I still look in the mirror and see someone that I don't like… I still hear James in my head putting me down… but I have Edward there to tell me that he loves me and he finds me attractive. That sounds so superficial, but…" Bella stops with a shrug.

Esme stands up and walks over to her, standing next to her and mimicking her position. "It's not superficial. It's important to feel attractive. You were put down for so many years, first by the bullies throughout your school life and then by that monster. I know how that feels. I had a judgemental mother who criticised every little piece of my life. My hair, my weight, how I wasn't going to be a good housewife. They were her priorities in life. I was married when I met Carlisle, forced into it by her, he beat me and I wasn't so lucky when it came to my baby. I was six months pregnant when I went into early labour and he wouldn't let me go to a hospital. I gave birth to my son, Richard, on the bathroom floor of our dirty apartment and he died in my arms five minutes after being born. James took him from me, and to this day I still don't know what he did with him. Three days later, I was rushed into hospital after passing out in the grocery store. It was the only place he allowed me to go and I had to be home within two hours of leaving or he would find me, drag me home and beat me to within an inch of my life. I nearly died so many times but I didn't care. I wanted to.

Carlisle was the intern on my case when I was rushed in and he was there when my husband came in. He recognised the signs of abuse but I denied it the entire time and then I was released. A month later I was brought in again, so close to death they gave up, but then Carlisle walked into the trauma room and refused to give up. I'd jumped off the cliff a mile from my home. He made sure I got the best care and while I was there, we fell in love. He helped me get divorced so I didn't need to see Sebastian, that was my husband's name, and he wouldn't allow him anywhere near the hospital. I found out a week after we got married that Marcus, Alec, and Carlisle had killed him after the divorce was finalised. It doesn't help. I still feel worthless sometimes but I have Carlisle to help me through it. I understand." Esme explains.

Bella looks at her in shock. "Esme! I never knew. I'm so sorry." She wraps her arms around the older woman.

Esme wraps hers around Bella. "It's okay dear, I don't really speak about it often. Everyone knows, we told the children when they were young so they were prepared in case anyone tried to use it against us all or if my mother phoned. She still calls twice a year, on the anniversary of when I married that monster and when I divorced him. The former is next week so I may be coming to you for help."

The spaghetti then starts to boil and Charlie starts to fuss so Bella fixes dinner and Esme walks back to the kitchen table to entertain the baby. Half an hour later, the dinner is on the table and Esme runs out to the garden to call the boys in. Alex's cries fill the baby monitor and Bella recognises it as cry number 2, he needs a nappy change. She waits until Esme walks back in because she can't leave Charlie alone in the kitchen.

"I just need to go and sort him out and then I'll be back down." Bella explains walking out of the room. She passes Edward as she walks down the hallway and stops to give him a kiss. "Can you get the second highchair set up please? Alex is awake." She asks her boyfriend when they pull apart.

"Okay Angel." He carries on walking towards the kitchen as Bella walks up the stairs and into Alex's room.

"Hi little man. Wow you stink." She says picking him up and carrying him over to the changing table. She undoes the nappy and gags.

Down in the kitchen, they're all waiting for Bella when they hear her talking to her son and then gag which makes Esme laugh. "I don't miss those days."

Ten minutes later, Bella walks into the kitchen with her son in her arms. "It was everywhere." She shudders.

Edward stands up and walks over to his girlfriend, takes their son and walks back over to the chair he just vacated where he has a heated bottle of breast milk ready. "I'll feed him, you feed her." Edward tells his girlfriend.

"Okay babe." She sits down and sees that someone has served everything up, even making Charlie her bowl. Bella leans over to her daughter and reties her bib around her neck and places the bowl and a spoon on the tray. "Do you want mummy to feed you or do it yourself?" She asks her daughter.

Charlie sits there are smiles.

"You've just pooped haven't you?" She asks her daughter with a sigh. Charlie laughs in response. "Come on then." She says picking up her daughter and carrying her upstairs into her room and changes her nappy before walking back downstairs and putting her back in the highchair. "Everyone finished making me run up and down the stairs? Good."

Charlie reaches for the spoon before Bella can ask her again if she wants to feed herself or have her mum do it and begins eating. Bella turns to her boyfriend. "Are you okay doing that or do you want me to take over?"

"I'm fine, relax, eat, after dinner I'm going to run you a bath, then wash up while mom spends time with the children and Em does his homework." Edward replies.

Bella smiles at him. "Thank you."

He leans over Charlie without disturbing Alex and gives Bella and then Charlie a kiss. Bella starts to eat, stopping to pick up and wipe Charlie's spoon when she throws it on the floor. When Alex finishes his bottle and has been burped, Edward stands up, walks over to the second highchair and places his son in it, strapping him in so he can't fall out. He then walks over to his chair and begins to eat but stops when Charlie throws spaghetti at him.

"Stop it." Bella tells her daughter off. "We don't throw food at people."

Charlie looks down at the tray where her food is all spread out, sticks out her bottom lip and begins to cry. Edward puts down his fork and picks up his daughter. "Charlie, we don't throw food. You can play with it, but you don't throw it." Edward explains.

"Da!" She says seriously.

"I know baby girl." He says hugging her to him and giving her a kiss on the top of the head before placing her back in the highchair. "Remember, no throwing food."

"Da."

Edward starts to eat again. When they've all finished, Bella stands up and collects the plates, walking over to the sink to rinse them off. Edward stands up and gently pulls his girlfriend away from the sink. "I'm doing that. You're relaxing, remember."

"It's just plates, Edward." Bella says fighting against her boyfriend.

"I think I can handle them, come on." Bella fights more so Edward just picks her up and walks out of the kitchen, down the hallway and into the living room, Emmett following behind with Alex and Esme following behind with Charlie.

"Mom, I'll be back down in a minute." Edward calls out as he walks up the stairs.

"Okay dear."

Edward then walks up the rest of the stairs, down the hallway and into their bedroom putting his girlfriend down on the bed. "Don't move. You're relaxing and I'm going to run you a bath."

She sighs and lays back on the bed. Edward laughs and walks into the bathroom that is connected to the bedroom, starting the bath and pouring in bath salts and oils and bubble bath. He then walks back into the bedroom and sees Bella getting undressed, he walks to the cupboard in the corner of the room and grabs the pack of 15 scented tea light candles and the lighter. Walking back into the bathroom, he scatters them around the edge of the bath and around the bathroom and then turns off the taps.

"It's ready, Angel." He calls through and a second later, Bella walks through the doorway in her fluffy dressing gown with duck slippers.

She points at her boyfriend. "Don't hate on my duck slippers."

He tries to hide the smile on his face. "I wouldn't dare."

"Oh, of course you wouldn't. You're a saint." Bella teases.

"Finally she gets it!" He jokes and then grabs his girlfriend around the waist and blows raspberries into her neck causing Bella to laugh and struggle away from him.

When they both calm down, Bella point to the door. "Now get out."

Edward lifts his hand to his chest and gasps. "I'm hurt."

"You will be if you don't let me have my bath. You have dishes to clean, get to it man servant."

"Only for you." He replies with a wink.

"Charm will get you nowhere. Out." Bella laughs.

"I'm going, I'm going." Edward says walking out of the door with his hands above his head.

"Wait!" Bella says pulling him back to her by his shirt. "I want a kiss first."

He smiles and leans down, giving her a big noisy kiss on the lips. "I love you." He kisses her again.

"I love you too." She replies when they pull apart again. Edward then walks out of the bedroom and closes the door knowing that Bella doesn't like to be shut in the bathroom so prefers to leave that door open. She then turns off the bathroom light, walks over to the bath and gets in, laying her head back and smiling. She's finally happy but that will all change soon.

Did you all enjoy that? I love writing this Edward, he's so sweet! Please review. ~Megan xxx