Okay, so… This is the last chapter! I know, I know, it was short, but I got everything I wanted to happen in here. And this is a really good one! Anyway… yeah…

Don't own twilight!

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Gasping breaths, nails biting into skin, slow, purposeful thrusts…

"Fuck, Bella…" Carmen moaned, arching as the shifter teased one of her mating marks with her lips and tongue. The taller woman gave a few more powerful thrusts before Carmen tumbled over the edge, screaming her mate's name to the heavens. Bella slowly pulled out, taking off the strapon and tossing it aside before kissing her mate's protruding stomach, grinning when she was rewarded with a powerful kick. She laid down next to her and kissed her exhausted mate. While Carmen was only 22 weeks along, she looked like she was ready to pop and Bella was worried.

"Hi, beautiful," she mumbled, smiling as she kissed her lover. Carmen smiled and rolled onto her side so Bella could hold her.

"Hey. Were you able to tell your dad?"

Bella sighed, remembering what had happened when she told her father her relationship with Carmen, and also that she was pregnant. Which, of course, meant she had to tell him she wasn't human, which was a huge pain in the ass.

"Hey, dad?" Bella asked hesitantly from the archway entering the living room. The chief looked up, realized this was a serious conversation and muted the game.

"What's up, kiddo? Come here." He patted the spot beside him and Bella sat down.

"Okay, so bear with me, because this is all going to sound crazy. I need you to not freak out, okay?" He furrowed his brow but nodded and Bella took a deep breath. "I'm not human."

"Bella... I know this has been hard on you but…"

"No, please, I'm not saying all this because I'm crazy or delusional. I'm dead serious. I'm a poly-shifter and I can prove it to you. I don't want to have to show you because I want you to trust my word but I admit this is crazy sounding but…" Charlie watched wide eyed as Bella stood and had him follow her. In the back yard she looked at him and in the next moment she was a raptor. Charlie yelped and stepped back. From there she became a cheetah, then bear. He understood his little girl… was not so little anymore, and that she was telling the truth. From there they went inside, and Bella began explaining everything to him. She got to the mating part and he froze.

"Wait! Whoa whoa wait one moment. You're telling me your kind gets soulmates?"

"Yes."

"And you know them instantly?"

"No, not instantly, but the attraction grows slowly over time until it bursts and you have to be with them."

"You guys don't force yourselves on them, do you?" he growled, making sure his daughter wasn't becoming some monster.

"No! God, no. We are physically, emotionally, and mentally incapable of doing anything to hurt our mate. Even if we did somehow hurt them, it nearly kills us and we work our asses off anyway we can to make it up to them."

He nodded slowly, seeming to take it in. "Well… how does that work for you, though? I assume that mating involves making babies. You told me you were gay, so…"

"Whoever created us had that in mind. Shifters start going through a heat cycle once every three months, I think, but only after finding and accepting their mate. With same sex mates, one of them… uhm…" she blushed, finding this so incredibly uncomfortable to talk about with her dad. Taking a deep breath, she bit the bullet. "One of us grows… the correct parts… and it lasts for that week of their heat. It's weird at first but you get use to it."

This seemed to catch her father's attention. "Wait… have you found your mate?" Bella blushed and nodded. "Is it one of the Plaitts?"

"Yes and no…"

His eyes widened. "Denalis?" She nodded and blushed again. "Carmen?"

"Yeah. She and I… we're together. For a couple months now. I just didn't know how to tell you."

"And have you… er…"

"That's… kinda why I needed to tell you. Uhm… What if I told you you were going to be a grandfather?"

Charlie had been a bit pissed off, mostly because she got a girl pregnant so soon, but eventually he calmed down and was just happy about it all. Then of course, he realized if shifters were real, so might other things be.

"Wait… Carmen's family…"

Bella froze.

"They're kinda… strangely fast and good at everything and they don't eat… what gives?"

Bella shrugged and bit the bullet. "Vampires."

That had resulted in yelling about being in danger all the time, then he calmed down when he realized she was mated to one, which kept her safe. Bella explained this to Carmen, who hummed and snuggled back more into her mate, purring when a large, warm hand landed on her stomach and Bella started softly singing "I Loved Her First".

"I've never heard that song," Carmen mumbled sleepily.

"It won't come out until 2006," Bella chuckled. Her mate just purred and relaxed more. There wasn't much time for silence before Carmen shot up, grasping her stomach and gasping in pain.

"Shit! Get Esme!" she yelped. Bella froze only a second before bolting toward the banister.

"Esme! It's time!"

Seconds later the woman was beside her and instructed her to carefully move her mate into her study. Bella nodded and came back to gently lift her gasping mate into her arms. On the way down the hall her water broke and Bella sped up.

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Bella cooed softly at her daughters, cleaning them each gently before handing them to her mate. They first born was little, a tuff of black-brown hair covering her head and brilliant blue eyes shining at them. The other was a little larger, her tuff a dirty blonde color and her eyes the same striking green as Bella's. The shifter leaned down and kissed each of their heads as they fed from their mother before kissing Carmen softly.

"You did beautifully."

"I'm sorry I broke your hand," she mumbled back, feeling exhaustion wash over her.

"That's okay. I healed in a jiffy once Esme reset the bones. I love you, baby." She grinned as she looked down at her daughters. "And I love them, as well," she said softly, kissing each head again and watching over her three girls as mother and children all fell asleep.

For a second chance at life, this was a damn good one…

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Aaaaaaand that's a wrap! Done! Finished! I'M ON A ROLL!

Hope this was good in everyone's eyes. I would like to think that this was better than the original, but it's up to y'all. Reviews are love, and thanks for all the support!