I pulled out carefully and decided that I had had enough alone time, you can get attacked that way you know. I also didn't want to lead Felix to my Pack. I searched for my cell phone and realized it was where I had left it on the bed. "Fuck!" I hit the steering wheel hard enough to cause me to swerve. I needed the safety of people but didn't want to endanger the Pack. I drove and sighed, really what else could I do? I had no phone to call for help or to warn. I was screwed.

I pulled into a gas station and parked in front. I went inside and picked out a water bottle and some gum and paid for the items. I scanned the store making sure that no one was in there that posed a threat and my eyes found a pay phone. "Does your pay phone work?" I asked. The clerk made a face as if she didn't understand the question. Of course in the cell phone age that wasn't that uncommon. "The pay phone?" She asked. I nodded and spoke slowly. "Does it work?" She nodded. "Yeah I guess so." "Great, I left my cell at home." I explained. "Oh yeah that is the worse huh. Pay phone good idea." I smiled but when I turned I rolled my eyes.

I went outside and grinned. This was a "new" payphone that let you sue credit cards. I swiped my card and picked up the receiver and dialed Jacob's number from heart. After the start of the third ring I was starting to lose hope, Jacob was a first ring type of guy. "Yeah?" Jacob answered. "Jake?" "Vand? Is that you?" he asked. "Yes, I am on a pay phone I left my phone there." "Ok alright, is everything ok?" "No, a vampire approached me." "Are you hurt?" He asked. "No nothing like that. He wanted me to work for or with him. I don't know. Felix mean anything to you?" "Yeah, he is a Vol something or other." "Volturi" Sam said in the background. "Right Volturi they are like…" "Vampire royalty pretty much keeps things in check. Makes sense why they would want me. God I am a moron." I sighed. "Why what happened?" He asked. "Well I sort of told him no, that I didn't do human blood well couldn't as a vampire, that I was engaged to a wolf and with his child. Oh yeah and I threatened him and all he brought against me and pretty much all of them if any of the people I loved got hurt." Jacob swore. "Well I don't feel comfortable alone…" I sighed and let me voice trail off. "And you don't want to risk us." Jacob said finishing my thought. "Yes, exactly. If anything happened I could never forgive myself." I hurried out and bit my lip. I knew that the whole room could hear me with their sensitive ears. "Vander, come back now. No fighting over it or anything. A single vamp we can take any one of us, but with all of us that are here it is nothing. You are with child and in some wacky world a vampire is supposed to be able to best you. I can't see it happening but come back. I will protect you." I should have anted to argue, but I was feeling venerable. A hostile vampire with my heart and soul was a little to swore a subject. "Alright, as fast as I can. I am about ten minutes away. Need anything?" "No stops, just here and make it five minutes." I grinned. "Jake?" "Yeah?" he asked. "When you get all authoritative it turns me on." I couldn't but help a girlish giggle. "Ok that is it I have to be alpha now." He joked. "Ok I love you. Be there soon." "You had better or I will kill everything with fangs in a hundred mile radius." He cut the phone off and I hung up.

I went to the car and turned it on. I backed up much faster then was safe but knew I would be alright. I pulled onto the road but opted for back roads then main roads. Speeding is a beautiful thing, but not if you get caught and your prints come up a murder vic from a few years ago whose body they never found. Police frown on that.

Four and a half minutes later I was in the parking lot for the apartment. I looked up and saw the blinds of my apartment move a little. They were watching for me. I went in the building and scaled the stairs two at a time. I opened the door to be greeted by a pile of clothes and a russet wolf. I closed the door and Jacob licked my face affectionately. I smiled and scratched behind his ears and kissed his muzzle. I moved from the door and walked into the main area.

Quill was at the window and the others were finishing boxing up things. Pretty much the television and bed were the only unmolested items in the room. "Tomorrow?" I asked. Sam nodded. "Jake mentioned giving stuff away, but I am afraid it will have to wait until when are back home." I nodded. "Embry and Paul will get a moving van in the morning and will pack in everything and set out." I nodded again. "Who goes where?" I asked. "Well there are six of us seven including you. So you and Jake in your car with Embry. The rest of us in the van." He nodded. "Tight squeeze." I noted. Sam nodded. "Well yeah but we have to. Nothing is more important then getting everyone home safely. You made the drive alone and that was a miracle. We will be going a bit slower and driving in shifts. No need to be reckless." I nodded again. "I don't suppose that you scheduled me for any shifts?" I asked. Sam shook his head. "If you get sick again we don't want you to wreck." It irritated me but made sense. I sat down on the bed and made a face.

"Don't make that face, everyone but you will sleep in shifts. The bed is big enough for you and everyone else. One person will man the huge gaping window and another in wolf form the door." "For me, I am guessing that means no shift for me tonight either. Because I can't bring a fight, I am pregnant, or because I am a girl?" I asked. Jacob growled lifting his head, as if saying Vander don't. "Honestly, I know you can bring a fight. I saw you kill some people with a raise of your hand. Boy or girl that scares the shit out of me. You are pregnant, in your stomach right now is the future of the Pack. Emily has had two miscarriages. It is important to all of us. Please understand." He said firmly. "You are right. You are right, this baby is important to all of us." I nodded and removed my shoes. "I am going to take a shower." Sam nodded. "No offense Vander but you sort of smell like puke." "Wow, really thanks for that Sam." I said with false enthusiasm.

I went to the bathroom and closed the door. It was going to steam up the bathroom but there were a lot of men in that small apartment. I undressed and left my clothes on the floor and turned on the water. I stepped in the shower and let the water rush over my skin. I started to wash my hair out in a slowly lather massaging my scalp. I rinsed it out and set to condition my hair. The conditioner was old so it would have to sit. I started to wash my body starting with my face and going from there. A hour later I was satisfied to my clinginess and turned the water off.

I stepped out into the steamy room and toweled off and let the door swing open with a burst of steam. A towel wrapped around my waist. "Jake some clothes please?" I asked. He nodded his wolfen head and went to the open bag. A few seconds later he brought me long pajama pants and a light hoodie. "To keep me warm while you are on watch?" I asked. He nodded his head and dropped the clothes at my feet. I scooped them up and went back into the bathroom. I changed quickly and left the bathroom. "anyone else planning on taking a shower?" I asked. Sam looked at me. "Well if not then we can break down the shower stuff. You know throw the stuff away and pack away the towels and things." I explained. "Smart thinking, anyone else need a shower?" Sam asked. In turn each of the pack shook their head. "Ok I'll break it down." Sam looked at me but nodded.

I went to the bathroom and started to rinse the contents of the bottles down the drain. I discarded them in the trash and then set to folding the few rags and towels that were in the bathroom. When I was done I left the bathroom the stack in my arms and tossed them into a box with some of my old clothes. Embry wass till stationed on the milk crate my computer had been on and Jacob laid in front of the door. Everyone else was squeezing into the king size bed, lucky for everyone I used to thrash and needed a big bed. "Turning in early?" I asked. "Yeah, we are leaving as soon as the moving company opens. We will eat on the road." Sam explained. Quill patted the spot between his own body and Jared's/. "Saved you a spot, nice and toasty." He grinned at me. I shook my head. "I am going to take the spot on an edge, if I get suddenly sick do you want me in the middle of anybody?" The space was suddenly gone.

I got on the edge of the bed and settled on my side facing the television. I changed the channel and met protest. "If you keep watching sports center you will never fall asleep." I pointed out. This made the protest go away. I settled on Adult swim, something we could all enjoy but also fall asleep to.

Two shows later and I was still turning in my small spot and everyone else but Quill and Jacob were asleep. Pretending to sleep, but every time I moved it alerted both of them. "Screw this." I whispered and slipped from the bed. "Ah Vand?" Quill asked. "You guys want me to sleep well I need to sleep by Jacob." I argued in a whisper. He sighed in defeat and nodded. I crawled to where Jacob laid and cuddled up to his warm body. If wolves could frown that would have been Jacob's face. "You know I can't sleep without you. It not just being warm, it your smell and my heart is cold when your not in bed." I said burring my face in his furred chest. I felt sleep was over me almost instantly.

Vaguely I remembered a hushed argument as Jacob held my body to his taking me back to bed. He settled beside me and there was a spike of energy as someone else shifted. I felt our bodies mingle together and that was all it took to steal me away back into sleep.

When I woke there were sunglasses over my eyes. I sat up and looked at Jacob who was smiling down at me. "You are awake?" Embry asked. I nodded and looked up at him. In the rearview mirror I cold see the moving truck. "Good, now Jake can take a shift." He chuckled. "What?" I asked. "Well just that every time Jake put you down you started to wake up. Sort of adorable but really annoying." My stomach started to revolt in my body and I worked to scramble over the seats. "Pull over Embry." Jacob ordered. "I know you want to take a shift but it can wait till we get gas." My body began to wretch and I clasped my mouth shut. "She is getting morning sickness dude pull over." the instant slow and jerk to the side made my body scream out in the need to vomit, only my strong urge to not puke in my classic Shelby mustang kept it down.

With my forehead on the seat Jacob reached over and pulled the door open and grabbed my hair. The second I tasted fresh air I released all the puke my body could produce. Being pregnant makes you sloppy, I didn't notice Sam on the driver's side window until I sat back up slowly with Jacob guiding me. "You ok?" Jacob asked. "Just morning sickness. I would like some water if we have some and I will need food." I said nodding. Instantly a water bottle was offered to me. I spilled some of the water into my mouth and rinsed out the taste of last night's regurgitated dinner from my mouth. I then took a drink and sighed. "Here Carlisle said to give you these." Sam said handing Embry two bottles to pass to me. Prenatal vitamins and folic acid. "For the baby and for the morning sickness." I asked and received a nod. I took two of each and swallowed them down with water.

"Here Vand." Jacob handed me a sack with an orange and a bagel with two cream cheese packs. I nodded and started to unpeel the orange while Jacob and Embry switched places I discarded the orange peels out the window. Orange peels aren't littering you know. I started to slowly eat the orange as Sam left and Jacob pulled back on the road. When that was done I started on the bagel using a pack on each side of the bagel and started to slowly eat it. After I was done with the first half I was done. "I am full you want the other half Jake?" He smiled and shook his head. I broke a small piece off and offered it to Jacob. He took the morsel from my fingers and then started to suck on my index finger. I giggled and Embry gagged. "No wonder you knocked her up." he commented. I laughed and offered him half of the half and started to feed Jacob the rest. I looked back ant Embry who offered the bagel to me. "Not hungry?" I asked. "No I am, I just want you to feed me to." he laughed. I gave him the bird and he laughed again and started to eat.

"So Sam called Carlisle this morning and they talked about the treaty." Jacob said looking over at me quickly before setting his eyes back on the road. "What is the prognosis?" I asked almost afraid of the answer. "Well I explained why you wanted to live in Forks and Sam understands my need to live at La Push. I mean my Dad and just a bunch of things. So the decided that the Cullen vampires could be induced as members of the Pack, honorary members. It will be one big territory, but the rules stand the same, if we attack a human then there will be war and same with them." He nodded. "It will help things you know more bodies to split shifts. It will certainly be interesting." I smiled. "It is for you Vander, we have to get cozy with the leeches for you." Embry said. "Emb, it is for my family, and you are all my family. I used to be a leech and you didn't have a problem with me. You guys have worked together in the past. And name calling won't help things one bit." I said huffily. "She is right you know, the Cullens are her family too and thy take good care of her." Jacob defended. I knew he hated Edward at times, they were to alike about things and to different in other. I think that now that Bella was no longer an issue they would become friends.

I dug my phone out of my purse as it started to sound off, a text from Alice. 'Your wedding present! This is more fun then just the wedding.!' I groaned and started to scroll through the pictures. A nice large kitchen that was already being remodeled. In fact each of the rooms were being remodeled. Three bathrooms, one in the basement, one in the for public use and then one off the master bedroom. "What is it, bad news about the Volturi?" Jacob asked. "Worse, our wedding present." I responded. "What is it?" Embry asked leaning forward. "Know that house across the street for Sam's? It has been for sale since I got here?" I asked. Embry nodded. "That." I said handing him back the phone so he could see. "Holy shit… you guys are going to have the best house on the Rez." "That is Alice for you. She probably called the broker first thing this morning and set it up. I guess it is a good thing." I could sense Jacob's unease at the situation. "Rose and Alice don't sleep so it gives them lots to do, the wedding and the house. Emily is helping with both things so I guess that means they are getting along." I shrugged. Jacob made an unpleasant face. "What is it Jake?" I asked. "Well it just sucks that I can't get you anything. Alice bought your ring, and our house, they are paying for the wedding." he complained. "Jake, be realistic. It is my money too they are using, and right now you don't have the means to do certain things. You know? Alice isn't trying to deball you, she is trying to help us start a family. I mean you did all the work now she is just adding the frills." He sighed and nodded. "I guess." "Besides, she can see the future she is just putting together what you and I would have. She is just helping us out so I don't get stressed out about all this stuff." He sighed again. "Why do you have to make so much sense huh?" he asked. I shrugged and took my phone back from Embry.

I started texting Alice and Rose. They willing filling me in on the details, about the wedding and the house. The next couple of hours will filled with text messages and picture messages. Nothing about the Volturi. I figured that that meant nothing important was happening and that I would simple have to talk about it in length with the family. Finally we stopped at a McDonalds for some lunch. I was grateful, I was tired of fruits and bread. Sometimes a girl just needs a Big Mac.

Jacob had a different idea, chicken nuggets. "I want two nuggets then large fries and a coke." I ordered. The clerk looked at me wide eyed. I was slim and fit, so all the food didn't make sense. "I am pregnant calm down." I said in a huff. He simple punched the food in and took the orders of the rest of the pack. I paid with my card and went to sit at a table. I watched out the window as the cars passed on the highway we had just got off of. We were about half way home. Quill had driven a lot longer then he let on.

The men returned to the table and sat down the trays of food, there was a lot of it. Jacob took two large cups from the stack and went to fill them up and was followed by the five others. They returned with the sodas and I pulled my food to me and started to eat my fries. I started to eat one handed my other hand on Jacob's thigh. I looked at him and a wave of guilt washed over me. Jacob had only recently turned 18 despite looking to be my same age maybe even older. I gave his thigh a squeeze, he was still so young and I was placing a lot of responsibility on him.

He looked over at me and gave me a quick kiss stealing a nugget in the process. He popped it in his mouth and I looked at him with horror. "You would steal food from the mouth of your unborn baby?" I said in a very convincing tone. Jacob knew me well enough to not buy it. He stuck out his tongue with the chewed mass on it. "Here you go." "Aww gross." Sam laughed and the others started heckling us. I started to lean forward my tongue extended as if to scoop it off. The boys feel silent, either they were too grossed out or knew I was bluffing. Then I heard the click of a phone and looked over to see Paul grinning showing the disgusting picture. I started laughing so hard I grabbed my sides. Jacob laughed so hard the chewed nugget fell on to the table causing everyone to start roaring with laughter.

After a few minutes we began to wind down find out food again. "You know what?" I asked sipping my coke. "What is that. ?" Jacob asked. "Our baby is going to have the best family ever." I smiled. "As long as you don't name it Jaspemsaembry." He laughed. "What about Roaliemieah?" I asked. Jacob shook his head. "Ok well I was once obsessed with baby names. Gilbert and.." I shut my mouth and filled it with my straw. "What?" Jacob asked. I shook my head and everyone fell silent. "Where you and he ever pregnant?" Jacob asked point blank. Just what I wanted to avoid. "Yes." I nodded, it was something I never wanted to think about.

"What happened?" he asked. I looked towards the Pack for help but found them all looking away awkwardly. "Don't look at them, look at me what happened? Do you have a baby running around somewhere I should know about? Did you miscarry? Did it die in the attack and you aren't telling me?" He asked angry. "God Jacob! No I was at eight months pregnant. And that wolf Alex he ripped him from my stomach. He could have lived if Alex hadn't crushed him in his hands. His name was Vincent Alihandro." I said in a low voice. "The scar on your stomach…." Jacob asked. I nodded and stood up grabbing my soda and purse. Then I stalked out to the car. I got into the driver's side and realized I didn't have the keys Jacob did. I rested my hands on my belly and took a couple deep breaths tears streaming down my face.

I could have started the car easy enough one little spark but I wasn't thinking straight. All of the sudden lighting struck beside the car and it started to pour. When you are a weather witch sometimes these things happen. I moved over the gear shift to the passenger side and leaned against the passenger door tears still coming. The car door opened and Sam let Quill Climb in back and then got in. He wordlessly started the car and pulled out the van following us.

After a few minutes Sam opened his mouth and closed it again. "Are you doing this?" he asked. In response the rain started to pour harder the lighting illuminating the sky almost non stop. He didn't ask again. "Jake shouldn't have done that." Quill said softly. I looked back at him tears still flowing. "Well no he shouldn't have. I have never repeated that story to anyone. Gilbert, Alex, and I were the only people who knew. It was something I never wanted to revisit, so I had to do it in a Mickey D's with some of my closest friends watching. It's like Gilbert and Vincent had to die because I wasn't meant for them. Why could we have just gotten a divorce or broken the engagement something normal?" I growled in frustration.

Neither of the men spoke. They just left me to fume and cry. After a while the storm died down and I stopped crying. Instantly my phone rang. "Tell Jacob that unless he wants lightning to strike him where he sits he better hang up right now." I told Sam who nodded. Seconds later the phone stopped ringing. "How much longer?" I asked. "Couple of hours." Sam nodded. I sighed. This was going to be a long couple of hours. "Want to talk about it?" Sam asked. "No." I said. "Fair enough." he said flatly.

I finished off my soda and looked out the window. I wasn't really pissed at Jacob anymore, I wasn't really pissed to begin with just completely sad. In fact that moment all I wanted was to be cuddled next to Jacob as he held me and told me it would be alright. That this time it would be different, but with the Volturi on my tail would it really be?