Chapter Two
APOV
Nessie screaming, "Please stop! Danny, stop!" Someone is raping her. Nessie's crying.
I jump off of my bed and run to Edward and Bella's cottage while Jasper runs after me, worried. "Alice, what's going on?"
"Someone is raping our niece," I say as I continue running. He speeds up so that he's running beside me, and he holds my hand, trying to soothe me.
When we get to the porch, Edward is just opening the door. "Alice, what is it?"
I think back to the vision but stop because I don't want him to find out from me. "Jasper, what is going on here?" he demands.
I glare at Jasper and he replies, "Something is happening to Nessie." He looks at me with sad eyes, apologizing.
"Alice? Is everything okay? You look upset," Bella says as she walks up beside my brother.
"Alice is blocking me." He glares at me, and I run to the phone, pointing at it hurriedly.
"Answer it, now!"
Edward looks at me, confused, but answers the phone. "Hello?"
NPOV
"Daddy, I need to come home! Please come get me?"
"Darling, what's wrong?"
"Daddy, please just come get me!"
"I'm on my way, sweetheart."
"Thank you."
I hang up the phone and put my cell phone back into my hiding spot, behind the picture on the wall. Then I open the door to the shower and walk in after locking the bathroom door. I turn on the hot water and sit on the floor of the shower, letting the water hit my body as I let the tears fall. Thankfully I'm a hybrid. I healed up pretty quickly, but that doesn't mean that I'm emotionally okay. With vampires, everything is heightened. When they're mad, they're angry. When they're in love, it seems like they're obsessed. When they're sad, they're in agony. I'm emotionally weak from the shock and stress of Danny's violation. I cannot understand why someone who says he loves me would hurt me!You don't rape someone you care about! You just don't!
None of this would have happened if you had stayed with me! I never would have met him! How was I supposed to know he'd rape me?
I continue to cry in the shower, waiting for my dad to come get me. I hear Daniel screaming at me to let him in. I don't listen to him because the more I do, the more I'll want to reciprocate the pain he caused me.
"Baby, please let me explain!"
"Get the fuck away from me!"
"Please, it's not my fault!"
"Like it's not! You raped me because I wanted a fucking shower!"
"Oh, God... It was another flashback... Baby, please, I...I had another flashback. I get sexually violent because I have PTSD."
Flashbacks, tossing and turning, restless, moody, antisocial... Shit! This can't be happening! Why didn't I see it?
"PTSD...? You've got to be kidding me!"
"No, I'm not... My dad abused me as a kid. "
"I can't believe this! I can't do this!"
"Please...Renee, don't leave me."
"Go away!"
He walks away from the door just as the front door slams open. I'm crying again as I start thinking about Daddy, thinking to him.
He's psychotic, Daddy! He has PTSD. He hurt me, Daddy.
He bursts through the bathroom door and sees that I'm crying and naked in the shower. He grabs the white fluffy bathrobe and wraps me up in it. "Alice will come get your stuff later," he grits through his teeth, so quietly only I can hear it. I continue to cry and curl into my daddy's chest, but I relax as he walks us to his car with me in his arms like I'm still his baby girl.
"Daddy?"
"Yes?"
"Do you know what he did?"
"Yes..." he says, looking as if he wants to rip Daniel's throat out.
"I didn't know..." I start crying again.
"I don't think anyone did. That thing didn't tell anyone about his issues."
"Daddy, I need my journal."
"If we go back, I'll kill him."
"I can wait. I just don't want him finding it."
"All right. I'm going to call Alice and have her to get your stuff. Then, we'll talk when she gets back."
I nod and say, "Okay, Daddy."
I listen to Dad talk to Alice, telling her to get my stuff, and then he puts his phone away. "So, how were finals?" he asks me.
"They were okay, it wasn't that bad."
"That's good. What are you going to do when we get home?"
"I want to see Uncle Jasper. I need his help." He nods and places me gently in the car before getting in himself to drive us home.
We get home rather quickly with Dad's love of speed. Mom opens the door and Daddy puts me down. I hug Mom and start crying again. She looks at Daddy and raises her eyebrows. I can tell he told her, "Not now," because she lifts me up and takes me into my bedroom. I lie there thinking about absolutely nothing, because if I do I will start crying again.
"Where is she?" a husky voice asks.
"In her bedroom, be quiet," Mom says.
Within a minute, there's a big man standing in my doorway staring at me. "Nessie? Little One, are you okay?" he asks.
I shake my head. "Not at all."
He comes to my bed and sits behind me. I don't move to turn and face him. "Come here, Little Nessie." I roll over and climb onto his lap, cuddling into to his chest with my head in the crook of his neck.
"Uncle Emmett?"
"Yeah, Nessie?"
"I want to gather the family. I want to postpone our high school idea so that I don't have to think about this shit, but I also have to tell them what happened. Before that, I need to be with Uncle Jasper for a while."
"Okay, Little One. Will do. Do you want him right now?"
"No, I've missed you."
"You should get dressed."
"Okay, but I don't want to be alone. Is Auntie Rose here?" I ask as I get up and make my way to my closet.
He nods and says, "I'll go get her."
"No need for that," Auntie Rose says, staring down at the big teddy bear on my bed.
"I'll be out there with everyone else," he says, touching Auntie Rose's hand briefly before walking out.
Both of us nod. I grab my favorite t-shirt, jeans, and my favorite sweatshirt.
"That looks comfortable," Auntie Rose says.
"I'm planning on going for a walk after everyone talks."
She nods and starts pacing. "Can you tell me?"
"He—he—he raped me...be—because I...w—wanted a—a shower..." I stutter between sobs as I fall to the floor. She gets there fast enough that I am sitting in her lap instead of on the floor.
"I'm going to kill him. "
"I can't go to graduation knowing he'll be there..."
"Don't worry, he won't be."
I nod. "Good."
I get up and get dressed.
"I need to get this off my chest. Let's go to the living room and get this over with!"
We walk into the living room, and everyone is staring at me except for the one person that is never coming back.
"Well, I can't keep this quiet..." I start as Rose grabs my hand and squeezes it. "I know that Alice has seen most of what I've been through, which in turn she told all of you. The guy I was dating and living with had a change of heart or something. This morning he said that I had t—t—to fuck him before I could take a shower. I told him no, but he refused to take that as an answer. He threw me on the floor and forced himself on me…." I tell everyone without taking a breath.
Everyone stiffens, and Mom is held down by Gram. Gramps walks up to me and hugs me. "How do you wish us to proceed?"
"I need my journal and my laptop. I have a job to do, then, and I'll let you know my plan."
Alice had just returned with my belongings moments before the meeting, and she hands my stuff to Uncle Jasper, who follows me into my room. "You want him dead, don't you?" Uncle Jazz asks.
"Yes, Uncle Jazz. I want the fucker dead. No one makes me feel like a weakling! No one!" I say, traitor tears falling.
"Well, where do you want to start?"
"Journal..." I say, sticking my hand out for it. He hands it to me and I lie on my bed. He lies down next to me, watching my face.
I can't believe you are gone! You were supposed to protect me! Why?
I love you, Jacob Black! You left me here to dwell on that while you are off somewhere else doing something God only knows where for whatever reason! You were not here! The one time I need you, you aren't here! You could have prevented it! But you weren't here! So some mentally fucked up person, who I thought I could love, ends up raping me! You're the only one I know, other than my family, who wouldn't hurt me! I need you, Jacob Black!
All that will fix me is you. I need you with me. Please come back to me!
~Renesmee~
"That was intense..." Jasper says.
"You didn't read over my shoulder, did you?" I ask as I shut my journal.
"No, I meant your feelings. You were sad, mad, and desperate through it all. I'm not sure I want to know," he says, handing me my laptop and putting his arm behind my head. I rest on his shoulder as I log into my computer and go to the Internet.
"So, what is my scheming niece going to do?"
I decide to check my email to see if my teachers had gotten the grades from previous assignments put together. I do this to pass the time because I'm really hoping that I'll get close to a perfect score for the end of my last year.
"Yep...okay...done. Now for the fun and dirty part."
"You can't be serious."
"Oh, I am."
He smirks, and we run into the living room. "I can tell everyone's ready..." I say as I see everyone with a duffel bag and looks of anticipation written on their faces, "but I need to feed first." Everyone laughs, and I start to go to my room when Alice stops me.
"I have your clothes from your do—"
"Throw them out. Give them to the poor. Or burn them… I don't give a damn. I'm not wearing any of it. Save my jewelry. I'll get new clothes at our next home," I say, smiling devilishly.
"A shopping spree? Are you nuts? After all you've been through, you need to take a break. I'll do the shopping. You'll be staying home."
"Yeah, after we hunt and make an asshole disappear from the face of the earth!"
I run out of the house and into the forest, still wearing my comfy outfit, looking for something to eat, until I nearly crash into a giant wolf. "Holy shit!" I scream.
The wolf shifts and then I hear him laughing. "I thought I'd find you here," he says.
"Seth! Oh, my God! What are you doing here? I haven't seen you in a while." I have to look up to see his face, and I'm 5'6".
"I'd have to say the same for you. How old are you now?"
"I'm ten," I say as he looks at me funny.
"Ten, wow. You're smokin', chica," he says with a grin.
I push his shoulder. "Stop flirting, Sethy!"
"Sethy? You haven't called me that since you were two…" he says, confused.
"Yeah, well, you don't usually just visit…"
"Jacob's back, and he just killed some dumbass named David, or something… He's acting weird, Nessie. I think he needs you."
"H—h—he's back?" I stutter.
"Yeah, he's been back since last year."
"What? Did you say David…? "
"He was drinking at my bar and bragging about shagging some chick. He talked shit about how he had to force her to sleep with him because she would never stay in bed with him…" I tuned him out after that.
"Sethy, did he describe this chick?"
"Smart, sexy, going to college after taking classes online all of her… No fucking way!" he says as he falls into a tree in shock. "It was you, wasn't it?" he whispers.
"Yes."
"God, no wonder he killed that son of a bitch!"
I nod and say, "Is he really dead? I was about to do it myself, but if he's really taken care of it, then I don't have to worry about it."
"Yeah, that dude was mince meat when Jake was done with him."
"I would have loved to kill him, but knowing that even though Jacob's been gone he still cares."
"You're kidding, right? Don't tell me that you think he forgot about you! He imprinted on you the first time he saw you. He was torn. He had an opportunity to get a job in Texas and he took it. It didn't work out, so he tried to deal with what he did to you both. He's been a mess!" Seth says, frantically.
"I'm sorry, Sethy. I didn't mean…" I don't get to finish because Sethy interrupts me.
"Yeah, well, you didn't see how he treated himself. He came back and couldn't function without knowing what was happening to you."
"He watched me?" I ask in shock.
"Yeah, he did."
"I'm tired of this conversation. I'm hungry, do you want to come with me?" he asks, looking at the grass.
"That would be nice. Is there anything good to eat out here?" I ask, quietly.
He nods and says, "Yeah, follow me."
He shifts and we start running. He brings me to a whole den of lynx cats. They're not mountain lions, but they'll do.
Jake POV
I've been gone for two years. I don't know why I didn't stay, but I had to get away for a while. The Alpha in Texas had a job for me all right—I was supposed to be his lap dog. Fuck that! I did not leave Nessie just to be some other Alpha's errand boy! I thought I was going to have a respected job, but this was ridiculous!
So I left Texas and went to Montana, where I could just run and have freedom. I enjoyed it for a while, but it wasn't the same as it could be. How it should be. I left my Nessie, and it was the stupidest thing I have ever done. I've been moping around in a far off state, feeling sorry for myself, acting like an idiot, when I'm supposed to be protecting my Nessie. I ran away from her, using the excuse of a stupid job in Texas, but this time I'm running to something. I'm going back to watch over my Nessie.
I was afraid of Nessie doing what her mother had done to me. Being afraid of Nessie copying her mother is the most selfish thing I could have done because now I've done what Edward did to Bella, but to my Nessie. I have to find out if she's okay, so I'm running as fast as my four legs will carry me.
The first thing I do when I get back is go see Seth. I know that he and Nessie were tight. I just hope they still are.
I knock on his apartment door, hoping he's still home. After three knocks, the door opens. It's Leah. She's pissed at me because, even though she may not like vampires, Nessie has always been an exception.
"What do you want?" she asks.
"I need to talk to Seth," I say frantically.
"Seth! There's someone here to see you."
He walks down the hall, and when he sees me his eyes grow wide. "Jacob?"
"Yeah, dude, we need to talk."
We talk for hours about what I've missed. Apparently Nessie's been going to college at EWU. She seems to be doing well for herself, but there is one thing that does not sit well with me…
"Jacob, she's found someone…"