Chapter 8

After Carlisle stitched up my forehead Esme began to cook some food. She reached into the freezer and pulled out a steak and then cut up some tropical fruit to make a fruit salad. Bella went up stairs to check in on Jacob. We decided not to inform him on the blessing until he was feeling much better. After I ate dinner Carlisle and I decided to try drawing blood the old fashion way with a needle. It was a complete success in that it penetrated my skin and we got a whole vile of blood. Carlisle took the blood to hospital to test it.

He finally came back home two hours later enough time for me to eat and find that my forehead had finally healed. Carlisle confirmed the suspicion with no more than a look in his eyes and of course Edward knew with out a shadow of a doubt while the rest of us just assumed. Carlisle took Emmett and Jasper outside to get help carrying in some equipment from the hospital. "Well I have to say I never thought I would see this medical equipment come back into one of my homes." Esme was the only one of us that could even think of the last time this equipment was at the other Cullen house.

Once the equipment was set up Carlisle and Bella went with me upstairs to have an alter sound. Our first fear of the baby being a quick grower like myself was finally proven to not be. "Thank God! Maybe she won't have to fight like I had to. However, I would go through it over and over again just for her." My mom kissed my head where the stitches had fallen out. "Since there appears to be no rapid growth perhaps she will have a normal pregnancy. Well as normal as our family gets." Carlisle still didn't seem to have his mind at easy.

Jacob bust through the door leading into Carlisle's office. "I just heard the news. Edward told me after I inhaled the food Esme made. Is she going to be ok?" I reached for his hand and he took it with no hesitation. "Don't worry as far as we can tell it isn't anything like when mom was pregnant with me. With the exception that I need to cater to the baby's nourishment needs as she did." Jacob took a deep breath and flushed out all his worries and became relieved and then realized he was to be a father.

"I am going to be a dad." I kissed his hand that was still clenched tightly inside of my own. Jacob had never really said he wanted to be a parent but it was one of those things I just always knew. Now the question of what this baby would be haunted me. Was this really a blessing? This child will have so many natural enemies mixed inside of it. There would of course be vampire and human and then throw in the mix of werewolf and this could really be difficult.

It will be a very interesting thing to see what a hybrid vampire and a werewolf would make in breeding. The vampire inside me was fearful of my werewolf child, but my human heart didn't care. This was my child and I already loved it, and to make it all better this child was part Jacob and I could never hate anything that was part of him. I swear I could almost see the same thoughts in Jacobs eyes I looked deep into them and said, "Don't worry, all we have to do is sit and wait for the fog to lift and I just know everything will be fine."