We ate slowly trying to make time pass; three days had passed since Fanny left. Seth walked around in deep pain; he didn't know what to do.
"Alice, can you see anything?" Seth asked Alice for the tenth time.
"Still, no. She haven't decided anything yet.." She answered with an unusual annoyed tone for Alice.
"Alice calm down, Seth I know it will work out, it has to." Carlisle said, patting Alice calmly on her shoulder.
Then we heard a car coming, Seth looked at Edward to see who it was,
"It's Fanny! But she is asking me to stay out from her head, so that I won't tell you what she has decided, she want to tell you herself." Edward murmured and left the kitchen with Bella, trying to distract himself by kissing Bella, but I could see a smile that he tried to hide, that meant it was something positive, right?
"Seth..?" Fanny opened the door carefully.
"Yes, I'm in here, com inside to the kitchen." Seth's voice was harsh, and I could see that he was trying very hard to not cry.
Fanny walked in, coughing. She was worse now; she only had days to live. I would give it a week.
"Hrm, well Seth, and, err, everyone else, I've made my decision." She coughed again, this time she was too weak to stand up and she fell down to the floor. But Seth was there to catch her before she landed on the ground.
"Are you okay?" Seth whispered.
"Yes. Thanks," She gave him a reassuring smile, and he let her go, "Anyway, I've decided yes. I want to change. I said goodbye to mom and dad, I said that I wanted to be alone the last days, it was hard to convince them but it worked. Seth, I want to stay here, with you guys." She smiled big at Seth, who tried to look calm but I and everyone else could see his eyes full of love and excitement.
"Well then, Fanny, you don't have to be afraid, Carlisle is very good and gentle," I said quickly, with a little mocking tone and Nessie elbowed me in the side of my stomach, "AOW! Nessie, that was not very nice of you!" I complained as I laughed and kissed her.
"But seriously, Fanny, you don't have to worry." Nessie said between our kisses.
"Fanny," Carlisle said, ignoring our 'tjafs', "Do you want to begin now?"
"Yes please," Fanny answered shyly, but her eyes were focused on Seth's.
They went to Carlisle office with Seth behind them, all vampires left to hunt; they didn't want to smell the blood when he bit her.
"Carlisle!" Jasper was shouting at him, making everyone stop, "You are going to talk about how she'll feel after? And all these other things..?" He gave an 'I'm sorry' smile to Seth, who only wanted everything to happen fast so he could be with her.
"Yes, of course!" Carlisle smiled warmly at him.
Jasper didn't answer, but went out instead right behind Alice.
Nessie took my hand, "Let's go."
We went to the forest; Nessie was still holding my hand tight.
"What is it?" I asked her, it seemed like she was looking for someone.
"Well.. I thought we could find someplace like back in Forks, by the lake. Wouldn't that be nice?" She stopped and grinned at me.
"Yes! It could be nice to have something like that I guess," I said, thinking about the last time we were at our place in Forks before we moved.
After one hour of only walking around I saw a deer, it was so beautiful, so graceful.
"Nessie, look," I whispered as I pointed at the deer. But it heard me and looked at us. I thought it would be afraid and run away but the deer's eyes laid on us, not looking away, like it wanted to say something. After a while it started to go to the opposite direction that we went to, very slowly. It turned to see back at us, like it wanted us to follow. I looked at Nessie, asking her with my eyes if she wanted to follow. She nodded, confused.
The deer walked, and turned its head every now and then to see if we followed. This was strange I thought very many times. Suddenly the deer stopped and looked to its right. There was the most beautiful place ever. It was a little meadow. It was round with clear green grass. Around the meadow there were huge rocks, like to protecting the meadow, too keep it as a secret. Around the rocks it was small purple and white flowers that followed the whole circle. Just beside the place where we stood was a little 'damm' with clear blue water. I couldn't talk. This was the most beautiful place I've ever seen, I was, for once in my life, speechless. It looked like a small round room, but instead of a carpet on the floor it was fresh green grass that smelled wonderful.
Nessie took a step forward, to see if this was real. I turned around to see if the deer still was there; it wasn't. Huh, that's strange, where did it disappear?
"Jake, come and sit next to me, can you believe we found this?!" Nessie was thrilled.
"No, this is just amazing. But how should we find our way back? We have been walking for over two hours now.. And that deer lead us half of that time."
"Well.. Look over the rocks," She said, a bit smugly.
I took my hand upon the top rock, nearest me and hovered up. And there our house was. Just a few hundred meter away. Close enough to find back and far enough that no one would find this. So, how could this happen? Why had that deer made us come here? What was the matter with Alaska? In just four days the strangest things had happened. But at that point I didn't bother to think about this, I just wanted to spend some time with Nessie before we would go home.
"What are you thinking about?" Nessie asked me curiously.
"Nothing important, just how the deer.." I shook my head, trying to push away the thoughts, this was too much, "How about you?"
"How beautiful this place is. I can't believe we-"She stopped, "that the deer had found it for us. It's amazing here, with the water, the flowers, unbelievably." She sighed happily.
"Yes," I went to sit next to her and put my arm around her, "This is amazing. But let's not think about that right now, okay? Just relax and enjoy this. Please?"
"Sure," She shrugged, "I don't think it's that big of a deal, it was just a miracle, we had asked for one and we got one." She smiled at me.
We sat there for hours, and soon it was dark outside.
"We better get going home." I said, but not really wanted to say the words.
"Yeah, but let's go another way, so they won't see where we came from, to make this more fun." She looked at me challenging.
"Sure, let's go this way!" I took her hand, and pushed her at the direction that I'd suggested.
We walked slowly, not really wanting to go home, even though we knew we had to. After a while we got to the house.
"I wonder how what's up with Fanny.." Nessie said after a while of silence. Oh, right. Fanny. I had totally forgotten about her.
I just nodded, not knowing what to say. We just had to find out, nothing more to that.
When we were inside the 'vampire house' we met Edward and Bella sitting by the couch with Carlisle and Esme. They all turned to look at us,
"How are Seth and Fanny?" Nessie asked Carlisle.
"Seth is sitting with Fanny, she is not awake, which she shouldn't be, it will take about three days before she will wake up." Carlisle answered with a smile.
"Oh." Nessie breathed, "Can we go up and see her?"
"Carlisle jus t nodded and then went back to the conversation they just had.
"Hi Seth, how are you?" I asked him when we were in Carlisle's office.
"Fine," He whined, "It just takes so long, I can't stand not to know how she are. Carlisle said this hurts very much, like she is on fire. I hope this will go quick so that she can wake up.."
"I'm sure she'll be fine, she has to be." Nessie said stubbornly.
"Alice hasn't seen anything?" I asked.
"No," He frowned, "But she just says that it's because she think I'll be in her future, and then she won't see anything."
I didn't know what to say, I could feel his pain from where I stood by the door. But Nessie wasn't afraid; she stepped forward and put a hand on Seth's shoulder.
"Seth I'm very sure that she will be just fine. This just takes some time, and you have to sleep. Me and Jake can be with her, go on and take some rest."
Seth was too tired to argue; he just stood up and went to the bed that Carlisle had put next to Fanny's. He'd a feeling that Seth wouldn't want to leave the room while Fanny was "asleep".
Well, now there was nothing more we could do but wait. 'TÃ¥lamod' was all we needed right now. This would be hard, but there was nothing we could do. Just wait.
"Oh, jeesh." I sighed.
