Title – Forever & Always
Disclaimer – Clearly I'm not the owner of most of these characters but I have my fun!
Setting – Portland, Oregon/ La Push, Washington
POV – Nessie/(possibly) Jacob
Summary – Nessie and Jacob embark on a new adventure. They must endure new troubles together and Edward and Bella have to learn to let go of their little girl. Jacob and Nessie are soon to be Seniors in College, 5 years after Jacob's promise. Everyone has settled down and attacks are improbable but not impossible as are life's surprises.
Author's Note – SOme of you were right on in the guessing part!


Chapter 4

Just then Kathleen appeared in the arms of Jordan. His eyes widened at the sight of me. "What are you doing here?" he asked.

"My boyfriend's family lives here. I should ask you, I haven't seen you in 5 years." He looked more or less the same just older.

"Yeah I've been busy. I came to finally meet my…" possible daughter is probably what he wanted to say, I figured. "My niece." I automatically looked over to Seth who was a bit uncomfortable with the idea of him here holding his daughter. "Jacob has one hell of a family. There are a lot of people here."

"Yeah the guys are like his brothers and she is his sister." I explained.

"How is everyone? I see Elaine a lot, she said you all go to Oregon State." The chances of Elaine and Jordan seeing each other were very high they were both in the same city, New York.

"Yeah Julian and Kayla are together."

"Like together together?" he asked I simply nodded. "I miss them I mean we've been friends since we were kids but I've been really busy and I haven't seen much of anyone."

"So what are you doing right now?"

He shrugged. "Vocals mostly like backup voice for tracks and I do some songwriting. It's not big, it's commercial music. Songs for labels and ads and things like that. Money isn't bad. I do open mike stuff and if people like it I'll go back and bars and pubs pay me for the night. It's not exactly what I had planned but I'm getting there. I did acting a couple years ago, I got small parts with little lines, and people liked it."

He was doing well, I was glad he was enjoying what he was doing. He was my first human friends and I don't know him as much as I do the rest of them but I like to hear of his success. "No girlfriend?" I asked.

He smiled and nodded. "She's here, just not here at this location." He laughed. "She feels uncomfortable, she didn't want to come but she didn't want to stay in New York by herself in the apartment. Plus she in a way wants to meet Kathleen but she's scared. She's at a hotel in Port Angeles."

"She shouldn't feel uncomfortable."

"She wasn't though until I told her where we were coming."

That was odd. "How do you mean?"

"When I told her about Kathleen she wanted to meet her despite…the possibilities." The paternal possibilities. "She's a down to earth girl. When I told her we were coming to La Push, Washington, she kinda…..she didn't want to come anymore. I honestly don't get it, she just says she hates the rain and humidity, I highly doubt that's it. She's not a prissy girl who's afraid of getting her nails chipped. She's up for anything which is part of the reason I like her."

"So it's because of this place that she didn't want to come?" I asked. This suddenly became interesting.

"I'm sure it is, I don't know why though. Oh and her name is Alicia. I'm talking about her and you don't even know her name."

"Well since you are here come meet my friends." I turned around and introduced him to the wives. That was a nice name, the wives of the wolves. "This is Jordan. Jordan this is Emily, Kim, Kara, Madeline, Rachel. She is Gwen." I gestured to the woman sitting by the fire. "You can meet the guys." Jordan put Kathleen down with the rest of the children so she could play. "Jacob, guess who's here?"

He turned at the sound of my voice. He looked truly happy to be around his pack again. "Hey Jordan, wow." He was caught by surprise.

"Hey Jacob."

"These are the guys, all 14 of them. You've met Seth, that's Sam, Paul, Jared, Embry, Quil, Collin, Brady, Kyle, Kevin, Chris, Brandon, Ethan, Josh, Jesse who had a baby and didn't care to tell me and Leah whose so not a guy but she's part of the…group." I introduced everyone to him.

"Hey you all have a pretty big group." He was astonished.

"Yeah they're….." I was stuck. "They're very united." That was a crap answer but what else could I say?

"Seth, can I have a minute?" Jacob asked. Seth was standing behind us fuming. He didn't like the situation.

I heard Jacob talking to him. "Seth you can't act this way. You have to understand he has a right to see her, he might be her father." Jacob explained.

"No I am."

"You are her dad, Seth but not her father and he might be. He knows it well he's not here to take her away. Chill, relax a little you're fine. I promise he won't do anything he wouldn't do that to Maribel. They're best friends since grade school." Jacob was getting pretty good at advice, I was proud of him he had really grown into his alpha position.

"I'm sorry." Jordan finally said. "He's not happy, I'm guessing."

He was quite observant. "Don't worry about it, he's really gotten attached to Kathy and he knows the possibilities."

"Oh."

"You're not going to, right?" I asked.

"To what?" he asked dumbfounded.

"Take her away, claim her."

He gave me the 'are you stupid' look. "No, why would I do that? Maribel would quite literally kill me and Kathy loves Seth, he's a good father. I never planned to do that it would hurt them all. I'm not that cold hearted."

I could breathe again. "I didn't think so. But you are right Seth is a great father to Kathy and they love each other. Maribel loves him."

"I know and I'm happy for her. I wasn't the guy for her and she wasn't the girl for me. He seems like a great guy."

We walked toward the fire where no one was there. Gwen had rejoined Jesse. "He is. I'm happy that things have been going well for you."

"Me too, I never got to say goodbye to you two."

"Yeah I had some issues, I always do. When I came back you were gone and well you know."

He nodded. "Yeah I had issues of my own. The whole baby thing had me really confused and I just had to get away for while. It just so happens I liked New York and I met Alicia a few months ago and me moved in together."

"Is she nice?"

He smiled. "She is. She moved from Italy."

"She's Italian?" I asked.

"Yeah. She doesn't look like it though. She's not full Italian either she's a 5'7 brown haired 25% Asian, completely crazy shopaholic. She dyed her hair red. I love her there's something about her."

"She sounds fun. I hope I get to meet her."

"Yeah me too but you won't unless I get her out of the hotel room."

I laughed. "I hope that goes well. You said she was a shopaholic?"

"Yeah she's a hardcore shopper."

I got an idea maybe I could convince her to go shopping with me. "You know what? I should take her to Port Angeles tomorrow."

"You sure? You don't have to. I can find another way."

"No, I will take her plus she's one of my best friend's girlfriend. I want to meet her and find something wrong with her. I'm kidding…so kidding." I recalled I was kind of at fault for his last major break up. "I'm really kidding, Jordan believe me."

"Chill I know you're kidding."

I laughed nervously. "Good I'll take her out tomorrow. I want to get to know her. I want to know how she got so lucky, how she ended up with you."

"I don't know about lucky."


A little FYI Alicia is a character dedicated and based on one of my lovely readers. She was joking and asked is I needed a 'she's a 5'7 brown haired 25% Asian, completely crazy shopaholic' and turns out I did. Next chapter is the last they will spend in La Push and Chapter 6 we will see the long awaited Edward reaction. Next chapter something will happen, something I consider to be shocking.

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