PETERS POV
When we got back to the ranch, Garrett wanted to know what was wrong with Leah and why I was carrying her. I made sure her little feet gently touched the ground before I let go of her. She was holding onto my shirt like she did not want me to leave. But this was a moment she needed to share with just Garrett.
"Leah I will be right outside if you need me."
Trying to give them some privacy I left so Leah could tell him. She pretty much said the same things to him she had to me. I think her biggest fear is the not knowing what the baby would be. Also she was not really sure if Garrett would want to be a dad or not.
Garrett handled it better than even I expected
"Ms. Leah the wolf will you marry me? I am thrilled were having a wolf vamp; or however our little monster ends up coming out. Because it does not matter if the baby has a puppy dog tail and glows in the dark, it is ours. Now aren't you glad you did not stab me or kill me?"
She told him yes as she was giggling. Yeah he really does love her.
Walking into the house to tell Bella she needed to talk to her sister. But when I walked in she had a guest, Dave. This guy was starting to grate on my last nerve worse than Emmett does.
"Bella you need to go over to see Leah; she has something she wants to tell you."
Bella said her good byes to him. When he told her he would see her tomorrow; he was going to be giving her riding lessons at his house. Well let's just say I was pissed off. Why wouldn't they want to do that here? Is this guy trying some funny business with her?
Sue will be here in a couple of days so she can be with Leah. She was so happy she was going to be a grandma. But Charlie was just happy that it was not Bella having a baby with me. Yeah he still hates me.
Seth couldn't believe his sister was going to have a baby. He hoped it was a not going to be a girl. Because He knew that if she was anything like Leah she would want to kick his ass too.
Carlisle and Esme will be here too. There was no way to know what this baby will be yet. Carlisle insisted that he come here and take care of Leah personally. He was completely fascinated with the whole idea of a half wolf and half vampire baby.
Jasper told me that Carlisle would also consider this research for our kind. He has journal after journal from his years of recording history and findings.
The word spread fast to everyone. Rosalie, Alice and Bella were all over joyed wanting to take care of Leah and help plan her wedding. Leah told Bella she was her BABY SIS and she should be taking care of Bella instead. It was so cute watching them argue over who should be taking care of who.
But when Emmett sent his congrats to Garrett; Garrett just stood there with his mouth open "Well Garrett you must have really done her good in the doggie style position to knock up our little puppy. Do you think she will have a litter?"
Jacob and Karen got in late last night. We were house shuffling to make sure there would be enough room for everybody. We put Jacob with Quill and Embry.
I do not know how but Rosalie and Emmett moved in with us. I really didn't want that but oh well it will only be until Sue, Carlisle and Esme leave.
Sue arrived this morning; she spent hours with Leah and Garrett. Leah's baby bump seems to be getting bigger and fast. Garrett came over to the house. Sue wanted to see me and Bella.
By the looks of the room she had done some sort of Indian ceremony. Sue asked that Garrett put his hand on Leah's stomach. Then Bella and I joined hands and laid them over Garrett's hand.
It was wild what happened next. There was a glow of light where we all had joined hands over Leah's baby bump. Sue rested her hand on top of ours and was speaking in that damn language again I don't understand. When Bella and I stopped holding hands the light stopped.
When I questioned Sue about what happened "Peter, I already told you; that you and Bella are the magical two. It is almost time for that magic to take over."
Damn this woman is confusing and never really answers my questions.
Carlisle was to be here in a few hours. Sue wanted to take a walk with just me and Jacob before he came. She said that three of us had so many things we needed to discuss.
"My grandson will be special. He will be able to walk on both sides of our worlds; with the vampires and shape shifters. He will be the key to our continued existence and the one who will unite us all to stand as one together. But they all will come for him, from both sides. Some will want to kill him because of his powers and some will want to kill him because they don't understand him. They all will fear him."
Jacob and I both were stunned not being sure of what was coming or what to say to her. Jacob shook his head and got up to walk away when Sue stopped him.
"Jacob everything I am telling you is true. Have you not asked yourself why the wolves and the vampires have been able to walk as one lately without killing each other? You have already started coexisting as friends and not as enemies any longer. It is Peter and Bella's magic together that is making this possible. It is time you take your rightful position as Chief. Sam has done a good job but he is not the one to lead them when that time comes. Sam will not be strong enough. You have always been stronger than Sam, always challenging him. Both of our worlds are depending on it."
"I don't want to be and have never wanted to be the Chief. This is impossible; there can't be a werewolf vampire baby. How can it walk on both sides? Be alive and dead at the same time?"
Sue took Jacobs hands into hers. Closed her eyes and was talking in that language again. I swear I am going to ask her to teach it to me. There was a gust of wind and then it suddenly stopped. Jacob dropped her hands and looked over at me pissed off for some reason.
"No, I will not allow it. Bella is not going to become one of them."
"You will allow it Jacob Black because your children's futures depend upon on it too. Peter and Bella will walk beside you and together all of you will rule our worlds. Until you decide to pass it on to your child, the child Karen is carrying right now."
Jacob apparently didn't know Karen was pregnant. I had seen back in Forks they had a baby when I gave him my truck but I didn't know that it would be coming so fast. Jacob told us that he needed to be alone for a while to think things through.
There were so many things I needed to ask Sue and wanted to know about. The biggest was Bella becoming one of us.
"Peter I am sure you want to know about Bella. She will become like your kind. But I don't know how or when. My gift of magic is not always a clear determination. It works differently than your gift. Mine becomes clearer after another change in events. You two will be the most powerful vampires together. As long as you stand united as one, there is nothing you can't do. But should that strand ever be broken; it will bring mass destruction to both of our worlds. I have seen your kind will fear you and want to bring harm to what they don't understand just like my grandchildren. You are already a strong fighter and my grandchildren are what will enhance those powers."
More chaos is sure to come. But I will stand beside Bella and do whatever I have to do for our survival. This has been a hell of a day and Sue kept telling me there were more surprises coming.
Sue and I talked for hours. There were things we both still didn't understand but, changes were coming and coming quick. It made me so happy to know Bella and I were going to be together for all of eternity.
Leah is going to have to be protected at all times. The baby will become the ruler of both of our worlds so to speak. Sue plans on taking her back to the Reservation just as soon as the baby is born. Garrett will be by her side and we all will find a way to coexist in blissful peace. That even sounded strange to me.
"Why wouldn't you take Leah back to the reservation now; a place where my kind will not go and cannot get to her."
"Peter there is other surprises I cannot tell you about. I know it is probably hard for you to trust me but you are going to have too. I would never do anything to hurt my daughters." I did trust her more than she could possibly understand. But why wouldn't she just tell me?
On our walk back Sue told me her grandson would not walk alone. When I asked her what that meant, she wouldn't tell me. She joined our hands and I could see her vision. It was the coolest thing. This must have been like what she was showing Jacob. I saw a lot of little kids playing out in the front yard at Sue's house. She and Charlie were sitting outside together side by side watching them play. I had a huge smile on my face.
"Does it mean what I think it means?"
She wouldn't answer my questions of course but said "MIZNANA MZINKE LUNJUL." This means good fortune, peace and love.
Sue, Carlisle and Garrett were the only ones in the room when Leah was being examined. They were in there for hours.
Carlisle came out and was trying to explain Leah's delicate condition to us "Leah's body is hotter than a normal human woman. Even though she isn't phasing anymore; she is still carrying the gene. I cannot be sure exactly how long she has before this baby is going to be born because her body is working overtime. The fact her temperature is higher means she is speeding up the delivery process. I would say she only has a couple of weeks at the most." That explains why Sue didn't want to move her. It could be anytime.
We all had questions for him of course. It seems if Garrett and Emmett had not overdosed her to begin with; she would not have been able to start the reproductive cycle again. As crazy as is it sounds they did a good thing by almost killing her.
The one question Carlisle could not answer was; what would the baby be? But Sue was confident the baby would be fine and would be a boy. I know Carlisle knows medicine but I believe in Sue. Sometimes a higher being means more than anything that could be known by science.
Carlisle was going to set up a delivery room here in the house where Garrett and Leah were staying at. He and Esme are going back to Forks to get what they needed and give the hospital a notice of leave. Once they get back they will be staying until the baby is born.
Garrett decided he needed to feed everyday just in case. He was not going to change his way of life. I went with him but on the way he stopped running. So I stopped too. I asked him what was wrong.
"I don't know what is wrong. I know this is going to sound kind of gay; but my pecks are killing me. Running is making them feel like they are in a vise."
He was right that did sound a little gay.
I was waiting on Garrett. He had already drained four or five. I didn't know how much more he could hold but he just kept going and going. There was something strange about him but I could not decide what it was. Maybe he is just going overboard with taking extra precautions right now.
Garrett must have overfilled at feeding time. I noticed that his gut was sticking out a little.
"Garrett don't you think that you should have stopped at five or six? You drank so much your gut is bigger."
He was acting as though he was going to cry if he could have.
"Are you making fun of me? Are you trying to say I am fat? If you are Peter Gabriel Whitlock then you can just go to hell."
He took off running. More like sloshing around but he was still running none the less. I caught up to him and was trying to figure out what in the hell his problem was. He wouldn't stop so I finally grabbed his arm. He pulled away from me.
"Don't touch me. You don't get to call me fat then touch me."
Since when has Garrett ever been so damn sensitive?
When we got back to the ranch Jacob had asked Karen to marry him. Sue was right; Karen was pregnant. Carlisle had confirmed it. Carlisle also thought that her birth would be a normal one. If the baby had the shape shifter gene; it would not develop any differently than Jacobs had. I was happy for all of them but a little envious too.
The biggest surprise for me was Charlie and Seth were coming. Leah and Garrett were going to be married here in a few days. I was not excited about having to see Bella's dad again. So we were going to have to do more house shuffling.
When Carlisle and Esme come back and everyone else arrives; we will have full houses. So now I have Alice and Jasper moving in with me and Bella too. I don't know how all of this crazy shit is going to work out but, I guess it will. What started out as a trip for just me and Bella has ended up being a three ring circus act.
The girls were all busy planning the wedding, a baby shower and a bachelorette party for Leah and Karen too.
I noticed Bella was gone. I asked Emmett if he had seen her.
"She left after you guys did. She went to the neighbor's house."
To the neighbor's house I go.
BELLA POV
Spending most of my day making sure Leah had everything she needed. I am going to be an aunt and it made me so excited. Even Garrett has started calling me his sister now.
Leah likes TACO BELL IN THE MORIN and wanted bags of SKITTLES to eat. A weird combination but that is what we got for her. We also loaded down the cart with everything we could think of for a mommy to eat. Rosalie and Alice went overboard as usual. But Quill and Embry said not to worry; they would not let a thing go to waste.
Dave wanted to give me my riding lessons but, I just wanted to get my picture of Peter. I figured since Garrett and Peter were going to be gone now would be my chance to get it without him knowing.
The black and white photo was my favorite. Dave blew it up four times the size of a normal 8x10. He even made a frame from old red barn wood for it. I tried to pay him for doing it but he would not take any money. I cannot wait to give it to Peter.
I told Dave I was in a hurry and had to get back because of the stuff I had to help Leah with. He insisted we have our bachelorette party for her at their club at no charge.
After Dave talked to the guys they said they would make sure Leah felt special at her party. We could even use their house if we wanted too for whatever we needed.
Half of them asked about Rosalie; their TWI GROOVEY LOVER. It was the nick name the guys had given to her.
Peter pulled up to Dave's house in Emmett jeep. He got out and slammed the door. I don't know why he was upset but, he was.
"Bella, what are you doing here?"
"I came over for riding lessons then I started talking about Leah and baby. The guys offered their club as place to have her party at no charge. Wasn't that nice of Dave?"
"Yeah he is just a fucking saint." I have never seen Peter be rude to anyone before. So I told them all thank you and we went back to our house.
When we got back Peter gave Emmett back his keys and we went for a drive to town. Going through the middle of town was a parade. It was soldiers that had just returned home from serving their country.
We found a place to park and went to watch. All of their families were there and thrilled to have them home safely. There was a woman standing beside us, an ARMY WIFE, she was getting to be with her husband for the first time in over a year. She was so proud of him.
It brought tears to my eyes for a couple of reasons. You never stop to think about the personal sacrifices they make to keep this country safe. It also made me think about someday being a proud wife too.
We were walking around and I asked Peter what had gone on with him for the last couple of days. He told me about thinking that I was one having a baby to being a little jealous about Dave.
"Come on, I want to show you why I was spending time with Dave."
We went back to the truck and I gave him the wrapped picture.
"Okay so I am a dumb ass vampire just like your sister told me. Thank you for doing this for me. I really do love you Bella."
He also told me it was because I have had no interest in sex lately. I went from being all over him to nothing. I never thought about that. So I decided it was time to be honest with him too. I lifted up skirt and showed him why.
After I explained everything thing he asked me if I wanted to play a game tonight.
"What kind of a game?"
He whispered it in my ear "Barbershop."
What a kinky boy he is.
When we got back we were getting ready for Leah's and Karen's baby shower. We bought them tons of baby gifts. There was more food than just the human girls could ever possibly eat.
But when Rosalie told me about the entertainment that she had arranged for the evening, I knew it could not be good. We had promised the guys we would behave and not cause any problems.
PETERS POV
We left so the girls could give Leah and Karen their baby shower. I mean after all it is just a baby shower; how much trouble can they get themselves into.
We were trying to have fun Garrett but he didn't seem like he was in the mood for it. All of us guys had roamed around all night trying to find something fun to do.
Garrett started rubbing his stomach and was moaning loud. We were all looking at him; not sure if he just needed some alone time or what.
Jasper finally asked him if he was alright.
"No, it feels like my stomach is going to explode and my dick is being gripped by Emmett."
Emmett's eyes were huge. He raised both of his hands up "I never touched Garrett dick, I swear."
Garrett doubled over "Fuck it hurts."
Yeah I did not understand him because vampires should not feel pain without cause.
Emmett walked over and grabbed Garrett by his shirt "Shit he is hysterical. I know what to do. I will take your mind off of your stomach and your dick." Then Emmett punched him in the face.
Jasper went over and stopped it "Emmett you are a moron. When someone is historical you are supposed to slap them not punch them."
Emmett picked Garrett up off the ground "Dude, my bad. I am sorry." Then he slapped Garrett across the face.
My "I JUST KNOW" went off. "We need to get back to the girls now."
Emmett picked up Garrett from the ground and we went running back to the ranch.
When we got back to the girls we could not believe what we saw. The TWILIGHT MEN R HOT were dressed up like babies. In the skimpiest damn diapers I have ever seen. Giving dances to all of the girls. Just a baby shower my ass. It was a stripper's smorgasbord going on. After they promised us they would behave.
Rosalie had four of them at once. They were taking turns letting her ride them. Well I guess the lessons she took paid off; she was riding something.
Emmett was pissed he went over and ripped her off the guys lap that she was on. He sat down on a chair and threw her across his lap.
"Rosalie Lillian Hale Cullen if you are going to act like a baby that cannot behave like a big girl while I am gone; then I am going to treat you like one." He was beating her ass with Emmett strength.
Both Jasper and Jacob took the more aggressive approach to the two guys that were giving Alice and Karen their dance. Both Jasper and Jacob tore off their shirts and were flexing their muscles. We had team Jasper and Jacob ready to take on TEAM SORRIC and DELENA.
But what really caught my eye was Bella having her hand down Dave's pants. "Bella what in the fuck are you doing? Get your hand out of his pants right now."
Yanking her hand out of his diaper. The more I pulled the more the diaper was coming off of him.
"My ring is caught on his diaper." Like I would buy that story.
But after I looked it really was. I was trying to untangle her ring from the material and when I gave that final yank; his diaper came off. I was face to face with his ding-a-ling. When I win; I still lose.
When Leah started screaming in pain; the party was over.
"Shit my water just broke." Garrett was screaming just as loud as Leah was holding on to his stomach too.
Emmett went and got her another bottled water "No need to be upset little one. I got you another one."
She was beating Emmett with the bottle while she would holding her stomach and screaming. "No you fucking idiot I am having the baby."
We got her inside and laid her on the hospital bed in the room Carlisle had set up for her. I was going to call Sue, because she left to go pick up Charlie and Seth from the airport. Jasper was going to call Carlisle and see how fast he and Esme could get here.
Sue, Charlie and Seth were stuck in traffic coming back from the airport. It was going to be a while before she could get here. She was going to have Seth phase and run to be by his sisters side. She told me I could do this. I needed to remember; Bella and I could do anything together. Hell I hope she was right.
When Jasper came back in from calling Carlisle "Carlisle is running as fast as he can but it could be about an hour before he makes it here. We are going to have to deliver this baby ourselves."
Well fuck me.
Emmett was gone and back in a flash. He had on a doctor's mask, a clothes pin on his nose and a pair of salad tongs.
"Let's have us some puppies."
I hope you enjoyed reading me.