Disclaimer: I don't own anything here. I'm sure you can figure out who owns them. c: Unless you don't recognize it and I don't give credit for it… then I own it.

AN: Okay, so this is the sequel to Precious Time. Please read that story before, it's rather short... sorta. If you don't read it you really won't understand this one.

We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield
We are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong
Searchin our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield.

Love Is A Battlefield; Chapter One

I never expected to be expecting by the time I was 24. I never expected to be in labor on my 25th birthday. I never expected to have twin girls.

Then again I never expected to marry a werewolf.

Jake's and my wedding was beautiful, on the beach under the tree where so many life-changing moments had happened for both of us. I had worn a simple white sundress I had found at an outlet for twelve dollars, Jake had worn black trousers and a white button down shirt. Both fit him remarkably well, I figured that he had them custom made to fit his long, strong figure.

After so many years down at La Push Emily and I had grown quite close together. She had been my maid of honor. Sam was Jake's best man along with Quil and Embry. (Sam and Emily married three years before us.)

Our honeymoon, although pleasant, was a bit of an oddity. Jacob had been asked to study more on werewolf legend and the entire town had helped send us to Colongne, Germany. The first werewolf was recorded there in the 1500's, but Jacob decided that the sighting was false since the story involved witchcraft and apparently being a werewolf was something that ran in families.

I gave birth to Paige Alice Rose Black and McKenzie Esme Black. They were truly our miracle children, after everything the doctors had said.

Jake had begged to keep everything about the child (children) secret this time. Only the doctors would know. He seemed so adamant I couldn't let him down. Maybe his superstitions were true. And no matter how hard I tried I could never make out anything besides the fuzzy blobs on the sonogram machine.

"Twins?" I asked, incredulously as they prepped me for the second delivery.

"Yes, Mrs. Black, if you would have let us tell you, you could have been better prepared."

I pulled Jake over to me rather violently, "Twins, Jake, that's two," my voice a scary mixture of anger and bliss.

"You need to push, Mrs. Black," I heard the doctors say and my attention was torn away from Jacob.

After the delivery Jake sat in the room, holding McKenzie in one arm and my hand with his free one while Paige breastfed for the first time, "Why didn't you want to know they were twins? Or girls?"

"I've told you, Bells. Superstition," he smiled down at our twin girls identical faces, "I thought after everything that happened two years keeping to the tradition might help. Emily and Sam did the same thing."

Emily had also given birth to twins, a month before me. After word got around town that I also had twins, many of the wolves began to crack jokes about the Alpha males and their "loving ability."

"I knew they were twins though," Jake said, before I could yell at him he explained, "Don't worry, I bought an extra of everything. It's in the attic."

"You knew they were twins? You knew they were twins and you didn't tell me? Their mother. The person who pushed them out of her vaginal walls?"

Jake laughed, "They had you doped up on so much medication you didn't feel a thing," he handed McKenzie to me and took Paige, kissing me gently, "I heard their heartbeats."

"Really?

"Yeah, werewolf hearing."

"That must have been really special. How long have you been able to hear their heartbeats?"

"Since they were four weeks, but I could tell that something was different about you a few days after that night."

"More of your crazy wolf senses?"

"No Bells, when you were pregnant, you shined. It was like you had swallowed the sun whole and it was shinging inside of you. You sparkled."

:Jake, only vampires sparkle."

After Edward left for the final time Forks and La Push had been vampire free and the pack only went out for fun these days.

Things had been quiet at La Push for the past few years, the boring drone broken up by marriages and new children.

Jake and I lived in a three bedroom cottage near the beach. He had shown me the property the night he had asked me to marry him.

He had given me a menu the week before and asked it I could make it, I obliged and put aside my article.

(I'm a weekly columnist for Port Angeles Daily.)

Jake packed everything in a basket and whisked us away to our tree.

"Bells, will you marry me?"

I was stunned, the entire time I have been preparing the meal I had never in a million years thought that it would lead to this.

"Jake, we're so young. You're only twenty!"

"Exactly," he said, grabbing my left hand, getting ready to put the ring on, "I may have as little as sixty years left with you. I want you to be Isabella Black. Bella Black."

I smiled and looked down at the ring, "Bella Black does have a very nice tone to it," the ring itself was beautiful. Silver and petite with a round diamond in the center, "This is a beautiful ring."

"Bella!" he said, his voice full of impatience, "Answer me! Will you marry me?"

I sighed, making sure it looked life a great deal of effort had to go into this decision.

But in reality, the answer was simple, "Yes, Jacob! I will marry you. Of course I will!"

We both jumped up and hugged and kissed, we twirled around- and fell into the nearby sea.

"It's cold!" I gasped as we bobbed back up. I flailed against him and wrapped my arms and legs around him.

"Come on, I want to show you something," he put me on his back and began to swim towards a small secluded cove.

"What?" I kept asking in his ear, "What is it?" Every time he would dunk under water and get a mouthful of water.

Jake brought me up to a house on the beach, "It's ours, Bella."

"What? You bought us a house? Jake, we should have discussed this first. This is a big step. We just got enganged like five minutes ago."

"Four minutes and 27 seconds."

"Jake," I swallowed a laugh at the fact that he knew the exact time, "That's a house."

"And it's ours. It's been in my family for awhile, but it was too hard for Dad to get here," he pointed vaguely to a small trail that must have been the walkway to the drive way, it was steep and covered in rocks.

"Jake," I was still amazed, "It's a house."

"Yes, Bells," he pointed to a the nearby ridge of trees, "Those are trees," he turned me around, "That's the ocean."

I slapped his arms away from me, "Can we go look at it?"

"We can go in it. It's already furnished."

The house inside was quaint. The kitchen, dining and living room were combined and in the shape of an L, a hallway led off to four doors. Two bedrooms with a joined bathroom and then a master bedroom with a large bathroom.

The master bedroom was my favorite, the bed was by far the largest I had ever seen, "You might fit on this, Jake!" I joked. He had hated the nights he spent at my house, opting to sleep on the floor than the bed or couch. He had finally stopped growing (we hoped) at six foot seven.

"You wanna try it out?" Jake said scandalously.

"What?" I was shocked at his bluntness.

"We have to get dry somehow, Bells," he slid his arms around my hips and began kissed me, my neck, my cheeks, my wet hair, my ears. He licked my neck, his favorite thing to do. Another wolf quality that leaked into his human side. I sighed and gave in.

It was this night that caused us so many problems.

Each touch was new and exciting and nerve-wracking. Both of us worried that we weren't doing the right thing. Our sighs and moans telling the other to repeat the actions. Jacob was warmer than ever, even with the open window and the breeze I was still too warm.

Our clothes were soon discarded.

I felt champagne bubbles in my stomach, an intense heat rising within me. New sensations everywhere. Jake's smile fell as he saw the pain etched on my face, I shook my head and gasped as blissful feelings ran through me. The feeling of euphoria racing through me and into Jake, it pulsated through us, from Jake into me. We shuddered together, Jake laughed gently as we sighed in release. His light warm kisses brushed over my face as we both fell asleep.

I was the first to wake up, as always. (As a werewolf Jake needed more sleep then humans.) I smiled as I recalled the discoveries Jake and I had made the night before.

The cottage became our get away, Billy and Charlie, although happy about our relationship, weren't excited about the idea of us living together 'so soon.'

I became pregnant with a boy, a perfect little boy. But for some reason I miscarried, doctors told me that I would never be able to have children.

McKenzie and Paige were truly our miracle babies.

"So, if you can hear a child's heart beat when they are in the womb… that means that you heard when our first child died," we never talked about David, our child who disappeared inside of me.

"Yeah, Bells," Jake was suddenly quiet.

"I'm so sorry."

"Don't be. It's okay. We have two miracles now. This is more than I could ever ask for."

I can still remember the moment I lost the child.

I had been nursing a sunburn in the bathroom when I felt the most intense pain in my abdomen, "Jake!" I called out, grasping the door knob and falling in the hallway.

"Bells!" he was next to me in an instant, cradling me, brushing my hair back, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know. It hurts though! A lot," I clutched at my stomach, I felt a sticky wetness in between my legs, "Oh God," I knew what was happening. I involuntarily took a deep breath, the smell of blood penetrated my noise.

I fainted against Jake's stomach.

McKenzie and Paige were beautiful. Dark brown, root beer colored eyes and black curls everywhere, "They look like you," I said. I was sitting in the back with them in their car seats on our way home.

"No they don't, look at those lips and the hair, they totally look like you. Which is good, they would be ugly if they looked like me, Bells."

"They wouldn't be ugly, Jake. But look at their eye color and the hair color and their skin color. They definitely didn't get their skin color from me."

We argued the rest of the way home.

Jake showed me the nursery, Sam and the gang had come over while we were at the hospital and redecorated it so that the two cribs and dressers fit. The walls were light yellow, with a pastel building block border, but we could now begin to add girly touches to it. The first to be tons of little pink outfits left by the pack.

"Did they actually pick these out?" I was surprised at how much fashion sense they really had.

"I think mainly the Wolf Girls did."

The Wolf Girls were the packs wives and fiancées, whenever the pack was out we spent scads of time and it was much easier for the rest of the town to call us one term than to remember all of our names. We didn't particularly mind it. The only rule though was that when the girlfriend became a member, so to speak, they had to be in for the long haul. Both people, the wolf and the girl, had to know that they weren't going to break up.

For a long time it was just Emily and me.

"These are so cute," I held up matching pink zip up hoodies. Jake just laughed at me and went over to the crib, we had decided that for the first few weeks at least they would share a crib. I watched him as McKenzie and Paige held onto his large fingers, leaning into the warmth.

It surprised me how wonderful he was with them, how truly fragile the twins looked in his hands. He could hold both of them at the same time, which made it much easier to feed them since they insisted on being hungry at the same time.

Sam gave Jake permission to take time off from the pack for as long as he needed, but after McKenzie and Paige were able to sleep through the night I wouldn't take no for an answer.

"Jake, I know you feel cooped up in here all the time. Go run with everyone, I'll keep busy. I'll invite Emily and her boys over. They can have their first play date."

"They only play with their feet though."

"Jake, please?"

He sighed and looked down at the twins on their play mat, "Okay, but only one night a week."

I sighed, knowing this was as good as it would get with Jake, "Okay, one night a week," I paused kissing his neck, the only place I could reach even on tip toe, "For now," I smiled before turning around the our kitchen, "What do you want for dinner?"