AN: I'm working really hard on another of my stories "Fly On" about the Maximum Ride series, so if any of you are interested, please read and review that one as well as this one :)

Previously on Entirely Unique:

"What matters is that one of Nahuel's sisters found the cure to Mom's disease thing and she should be healthy by now...or at least that's what Dad and Charlie said when they called an hour ago and told us to head over there."

Jacob Junior's Story

Chapter Twenty-Five

When we arrived at the Cullen Mansion, also known as Grandma and Grandpa's to the younger kids, the six of us set off in search of our mother. Nessie had been rumored to have been cured and we all wanted to see for ourselves.

I pushed all thoughts about being the Beta, trying to pull my family back together, and worrying about letting down my parents down in their absence to the bottom of my mind.

As a result, I was the last to enter the spare bedroom on the first floor that had turned into a medical treatment room for Nessie in the past week and a half.

It was a welcoming sight to see.

She was sitting up in the bed, a first occurrence in the last two weeks, and the blanket was underneath her instead of wrapped around her to keep her fever down. The prop bed in the room had gotten more use out of it since Mom was bitten and forced on bedrest since there wasn't really anything that we could do to help her.

Until now.

Sophia said that Dad said that Nauhel spoke for one of his sisters and the cure was really simple. Apparently, all she had to do was inject herself with her own venom as she was sucking out the toxic, foreign vampire DNA from one of the Volturi Guards.

I had my doubts that it would work-it was such a random explanation that it seemed too far out to actually work-but seeing Nessie sitting up like this, smiling at each of her children present, and holding Jacob's hand instead of him having to hold her limp one was a very good sign.

"Momma! Abby squealed, rushing to our mother's side. Despite being fifteen now, she was always going to be one of the babies in the family. Peter and PJ phased now and were practically men now and Charlie was fully grown for years. Abby was officially the baby now.

"Abigail." Nessie said with a warm smile, touching her cheek lightly to let the girl know that she wanted a kiss.

"I missed you so much, Momma." Abby said, gushing and kissing Nessie lightly before continuing to fill her in on what had happened in her personal life for the past two weeks.

"Sammy asked me out, like usual," Abby rolled her eyes, referring to her seventeen year old imprinter who had been patiently waiting for her to return the love for years, "but I'm not sure if I should just admit defeat and take him up on it this time. I've realized that life's too short..." She trailed off, frowning at the memory of the past events and willing herself not to cry.

"Shhh, it's okay, sweetie, we all miss him." Nessie said, wiping away a few of her own tears.

"Ness, if you're not ready yet, I can bring the kids back later." Jacob suggested, not wanting to push his imprint.

"No, no. I want to see them." Nessie said stubbornly to her faithful mate. "Carlisle has me on bed rest for the next two days, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to miss any of my family moments while I'm chained here."

"As long as you're sure." Jacob said, kissing her temple and playing absentmindedly with her hair.

"So, what else did I miss?" Nessie asked the rest of us half seriously, attempting to bat off her husband teasingly.

"Arrietty moved back home." Sophia stated awkwardly. The girls had been pretty close since her triplet had been Arri's imprinter, but now that Spencer was dead, she had no reason to want to stay in Forks.

"I got an A on my Spanish test." PJ piped up cheerily, trying to change the subject.

"Paxton, you got an A?" Mom asked in disbelief, raising an eyebrow at the young wolf.

He squirmed under her gaze and his cheeks reddened in response. "Not technically..." He said and everyone laughed.

Just a note about my dear little brother: PJ was not known for his brains. Bless his heart, he tried as hard as he could, but he just wasn't that good at school. It didn't help that he was dyslexic so reading didn't come easily to him to begin with. Math he could do, but his other classes were usually a D at the highest. Having a temper like a wolf wasn't usually the best thing to go hand in hand with a condition like dyslexia.

"I'm proud of you anyways." Nessie said, smiling at PJ. He beamed under her changed gaze. "Maybe you can have Lewis pick up your tutoring sessions again." She suggested helpfully. Lewis had been helping keep PJ's grades up, at least until lately.

"He's busy." PJ and Peter said at the same time, both defiant and both fuming with resentment towards our brother.

"He got a girlfriend?" Nessie jested, smiling at the room of two-thirds of her children.

When no one responded, she asked again, this time with less enthusiasm.

"Lleyna is still having withdraws." Charlie spoke up at long last. "That's why Lewis is too busy to tutor him, and that's why Peter and PJ are upset. They still blame her for everything that happened even though it wasn't totally her fault." She said quietly, being careful not to look at the young twins or else she'd see the angry glares; but maybe that's why the mindreader didn't.

"I can't believe I let myself get bitten." Nessie said, angry with herself. "I shouldn't have been so careless in Italy, maybe then I could have protected you all better."

I was half glad to see that I had inherited my automatic self-blaming from Mom, but then I thought about the fact that she thought it was her fault too.

"Not you too." Edward spoke up to his daughter, and I noticed my grandparents in the room for the first time. Full vampires are always so much more quiet than the rest of us.

"I'm sick of hearing all of you guys' thoughts blaming yourselves for this." He said with conviction. "Yes, Lleyna ran away; yes, most of us could have stopped her; yes, things ended not completely in our favor. But the truth is that we won, the Volturi are defeated, and we are all still here. Now is not the time to be pushing people away."

"Easy for you to say." Skylar said angrily. "You were once a monster like her!"

"Don't talk to Grandpa like that!" Sophia said back just as angrily. "He has a point! None of us stopped her from going!"

"Some of us didn't know!" Skylar argued back.

Pretty soon, all of my siblings were picking one side of the argument or the other; supporting Llyena or against her completely. I stayed neutral, though I knew that soon I would have to take a stand one way or the other.

One thing was clear though: there seemed to be clear sides being drawn today. And I only hoped that no one else had to die or leave at the expense of this new feud.