A/N: soooooo I left you with a massive cliff hanger. Hopefully it won't happen again. I just had to separate the two chapters and that was the best place to stop, despite that I hated to end it there. Otherwise the chapter would have been ridiculously long. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get this out early, RL was being a bitchy mistress this week. So here we are. Everyone ready to meet the babies? Also, I had a reader and friend tell me the name they liked for the girl baby. Coincidentally I had already picked that one just a different spelling. Great minds and all that right Falala? ;)

Chapter Twenty-Three

Jasper

I shove him out of the way and bite her in several places to spread it quickly. Her neck, wrists, inner thighs. As I bite her Charlotte comes in, steps to a drawer and hands me the syringe I filled with my venom. Carlisle points to where the bleed is and I inject my venom directly. I can only hope it's enough. We watch in fear for the bleeding to slow. When it finally does slow to a trickle and then stops, we all breathe a sigh of relief.

Carlisle removes the after birth quickly, before the venom begins to heal her open wounds and then begins to sew her back up, making my venom's job easier. Now all we can do is clean her up and wait. I want to help clean her up, but Esme shoos me out as Kate comes back in and I leave to go in search of my babies. I was vaguely aware of Kate and Charlotte taking them from the room while we were working on Bella. When I enter the great room Rose has one baby, Charlotte the other. Each with a bottle. We got these specially made steel bottles to hold the blood we knew they would need to drink when they came. It stood to reason that they'd want blood if that's what they wanted inside Bella.

Jake is hanging around the baby Rose has and I know instantly that this is our girl. He looks absolutely in awe and keeps trying to take her from Rose who looks and feels extremely annoyed.

"Back off dog!"

"Come on blondie, you've had her long enough it's my turn."

"Actually, I believe it's my turn," I say as I come up behind them. I peer over Rose's shoulder into my honey brown eyes- my human ones. She has Bella's peaches and cream complexion and her mahogany brown hair. She's so tiny. And so beautiful. Charlotte stands and comes over and holds out the other baby to me.

"This is baby two. Your son Jasper. Congratulations my brother. But what will you name the girl? You and Bella never discussed it."

"I think I have a good name, one Bella would be so happy with," I say as I take my son.

He's a little bigger than his sister and looks just as Bella saw in her dream. He has my blond hair and her chocolate brown eyes. He's a little paler than his sister, but no less beautiful. Rose stands and turns, handing me my daughter. And as I stand here, a baby in each arm, I can't help but feel so full of love and happiness that I'm projecting it. Looking to the family, I look upon equally joyously, happy faces. Esme and Kate rejoin us and I know Bella is situated for now. Looking back down on my children I announce their names to our family.

"May I introduce to you, my daughter- Carlie Reanne Whitlock- named for her grandfather Carlisle and her grandmothers Esme and Renee and Anne. And my son. Micah Alexander Whitlock after mine and Bella's fathers." Their official last names will always be Whitlock like mine, and their mother's once we're married, but they will change when we move- just like the rest of us change our last names depending on where we go.

The joy I see in Carlisle's face says I made the right choice in name for my daughter. Hopefully she will grow to be as kind and compassionate as he is, as wise and strong as well. There are so many traits from everyone in this room that I would love to rub off onto my children. Esme's motherly nature, Rose's take no prisoners attitude, Emmett's kindness and computer smarts, even Alice and Felix have traits I'd love for my children to pick up.

Alice's strength of mind and determination, Felix's strength. I'd love for them to be taught by Garrett and despite his gruffness Peter will make a great uncle. Charlotte has great intuition and drive, Kate has given up her own family to stand by mine. Granted they don't know what all is happening now, except what happened with Edward, but my instincts tell me that she'll stand beside us no matter what.

Then there's their mother. Her strength and determination, her love and kindness. Her willingness to accept everything about a person no matter what. She's defied so many odds. I can't wait for our babies to meet their mother. In fact, I tell everyone I'll be right back and carry them down the hall to Carlisle's study, where he set up the surgery. She's so quiet that I almost can't believe she's changing, but the places I bit her and her surgery cut are all healed or healing.

I move a chair beside her, the rolling one Carlisle uses, and take a seat. Holding the babies where they can see her, I tell them about their mother. "This is your mommy, Carlie, Micah. She's becoming a vampire so she can stay with us. She'll be asleep for a few days, but when she wakes she'll be so excited to see you."

I look down into their tiny faces and smile at the looks of intelligence there. If I didn't know better, I'd say they understood everything I've told them. They're only minutes old, but are already growing fast. They look hours old now, which is upsetting only in that Bella doesn't get to see these first growth milestones. Who knows how big they'll be by the time she wakes, what she might miss. I'll have to get Emmett to get a video camera and start recording every moment they're awake, and some while they're asleep, for Bella.

We sit here for an hour, me telling them about their mom, before their small, pink lips begin to open on yawns. I rock them gently and sing them a song from my youth that my Ma used to sing to me and my siblings to help us sleep. As they drift off I kiss their little heads and kick my feet up onto the foot of the bed Bella is laying in and close my eyes in contentment. The only way this moment could be better is if Bella were awake.

Bella

My whole body is on fire! What is happening? I begin to panic, it hurts so much. I'm screaming in agony! Why isn't someone trying to help me? Where is Jasper? Why has he left me alone to feel the pain? But just as quickly as it starts, the pain lessens. It doesn't leave entirely, but it goes enough to allow me to think. But that can't be right. Jasper told me the change would hurt, that it would feel as if my body were on fire; and he was right, oh how right he was.

Using this gift I've been given for some reason I begin to concentrate on my memories. The newest first. I was pregnant and something happened, the babies- no, one of the babies was in danger. Carlisle gave me morphine and then everything was a blank. I think Jasper knocked me out so I wouldn't feel the pain of being cut open before the morphine took hold. That must be it. Then I'm into memories of my parents and their deaths. Memories of moving to Forks and finding Jasper and learning what he was and that's when it hits me.

He's taking my pain! No! No Jasper don't, don't take my pain, get away! Get away! Our babies, they need you more than I! What if Edward comes back? What if he takes them? Or worse hurts them or tries to kill them? I can't allow Jasper to take my pain away. And that's when I feel something else intervene. Something builds up inside my mind and pushes itself out and away from me. Almost in the same way that I stop him from feeling my emotions at times. The pain increases again and I lose my focus, but it's worked. He's not taking my pain anymore and I drift back off into the sea of my agony as I try to focus on my memories again so I don't lose them like Alice and Charlotte did.

After seeing all my memories I conjure Jasper's face in my mind and focus on it. My beautiful Jasper, my mate, my love, my life.

Jasper

"She's so quiet Carlisle, was I too late?" It's only been a few hours since the babies fell asleep. I called for someone to come get them, softly of course, and Jake and Esme took them out of here while I stayed, but I haven't heard a thing from Bella since she cried out in pain in the bathroom. Concerned something is wrong, I called Carlisle to come to us.

"No son. Listen to her heartbeat. Perhaps it's the morphine keeping her calm like this. Your venom is working. She's getting paler and the c-section cut is healing. Her hair has grown even longer and more luxurious. Feel for her emotions, see what you can tell from that."

I do as he says and I'm immediately on my knees with the force of her pain. She's certainly feeling the change, which hurts me. I remove myself from her emotions and stand back up and tell Carlisle what I felt. It's unnatural to me, I've never seen anyone go through the change without screaming in pain. If it wasn't for the fact that I can feel her pain, I would think she wasn't turning. But it seems Carlisle might be right about the pain drugs.

"That's what I figured then. It has to be the morphine."

"I think you're right. She's still feeling the pain though Carlisle, I hate it. Hate it so much. I can take it from her though. Will you make sure the babies understand why I'm not with them? I need to try and take some of her pain away."

"Do what you think best son. Just try not to take it all. I don't want to see you in pain either."

I nod and watch as Carlisle walks out of the room to leave me with Bella. Then I lay on the bed beside her and probe her mind again for her emotions and begin to slowly leach some of her pain away. Everything is going as I plan, until I'm suddenly being pushed out of her mind. What the fuck is this? Then I remember. Her shield, Alice said it would grow stronger, but I never thought it would happen moments after her change began. Wow. No wonder the brothers want her to help them. If she can push it out, cover others with it, protect them from mental gifts the enemy may have that we're unaware of? That would turn the tide of any battle.

I try again to get inside her mind and take away some of her pain and again, she pushes me out. I'm left to admit defeat, something I never thought would ever happen. Since I can't help my mate, I will go make sure my children are ok, they're probably awake by now. I'm as drawn to them as I am to Bella and since I know there's nothing I can do but be beside her, I'll spend my time with them until she's ready to wake. I'll bring them to see her again, they liked it the first time I'm sure.

It sucks that she never got to see them before I had to put her under. Everything happened so fast. But now we have a bigger dilemma. She was supposed to come back from her "vacation" this weekend. She can no longer live here, or at least she can't be seen here. We do live a fair click outside of town at least, and perhaps as long as she's not seen by any of the locals she can stay hidden.

We can't leave because Jake will follow us, needing to be near his imprint, and he needs to finish his schooling. Plus it wouldn't be fair to Billy to take away the chance to see his son graduate. So now we have to figure out living arrangements. That and now that she's a vampire, the call of her blood to Edward will cease to exist. This could cause some problems too. We need to discuss these things, but Bella should be a part of that discussion.

Heading down the stairs I go in search of the others. I find Alice and Carlisle having a discussion in the Great Room. They stop talking and turn when they realize I'm there. Carlisle looks concerned at me. "Why are you down here Jasper? I thought you were going to help Bella?"

"Well Carlisle, it would seem Alice is right. As is Eleazar. Bella's gift will be immensely strong as a vampire. She pushed me out. I couldn't access her emotions to take the pain." I look to Alice and she just smiles. I wonder if she knew that would happen, if so why didn't she say something.

"I didn't see it, swear. Too busy watching for our little narcissist. He's still in Montana for now. But since you're here. Carlisle and I have a plan. One I've seen will work, had to search for it though- it didn't just come to me."

"Is that what you were discussing?" They nod. "Well tell me about it then. Now Bella is changing, we can't show our faces in Forks again, though leaving is problematic due to Jake." We could probably leave, take him with us and enter him in another school, but it would be a lot of hassle and totally unfair to Billy to take his underage son away from him just because he's imprinted on my daughter.

It's a simple thing for us to stay away from Forks. The pack know us and we can use the beaches only used by the pack kf it comes to moments like that. Seattle holds less chance of running across anyone we know from here too. There are always around our current situation. We just have to choose the best solution. For now, explaining why Bella and I didn't come back is our main priority. That and Edward. We take a seat, positioned where I can see the others with the twins outside the Southern Windows. And Carlisle tells me their plan.

"So in order to explain your disappearances, we'll say you were in a car accident. That it was bad, nothing left. That way we can have a funeral, but no caskets to bury, just ashes to spread. We will mourn, and you two will stay hidden for a few days, we can discuss anything else after the funeral is over.

"We of course have to claim it happened elsewhere, Emmett is busy now making up a fake news article of the crash in Oregon, the story will be that you were on your way home- you guys extended your trip for the whole month instead of the two weeks Mr. Newton knew about- when you hit a bad rain storm, lost control of the car and it went off a cliff and burst into flames.

"As there was a bad rainstorm in Oregon two days ago, it's plausible. They had to identify you by dental records and we just found out today because it took them this long to find your family. We'll get the 'ashes' some time tomorrow and set up the 'funeral' for Saturday, that way we can have a couple days after Bella wakes to talk about the plan for the rest of us. Do we move, stay, things like that.

"Also, since we tend to doubt Edward won't hear about this, we've come up with a plan for that too. We're going to spread word through the pack and the Denali coven that she decided she wanted to up her change because of him and isn't dead. We're hoping he'll react a bit like that James character Alice here told us about. Get angry at being thwarted and look to the enemy we're looking for for help." Alice took over then.

"All I've seen the last two weeks from him is his constant debate with himself about how he's going to get her. His desire has been increased by being thwarted the last time, but he knows he can't just come in like a crazed person and take her, especially since he also now knows the pack will protect her too. He knows he can't fight us all. I'm hoping this will piss him off enough to send him running for help to get revenge."

"With our decision, shouldn't you see that it'll work?"

"Not really. He still has to decide what to do about these rumors. Until he makes a decision as well, I won't see anything. Every decision about anything can change the outcome of that certain event. So we need all decisions to come in. Until he hears about you and Bella, he won't make any decisions. Plus the fact I can't see the pack or the twins could hinder my visions as well since I can't see them and anything that might involve them directly. This is just another one of those gut feelings."

"Well you know how I feel about trusting your gut, but let's make sure we remain vigilant. We can't rely on your gift so much anymore since actions we have made have made your visions moot twice now. You may see he's still in Montana, but he can leave at anytime without deciding it. I'm sure his lust for her blood is driving him crazy. When you have another one, we'll decide how to handle the situation from there. I'd also like Bella to be a part of any discussions on Edward. It's her she's after, after all. Now that we're done here, I'm going to head outside. Why are they out there anyway? It's getting kind of cold isn't it?"

"I understand. We'll wait for Bella to wake unless I have another vision. As for them being outside, remember they're hotter than the average human Jasper, like the pack just not as hot. Plus Rose wanted to take in some fresh air, the smell of wet dog was getting to us all, so she lured Jake outside," Alice says with a laugh. Now that the babies are born, they're no longer just a static in her mind but a blank like the pack and her head no longer hurts. I'm glad.

We head outside and I stare in awe at what I see. My babies are only hours old, but they're already sitting up on their own in the grass. There's still an adult like intelligence in their eyes and the second I step out they immediately start bouncing in their excitement to see me. When they smile, I see they have several teeth already. As I watch that's when I feel it, one of them is projecting. One of them has my gift.

I move to their sides and eye them both for a moment until I realize it's coming from Carlie. Then I wonder if Micah is gifted too. It doesn't take long to learn that he is, because the others move to get up to give me some alone time with them. But Micah doesn't seem to like that because he begins to frown and the next thing we all know Rose hit's what seems to be a wall, then she's suddenly frozen from the waist down unable to move from that spot. She looks around, waves her arms as if testing whatever has her, seemingly tries to step forwards but her legs won't move.

She looks at us all in astonishment. "I can't move. It's like he's frozen me to the ground."

Peter lets out a loud laugh. "Well I'll be damned! Sounds like he's got a physical version of Bella's shield. What do you think Major?"

"Perhaps. For now I don't care. Let them be kids. By the rate it looks like they're gonna grow, they might not be kids for long."

"I think you might be right Son. Perhaps we should keep their growth rate calculated? It would help immensely. Perhaps I can calculate how long we have until they're considered grown."

"All right Carlisle. But no more than four times daily."

"Fair enough."

I sit and tell Micah to let his aunt go, that she'll stay, and we watch as she moves her legs and smiles. I tell him that he shouldn't use his gift to get what he wants and then start playing with them and learning their personalities. Something they weren't able to show me earlier, too tired from their entrance into this world. Carlie is rambunctious. She likes the attention on her and her laughter echoes across the river and fills our souls with joy.

Micah is more like me. Quiet, reserved, observant. They are amazing. Simply amazing. I can't wait for Bella to wake and get to meet them, I just hope their blood is so different that she doesn't lose control and attempt to eat them. This whole venture could prove tricky, yet interesting. It seems no one else is bothered by their blood though, so I'm hoping for the best.

Today is the day Bella was due according to Carlisle. September twenty ninth. It's been nearly three days since her change started and she hasn't made a sound. If it weren't for the signs that her change is almost over, I would be sure I'd done something wrong for the first time ever- despite the reassurances that it has to be the morphine. Surely it should have burned off by now? But her heart has slowed its beating, her lungs are struggling for breath and she's taken on the look of a vampire.

I came in here to be alone for a few minutes. The constant bickering between Rose and Jake has grated on my nerves. I get Rose has always wanted a baby but she has to remember she has no claim on Carlie or Micah except as an aunt, she constantly has either one or the other. I've grown used to Jake's claim. After seeing him interact with my daughter I can see he truly does love her as a brother would. I'm sure when she gets older it'll turn into more but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

They're growing exceptionally fast too. Three day old babies look months old. I just wish we could talk to someone about how fast they'll continue to grow, when they might stop growing, and if they will be immortal. Demetri has had no luck. He's chasing something that happened a long time ago after all. There's no one to remember it and if there is a hybrid out there, they're remaining hidden. Maybe when all this mess is over we can go looking on our own.

If that location turns out to be a bust maybe we can see what we can learn in Ohio. It's more recent so people might remember it better. Though finding the hybrid in question will still be difficult. It's doubtful they're still there if they still live. And again, Demetri probably can't track them well. He's not infallible after all. My desire to know more about my children has to be set aside due to Edward and this enemy and it angers me. In a time I should be happily living my life, I have to worry about keeping them all safe. It's enough to drive one mad. Sometimes I come up here with Bella alone just to sit with my thoughts.

I've brought the twins in here to see their mother time and time again in the last three days too though. They sit beside her quietly and play with her hair. I'm hoping that having their scent around her will help her cope when she wakes, then maybe it won't take her nearly as long to be around them. They love her very much. I can feel it everytime I bring them in here. Our 'ashes' arrived and so Esme and Carlisle are gone to finalize plans for our 'funeral'. Everyone has acted the part of devastated family to perfection. Alice hasn't seen anything from Edward so far, but surely he'll make a move soon.

I'm about to get up and go check on the babies when I hear the sounds of Bella's heart beating out its final beats before everything goes silent. I watch her take a deep breath and move away from her, closer to the window, to give her some space. I'm expecting her eyes to shoot open and for her to get defensive at my presence, but she surprises me. She takes another deep breath and then her tongue peeks from between her lips as she tastes the air. Then her eyes open slowly and she looks above her, if she sees what I do then she's staring at the dust motes in the air.

Finally she turns her head and, uncannily, looks directly at me; and smiles. She sits up slowly and moves gracefully towards me. I brace myself for an attack, but she simply walks up to me and hugs me making me grunt at the pressure. "Careful darlin', you're much stronger than me now." She laughs and pauses to listen to the bell like sound before she loosens her grip just slightly.

We stand like this for a while and I see the others standing in the doorway watching in shock. None of us has ever seen a newborn so controlled. I feel for her emotions and all I can feel is contentment and love. In the back of her mind she's registering the thirst, but it isn't at the forefront of her emotions. Amazing! She finally lets me go and the others leave before she sees them, though I'm sure she's heard and smelled them. Rose wasn't with them so she must have been with the babies.

"Come on Jazz, I need to feed so I can see our babies."

"Wow Bella, do you get how amazing you are right now?" She looks at me in confusion so I explain it to her. "Most newborns would have attacked me for being so close. But you walked up to me and hugged me like you missed me. Then I know you had to know the others were there, but you ignored them. Now you're calmly telling me you need to feed so you can see our babies. So as I said, amazing. Plus all I can feel coming from you is your love for me and contentment. Not your hunger and you're definitely not angry. It's just super weird. I'm so used to one thing and here you are turning all my knowledge of newborns on its head."

"Oh. Well, maybe we can come up with a theory as to why I'm so controlled later. Right now I want to see my babies and I know to do that I need to feed so I'm safe to be around our twins. So lead the way cowboy." To say I'm shocked at her behavior is an understatement. I have never encountered anyone like her. She truly is one of a kind.

Taking her hand we jump out the window and make our way into the forest, Rose and the others will let Carlisle and Esme know where we've gone and I have my phone just in case Alice has a vision. We make our way through the woods and head up into the Olympic Mountain Range where our prey will be abundant. When we get close enough to something that will be easy for her first time, a small deer, I stop our progress and have her listen.

"Take it all in. Use your senses. Smell, hearing, taste. Close your eyes and relax." I watch with pride as she takes it all in and immediately hears what I did. Her eyes shoot open and she heads towards her prey, but before she can attack the wind shifts- and I'm cursing myself for a fool.

She catches the human's sent just after I do and before I can grab her she's gone. I use all my speed to catch up with her, just barely missing catching her up as she reaches the base of the cliff the human is climbing and I watch as she scales the cliff with ease, following behind her as swiftly as I can. She hits a ledge and pauses long enough for me to catch her and immediately she gets defensive.

Standing with my hands where she can see them I try to ease her. "Listen to me Bella, darlin'. You don't want to do this. You kill him and you'll regret it. I know you. Taking the life of an innocent will hurt you. Fight it. Let me help you." She looks around as she wars with herself, then suddenly she's leaping from the cliff and gone.

"Or not," I mutter as I follow after her, smiling at how amazing she is. I track her scent back towards the deer she left behind and get there just in time to watch her launch herself, not at the deer- but at the mountain lion that tried to claim her prey.

She's a fucking natural! The dress Esme put her in gets a few rips from the cat's claws, but not many. She drains the animal and the next thing I know she's on me.

Bella

As I finish draining the cat, the blood going down my throat surprisingly easy, I turn and look at my mate and the sight of him stuns me for a moment. With my new sight I can see every perfect line of his face and it makes me wonder what his body will look like to my vampire eyes. Only one way to find out. I launch myself at him and then we're all tongues and teeth and hands, clothes flying, and as he stands before me absolutely naked I can see why I turn him on so much.

He's magnificent. The ridges and lines of the muscles on his torso make me wet with need. I don't even see his scars as I take in every perfect inch of him. And he's mine. All mine. He soon gets tired of my perusal and grabs me about the waist and lays me on the forest floor, where he enters me seconds later and it's then that I realize just how much he always held back.

Our loving is rough and fervent. We can't seem to get enough of each other and make love over and over again until the sun reaches its zenith above us. It's when he mentions the babies probably eating lunch- as he tells me all I've missed since I've been out- I realize we've been here far too long and need to get home to them. As we gather the ruins of our clothes I realize that it seems mine are actually the only ones ruined.

He hands me his shirt and pulls on his jeans and then we're racing each other and laughing on our way back to the house. We jump back through the study window and head upstairs to get some new clothes and then he's gently leading me back down them to go find our children. When we enter the great room the whole family is within, including Alice and Felix. They move so they're within grabbing distance if I lose it, Jasper holding my arms just in case.

I move further into the room and Rose and Peter come into view. The babies in their arms- seeing Peter holding a baby is surreal of I'm honest- are much bigger than I imagined, months old at least. A pretty little girl with my hair and what I assume are Jasper's human eyes, and the boy from my dreams. Blond like his father with my eyes. They're holding their torsos up perfectly and their smiles are wide and full of teeth. They look nothing alike, so they're not identical, but they each have something of Jasper and I. They're patting their holders on the cheek and pointing at me and I'm hit with so much excitement it stuns me a moment. Jasper leans down and whispers in my ear.

"That's Carlie darlin'. Near as we can tell she got my gift while Micah got a version of yours. His shield is physical though. They're intelligent too. Not childlike, adult like. You'll see what I mean when you start to interact with them. Carlie got my human eyes. And they're fraternal twins, not identical."

"What is her full name Jazz?" It saddens me a moment to know I don't even know what my daughter is called, though if he's named our son Micah then it's probably Micah Alexander Whitlock like we planned.

He proves me right. "Our son is Micah Alexander Whitlock, like we planned. I named Carlie for Carlisle and Esme, Anne and Renee. Carlie Reanne Whitlock. Esme's middle name is Anne, so it fit."

"I love it."

"I knew you would. So let me tell you a bit more. Carlisle measures them every four hours, except when they're asleep. They've grown a lot and quickly as you can see, so I've gotten Emmett to film them while they're awake, even while they were asleep on night. You can watch those later when they nap. I'll tell you about everything else later. I'm sure you're too focused on the twins to care about Edward or anything else. Now let's take this slow and don't block your emotions."

I nod in agreement to his words and we walk towards our children together. I take more of them in as we move. They're so beautiful. Rosy cheeked, flawless pale skin. They have the baby fat most babies have. I take a deep breath, the family tensing and Jasper's hands holding just a little tighter, but I smell nothing but baby powder and scents unique to them both. Their blood doesn't call to me, I don't even notice it.

These are my babies. I carried them inside my body and loved them from the moment I realized they were within me. I feel Jasper's hands move off my arms and the family relaxes. I move closer and take them both in my arms and breathe in their sweet baby scent deeply. Carlie smells like roses and sunshine, Micah like grass and pine. They smile at me and pat my cheeks and their father walks up next to me, pulling my eyes to his. His smile is wide as we have our little moment.

Moving, I take a seat in the floor next to the toys they were playing with- ones we bought during the pregnancy- and they show me how they play with them and it's then I see what Jazz was talking about when he spoke of their intelligence. They play with a stack of blocks and soon have a rather nice looking tower built. Their hand eye coordination is amazing. We sit like this for a while, they get fed human blood in a bottle every so often. But whenever Carlisle tries to feed them baby formula they refuse it and put up a huge fuss. I can't blame them, it smells disgusting.

Soon it's time for them to go to bed and I gently rock my son as Jasper rocks his daughter and I can't find a perfect way to describe this moment, so I simply close my eyes and enjoy it while it lasts. After they're completely asleep Jasper gets Emmett to put in one of the tapes and I watch as they grow and change while I was changing myself. Everything is perfect in this moment. For now.

A/N: so Bella is now awake. I hope you like my name for them. I know some like Renesmee but I didn't. I know they wanted unique, but that was way more than unique for me. lol.

Also, from what I saw in the books bellas shield is not physical. She can just push it out and block only mental gifts. Alec's gift is technically a mental one because all our senses are developed in our minds first. Touch, our finger touch things, send those things back to our mind which in turn tells us how those things feel. Everything centers in our minds- so Alec's gift is mental. If you remember. When Jasper and Alice came back, they walked through Bella's shield. So it's not physical. So she didn't push Jasper out physically, she just blocked her gift from her mind where she would be focusing on the pain since her nerves and such would be sending receptors to her brain and her brain would be telling her she's in pain. Hope this helps everyone understand.