Athena Swan loudly greets her new and shy cousins as they move in with her uncle, Charlie Swan. Athena is the polar opposite of the Swan sisters, she's a social butterfly, a blunt person, even her features are the opposite of theirs. But, for a pair...
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The plan was set in an easy pace, the mini Jake pack would go distract the pack of wolves to keep the at bay, the majority of the Cullen's would go out and feed as the others stayed back and took care of Bella and the baby.
It had started off as a simple and calming prescience in the morning, a sense of ease that had Athena on the edge. She had been studying away at immortal children and all those other theories that Carlisle and her had been working on the past few weeks.
It was time for Bella to have her daily dose of a blood bag. Bella took the bag gratefully, drinking from it before she accidentally dropped it. Bella insisted that she grabbed the drink, leaning over on her own with slight support on her way down.
Her body broke backwards in an unnatural way and everyone had an immediate reaction to run and help her, Edward catching her head as she fell to the floor, everyone else had crashed on the floor beside her to help. Athena ran ahead of the group and opened up the doors to Carlisle's office, pushing trays that had been prepared for this moment close to the table as Edward arrived in the room.
"Rosalie, pass the morphine" Edward states sharply after he had laid Bella onto Carlisle's bed, and Rosalie handed the needle over to Edward quickly, who injected it into Bella with haste.
"Carlisle said the placenta must've detached" Alice speaks as she had Carlisle on the other end of the phone, and Riley cringed next to Bella, hand clenching onto her sister. "He's coming as fast as he can"
"Then we'll have to do it" Rosalie states, Athena cringed internally as she knew the gruesome situation they had now found themselves in. Riley nodded in agreement as she pushed Bella's hair, soothing her sister the best she could. Rosalie picked up a knife to get her already, Edward quickly grabbed her wrist.
"Let the morphine spread" Edward responded, and Rosalie's jaw clenched slightly as Athena began to waver her hands over Bella, trying to help them both the best she could do.
"vita superat, vita viget, vita appellat et sanat" Athena chanted lowly as a soft glow hovered around her hands near Bella. "Accipe dolorem et transfer ad tranquillitatem"
"There's no time, he's dying" Rosalie states firmly, glancing at Edward.
"I can help with the pain" Athena adds in, sending a look to Edward, now was not the time for siblings rivalry. Athena felt the shift in Bella and knew the baby was suffering. "We need to help them, now"
"Get him out, now!" Bella screams deeply as she struggled, and Riley almost cried at the moment.
Rosalie sticks the knife in as Riley directs Bella's attention away from it, knowing the wolves could hear everything outside. "Listen to me Bella, you're both going to be fine, okay? We're going to make sure you're both fine"
Bella screams in agony as everyone looks away from the scene, apart from Rosalie who focuses and Riley who whispers comforting words to try and help, Athena focuses on keeping her hands going through as many phrases she can throw Bella's way to help soothe over the carving that is being done.
Rosalie holds up the knife as blood is on it, and Edward instantly recognised her face instantly. "Rosalie, don't!"
He tackles her for the knife as Riley takes over, having seen people do it on the hospital before, Athena sends her cousins an encouraging look as Riley try's to get the baby out, Bella screaming in pain as she fights against Jake, who had taken over soothing her when Riley moved.
"Alice, her her out of here!" Edward instructs Alice, who drags Rosalie away as Bella screams out her name.
"Change her, you have to change her"
"I can't, not while he's still in there" Edward responds, walking over to help Riley, who seemed to actually be handling it well.
Athena's hands were shaking like mad as she had her eyes clenched shut, peeling away all she had to help save her family, she was loosing a lot of blood quickly and there was only so much Athena could do to comfort a dying person. "vita superat, vita viget, vita appellat et sanat"
"Stay focused, keep your heart beating" Jake keeps his eyes on Bella, as Bella trashes around and screams.
"He's suffocating!!"
Edward leans over and bites down to get the baby out quickly, Riley helping guide him properly as Bella flashes in and out of consciousness, Blood had spread anywhere but they all only had the baby and Bella in their mind.
There was a moment of silence as Edward held up the bloody baby, chuckling lightly as he looked down, it was a moment of joy. Riley let out a breath as a smile appeared on her face at the sight.
"It's a girl" Riley grinned as the baby began to let out a cry, Edward cradling it to his chest as Riley watched with tearful eyes. "Bella, she's got your eyes"
"It's Renesmee." Edward announces to everyone in a soothing voice, looking over at Bella, his eyes full of love as Bella let's out a sigh.
"Beautiful" Bella's broken and tiny voice speaks, Athena calming down with her spells as her eyes were watching the baby girl, she observed the little baby bundle and a faint smile came over her face-suddenly it was all worth it.
Edward handed over the baby to Bella carefully, who held the baby to her as though her life depended on it, everyone was smiling at the sight of mother and daughter.
The baby begins to cry again and Edward walks forward to take the baby away, the next few moments were chaos as Rosalie randomly appeared around the corner and Athena began shouting her spells as Bella was slipping. "Vitam pete, fuge dolorem, sana, sana!" Athena felt the life of her cousin decreasing every second and her eyes glowed as the pain began to fill her body.
"Bella, Bells. Hold on for me" Riley cried out from beside her sister, Athena's heart almost broke, Edward rushing back after handing Renesmee off to Rosalie, who left the room to take care of the baby. "You hear me Bella?"
"Riley, promise you'll take care of each other" Bella says weakly, her eyes shutting as Edward was pumping his hands against her chest to get her breathing again, Athena dropped her hands as she realised it was too late, the colour of her magic faded as life slipped from the room, she took a step back to steady herself.
"Always!" Riley responds in a shout, before Bella closed her eyes. "Bella?! Bella!!!"
