Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.

Chapter 33: New Revelations

Day 44

Carlisle had officially ordered Rian to bedrest when she hit her day 40 mark. It was driving Rian absolutely crazy. She spent most of her time downstairs on the couch, then Emmett or Alice would help her upstairs so she could go to sleep or lounge in the bath.

Renesmee kept her company during the day while Bella and Esme weren't too far away. Everyone was beginning to sit on the edge of their seats waiting for Rian to pop. Carlisle said it wouldn't happen for another three or four weeks probably, that is if she could carry the twins to term.

Rian felt about has big as she looked, she found it difficult to get up and walk around, this is probably one of the reasons Carlisle has restricted her activity. But luckily she still felt pretty good for having twin half vampire babies growing inside her.

Emmett had dropped out of school after attempting to go the first week after Christmas vacation, but he couldn't keep his mind focused on his work there and found it very frustrating since he has been through the stuff a million times. He was constantly texting Rian, Esme, or Bella; one of the girls was always with her since he and Alice couldn't be. He didn't drop out of school though, until Carlisle put Rian on bedrest on day 40. But day 41, he was bugging the daylights out of Rian, not that she minded much.

Rian had finally started growing closer to Bella since the shopping trip, she asked Bella about her pregnancy and labor and changing. Bella's story vastly differed from Emmett's story. She and Esme had grown closer as well, but it wasn't as hard of a relationship as Bella had been. Rian related more to Alice and Esme than Bella, and she wondered if Bella felt the same and if that was why she was so standoffish.

With the end of her pregnancy approaching, Rian was once again looking for names. They still needed one more girl name and one more boy name; although Emmett was convinced that the twins were boys. Rian thought it was wishful thinking on his part, much like how she knew it was wishful thinking on hers to claim they were girls. In the last few days, Emmett and Rian had started 'bumping heads' on the gender of the twins.

Of course Emmett wanted to make a bet out of the gender of the twins. "If they are boys, I get to name them whatever I want."

"No." Rian protested, she remembered the horrible names he suggested in the beginning of her pregnancy and she knew there was a fifty/fifty chance that at least one of the babies was a boy.

"Okay, fine. Then I won't have to change a single diaper?"

"Okay," she agreed, they wouldn't be in diapers long according to Esme and Bella. "If they are girls, you have to change them all!"

His face instantly fell, the way she worded it, not even someone else in the family could change them. Though, she hadn't intended to torture him that way, if she had won, she expected he wouldn't be the only person changing diapers. "Then I am changing mine."

"No, no way. It's done."

"Don't die. I can't lose you." Emmett said, showing a bit of the emotions he had tried so hard to keep hidden from her.

She had intended to say, 'I can't control whether I die or not.' Or something to that extent. But what came out of her mouth as she looked into his saddened gold eyes, "I promise."

Day 47

While Emmett was out hunting, Rian was laying down on the examining table in the office, just as she had every other day since the beginning of this. Carlisle did his normal routine; checked her vitals, checked the babies' vitals, measured her stomach, and asked if she had experienced anything new. It was the same thing, over and over.

"So far, you have done excellent. Much better than Bella had. I'm not sure, but I think it's how quickly we caught your pregnancy and how fast we had you start drinking the blood." Carlisle was putting away his things. "I originally thought the baby was demanding the blood, but as I've observed you, Rian, I've changed my hypothesis. I now believe that it's actually your body changing to protect both the baby and you that is demanding the blood."

"What do you mean, my body changing?" Rian said slightly panicked.

"You're uterus has developed a vampire-like casing, it still changes and allows the babies to grown, unlike a true vampire. But it is still extremely tough and almost impenetrable by anything other than a vampire. It seems the more blood you drink the stronger the casing is and helps protect you from the babies as well as protecting the babies as they develop."

"What will happen to me after they're born, assuming nothing goes wrong and I survive somehow?" She knew it was very unlike, even though she had been perfectly fine so far, her still human (mostly) body would most likely not be able to handing the harsh birth of the babies.

"In that unlikely event, I think you would return to a normal human. But I couldn't be sure, nothing like that has happened to my knowledge and this is just a guess. I think the most likely scenario is either you dying or changing after the birth."

"Of course." Rian said slightly bitterly.

"Rian, what do you want us to do? We have been assuming you want to be changed after the babies are born." Carlisle said concerned.

"No, no. I do." It wasn't that she didn't want to be changed, she just wasn't too thrilled to have to go through that pain that has plagued her dreams, waking or sleeping, since she was old enough to remember them. She smile at Carlisle as she said it clearly one last time to put all his worries away, "I do want to be changed after they are born, but only if I'm already dying."