Snowed In

And

Howling

A/N: For the poor souls who aren't Canadian, Harper is Stephen Harper, Canada's Prime Minister. And no, I don't mean 'President'- Canada, like England had a Prime Minister. Also, There was a blizzard big enough that did require the army in Toronto. It was years ago, but the army literally skated around (yes, on hockey skates... what, we're Canadian! Hockey's the closest we have to a national religion! For Americans, take baseball and times it by five, and you have hockey) and shoveled out snow. I just added in the blow dryers for affect.

Ps. Canadians won the Olympic gold this year in both men and woman's hockey at the Vancoover games. And for the record, what was with the closing cerimonies? Floating beavers? Come on, we're patriotic, but... BEAVERS, MOOSE and MOUNTIES? Why don't you just sail the Skooneer in too? lol. Love, Peace and Chocolate! Elle

disclaimer: I do not own anything in this fan fiction! It is my interpretation of Stephine Meyer's characters, and nothing more. All characters, places, etc belong to their respective owners.

Eight: Good(ish) news,

giant movie screens and The

Effects of an insane amount of gravol

"Good news!" Ani said, coming into the camp room with her traditional megaphone. Seriously, that thing was sewn onto her hand.

All eyes turned to the girl who had become our leader, for all intensive purposes.

"Harper has finally called in the bloody army to shovel us out! We have a full force of ten thousand snow plows, and a hundred thousand men and woman armed with shovels and blow dryers!"

A cheer burst through the room.

"Yes yes yes, It's all every exciting. But we're gonna be one of the last places to get dug out." Jane told everyone.

The happiness died. Thanks so much, Jane. Real way to help, dear.

"It's simply because we're nice and warm, have hydro, food, and are relatively comfortable. There's an entire school snowed in from kindergarden to grade eight. They haven't seen their parents in nearly a week, and have barely any food. They're far worse off then we are."

O...kay. So maybe Jane wasn't totally evil.

"So what, like, are we supposed to do then?" Asked a cheerleader.

"Yeah!" Shouted a dancer. "We can entertain, but we're not that good."

"Don't worry, I have an idea." Ani said, much to our overall relief. "But we need all the white sheets that we don't need to use."

"Alright. Now that the heats on it isn't so bad." a hockey player said.

"Great. Get a reasonable amount and come into the lobby. Also, I need anyone who can sew."

Ani gathered her supplies, along with a handful of people, and walked out to do god knows what.

"Mama," Chira said.

"Yes, pet?"

"Can I ask a question?"

"Sure baby. What?"

"Why do we only see Essie and Jazz and Emmie and Grannie and Aunties on the little screen?"

"Sweetheart, your family's in BC right now. We're using the little screen to see them."

"Wait a minute," Conan said. "You mean they're not just floating heads on a pixilated screen? We actually have a family?"

"Yes."

"I mean besides Carrie and Dracie and Nini and Allie and Janey."

"Yes, you do have someone besides them. And Janey and Alie and Nini aren't actually related to you."

"But they love us." Chira said innocently.

"Maybe." 'Jane' and 'love' shouldn't be in the same sentence together.

"No," Conan contradicted firmly. "They do. They love us."

"Well, if you say so, it's true then." I reached over to take a sip of my coffee. It tasted different then before, bitterer, almost. I added more sugar and tasted. That was better, but still not great. I finished the cup and called out to my daughter.

"Lubetha darling? Would you get Daddy to make me some more coffee?" Jake was getting Christmas shopping done for me on the internet, so I wasn't allowed near him.

"Yes mama." she said, smiling.

I should've known something was up then.

Lubetha brought back my coffee and I drank it quickly, because I was tired and I needed the cafine. Triplets were tiring, even with this many baby sitters!

But, as soon as the last drop of coffee was gone from the cup and in my mouth, my fingers and toes started getting all tingly- like pins and needles.

"Are you okay?" Conan asked, an his voice was far, far away. Every time I blinked these white spots spun across my vision, blurring everything into a giant ball of light.

"No, baby, mama's just spinning." I muttered, as I put a hand to my head. It was as if my brain was pulling apart at the seams, expanding beyond the limits of my skull. It was very, very. Very painful. Too painful for me to bear.

"Mama?" Chira said, as I fell over the arm of my chair. "Mama!"

"DADDY! CARRIE! EVERYONE! SOMEONE! GET HERE NOW!" Conan screamed, which just made my head ache even more.

I had no idea what had happened. I heard the pattering of little feet as Conan's voice got farther and farther away.

"Mama's feeling sicky." Chira declared, her little hands pressed up against my cheeks.

Mama's fine, I told her, using my skill. I was in too much pain to talk right now.

"No, Mama's sick." Chira intoned. "DADDY!" she screamed.

"What on earth's going on?" I heard Jake ask. I opened my eyes to see Conan dragging my family by the hands, a set look of determination on his face.

"You're the doctor!" Conan said, shoving Carlisle forward. "Now fix her!"

"Nessie, are you okay?" Jake asked.

"Does she look okay?" Shrieked Conan. "No! She's NOT OKAY!"

"Don't panic baby." I muttered.

"Panic! Panic? I was born two weeks ago! I'm not being an orphan that soon!"

"You wouldn't be an orphan, you've got me." Jake said.

"Fine parent you'd be. You'd be useless without Mama 'cause your heart would be broke." said Chira- and in truth, she was right.

"Oh, that makes me feel so much better." Jake said, smiling. He knew the kids didn't mean it, they were just worried.

"She's overdosed on something." Carlisle said, feeling my pulse and checking my vitals. "If I knew what it was I could treat it."

Lubetha giggled.

"Betha!" Daddy sounded furious. I opened my eyes to see him staring at my little daughter. "What did you do?"

Daddy already knew what Lubetha'd done, but he wanted her to tell everyone.

"Gravol!" Said Betha. She got onto her hands and knees, reaching under my chair. She pulled out the biggest bottle of Gravol I have ever, ever seen.

"Why would you do that to Mama?" Asked Carlisle, distracted from me now that it was clear I wasn't dying.

"She couldn't help it." I muttered.

"Nessie, she could've." Daddy added.

"No, she couldn't. Remember what Ani said? She needs to cause trouble, or else she'll die."

I looked at my baby. She was pinker then she was before, even though she looked really, really sad.

"Didn't mean it." She muttered, still looking down.

"I know that baby." I told her. "We're gonna have to find a way for you to get what you need without hurting someone, 'kay?"

"Speaking of 'without hurting someone,' said Daddy to Carlisle. "Aren't we going to have to feed soon?"

"Yes. Yes we are."

"How are we going to manage that?" Jake asked. "Nessie and I can survive on normal food, along with Ani. The triplets seem fine eating the rare steaks Ani zaps in for them. But aren't people gonna notice when you, Marcus, Edward, Picia and Dora all suddenly go missing and return with different coloured eyes?"

"They might. But they'll probably call it cabin fever." Daddy said.

"How are you feeling, Nessie?" Carlisle asked. Thank god someone still cared about me!

"Sick." I moaned.

"Yes, we've kinda got that picture." Chira said, moodily.

"You'll just have to flush your system out."

"kay."

"So drink lots of water, and rest. Jake,"

"Yeah?"

"Will you carry her upstairs now? She needs some sleep in a place with no light."

" Her head is just spinning with pain." Daddy added.

"Aright. Come on, Ness." Jake lifted me carefully, and my head spun.

As soon as we were out of sight, Jake ran me up to the elevator and hit the button for the top floor.

"You don't have to carry me much." I observed.

"No, no I don't." Jake smiled.

"Am I heavy?"

"Not really."

"Do I weigh more, now that I've had the cubs?"

"No. You lost the weight as fast as you gained it. You're backt o being normal Nessie Cullen-Black."

"Well, as normal as I ever have been."

"Yeah, I guess that's the right way to put it." the elevator doors opened, and we went down the hall.

"Are you happy?" I asked, hopeful.

"Yeah. I've got three kids, a wife, and all the potato chips I need. I'm happy."

" I'm glad."

"Are you happy?"

"I think so. I mean, I don't like being snowed in, but it isn't terrible, if you get what I'm saying."

"I get it. This snow storm isn't my favourite thing either."

"We didn't get our honeymoon." I said. I was dissapointed. I hadn't ever been anywhere. This was gonna be my first big trip.

"No, but I guess that's payback. We kinda jumped the gun, don't you think?"

"Yeah. Karma, or something."

"Yeah. That makes sense."

"Well, as much sense as anything involving wolves, vampires and mutants can."

"Again, that's the best way to put it."

We were at the room now, and Jake had to set me down as he got the key out of his pocket. I leaned against the wall, not even stunned when my legs gave out and I slid down the wall.

"Nessie?" Jake asked, kneeing down in front of me. "Nessie, hey. You okay?"

"Yes. Doesn't this have a sense of deja vu to it? Me keeling over and sliding down the wall, you trying to revive me?"

"Yeah. It's just like when we found out about the cubs."

"Umhum."

"Well, I'm not expecting any kids soon. I have a feeling we're gonna have sets of multiplies more then singles, as four to seven wolf cubs are born at once."

"seven?" I said, horrified. "By god! I will never recover from that!"

Jake laughed softly. "Well, don't worry. I think we have enough human between the two of us to avoid that."

"I definitely hope so, cause over wise, I'm nutering you."

"You'd have to catch me first." Jake helped me up, and helped me into the room. I collapsed onto the couch as soon as I was close to it, and fell fast asleep.

"A bit more to the left, dear!" Ani shouted up at Alec. "Eddy, live your side up higher!"

"Is this good?" Alec called down. Ani squinted, made her fingers into a picture frame and took about ten steps back.

"Perfect!" She said. "Now just staple it up there!"

Daddy and Alec did as commanded, but Alec fumbled and dropped the stapler. AnI growled, an Alec shrugged.

"Sorry?" he offered, and Ani groaned.

She walked over, grabbed the stapler off the floor, shoving it into her shirt for safe keeping. Then she started up the rungs of the ladder, carefully climbing upwards.

"Thank you." Alec said, reaching into her shirt to take out the stapler.

"It's a good thing you're cute." Ani said, kissing him on the cheek before she went down the ladder.

Once Daddy and Alec were done they came down the ladder, Daddy doing his best to act human. Alec tried, but couldn't help himself from jumping the last ten feet, which got a very stern look from both Picia and Ani. Alec just smiled nervously and hid partially behind Carlisle who stepped away. Carlisle liked Alec as much as he could, but he was not stepping between Alec and Picia's much beloved 'law of order'- a thing that she would kill, literally, to keep standing.

"Is everything ready?" Ani asked Jake, who was setting up the projector at the back of the room.

"Yes. I think." Jake focused the lens and then gave a thumbs up. "We're good."

"Great. Flip the switch!" Ani cried, and the room was plunged into darkness but for the glow of the projector on the giant sheet screen. Ani, Jane, Alec and anyone else who could sew had spent the entire day whip stitching it together to give us some form of entertainment.

"Alright! Ya'll listen up!" Ani said, her traditional megaphone blasting her words across the room. Out of obedience and curiousity, all eyes turned to Ani. "about half of the people here worked really hard to make this possible. Everyone who sewed this monster together, stand up!" they did, and Ani got everyone clapping for them. "Alright, alright, now SETTLE DOWN!" everyone did. God, Ani was controlling! She shot me a look, hearing my thoughts. But in a good way, I added, and she beamed and winked at me. "Sit down and be quiet!"

Everyone did as they were told, and after he'd hit play Jake came to sit with me and the cubs ontop of one of the materesses. We'd downloaded Shrek off of iTunes, and had rigged up some speakers to blast the stereo out to the crowd. Aside from the fact that we were snowed in and watching a movie being projected on sheets while we sat on materesses, it was just like a movie theater.

I giggled when Chira, Conan and Lubetha laughed their heads off at the funny parts, and cuddled closer to Jake. You know, aside from not being outside in over a month, this was pretty fun!