ONLY CHAPTER OF PREGNANCY. 4 MORE CHAPTERS LEFT IN FANFICTION. THANK YOU GODDESSXNYTE2 FOR GIVING ME INFORMATION ABOUT EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY AND GODRIC777 FOR HELPING ME MAKE THE HORROR IN THIS STORY REALISTIC.

Chapter Seventeen

Five days.

It took two days less than a week for the symptoms to start happening.

Every day I studied my body to make sure that I was going through a pregnancy, even Serena had done testing and thankfully I wasn't born infertile. If I had been infertile we would have had me changed into a vampire. We would have still had Jane and Alec, so it wasn't like we would be without children at all. It just meant that we wouldn't have ours with both him and I together.

After taking a warm, bubbly bath I had gotten out of the bathtub and noticed that my skin had become paler than it already was. There were dark bruises that were starting to etch themselves under my brown eyes, my breasts had gotten a little bit larger, and my stomach was slowly forming a bump. My fingers that touched my sensitive skin shook from emotion and I screamed Aro's name, which in return had him running to me as though someone had come to try and assassinate me instead of me telling him I was pregnant.

We had immediately opened up the information book Serena had made for us, noticing that she had wanted us to take certain types of foods to keep my body strong but also for me to drink blood. The sooner my body was ingesting blood for the baby, the healthier the baby would be the least likely the baby would hurt me when it would move around in my uterus.

We decided we would name our baby if it would turn out to be a girl, Morticia Raven.

I had always loved the name Morticia and the Addams Family. I also was using the name Raven as her middle name because it reminded me of Edgar Allen Poe and also Raven from the Teen Titans. Our little black-haired girl would have a name that suited her perfectly.

We also decided if we would have a boy, we would name him Apophis Draven.

We had decided his first name should be of a god or deity that had to do with the darker side of mortality.

We didn't care to name him Thanatos or Hades/Pluto from Greek and Roman Mythology.

Instead, I had been surprised when Aro had given me the option of an Egyptian Deity named Apophis. A malevolent deity or demon and the embodiment of chaos, destruction, and darkness. He was often seen as a giant serpent or snake.

Draven had to do with the main character from the movie 'The Raven'.

A movie about a man who had been murdered after his fiancée succumbed to the injuries, she had gotten from being gang raped. He came back on the anniversary of the death, which happened to be on Halloween, and killed all of the murderers from that night. He eventually got his revenge and avenged his fiancée before he went off to be with her in the afterlife.

The book that Serena gave us said that the pregnancy would only last a month, and if the baby felt safe the uterus wouldn't harden enough that no one could cut through it. I would be able to have a cesarean without having to worry about the morbid results that the past mothers had gone through. None of them survived because they were too scared and didn't want the children to begin with, but I was someone who was the opposite. I wanted this child, it was the only thing that mattered at the moment other than my little family I already had.

I was lounging on the loveseat within the tower parlor room, peering up at the television show that was currently playing. I still couldn't believe that a television had been installed over the fireplace mantel for me to watch my shows.

To say the least, even Athenodora had been thrilled to pieces at how she didn't have to be stuck only reading or painting or playing instruments anymore. She could sit in the living parlor, in her signature loveseat, and watch horror movies from all different decades. She would have to put subtitles onto the movies when they were foreign horror movies for me to know what was going on, but we would still enjoy the television together.

The doors opened, and I turned my head, as my fingers brushed against my stomach. I was welcomed with Jane skipping into the room with a new gift for the baby. She always went and got a new toy for her future sibling, and sometimes I wondered if she broke into toy stores to get them or sneak into kids' bedrooms when they weren't there to steal them. It would probably be a little bit of both, now that I thought about it more.

"How's my little sibling doing?" Jane probed, as she came towards us dressed in a more gothic Victorian Lolita dress with all the frills and laces.

She had started wearing the clothes for the time being, apparently she had random bursts of boredom with her current style so she would end up changing it to another style.

At the moment it was the Victorian Lolita style, but sometimes one would find her wearing Renaissance clothing with the thick fabrics and many layers. A dark princess in a royal family, one who would probably burn her dolls and cut off their heads with scissors.

Of course, who was to say she didn't already cut the heads off dolls with scissors (the burning thing was a definite no, being almost burned to death on a stake when people thought you were a witch kind of did things when it came to fire).

"They are fine, I just drank some blood. I think they are sleeping. I see you got a present for them," I said, making her nod her head quickly before she blurred and came right next to me. She showed me the present she had gotten for her little sibling.

The present happened to be a simple brown fuzzy teddy bear with a crimson ribbon bow wrapped around its neck. Monogrammed on the ribbon was the name Morticia, and I arched my eyebrow at the sight of my possible daughter's name. It shouldn't surprise me Jane was doing something like this, reminding me once again she had decided she would have a sister because that was how the gender of people were determined.

"Want to explain why you monogram the ribbon?"

"Just a little motivation for you to be on my side. Morticia is a better name than Apophis. She would get bullied for having a boy's name."

I couldn't help but arch my eyebrow at the moment, not saying anything because it wouldn't deter Jane from claiming that the baby was still going to be a girl. She was tired of being around just Aro and Alec. She wanted to make sure that there were more girls than boys in our family, and to be honest it was kind of amusing because she was making the pregnancy a lot easier for me to deal with than if she had decided she didn't want one.

"Well thank you, Jane. It's a very nice gift. I'm sure that Morticia will enjoy it," I remarked, before sitting the teddy bear on the ground next to me. She came over and scooped my legs up and sat them onto her lap once she had gotten a blanket draped over her.

So that was how the first week went.

Jane would come and sit with me, and sometimes Alec would come instead of her.

He didn't care if the baby was a girl or a boy, he just marveled at the sight of me with a pregnancy bump.

Aro would give me long, bubbly baths and wash me gently.

He'd be kissing my bruises that were on my body and having me sleep in his arms because not only did it make me happy but the baby seemed to relax when I was in their father's arms. He was there for me and held my hand with every step that I took, and refilled my cup of blood when it needed to be refilled. He would be there as I would cry and my panic would come out, he would be there as he would wrap me in blankets and shoosh me.

The second week I ended up breaking a few ribs, which in return made me both terrified I had made the wrong decision and protective of the pregnancy. I both wanted the baby but didn't at the same time. It all depended on whether or not I would be hurting more than usual. No one showed any judgment towards what I was going through even though there was that suspicious part of me expecting to give birth to my baby only for them to kill it in front of me or kill me but keep the baby.

The third week I couldn't even get up from the bed and head into the living parlor.

Sometimes Athenodora would come and spend some time with me, sitting on my bed and telling me of the conquests she had with Caius.

The times she helped lead our troops into battle with Caius before 'she-who-must-not-be-named' had decided she didn't want to be a part of our family anymore.

The werewolves they had stalked down and murdered to their hearts' content, and how they were trying to out kill the werewolves more than the other. They were basically extinct now due to the hunting parties she and Caius had done extensively.

I was laying back on the bed, with my shirt pulled up and my hands resting on my stomach.

There was medical equipment around me.

A saline solution IV bag was strung up next to me and supplements were being sent into my wrist through the intravenous needle. There was another one on my other wrist that had a bag of blood being pumped through my body and feeding my child, in order for me to not have to constantly drink, just have my blood bag replaced.

Aro was sitting on the bed next to me, and he grabbed some latex gloves to put over his hands in order to not freeze my skin to death. He grabbed some lotion that was next to him and poured some over my belly. He began to rub the lotion against my sensitive stomach and I sighed happily, surprised when I felt two pairs of feet kick against my uterus instead of just one.

We both stiffened when the feet began to kick against my uterus lining again, demanding for their father to keep rubbing the stomach. He did so and without thinking tears began to fall down my face and tears were forming in the corner of his eyes. The both of us never thought that we would overpass just having one child and instead have twins.

Once he was finished with putting the lotion on me and disposed of the latex gloves he came up to me and curled up against me, before he kissed me on the forehead. Neither of us said something for a while, the both of us still speechless on how we were able to have twins instead of just one child. Even Serena herself said there were no cases of twins.

I was tempted to use the email that Serena had made for us to communicate to her through this month and ask her if we should be doing anything different due to the fact we were expecting twins.

Yet I knew it would only make me more paranoid than I was, because it would mean more rules for me to follow. This also meant there couldn't be anything else she could tell us, since it would be the first time one of her clients was experiencing this. We were all walking through unexplored territory together, we could only wait to see what the results would end up being.

I asked Aro to not tell the children or the rest of the coven the new discovery and development in the pregnancy. The last thing there needed to be was an alarm raised or someone who was anti-Volturi to try and come into the castle. There was already dissatisfaction by those that were against the Volturi in the fact that I was pregnant, if they learnt I would be giving birth to two heirs instead of just one I didn't want to imagine what would happen.

It was storming one afternoon as I laid in my bed, a book sitting on the top of my stomach.

The rain was piddle paddling outside and the wind was whistling. In the distance one could see the lightning strikes that were hitting the empty hills and fields of the Italian landscape. I watched the storm with maybe too much interest, as I tried to imagine myself standing in the middle of that said hill with my arms stretched out and letting the rain hit me, the wind blowing my hair.

A sense of nausea came over me and I went to get off the bed only to wobble and fall forward.

I landed on my side, which in return meant I landed too hard on the side of my stomach (endangering the lives of my two babies), and blood began to drip out of my mouth and stain the floor around me. I could taste the blood that was rising through my mouth and wanting to escape. I could feel the blood that was starting to pour out through my nose and then some of the blood went through my eyes. Blood was pouring out of every orifice.

"Bella!"

"Bella!"

I screamed and lunged forward, my hand reaching up and touching my chest as I went and began to wipe away the imaginary blood that was pouring out of me. I screamed, until a pair of hands went and touched the side of my face. I slumped forward, exhausted and relieved when I saw it was Aro that was touching me and not someone else. There was turmoil that was deep in those crimson eyes of his, as though he had never imagined he would put me through something like this.

Things didn't get better for me after that.

It was quite the opposite.

I was lost in delirium, never knowing if I was in the real world or if I was lost in that nightmarish realm where I would go through a miscarriage. I would always be in the same setting so you would think I would realize I would be in that nightmare world instead of the real one but it was so real to me in that moment. I would only know I was out of it when I would hear my name being called.

The day it actually happened I did have nausea arrive but nowhere as intense as it was in my fake visions. There was a waste bin that was next to the bed and Aro gave it to me for me to throw up, only for blood to come out. I hadn't been able to eat the last two days, and the only thing that I was able to consume would be blood. Now my body was rejecting even that, meaning it was time for me to give birth to my twins.

Aro carried me in his arms and led me into the bathroom.

He sat me in the bathtub and started the water, not too hot but not cold.

The water and soft texture seemed to sooth the twins in my uterus, for they were going into something that was similar to what they were currently in. The both of us did pause in surprise when we noticed my stomach began to loosen up from the hardness and the babies realigned themselves in order for them to be born naturally instead of clawing their way out of my stomach.

"I thought that we were supposed to have a cesarean…but I think they want to be born naturally," I whispered, my eyes widening and my voice filled with too much interest.

Aro called out Athenodora's name and she immediately appeared in the bathroom, since she was the only other that was allowed to see me undressed. Caius wasn't allowed to see me when I was going through the birth and then eventually the transformation. Athenodora would seem to be the helping hand for the birth but she would let Aro take care of me when I would be going through the transformation of becoming a vampire.

Athenodora motioned for Aro to strip down to his underwear and get into the tub so he could catch the babies before handing them to her. She was gone in a blur and was back in the room next, dressed in one of her husband's shirts, along with some of her jeans. She and Caius didn't wear more modern clothes that often but there were some clothes of theirs that would be perfect for them when they would go out in public once I would get my Gift under control.

Aro stopped the water faucet when it got high enough and climbed into the tub once he stripped down to his boxers. I moved my legs in the proper position and took a deep breath before trying to loosen my body up some. I was glad the need to throw up wasn't hitting me again, that seemed to be out of the way and we could focus on giving birth instead of having to deal with me throwing up blood in the water. The mess would be even worse.

Slowly but surely, I began to push when the contractions hit.

My body shook some from the intense pain I would feel but eventually I would get into a rhythm. I knew tears were falling down my face and every now and then I would cuss aloud, hating how I had somehow agreed with the whole decision to get pregnant to start with.

I knew it would be worth it in the end, unlike Renee I would never abandon or dismiss my children.

She wasn't ready to become a mother but she had become pregnant with me. She was probably already starting to think about divorce but decided to approach it after she had me because she couldn't be even worse of the bad guy here. If she left him and the town behind when she was pregnant with me, I didn't want to even think how things would have turned out.

Twilight was approaching when my first baby pushed its way out of me, and I couldn't help but groan as the baby landed in their father's arms. I barely heard the words, "it's a boy," before little Apophis was cleaned off and handed to me.

I was able to take a break for a moment and or two, studying the features of my baby boy. His hair was thick, matted, and the color of the night sky. His eyes stunned me when they opened, and I was greeted with his left eye being the same brown color as mine and his right eye the same crimson hue as his father's eyes. He was a little paler than a normal human but nothing that was too noticeable, and he was warm, warm like a normal human newborn.

Athenodora took Apophis away from me and went to wrap him up in a soft towel.

The very second that Apophis was away from me his little sibling decided it was their turn to join the party. So of course, I couldn't help but curse Aro for getting me pregnant. Only I would end up giving birth to twins instead of just one.

It took only ten more minutes of pushing for my second baby to welcome the world, crying her head off and demanding retribution. A little hell demoness, one who would be following in her mother's footsteps most likely. She had around the same amount of black hair as her brother, and when she opened her eyes they were normal brown. She had even parler skin than her brother. She was going to be the young woman with the powder white skin that reminded people of blue blood women who wouldn't go out into the sun and destroy their complexions.

Morticia was handed over to Athenodora once Aro was able to see his little heiress, and rinsed off before she was wrapped in a soft towel. She handed her back to me and I hugged her, kissing the top of her wispy scalp. She smelt a little bit like mint but also had this tinge of natural spices, a strange combination but on her it seemed to match what she was about.

Apophis was placed on my other side, and I faintly remember Serena claiming the male halflings were able to bite their mothers and turn them.

The girl halflings weren't able to turn their mothers when they bit them, if anything it would probably sting them but nothing would come out of it.

It was the only thing I could think about him and his sister before Apophis snuggled his head up near my jugular. He opened his mouth and clamped his teeth hard against my skin. I gasped as the venom sunk itself into my bloodstream and began to travel. The children were pulled out of my arms, and I was soon swept out of the tub.

"What's happening?"

Aro, my sweet Aro, was demanding to know what was happening to me.

He had been there when I learnt about the whole biting thing with halflings.

Yet he must have been too busy marveling about the fact we would be able to go through this pregnancy without being blindsided. He ended up being the one who was blindsided.

"The Gods give me strength!"

Athenodora cried as she shook her head before she slapped him in the back of the head, hoping she would have him receive common sense once again. She dismissed him growling at her, snapping his venom coated teeth at her like a cat who was displeased before she spoke, "Apophis bit Bella. Male halflings can turn their mothers into vampires. Girl halflings can't."

Aro blinked a few times, his large owl-like eyes still having that bewilderment at what he was hearing.

Then a moment later he seemed to have gained what common sense he had been given, and hurriedly cleaned off me and dressed me in a black long sleeve dress with a skirt that bellowed outwards around my feet. The material was Vicuna, the 'fabric of the gods', and was the rarest but softest fabric in the world. So of course he would put me in the dress. The good thing was the dress didn't have all the bells and whistles, it was just one fabric and color all throughout.

I was already going through the first stage of the transformation.

The fire was everywhere, it was traveling to the first nerve in my nervous system in order to latch on and spread as far as it could. Sweat was dripping off my skin and I was told that steam seemed to be wisping up from the surface of my skin and curling itself above me. My fingers were twitching and my face was eerily calm. There was no anger nor was there pain. I was skinny dipping in the river of fire in Hell and I was at home in the fires.

Morticia and Apophis were introduced to their older siblings, and all four of them were happily bonded at that moment.

It didn't help that the first thing the younger set twins did when they were being held in their older siblings' arms was bite them, in order to stake a claim in Alec and Jane. A sign that they were their best friends and protectors, no one could tear them apart.

All the while, as the world continued on around me, I burnt.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: the next chapters are:

Chapter 18 - Bella wakes up as a vampire, first feeding and bonding with Apophis and Morticia.

Chapter 19 - begins training with her Gift and Serena comes to check on the twins (we also get to see their developing Gifts)

Chapter 20 - the bonding trip for Jane and Alec to meet their beloved grandma Renee and grandpa Phil ;)

Chapter 21 - the wedding and the coronation

as always: Twilight doesn't belong to me.

-it'semmynotemma