Saturday, June 11, 2011

Thirteen

Chapter Thirteen -  Bad Dreams and Mending Wings…
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Bella
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“Bella…”

Go away.

“Baby?”

“Huh?”

“Wake up…”

Not gonna happen.

“I have something for you.”  I vaguely made out Jazz’s voice through the fog.

“I’m sure you do,”  I muttered grumpily.

Men always thinking with their dicks.

“Come on, Babe.”  I heard him sigh.  “Please.”

I could almost see the pout forming on his beautiful mouth, and I found that my big resolve to stay in bed all day weakening.

When I had woken up from that train wreak of a morning nearly a week ago, I was in the hospital.  Shot apparently.

I remembered the screaming right before I presumably passed out, as for the shot being fired I remember nothing, for some reason I thought the whole thing had just been a bad dream. 

I do remember seeing the dark skinned man behind Edward, and I remember the man saying something, but I can’t remember at all what it was, my memory of that morning was a jumbled mess.

Not everything about that day had been bad, though, I found out what has been wrong with me for the past few weeks.

Turns out I was in fact anemic, but with a good cause behind it.

I was going to be a mother.

I almost had a panic attack when the doctor told me, and for some reason he was expecting me to already know this little bit of information.

I didn’t.

I guess I should have.  All the signs were clearly there, but there were reasons as well to doubt them.

For one, I was on birth control, enough said, right?
Edward and I had been together for years and I never once even had a scare.

Secondly, I only had symptoms for being anemic, and following up with reason number one, I never had any reason to even think it.


Add to all that shit, the month I had and well, you get bat-shit crazy Bella, and I don’t see things real clearly when I’m like that.

I guess Jazz just had strong swimmers.

I smiled at the thought.

I was going to be a mommy.

Since we’ve been back at the manor, Jasper’s been an absolute pain in the ass.  As a matter a fact I’m surprised he doesn’t follow me into the bathroom to wipe my ass as well.  I guess I can’t blame him though, he was so scared that I was going to die.

Emmett said he was a mess at the hospital and that my father had to, at one point, force him to sit down before he went walking the halls looking for me.

I can only imagine how well that would have went over with the hospital.  As it were, he already had to write a check for destroying a waiting area when the doctors wouldn’t let him see me.

The man who had shown up that morning was Laurent, a college of Marcus Volturi, or so Jazz learned later from Edward himself.  

Edward himself had only suffered a graze to the leg and I’m starting to wonder if the man was really after me, from what I’ve heard eves-dropping, if he had been after Edward he would be dead now.  In the beginning Jasper had thought that my father had been the one to shoot both Edward and Laurent, it was not the case. 

I didn’t find out till yesterday that Edward had been released from the hospital before I was and that Jazz and Em had him chained up in the basement.  Jazz wouldn’t tell me what all they had done to him.   All I know is that he wasn’t walking when they personally put him on a plane back to Boston. 

The only information Jasper got from Edward that he actually shared with me was that he was not the one paying James to keep tabs on me.  He had a far better accomplice and I almost had a stroke when I heard who it was.

Jacob Black.

Fuck em’.  I told you friends are a dime a dozen, and I found out the hard way again, don’t trust people.

I’m still not for sure what possessed Jasper to spare Edward’s life; Jasper hasn’t been real forthcoming with any information pertaining to that morning, but I trusted he had good reasoning behind it.
I’d also like to think that Jazz spared Edward for Carlisle’s and Esme’s sake.  Esme had been such a wreck since Christmas, and I could tell she was in morning for her wayward son. She had apologized to me several times but as I told her each and every time; it was not her fault.

I’ve tried to talk to Jasper several times about the happenings of that morning, but he refuses, and he’s been having nightmares ever since. 

He really gave the family a scare last night. 

I had been tossing and turning unable to get comfortable.  Jasper started screaming a little after one am, and Emmett had burst through our door minutes later only to have Jazz sit straight up in bed and point a gun straight at him.

That wasn’t so scary as having him push me to the back to the headboard for five minutes after he had sat up.

It had taken Emmett and I a half an hour to finally calm him down.

I have tried repeatedly to get him to tell me about the dream, but he said kept saying that ’he couldn’t lose me’ over and over.

On a better note, I happen to be around six weeks pregnant with baby Whitlock, and Jasper has well… he’s just been fucking insane about the whole thing.  


Not that I wasn’t, but I took the more subtle approach as I didn’t want to bring any more attention to the circus that had become my life, but Jazz; total lunatic.  Already buying all sorts of shit online; everything from teething rings shaped like little footballs to baby software to teach it Spanish.

Spanish.

Like I said the man has lost his deliriously happy mind.

Not that any of the men in this family have been any better.  

This would be Alistair and Carlisle first grandchild and they are by far worse then women, I swear if I see one more of those stupid baby cigars hanging out of their mouths someone was gonna get hurt.

And Emmett… just don’t even get me started.

That jackass has been following me all over the house touching my belly, saying stupid shit like: “Soon I can call you Belly for real, or “When the baby comes out can I teach it to call me Uncle E-mazing!”  and then he laughs like the idiot he is for an hour or I get so annoyed I pull my Jazz card.

Emmett still covers his nuts when Jazz walks into the room.

Serves the annoying prick right.

 

Alice, Rosalie and even Charlotte - who is awesome by the way, a little ditzy, but really nice - have been the worst when it comes to the baby, and I think if they squeal once more over how awesome it is to be pregnant I think Garrett, Emmett and Peter will be camping out with us.

I think Trudy and Rue have been my salvation through this insanity.  I can always count on them to steal me away from the squealing aunts and gushing grandparents.

I mean come on, the kid hasn’t even been born yet.

I sighed.

“I knew you were awake, faker.”  Jazz said, nuzzling my neck, unknowingly spreading the tingling feeling that just makes me want to tie him up and yell ‘Ye’haw’.

Damn sexy man.

It really sucks suffering from bullet wound and being a hormonal and eternally horny pregnant woman.  I swear it’s the craziest thing, I have always been a sexual person, but since I found out about the baby I have become a monster.

Jasper could being covered and mud and say Bonanza and I would be instantly ready to go.

“Can you blame me?”  I grouch at him.  Damn sexy man.

“Ah, baby,”  he coos, kissing my neck.   “You’re not gonna sulk again all day, are you?”

“Huh?”  He asked, pushing against my check with his nose.

Bastard.

He made me giggle.

Another side effect.  I have never been overly ticklish in my entire life, for whatever reason, I am now.

“This sucks.”  I pout, jutting out my bottom lip, cause I know it gets him every time.

“Watch were you’re directing that lip, young lady or I’m gonna bite it.”  He says with that sexy voice he does.

He just would have to say something like that.

“Come on baby, open your eyes.”

No-fucking-way.  If I get one look at that sexy mouth of his I’ll be in agony all day.  Not high on my list of priorities today.  That would go right on up their with the horse pill of a vitamin that quacks got me on and no coffee.

“Alright, be that way,”  he tells me.  “I guess I’ll have to drink this large, pumpkin spice coffee all by myself.”  He tells me and I can hear him slurping something.

“Ahhhhh.  Caffeine.”

I take a hesitant sniff of the air, and there it is.

Fuck!  That’s real coffee.  Really real coffee.

I jerked up, damn near popping a stitch, and the bastard is smirking at me like a cat that ate the entire bird store.

“If you value you’re life and you’re ability to knock me up again you will hand over that beverage.”

He laughs at me.  “And just what are you gonna do if I don‘t?”

He sets the coffee just out of my reach and shifts to rest on his elbow, effectively blocking my from my bit of heaven.

Smug fucker.

Watch this shit.

I hop out of bed, strolling my happy as to the door.  

I chance a glance back at him and I can already see the wheels turning in his head.

He’s trying to figure out what I’m up to.

I yank open the door and with all my might I yell out,  “TRUDY!”

Jasper jumps from the bed, haphazardly throwing on the jeans he wore last night and pushing the balcony doors open.  “God no, here baby… here take it.  I was only kidding.”  I’m not sure what he was about to do, shimmy down the drain pipe?  Half-naked?

I tried hard not to laugh, but was unsuccessful in that endeavor, instead I laughed so hard I nearly wet myself.

“Relax, Cowboy.”  I said trying to catch my breath, “She’s in Dublin with the girls, shopping for tonight.”

“I’ll get you for that Blackbird,”  he growled coming towards me and taking me into his arms, a menacing smile on his face.  “And your little dog, too.”

Can I say swoon?

Swoon.

And of course I snorted all lady like, as Migg’s apparently sensing the dark forces came leaping out of the bed sheets, ready to protect me with his life.

Well, maybe it was more like struggled out of the sheets and he might have really fell off the bed, and he didn’t so much protect as he ate the mini powdered doughnut Jasper was bribing him with.

I knew that fucker had been gaining weight.

Fat little traitor.

“Y‘know, I hope we have a girl.” I told him after kissing him sweetly on the lips.  “This dynamic just isn’t fair.”  I said as pulled out his arms and strutted my way to closet.

I stripped off my nightgown; which was one of Jazz’s button-up shirts, I wasn’t brave enough to try and lift shirt over my head just yet.

“Fair,”  Jasper scoffed.  “do you have any idea what I have to do just to get that dog to listen to me?”

Giving him a sultry smile I told him.  “Yes I‘m very aware,”  and batted my lashes as I stripped of my bra, and started rummaging through my new lingerie, if I was going to suffer so was he.  “Migg’s is going to have to call Jenny Craig if you keep it up.”

I heard Jazz suck in a breath as I turned around, and mutter, “My god,” under his breath.

And all I can say is thank you Alice.

“And you-you talk about f-fair.”

My poor baby was getting all tongue tied.

I think pregnancy may turn me into an evil bitch.

Oops, already there.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, baby.”  I purred at him.

He scowled at me and thrust the large cup of coffee goodness into my waiting hands,  “Here take the damn thing. You win.”

“Thank you.”  I chirped.

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The rest of the day was pretty normal, normal for me that is.

Doting Jasper, insanely gushing grandfathers, and very annoying brothers.  Since Emmett didn’t have Rosalie to a)Keep him distracted and b)Keep him in check, the responsibility fell to me, and I am seriously contemplating kicking my own ass for not going shopping.
God, I really just said that, didn’t I.

The girls returned around five and I can’t believe I was so happy to see the three women who were gonna torture me for the next two hours.

That was until the end of those two hours, at which time I was thinking about how easy it would be to stab Alice in the neck with her trimming sheer and burn Rosalie’s eyes out with her curling iron.

Between living the abstinent side of life, being plucked and pulled more than a chicken and being stuffed like a 20lbs ham in a 10lbs bag, I was ready to commit murder.

Yes, we still engaged in oral sex, but I’m a cock kinda girl, and I’m needy.

When I looked in the mirror I had to say the three bitches of the apocalypse did nice work.

And did I mention the grumpiness.

Just checking.

I was in awe, I fucking looked like me again, not the woman who’d been sick and shot, and the dress that Alice had squeezed me into would have Jasper picking his jaw up off the floor all night.

I had decided that I didn’t care if I had been injured or that I was pregnant, I was going to spend a happy mild New Years with my soon-to-be husband, and I was going to look great.  I had plenty of time for sitting around the house doing nothing in ratty sweats.

Jazz had forced me to call Dr. Grandee before he would concede to letting me out of the house tonight, but the doc said as long as I didn’t do anything strenuous and I didn’t drink that I would be fine, and we had elected to take a separate car in case the night becomes to much for me.

I knew when I had agreed to join the others tonight that I had limitations, I had no problem with that.  I wouldn’t want any harm to come to the life growing with in me, but I still wanted for us all to be together.

“You ready for this, Belly?”  Alice asked me, as she gave my do the once over.

“Definitely,”  I told her, with an evil smile.

“Damn, preggers.  You almost as good as the wifey.”  Peter told me with a whistle as we descended the stairs.

“Thanks Pete.”  I told him with a smile.

He really was like a smaller blonder Emmett.

But there was something missing from this picture.

“Uh, where the hell is Jasper?”  I asked looking in every direction for my sex on a stick.

“You’ll see,”  Pete said cryptically.

I stood there confused.  We were taking our own car, weren’t we?

“Come on, spaghetti sauce.  We’re gonna be late.”

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A few hours later, we were outside of a little bar in Dublin, the place was packed.

We entered like we owned the fucking place and I had the sneaky suspicion that we - I mean the Cullen’s - just might.


The music was great, but it had a more Country/Rock vibe for it to be coming from an Irish bar.  But hell, I didn’t care, I just wanted to find Jasper.

The five of us strolled up to the bar, and I ordered a virgin drink.  I think it was the only thing I was gonna miss while being pregnant.

The band was doing their testing and the microphone screeched a couple of times, before a throat cleared. 

My back was to the stage, but whatever was up there held my families rapt attention.  I looked down at my phone again willing it to ring, my fingers were physically itching to call him.

Then it did.

Ring I mean.

I answered it and sighed as I heard his voice.

“Hey baby.”

“Where are you?”  I asked, because it sounded loud where ever he was.

“Around.”  He said, and I didn’t know if there was some kind of echo happening but his voice sounded really loud, like mega phone loud.

That’s when I noticed the entire family in stitches, but I couldn’t figure out what in the hell was so funny.

I mean Emmett had his drink practically coming out his nose.

The music keyed up.


"Hey where did we go, Days when the rain came down.”
I dropped my phone and spun around on my stool, and there he was looking like a god, on stage, hair down wearing a white button up and my red scarf around his neck.

He was grinning like a fool as he picked one hand off his guitar and waved.

“Happy New Years, Baby.”

“Down in the hollow,
Playin’ a new game,
Laughing and running hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts thumpin’ and you

My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.

Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio
Standing in the sunlight laughing,
Hiding behind a rainbow’s wall,
Slipping and sliding

All along the water fall, with you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.

Do you remember when we used to sing,
Sha la la la la la la la la la te da

So hard to find my way,
Now that I’m all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,

My how you have grown,
Cast my memory back there, Lord
Sometime I’ve overcome thinking ‘bout
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da.


“I LOVE YOU!”  I yelled, and you couldn’t wipe the grin of my face when he replied with.

“I love you, too, my browned eyed girl.”
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