Changing Tides

A/N:Ok so this one is a little longer than normal, I didn't mean for it to be so long, but it sort of got away from me and I didn't want to cut anything out. Please Review at the end of the chapter, thanks.

Ch 21- Undead

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I woke up as soon as the sun did, and I ran over to the Cullens right away. I knew there was a good chance that Nessie was still sleeping, but I figured I could hang with Edward for a while or discuss the upcoming monster baseball game with Emmet until she woke up. I was always eager to see Ness every morning, but perhaps our run in with the police yesterday made me even more anxious than normal and I couldn't seem to shake the uneasy feeling I had like something was going to happen again today, something worse than just being arrested.

Edward came to the door before I even got to the steps. "Wow, I really missed you sunshine." Edward teased.

"Yeah I bet you did, it's my wonderful aroma that you just can't seem to resist, just admit it." I joked back.

"Of course I admit it; your pheromones drive me wild."

"Ok, too far." I laughed. "Is Nessie still asleep?" I asked finally.

"I heard her stirring about a half of an hour ago, so she should be down soon. Esme is making breakfast." He said so I followed him in the house.

"So Esme, how did you become such a good cook?" I asked her while she flipped an omelet.

"Are you kidding? I love to cook. I came from a big family who loved to eat and I couldn't be more thrilled then to have people around who can actually appreciate it. Plus, the food network these days is amazingly informative." Esme said enthusiastically.

"I'm really sorry about the way my pack treated you. You are way too kind to be treated like that by anyone; I'll make sure it doesn't happen again." I promised her

"You are so sweet Jake, but don't worry about it. I know it's going against their nature to be around us; you too in fact, I'm sure this must be hard for you." Esme said caringly.

"Nah, I mean I guess at first, but you are all cool and what's important to Ness, is important to me." I told her.

"She's very lucky to have you." She told me with a warm smile.

"No, I'm the lucky one." That was the first time that I ever really thought of myself as lucky. I always had the worst luck ever since my mom died when I was little. It was always just one bad thing after another but now, even with her age and opposing species, having Ness in my life makes me the luckiest guy in the world.

Nessie danced into the room, looking as beautiful as ever.

"Hey Jakey." She kissed me quickly before kissing Esme and then Edward.

Edward huffed "Since when am I last?" He complained

"Sorry Daddy, but grandma cooked." She said sweetly

"But why did I get greeted behind Wolf over there?" He said playfully offended.

"He's cuter." She said and stuck her tongue out at him.

Bella came into the room quietly and wrapped her arms around Edward's torso from behind, and kissed him on the neck.

"Renesmee, no one is cuter then your father." Bella said then kissed him again.

"Eww. To each their own." Nessie said while she shrugged, then walked back over to me and sat on my lap.

"Bella? I just wanted to say that I'm sorry about what happened last night." I said cautiously to her.

"Oh right." Nessie interrupted. "My dad said that I need to apologize to you too." Ness said.

"Why?" I asked confused.

"Renesmee, you're not supposed to tell him that I asked you to apologize." Edward said with a grin.

"Oh. Right." She was quiet for a few seconds. "Well, I still am sorry. I should have listened to you when you asked me to slow down."

"Don't worry about it sweet heart." I assured her and kissed the top of her head.

"No, really Jake. That was irresponsible of me and I could have gotten you into a lot of trouble, I'm really and truly sorry." She said while looking deep into my eyes. God I wanted to kiss her.

Edward cleared his throat while looking at me, and then he turned his attention back to Ness. "And?" He prompted her. Nessie shook her head at him, but Edward nodded sternly, so she sighed.

"And, you can drive when we go places for a while." She said sadly.

"Renesmee, you should just be glad that we didn't take your license away all together." Bella added.

"I know, Ok." Ness said while looking away from them like a sullen teenager. "Ready to go?" She asked me.

"Uhh, are we allowed to leave?" I asked surprised. I actually thought they would want her to hang around the house again after what happened.

"Yeah, like my dad could really punish me for driving fast anyway, you should see the way he drives." She said while smirking at Edward.

Carlisle came into the house from the front, and held his hand out to me. "Here you go."

I looked down at his hand which he was holding in a fist, and reflexively reached up for whatever he was giving me. He dropped a key in my hand that I recognized as being the Vanquish key.

"Enjoy it." Carlisle said.

"Oh that's cool, you already picked it up from the impound?" I asked

"That's where I just came from, and I stopped by the DMV to put it in your name so this little mess won't happen again." Carlisle informed me.

"In my name?" I asked confused

"I's all yours, have fun with it, the title is in the glove department." Carlisle explained.

"Not that I'm not appreciate or anything, but why would you give me your car?" I asked stunned

"Actually, it was Edward's before he died, but since he's gone now, I got ownership but I think he would have wanted you to have it." Carlisle said

"I'm standing right here." Edward said annoyed at Carlisle.

"Are you sure about this Edward?" I asked him.

"Well since it's a classic now, I thought you would be the best person to keep the old junker running. I was planning on getting rid of it anyway." Edward joked.

"Thanks man, that's awesome." I was never one for hand outs, but I sure as hell wasn't going to pass on a Vanquish; when was I ever going to get another chance to own something like that?

"Come on Jake, let's go." Nessie said grabbing my arm.

I felt kind of bad being given something that awesome, then just taking off so quickly but what Nessie wants, Nessie gets, so we left.

I sat behind the wheel of my new car and turned it on. It was like this car was made for me and it quickly became my second most favorite thing in the world. I had the hardest time restraining myself from letting it go and seeing how fast it really was, but there was no way I was going to speed in this thing with Ness sitting next to me after what happened to us.

"Where too my lady?" I asked Ness as we crossed into LaPush.

"Let's go see Leah and Seth." She said

"Ok, I'll give them a call."

"No, let's go to their house" Nessie suggested

"Well that's not a good idea. Charlie lives there and I doubt he'd appreciate us showing up right now."

"Oh please?" She begged giving me her puppy eyes. "I really want to see Sue again, besides Charlie is probably at work."

I sighed, and against my better judgment, I agreed "Swan-Clearwater house, here we come." I said lacking enthusiasm.

We pulled into the driveway and Seth automatically came out to greet us. "Hey there felon and jailbait." Seth teased, but I had it coming so I didn't threaten him for it. "Charlie told us what happened last night, damn are you lucky."

"Yeah well Carlisle and Edward really came through for us." I agreed with him.

"I'm surprised Edward let you guys hang out today." Seth said.

"Not only did he let us leave the house, but he also gave Jake the Vanquish." Nessie gloated

"What?" Seth yelled in excited disbelief. "You got taken in to jail, and they reward you with a freaking amazing badass car?"

"Isn't my dad the best?' Nessie said smugly

"Hell yeah, but then again I always thought so." Seth said while looking at me suggestively. "Do you think he'll give me a car too?" Seth asked Nessie.

"Maybe, do you want me to ask him?" Ness said.

"Yes" Seth said at the same time as I said "No"

"Seth, I didn't ask him for this car, and he was planning to get rid of it anyway, besides you won't be driving his daughter anywhere." I said annoyed by Seth.

"Well, maybe Carlisle will want to get rid of his Mercedes, that's an older car now too." Seth hoped.

"Don't hold your breath." I said to him.

"Hey Jake, I was wondering if I was going to get to see you again." Sue said as she came out from the house. "Hey Nessie, how are you sweet heart?"

"Hi Sue." She said with a huge grin.

"Uhh, maybe we should take off?" Seth said so I turned around to see Charlie's cruiser pulling up to the driveway. I knew this was going to happen.

"Hi Charlie" Nessie said jovially. Apparently Nessie knew this was going to happen too, in fact it's obvious that she was hoping for it. She is really going to get me killed.

Charlie huffed uneasily and shook his head as he took us in.

"Hi Nessie." He said with a half hearted smile. "Jake" He greeted me coldly; oh this is going to be wonderful.

"How was work?" Nessie asked him casually. What the hell was she thinking of?

"Are you guys hungry?" Sue asked us quickly trying to break the tension.

I was about to say no because Esme had just made us breakfast, but Nessie jumped in and said "Sure, thanks Sue." I saw Charlie pinch the bridge of his nose as a frustrated response to us staying for a visit.

Nessie was much more at ease this time being here than she was the last time. She was much more talkative and seemed to be comfortable around Sue and Charlie.

"So kids, what are your plans today?" Sue asked us.

"They aren't kids Sue, except for Nessie of course." Charlie said harshly.

"Hey, is that a picture of you daughter Charlie?" Nessie asked while ignoring his previous comment. She got up to the mantle and picked up the small picture of Bella as a child; I wondered how she missed it last time, maybe she just wasn't paying attention then.

"Yes, that's my daughter Bella." Charlie said before quickly going and taking the picture from her, and replacing it on the mantel where it was.

"She was beautiful, how old was she there?" Nessie asked

"Eleven." Charlie said shortly

"Do you have any more recent pictures of her?" Nessie asked. God, why the hell was she pushing this?

"No"

"Sure we do, I'll go get them." Sue said and shot Charlie a meaningful glance.

She came back with a photo album, and sat next to Nessie on the couch so they could look through it together.

"Ahh, she is so pretty." Nessie cooed. I could tell how much she was loving seeing her mom at such a young age and completely human. The Cullens didn't have any pictures of Bella as a human except for their wedding picture. At the end of the album, there was an 8x10 of Bella and Edward from prom; it was the only picture there was of Edward in the album.

Nessie didn't speak as she stared at the picture of her parents, but we all noticed the tear that streamed down her cheek as she gazed at it. "Charlie?" She said hesitantly. Oh no.

"We better be going." I cut her off.

"Nessie, are you Ok?" Charlie asked concerned.

"Yeah, she's fine." I answered for her quickly before she had a chance to tell him what I now realized that she came here to say.

"I didn't ask you Jacob." Charlie said angrily.

"She's not dead." Nessie said suddenly. Crap.

"What?" Sue and Charlie said at the same time.

"Bella, she's not dead and they shouldn't have told you that." Nessie told him then glanced sideways at me quickly before turning back to them.

Charlie's face ranged in emotions from shock and confusion, to anger.

"Why would you say something like that?" Sue asked insulted while Charlie was speechless. I wasn't sure before if Seth or Leah told their mom about Bella being Nessie's mom, but I did know that she was well aware that Bells was actually a vampire, so her reaction was just for show.

"I just don't think it's fair for him to grieve her when she's currently living a few miles away with the rest of the Cullens."

"Ok, I've heard enough, what kind of sick game are you playing?" Charlie asked with hurt in his eyes. "My daughter died eight years ago, and this is cruel, especially coming from you Jake." Wow, once again, this was turned onto me.

"Charlie calm down…" I said to him

"Don't you dare tell me to calm down!" He was yelling now. All the years I've known him, I've never heard him yell. "I don't know what the Hell you are doing here, but you need to leave now."

"Charlie please…"

"Get out of my house, NOW!"

I stood up and grabbed Nessie's hand and was about to go for the door, when Leah came running in.

"Vamps, like four of them." She said sounding out of breath.

"Where?" I asked quickly

"Right Out Side!" She yelled

"What the hell?" I didn't even ask Leah if they were Cullens, because I knew she would have told me that right away, and they knew better than to come here. I looked to Nessie to see if she had any clue as to what was going on, but she looked just as confused as I did.

We ran outside quickly, and I could hear Sue trying to convince Charlie to stay there, but he sounded as if he was following, but I couldn't focus on that in the moment.

Four vampires stood there lounging against the trees that surrounded the yard, but the big question is, why. My past two weeks with the Cullens has taught me to talk first, before attacking, so I cautiously walked closer to them. I glanced one more time at Ness to see if she knew these vamps, and she just shook her head no but either way, this wasn't a coincidence that they showed up here and now.

"Why are you here?" I asked them forcefully

"What, can't a group friends just walk the forest for no reason at all?" One of the vamps asked with a smirk.

"Drop the bull, what the hell do you want?" I demanded.

"We ran into some old buddies of yours, a definitely bewitching group of young men, who spoke of a bunch of wolf people that they thought we would be interested in brawling with." The vamp said.

"Why would Greg let vamps live, little alone tell them to come fight us? Besides, Greg didn't know where we were from." Seth said quietly to just me and Leah but of course the vamps heard him.

"Locating spell, obviously." A vamp answered Seth. "Let's just say that we met the witches during a vulnerable moment on their part, and they struck us a deal. They could tell that we were looking for some worthy opponents to spar with, to better our little gang here obviously, so they told us about you boys…and the female of course.

"Dude I'm seriously going to kill those witches." Leah said quietly.

"Focus on the fight ahead of us Lee." Seth told her.

We were outnumbered four to three, and there wasn't time to call Embry and Quill, so my first thought was to get the humans away so I wouldn't be distracted during the fight worrying about them. "Ness, take Sue and Charlie back inside." I instructed her.

"Now, why are you going to send them away, I could really use a victory snack after we finish you three off." The first vamp said, which left me seeing red.

"What the hell is going on here?" Charlie said while walking forward like he was going to get between us.

"Charlie, you need to stay back." Nessie grabbed his hand and pulled him back towards the house. I could see Charlie try to break free from her grasp, but Nessie was stronger than him and he noticed.

The vamps used my distraction to their advantage, and they attacked. I phased first and crashed into them before Leah and Seth joined in the fight. I couldn't tell Charlie's reaction and I couldn't focus on it either. These four vamps were tough, and as the alpha, I took on two of them while Leah and Seth each fought one. I killed the first with a swift bit to the neck causing his head to roll away from his body, but we were having a harder time with the others.

I was extremely focused on the fight at hand, because these three vamps had to be some of the toughest we've been up against, when a muffled scream cased me to turn away. A fifth vamp snuck up and had Nessie in a chock hold covering her mouth as he was struggling to drag her off somewhere. Charlie pulled it out his gun and had it pointed at the vamp, yelling for him to release Ness but the vamp just laughed at him. My heart leaped into my throat as I saw that disgusting leech with his arms around my Nessie.

Crap. We got this Jake, go get her – Seth thought and Leah agreed.

As much as I hated leaving them out numbered again, it was impossible for me to stay and help them when Nessie was in that kind of danger, so I ran over to them. I leaped in Nessie's direction, when I was caught in mid air from behind as the vamp I had been fighting grabbed my back foot, then I was thrown to the ground and his foot stomped into my rib cage. Damn it, more broken ribs. He was just about to bring his foot back down on me again, when I rolled over on my back and ripped his foot off with my jaws.

It hurt like hell, but I forced myself up and finished off the vampire before running towards Ness again. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw Ness standing there freely, and was smirking at me with the dismembered vampire at her feet. Damn she was hot.

Seth and Leah both killed their vamps and didn't need my help, so I painfully trotted over to Ness and nuzzled her tenderly just to make sure she was Ok. She reached up to my face with her palm and reinforced her well being with a mental replay of her victory over the vampire that held her.

Nessie was not stronger than a vampire, so when she showed me how she overpowered him I was shocked. He was dragging her off into the woods, when Charlie started charging them resulting in the vampire being stunned and amused by the attacking human, so Nessie used that as a diversion and ripped his arm off before going for his throat. I couldn't help but think her violent vision was sexy; damn what the hell is wrong with me?

I looked over at Charlie who was leaning against a tree trying to catch his breath. His face was white as a ghost, and Sue was trying to console him but Charlie seemed to be lost in his own confusion to notice her.

Sue saw that she wasn't getting through to her husband, so she left him momentarily to run into the house to get some clothes for us to change into so we could help explain things. I'm bigger than Seth, so his shorts she got for me to wear were too tight, but at least it was better than being naked. These things better be clean.

After we phased back and dressed, I ran back to Nessie and wrapped her in my arms and she held on to me just as tight, but avoided touching my stomach area.

"Are you Ok?" I asked her franticly

"I already showed you that I was." She smiled and kissed my bare shoulder. "What about you, are your ribs broken?" She asked concerned while gently rubbing my mid-section.

"Yeah, but I think I'm going to need Carlisle to re-break them because I can feel them healing wrong, especially since I phased. I think shifting my shape just hurt my ribs even more, that was actually stupid of me." I said to her

"Charlie man, uhh, you Ok?" Seth was trying to talk to Charlie, but wasn't getting through."

"Charlie, the world isn't exactly what you thought it was." I told him. He finally broke out of his trance and looked up at me with a duh face.

"No Really?" Charlie said sarcastically. "So…are all the Quileute's…wolves?" Charlie asked incredulously. He was actually taking it quite well.

"Uhh, no. there's what, like fifteen or something now?" I asked Seth not entirely sure how many were in Sam's pack.

"How?" He asked

"It's in our genes." I told him the story of the first wolf and when I mentioned vampire, his eyes doubled in size. I knew I should have probably left the vampire part out, but Charlie knew there was something up with the dismembered bodies that were still twitching on the ground, so I figured the truth was the best. "Seth, start a fire." I ordered him.

Charlie let my story sink in, then after a few minutes, he looked at Nessie suspiciously then asked me "And what is she? She's not exactly human herself" Charlie said because she was stronger than him and he saw her taking out the one vamp.

"I'm a hybrid." She said with pride.

"Hybrid? What does that mean?"

Seth had disappeared in the house after he and Leah put the vamp pieces into a trash bin on fire, and came out with a guilty expression on his face. "I called Edward, he's coming over." He said.

"Edward?" Charlie asked confused; Edward was supposed to have died with Bella in a boating accident while they were on their honeymoon.

"Charlie, I'm sorry but Nessie wasn't lying earlier when she said that Bella is still alive."

His face was pressed in hard disbelief, but then Edward and Emmet came running onto the scene, Charlie's mouth dropped. Edward ran straight over to Ness, and hugged her, then looked her over for any injuries, when he was satisfied that she was Ok, he came over to me and started poking at my ribs.

"Ouch, that hurts!" I yelled at him.

"I'm going to have to re-break them Jake." Edward told me apologetically.

"No way, I'd like a more experienced doctor to do it, where's Carlisle?" I asked him stubbornly.

"Oh, he's right behind you." I stupidly turned my back, and Edward grabbed a hold of my abdomen and squeezed strategically, sending loud cracks into the air.

"DAMN!" I screamed.

"Carlisle is out hunting, but you should be perfectly fine in a few hours or so. You're welcome." He said smugly before turning to Charlie who looked like he was cursing at him internally.

"Charlie, I'm sorry you had to find out like this." Edward said carefully. Charlie stepped forward to him, and went to punch him in the jaw, but Edward caught his fist.

"Charlie, I understand you're upset, but you punching me is only going to break your hand."

"What are you, and where the hell is my daughter." Charlie seethed noticing for the first time that Edward wasn't human.

"I'm a vampire Charlie, and I have been since long before you were born."

Charlie's face went from red to purple than back to red again before cooling to a flushed pink. If looks could kill a vampire, Edward would have been dead ten times over. After it seemed like the initial anger was through, Charlie stared at him for a long moment, then looked over at me, before turning his attention back to Edward.

"So the Quileute's hated the Cullen's, because it was a monster thing; werewolves vs. vampires?" Charlie asked with a shaky voice.

"Well, were all friends now." Seth chimed in.

"Bella?" Charlie breathed

Edward could hear what he meant, so he nodded slowly at him.

"Where?" Charlie asked as a tear rolled down his cheek.

"At the house" Edward said, and Charlie didn't even wait half a second before jumping in his car and racing away, obviously to go see his undead daughter.

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