Jacob's POV:
I didn't have time to defend myself; everything happened so quickly then. I felt my eyes close beyond my control, I couldn't open them. There were loud voices, all screaming at once. Screaming my name, screaming Bella's name and Renesmee's name. There were yells of anger and shock among the names, people crying. Did they think I was already dead? Was I dead?
I couldn't tell. It was dark, my eyes refused to open, despite how hard I tried. I couldn't move my body either; I felt my arms and legs loosen. My tight muscles were nothing and my body fell limply to the left and I hit the ground. I didn't care that my head hit the floor; I wouldn't be bothered about a head wound. The quicker this sensation was over the better. I could still hear the voices around me, but they were becoming dull. Harder to understand but I could still hear snippets of words.
"Let me finish him!" I presumed that was Bella. Growls responded to her and she yelled out, there was sound of a shuffle and then a heavy thud and I could tell Bella had been pinned. Others were closer to me; I felt their hands on my head, feeling my temperature.
"He's burning up." Esme told the others, but I felt cold? How could I be burning up, if anything I was too cold, I felt my body shaking? I heard other voices then.
"Edward!" It was the voice of Alice, her voice so strange to hear after so long. She had panic in his voice.
"I know, I saw." he replied close to me. I heard yells then, more scuffling and someone screaming Chelsea's name. I tried to sit up, but moving even a fraction of my body resulted in an ache so dull but so painful I felt my arm would fall off. II heard crying then, not my own, a child's crying. Renesmee. She was crying close to me, so close she could have been directly next to my face. Maybe she was.
"Jacob!" she called my name and I felt a hand on my cheek, it was a dull feeling, like my skin was numbing, but her touch was the warmest of anyone here. It felt soothing. I managed to use all my strength, well, my remaining strength to pull my eye-lids apart one last time before I went under but all I saw was darkness.
I wasn't dead that, of that I was certain. But I was on my way that was also certain. I was in a torturous place. Alive but frozen in unconsciousness for the time being. I couldn't feel much, moving even my fingers was an action that sent pain writhing through me, a dull pain. Not like a burning but more like a cold numbness that spreads. I knew it was the venom. Vampire Venom's fatal to us wolves, that was proven not a couple of hours ago when Brendan Cane was stabbed with a blade impregnated with Bella's venom. He lasted ten minutes at most; I had been under about five. I knew it wouldn't be long now. I could almost taste Bella's venom on my tongue. The moment she bit me, the moment those sharp canines tore through my skin I felt my neck numb, the infection, the venom is spread through my veins and arteries so quickly I was losing my balance within seconds; I could still feel the venom now, pushing its way through my body, fighting off those werewolf healing genes like they were nothing. I knew it wouldn't be long until the venom took over, and instead of turning me into a vampire like it would a human, it would end my life.
Holy shit. I'm dying, I'm going to die. After all of it, ever since that first moment on La Push, I die from one tiny infection, from my best friend. This is how my end? I had expected in a huge battle, a sacrificial end maybe? It didn't matter to me anymore, as long as the pain ended eventually and with it the obstacles I knew I would have to face in the future. But there was Renesmee, her voice the only clear one out of them all. I had been moved, I felt them all moving me onto what I presumed was the bed. Renesmee crying for someone to help me, someone to do something but we all knew there was no hope. Nothing human could save me now.
"Jake! I'm so sorry Jacob! Oh my god!" That voice...it wasn't Nessie, but Bella! For the first time since I discovered she was alive did she sound like Bella, my Bella? Bells. Bella Swan. That same sneaker-wearing, vampire-obsessed, clumsy, dull girl I had met on the beach. That voice was Bella's. My Bella's. I found light, it pushed past my vision and she was there. Not only did she sound like Bella, but looked like herself. The idea that she looked and sounded different to anyone else would seem confusing, but to me this was my Bells. She looked down at me, her eyes still red but like her mate and sister, held no anger but only sadness. Even her hair looked less flashy, her eyes not so dark, her smile much less sly and sneaky. She crouched over my face, her tumble of hair to one side. Her face seemed to move slower than her voice spoke, her face was blurring on the edges as she moved. I smiled up at her, my lips dry and numb.
"He's waking up! He'll be okay won't he?" Another voice cried from my right and I dragged my eyes to look into Renesmee's. Her eyes, like her mothers, were that unique chocolate brown. Those beautiful eyes. Renesmee. So grown up. My little Ness. I was glad I was the one to go. Glad she would be able to move on, in time. I knew I wouldn't be able to go on like Paisley did if it were Ness who I was losing. If Ness were to go then I would have to go too, Paisley was strong, to be able to go on, to smile, to live and like her father predicted, love.
I was so happy she would be able to move on from this, I could only hope my death had little effect on her. Even if in the future I couldn't be the one for her to love, she would find another.
"Ness..." It was Rosalie who spoke, she was there too. Just a blur figure behind Renesmee. Her hand on Ness's shoulder. I smiled up at Rosalie, my goodbye to her, my goodbye to Rosalie. My best friend.
Bella's fingers slid between mine and I gave them a squeeze, pathetic to her but it took so much energy for me. I smiled at Bella too, I didn't know if they saw it, or if they smiled back. I couldn't see much anymore. I turned them to face Renesmee. I felt her hands grabbing my shirt, her eyes not far from mine were welling up with tears. She was whispering my name...I tried to whisper her name but the effort was too much. So I smiled. I was happy, content. My cold shaking finger came up, I almost dropped it again but I had to say my goodbye to Renesmee. My hand came up and I forced myself to smile at hr beautiful, radiant face.
My hand caressed the side of her rosy red cheeks; I scooped up a tear and put it back into the corner of her eye, refusing to let it fall. She need not waste her tears on me. She was crying my name, over and over.
"Jacob...Jacob, please...Jacob." it was only a whisper, or was it. Was she crying my name or was I imagining it? Hallucinations? I didn't know but I didn't care. To have the last thing I hear be her voice, would be perfection. I felt her warm cheek beneath my finger, her soft hair trailing along the back of my hand. She cried my name more. I looked up. Her lip was bust and bleeding bad, but she'd heal. Nothing could keep my Ness down.
"I-I Love you..." I whispered through my numbing lips. She cried my name a little more but the sound faded out, darkness seeped in through the corners of my vision and I was gone.
Then it was gone. All of it. There was no sound, no voices, no crying, no dark, no light, no fire, no shadows, and no demonic roar. Nothing. There was only peace.
I was in awe as I lay, so still and quiet. My thoughts tried to remain in control, but they stirred and all moulded together. My heart stuttered twice and with one final thud, stopped. The pain was gone. I was slipping away into an endless sleep, extremely contented, almost happy that it had gone…I was almost gone.
Then my heart lurched in my chest, a familiar but also unrecognizable sensation stirred within me. A single droplet on my tongue that dribbled down the back of my throat and then it consumed me. Coursing through my veins, from my throat down to my finger tips then down my chest, legs and every other part of my body. All off it warm, a covey soft warmth. Then I heard it beating. My heart was beating.
I could feel my legs again, my arms, my tongue in my mouth, the hair by my face. The soft blanked below my sprawled out body. Then my eyes snapped open and it all came rushing back to me and I bolted upright, screaming Renesmee's name. They were all still there; everyone in the same positions as before, with the same expressions as before except now shock only came across. I looked around, unable to keep my breathing steady. I took in deep breaths, trying to appease my need for oxygen which I had been deprived off moments ago. I felt my body, now I was burning up, I was so hot! Sweating buckets.
"J-Jacob?" my name broke through Nessie's little lips. She look so sharp, defined and beautiful, they all did. It was strange, how bright they all looked even after a few seconds of being dead. But then again...how the hell was I alive now.
"Nessie?" I said, even though my first question was how was I alive. I grabbed her and she burst into tears as she crawled onto my chest. I still felt pain, the stinging burning pain from my battle with Bella and Jane, but I didn't care. I could feel, could feel the pain. The pain felt so good. She clung to me, her nails digging in as if she were scared I was going to leave again. Hell I was scared I was going to leave again, but I felt okay.
"Jacob?" It was Bella, she was crying too. She then pounced and held me and Renesmee to her, it felt so nice, to be holding Bella. To have her in my arms, to have her head in my neck as if she were meant to be there. So nice to smell my Bella.
"I-I thought I killed you!" she yelled to me. I looked above her at everyone else, wondering if any of them had answers.
"What happened?" I asked, looking confused.
"I..." Rosalie started, "have no idea."
"I do..." Jade said. We all looked at her and she looked at Renesmee. "Renesmee kissed you on the lips when you died-"
"I swear to god, woman, if you rant on about blood true loves kiss I'm going to kill myself. I could barley handle the idea of a vampire having more than one talent." Sebastian ranted on, lifting his hands in the air and she slapped his chest.
"Shush, you." she replied. "Not true loves kiss, but the kiss saved him. Renesmee has a bust lip...when she kissed him a drop of her blood fell onto his tongue and it went down Jacob's throat." She replied, staring at me. Nessie's blood? Her blood saved me? How?
"Hybrid blood...cures werewolves of vampire bites...?" Paisley asked, I knew she thought of her father. Jade smiled.
"It does...and I think I know why..."
After a short explanation we discovered first, why Nessie's blood gave Jane the strength she needed. It was because she still needed blood to survive, but human blood was not enough. It kept her alive but she was still weaker than normal, her vampire healing factor wasn't working, like the rest of her body. Though Renesmee's blood is human blood with vampire DNA, which means her blood does have healing properties and because Jane was so weak, less than an ordinary vampire, drinking human blood didn't only solve her certain need for blood, but with it came the healing factor. Renesmee's blood gave her strength and the healing factor in it healed the weaker parts of her body. Jane needed Nessie's blood to keep her healing up. For myself, however, I was infected with vampire venom and was dying. Vampire venom destroys a werewolf's healing factor, leaving them open to die. Like Jane my healing factor was dying along with me due to the spreading of venom. Renesmee had a bust lip so when she kissed me, a drop fell down my throat and it was enough to give me the healing factor my body needed.
That one drop healed me, and because I have no need for blood in the first place, it appeared I wouldn't need to drink any more. By luck, a tiny chance of a kiss, my life was saved.
Jade knew all of this information and it all came to her during that kiss.
"I...I can't believe this." Rosalie gasped, dropping to the bed and suddenly her head fell back in hysterical laughter.
"Rose?" I asked but she kept laughing.
"We did it..." She breathed and then she glanced up at Emmett once before hurtling herself at him. He didn't suspect this at all and hit the ground with his wife straddling him, her hands keeping his face up to hers as she kissed him passionately. We all chuckled and the small crowd erupted in "Well done!" and "We did it!" There was a lot of loud laughter, hugging and kissing. I smiled and Nessie kissed me on the cheek before she turned and threw herself into Bella's awaiting arms, sharing their final, proper reunion after all this time. Renesmee had her mother. Bella was crying Renesmee's name as she sobbed into her shoulder. Bella fell to the floor, sobbing like a baby but she was crying with joy. Edward was also sobbing, I hadn't seen him cry like that before. Never thought I would but he collapsed next to them, holding the two of them tight.
That's when Chelsea broke free of Paisley's grasp and flew out of the window. I shot to my feet— bad idea, the pain was still sore —but Edward held my arm.
"Let her go..." he told me. "Chelsea is not threat to any of us, she'll not bother us." he told me. I nodded and then Edward's arms wrapped around me in a tight, brotherly hug. Bella swapped places with him and Renesmee crawled up into my arms and hugged me tightly, and while I stood there holding her to my chest, I couldn't help but smile at the sun that just broke the horizon through the open window and sunlight bathed the land again.
FanWriter's Note: Don't worry guys, THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER, it was going to be but it's not. I have one chapter left after this one and then comes the Epilogue which I hope you'll enjoy. For now there is this in-between chapter.
Question for Chapter 37 is...
Opinions on the way I saved Jacob?
~FanWriter~