Hey! I don't know if you've worked it out yet or if I've told anyone, but I write these AN after I've written this chapter. Even though I'm posting this chapter at the beginning of November, but I wrote this chapter 27/08/16. Sorry if that seems impersonal or whatever but after my laptop broke and I lost those three chapters, I'm taking no risks.
Anyway, back to the chapter, I have no medical training and I haven't had any babies or know anyone who has so I'm sorry if some of the details in this chapter are incorrect.
Also, if any of the baby milestones are wrong, again, I don't have a baby or know anyone who does.
There is another possible trigger warning around Alice and the baby again, and I will make sure everyone knows where it is in the chapter.
I'm sorry that I haven't replied to any reviews, I haven't got an excuse other than being a terrible human being and real life is keeping me busy. I had a review that asked if Edward and Bella have had sex, no they haven't, Edward is just trying to make her feel comfortable with her body so if she gets changed around him or whatever, that is why but they won't have sex for a while because James raped her and he wants her to heal both mentally and physically from that. I hope that clears it up, if anyone else has any other questions, don't be afraid to ask!
I hope everyone (or at least those who are still reading this AN at this point) had a great Halloween and enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 18-
Bella rolls over in bed to cuddle up to Edward but finds the bed empty yet warm. Looking at the clock, she sees that it's 5am. She sits up in bed and looks around, seeing the hallway light on through the crack in the door so she gets out of bed, pulls on her dressing gown and duck slippers and walks out of the room. She looks into Charlie's room first and sees her fast asleep, the same with Alex so she walks down to the next floor. Emmett's snores filter out from underneath his closed door so she walks down again without even looking into his bedroom, and into the living room where she sees Edward sat on the sofa on his phone.
"Okay mom, I'll wake them all up and we'll meet you there." He says standing and turning around. He stops when he sees Bella and closes his phone. "Alice has just gone into labour, they're on their way to the hospital."
"Okay, you get Alex, I'll wake Emmett and then get Charlie." Bella says with a smile and then turns to walk up the stairs. When she doesn't hear Edward follow she turns around. "Are you going to make me do it all myself or are you going to help?" Bella teases, knowing her boyfriend is trying to process that his little sister is having a baby.
He smiles and walks over to her, wrapping his arms around her, picking her up and spinning her around, making Bella squeal in laughter. "I'm going to be an uncle again!" He shouts making Emmett wake up and jump out of bed.
"What is it?" Emmett asks running down the stairs in his boxers and his hair all crazy.
"Alice is in labour." Edward says with a massive smile on his face.
"I'll go and get dressed, do you need help with the kids?" Emmett asks turning around and walking back upstairs with Bella and Edward following.
"No, we're fine. Thank you though." Bella replies while continuing up the second flight of stairs to the next floor, Edward close behind.
Bella and Edward walk into their bedroom to quickly change into jeans and a t-shirt, pulling on socks and shoes. Bella walks through to Charlie's room and picks her up gently so she doesn't wake her and Edward does the same to Alex. They both walk down the stairs and into the kitchen where Emmett is waiting with the two car seats and the baby bag, sat at the kitchen table, and they get both of them strapped in, still asleep. They walk through to the garage, Emmett carrying Charlie and Edward carrying Alex while Bella locks the door to the kitchen and then Emmett passes Charlie to her. Edward unlocks the car and Emmett climbs into the middle. Edward clips Alex's car seat in while Bella walks around to the other side and does the same with Charlie and they both get in the front seat.
Edward turns on the car, presses one of the buttons on the roof of the car and the garage door opens, when they get out, he presses it again to close it. Then he presses another button to open the gate, pressing it again when they get onto the road so it closes. They drive down a few roads and then make it onto the highway.
"Did Esme give any details?" Bella asks.
"She said that when she got home Alice was there because her due date was yesterday. She was experiencing some back pain and twinges in her stomach so they wanted to be closer to dad. This morning around four thirty, Alice woke mom up because the pain was getting worse so she checked her out and Alice was already five centimetres so they woke dad and Jasper up and they were on their way to the hospital as mom called me. She'd called Rose before me. That's all I know." Edward explains.
Bella leans her head back and closes her eyes.
"You two sleep, I'll wake you up when we get to the hospital." Edward tells his girlfriend and her brother.
"Great." Bella sighs in exhaustion and falls asleep almost instantly.
"How long until we get there?" Emmett asks having never been to the hospital before.
"An hour. There's one closer to us, only ten minutes away, but they've gone to the best OB- GYN in Seattle and she's stationed in the hospital on the opposite side of the city." Edward explains.
Emmett nods his head and smiles before closing his eyes and falling asleep.
When Edward pulls into a space in the hospital carpark, he turns off the car and turns towards his girlfriend. He leans over and kisses her awake. She opens her eyes slowly and blinks in confusion. "Hi Angel." Edward whispers, stroking her face. He leans down to kiss her and she yawns right in his face.
She brings her hand up to her face to cover her mouth.
"Nice, Angel." Edward jokes.
"Sorry." She apologises.
He kisses her quickly. "It's okay." He then turns to the back of the car. "Em, we're here."
"I'm awake." Emmett says, slurring his words and with his eyes still closed.
"Then open your eyes." Bella teases.
Emmett opens them slowly, just like his sister and then narrows her eyes. "Shush woman."
Bella laughs and then opens the door. She gets out, opens Charlie's door and unclips her car seat, Emmett sliding over and climbing out of Charlie's side, grabbing the baby bag, and closing the door. Edward climbs out of his side, opens the door and gets Alex out, locking the car and they all walk through the front doors. Edward walks up to the front desk.
"Alice Lillian Cullen." He says to the woman behind the front desk.
She holds up one finger. "I know! I told him that he'd never find anyone as good as me but he still walked away!" She prattles into her cell phone.
"Excuse me?" Edward says trying to get her attention.
She holds up her finger again. "I know I cheated in him, but can you blame me? I look good, of course I get more offers."
Edward sighs, hands Alex over to Emmett and leans over, grabbing the woman's phone and ends the call.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" She shouts at Edward.
"Alice Lillian Cullen. Where is she?" He asks.
"You don't get to do that!" She still shouts.
"You should be doing your job instead of talking on your cell phone. Now Alice Lillian Cullen, where is she?"
She just crosses her arms over her chest and smirks. "No."
Edward sighs, reaches into his pocket and pulls out his cell phone. He pushes some buttons and lifts it up to his ear. "Hi, it's me. Can you come down here and deal with your staff please?"
After a few seconds, he ends the call and puts it back into his pocket, crossing his arms and smirking right back at her.
Two minutes later, Carlisle walks over to the front desk. "What's happening down here?"
The girl jumps up and points at Edward. "This man is being rude and should be thrown out. He's being verbally abusive." She says to Carlisle.
Carlisle walks closer and looks at the girl. "I wasn't talking to you." He turns to look at Edward "What's happened?"
"I asked her where Alice was and she was talking on her cell phone about how her boyfriend left her because she cheated on him. Then she refused to tell me Alice's location when I hung up her phone for her." Edward explains.
"Alison, I've spoken to you about taking personal calls while on shift and ignoring your work. I'm going to call your superior and get you written up. Consider this your final warning." He tells her, turning back to his son and motioning for them to follow him.
"Wait! You're believing him over me?" Alison shouts standing up and shouting.
"Yes. I know my son. Stop shouting." He says turning back to look at her and then turning back and carrying on walking.
They walk up the stairs and into the maternity wing, over to Rose, Jake, Alec, and Marcus as Esme comes running down the hallway. She stops in front of them all and smiles. "It's time, she's pushing. I'm going back now." She then runs off in the opposite direction, back into Alice's room.
As the door opens, they hear Alice shout, "Mother of god this baby has a big head!" Before the door closes.
Carlisle and Rose laugh as Edward, Bella, and Emmett sit down and Carlisle walks over to the nurse's desk. Charlie then wakes up and looks up at her mother who gets her out of her car seat before she can start to cry.
"I'm going to get her changed and fed." Bella says standing up just as Alex wakes up and immediately starts crying.
Rose stands up and picks Alex up out of his car seat. "I'll help you."
"Thank you." Bella says gratefully.
"They need to put changing tables in the men's bathrooms." Edward grumbles knowing he can't help his girlfriend.
"I'm trying son, I'm trying." Carlisle says waking back over. "Bella, if you don't want to breastfeed and change them here or in the bathroom, you can use my office. I also have some of Charlie's formula and a baby bottle warmer as well as some baby food for situations like this. I'll lead the way."
"Do you want me to come?" Edward asks.
"No, it's okay, you stay with your sister. Rose, you too. Em?" Bella motions for her brother to help her.
He jumps up and takes a crying Alex from Rose and they walk over to the elevators and up to Carlisle's office on the seventh floor. He opens the door and Bella's jaw drops. It's massive, with a mahogany desk sat in front of the large floor to ceiling window that looks out to the back of the hospital, showing the lovely gardens. There is a huge black chair behind the desk that looks well used and comfortable and a black couch against the right side wall. There are cream coloured walls and the floor is light brown wood. There is a plant in the corner of the room that stretches up to the ceiling and two doors on the left side of the wall.
Carlisle walks over to the closest door on the left and opens it. "Here's the bathroom." He closes it and walks over to the second door. He opens that one and walks in, Bella and Emmett following behind him. "Here's the bedroom, the changing table and all of the baby things are in here." He walks over to a door and opens it, revealing a nursery.
"This is your office?" Bella asks in shock.
"I own the hospital." Carlisle says as if it's nothing.
Bella and Emmett's jaws drop. "You own the hospital!" She exclaims.
"Yes. My practice is about twenty miles away though."
"Jesus Christ." Emmett says.
Carlisle smiles. "I own three hospitals in Seattle and three private practices. My favourite is this hospital and the practice run off of it. It's where I work almost all of the time. I have smaller offices in the other hospitals."
Charlie starts to cry then, making a recently calmed Alex start to cry again as well. "I'll leave you to it." Carlisle says with a smile walking out of the room and then out of the office and back down to his family.
- (AN. If triggered by labour complications or anything surrounding that, stop reading here)
"Is there any news?" He asks when he sees their stressed out expressions.
"They called a group of doctors in to the room. Something's wrong." Rose says with trembling voice.
Carlisle runs off down the hallway and into his daughter's delivery room. Esme sees her husband walk in from her spot in the corner off the room, trying to give the doctors as much room as possible to help her daughter.
"What's wrong?" Carlisle asks frantically.
"The baby is in distress and Alice is bleeding more than we would like." One of the doctors tells him.
Suddenly, Alice passes out and a number of alarms fill the room. "We need an OR, now!" Is shouted.
"I'll go." Carlisle shouts running out of the room and down the hallway to the nurse's station. "Book an OR immediately!"
"Dad, what's wrong?" Edward says running to his side.
"The baby isn't breathing, Alice is haemorrhaging and she need an emergency C-Section." He rushes out.
"OR Five." One of the nurses tells him and he runs off back down the hallway and into Alice's room.
"OR Five!" He shouts in.
"Right, let's go. You will all have to wait here." They're told as they wheel Alice out of the room and to the elevators up to the OR.
Esme falls into her husband's open arms and start to sob on her shoulder. "She'll be fine. They will help her." He simultaneous reassures his wife, son in law, and himself. "Come on, let's go out to the waiting room."
They all walks out of the room and down into the waiting room. Jasper walks past them all and falls into a seat, burying his head in his hands. Edward stands up and walks over to his best friend and putting his arm around him as Bella and Emmett walk back over to them.
"What's happened?" Bella asks.
"Alice has been rushed into surgery." Marcus tells them both.
Bella gasps and looks at Jasper.
Jasper and Edward are talking quietly between them, ignoring everything else and not noticing Bella and Emmett's arrival.
"She can't die." Jasper whispers out, a broken man.
"No one is dying. They will both make it out." Edward says pulling his best friend to his chest. Jasper grabs hold of him and sobs into his chest.
Bella and Emmett sit down and put Charlie and Alex back in their car seats. Jacob is clinging on to his mother, Esme is clinging on to her husband. They stay like this for the next forty minutes until a doctor walks up to them all. Jasper stands up immediately and runs over to him.
"Alice Cullen?" He almost shouts as Edward comes up behind him and pulls Jasper to him to calm him.
"She's out of surgery and in the recovery wing." The doctor says and Jasper breaths out a massive sigh of relief knowing his fiancée is alive and falls to the floor, pulling Edward down with him.
"The baby?" He asks.
"We managed to get the baby out and breathing again, he's stable in the baby I.C.U. He's a bit smaller than we would like as he's only five pounds eight ounces but he's stable so don't worry."
Esme sighs in relief and hugs Rose as Jasper hugs Edward.
The doctor continues. "When we got the baby out, we were able to see the extent of the damage. The placenta had come away, it was weakened because of the fall four months ago, an unfortunate complication, and that was the cause of the bleeding."
"She has been bleeding for four months?!" Esme interrups.
"No, that was caused by labour. However, the bleeding was extensive and she had to have two pints of blood infused."
Jasper stands up. "What are you saying?"
"I'm sorry, but we were not able to save the uterus." The doctor says apologetically.
Jasper falls back again and Edward catches him and pulls him back to his chest.
"Again. I'm sorry. You can go in and see her when she's awake, one of the nurses will let you know." The doctor tells them.
Carlisle steps forward and shakes his hand. "Thank you, doctor."
The doctor smiles sadly, turns around and walks away.
Esme walks over and pulls Jasper to her. "Come on, let's sit down." She pulls him over to the seats and he clings on. "She's fine. He's fine. We need to focus on this."
He looks up, tears in his eyes. "She wanted more. She wanted more children. We had it all planned out."
"You can adopt; you can get a surrogate. There are options. You need to help her through this." Esme explains.
"I just love her so much." Jasper cries.
"I know dear. She loves you too."
"Excuse me? Alice is awake and asking for her fiancée and her mom." A nurse says walking up to them.
Jasper and Esme stand up and wipe under their eyes.
"Follow me." She says with a smile and walking down a hallway.
She stops outside of an open door and gestures for them to walk in. They do and they see Alice laying on a bed with wires coming out of her. Jasper walks up to her and takes hold of her hand, pulling the chair closer and sitting next to the bed. He brushes her hair out of her face and softly kisses her on the lips.
"Hi."
She smiles up at him. "Hi."
Esme walks over to the other side of the bed and sits down.
"Hi mom. Where is he?" She asks.
"He's fine. He's in the baby I.C.U. We haven't been to see him yet. Do you want me to go? I can take pictures of him for you." Esme asks.
"Yes please." Alice smiles.
Esme stands up and smiles, squeezing her daughter's hands and then walking out of the room.
Jasper and Alice watch Esme go and then close the door. Jasper turns back to her. "I'm sorry, but I have some bad news and I think it would be better coming from me." Jasper tells her.
She looks up at him, tears filling her eyes. "I thought you said he was okay."
"He is!" Jasper rushes out.
She sighs in relief and then looks back up at him. "So what is it?" She asks scared.
"The fall you had four months ago weakened the placenta and during labour, it came away. That was the cause of the bleeding that caused you to pass out and our son to stop breathing. They got him out and breathing, he's five pounds and eight ounces by the way, and then they were able to see the damage. They had to infuse two pints of blood but they couldn't stop the bleeding. They couldn't save your uterus, baby, I'm so sorry." Jasper says.
Alice sits there, a blank look on her face and then a tear falls from her eye and she looks down at her stomach, her hands coming to rest on it. She then looks up at Jasper. "I'm sorry."
"What are you sorry about?" He asks her, wrapping his arms around her.
"I can't give you any more children." She cries out on his shoulder.
Jasper pulls away, climbs onto the bed next to her and pulls her over to him. "Babe, you are more than just a uterus. I love you. If we decide later on down the line that we want more children, we can adopt or get a surrogate. There are options, but right now, I'm just happy that both you and our son are alive and well." Jasper says giving Alice a kiss on the top of her head and then on the lips.
"I love you." She says cuddling up to him and closing her eyes.
"I love you too." He says laying his head on top of hers and humming to her until she drifts off to sleep.
There it is, Alice's baby is born. We meet him properly next chapter. Don't hate me for the Alice thing, I felt like we needed more drama but not gun related drama. I think it fits well. Again, I'm not a doctor, haven't got a baby and don't know anybody who does so I may have got some of the details wrong but it's fiction so who really cares. Please review. ~Megan xxx