This is my first story ever. Total and complete novice here, so please bear with me.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the original Twilight characters only S.M does.

Chapter 1

"Okay pappa I have some stuff I have to take of before I leave the office before I head back home." Bea tells Charlie as she finishes up an affidavit that she's supposed to have on Mrs Bonner's desk in five minutes.

"Okay sure Bells. Sue and the kids send their kids love. Stay well, sweetheart. Kiss the babies for us here." Charlie tells her.

Bea thanks him and tells him tonsend her best wishes to them, and of course she will. Actually she would be able to do that later herself anyway. Almost every night she would have story time over video chat with Leah, Seth, Embry, and Angela. They always enjoyed this time with the girls and AJ before they went to bed, even if it was just over video chat. Delivering the affidavit and going over her schedule for tomorrow and finishing a letter of intent for the Clayton case she was finally free to leave. She loved her new position as a paralegal, but the new hours were starting to drive her crazy. Funny enough Charlie and Sue's wedding was actually sounding like a good excuse to get out of Denver for a few days.

Doing a quick grocery run and getting her dry cleaning before she went to pick up the triplets at 's Preschool & Daycare. The grocery store was a zoo and the dry cleaners had a line going out the door, when she was finished and drove up to the daycare it was well after six. Miss Megan was giving story time to the children who still remained. Bea walked in and almost as if they could sense their mother the triplets heads perked up and looked at the doorway. Huge smiles graced their faces, they ran to their mother and clung to her. She ran her hands through their jet black hair, it was exactly like Jacobs. Kennedy and Charlie had theirs in French braid pig tails today.

"They really missed you today." Miss Laura tells her.

"How were they today?" Bea asks.

"They were really good. Did the best craft projects that were made today and knew their numbers to 10 better than any of the other children. They're well ahead of the learning curve." Miss Laura explains.

Bea smiles this. She knew her babies were smart, but being their mother she was biased. So hearing it from someone else was pretty special. Taking their backpacks and coats from their cubbies, they all climbed into their car seats. Arriving home, Bea unloaded the groceries and started dinner. She could hear the Sprout network in the playroom and AJ taking out his blocks and cars. She prepared shrimp and grits with roasted asparagus, it was Kennedy and Charlie's favorite dinner. After it was bath time and putting on their pajamas. By the time Kennedy came holding her stuffed turtle, Charlie her stuffed frog, and AJ his stuffed wolf Bea's laptop was chiming. The triplets let out a squeal of delight and ran to it, Bea laughed at their reaction and followed.

Kennedy was the first to reach it and opened it. Bea opened the video chat and Leah, Seth, Embry, and Angela's faces appeared on the screen. The triplets all had huge smiles on their faces and waved enthusiastically at them all.

"How are my babies doing?" Leah asked.

"I'm not a baby Aunt Leah." Kennedy tells her.

"Me either." AJ and Charlie pout.

This makes Leah, Seth, Embry, and Angela bust out laugh. They start story time and it goes on for nearly an hour. It was nearing 9 and that was the triplets bedtime. So Bea sent them off bed. They said their prayers and good night to their aunts and uncles. Seth and Leah tell her they wanna talk to her about something. She tells them to wait while she put the triplets to bed. Kissing them good night and tucking them in, she goes back to the den. Embry and Angela weren't there anymore.

"Where are Em and Ang?" Bea asks.

"Angela has an early class tomorrow." Seth explains.

"And Em has back to back appointments at the shop tomorrow." Leah explains also.

Bea nods. "So what did y'all wanna talk about?" She asks.

"Wenwanna know whether you're coming for real? Em and Ang are always asking if you're coming. Mamma and Charlie never mention it over the phone or video chats because they don't wanna get their hopes up if you say no. We want you home where y'all belong." Leah says, Seth nods in agreement.

"Lee we've been over this, many times in fact since the triplets were born, that Denver is our home now. If not when I go back to Forks it's just to visit for pappa and Sue's wedding then I'm coming back home. In fact the partners only gave me three weeks off because of my impeccable work attendance and extra hours I've put in over the years, not to mention the fact that Mrs Bonner loves me." Bea explained.

"Only three weeks?" Leah shrills out.

"But Izzy that isn't nearly enough time for us to be together as a family. We all miss you here." Seth feels her.

"Yeah I sincerely doubt that." Bea mumbles, averting her eyes.

"What do you mean by that?" Leah asks.

Bea had a case of instant deja vu to four years ago back in Forks.

It had been nearly two weeks since she had seen Jacob. The only thing Billy would tell her is that he was ill and couldn't talk to her at the moment. At first she believed it because she hadn't been feeling that great herself. For several days she had woken up and went immediately to the bathroom and threw up. This would continue several times a day. Then one day when she came home from school Charlie was drinking a beer while watching a game on TV. Catching a whiff of it, she immediately went to the bathroom to throw up. This happened for nearly two more weeks, after which it finally dawned on her what it could be. Being paranoid about buying a test in Forks or even La Push, Bea drove all the way to Port Angeles and bought four different tests, just to be sure. Making sure that her pappa wasn't home and downing several glasses of water, she peed on all the sticks. Those were the longest few minutes of her life. When the timer was up she read them all. They all read positive.

She took several deep breaths. Gathering all the tests she took them and placed back in the paper bag, taking them with her. She had called the day before asking for Jacob and Billy gave the same rehearsed speech he did before. This time however she didn't care. She had to see Jacob and show him the tests. He should know this. After all he was becoming a father, she was sure he would wanna know this. The drive seemed the same as ever, although nownshe drove with a sense of purpose. She had to speak to Jacob no matter what.

Pulling up to the small red house, she could already see Billy peeking his head out the window. She knocked and Billy answered, he looked so tired.

"What are you doing here Bea? Jacob is ill. I thought I made myself perfectly clear." He grunts out.

"I know what you said Billy, but I wouldn't have come if it wasn't important. Trust men I need to see him." Bea insists.

Billy just shakes his head. "I'm sorry Bea, but I think you should go." He tells her.

Bea was about to protest again when she heard the sound of guys coming out of a brush of trees that lead to the forest. One of the guys looks like Jacob, only bigger. Much bigger. Then she realized itbwas Jacob. Leaving Billy on the porch, she walks over to him. She couldn't contain her shock at how much Jacob had changed. His hair was cropped, he was walking around half naked, he looked like he was on steroids, and he had a tattoo on his right arm.

"Jake what the hell happened to you?" She gasped out.

"What the fuck are you doing here? You shouldn't be here." He tells her in an icy tone.

Bea didn't know what to make of this. He had always been so kind and understanding with her, made her feel so loved and special. This Jacob on the other hand, she didn't know him. Her Jacob would never speak to her like that. Who was he?

"What do you mean what do you mean what am I doing here? I'm your girlfriend, who you haven't spoken to in over three weeks. We need to talk it's important." She tells him.

"We don't have anything to talk about. We can't be together anymore, so it's best if you just left now." Jacob tells her.

Bea felt like a bomb had been set off near her ears and everything went silent for several moments. Regaining her composure she she tries to get him to look at her buthe kept avoiding eye contact at any cost.

"Jake what the hell are you talking about? Why can't we be together anymore? We love each other. I mean, don't you love me anymore? Jake?" She asks him.

Still, he didn't say anything or even bothered to look her in the eye. "Jake for the love of God will you look at me and tell me what I did wrong?" She pleads.

"Jake we gotta go." The biggest guy call to him.

He starts to walk away.

"Jake please, don't leave me. I love you. I am so in love with you, whatever happened just please can we just talk?" She pleads further.

"No because there's nothing left to say." He tells her.

"So that's it? You don't love me anymore? Did what we share mean nothing to you? Did I mean nothing to you? Was I just some piece of ass to you?" She asks him.

Again he didn't answer her. She took this as confirmation.

"Fine I'll leave. The only thing I have to say is I thought my ex was a low life piece of shit for the way he left me, but you fucking have him beat Jacob Black. At least he was able to break up with me to my face. You can't even look in the fucking eye. You're nothing but a coward and I wish you would rot in hell." She rages at him. Getting in her truck she drives away from La Push and never looks back. Arriving at her house she she goes to her room packs two suit cases full of clothes and her essentials. Grabbing her secret stash of cash and taking some out of the jar in the kitchen. She scribbles out a note for Charlie. Her last stop was to the gas station to fill up and stop at the ATM and drains her account. Getting on the 101 South she never looks back.

"Izzy? Izzy? Hello you there?" Seth asks her.

"Yeah sorry what just spaced out for a second. What happened?" She asks.

"What did you mean before that not everyone would wanna see you?" Seth asks.

"Nothing. Nothing. I'll talk to y'all tomorrow I have an early day. Have to be in court by nine am." Bea explains.

They both tell her goodnight. Shutting off her laptop she leaves the den and climbs the stairs to her room. It was times like this that the house felt empty. She missed Mrs Stroud's hugs so much. Sometimes Bea swears she could still feel her in the house. After a long soak, she dragged herself into bed and looked at the picture on her bedside table. It was of her, the triplets, and Mrs Stroud at the Denver zoo a month before she had her heart attack and died. Bea couldn't help the pain she felt in her chest at remembering the women who had been like a second mother to her and was so charitable and and kind when she desperately needed someone to lean on. She fell into a fit fall sleep.