We dropped Chaska and Sarah at Grandpa Charlie's and Sue's for the morning. After mine and Jacob's discussion last night, I needed to talk to my family. I walked through the door first, without speaking to them. I glanced over in my father's direction. Why didn't you tell me, dad? He stiffened at my thoughts and then squeezed my mother's hand. "Jacob asked me not to." I rolled my eyes sarcastically. But, I need to know these things. To feel a part of the family. I didn't feel apart of anything when I found out I'd been lied to. He stood up and walked over to where I'd sat. He kissed my forehead and hugged me. "I'd have done the same for your mother. Love makes you very overprotective, I should know." He smiled timidly at my mother and then back at me. Well I know now. My father stiffened. "Can we please have a verbal conversation? I'm lost." My mother said, slightly frustrated. My father moved back to her side, and kissed her once on the lips. "Renesmee, knows that we've been keeping things from her. Jacob explained the situation to her last night. She's not happy that we didn't tell her, she didn't feel apart of the family." He summarised. My mother turned her whole body towards me, but didn't realise my father's hand. "Never think that, Renesmee. You are so much a part of this family. None of us told you to protect you from the worry. You know we'll be fine." She sounded like she was trying to convince herself more than me. The rest of the family entered the room. They sat down in their couples. Carlisle cleared his throat.
Everyone's attention shifted to my grandfather. "Right. I think it is only fair that we explain to Renesmee and Jacob the things that they don't know. Everyone is a member of this family, and I'm not having them think otherwise." He shot me a compassionate smile, and then moved a caramel lock of hair out of Esme's face. "Things that I don't know?" Jacob's back stiffened. Carlisle nodded once and grimaced. I soothed Jacob's hand in two of mine. Jasper spoke then, "I'm guessing Nessie knows how many nomads, and when they are coming then?" Jacob nodded then in reply. My father shuffled so he was addressing me and Jacob. "That is all still the same. But Alice saw that two of them have gifts." Jacob stiffened his grip on my hand. I locked gazes with Alice. "I saw that when they first decided to come here that they would put those two up front." Esme shifted uncomfortably, closer into Carlisle's arm. He held her tightly and rubbed her shoulders. "What are these gifts?" I asked, my voice quaking. What if it was something my mother couldn't shield us from? Was that why they were panicking? My father shook his head. "From what I'm gathering from the decisions being made here, the black haired female has a gift similar to that of Aro's. When she touches something, she knows its entire history. People as well as inanimate objects. She's going to try and touch us to see the weak links in our chain. A red headed male can move things by looking at them. He could rip a tree out of the ground and slam it at us just by looking at it." Alice almost whispered. Emmet's laugh interrupted the melancholy mood. Everyone shot him daggers. "Look I'm sorry, but come on! We have Bella. She can stop the woman from getting any information, and I'll have a good bowling match with the man. It'll be nice to have a real challenge again." He rubbed his hands together, like a man who knew he'd just won a bet.
"Anything else?" I asked, preparing myself for another onslaught of knowledge. Alice's vision went blank. She was looking into the future. As always, myself and my mother, looked over at my dad to see his reaction. His body posture didn't change, and his face didn't tighten up. My mother and I, simultaneously relaxed. Jacob kissed the back of my hand. "They've gathered one more member. Not gifted. He decided to join them. Why won't they decide to tell someone their motive? I want to know!" Alice grumbled. So there was ten of them now. "Where will the children be, Alice?" Esme asked. I was a terrible mother not to think of that. "You're not Renesmee. You're wonderful." My father whispered to me. Alice grabbed Esme's hand. "They will stay with Billy, and will be more than safe. I can see now that Billy has many stories for them." Alice reassured us. I settled into Jacob's arm. Finally grateful for more answers. "Why aren't they mentioning their motive?" Rosalie asked. Alice's nose wrinkled, as if she'd just smelt something bad. "I don't know. They clearly don't know that I can see the future, so I don't know why they aren't revealing that. I can only put it down to coincidence." She shrugged.
Jacob shuffled again. "How many of my wolves do you think we'll need? All of them?" I could see the flicker of planning in his eyes. If there was ten of them, and ten of us without the wolves, it would be even, but as I wasn't as strong it would be difficult. "Involve them all, Jacob. I doubt we'll need them but if we need back up, it would be good to have them close." My father replied. Jacob nodded. "Is there anything else? If not I'll go phase and pass the message along." Jacob asked. I thought about everything I'd found out today. I was hoping no more secrets were being kept from me. If I found anything else out, I would be so upset. "No there's nothing else we need to tell you." My father answered both me and Jacob. I smiled thankfully. Jacob kissed me and stood up. I watched as he walked out of the door, and phased. I felt suddenly empty without Jacob next to me. I hated it when ever he left, no matter how far away he was. I wanted to change the subject to something happier, to distract us. "Sarah laughed for the first time this morning. If she's like Chaska, she should start speaking next week." I smiled. My little Sarah had grown more beautiful by the day. Chaska thoroughly loved her. If he knew the threat we were under, he'd no doubt not phase back to human to protect her. "Oh Renesmee, that's wonderful. You should bring her around in the morning" Esme cooed. "Her laugh sounds like Alice's." I commented. Alice smiled widely. My eyes flickered to the door where Jacob came through.
He pulled his three quarters on and came and sat beside me. He wrapped his arm across my back. I snuggled into him and let my head rest against his clavicle. He kissed my hair and proceeded to tell everyone the plan. "At the beginning of the fourth week, unless Alice sees different, Embry, Quil, Jared and Paul are coming up. Sue has gave them permission to sleep in her and Charlie's house. So that's seven wolves up here, including me, Seth and Leah. Collin and Brady will be crashing out ours, Ness, is that okay?" I smiled and nodded, not knowing what to say. "Will that be enough? I don't want to involve the younger ones. They were all pretty shuck up after our last fight." I could see Jacob's point of view, completely. After our last battle, to get Chaska back from the Volturi, the younger wolves couldn't quite cope with the things they saw and did. Their thoughts had plagued Jacob's for months afterwards. It was one of the main reasons I wanted to keep Chaska away from the fights, because even if he did succeed in diminishing his enemies, he would be left with the same mental scars that the other younger, more naïve wolves had suffered. "Yes that should be enough, Jacob. Don't bring anyone here if it will hurt them, or make them ill." Carlisle said. Jacob sighed in relief and hugged me closer. "Thank you, Carlisle." he breathed.
We discussed the ins and outs of most things, I just wanted to be sure that nothing else was being kept from me. I must have fallen asleep at some point though. I felt as different sets of cold lips touched my forehead, as I was cuddled in warmth. I heard Jacob talking on his phone, and the breeze brush against my cheeks. I opened my eyes and saw that Jacob was carrying me through the forest. "Jaayy…" I incoherently murmured. "Right here, hon." He whispered back. I snuggled further into his chest and he laughed. It was a homey sound. "Kids?" I mumbled. His lips touched my hair. "They are sleeping at Billy's. He has a nursery in the house, remember? He's more than happy to have them." I knew Jacob was smiling now. I began to wake up a little more. My thoughts became more composed. I wiggled in his arms, and pulled my arms around his neck. "We have the house to ourselves, for the first time in 3 years." I said kissing his neck. He began to run. The breeze blew past us quickly, pushing my hair behind me. My lips found Jacob's and became eager. He ran faster still. It only took us another minute to get to the house. Our lips didn't part as he shoved the key in the lock and pushed the door open. He slammed the door shut and ran up the stairs with me. I don't know how it happened, but the next minute I was on the bed yanking my clothes off. I grabbed hand-full's of Jacob's three quarters and ragged them off. After a stressful day, I was finally in my happy place, and I had my answers.