Author's Note:

"Has she come round yet?" one voice asked.

"No not yet. That's the thing about humans, they black out at the flick of a switch" another voice said.

Then I realised that I was gently being shaken and someone was whispering my name as if that person was whispering the name of a goddess and trying, no pleading, for her to come before him in body and soul.

Then I realised that the person who was whispering to me was the same person who was gently shaking me.

Then I recognized the voice and realised the voice belonged to Marcus.

As he continued his whispering I listened to his voice. I hadn't realised until that point that his voice sounded like small bells chiming. It was as soft as satin. I could fall asleep to that voice every single night if he would allow me.

All of a sudden all of these thoughts went rushing through my head.

The same Marcus that was a king.

The same Marcus who was a vampire.

The same Marcus that was there when I fainted.

The same Marcuse that had called me his soul mate.

I think I nearly fainted again when that thought crossed my mind.

"Do you hear that?" The first vampire asked.

"Yeah, I do," said the second voice.

"What? What do you hear?" Marcus asked quickly.

"You are a vampire brother you should be able to hear what we hear. Especially if Felix can hear it because you are older than he is," said the first voice.

So Felix was the second voice, I thought.

WAIT, I thought, WHAT ARE THEY HEARING?

"Oh," Marcuse sighed with I assumed was relief, "her heart is speeding up."

"That means, maybe, if you talk to her she could hear you, Brother," the first voice said.

"Maybe, if you talk to her, Marcus, she may wake up, "Felix suggested.

"Bella, please wake up, for me, for al of us. I'm sorry if it was too soon to tell you that you are my soul mate. I am so sorry. I will beg for your forgiveness if that is what it takes. Just, please wake up," Marcus said. After that he just kept repeating the words 'Please Wake Up' to me.

I woke up.

My eye lids started to flutter.

"Bella?" Marcuse asked.

My eyes finally opened and stayed open.

"Oh thank goodness, Bella, you're alright, you scared me," Marcus said as he wrapped his arms around me and hugged me to his chest.

My body stiffened. I stopped breathing. I stopped blinking.

I was a statue.

Marcus stopped his murmuring and pulled away to look at my face.

I could feel the tears running down my cheeks.

The memories of the night before Edward left for the second time came flooding back to me.

MEMORY

My dad had gone out for the night so when Edward climbed in through my bedroom window we had the house to ourselves.

He walked straight to me and kissed me so deep I felt as if I could have drowned at the bottom of the ocean and I would not have cared.

But then he started to cross his boundaries.

He lifted me, walked over to my bed, dropped me on the mattress and held himself above me, balancing on his elbows.

That's when he started to really surprise me.

His hand began to sneak up my shirt and started to trace the bottom of my bra.

"Hello love," He whispered before he started to kiss me again.

That was the night I lost my virginity.

As I laid there in Edward's arms I felt completely content and happy.

"I love you," he whispered in my ear.

He held me for the rest of the night.

That was the last time he held me.

END OF MEMORY

By the end of the memory I was fully sobbing but other than the violent shaking that was going through my body was completely still.

No blinking.

No breathing.

Not even thinking.

Until I felt the nudge in my stomach.

My sobbing stopped.

My hands flew to my stomach.

My eyes snapped to my stomach.

"I think I am pregnant," I said before I fell back, fainting again.

"Bella, Bella, wake up. Come on open your eyes," Marcus was saying as he stroked my cheek and my eyes began to flutter open for the second time in one day.

"How can I be pregnant?" I asked them as I sat up. I directed the question to Aro and Felix not wanting to meet Marcus's eyes.

"When two people love each other very much, or are incredibly drunk, they decide to do the horizontal folk dance, which is also known as-," I cut Felix off.

"I know how people get pregnant but I have only had sex once and it was with a vampire," I said.

"You have to have had sex with someone else," Felix said, "It is impossible for a vampire to conceive, produce or have a baby."

"Nope, only had sex once and it was with a vampire," I said.

I tried to keep my face calm and smooth but I couldn't. All this talk about babies and sex with vampires was making all the unwanted memories of my last night with Edward come rushing back to my head. Because of these thoughts I could feel a traitor tear roll down my cheek.

Because of the tears I had cried, because of all the things Edward had done to me, because of all the things that happened because of something to do with Edward was the reason I was going to kill him if or when I was turned into a vampire.

Marcus gently caressed my cheek with his thumb, wiping away the traitor tear that had fallen.

"Enough talk about sex with vampires, okay?" Marcus asked the other two vampires in the room while looking into my eyes.

The other two looked at me and nodded their heads looking sheepish.

"I'll need a pregnancy test to know for sure," I informed the three vampires in the room.

"Aro, you do some research on this type of situation. Felix, you go to the store and buy some pregnancy tests. I'll make sure Bella gets fed," Marcus ordered.

Aro and Felix raced out of the room to do the jobs Marcus had given them while I closed my eyes and tried to control my breathing and emotions.

"Bella?" Marcus asked cautiously, "Are you alright?"

"Do I look alright? I may be pregnant with my ex-boyfriends baby not to mention he was a vampire. I ran away from home to Italy and went straight to the rulers of the fucking vampire world. I may never see my family again. My shape-shifting best friend probably hates my guts or thinks I am dead and you are asking if I am ALRIGHT? Why do you care anyway? You'll probably just do what Edward did. Play with the little human and then leave," I said.

"I care because you are my soul mate and I am worried about you. I will not do what Edward did to you. I will worship and cherish you in the way you deserve. I am sorry I asked you if you were alright. It was a stupid question. Quick non-stupid question. Do you really have a shape-shifting best friend?"

"Yeah. He can only turn into a wolf though but un-like werewolves he can change at anytime he wants and the gene is carried through the family," I answered.

I looked into his eyes and all I saw was devotion, worry, love and adoration.

Felix had returned at that point and had handed me 5 boxes all containing pregnancy tests.

I stood up and walked into the bathroom. I conducted all five tests and placed them in the sink. I set the timer on my phone for ten minutes and sat on the bed twiddling my thumbs waiting for my timer to go off.

"Don't worry beautiful. We'll work it out somehow. Trust me," Marcus said as he wrapped hi arms around my waist and pulled me onto his lap.

I don't know why but I didn't fight him. I just curled into a ball on his lap and cuddled into his chest waiting.