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Chapter 10 – Secret's Out

"I love you too Jacob, so very much." I had never been so happy in my entire life, not even when the Volturi left us and I learned I could stay with my family; this was pure bliss. I could still feel the afterglow of what had just transpired between Jacob and I. I snuggled against him further, thinking about it. I wasn't quite sure what had happened, but whatever it was… it was magical. There were no other words to describe it. I was brought back to earth abruptly when I heard Willa scream and suddenly appear in the doorway.

The look of sheer terror on her face had me forgetting the whole human façade and racing to her. "What happened Willa? Why did you scream?" I asked reaching out to her. She cringed and backed away from me. Oh no. "That… that thing you brought over here Ren… he took me out in the woods and he… he… turned into some kind of giant bear wolf thing right in front of my eyes!" she gasped out. Seth! I am going to kill him! Her eyes suddenly appeared even more panicked as she looked around me to Jacob. She reached out one shaking hand and pointed at him. "You! You're one of them too!" "Willow, its ok" I said firmly shaking her shoulders. The glazed look now in her eyes had me worried she may be going into shock.

She turned to me piercing me with her eyes before leaning out of my grasp onto the doorframe. She stood staring at me silently shaking her head, then shrank to the floor wrapping her arms around herself. "No… no… no…" she whispered repeatedly rocking back and forth. Jacob got up to come to her, but the strangled whimper she made at his movement had him sitting back down. I got on my knees in front of her and tipped her face up to mine; waiting for her eyes to re-focus so I would know she was fully listening. "Willa… it really is going to be ok. I promise. They're still just Jacob and Seth, you understand?" I explained calmly trying to help alleviate her fears.

Tears filled her eyes behind her glasses and spilled down her cheeks. "Are you going to eat me now Rennie?" she whispered chokingly. I heard Jacob's sharp intake of breath through his teeth from across the room. Shock coursed through me. Seth had told her everything! I heard a noise from the front door to see Seth standing there staring at me forlornly. I jumped up and ran to him hissing. I crouched down in front of him, readying myself to strike. "What were you thinking Seth? Do you realize what you've done you stupid dog?" I hissed at him pulling back my lips to show him my teeth threateningly. He just stood there staring at me dumbly. "It wasn't your place to tell her about me." I could feel a snarl building up inside me. "What do you have to say for yourself pup" I yelled at him slipping further into my crouch. He hung his head and whispered "I'm sorry".

"THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY?! SORRY?" I screamed at him. I was so filled with fury I was shaking. The feral snarl I had been holding back ripped free from my chest echoing throughout the house in its intensity. Jacob came up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder. I jerked free and sprung to attack Seth. Jacob caught me mid-spring; wrapping his granite arms around my waist. I struggled to get free. "Let me go Jacob! I'm not going to kill him, I just want to hurt him" I ground out through clenched teeth. "Ness" Jacob said softly in my ear. "I'll take care of it; you have to take care of Willow." The sound of her sobbing suddenly registered in my mind, slicing through the rage induced haze, draining the fight right out of me. I could feel tears burning in my eyes when Jacob set me on my feet and slowly released his hold.

"Seth. Woods. NOW." Jacob growled and they took off. I walked slowly back to Willa and sunk down beside her with exaggerated slowness, making sure not to startle her. She was still leaning against the doorframe; her rocking had stopped, but she had her head on her knees sobbing; her arms hung limply at her sides, resting on the floor. I reached out and laced my fingers through hers like we had done so many times before. She flinched but I ignored it. "I love you Willa" I said gently. "But you're a vampire" she hiccupped into her knees. "Well… technically I'm only half vampire, but I'm still just Rennie, Willa." She brought her head up and smiled crookedly. "Does that mean you aren't going to eat me?" Eat Willa? I couldn't help but laugh. "Willa, how many times have you spent the night at my house? If I haven't drained you by now, what makes you think I'm going to now, you goof." She paled a bit and exhaled slowly. "I forgot about that" she mumbled.

I dropped her hand and wrapped my arms around her; sighing a deep sigh in relief when she returned the hug. "Come on upstairs with me… I'm sure I can explain things a little better than Seth did" I said standing and pulling her up with me.

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"So you are half vampire, everyone in your family- they are all vampires- but you only drink from animals, and Seth and Jake are werewolves." Willa said sitting next to me on the bed nearly bouncing in excitement. "Shape-shifters" I corrected. "Whatever!" she exclaimed shaking her head. "Tell me about this imprinting business again." I had already explained it to her twice and I was starting to get annoyed. "Seth imprinted on you because you are basically his soul mate. He is bound to you forever now, he will be whatever it is that you need him to be; best friend, protector, lover, whatever. But from what I've seen of imprinting it's pretty hard to keep from falling in love with that kind of devotion." "Get it now?" I asked raising an eyebrow. She squealed and flung herself at me for a hug. "This is so cool Rennie!" she squealed in my ear. We sat laughing and hugging for a few minutes before I realized I hadn't heard the guys come back yet. "We better go make sure they didn't kill each other." She calmed instantly; a worried look on her face.

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We stood in a clearing a bit away from the edge of the woods listening to the ruckus coming from deeper within. "Are they going to be ok?" Willa whispered worried. I wrapped an arm around her waist in reassurance. "They'll be fine, they heal super quick, remember?" "Jacob! That's enough! Get out here now!" I said loudly so they could hear me through the calamity they were causing. The noise stopped and suddenly 4 gigantic wolves appeared in the clearing with us. I heard Willa gasp. I squeezed the arm I had around her lightly before letting go and running to Jacob.

I stood in front of his giant wolf self, looking him over for injuries. When I was satisfied there were none I pressed my face into the shaggy russet colored fur on his chest. He leaned his massive head down to mine, making his wonderful humming noise. "Why are Em and Quil here" I whispered quietly so Willa could not overhear me say their names. "They wanted in on the action" his voice rang through my head. I pulled back sharply and stared at him shocked. "Did you hear me?" his voice said in my head again. I nodded slowly. "Holy shit! That's awesome Ness! Can you hear the guys too?" I cleared my head and concentrated; trying to hear their voices. Nothing. I shook my head disappointed. "Hmm… strange. We'll talk about it later Ness. Go ahead and introduce the guys to Willow, they won't shut up and it's giving me a headache." I grinned and ran back to Willa.

"You want to meet them?" I asked her. "You know it!" she replied excitedly taking my hand. We walked back to them at her slower human pace and stood before Jacob again. I leaned into him again, "This is Jacob." He nodded at her and she grinned. "Big red, still as handsome as ever." I looked up in time to catch him roll his eyes at her like usual. I laughed and moved on to the thin grey spotted wolf next to Jacob. He leaned down and I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed his big wolfy cheek. "This is our very good friend Embry" I said as he nodded his head at Willa; nearly knocking me off my feet. He let out a grumbling bark that I knew was him laughing. I playfully swatted his shoulder, "Don't you laugh at me Em." I stepped forward and took Willa's hand and led her to the next wolf in line. I stopped in front of him. I looked up into the sand-colored wolf's obsidian eyes and he whimpered nudging my shoulder. "Seth" Willa whispered beside me. "How'd you know?" I asked incredulously. "His eyes" she whispered again. Seth let out a sharp bark and pranced a bit before lolling his tongue out the side of his mouth in a big wolfy grin. "Yep, this big clown is definitely Seth" I confirmed. He quickly leaned down and licked us both with his big wet tongue. Willa laughed and leaned into him lightly. "Seth! You know I hate it when you do that!" I scolded him, wiping the trail of drool off my cheek. The rest of the group joined in with their barky laughter. "And that big chocolate colored teddy bear right there" I said pointing, "Is Quil." I walked to him and hugged him then kissed the cheek he had leaned down offering to me.

"We'll phase and come back. Ok?" Jacob said in my head once again. "They're going to go phase back Willa." I said to her coming up beside her to hold her hand. Seth whined and nuzzled my shoulder again; an apologetic look in his big black eyes. I sighed. "You're forgiven, but only because Willa is amazing and took it so well. You got that?" He barked lightly and turned to run off with the rest of them.

We started walking back through the woods still holding hands. Willa was being uncharacteristically quiet. "You still ok?" I asked glancing over at her. She had a huge grin on her face and something that looked suspiciously like wonder in her eyes. "This is soooo cool! I am absitively posolutely wonderful!" I grinned up at her. "Yea, it is pretty awesome, huh?" She looked at me and glowered. "Yes, best friend, it is awesome. Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Uh oh. "Not exactly something I can just announce Willa… the whole secrecy thing. Its hush hush Hun." The guys caught up to us then, saving me from Willa's glowering. I watched as Seth walked up to Willa and held out his hand. She smiled at him tentatively and took it. Quil and Embry took turns shaking her free hand and introducing themselves again in their human form.

Jacob wrapped his arms around me from behind pulling me against him. "Sam wants us to come by to talk about you hearing me; you think Willa will be ok with the guys alone?" I looked over at her surrounded by the tall handsome men and laughed. "You know she's in heaven right now surrounded by all that testosterone, she'll be fine." We walked back to the house behind the others. Jacob went to wait by the car as I followed the rest of them inside. "Willa, me and Jacob are gonna go see one of our friends. You ok with the guys?" I asked already knowing the answer but not wanting to just disappear on her. She looked around at each of them and winked, "I'll be fine, call me later?" I nodded hugging her waist before running quickly up the stairs and changing into my regular clothes again. I raced back down the stairs and heard Quil say "So, you got any food in this place?" I breezed through the door out to Jacob grinning; thinking about how Willa would very soon be eaten out of house and home.

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JACOBS POV

Sitting on the hood of the Rabbit, I watched her run through the door with a huge smile on her face. She had changed out of the little suit and back into her jeans and the white flowy top. She was gorgeous. You are officially the luckiest man in the world Jake. When she got close enough she made a flying leap into my arms just like she used to when she was little. I kissed her on the forehead and rubbed my nose against hers; her lips scant inches away from mine, I could feel her warm breath fanning out across them. You should kiss her. I wanted to so badly. I sighed and put her down. "Sam and Emily are expecting us, we better get going." We got into the car and headed out.

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"Emily!" Ness yelled jumping out of the car to run to her. I got out of the car watching her as she gently hugged Emily and bent to put her ear to Emily's obviously pregnant belly. As I got closer I could hear her whispering very quietly to the babies inside. "Hey guys, it's your favorite aunt Nessie. I can't wait for you two to come out and see me so I can spoil you both rotten." She kissed Emily's belly bump quickly standing up when I got next to them. She smiled at me crookedly, knowing I had heard her. I wonder what she will look like swelling with my child growing in her. The thought had my stomach doing flips. One step at a time bud. I hugged Emily softly and kissed her unscarred cheek. "How are the twins treating you?" I asked nodding down towards her stomach. She smiled and nodded at Ness. "They were being relatively quiet until this one showed up. I swear they turn into little soccer players every time she comes over whispering to them. They don't even act like that for Sam!" Ness grinned up at me as if to say 'see, they know I'm their favorite already'.

"Sam wants you two to meet him out in the woods somewhere that way" Emily said pointing behind the house. I walked around back and swiftly disrobed; attaching the swim shorts I'd been wearing to my ankle. I phased. "Ness, you can come back now." I 'said' to her waiting to see if she could still hear me in her mind. She walked around the corner of the house. "I'm about 3 miles straight out, come join me." Sam said in my mind. "We're going 3 miles straight out, ready to run?" I asked Ness. She took off before I even finished telling her. I quickly caught up to her and we ran together, the wind whipping across us. It reminded me of when we used to hunt together when she was small. She hadn't liked the taste of animal blood at first and I'd always made it into a competition to make her happy.

We saw Sam and slowed. "I saw what happened between you two earlier; the bond and the fact that she can hear you now. It's never happened to anyone else in the pack, or in history as far as we know. I want to see how far you can be separated and have her still hear you." I nodded. "He wants to test the distance and see how far I can go before you can't hear me." "Ok." She answered looking intrigued. We reached Sam and I left her there with him; running away as fast as I could. I tested her at 10 mile intervals, then 20, eventually I was all half way through Canada; getting her answers through Sam. I could feel myself starting to ache, the distance too great for our imprint bond. "Jake! Get back here now! There's something wrong with Renesmee." I turned immediately running back, watching Ness through Sam's eyes.

She had turned a sickly pale color, almost as white as the rest of the vampires, before clutching her arms around her waist and sinking down to the forest floor. I drew on every reserve of strength in my body trying to reach her. "You're ok Ness. You're gonna be ok Nessie." I said into her mind over and over. She suddenly went limp and I burst through the woods, not bothering to watch where I ran, I didn't care. I just knew I had to get to her as fast as possible. I leapt into the little clearing where they stood; phasing in mid-air to land on my feet next to her on the ground. I picked her up, cradling her against my chest and ran her back to the house, she was cold. "Emily, something's wrong with Ness" I yelled as I neared the house. She appeared at the back door right before I reached it, holding it open for me so I could get Ness inside.

I went to the couch and gently laid her still limp form onto it. Emily gently cleared her throat and I remembered I'd not bothered to dress in my haste to get Ness here. I snatched the shorts from around my ankle and threw them on. Emily sat on the couch cradling Ness' head in her lap, softly stroking her hair. "What happened Jake?" "I don't know. We were testing to see how far she could hear me while I'm a wolf, and something happened. She was in pain and she just collapsed." I rushed out. I got on my knees on the floor next to the couch and looked her over quickly.

She didn't look as pale as she had before. I lay my hand on her brow; she was starting to feel warm again. "Nessie… wake up Ness." I said quietly in her ear. I got no response. I laid my head gently to her chest listening to her heartbeat. Her hand came up and rested against my cheek and her eyes fluttered open. "You're back" she whispered. "I felt like I was dying Jacob, the further and further you got away from me, the more it hurt." She clenched her eyes shut tightly, breathing deeply. They were filled with tears when she re-opened them. "It was so awful Jacob… please don't make me ever do that again" she whimpered. I moved her hand away from my face gently and stood, scooping her into my arms again. "Never" I promised her. I sat with her on the couch next to Emily, holding her tight to my chest, my arms around her, my face in her hair breathing in her scent. My eyes filled with tears as I realized what had happened. She had felt our bond being stretched! She had felt the pain of separation just like I had, though much more strongly through her tiny little body…

Woot! Sorry it took me a little longer to update, I'm always a little busy at the beginning of the week with classes and whatnot. Hope you guy's liked this chapter as much as the others.

Oh, and I was reading through my previous chapters when I thought of something. In the Twilight series Alice can't see anything to do with Renesmee. But since this is from my warped mind, I thought I'd make it that Alice can see her future- because of the half of her that is vampire. She can't see her clearly. Basically just fuzzy images, like on the old time TV's when the antennas went bad. xD