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[A/N] Welcome back to a new episode of WTHN. I'm so grateful for the encouraging feedback I'm receiving for this story. It's because of you that I'm still here. Without you, all my ideas would probably stay hidden in my crazy mind forever.

This chapter here is dedicated to x0xElLax0x and WildImagination28. Hope you'll enjoy.

**Chapter 85**

The unpleasant dizziness wasn't gone when I woke up the next morning. I tried to hide it from Ali what worked pretty fine until I collapsed on the carpet in the living room. To say that she wasn't completely hysterical about it would be like saying that cream cheese bagels are a low-fat snack.

She called Carlisle and the way she spoke to him sounded as if I was about to die. He showed up half an hour later and checked my blood pressure again. It was still too high and that was weird concerning the fact that I usually had a tendency to the opposite. Carlisle paged my gynecologist and after she had explained to me that I was probably going to have a high-risk pregnancy I got something like a little nervous breakdown. Somehow I couldn't stop crying. The thought of spending most of the next months in bed, always supervised by doctors or nurses was scaring me. I didn't have time to deal with that sort of crap. Why couldn't this be easy for me? My pregnancy with Lilly had practically been like a walk in the park – apart from the birth of course but that was a totally different story.

When I raised my head and blinked again, my eyes burning from the tears, my throat dry and hoarsely, I realized that Carlisle was gone and I was alone with my pixie-like wife.

She wiped my face with a wet towel before she handed me a mug with some herbal tea and sat down on the edge of the couch. Then she took my other hand in hers to squeeze it gently.

"Never do that again."

"Hmm?"

"Trying to keep it from me when you're not feeling well,"

"Oh that. Look, I'm sorry,"

"You don't have to be sorry. I just need to be sure that you're going to let me know if something is wrong."

"I didn't want you to get worried unnecessarily." I whispered, taking a small sip from the hot tea.

She shook her head and leaned forward to put a wisp of my hair behind my ear.

"How can I not worry about you? I love you."

"I love you too and it makes me feel awkward to be such a burden."

"You're not a burden. Like I told you before, I like taking care of the two of you."

I started crying again. Maybe it was because of all the hormonal chaos in my blood, maybe because I was scared of losing the baby. Whatever it was it made my entire body tremble with fear.

"Breathe," she whispered, wrapping her arms around me from behind.

"Everything is going to be fine. I won't let anything bad happen to you."

She placed one of her hands underneath my belly button and started rubbing it in small circles.

"Am I supposed to rest for the rest of the day?"

"More like for the rest of the week, at least. Carlisle is going to come back here later to check on you."

"I hate being sick."

"Welcome to the club." she mumbled, pressing something cold against my neck.

"He's not going to send me to stay at the hospital, will he? I hate that place, it smells awful."

"I like hospital smell. It kind of reminds me of my dad."

"Hmm,"

I tried to remember how Charlie had smelled like when he was still alive. Coffee, I thought, like freshly brewed coffee and brown sugar. God, how much I missed him.

Why was it that you only valued the precious things in your life once they were irrevocably gone?

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Ali invited Benjamin, Angela and Stefan over in an attempt to cheer me up and distract me a bit.

I wasn't too fond of being distracted but my bad mood automatically got a little better when I tried a piece of the delicious chocolate cake they brought with them.

"Stefan," Lilly asked him, nibbling on the piece of cake in front of her.

"Can you help me to repair the elevator in my Barbie house? It's not working anymore."

He nodded his head and followed her into her room.

"Stefan is good with kids." Angela stated when she sat down next to me in an armchair. Somehow there was a bitter hint in her voice. I remembered the scene in Carlisle's office when he had suggested that they should have kids.

Benjamin chuckled and poured me a glass of orange juice that I emptied in one big gulp.

"Do you want some more cake? You have to eat for two now, you know." He told me cheerfully.

I didn't feel hungry at all but who can say no to chocolate cake?

"I'm getting you one. Do you want some ice cream too?" my beautiful wife asked me after she had checked my blood pressure again. The whole playing my nurse thing was obviously starting to be fun for her. Or it wasn't. Maybe she was just trying to put up a brave face for me. I loved her even more for that.

"Bella, do you want to have something to drink too? Tea perhaps? Or Milk?"

This was exactly why I didn't like company when I wasn't feeling fine. It was embarrassing how everyone made such a fuss about me.

"Honey, do you want ice-cream with your cake?"

She's trying to feed me up, isn't she? I struggled with the tempting thought of creamy ice cream that melted in my mouth but then I figured out that it might not be such a good idea to overdo the entire eating thing. No matter what Ali kept telling me. I didn't want to go from big to bigger.

"She wants the ice cream." Angela stated, grabbing the empty plates from the table.

"You don't have to clean up here. I can do that later."

"You're doing definitely nothing." Ali murmured, planting a kiss on the tip of my nose before she and Angela disappeared in the kitchen.

"How's the baby doing?" Benjamin whispered when they were out of sight.

"Fine," I assured him, trying to stand up.

"Stay where you are, Bella. You're not going to make me tie you up, are you?"

"Give me my handbag. I wanted to show you the ultrasound image."

He handed me the bag and when I showed him the picture, his mouth twitched into a bright smile.

"Looks a bit like an alien to me."

I giggled while my hand circled over my abdomen.

"Did you hear that? Your daddy thinks that you look like an alien."

"Daddy?" Stefan's voice raised two octaves before he crossed the distance between us and slapped his son right across the face.

"Have you completely lost your mind now?" he yelled at him, grabbing him around the collar of his shirt.

"Dad, calm down. It's not like you think it is."

"I may be old but I'm not stupid. What the hell is wrong with you? Fir-st you tell me that you want to be with other men and then the wife of your sister? This is so sick!"

Lilly's head appeared at the top of the stairs.

"Mommy, why are they yelling at each other?"

"They're not yelling, sweetie, just talking louder. Go back to your room."

"But I want to know why Stefan is so angry at Benjamin."

"Lilly, go to your room and stay there."

She frowned and the door of her room made a loud cracking noise when she closed it behind her with a kick. Great, now she was pissed at me too.

"What the hell were you thinking? How could you do that to your poor sister!"

His face turned from pale, to red and from red to almost purple while he started yelling stuff in Romanian to his son that continued stumbling out the words.

"It's not like that. It's not like that"

"Stefan! What in heaven's name are you doing there? Let go of him."

"Don't tell me how to treat my son, Ela! If he weren't too old for that I would bend him over my knee and spank him. Of all the crap he has come up with until now…this is the top of it."

"What did he do?"

"Why don't you ask him yourself? I'm sure; he'd like to explain to you how he got your friend here pregnant."

"I don't think I understand." Angela stumbled out, almost dropping the plate she was holding in her hand.

Ali cleared her throat and wrapped her arms around me from behind in a protective gesture.

"We didn't plan to tell you about this, but now that the truth is out…"

"You know about that?" Stefan asked her skeptically.

"Of course, I do. If you want to know the truth, it was my idea for the greatest part."

"Your idea?"

"Dad, please let us explain that to you."

"What the hell is there left to explain."

"A lot, I think." Angela stated, crossing her arms in front of her chest after placing the plate with the cake in front of me.

I took a deep breath before I spoke up.

"Benjamin was the donor."

"Donor for what?" Angela asked me, but when she saw me staring down at my belly, the pieces of the puzzle seemed to fit together for her.

"Oh, I see."

"Are you angry at us now?"

"Me? Why would I be angry? I know how much the two of you wanted to have this baby."

"Dragostea mea, how can you support this nonsense? She's the wife of his sister. God, this is so sick."

"Stefan, they didn't…well, you know what I mean."

"How can you make a baby without having sex? No, don't tell me. I really don't want to know. This is crazy. Everyone in this country is crazy and we should have stayed in Romania after Sasha died."

"Dad, please, this is nothing bad. Ali and Bella will be wonderful mothers for the baby."

"And what are you supposed to do in this? You're not mature enough to be a father. Damn it, your uncle was right when he told me that you're still a child."

"I can learn what it means to be a father. There is not only one way of being one."

"Hmm,"

"Are you mad at me?"

"Yes, I am, because like usually you didn't think one second about the consequences of your actions. You're exactly like your mother, always acting on your emotions."

Benjamin shrugged and sat down on the carpet in front of the couch.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that." Stefan stated after a few awkward moments of silence, desperately trying to keep his voice calm now.

"Maybe you should go now. Bella really needs to rest." Ali told them, pulling me closer against her body.

"She's right, Stefan. We should go home. Are you coming with us, Benjamin?"

"Have to check with my emotional status first."

"Don't be like that. You know that your father didn't mean it like that."

"I know exactly how he meant it. Have you forgotten that I've lived with him for far longer than you did?"

"I shouldn't have mentioned your mother. That was below the belt."

"Yes it was."

Benjamin stood up from the ground and handed me the ultrasound picture, he had been still holding, back with trembling fingers.

"Wait, let me see it." Stefan pleaded and his fingertips moved over the small picture.

"Incredible. Do you want to look a look too, Ela?"

"Hmm,"

He wrapped one arm around her shoulder and planted a kiss on her cheek.

"Can you believe that this is going to turn into a real human being in a few months? It's like a miracle."

"Probably,"

A deep chuckle left Stefan's throat before he leaned forward and kissed her again, this time directly on her mouth.

"We should go now. Bella looks as if she's about to fall asleep any moment."

"I'm not tired. I'm just exhausted because…well, why exactly? I haven't really done anything today apart from laying uselessly around."

"Carrying our child is not, nothing, sweetheart."

"She's right," Benjamin stated, leaning over to plant a kiss on my cheek.

"Promise me that you let my sister take care of you, of both of you."

I nodded my head and sighed deeply before resting my head back against her dainty shoulder.

"I will."