Taylor Cullen
The plane landed just as the sun started to set, not taking any chances I bought a sweater, sunglasses and a scarf to wrap around my head. Didn't want humans to notice a sparkly vampire, not when I was in such a rush. I rented the fastest car the rental company had and we made our way to Plainview quickly. We reached it in a couple hours and made our way to the only hospital in the town. Parking the car, I made ran towards the entrance as fast as I could without raising suspicion, not even looking to see if Sita was behind me or not. Once inside I made my way to the receptionist.
"Good evening, how may I help you?" The receptionist, Sandra her name tag provided, was a pretty woman, with blonde hair, blue eyes and a little stout body.
"Hi, I am looking for my sister. Bella Swan." Sita finally caught up to me, slightly panting.
"Yes, she is in the maternity ward on the first floor."
"How do I get there?" I demanded.
"Go straight down this hallway and then turn right, there should be a nurse there who can redirect you to her room." She gave me a smile.
"Thank you." I rushed out and walked briskly down the hallway. I turned right where the nurse indicated and noticed the sign above a double door. Maternity Ward hung over it, slightly faded. I walked through the doors, Sita right behind me. I noticed a nurse in blue scrubs and her brown hair wrapped tightly in a bun. "Excuse me."
Her eyes widened at my voice and she smiled at me softly, waiting for me to catch up to her. "How may I help you?"
"I am looking for my sister, Bella Swan."
"Right, can I see some ID?"
My eyes narrowed incredulous, "Are you kidding me?" The nurse shook her head, muttered something about hospital policy and profusely apologized. "Fine, here." I pulled out my id and she looked at it and then back at me.
"Aren't you a little young to be married and to have a kid already?" She enquired.
I stifled a growl, knowing she was just curious. "Sure, if you say so. I would like to see my sister now."
The smile disappeared from her face and she gave me a curt nod. "If you would follow me, the doctor is with her right now."
"Thank you." I replied as she led us to a door, the only one that seemed to be occupied at the moment. I didn't hear any other heartbeats, must not be a lot of pregnant women in this little town.
"Aunty Bella." Sita cried, running into the room. I sighed and followed her into the room.
"Sita?" Bella croaked, her voice raspy and rough. I cringed at the sight before me, she was covered from the waist down, her pale face even whiter and her hair stringy from sweat. She had dark circles under her eyes like she hadn't slept in weeks.
"Bella." Sita scurried over to her and gave her a light hug.
The doctor cleared his throat and I turned my attention to him, his eyes widening a little at my appearance. For as long as I live I don't think I will ever get used of people looking at me like that. "Excuse me, who are you?"
"I am Taylor, I am Bella's sister. What happened?" I asked him.
"Can I speak to you out in the hall?" I nodded and he led me out into the hallway, closing the door. I stopped the urge to roll my eyes at the useless gesture. "Miss. Swan's condition is not good. We are not positive on what happened but we had to do an emergency c-section."
"Her baby?" I demanded.
"It is not looking too good for him, he is two months premature, not fully developed yet."
"I know lots of premature babies, and they are still alive."
"They usually have many problems. We won't know more until morning Miss. Swan."
I gritted my teeth, "and my sister?"
He lifted his shoulder slightly in a shrug and I held back the temptation to attack the ignorant doctor. "Can they be transported? My father in law is a doctor and I would feel better if he was taking care of them."
The doctor's eyes narrowed, "See here Miss. Swan, I am perfectly capable of looking after your sister and her baby."
"I am sure you do, but I don't care. I want them ready to be moved in an hour." I commanded and moved passed him back into the room. Pulling my phone out I called Carlisle's cell. "Carlisle, no nothing is wrong. How soon can you make it to Dallas?" I paused as he continued talking. "Great. Meet me there in two hours." I hung up and looked up to see Bella and Sita both staring at me.
"Dallas?" Bella asked.
"This doctor they have here is incompetent. I want Carlisle to look over you guys." I answered. She opened her to protest when I cut her off. "No arguing with me Bella." I growled.
"Mom?" I turned towards Sita. "You need to go hunt."
"I'm fine."
"You don't look fine. Go mom, I will watch them."
I sighed in defeat and nodded. "OK. I will see you when we are ready to go."
"My baby?" Bella cried, my heart breaking. "He is coming with us. Don't worry Bells, I would trust Carlisle with my life."
"And ours?" Bella whispered so quietly I almost missed it.
"Of course." I nodded and sprinted through the open window, smelling the air for animals. Two hours later found us landing on top of the Dallas memorial hospital, Carlisle, Edward and two nurses waited for us by the elevators. I rushed towards them, Edward gathering me in his arms and breathing in my scent.
"Taylor.." He groaned.
I shook myself free and looked up at him. "Later love. We have other things to do." I turned towards Carlisle. "They did a c-section on Bella, they are both in bad shape. Please help them." I pleaded.
He nodded. "I will do what I can Taylor." He walked towards the two stretchers that help my sister and her baby and lead them towards the elevators. Sita joined us soon after the elevators dinged closed.
"Will they be okay?"
"Carlisle will do everything in his power to help." He squeezed me closer to him. "Come, let us go wait, I am sure Sita is hungry."
I nodded and we made our way to the elevator, and made our way to the cafeteria. Sita grabbed some food and we sat down and waited. It was five hours later that Carlisle finally found us, Sita lay sprawled across our laps sleeping and I lifted her gently so her head was lying on Edward's shoulder and got up to meet him.
"Well?" I asked, my body tense.
"They will both be fine." He gave me a mournful look. "Some complications arose and I am sorry but I don't think Bella will be able to have children."
"What?"
"She had a tumour in her stomach, close to her ovaries. We had to remove it quickly, but we were too late, it has done its damage. If we were able to remove it sooner we could have risen her chances of reproducing in the future. The tumour caused her to go into labour early. The baby will be fine after a couple weeks in the incubator.
Through his speech my hand was over my mouth, horrified. "Have you told Bella?"
He shook his head, "she is sedated right now, won't wake up until the morning."
"Her baby is fine though?"
"Quite. He is quite healthy, he should be fine."
I gave him a watery smile. "Thank you Carlisle."
"She is apart of this family as well. Go to the hotel. There is nothing else you can do here. I will stay and wait for her to wake up. I will call you when she does."
"But-" I started to protest but he cut me off.
"Sita is tired, go."
I sighed and nodded. "Ok, make sure you call me as soon as she wakes up." He nodded. I turned towards Edward and noticed he was already standing up with Sita in his arms, a crooked smile on his face.
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Bella Swan
I heard blurred voices around me, one of them even sounded vaguely familiar but I couldn't place it. My head felt fuzzy and my mouth felt like someone shoved cotton balls into it. The last thing I remembered before I was drugged was a nurse explaining to me what was wrong and that a doctor had to perform surgery on me immediately or I wouldn't be alive come morning. I forced my eyelids open, it was difficult they felt like they weighed a ton.
"...she was very lucky..." I heard snippets of their conversation, they hadn't noticed I was awake yet. I noticed a nurse who looked to be in her fifties and the nurse who explained the surgery to me before plunging a needle into my thigh. "That sexy doctor sure knew what he was doing. He looked good enough to eat."
"Marta!" The older nurse squealed, giggling. "He might hear you."
"Nonsense. He is busy talking to the girls sister." Marta answered her. "I wonder if he is married, I don't see no ring."
The older one rolled her eyes. "You would do well to leave him alone Marta, you know how you are with guys."
"How I am with guys?" She asked, her eyes narrowing slightly. "What in the world is that suppose to mean Bridgette?"
"You know exactly what it means. You take a bite out of them and don't let go until all their money is dried up, then you spit them out with a broken heart."
Marta laughed, "Oh please, you make it sound like it's a bad thing, and I am pretty sure Dr. Cullen has lots to spare."
"He's married." I ground out roughly. The two nurses turned around quickly, eyes wide.
Bridgette spoke up first. " I will go get the doctor."
Marta continued to stare at me. "Married you say?" I nodded slowly, wondering what she was thinking. "Is he happy?" She smiled at me. "Does he get lonely sometimes? I am sure I could help him out. Make him fall in love with me and make him leave his wife."
A growl sounded behind her and we both looked to see Edward and Carlisle standing there with amused and annoyed looks on their face. "Busted." I whispered harshly.
Marta turned a dark shade of red and muttered apologies as she ran out of the room. Edward laughed as he watched her leave and came to sit beside me. "How are you feeling?"
"Groggy.." I muttered. "How is Crispin?
"Crispin?" He asked.
"My... my baby."
Edward smiled and nodded toward Carlisle, I looked over at the doctor expectantly waiting for him to answer the question. "Crispin is fine Bella. He will be in the hospital for at least two weeks. We will know more after that."
"And me?"
Carlisle sighed, "I am sorry Bella, but there is a high possibility you will never get pregnant again."
I gasped and grabbed Edward's hand. "Never?"
"I am sorry Bella, but it doesn't look good." I felt a tear slide down my face. "We are going to stay until you and Crispin are free to leave the hospital."
"Thank you Carlisle." I whispered.
He nodded. "I will tend to you later. I will send Taylor and Sita in if you are up for it." I nodded me agreement and he left. Moments later Taylor and Sita burst into the room, rushing over to me and hugging me.
"Thank God." Taylor breathed. "I am so glad you are all right."
"I'm fine." I gave her a small smile.
"Did you give your baby a name?" Sita asked excitedly.
"Crispin." I smiled slightly, and felt my eyes droop suddenly.
"Let her sleep sweetheart, she needs it." Was the last thing I heard before blackness swallowed me whole.
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A/N: Here is chapter eight. I think I did a pretty good job on it. Haha. Read and review please. And I will do the same. Next chapter will contain a reunion with a certain character we all love, or well most of us love... until next time...
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