Full Sum: There is a prophecy that claims that a child of a human and a cold one will posses so many powers that it will cause uproar with mythical creatures. Most of those creatures want one thing; power and they'll stop at nothing to get it. But the Cullen's are unaware of that prophecy and when a pregnant Renee shows up at their home, asking them to take her child, they agree.
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Renee
"Hi, I'd like a room please," I told the elderly inn worker.
"Of course!" she said, happily. "How many nights?"
"A week," I said, pulling out a wad of cash.
"Just you?"
"Yes," I said.
I paid the woman, Clara was her name, before I took the room key and went to my room. I had on room on the second floor. It was nothing special. To me, it just looked like every other hotel room I had been in.
There was a Queen sized bed, two end tables, a dresser, a TV, and a bathroom.
My favorite part of the room would have to be the bay window that gave me a great view of the Denali wilderness.
The scenery looked all wrong to me. I mean, it was beautiful but I guess that I was so use to the boring dark stones being the only thing I saw that my current view just seemed weird.
Sounds silly, right?
I set my heavy bag on the bed and sat down next to it.
I knew Aro wanted me to go straight to the Cullen's but I had time. I didn't want to spend nine months, or however long this pregnancy would be, with strangers.
I'd rather spend it alone.
I placed my hand on my stomach and felt the bump that had started to protrude. I had only found out I was pregnant two days ago and I was already starting to show.
That wasn't normal. Now, my life has been anything but normal these last couple of years but this was something totally different.
My belly grew each day but not just a little each day, like a normal pregnancy. It grew
"Don't grow so fast, okay? I want to spend as much time as I can with you."
I gasped as I felt a kick.
Holy shit.
Did my baby just kick? Wasn't it too early for that? I kept my hand pressed to my stomach, waiting for another kick but it never came.
Maybe the baby only responds when I talk to her.
"Can you kick again? Mommy wants to feel you,"
I smiled as I felt another.
She could understand me. That was a good sign, right? Maybe she wasn't going to be like those immortal children.
I tried not to get my hopes up.
It was a simple command. It wasn't the same as telling her not to drain the poor people of Volterra or telling her to stop throwing a tantrum because it's causing record-breaking destruction.
But what could Carlisle Cullen do that I couldn't?
It would be the same situation, just with a different person. He couldn't make my child stop terrorizing a city. Yes, he may have a better chance if he put her or she on a animal blood diet but still...
I wanted to keep this baby and so I was looking for any way that I could. But just when I thought of a way, the negative of that particular idea would bite me in the ass.
I rubbed my hands over my face and collapsed back on the bed.
As much as I didn't want to do this now, I knew I had to meet with Carlisle Cullen.
I would end up chickening out and running away if I didn't get it over with as soon as possible.
I pulled the Ipad Aro gave me out of my purse and opened up the file on Carlisle.
It told me everything I needed to know.
This advanced piece of technology wasn't something humans ever saw. I mean, the model they've seen as they have Ipads as well but this was invented by a supernatural creature.
It's the best device in the world.
Now only if humans would accept supernatural's as easy as I did. The world would be a far better place. Well, technology wise, at the very least.
This Ipad holds information on every little thing. It had lists upon lists of all the supernatural creatures alive, and dead. It also alerted you as to when a creature was close by.
It came in handy.
But anyway, back to Carlisle's file.
It said he worked at Alaska regional. Since I hadn't had an ultrasound yet, I decided to drop by and see if I was able to get him as a doctor.
I closed my IPad and grabbed my purse before heading downstairs.
"Excuse me, do you know when the next bus is coming?" I asked Clara.
"In about ten minutes," she said. "Where you headed? I could get my husband to take you."
"I just need to go to the hospital."
"Oh, dear, is everything alright?" she asked, concerned. She reminded me a lot of my grandmother.
I smiled, "Yeah. I'm just dropping by to visit someone."
"Oh, okay. Carl!" she yelled.
An older man came out of the backroom.
"Honey, can you take this lovely girl to the hospital? She's visiting a friend,"
"Sure," he said. "Just give me a couple minutes."
"Yeah, sure," I said, offering him a smile.
Carl drove me to the hospital, gave me his number, and told me to call when I needed a ride home. I smiled and thanked him for his kindness before heading into the hospital.
"Hello, what can I help you with?" the nurse manning the front desk asked.
"I need a check up," I said.
"Okay, what happened?"
"Well, I'm pregnant and...I..." I really should've thought of something to say beforehand. "I fell and I wanted to make sure the baby is alright."
"Oh," she nodded. "Fill this out. Another nurse will be out shortly to take you to a room."
I nodded and took the clipboard.
I filled it out and just as I gave it back to her, the nurse called me back. She weighed me, took my blood pressure, you know...the normal procedure before taking me back to the room.
"So can you tell me what happened, Miss. Dwyer?"
"Well, I was...getting out of the shower and I fell."
"How far along are you?"
"Um, four months?" It came out more as a question. The nurse, clearly realizing the same thing, gave me a disapproving look. No doubt because I looked young and had no idea how far along I was.
I'm sure you'd love the long version of how all this came to be, I thought sarcastically.
I could imagine it now. I'd be locked up in a padded cell for mentioning getting knocked up by an Italian vampire.
"Do you smoke?"
"No,"
"Drink?"
"No,"
She asked me a few more questions before leaving me to wait for my doctor. Luck was on my side today, I ended up getting Dr. Carlisle Cullen as my doctor.
"Hello, Miss. Dwyer," Carlisle smiled. "I heard you had an accident."
"Yeah, I just want to make sure the baby is okay."
He nodded, "Well, let's take a look."
He lifted my shirt and spread some gel on my stomach. I looked at the screen as he moved the camera around.
I couldn't see anything.
"Hmm," I heard him say, quietly. It was too quiet, like it wasn't even meant for me to hear.
"Is everything okay?"
He put the camera away and wiped the gel off my stomach, "May I?" he asked.
"Sure,"
He pressed his hands to my stomach and he frowned. To me, my stomach felt cold and very hard so I had no doubt that it felt normal to him.
"It feels normal to you, doesn't it?" Carlisle looked up at me. "Look, I know this is weird but I came to you for a reason."
Carlisle removed his hands from my stomach.
"This child is..." I leaned closer. "Vampire," I whispered. "I'll tell you anything you want to know just...say something."
And please don't lock me up in the loony bin.
"This isn't the place for this type of conversation," he said. "Would you mind coming back to my home with me?"
"Not at all," I said, readjusting my shirt.
Carlisle left and the nurse came in and gave me my discharge papers. She assured me what I already knew, that I was fine, and advised me to come back if I had any discomfort.
I thanked her and left.
When I made it outside, Carlisle was waiting by a black BMW.
"May I ask how this happened?" Carlisle wondered as he helped me into his car.
"I slept with a vampire," I said, blushing.
"And where is this vampire?" he asked.
"You won't believe me if I told you," I said, seriously.
"Try me," he said, offering me a slight smile.
So, I told him everything. I told him about Aro, about the baby, about why I was here and shockingly enough, he didn't kick me out of the car or even call me crazy.
He believed me.
"So, you don't think I'm some nutjob?"
He laughed, "No, I don't."
"And you're willing to help me?"
"Yes," Carlisle said. "It could be very dangerous for you to be around the baby once he or she is born."
"So, you know about them?" I asked.
"No, I had no clue that vampires could even reproduce," he said, frowning. "So, I'll have to take it day by day but if the child is anything like the immortal children, it wouldn't be a good idea to have a human around them."
I shuttered.
"I have a rather large coven," he said as we pulled up to a large brown house. "Don't let them spook you."
"Please, I live in Volterra," I said. "If anything should spook me, it would be them."
"True," Carlisle agreed.
He got out of the car and helped me out before leading me into the house.
Six other vampires waited in the large foyer. Their expressions ranged from curiosity, shock, and even anger. The anger was coming from a tall beautiful blonde vampire who stood just to the left of me.
"Carlisle, what's she doing here?" the blonde hissed.
"Rose," he chided.
"She knows," A boy, the youngest of them all, said. "Impossible."
"It's very possible."
"But how?" he asked.
I looked back and forth between Carlisle and the boy. I was confused. It was like they were having a silent conversation. But I knew that if they were talking in vampire speed, I wouldn't be able to hear them at all.
"What's going on?"
And the other would be able to hear them as well. Did Carlisle have a power to talk to people through his mind?
"She's pregnant," Carlisle said. "With a vampire child."
"But not just any vampire's child," the boy hissed in disgust. "It's Aro's."
Complete silence.
No one said anything. Not even the angry girl, who once pregnancy was mentioned, dropped her anger.
"Vampires can't have children."
"Vampire women can't," Carlisle said. "But I don't see why males can't. Sperm can live for quite a long time so it's not surprising in the least that they're able to father children. This is astonishing, isn't it?"
"Are you sure it's a vampire?"
"Feel my stomach," I said to the blonde.
She stepped forward and hesitantly placed her hand on my stomach. Her eyes widened.
"It's true. Feel,"
One by one, they all felt my stomach. They were all very shocked that this was even possible.
Not even a week ago, I thought it was impossible too but now look where I am.
"Why did Aro chose us?" Edward, the mind reader as I later learned, asked. "We don't even know him that well."
"He knew Carlisle, and he trusts him," I said. "And we don't know what will happen with this baby. The Volturi would kill it, and me, if they knew. That's why Aro sent me away. He knew you'd protect my baby, no matter what."
"We'd try as best as we can," Rosalie, the angry blonde, said. "But when it comes to Immortal children, there isn't much to do. If it won't learn, we can control it."
"But we can try," Esme, Carlisle's mate, said, softly.
"Alice, can you see anything?"
Alice, the small rave haired girl, closed her eyes. After a few moments, her brows furrowed.
"I can't see anything," she said. "Not even us."
"It has to be the baby," Edward said. "You didn't see Renee showing up but you can see every other human that decides to show up at our place."
"But I don't understand why I can't see." Alice said. "I can tell this is going to be frustrating."
"What can't you see?" I asked.
"Alice can see the future," Carlisle explained.
"But she can't see the baby?"
"No," Alice answered. "But that doesn't mean anything. There is only one other time that I haven't been able to see anything and that was when we were in Washington, nearly a hundred years ago. The werewolves that live there make it hard for me to see things pertaining to them, but since we didn't interact with them, we hardly crossed paths."
"But even then you were still able to see us," Carlisle reminded her.
"The baby could have a power," Edward said, suddenly. "It could be a shield."
"Can you feel her?"
"No." Jasper said.
"Edward?"
"I can't hear anything," he said.
"Possible," Carlisle said.
Carlisle, Edward, and Jasper launched into a discussion about several possibilities as to why Alice couldn't see the future of the baby.
To be honest, it sucked that she couldn't. I would've loved to hear that she sees a bright future for my baby and that everything would be okay but I guess not hearing that meant that I was doing the right thing.
"Are you hungry, honey?" Esme asked with kind mother like eyes. "I can make you something to eat?"
"I'm starving actually," I said.
She held out her hand and I took it.
She led me to the kitchen, Rosalie and Alice following us, and made me a sandwich.
"How'd you get mixed up with vamps?" Alice asked, perching on the counter beside me.
"Alice, let her eat," Esme hissed.
"No, its okay," I told her after swallowing another bite of my sandwich. "My parents surprised me with a trip to Italy on my eighteenth birthday. I went with my three best friends and we had a blast. It was the second to last day that I would be in the beautiful city when I ran into Aro. He pretty much swept me off my feet and as crazy as it sounds, I fell in love in two days. He asked me to stay and I did."
"Did you know what he was?"
"Yes," I said. "He was very forthcoming about it."
"What did your parents say about you staying?"
"She was reported missing," Esme answered. "I saw your face on the news a few years ago. My heart went out for them because I knew there was a chance that the Volturi were responsible for your disappearance."
"Do you miss your family?"
"I do," I said. "I really do but I'm happy with Aro."
"Do you really want to give your baby up?" Rosalie asked.
"No," I said. "But I need to do this. Marcus and Caius will kill the baby, even if she isn't immortal because they don't know what she'll grow to be..."
"We'll take good care of the baby," Rosalie said. "We'll do everything we can to make sure they have a great life. Nothing will ever harm her,"
I had only been in the presence of this coven, no this family, for a short while but I felt okay leaving my child in their care. They were good vampires, the best that I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
"I know."
I spent the rest of the day with the Cullen's. I learned right away that Carlisle, Edward, and Jasper were very informative and what they didn't know, they searched for.
While they spent the majority of the afternoon on the computer, and reading through books, to see if they could find any information on Human vampire children, I spent my time with the girls, talking.
It's been so long since I had girls to talk to. The only girls back at Volterra hated me. Jane, I knew why, but the others I wasn't so sure. Was it because they were friends with Jane? Or did they all have past flings with Aro as well and hated me because I was with him?
I never had the chance to ask, mainly because they avoided me.
When it grew dark outside, I decided it was time to head back to the hotel to get some sleep but Esme wouldn't have any of that. She told me that I could stay with them until I had my baby.
"Oh, I couldn't impose like that,"
"Nonsense," she said. "We'd love to have you."
"Really," Alice said. "You should stay."
I bit my lip, "Are you sure?"
"We're sure," Rosalie chimed in.
"Okay, thank you," I said.
"I'll go ready the guest room," Esme said.
"I'll go find you something to sleep in," Alice said.
"I'll go help," Rose said before disappearing up the stairs.
They were so nice. I know I've said it about a dozen times today but it's true. The more I knew them, the surer I felt that leaving my child with them was going to be okay.
They would take care of him or her.
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