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Song for this chapter – Papa Don't Preach- Madonna

We learn about what Charlie knows about his daughter while she was living with Renee. We will learn more about Renee's character and how she truly is in this chapter. Then, Charlie will learn the news from Isabella and Sue, and how he will handle the news of her condition.

Thanks for dannibags for suggesting this story, for correcting my errors, and for being awesome. Piesmom for making sure that everything is good before it's début.

Outtake #3

This outtake takes place between 12 and 13

Papa Don't Preach

Charlie's POV

When Sue called me earlier in the day to tell me that Isabella was in the area, I was completely stunned. I never expected her to show up on my doorstep, and when Sue called me again later in the night, after I was off from work, telling me that Seth was bring my daughter home finally, I prayed she was all right.

The funny thing about Bella showing up on my doorstep was that I had spoken to Renee about a month ago, hoping to wish Bella a Happy Thanksgiving, but she never mentioned Bella wanting to come to Forks. If I had known, I would have gladly paid for her to come. Hell, I would have driven to Seattle to pick her up. However, no one mentioned anything about her coming, which made me wonder if something more wasn't going on in her life.

Renee and I didn't have much of a relationship anymore and getting information about Bella from Renee had become increasingly worse over the years. When I asked about Bella's whereabouts, Renee acted like she was having dinner with one of her friends. Once I learned Bella wasn't home, I quickly ended my call, not wanting to fight with Renee once again about money.

That was the thing with Renee; life was about what she could get out of someone more than making her way in the world. Renee was getting plenty enough to take care of Bella, and if there was anything Bella needed, I would send it without a moment's hesitation.

However, Renee was always the victim, and someone would always feel sorry for her and come to her rescue. I try not to think much about what my life was like with Renee, and I tried my best to never imagine the things that Bella could have been exposed to for so long while with her mother.

This was my reason for concern when Sue said she had called saying she was in Seattle. It wasn't that I didn't love Bella; God knows I did, but it was the fear that she was only here to start more trouble. I didn't know Bella well, and with her being raised by Renee, I couldn't help but wonder if some of those traits had rubbed off on her.

When Renee had left all those years ago, it was a breath of fresh air around this town, freeing us of the one person who didn't belong. In the six months that Renee lived here in Forks, she turned the whole town on it's damn head and caused a path of destruction miles wide. Hell, I wouldn't have been surprised if the whole town hadn't chipped in for her ticket out of the town.

The problem with Renee … she was sneaky, manipulative, conniving, and always the fucking victim. Everyone in town was always out to get her and even if they weren't at the moment … once she slept with their husband's, they would have been. Hell, if it wasn't for the fact she was already pregnant with Bella before we moved into town after my parent's deaths, I would have wondered if Bella was even my child. Don't get me wrong, there were still times, I wondered. When Bella started looking more and more like my mother that was the moment, I truly believed.

Renee had sucked me in, in the beginning. I thought she was some pretty girl from Phoenix, who was down on her luck and quickly helped her out. Naively thinking we could have something more. I can't say that I never thought Renee was beautiful because I would be lying about it, but she had me and she used that beauty and her ways to get everything she wanted out of me.

I was only twenty when we met. I had just graduated from community college and was looking at getting a job at the Port Angeles Police Department when Renee rolled up on my doorstep. She looked to have been physically abused, and I was concerned as I passed her on the side of the road. I whipped my truck around and stopped to see if there was something I could do or someone I could call to help the young woman.

When she started crying and acted hostile towards me, I knew something terrible had happened to her. She finally allowed me to rush her straight to the hospital to be checked. I waited for hours to hear the word of how she was doing.

Everything checked out fine, and the story she had told the doctors and the police officers during her stay had them with no leads as to who had hurt her in the first place. I was young and wet behind the ears, thinking I could locate the asshole that had been abusive to her and listened to her story.

Renee's long time boyfriend had physically, sexually, and mentally neglected her and dragged her to Seattle. When he was through with her, he tossed her out on the streets to live, which at the time had been about two days ago, according to her. Renee cried about being away from her parent's in Phoenix and how she needed to get in touch with them. I played the nice guy … always the good guy and helped to locate her parents and put her in touch with them.

Renee was grateful and before long a relationship started. Within months, Renee said she was pregnant with Bella. I thought everything was going great. Renee and I were married three months after meeting that day on the side of the road. Life was great until the death of my parents and the move to Forks. That's when all hell broke loose and Renee was never the woman I had thought she was.

Within a matter of two months, Renee had gone from being the broken woman on the side of the road to the devil himself; it was amazing the lengths she would go to. We were married for a year, and then one day she packed up Bella and I let her go. I wanted to fight her. I wanted Bella to stay with me, but Renee made sure I could never have her. I watched Renee hit herself and tear her body apart, while I stood holding Bella.

"See what I can do, Charlie," she screamed with tears running down her face as I had walked in on her packing Bella's things.

"You did this to me," she screamed at the top of her lungs.

"I haven't even touched you," I screamed back. How could she do those things and claim I was the one who had done that to her?

"Yes, and if you don't let me leave, I will go to the station and file a report," she sneered.

"You wouldn't," I said, not believing that this was the person I married.

"I will," she said, grabbing Bella from my arms and gathering her things.

"I will ruin you if you challenge me and try to take my daughter from me. And, trust me Charlie, your badge won't save you," she sneered and walked down hall toward the front door.

A couple of months down the road, I got a petition for child support. I gladly paid what the judge wanted and left Renee and Bella alone. It was a sad situation I found myself in, but I allowed it to happen, thinking it was for the best. I had grown up in this town all my life and didn't want my family's name dragged through the mud and destroyed to appease someone like Renee. So, I gave in, allowing her to leave with Bella, and stopped fighting her. It was the hardest thing I ever did, but hoped and prayed Renee would clean up her act and take care of Bella.

It took me a long time to get over the things that Renee had done to me during our marriage. She never allowed me to bond with my child as I should and that was some of my hesitancy about Bella. I didn't know her like I should. I tried what few times Renee would allow her to come to Forks and visit with me, but the time was so short, and it was hard to grow the bond that would solidify us as father and daughter.

~AASS~

The way Bella looked when she showed up here didn't look like things had been all that great for her. She looked sick and run down, like she had been running the roads for the past few months, but I never asked because I suspected that she had run away from Renee, and I couldn't bear the thought of her being on the road by herself from California. I did however wish she would have called, but there wasn't anything I could do about it now.

There was a part of me that worried she would take off again, and I would never be able to find her. So I didn't ask all the questions I wanted answers to. I knew that living with Renee would be hard on her, but I was helpless to stop it.

The biggest fear I had about Bella showing up here was if something else had happened to her. A part of me wanted to know, but there were other parts of me that didn't. I had known that Renee had remarried some fellow who was supposed to be a major league baseball player, but as it turned out, he was nothing more than a minor league chump. He didn't even last that long, and before long, he wasn't anything more than a loser just like Renee.

I never wanted to learn if any of the men who had been with Renee had touched my daughter. I had stopped fighting once before, but I wouldn't hesitate to kill someone if they touched her inappropriately.

The first night Bella stayed at my house, I listened to her cry. It was heartbreaking not to know what to do to help her. I was lost.

~AASS~

The last three months with Bella were a mixture of tense and great. Bella wasn't anything like Renee. In fact, she was more me and my mother, which warmed my heart.

Sue helped her get her things together for her old room upstairs, which was a blessing. I didn't know where to begin when it came to teenage girls, and Sue had Leah, so she handled everything like a champ.

I hated having to work so much while she was here, but I couldn't help it. It seemed Christmas was the season that everyone decided to get out of hand. Seth and I were the only one's here in Forks to keep the peace between La Push and the township, and with holidays, the kids tended to get a little crazy.

Bella did great at the house by herself though. She cleaned and helped every chance she got. She tried to help pay the bills and take care of me, but I wouldn't allow her to. She was still young, and even though I figured she had done those things for Renee, I wasn't about to let her do them for me.

Christmas came and I tried to get Bella a few things I thought she needed; a nice winter coat because here in Forks, it gets cold. Sue and her kids came for dinner, and Sue bought Bella a few outfits that would be better suited for the weather here. Bella appeared to be having an okay time, but she still seemed a little down about things, and I wondered if she was missing her mother or her time in California.

When the first of the year rolled around, Bella planned on staying in the area. I enrolled her at Forks High to finish out her education. Bella's senior year would go by fairly easy for her because she was so smart, but making friends would be a bigger issue with the damage Renee had done years ago.

~AASS~

Bella came down with the flu in February. I had noticed that ever since the middle of January, she hadn't been wearing her winter coat. I never had a chance to ask her why, and when she became sick, I figured it was because of her being out in the weather without the proper clothes. Sue and I begged Bella to see a doctor, fearing she would come down with pneumonia if she didn't get any better.

Bella finally agreed to go and see Dr. Banner. I had stopped by the office when I found Sue wrapped around Bella.

"What did the doctor say?" I asked, walking up toward the desk where the two of them were sitting.

"Charlie, can we talk to you in your office?" Sue asked, looking down at Bella, who had tears running down her face. I nodded and led the way back to my office. I couldn't help the worry that started in my brain. Was there something terrible wrong with my daughter? Was she dying? Once I was seated behind my desk, Sue and Bella sat across from me.

"Charlie, Bella has something she needs to tell you. I want you to keep an open mind and know that there is nothing wrong," Sue said. She reached over and grabbed Bella's hand and nodded at her to tell me.

Bella looked at the floor and barely uttered these words … "I'm pregnant."

I choked on the salvia that was in my mouth, "What?" I asked, wanting to make sure I had heard her correctly.

"Bella is pregnant, Charlie … she's about four months, according to Dr. Banner," Sue said, still stroking Bella's hand.

I lowered my head to my desk, trying to think of some way to get Bella out of this situation. I would be damned if I would make my daughter carry the child of that slime Renee calls a husband. The only thing that seemed plausible was to make her have an abortion.

"Bella, would you step out front to my desk for a moment while I speak to your father," Sue said. I looked up at her and watched as her eyes narrowed in my direction.

Bella quickly got up from where she was sitting and walked out the door. Sue closed the door behind her and leveled her eyes in my direction.

"Stop," she sneered at me. I hadn't done anything at the moment.

"I know you, Charlie … I know the hell Renee put you through and let me tell you one thing … that girl out there is nothing like Renee."

"I haven't said anything, but there has to be a way for her to get rid of it. Sue, we don't even know who it belongs to. What if … what if..." I couldn't even finish verbalizing my thoughts. Anger welled up inside of me. I stood from my desk and allowed the chair I was sitting in to slam against the wall.

"I have half a mind to fly out to California and kill that son of a bitch," I seethed as my hand rubbed the cold steel that rested on my side.

"Calm down, Charlie," Sue said, coming behind me and rubbing my shoulders, trying to relive the tension that had settled into my shoulders.

"It's nothing like that, Charlie … I promise. She talked to me a little, and I was able to get it out of her that it wasn't Phil's. It's some boy she meet while living with Renee. It was an accident. They had tried to be careful, but it happened."

"More of a reason to get rid of it, my God, Sue; she's just a baby herself."

"Charlie … enough. She doesn't want to get rid of it. That's why she's crying because she wants the child and doesn't know how you will take it. Nor, does she know how she is going to take care of a child. Dr. Banner offered her a way out, but she doesn't believe in doing that."

"Isabella is a very smart and responsible kid, Charlie. Hell, she more responsible that Leah was at her age. You don't know everything about Leah … two years ago she had an abortion. Charlie, I wouldn't wish what happened to her on my worst enemy," Sue sobbed and stepped away from me. I turned around to see her with her head in her hands, crying.

"Leah found herself pregnant two years ago. Harry and I never told anyone. It was some punk from Port Angeles. Harry was livid … made her get an abortion. I took her to a medicine woman in the neighboring tribe. Harry didn't want our people knowing that our daughter, the chief's daughter, had gotten herself mixed up with an outsider. It would have been harder on him. I did what I thought was best. However, if I knew now what I didn't know then … well let's just say I wouldn't have done it. Charlie … that woman," she sobbed.

"She … she tore Leah's insides up to the point that she can't have children; those abortions are not safe. Harry … well, Harry's guilt ate at him until the day he died. I've had a hard time getting over what I did to her and at times, it causes us strain, but I won't ever suggest that someone have one."

Sue cried for a little longer, and I never would want to hurt Bella. I wouldn't want to be responsible for having something happen to her that she would never be able to be a mother.

Sue wiped her eyes and pulled herself together.

"Please Charlie … don't force her and don't be too hard on her. Guide her … help her. Please don't make the same mistake that Harry and I did with Leah."

A/N: All right … so this story has deviated from the original Almost Famous format … which I said I would change here and there to make it more my own and trailing it into the song Shooting Star. So, remember these things as we move along here. Bella's pregnant and has wondered onto Charlie's doorstep. As always, don't forget to show some love, and if this story ever disappears, you can find me on fictionpad.