Heyy Folks.. Where has this summer gone? I swear its almost over... Anyways Thanks for the reviews here is the next chapter... I know it took forever, but we just got a new German Sheperd Puppy
Chapter 14
I was in the kitchen singing along to music playing as I pulled two pans of lasagna out of the oven . I peeked over at the clock knowing I only had about fifteen minutes before the first shift was off parole. I knew they would be hungry. Sam had them working longer running patrols afraid Edward would sneak through. It had been quiet for about a week , which meant they were up to something. I started placing the salad on the counter, and the dressings. I knew it was wishful thinking the pack eat a salad, but one could always try.
I started buttering and putting garlic on the loafs of bread, and placed them into the oven. It was only six going off duty, but the pack is hungry. I was dancing around and singing not paying attention to the clock on the wall to realize the pack would be walking in the door.I turned around to see Leah, Jared, Paul, Jake, Seth, and Quil staring at me trying so hard not to laugh. I rolled my eyes.
"Next time make some noise," I mumbled.
Paul came over and pulled me in a hug. "This smells amazing babe."
"Thanks it should, I knew you guys would be hungry after being out there 20 hours. I wish this was over already," I said.
I saw Leah fighting back a yawn. Knowing full well they only had about ten hours before they were switching off again. I don't understand Sam's scheduling one bit.
"Don't worry there isn't anything out there. " Jake mumbled as he sat down with a plate starting to grab food. I smiled. This had become my family.
The room started to spin and everything started to change. Once where there were people in my kitchen, now it was just me and two little girls, who looked a lot like Paul.
"Mama when daddy coming home?" the youngest girl asked.
"Whenever he gets down with his shift, sweetie. You know he is very important around here and needs to protect people," I looked down at the girl.
She smiled and started to eat her cereal. That is when I looked down at my stomach and noticed a bump. I was pregnant. Is this what my life will be like in a few years? Vampire free and pregnant? I smiled at the thought, because I knew that wasn't the case, for some weird reason.
"Princess, I am home," Paul yelled.
I turned around to see the same Paul , he hadn't aged at all, which means he still phases. Which means we aren't vampire free. I frown a little bit, does that mean I keep aging , but he doesnt? He stays the same?
"What is wrong?" he asked as he pulled me into a hug.
"Nothing, just thinking. How was your day," I asked.
"You are getting so big, any day now, our son will be here. Paul Junior," he mumbled.
I chuckled, " PJ for short."
He rolled his eyes, " Fine,Princess. Now where are my perfect little angels?" Paul asked.
"Daddy," the youngest said as she jumped in her daddy's arms.
I smiled, is this what my life was going to come too? That is when is started again, the room spinning, and yet again I was standing there in a black dress. Leah had her arm around me, and I felt the tears falling down my face. I looked around to the pack, who still the looked the same, but I was older. I was pregnant, again, or maybe with the same son as before. I looked around and there it was. RIP Paul.
"Bella you have to be strong. You have six beautiful children who need you and a seventh on the way. Paul wouldn't want you to lock yourself off from everyone," Leah said as she was holding me up. Jake finally stood up and took me from Leah. I saw Angela sitting at the table with a toddler on her lap that looked just like her and Jake, and she was pregnant too.
"Why?" I mumbled as I tried to control the crying. I felt my heart break in a million ways. Why isn't he here? "I should have been able to stop this. Why do I have all this stupid power if I can't save my mate."
"Bella, you girls, and the boys will be fine, you know they are strong, just like you and Paul. You can't stop everything from happening," Leah said.
I saw a girl who had Paul's eyes, and my hair. She had to be about eight, and I saw her walk to a boy who was sitting around the table, i didn't recognize must be a pack member. She sat up on his lap and rested her head on his chest.
"You remember what Paul said about this. She maybe your imprint, but she still is his little girl, Remember that," Jake said towards the boy.
"You know it isn't that way Jake. Right now I am just her big brother," the boy responded.
"That is the way it better stay, Colin," Jake said.
I saw the way my little girl was looking at this boy, and I remember once looking at Paul like that. That he was all I would ever need in the world, and here my little Angel had found her mate at since a young age. I don't know if this made me mad, or happy. She will never have to experience the heart ache I did with Edward, but what if Colin ends up like Paul? I grabbed candles and tried the spell to bring a ghost to us, like I had done so many times to see my gram. It didn't work at all. I screamed it frustration. Why wasn't it working. Why wasn't I allowed to see the love of my life, that they took away.
"Bella they told you, you won't be able to see him, for a long time," Leah whispered as she sat down next to me.
"After everything we did to save this damn place, and they can control me seeing my damn husband? I am done. They can take this magic and shove it up their asses, I will be damn if any of my damn children have theirs. I will take it away. They want to take my damn husband away," I said as crying.
"Mommy you said a bad word," one of my son's had said.
I looked at the pack, "Take them outside, keep them busy, I need to be alone."
"B, you can't do that with their powers. That's what happened to you, and think how far you have came," Leah said as she had her arm around me.
"I lost the love of my love. I lost my husband, my best friend, my children's father. MY own born child's father," I shouted.
"Bella, I can't begin to understand how you feel, but you have to be strong, or your going go into labor," Leah warned.
I looked up at the sky, "See if I do anything for this damn tribe , again. " I got u and walked into Paul and my Room. I had decided I was leaving. I would take my children and go far away. Jacksonville, Florida
"Bella, you can't leave. You can't take this kids away from the only family they have left here. Most of your kids are imprinted on, you know what its like being away from Paul when you two first imprinted. How sick you got. Look at your son, who is so protective of Jake's baby girl. You know when the time comes and he phases , that he will imprint on that girl," Leah tried to reason with me.
"Your right," I said. Right before our eyes something flashed in. I knew who it was.
"Isabella, you know why this has to happen. You have to grow from this, and you can't take these children from the pack. They, like you, play a very important role in their pack," he spoke.
"You assholes won't let me summon my husband, and you have the balls to come down here and tell me how to live my life? What you got sick of playing from the side lines?" I snapped.
"You know what we do up there. We are from the first pack, how many times have this been explained to you?" he asked.
I rolled my eyes, "You ruined my family you can take your pack business and shove it so far up your ass."
"Bella," Leah hissed. I ignored her.
"Stay away from my family, because we both know that I will find a way from you or any of the ex pack members contacting my family and I," I said.
I woke up and looked around. I went to sit up but that wasn't happening my head hurt too much. I looked around at a room I didn't recognize, and closed my eyes trying to remember the last thing that happened before I passed out. I tried to connect with the pack, but got completely nothing, which started to freak out. I jumped out of bed and opened the door.
I didn't see anyone, or know where I was, until I saw the double doors, that would lead to the meeting room. I created this. I looked around in awe, Paul was right, I did over do it, but I wasn't going to let him know. I opened the door and saw the pack sitting around everyone got quiet.
"You shouldn't be out of bed," Paul said as he pulled me into a hug, and kissed my forehead.
"Who are you now? My father?" I chuckled.
"Sit down at least," Paul said as he escorted me to a seat next to him. I saw the whole pack there, and then some.
"What is going on? "I asked.
"Why don't you tell us?" Jake Suggested.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"When you were out, we felt your emotions, which was weird," Jake said.
I looked over at Paul and blushed. I looked at the rest of the pack before I saw Sam's concerned eyes on me. I sighed knowing my only way out was telling them. I had noticed Quil joined the pack, clearly it wasn't the way I saw it . I shook my head and I would ask about that later. I felt Paul grip my hand, and I knew I had too.
"Okay. Well it was weird. I dreamed about I guess the future. Although I hope it isn't all the future, because when I woke up , it was at a bad point," I looked over at Paul as I fought back a tear. I remembered the feeling in the dream. I felt completely lost with out him, that I couldn't function. " It started with a few of you coming in from patrol, then it quickly changed. It was two girls and I in a kitchen. Two girls that are Paul and my child. They were waiting for Paul to come home from patrol. I was also pregnant with a third child. I saw the girls eyes light up when Paul came into the house. The way Paul looked at me, all the happiness and how everything seemed to be normal. I think you guys were still Patrolling, but I don't know why, I hope by my third child Edward would have been taken care of. The last dream was the worse. Paul and I had six children and a seventh on the way, which would be the last of our children," I said as I looked away.
"What do you mean last? How do you know?" Sam asked.
I looked up with tears in my eyes as I took a deep breath," I know because the whole pack was there. Some of the pack that we have yet to met. My children were all there beside the seventh who I was pregnant with. Leah was telling me to be strong with one of my kids on her lap. One of our daughters had an imprint, I am not sure about the others though. My one daughter said on her imprints lap, and he held her protectively as she cried. Jake being Jake had told Colin to watch himself, because Paul had warned Colin about being too close to his young daughter. Colin explained that it wasn't like that, that right now it was more a protective brother type thing, and I didn't think anything of it. Paul died. There were flowers and RIP Paul everywhere. I don't know how, but I know that someone was keeping me from seeing ghost Paul. Leah said you know they won't let you see him," I whispered.
Paul pulled me on his lap and held me close, as I finally lost it. "Shh, it will be okay. You have seen me die before, but it can be changed."
"I can't tell you the rest because I don't understand myself." In reality I didn't want them to know that I basically quit the pack.
"Well, you have been out a few days. A lot has happened in pack business." Sam said getting right to the point. "As you can see Quil phased, right after you passed out. I am pretty sure Paul told you to take it easy, next time you listen to him, Understood?"
I went to fight but decided not to, "Fine."
"Okay, So you said there was Colin, which means I know who he is. He is only 12 right now, so hopefully he doesn't phase, but if he does that means his brother isn't too far behind him, but they are both too young to go to battle. So it looks like if they do Phase they will be here with Seth. Edward hasn't been seen or smelled since the whole time you have been out, and no signs of Alice either. The other Cullen's haven't seen them or hard from them either, which is probably really bad. " Sam said.
"I think that is enough for now. Lets get you downstairs and eat something," Paul said.
"I want to know what else is going on," I snapped.
Sam looked at Paul who only nodded. "Quil imprinted on Emily's niece who is only a toddler, Claire. Lauren has been on the rez looking for me, but I have been avoiding her. She has the results from the DNA testing done."
I looked at him, " And?"
Leah spoke up, "Well it looks like Paul here is the father."
I took my hand from him , and looked at him. I hadn't expected that, let alone expect it to hurt this bad. I felt like my life was being taken from me, but that made no sense. She wasn't in the future, I saw. All the children I saw were his and ours, if he is this kids father, why isn't this child in the picture.
"That can't be true. I saw the future in that dream, and I didn't see your child with her," I said.
"Your visions have been wrong before," Embry blurted out which earned a smack from Jake. I couldn't believe this. I feel to the ground as my heart broke. I was suppose to be the one to give him children, not her. He said there was no way it was his.
"How?" I asked.
"She is further along then she let you to believe. It also seems she may know of our legends, we aren't sure how, but she brought that up as well," Leah said as she sat next to me on the floor. She put her arm around me and looked up at Paul giving him a nasty look. "I told you not to tell her like this, in front of the whole damn pack, don't you think you screwed up enough?"
"I don't remember this with Lauren. I don't understand how I could have done that. It isn't like she could have got me drunk, werewolf I burn it off," Paul said as he tried to put his hand on me.
"Paul, you screwed up. This stupid imprint makes you and I bonded for life, and I no matter what I will stand by your side, but right now you can't be near me. I want to cause you harm, I am hurt, and disappointed," I said.
Leah helped me to my feet and walked me to her room. "I know this has to be hard for you, but maybe Lauren messed with the results. Maybe they screwed up."
I laid down and closed my eyes. I needed to rest, and I needed Paul to leave me a lone.
