Taylor Cullen

A month has passed since Maria and the battle. As odd as I find it, Aro and I have been video calling each other almost everyday. He was telling me about his family, of course he left out the part where he killed all of them, and I never brought it up. It really wasn't any of my business. I rarely spoke to Bella this passed month, she has been avoiding my calls and I am not sure why. I assumed it was because of Sita answering the call, or she was too afraid to tell me the results.

"Mom?" I turned my head in the direction of the voice and smiled when I saw my daughter standing there. "Are you okay?"

"Of course. Why would you think otherwise?"

She shrugged. "You have been by yourself for awhile now, and even when your around us, your checking your phone every five seconds."

"I'm sorry sweetie, I am just worried about Bella."

"I know mom, but she's a tough girl. She will be fine."

"Perhaps she is, but she shouldn't have to go through this alone."

"Well if you told Jake where she was, she wouldn't be alone."

I narrowed my eyes at her. "I am not allowed to do that Sita, and you know that."

"Jake has a right to be with his baby mom."

"I agree with you, but this isn't our fight."

"You helped Bella leave!" Sita yelled, her cheeks flushed.

I felt my throat burn, "Leave Sita. I must hunt." I muttered and jumped out the open window.

"Mom!" Sita hollered after me, but I couldn't stop. The ache in my throat was like someone shoving fire down my throat.

"What is going on?" I muttered to myself.

"Taylor, this is the consequences of drinking animal blood." I skidded to a stop and looked around for the familiar voice.

"Aro?"

"Yes child, of course. Were you expecting Santa Clause?" I turned around as Aro jumped out of a tree.

"What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to talk to you about something..." He trailed off.

"You couldn't have just called me?"

"No, then I wouldn't know if you were lying or not."

"About?"

"Who really told you about the... colonies."

I smiled at him, "I already told you Aro. Why such the distrust?"

"Well for starters, I didn't see it in Maria's memories."

"Doesn't mean I am lying Aro. She could just be hiding the memory."

He nodded. "I have thought of that. However, Maria swears up and down that she never talked to you. She doesn't even know what you look like."

"Is it really important who told me Aro?" He nodded and I sighed. "Fine. I read about it."

"Why are you still lying to me Taylor?"

"Because it doesn't actually matter where I learned it from Aro. All that matters is that we find these colonies and put an end to them."

Aro stared at me with a weird look on his face for a few moments and then he gave me a sadistic smile. "Why Taylor, what would the Cullens think if they learned you were so bloodthirsty?"

My mouth fell open in shock. "Don't be ridiculous Aro, I don't want to kill anyone but the person who is running the stupid thing."

"What if the person who is responsible already created thousands of vampires?"

I shrugged. "They are innocent until proven guilty."

"Such mundane thoughts you have."

I laughed at him, no humour in my voice. "You have been a monster too long to remember what humanity is all about Aro."

His eye flashed and the next thing I knew I was pinned to a tree with his hand around my throat. "My humanity was burned up long before I became a vampire Taylor. You will do well to remember you who are talking to."

"You may sit on that throne of yours, but you are no king."

He squeezed harder, my skin cracking with the force. "I could kill you for that Taylor."

I looked him in the eye. "Do it Aro. Show every body the monster they all believe you to be. You killed your own sister so Marcus wouldn't run away with her. What kind of monster would willingly kill his sister and let his brother fall into such a despair."

"How dare you..." He hissed, throwing me to the ground, making my neck crack more, it wasn't a very pleasant feeling.

"Aro, let her go. She speaks nothing but the truth." A voice demanded.

"Stay out of this brother." Aro growled.

"What good would killing her do? You know how bad you will feel after you have done it." I turned my eyes towards the voice and was surprised to see Caius.

"I will get over it. After all I am a monster."

"You... you don't have to be a monster.. Aro." I choked out.

Aro stared at me with an unreadable expression and then let me go. I laid on the ground, panting, not that I needed to, it was just habit. Caius walked over to me and helped me up. This visit was just getting stranger by the minute.

"Why are you here?" Aro asked.

"I wanted to make sure you didn't kill her." Caius shrugged.

"What importance is she to you?"

Caius smiled. "She may belong to the Cullens but she has proven most useful to us Aro. It would be a shame to lose such talent."

"Talent?" Aro asked, turning to look back at me.

"No one has told you?" Caius laughed. "They probably thought you would have tried to take her for yourself."

"Spit it out already!" Aro demanded.

"When she was human she had the most particular gifts. She might be even stronger than her mother."

"She can't travel through time, what good is she?"

Caius rolled his eyes, "She had many talents when she was human, but I don't think all of them transferred when she was turned, but she is still powerful Aro. You would not like her as an enemy. She could probably wipe out the entire guard herself, and no bat an eye."

"How do you know such things?"

"Cybelle and I became close when she came back to Italy. She told me about Taylor and I told her about you."

"About what?"

"About the colonies. I am sorry I betrayed your trust like that, but she had to know."

"Why did she have to know?" I asked, confused more than ever as to why Caius just saved my life.

"So she could tell you of course."

"I am so confused." I muttered.

"It will all make sense in time Taylor." He nodded to me. "Come brother, we must return home, we have things to do. We will see you soon." Then they were gone. I rubbed my head, was it possible for vampires to get headaches?

I returned home a few hours later. As soon as I was through the door I was bombarded with questions. The most prominent was why I had Aro's scent on me. I still never figured out that whole meeting thing and I wasn't about to try and explain it to a bunch of paranoid vampires. I told them I was fine and to back off. I was suddenly feeling exhausted and dropped down on the couch. So of course that was when my phone decided to ring.

"Hello?" I asked, not bothering to look at the caller id.

"Hi, is this Bella's sister?" A male voice asked.

"Yes, who are you?"

"I am a friend of Bellas. I got your number off her phone."

"Is she okay?"

"You need to get here right now. Bella is having her baby."

"What? She's not due for another two months."

"Just get here. Now."

"I am on my way." I muttered and hung up. "I have to go. Bella is in trouble."

"Can I come with you?" Sita asked, catching up to me.

I skidded to a halt and looked back at Edward. "Edward, what do you think?"

Edward walked up to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, "I think it is a good idea, get her out of Forks for awhile."

I nodded and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "I will call you when we get there." I turned back to Sita. "Let's go."

"Bye daddy. Give my love to everyone." She shouted over her shoulder as we ran out the door.

We got into my car and made my way to Port Angeles, driving like the devil himself was on my ass. We got to the airport in record time, I paid for two flights to Dallas and we were off the ground thirty minutes later. Sita chatted my ear off the whole trip.

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Bella Swan

"Caden, do you want some breakfast?" I yelled up the stairs.

"Sure." I heard the muttered response and laughed as I made my way back to the kitchen, that boy could sure sleep. He came down a few minutes later, just as I was throwing the bacon into the frying pan. "Don't you ever sleep?"

"Of course I do."

"You sure? I don't think I have ever see you sleep before."

I rose an eyebrow at him, "That would require you to actually be awake Caden. I swear you sleep more than a baby."

"Its practice before yours comes."

I laughed. "At least I don't have to teach you to use the toilet."

"You could always help." He wiggled his eyebrows suggestively and I rolled my eyes.

"In your dreams."

"You have no idea." He muttered. I shot him a curious look and he smiled sheepishly.

I cracked an egg into the frying pan and at the same moment I felt a sharp pain go through my stomach. I glanced up at Caden terrified. I grabbed the counter tightly, my knuckles turned white when another pain went through me.

"Call 911." I gasped, slouching to the floor.

"Bella!" Caden shouted, pulling his phone out and started dialling. "Hi yes, I need an ambulance right away." Pause. "No I don't know what's wrong, but she is seven months pregnant. Hurry."

The ambulance arrived a few minutes later, the paramedics rushing into the house and started checking everything and asking tons of questions. I yelped in pain as they lifted me off the ground and onto the waiting stretcher. They said a few hurried words to Caden and then we were out the door.

As they were loading me into the ambulance, Caden came rushing out asking me what he can do. I told him to call Taylor. He nodded and the doors closed, the sirens started wailing and I felt the van start moving. The paramedic started checking me all over again, and not finding any real cause he called it in to the hospital. I screamed as pain shot up my entire body, I was thrashing against the restraints of the stretcher as I tried to get out. I was a wolf for crying out loud, I shouldn't have to go through this pain. Through the breaks in the pain I kept asking the doctor if my baby was alright, he couldn't tell me much except there was still a strong heartbeat.

We finally got to the hospital and I was surrounded by people in white and flashlights in my eyes, hands touching me everywhere, how can people stand this? I yelled out as the pain seemed to get worse, my yells turning into bloodcurdling screams and then finally I passed out from the pain. Sweet, sweet darkness.

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A/N: Here is chapter seven, sorry it is so short, it was more of a filler than anything. Sorry for the wait, I will try to update faster next time. Please review. You know how much I love those. Until next time...

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