Chapter Twenty

Jacob sets Catherine on her sofa, sweeping her hair from her face, Edward hovers in the doorway as Jasper pushes past him to stand with Jacob as he stands and rubs the back of his neck worried.


"This can't be happening" Jacob mumbles, "This can't....after everything this can't be happening" Jasper crouches and touches Catherine's face, frowning, he looks to Edward who shakes his head, he has no idea what's going on. Catherine groans as she wakes again, Jacob and Edward both stepping closer.


"What happened?" Catherine asks sitting up, Jacob grabs her face and kisses her, all over, lips, cheek, forehead. She frowns and looks to Edward. "Edward?" she asks.


"You collapsed" he tells her.


"Vampires don't collapse" she points out. "Are you sure?" she asks, Jacob presses his head to the side of hers.


"Yes, we're sure" Jacob tells her. "Doc's on his way back....you're gonna be okay"


"I'm fine" she tells him. "I'm just hungry"


"Vampire's don't collapse with hunger, Cat" Jasper tells her. She looks to him.


"I don't know, do I? I've never been this hungry before" she snaps at him. Jasper raises an eyebrow at her. "Sorry" she mumbles, her eyes then roll back into her head and she passes out again, Jacob lays her back down softly and looks to Jasper worried, Jasper looks to Edward.


"I'm going to call Carlisle again" Edward states and leaves the room.


.....................


Jacob sits on the floor in front of the sofa where Catherine lays, her arm over his shoulder so he can hold her hand. Jasper stands looking out the window and over the forest. Edward stands at the back of the room.


"What did you do now?" Rosalie snaps at Edward as she enters her baby sister's room with Emmett, Edward looks to her and shakes his head.


"Nothing" Rosalie glares at him as she moves to Catherine who lays with her head on the arm of her sofa.


"Don't you have some place else to be" Rosalie sneers. "Like with your current wife or your daughter" Edward looks to Catherine and then leaves the room, Jacob smirks and looks to Rosalie.


"Thanks, Blondie" Rosalie looks to him and then to her sister.


"What happened?" she asks stroking back Catherine's hair.


"She fell unconscious" Jasper answers from where he looks out the window. "Again"


"Again?" Emmett asks, Jasper looks to him.


"This is the fourth time since..."


"Since?" Rosalie asks.


"Since Renesmee was born" Jacob answers stroking his thumb over Catherine's hand. "Two hours ago, where's the doc?" he asks.


"Grabbing some things" Emmett answers just as Carlisle does appear. He moves to Catherine as Jacob moves slightly out of the way.


"Catherine" he greets.


"Hey" she mumbles, he touches her face and strokes her cheek bone and then under her eyes which are more black now then purple, and only darken every time she passes out. "There's something very wrong with me" she whispers, Carlisle nods.


"Yeah" he tells her. "I don't even know where to start" he admits and then looks to Rosalie who stands.


"I'll get her some blood" Rosalie states and leaves. "Emmett" Emmett follows after her.


"I'll go find Alice" Jasper states strokes Catherine's head and then leaves, Jacob kneels by Catherine and strokes her hair.


"You need to tell me everything, Cat....when did this start?"


"Two hours ago" Jacob answers, Carlisle looks to Catherine.


"No" she corrects, Jacob looks to her. "I've felt weird for a few days" she admits. "Dizzy...and there this pain" she tells Carlisle.


"Where?" he asks, she touches her abdomen.


"Here, it's really sharp and it's all the time..." Carlisle motions to her shirt.


"Can I?" he asks, she nods and sits up pulling her shirt up over her stomach, Carlisle sets his hands on her and frowns. He does the usual work up, as he would a human, applies pressure, his frown intensifies and he pulls his hands back.


"What?" Jacob asks. "What is it?" Carlisle looks to Catherine who frowns back at him. Edward appears in the doorway.


"That's not possible" he states, Carlisle looks to him. "Are you sure?" Edward asks, Jacob frowns looking between them.


"What? Sure of what? What's going on? What's wrong with her?"


"This union, their relationship, the likes of which have never been seen before" Carlisle offers, Edward looks to Catherine, she looks to him.


"What?" she asks. "What is it? What's happening to me?"


"Catherine" Carlisle states pulling her shirt down, she looks to him. "I think you're pregnant" the whole entire house falls silent. Catherine frowns and shakes her head.


"No, I can't be, I'm a vampire....we don't....it's not possible" she argues. "It's not physically possible"


"No, you're right, it's not physically possible, that's why you're sick....your body can't change to accommodate the life growing inside of you, that pain, that is your insides being destroyed to make room...."


"You're wrong" Catherine tells him. "You have to be wrong....."


"There has never been a wolf-vampire relationship" Carlisle tells her.


"No" Catherine argues. Carlisle takes her hand and places it on her abdomen.


"Here..." he moves her hand a little and then smiles. "Do you feel that?" he asks, she frowns and then gasps as something moves.


"What?" she asks. "I don't..."


"You're pregnant" Carlisle tells her.

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