Chapter 21:

Acceptance

Jacob POV.

I wake up in a pool of sweat breathing rapidly and heaving profusely. I'm lying in a puddle of my own sweat. I get out of bed pacing back and forth looking down at Lauren. She has a smile planted on her face as she talks in her sleep. I think to myself 'I got to make sure Leah is okay.'

I don't know what I just witness but whatever it was it felt so real. I found her body laying on the beach, lifeless and there was blood surrounding her. I smelt her blood; this couldn't have been a nightmare. I run to open the window and I hear Lauren shuffle awake.

"Jacob." She whispers patting over to my side of the bed.

"I'm going to outside to patrol a bit." I tell her trying to reassure her.

"Be safe." She says before turning over.

She is half asleep; if she were fully awake she would have been begging me to stay. I push the window up and leap out phasing upon hitting the ground. I begin a steady pace to Leah's house. I do not smell her blood in the air but I smell her scent faintly. Hopefully I am dreaming and she isn't hurt.

The faint scent gets stronger as I follow it towards Leah's house. I take the woods towards her backyard. I can see her through the window and she is sitting at her kitchen table staring at her phone lightly taping her fingers against the table.

Leah takes her phone and goes up stairs. I follow her around the house so that I can see through the window.

She takes off the shirt she has on exposing her protruding belly which is beautiful. She has this single dark brown line that follows up towards her belly button from her pelvic bone center.

Leah's hair is messy from removing her shirt and she simply pushes it out of her face. Though she can grow her hair out she still manages to keep it at her shoulders. She doesn't grow it an inch longer nor shorter since Ray's death. It simply stays the same.

My wolf eyes allow me to see thing that others cannot see, it allows me to see the small freckles that has appeared on her face since she's been back from Seattle. I can see she has stretch marks from the baby developing vaguely on the side of her hip as she slips her panties off throwing them down with her shirt. I want to respect her and look away but it's not possible.

Her breasts are swollen red and her nipples are darker from the milk she is producing; she holds the left one as if she is experiencing pain.

I've missed every single touch that I took for granted; I missed it all.

I sit there wanting badly to walk up to her to apologize for being stupid. I want her, I want my baby and I want our family. But it can't happen like that, it has to be on her on time. I walk away slowly taking one last look at her before I head back to life that I continue to live with Lauren.

I decide at the last moment not to leave. Well I couldn't leave, my heart wouldn't let me. I lay on my front paws and fall asleep until I hear Leah screaming in excruciating pain. I quickly get up from my paws about to phase when I'm suddenly crashing into a tree and howling in pain.

Leah POV

I lay against my head board listening to music on my iPod. I'm hoping that it will land on the perfect song and lead me to where I am supposed to go and tell me what I am supposed to do. I need a song that will save my life and my baby's because this life that I have been given isn't mine's anymore; I share it with my child and I want to be better for him and for us.

I put my 'smooth' playlist on and fall asleep to the soothing sounds. I awake to the baby kicking me as if he is in distress. I'm sweating and my heart is beating fast. I'm panicking because I realize that the kicking is in fact-period like cramps. I push my blanket off and see that I'm sitting in liquid.

"My water broke." I scream out loud. The scream is caused by an excruciating cramp as I stare at the puddle I'm sitting in.

I try to rationalize what to do I haven't been preparing for 'him' to actually be born. I reach over to my right to grab the phone off of my nightstand which falls on the floor because my hands won't stop shaking.

I hear a loud crash outside followed by a howl from a wolf. I get out of bed and fondle my way around the floor until I can feel my phone that made its way under my bed. I call Carlisle who is at the hospital. He asks how far apart my contractions are and I don't know. I just know that I'm hurting. He says he will send Esme after me to bring me to the hospital. He tells me to remain calm and everything I'm feeling is normal. I hang up to call Sam and Emily.

"Hello." A groggy Sam answers the phone up.

"It's Leah-" I try to say before I'm cut off by king asshole.

"Are you okay, what's wrong Lee-Lee?" He asks before I can finish my statement.

"I'm in labor but there is a hurt wolf not far from my house." I say to him frantically. I can hear a fight happening and I don't know who it is and what it is.

"What? No one should be out I'm on my way, I'll wake Emily." He says before hanging up.

I call my mom who says she will meet me at the hospital. I try to sit on the edge of the bed hoping that the contractions will stop; they seem to be every 9 minutes. The fighting has stopped buy the whimpers have not.

I sit breathing rapidly when I see the headlights pull up outside and then I hear loud hissing, it must be Esme and followed by the sound of concrete crushing. During my pregnancy I never told anyone that the vampire smell still gets to me. Being pregnant a lot of smells make me want to vomit or bother me. By me being human leech scent isn't suppose to bother me but it does. I don't know if it's a old sense memory but it bothers me to no end. I didn't want Carlisle experimenting more than he needed to. After the crash I attempt to walk towards the window to see if I can see her. But the headlights are turned off. I weakly lift the window up and poke my head out the scents hit me all at once.

There is a mixture of wolf blood and vampire stench. I hope the wolf and Esme didn't get into a fight I think to myself. Then I smell him, it's not only Esme and the wolf is Jacob.

I begin to panic thinking about the vampire who crossed the border last month and I start to feel like I'm in danger. Hot tears stream down my face as I hold my stomach from the pain and fear. I need to hide. I think to myself if I phase I might kill the baby but save myself or I could save the both of us. I try not to think about it when that time comes I will do what's necessary to protect us.

I waddle back to my bed trying to gain courage to hide. Esme decrepitly limps through the bedroom door missing an arm and badly bruised. She has been beaten by her own kind. She has blood on her shirt and I'm scare to walk over by her.

"Leah we have to get you out of here now." She screams with her voice cracking towards the end. She is afraid and looks around anxiously at her surroundings.

"What happened?" I ask cautiously.

"Someone is here to get your baby. Now come with me." She says grabbing my hand and leading me down the steps before I can process what's going on.

My stomach is turning and before I know it I vomit on the porch the minute we reach outside, I smell the disgusting leech and then I hear Emily yelp and ask Esme and what happened.

Sam is in wolf form running through the woods. Then I hear Jacob ask if I am okay.

I pass out.

Kyla's pov.

"Embry your driving to slow we need to make it back before she gives birth." I yell at Embry impatiently.

A/n: Thanks to KKJ awesome beta! Thank you to everyone that reads! So let me know if you hate it or love it please review!