A/N: It's summer now so hopefully things wil pick up... Enjoy!

Chapter 12: Army of Heroes

I drove back home, palms sweaty. Carlisle had called ahead to Alice to get the packs and the family rounded up.

I walked into the living room with all eyes on me. I smiled and sat down on the nearby arm of a chair. I took a deep breath and began.

"Here's the deal. The Voulturi are coming. They're coming to kill. They want me. We need an army. And a big one at that. And I need…. "I couldn't go on any longer. I cried. Good thing that the person next to me took me into his arms and soothed me. Good thing even more that it was Jacob. I cried and eventually I ran out of tears. I turned to the room and looked at all of the faces that I loved. Esme, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, Alice, My mom, my dad, Quil, Embry, Seth, Leah, the whole pack of wolves. I loved each and every one of them. I didn't want them to be hurt or burdened by me.

"I'm so sorry." Was all I could say before I broke down once more…

"Ness, we're going to fix this." Emmett said. I was surprised. He never really stood up for me in front of everyone. He was the type to be a silent hero. I calmed down. I was formulating a plan in my head.

"I think I've got it. WE have to beat them like we did before. We have to beat them at their own mind game. They are for enforcing the vampire laws. Jacob and I are inconspicuous. Easy as that. We will put up a fight." I finished.

"Ness, you're steaming. You think WAY too fast." Paul said. My mind was made up. I was set in my path.

"Paul, shut up. Jacob, can we talk?" I turned to Jacob. He looked scared. He hated it when I was in these types of moods. I gave him a sweet smile and headed toward the stairs.

"Now you two make sure that all you're doing is talking up there," Quil said. I shot him a nasty look and continued up the stairs.

I sat down on my old bed and waited for Jacob to catch up. I tried to plaster a smile on my face. He came in the room reluctantly. I beckoned him over to the bed with a finger. He sat down next to me and I turned to him. Silently, he pulled me into his arms, knowing just what I needed. I looked up at him after a beat and kissed him it felt so good just to feel him on my mouth. He smiled against my mouth and I looked at him.

"Leave it to you to begin a make out session while we're dealing with some serious stuff." I smiled at him too.

"Jake, I just want to kiss you as many times as I can before time is too late." I hated saying those words. I swallowed and looked up at him and said what had been on my mind for a very long time. "Jacob, I want a baby. I we survive this, I want a baby." I all came out a little faster than I had wanted, but he didn't look surprised at all.

"That doesn't surprise me one bit, Ness. I want to be a dad too." He smiled at me.

"I say we start trying. Even if we don't live till next year, we will have died trying." I smiled at him.

"Okay, I would except for we are in a house full of supersonic hear-ers and that would not help my case with your dad. How about tonight," I nodded and with that, I was on the fast track to motherhood.

We walked down to the kitchen. Everyone had left, except for Esme.

"They all went off together everyone who helped last time. And Renesme, your father wanted me to give you this note." Esme said as she slid a piece of paper towards me.

Dearest Renesme,

Everything will work out, I promise.

Dad.

"Well, I could have told you that," Jacob said, annoyed. I looked over my shoulder to see him reading over my back.

"No he means about the baby thing. I think it was his way of blessing us to go ahead and do it." I turned to Jacob. A look of disgust was on his face.

"We don't need a blessing from anyone to get pregnant." He said.

I shook my head and turned to Esme.

"Esme, I'm sorry to put you through this, I really don't mean to cause so much drama," I said,, she looked at me sweetly and smiled in a loving way.

"Honey, don't worry about it. Everything will be fine." I felt no solace in her words, but I was hungry and the Rubens she was making smelled delish.

I grabbed a hot Ruben off the plate and took a bite.

"Honey, let's go home, I think we need some time together." I looked a Jacob. There was another reason he wanted to be alone….