Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.

Chapter 32: Simple

Day 32

Rian's stomach has doubled in size, at least she seemed to think so. Every morning she measures her stomach before she would go back downstairs for breakfast. Emmett was always walking with her helping her walk around the house. Not that she couldn't get around, he said he was afraid that she would soon start going through the pain and broken bones that plagued Bella's pregnancy.

Rian looked to be about 7 months or more for a normal pregnancy, but with the twins, she was actually around 4 or 5 months. Carlisle still continued to examine Rian every other day, he always cautioned her to take it easy. With each passing day, everyone seemed to worry more and more about her health and strength. But as of yet, she hadn't experienced too much pain and she felt fine other than a few bruises.

They began to take shifts watching her and going hunting. And Rian was splitting her time between watching Netflix and reading one of the books she had taken from Emmett's bookcase.

Rian was sitting up against the headboard in Emmett's room with her new iPad in her hand, Emmett was laying down on the bed as he traced the curve of Rian's stomach with his fingers. Every now and then, Rian would giggle because he reached a ticklish part on her stomach.

She was so absorbed in the new book that she didn't noticed, at first, the small kicks that seemed to follow's path. It wasn't until the babies gave a slightly stronger kick against her stomach that she sucked her breath in and started to pay attention to what was going on inside her stomach.

It was so unreal, this pregnancy. If it were a normal pregnancy, she might have had time to get used to being pregnant, but everything was progressing so fast now. She would almost forget that she was going to be a mother soon, that is until they started moving again and reminding her of this fact.

Emmett had looked up at her, gaging how much pain she was in from her facial expression. Rian smiled to reassure him; it wasn't that hard of a kick, just enough to pull her out of her thoughts and maybe form a small bruise. "I'm fine," she said as she looked down at her exposed stomach. It had four small bruises from a few days ago on the right side, but she didn't see anything different on the left side were all the activity had been taking place. "Do that again."

"Do what again?" He sounded concern, worried that he had been the one that hurt her maybe.

"Running your fingers over my stomach." Emmett relaxed slightly, if she was asking him to do it again, then he probably wasn't the one who hurt her. Although the other option wasn't any better. Still he placed his hand on her stomach once again and began moving his fingers around her stomach in circles. Rian concentrated more on the movement this time. When he ran his hand on her right side the baby would move, but when he moved over to her left side she felt nothing. This continued for a few more moments until the routine changed. The baby on the left side finally moved, as before a -sharp pain rippled through her side. She smiled, and explained her finding to Emmett who laughed. Apparently one baby was having fun and playing with his or her father while the other was getting annoyed and pushing or kicking out.

"I guess I'll just stay on the right side then." This seemed to satisfy baby number two, it didn't move for the next few hours as Emmett and baby number one played. Rian went back to playing with her iPad, but she was paying more attention to Emmett and the babies.

Day 38

Emmett had never really imaged himself having children, it was never really high on his list of things to do while he was alive. Then he was dying and when he was reborn, it wasn't even a possibility until he met Rian.

He had been so close to draining her that first day, and he hadn't been thinking of anything other than: 'Don't kill her.' It wasn't until later that night that he thought of any consequences he might have to face for the lack of protection he used in his haste. That was the first time he had ever in his nearly one hundred years of existence that he thought of children.

When he imaged his consequences though, he imagined Rian experiencing something more like what Bella had gone through. He saw her weak, dehydrate, and broken body not surviving both the pregnancy and change. He imaged a child that he wasn't sure he wanted in the first place. He imaged having to explain to her that the baby would drain her life from her slowly and that she would die and possibly come back as a vampire. He worried about her reaction to it too. So that morning he went out and bought protection, it wasn't like he'd get over his urges anytime soon and figured more of the lustful episodes would occur in the future (and if not, it wouldn't hurt for him to be prepared anyway).

But then Rian, when she realized that Emmett was really a vampire and not part of her hallucinations, suddenly decided she wanted nothing to do with him. For the next month, he prayed and paid close attention to her behavior. The worst thing for her at that point was to realize she was pregnant with a creature of her nightmares. He felt incredibly guilty for having put her in that situation in the first place, not that she seemed to be worried about it at all at the time.

Then everything changed again, after several months of nothing, she slowly made her way back to him. And a child was suddenly a possibility again, he went through the pack he had bought earlier in the year quicker than he had ever anticipate.

Alice calls Rian his soulmate and Rosalie the love of his life. And with each passing day, he begins to believe that more and more. Rosalie was the love of his life, but he and Rose never meshed together as well as him and Rian do. Rian had quickly healed the whole Rosalie left in his heart when she died.

Then for the fourth time in the last year, everything changed for him once again; Rian was giving him something that Rosalie never could. It broke his heart and mended it all at the same time. He felt guilty then, because he was getting everything Rosalie dreamed of.

But that guilty feeling was slowly replaced with something else. As Rian's pregnancy progressed, and her stomach swelled, he felt almost proud and excited. He often found himself rubbing her stomach, especially after they figured out that one of the babies loved playing with him. For the first time in his life, he could actually see a future in which he would hold his child.

He's known it for a few weeks now, but he knew Rian wasn't ready to hear it. So he would wait until she was deep asleep before whispering the simple words to her and his babies, "I love you."