(Ren: 25)
The thing that I found the weirdest about my aunt and uncle being human (aside from the fact that my cousin Hadley Hallen was the same age as my own daughter, Ember) was that they were good at it. And I think it had to do with the fact that they had a reason to live and work hard at being human. The magic spell that their daughter had them under was like nothing I ever could have imagined. My aunt had always wanted a child, this much was true, heck that's why she loved watching me grow up so much, but until I saw the pure joy that having her own child brought her I don't think I really understood how much it meant to them.
They not only loved being parents, they were good at it.
After the initial adjustments that most new parents go through, they really got the hang of it.
"You ever think about changing back?" I asked Rose and Emmett one day when I was over at the Cullen house for a play date with the girls.
It had been a question that we had all thought about since their return. How could we not? They were choosing to leave our family permanently. Being human was all about having children and they had a daughter now. It was more than anyone could have ever imagined for a vampire couple!
Even if Jacob ever gave up his wolf, there was no way that I could ever chose to become fully human. I loved who I was, even though it took me years to come to terms with how unique I was. I had three human daughters that would one day die, but I wasn't sad about it because I was blessed to have any children at all. I would forever be a Cullen-Black and I wouldn't trade that for a tombstone next to Jacob's. Luckily for me, Jake has no intentions of giving up his wolf.
Emmett rolled his eyes. "It's not like we can just decide to be vampire and then it will happen."
"Bella did." Jake piped up helpfully.
"You mean turning again?" Rose's eyes shot up.
Okay, so apparently it hadn't been a question on everyone's minds.
"You mean you haven't honestly thought about it before?" I couldn't contain my shock.
"Being human has been my dream since the day that I was turned." Rose stated honestly. Of course I had heard the stories of how her fiancee and his buddies raped and beat her nearly to death. Royce would have finished her off if he were given the chance but in his drunken stupor, he stumbled back to his house and Carlisle came along and saved Rose's life by giving her a new one.
"Do you wish that Carlisle hadn't saved you?" I asked, afraid of her honest answer. It had been something I had wondered since I was born and Rose made it known to the coven that she would have traded anything to be human again and have a child. She despised being a vampire, that much was well known.
"Of course not." Rose smiled at Emmett who had Hadley in his arms. "Carlisle saved my life so that I could save Emmett's. I experienced a hundred years of love and companionship with the Cullens. They are, and have always been, my true family. I don't regret a single moment of our life together. But now that I'm human, there is no way that I would actively choose that life again."
"Never?" Jacob let go of Ember so she could crawl over to Emmett and Hadley. It was weird for Jake, as the Alpha of a Pack of werewolves that were bent on protecting human lives, to be this adamant about wanting them to be vampire again. I didn't understand it at all. Maybe he was sick of seeing all of his friends growing old and dying. With each wolf that imprinted, it was one less friend that he would have with him forever. I know he worried about Embry and Leah leaving him, too.
"What if Hadley grows up and decides that the vampire life is what she wants?" I asked, voicing my own concerns for my fully human daughters. I didn't want to force this life on anyone, but sometimes I wondered if it would have been easier if the girls had been born with just a little bit of wolf or vampire in them. So that there would be a chance that someday I wouldn't have to worry about what I was going to say at their funerals. It was morbid to think about since Sara was only thirteen, Allie was twelve, and Ember was just a toddler. But the concern was always there. They were human, which meant they were breakable and mortal.
"If we can't convince her to treasure her human life, then she can do whatever she wants with it." Rose seemed angry that I had brought it up.
Emmett sensed her mood and added, "Hadley, and hopefully some of her brothers and sisters if we can get pregnant again, is free to live her life however she wants. We would never force anything on her, even human life. But Rosalie and I will remain human until we are no longer. We had a hundred years to be young and in love without a concern in the world. I think that is more than enough for any couple to ask for."
"You're hoping for more?" Jacob tried to keep the conversation diplomatic now since Rose was glaring at the floor with anger.
"We've been trying for a few months, once we got the hang of Hadley's cries and feeding schedules and all the other human aspects of parenting that we didn't feel whenever Ness was growing up." Emmett laughed. "Human babies are so much more work than you were, kiddo." He ruffled my hair like he used to when I was smaller and it brought back happy memories.
"If you ever need a date night, Ness and I are great babysitters and my girls love Hadley." Jacob offered helpfully. Rose's eyes lit up, her angry thoughts clearly on the back-burner for now.
"Oooh, Em, let's have a date night." And then my aunt sounded the most human I had ever heard her. "Just one night of no baby puke or sweatpants. I want to wear a dress and let my hair down without having to worry if Hadley would try to chew on it. Oh, thank you guys!" She reached over to hug me and I caught a whiff of her scent. Before I realized I had even registered it, I was on the other side of the room and Rose was reaching for air.
"Nessie, what's wrong?" Rosalie asked.
"Your smell." I held my hand over my mouth and nose, cursing myself.
"That's not very nice, Nessie." Emmett scowled. "Now that we're human, we don't smell as clinically clean as the rest of them."
"I took a shower this morning for your information, young lady." Rose seemed deeply offended.
"No, no, no, no." I was talking to myself now, no longer concentrating on them. "I just hunted yesterday!"
"Baby..." Jacob's eyes lite up. "Ness, does this mean what I think it means?"
"What's wrong?" Rose repeated impatiently.
"I'm pregnant." I whispered. By now, I knew the signs that my body produced even without Carlisle here to confirm. First comes the blood cravings, then the mood swings, then the weight gain. Right now I had two of those things.
I didn't know if I was happy about this or not yet. Ember was the only child that I had planned. This always being surprised with a pregnancy was getting old. But one look at the look of pure joy on Jacob's face told me that this was a good thing. Ember and her new little brother or sister could grow up close in age like Sara and Allie were. It would be good for all of my girls to have another sibling. I hoped for Jacob's sake that it was a boy who would phase. I know he loved his girls, but it was basically an Alpha's duty to have sons. And so far, he had three daughters without imprints and no sons.
"Oh, congrats, you guys!" Emmett punched Jake in the shoulder and flinched at the impact. He still wasn't used to not being as strong as a vampire. "Ow."
"That's so wonderful!" Rosalie was bubbling. She hadn't been around for any of my other pregnancies so this would be new to her. She and I went through Ember and Hadley's pregnancies together but we were both so far along that my aunt didn't get the full effect as my other family did.
"I'm sure you'll be the next one." I beamed at her. I hoped she could have as many kids as she wanted.
"We have all the time in the world." Rosalie piped up. "I'm only twenty-three." It was weird to think of her as her physical age since she was now technically two years younger than I was.
And, Rosalie and Emmett did have more children. Three months later during my second trimester, they announced that they were expecting twins. The family was thrilled for them and even my mother seemed a little envious that she had only been blessed with one child. But only for a moment. She was expecting her fourth granddaughter (Jake and I were having yet another girl) and Bella did not want to trade her vampire life for her human one again even if it would mean siblings for me.
Alice and Jasper came around less the more human children that Rose and I had, but that was alright. They always sent presents for my girls and I uploaded pictures of them daily so that Alice wouldn't feel like she was missing out. They dame to big events, but any of the small get-togethers happened without them. It was just so hard with Rose, Emmett, Hadley, and then my girls all being human and having alluring scents to a vampire like Uncle Jasper. Alice came alone this weekend to help decorate the Hallen nurseries since Jake and I decided long ago to leave the pink and purple nursery that Sara had used alone for any other children we might have. And, it proved effective since there were three girls after her.
Since Emmett and Rose had basically taken over the Cullen mansion, each of the twins would get their own nursery that would turn into their bedrooms as they got older. It was actually Esme's idea to give the house to the Hallen's since she and Carlisle built a cottage for themselves a mile from the main house and two miles from my parent's cottage.
"So are you hoping for boys or girls or one of each?"
"It doesn't matter to us." When Emmett said this, Rose smiled and her blue eyes lite up. She shook her head, "I want at least one boy. If not this time, then the next time I get pregnant."
"You can have as many widdle children as you want! I'm sure you'll get some boys in the mix of it, yes you will." Bella was using her baby voice because Hadley was 'helping' the women (and Emmett, who was too excited about being a dad again to miss out on any of the details, even if they were about decorating) with adding the finishing touches to Baby #1's room. This room was a light blue, the color of the sky, with big puffy white clouds drawn on the walls and alternating white and blue furniture. Though it had blue in it, it was pretty gender neutral. The other nursery was green and brown to make it look like a forest. Alice worked through the night to paint the rooms with Bella.
"Oh," Rosalie looked at her husband before continuing, "we talked about it a lot and we've decided that we only want to have four children."
"You don't want as many as possible?" Esme raised an eyebrow but it didn't seem condescending. "I thought that was why you wanted to be human."
"I wanted to be human because my human life was stolen from me." Rose admitted. "I wanted a chance to have a family with the love of my life. But being human is harder than I remember. I always made it seem so glamorous in my mind but it's messy and chaotic and stressful. I love my daughter and I'll love the twins, but maybe three might be more than we can handle. Maybe we'll never make it to four." She laughed like only a woman going through hormonal changes like she was could. "All I know is that I have my family and that's all that matters to me. I don't need twenty children to remind me that I'm human. I already have everything that I've ever wanted."
"What about you, Ness?" Esme asked the same question to me. "Do you want as many as possible? Or do you and Jake have a set number that you'd like to stop at?"
I shook my head. "Jacob and I have never discussed not having children." My cheeks flushed at the attention about basically my sex life with my entire female family members and my favorite uncle. "We have forever to live and raise a family. Unless something tragic happens that makes unable to, whenever we get pregnant we will rejoice for a new little addition to our growing family."
"What if you never have a son?" Bella had been quiet for most of this conversation, but she spoke up now. Her golden eyes that had once been the shade of my chocolate ones stared at me. I could tell that she had been holding this question back since the moment she found out that I was having a fourth daughter.
"Jacob says it doesn't matter to him if he has a male heir or not." I said, half defensively. I knew I shouldn't snap at my mother when she was only trying to find out about my life without her best friend around or her mindreading husband to embarrass me. I was grateful for both of those things right now.
"I didn't mean to offend you, sweetheart." Bella held her hands up in mock defense.
"I know you didn't, Momma." I sighed. "Jacob says that not having a son is just fate that he should remain Alpha. That this is what the Great Spirits wanted all along-an imprint who will never die so that a rightful heir can keep peace in the Pack."
"And the rest of the dogs, how do they feel?" Even though Rose was human and Jacob wasn't here, she still made a jab at the wolves. It was in her nature.
"Most of the wolves left in the Pack now are imprinted and will stop phasing soon. Sean Call and Thomas Uley are the only non-imprinters...well, and Jared's boy Lucas but he's only thirteen and just phased for the first time three months ago at the bonfire announcing my pregnancy." I said honestly. "As for Embry and Leah, they are perfectly content being Jake's Betas until they decide to quit phasing for their own reasons since imprinting doesn't seem in the cards for either of them."
"They'll get together soon, don't you worry." Alice spoke up in her voice that she usually reserved for whenever she had had a vision and was gloating over knowing something that we didn't know.
"Did you see something?" Bella asked excitedly. Leah had been one of her best friends for years and I knew how much it hurt to see the shewolf denying herself the love that Embry could offer just because she was so against being left for an imprint again. It had been twenty-three years of watching the same story over and over again. Embry could not be called anything but loyal, let me tell you.
Alice rolled her eyes. "I still can't see the wolves completely clearly, Bella. You know that."
"But you did see something?" Bella huffed. I loved my mother but she was never the most detail-oriented vampire. Which was a hard title to earn.
"What I saw was Nessie in a bridesmaid gown, an awful shade of green that makes me want to slap Leah for even thinking it was an acceptable color on anyone..." Alice was lost in her own fashion-centered world for a second.
"That could be for Esme and Carlisle's wedding in the spring." Emmett said logically. "I can't believe they're tying the knot again. Pretending to be human seems way harder than actually being human is."
"No, no. Esme's colors are paisley and creme." Alice shook her head as if it were obvious. "Besides, Nessie's girls were also in the wedding party...all of her girls. Two as flower girls and two as bridesmaids."
I sucked in a deep breath. "You mean...?"
Alice smiled so widely as she pointed at my inflated stomach. "Oh, Ness, she's going to be so gorgeous."
I had to sit down for a moment. Alice had a vision of my unborn daughter. And Leah and Embry were going to get married? It was all too much to take in.
"H-how far in the future was this?" I had to know. "If I can just convince Embry that she'll say yes, maybe he won't give up on her."
"Better question, did you see Leah in a wedding gown?" Bella asked concerned for her friend's happiness as much as I was.
"Well, no." Alice frowned. "But how could I have seen Izzy being carried in a tiny white gown down the aisle with a basket of flowers if it wasn't going to happen?"
"You could have projected it and believed that it was true so the vision occurred." Emmett was all about the logic today. I swear being a vampire made him dumber than he was as a human.
"Because Jake and I only decided on a baby name this morning." I said, my breath shaky. I was still a little freaked out that she had a vision of my unborn child.
"Isadora Setha Black." Alice grinned. "I know."
"This is why you aren't invited to parties anymore." Rosalie stuck out her tongue at her 'sister.' "You ruin all of the surprises."
"What will she look like?"
"It's hard to remember exactly."
"Vampires don't forget anything."
"Well, with wolves involved, I'm surprised I got any images at all." Alice complained. "Really, they make everything so much more difficult."
"But you could see her? You saw Izzy?" I needed to know. Even though I was carrying her inside of me right now, she didn't feel real to me. Like she already wasn't mine. Or, worse, that she wasn't going to make it to full term. I just had this uneasy feeling all day long. Only when I was surrounded by the Pack did I feel better about bringing another child into this world.
"She was blurrier than the rest of you are. Maybe that had to do with the fact that Jacob is always a little more protective of toddlers than your other girls who can defend themselves or what, but there was definitely a wolf attached to her." Alice smiled. "Oh, but she was precious. She looked so much like you that it almost hurt."
"Do you think you could search for the twins?" Rosalie asked excitedly. "To see what they'll be?"
Alice tried for a good ten minutes but shook her head in the end. "I'm sorry, but they're just not that far along, I think. Besides, I saw Izzy on accident."
As the months dragged on, my pregnancy became more and more difficult. I don't know why this one was so much harder than my other ones, but I just could not shake the feeling that something was going to take my baby away from me. I even asked my parents about the likelyhood of the Volturi stopping by anytime soon, but they assured me that we were not on their radar. Edward suspected it was because the "Hybrid Maker" in Port Angeles that had been evading Alice's visions for years was one of many sent by the Volturi to try his hand at creating human-vampire hybrids like me and Nahuel.
Speaking of Nahuel, he came to visit me when I was nearing my eighth month.
I was delighted to see my old friend again. He hadn't changed a bit physically, since he was a hybrid like me, but there was something different about him that I couldn't place at first.
"Oh, Nahuel, how I've missed you!" I hugged him
All of the Packmates and children of the Pack were in full support of Jacob and my newest addition. It had taken years for the townsfolk to settle in about knowing that a werewolf and a half-vampire were not only in charge of the tribe but were also helping to repopulate it. The kids, however, didn't know any different. I was having children just like their parents had had them. I was just the Pack Mom and nothing else to most of them. Of which I was glad. I didn't feel like a freak walking around La Push like I had been when Jacob first announced the Legend Awareness Act all those years ago. I could keep my head high and not feel guilty for causing some of their sons to phase just by being in town.
My nieces, Savannah and Hannah Lahote, were the most excited, I think. Since Rachel and Paul never had any more children after the twins, both girls longed for another baby on the Rez. They were only sixteen but with Savannah imprinted on by fifteen year old Joseph Uley and Hannah in a serious relationship with Lucas Cameron who was two years her junior, it would only be a few years until they themselves were ready to have children. Though they were more than happy to volunteer as babysitters for Ember, I knew that a baby was more exciting to them than a toddler was. They couldn't wait until I had Izzy in a few weeks.
Lucas and Hannah played with Ember for hours and sometimes would even sing songs to my stomach. Lucas had a beautiful voice and really seemed to calm Izzy down-the girl was definitely going to be a fighter, just ask my rib cage. My niece, on the other hand, well let's just say that God gifted her with the ability to listen to a beautiful voice.
Krystal Clearwater, was excited for Izzy's arrival because Allie and Sara were. The three of them would come into my room all giggles and read stories to Ember and my belly. I was glad that my best friend's daughter was best friends with my own daughters. It made me happy that Tara and Seth remained very close in our lives even after he quit the Pack. Seth now looked like Jake's older brother instead of a younger one, but that didn't matter. I loved the two of them so much and wished for the first time that I wasn't part vampire. Because growing old with Seth and Tara would be wonderful. That's why Jacob and I decided to give Izzy a combination of their names: Setha. Tara bawled when she realized that our little girl would carry on their names since her daughter had part of mine.
The only ones who didn't seem interested in my stomach were the Uleys. Not a single one of them came by to see me unless they were with their imprinter/imprint (in the case of Caitlin being dragged there by David Muddywater and Joseph stopping in for a quick moment with my niece Savannah). I asked Emily and Sam about it but they said they didn't have a clue as to why their children would be so weird about Izzy when they loved all of the other girls. It was something like that that helped stir up my crazy feelings about something not being right with this pregnancy. Jacob said I was being crazy and that Sam had his kids busy all of the time with extra curriculars and tutors so that they would all have the futures that he didn't have, but I still felt on edge.
Whatever the Uley children's problem was, the entire Pack family was in the waiting room when I went into labor on the morning of April 4th. I held my baby in my arms for an entire hour before I would let anyone else in the room with me and Jacob. The rest of my daughters were in the waiting room with the families. Alice was right, Izzy looked a lot like me. She had my bronze curly ringlets, tiny nose, little chin, and shape of my mouth. Other than a darker shade of skin and Jacob's dark brown eyes, she could have been a carbon copy of me as a newborn.
Emily and Sam were actually the first ones in my hospital room whenever visitors were allowed, after my girls had gotten to see their sister, of course.
"Aw, Nessie, she's so beautiful." Emily said, the half of her face that could smile was still in a frown, though.
"Are you alright, Em?" I asked since it was just the four of us in here at the moment. It was quiet for a long two minutes before Sam cleared his throat. "Just tell them what's been bothering you."
"I think I know why my children have seemed resentful about Izzy's birth. That might have been my fault." Emily closed her eyes tightly for a second to keep tears at bay. "It's just...hard to see you get pregnant so easily. Especially after I've lost two."
"Oh my god, Emily, I didn't even think about that. I'm such an awful friend!" I accidentally jostled Izzy and she started to whine. Jacob picked her up from my chest and rocked with her while I continued talking to my former Pack Mom. Over the years, Emily and Sam had tried to have more children. Not that they weren't happy with the four they had but Emily always felt like she was meant to have one more. Unfortunately, the older she got, the less likely it was that she would be able to conceive. In the past three years, she had had two miscarriages-both of them right before I announced I was pregnant with Ember and Izzy. With their youngest being thirteen, it was unlikely that they would be able to have anymore children.
"No, I didn't mean to cause a scene." Emily let the tears flow freely now. "I really am happy for you guys. I just wish that I had been able to get pregnant as easily as you seem to. I'm an imprint, too."
"Hey, hey," I was trying to coddle her like I did with my girls. "You have two phasing sons! That's more than I could even dream of. I should be jealous of you, not the other way around."
"You'll have a son." Emily perked up at the idea of winning this baby contest. I knew it was petty, but I let her have this. Jacob knew how I truly felt and that I didn't love my girls any less than I would love a son so I wasn't worried that he would get angry at me letting Emily have this one.
We hugged it out and Sam gave us a "congratulations" before they ducked out of the room. Their kids came in briefly to look at the new baby but I could see the hardness in their hearts. I had mended a bridge with their mother that I didn't even know I had broken, but the kids might take a little more time. At least I finally knew why they had been weird for the past few months.
After that, the rest of the Pack took turns visiting me and the baby. My family couldn't go in the hospital since we were in Forks and they should all look twenty years older than they do so they would be getting to see Izzy in person when I was released. Tara, Seth, and Krystal stayed in the room for an hour. Embry and Sean came by twice, leaving only to get coffee for Jacob. Paul and Rachel admired their new little neice along with Izzy's cousins, but Savannah left as soon as she realized her imprint's family was leaving and Hannah dragged her boyfriend Lucas into the room with her once she realized that she wouldn't be the only one to hold Izzy. She wasn't the best at sharing, which was weird for a twin. But, then again, neither was Savannah.
Hannah also got bored when Izzy fell asleep in her arms and tried to pass her back to me. I smiled as I took my daughter back and laid her on my chest where she had seemed to be the most comfortable earlier.
"Do you mind if I held her before we left?" The question was aimed at Hannah since she was in charge of their relationship, but his eyes hadn't left mine as soon as I took Izzy back. He was watching me watch her.
I nodded at Lucas to come closer when he wanted to hold sleeping Isadora. "It's alright. She hasn't seemed to wake up when anyone else held her. Just be careful to support her neck, alright?"
"I promise." Lucas tucked her gently against his chest and started to hum to her like he had done so many times when she was still in my stomach. It was always the same song, though it wasn't a lullaby. Not any one that I knew anyways. Still, it was soft and smooth with his newly found deep voice. For a kid of only fourteen without any little siblings, he had great instincts with Isadora.
After five minutes of this, Hannah was ready to go. She didn't like when other people got more attention than she did. Neither of the twins did, actually.
"Five more minutes?" Lucas asked. "I think she really likes me."
"She's just a baby!" Hannah crossed her arms angrily. "I'm your girlfriend. Who do you care about more?" She huffed when he didn't instantly reply. "I'll tell you one thing, I won't like you if you don't go get in our car right now. It's time to go."
"I can't." Lucas frowned. "I'm not ready." As he tensed, Izzy sensed his mood and started to fuss.
"I think it's best if we leave..." Paul shot Jacob a look. The twins were known for their temper tantrums, even though the girls were now sixteen. I'm glad my girls didn't end up as bratty as they were.
"Lucas, why don't you go with them and then you and your parents can come back later?" Jacob suggested. "She's about ready for her feeding anyways."
"Please, Mr. Black." Lucas looked up at his new Alpha. "She's upset right now."
"Of course I'm upset!" Hannah threw her hands in the air. Leah entered the room when she heard all of the commotion and nearly turned around when she saw that it was one of the Lahote twins throwing a fit.
But I knew that Lucas wasn't talking about his girlfriend. "She's fussing because babies can tell when people are upset." I stated, looking the two of them over carefully. "Why don't you sing to her again and maybe she'll calm down?"
"Honey, I don't think this is the best idea..." Jacob began, but I shushed him. Izzy's eyelids fluttered open as Lucas began singing and her mouth which had previously been wailing was now making a gentle cooing sound.
"You have got to be kidding me." Leah threw a glare at my newborn baby and her imprinter and stormed out of the room.
"Lukey...?" Hannah's eyes were already brimmed with tears from her fit but now there were even more of them. "Please don't do this. Stop looking at her. Leave with us. Leave with me. Please."
But it was too late, the imprint magic had already sealed their fate. For the second time, a Cullen baby girl had been imprinted on by a teenaged wolf. And for the second time, a wolf had to break up with his girlfriend for her cousin.
"Paul, I think it best that you guys leave now." Jacob spoke up. "I'll drive Lucas home later."
We could hear Hannah in the hallway even if we all didn't have advanced senses. "I hate her! I hate him! I hate everything! I'm leaving and never coming back again!" We didn't find out until the next morning that she wasn't just threatening. She ran away to Makah to live with some of her distant relatives.
"Whoah!" Sean let out a whistle as he and Embry passed them in the hall and came back with coffee for Jake. "What got in to her?"
"Lucas imprinted on Izzy." I said with pride. Most parents wouldn't have been so accepting of bond between a teenager and their newborn daughter but I had experienced it with Jacob and I couldn't be happier. I wanted all of my daughters to find imprinters one day, or at least men that could make them as happy as an imprinter could.
"Does Leah know about this?" Embry asked seriously. When Jacob nodded sadly, Embry cursed and turned around without a second thought.
I tried not to let my daughter's future happiness be spoiled just because of a few circumstances. I loved Leah, but I couldn't deny Lucas access to Izzy just because the she-wolf had hurt feelings. Lucas stayed with my family late into the night and took turns with Sara and Allie holding her. He was just as careful and doting as Jacob had been when I was a baby. The only difference was that Jake only had a few years of me being a child and Lucas would have at least eighteen years until she was ready to make up her mind about being with him forever or not.
Jacob got a call at about six that night and left without so much as a word to me about what was going on. I assumed it was Pack related but didn't push him. He was the Alpha for a reason. He had responsibilities that didn't involve me and I wasn't going to be one of those clingy imprints even though I had just given birth a mere eight hours ago.
An hour later when Jacob returned, his face was grim.
"Girls, why don't you and Lucas go get us some sodas?" Jake handed Sara a five and shooed them all out. Allie had Ember on her hip but I made Lucas leave Izzy here. A baby couldn't be out in the hospital even if I did trust the kid completely with her life. The hospital staff would be very unhappy if they found out that a nurse wasn't escorting a newborn around.
"What is it, Jake?" I asked, opening up my shirt so that I could feed Izzy since she hadn't really gotten anything to eat all day with so many guests in the room. Jacob watched as our baby latched on to my nipple, momentarily distracted, but then he remembered whatever it was that he had to tell me and his lustful gaze dropped.
"Embry, the fool, has gone and done it." Jacob was trying not to growl and startle Izzy.
"What did he do?" I asked, thinking about the vision Alice had had about Embry and Leah's wedding in the near future. I hadn't told Jacob about it because once he thinks about it, it might slip into the Pack mind and ruin any chances the non-existent couple has for making the dream a reality.
"He caught up with Leah and she said she could never have anything to do with him. This was a sign that his imprint was out there somewhere. Too many of the wolves had imprinted for her not to be right anymore. She was serious about it, too." Jacob explained.
"She's said that before." I pointed out.
"Yeah, but she's never truly meant it until now. If you could have seen her face..." Jacob shook his head. "Embry believed her, too. That's why he did what he did. To show her that he could never love anyone but her. That he was serious about her much more than he could ever be for an imprint."
"Jacob, if you don't tell me what happened, I'm going to make this the last time for a very long time that you get to see my breasts." I threatened.
Jake looked at me with fear filled eyes. "Ness, he grabbed a knife and stabbed his eyes out..."