Chapter 7: Waking Up

Carlie's POV

I slowly came into awareness. I could hear voices coming from afar. My body felt so heavy when I moved. My memories preceding my unconsciousness were a bit hazy at first. Then slowly they started coming back. The poachers had taken my babies! My Noah and Chloe!

My eyes shot open instantly and took in my surroundings. I was in a hospital bed. Then I remembered. I had been shot by the poachers as well. Carlisle was going to perform surgery to remove the bullets. Only I had panicked because I was afraid I'd wake up in the middle of surgery again like when I was little.

Only I hadn't woken up this time. Ths bullets had been removed and my healed incorrectly arm felt normal again. Nothing had gone wrong this time. But where were my babies?! Did the poachers still have them?! I had to find them now!

Just as I sat up quickly Carlisle came in and carefully pushed me back down. "Easy Carlie. You've just woken up from surgery and you need to rest,"

"But my babies-

"Are perfectly fine. Jacob successfully tracked down those poachers and rescued them. They're perfectly safe,"

"They are? Oh thank God. What happened to the poachers?:

"Well let's just say they won't be poaching anything ever again,"

I was sure that meant that they were dead. They had tried to kill me and steal my babies. So it would not bother me at all if they were dead. The hunters became the hunted. That was an oddly satisfying thought.

"How long?"

"Its been just over an hour since I finished removing the bullets and fixing your arm,"

"And I didn't wake up? Wow,"

Carlisle laughed. "You're not supposed to wake up. I heard what happened when you needed your appendix removed. The reason you woke up is because the doctors were unaware of your vampire heritage,"

"What are you? Vampire? What?"

"The supernatural world is much bigger than you think Carlie. You're part vampire, part shape shifter, and part human. Although I'd say the shape shifter in you is the most dominant gene right now,"

"How do you know all of this though? My own parents dumped me. All of us wolves were dumped as babies,"

"You were not dumped. None of you were dumped. You were all loved and cherished by your families. You were stolen from us. You were kidnapped from your real families. You have no idea how much your parents have suffered over the years because they couldn't find you,"

"How do you know all of this?"

"Because I know your parents personally. I'm not going to tell you who they are though. They want to be the ones to tell you themselves. But I will tell you this. Your family always wanted you. They've never stopped loving you and they never stopped looking for you. So don't believe for one second that they dumped you,"

No matter what he said though I had a hard time believing it. All of my life I believed I had been unwanted and dumped by my real family. It wasn't easy to switch from that belief to one that was the complete opposite. I would be open to the possibility of it being true however. I would be willing to listen whenever they were ready to talk.

"You're asking me to believe something completely different from what I've believed my whole life. I'm not sure I can. I'm willing to listen to what they have to say though,"

"That's all we can ask of you. That you listen and hopefully realize that you're being told the truth. Hopefully you can be convinced of the truth over time,"

"Where is everyone anyway?" I asked.

"They're outside discussing the idea of merging the packs,"

"I don't understand?"

"Your friend Charlie leads your pack and Jacob leads his own pack. Jacob thinks it's a much better idea to combine both his and your pack into one. It's a great idea because you'd be with older much more experienced shape shifters who can teach you all,"

I was not sure how I felt about the idea but it wasn't up to me. Charlie was our alpha and he would decide what was best for us. The rest of us wouldn't have a choice once he made a decision.

"There is something else that I wanted to discuss with you now that you're awake. Its concerning your health," he was suddenly very serious.

"What is wrong with my health?"

"Vampires aren't prone to this problem but since the human and shapeshifter in you is more dominant it seems that you are prone to this. I took a sample of your blood and your cholesterol is dangerous as well as the amount of sugar in your blood. Which makes me very concerned with what you have been eating?"

I gulped nervously. I so did not want to answer that. Ever since I'd given birth I'd been eating nonstop because I was hungry all of the time. I was eating all day. Cheeseburgers, fries, chips, pizza, doughnuts, hostess snacks, burritos, whole pies, ice cream, anything fried, fast food, cake. Those were just the food items I could think off of the top of my head. Often I'd be breastfeeding a baby and eating a cheeseburger or pizza at the same time. Hell just last week I went to pizza hut and ate three large pizzas by myself.

"Carlie I'm waiting for an answer,"

I shook my head.

"A lot of junk food. Mostly pizza, cheeseburgers. Lots of sweets to like ice cream and doughnuts. I can't help it though. Ever since I had Noah and Chloe I'm hungry all the time. Sometimes all I want to do is eat,"

"You're nursing aren't you?"

I nodded my head yes.

"Shapeshifters like you are known to have an extremely large appetite. It makes sense because you're body is trying to keep up with the demands of your babies's shapeshifter appetites as well as your own. But you drastically need to change what you're eating before you get sick. Not to mention the food you eat affects the quality of the milk your body makes,"

"I-" I sighed. "I didn't realize. I'm sorry,"

"The only thing that matters now is correcting the problem before it gets worse. I can help you with that,"

"You can?"

"I am a doctor after all kid. Saving people is what I do,"

"Thank you,"

"We will talk about it later. Everyone has just come back inside. Renesmee and Jacob want to talk to you right now,"

"Okay," I said wondering what it was they wanted to tell me.

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