Sorry it's been so long for an update. I've been having an issue with my Twilight muses staying in place. I've been working on a secret Vampire Diaries story. Probably won't post it on until it's finished but I hope you like it too. And thanx for being so patient.

~Maxine

Chapter 4 - Confession Of Love

Katherine moved around the room she'd called hers for the last few weeks since Bella's wedding. Last night her dreams had been plagued with Jacob Black. For the last few nights her dreams were bombarded with Jacob Black. She couldn't figure out what the hell was going on with her. Why would she have dreams about someone she was annoyed with? He'd been a complete dick to her and he'd been the same way towards Bella ever since she and Edward had come back from their honeymoon and she'd announced she was pregnant.

A couple of hours ago, Bella had called and asked Charlie if it was okay that Katherine come and keep her company in the hospital that the Cullen's had taken her too. Charlie agreed reluctantly; extremely reluctantly. He had watched her for about thirty minutes as she started packing up her clothing and cleaning the room up before going downstairs and planting himself in his favorite chair in front of the TV and drinking a beer.

Katherine finished packing her three suitcases; two for clothing and one for shoes. She laughed not realizing she had THAT many pairs of shoes. It wasn't natural; it wasn't natural at all for someone to have that many shoes. She still couldn't help laughing to herself. Once she got all her suitcases zipped and locked up she placed them by the bedroom door as she closed her bedroom window and locked it before pulling the curtains closed.

"Do you need some help with these?"

Kate turned around and noticed Charlie was pointing to her bags; she smiled at Charlie. "Sure dad." She watched as he grabbed two of her suitcases and she sighed heavily as her eyes looked around the room doing a once over quickly, before grabbing her third bag and following Charlie downstairs and out to her rental.

Once the bags were loaded she turned to Charlie and smiled softly. "I'll call you when I get there. Then I'll call you every other day after that. Bella will be fine dad. She's stronger than you think she is. The Cullen's are helping her. If this place can save her life I don't care how long she has to be there as long as she's alive."

Sort of…

Charlie leaned over and gave her a one armed hug and a soft kiss on the crown of her head. He leaned over and opened the driver side door. "Just please make sure you call every once in a while and let me know how you and Bella are both doing."

Katherine nodded as she slipped into the car and started it up. She hated lying to Charlie. He'd always been there for her; he was a great father. She and Bella had just wished that he would've fought their mother more on seeing them after the divorce. She couldn't help but keep looking back in the rearview mirror; she could see Charlie watching as her car disappeared down the street.

Once Katherine pulled up to the Cullen's, Emmett came out and grabbed all three of her suitcases. "Jesus Christ woman, how much crap did you bring?"

Kate laughed as Emmett also offered his empty elbow to her and she looped her hand through and it rested on his bicep and he walked her up the concrete steps and into the Cullen's house. "I brought everything so Charlie would really believe it. I hated lying to him. The face he made as he was watching me pack was heartbreaking."

Emmett nodded as he continued to walk Kate into the house. "Don't worry as soon as Bella has the baby and gets changed things can try to get back to normal. Well as normal as it could possibly be."

"Normal is overrated." Kate laughed out.

Emmett chuckled. "I haven't been normal in a while." Emmett made sure and walked Kate all the way to her room and placed her bags just inside the door. "Esme made sure and put hangers in the closet it's completely empty and so is the dresser. She said use anything you want and if you need anything to let her know."

Kate sighed heavily as she ran her fingers through her hair. "Thanks Emmett." She watched as he nodded and pulled the door closed behind him so she could have privacy for whatever she needed to do.

Emmett walked through the kitchen and into the living room he watched as Bella looked up from her heated conversation with Jacob to turn her attention on him. "Hey Kate's here; she's unpacking in her room."

Bella nodded. "Thank you Emmett. Did she seem like she was okay?"

Emmett nodded. "Yea, she was a little worried about lying to Charlie, but she seems like she's going to be okay adjusting here. She's a sweet girl." Emmett walked away but didn't miss the growl from Jacob when he called his imprint sweet.

Bella touched Jake's forearm and his dark eyes went from Emmett's retreating form back to her face. "You should talk to her Jake."

Jake rolled his lips as he shook his head negatively. "Nope; I'm going to just focus on the task at hand and that's protecting you for right now. I refuse to let Sam and the others get the upper hand on anything. You're still human but he doesn't see it that way since you've got that thing growing inside of you."

"That THING is my niece or nephew."

Jake growled as he turned and watched as Kate walked into the living room.

"So let's stop calling it a thing. And don't growl at me poochy." Kate warned.

Jake narrowed his eyes at Bella's little sister. "So what would you like to call it?" He snarled out.

Kate gave a thinking look as she walked over and sat next to her sister. "Hmmm, let's see." She put her hand on Bella's belly and rubbed it softly. "What are we going to call you? Ooo I know how about EJ."

Bella raised an eye brow at her sister. "EJ?"

Kate laughed. "Edward Jr. You said you feel like it's a boy."

Bella couldn't help as she cracked the first smile in a while and laughed with her sister as she placed her hand on top of Kate's which was still rubbing the belly bump. The baby seemed calmer when Kate was around and really seemed to enjoy the belly rub. "I can't believe you said that. I think Edward would hate it."

Kate shook her head. "Nope I bet he'd love it. I mean he is 109 years old, having a child so late in life it's nice to know he'll have a name sake." Kate couldn't help smirking as Bella started laughing again.

Bella held her belly as she laughed. "You know you're taking all of these exceptionally well; considering all the crap we threw at you."

Kate shrugged. "What can I say? I'm a firm believer that I'm not the only one in the universe who is a machine."

Jake pursed his lip. "A machine?" He questioned.

Bella laughed as she nodded. "I used to tell her when she was dancing she moved flawlessly like a perfected machine. I told her if she ever cut off her skin we'd find a metal skeletal frame under all that toned dancing muscle."

There was a sudden howl from outside and Kate felt Bella grab her hand tighter; or as tight as she could. "What the hell was that?" Kate asked.

Jacob gave her an incredulous look. "Well gee it sounded like a wolf to me. I supposed I should go check on Seth and Leah; Leah seems to be having issues with the Cullen's as always. She's trying to stay away from them and Esme is nice enough to make sure they have clean clothes and food and Leah is just being stubborn."

Kate made a face. "Is she a wolf as well?"

Jacob nodded. "Leah is Seth's older sister they both are wolves."

"I can see where she's coming from." Kate stated truthfully.

"How's that?" Jacob questioned as he narrowed his eyes slightly.

Kate shook her head. "It should be perfectly clear. The wolves and vampires are supposed to be mortal enemies, but they clearly broke off from Sam's pack to support you, so there's bound to be some reservations about what they accept from Esme."

Jacob shook his head. "Actually Leah only followed because Seth left and because she wanted to get away from Sam. He and Leah aren't exactly on speaking terms. Hell they haven't been on good terms for a long time." A scowl took over his handsome face. "I can definitely relate to her." His glare went towards Kate.

Ouch.

She felt that glare. Why did he have to look at her like that?

Kate and Bella watched as Jacob stood from the couch and walked outside. Kate watched as Bella let out a huge yawn. "Geez Bells, if you were that tired why not take a nap."

Bella nodded. "Okay."

Kate stood and grabbed the blanket off the back of the couch and covered her sister up with it. It seemed Bella took a few naps a day. Though she couldn't blame her she had to of been tired from the rough way the pregnancy was treating her body. She walked over and out the French doors and onto the wooden porch on the back of the house.

She stood looking out in the trees and was taking in the fresh air.

"What are you doing out here it isn't safe outside the house."

Kate turned to see Jacob as he was walking up the steps of the porch. "Well hey maybe if one of your ex-pack brothers wonders this far into Cullen territory they can eat me and you can stop glaring at me."

Jake wasn't sure what the hell to say to that. He didn't want her dead she was part of Bella's life. But she was also his imprint; that left a bad taste in his mouth. "I never said I wanted you dead. I just think it's bullshit that now suddenly you come strutting into town out of nowhere and want to be back in Bella's life."

Kate rolled her eyes. "You've lived here your whole life Jacob. I don't know if this is where you're going to stay or what your future holds, but since I was a toddler I wanted to dance. It's not the recognition or the money or the fame. It's dancing. The best part of dancing is going to the studio to practice and turning on whatever music seems to be moving your soul that day and just let it take your whole body over. I've wanted to be a dancer my whole life and Bella always encouraged me. I've kept in touch with her more than my own parents. Renée and Charlie's divorce hurt us, and it hurt even more when Charlie stopped trying to fight Renée on visitations once we moved away with mom."

Kate sighed softly. "I know it may sound ridiculous but with everything I've ever wanted to do and then chosen to do in my life Bella has always supported me a hundred percent. If you think for one second I'm not going to support her then you're dumber than you look. When she called me and told me she was getting married. I couldn't have been happier for her. Charlie tried to talk her out of marrying Edward three times the night before and each time she'd call me and I'd re-encourage her that it didn't matter how old or young she was, but if she was happy. Happiness is the ONLY reason you ever have to do anything. Seeing her that first time at the reception all you had to do was look at her face and you could tell she had made the right decision. Now she's a few weeks from giving birth to my nephew or niece and let me tell you something; if that baby comes out bright red with horns breathing fire and snorting red lava, I couldn't care less. I will love it as much as I love Bella because it's a part of her and if that baby makes her happy then that's the only reason I need to support her."

Jacob growled as he balled his hands into fists at his side. "But it's not a baby. No one knows what it is and it's killing her."

Kate shook her head. "It doesn't matter. It's not your decision or call to make. And if you think I'm such a cold hearted bitch because I haven't 'visited' Bella in a while. Well then what the hell are you; because you seem to love fighting with her about the baby and what she should do because you want to call it a demon? No one knows, but it just doesn't matter. It's her life and her body and her decision. And if you're as great a friend as she has always claimed, it shouldn't matter, you should be able to accept any decisions she makes. You're supposed to want her every happiness that's what friends do. You support their decisions it doesn't matter how stupid or smart they are. If they make the wrong decision you don't point it out and give them the whole 'told ya so' speech because that's bullshit. And it's a bullshit cop out. If you can't support her then you were never that good of a friend to begin with."

Jacob growled. "It's hard to support all her decisions when I'm in love with her. I gave her so many God damn options. I told her to marry me. At least with me she wouldn't have to give up her family and friends and she could have regular babies with me and we can grow old together. She chose the wrong person."

"It's not up to you. I can understand wanting to feel selfish because you love her and want her to choose you, but in the long run it's her choice not yours. Maybe she wants to spend an eternity with one man and one child. Not a temperamental werewolf and sixteen babies. It's still her decision and if you can't accept it or support it then I don't know what the hell you're even doing here protecting her. Because in a couple of short weeks she's going to give birth, Edward IS going to turn her into a vampire and she's going to spend the rest of her life with the man SHE chose. And that's not going to be you. Accept it don't accept it; either way you know I'm right." Kate stated honestly. She watched as Jacob began to shake from head to toe and he jumped off the porch and turned into a huge wolf. He snorted at her with a glare and ran off into the trees.

Katherine wasn't sure why but with his confession of love for her sister; the rejection was back in the pit of her stomach stronger than ever.