Hello, hello! This is it – the Sequel! Thank you all so very much for reading and reviewing Stand There And Watch Me Burn and sticking with me to get here! If you haven't read the aforementioned story – you will not understand what is taking place in this one, so I implore you to head on over and read that one first. This story is Rated M for a reason – foul language and other dirty things… Hint, Hint.

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Jacob's POV – Everything Good (Prologue)

Time was passing quickly now – it seemed like only yesterday I had found out that Nessie shared my feelings for her and we'd become a couple. Everything after that had moved so fast that it almost seemed hard to catch my breath. We'd gone from being a couple to being engaged to getting married all in less than 5 months – and then we found out we were going to be parents.

That was one of the oddest feelings ever to tell you the truth – we'd never put any thought into it really, we'd just come together and made love and - Bam! - We were going to be parents. And of course, I couldn't do anything small as Peter would say. We weren't just going to be parents – we were going to have twins. I was ecstatic but nervous – I wasn't sure how to be a father, but I would do my best to be good at it.

We'd had all those good things, but we'd also faced some pretty tough times as well. Life, it seemed, wasn't all roses and fluffy bunnies and all that cute shit.

I'd lost my father in an accident, I'd been kidnapped by a sick and sadistic vampire hell bent on world domination and then I'd found out that I was a true Alpha with powers that I'd had no idea I'd possessed. I'd faced my Grandfather on the other side for him to tell me that I had a destiny to fulfill and bring vampires and shifters together – as one.

We were no longer enemies (most of us) and I then expanded my pack to include vampires. Our 'pack' then came together with other vampires who wanted to help defend us and we took down the Volturi. The war – that one, at least, was over - For now.

All in all, life seemed to be rolling along quite nicely since that ordeal – but I wasn't let my guard down, not even for a second. I wasn't foolish enough to believe that trouble wouldn't somehow find us again – and now we also had two more humans to worry about that were brought into the loop of our crazy-ass life.

Charlie and Sue were now regulars in our lives – though Sue had always been privy to certain information because of Leah and Seth, we now had to worry about Charlie. He'd at one time considered changing – making the transition into Bella's life on a more permanent basis. That was until Sue had talked to him and told him the truth about how she felt about him. They'd fallen in love despite the desire Charlie had to still remain involved in what was going on with the pack and Bella.

Though Charlie no longer wanted to become a vampire – he had made sure to tell me that it didn't change the fact that he wanted to help us in any way he could. Sue, of course, thought the gesture was romantic and such a 'fatherly' thing to do.

Why couldn't anything ever work the way I wanted them to?

They were completely inseparable – and so that meant that because Charlie wanted to be involved, Sue was also now involved with everything as well.

Of course…

It was nice having her around though to help cook for a huge pack of ravenous wolves. Bella, being a vampire, no longer liked to cook because the smell got to her.

"It's disgusting, Jacob – please don't make me do it." She'd begged. I'd simply let her off the hook and asked the other girls if they could do without Bella's help – they'd all agreed.

Nessie did her fair share of helping when she could – and the other imprints were working hard to take care of all of us, so it was nice to have the extra set of hands in the kitchen. Not to mention Sue was a fucking amazing cook.

But it didn't stop there. Because nothing in my life was easy, it just couldn't be simple and straight forward – there had to be some sort of fucking monkey wrench thrown in there somewhere to make me think on my toes. Though the fact that Charlie had years of experience in the field of being a cop didn't hurt if we needed to find someone or have access to files that were otherwise closed to the outside world. Huge plus – not to mention Emmett and Jasper had some serious hacker skills, too.

But no, my life was definitely not simple – because it was now coming down to the wire to figure out what to do about Italy and what needed to be done to bring our races together once and for all.

How had I ever thought that my life was boring or un-interesting? Before I'd shifted for the first time I'd never thought I led a very 'cool' existence. Hell, all I could think about now was how crazy it all was that we'd thought there was some sort of cult on the reservation. It all happened so fast after that – and my life was never the same again.

We'd faced down vampires out for Bella's blood, we'd faced down enemies together – and now we were all just trying to live our lives together as a pack. Imprints, shifters, vampires – who knew what other fucking mythical creatures were out there, too.

Nothing was simple and clean-cut anymore. The imprints were being watched carefully by Carlisle since the battle. He had noticed that since the wolves had all accepted me as their true Alpha – the imprints all had somehow stopped aging. Not to mention the developing relationship between Embry and Leah – why and how the fuck that happened, I wasn't sure. I could feel the flow of ancient magic working its way through each and every one of them – and I wasn't sure how. I could feel them all as if they were all a part of me… and extension of my very soul somehow.

Like I said – my life was a bit crazy and would never be the same again.

So here we were – seven months since the war, and we were now approaching the end of Nessie's pregnancy (which developed at a natural speed). We'd decided to keep the sex of the babies a surprise – only because we didn't have many things that did surprise us anymore. Being able to see them on the ultrasound and hear their tiny hearts race inside my wife was still a miracle in itself. She was increasingly uncomfortable as they grew inside of her and even more moody and short-tempered. We'd decided not to say anything to her about it, just because we all wanted to keep the peace and it took almost nothing to upset her these days.

We all tried hard to focus on the good things – keeping in mind that everything we had in our lives was because we'd all fought hard to keep it. But we also all knew that it wasn't over. There were some vampires that were now talking about the 'evil forces' that took out the Volturi and needed to be eliminated and new rule needed to be brought in to restore the 'peace' in the vampire world.

Who the fuck did they think they were kidding anyway? Peace had not existed under their reign and it sure as hell wasn't present now. Edward, Peter and Jasper were all trying to convince me to uphold what I'd said – that I'd go to Italy myself and take over. They kept trying to tell me that it was my duty – I was the peace keeper as well as the death dealer ('the ultimate badass' as Peter liked to call me) now, and it was up to me to once again restore what had once been a peaceful existence for vampires. It was up to me to put the final nail in the coffin of evil bloodsuckers once and for all and bring our races together as one.

I was Alpha, yes – but I wasn't a fucking vampire. I couldn't restore peace to the vampire world because I wasn't one of them. Of course that then triggered Peter to put in his two cents about how he could bite me and fix that problem.

Smart ass…

I knew deep down that they were right - I was going to have to be the one to help fix what had been destroyed – but there wasn't time right now to even think about it. Nessie would freak out and say that it wasn't up to me to fix everything –

"Let daddy and Uncle Jasper take care of it, Jacob. You're only one man – you can't fix everything all the time."

That was where she was wrong, but I didn't tell her that, either. It was like walking on egg shells because I wasn't sure what would set her off. I was going to be the one to fix this – with some help of course, but it was my duty as Alpha, and I knew that. My purpose was clear – and I would have to once more embrace my destiny and do what I knew to be right. I was going to be the one to set everything in motion and finally bring vampires and shifters together to work as one for the greater good.

Everything was going to be up to me taking my birthright (embracing it) and making it work once more for the good of those I love.

A/N: So there you have it – the intro to the Sequel 'And The Ashes Remain', so please let me know how you like it… Much love and the next chapters will be up soon!