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Paul POV:

Bella was six and half months pregnant at the moment and I was absolutely terrified to say something wrong. Alice had been beating herself up because she kept getting weird vision showing the leeches coming a certain time but when the day arrived no vampires.

I charged at Jasper again but this time I caught his shirt and pulled him to the ground. We had been training more and more often now. Bella hated it but I was only doing it to protect my family. I snarled in his face and he chuckled. "Better but you can't lose focus, Paul." I nodded and went to the edge of the 'battle' field as Emmett had dubbed it.

I trotted over to Bella who was sitting on the ground Indian style and pulling grass. She squinted up at me through the rare amount of sun in this place. I pushed her a little with my head before collapsing on the ground and placing my head in her lap. She laid her cheek on my head and reached her hand up to rub the spot behind my left ear. I pushed my head into her belly and felt the babies kick. I was so tired but I knew she was worse. The twins barely let her sleep. She thought I didn't know when she got up in the middle of the night trying not to disturb me, but I did.

This whole vampire coming for her was really starting to wear her down. Edward hadn't come back since our fight. Alice hadn't seen anything from him apart from him heading towards Canada. "You okay?" Bella asked before yawning.

I licked her cheek and nodded my head. I poked her cheek with my nose lightly silently asking if she was okay.

"I'm fi-" She was interrupted by a yawn and I let out a wolfy chuckle before standing up and running into the forest. I phased and put my cuts off shorts on before racing out to Bella. Her eyes were drooping and I picked her up bridal style.

"Time to go home huh?" I chuckled.

"No you should stay and train I'm-" I laughed again as her mouth went into an 'O' shape. She covered her mouth and blushed. I leaned down and kissed her forehead.

"Sure sure," I laughed again. I walked calmly through the forest towards my truck. In less than ten minutes I had her strapped into the passenger seat and on our way home. I held her hand the entire time and kept a close eye on her. Her head was pressed against the window and her free hand was rubbing circles on her belly trying to sooth the boys. She winced a few times and the frown only deepened on my face. "You okay?"

"Yeah just they are really active when their daddy is around." She smirked at me. I grimaced slightly before giving her a bright smile. I hurt when she hurt and the twins never really gave her a break. I sighed.

"Well in two and a half months we'll have our little boys and you'll have a different reason for not sleeping." She smiled and smacked my arm. I laughed. Not soon enough in my taste we were home and I was helping her up the stairs. Having twins really didn't help her balance. I helped her change much to her annoyance. I don't know how many times she repeated, "I'm an adult, le' me 'lone," she was tired and could barely stand she was so damn exhausted. I just rolled my eyes.

I laid her on the bed before getting in beside her so her back was to my chest. I rested my hand on her belly and rubbed soothing circles trying my best to calm the boys down and to my amusement the kicking stopped. There was the random kick here and their but the constant moving stopped. I heard Bella sigh in content and I smiled against her neck. I kissed the back of her neck lightly and couldn't wait until our boys were born and in my arms.

I woke to the sound of crying and someone holding me too tightly around the waist. I rubbed my eyes with the palm of hands and looked down to see Bella holding me. "Princess? What's wrong?" I demanded wrapping my arms around her and looking out the windows and everywhere that had a dark patch trying to see any intruders.

"Yu-you we-were fi-fi-fighting and then-n a vam-vampire bit yo-you!"She wailed. My eyes widened.

"Shh, shh princess I'm fine nothing will happen to me." I rubbed her back.

"Please don't fight." She looked up at me with teary eyes and I froze.

"Bella, I love you and nothing in this world would make me happier than staying here with you but I need to go and fight." I whispered kissing her forehead.

"No you don't." She said biting her lip and shaking her head. "Please,"

"Bella I want to make sure your safe and doing that would mean me fighting and killing the monster that wants to hurt you and the rest of my family." I said shaking my head.

"Paul what if you get hurt again?" She said tracing the faint scars across my chest. She never let me answer. "I couldn't live if something happened to you Paul. You keep saying you want to protect me and our family but I want to protect you too, Paul." She let the silent tears fall.

"I won't get hurt I have a reason to stick around." I tried to smile but it was forced and tight. "I love you Bella and if keeping you safe meant me dying than I would do it because I love you." I said sadly.

"Aren't you listening to me? Anything I've told you in the last few months? I love you and can't live without you." She said forcefully shaking me. "Without you I'm just . . . here, nothing to live for." She tried shouting at me but her voice broke near the end.

"What about the twins?" I asked she had to be around if I wasn't for them.

"I would try to be there for them but Paul I'm being realistic here I can't live without you. I would try for as long as I could with the twins but they'll grow up and move out and then what? I'm supposed to live the rest of my too long life without you?" She frowned.

"Bella everything will be fine I promise I'll come home in one piece." I said stroking her hair as she pushed her face into my chest.

"Yeah but will you be alive or . . ." She trailed off not even able to finish the sentence. I didn't answer, I couldn't because I myself had no idea what lay ahead. I pulled her back down to the bed and laid her head on my chest again. I stroked her hair and hummed a random tune in my head. The rest of the night I lay awake trying to think of something to reassure Bella with but nothing came to mind.