Summary: Set in Breaking Dawn when Edward is watching Bella while the transformation is taking place. Edward has a talk with Jacob after recently finding out that he has imprinted on his daughter. Edward tells Jacob his true feelings on the matter.
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I stared at the woman I love and the woman I could not, and will not live without. I was content with sitting there and staring at the brave woman who made everything possible. She made me believe that I wasn't a monster, that I deserved her just as much as she deserved me. All of those tender moments of love that we shared on our honeymoon, were all synced into one memory that to Bella would be vague after the transformation was complete, but to me would be as clear as crystal for the rest of eternity.
One knock on the door was all it took to take me away from my thoughts. "Edward?" Alice entered, seating herself beside me on the couch. I leaned into her as I had been doing quite often lately, being with everything that has been going on, her comfort was greatly needed and appreciated.
She put her arm around my shoulders and smiled, "Rose is feeding her now. She's asking for you. You should really come down and meet your daughter."
"I've met her."
"Edward, you delivered her. You held her once and that was to hand her to Rose. I don't exactly call that meeting someone officially." I frowned knowing that my sister was right in everything that she said. But I simply couldn't find it in me to leave my wife alone up here. "Bella would have wanted you to go. I'll stay with her, you go downstairs." I looked to her and grinned crookedly. Her smile quickly turned into a tight line. "Edward, no." She said sharply.
"I just want to talk to him Alice. And I don't want him down there when I hold her."
"Then Jacob won't be down there, but I am most certainly not going to tell him to come up here so that you can talk to him!" She lowered her voice after realizing that she was yelling. I raised one eyebrow to her and she all but rolled her eyes at me. I knew Alice would give into anything I said, she always did. She may have had the "I can't remember my human past" story, but I had the "I have been alone for centuries with no one to love" story. We both had our stories down pat and to tell the truth, I think Alice pitied my miserable years and that was why she was always giving into me.
"Fine. But Edward, I swear…"
"I promise, I'll behave." She gave me one last look, then huffed herself reluctantly off the couch and continued down the stairs. I smelled Jacob not ten seconds later. His feet were trudging with each step as if he were dreading something, his head was down and his shoulders were slumped. If he were in his wolf form, his tail would be hooked between his legs.
Jacob finally looked up when he entered. I patted the seat beside me and he flinched with each whack against the leather. "Come, sit."
He sat as far away from me as possible. His hands were folded into his lap as he stared at them. I saw him look at me cautiously from the corner of his eye. I blocked out his thoughts, thinking it was best to make him say what needed to be said. "I know how you feel about my daughter." I stated. He looked to me with an uneasiness that made him look almost green. "And I know you don't care for me much. But if you have imprinted on the most beautiful thing I have laid my eyes on since Bella. I want you to look at things from my perspective, Jacob. Since our clan met your pack, we have been enemies since the treaty was made. And then when I made the foolish mistake of leaving, you took my place in a heartbeat and my reason for existence fell in love with you. When I returned, you fought for her with every ounce of fighting ability you had within you, and I admire you for that. And now, my dear wolf friend, you have imprinted on my other reason for existence. You hate me because I have Bella, and now you have my daughter. Yet, I don't hate you. After everything, no matter how hard I have tried, I can not come to hate you. I'm going to go downstairs now and have an official meeting with Renesmee. I highly suggest you leave."
Jacob got up silently, keeping his head down while he walked down the stairs. Alice was at the doorway in the next instant and smiled with the knowledge that I did not kill the dog though I had every right to. I walked passed my sister and down the stairs where I knew my newborn daughter would be awaiting for my arrival. Glancing out the window, Jacob did not once look back as he changed into his wolf form and ran into the darkness of the forest.
I then turned to be met with a big brown eyed newborn baby, with her arms outstretched to me.