Noonday Sun: A Post-Breaking Dawn Twilight Fanfiction

Chapter 21, The Awakening

Chapter 21, The Awakening

"Esme," I asked quietly, "do you have a blanket for the baby?"

Wordlessly, she flitted across the room and brought me the blanket she'd already set out for him. I didn't want to chill the infant with my cold vampire flesh.

She headed back into the kitchen to finish fixing a meal I assumed was for Jacob, Seth, and Nessie.

Nessie was sitting on a couch feeding Grace. I walked into the kitchen and found a cup for the boy. I filled it up then carefully sat next to Nessie. I was feeding him when Emmett walked in the door.

He stopped in astonishment and blinked. Once. Twice.

Maybe he thought he was seeing a mirage, but the infants looked decidedly different. The boy's red hair stuck out in a wild spike and Grace's dark curls clung tight to her head. There could be no doubt. Two separate infants were being fed by two separate people.

"What happened here?"

Nessie and I looked warily at him.

Esme walked out of the kitchen and sounded grim as she answered, "It seems as though word has spread around the vampire world that Carlisle is the OB/GYN for humans with vampire mates."

Emmett slapped his leg and let out a roaring laugh.

I suppressed a giggle. Trust Emmett to see the humor in the situation. It seemed ridiculous to think that there would be enough women pregnant by vampires to require a dedicated doctor.

I sobered up. If the current trend continued, Carlisle would have to quit his work at the hospital to deliver babies here in his house. Even the kind people of Forks wouldn't be able to ignore a steady stream of strangers showing up at our door. Arriving as normal humans one day and two days later emerging as white monsters. I shuddered. I hoped Sarah and Lily weren't going to be monsters, but there was no way to know for sure.

If there had been any chance of a good outcome, it would've been Lily's pregnancy. Everything was going smoothly. I had every confidence that Carlisle would've succeeded in sewing up the uterus and getting the bleeding stopped. To our utter horror, we had forgotten to coach Jaron on the dangers of a male infant.

Better coaching, early delivery. Healthy human mom. I could see Carlisle succeeding in keeping the vampires' human mates intact. If, indeed, there was a vampire explosion coming, Carlisle would be the only one who could handle it.

Emmett walked closer to examine the babies. "I know about the little girl, but I didn't know babies dropped from ceilings. Where'd the other one come from?"

I exchanged a look with Esme. "We had another strange vampire show up after you left. His mate wasn't as far along as Sarah was." I looked down at the tiny baby I was holding. "You can tell. He's quite a bit smaller than Grace." His shape was as perfect as Grace's, just smaller. I'd expected a preemie half immortal to look more like, well, a preemie human.

He looked exactly like a full-term half immortal just smaller. It reminded me of some of the pictures that had been painted in the Middle Ages where a newborn infant looked like an adult only with different clothes. He didn't look like an adult, but he certainly didn't look like a human preemie. "The delivery went fine until Lily's uterus wouldn't contract after the delivery. I had to find the Oxytocin to help the uterus contract. Edward was clamping down on the arteries so she wouldn't bleed to death and we forgot to tell Jaron that his son was venomous. He put him on her chest and he bit her. We didn't notice until the venom reached her heart."