A/N A huge thanks to my friend OoJasper'sAngeloO for her awesome beta work. This is one of those chapters that I actually sat down and wrote in a couple of hours. I was very excited to get this one done. I enjoyed writing it and I hope you enjoy reading it.
I do not own Twilight or any of the characters. I do own the kids, they are so cute!
Peter's POV
My knower has been goin' off like fuckin' crazy for several hours. When my phone went off I already knew it was trouble. I answered and then ran out tryin' to get out of the hearin' range of the kids. Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough and they heard their dad. I couldn't understand most of what he was sayin' he was yellin' and shit. All I did hear was Bella's name and something bout' her bein' dead.
Once I was out of hearin' range I told him to please calm down so I could understand what he was tryin' to say. At first he wasn't makin' any sense at all. He kept sayin' shit about no blood, chest and Bella dyin'. I finally had to interrupt him to tell him to calm down again and start from the beginnin'.
He finally was able to tell me so that I could understand. Sadly there wasn't a fuckin' thing anyone could do. I did tell him that I would get both Ethan and Carlisle and that maybe they could help by tellin' him something that might help. The only thing that I knew for sure was that his mate was dyin'.
Bella's POV
It's been a week since we got here and I have to admit that its been wonderful. We barely made it off the boat that we came to the island in before we were both naked. My husband was very eager to get our honeymoon started. I have to admit that I was too. It took us three rounds to finally make it to the bedroom.
Once there I only left to have my human moments and to shower with my husband. We stayed naked for the first week. He showered me with attention, love and of course food. It was so sweet how he didn't even want me leaving the bed. He would bring food to me and then would feed me. The only problem for me; Jasper made sure that he wore condoms.
I hated them because I wanted to feel my husband's skin against my own, but neither one of us wanted to take a chance that I might get pregnant again. Don't get us wrong, we would have loved any more children that we might have created, but we had four and we both felt complete. It would be better to not get pregnant again with the trial coming up.
We decided to spend some time doing other things. The beach was beautiful and I wanted to try my hand at diving. Jasper had made sure that we had diving equipment and showed me how to use it. I had never tried anything like this before, but the main reason I wanted to now was because I knew that our kids had plans to do some diving while here and I wanted to be able to join them.
Jasper was going to show me what to do so that when the kids got here I would be ready for them. Of course I had to promise that once we were done for the day that the night would belong to him and that he could have his way with me. He should have known that I would give him my body whenever he wanted it, silly vampire.
It took awhile for me to get used to breathing through the mouth piece and then how to move and breath at the same time. It's harder than it looks. Once I finally had the hang of it and he was sure that I could handle the deeper water we took the boat out a ways from the shore.
The world underneath the ocean is breathtaking and there's always something new to see. We didn't go too deep, but we were able to look at all of the different life on the bottom. We spent a couple of hours just enjoying the water and even had a special camera to take pictures.
Secretly I was kind of hoping that a huge shark would show up so that I could watch my very hot husband wrestle with it. Silly I know, but I'm sure if you had a husband who was not only hot, but a vampire as well that you would want to see how he would handle a dangerous shark. Of course it never happened. We did have a visitor, but it turns out that it was much more dangerous than any shark.
I was so busy taking pictures that neither Jasper nor I noticed at first. When I did see it I motioned to Jasper that I was going to get just a tiny bit closer so I could get a good picture. I only went about a foot when it suddenly started swimming towards us. It seemed more curious than threatening so neither of us thought of trying to move away.
It came really close. Close enough that I could reach out and touch it, I didn't though. Instead I aimed the camera so that as it swam right past I could get a great shot of it. Neither one of us even thought that it might be the last thing I ever did. The last thing I remember before Jasper ran me up to the surface and the boat was the extreme pain and pressure that I suddenly felt in my chest.
The pain was intense and seemed to increase as the minutes ticked by. Jasper put me in the boat and then got in the water and pushed the boat to shore. I don't remember much as he moved me carefully from the boat and into the house. I do recall hearing him yelling at me to stay with him. Silly vampire, didn't he know that I wasn't going anywhere?
He laid me down and I heard him on the phone. I couldn't really pay attention as the pain was getting worse and I started to feel like my lungs didn't want to work. I tried to focus on the sound of his voice to keep myself calm. After a couple of minutes I heard him say something that it was up to me and then I went out.
I came to with him trying to wake me up. He was saying something, but it felt like an elephant was sitting my chest and the pain was unbearable now. I went to reach my chest to try to get whatever it was off, but strong hands stopped my own. The last thing I remember was him asking a question, but the tone in his voice said he was begging me, "Darlin' I need to bite you and start the change. Please say you're okay with that? At this point even Carlisle and Ethan aren't sure if you'll survive, but I need you to promise that you'll fight with everything within you to survive. Please baby promise me you'll fight to live."
Silly vampire, of course I'll fight, but the darkness feels so much better than the pain. Maybe I should just let the darkness have me. The pain just got a thousand times worse. The darkness made it so much better, I started to let it take me away.
Jasper's POV
All of this is my fault. I knew about creatures that were dangerous, like sharks, jellyfish and even certain types of fish that had stingers or barbs that carried venom and depending on the fish itself the venom could just cause pain, but in some cases it could kill. The only one I could recognize as being dangerous right away were the sharks and jellyfish.
I didn't bother to find out shit because hey, I'm a fuckin' vampire and I can keep her safe. Maybe if I hadn't of been so fuckin' stupid we could have avoided this. We had actually had a few encounters with a squid, a couple of snakes and even some jellyfish that didn't get close. We also had the pleasure of watchin' a moray eel. I made sure she didn't get close to that one.
What I didn't know about was the fuckin' stingray. It was huge, but not nearly as big as the Manta rays. I had hoped to see those because of their huge size. It seemed to only be curious and once it saw us headed towards us. I knew that my mate was safe because it changed course and swam in front of her almost as if it was posin' for his picture to be taken. The camera went off and that's when my world came crashin' down.
I watched as Bella's body jerked suddenly like something had hit her. She was leanin' over slightly and had stopped swimmin'. When I got to her and turned her body I saw it. It was the stinger and it was huge. I don't know how deep it was, but it had to be in her chest at least several inches. My first instinct was to pull it out, but then realized that it might be better to leave it alone until I knew what we're dealin' with here.
I got her into the boat and push it usin' vampire speed to get back to our place. I made sure she was layin' down before callin' the only man I knew that could help, my brother Peter. I was scared, no not scared; for the first time in my fucked up life I was terrified. I had no idea what to do.
It still took a few minutes for Peter to get me to calm down enough to be able to explain what happened. He yelled for both Carlisle and Ethan since they were both doctors. He then put them on speaker phone and I explained what was goin' on.
"Bella has a stingray stinger in her chest. I can't really tell how deep it goes, but there's at least four inches stickin' out. Her heart is beatin', but it sounds like she's havin' trouble breathin'. She's also goin' in and out of consciousness. I can't tell if the stinger went into her heart or not. At least there's no blood, not even a drop. Although the area around the stinger is red and swollen. Should I pull it out or what?"
They both then quickly explained that while neither have actually seen this type of injury themselves they know that the stingers have to be removed surgically because of the barbs. The tissue would be shredded as it was pulled out. Since there was no blood right now, inside or out that I knew of, the only option was to start her change. Even then we had to hope that her heart wouldn't give out. I couldn't even do CPR if her heart stopped.
"Put as much venom into her as possible. Keep her as still as you can. If that stinger is moved at all it could kill her instantly if its in her heart or her Aorta. Even with a large amount of venom if that stinger were to nick her Aorta she would be dead in seconds. You'll have to keep her still Jasper. You can't let her thrash not even a tiny bit. And no matter what, do NOT try to remove the stinger at any time. My theory is that once her skin is more vampire that it may just push its way out of her body," Ethan explained.
I told them that I would call them when I had news. I told them to tell the kids that we loved them and that hopefully we would see them soon. Then I went to wake my wife up and explained that I needed to start her change. She kept mumblin' some shit about the darkness makin' the pain stop. I understood that the darkness was death.
I yelled at her to fight with everything she had that our children needed her vampire or human. She was their mama and no one could replace her. Then I bit her neck, her arms, her legs and even her ankles. I thought out bitin' right next to the stinger, but if I accidently caused it to move, well I just couldn't take that chance.
I pulled her body very gently close to mine and wrappin' my arms and legs around her fixed it so that she couldn't move and yet I could still talk to her. I needed to keep remindin' her of our beautiful babies waitin' for us and how excited they would be to know that finally their mama was more like them.
The truth was that I was tryin' to keep myself calm as well. There were times when her heart would stutter and her breathin' was erratic like her lungs didn't want to work. I was pretty sure that at least the left one had been punctured. The problem with the venom is that it needs the heart and lungs to keep it movin' through the body until its had a chance to change the tissues of each area.
In the end it was actually the fact that she had gotten pregnant, that helped with the outcome. Every time I mentioned the kids she seemed to become calm and I could feel her determination. Also it was the fact that the stinger itself was keepin' her from bleedin' out, but because of something else that she had done while pregnant the whole thing seemed to be goin' faster. She had ingested venom, every single fuckin' day, several times a day.
I had also continued to try to take away some of the pain. I couldn't take all of it or I wouldn't have been able to concentrate to send her calm and try to keep her still. Occasionally though the pain would spike and she would start to thrash a little bit, but for the most part she remained still.
The second day I noticed that her body temperature was closer to my own. Her hair was now much thicker, softer and had more curls to it. Her breasts were firmer and had grown. Something I found to my great pleasure. I was feelin' good and thought that she was gonna make it. Her other female assets also became curvier. Bein' a man and an asshole I couldn't help the excitement of bein' able to try out her new body.
I decided that it was time to at least text Peter and have him tell everyone that it looks like she was going to pull through. I had my turned my phone off as I didn't want to disturb my mate. Even the loud vibration of a cell phone can set off a newborn and even though she still wasn't done I wasn't gonna take a fuckin' chance with her.
When I turned it on there were so many texts and voicemails that I was shocked. I read the texts first and then to my great horror realized that Peter, Char, Emmett and Rose were bringin' our kids here and by the looks of things they were goin' to be here in a couple of hours.
I tried to call all of them, but apparently they were either about to land or had already and were still tryin' to get organized. I couldn't move and leave her in case she started to thrash around again, so I could only hope that Peter better have a fuckin' good explanation as to why our kids were goin' to be around their mama who would be a newborn once she woke up.
An hour later I heard the sound of a boat headin' towards us. I still couldn't move as she was still goin' through times of tryin' to thrash and get away from the pain. As soon as the boat was quiet I heard the voices of our kids. Bella must have not only heard, but understood who they were as she started to thrash around even more.
A minute later all four of them had found the room we were in. I was so grateful that I had changed us both before I bit her, I wouldn't have wanted the kids to run in to see both of us completely naked. I did have to grab a towel that I kept close in case I needed it and threw that over her makin' sure not to touch the stinger. They slowed down and came towards the bed. They were cryin' and they needed to know that their mama was alright. The stinger was still in her and that only made things worse for them.
I had all four of them come around to my side of the bed and I used one arm to hug each one and give them a kiss. I told them that their mama was almost finished goin' through the change, but that they couldn't be here when she woke up. She might hurt them.
That's when I noticed that the thrashin' had stopped completely. Peter was at the door feelin' anxious and very nervous. He knew he was in fuckin' shit with bringin' the kids here. He knows better or should have. Of course it was the kids that stopped the pissin' contest we were havin' with our looks.
"Daddy, please don't be mad at Uncle Peter or anyone else. Well, we wanted to be here when we heard that mama had been hurt and was gonna have to be turned. We decided that we were gonna come here by ourselves, but Uncle Peter's gift told on us. He caught us tryin' to make arrangements to fly. He wasn't gonna bring us, but we told him that either he brought us here or we would find another way," Mina explained
"Daddy, if you want to punish us then we'll all accept whatever punishment you want to give us, but please let us stay with mama until at least she's about to wake up. Please daddy. We love her too and you need us to help you as well," Katelyn said.
Well, shit! She was right of course. I felt much more peaceful with our babies around me. I felt stronger and so I told them they could stay until she woke up. They would have to leave before that happened and might even have to leave the island if she went crazy over the smell of their blood. Of course to vampires it smells off but to a newborn crazy with blood lust was a whole different ball game. She could kill them before she came out of it and realized who they were.
Rose and Em came in to check on us and then took the kids to the kitchen to find something to feed them. I was still beyond pissed at Peter for allowing our kids to manipulate him. I finally addressed it once the kids were gone, "What in the fuck were you thinkin' asshole for bringin' them around with their mama about to become a newborn?"
Char stepped into the room and quickly explained, "Have you ever had to face those four when they think something bad has happened to one or both of their parents? They knew that their mama might die and they knew that if she did that you might not come back either. They were scared that if they weren't here that you wouldn't come back and they love you too much to NOT fight for you as well.
They needed to be here for both of you, so don't you dare even think about bein' pissed at anyone. Those kids need both of you and they love you enough to defy any orders that you might have given for them to stay away. If it had gone badly for Bella don't you think that those kids deserved to be able to say bye to their mama?
One last thing. Have you ever known Bella to do anything 'normal'? Peter says that he's feelin' like not only is she gonna make it, but she's not gonna be your typical newborn either. She's different, that's why she's your mate. Now you let those sweet darlin's that the two of you created out of love for each other stay in here with the two of you. When you know she's about done, then you can send them out until we know what she's gonna be like."
"Oh and Ethan says that if the stinger hasn't been pushed out after her change is complete that you can then pull it out, but he's pretty sure that it will be pushed out. He knows that Garrett was shot up as a human, but was bitten. The bullets were pushed out of his body right after his change was almost complete," Peter told me.
Again I had to agree with both of them. They have always had my back even if I was an asshole to them. That's why I trust them with even the lives of my family, but shortly after they were done I felt Bella start to thrash around again. She continued to get worse until the kids ran in and started talkin' to her. She settled right down. They made sure not to touch her as we still had to make sure the stinger wasn't moved.
All of the kids came to my side and climbed up around me. They did keep one hand each on their mama and I and I could feel their love and their excitement of bein' there while their mama became even more beautiful than she had been. Of course she was always so fuckin' beautiful to me, but even I was findin' the changes was only makin' her more so.
The kids finally fell asleep, but still I could feel their love for both us seepin' into me and her as well. I actually felt her seemin' to relax. It wouldn't be much longer now, another day, at least that's what I thought. . .
A/N Please tell me what you think. A different take on her being changed. Hope you enjoyed it. I'll do my best to post again soon but I have no more days off until my husband's surgery but I'm still gonna try to write another chapter. I may have some time while waiting at the hospital but I won't make promises for that. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and added this story to their favorites and alerts. Love you guys.