YOU MUST SURVIVE

A/N: THANK YOU TO THE BEST BETA IN THE WORLD, JSH…THANKS DONNA YOU ROCK GIRLFRIEND.

A/N: THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY BELONG TO STEPHAINIE MEYERS, BUT THE PLOT IS ALL MINE… ENJOY.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

HOMECOMING

When I woke the sun was barely rising, I looked down to see Bella still in my arms and softly breathing, I smiled thinking how beautiful she looked and how I never wanted to wake again without my beautiful angel by my side. I looked over at the clock, which read five a.! We had been asleep for seventeen hours; I guess I was more tired than I thought. I knew the whole time I was on the island I didn't sleep much, and when I did, it was mostly a wrestles sleep or it was out of sheer exhaustion. I was too worried about Bella the whole time I was on that island, my need to take care of her outweighed anything else including sleep.

Even though we were at the Cullen's house I slept rather well, I guess the thought of being so close to home put me at ease somewhat, but I still knew if Bella moved or tried to get up or someone entered the room I would have heard them. If they dare to venture in, I would have tightened my grip on Bella to make sure she was safe no matter what, that will never change, Bella was mine and I will die to protect her.

I rolled over slowly and got up carefully, trying not to wake Bella, the minute I walked around the bed to enter the bathroom, Bella sat up and called my name.

"Jake!" she said nervously. I walked over to her side of the bed and sat next to her.

"It's alright honey, I'm just going to the bathroom," I told her as she whimpered.

"I'll leave the bathroom door open okay?" I reassured her, trying to ease her mind. Bella still wouldn't let me out of her sight, when I had finished I washed my hands, splashed some water on my face, picked up one of the toothbrushes and brushed my didn't surprise me one bit when Bella came in and sat on the toilet and peed in front of me. I shook my head and smiled at my reflection as I brushed my teeth. She walked next to me, washed her hands and splashed her face with water in the sink next to me. The bathroom had double sinks. Bella also went ahead and brushed her teeth but she did it in a hurry, as if she feared I would finish and leave her in the bathroom followed me out of the bathroom, sitting on the bed and redid her hair; I moved towards her and sat next to her."Are you ready to go home today sweetheart?" I asked. She nodded her head and laid the brush on the side table, smiling at me, I wrapped my arm around her waist. "Come on honey," I grabbed her hands, pulling her to her feet, and we walked down the hallway to the living room.

As we approached, we heard voices, turning the corner from the hallway, entering the living room the Cullen family was sitting on the sofa talking to a man in a suit.

"Oh here they are now," Esme said as she turned to look at us, "come sit with us," she motioned to us as we walked around, taking a seat on the sofa across from him, his eyes never leaving us."I'm sorry for the earliness of my visit, but we just got word of your rescue and the home office insisted someone come talk to you before you are sent home," he explained.

"And you are?" I asked, wondering who would send someone this early to talk to us.

"My name is Gerard…Gerard Nelson, I'm from the Aviation Board, we needed to confirm that you are Jacob Black and this is Bella Swan. We need proof that you were truly rescued from the island where you took refuge after the crash of flight 241. The pilot that found you, already gave us the coordinates to the island, this will give us the approximate location of where the plane went down so we can send out a diving crew to find the necessary equipment from the plane and to find out what happened to the aircraft the night it went down." He said."I can tell you what happened," I said sarcastically, "lightning hit one of the engines…I had seen fire, the wing was burning," Bella buried her head into my chest as I explained, clearly remembering the accident.

"I'm sure that's exactly what happened sir, but we need positive proof, we need the black box from the airplane," he said, I had heard about black boxes from the movies, I didn't realize it was actually true. I nodded my head in acknowledgement.

"I have to say one thing though if I could," I told Gerard, as he started to write everything we were saying.

"What is that sir?" he said.

"The pilots…they did and awesome job putting that plane down, once it hit the water it skimmed across the surface, but the storm was so bad that night, they lost control and it flipped, if it hadn't been for that we all probably would have walked away from it," I recalled what happened that night, sighing. He looked over to me and smiled, nodding his head with understanding, and continued to write down what I had to say."I'm sorry for what you both had to endure; I really am…if there is anything we can do for you…please let us know. I'm afraid that the media has gotten hold of the fact that you two survived, they have surround the house and will probably hound you until you give them some kind of statement. I'm sorry, it must have been the pilot he seemed a little… how shall I say it… money hungry," he said as I looked over at Jasper, he looked at me with guilty eyes and mouthed, 'Sorry.' I shook my head and raised my shoulders to tell him it wasn't a was I to complain about the pilot to Jasper? After all he did send him after us to save us from the island, as much as I hated to admit it, we both owed our lives to Jasper and Alice. If they have another motive, I'm sure we will find out sooner than later what it might be, my gut tells me it has to do with Bella, and that thought worries me.

"Well if there's nothing else, I will leave you." He got to his feet,as all of us did out of curiously. He dug into his pocket and pulled out and envelope and handed it to me. "There are two tickets in there, they will take you home," he said, looking at his watch and continued, "Your flight leaves in two hours." He held out his hand, "Mr. Black, Ms. Swan, it was nice to meet you, I'm glad you survived," he finished, shaking mine and Bella's hand, turning to leave, opening the door, fighting to get out the door with the reporters throwing questions at him, Jasper was quick to close the door.

Bella grabbed me and dug her nails into my arm. "We have to fly again?" she asked, and started to shake. I sat her down with me and held her close. "I can't Jake…I can't get on another plane," she cried burying her head into my shoulder and sobbed.

"It will be alright honey…I'll be with you…I won't let anything happen to you I promise sweetheart," I told her softly, stroked her hair.

"I think I can help," a voice said from across the room. I looked over to find Carlisle getting up and walking over and sat next to Bella. "I can give her something that will make her sleep the whole trip, she won't even know she's on the plane until long after you've landed, she'll probably wake up in the cab not realizing she had even been on the plane," he suggested. I nodded my head agreeing with him.

"Thanks Doc," I told him.

"No problem! I'll go with you to the airport and give her the injection just before you board your flight," he said. I nodded and thanked him once again.

Bella looked up at me as I wiped the tears from her cheek. "You'll be fine honey," I told her and she nodded her head, she turned her head to look at Carlisle and thanked him as well. He smiled sympathetically at her.

"Let's get you some breakfast before you leave to go home, I bet that sound pretty good to you both right about now," he said.

I chuckled, "You have no idea," I said patting my growling stomach.

We got up and went into the dining room and ate the bacon, sausage, eggs and waffles that Esme cooked. I have to say, for a vampire, and someone who doesn't eat anymore, that woman can cook.

xXx

We made it through the reporters with Jasper and Alice's help and got into Carlisle's Mercedes and we all drove out to the airport. Once again more reporters met us at the airport, security helped us to our gate where Carlisle gave Bella the injection to help her relax, she leaned against me, and I had topractically carry her on the plane, because she was getting drowsy and we said our good-byes and we thanked them profusely, Bella fell asleep before we left the ground.A few hours later we landed in Seattle, I tried to wake Bella but couldn't so I picked her up and carried her off the plane, as I entered the terminal of the airport, we were once again surrounded by the security once again met us and helped us to a car that was waiting for us. I climbed in, pulled Bella to me, and laying her against my chest,stroking her hair, waiting for her to wake upand she did on the way home in the limo.

"Jake…where are we?" she asked, I smiled at her, kissing her on her forehead, "we're home baby, we'll be at the house in a few minutes," I told her. She sat up on my lap and looked around.

"Really!" She asked excitedly, looking around at the scenery and slipped off my lap.

"Wow it seemed like I just went to sleep," she said with a giggle, it sounded like the old Bells was coming back, maybe with her being home she would be her old self again or at least I hoped so. Bella looked at me and grinned, giving me a quick peck on my lips, leaning back, grabbing my arm again, and resting her body against me. I patted her hand and placed my cheek on top of her head."Are you okay?" I asked looking down at her. She nodded her head yes.

"I'm great, Jake. I can't wait to see dad and Billy again." She said.

Then I realized, she hadn't seen either of them in a long time, I had forgotten that she had been away from Forks for ten years, with being on the island for so long I had completely forgotten all about that, which was the whole reason she was on that plane to begin with. I pulled away from Bella and wrapped my arm around her and pulled her closer to me.

"I love you Bella," I told her, kissing the top of her head. She looked up at me and smiled. I wanted to let her know that I loved her because once we get home, it will be havoc and I wanted her to know I was still there for her.

"I love you to Jake, so much." she told me and buried her head into my chest.

As we turned down the road to La Push, the road was congested, filled with more media, but there was also police officers pushing them back off the road to let us by and not allowing them onto the reservation. I was thankful for that, but it had me wondering if Charlie had something to do with that.

The car pulled up in front of the little red house that I missed so much, Bella and I just sat in the car and looked at the house for a few minutes.

"God, I missed this place!" Bella said which caused me to chuckle and squeeze her to me and kiss the top of her head again.

The driver got out of the car and opened the door for us to get out. Once Bella and I climbed out of the car, we turned to look at the house once again, that's when we saw Charlie, Dad and Rebecca standing on the porch watching us. I couldn't help but smile at them all. I was surprised to see Becca here, she must have come back to help dad after we disappeared, I knew it was hard for her to be in this house after mom passed, and I was glad to see she had overcome her fear of being ran to Charlie and wrapped her arms around him. I could hear her sobbing on her dads shoulder, I ran to dad and fell to my knees and wrapped my arms around him. Dad's emotions got the better of him, and wailed my name over and over with tears.