A/N A huge thanks to my beta OoJasper'sAngeloO and my pre-reader, sinfulroad69 for making this chapter better. I need to apologize, I was supposed to have updated this story yesterday but I was so tired after working 23 days in a row without a day off that I forgot. Please forgive me, but its posted now. You get to find out what's wrong with the baby and there are some big twists, and surprises in this chapter. It was really fun writing this chapter so I really hope you enjoy it.

I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.

Jasper's POV

As soon as Carlisle said that we had a problem I felt true fear. I looked down at the very tiny form still being held in his hands. The baby was perfect, but sadly our daughter wasn't breathing and she had no heartbeat. The pain was beyond anything I had ever felt before.

"I'm sorry son, but I can't take the time to work on her to get her back, I need to tend to Bella." Carlisle whispered.

Renee was in there before I could even register that he was saying our beautiful baby girl was gone. She said she would take care of her and then left the room to do whatever she needed to do. I just stared at the door that she had just carried our dead daughter out of.

It was Bella's cry of pain that brought me out of the shock I was in. It sounded like she was still in labor. I looked at Carlisle and he nodded yes. There was a second baby coming. Bella was crying and I knew it was both tears of hope and tears of sadness. A second child would be loved and cared for, but could never replace the one we just lost.

It wasn't long before our second daughter came into the world and she was even smaller than the first one. She couldn't have weighed more than four pounds. Her cries were loud and long. I quickly cut the cord and suddenly Carlisle was yelling for Rose. By his tone I knew something was very wrong.

We were supposed to be able to bond with our daughter, but Carlisle was rushing her out. He told Rose to clean her up, but said nothing else. She left quickly with our daughter. I could tell that Bella was exhausted, so maybe she just needed to rest first.

A minute later she was having another contraction. What. The. Fuck! I looked back at Carlisle who once again nodded yes. It was only a couple of minutes later that our third daughter was born. This one was very quite. She did cry, but her voice wasn't as loud as her sister's.

I cut the cord and Carlisle laid her on Bella's stomach. Carlisle told us that he needed Esme to come in and clean the baby up while he checked Bella. Esme came in and quickly took our daughter to go and clean her up. She also brought Bella some warmed blood which she drank.

We were surprised, happy, overwhelmed and yet both of us was feeling such agony over the loss of our first born. Sure, we had two other beautiful daughters, but it didn't make losing the first one any easier.

Bella still being worked on by Carlisle started to sob. I just held her. She was feeling guilty and I knew that she felt like she had done something wrong and that it cost us the life of one of our babies.

Once Carlisle had delivered the after birth and cleaned Bella up he told us that she was already healing. He had a feeling that if he were to check her out in a few hours that it would be impossible to tell she had had even one baby let alone three.

Bella was so torn between deep sorrow and joy and I was as well. She suddenly felt despair and I felt it as well. It was then that Renee barged in and still had the baby in her arms that she had taken. The one that was still born.

She came right up to us and when we looked at our daughter, she was looking back at us, "Look, she's not dead. She's very much alive. When I took her out of here I knew she wasn't gone. I had seen her and knew that the three of you needed to worry about getting the other two into the world. Edward could read her thoughts. She was asleep and she had her gift working."

Rose came in right after holding the second one. She had been cleaned up and placed her in Bella's arms. Renee then gave me the one she had. They were very tiny and underweight. None of them could weigh more than four pounds each. One thing was for sure, they were not identical triplets.

Esme came in with the third one all cleaned up and handed her to me. The first one had blonde hair and it was curled so tightly that they formed ringlets. Her eyes were brown.

The second one was also blonde, but not as curly. Her eyes were the most beautiful blue, they reminded me of my human mother.

The third one had dark brown hair, again with the ringlets. Her eyes were blue as well. Since Bella was now decent Carlisle had let everyone come in. Although they had already seen the first two they wanted to meet the third one.

My beautiful wife turned to her mom and asked her what gift was she talking about. We were all shocked when she explained that our first girl had the ability to stop and start her heart at will. She had never been dead, she had been sleeping and had stopped her heart before the birth.

She then told us that there was more to her gift, but that we would have to wait to find out what they were. Carlisle did make a valid point when he asked, "Why couldn't we hear three different heartbeats. I never heard more than one."

"That's something that everyone will have to find out themselves. I know what the gifts are, but I think you'll have more fun discovering what they are for yourselves. I know that you haven't really chosen names for them. I can tell you what they should be, but you'll have to decide if you want to use them or not. I will tell you this much, the names I give you will be a hint as to what their gifts are." Renee said.

I told her to tell us what they were. She smiled and went to each one from the oldest to the youngest and touched their heads to indicate which child should have a specific name, "This one should be Kalypso and this one should be Avyanna and the quite one here in daddy's arms should be Adara. When you're ready, look up the meanings and then decide. If you can find something better then please use it if you prefer."

I promised her that I would do just that, but in the meantime I wanted some time alone with my family. Carlisle was the one who spoke up and said that Bella and I needed to have some time to bond with our daughters. He did remind me that my wife was still mostly human and needed to rest, so he would arrange it so that the ladies would be back in an hour to take our girls so that she could rest.

Bella sat up more on the bed and both of us laid our babies down side by side. Although both of us continued to touch them. All three of them were looking at both of us and smiling. Then all of them did something that shouldn't have really surprised us, but did anyway, they reached their tiny hands up towards us as if to say, "Pick us up and hold us."

We have to say that we are both putty in their lil' hands. My wife picked up the youngest one again and then had me pick up the oldest and put her in her other arm, since she hadn't gotten to hold her yet. She then nuzzled each on their cheeks and then kissed them.

She sat back and we started talking about the names that Renee had told us about. I promised to look up those names and their meanings. We both were willin' to give them the names, even without knowin' what they meant. They were all beautiful and they seemed to fit them.

So, we did what most parents never do, we asked them each what they thought of their names. I looked at the youngest one and asked her if she liked Adara and she smiled. Then the oldest was next, her name was Kalypso, she also liked her name. The middle one smiled as well when I asked her if she liked Avyanna. Our daughters were unique and were obviously more advanced than human babies are.

While we were talking, Adara did something that shocked us both. Bella was holding her against her chest and she turned and actually latched on to her nipple as if she wanted to nurse. I pulled her away and was about to take her when Bella stopped me. She had me take Kalypso and then pulled her gown down enough to expose her nipple and Adara immediately started to nurse.

Bella told her to be careful and not to bite. She smiled at her mama and then went back to suckin'. She started cryin' again and when I asked her what was wrong, she told me to feel her emotions. What I felt was utter contentment and a bonding with our daughter. Once she was done nursing we tried to get the other two to nurse, but Kalypso wanted nothing to do with nursing. Avyanna on the other hand nursed for a few minutes and then stopped.

Carlisle knocked on the door and when he stepped in he said that Rose and Char had done our homework for us and looked up the names. Did we want to know and could they all come in? We asked that everyone come in.

Once everyone was in the room, I told them, "Before we learn the meanings we want the family to officially meet Kalypso, Avyanna and Adara. They just seem to fit and they seem to like their names. Also Carlisle, you might be interested to know that two of them actually nursed from Bella. They seemed to understand not to bite and that Adara seemed to love nursing, while Avyanna liked it alright, but wasn't as interested as her sister. Kalypso not at all. Now, would you mind telling us the meanings?"

"Kalypso means "she who conceals. Avyanna means strong, powerful, beautiful woman and Adara means fire." Rose told us with excitement in her voice.

After that it was time for Bella to rest. The family took the babies with them. Carlisle did let us know that he would be examining each one and taking notes on their progress. Once Bella was rested, he would bring us up to speed on what he has found out.

He was shocked that any of the babies had tried to nurse, let alone actually had nursed for about ten minutes. He couldn't wait to find out more about them. What excited him the most though was the fact that now he was a grandpa.

Once we were alone I kissed my mate and sent her my love and pride at the overwhelming gifts she has given me. The love, joy and wonder at havin' not one, but three little ones was nothing like I had ever felt before.

We both snuggled down and she quickly fell asleep curled up around me. I knew that right now the excitement over the babies was almost too much for me and yet there would come a day when those three innocent babies would have to face the monsters that were indirectly responsible for them being here.

The Volturi would be brought down. How and what part our girls played in it is what scared me. I wasn't scared for myself, but for the girls. They should never have to come face to face with monsters. I have to admit there was a very small part of me that kept remindin' me that if it wasn't for the Volturi I might not have ever met my mate, let alone become a father.

Suddenly it hit me. I was a father. I was responsible for teachin' three little girls right from wrong and to have compassion towards others. I would have to teach them about using and not using their gifts and how to make good decisions. What the fuck did I know about teaching little girls? I'm a fucking vampire, I'm one of the most feared vampires in the south at least. What the fuck was I thinkin' when I wanted a child?

There's no fuckin' way I can do this. What if I mess up? What if something I say or do is the wrong thing? What if they get hurt because I make a mistake? How in the hell can those three beautiful girls look up to me when I'm a fucking monster?

I was brought out of my musings by my brother Peter yellin', "If you don't knock that shit off, I'm comin' in and ripping your arms off and usin' them to knock some fuckin' sense into you!"

That was followed by a loud smacking noise which I knew was someone hittin' him in the head. "Watch your language, there's babies present." Char yelled at him.

I heard Carlisle then whisper to me, "While I don't like his language, Peter does have a point. You were projecting and your daughters do not need to feel that coming from their father. You are a good man, a good vampire, a good husband and mate and you'll be a great father. I have every bit of faith in you son."

"Only with your help." I replied while sending him my gratitude and love.

I spent the next few hours with my wife restin', thinking about what the future was going to bring. One thing was for sure, the next few months were gonna be very interestin'. With three girls, yep, it was gonna be fun as well and I couldn't wait to see what my girls could do. I have a feelin' that they are gonna be special and the Volturi were gonna wish they had never fucking started this experiment. . .

A/N Please tell me your thoughts. There was a lot of things going on, and I would really love to hear from you. Once I've rested some, then I intend on trying to reply more than I do now. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed. They mean so much to mean and I love everyone of them. Thanks to everyone who added this story to their favorites and alerts. Love you guys. Pretty soon, its gonna be showdown time.