A/N: Hey all. Sorry for the delay in updating. I'm sure you've all been waiting for a new chapter for ages. I've only got a few weeks left for school holidays so I'll try my hardest to get at least two more chapters up before the holidays are over. Anyway, a big thanks goes to Jacob Lupo who has kindly asked me to get my but into gear and get the new chapter up. Thanks again. Oh just a heads up for 2 chapters from now as in chapters 12 and 13 will be told from Emily's point of view. I know it's a little early for alerts on changing perspectives but I just thought I'd tell you guys now in case I forget to alert you in next chapter's author's note. Enjoy the chapter and remember to review.

Chapter 10: Never Say Never

"How exciting," Alice grumbled as we trudged down a side street in Port Angeles one stormy Tuesday afternoon. I needed a shopping trip even though I hated shopping and Alice was the only person available to go with me. I hadn't seen her in the months after the one sided fight with the Volturi. I had to tell her about Emily's pregnancy.

"Don't be like that Alice. If you really got to know the wolves you might actually find that you like them," I said. I knew that the treaty was what kept the wolves and the Cullens away from each other's territories but I would have thought it would have resolved after Jake imprinted on me.

"It's not my place to judge them, Bella," Alice said simply. "It's vampire law. The Volturi have issued it."

At this was I was a little confused. "I thought the Volturi had nothing to do with the creation of the treaty," I said stating my confusion.

"They are the rulers of the Vampire world, Bella. The Volturi had to approve of the treaty first before anything could happen," Alice explained. But I could tell that she didn't really want to talk about it.

"How would you know about this? You weren't a vampire then were you?" I knew that when these words slipped from my mouth they were the wrong words to say.

Alice laughed when she saw the expression of guilt on my face. "Really Bella, you shouldn't be embarrassed. I know you too well."

When I didn't say anything else, Alice continued. "I wasn't a vampire then no. But Carlisle has told me stories about it."

I nodded and we continued down the side street until we came to her sun yellow Porsche that Edward had brought her for Christmas. It was similar to the one we stole in Italy when we had to race against time to rescue Edward from exposing himself to the humans.

Throwing our shopping on the back seat, Alice and I climbed into the car and drove back to Charlie's.

"Hey girls!" Charlie greeted us as we pulled up on the curb outside my house. "How was Port Angeles?"

"We had great day, Charlie." Alice said as walked over to hug Charlie.

I pulled my stuff from the car and walked towards my best 'vampire' friend and my father.

"Hey dad," I said as I stopped beside Alice.

"Hey Bells. I see Alice kept you busy," Charlie said as he eyed my shopping bags.

"You bet I did." Alice said with a smile.

"Thanks for the day out, Alice. I had fun," I said with a smile.

"Don't mention it Bella. Anytime. I suppose I had better go. Carlisle will be wondering where I've gotten to." Alice had been glad to see me and I had been glad to see her.

"Bye!" Charlie and I said as we watched Alice walk to her car.

Alice got into her car and waved as she drove speedily down the street.

Charlie and I stood there for a moment before he spoke up.

"The speedy driving is part of the deal for being a vampire I guess?"

I nodded once. "Yep. Don't go thinking you can go give the Cullens' speeding tickets, " I said defiantly.

"Why not?"Charlie asked.

"Because they are all really safe drivers. They have never crashed or had an accident." I said with a smile.

Charlie didn't say anything as I turned and headed inside. I was about to head up the stairs to my room when Charlie called for me.

"Bella," he called.

I walked back down the few steps and turned to face my father.

"You know how much I appreciate you dumping Edward for Jacob?" His expression was emotionless.

"You really appreciate it. You always knew that Edward was no good and you always thought Jacob was the right guy for me," I said stating what I thought was in my dad's brain.

"Don't be a smartass, Bells. However, you're right. I do like Jake over Edward. I don't think I was quite ready to call you Mrs. Isabella Marie Cullen." Charlie said.

"Well are you prepared to call me, Mrs. Isabella Marie Swan-Black?" I asked not knowing what Charlie's reaction would be.

"Once Jake finishes High School I might consider it. Why? Has he proposed?" Charlie's eyes looked as if they were about to pop out of his head.

"What? No. Of course not! He's not that stupid. He knows how I feel. School and protecting La Push and Forks comes first and then social and personal living comes second." I said defending Jake.

Charlie nodded. His expression still showed he wasn't satisfied with my answer.

"I'll just be going to have a shower." I said.

"Oh. You do that," Charlie grumbled as he trudged toward the living room to watch his daily dose of baseball. The football season was now over Charlie had to watch his least favourite sport, baseball. He said it reminded him of girls' softball. There was only one rule difference: underarm throwing.

I sighed before heading up to my room to grab my toiletries and then I headed to the bathroom.

I allowed the warm water fall down my face as I leaned my forehead against the shower wall. The water that fell down my back helped ease the pain of all the walking I had done during the day. The water that fell down my face helped with the sudden headache that I had.

After five minutes, my headache had stopped momentarily so I climbed out of the shower, shut the water off and got changed. I didn't bother to brush my hair. As I walked out of the bathroom, I could have sworn I heard something fall onto my bed. I hurried to my room and opened the door to find Jacob laying on my bed fast asleep.

Quickly closing the door behind me, I quietly went to my bed and gently shook him awake.

"Jake. Jake wake up," I said quietly.

"Five more minutes," he mumbled.

I sighed before I thumped him on the head with my fist.

"Ah!" he shrieked.

"Shh!" I hissed.

"Bella! Hey!" he said spring up to hug me.

"Hey. What are you doing here?" I asked. I was happy to see him but why was he here and not back at Billy's?

"I had to see you. You know how hard it is to be away from your imprinter or in my case imprintee?" Jake looked at me with his eyebrows raised.

"Hard," I said with a shrug.

Jacob climbed off my bed and came over to kiss me. "How was your day with the bloodsucker?" he asked leaning his forehead against mine.

"Don't call Alice that. She's different to other vampires. All the Cullens are. How could you like it if I told you that Alice and Rosalie call you and other wolves, mutts and stinky canines?" I hated it when Jake and the others (all except Seth) called the Cullens 'bloodsuckers' and the same went with Rosalie and Alice calling the wolves 'mutts'.

"They are like-" he caught my scowl and shut his mouth.

"That's what I thought." I said, a smile forming on my face.

Jake leaned in to kiss me again.

"You didn't answer my question. Why did you come here? Why aren't you at home with Billy?"

"I did answer your question. I had to see you. I haven't seen you in two bloody days and it hurts more then you know," Jake whispered hoarsely.

"I know the feeling. I hate being apart from you," I whispered.

"In two years I'll be eighteen you'll be twenty one and we'll be able to marry," he whispered moving his lips to my cheek.

"Don't get too ahead of yourself. You know how I feel about marriage." I said leaning out of his arms ever so slightly so I could see his face.

"I know. It's nothing but a piece of paper," he said stating my words exactly as I had said them.

I smiled and he smiled back.

"Ouch!" came another voice from behind Jacob.

We turned around to see Seth struggling to climb in through the window.

"Seth! What are you doing here?" Jacob asked as we hurried over to him.

"I had to come and visit. The wolves are lost without Bella." He said. That was why he was my 'favourite' wolf son. (Oh yeah, I don't play favourites.)

"I haven't come to visit in two days and you guys are already missing me? Oh come on," I said smugly as Seth hugged me.

"You're our other mother. We love you just like we love Emily. Are you coming for a visit tomorrow?" Seth was quick to get to the point.

I smiled before I kissed him on the cheek. "Of course Seth. But you have to go to school first. I'll be at Emily and Sam's when you get home." I said.

Seth and Jacob's faces fell.

"Dream killer," Seth muttered.

I chuckled lightly. "Oh Seth, what am I going to do with you?" I asked with a smile.

Seth thought about it for a second.

"Let us take time off school?" Seth said with most cheekiest smile I had ever seen.

I shook my head as I laughed. "No my decision is final."

"Aww!" Seth and Jacob whined.

"Sorry guys." I said.

"We had better go. Sam will go nuts if we aren't back," Jake said kissing me on the cheek before he dragged Seth toward the window.

"But I just got here!" Seth whined again.

"Too bad. You should have followed me," Jacob said.

Seth looked at Jacob with admiration.

"Go guys. I'll see you both tomorrow afternoon at Emily and Sam's." I said as Seth came over to hug me one last time.

"Bye Bella. See you tomorrow." He said as he pulled out of the hug.

"Bye Seth,"

Jacob rolled his eyes and came over to kiss me.

"Bye babe," he said as he kissed me, "See you tomorrow."

"Bye and I'll be checking with Billy and Sue to make sure that you've gone to school," I said allowing my tone to go serious.

"We will." Jacob said as he followed Seth out the window.

After they had disappeared into the night, I went to close the window due to the wind being cold due to the change of seasons.

As I lay in bed half an hour later, I reflected on the conversations I had had that day with Alice, Charlie, Jacob and Seth. Alice hadn't been too happy about Emily's pregnancy while Jake could have cared less about what Rose and Alice called him and his wolf brothers. I also thought of Charlie's reaction as we watched Alice drive down the street. He couldn't believe that the Cullen's hadn't caused an accident on the roads. I could tell that he wanted so badly to book one of them for speeding or for over parking in a parking spot. Even if I was no longer dating Edward doesn't mean I could stick up for them.

I was asleep another half hour after that. It wasn't until the next morning that my life took a completely different turn.

"Morning, darlin'!" Charlie said as he came into the kitchen before kissing my hair as I sat at the table eating a bowl of cornflakes.

"Morning dad," I said. "How'd you sleep?"

"Fine. How 'bout you?" Charlie asked.

"Great." I couldn't bring myself to tell him about Jacob and Seth's expectant visit to my room.

"So what's your plan for today?" Charlie asked sitting down opposite me with his own bowl of cereal.

"I'm going to spend time with Emily." I said with a smile.

"Oh. Fun." Charlie said before he put a mouthful of cereal into his mouth.

"I have work tomorrow. So don't worry." I said.

"Good to see you have everything worked out," Charlie pulled up the newspaper that had been sitting on the table.

I pushed my chair back, grabbed my bowl and went to wash it up. I then put it away and went to kiss Charlie on the cheek before going to grab my bag from next to the stairs and my keys and heading for the truck.

"Bye Bells," Charlie called.

"Bye dad," I called back.

As I climbed in the cabin of the truck, I started to daydream just enough for me to get the engine started and to back down the drive. As I drove down the street and toward Emily's, I started to wonder what lay ahead for Jacob and I. Jacob was still at school and I had to work three days a week part time. This wasn't at all difficult but it was challenge to get any alone time together.

"Bella?" I was brought out of my trance by Sam.

"Oh hi Sam," It was at that moment that I realised I had reached Emily and Sam's.

"You ok?" The alpha asked, "Why don't you come in?"

"Oh yeah I'm fine. I was thinking." I climbed out of the cabin and Sam closed the door for me. We then walked down to the little house in silence.

"Em! We have a visitor. I think you might know who it is," Sam said smugly smiling at me.

Emily poked her head out of tiny study at the start of the tiny hall.

"Bella! Good to see you," Emily said emerging from the room. I noticed she was slightly showing.

"Wow! You're glowing!" I said excitedly.

Emily and Sam laughed.

"Thanks Bella," Emily smiled.

"Here on your almost daily visit?" Sam asked as the three of us sat down at the table.

"Yeah. I've got work tomorrow so I probably won't be down tomorrow," I said.

"We heard that you made the wolves go back to school. Is that true?" Emily asked with a smile.

"Yeah that's right," I said with the biggest smile I could manage.

"I've been trying to do that for ages. How'd you do it?" Emily asked eager to know my secret.

"Persuasion. It's a very handy tool, if you know how to use it," I said slyly.

"I've tried to use persuasion on the wolves before only I used food and it completely backfired." Sam said grimly.

I was confused by this. "Sam, you're the alpha. You're meant to up with successful plans of persuasion. What went wrong?"

"It was when I first took the position of alpha. This was before Jacob and Quil joined the pack. Back-" I finished Sam's sentence for him.

"Back when they hated you for stealing away Embry," I said.

Sam and Emily nodded.

As the day progressed, I helped Emily plan the final preparations for the wedding while Sam went out to train with Jared and Paul. Paul has now learnt to control his temper. He had accepted my apology for slapping him across the face when I first discovered Jacob was a werewolf. He and I had become close now that I was the pack's second mother.

Emily cooked like always and I commented on every single dish she made. By the time 2:30 approached all the food was ready for when the wolves came round.

"Hey Bella!" came Seth's always happy voice.

I turned to see him and the wolves at the door step.

"Hey Seth. Hey boys!" I said as I was greeted by each of my pack sons.

"Chow time!" Quil cried looking over my shoulder at the table full of food.

"Boys!" Emily said sternly. "Go wash your hands first."

"What makes you think we have dirty hands?" Embry asked.

Emily pointed at the trail of paw prints just outside the door. The boys looked at their hands and hid their hands behind their backs.

"Wash them," I said eyeing them seriously.

The wolves grumbled and complained all the way to the bathroom. After a minute each of washing their hands, the wolves emerged from the bathroom a lot happier than before.

"Hey Bella!" came the voice of Leah from the front door. I turned to see my only wolf daughter smiling at me.

"Hey Leah," I said as she came over to hug me.

Leah had softened up since Jacob' imprinted on me. She was still tough on Seth and kept him in line like Sam did with the other wolves but I could still see she was still heartbroken over Sam imprinting on Emily. I would have bet Sue would have tried to explain that imprint was a part of wolf life but I would have betted that Leah, being who she was wouldn't have listened.

Leah joined the wolves at the table and in no time at all, the wolves were all eating. Emily and I sat on the kitchen counter eating, watching as our wolf children eat until their stomachs were full.

From time to time, I made eye contact with Jake who was sitting in between Seth and Embry. We exchanged silence smiles. When I was with the pack I felt a lot happier then what I did when I was at home and away from them.

After dinner, we sat on the floor and talked about what we had done during the day however the wolves knew what I was doing all day. I lay on the floor with Jacob's arms around my waist. I always felt protected with my werewolf of a boyfriend around.

I somehow knew that I was destined to be a wolf mother. The boys and Leah loved me just as much as they loved Emily. Even though Leah still somewhat hated me for choosing a vampire over a wolf and then gone back to the wolves only when I realised what I could have lost might have been lost because of me. My feelings for Jacob were real and I was never going to say never.

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