Today's battle day, there was some more training and Edward proposed to Bella officially, finally. Novalee, Emma, amd Rosalie are at Emily's in La Push. Rosalie is sitting on one of the sprockinf chairs on the porch, Novalee is cooking with the sliding door open. Emily amd Emma are coloring in the living room.

The girls are all concerened about the pack, Rosalie too. They're worried about the coven, too, but they have Jasper. The wolves tend to do their own thing, and not listen. But Novalee thinks they might actually listen this time because they've never had to fight an army of newborn vampires.

"I hope the boys aren't stubborn," Emily says as she enters the kitchen, and sees the barbecued hamburgers. "Those smell good."

"Rosalie!" Novalee yells. "Come eat!"

Rosalie comes speed walking into the house, and makes herself a plate. She has been getting evening sickness instead of morning like Nova. Emma is already in the kitchen, she came with Emily, so Nova didn't have to hollar for her.

Rosalie is enjoying her pregnancy a lot, enjoying every thing about being a human again. She can finally have a baby but she can't help but wonder how long she and Emmett are going to last. She knows Emma had told the truth the evening before, when she said Rosalie liked Jared. Rosalie does like Jared Cameron, weirdly.

It's probably because Rosalie isn't a vampire anymore, she doesn't feel controlled by the Olympic coven or by the treaty anymore. Rosalie feels free for the first time since 1933. Her first time feeling freensince she woke up a vampire after Carlisle had changed her.

Novalee... She never wanted to be a vampire, not really. Nova only allowed Laurent to turn her because she wasn't ready to fully die yet, she didn't want to be buried. So, she was thankful for that. She was thankful for the Volturi showing her the vampire ways, explaining the rules.

But the best day of her life was when Aro invited her to Volterra again, only to tell her he had found a couple cures for I'm,legality. Novalee would have taken it if it were one, too, for her but Aro said there were two. So, she got them both for her and for Rosalie. The one thing Rosalie resented was being a vampire, being unable to bore a child.

The second best day of Novalee's life was when she discovered she's pregnant. She loved when Embry proposed, but he did it because she was human. Novalee loves him, bit did he propose to her because she wasn't a vampire anymore or was it because he really does love her like that.

Novalee sighs at the fact she hasn't touched her food, and she walks into the porch off the kitchen. The human sits in one of the rocking chairs, and closes her eyes at the chilly weather and rain. Emma looks outside, concerned. Emily puts Novalee's plays in the microwave. Also being an imprint, Emily understands the worry.

Sam and Emily's wedding is in two weeks, Emily has made Novalee her maid of honor. Rosalie, Rebecca, and Emma are her bridesmaids because Leah refuses to go.

Sam had dated Leah Clearwater before his transformation. But when he turned, he left her then met Emily. The alpha of the pack imprinted in her and here they are, two weeks away from their wedding.

Emily walks out, and she sits in the other rocking chair. There's a metal table between them painted white, there are plants surrounding them.

Inside, Emma is helping Rosalie clean up.

"I think Embry only proposed to mom because she was human again, not because he wanted to really marry her," Emma says to Rosalie, she knows her mom can't hear her now. "I don't think he'd have married her if she was still a vampire."

"I honestly agree," Rosalie says. "He was happy about her pregnancy, but he's still here distant. I want nothing but happiness for Novalee. She can move further into La Push if she divorces Embry."

"Or back to the mansion in Forks," Emma muses. "She and Embry will always be close because of the imprint bond."

"I know," Rosalie says.

Little did they know, Novalee was at the door and she's hanging onto every word. Emily touches her shoulder, she had heard Emma and Rosalie's conversation as well. The two enter the house and Emily bakes a cake.

~~~

Embry goes home after the battle instead of going to Jacob's to be sure he's okay. He finds Novalee sitting on the couch, she's in sweat pants, black v-neck shirt with some flats. He sees a duffle bag beside the chair and a brown envelope on the side table.

"Nova, what's going on?" Embry asks.

"Tell me something, Embry," Novalee says. "Did you propose to me just because I was human, or because you really wanted to marry your imprint?" Nova waits for an answer and she casts her eyes up, she sees Embry's face - he looks like a deer caught in the headlights or a toddler being caught doing something they're not supposed to. "That's all I needed to know."

Novalee stands and she goes into the dining room with the envelope, Embry follows and he spots a man in a suit. It's a notary, the same one Cheryl used for the adoption when Novalee adopted Emma. The notary looks up. Novalee simply hands the papers to Embry, and sits down.

Emma knows what's going on, she knows about the divorce papers, that's why she's staying at Emily's. Rosalie went back to Forks to have a conversation with Emmett. So, Emma's hanging out with Paul and Jared, her favorite pack members as of right now. Sam's at the Black Residence, checking on Joachim.

Embry opens the papers at the house in the Forks / La Push boarder in a clearing, and the word divorce is all capital letters and written in bold. Embry looks up at Novalee amd back to the papers, he does this a few times.

"Are you serious?" Embry asks, finally speaking.

"You didn't really want to marry me, Embry," Novalee points out the obvious, Embry looks at his feet. "You can still see this baby, but I am moving back to Forks when this is final."

Embry sighs and he sits with the notary. He thinks hat maybe they should have just stayed friends for the imprint, and never should have gotten together. But they did, Embry can't change that. He's going to be a father, he's going to be a good father. Embry is just thankful that Novalee will let him see the kid,

~~~

When Jasper feels sadness, he rushes downstairs and opens the door. He finds Novalee sitting on the steps, crying. He frowns before he sits down beside her, and wraps his arm around her soothingly. Novalee rests her head on Jasper, and cries,

Nova might be human now, but her blood doesn't phase Jasper. It might be where they're so close. Jasper would never hurt Novalee or this baby that she's carrying.

"Is she okay?" Alice asks, she amd Jasper aren't together anymore - they were just dating, never did marry.

"She just divorced her baby's father," Jasper says as he helps Novalee up. "I don't think she will be for a little while."

"Poor girl," Alice frowns. "I'll call Sam, and have him bring Emma to the boarder." She flashes to the kitchen while Jasper brings Novalee to her room.

"Get some rest, Nova," Jasper says. "Carlisle warms to do an ultrasound of your baby tomorrow."

Novalee lays in her bed and buries herself in her white blankets. She closesnher eues amd falls asleep.