AN: Please see chapter one for story summary, warnings, and disclaimer

November 25th

Carlisle had wanted to make this Thanksgiving special for Jacob. He knew that this would be the last Thanksgiving anyone would have before the baby was born. Carlisle had asked Billy what he normally did on Thanksgiving. Come to find out, Billy usually made up a big fest for Jacob and his friends. Carlisle had asked Billy if it was ok if his family hosted this year's thanksgiving. At first Billy had minded seeing that Charlie was still living with him, but Renee had solved that problem for him. She invited Charlie to spend the day with her, freeing Billy to have Thanksgiving with Carlisle and his family.

When Jacob had first heard of the plan, he hadn't been too happy, seeing that he thought that he'd be able to get away from them for a whole day. Now, he didn't really care. He was too nervous about telling everyone of his decision. Not even his own father knew of his decision!

"You ready to go?" Sam asked coming into the living room where Jacob was currently at.

"As ready as I will be," Jacob said.

It was currently going for 3:30 pm, Sam knew they needed to get going if they were going to pick Billy up and be to Forks by five that night.

After telling Sam and Emily of his decision to keep little Elizabeth, Sam had asked Jacob if he'd planned to tell the rest today. At first he wasn't so sure if he wanted to tell the rest, or just keep the news to himself for now. However, he decided that he should tell them because they did have a right to know. Besides if he didn't, he was afraid that Alice would have a vision and tell Edward herself, which wouldn't make Edward a very happy vampire. Jacob really didn't want to deal with a pissed off vampire.

"You know, you don't have to tell them if you don't want to," Sam said coming over and helping Jacob up.

It was either that or watch while Jacob rolled off the couch and onto the floor to stand. As funny as it was to see, he knew that Emily wouldn't be a very happy camper if she saw Sam not helping Jacob up from the couch.

"I know, but I've already told you too. If I don't tell them, then Alice very well may. And I really don't want to deal with Edward when that time comes," Jacob said.

"Why? You don't think he'll be happy when he hears the news?" Emily asked coming into the living room carrying the two apple pies she'd baked up last night after dinner.

"He will be, but I won't be. He'll go on this big power trip about how he knew that I wasn't giving up our child," Jacob said.

"Jacob, you don't have to tell anyone. It's none of their business if they find out now, or after the baby is born," Sam said.

"And like I told you, it'd just be my luck for Alice to find out and tell Edward," Jacob said.

"Come on boys, we need to go pick up Billy," Emily said.

With that, the three of them…sorry four of them left the house and headed over to Billy's place. By time they got there, Charlie was already gone. Jacob felt bad that Charlie couldn't celebrate with Billy and him. Just the three of them, no one else. But he knew that it couldn't be that way, and it probably was for the best. It had been dangerous enough having Bella know their secrets, Jacob didn't want Charlie dragged into it too. He'd seen how Bella's life had been changed by the news, he didn't want Charlie's life to change too. Little did he know, but Charlie would be dragged into it and it would cause much stress and heartache for Jacob and his father.

Cullen household

By time they got to the house, almost everyone was already there. Carlisle had invited the pack members. Thankfully they had all been able to come. Their parents had also been invited, but all had turned it down. They weren't comfortable spending time around vampires yet.

'Great, I get to sit across from a glaring vampire,' Jacob thought when he noticed that his name plate was across from Edward's.

Alice had arranged the place settings around the table. Alice had wanted to put Jacob and Edward together, but Esme had not thought that a good idea. She was afraid that a fight may very well just break out if they had to sit so close to each other.

"Please be seated," Carlisle said at the head of the table.

The food had been laid out on the table. Thankfully they had enough room, so that people weren't sitting right on top of each other.

After everyone took their seat, Carlisle led them in a pray.

(AN: IF you're not a big believer in God, then you may want to skip this part!)

"Dear Lord, thank you for this food that has been laid in front of us today. Thank you for the friends and family that are gathered here today and please bless their family and friends also. Please look over young Jacob as he nears the end of his journey, and please Lord, give him strength to get through whatever may come his way. Jesus Lord, Amen," Carlisle said opening his eyes.

After everyone else said their Amen's, Esme started passing around the food, while Carlisle carved the bird.

"Are you ok?" Sam asked noticing that Jacob's eyes looked glassy.

"Yeah," Jacob said closing his eyes and bidding the tears to go away.

Well everyone else was laughing and eating, Jacob was just trying to keep his breakfast down. He was getting himself too nervous about telling everyone the news, which was making him feel sick to his stomach. It didn't help that he had a vampire looking into his soul, or that's the way Jacob felt anyhow. Nor did it help that his daughter was kicking up a storm inside of him.

'Why the hell do I feel like he's looking into my soul?' Jacob asked himself.

"Jacob, this is not worth you making yourself sick over," Sam whispered to Jacob when he saw he looked ready to get sick.

"I know, I'm fine," Jacob said looking down at his food, so he didn't have to look into Edward's eyes.

On the outside he was glaring, but on the inside Edward was worried about Jacob.

'What's wrong with him? Why is he not eating?' Edward thought to himself while franticly searching Jacob's mind to find the source of the problem.

Edward wasn't happy that today of all days seemed to be the day that Jacob's mind was unreadable today for some reason.

"Jacob, dear, is everything ok?" Esme asked noticing Jacob had barley touched his plate.

"I'm fine, I'm just really not that hungry today," Jacob said.

"Is there anything I can get for you?" Esme asked.

'Your son to stop glaring at me would be nice,' Jacob thought to himself while looking up at Esme who was standing by his chair.

"No, but thanks though," Jacob said.

"Ok dear," Esme said heading into the kitchen to get more dinner rolls.

Emily knew that Jacob wouldn't be happy with her for what she was about to do. She knew that what she was about to do would force Jacob's hand in telling everyone but she knew that it needed to be said here and now. She knew that Jacob needed to tell them before the baby had the chance to. So with that thought in mind, Emily tapped her glass with her butter knife until she had the attention of everyone in the room.

"Now that I have everyone's attention, I would like to make an announcement," Emily said.

Of course Sam and Jacob were both freaking out. They didn't think Emily would tell, but who knew.

"What are you doing?" Sam whispered into Emily's ear.

"You'll find out, don't worry, I'm not telling them that," Emily whispered back.

Knowing that she was telling the truth, and that she wouldn't tell, Sam finally sat back down.

"Sorry about that. Like some of you probably already know, Sam and my wedding was moved to July of next year. That is partly due to the fact that Sam wanted his best man at his wedding. And said best man would have been nine months along had we gotten married when we originally planned on. However, that is not the full truth. The rest of the reason that we moved the wedding is that in May of next year, Jacob's daughter will have a play mate. I'm pregnant," Emily said sitting back down.

"Really? Why didn't you tell me?" Jacob asked going over to give Emily a hug.

"Because I wasn't for sure until a few days ago. Also you didn't think I could have children thanks to Sam here," Emily said still not happy Sam had lied to Jacob.

"Well I'm happy for you two," Jacob said smiling brightly.

"Thanks," Emily said smiling back.

"Oh don't you two start crying," Sam said seeing both were on the verge of doing just that.

"We can't help it," Jacob said already feeling the tears running down his face.

It was a good twenty minutes before things got back to normal. Everyone came up to congratulate Sam and Emily on the happy news. Finally when things did settle down, Jacob decided that it was time to drop his bomb of news. After all, everyone thought Sam and Emily would be having two little ones in the house. This way everyone wouldn't be buying Sam and Emily another crib, when they wouldn't need it.

Jacob tapped his glass, bringing everyone's attention to himself this time. Unlike Emily though, Jacob wasn't smiling when he stood up.

"First off I would like to say thanks to Carlisle and Esme for this wonderful meal," Jacob said knowing that all eyes were now on his untouched plate.

"I would also like to say thanks to Sam and Emily for being understanding for what I'm about to tell everyone. As you all know, when I first found out that I was pregnant, I didn't even want to go through with this pregnancy. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I wished for this to all end. But like a friend told me, God has a reason for all he does. I couldn't see it at the time, but I can now. When I didn't loose this baby, I did the first thing I could think of and that was to make Sam and Emily take the baby after it's born. As time has gone on, I've come to realize that I can't just walk away from this. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm keeping this baby, I can't just walk away, not after all I've been through to get to where I am," Jacob said sitting down and not making eye contact with anyone. He could feel his face burning red. He couldn't believe that he'd just said all of that!

Jacob could hear all the excitement that his comment had brought to those there. He decided to take a glance at what Edward's reaction was. When he saw that Edward wasn't at the table anymore, his heart fell to his stomach.

'Yeah real involved he's going to be Bella,' Jacob thought bitterly to himself.

As much as he could try to convince himself that he didn't care if Edward was in their child's life, he knew that he did care. He cared because he didn't think his daughter deserved that.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him anymore, Jacob decided to slip away and go outside. Not knowing where to go, Jacob decided to just take a walk in the woods that surrounded the house.

Jacob hadn't realized how late it was getting to be until he looked up and couldn't see the sun anymore.

"I guess we better be getting back before they come looking for us," Jacob said rubbing his stomach.

Little did he know, but they weren't looking for him. After Sam had noticed that he was gone, he'd gone out to look for Jacob. Before he could get too far though, Carlisle came out and told him that Edward had sight of Jacob. Knowing that Edward would make sure Jacob stayed safe, Carlisle and Sam went back into the house to wait for their return. Now that it was getting late, everyone was starting to get worried, but Carlisle kept telling them that Edward would make sure that Jacob and the baby stayed safe.

Meanwhile, Jacob was just turning around when he came face to face with Edward.

Screaming, "What the hell are you doing here?" Jacob asked pissed that Edward was following him.

"Making sure you don't do something stupid!" Edward exclaimed.

"It's ok, you're fine. Just a big mean vampire trying to give daddy a heart attack," Jacob said looking down at his stomach while rubbing it.

"Who are you talking to?" Edward asked having never heard Jacob talk to their child.

"My daughter," Jacob said irritated while glaring at Edward.

"Don't you mean son?" Edward asked.

"I'm not getting into this shit tonight!" Jacob said walking off as fast as he could.

However, that wasn't fast enough, within minutes Edward was holding Jacob by the arm, preventing him from going any farer.

"Take your hand off of my arm," Jacob said trying to yank free, but knowing that it was a lost cause trying to get away.

"Not until you tell me why you decided in your condition to just take off like that," Edward said.

"I should be asking you the same thing," Jacob said.

"I can take care of myself unlike some people around here," Edward said.

"I can take care of myself just fine," Jacob said.

"Not from what I've seen," Edward mumbled.

"That's what you think," Jacob also mumbled.

"They're getting worried about you back at the house," Edward said knowing that fighting with Jacob would get him no where.

"That's why I'm heading home now," Jacob said.

"Then let's go," Edward said.

"You can let go of my arm now," Jacob said.

"Oh sorry," Edward said dropping Jacob's arm.

"You need to eat when we get home," Edward said hearing Jacob's stomach growling its protest for him not eating all day.

"I'll eat when I get back to Sam and Emily's," Jacob said rubbing his arm and yawning at the same time.

He hadn't realized but it was already going for ten pm. Jacob hadn't realized that he'd been walking for four solid hours. He was starting to realize that walking for such a long period of time while one was pregnant was a bad idea. His back and feet were killing him. And Jacob knew that it would be awhile before they got back to Edward's house. He didn't know how far he'd traveled, but Jacob had a feeling that it was probably to the edge of the woods, if not future.

"You ok?" Edward asked when he noticed that Jacob was holding his back.

"Just my back hurting like usual," Jacob said while trying to rub away the pain.

"If you want me to carry you, I will," Edward said.

"I'd rather die then you carry me," Jacob said looking up at Edward while still rubbing his back.

"Well we can also get back to the house sooner that way," Edward said.

"Like I said, I'd rather die then have you carry me," Jacob said again.

For the next couple of minutes all was silent except for the bugs making their usual noises.

"So why did you leave?" Jacob asked.

He knew if he didn't talk, then he very well may fall asleep while walking.

"I needed time to think," Edward said.

"About what?" Jacob asked around a yawn.

"About what happens now," Edward said.

"What do you mean, what happens now?" Jacob asked confused as could be.

"I mean now that you're keeping the child. Where do I fit into all of this?" Edward asked deciding that being brutally honest was the best approach.

"What?" Edward asked when all he got in response was a snort/laughter.

"And here I was thinking that you would be on this power trip about how you knew all along I wasn't giving up the baby," Jacob said smiling.

"I didn't know anything, I'd hoped that you wouldn't give him up. But I didn't know if you would or wouldn't," Edward said.

"First off, she and secondly I figured Alice had a vision and probably told you," Jacob said.

"No, no visions of the baby," Edward said.

"Hmm, so now what's this crap about you not knowing where you fit in?" Jacob asked rubbing his stomach.

"Well I guess I'm wondering what's going to happen after the baby's born? Are you going to stay in Forks or move back to La Push? Also what's my role going to be in the child's life?" Edward asked.

"Yeah I really hadn't gotten that far yet. But I figured that you'd want to be in her life, I mean if you don't then that's fine," Jacob said.

"I do want to be in this baby's life, if you'll let me that is," Edward said.

"Jacob?" Edward asked when he didn't a response from the wolf.

"Hmm?" Jacob asked waking up.

He was able to walk and sleep at the same time, which both fascinated and scared Edward at the same time. Fascinated that Jacob could do sleep and walk at the same time without running into anything. But it also scared the shit out of Edward that in Jacob's condition he could end up hurting himself or the baby, or both very badly.

"Nothing," Edward said.

"Ok," Jacob said going back to sleep while walking still.

Knowing at this pace it could take all night, and fearing that Jacob would run into something, Edward picked Jacob up.

"Thanks," Jacob mumbled while wrapping his arms around Edward's neck and burring his head into his chest.

"Welcome," Edward said kissing the top of Jacob's head and taking off with him securely in his arms.

Cullen house

"Is he ok?" Sam asked getting up from the chair when he saw that Edward was carrying Jacob.

"Yeah, he just fell asleep is all," Edward said still holding Jacob.

"Thanks, I'll take him to the car," Sam said holding out his arms for Jacob.

"Sam, just let Jacob stay here for the night, that is if it's alright with Carlisle," Emily said.

"He's welcomed anytime," Carlisle said.

"Billy?" Sam asked looking towards where Billy sat by the couch.

"Let the boy rest. He's had a long day," Billy said.

"Ok, we'll be by first thing in the morning to come get him," Sam said.

"If I know my son, he won't be up until noon," Billy said smiling at his son's prone body.

"Yes, that is true," Sam said also smiling.

Having a hunch that they would want to say good-night to Jacob, Edward went over to where Billy and Sam were.

"Night son," Billy said kissing his forehead.

"And night my granddaughter," Billy said placing a kiss on Jacob's stomach.

Jacob had of course told his father that he thought the baby was a girl. Of course unlike Edward, Billy hadn't argued with Jacob. The last time he'd argued with a pregnant person, he'd ended up having a son. Not that it was a bad thing, but he was sure his wife would have another girl. She however told Billy that their third child would be a boy. After that Billy learned that if they thought it was boy or girl, then it probably would be a boy or girl.

After Sam and Emily said their good-nights, they left to take Billy home and then get home themselves.

Once they were gone, Edward took Jacob upstairs and laid him down on the bed. Of course he had to unwrap Jacob's arms from his neck. Knowing that Jacob wouldn't be a happy camper if he took off his clothes, Edward just took off Jacob's shoes, and then he himself settled in for the night on the couch. Not realizing what would come in the morning.

Meanwhile, Billy was surprised to find that Charlie wasn't home. What he didn't know was that Charlie was having what he thought was just a make-up section with his wife. He didn't realize that he'd just slept with his ex wife, nor the development that would occur before Christmas.

Next chapter: Carlisle's secret and Jacob does something that is long overdue.

AN: I know in the books that Jacob has two sisters and that he never sees them. So in the story to solve that problem. I'm saying that his mother had twin girls, when they were still very young they died. Jacob was the unexpected miracle that his mother and father didn't think they would have. However, Jacob's mother died when he was born due to complications. Hope that clears things up for everyone