*Warning* This Chapter has some triggers in it. So read at your discretion.

Chapter Two

The Talk Part I

Third Person POV

Forks Cemetery, 2:30 pm January 1st 2006

Bella and Angel walked in silence, each of them were lost in their own thoughts.

Angel thought about the man they had just buried. A man Bella would gush and boast about like the proud mother his ex-wife is. During each of their many phone calls Bella spoke of him, after each phone call Angel's affection for the boy grew until he grew to love him. Though he had never met him, Bella for some reason always sent him pictures of Charlie growing up. After every achievement Bella would call all exited. Angel never knew why, he just accepted it.

When Bella called him about Charlie's death something in him broke and he joined his wailing ex-wife in her sorrow. It was at that moment he began to wonder why he was so affected by Charlie's death. When he saw Bella's face as she looked at him though it clicked. Charlie was his son! He had just buried his son!

After discovering that revelation Angel felt betrayed. Why didn't she ever tell me? He thought to himself. At first he planned to wait until after the funeral and after everyone went home before he confronted her. But as the funeral and wake progressed Angel decided he couldn't wait for answers any longer and confronted her. Now though he doesn't know what to say.

Bella on the other hand knew exactly what she needed to say but couldn't muster up the energy to speak. The day was emotionally exhausting to the grieving mother and the day wasn't over yet. Bella knew Angel deserved answers but she wished he could have given her some more time. If only I told him sooner.

"He was my son, wasn't he?" Angel's somber voice broke the quite between them and tore Bella from her thoughts. Glancing at her ex-husband who had stopped walking but refused to look at her she took a deep breath and answered him.

"Yes."

Hearing Bella confirm what he had already suspected crushed him. As horrible as it sounds, he was hoping she would say no. No, the man they had just buried an hour ago was not his kid. No, the woman he had once loved did not keep something this big from him. Letting out a shaky breath Angel looked his old lover in the eyes trying to hold in his tears and simply asked the question that had been on his mind since he had found out.

"Why?"

Blinking back more tears as she saw how utterly broken her confession is making him she looked away from his grief-filled eyes. The eyes of her-their son. Looking at the cloudy sky she thought of what to say first. She knew what he meant. Why didn't you tell me? Why did you lie to me? Why did our son die? Finally after she had gathered her thoughts she told him the truth.

"It was before you left," Bella spoke eyes far away remembering happy times. She could almost see it happening in her mind's eye as if were happening now and not in her memory.

**Flashback**

New Orleans, 8:00 pm October 31st 1947

"Babe!" Bella giggled as her husband Angel ravaged her neck in love bites as she was trying to watch the fireworks. It was Halloween in New Orleans and there was a party going on almost everywhere. The Swan House was no exception.

Ignoring his wife's complaint, he gripped her waist suggestively and pulled her to him letting her feel how happy he was to see her. Bella's giggles turned into a moan of want and suddenly she wasn't so interested in watching fireworks as much as she was making them. Grinning at how well he can turn his lover on, he kissed his way up her neck leaving as many hickey's as he went until he reached the shell of her ear which he promptly bit causing her to release another moan. With a grin he growled into her ear.

"I want you."

Giving a breathy moan her knees nearly gave out and if Angel wasn't holding her up, she probably would have. As he waited none too patiently for her response Angel licked the shell of her ear and the hand that had been gripping her waist traveled down towards where she ached for him. Silently cursing her husband for both being a tease and his ability to play her body like a fine tune instrument she and they weren't even in the bedroom yet.

"Then take me!" Bella tried to demand but it came out as a plea instead, pushing back into his groin in demand. With a growl he threw her over his shoulder like a caveman and ran to the bedroom to have his way with her.

Afterwards, they lay in a sweaty heap of tangle limbs trying to catch their breath. Bella laid her head upon her husband's chest listening to the erratic thump of his heart as he tried to steady his breathing. Wrapped in his strong, protective yet possessive embrace Bella had never felt safer. Breathing in his wife's floral scent mixed with the scent of their lovemaking Angel sighed feeling utterly content.

"God, I love you." Angel breathed into her shoulder where he had buried his head. Bella smiled a soft loving smile as she basked in the love from her husband. Bella was so blissfully in love and deliriously happy to be with a man who loved her as much as he did.

"I love you more," was Bella's soft reply as she burrowed into her husband's chest and closed her eyes feeling utterly sore and exhausted from their previous activities. Angel's chest shook slightly as he chuckled at his wife's cheeky answer. Bella always have to have the last word or be cheeky, in this case both.

"Smart-ass."

Bella's tired smile turned impish as she leaned up as much as her tired body would allow her to press a kiss to his jaw. As she settled down to sleep she couldn't help herself.

"Yes I am smart and I do have an ass."

With that Angel laughed. "Oh how true my love, and what a fine ass that is! It's all mine too!"

With an arched brow Bella snarked, "Excuse me? I think my ass is mine since it's I don't know…attached."

With another chuckle, Angel lightly slapped her bares ass getting an eep of surprise from the naked woman in his arms.

"Go to sleep you minx!"

With an indigent huff Bella kissed her husband's chest where his heart is, said another I love you and promptly fell asleep. When she woke up it was to see her husband was gone and a note was left for her with just five words. Five words that would crush her. Five words that turned her world upside down and destroyed her.

I'm sorry. Goodbye.

Love, Angel

**Flashback End**

"That note absolutely crushed me. But more than that is that I didn't know what made you run. I still don't." Bella confessed softly eyes still faraway with tears streaming down her face. Angel flinched at the pain in her voice and on her face. Angel felt so guilty and heartbroken at his love's pain. Angel remembered that day well. It was the last day he was happy before he was forced to leave his home. He wished he could tell her the truth. Damn you Buffy! Angel raged silently.

"After that nothing was the same," Bella continued her voice cracking with emotion. "I couldn't eat, I barely left the house, I couldn't sleep because every time I closed my eyes you were all I could see and then I would wake up to your absence." Bella trailed off thinking of what her ex would think if he knew about the many times she thought-no longed for death because of him. Would he still want me? Even as a friend? Shaking these thoughts away she continued her tale oblivious to the pained expression Angel wore.

"Soon I became sick, which made no sense seeing as what I am makes it impossible to be sick." Bella paused shaking her head in disbelief, still astounded after all of these years at how dense she was to not see the obvious signs. "Finally, after it became too much I went to visit my friend Rose who was a nurse at the time."

"But what about-"Angel interrupted worried about a human knowing the secret of the supernatural.

"The secret is safe," Bella interrupted him rolling her eyes fondly at the man beside her. "She is a vampire," Bella clarified to Angel's relief. Shaking her head in an exasperated manner at the man's unneeded concern Bella continued her story.

**Flashback**

New Orleans Medical Clinic, 6:30 pm November 20th 1947

Bella rushed into the clinic her friend worked in to both escape the rain and get some answers. There was a storm outside and Bella was not looking forward to driving home in this weather, so she hoped her stay was long enough for the storm to die down. Shaking out her umbrella of the access rain she folded it up and stowed it away in her purse as she walked the near empty halls of New Orleans Medical Clinic. Finding the room she was looking for she listened in to see if her friend was busy.

What she heard however made her consider coming back another time.

"YES! YES! DOCTOR! OH MY! FUCK! YES!" Rose-Marie screamed as her boss plowed into her from behind. Deciding to wait until her friend was done, Bella took a seat in the waiting room hoping her friend would hurry up. One hour later the Doctor walked passed her to head home walking funny. Repressing the urge to laugh Bella headed to her friend's office for some answers. Without knocking Bella barged into her friend's office to see her friend was waiting for her. Lounging on her office couch smoking a cigarette was a very naked Rose.

Used to seeing Rose in such a state of undress Bella dropped onto the couch next to her friend. "I need help," Bella said without preamble. Raising an amused brow at her friend Rose smirked. "I know you do."

Rolling her eyes at Rose's jibes at her mental state she told Rose what has been happening.

"-and now I have been feeling tired, cranky and have been throwing up! I mean how the hell is-"

"You're pregnant dear." Rose deadpanned having tired of listening to Bella ramble. While she cared about Bella and what she was going through she had her own problems to deal with. There was a moment of shocked silence as Bella processed the bomb Rose dropped on her. Then...

"WHAT!" Bella shrieked causing both woman to wince.

'Clearly not all of the blonde in her was washed away,' Rose dryly thought. Clearing her throat to stifle her laughter Rose awkwardly patted a still shocked Bella on the back, "Congratulations! It's a baby!" Rose said in a sarcastic cheer that went over her companion's head as she was too numb from shock to notice.

**Flashback End**

Laughing slightly at the memory Bella turned to face her ex and continued, "From that day on I did the best I could. I tried to find you before the babies were born, but I couldn't find you. After a while I gave up searching."

There was a moment of silence as Angel processed what he was told and what his actions caused. Angel was about to call it a day to let them finish this conversation some other time as he didn't know how much more he could take before he breaks down and tells her the truth. He opened his mouth to suggest they do so when what she had said stopped him.

"Babies?"

Looking away from him, Bella tightly shut her eyes and nodded. Please don't ask, she silently begged him.

"What?" Angel was bewildered, he had more than one child? He was ecstatic until he took in Bella's pained and defeated form. A pit formed in his stomach as dread filled him.

"Twins," Bella croaked a lump suddenly forming in her throat. "We had-would have had twins."

"Would have?" Angel pleaded silently for her to not tell him what he already knew.

"A girl, we would have had a daughter!" Bella sobbed the pain of losing her child fresh in her mind. Looking wildly at Angel with desperation in her voice she sobbed "we would have had a little girl!" she sobbed harder unable to continue anymore she fell to her knees. It was too much. Losing Charlie, the funeral, the stress of having to tell the Cullen's the truth, Lexi's apparent abandonment, telling Angel the truth and now talking about the daughter she never got to have was too much for Bella to handle.

Watching the woman he loved-still loves and the mother of his child-children break before his eyes, he had never felt so helpless. Slowly approaching the woman he gently held her as she cried, cursed and screamed in his arms. After a while she had passed out from exhaustion. Deciding to take her home he lifted her up in his arms carrying her bridal style to his car to take her home. As he lifted her he saw the name on the tombstone they had been standing on make it more real to him.

Angela Alexandra Swan

July 2, 1948-July 2, 1948

Taken too soon

Loved and will be missed

Always and Forever

*Sniff!* this chapter is so sad! I cried as I wrote this chapter. I don't know where I get this stuff from but I have never gone through something like this or know someone who has… I don't think so anyway. But for some reason I can write a scene like this and it moves me to tears. No Sense!

Anyway as for the lemon scene with Angel and Bella I was going to write one in here but I figured I would try to keep this a smut free fan-fiction. But don't despair smut lovers! I am in the process of writing a one-shot about the smut between Bella and Angel in this chapter.

Depending on how I write this and can keep my word to myself (my pen is possessed anything I mean to put on paper more often than not comes out totally different. It has a mind of its own I tell ya!) I will write a multi-chapter filled with my missing smut scenes.

Also just to clarify something, Bella does not have a definite pairing and Angel is a prime candidate so far. I know I said Angel's mate is Buffy, but remember in Bella's eyes he is taken she does not know for sure and as you can see in this chapter that may or may not be the case.

Anyway review and let me know what you think.