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Chapter 1:

Nessie Gets What Nessie Wants

I groaned as I rolled over in my too small bed at my house. I hated sleeping here but I promised my dad five years ago that I would spend at least three nights a week at home. Now spending and actually sleeping here are two very different things. Sure, I needed to keep an eye on Billy and help around the house but everything in me pulls me to be somewhere else. Well, to someone else to be exact.

I stared up at the ceiling and realized that by the low shadows that it's early morning. When I mean early morning, that means not six. Yet, here I was itching to move or run, and do anything other than lay around here.

I sat up and stretched my arms over my head. The kinks in my back telling me that my bed is not big enough for me and the springs that poked me in the back didn't help. In fact sleeping in the same spot in the forest under the windowsill of the most important person in the world would have been much more comfortable. At least then, her steady heartbeat would have lolled me into a dream world.

I stood and grabbed a pair of sweats off the floor and then a shirt. I pulled that over my head as I made my way out to the kitchen to do one of the few things I was good at – making a bowl of cereal.

"You're up early," a gruff, deep voice said from behind me.

I jumped and turned around on high alert to look around the dark kitchen. I didn't sense anyone around when I walked in; then again, I am still half-asleep.

I smiled sheepishly when I spotted Billy sitting in his wheelchair as he looked at the newspaper.

"You should speak," I joked and walked the box of cereal and bowls to the table. "What some old man?"

Billy laughed as he lifted his coffee cup. "Sure, son, I might as well enjoy this time with you now before you run out of here and I won't see you for another couple of days."

I huffed when I grabbed the milk from the fridge. "I don't know what you're talking about. I saw you yesterday."

Billy shook his head. "Not the same, not the same."

I didn't miss his far off distant look as he looked out the small kitchen window. I knew that look. He was remembering when things were simpler. Before the myths and legends that he used to tell all of us boys around the bonfire came true. He was remembering when I was still the young teen that didn't have a care in the world.

"Would you ever change anything if you could?"

That question caught me off guard. My brow furrowed together in confusion as I looked up from my bowl of cereal that I was inhaling. Would I change anything? Hmmm…the answer to that one was easy for me and it could be summed up into one word.

"Nope."

He turned his eyes from the window to look at me before he nodded his head once. "Charlie's coming to pick me up to go fishing. You're welcome to come if you want."

Something was up with him. That much I could tell. He never questioned me about spending time with him nor has he ever asked about changing the way things were. I watched as he rolled away from the table toward the front door. He opened it and made his way out to the porch. In the few seconds that it took for me to finish my cereal and clean up the table I wondered if something was about to happen.

I shuddered some at the thought that things were about to change. Not sure if it would be in the good way or the bad.

I walked back to my room to grab my bag to tie around my ankle for when I phased before taking a leap out my window. I looked around the small closet sized room that was littered with old pizza boxes, dirty clothes, and I'm sure some clean ones where scattered around as well before my eyes landed on the calendar. A date circled in red. I walked over to it and looked at it and my heart fluttered at the thought of what that date signified.

I sighed. September tenth was the day that my life changed forever. It was the day that I met and fell in love with the most beautiful, smart, caring, intelligent person in the world. The day that gravity shifted and I became the protector of the most important creature. The day of My Nessie's birth.

The story of my imprinting on a half-vampire half-human baby caught all of us by surprise. But would I change that…nope. I love her with all of my being and I will continue to love her until she asks me to go away. Which I pray won't happen for a very long time.

It's been five years since the heart stopped beating in my best friend and she gifted the world with a beautiful baby girl. Her chocolate brown eyes that held not only the color as her mother's but the depth and emotions is what captivated me and held me prisoner for lifelong servitude. At first, the Cullen family, especially Bella and Edward, her parents, hated the idea of my imprinting on their one and only daughter. Well, yeah, it's weird and all. I mean, come on, I'm sixteen years older than their daughter is but Edward knew my thoughts. I cared and loved her like any other family member.

It wasn't until the almost battle with the Italian bloodsuckers that Edward and Bella really came around to the idea and realized that I was here to stay. I wasn't going anywhere. Where Ness was, so was I. That's it, end of subject. Bella accepted that in the end that I may be more to Ness than a big brother. Hell, even Edward has called me his son a couple of times. Yep, things were different. Sure, Blondie and I still joked around and she hated me with a passion but even she couldn't deny the utter devotion I gave to Ness.

Ness was like the strawberry jelly to my peanut butter. The cream to my OERO. The sun to my moon. In the end, I was everything to her and vice versa. But…and there's always a but, isn't there? Ness was growing and fast. Here she was about to turn five but she looked to be the size of a thirteen year old and what came with that I was not prepared for. Sure, in the course of five years I went from the free babysitter, to big brother, to now her best friend in the whole wide entire world. Her words, not mine. Yet, things were changing. I couldn't help but notice her look at me differently anytime I walked into the room. The way her face lit up. Don't get me wrong, she always smiled extra big and her eyes sparkled more when I walked into the room. After all, everything was set right when an imprint was back together with his imprintee but now her looks almost gave me the webby jibby's. I know she's looking and acting like a thirteen year old but I wasn't prepared when Edward answered my thoughts the other day.

"She has managed to get a little crush on you," he whispered lowly in my ear and chuckled before walking out of the house to go hunt with Bella while I stayed behind with Ness.

Okay, time to be honest, I was scared shitless. Look, man, I don't see her like that, I practically yelled in my head toward Edward and all I got in response was a louder laugh.

Sure, the imprint changes as the girl changes but come on, she's only four. This was too early, too soon, in my book.

I shook my head out of my thoughts and was surprised when I climbed out the window that the sun had started to make its appearance. Okay, it will never appear in this small chunk of the world, except on very rare occasions, but it wasn't black out anymore. I walked toward the forest and took my clothes off. I put them in my bag safely before letting the heat ripple through my body.

Next thing I knew I was on all fours with my body covered in the reddish brown fur that I couldn't help but think was similar in color to my Nessie's hair. My tongue lolled out of my mouth as I ran the familiar path that connected me from my little red house to the white Cullen Mansion.

"Jake, what are you doing up so early?" Seth Clearwater's voice popped in my head.

I watched as the night flashed in his head while he patrolled the area. Even though there hasn't been any action in the last five years, we never let our guard down.

"Nessie," was all I had to say and Seth grunted.

He loved being around the Cullens as much as I did. In fact, he was the first to have a true relationship with them beforeI was even willing to have a relationship with them. Sure, I had Bella and that urge to protect her but when I imprinted I realized it was Nessie who was pulling me along.

"I'm coming of shift, so if you need anything I'll be at home sleeping."

I nodded my head as the house came into view and I stopped to phase and dress before walking as if I actually lived there. I stopped knocking years ago. What was the point when Edward could read my mind from miles away upon my arrival, not to mention the fact that they could smell me probably just as far?

I noticed immediately when I walked in that something was different. Everyone sat around talking quietly and Bella looked like she could chew her nails off. I searched the area until I found my Nessie on the couch with her knees up to her chest.

"What's going on?" I asked as I walked over to Ness and picked her up to place her on my lap. She visibly relaxed in my arms.

"I told them I don't want to go," she whispered into the nook of my neck that she claimed the second I held her when she was a baby.

I looked at her and then over to the Edward with questioning eyes.

"We were discussing plans for her birthday," he said as if that would've answered all of my questions.

"Oh," was all I could say. "Well, where does she not want to go?"

I watched as Alice ran up the stairs and then back down with some papers that she handed over to me. I took them and realized that they were passports. Now, I may not be the quickest in the bunch but I was really confused.

"Where're you going?"

"I told you I don't want to go anywhere!" A voice screamed from under my arm and it alarmed me. Ness was never one to raise her voice.

"Hormones," Edward whispered lowly.

Ah, yes, the hormones. There's another day that I would never forget. She not only walked down the stairs a few months ago wearing a bra but her scent changed. She was embarrassed that the entire family, including me, could smell when she started her period. She sent everyone away that day and stayed curled up in my lap with her fingers in my hair. She hated the fact that this made her even more different from her family. Yet, the way I saw it, this made her more human. It wasn't until Bella and Carlisle sat her down and explained the facts about the reasons behind a period that she embraced it.

"Jacob, guess what?" She said as she nuzzled my neck a couple of months after her first cycle.

"What, Ness?"

"I'm going to have a baby."

I spit out my drink as I looked at her and heard Edward laugh from his bedroom.

"I'm sorry?"

"Grandpa and Mom said that I can have a baby."

I nodded slowly as I digested this information. "Aren't you a little young?"

I watched as she rolled her eyes. "Not now silly but they said that I'm different from everyone else because I can have babies. I want a baby, my Jacob."

It was then that I learned of her crush on me, and her dreams of us having babies. Granted she understood how babies were made, or the mechanics of the birds and the bees. But her dreams were innocent, or at least that's what Edward would tell me. A part of me warmed up at the idea of Nessie when she's older and she and I walking down the beach with raven-haired children running in front of us. However, I was nowhere ready for that to happen and I don't think I would be for a while.

Anyways, back to the here and now as I looked over to the passport that I was now holding.

"This year, I'm thinking a family vacation for Nessie's birthday. Why do the same old thing every year?" Alice shuddered at the idea of same old thing. "I mean come on, boring."

I nodded. "Okay, so family vacation to where?"

"Well, the island of course. It's where we all can be ourselves," Alice said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

I heard Nessie sniffle from under my arm. "But they said you couldn't go."

Ahhh, now the truth comes out and I bristled at the idea of me not seeing Ness on her birthday let alone being away from her however long it would be until their return. If they would eve return. I knew that they were pushing it living here in Forks. They should have left a couple of years ago. The only reason they stuck around this long was for Ness and me.

"We would be leaving in a week and be gone for two weeks, Jacob," Edward said. "We're not moving yet, but will be discussing that when we get back."

Bella stood up and walked over to couch to sit down next to me. Her hand matched my mine as she began to rub her daughter's hair. "She's growing up so fast Jake and we want to have a few weeks of just family to be with her. I could never take her away from you."

"But," I chocked on the words that needed to leave my mouth. "I never spent a day from her."

"I said I'm not going unless my Jacob comes with me," Nessie screeched as she leapt from my arms and ran out the door. Everything in me said to run after her but I stopped myself.

My eyes stopped on Alice's face as her eyes came back into focus. With a sigh, she dropped down to the floor and tucked her knees under her. "She will manage to escape from the airport. I can see all of us on the island with no blind spots."

"Well, then," Carlisle said as he stood up. "I'm guessing the only way to work this out and make her happy is if Jacob comes."

"We leave in a week, so be sure to have everything set with the pack, Jacob," Edward said as he left the living room. "I'm going to tell my daughter that her Jacob gets to come."

I didn't miss the hint of a smile on his lips. I had the feeling that deep down I would come. After all, I am the free babysitter. While the rest of the family is off doing ….that….I can give Nessie my undivided attention.

"Well, I'm going shopping. Need to get Jake a few things," Alice said as she stood up and pulled Jasper with her out toward the garage and just like that the house emptied leaving only Bella and me sitting on the couch.

I shivered when she laid her head on my shoulder and I dropped my head to rest on her's. "Jake, can you promise me that you will always be there for her."

Okay, what was it with these odd questions today. First my dad and now my best friend. "You know I would never leave her side, Bells."

I could feel her nod her head. "I just can't help this feeling that I'm losing her."

I looked over to = find her amber eyes. "What's wrong Bella, really?"

Bella lifted her head to look at me. "She's growing up so fast. She's looking closer to that of a fourteen year old. She sees you differently. Pretty soon the two of you will be the same age and she won't be mine."

I wrapped my arm around Bella's shoulder and pulled her closer to me. "She will always be yours and Edward's but she was destined to be mine as well. You know this."

"Have you thought about when you were going to tell her?"

I didn't need to be a mind reader to know what she was asking me. The imprint was a touchy subject to Edward, Bella and I. Part of me wanted to tell her from the first day Nessie could comprehend the idea but part of me wanted it to come natural. She has a choice in who she wants as a mate. The timing just never seemed right.

"I don't know," I answered honestly. "But I'm thinking soon."

It wasn't until later after the incident that we realized that Alice's vision was off on why there were no blind spots as well as how much the imprint would change. I grew more in the days and weeks that followed than I ever thought possible. My heart grew so much with love for the girl that was growing into a woman before my eyes that I thought it would pop. I changed just as much as Nessie did.

People still ask me, even now after it's been three years since the accident if I would change anything. The answer was nope then and it will always be nope. Nessie is my world and she always would be. Nothing could change that….Or so I thought…..