Chapter 38 – The Visit
Carlisle:
It was the weekend and we were all enjoying time at home. It was a beautiful spring day in Forks and for once, it wasn't raining. We had planned to spend the day outside since it is so rare here in this part of the country to have a sunny day. Since we are at home, we don't have to worry about being out in the sun and shimmering. Rosalie was sitting out on the lawn in a chaise lounge chair reading a magazine. Alice and Jasper went to their alone spot to spend time together. Bella and Esme were working in the garden and Leah was with Jake and Seth who were doing a perimeter run around the property. They were phased into wolves. Edward, and Emmett were playing catch with a baseball to see who could throw it the hardest. I was reading a book on the porch.
Jake, Seth and Leah came bounding back into the yard from their run. I could see Jake had something in his mouth and was mentally communicating something to both Seth and Leah. Seth ran over and grabbed the other end of the item in Jake's mouth and they were romping on the ground and playing tug-of-war with whatever Jake had, trying to see who could hold onto it the longest. Leah looked like she said something to them and trotted off to where she could phase back into human form and dress in private. For once everyone seemed content as I enjoyed my book.
Jacob:
We had just completed our perimeter run and arriving back at our yard, I stopped to dig something up I had buried before we left. I snuck into Daddy Vamp's study and stole that vicious strap he used on Bella, Rosalie and Alice. I decided it was time for that horrid thing to disappear. Just like that interfering Aro to send something like that to Daddy Vamp, and he would use it! Since it was only a matter of time before I would feel it across my rump, I decided to make it go away, wolf style! I telepathically told Seth and Leah to see which one of us was the strongest as we tried to rip it. It made a good chew toy anyway! Leah wanted no part in it. We both teased her as she trotted off.
"You trot like a girl!" I teased her. She responded by sticking her snout in the air and running off to her spot where she kept her change of clothes.
Seth was all for it as he grabbed the other end and we began a sparring match. We were both growling and pulling and grabbing hard on the strip of leather. This was some tough leather to withstand our bites to it. We each shook our ends trying to get it away from the other. We were going at it good and then I got another idea. I was going to make my way over and knock the lawn chair Miss Snoot was laying in reading her stupid magazine. I began moving and pulling Seth toward Rosalie. We were low to the ground and Seth went down on his belly and I managed to get a good yank on my end and pulled him along with ease as I got right next to Rosalie in the chair and backed up into it knocking it hard with my back-end. My tail went right in her face. Mission accomplished!
"AAWWW! You miserable hound! Get your shaggy tail out of my face, you mongrel!" She yelled at me and yanked my tail.
"Yipe!" I yelped. That got daddy vamp's attention.
"Rosalie, don't hurt the wolves!" Daddy Vamp warned. Ha ha, she got in trouble.
"Figures you'd take up for them!" Rosalie snorted.
Leah came back dressed and walked over to us. "Stop aggravating her, you two idiots!"
Seth and I just growled at her. I then walked behind Rosalie and turned my rear to the back of her chair, lifted my tail, and was lucky enough to fire a fart right at her. It didn't take long for the aroma to reach her.
"Oh yuk! You filthy, inconsiderate sack of fur! Get away with your smelly ass!" Rosalie shouted. Both Seth and I were rolling on the ground in sheer delight.
"Rosalie, watch your language, young lady!" Daddy Vamp said to her.
"Dad! He farted at me and it's lingering. Get him away from me or I'm shaving his tail!" Rosalie threatened.
"Jacob! That was not nice, now behave or your tail is going to be bare!" Daddy Vamp warned.
I responded to that by turning and kicking up grass and dirt right at Rosalie! She was not happy.
"Dad, look what he's doing! Now he's got me all filthy! Stupid mutt," Rose complained again.
"Jacob, if I have to get up and come over there mister, you are in for it! Now let your sister alone!" Daddy Vamp scolded me.
We went back to our new chew toy and finally we were tough enough that we broke it in two. Good! Now it's broke and it won't be smacking our butts. Seth looked down at it and realized what it was. He backed up and looked scared. He mentally communicated to me: "Are you crazy! This is dad's strap! You took it out of his office and we destroyed it! He's going to tan our hides! He warned me if I ever stole anything from him again I would get the belt. You're not pinning this on me; you did this. I didn't know what it was and you better take the blame when you get caught. I promised him I'd never take anything from him. You better tell him what YOU did, Jacob! Alpha or not, I'm not getting blamed for this," Seth said fearfully.
"Calm down, Seth. I'll tell Daddy Vamp it was me. You won't get in trouble for this, I promise. I got your back on this one," I said telepathically to him.
"You better mean that Jake cause I don't want to get it from Dad again. Boy, are you gonna get it when he finds out," Seth warned.
I grabbed both pieces of the strap and began chewing the hell out of both of them. Seth ran to his clothes hide-out and phased back to human form and came back clothed. He looked at me and shook his head. He went over by Bella and Mom. Leah was over there talking to them also. I was chewing on the leather strips that I had shredded and was tossing them in the air. One of them went flying and landed right onto Daddy Vamp's book. Oh no, I hope he doesn't figure out what it is.
Carlisle:
I could hear Jake chomping on something and looked up to see him tossing pieces of it in the air as I went back to my book. As long as they're not fighting, I don't care what he's doing. I found my place on the page and began reading again when a chunk of something landed right in the middle of the page.
"Jacob, watch what you're doing. What are chewing on? What is this?" I said out loud as I picked the foreign object up. It looked like a strip of leather. I turned it around in my hand, trying to figure out where I had seen this before. "What is this, Jacob? Where did this come from…JACOB CULLEN! Is this my strap from Aro, young man?" I yelled to him realizing what it was. I looked over at him and he was now backing away toward the woods.
"You stay right there young man!" I ordered him. I slammed my book down and went down the steps.
"You stupid wolf brain! Now you did it! You're gonna get it good, now! Ha ha ha!" Rosalie teased.
I made my way over to him but stopped where Rosalie was reading her magazine. "Rosalie, give me that magazine," I said to her holding my hand out.
"Da-ad! I'm reading it!" Rosalie protested.
"I'll give it back to you in a minute," I said taking it from her. I began rolling it up and making my way over to my naughty wolf son.
"But I was just at a good part…oh, I see what you need it for! Go ahead dad, use it with vigor!" Rosalie said.
"I intend to," I said to her. Jake stopped backing up and now lowered his head and his body in submission to me, as he knew what was coming.
"Jake's gonna get his tail whipped! Jake's gonna get his tail whipped!" Rosalie sing-songed taunting him. This drew everyone else's attention as all eyes were on Jacob and me.
When I got to him he put his head down and was whimpering. I grabbed him by his ear and pulled him up and began dragging him by his ear over to a tree stump. I put my left foot on the stump, reached down and hoisted Jake in wolf form over my bent knee. I put his backside on the top of my thigh and his two front feet were on the ground below. His back legs were sticking out behind him and his tail was between his legs. The others were laughing. It was a funny sight. I then lifted up his tail and began whacking his back-end with the rolled up magazine. Emmett and Edward were almost doubled over in laughter. I could hear them carrying on along with Leah, Esme and Bella. Rosalie was in her glory with Jake getting a public whacking, in wolf form at that.
"Ha ha ha! Pops is tanning a wolf hide! Listen to Jake yipping and yelping. Hey, that could be a song! 'A Yippin' and a yelpin' with Jake'…ha ha…where's Jazz when you need him?" Emmett laughed. "He could make that sound good with the way he was torturing those songs the other day," Emmett laughed.
"Are you saying Jazz sings like a hurt wolf?" Edward asked laughing.
"Actually, Jake sounds better and is more in tune," Emmett said laughing. That got the rest of them laughing also. "For just using a magazine, Jake is doing a lot of yelping," Emmett added.
"Are you kidding, Dad can make a piece of paper feel like a switch," Edward suggested.
"You got that right, bro! Jake is feeling the burn," Emmett said touching his backside with his finger and making a 'sizzling' noise.
"I'll say! I'm not positive, but I think he is swearing in wolf-speak!" Edward laughed. "I can't believe Dad lifted his tail and he's whacking his wolf butt. That's the funniest thing I've ever seen!"
"Yipe! Yipe! Hoowwlll! Wince…wince…yipe…yipe…howllll…yipe" Jake yelped.
"This is just the beginning, young man! When you phase back to human form, you and I are going to have this same conversation in my study," I informed him.
Jake was yelping and yipping, but it wasn't really hurting him. He was just embarrassed and he loved playing the martyr. My cell phone was in my pocket and it began ringing. I stopped my onslaught with the magazine to grab my phone. It had stopped ringing by that time and went to voicemail. I tossed it over to Rosalie.
"Rosalie, see who that is. It may be the hospital," I instructed her.
I then went back to reading Rosalie's magazine to Jake the hard way. I heard Rosalie say something then she came over to me.
"Uh dad!" Rosalie said.
"Not now, I'm busy reading this article to Jacob," I said continuing to wallop him.
"But, dad, you need to hear this…" Rosalie said. I just ignored her and read him another paragraph or two.
"Dad, you really need to hear this," Rose said again.
"What is it, Rosalie? I'm in the middle of something here," I said as she put the phone to my ear and played the voice message. I couldn't believe my ears. "What?" I shouted.
"Told you so," Rosalie said.
I stopped and listened to it again. Same thing I thought I heard the first time, now confirmed. I played it one more time to make sure. "Oh no, this can't be," I said disgusted. Jake was still on my knee and he was twisting and growling and whimpering. "Sorry Jake, you can get up now," I said as I took my foot off the stump and eased him down. He started scooting his butt along the ground. "Stop scooting on the ground. Get up, Jake and phase back," I said to him.
"What is it, Carlisle?" Esme asked with the others in tow.
"It's a message from Aro. They are coming to check up on Bella and to see how we are all getting along with a newborn," I informed them.
Jake stopped in his tracks and turned around and began growling.
"What?" Esme asked. "You can't be serious!"
"I wish I wasn't," I answered her.
"We've had newborns before and they never came to check on us then. What is the difference now?" Rosalie asked.
"I'm thinking it has to do with Bella being a shield. Aro always had a fascination with Bella from the time she went to rescue Edward. Now since he sent Jane to make sure she was changed, I'm thinking her gift of being a shield is even more intriguing to him." I replied.
"Great, we just can't get a break with the Volturi sticking their nose in our business," Edward complained.
"Yeah, well if you wouldn't have run off to Volterra like an idiot and we would have stayed here instead of running off like you convinced us all to do when you left Bella, the Volturi would have never known about Bella and all of this," Rosalie said sarcastically to Edward.
"Shut up Rosalie and mind your own business," Edward said.
"Like you've never done anything wrong," Bella said sharply to Rosalie.
Jake came up to Rosalie, growling in her face and then slobbering on her. "Get away you stupid hound. I wish Daddy had that strap you tore up to teach you a good lesson," Rosalie said pushing Jake away. He stumbled back and then lunged at Rosalie growling and snapping his teeth at her.
"Jacob!" I yelled to him and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and pulled him away from Rosalie. Emmett had flashed to Rosalie also, but I got there first. Good thing I did. I held onto him to ward off anymore attacks from either sides.
"Hey bro, don't go hurting and threatening my Rosie," Emmett said
Everyone was upset. I turned to everyone and told them we needed to go in the house and discuss this. Jake went off to phase back and we were making our way toward the house when Alice and Jasper came flashing home to us.
"Daddy! They're here! I saw it in a vision. They purposely waited to send you that message until they arrived here to catch us off guard. I can't see too much in the future with the wolves around all the time. They want us to meet at the field where we play baseball because they said our house smells like a kennel with the wolves roaming free." Alice informed us.
"What! How dare they say my house smells and insult my wolf babies," Esme grumbled.
"Oh great! How many are here?" I asked.
"Just Aro, Marcus, Jane and Felix," Alice said. "I think they are just curious to see Bella since she shielded us from Jane's powers and they want to see for themselves. I don't see anymore of them," Alice said.
"I thought that might be the reason they came. It was too tempting to Aro. We might as well go and get this over with, no use putting it off," I said to my family. "Everyone be on your best behavior, especially you, Jacob! Don't act like you did here with the Volturi, young man," I warned them.
"Why Daddy Vamp, I'm hurt…I'm always on my best behavior! I'm golden!" Jake said smiling and drawing a halo over his head.
"Yeah, you're golden all right!" Edward said smirking.
"Jacob, if you act up it will be dangerous for all of us and for you when I get you home, young man," I warned him.
"Chill out, DV! It will be easier dealing with the Volturi than the Vampiress Vixen over there. I've only met Jane, what are the Volturi like?" Jake asked.
"Oh Bro, they're some crazy Dudes! Aro looks deranged and Marcus looks and sounds like he's acting in a bad Shakespearian play all the time. He's real melodramatic! Felix is a guard and you know Jane is just downright mean," Emmett explained.
"Let's get going, we don't want them here as much as they don't want to come here. Leah, Jake and Seth, stay in human form. They may feel threatened if you are in wolf form. Only phase if there is a problem," I told them. "Bella, you better throw your shield over us at all times."
"I was going to dad. Good thing you had me call Kate in Denali. She's really helped me learn how to project it out," Bella said.
We then left and headed to the field to face our visitors…
To Be Continued…
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A/N: Remember, in my story there is no Renesmee and so there never was a battle between the Cullen's and the Volturi. Jake has only met Jane when she came to see that Bella was changed. The rest of the Volturi have never seen Jake, Seth and Leah, in human or wolf form and vice-versa.