Chapter 29
Stephenie Meyer owns it all. Really if she wanted my story I would give it to her as well.
"I can't believe that you thought sulking about the fact that you haven't seen my penis yet was what you thought would lure me into the bedroom."
"Hey now, you make me feel like I'm a villain trying to steal your virtue or something."
"No, you're the one with your virtue still intact. My little virgin Mary"
"Edward Cullen, that is blasphemous. You know you could easily solve that problem."
"We have discussed this already. Tonight is date night. The least you could do is have a nice stay at home date with me, without the pressure of sex. I'm not a piece of meat you know."
The conversation had been along the same caliber all night. It was now 3:30 in the morning and they had been up most of the night, sitting on the couch, legs intertwined. Edward had made a fire in the fireplace, and they were drinking soda's, chatting about all the important things in life.
Things like favorite Bond movies, favorite childhood vacation spots, and where Bella had gotten her plethora of scars from.
Edward had only one scar and he was only willing to show Bella when they had sex, because apparently the mere sight of its whereabouts would put her into an estrogen fueled frenzy that she may not recover from.
"I'm deadly serious Bella, it's near my crotch and I'm worried that if I even start to take my pants off at this stage you are gonna want to hump me."
"Ugh, what's the worst that could happen? I'm already knocked up! Such a killjoy!" Bella lovingly slapped him on the arm.
"Seriously, I'm not playing your kinky S & M games, so you can stop with the seductive slapping, I know you're are trying to get into my pants."
"Those pants are ridiculous, by the way. They're barely hanging off your hip bones. Earlier, when you reached up, I caught a glimpse of your V-zone.
You aren't worth the effort of attempting to hump. You don't even woo a girl before getting her married and knocked up."
"Hey, I'm the King of woo. It's not my fault you're so cheap and easy that I didn't even have to go to the effort of wooing you. Poor Bella, woo-less and knocked up."
"There does need to be more wooing. After we go to Judge Laurent tomorrow and tell him that we obviously did bad, bad things that we don't even remember doing and the consequences are that somehow I'm pregnant. Maybe I'll just send Rosalie along and she can tell Laurent. My career is in the toilet anyway."
"You know, Bella, you could be a kept lady. I have more than enough to care for you and the baby until he or she is old enough for you to go back to work. Or when the law lets you go back to work."
"Blech, I don't want to talk about it. Let's just face the music again tomorrow and let whatever happens happen."
"It's not tomorrow, it's today. I should probably get the mother of my child safely back to her home so she can be all fresh and bright for our rendezvous with destiny."
"Awww, did you just call me the mother of your child? That's kind of cute there, Mr. Cullen."
"Yes, Mrs. Cullen, I guess it is kind of cute. I don't want you to go home, but we can't afford for us to look like anything inappropriate occurred tonight. Which for a change, we managed to have a night together where we didn't do anything stupid at all."
"Wow, miracles do happen! Okay, big boy. Call me a cab and I shall lumber off home."
"Um, I only have to call your security detail. They've been outside for the last few hours."
"I have a security detail?"
"Well, seeing as the mother of my child won't accept my offer of bulking up her home security, I hired a security detail to watch your home. So at least they can be useful and take you home right now."
"I should be angry at you, but that is very sweet. You know one day you are going to make a wonderful father."
"And one day you will make a very annoying wife and mother. Please let me put a better alarm system into your house."
"Ok, Mr. Over-Protective."
"Whoa, did I win an argument?" Edward was grinning, his eyebrows arching with amusement.
"You won two arguments tonight. Security plus no-sex."
"I've just realized that I'm the dumbest man on earth at present."
Bella kissed him gently.
"No, you're very sweet. Which I may have said several times already. All right, let Mr. Security Dude know that we're heading out. But before I go, please kiss me again, as it will have to tide my hormones over for now."
Edward gently kissed her and she could feel his reluctance as he pulled away from her.
They said their farewells and Gareth, the security detail, walked her to his waiting vehicle.
She arrived home with a huge smile on her face. Exhausted she fell into bed, kitten heels and all.
The next morning she managed to get an emergency appointment with Dr. David. Edward met her at his office and was far calmer than she had expected him to be.
"So what happens at these things?"
"Well I go pee on a stick again, and he orders blood tests and I guess I have an ultrasound or something to confirm the conception date of the baby. I will get him to confirm that I have not had sex recently and then we take this to Judge Laurent."
"This takes the romance out of it a bit doesn't it? I'm really sorry, Bella. This is not how I pictured what it would be like going to confirm that my gorgeous wife is pregnant. It shouldn't be this technical. This should be easy." Edward gently rubbed her arm. This guy really did step up when he was required. It was getting harder to believe he was the douchebag who had said all the hateful diatribe on national radio.
"Well there isn't too much romance when stirrups and peeing on plastic sticks are involved.
Or worse, peeing into cups. I have terrible aim. I wonder how that's going to be when I am hugely pregnant?"
"You might have to wear Crocs."
Bella looked puzzled.
"You know those rubbery slip on shoes, you can hose them off if pee gets on them."
"I will never wear shoes completely made out of rubber. Not unless they are red underneath and have Louboutin written on them in cursive."
"Well you never know how the hormones might effect you- you might start wearing flannel and no makeup."
"Then you should put me in a mental hospital because there ain't no way that I am resorting to that, hormonal or not." Bella shuddered. Ish, flannel.
The clinic nurse gave Bella a sterile jar and pointed in the direction of the bathroom.
Edward waited, looking apprehensive when Bella reappeared, giving the warm little bundle that she had wrapped up in toilet paper to the nurse.
A few moments later they were called in by Dr. David. Bella introduced Edward as her husband, which lead to a confused look from the doctor. They sat waiting as he called in the nurse and he reviewed the results of the in office pregnancy test.
"So Miss Swan, err Mrs Cullen,- this is unusual. My test confirms that you are pregnant, and from what I understand from the paperwork here this occurred the night of your being drugged in Vegas?"
"Yes Dr. David, and can we confirm that with ultrasound?"
"Yes of course, I always do an ultrasound on the first visit. We want to check that the little peanut is in the right place and of course I can roughly confirm dates, but at this stage it'll be give or take a week. Your 18 week diagnostic ultrasound will be a bit more accurate. If you would like we could do that now. Did you want your husband to come in?" Bella was surprised at how well the Doctor was adapting to her situation. She guessed he saw all sorts.
Bella looked at Edward and he nodded, although he looked like he wanted the earth to swallow him up.
"It's just an ultrasound of the abdomen Edward; I'll do the internal with you out of the room if that is easier for you. Bella?"
Will the internal hurt Bella or the Baby? I don't want the needs of the court and evidence to be outweighing any risks to her."
Bella was impressed with his questioning. It was very endearing. He was taking to this fatherhood thing like a duck to water. She, on the other hand, was starting to feel an immense sense of panic setting in. She was pregnant. This was happening.
She sat up on the high, yet not particularly wide table.
Dr. David had her lift up her shirt and he had her pull down her skirt far enough to expose her pubic bone. She noticed that Edward averted his eyes. She held his hand and nodded that it was ok and they both waited for the images to appear on the black and white screen.
"Ok, so we have a nice little sac here, this is the uterus, good positioning, nicely attached there and here we have your baby, just one single viable pregnancy by the looks of it." The doctor took some measurements on the screen and Bella noticed the pregnancy counted in weeks and days. 8 weeks 4 days. The day of their Vegas indiscretion.
Bella was busy formulating her defense of the situation in her mind, when she noticed that Edward was tearing up.
"Are you okay?" She tentatively asked. He seemed like an Alpha male type at times, but in this moment she understood that he was just a big softie with a hardened exterior that he put on for show.
"Um yes", he sniffed "Just some dirt in my eye...can we get a print out of the ultrasound?"
Edward turned and was trying to mime that he was getting out the offending irritant.
"Oh Edward, you're so cute." She eyed Dr. David who was shaking his head, "I mean, we had better get a tissue for that pile of mud in your eye and yes, could we have a few pictures?"
"Yes, because we need them as evidence and I would like to show my mum and dad." Edward mumbled the last part of his sentence.
They finished up the appointment, Dr. David confirming that she did not appear to have had intercourse at that stage and he offered to be a witness during the preliminary hearing. He was able to identify that while a conception without penetrative intercourse was possible, it was difficult to prove. He would research it further to provide as much of a compelling case as possible.
Later that day...
They had called ahead to Judge Laurent's rooms and he was taking lunch at 1:00. They waited in his chambers, having been directed there by Gianna. He sighed as he walked into his office. He had directed Gianna not to make lunchtimes appointments.
"Did we not sort this out yesterday? I have received all the paperwork, this is over as far as I'm concerned." Laurent opened up his office, again cursing as to where his secretary was. Gianna was going to find herself fired.
"We will try to be brief. Judge Laurent it has come to my, I mean our attention that on the night of our well indiscretion, that though not having technically and lawfully defined penetrative sex, that I have become pregnant." Bella sighed. It was so much easier telling a Judge using legal jargon than it had been breaking it to Edward. The worse that could happen was jail time.
"I'm sorry, Miss Swan, did you just tell me you are pregnant?"
"Yes Judge Laurent."
Laurent sat very still, almost statue like in his stillness. He had a good game face, Bella would give him that, she could not see at all what was going on in his mind. Laurent was a good man. At least he would be thorough. This was going to be damaging.
"This is contempt of court, Miss Swan. Or Mrs. Cullen, as the case may be. The marriage, well we can prove this occurred due to a drug state, however, it is going to be difficult for you to prove that the pregnancy occurred on the night in question. At this point Miss Swan, I am going to take this under advisement and I feel from this stage on we shall follow the letter of the law. Your license is hereby suspended awaiting a preliminary hearing where we will decide if this matter should be taken further. I will file the papers in this regard."
Bella nodded her head, she was already aware of the long road she had ahead of her.
"My advice Miss Swan, would be to keep a low profile. I will make the proceedings closed, however, as one of your witnesses is likely to be the couple who drugged you, I will have difficulty in preventing them from speaking out considering their trial is on my docket for a month's time."
"Thank you, Judge Laurent."
"Oh and Miss Swan, please look after yourself. I can't prevent you and Mr. Cullen from being together when you are seeking medical care, however, I would request you keep an immensely low profile. The legal system does not see kindly upon relationships developing between attorney and client. This could be a career ender, Miss Swan. That is all."
Bella and Edward walked out of the office, more subdued than they were just 24 hours earlier.
Bella turned to Edward.
"Can you get that extra security at my place done today?" Bella was functioning as best as she knew how, she was utilizing her practical lawyer side.
"Yes of course, that's not a problem."
"Edward, I don't want to not see you, so if you have any other sneaky disguises or anything that would be helpful. At this point lets not divulge the pregnancy to anyone- Aro could be damaging and vindictive, your ex, Tanya, if she finds out then she will tell Victoria and then Lord knows what the fall out from that would be. If she's as crazy as Tanya says she is then we need to be careful."
"What about my parents?"
"How discrete are they?"
"Well this will be my mums and dads first grandchild, so given that they don't even know I am in a relationship then my mum may squeal loud enough that it will echo across the oceans."
"Ok so this is all hush hush for another month or so."
"Although I do have one person we should tell"
"And who would that be Edward?"
"Zaffy. She'll l keep the pressure on Judge Laurent. I mean after all, does he want to get in the way of true love?"
"Oooh I love it, I like the way you think Mr. Cullen."
Okay, I am not big on angst, so sorry this is a little angsty. But I wrote a chapter where Judge Laurent was very lenient and it was just a cop-out. So bear with me readers.