Chapter 7 - Imprint
Edward's POV
"Bella, come on, I know how much you wanna kill Jake right now, believe me I want to too, but you know it won't help, please Bella" I was still trying to reason with her, Jasper and I were practically dragging her back to the house as she was still struggling to go and find Jacob and kill him. I was still fighting my own urge to go and find him and rip him to pieces causing him as much pain as possible but I knew I needed to stay with Bella. We finally got Bella back to the house after she started to calm down a little though we still had to stop her running off twice when she thought she could get away from us. Alice was waiting for us on the porch, she had seen us trying to restrain and calm Bella and came to help us get her in the house, Jasper and I still had hold of her as she had just tried to get away again, "get her inside Edward, we need to make sure she doesn't leave the house she'll calm down soon" Alice was thinking. We took her inside and made her sit on the couch and Jasper stayed beside her still trying to calm her, it was working slowly.
"No one is to let Bella leave the house ok," I told everyone as they all appeared in the living room. They looked confused but nodded in agreement when they took in Bella's appearance, she was still as a statue, with her fists clenched and looked ready to kill anyone who stood in her way.
"What happened?" Alice asked, everyone was waiting for an answer, I wasn't sure if I could explain it without getting angry again, I was still trying to fight the urge myself to go and kill Jacob, Jasper saved me from answering though.
"Jacob has imprinted on Renesmee" he told them, their reactions were all the same, shock, outrage, anger, only Carlisle remained fairly calm though he was shocked.
"Ah, would I be right to say then that things didn't go too well? He asked me then looked to Bella "she got angry? Did anyone get hurt?" He asked me in his thoughts.
"No, tempers did get a little high but no one got hurt, Sam turned up with Seth and between the four of us we managed to calm it down, we didn't stick around to talk after as we were all still angry." I answered him.
"Don't put it all on Bella, you almost lost it too Edward" Jasper said, "I couldn't even begin to control the situation at one point because the anger was too powerful."
"No one got hurt though, now I only know a little about imprinting and I know we don't like it but it is powerful and nothing can break that bond, we already know she is beginning to feel something for Jacob as well so we need to find a way to deal with this." Carlisle said.
"There is a way of breaking that bond." I said quietly though I knew they all heard it.
"How?" Rosalie asked.
"No Edward, that is not an option," Carlisle said immediately, knowing exactly what I was talking about.
"It will solve this though," I said to him. Everyone was watching us wanting to know what we were on about.
"No it won't, it will cause more problems, do you honestly think the wolves would honour the treaty if we kill him, we would have to move away and never come back here, and what about Renesmee? Have you thought what it would do to her? She is falling in love with him, taking that away from her would be painful and when she eventually finds out who we are and that we were responsible for that do you think she would be able to forgive us for it? Killing Jacob is not an option." He had a point, everything he said was right, no matter how much we hated this we had to live with it. "I need to speak with Sam," he said then, which surprised me, "you guys can stay here and watch Bella, Esme and I will go and talk to Sam, there's things we need to discuss" he finished.
"You shouldn't go alone," I told him.
"You need to stay here with Bella, Esme and I can handle this, no arguments, come on Esme" Carlisle said before they both left.
"You think they'll be ok" Rosalie asked a little worried.
"They'll be fine, I can actually see their future returning in about half hour unlike when you three went, you future's disappeared completely for a few minutes at one point," Alice said, "scared the hell out of me too."
Carlisle's POV
It was early and the sun was just beginning to rise when we met with the wolves at the treaty line again, it was Sam this time but he had bought Billy Black and Old Quil Atera with him.
"I want to firstly apologise for Edward and Bella's behaviour last night, and thank you for meeting with us again, I wouldn't have blamed you for saying no after the meeting earlier" I started.
"Apology accepted, it is understandable they reacted badly, this is an unusual situation," it was Old Quil Atera who spoke first.
"It is, we do not know much about imprinting but we do understand it is not a matter of choice neither is it something we can change, we know we need to find a way to live with this," I continued.
"There is not much you need to know about imprinting that you don't already know but we will of course tell you everything, you may be able to use this imprint to your advantage also." Billy said.
"How do you mean?" Esme asked before I had chance, I was also curious as to what they meant.
"An imprint works in a way that is unique to that wolf and his imprint, Jacob will only be to Renesmee what she needs him to be, a friend maybe or a brother first and eventually a lover. She will feel a bond with him and so I believe when she begins to transition and finds out the truth she will go to him, he can help her deal with what is to come, maybe even prepare her for it." Billy continues.
"Prepare her how?" I ask them.
"She knows our legends she just doesn't believe them yet," he said "if she thought Jacob believed them it could make her more open to accepting all of this when the time comes."
"That could work, I don't think he should reveal who we are yet though or who you are, just make her suspicious, that should help her when she realises something is happening to her." I say to them, maybe this could help us more than we thought.
"Jacob will be told to reveal no more than necessary to her, you have my word" it was the first time Sam had spoke since we had met up.
"We will help her deal with this, she is our family too now" it was Old Quil who said those words to us and it meant so much knowing Renesmee had so many people who cared for her, we parted shortly after that, agreeing to keep each other updated with anything we each needed to know. Bella had calmed down a lot by the time we got home so we told them about our conversation with the wolves, she didn't get angry again but she wasn't happy about the situation, none of them were too happy but we all knew Renesmee was the important one here and whatever was best for her we would do even if it did mean accepting something we all really hated the idea of.
Edward took Bella out for a while after we talked so they could work off some of their tension and the others slowly went off to do their own thing. I wanted some alone time with Esme too so was grateful when the house was empty and we could just be with each other for a while, it had been a long strange day and I just wanted to feel my wife's love for me.
Renesmee's POV
I slept well last night but woke with a slight headache and feeling a little tired still, maybe I hadn't got over this stomach bug completely yet. I felt happy but didn't know why, it took me a few moments for last night to come back to me but when it did it only felt like a dream, one look at my phone though told me last night had been very real, I had a text message from Jake "mornin gorgeous, hope u slept better last nite, can't wait 2 c u again, missin u already xxx." I quickly messaged him my reply back. "hey, yeh I slept a little better thanx, I really miss u 2, last nite was amazin, thank you, we'll c each other 2moz I promise, thinking of u always xxx, I got ready for school in a daze, still thinking about Jake and last night, which made me feel so happy and Anna noticed as soon as I met up with her at school, I was a little early today as mom dropped me off again, people were only just starting to turn up so I went and sat on one of the benches to wait for Anna, I didn't have to wait long, she was eager to find out about last night.
"Hey Ness, so… what happened?" she asked eagerly.
"You don't waste time do you," I said back which annoyed her because she wanted an answer.
"Nope, now are you gonna tell me what happened or not?" she was so excited and honestly I was too, I was glad I had someone I could tell.
"Ok, we kissed," she immediately went into overexcited mode then.
"OH MY GOD, what was it like? Was he good? Are you seeing him again?" she could barely get her questions out quick enough.
"Ok Anna take a breath" I interrupted her "it was amazing, he's so sweet and he understands me and yes I am seeing him again, hopefully tomorrow but I need to talk to Luke first." She calmed down a little when I said about Luke.
"When you going to tell him?" she asked.
"Tonight, I can't lie to him for long and I really want to be with Jake." I had no idea how I was going to tell him and I knew it was going to be hard.
"He's going to be upset, he really likes you." She said really not helping me feel any better about it.
"I know," was all I could say back to her. The school grounds were almost full with students now and we had about five minutes until the bell so we grabbed our things and headed to first class.
"Nessie" I heard my name called as we were walking towards the main building and as I turned around I saw Luke walking towards me.
"Hey Luke," I said as he reached us.
"Hey babe" he said then kissed me, I pulled back a little soon and he noticed.
"What's up?" he asked.
"Just don't wanna catch that bug again," I quickly lied.
"You won't, you've had it once so you won't get it again." He said.
"Rather not take the risk thanks." I said, "how are you anyway?" I asked him.
"Better thanks, missed you though." He said which made me feel bad again. We arrived at trig class then so he had to leave or he'd be late for his own class, "I'll see you at lunch ok babe." He said then kissed me before he ran off in the other direction to his English class. It was going to be hard telling him.
Jake was texting me all morning so that was distracting me from classes which seemed very boring lately, I was a quick learner so once we were so far into a module it got boring for me, I knew most of this anyway so my mind was firmly on Jake and I still had a slight headache so that wasn't helping my concentration either so I had given up trying to listen to the teacher.
Luke was waiting for me at lunch, I grabbed some food and Anna and I went to sit at our usual table with everyone.
"Hey Ness, what's going on with you and that Jacob guy? We saw you getting in his car with him last night" Megan asked then. This was it; I really hoped I could lie well.
"He's just a friend, turns out he knew my Gran from when she used to visit here all the time, we just hung out swapping stories about her." I said hoping I sounded genuine enough.
"Really! Feel free to introduce me to him anytime then." She said, like hell I'd let her anywhere near him.
"Wouldn't Jack get jealous? I mean you are his date so the spring dance, you wouldn't want him thinking you'd gone off him!" I said to her, which she just smiled at and turned back to Emily.
"So how did it go with Jacob?" Luke asked me then, "did you talk to his dad?"
"No, his dad was watching a game with his mate so he wasn't home all evening, Jake and I just hung out instead." I said trying to sound casual.
"Oh, so you spent the whole evening with Jacob then, what did you get up to?" he asked trying not to sound too interested but I could tell he suspected something.
"We just watched dvd's and talked about Gran, that's all." I said.
"He didn't have any of his friends there?" he asked.
"No, they were busy" I was getting a little annoyed now even though I knew he had every right to be suspicious. My phone went off then, another message from Jake, this is turning out 2 b a very long day, can't wait til 2moz xxx. He'd been teasing me with texts like that all morning and I smiled at that which turned out to be a big mistake, Luke noticed.
"Who are you texting?" he asked. Oh no, do I tell him the truth or not.
"Jake, he said he's spoke to his dad and he'll be around tomorrow night if I wanna go speak to him" I said, I wasn't lying completely.
"Oh right, Jacob will be there I take it?" he asked.
"Course he will be there, I'm not gonna go on my own," I said getting really annoyed now, he didn't ask anything more, luckily the bell for end of lunch went shortly after that and we went separate ways for class, I was only in 3 of Luke's classes and we didn't have any of them today which I was glad of. I was still annoyed with him even though I knew he had every right to be suspicious, I was cheating on him which is why I knew I had to tell him tonight, I was still a little angry when school finished but that turned to nervous quickly when I saw Luke was waiting for me outside my classroom.
"Hey," he said but didn't try kissing me this time. "I'm sorry about earlier," we walked in silence to the car, I was still trying to build myself up to telling Luke we're finished so I didn't immediately notice Jake standing by his car watching me, Luke did though.
"Oh great, what does he want," he said a little harshly.
"I'll find out," I said to him a little angrily and walked towards Jake.
"Jake what are you doing here, thought we agreed tomorrow?" I said to him.
"I know we did but I really need to talk to you, it's important." Oh god, he's changed his mind, he's here to break up with me, "relax please, I'm not breaking up with you I just need you to know some stuff ok" he said obviously seeing me beginning to panic and guessing why.
"I need to speak with Luke though, I can't keep doing this to him" I said back.
"Nessie, come on." Luke called to me then, he was really annoying me today.
"I'm coming," I called back then turned to Jake, "I'll call you as soon as I've spoke to Luke then we can talk ok but I need to do this."
"Ok, call me and I'll come up to you then." He said. I walked back to Luke then who clearly wasn't happy.
"About time, what did he want anyway?" Luke asked which for some reason really finished off the day for me.
"What is your problem Luke?" I said stopping where I was, Luke stopped too and turned around to face me.
"My problem? Why's he suddenly hanging around you so much and texting you all day?" he said, he'd clearly been wanting to say this since lunch.
"He's a good friend, it's what friends do." I said back, thankfully most of the students had gone now so the car park was fairly empty, Jake was still standing by his car watching and I saw the Cullen's just going to their car.
"Yeh sure, looks that way," he said sarcastically.
"Excuse me?" I was getting really angry now.
"Look, Ness, I'm sorry, I look at you every day and wonder why you would even be interested in me, there's plenty of other guys out there you could be with yet you're with me and I'm just waiting for the day another guy comes along who you'll like better and I'll lose you. Maybe you could just…I dunno…see a little less of him that's all." He said which tipped me over the edge then. I hated people thinking they could tell me what to do.
"You're saying I can't be friends with him anymore while I'm seeing you, well that will never happen," I snapped at him.
"I just need to know I mean more to you than any other guy," he said.
"No Luke, you're telling me what to do, who I can and can't be friends with and I'm sorry but no one tells me what to do or how to live my life, I thought you knew that but obviously not. It's over Luke." I said still angry but also a little relieved and very glad Jake had stayed, he was standing back out the way letting me do this.
"What! No! Nessie please I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I'm sorry, don't do this" he was practically begging, this was the hard part but I couldn't go back now, might as well finish the job properly. The car park was completely empty now except for the three of us.
"No Luke, how can I be with someone who is jealous of every guy I'm friends with, I can't, and I can't be with someone who makes me choose them or my friends either, I'm sorry Luke but I can't be your girlfriend anymore." as I said that I could almost see Luke's heart breaking right in front of me, I knew I was being harsh, talking about trust when I was cheating on him, I couldn't stay anymore, I turned around and walked back towards Jake the tears starting to fill my eyes, I didn't go straight into Jake's arms then like I so desperately wanted to, Luke didn't need to see that, instead I got straight into the car and so did Jake.
"You ok?" he asked, grabbing my hand while I struggled to stop the tears from falling.
"Lets just get away from here," I said, there was also one more thing I needed to do before I fell apart, I sent Anna a text, I broke up wit Luke, I'm ok I'm wit J, can u get Andrew to check on Luke pls, I left him in car park at school, he was really upset, talk soon, Nessie xx. I could forget about him now, the tears had started to fall and I didn't try to stop them, Jake stopped the car on a side road then and pulled me into his arms, I buried my face in his warm body and just sobbed, he didn't say a word he just held me while I cried.
A/N sorry if it takes a while getting the next few chapters up my mum is getting married next wk so might not get much chance to write until after. Again please review.