A/N: Hey everyone! here's the next chapter! And guess what!? The baby is here! I hope you like this one! ^_^


Chapter XI

The baby

A sudden pain hit my lowers and I dropped the large bowl of yummy green beans onto the floor. When the bowl came in contact with the floor it shattered and I fell back leaning onto the counter wincing.

"Jesus fucking Christ!" I yelled.

"Ava?!" Sam yelled across the house.

Emily ran into the kitchen and saw what was going on and the water running down my leg.

"Emily. Call" PAIN! "Fuck! Call Carlisle!" I yelled grabbing my stomach.

Come on baby, not yet. PAIN! I let out a scream and Sam quickly came to pick me up and carry me to the car.

"Emily followed behind us with the cell phone in her hand as she called everyone telling them I was having the baby.

I had decided a few months ago that Sam and Emily will be the parents for sure, and as soon as I was well enough to, I was moving back to Alaska. We had gotten some news that part of the old pack had survived as did some new pups.

The Black house had been fixed up and was given to Jared and Kim for they're own place to stay. Jared had finally asked Kim to marry him, so as the pack's present to them, they got they're own house. Jared and Kim felt like they owed me, but in fact I owed them for being so patient with me.

Emily turned in her seat to grab my hand and helped me through those stupid breathing things. I felt stupid but I knew better than to not listen to Emily.

"Carlisle is at the hospital ready and waiting. The pack is heading there now and will be ready to see you when your ready." Emily told me.

"Where- AH! Shit where's Avo?!" I cried out. Shit this hurts! Tears were streaming down my face as more contractions hit.

"He's right behind us." Sam told me and sped up. I guess he wasn't enjoying seeing that i'm in pain, or he was just impatient to get his future kid here. Either way I didn't care. I just wanted this kid to be born soon.

2 hours later after the screaming, sweating, and pushing, my baby was born and was laying in my arms. He was pale like me, but a mop of dark hair on his head. When he had opened his eyes they were little emerald orbs like his grandfather's.

Thinking about my father sent a tear down my cheek and Avo sat next to me. I moved over a little so he could sit down next to me, and I leaned into his chest still holding my beautiful baby.

"So what are you gonna name him?" Sam asked.

I looked up then began thinking. I had been thinking of many names for the past month and loved the name Derek. But he need a middle name.

"Avo, what should his middle name be?" I asked my brother. He knew that in our tribe we gave the children of strong wolf lineage coat names.

After a second Avo smiled at me, "Hota" Black

I smiled back and looked back at my son, "Derek Hota Uley."

The pack all gave they agreements on the name of the new baby, and sat around the room. After a few minutes I looked to Sam who seemed a bit out of his element. Slightly scared actually.

"Sam." I called to him sitting up a bit more.

Sam looked at me blankly and walked over to me. Avo knew what was up and gave up the car that was next to the bed motioning for Sam to sit in it. He did so and leaned a bit towards me.

I smiled at the alpha and moved Derek a bit to where I was holding him out to Sam. Sam backed up a little then swallowed hard before carefully taking Derek into his arms. Emily moved over to us quickly placing a hand on her husband's shoulder smiling down at the new member of the family pack. When Sam seemed sure Derek was placed correctly in his arms, he relaxed and leaned back into the chair looking down at the baby. My baby.

I sighed and looked away to glance out the window. It was raining ever so slightly outside, and I could hear the wind blowing fiercely out there. I guess there was a storm on the way.

"He looks more like you than Jacob." Sam said lightly.

"I guess my mom's paleness is stronger. He has my father's eyes, but he at least has Jacob's hair." I replied.

"I'm sure if you look through Billy's old family photos, you'll find a baby picture of Jacob. I think Derek looks a lot like his father." Emily told me.

"I think I'll pass on looking through photo's for now." I muttered closing my eyes.

I heard a few people sigh at my response but they said nothing at all.

"So when do you go to Alaska?" Embry asked out of no where.

"Huh? Why are you going there?" Keenan asked me.

I sighed shooting mental daggers at Embry. Only a few people knew I was leave. And that was him, Avo, Sam, Emily, and Leah. No one else knew. Embry found out cause he was being a sneak and over heard out conversation. Leah knew cause she had gotten the call. I had to tell Avo cause he was my beta, and needed to tell Sam since he was my Alpha and taking care of my son.

Taking a deep breath I closed my eyes, "Leah heard from my old pack. Apparently we're not the only one's that survived."

"So your running away from us to your old pack?" Paul asked standing up.

"No, that is my pack. They have no real Alpha. I'm needed there right now." I muttered.

Yeah he would think I was running away from everything here, and he was partly right, but I wasn't gonna let him know that.

"I'm going with." Keenan told me.

"No you are not." I told him in my Alpha tone, "Avo is going to be your Alpha here. You are to stay here and protect La Push and Forks. There are already 20 wolves in Alaska."

"But what if my dad is alive? What about my little sister!?" Keenan yelled at me.

"Keenan, I don't know who is alive, and who isn't. But you've got to stay here. If they are alive, I swear to god I will call you and arrange for a visit." I told him earnestly.

"So when do you leave?" Embry tried again.

I thought for a second then decided to answer, "In a month. I'll be fully healed by then as well as fit."

"And your going alone?" Paul asked shaking a bit.

"That's the plan." I muttered looking to my son who had his eyes open and his bottom lip quivering.

I held my hands out to Sam asking for my son. Sam gave him over to me without a question and walked over to Paul pulling him out.

"No, I'm not done with her." I heard Paul growl.

"Yes you are. She has my son and-"

"He's not even your kid and never will be!" Paul yelled pushing Sam into the wall and holding him there.

I handed my son over to Avo and jumped out of the bed to fall to the ground quickly.

"Ava!" Emily yelled coming over to me as I held my stomach.

I heard another crash and saw Paul pinned to the floor with Jared and Sam holding him there.

"No!" I yelled at them, "Let him go!"

They listened and I moved slowly over to Paul and see his head bleeding a little. I went to wipe it away for him but his hand twitched and my hand was flung away.

"Don't touch me Ava." I heard him growled before getting up and running out of the room. I sat slightly shocked as I felt a few hands help me up and place me back into the bed. I heard crying and growling around the room, but chose to tend to the crying baby. My brother was trying to get Derek to stop crying by rocking him back and forth in his arms. He even had a major concerned look spread across his face.

I turned to him in my medical bed and took my son gently out of his arms. As soon as Derek was settled in my arms, he hushed instantly and I smiled down at him.

I caressed his beautiful face as I hummed a tune I had heard off of a movie that I had watched with little Clair. No more growling was heard and everything went silent, a peaceful silence. I kept humming for a few minutes until I was sure Derek had drifted off into sleep and let the nurse take him off to the nursery so me and the pack could talk without waking him.

"You sure you really wanna leave him?" Emily asked me much to my shock.

I was drinking some juice and I starting coughing when it went down the wrong tube. Avo was patting my back helping me regain my breath while I continued coughing for a few minutes.

"Emily, I thought you wanted Derek?" I asked

"Yeah I do, but you seemed so at peace with him in your arms. You love him so much already." She replied giving me a careful look.

"Emily, I'll always love Derek. That won't change. Yes he is mine and Jacob's son, but I can't keep him. We've gone over this." I replied softly instead of exploding like I did last time to Paul. Everyone has been trying to get me to keep Derek to myself, but I don't want to put him in harms way by living with a new werewolf still emotionally unstable.

Emily sighed and nodded before getting up saying she wanted to go see Derek at the nursery. Kim, Jared, and Keenan left with her leaving me to deal with everyone else.

Avo still sat next to me on the bed, Sam in the car, Gabe was leaning against the wall with Leah right next to him holding his hand. Embry leaned against the bed while sitting on the floor while Quil took hold of the chair kim had been sitting in. Collin and Brady sat against the wall farthest from me and just looked between all of us trying to figure out who was going to speak next.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late. Where's the kid?" Seth asked as he walked into the room.

"Nursery. Take a place and sit." Sam told the boy.

"What did I do?" Seth asked as he walked over to me and sat on the end of the bed playing with my toes. I kicked his leg playfully with a giggle.

"You didn't do anything, but you may wanna be here for this meeting." Avo chuckled at first then got serious.

"Seriously guys? Can't this wait till I'm out of here?" I asked groaning. My head hit the pillow and it was really soft. I started to close my eyes when Seth started tickling my feet again. I smiled with my eyes closed and ignored the weird feeling on my left foot.

"Ava, we've got to talk about this now." Sam muttered.

I made a whining sound but kept my eyes shut, "Sam, I just gave birth. I'm really freaking tired."

"Sam, what's so important to keep the new mommy from sleeping?" Seth laughed at me still messing with my feet. This time I kicked him off the bed and he landed on Embry.

"What the fuck man!?" Embry yelled pushing Seth onto the floor and away from him. I was already laughing my ass off. Everyone in the room including Sam started laughing until Avo cleared his throat.

"Settle down guys." He chuckled.

Everyone settled down quickly while I still giggled a little. God I was gonna miss this.

"So what's going on exactly?" Seth asked getting back up and sat back down on the bed next to me.

"Ava is leaving in a month for Alaska. Part of our old pack managed to survive and she's going back to take over as Alpha." Avo told Seth.

"Makes you wonder who took over doesn't it?" I asked him. Knowing that my old pack was tough and didn't back down easily, I was gonna have to fight the current Alpha for control.

"Whoa whoa whoa! When the hell did this get planned!?" Seth yelled.

"About 3 months ago?" I muttered trying to remember. I know it was around there.

"And you planned on leaving without telling us? You current pack? Your family?" Ok now he was making me feel like shit.

"I was gonna tell you the week I was leaving kid! Look, I can't stay here anymore! I know you all think I'm running away from my problems but I've got a pack that needs me right now. We have plenty of wolves here that know what they're doing. Alaska has a hand full that don't get it since most of our elders are gone. A lot of that pack is made up of pups. So I have to go there, get things straightened out, get us moved to somewhere safe cause I'm not going back to our old village. That village has too many memories and is probably a target for vampires." I replied sternly.

"Yeah but we need you here as well. Ever thought about that?" Collin asked speaking up boldly.

"No you don't need me. You all just want me here." I replied smiling a bit. I was nice being wanted here, but I was right. They didn't need me, Sam knew perfectly well why I said this. He was an Alpha and Avo should be mine. He needed to take over my place here.

"Look, she's not going to disappear off the face of the planet now. I'm sure she has plans to visit often, and hell, we could all go visit her at one point." Sam stated taking my side. Me and him had already gone over a lot of plans. If there was trouble, we immediately contacted one another. Though Canada separated us as well as the pacific, we were going to protect each other. Vampires were getting strangely and terrifyingly larger in numbers, so that meant more protecting and needing more wolves.

3 days later I was leaving the hospital with Avo and my baby in the back seat with me. Emily sat in the front seat. She had wanted to be with Derek when we left the hospital, and since Sam was busy working at the garage today with most of the guys, she had to ride with us.

"Can we stop by our place first?" Avo asked hopefully, "I've got to pick up some clean clothes for tonight."

"Uh...sure?" I replied looking up from Derek with a curious look.

Emily looked just as curious and glanced at me.

"Avo? Have you-"

"No. I'm just going on a date with a girl for fun. I need some fun right now." He chuckled looking at me through the rear view mirror.

"Can I meet her?" I asked getting into big sister mode.

Avo chuckled a little nervously, "I don't know Av's."

"Ah come on. Your my brother and the other part of me. I've got to make sure she's not up to anything." I replied giggling innocently. In all honestly I was kinda mad I was just hearing about this but I was gonna be as mean as some thought I would. I'd just question her a bit, and if she seemed a bit off then I'd let Avo know. He trusts my judgment, or at least I hoped so.

"Avo, if it makes you feel any better I'm make sure she stays nice." Emily laughed a little and gave me the look that said she knew what I was up to and agreed fully with it. But Avo didn't see the look or if he did it was a look of putting me in my place.

"Thanks Emily. I'd like that. Ava, she's 15, not from here, and really sweet. I like her." Avo stated.

"But she's not your imprint. Don't go to far with her if I let you date her." I told him and made funny faces to my baby who gave me an adorably toothless grin. Babies shouldn't be able to smile but every time Derek looked at me or Emily there was a bright smile plastered across his face.

"I know Ava. I just want someone to be with since your leaving me." Avo muttered.

Emily then turned to face the window looking slightly uncomfortable. She couldn't really understand me and my brother's relationship, and I never really expected her to. She was great to us anyways and gave us our privacy as much as she could.

"Avo, not right now ok." I muttered doing Emily a favor.

Avo glance at Emily then nodded before we pulled up to the house. I told Emily I needed to pick up a few things and left her watching over Derek. Avo was already inside the house walking to his room when I went to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water and then went to the room I was staying in and picked up a book. As of recently I've gotten into reading a lot, but it was a book that Keenan told me I needed to read. It was about the packs, and informed me that there were more packs possibly across this coast and across the rest of the country. If I could get a hold of them then it would be awesome, just to learn new things since each pack seemed to be different. Mine was based with a lot of strength and numbers, not to mention we were open with our secret with the family. Sam's pack didn't know until the change happened to them, and they have a very great sense of family, and are unfortunately easily angered. Makes you wonder what the other packs are like.

After grabbing the book and walking outside with a jacket covering my arms I decided I wanted to phase. I hope I still could.

Walking over to the car and placing the book and jacket in the car, I let Emily know what I was about to do. She didn't seem to agree with it but wished me luck none the less. I walked over to the forest border and began stripping. I placed my clothes on the ground and then began thinking of many things to get me angry. For some reason it wasn't working all to well and that was really pissing me off. Before I knew it was a the gray fuzz ball I was before and was grinning at myself. About time. It felt great being a wolf again. My tail was wagging and I heard voices in my head. They were kinda fuzzy, but I channeled them to where they got clearer.

'Paul, you really need to cool it!' Sam yelled.

Whoa, I thought Sam was at work? I cleared my mind so that way they didn't know I was phased and listening in on they're conversation.

'Why should I!?' Paul roared and I heard a loud crash. I soon saw an image of Sam standing over Paul barring his teeth.

'Look, I don't know what's gotten into you but you will be calm when Ava and Derek come home tonight. If you so much as glare at her, I'll tear your hide off.' Sam declared.

Ok now this is getting a bit out of hand.

'Boy's knock it off. If Paul wants to fight, I'll do it now if he wants.' I told them appearing in the area that they were standing in. Sam and Paul both whipped they're heads in my direction and I thought that maybe they no had whip lash from it. I suppressed a giggle cause the look on they're faces was priceless.

Sam jumped off Paul and stood in front of me looking down at me. 'Shouldn't you be with Derek and Emily? Heading to my place?" he asked me.

'Emily with the baby along with Avo. I needed to see if I could still phase.' I told him calmly and nudged my head into his chest playfully.

He swatted his paw at the top of my head and a let out a playful growl. I snapped my teeth glad I could still phase and was ready for a fight. I turned to Paul still seeing him laying on the ground. I walked forward but he growled lowly. Sam growled back as did I.

'Ava, you just got out of the hospital-' Sam started in a warning tone.

'And I'm itching for a fight. Come on Paul. You seem like a good fight. Help me get back in shape.' I growled walking closer to him.

'I'm not going to go easy on you.' I heard him say darkly as he got up and we circled around each other.

My teeth were barred as were his and growling was very much noticed between us.

'Good.' I stated before I moved over to him and found he had me now. His teeth sank into my ruff tightly, breaking the skin. I made no sound showing that it hurt and flipped him over like I always did. Doing that ripped my ruff even more, but I didn't care. He was serious and now so was I. Paul landed perfectly on his paws and ran back over to me. I swiped my paw and hit him in the face.

'I hope that fucking hurt you fucking shit!' I yelled at him.

Paul mimicked my move and his claws dug into my face. I yelped and moved back a bit. Holy shit, he really was serious.

'Paul!' Sam yelled while growling. He moved between us, but I jumped over him and landed on Paul. His knees buckled due to the impact and fell to the ground with a huff. I bit into his ruff just as hard as he bit into mine and I heard him whine a bit. He tried getting up but my back paws kicked his legs back down.

'Fuck! Alright! You win!' Paul yelled.

I huffed and staid there for a few more minutes keeping him down.

"Ava, he's done." Sam told me in his human form and petted my fur.

I let go of Paul and moved off of him sitting next to Sam as he continued to pet me. He ran his hand over my ruff and I yelped. Shit that fucking hurt!

"Whoa. Let me see this." Sam told me turning my head to where he could see the wound, "Fuck Paul. You need to be careful!"

Paul sat a few feet away from me and didn't say a word, or make a sound as he looked at us. I whined again when Sam kept touching the soar area. He pulled his hand away and it was covered in blood.

I stared at his hand in shock. Damn, I didn't realize Paul got that dangerous. I felt a hand on my face and it freaking hurt. I flinched away and whined.

"Ava, I need to make sure your ok." Sam told me.

Sighing I staid still with my eyes to the ground. He placed his hand full completely over the left side of my face. I whined but staid still then Sam pulled his hand back showing more blood.

Sam sighed and told me to got get my clothes while he checked Paul. I listened and began running toward Avo's home where my clothes sat at the forest border. When I got them I picked them up and ran most of the way there. When I was about 5 minutes walking distance away from them, I phased and saw blood crawl a bit down my body. Shit..

Pulling the clothes back on I heard more yelling, and chose to ignore it since I'd find out what was going on in a matter of minutes.

Once I was fully dressed wearing dark wash jeans, and blue shirt 2 sizes to big, I began jogging towards Sam and Paul. When I got there I saw that the Cullen's were also there. Ok then... I only say Carlisle and Edward standing in the area, and was slightly grateful. Sam was clothed, as was Paul and I saw he was bleeding on his face and his neck as well. He never looked up at me and remained glaring at the ground.

"Hey guys." I muttered even though they were well aware I was here.

Edward looked up to me and smiled before frowning. He then decided to meet me half way and handed me a towel.

"Thanks." I replied and began dabbing it at my face.

"How's Derek?" Edward asked me.

"He's doing fine. He's with Avo and Emily right now." I told him and winced at the pain I felt with the cloth came in contact with my wounds. Sighing seemed to hurt a little but I ignored that one easily. I was more distracted with the pain I was receiving on my face.

"Do I really wanna know how this happened?" Edward asked.

"Sam or Paul not thinking about it?" I asked a little blankly.

"No actually. They're thinking about you and about how you plan on leaving soon." He told me.

"Ah."

"So part of your family survived? Congratulations."

"Thanks." I muttered a bit awkwardly.

I decided to walk over to Sam and Paul glanced at me before darting his eyes back to the ground. Sighing I kneeled next to him and held my hand to Carlisle. He handed me a rag and I began touching it to Paul's neck. He hissed a bit in pain but remained still none the less.

"Good fight." I told him.

The fight passed through my mind and I heard Edward growl in response.

"Edward, calm down." Carlisle stated, "They'll both be perfectly fine by tomorrow."

I find it slightly funny that a vampire knows more about our healing time than most of us do. I thought that it would be a few days for us, but apparently it'll be gone by tomorrow.

'Edward?' I thought.

Edward snapped out of his growling fit for a second and looked at me with a frown.

'How does Carlisle know so much about the wolves?' I asked curiously giving him the look that said you better tell me.

"He knows cause he has blood samples of everyone from the pack." He answered.

"Huh?" Paul muttered speaking up for the first time.

I'm sure if Carlisle could blush he would, "I like learning and your species is always teaching me something new. Your healing rate and temperature is all I've really learned. I'm still trying to figure out why exactly you are the way you are."

"Maybe it's just the fact that we descend from wolves." I replied slightly offended.

"Genetically impossible." Edward stated.

"Genetically your impossible too." I countered with a smug grin, "Look, all I'm saying is let our people continue they're belief that we are also part wolf. It's a spiritual thing in our tribes. It's be like me saying there is no possible way for you to be the children of an invisible man that you know as god."

Carlisle smiled a bit and nodded, "Point taken. But I would still like to continue researching your kind if you don't mind."

"Me and Sam can only speak for ourselves. You've got to ask the rest of the pack as well. I don't mind you doing some weird research on my blood." I stated then went back to cleaning Paul up.

So later that night I was sitting in the front room of Sam's house with Derek in my arms while I leaned against Paul. He had thoroughly apologized and me being really close to him forgave him. We allowed Carlisle to come on the reserve to talk with the pack and while they were thoroughly freaked that they were being studied without knowing it, agreed in the end to continue it.

"Hey! We should hit the local club soon before Ava leaves!" Kim yelled across the household.

I froze and looked at her carefully, "We're not all old enough to go."

"Oh yeah." She mumbled upset.

"But we could always have a party here." Emily countered.

I groaned. The idea of me dancing was not appealing one bit, but because I was leaving whether they liked it or not, I went with the plans.

Paul seemed to like the idea demanding that I be his date that night. I was slightly taken off guard but in the end giggled a bit saying sure. With that Paul smiled and then looked down to Derek.

"Hear that little man. I got a date with your mommy."

Derek let out a little noise and waved his hands a bit making Paul and the few guys in the room start laughing. I huffed and stood up with Derek leading us into the kitchen where it was a bit quieter.

"Hand him over." Leah said with a smile looking down at her nephew.

I laughed a bit and gave her my son. Derek let out a delighted squeal and all the girls including me let out round of aw's. Sam walked into the room wanting to see what we made such a fuss over and froze when he saw Leah smiling down at Derek.

"When did you become great with kids?" Sam asked curiously.

"I've always been good with babies. Kids are a different story." She replied still looking down at the baby.

I shuck my head smiling at my best friend then went to help Emily out with dinner. She ordered me to work with the potatoes. They had already been boiled for a few hours and were ready to be turned into mashed potatoes. I nodded my head, rolling up my sleeves and went to wash my hands. I went to rub some hair out of my face with my shoulder, but when my face made contact with my shoulder I hissed. So I ignored the hair and washed my hands. On the way to the fridge to get the milk, sour cream, and minced garlic, I pulled my hair that went past my shoulders now into a ponytail.

After grabbing a few of the ingredients I needed I sat them on the table. I then went to the spice cabinet and pulled out a bit of Italian seasoning and chicken base. With those retrieved I sat them on the table then went to empty out the pot of it's water.

10 minutes later, I had some freaking yummy mashed potatoes and was playing guard with Derek in my arms. All the boys were hungry and were begging me, literally begging me to let them through. I simply glared and then and paid attention to my baby until Emily said it was time. With that I turned my back only to have Leah tell me she would make my plate. I told her I wanted some of the med rare steak that was made, some corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, and a roll. Leah nodded and went to get my plate while I still kept the men herded in the living room minus Keenan and Sam. They were helping the women serve up dishes. When I was sure every one of the women were ready I stepped away to go sit at the table next to two empty seats.

"Ava, why don't you go a head and put him down to sleep." Emily told me, "That way it'll be easier to eat."

"He's not ready for sleep yet. I'll manage." I told her smiling as I sat on the chair.

Emily nodded then went to her seat on the other side of the table where Sam was already sitting down with a heaping plate load.

I laughed silently as I took a bite of my green beans and Derek made cute little noises in my arm.

"No can do little man. Not till your a bit older." Avo chuckled sitting to my right and Paul sat at my left.

"Aw come on uncle Avo, I just want a bite." I teased smiling down at the baby.

Everyone around the table chuckled a little and I began thinking that maybe I should keep him. But then my maternal instincts kicked in saying that was not the best idea. He needed a stable mother and needed a father. But I have been a bit more stable as of lately due to this miracle cooing in my arms. He's brought back the old me in some way I can't explain. But Sam and Emily have been really looking forward to being the parents of Derek. I couldn't tell them I'm taking him with me to Alaska, and not let them have him. That's a cruel tease.

When it came down to eating my steak I had some problems, but Paul was already finished and said he would hold Derek while I finished eating. I thanked him and placed my child in his large arms. Paul hasn't yet held Derek and i'm sure he was a bit worried he'd mess up. But I had a feeling he knew what he was doing when he went into full protective mode. Out of no where someone tossed a roll in our direction and Paul grabbed the roll before it even had a chance of hitting anyone around him. With the roll in hand he glared at the whole pack. They all shrank at his glare and went back to eating. I suppressed a giggled as I picked up the steak knife and cut through the meat that sat untouched on my plate. When I had a decent bite size attached to my fork I stuffed it in my mouth and sighed in content. Still kinda juicy, tender, and it just melted in my mouth.

"My compliments to the person who made the steak!" I called across the table as I began cutting more pieces from my steak.

I heard a brief thanks but I don't remember who it was that actually answered. I was more concerned with fishing off this yummy steak.

When I finished, I sat back in my chair leaning on the two back legs. Paul was still holding Derek, who had managed to fall asleep through all the noise in the kitchen. Every now and then he's make a little sound and Paul would quickly look down to check on him before grinning.

While I smiled a bit at Paul, I felt my chair tip back, and before I knew it my head came in contact with the floor.

"Fucking shit biscuits! Who the hell did that!?" I yelled loudly as I sat up to cradle my aching head.

"I'm so sorry Ava! I didn't mean to!" Keenan said sounding really worried as he helped me up.

I hissed at the pain and heard a bit of crying. Shit I woke him up.

Jumping into mother position I knelled in front of Paul and started telling him it was alright then hummed again. When I got him to stop crying I sighed sitting back in the floor seeing everyone looking at me and Paul.

"What..?" I asked a bit carefully with a confused expression.

"Don't take this the wrong way Ava, but you and Paul look good together." Quil told me.

I blanked and didn't reply. Glancing back at for a second I saw he was blushing a bit while looking down at Derek.

"Um..Uh.. I.." I was speechless for once and got up with my mouth opening and closing but no words came. I looked like a freaking goldfish! I couldn't say anything and apparently the whole pack enjoyed that fact.

"Give me my kid." I muttered to Paul.

He chuckled a little and shuck his head, "Where are you headed?"

"Away from you guys.. Your mean to me. Maybe stop by the Cullen's and let them meet Derek." I answered.

"But what if they attack him?!" Paul yelled.

"Come on. With him having a werewolf for a mother, I doubt they're gonna do anything." I sighed taking my son out of his arms.

"I'm going with you." He stated.

So now I'm stuck in the back seat with my son while Paul drove towards the Cullen house where I knew Alice was well aware of our presence coming. Hell I'm sure Edward was able to hear my thoughts by now since we were maybe 3 blocks away from they're home.

And to prove myself right Paul got a phone call telling us to use the garage if he wanted to. Paul declined and parked in front of the house like we usually did. Standing on the porch was Edward and Bella. Seriously? Bella had to be here?

"Paul, I'm holding Derek as much as possible while we're here. And if I'm not holding him, just hold my hand please. Keep me from phasing." I told him while I unbuckled Derek from his little car seat. No need to bring in the carrier since he was going to be held constantly while we were here.

Paul nodded and got out of the car to open my door. He helped me out of the car and I noticed Alice was standing right next to us now.

"Is this him?" She asked softly.

I smiled a bit nodding and she kept looking down at Derek.

"He's beautiful." She sighed.

"He is." I muttered and gave Alice a one armed hug.

Derek was asleep against my chest, but I had a feeling he would wake up the moment someone else touched him or picked him up.

Alice lead us up towards the house where Edward and Bella stood waiting.

"So how have the nights been?" Alice asked.

"Actually we got out of the hospital today so we'll find out tonight." I told her while Paul took up a normal pace next to me.

We were walking up the steps and Bella came to stand in front of me. I gave her a blank stare as I held my son. She looked.. scared?

"Bella?" I asked getting a bit concerned. I'd never seen that look on her face.

"Ava, can we please talk?" She asked then bit on her lip before swallowed hard. I heard her heart speed up and it was loud.

"Um.. yeah." I muttered situating Derek in my arms.

"Well, we'll be just inside." Alice stated and dragged the men away leaving me and Bella in a rather awkward silence on the porch of the Cullen mansion.

"Ava, I know you blame me for what happened at the war, and I would feel the same way if I was in your position. I also wanna apologize for being a bitch to you when Jacob was around. I guess I just got so used to Jacob always being there for me and loving me. And once you came all that changed and I didn't like it, so I acted in a wrong way." She stated softly.

"Bella, Jacob loved you still even when I came around. Yeah, not like you wanted, but he still loved and cared about you. Yeah I blame you for what happened, but it is also partly me fault. Has anyone told you how he..how it happened?" I asked.

Bella shuck her head no. I sighed and told her to sit with me on the steps.

"When Jake got back to us I was already fairly injured. Some vamp got the best of me and Emmett protected me a fair bit after that until Jacob got back. Well during the whole time Jacob staid next to me no matter what. We fought protecting each others backs. Once we were sure we had most of them, we noticed some running away. Every one of the wolves took off after them since they were heading toward both Forks and La Push. I guess it was my mistake for taking off alone after one vamp, and that one I went after was different. I can't really remember much of what happened except for one moment I was standing and the next I was tossed into an already broken down tree." I took a deep breath and moved Derek to where it was laying in my arms instead of laying his head on my shoulder.

"Since being a wolf allows us to share thoughts, it was picked up by everyone that I was in deep deep trouble. Before I knew it Jacob was there fighting the vamp, and my brother was helping me up. By the time I had gotten up Jacob had gone down. I don't know why he went after it alone. Maybe it was just a reaction on instincts to protect an imprint. Maybe he thought he could win against it. But when I'm the strongest member in the pack and was nearly killed by it, I doubt Jacob could have won. He would have needed help. And to prove that both Leah, Paul, and Sam attacked it at once. It took the three a bit, but they got the job done. Um.. I'm guessing that when a wolf is dies and they're in they're wolf form, they revert back to they're normal human form. When Jacob phased back he a huge gash across his chest. He was either dieing from blood loos, or something else. I'm still not sure, and I don't think I entirely want to know."

Bella sat in silence then looked to Derek, "He looks like him."

I smiled a bit and handed Derek over to Bella. She seemed a bit out of place holding him but smiled non the less.

"When me and Jacob got close I saw some baby picture of him. Aside from the pale skin he looks exactly like his father." She told me.

"Yeah, Emily said the same thing." I laughed a little.

Then Derek opened his eyes and Bella gasped a bit at the sight of his piercing green eyes.

"They're green." She told me.

"Yeah... my father had those green eyes like Avo does. I wouldn't have minded if he got my mom's eyes or even Jacob's. I loved Jacob's eyes. That beautiful dark chocolate color in his eyes." I muttered looking off into the distance.

"So how are you these days?" Bella asked me as she showered Derek with attention.

"Better now that Derek has entered my life. But it won't be a lasting stay." I told her.

"What?"

"Part of my old pack has survived, and they apparently found out I live here in La Push. Maybe they knew that there was a pack here I guess. But they have no true Alpha. I was born to be Alpha of my pack. So I have to go back to Alaska by next month and take over. I don't know how many of the elders survived, but what I do know is that there are a lot of pups. So I've got to go and make sure they can survive." I answered her.

"And your taking Derek with you right?" Each question she gave got a bit more serious.

"No." I muttered looking at my son with sad eyes.

"And why the hell not!?" She yelled at me.

Derek started crying and I sighed taking him out of her arms. He hushed immediately when I laid his against my chest.

"I'm a danger to him. I'm a female wolf that's still emotionally unstable. I'm also 17. I can't take care of him, especially if I'm going to be living in Alaska where i'll be on constant watch over the pack. And Alaska is a great place for vampires. Yeah it's the same here, but I just don't want to put him in any serious risk. Here I know he'll be taken care of and guarded. At least until he becomes one of us." I answered.

"He's going to be a wolf?" Bella replied a bit shocked.

"More likely than not. He's got the gene from not only me, but Jacob. Not to mention he'll have the Alpha gene. Which means either he'll be the Alpha here, or the Alpha for my pack. That is unless Avo finds his imprint. If Avo does and has a kid his kid will more than likely take over my position while Derek takes over here."

Bella rubbed her hand across my son's back with a thoughtful look.

"So who will he be taken care of by?"

"Sam and Emily. Rose wanted to but what with him bound to be a werewolf it was wiser to have him with the pack. If it was a girl even still. My pack had a few females, rare, but still. Maybe if Jacob had been a regular human and same for me, but then we wouldn't have all been so close and I probably would have kept the baby, and Jacob would more than likely be alive. Giving the baby to a coven of vampires just wouldn't have worked out in the end. You know the relationship between wolves and vampires. It's natural between our kinds." I stated sounding a bit older than I intended to.

"You sound like Carlisle in a way." She told me.

I shivered a bit at the thought of sounding like a god knows how old vampire.

"For your information Carlisle is only 500 years old!" Edward yelled.

"What about me?" I heard Carlisle ask.

I turned around seeing Carlisle leaning out of his study window and looking down at us.

"Bella said I sound like you with the statement I just said." I giggled getting up.

"Oh you have Derek with you. I'll be right down." He told me and next thing I knew he was holding the door open for me and Bella.

"Ava, can we try being friends?" Bella asked putting a hand on my shoulder.

I looked at her hand then her where she had a slight frown. I wasn't quiet sure if it was a good idea but I nodded none the less and smiled a bit at her. Bella then smiled back and walked next to me as we went to the front room.

"May I?" Carlsile asked me referring to holding Derek. I nodded and handed my son over to the doctor that reminded me in so many ways of my father. He smiled as Derek made a cooing sound and I giggles a bit.

"He's so cute!" Rose chimed and ran over to us. She looked down on Derek with loving eyes.

"Thank you Rose." I said softly and went to sit near Paul who kept an eye on everyone around Derek. Emmett walked over to me and gave me a hug before poking the side of my face carefully.

"Have a nice rumble I see." He joked.

"Yeah, Paul's a bit more serious than I thought." I teased kicking Paul's foot with a shit face grin.

"Yeah Edward told us what happened not to long ago." Emmett chuckled, "So what's this I hear about you leaving us?!"

Ah shit.. My favorite vampire was gonna give me hell about leaving now.

"He's not.. he's just curious." Edward told me chuckling from where he was sitting at the grand piano.

oh.. "Um, long story short, some people from my old pack survived the attack and I need to go back and take my place as they're alpha since the one there apparently doesn't know what he or she is doing."

"Can I come?!" Emmett asked sounding like a little kid.

"I don't know if that's such a good idea." I muttered grimacing. As much as I'd like to have Emmett's cheerfulness around, the pack had a deep grudge to vampires for what they did. Maybe as time passed and a few got used to the idea of some good vampire things would change, but right now was not that time.

"Emmett unless you want to be torn down by a pack, I suggest you stay here." Edward told his brother.

Emmett shrugged then went to go stand behind his mate that was fawning over my baby.

"Where's Esme and Jasper?" I asked curiously when I noticed that the two hadn't come down to greet us yet.

"They're out hunting. When Alice said you were stopping by Jasper thought it would be best if he took off, and Esme hadn't hunted last time." Carlisle told me handing Derek over to Rose.

"Oh, well I'll have to come by again when they get back. I'm sure Esme is going nuts wanting to see Derek." I giggled a bit.

"So is Jasper. He's just being careful cause he doesn't want to risk anything." Alice told me.

I smiled a bit and decided to sit down next to Paul since I knew we weren't leaving anytime soon. It was 7p.m. Maybe I could get us out of here around 8:30 that way Derek could get to bed, and I could get a good nights rest as well. I just hope Derek will be one of those quiet babies at night.


A/N: Well there you go! I hope i get the next chapter up soon. I've got good hopes for that one.. Now i'll tell you this; this story is no where near over..So do enjoy and leave me some reviews please!!! :P