CHAPTER 7

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DISCLAIMER: I SADLY DO NOT OWN ANYTHING RELATED TO TWILIGHT

JPOV

"Jacob, Nessie, it's Bella. We decided to come home early. Edward heard your thoughts about a mile back. We know. He is ahead of me and I won't be able to catch up before he gets there. I have you shielded now. Get dressed. And I don't know if you will have time, but if you do, run Jake."

Nessie started flying around the room, getting dressed and I was doing the same with the same panic that was in Nessie's eyes.

"Shit Nessie! Don't cry baby, everything will be ok." I cupped her face and wiped away tears that had fallen. "I'll explain…"

"No, Jake! You heard my mom you have to get out of here!"

"Nessie, no! I will not leave your side! I am here, and we will deal with this together!" We were staring into each other's eyes and I knew that we only had a few seconds left.

"Jacob, please listen to me! Please, you have to go…" Right as she was in the middle of trying to convince me to go a chain of howls was set off. The urgency was heard, Edward must be close, and I being the Alpha had to go to my pack.

"SHIT! FUCK!" I grabbed Nessie and pulled her close whispering into her ear, "Renesmee, I love you with all my heart. I do not want to go, but I have to…the pack…."

"I know Jake, I love you too." My lips crushed hers in a quick, frantic and desperate kiss. I turned and phased while running out the back door.

"It's about fucking time..."

"Can it Leah!!"

The pack had Edward surrounded in the field and as soon as he read my thoughts his head whipped around to watch me enter the field.

"YOU. FILTHY. FUCKING. MUTT! HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY DAUGHTER!" Edward roared while making his way towards me, but the pack closed in around him.

"Edward, please let me explain…" This was not how it was suppose to happen. Me loving Nessie…

"ENOUGH!" Edward was gripping his head and the pack realized he was no longer able to hear our thoughts. Bella was closer now and her shield covered the whole pack.

"You have to be FUCKING kidding me! BELLA?" He inhaled a long unneeded breath and looked around the field. I did the same and saw Nessie sobbing in Emmett's arms, Carlisle rubbing her back, while Esme, Alice, Rosalie stood together. Jasper was closer probably trying to control Edwards's emotions, and Bella was making her way over to Edward.

"Edward…" Bella took Edwards hand and all of us could see the rage in Edwards's eyes.

"Bella, not now." Edward grumbled and dropped her hand.

It was now or never, time to man up. I love Nessie and Edward needs to know that I have no plans on ever letting her go.

I made my way to stand directly in front of Edward so we were eye to eye. I heard the packs protest, but they understood once I showed them what I was planning on doing.

"Listen, once Bella removes the shield from me, he will be able to hear all of your thoughts" I explained to the pack even though they already knew. "Once the shield is lifted I need for all of you to collectively think the same thing. NO ONE slip up. I am going to phase so that way Nessie can hear what I am going to say."

"Be careful Jake." I nodded to acknowledge Seth.

I looked at Bella. "Jake do you want me to remove the shield from you?" I nodded. "Are you sure?" I nodded again.

"Edward- I am going to go phase back so Nessie can hear what I am going to say." He nodded and whispered to Bella. I started to head off to the forest when I heard Nessie scream "JAKE! NO! DON"T LEAVE ME." I turned to see her struggling to be freed from Emmett's grasp, but thankfully Bella spoke up.

"Renesmee, Jake is just going to phase to human form so you can hear what he is going to say." Nessie wiped her eyes and I winked at her as I went to the edge of the forest to phase and put on my sweatpants.

The next few seconds happened so quickly I wasn't so sure what even happened. As I took a step from the tree line into the grass field I was met with Edward's fist pounding into my nose, I heard the crunch at the same time I heard an ear piercing scream come from Nessie.

"FUCK!" I muttered while grabbing my nose and dropping to my knees. Good thing I heal fast, but I had already decided when I first imprinted on Nessie that I would never physically harm Edward, because I knew it would upset her.

"So now you have boundaries dog? You touch my daughter but won't fight me?" Edward spat while being held back by Emmett and Jasper. Carlisle and Esme were comforting Nessie when I spoke.

"I'm not going to fight you Edward. You can beat the shit out of me all you want." I heard Nessie sob and I started to walk over to her. "But I am not going to fight back. I love Nessie too much to hurt her like that."

"You filthy MUTT! Are you implying that I don't love my own daughter?" Thanks to Emmett and Jasper holding Edward back I made my way over to Nessie. She let go of her grandparents and flew over to me wrapping her arms around my neck. I hugged her and softly whispered in her ear that I loved her and turned my attention to Edward.

"No Edward, I know you love Nessie…" Nessie was holding my hand now and softly rubbing soothing circles.

"GET YOUR PAWS OFF OF MY DAUGHTER!"

"Edward, we knew this day would come. I understand that Renesmee has matured quite faster than you, Bella, or even I would have liked. But our lives are not that of a typical one. Jacob has been there for her throughout her whole life. You, out of all of us should know his true thoughts about Renesmee. And Jasper…," Carlisle nodded in his direction before continuing, "knows their true feelings about one another. Am I correct Jasper?"

"Yes." Jasper nodded. "The love between Jacob and Nessie is as strong and pure as it is between Edward and Bella. The same love as it is between Carlisle and Esme, Emmett and Rosalie, and me and Alice. It is pure and true. I have been feeling the love between them for about six months now." I saw Nessie blush, heard Esme and Bella gasp, saw Alice and Emmett smile, and heard Edward sigh.

"Can you please explain Jasper?" Carlisle asked while keeping an eye on his son.

"Um, sure." Jasper looked cautiously at me and Nessie.

"What is it Jasper?" Bella asked.

"I think Jasper is trying to not embarrass me or Nessie." I looked at Jasper and he nodded. "It's fine by me if you explain, as long as it is ok with Nessie." I put my arm around her waist and pulled her close, kissing her forehead as she wrapped both of her arms around my waist. Edward growled in response, receiving a slap to the back of the head from Rosalie. A few from the pack chuckled, all of which were lying on the ground now watching the show in front of them.

"It's fine by me too, Uncle Jazz." Nessie said softly. Jasper smiled at her then started his explanation.

"As I said before it has been about six months that I have felt the love between them. I am pretty sure that Jacob knew that he loved Nessie back then." I nodded as Nessie smiled. "I am also certain that Nessie knew that she loved Jacob back then as well." I looked at Nessie and saw her blush and nod. "When they were around each other, the love between them was undeniable, as it is now. But at the same time I also felt that each of them was scared."

"Scared, why Jazz?" Alice asked with a confused expression on her face.

"Scared because I was afraid you didn't love me back." I quietly said to Nessie. Everyone turned and looked at me while I explained. I wanted Nessie to know exactly how I was feeling and to hell if everyone else heard. "I was scared because I love you with all my heart and I wasn't sure if you felt the same way back then. All I want is for you to be happy Nessie. It killed me when I would see you go on a date with another guy. I wanted it to be me." A solitary tear escaped from her eye and I kissed it away. "As I told you before, I promised Bella and Edward that I wouldn't tell you about my imprinting until the time was right. It killed me the other night to see you upset, and when I found out it was because you thought I didn't have feelings for you, and that you loved me." Both Edward and Bella raised their eyebrows. "I was so happy that I could finally tell you how I felt."

"I was scared too, Jake." Her big brown eyes bore into mine. "If I had known how you felt I would never have gone on any date. I never wanted to hurt you." She smiled at me. "It's you Jake. It has always been you. You have always been my best friend, and I was so afraid that you only saw me that way." She turned her head to her parents. "Jake didn't tell me that he loved me or imprinted on me until after I told him that I loved him." Bella smiled while Edward loudly exhaled. "If you come here I will show you." She said quietly.

"Can I trust you won't do anything Edward?" Emmett asked. Edward mumbled a "yeah", and Jasper and Emmett released him. Bella took Edward by the hand and walked over to where Nessie and I were. Bella smiled at Nessie and brushed her cheek with her thumb, then gently kissed her other cheek. Nessie held my hand, placed her other hand on her mom's cheek, and looked up at her father with a half smile.

She started by showing the first night, her upset and crying and me going in to check on her. Her showing me how she felt, me telling her how I loved her too, her being scared that I would imprint on someone else in the future, me telling her that I imprinted on her, us holding each other being happy together. (Thankfully she left out everything that involved our clothes being off). She showed them her on my back running through the woods, and the special dinner with roses, notes, and presents. Most importantly she was showing them how happy she is, how she never felt this alive, how I treated her like a princess and how she wanted to spend eternity with me.

She removed her hand and stepped back wrapping her arms back around my waist. Even though everyone around could hear with their vampire or werewolf hearing I whispered into her ear, "I feel the exact same way, my love." She smiled and gave me chaste kiss on my lips.

"Edward, Bella, if I may?" Carlisle started. "I understand why you are upset Edward. Seeing things you were not expecting." Edward shuddered. "But, it seems that Jacob and Renesmee have true love for each other. Jacob held up his promise to you both and did not tell Renesmee about his imprinting. She already had her mind and heart made up prior to this knowledge, and he told her to prevent unnecessary worrying and heartache. I think the whole family and pack could already see their feelings for each other without them speaking it. Jasper, of course, knowing for sure, and keeping it to himself must have been quite difficult." Jasper smiled and nodded while holding a grinning Alice against his body. "Everyone in the family has her best interest at heart, and although you are her parents, if I may speak for the rest of us, we are happy for Jacob and Renesmee."

Bella and Edward seemed to be having a silent conversation. After a few minutes Edward rolled his eyes, sighed, and then nodded.

"Fine. You can date." Edward said. "There are going to be some serious ground rules."

"And some serious shielding." Bella giggled while Edward grimaced at her. "Come on, let's go into the house. We'll see you two shortly." She said to us as she grabbed a grumbling Edward and pulled him to the house. The rest of the Cullens followed suit, either hugging us, or kissing our cheeks as they passed us. The pack took off as well, and I grabbed Nessie's hand and ran to the forest with her.

As soon as we hit the tree line, Nessie and her half-vampire strength pushed me against a tree and stuck her tongue down my throat. I flipped us around and pinned her to the tree, sucking on her bottom lip while slipping my hands went under her shirt. She started grinding against my ever present erection and an uncontrollable moan escaped me. We kissed and rubbed on each other until we had to break for air, even then our mouths were still on each others.

"I love you Nessie, everything is going to be fine."

"I love you too Jake, forever."

"I guess we will find out soon what those ground rules are going to be. But whatever they are, we are in this together."

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