Chapter 2:
And so it begins.

"Jacob Black! You better get that cute butt of yours done here in the next two minutes or I'm leaving without you!" I screamed to my seemingly always late husband.

We were supposed to be on the road down to LaPush, like, let me see… an hour ago!! No matter where we happen to be going… we're always late. Jake wants to protect me from everything. He won't let me do anything! And it's getting really freaking annoying!!

"That's it Jacob! I'm leaving!" I turned away from the stairs and started walking toward the front door. Just as I reached the door knob, I was picked up and spun in the opposite direction. Jake looked down at me his eyes pleading as he said, "You aren't going anywhere, sweet thing. Just hold on for a little bit longer and we can go… I swear."

I crossed my arms and stubbornly set my jaw. I was not about to let him off that easily. "Don't think that you can just bat your cute little eyelashes and pout your adorable little puppy dog pout, no pun intended, and get off so easily. You're going to have to work for it this time."

Jake pouted further, but I saw a little glint of mischief in his eyes that told me he wasn't so innocent. "Please," he said leaning closer with every breath.

I shivered but stayed where I was, "No." He leaned closer till his lips were mere centimeters away from mine. "Please?" He breathed.

I shivered. "No?" I came out as a question, a sign that I was falling into his trap.

He started kissing my neck… my one weakness. "Now… you're… cheating." I said breathlessly.

"You never said anything about not cheating, so technically I'm not."

This is not good, this is not good! Mayday mayday! Houston… there is a problem! I grabbed Jakes head and pulled him away from my neck, only to bring him back down to my lips.

Who am I kidding; I can never really be mad at him. Jake chuckled and kissed me twice before he let go.

"Okay okay Ness, I get it, I'm forgiven. Now can you please get that sweet ass in the car, before I put it there myself."

I laughed and kissed him one more time before heading out to the car. But I was stopped again by Jonah. He barreled down the driveway and jumped up on his two legs to give me his form of a hug. "Whoa boy down! I'll miss you too!"

In the last two months Jonah has grown from not even a foot to about four and a half feet. Yet, he still has all the energy and more. "You be a good boy for Ashley okay? She's going to be here to give you your food and help you out and all that good stuff! 'Kay boy!"

I knelt down and scratched behind his ears. He relaxed and rolled over on his belly. "Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? Alright, go in boy, we'll see you in a couple days." I kissed him on the top of his head and let him run in.

I laughed as I stood up and walked over to the car. I opened the passenger seat, still my orange Element, and sat down, situating myself till I was comfortable. Once Jake was in the car and we started driving down the street, I brought my pillow up to my head, dosed off… and dreamed.

In the dreams, cause I had more than one, there was always either two little girls or a little boy. Now don't ask me what that means… but I hope that means that they'll eventually be mine one day.

One was me in Jacobs' arms while I'm holding a beautiful smiling new born baby boy; another with me and Jake playing outside with the two most adorable twin girls.

But the one dream that confused me the most was the last one I had. I was in the woods and had the strangest feeling that someone…or something was watching me. But all I could think about was if my babies were okay.

"Ness… Ness… Ness wake up. Come on babe you gotta wake up." Jake was slightly nudging me awake.

I opened my eyes and saw that it was snowing… or was that rain? "Are we here already?" I asked groggily. Jake chuckled, picked me up out of the car, and set me down on the ground.

"You were out like a light, babe. It's like you haven't gotten any sleep in weeks." Jake gave me a look that said "Is something up", but before I could answer a squeal interrupted us.

I looked toward Sam's house to see Johanna, Emily, and Sam at the front door. "Nessie!" Johanna yelled and ran down the steps all the way into my arms. I picked her up and spun her around. "Jo! How are you?"

I set her down and looked at her expectant and much older face. The last time I saw her she was only four years old. Johanna was Sam and Emily's youngest child. Sam and Emily already had a whopping three, and at the looks of it another on the way. Johanna looked at least seven and had her daddy's dark brown eyes, and her mother's pitch black hair.

"I'm great Nessie! I haven't seen you in sooooo long! Where have you been?" The emotions on her face changed so quickly it was like a switch turning on and off in her head.

"I'm sorry Jo; I've been with Uncle Jake. And you know how he loves to keep things to himself." I glanced at Jake but he was talking to Sam.

Jo looked up also, and stomped up to Jake and punched him in the leg. Jake looked down, an appalled look on his face. "Jo, I'm hurt. What was that for?"

"For keeping Aunt Nessie away from me!" Jo said with a pout on her lips. Jake glanced up at me and winked. I giggled.

He looked back down at Jo and picked her up. "I'm sorry Jo, but that's what married people do when they first get married. It's… sorta a tradition."

Jo looked back up at Jake deep in thought. "So you kept Aunt Nessie away... because you had to?" Jake chuckled, "Exactly."

Jo smiled. "Oh, okay! Come on Nessie I want to show you my dolls!" She jumped out of Jake's arms, grabbed my hand and dragged me inside.

Emily was sitting on the couch watching all the other kids playing. "Hey Jo, why don't you go get your dolls and bring them out here, I'm going to go talk to your mommy, okay?"

Jo smiled, nodded excitedly, and ran off. I laughed as I went over to sit next to Emily. "Hey girly," I said.

Emily turned her head to look at me and squealed. Like mother like daughter… "Ness, how are you?" She hugged me to her protruding stomach.

"I'm great. How are you and your, what, seventh child?" We laughed.

"No it's just my fourth… and final. I've finally convinced Sam that four is enough. He wanted six."

I winced. "Oo that's not good."

"Yeah I know."

"So how far along are you?" I patted her stomach.

"I'm eight months, due next month on December 17th."

I squealed. "Oh that's not that far away! Do you know what the sex is?"

"It's a boy. Sam's extremely excited."

"I would think so, the second boy. Might I say it is about time! Two girls have got to be hard on him. So what's the name going to be?"

"Micah, it was Sam's great something grandfathers name. It was special to him."

"Elijah, Jenna, Johanna, and Micah… wonderful names." We sat there in silence for awhile, until Emily sucked in a breath. I looked at her panicked. "What, what happened? Is the baby okay?"

"The baby's fine… you're pregnant aren't you?" She looked at me like she already knew the answer and no matter what I said wouldn't convince her otherwise. I sighed. "How did you figure it out? And please be quiet about it, Jake wanted to tell everyone when he was ready."

Emily squealed and jumped up off the coach, much faster than any other eight month pregnant lady could, and dragged me to her room. "Okay, I want to know everything!" I sighed. "I'm pregnant… that's pretty much it."

"You mean you haven't been to the doctor… I mean Carlisle?"

"No, I mean I've told him, but I actually haven't done any tests yet."

"Oh sweetheart you need to. It's very important. Especially in your…special condition."

"Yeah, I know. But if it counts for anything… I've only known I was pregnant for about 3 weeks." We laughed and left her bedroom. "Don't worry Ness, I'm not going to tell anyone I know."

"What do you know?"

"Know what?" We laughed again and went into Johanna and Jenna's room. But Johanna wasn't there. We walked out to the back yard to see the whole pack and their families having a party.

When we walked out everyone turned to us and shouted, "Welcome back Ness!" I laughed and ran to give everyone hugs.

Claire and Quil were there, already expecting their first child. (they started really early, 19!) Rachel and Paul with their two little boys, both exactly like their father. Jared and Kim with their three girls. Embry and Rachel, and even Seth with his imprint Courtney.

"Oh my goodness! You're all here!" I clung to Claire as I yelled thanks to everyone. I've closest to Claire than anyone else in the pack family. We went through everything together. We even exchanged secrets about how we liked Quil and Jacob when we were fourteen.

"Claire you're… glowing!" She blushed.

"Thanks Ness… but between you and me… carrying a werewolf's baby is torturous. All the kicking and the eating… I'm constantly putting food in my mouth, and I can smell food from like a mile away. I'm like Super Pregnant Lady, but without all the perks of being super. It sucks. I mean you've seen Emily… it takes her forever to get over each pregnancy."

My mouth dropped open as I pictured me being "Super Pregnant Lady" as Claire called it. "Oh come on Claire bear, you don't think you're overreacting just a little, 'cause of the hormones?"

She looked at me like I was crazy, then her eyes went wide and her smile blinding. She started squealing and jumping up and down repeating, "Oh my God, oh my God, OH MY GOD!!"

Everyone stopped and turned to look at us. "Claire… stop… stop… Stop!"

She stopped jumping up and down and hugged me tight. "I'm so happy for you Ness!" She whispered into my ear. "Don't worry I won't tell anyone!"

She let go of me and looked at everyone else. "What? She felt the baby kick." She announced in her best innocent voice.

Quil came over to us and wrapped his arms around Claire. "How you feeling Claire bear?" He asked in the kindest voice I've ever heard.

"I'm great baby, how are you?" He laughed and kissed her on the head. I could barely make out the words 'I love you' as Quil mouthed them to Claire. She mouthed them back.

I felt strong, warm arms wrap around my waist, and shivered. I didn't even realize I was cold till now. "How are you doing baby?" Jake asked nuzzling my neck. I leaned against him touched the hand that as lying on my stomach. I sent him the message that the baby and I were fine and to stop worrying so much, cause it would ruin that pretty little face of his. He laughed and squeezed me twice. 'So when do you want to tell them?' I sent him through my power.

"Soon, definitely soon." So we enjoyed the backyard barbecue until it was dark and time to retire back into the living room. I was sitting on one of the many loveseats with Jake next to me and Jo in my lap, fast asleep.

"I think it's way past this little one's bedtime," Sam said going to pick up Jo, from my lap. Emily stood up and took Jo from his arms.

"I'll take her honey, you stay here," her eyes traveled to mine and stayed, "Talk a little." She quickly skipped her way to the back rooms where the kids slept, before I could say anything back to her.

I looked at Jake. "You think it's time?" I asked. He nodded. "Guys… and girls, Ness and I have an announcement to make." Jake looked at me and mouthed, 'Brace yourself'. "Ness is… pregnant."

A chorus of sequels and hoots bombarded my eardrums. "Oh Ness I'm so excited! Come on we all have to talk." All the girls practically dragged me to Emily and Sam's room. "So how long have you known?" Claire asked bouncing in her seat.

"I've only known for three weeks myself, but I'm about a month and a half along. How did ya'll guess?"

"Well, I found out because you used to never want to ask me how my pregnancies were going. You'd find them depressing." Emily said holding my hand.

"Yeah, and I found out cause you used to complain and joke around about the amenities of being the wife of a werewolf, and this time you didn't." Claire said smiling wide. I laughed.

"You guys know me to well, it's a little scary."

Everyone laughed. There was a knock at the door, and a sleepy Johanna walks in with her footie pajamas and ratty teddy bear.

"What's with all the noise?"

Emily walked over to her and picked her up. "We're just all excited about Aunt Nessie, Jo."

Jo rubbed her eyes and laid her head on Emily's shoulder. "What's the news Aunt Nessie?" She asked sleep evident in her voice.

"Well, sweetie pie, we were all excited to hear Auntie Nesses' news. You see my belly baby?" Jo nodded her head. "You know that your little brother is in there right?" Jo nodded again. "Well, there's a little boy or girl in Aunt Nessie's stomach too."

Jo's eyes bulged out and she shot out of Emily's arms and plunged into mine. "That's so cool!! When am I going to get to see it?! Tomorrow?"

I chuckled. Kids imaginations. "No squirt it's going to be a little while." Everyone laughed while Jo just looked confused. "But why does it have to be a while? I want to see it now!!" I tapped her little nose and she giggled.

I felt a small tickle in the pit of my stomach. You know the kind of feeling that you get when something bad is about to happen. I waved it off as nothing. "Come on sweetheart, let's get you in bed." I said, standing up and walking back towards Johanna's and Jenna's room.

Their room was decorated with little pink and purple butterflies to go alongside with their pale purple walls. Jenna, who was ten years old, had a small twin canopy bed with 'Princess' plated at the top. Johanna loved Winnie the pooh, so her side of the room was covered in Winnie the pooh stuffed animals. She still had a little barrier on the side of her bed so she wouldn't fall off. I set her down under the covers and surrounded her with the animals, making sure her teddy bear was right under her arm.

I tucked her in tight, and kissed her once on the head. "Time to go to sleep, Jo. Sweet dreams." I turned on her small night light as I backed away and closed the door softly. I can't wait to do this with my own little girl… or boy. Emily's room was empty, all the noise was coming from the living room. I walked out into the living room to see everyone crowded around.

Jake looked up and smiled a warm smile. He stood and came to wrap his arms around me. "Hey," He breathed in my hair. I trembled. "Hey yourself," I said holding the front of his shirt. He kissed my cheek and whispered, "I saw you with Jo…"

I blushed. "Yeah, and…"

He kissed my other cheek. "All I could do was think of you and are little boy or girl, putting them to bed. It was the most precious thing." I blushed an even deeper color red. "What am I going to do with you?" I teased.

The smirk on his face told me to stay on guard, he was up to something. "I know exactly what you could do with me." He whispered then practically attacked my lips.

"Eww. I get enough of this at home. It's called a vacation, you get away from the normal activities you do." Rachel whined. I laughed and Jake whined as well.

"Do you just like to hear yourself talk, Rachel? Because that's what it seems like." Jacob said, irritation laced his voice.

"Oh, calm down, don't get your panties in a twist." Rachel said an unusual annoyance tone to her voice. "What's wrong, Rach? You seem pisssed off." I asked worriedly.

"Yeah well, I kinda am. There's something everybody's not telling me, and it's getting really old really fast." She yelled, accusing everyone. Nobody met her stare, all ashamed.

"Hey, Rach? Can I talk to you in the kitchen, just for a minute?" I asked keeping it light. She nodded curtly. I closed the door to the kitchen and turned to Rachel. She looked like she was about to cry now, all the barriers gone.

You see, Rachel came from a really hard back ground. She had to build all these barriers to ensure that she wouldn't get hurt. She let the barriers down with me, cause 1) I was her best friend and she loved me. 2) I was a girl. She was beaten by her father from the time she was six to the time she was eighteen.

I raced to her and held her in the comfort of my arms. "It's okay Rachel, I promise. Everything is going to be alright. Nothing is going on; you're not going to be hurt." I rubbed her back soothingly, trying to erase her pain.

"I just…love-love him so mu-ch!"

"I know, I know. Don't worry. You have no idea how much this is hurting him." Rachel sniffled.

"Wha-what do you mean?"

I smiled. "It hurts him to see you in pain. I can't tell you why, he has to do that himself, but I can tell you that it hurts him. He loves you so much too, Rach. It's plain on his face."

"I just don't understand why he has to keep secrets from me." Rachel said, calming down.

"You'll see later, I promise. You'll get it all, after you've processed the information." I patted her back and handed her a tissue. She wiped her eyes and smiled tightly. "I made a complete fool out of myself… didn't I?"

"No... a little… yeah." We laughed as we opened the door back to the living room.

You could cut the tension in the air with a spoon. I patted Rachel once more on the back and gave her an encouraging smile. She smiled back, but not without hesitation. Embry walked up slowly next to Rachel and held her hand. She laid her head on his shoulder, and I could almost see him relax under her touch. I walked over to the couch where Jake was, and plopped down in his lap. "This vacation is more hard work than I thought it would be."

He laughed and wrapped his arms around me. That strange feeling came back to my stomach, this time stronger. I closed my eyes and rubbed my stomach. "You okay babe?" He asked sitting up straighter. The feeling passed and I nodded. "Yeah, hon, I'm fine. Just a little tickle. Where are we staying this week?" I knew we wouldn't be staying at Sam's, there's not enough room for everyone.

"I asked Edward if they would be staying close by while we were in town, apparently their staying at the old house. So if you want to stay there we can." I nodded, suddenly feeling very tired.

"Yeah, can we go now, I don't particularly feel good." He looked at me worriedly the little crease in-between his eyes appearing. "Yeah, babe, I'll take you home." Jake picked me up and set me back down on the floor.

"Where's Em, and Claire. I want to say goodbye before we leave."

"In the kitchen babe, I'll be in the car." He kissed me cheek then walked out the door. The kitchen door was closed, but the light was shining through the crack. I opened the door to see Emily, and Claire doing the dishes of all things.

"You know ya'll really need to make the boys do this. It can't be good in your condition." They laughed as they wiped their hands on a dish rag. "I'm gonna head home now, I'm a little tired."

They both squished me into a hug, which with both extremely pregnant ladies is horribly uncomfortable. "Okay okay, let go before I die."

They both kissed my cheeks and let go. Claire left the kitchen, but I grabbed Emily's arm. "Hey Em, can I ask you something?"

She nodded. "Of course, sweetie."

I sighed. "In…any of your pregnancies… did you feel like… like anxious or had butterflies in your stomach?" She frowned and shook her head. "No, why honey? Is that what you're feeling?"

Now I know that what I'm feeling isn't normal. What am I going to do? Jakes gonna freak when I tell him. I mean it's not like a big deal or anything, he'll just take it out of proportion and make it this big production. It's just not that fun to go through all of that when it's nothing. "Yeah, a little. But it also could be just my imagination and it's just… gas or something. I'll be fine."

"Ness, even if you think you're fine, I want you to tell Jake and Carlisle about this, okay? I want you to promise me." Em looked slightly panicked.

"Of course Em, I promise. I gotta go; Jake's waiting for me in the car. I'll see you tomorrow." I kissed her cheek and walked back to the car. I jumped into the passenger seat of my orange Element and buckled my seat belt. Jake started driving down the oh so familiar road to the Cullen's. I remember when I was seven years old and strolling down this same road, my chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream melting onto the dirt, cause the sun was beating down on us at high noon.

"So, what's really wrong?" Jake asked me, his eyes fixed on the road. The tension in his voice told me that he knew something else was wrong, and that he wasn't going to take no for an answer. But you know me, I just have to try."Nothing. I'm just really tired."

Damn it! My stupid voice squeaked at the end. Damn it! Now he knows I'm lying! I hate my stupid inner moral system, always trying to figure out new ways to make me tell the truth.

"Yeah uh-huh, there is no way I believe that, and you should know that this conversation is not over." Jacob uttered his eyes still locked on the road.

The fingers on the steering wheel were bone white. And in contrast to his skin, it appeared that a completely different person was driving. I sunk deeper into the comfort of the leather seats. I was probably in some deep trouble when we got home, but at the moment I was safe and warm and I was going to take advantage of that fact. "When we get home, please don't alert any of the family of anything. I don't want them to worry over nothing, cause it is nothing Jacob."

He opened his mouth to say something, and by the way his jaw was set I don't think it was going to be nice. But he took a deep breath and said much calmer than expected, "Of course, Ness. I wouldn't upset the family over something like this. This is something that needs to be hashed out ourselves."

I bowed my head. He really knew how to make me feel bad about lying. The rest of the car ride was spent in silence. Really loud uncomfortable silence, the kind that makes you want to bite your nails just waiting for it to be over. But right when the uncomfortably loud silence was getting to be too much for me, the driveway to my grandparent's house emerged from the bushes.

I nearly sighed out loud but caught myself just in time; wouldn't want to give Jake another reason to yell at me even more than he already has. He pulled up to the front of the house and parked. I jumped out of the car and half ran half skipped to the front door. I popped the door open screamed, "I'M BACK!" Three heads of brown, black, and blonde hair, bounced out of the living room.

"Hey, sweetheart, how are you?" Bella asked smoothing down my hair. "I'm good, Ma."

"You're not feeling bad or tired or anything?" Alice asked. I shook my head a plastered smile on my face. Am I really that easy to read? I mean I haven't even been here for two minutes and their already ragging on me.

"Not at all, so where we staying?" I pressed, getting to the point of our visit. They all scoffed.

"Well, I'll be. You haven't been here for two minutes and you're already sick of us." Rose whined crossing her arms.

I laughed and nodded. "Yes that is exactly it. You all have drained me of everything with your hyper-activeness. Now please show me to my room and I will be on my way." I started walking to the stairs except I was stopped dead in my tracks by Edward. "Now when did you start calling me by my first name?"

"Recently, now will you please move out of the way so I can sleep?" He chuckled and shook his head. "Sorry sweetheart, you aren't staying up there. You both will be in the cottage. A little present from us to you." I nodded and turned into the opposite direction, towards the backyard. "Goodnight everybody! See you in the morning!"

I heard many different send offs, but mostly all said the same thing, "Good night, we love you." Outside, the air was calm, and thick with the sweet smell of pine and soft noise of running water. Jake was standing at the edge of the stream, facing me. I was hesitant as I walked toward him, afraid that he still might be mad at me.

He looked up from the ground and smiled tiredly. It looks like I'm not the only one who was affected by this day. As soon as I was close enough to not cause alarm, yet still far enough away to not be 'in his space'. You never know what might happen if I get 'in his space'.

"So you ready?" I asked timidly. He chuckled shortly. "Babe you don't have to stand that far away from me, you're not being shunned."

He clutched my hand gently and pulled me into his arms. "I love you, Ness and no matter what happens I always will." I smiled and held him tight. "But don't think we're not going to finish that conversation." He whispered, and kissed the top of my head. Oh, that's great, he still remembers. Maybe I can distract him later…

"You coming baby?"

I nodded absentmindedly, but still didn't move an inch. Jake scoffed and picked me up bridal style. I didn't make a sound; just let him carry me off through the water, while thinking of ways to distract his thoughts away from that pesky problem of mine. Once we were safely across, he set me down and took my hand. We were both silent as we traveled through the thick woods. I had finally figured out what I was going to do, when we reached the front of the cabin.

I opened the door, ran across the house to the back room and slammed the door shut. I didn't bother lock this door, the walk in closet was what I was aiming for. I could hear him walking down the hall as I ran to the closet. I slammed the door and locked it.

The closet was huge, I mean monster huge. It was essentially built for my mother and father, but was handed down to me when I was old enough. All my old clothes were still packed away into the little slots they belonged in.

"Thank God!" I exclaimed as I spotted the two suitcases on the floor. Hurray for Jake's OCD, or I'd be screwed. I rummaged through my suitcase for the appropriate section I laid away for my lingerie. "I love how this worked out so perfectly," I said to myself.

There was a knock at the door. "Ness… baby… please come out. We have to talk." He sounded tired, more tired than before.

"I'll be right out, just… getting ready for bed."

"Babe you can do that later, I really want to talk to you."

"No, it'll be fine. I'll be right out." I found the lacy red one Jake loved the most and tore it out of the suitcase. The stupid grey wrap shirt I was wearing caught on my earring as I tried to get it off. "Damn it," I whispered as it stretched my ear.

As soon as the skimpy red lace was on I looked in the mirror at the unrecognizable girl starring back at me. My cheeks were flushed from the nerves, and my hair flew in all directions. I smoothed it down the best I could, but evidently found it was way sexier before. The sparkly red lip gloss was in the front pocket of my discarded jeans, I smothered some of the strawberry flavor onto my lips and walked slowly to the door.

I unlocked and opened the door, to see Jake on the other side leaning against the wall. His eyes bugged out and I could see his Adams apple start to move up and down, as he tried to force himself to swallow. "I'm done getting ready..." I whispered. He nodded.

"Do you want to go to bed now?" He nodded. I slowly walked, trying to look seductive, over to the king sized bed in the middle of the room. As soon as I was on the bed and uncomfortably situated in a way that showed off my best assets, AKA my breasts and my hips, I looked up at Jake to see him walking toward me in sort of a trace like state. Yeah I know what I'm doing is wrong and I'm not necessarily proud of it, but, hey, you do what you gotta do. Jake crawled up on the bed getting close enough to covetingly hover over me. He hesitated, and by the looks of it started to gain back control. I quickly grabbed his head and crushed his lips with mine. Soon enough his clothes were off, as was the skimpy red lace that adorned me.

Who said you couldn't control a man by his hormones.


Jakes POV

I can not believe she did that!

She used her womanly wilds to lure me into her trap. She's like one of those Venus fly traps, beautiful on the outside, pure evil on the inside. Or one of those black widows, that use the dudes for sex then kill them off.

Now I know Ness won't just kill me off but come on! She had to do that?! She's messing with my mind, and it's not good. I looked at the beautiful women next to me and wondered how she could scheme like a villain in a batman movie.

I chuckled and pushed some hair away from her face. She smiled, moving her head to the side. I kissed her temple lightly and carefully stood up from the bed. Finding my jeans on the floor I slipped them on and padded down to the kitchen, my favorite place to think. I can't even count how many times I've been caught sneaking in to see Ness, by getting hungry and waltzing into this very kitchen like I owned the place.

The coffee pot, precisely what I was aiming for, was in the exact place it has been for the last eighteen years, in the corner under the cabinet right next to the stove, the cups… in the cabinet above the coffee pot, convenient, nice. The coffee filters were in the "bread box", and the types of grinds in containers next to the coffee pot.

I picked out the Columbian strong, and dumped it into the coffee pot. I pressed brew and waited for the smell of liquid gold to come pouring out. As I waited, I thought over what I would say to Ness. If I should come right out with it, or be coy and let her come out with it herself. You know give her a chance to be truthful and right her… wrongs. If that's what you would call them. I wouldn't call them that, I'd call them something completely different...

Man, I fear for my children sometimes.

The coffee machine stopped running and I could smell the sweet and sour smell of the strong coffee wave through. I took the cup, World's Greatest Dad how appropriate, and filled it with the delicious liquid. Leaning against the counter, I sipped the drink and took in the peace and quit of the house.

"Good morning."

I jumped at the small timid sound that came from Ness. I looked up and saw that she had my T-shirt on, along with her Oscar slippers. I smiled. She looked so cute, so small. "Good morning. Did you sleep well?"

"Yes, slept well, usually I'm the one who's up early though. You feel okay?"

"Yeah, didn't sleep last night, so technically you still are the first to get up." I smiled when she laughed, and started to shuffle over to me, her slippers catching on the ground every few seconds, and laid a small dainty hand on my arm. I took one more gulp of my coffee, set it down on the counter and took both of her hands in mine.

"Why didn't you get any sleep, babe?" She asked worriedly.

I sighed and rubbed her arms. "Well, after are little… fun if you will, I got to thinking and I remembered that we didn't finish are conversation."

Her eyes went from calm and collected to panicked and worried, but Ness being Ness barely let me see that. She righted her stance and averted her eyes. "Now what ever do you mean? I do not recall any such a conversation." She diverted using a southern drawl she learned ever so well from her ever so persuasive Uncle.

She whipped it out whenever she knew she was in it deep. "Oh no you don't! You can't just act like a southern belle and get out of everything. You actually have to deal with a few of the troubles of life."

She nodded and shrugged playing with a stray thread on my jeans. "Yeah and I know that, just… you can't blame a girl for trying."

I chuckled lifting her head so I could look in her eyes. "Spill, babe."

She huffed and jumped up on the island in the middle of the kitchen. "Okay, look it's nothing really, just a reoccurring tickle in my stomach. I don't know why you freaked out like you did."

Okay, now I know I sorta kinda freaked out on her yesterday in the car, but it wasn't cause I thought something was wrong it was because she was constantly lying to me about it. I pushed off the counter I was leaning on and situated myself in-between Nesses legs. My hands cupped her face partly because I needed to touch her, and partly because I needed her to look at me when I said this.

"Babe, it's not the fact that something was wrong, cause I know that if it was really wrong you would have come to me already. It's the fact that you stood there and lied to my face. And not just once, no, you lied to me twice. That is was hurt the most. I don't want you to ever lie to me, babe."

There were tears welling up in her eyes now, but I could also see that she was holding them back with all she had. "I'm sorry Jake, I truly am. Please forgive me baby."

I stared at her, the tears breaking through her invisible barrier. I wiped her tears away with my thumb and kissed her forehead. "I will always forgive you, honey, no matter what you do."

A sob wracked her body as she finally gave way to her emotions. "I love you so much Jacob." She said between body wracking sobs. I held her tight and whispered to her that I loved her just as much and more. We stayed there in the kitchen, me holding her while she calmed down, until there was a knock at the front door. Ness shot up in a panic.

"What do I do? I look horrible!" She hastily wiped at her eyes and doing that thing with her cheeks where she pinches them until their red. I chuckled.

"Babe, how about you go and clean up and I'll get the door." Her eyes brightened at the idea, so simplistic that even she didn't think of it. "That's great!" She hopped off the island and ran down the hall, only to come sliding back. "Don't you think you should put on a shirt?" I quirked an eyebrow.

"You're right. That would make things seem suspicious, carry on."

I laughed at her wacky behavior. Those hormones of hers really do mess with things. The door bell rang again and I ran to get it. It was Alice.

"Yo, pixie what up?" I said leaning against the door.

She rolled her eyes. "I really wish you'd use proper grammar when you're around me." I smiled.

"Ah, but that's exactly why I do it." She huffed but I saw the smile that lay underneath it all. She liked me, really. Just happened to be under all the walls of annoyance she has to put up with me.

"Where's Ness?" She asked trying to look around me. I blocked her way.

"Sorry, Ness is getting ready. Whatever you need to tell her you can tell to me and I'll tell her myself." I smiled smugly as I recited the tongue twister.

"Whatever, just tell her breakfast is being served in the main house. Esme made chocolate chip pancakes and the whole shebang."

"Oh, didn't know we got room service. This is nice, I could work with this."

"Just don't forget to tell her dog." With that she stomped off in the other direction.

I laughed and closed the door. Walking back to the room, I saw Ness spinning around in front of the full length mirror. She had on a little yellow sun dress, but still had on her Oscar slippers. She caught me staring through the mirror turned around and struck a little pose. "How do I look?"

I clapped. "Wonderful darling! That was Alice at the door. She said," I used my very best "proper" voice, which actually came out sounding like I had an English accent. "That breakfast was being served in the main house and that there will be pancakes and whatnot. The whole "shebang".

Ness laughed. "Did she really say shebang?" I nodded exuberantly while I laughed. "Yes, she actually did."

"Really, cause I thought you would have just put that in for good measure?" I stared at her. What would posses her to think that I would say something as geeky as shebang?

"Ness, baby, look at me. Look at me real closely. Do I look like the type of person who would say shebang?" She looked me over, placing her hand on her chin so that it appeared she was in deep thought. "Yes, yes you do." She concluded.

My eyes went wide. So she wanted to play, huh? "Really?" I asked rhetorically. But she still answered, "Really."

I nodded and looked around pretending that I didn't know what I was going to do next. Suddenly, I ran over to her, picked her up and turned her upside down. "Ah! Jacob… put me down!" She was scrambling with her dress, trying to keep it from falling completely off her. The garment still slide down to right under her breasts.

"No, I don't think so. I quite like the view from here."

"Jacob Black! Put me down this instant! Think of the baby!" She squealed.

I huffed and brought her back upright, then set her down on her feet. "You're a party pooper." I complained mildly.

She laughed and threw off her slippers, to change into a pair of flip flips, and threw me a shirt. I hastily put it through the arm holes, and over my head. "Oh, come on you big baby. You'll forget all about it once you set your eyes on some food." She grasped my hand and led me out to the main house.

"Oh, that smells so good. Doesn't it Jake?" I nodded. "Usually you hate big breakfasts, Lucky Charms and coffee would do you fine. What with the sudden change?"

She shrugged. "Claire told me it was hell carrying a werewolf's baby, exhausting, and torturous. She said she could smell food from over a mile away, and that she was constantly shoveling food into her mouth. Called herself Super Pregnant Lady, minus the perks of being super. So I guess I have to live with the constant eating for awhile."I laughed loudly.

"Super Pregnant Lady? Wow I'm not letting her off so easily with this one."

Ness rolled her eyes. We reached the house and burst through the back doors. Everyone bombarded us. "Hey, baby doll how are you? Did you sleep well?" Esme was the first to hug her, always has been.

"I'm great Esme, slept great. That bed is so comfortable." She snuck a peak out of the corner of her eye at me, and smirked.

I tried to hold in a chuckle. Emmett, who was toward the back standing with Blondie and Edward, laughed out loud at the innuendo.

"I made everything for you, just in case you were extra hungry because of the baby. Of course I had to make double of everything already because of Jacob over here." Esme shot me a mothering look. I shrugged, not agreeing or denying the accusation.

She laughed warmly. "Breakfast is on the dining room table. Go, and eat."

We both smiled and kissed her cheeks as we left. The dinning room table was filled with all the special treats that anybody would have wanted for breakfast. Pancakes, bacon and eggs, muffins, sausage, gigantic mugs of delicious coffee. Our plates were already filled with an assortment of the foods. My plate was soon licked cleaned. I patted my stomach and sighed.

"Wow, I never thought I'd see the day when I would be full. How bout you Ness?" I turned to look at her to find that she was still stuffing her face full of pancakes.

She looked up. "Huh? What? These pancakes are amazing! Almost addicting!" She went back to stuffing her face as I slowly backed away into the living room. You never know what she might be hungry for next, and when that happened I wanted to be as far away as possible.

Edward, Carlisle, Bells and Pixie were gathered in the living room when I entered. "Jacob, just who I wanted to see. Where's Renesemee?" Carlisle said as I sat down on the couch next to Bells. "She's still stuffing her face full of choco chip pancakes. What did you want anyway, doc?"

"Well, I have finally acquired a sonogram machine and I would like to know if Ness would be willing to have one. That way I would be able to take some blood and be able to find out some things about the baby." I nodded along. It was about time that we got one of those sonograms. I really wanted to see him, my son, even though I probably won't be able to see much. Just a blob on the screen like how it was in the movies, but it'll still be special, you know.

"Yeah I think it's about time we had one. I'm sure Ness would agree with me."

"I would agree with what?" Ness repeated as she strolled in and slumped into my lap.

"Well, Doc found a sonogram and was wondering if you would finally like to have one. I said you would love to." She rubbed her stomach absently as she thought.

"Yeah, sure. When do I… straddle in, hypothetically speaking of course?"

Everyone laughed and I wrapped my arms around her rubbing the now showing stomach of hers. "I could do it now, if that would be most convenient for you." Doc replied folding his hands in front of him. Ness started to slowly nod her head apprehensively, but finished more confidently. "Yeah, now would be good."

"Good, I'll go and set up. Edward, Alice, Bella will you please come and assist me?" They all nodded, Edward walked Bella out of the room and Pixie skipped out merrily.

"I will call you up when it is ready, Ness." Carlisle said and patted her shoulder. Ness smiled up at him, and he left.

She collapsed and leaned her head on my shoulder. "I'm scared Jake." She whispered timidly. I caressed her hair, snuggling her closer. "What are you scared of sweetheart?"

"That there won't be anything there. That there might be something wrong with him. That maybe we shouldn't have even tried because we're too different and weird to make something as beautiful as a baby. That maybe we were never meant to have anything more than just us, are love, and that we shouldn't do anything else with it…"

I felt the tears roll freely down her cheeks. I kissed her cheek and turned her so she was facing me. "Babe, no, don't think like that. The baby is fine, you are fine; we are fine, everything is fine. We were meant to be in love, you can't deny that, and we were also meant to create something greater than our love alone, a sign of our love. And I will not just sit back and let you say otherwise."

I felt a tear roll down my cheek but I did nothing about it. I just held my stare into Ness's eyes. The tears in her eyes kept rolling, hiccups came randomly, but she held my stare. Finally she sighed wrapping her small arms around my neck. "You're right. I'm being a drama queen. It's just… I've been thinking about that for awhile, and I guess I'm at my most vulnerable right now and… it all came out." She tightened her grip on my neck and kissed my shoulder. "I love you." She murmured against my skin.

I hugged her close to me, reveling in her warmth. "I love you too, baby." We stayed where we were for what seemed like forever, but was only a matter of seconds.

"Renesemee, Jacob, we're ready when you are." Carlisle called from the top of the stairs.

I patted Ness's lower back and she sat up. She still looked like she was about to cry, a little panicked. "It's alright babe, I'm right here… I'm not going anywhere." She nodded and crawled off me. She took my hand and pulled me up with her. She looked nervous, like about to pee her pants nervous.

I squeezed her hand and whispered in her ear, "Race you."

She looked up, smiled sneakily, and took off. Oh no, she didn't. I ran up to her and picked her up from behind. She squealed, and slapped me on the back. "Damn it Jacob! You cheater!"

I laughed and slowed down so she could catch up… but she had to be a show off and pass me. That girl does not learn. We were almost to the study when I picked her up again and flailed her over my shoulder. I entered the room and walked over to the chair that next to the beeping contraption that I guessed was the sonogram. I plopped Ness down in the seat. "See… told you I'd win." I said as Ness laughed.

She rolled her eyes. "Whatever… you so cheated. I don't count that as winning."

I shook my head. "De-ni-al."

We laughed, and I took her hand. "Okay, kids, do you want to see what your baby looks like?" Carlisle asked as he rolled over to us in his doctor's chair. Ness nodded and rolled up her shirt. Carlisle spread some blue goop on her stomach, and started up the machine. I squeezed her hand in encouragement.

The screen was fuzzy at first… then turned into random black blobs… but eventually turned into one single image, and it had to be the best thing I have ever seen in my entire life. There was a head, and a tiny tiny body, with even tinier fingers and toes. "How far along did you say you were again Renesemee?" Carlisle asked bewildered.

"About two months… is that normal for two months?"

"No, it is not. That is more along the lines of four months along."

"But I'm barely even showing! How is that possible?"

"Well, that is actually normal, sometimes certain women don't start showing till their fourth month, then they sort of… pop." Carlisle answered still studying the screen. Pop? Like a pop tart pop? Or like a balloon and needle kinda pop?

"I seems as though because of your… special genes, that it has accelerated the fetal development, causing you to be four months pregnant instead of two."

I looked at Ness, her mouth a gape, a twinkle in her eye. She sensed me staring and turned her head. Her hand snaked up my arm and stopped on my cheek. She wiped away a tear I didn't know was there. "What kind of man are you? Crying…" She teased lightly. I chuckled.

"I'm not crying… I got something in my eyes." I retaliated.

"Uh-huh, tears."

"Do you want to know what the sex is?" Carlisle inquired, gazing kindly at us both.

"Yes! Yes, we do." Ness answered immediately. Me, and Doc laughed, she was so perfect. "Alright… Renesemee, Jacob meet your son."

Ness screamed and clapped her hands. "I knew it! I just knew it! Jacob, I was right, Gabriel was first!"

"Yeah, Ness, you were absolutely right." She hopped around in her chair all excited. See, this was the reason you shouldn't have six to eight people raising one child, they develop many split personalities.

Carlisle chuckled and patted her knee. "Alright sweetheart, I'm going to take a few samples of blood and run some tests, but after that you can go and tell everyone." He did what he said, and afterward Ness and I were running down the stairs like kids.

Bella and Edward were at the bottom of the stairs, Ness jumped on Bella, and she spun her around. "Oh, baby I'm so happy for you!" Bells squealed, an exact replica of her daughter's.

"So you excited?" Edward asked, bumping my shoulder. "Yeah, why wouldn't I be? I'm going to be a dad, going to have a son. I guess it's still trying to sink in."

"Yeah, it's like that for most dads, I assume, happened with me. But I must warn you Jacob, it hasn't even begun yet."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that, soon the onslaught of emotions and late night cravings will start. I got lucky, I didn't have to go through any of that… then again I went through worse. But still, I'd be careful if I were you son."

"I don't think she'll be like that, Ness isn't like that…"

"Hey, babe?" Ness called. She was hand in hand with Pixie and Bells, with Blondie behind her. "We're going to go out and tell the girls down at the Rez, okay?"

"Okay, babe, just don't be home too late." She stared at me. "Why not? Do you not trust me Jacob?" My eyes bulged out. "No, no babe! It's just I know you need your rest."

"Uh-huh sure… I'll be home when I want to be home, and you can just live with that. Bye." She pulled along her posse of girls and walked right out the door.

I turned to Edward, he had his hand covering his mouth trying to hide the fact that he was laughing. He glanced at me, shrugging. "And so it begins."