A/N A huge thanks to my very good friend OoJasper'sAngeloO for her beta work on this chapter. I love you girl. In this chapter we get to see some bonding time with Jasper, Bella, Nessie, and Catherine. The baby is born and no you won't have to wait until the next chapter to find out what they have. Hope you enjoy. Sorry this is shorter than usual but I was wanting to get this done and posted.

I do not own Twilight or the characters. I do own Catherine.

Jasper's POV

Its hard to believe that soon our child would be here. Carlisle feels that the baby is ready to come and meet his or her parents and the rest of the family. Cath has been doing well for the most part, but without me usin' my gift on the baby, she would have had broken bones.

She was so fuckin' beautiful. She was glowin' with our child growin' inside of her. Fortunately since we had been through this with Bella, Carlisle had been able to keep Cath from getting sick and weak. Her bein' able to drink blood right from the beginnin' had been a huge factor in her stayin' strong and not getting run down like Bella.

Cath has had to stay in bed a lot though as she is tired all of the time now. She is huge and she has a really hard time just walkin', but in a couple of hours it will all be over. Carlisle is settin' up now to perform a C-section. Fortunalely for her she has had help in the form of Esme, Rose, Bella and even Nessie has helped her whenever she could.

What I really was excited about though was how close Nessie and I had become. She spent almost as much time with me as she did with her mom. She loved havin' me read to her or teach her how to play the guitar. She was also an excellent chess player as well as a poker player. That is Emmett's fault, he's the one who taught her how to play.

Of course we also had times where Nessie, Em, sometimes Bella and I would play games on the Xbox. She had played a lot with her uncle Em, so she knew her way around the games, or some of them at least. The one thing that stood out the most was the fact that the family was together and happy. Although Bella had her times when she was feelin' sadness she seemed to be copin' as best she could. It was a few days after the family meetin' that she came to me and wanted to speak to me alone.

While I wasn't afraid of bein' alone with her, I was worried about the questions she might be askin'. There were some things that I had felt from her husband that I knew if she knew that it would hurt her even more so I kept quiet about it. Since Edward and Alice's confinement, for lack of a better word, started she has been to see him twice.

Both times were in the first two days after our meetin'. She had questions that only Edward could answer for her. Each time when she came back she asked if we could watch Nessie for her and she would leave for a few hours. Her pain was deep and I felt guilty because basically it was my fault. If I hadn't been in the family she probably still wouldn't know that Edward was never her mate.

Yeah, that was something that I have always known. While the love they both felt was real, they were never true mates. If they had been then Edward would have never left her. They were both happy, even though the more Bella was around the more he became controllin'. Of course when Nessie came, he started to control her as well.

Even though I had been told to stay away from Bella, even after her change, I still had come to care about her. She always had a smile for me and I could feel her love for me as a brother. Her main goal was to make Edward happy so she always went along with whatever he wanted, includin' stayin' away from me. She truly loved him, unlike Edward. I still remember when she came back the second time from visitin' with him and asked to speak to me alone.

I really didn't want to because I knew she would be askin' me questions that I knew some of the answers were goin' to hurt her even more, but she deserved to know the truth and unlike Edward I would never lie or evade because I thought she couldn't handle it. She is one of the strongest females I have ever known.

We went a few miles away from the house. Like I said I didn't really want to, but Cath was the one to tell me that Bella needed me to be there for her. Bella offered to allow Cath to come, but my beautiful wife knew that this was a chance to bond with my sister, something that had never been allowed before. She told both of us to go and made a promise that she would be fine. Her and Nessie were goin' to be watchin' a few movies and gettin' to know each other better.

When we got to a place that we knew we wouldn't be overheard by anyone, we stopped. It was a cliff, one similar to the one she had cliff dived from a long time ago. We sat on the edge with our feet danglin' off and just spent a few moments quietly observin' our surroundings. When she finally started I was feelin' an almost overwhelmin' amount of sadness and guilt comin' from her. I hated that she was feelin' all of that, but at the same time I wanted her to say what she needed to say so I kept quiet and gave her the time she needed to get her thoughts together so she could.

"Jasper, first of all I need to apologize for always believing Edward. Although, even after the near attack at my eighteenth birthday party, I still really never believed you to be dangerous to me or my daughter. I just stupidly thought that Edward knew you better because he could read your mind. Now please just let me say what I need to before you say anything.

Edward is my husband and I love him, but he is also a controlling manipulative asshole who has hurt not just me, but the whole family. Most importantly, he has hurt his daughter and you. For that I need to say that I'm sorry that I allowed him to keep me from knowing the man you really are. You are my brother and I love you. I'm so proud of you for your choices. I'm so happy that you found your true mate in Catherine.

I have finally been able to start to get to know you and I find that I'm lucky to have you as a brother. When I look at you, I see a man who has been to hell and back and survived. You lived the first hundred years of your vampire life drinking from humans. You are the strongest man I have ever known and that includes Carlisle.

You were strong enough to turn your back on that lifestyle and make a decision that would help you to become the man you are today. You knew what human blood tasted like, but chose to change and try to be a better person. I know that you have a hard time believing how strong you are, but please try to believe me. Edward and Alice both have done a horrible thing to you and no one in the family besides Rose and Em ever bothered to try to be on your side. For that I apologize.

I keep finding things to apologize for don't I? I promise that no matter what happens between Edward and I you will always be my brother and friend. I really don't have much hope for my marriage, especially since Edward still insists that he did nothing wrong. Of course there is the thing about the fact that we never were mates.

I hope that we can still find time to talk and learn more about each other, but with your child coming into the world in a few weeks you're going to be a very busy dad. Just so you know, I know for a fact that you're going to be an awesome dad and that little baby is a very lucky child to have you and Catherine as parents. I love you Jasper Whitlock and I have a feeling that I'm going to need those shoulders of yours to lean on in the coming months. I promise to try to not take too much of your time away from your family."

After that she did use my shoulders to lean on and cry on. I truly didn't mind as I felt useful and I did care about her feelings. She was hurting deeply and while I hated to see her that way, she always felt better after we talked. I also got to watch as she and Cath grew closer. Of course her bein' pregnant didn't hurt either.

The last few days have really been good. We have actually bonded over movies. We would all sit on the couch watching TV while Bella sat on my one side, Cath on my other side and then Nessie would sit in my lap. The movies were often silly and what could be called "chick flicks", but I didn't mind. I was surrounded by love and that's all I have ever wanted.

Right now I have just taken Cath to the room where Carlisle will be doin' the surgery. She asked Bella if she would stay in the room with us during the surgery. Although she did make Bella promise that if the smell was too much that she would leave and not to feel guilty if she did.

Instead of givin' Cath morphine they had talked it over and decided to do an epidural. She would still be alert and yet wouldn't feel the pain of bein' cut open. Carlisle had started to voice concern over blood bein' spilled so to speak until Cath reminded him that I had cleaned her wound with no problem whatsoever.

Esme, Rose and Em would be outside until the worst was over and the baby was here. Like Edward had done, I had collected some of my venom and put it in a syringe just in case. We were all hopin' that it wouldn't be needed, but none of us were willin' to take a chance.

After the epidural had taken effect it was time to start. I stood on one side while Bella stood on the other side, each of us holdin' a hand. Once the baby was here, Rose would come in long enough to take the baby and clean him or her up while Cath was taken care of. Bella said that she would stay by Cath no matter what. She knew that Cath was excited, but at the same time she was scared as well.

Carlisle made quick work of cuttin' through to the uterus and then pulled it open to reveal the amniotic bag that surrounded our baby. This is where I came in and leaned down to bite through the bag so the baby could be released. Once I had it opened, I reached in and very gently took the baby out.

Although the baby was still covered in blood and "other" stuff all I could see was the beauty that had given me the most precious gift ever. She was cryin', not from pain but from seein' our son for the first time. Yeah, I was the proud father of a beautiful little boy.

I had to bite through the cord as the scissors just couldn't pierce through it. Once he was free I laid him on his mama's chest. Carlisle then took over to take care of Cath and make sure she was alright. Then he had Rose come in to take the baby to be cleaned up while he worked on closin' up the incisions.

It didn't take him long and finally was able to tell us that there were no complications and that while Cath would need plenty of rest over the next few days to heal she would be just fine.

We decided to name our child Jasper Whitlock Jr. and would call him JJ for Jasper Jr. We were so fuckin' happy. Of course I should have known that something would try to stop our happiness. There was another monster out there and maybe if I had stayed more alert then our child would have never been put in danger and maybe, just maybe, Cath would still be alive. . .

A/N Please let me know what you think. I will tell you that this story is almost done. Another chapter or two and then the epilogue. I'm sorry that its taken me so long to update but there is a lot going on right now besides Christmas and I'm finding it harder to write. I will tell you that I am working on an idea for another story. I'm not making any promises about when I might start posting, I haven't even started writing it yet. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and added this story to their favorites and alerts, love you guys.