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It seemed like we were sitting in the living room waiting forever for Jake to return from the wedding. When he finally walked through the door, he did not look happy at all.

"What is everyone doing here?" he asked, in a grumpy voice. "And who are you?" he asked Emma, the second he noticed her.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Nothing, nothing at all."

"In that case…" I was about to tell him that I was having his child and then leaving but he started talking again. It's not like I had anything important to say at all. NOPE, Jake you go right on ahead and complain about the wedding. No one minds.

"She's crazy, do you know that," said Jake.

"Who is crazy?" asked Leah.

"Bella."

"Well, I could have told you that," Leah then said, with a laugh.

"Why is she crazy?" I asked.

"She just is."

"So I take it things didn't go well?"

"She wants to have a normal honeymoon with him. Doesn't she realize that he could kill her. That has to be the stupidest idea she has ever had." I had to think about that for a second, but then I realized he meant she wanted to have sex with her vampire husband. Yeah, I guess that would be kind of dangerous for a human.

"It's her right to decide. Who are we to step in her way?" I asked.

"I was her best friend. You should have seen her face when she saw me there. She was so happy that I had showed up. She acted like we were still best friends. Like nothing had changed that."

"Nothing has to change that. If you would just forget about the whole vampire thing, you could go on being friends with her." I received a glare for saying that. It was true though. "But the real question is, how was the cake?" I asked, trying to change the subject.

"I didn't have any," Jake said. He still had his grumpy voice on. I would be grumpy too if I went to a wedding and didn't get any free food.

"No cake? But that's the best part of the wedding. I say, you march right back over there, get yourself a huge piece and then come back. You know what, forget coming back for a while. I've seen how you werewolves can eat. Go eat all the food they have. That'll make you feel better." That was a great idea. By that time I would already be on my way home.

"Is there something you want to tell me?" Jake then ask. Damn, he was more observant that I thought he would be.

"Why do you say that?" I asked sweetly. I could hear the heavy sighs coming from my friends behind me. OK, so I was stalling, but would you really want to deliver the message I had to a guy who turns into a massive wolf when he gets angry? Nope, I didn't think so.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because there is a group of people here, one of them being a girl I've never seen before. Or it could be the fact that you're talking about cake and trying to get me out of the house."

"What's wrong with cake? Who doesn't love cake?"

"Jovie," he then said in a warning voice.

"Alright, alright. I have to go home."

"What do you mean home?"

"Home, as in Wolf Lake. Where I come from."

"But this is your home now," said Jake.

"I have to help my pack. There is trouble there. I have no choice Jake. Please understand. I don't want to go but I have to." His head dropped and he looked completely dejected.

"Sure, sure."

"I'll come back. I promise."

"What?" asked Emma. "You're going to come back?"

"I don't think I could stay away," I said with a small laugh. After all I was going to have this guys baby, not that he knew yet. Now didn't seem like a good time to spring that upon him. Maybe when we had some a lone time I could tell him then.

"Are you going to be in danger?" asked Jake. Danger? I never really thought about that. It was a possibility.

"I'm not going to lie. I might be."

"Then I'm going with you," he then said.

"No, Jake. I can't let you do that."

"You're not letting me do anything. I'm doing it on my own free will. Now, don't argue. I'm going with you two if you like it or not."

"It's going to be a long run," said Emma. I think she was trying to talk him out of it, but it wasn't going to work. He's too stubborn to give up just because of a long run.

"No it won't," Jake said with a smile. "We'll take the rabbit. It'll only be a couple hours." I had almost forgotten he had a car. How I forgot, I have no idea. After all I was hit by it once.

"Well, that makes things easier," Emma said, with a smile. "What are we waiting for? Lets go." She waved to the others and made her way outside. Jake started following her and called over his shoulder for Emily, Kim, and Leah to let his father know where we were. Just as I was about to step out the door, Leah grabbed me by the upper arm. She pulled me back in and away from the others.

"Aren't you going to tell him the other thing you had to tell him?" she whispered in my ear.

"I'll tell him when I get there," I hissed back. Jake's hearing was just as good as mine and I didn't want him to hear her. It would be much easier if I told him on my own and not just because he over heard me talking to someone else about the "new addition" to the family. Leah let go of my arm, and I hurried up to the car. Emma was lying in the back seat and Jake was waiting in the drivers seat. Once we were on the road, it didn't take long for Emma to fall asleep. That was understandable because she had just ran the whole way. During the first half hour of the trip, I told Jake the reason for going back. Saying he was angry was an understatement. He didn't like the idea of Nicholas telling everyone that I had been kidnapped.

The next half hour was spent in mostly silence. Well, except for the light snoring coming from the back seat. I started trying to think of different ways to tell Jake about my bun in the oven, but all the thinking resulted in me falling asleep. When I next opened my eyes, I noticed a very familiar sign. The "Welcome to Wolf Lake" sign was not a very welcoming sign at all. It just reminded me that my new found freedom would soon be gone. Hopefully I would have no trouble convincing my parents and pack that it was a better idea for me to return with Jake. Oh, Jake. I glanced at him quickly. His eyes were watching the road and nothing else. He looked deep in thought himself. I looked in the back seat to find Emma still sleeping. It was now or never. I had to tell Jake before we got in front of my family. They would be able to smell the change in my scent just as Emma had. I wanted Jake to at least know why my parents would be yelling at me.

"Jake," I said, softly.

"Yeah?"

"I have something to tell you."

"What is it?"

"Um, I don't want you to freak out when I tell you, can you do that?"

"Sure sure."

"Are you positive you wont freak out?"

"You're kind of freaking me out by just asking me not to, but yeah, even though I have no idea what you're talking about, I'll try not to freak out."

"Ok, well, this may come as a shock to you, because it sure was to me, but, um, well, I'm, um, pregnant." I squeezed my eyes shut and waited for the yelling, screaming, crying, or any other horrible reaction that might come. I was surprised when my ears were met with laughter.

"That's funny. I thought I just heard you say you were pregnant," Jake said, still laughing.

"I did." The second I said that, he slammed on the breaks and if I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, I would have went flying through the windshield.

"What? What happened?" asked Emma, waking up due to the sudden stop.

"You said you wouldn't freak out," I said.

"Correction, I said I would try not to freak out, but this is a very good reason to freak out. How in the world did this happen? You can't be pregnant. Are you sure?"

"Oh man, I don't want to be here for this conversation," said Emma. She then noticed that we were back in Wolf Lake. "Thank God. Well, Jovie, I'll meet you at your parents house?" I just nodded my head at her. She quickly stripped out of the clothes I had lent her, and took off into the woods. What I wouldn't give to be with her running away from this car, at this very second. I watched Emma until I couldn't see her anymore and then I turned back to Jake. His hands were gripping the steering wheel so tight that his knuckles were now turning white. He was shaking slightly, but he wasn't a wolf yet, so that was a good sign. He wasn't pissed enough to have already phased. I still had time to calm him down.

"You know, you might want to be careful with your driving around here. There are other skinwalkers and I would hate for you to hit another one," I said, with a small laugh. I was trying to lighten the mood, but with the glare from his eyes and the growl forming in his chest, I knew now was not the time for joking. I was trying to think of what next to say. Do I go with the "it's not my fault, I didn't know this could happen" route, or do I go with the "it's not that bad" way?

"I thought you said this couldn't happen." Ok, I guess I was going with "I didn't' know this could happen."

"I didn't think it could. It must be something to do with you."

"Oh, so this is my fault? Last I remembered I was the virgin before you came along. You were the one that took advantage of me." Alright, so I was wrong before. It was possible for him to hate me. I could feel the tears trying to push their way out of my eyes, but I held them back. There was no way I was going to let him see me cry. I wouldn't give him the satisfaction.

"I wasn't saying it was your fault as in I'm blaming you for not wearing a fucking condom. I'm saying it has something to do with you, as in you not being the same breed of skinwalker that I am. But don't you worry Jacob Black. I won't put any of this on you. You're right, I was the one that took advantage of you, and I'll tell everyone that. You can go back to La Push, and I'll stay here with my child. You can just forget you ever met me." As I said this, I could hear my voice getting louder with my rising anger. I was also stripping off my clothes as I was talking. Once I was done, I flipped and ran off in the same direction as Emma. I didn't follow her to my house though. I couldn't face my parents right now. I had planned on introducing them to Jake and letting them know that everything was going to work out. Now, I had a change of plans. I would be telling them I was an unmated, pregnant skinwalker. That was not something they would be happy to hear.

I turned my head when I heard someone running behind me. When I saw that it was Jake, I increased my speed. Not that that did any good. There was no way I could outrun him when he was phased. He caught up to me in a matter of moments and blocked my path. I growled at him to move, but he did budge an inch.

"Get out of my way!" I said, even though I knew he wouldn't be able to understand me.

"Why don't you try and make me move?" I then heard his voice say inside of my head. I screamed, which to a human ear would have sounded like a yelp, and jumped away from him. "What? What's the matter?" he asked in confusion.

"I can hear you, and you can hear me."

"Huh, you're right."

"But that's not possible."

"Well it also wasn't possible for you to get pregnant, remember?"

"Would you shut up for a second, so I can think?"

"Sure, sure."

"Alright, ok. I can hear you and you can hear me. We couldn't do that before. Why do you think we can do it now?"

"Maybe it's because we are mated."

"One we aren't mated, and two, why would that make a difference," I asked.

"I remember you saying before that mated pairs can form mental links just between the two of them. Just like you think its because of me that you were able to get pregnant, maybe it's because of you that we are now able to communicate."

"That would make sense, but like I already said, we aren't mate."

"Jovie, we've had sex, and now we are having a baby. If that isn't mating, I don't know what is." He did have a point. We were technically mated, just without the marking and the ceremony.

"I don't know though. You usually don't hate the person you are mated to," I said to him.

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

"That you hate me."

"I don't hate you."

"Sure could have fooled me. You practically claimed I raped you." He let out a heavy sigh and then took a step closer to me. That one step would have counted as more than one for me, because in that one step, he was now able to nuzzle his head against mine.

"I could never hate you. I was just surprised. I knew I would have children one day, but I never thought it would be this soon. I'm sorry that I upset you." I tried to stay angry, but with his sweet words, all the nuzzling, and a couple of random licks, I was melting into a pool at his feet. He could win me over so easily. "Do you forgive me?" he then asked. How could I say no?

"Yes, but I'm sorry too. I could have given you the news in a better way."

"It's alright. What's done is done."

"Yeah, now we have a bigger problem to deal with."

"Saving your pack?"

"No."

"Then what?"

"Telling my parents that they are going to be grandparents."

"Oh, yeah. This should be fun." We ran together back to the car and changed back into out clothing. Once changed, I gave him directions to my house. We saw Emma waiting for us out front.

"So, did you two solve your problems?" asked Emma, once we were standing in front of her.

"Yeah we did," I said, taking Jake's hand in mine.

"Ready to face your parents?" She then asked. Before I could answer, the front door was pulled open and there stood my mom and dad. My mom had tears in her eyes and my father just looked relieved that I was alive. My mother pulled me away from Jake and into her arms. I wrapped my arms around her and relaxed into her hug. That is until I felt her stiffen. She pulled away but held me by my upper arms. She looked me over, inhaled my scent, and then turned to look at my father. There was no doubt they were sharing words through their mental link. Oh she knew. I didn't even need to tell her that I was having a baby.

"Um, Mom, I can explain," I said. My father was now standing in front of my mother and me. He pushed Emma behind him as well. I've never heard my father give off such an angry growl in my life. "Now, Dad, there's no need to get angry." His growl just got louder when I said that. I saw my dad's eyes flash and if I didn't know that Jake would be able to beat my father in a fight, I would have feared for his life.

"Should I run now?" Jake asked me in my mind. Ugh, this was going to be a lot harder than I thought.