DISCLAIMER: Never owned it.
Chapter 25
Shadows fill an empty heart as love is fading
From all the things that we are but are not saying
Can we see beyond the scars
And make it to the dawn?
Change the colors of the sky
And open up to the ways you made me feel alive
The ways I loved you, for all the things that never died
To make it through the night love will find you
What about now? What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late, what about now?
The sun is breaking in your eyes to start a new day
This broken heart can still survive with a touch of your grace
Shadows fade into the light
I am by your side where love will find you
What about now? What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late, what about now?
Now that we're here
Now that we've come this far, just hold on
There is nothing to fear, for I am right beside you
For all my life, I am yours
What about now? What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
What about now? What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late
Baby, before it's too late
Baby, before it's too late
What about now? - Westlife (A.N. You'll got to agree I choose awesome songs. Right?)
Jacob's POV
"Jacob we need to talk." Edward said as we walked towards his old house.
He glanced at Ness who was walking besides me, hand in hand looking sad and disoriented.
"But I guess it will have to wait." He said still looking at her.
Bella also kept looking at her daughter with a worried expression every now and then. Ness just seemed...lost. I knew what was going on in her head. I didn't need Edward to tell me. She was blaming herself. She always did. I wanted to talk to her, to tell her it wasn't her fault. How could she have known about the Volturi's plans? How could she have prevented them? But we had to wait.
We moved into the Cullen's Forks home. I had sent everyone back. Only Leah and the baby came along. And Seth came along for Leah. Jared was taking care of all the other wolves at La Push. For some reason Leah held on to me and Ness, as Bella carried the new born in the incubator. Emmett and Jasper carried Andrea and Embry. Both still convulsing. Alice and Rosalie brought the hybrids along. I could see how Rosalie just couldn't let them go and take care of themselves. They took them to Edward and Bella's cottage.
Edward immediately moved the baby into Carlisle's emergency room. He stuck some tubes in his tiny arms and mouth.
"What are you doing Edward?" Leah asked him.
"This will help the baby breath and survive until it is healthy enough." he said.
"How long..."
"I can't say, it all depends on how fast he recovers. You can stay in here as long as you wish. I'll send in some food and water for you." Edward said.
Leah's tears had never dried. She still cried. But at least with the baby, she now had a reason to live.
As soon as we got in the next room, Edward said in an extremely low voice,
"Jacob, did you notice anything different about Leah?"
I shook my head.
"What's wrong Edward? Did she get hurt?" Seth asked.
"No, it's just...her wounds are not healing the way they used to. In fact her wounds have barely healed. While all of your wounds are scars by now. It's like her healing power is lost. And it seems she can't even hear us now, when normally she would've. Like all her wolf senses are lost."
"Does that mean..." Seth started.
"I can't say for sure. Maybe Caleb's death has affected her senses or maybe she has stopped becoming a wolf altogether. Only she can tell when she tries to shift."
"I...I don't know what to say. She never liked being a wolf. But...losing imprint then her wolf form altogether can be...can be too much for her to handle. Edward are you sure we should let the baby be with her in this state?" I asked.
"That baby is the only thing that is keeping her from breaking into pieces. She is breathing because she promised she would be his mother."
I nodded. If the baby is keeping her alive then no one can ever take the little one away from her.
Andrea and Embry were tied to the beds in the next room to stop them from convulsing so bad.
"I'm sorry Jake, there is nothing we can do about them until her change is over." Edward said.
"I get she is turning. But him?"
"I can only guess this is some sort of imprint magic."
"There are no stories, no legends that explains this!"
"I'm sorry Jake. But we can only wait and watch."
"Dad, how long until they..." Ness asked.
"About three days."
She squeezed my hands.
"I'm sorry Jake. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me." She passed to me with tears in her eyes.
"Ness look at me. You did nothing wrong! You couldn't have stopped the Volturi from coming here. It was their plan from the very start. Ask Edward. He saw it in his head! It was not you Ness. Not you. And I don't want you to be thinking anything about it anymore. What's done is done. It's long gone by. We can only treat the injured and help them to live. Ness we have each other. We will make it through. You get me?" I asked. I was this close to breaking down. But she needed me. I had to be strong for her.
She nodded, but said nothing. She wiped her tears and looked around.
"Only one more thing remains." Jasper said.
Yes. The hybrids.
Bella stayed behind along with Leah, Emmett and Jasper in the big house.
Ness and me walked hand in hand followed by Edward.
"They like Alice and Rose. Not really like. But they know at least Rose and Alice won't kill them. And Rose absolutely loves them." Edward said before we entered the cottage.
"Thought so." I said. It was obvious. The blondie loved babies.
"Are they..." I didn't have to complete my question.
"They feed on humans. But they couldn't have helped it. The Volturi trained them without feeding them for days. And then with that thirst they became monsters. They could've been good people, circumstances have brought them here."
I nodded. I wanted their story from their mouths.
Six of them had remained. Two girls and four guys. The kid Nate stood protectively over them as we entered. Rose and Alice handed them some clothing. The youngest of them was a red haired girl looking around eight. Not even full two human years. When Rose opened the closet, she peered in. The older black haired girl tried to hold her back, but she ran towards Rosalie into the huge closet.
"You like these clothes?" Rosalie asked her.
"Yaz...come back." Nate ordered.
She traced her steps back with a sad expression.
Rosalie looked at Edward and he mouthed the word red.
Rosalie removed the red colored sweater and went to give it to the little girl.
"Is this the one you liked?" She asked her.
"How did you..." she asked in a shocked voice.
"I'm a mind reader." Edward said.
"I don't wanna talk or negotiate with another mind reader. We want to leave, if you want to stop us then you'll have kill us." Nate said without any second thoughts.
"I'll get out of this room in an instant. But will you at least let Alice, Rosalie, Jacob and Ness here talk to you? They don't read minds. And Ness is like one of you. She has a gift. She can show you who and what we really are. Doesn't little Yasmin has similar powers? Nate whatever Aro told you was a lie. You'll are not monsters. You'll can be good . And you'll see that soon." Edward said and left.
"So what do you want?" Nate asked me.
"To help you guys. Explain you'll the rules." I said.
"How will you help us?" He asked crossing his arms.
"Before I can tell you how, I want to know what you guys know about us. As far as I've gathered the Volturi have told you'll the wrong stuff and as far as I can see you'll were the Volturi's experiments. It didn't take Caleb a lot to turn you guys against the Volturi."
"We were their experiments. We didn't know anything. We only did what we were told. We were weaker than them. The mind reader, he took pleasure in the sight of us killing our own mothers, killing each other at times, killing humans that is if they ever let us kill them. We went hungry for weeks! If we ever protested they tortured us or our siblings. Sometimes if they were too angry and too thirsty they even drank from us. And the girls...they were..." he stopped midway.
The black haired girl kept a hand on his shoulder and saved him.
"We were abused. Not me. I'm too young. Only girls who had reached at least fifteen, human five. They were given to humans and vampires to see what kind of off spring they would get. The vampire's off springs sometimes were too strong, they killed or drained their own half vampire mothers. The human kids on the other hand were either like us or totally humans. They always kept few of us around them. Wherever they went. They killed a lot of vampires. He even killed hybrids called Nahuel and his clan. Then he went on the hunt for this vampire called Joham and together they created us. And when his job was done, Aro had got all the information he needed, he killed Joham too. And with whatever results he had got he said we need to do it soon. So he built our army. There are at least another fifty of us guarding the wives at the Volterra. He trained us. Experimented on us. And then he said we were ready. And before we knew it, we were flown here. We were asked to kill all except that girl." She said pointing to Alice, "That mind reader who went out, the brunette with him and you two." she said pointing at me and Ness.
"He said you'll were the only ones on whom he had not experimented. He wanted to see what your and hybrid kids would be like. He wanted guard dogs in his army. So we all set out to get you two." She concluded.
The Volturi attacked us, killed so many of us, to see...to see what Nessie and my kids would be like! To build a guard dog army with our help! That is so disgusting! He killed so many women, hybrids, other vampires just so he could come here and get us to see our babies! So that he could get a few guard dogs! That guy was just crazy! Living for centuries maybe finally rusts your screws.
"I'm sorry for all that you guys went through. If we had any idea that this was what Volturi was planning then we would've come to Italy itself to stop them." Nessie said.
"That's all you can do? Feel sorry for us?" Nate asked.
"No. We can really help you guys. We can give you guys a house to stay in, we can educate you guys at home. You'll are still growing. Until you guys are at least five and half, six you'll can't be associated with humans, you'll grow too quick. We can give you'll something you'll never got from the Volturi. We can give you love, family. You'll are not monsters. Look at our family. You'll see our eyes. We feed on animals. Not humans. This gives us a little humanity unlike the other vampires. We can give you a life so that you'll can put your past behind and make a new start." Rosalie said with a really hopeful smile. She really badly wanted kids. Even though Ness was like a daughter to her, she wanted someone who would call her a mom and not Aunt.
"I wanna stay with you." the little girl called Yasmin said shaking Rose's hands and for a second Rose stilled.
"What happened Rose?" Alice asked shaking her.
"Nothing. This little one here is special." Rose said picking Yasmin in her arms.
"She can pass emotions. If she is happy and she is touching you, you'd feel happy too." the older girl said.
"Oh that's a really special gift Yasmin." Alice said.
"So... What do you say?" I asked turning to Nate.
He looked at the older girl and she nodded.
"We'll stay. But the moment we feel we are being used again or being mistreated. We are out of here." he said.
"Ok. You'll won't be I guarantee you guys. But being in this house has certain rules. For one, until you'll stop growing so fast, you'll can't be near humans and second and most important, you'll can't hunt humans. We don't care if you'll have animal blood or human food, but no humans at all. You get that?" I asked.
"We've always fed on humans. You can't expect us to-"
"I exactly expect you'll to leave human blood this instant." I said. No one kills humans for any excuse whatsoever.
"But-" Nate started, but the other girl held his hand.
"We'll do it." she said.
"Ok before we leave, we want to know your names. And any powers we should be warned about."
"Nate no power, you know Yasmin and her power, this here is Lucy no power, that blonde kid is Drake he can make you forget things or remember them by touching you. And those two guys, they are twins, David and Andrew. David controls fire Andrew controls water." he said.
"Ok. Make yourself comfortable." I said before walking out with Ness.
"Ness, please don't ever leave me?" I said finally letting all the tears flow as soon as we stepped deep into the forest. I can't be strong any longer. I don't wanna be strong. I maybe an Alpha, a leader, but I'm still human. I can't keep it all in and pretend nothing has ever happened. It happened and we lost even though we killed our enemies. And if she leaves me now, what is the point of living? Without her within me, there is no reason to life.
We kept going deeper into the forest. Away from the place where our nightmares still remained.
"Jake I want to be with you no matter what. But how can I? It's wrong." she said crying herself.
"How is it wrong? Fates wanted us to be together. How could this be wrong?"
"Because...because Jake no one likes me. Jared, Collin, Ethan, Mason. Am I not the reason that the younger guys are wolves now? Am I not the reason that their life is in constant danger? Had I not been born, they could've always been human and happy with their families away from this reality where all nightmares come true."
"It was in their genes. Sooner or later they would've shifted." I said.
"No Jake that's an excuse. Had I not been born the Volturi would've never come the first time around, the guys would've never shifted, they wouldn't have come the second time around and Grandpa, Grandma, Sam, Emily, Tanya, Kate, Garett, Caleb, all would've been alive. If I was never born you could've been there for Billy and taken care of him, you would've been an Alpha who was loved by all. And not hated because of his imprint. So how is it not my fault Jake? How can I expect people to like me and accept me as a part of their family, their pack?" She asked falling down into the ground and letting the pain overwhelm her.
For a moment I was too stunned. I didn't know what to say.
And then I knew what could convince her. I bent down and held her chin up. We looked eye to eye. And then I kissed her, until I knew we both couldn't think about anything else. All tears dried off. All sadness lost for a moment.
"You know what Ness, even if that all happened because you were born, a lot many good things have happened too because of you. A family got a kid that they never thought was possible. They finally got someone who would call them mom, dad, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa. Tell me would that family had been as happy without you? My pack, they got a friend. Leah opened up to only you. Who would've she talked to had you not been there? Who would Quil and Embry irritate when they're bored. Who would be like a younger sister to Seth? Who would've been the most adorable granddaughter for Charlie? Who could've got together vampires and werewolves to fight against a common enemy? And most importantly who would've filled the empty space in my life, in my heart? I had no existence before you. My life was meaningless before you were born. They were just some hazy dreams that went away as soon as I woke up. But you, you are reality. You make me what I'm today. And if you don't stay with me, then there remains no meaning to my life. I might as well find a way to kill myself." I said. And I meant every word.
"No Jake, don't say that! There is nothing more I want than to spend my entire life with you. But tell me how do I do that without making anyone unhappy? They would hate me now more than ever." She said.
"Well then I'm giving up everything. I'll break all my connections with them to be with you. I've done it before, I could do it again. It can be just you and me." I said holding her in my arms, determined never to let go of her.
"No Jake! You have a responsibility towards them. They need you. Especially now."
"Then you'll come with me and we'll make them see that you are the nicest person. That none of this is not your fault. That your existence was necessary. It could be because of you that one day they find their other halves. Tell me who would be more than glad that they are wolves when they find their imprints? Ness you are a miracle, just like Bella calls you. And you've only made things better. And even though a lot of bad things have happened to us in the past, things can only get better now. Because of you, the world is finally free off the brainless leeches that ruled and killed mercilessly. Ness you have to believe you are a miracle, a beautiful miracle." I said kissing her forehead.
"Jake, I-" She started.
"No Ness! Just promise, you and me forever. Nothing else." I looked into her eyes. And it happened all over again. I saw her in a white gown walking down the aisle. I saw her patting her swollen belly. I saw her taking care of a tiny little black haired girl and an older brown haired boy. I saw her sleeping on a russet colored wolf. I saw her with me forever.
"Forever?" I asked.
"Forever." she said.
And we kissed forgetting that our troubles were not over yet. But now I know that our troubles will go sometime and that we'll be happy someday. I have her now. And I know I'll have her forever. I know we will have our forever after.
A.N. Hello everyone! So well I have one more chapter to go. So I just wanted to ask you guys something. Do you guys want a sequel or an epilogue that just ends it all? Because I have a sequel of sorts planned. It really depends on what you guys want. Accordingly I have to plan my last chapter of Will We Have Our Forever After?
So did you'll like it so far? Please tell me honestly if it was good, bad or totally awful! I don't mind criticism.
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