~Hey everybody! So school's going well for me, and I've been finding time to write, which is great. Now-at the request of one of my reviewers (as I take everything you guys say into account, and am very, very grateful for your reviews), I have decided to make this chapter in Jacob's point of view. Tell me how I did, and if you'd like me to write more chapters in Jake's voice. As always, enjoy and review!~

Jake

I crossed my arms over my chest and growled once again as I stood in front of the Cullen's huge-ass front window.

I'd always kinda found that stupid-if you had to defend your house against vampires, wouldn't it be more effective to build it out of brick and stone?

The amazon leeches were due to arrive today. Normally I wouldn't mind it at all, I knew they were friends with Nessie and it made her happy to see them. Naturally, anything that made Ness happy was in my good graces.

Too bad the half-vampire-Nahuel-was coming with them.

It was too much to hope for that Nahuel hadn't realized that Renesmee was the only female of his kind that wasn't related to him. I wasn't too happy about the possibility of him attempting to pursue her.

How suspicious was it that he chose to visit now, with her almost fully grown? The last time he'd seen her was when she was a baby-when the Italian vamps had first found out about her.

I wasn't worried at all about my Nessie returning his interests-she had always belonged to me. I'm just not sure how long I could stand him if he tried to persuade her to.

I growled again low in my throat at the thought of him forcing himself on her in any way. My hands immediately started shaking slightly, itching to end the life of anybody who dared to touch her.

Ness was beside me in the next second, stroking my arm, and standing on her tiptoes to press her heavenly lips to my cheek.

My arms automatically relaxed and wound around her waist, hugging her securely to me.

She laughed, and ran her fingers through the hair on the back of my head.

"I know why you're worried," she whispered into my ear, "and it's ridiculous."

Naturally, her hot breath in my ear and her lips brushing my jaw was distracting enough that it took me a few seconds to process her sentence.

"It's not ridiculous." I grumbled.

"It is, actually." She pulled back, smiling. "Jess and I had a good laugh about it."

I frowned. "What did she say?"

"Well…" she started, wrapping her arms around my neck. This action also caused her chest to be pressed closer to mine, which was very nice. "She said you would be jealous. Which I can see is obviously true. She also said you'd be worried about me and acting very protective and territorial."

I rolled my eyes. "Jeez, what'd she do, buy a textbook on this stuff? Is she writing a book about imprinting?"

Nessie frowned. She didn't like it when I was upset like this.

"You know, she did take a bunch of veterinary courses in her year of university."

I narrowed my eyes at her. "What's that supposed to mean?"

She giggled and let go of me. "Nothing, Mr. typical patterns of wolf behavior." She flitted out of the room, giving me a very nice view of her ass as she did so. Edward let out a low growl in the next room, reminding me to keep in line with the inappropriate thoughts about his daughter.

Just my luck that my imprint's father can read minds, huh? I could barely even kiss her here without Edward ripping my head off because I'd been thinking about us doing the same thing, just horizontally and minus our clothes.

Oh, crap, now I'm thinking about it again. Damn, if I was Edward, I would have killed me multiple times already. Crap, crap, crap, stop thinking about Nessie! Think about…

My train of thought was broken (and thank God it was, it was headed somewhere definitely not good with Edward around) as three tall, tan, bloodsuckers appeared in front of the house. Yeah, I knew they didn't just appear out of thin air, but even my accelerated vision couldn't catch most of the vamps' super-fast movements when I was in human form.

Right behind them was the shorter and more delicate-looking one, Huilen, and the half-vamp Nahuel.

My eyes narrowed automatically at him. He looked exactly the same as he did when he visited eight years ago.

Before I knew what was going on, the Cullens had flashed themselves outside to greet the Amazonian leeches. I watched Zafrina-the tallest-gather Nessie into her arms and hug her tightly. I gritted my teeth as Nahuel walked up to her and watched warily as her shook her hand.

Then he looked her appreciatively up and down.

Ugh! I knew that look anywhere! He was checking out my girl? For real? I started to shake again, this time not just my hands, but my entire body, and closed my eyes, taking deep breaths so I didn't accidentally destroy the Cullens' living room.

When I had finally calmed down, and convinced myself that killing one of the guests wouldn't be helpful, and would probably make Nessie very upset with me, I took another deep breath and went to join the Cullens outdoors.

I walked up to Renesmee and put a hand on her shoulder, standing beside her, and cast a warning glance at Nahuel. Then I respectfully said hello to the other members of his coven.

Nessie smiled at me proudly, probably happy I hadn't burst into wolf-form and gone for Nahuel's throat as soon as he touched her. In my peripheral vision, I saw Emmett frown. He and Jasper probably bet on my level of control today.

Carlisle invited them all inside, and I took Nessie's hand as we walked the short distance back, sending yet another silent signal to Nahuel to stay the hell away from what was mine.

Edward shot me a look when I said this.

I know, I know. He's just…

Edward raised an eyebrow at me.

Yeah, it was bound to come back and haunt me wasn't it? Guess I have a little more empathy for you now.

He rolled his eyes at me, but I knew he was happy about that at least.

Once we were inside, I hovered uncomfortably at the edge of the living room while the vamps chatted.

Under normal circumstances, I would've hidden out in my room for a couple hours, not interested in talking to this vamp from this place or that one from that place. Just not my favorite people to hang out with, you know?

But I'll be damned if I was going to leave Nessie alone in a room with him. Well, not alone, but you get the picture. If I wasn't there, I didn't want him anywhere near her.

I watched him carefully whenever I could tear my eyes away from Ness, on edge and half hoping he would do something that would merit me an opportunity to rip his head off.

That would really give Edward something to complain about.

After half-listening to them talk for a couple of hours, they all dispersed themselves throughout the house, as usual, and Emmett turned on the T.V., as there was a football game on tonight he didn't want to miss.

Usually, I would enjoy watching the game with Emmett and Jasper, unless of course pixie danced in the room, took one look at the screen, and told us who was going to win.

Unfortunately, Nahuel had decided to stick around and watch, and spending another two hours with him would stretch my nerves to the breaking point.

Nessie led me upstairs, and flopped down on my bed, pulling me down next to her. She curled up against my side and I slowly ran my fingers through her shimmery bronze curls, being as gentle as possible so I didn't pull on her hair.

She reached up to place her palm on my cheek.

I'm proud of you for handling yourself the way you did today.

"Thanks," I said, kissing her forehead.

I love you.

When she told me that using her gift, it was more personal, more powerful, than if she'd said it the way everyone else did. It rang with truth and honesty and absolution, and it made me happier than I'd been in my entire life each time she said it, each time she let me get a glimpse of her feelings for me.

I leaned over to kiss her, sliding my hand around her waist while the other hand remained in her hair, pulling her lips more forcibly, desperately, against mine. My hand traveled up to her ribs as I kissed her, and Edward growled softly at my thoughts about pulling them up just a little bit higher.

I growled back at him against her lips, and she shivered at the vibrations and pulled her body closer to mine, wrapping a leg around my hip. I was vaguely aware of the door slamming shut, probably Edward trying to find a place far enough away that he didn't have have to hear the thoughts of his daughter and her boyfriend as they made out.

I shoved all thoughts of Edward out of my head, and instead focused on what Renesmee was feeling, what she was thinking about, as she'd left her hand on my face. The instant rush of lust, like a white-hot ball of desire thrown straight at my chest, hit me like a wrecking ball.

It's hard to deny an imprint anything she wants, but letting things go much further wasn't such a good plan in a place where her entire family could hear our every breath and heartbeat. I quickly pulled away from her, and she frowned, putting her hand back on my cheek.

Sorry. Couldn't help it.

I laughed. She thinks she can't get a hold on her self-control? Mine was stretched as tightly as a drum, and every time she kissed me, or touched me, even innocently, it was as if she was pounding on it, wearing it down until it snapped.

I only hoped that when it did, we were nowhere near her mind-reading father.

Nessie pulled herself closer to me, wrapping her arms around my neck and relaxing against my chest, and resting her head on my shoulder. I wrapped my arms tightly around her as well, and buried my face in her hair, breathing in the most wonderful scent in the world, and wishing we could stay just like this for the rest of our endless lives.

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