The Power of Three [Twilight/Charmed]

Part Two - Chapter Twenty-Three: Christmas Eve

"How are you feeling about meeting Paul's father?" Leah asked helping Amelia in the kitchen, it was Matthews's family tradition to have a family dinner together on Christmas Eve and with the Volturi battle fast approaching, it had been even more important than ever.

Amelia glanced at Leah as the two prepared to serve dessert, she had yet to meet with Robert Lahote but Paul had turned up for the dinner looking annoyed and it didn't take much to see that his father was the cause.

"I'm not even thinking about it, so what's going on with you and Aiden?" Amelia asked noting the distance between her brother and his girlfriend, it had been there since her engagement to Paul had been announced.

Leah sighed looking at the 18ct white gold sapphire and diamond ring that Amelia wore on her finger.

"Every time I try and talk to Aiden about the future of our relationship he just pushes me away, I want to get married one day," Leah said softly biting her bottom lip to step herself from frowning.

Leah was starting to feel like she did when Sam had left her for Emily and it upset her that Aiden wasn't even interested in talking about their future together.

Amelia nodded her head knowing better than to give away what her brother had planned, she had told him that it was a stupid idea and that he should just propose already before he pushed Leah too far.

"My brother can be an idiot sometimes, but just give him some time," Amelia said as Alicia walked into the kitchen with the last of the plates from dinner with Sue; the gathering had grown to include several of the neighbours.

Leah looked at Amelia who winked at her before she headed back into the dining room with some plates of dessert; Leah furrowed her brow wondering what the brunette knew that she didn't.

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Leah gritted her teeth as Aiden made another joke about not getting married, she didn't know how much more of this she could take but she knew that she couldn't take much more of it.

Alicia looked at the she wolf as Embry wrapped his arms around her, she could see that Leah was upset about Aiden's words and she hoped that her brother wasn't going to make this worse by continuing to talk.

"So when are you thinking of getting married?" Jonathon asked looking between his eldest daughter and her fiancé, he couldn't have been happier that she was engaged even if she was only eighteen.

Amelia blushed as Paul wrapped an arm around her waist the brunette had chosen to wear a magenta embellished waist kimono paired with silver metallic court shoes for the Christmas party.

"We were actually thinking of a long engagement," Paul said lacing his fingers with Amelia's, the brunette nodded her head as she spotted Leah arguing with Aiden; the she wolf was wearing a red bodycon dress paired with black gold plated single sole heeled sandals.

"For Christ sake Leah... I was going to ask you to marry me tomorrow," Aiden snapped making everyone fall quiet and look at the couple, Leah blinked staring at her boyfriend before she swallowed as he produced a small black box making Jonathon grin as he recognised it.

Aiden took a deep breath before he got down on one knee.

"This ring belonged to my mother and I want you to have it, you mean everything to be Lee and I don't know what I would ever do without you, Leah Clearwater will you marry me?" Aiden asked as Leah felt tears start to fall from her eyes as she realised that this was really happening.

Leah stared at Aiden shocked realising what he had been doing when he had repeatedly told her that he didn't want to get married; she blinked back tears as she slowly started to nod her head.

"Yes," Leah breathed allowing Aiden to slowly slip the 9ct white gold flower diamond solitaire ring onto her finger; she grinned throwing her arms around Aiden's neck and kissed him, she couldn't believe that he had asked her to marry him.

Everyone moved forward to congratulate the couple while Sam hung back as he stared shocked at his ex-girlfriend and former fiancée, he swallowed torn between his emotions of being happy that Leah was finally moved on and being jealous that she would be marrying someone else.

"Congratulations," Emily said resting a hand on her stomach, she knew that this would be a shock for her own fiancé even though they were getting married soon and were having a little boy in fourteen weeks' time.

"I can't believe you finally asked her," Amelia said hugging her brother, she knew that Aiden had wanted to wait until tomorrow but the brunette had to admit that how he had asked her was better than what he had planned.

Aiden chuckled wrapping an arm around Leah, he knew that the next couple of weeks would be stressful especially with the fight that was coming up against the Volturi but he hoped that one day soon he would get to call her his wife.

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Paul furrowed his brow walking into his home quietly so that they didn't wake his father, his sensitive hearing perked at the sound that he could hear as he looked over at Amelia.

"Can you hear that?" Paul asked making Amelia furrow her brow removing her silver metallic court shoes, she looked at her fiancé confused as she carefully stepped out of her shoes and picked them up while Paul looked around confused.

"I can hear something... I don't know what it is," Paul murmured stepping closer to her, he didn't know what it was it was but it could be a threat to his imprint.

Amelia tilted her head confused as Paul stopped walking as his eyes suddenly snapped to the brunette, he looked as she confused for a moment before he grinned as he dropped to his knees in front of her.

"Paul, what's going on?" Amelia asked slowly reached out and rested a hand on her stomach, the brunette's eyes widened realising what he could be hearing; images of her vision quest flickered through her mind as Paul pressed an ear to her stomach and grinned.

"I think you're pregnant?" Paul whispered softly looking up at Amelia, she tilted her head as she realised that her vision quest had been right about her future.

"I can hear a heartbeat and it's not yours," Paul murmured resting a hand on Amelia's stomach, she had to be at least several weeks along if he could hear the heartbeat and he wondered how he had missed it before.

Amelia licked her lips trying to wrap her head around what he was saying, she knew that this would add problems to their future together; they still had to think about the Volturi confrontation.

The couple had only been engaged for a couple of months and now there was a chance that they were expecting their first child as well.

Amelia swallowed resting her hand over Paul's on her stomach, he would want her to be even more careful now if she was pregnant and if the confrontation turned into a battle then he would want her to leave.

"Whatever happens I love you," Paul said kissing his fiancée softly, he would protect her no matter what happened; he didn't care what it took, even if it cost him his life as long as she and the baby were okay.