THE TESTS

A/N: Twisting vampire physiology for my own benefit. Hopefully for the best?

Song: Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

Detect5 Progressive...First Response...Clear Blue Easy...e.p.t...Answer...Fact Plus...Equate...E.p.t again...and again...

...and again...

...maybe I should try it again.

Urgh – what would be the point?

In the end, they all said the same thing. Nonetheless, I stood there, my bare feet planted on the cold tiled floors; my wide eyes glued to the two red lines on the white stick as I willed the second one to disappear.

Soon enough, with my unblinking state, my vision blurred but regardless, the two red lines remained.

I had been so enthralled with the task that I yelped at the sound of the knock on the door, startling me out of my trance. "Bella? Are you okay?"

If I wasn't in such a panicked state, I would laugh.

Instead, I adorned an agitated heart so I quickly whirled around and rested one hand on the pacifying iciness of the sink. My other hand desperately clasped my chest as my breaths now rode into wild and frantic gasps.

The walls seemed to closing in on me and the low hum of the light bulb above me seemed to have the intention of driving me to insanity.

I dropped the hand over my erratic heart and rested in on the sink, needing the stability to keep me on my feet. All the while, even with my bowed head, curtained my hair, I was unable to stop myself from peeking at the offending white stick.

As I slowly fell back into my trance-like state, her hysteria grew muffled behind the other side of the door, making it easier to simply ignore her and focus on my own frenzied state.

Wanting to remedy myself, I decided to turn the tap and then use my cupped hands to pour the water all over my flushed cheeks.

A foolish and useless thought, to think that the cold spray would awake me from this nightmare.

"Open the door Bella" the tiny pixie yelled loudly, banging her fist onto the wood that I was surprised she hadn't stuck her hand through. "I swear I will break it down" she threatened but I already knew it was unnecessary.

There was no hiding this.

With a deep and defeated sigh, I fumbled around for the first one I could find. My fingers now tight grasping the test with such a ferocity, inaudibly hoped I would be able to crush it in my hand and disintegrate the plastic into nothing.

After casting one last glance at the tired and blanched reflection, I lifted my free hand, opening the door to a bewildered Alice.

"What is wrong with you?!" she angrily questioned, "You had me worried sick! I've been calling you for the past ten minutes but you haven't said anything. You were in there for over twenty minutes - why didn't you answer me?" she rambled, with a slight growing angrier as she continued too waste her breath.

Tightening my hold on the stick, I brought it up to her attention when holding it out for her.

My silence only seemed to scare her further but what truly terrified her was when she took it from me and gaped at it. "Impossible" she breathed.

Oh no, it was possible.

Very impossible.

"This is impossible" she repeated again and I watched sadly as she walked into the bathroom and looked through the other ones laid out on the counter. Like a mad woman, her hands frantically reached for one and then doing a double take before looking at each of them again. Each one she read only seemed to drive her more senseless until she finally erupted. "How could I have missed this? Why didn't I see it?" she grumbled and the lifted her head to look up at me with wide hopeful eyes. "Maybe it's a mistake?" she wondered.

Oh yeah sure, all seventeen pregnancy tests were wrong...and I just had a stomach bug, that would explain how I'd been sick for the past three mornings...and maybe if I waited another week, my period will finally arrive...

I watched as she flew around the room and continued to ramble on about the different possibilities, each one wrong and as she digressed, the possibilities grew more ridiculous.

It came to a point where her blurred speed was making me dizzy that I had to fall back on the bed and stop her. "Give it up Alice" I cried out my plea, "there's no mistake"

Finally, she froze.

Stood still and dropped the pregnancy tests on my bedroom carpet. Her hands were trembling but then suddenly sidled up to massage her temple, groaning so I could only assume she was trying to get some kind of vision.

"Anything?" I murmured weakly, feeling nauseous but I battled against the urge to throw up today's lunch.

Releasing an unexpected frustrated yell, she dropped her arms. "I can't see! It's all blurred!" she growled and for the first time since I'd met her, she actually seemed like a vampire.

Guilt flashed across her features when she caught my wide eyes. Realising that she needed to calm down, she inhaled and exhaled with her hand rested on the bed stand. It only then dawned on me that she needed the support when she used the stand to drag herself to sit next to me.

For a while, we sat in silence and I allowed her to take the time and gather herself.

It was slowly becoming excruciating to simply lie there and listen to the taunting tick of the clock, the provoking breaths she released, the derisiveness of my pounding heartbeat, thrumming my ear drums.

Finally she raised her head to meet my inquisitive eyes and shyly murmur, "I didn't realise you and Edward..." she trailed off, her face crumpled up and her forehead creased.

Of all the things she could chose for a starter question…

Even so, she needed to know that last night's dreams, did not have me cradling a boy with that messy bronze hair. Instead, it manifested into a young baby boy with a jet black hair and a secretive smile as his eyes flew open to reveal the gleaming blue eyes.

I gulped nervously but inwardly knew that I could trust her. She had been so wonderful, trying to make up for the time lost that I now considered her to being, not only my best friend but my sister.

"When did you and Edward...?" again she let the question hung in the thick suffocating air.

"We didn't"

A/N: Story inspired when looking through past baby albums.

So...How will Alice react to this?

More importantly, would you like me to continue?

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