When Bella turned into a vampire after giving birth to Renesmee, Charlie comes to know that the world is not as simple and as organized as he thinks it is. Come and see what he thought as he comes to know that all the people he knew kept secrets from him.

This will be a three chapter story. One: when Jacob comes to tell him. Second: when he meets Bella. Third: when he confronts Billy and Sue. Fourth: as he visits Bella again the next day.

I was sitting on the chair at the dining table, with the phone in my hand, waiting just like I did since the past two weeks.

It was September thirteenth today, the day when my daughter was born. The day when my daughter turn nineteen. She should have been celebrating her birthday with us, her family, not in the hospital somewhere in Atlanta where she is recovering from some rare disease.

I always knew that boy was never good for her. I even tried to stop her, but no! She was determined to marry him, and she did marry that boy just a one month ago. And what that boy did?! Took her to a place where she caught a very rare disease for which she is in hospital since the past two weeks.

And the worst part is I haven't seen her since her wedding. Carlisle have been telling me to not visit her. That even I may catch that rare disease.

But what he didn't know was that I'd rather take that disease myself than let my baby suffer from that. That I wanted to see my daughter, even if a glimpse, to see it myself that she was fine and recovering. That she would be fine in no time.

Whenever Esme answered the phone, I knew she was trying to hide it from me, but I could hear it in her voice. The little uncertainty. The little part which told me that my Bella was not that fine as they were trying to tell me. She was in a far more dangerous condition – but still I wasn't allowed to see her. Not even after being her father.

I just hoped she doesn't dies. I wanted time with her. I never got the time with her I desired to spend her with. With my duty, and her liking to spend her every minute with her now-husband. It was too much.

The phone rang.

Please tell me Bella is fine. Please tell me Bella is fine.

Hoping with all the almighty that I get a good news here, I picked up the phone. "Swan residence."

"Hey Charlie!"

This was the voice I was not expecting, but also the voice I wanted to hear, so that I could know that everything was going to be right, eventually. "Sue!" I cried. Sue has been the only pillar I wanted which let me cling to sanity. If it weren't for her, I would have locked myself in my house, with the only hope that Bella would come and talk to me, saying she is all right.

"I was wondering if you want me to cook something for you."

Since the past month, I and she had developed another level if understanding. Now that both of us were alone.

"I'll tell you Sue. First I want to call the Cullens'."

"Okay." Why did I hear the disappointment in her voice? "Bye."

"Bye." I murmured and clicked the phone off.

This has became my everyday routine. To call at the Cullens' every morning and evening to check on Bella. But every time I got a disappointing answer.

Before I could dial the number, there was a loud knock in the door. Who is this? I thought. I just want to check on my daughter for God's sake. Can't you come anytime later.

But I didn't shout that. Instead I walked to the door and opened it like the old man I was – I was not left with any power to act fast. With all the tension relating to my daughter, and due to the lack of sleep since the last two weeks, and the nightmares, one would surely feel that way.

But for the first time I registered shock on my face when I opened the door. Who would have thought that Jacob Black would be honouring me with his visit on a morning? And that too wearing nothing but a small cut out faded and dirty jeans. I was not expecting this!

"Hey Jacob!" I greeted half heartedly. The only thing I wanted to do was check on Bella, not the boy who again ran away a week ago.

He seemed nervous. "Hii Charlie." Maybe he thought Bella was here and he wanted to see her, even if through that phone.

"Come in kid!" I insisted as it was cold inside, and I was worried for him. He could get cold. "I was just going to call Carlisle. To check on Bella." There was no way Jacob didn't know about Bella.

"Um, can we walk outside instead. I want to talk with you." He requested.

What he is up to? First he runs away, then comes back and is always sulking. Then he again ran away a week ago, and now he wants to talk to me when I want to check if my daughter was fine.

"Um..." I hesitated. "I really need to check on her, Jake. At least I'll talk to Carlisle first and then –"

He sighed. "It's about Bella."

"I know Jake." I whispered. "I know that Bella is in a critical condition somewhere in Atlanta and –"

He interrupted me in a rush. "She is back in the town." This had my attention.

What did he hear that he wanted to tell me? And how come Jacob know that Bella is back in town and not me. I was supposed to be informed first. And I come to know through a third person about my daughter. And first of all, if Bella was back in town, then why haven't I heard anything from her yet?

What happened to her?

Why was I having a feeling that this is not going to be good. "Okay?" I said but it came out like a question.

He said nothing but started walking in the forest behind the house.

"Jake?" He didn't listen, but kept waking. "What do you want to show me? I want to see Bella. Can't your important stuff wait for a little time."

"Please Charlie. As I said, it is about Bella. There is something you need to know, which I cannot explain to you at your home. Please?"

"This better be really important Jake! I want to see Bella as fast as possible and if what you are trying to show me is not significant, you are in a big problem." I threatened, but he just scoffed.

I followed him like a dumb, silently praying that he has a good news.

For the first time since Jacob came today, I really looked at him. His height had increased, and he looked a little dirty as if he had run the whole way here. Then something strike me. There was no vehicle on the driveway. How did he came here?

After a small trail, he stopped in a small clearing, which was big enough for camping, and stood against the tree. He didn't say a thing, just looked at me warily.

What is he thinking? What has this to do with Bella? And how come he know about this?

"Well?" I asked, suddenly more anxious than I'd ever been. Please say she is better. Please say she has recovered.

"Charlie." He sighed, somewhat uncertain of his doings, and looked down.

He wasn't going to say anything, just running his hands through his hair. I only have to start the talk. "What is it that you know about Bella, Jacob? Is she fine? How is she? And how come you know? Where were you from the last while week? And –"

"Bella is fine, Charlie." He breathed when I was ranting. At this I exhaled the breath I didn't know I was holding. "She is not sick anymore, well she was, but now things are good."

"And what do you mean by good?" He said nothing. "Look Jacob, I know you worry about Bella, but if she is in town, and if she is good, as you say, then I'm going to meet her. Now! So if it isn't any important can I go please?"

I didn't wait for his answer. I turned around and started walking very fast for my house. I have to see Bella!

Suddenly Jacob was holding me from my elbow, and boy, his hand was hot like a stove. Is Jacob too suffering from that rare disease?

"You can go Charlie, but before you go," he closed his eyes and exhaled loudly. "before you go, I want to show you something. Something very important."

What now? "Okay." I allowed. He was not going to let me go without showing me the thing he wanted me to see. "But please fast. I have to see my daughter." I all but nearly shouted at him.

He nodded and asked me to stand near the tree. I was in a hurry to get this over, so I obliged his request to over all this nonsense fast. Then he said something which I found completely insane. "Remember Charlie. Don't get afraid. Just take deep breaths and try to calm yourself."

"Whatever!" I grumbled as I crossed my arms over my chest. He was surely in a joking mood.

He nodded and stepped about ten feet away. "Remember. Deep breaths." What is he upto? And then he did something which I was not expecting from a mature boy like Jacob. He moved his hands to his pants and started unzipping it. What is he getting at? Is he out of his mind?

"Jake? Jacob?" I asked almost three times but got no response. He removed his pants and was standing in front of me, naked. Then he did something strange. He closed his eyes, as if to concentrate on something very hard. I was still trying to make out what he was upto, when suddenly his whole body shook like an earthquake was shaking him, and in a blink in front of me was standing not Jacob, but a big russet colour wolf?! A big almost horse sized bear or wolf.

I was not able to think anything clearly. Where was Jacob? And how come this creature come in front of my eyes from no where? And why was that animal looking at me hesitantly? – as if he knew who I was, as if he didn't want to harm me.

That creature took a small step towards me, and I stumbled six steps back until I fell down and my back was touching a big tree. I could hear my heart drumming loudly in my chest and my breath coming in short gasps.

That wolf took two more steps towards me and I could do nothing but cover my eyes with my hands, silently praying "Oh Jesus! Please don't harm me. Please don't!" as if that animal could understand me.

I waited for a whole minute until I heard some sounds like someone was waiting for me to open my eyes. I slowly pried my hands away from my eyes and found that that wolf was sitting a few feet away from me, waiting patiently, his tongue sticking out of his mouth like he wanted me to understand who he was, that he didn't want to harm me.

I called for the only person who brought me here. "Jacob?" My voice sounded like I was choking, which in actuality I was.

And to my already numb trance, haze draped with utter trauma and shock, one more stupor added when that bear nodded his head.

"Jacob?" I asked again looking at the horse sized bear. My voice came in an almost muted whisper, but that animal heard it again as he nodded again and winked with a shaky laugh which came as a howl. "Jake, is that you?" I asked as I rubbed my eyes trying to grasp that I was seeing all this and not dreaming. And this time that wolf or bear or whatever it was laughed and put his head on the ground near my feet. I had to ask again. "Is that really you?" I tried. I felt like I was a dumb who was asking a anaconda if he was really a snake.

Instead of nodding or laughing, that animal stood up and in an instant, in almost half second, that wolf was gone and again Jacob was standing in front if me. And this time I saw how the wolf dissolved, submerging in a very small frame compared to his and came Jacob from nowhere.

This means that Jacob can turn into animals?!

And I wanted Bella to marry him?!

For the first time I felt relief that Bella was in good hands and not with a boy who could morph into huge dangerous animals.

While I tried to think over all of this, Jacob wore his clothes, giving me time to dissolve all of this is my system. He stayed silent even after he wore his pants and leaned against the tree, his head almost touching the lowest branch, while I pulled my knees to my chest so that I could grasp what I saw.

But the important question which was bugging me was How come this relate to Bella, and why did he wanted to show me that? And did Billy knew all this?

"Charlie?" He asked in a small whisper, his voice laced with uneasiness, while he leaned against the tree. "Are you all right?"

No! I am not alright! I am getting mad here!

All I could do was grunt.

"Take deep breaths. Everything is all right!" He told me like I was a small kid and not a old man who saw the boy, who was always in front of him since a child, turning into an enormous monster.

Taking his advice I took a few breaths and tried to calm myself. Nothing could help me with my numb facade. I wanted answers and that too now!

He tried to walk to me but I held my hand up. I wanted some more time. He complied to my request.

"What was all that?" I asked as soon as my heart found its somewhat calm rhythm and my breathing slowed a little.

"Charlie, you don't live in the world you thought you lived in." He consoled. The hell I knew that now. Nothing is impossible. "The good news is, nothing has changed—except that now you know. Life will go on the same way it always has. You can go right back to pretending that you don't believe any of this."

How can he say that?!

"Charlie?" He asked again when I didn't say anything.

I took a few more breaths to calm myself and control my voice. My only thought was about Bella. How come she is related to all this? "What happened to Bella?" I barked. "Is she really serious, or was that rare disease thing nothing but a charade?"

"No, no Charlie!" He rushed his words out. "Bella was sick. She was very, very sick with that rare disease. No lying there."

I finally breathed with relief that my baby was not on this nonsense of shifting into an animal.

Jacob continued. "She has been sick, very sick. If it wasn't for Edward, she would have died, but she is fine." His voice shook and he tried to control his voice. I looked at him, examining his face whenever he was telling me the truth or not. What did he mean Bella could have died? What does it mean? Was Bella better or not? Why was he revolving around things rather than answering it directly? "Really!" He assured me with his big smile. At least he was not lying.

I relaxed a little listening my baby was fine. At least in all this chaos I finally hear that my baby is fine and well.

"But –" he said.

Why was he unsure again? Was Bella not fine? What happened to her? Did he injected her too with his 'turning to animal' thing?

I looked at him – glared incredulously. "But?" I choked.

"She was almost on the death bed, and to save her Edward had to change her so that you could get better." He said in a whisper. His face showing that it was now good though.

I tried to get the hidden meaning in his words. Change her? Into what? What happened?

"And what do you exactly mean by change her." I barked at him.

"I don't know how should I tell you this Charlie, but the best I can sum up is, she now looks more like Esme rather than Renee."

I tried to get the image in my mind by comparing Renee and Esme. What did he meant by that? I was silent for a few minutes, trying to think of this information, when everything clicked into its place. Esme looked pale with her extraordinary alabaster skin, just like the rest of Cullens'. Blood never rushed to her cheeks, and her body was unreasonably cold. Just like the rest of the Cullens'. And her voice. There was a difference too. Their voice was smooth like velvet. But Renee didn't have all of this, and neither did Bella. But if Jacob is saying this then it means that...

But what if I was overthinking it? What if she didn't change in that matter, but shifted into a big animal like Jacob did.

I didn't know which of my theory sounded more good, but I hope that none of my theories were true. That I was just speculating things into some other level.

I tried to test the waters. What could be the worse? Either he will confirm that I was right in one of the two matters, or there was an another explanation. With fingers crossed mentally, I closed my eyes and asked the question which sounded less extreme. "Does she turns into an animal too?" I asked, but my voice betrayed me. It came too quiet.

Too my utter embarrassment and dread and delight – I didn't know what emotion to show on my face or feel – he laughed loudly with a snort. "She wished she was that cool!"

I laughed shakily. But my mind was shaking with anguish and anger and despair and many other emotions which were swimming in my head, making me dizzy to no end. I pressed my forehead to my knee to stop the feeling of betrayal that was going to absorb me.

But what if Bella was betrayed too? What if she didn't know what she was going into?

I was silent for more than five minutes, trying to dissolve all this in my mind and trying to see if both Edward and Bella gave me any hints. And when did Jacob turned in the wild animal for the first time? Did Bella knew about Jacob and Edward and Alice? And if Alice, the person who I considered as my second daughter, was also involved in all this? Was Bella forced into all this that she decided to marry at this age? Were Carlisle and Esme also involved in all this?

Then I recalled that strange activity back in June. When I heard some strange sounds of howls and found out outside Billy's home, when Jacob had been harmed by his bicycle.

Now I realize why there were no such traces of accident.

Edward and Jacob always hating each other. Edward always restraining Bella to go to Jacob. Jacob always saying that Edward was no good for her. Bella defending Edward and Jacob at every step. Edward's sudden departure in September. Jacob suddenly keeping distance from Bella in the last week of February. The problem of wolves.

Everything clicked in its place.

I was trying to progress all this when Jacob sat in front of me, mirroring my position. I looked to see the face of the boy whom I knew since he was a child, but now I realized that I barely knew him.

"We are not you think Charlie." He soothed. "We are werewo –"

No! "I'd rather not know the specifics, Jake." I scowled. He smiled at me apologetically. I took a deep breath. "Did Bella... Did she knew what she was getting into when she married Edward?" I asked holding my breath.

He laughed. "Sure, she's known all about this for years, since she first came to Forks." He mumbled and laughed again.

I exhaled loudly and felt cheated. All about this. That means she knew about Jacob too? About the Cullens' too?

"But? How can she do this to me? She should have at least told me something about this! And she all knew when she was new to this place!" I shuddered. "What have you all did to my daughter? She was an innocent kid, and now I get to know that she had kept all these a secret from me, since the moment she came in Forks. I always knew she was keeping something from me, but to keep these many secrets! And why did she married at such a small age? Did he threaten her? And why didn't you stop her?" I shouted. He raised an eyebrow. "Just shut up, Jacob. You all should have left my daughter right then. She should have gone to a better place to live where she could be normal! Where her best friend wouldn't turn into a giant animal and where she didn't have an abnormal boyfriend." I shouted at him. And he even had the heart of smiling smugly. "I would have shoot you if I had my gun." I muttered.

But this was all past. I could not do anything now other than to feel betrayed and cheated by everyone around me.

I sighed.

I only had two options left. One – to be angry with all of them and not talk to them, Bella included. I couldn't do that. She is my daughter, after all. So I was left with the second option only. To forgive her and accept that she is changed now into some abnormal person. But I could not handle all the reality. I needed to cling to my sanity by accepting only that part which I could handle. After all, I just needed my daughter to be happy. And if she was, then I was happy.

I released the breath I was holding in a gust. I was left with nothing. If I felt I was an old man before Jake showed up, the way I felt now was nothing in front of this.

Jacob was waiting patiently for me to get everything under my head. I looked at him. "Look Jacob." I started. "I only want two things."

"Which are?" Jacob asked. He was looking terrified and relieved. Odd! But again, he himself was odd.

"One." I pointed by my thumb. "I want to see Bella. Now!" I demanded.

He nodded by releasing the warm breath he was holding. "Okay." He agreed easily. "You give me a head start so that I could explain them."

"Okay." I agreed. At least I could do that.

"And the other?"

"Look, I don't want to be told everything. Just the basics and essential things which you think I should know, and if not, then keep it to yourself. I don't mind if you tell me as little as possible. Only that much which I get in easily. Just need to know. Nothing major."

"It can be easily taken care of." He mumbled, really happy of my demand. I was terrified that he may deny, but at least I can know something rather than nothing or everything.

"Anything else?" He asked.

I shook my head. "No. I can live with that." I mumbled, mostly to myself. "Pretending things are normal. Like everything is fine as before." His ears are sharp, I realized, as I didn't want him to hear that.

"Trust me." He laughed. "Other than the fact that you know something, everything is normal. Nothing changed."

I grimaced.

"There is one more thing You of should know before you head for Cullen mansion."

Uh-oh! What else is left? "And that is?"

"Nothing as horrible as you are thinking!" He laughed again. Boy, how can he have the heart to laugh when I am getting such shocking and traumatizing things to know. "Bella and Edward had adopted a little mouth to feed in. A small girl to take care of"

I looked at him. He is surely joking. They both have just married, barely started their lives, and already have a little baby to take care of?!

He understood what I was thinking. So he went on. "Yeah! Just like an orphaned ward. Like Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson." He joked.

I wasn't in any mood of joking though.

"You mean, they are adopting her? Like a daughter?" He nodded. "Like I'm a grandfather?" I mumbled to myself.

He nodded again and stretched that big smile of his. I couldn't help but smile myself though.

I am a grandfather?! I kept humming to myself. It was unpredicted and surely a foreign concept. My baby is now a mother. Even if to an orphan. And I am a grandfather.

"Congrats gramps." Jacob patted my leg lightly. I flinched by his touch. Not because he was hot and big and all that. But because he had just turned into a big animal.

I couldn't help but show the warmth on my face as I thought about myself as a grandfather to my daughter's child, though it was adopted and all, but she was my daughter's now.

At least in all of this mind shattering things which I have to think about I have one pleasant thing to think about too.

"Tell me more about her!" I demanded.

Jacob's expression changed. His face became more warm. "Her name is Renesmee but we call her Nessie. She is amazing. Beautiful. Majestic. Much more special than all of us put together." He was talking as if he was telling me about his life. As if she was the most important person of his life. As if he was her parent. I felt odd. A kind of irritated. Maybe a little possessive. He shook his head, as if to clear his thoughts. "Some of this belongs beyond need to know, Charlie, but trust me, you don't want to know about this. But if you can ignore all the strange parts, you're going to be amazed. She's the most wonderful person in the whole world."

I nodded my assent. Anything to keep my daughter near me.

"But you need to understand it Charlie. If you can deal with all this, Bella and all others would stick around here for a more while, but if you can't, if it becomes too much for you, then they would leave. Immediately."

This was what I was afraid of. That I would have to choose between my sanity and Bella.

But there was no choice. I could handle my sanity, but not without Bella. Never. If my sanity was at a risk in all this, then let it be. "I can handle this much." I murmured. "As long as I am not forced I to too much information and told only little, as much I should know, I'll deal with it."

"Good." He agreed. "And if everything goes fine, they'll stay."

What does he mean now? "What do you mean by if everything goes fine Jake?"

"Nothing." He muttered as he stood up. "You go to your house, try to relax a little, while I'll go and tell about all this to Cullens'."

"Okay. I'll be leaving within five minutes." I told him.

"Fine."

He started to run in the woods. "Jacob?" I called. "How can you reach there before me?" I asked. A time of five minutes was too small, wasn't it?

He didn't turn. Just shouted, "Beyond need to know Charlie." And was gone.

I went back to my home in a hurry that I stumbled even on a flat ground. No doubt Bella took her clumsiness from me. When I reached, the first thing I did was drank water. After waiting for not five but seven minutes I took my cruiser's keys and went to visit my child, from whom I wanted many answers.

The second chapter will be updated by tomorrow.

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