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Nessie's POV

"I can't believe you were going to leave me behind," Kat sneered in my general direction. We were both in the back seat of one of Dad's less extravagant cars. Seth was driving up front.

"This isn't a vacation, Kat, it's more of a mission," I roll my eyes and eye her up and down. "Are you wearing my blouse?"

"Yes… what do you expect me to do? Run around naked. I have no clothing!" Kat says crossing her arms. Seth smiles as he watches Kat through the rear view mirror.

"Eyes on the road, pup," Kat said pointing ahead. "How do you know he's going to be on this train anyways?" Kat asks me.

"I don't, it's just a hunch. He left his car for Leah at the bus station and since the first bus out of Forks usually leaves at 10am then I figure he'll be on the train we're going to board in fifteen minutes."

"It's 12 noon right now, how do you expect to get to the train station before the bus which left at 10?" Kat asked.

"The bus has to make a million stops along the way. Trust me," I get flash backs of sitting on the bus, looking out the window, staring down at my knees when I'd accidently make eye contact with a stranger. I had looked too young to be on my own—just some dumb 13 year old kid. I can't believe that was only a year ago.

"We're here… hey, genius," Seth says turning back to look at me, "how are we going to pay for these tickets."

I realize that the train is about 5 minutes away from leaving so everyone was already on, crap.

"I have a credit card," I say getting out of the car. I head inside of the station. Kat and Seth follow me and I hand the person at the booth my credit card and request three tickets to the city. The card says R. Black. Emmett gave it to me; he said that if I was ever in trouble, no matter how deep he'd help me out with no judgment. He also promised to never read the statement which is more then my father could offer. The credit card Dad gave me still had Cullen written on it. Emmett was nice enough to get one for me with my new last name on it.

I hand the tickets to my friends and we get on the train.

"What's the limit on that card?" Kat asked out of curiosity. Aro was never one to give her much. She had a room in the court where Fox and I lived but that was it. Though Kat was never short on style so I think she and Alsario must have been great friends. Oh Alsario, I miss him. I should call him some time.

"Oh, uh… I dunno," I say to Kat, putting the card back in my wallet and we board the train. "Kat, take the window seat," Kat sits down next to the window and I sit next to her. Seth slid down into the seat across from Kat and watched her with worshiping eyes. Kat's attention was to the scenery as the train started moving.

I just smile a little bit; if Kat would just give in I know that Seth could make her really happy. I flip open the cell phone which Jake makes me take everywhere and sigh at the no signal sign. I lift it up trying my best to get a signal but I get nothing.

"No signal?" Seth asks me and I shake my head.

"No signal," I confirm. "Guys, stay here I'm going to go upstairs to the second floor and see if I can get a hold of Jake to let him know where I am," I head up the steps and sit down in an empty seat. Ha! I signal. I speed dial my husband.

"Baby, finally," Jacob signs in relief. It makes me smile—makes me want him a little bit.

"Hi, sorry I couldn't get a damn signal on this train."

"Train!?" his voice fills with disgruntled worry, "Nessie are you leaving me again?" he asked with a sound of reminiscent anguish.

"What? Of course not!" I huff, how could he even think that? "I promise that as soon as I find Chuck we're heading right back to La Push."

"I don't like you doing this, you know."

"Yes, I know but you don't need to worry because I am not alone. Seth is here and Kat is here and soon Kalan will be with us. It's a big group, Jacob."

"I know, I just don't like my baby being too far away from me. It drives me crazy," he says with a little depressed sigh.

"Aw, poor thing," I tease him, "I'll make up for it tonight," I promise and hear him lightly chuckle. I smile and stand up, starting to wander the train looking for Chuck. I hope he was heading back to his place and not in some other direction or this will prove pointless.

"Then you better hurry back," Jacob says in a seductive voice that makes me melt and all I can think about his how good his warm, bare body feels against my own.

"I guess I will then," I smile and glance around until my eyes find the rough looking individual I was searching for. "I'll call you back, love you," I hang up and then walk down the row until I am standing next to Kalan. I plop down in the seat next to him and his eyes snap to me, surprised.

"Oh for the love of… who sent you?" Kalan rubbed his head.

"Nice to see you too, Chuck. Mind if I sit?" I ask but I am already seated.

"I do, actually. Did Leah send you?" He sighs, looking guilty as hell, well he should feel guilty as hell for leaving!

"No, Leah doesn't even know you're gone. Good thing too that I found the note before she did," I grumbled and pull the wrinkled piece of paper out of my pocket and start to read it out loud. "Dear Leah, Please understand that although I love you with all my heart I can no longer keep putting you, Misty and all whom I hold dear in danger. I have wired some money into your account so you and Misty will never have to worry about payments on the house, food or whatever expenses living requires. Last night was a close call and I was foolish to have forgotten that it was No Moon. You will never have to fear again. With all my love, the jerk who broke your heart," I say making the last bit up.

"That's not how I signed it," he glared at me and crossed his arms, "Nessie, this is none of your business."

"You're my friend; I can't let you do this to your self. You need her as much as she needs you."

"It's dangerous for her to need me, I could kill her," Kalan says unfolding his arms and taps his fingers along the cane he was holding in his lap.

"You won't. You don't remember when you turned into that thing but I do because you were going to kill me," I whisper and watch his head snap to look at me and he puts his hand to my face, gently.

"You didn't," I chuckle, "obviously," I swat his hand away. "Leah called out to you and there was no doubt in my mind that, even as that beast, when you looked at her you had no intention to ever harm her."

"It doesn't matter, Nessie. I can't risk it," he says looking away and I feel anger bubble up inside of me for what he is doing to Leah. Leah didn't sign up for this, Kalan promised her that he was going to be better to her then Sam was when he pulled that gun away from her last year. He might as well have just let her shoot herself and end her pain.

"You son of a bitch," I grumble angrily and watch his eyes connect with mine in shock. "You know what you are? Just another tortured soul who thinks he's doing the world some big service by pulling away from those who loves him. When in reality he is just a coward who is only interested in protecting himself. I've got news for you, Chuck, love isn't easy; sometimes it's unadorned misery. But there is a difference between love that is worth fighting for and love that doesn't matter enough to hold on to," I clench my teeth.

"Leah matters," he says with anger.

"Obviously not enough," I stand up and look down at him, "that's fine though. I tried but I am not going to stand here beg you to care more about Leah because I'm not in the business of making people give a damn, they either do or they don't."

"Hey! I love Leah!"

"Not enough to stay."

"Alright!" he shouts at me.

"Alright?" I tilt my head and watch him get up to his feet, leaning on his cane and pulling a bag from the over head.

"I'm coming back, just… don't tell Leah that I was going to leave, alright?" he glares at me. I smile to myself. Ha! Success! I take his bag for him and we head back down stairs to the first floor of the train and I sit down next to Kat and Chuck sits beside Seth and groans to himself.

"What?" I frown.

"Seth will never keep his big mouth shut," Kalan mumbled.

"Hey!" Seth pouts. I laugh a little and watch Kat's mouth twitch up too into a little grin.

"We'll get off at the next stop?" Kat asks.

"This is the express train," Kalan says and I quickly glance to him, "it goes right to the city, no stops."

"Perfect," I sigh and lean my head on Kat's shoulder.

"What's your problem?" Kat frowns knocking my head off her shoulder. I lean back in the chair.

"I'm just really hungry and was hoping to hunt some time soon," I complain. I put it off this morning and I really haven't had anything in my stomach for about three days which is really horrible. The people around me are starting to smell tasty.

"We'll be in the city soon," Chuck says, "the station is connected to the mall, there is a food court a few steps away."

"Yum," I say sarcastically. I doubt a cheese burger will really hit the spot but whatever, food is food.

When the train finally pulls into the station, Seth and Kat take me to the food court while Kalan stays behind in the station to purchase our tickets home.

"What looks good?" Seth asks me as we sit down at one of the tables in the center of the bustling food court.

"Mmmm, the brunette," I joke looking across the food court to a hot looking dark haired man.

"I'm telling Jacob!" Seth laughs and covers my eyes so I can't see for a moment before sitting down across from me. "What do you think? Hamburgers and fries?" Seth asks me.

"Sure, might as well," I agree, "order enough for all of us, I'm going to go see what's keeping Kalan," I get up from the table and head down the long hallways of shops and crowds. I see Kalan coming in my direction.

"Next train leaves at 6," he says with an apologetic look.

"So we're stuck in the city for like four hours?" I sigh and cross my arms, "Jake is going to just love that," I shake my head and we start walking back to the food court." I notice that for some reason today, Kalan's limp is much more noticeable. "Something wrong with your leg?" I ask, slowing my walking pace so he doesn't have to struggle to keep up.

"Yeah, it gets like this after the whole werewolf thing. The metal bolt they put in my joint probably shifts or something because it hurts more then usual after No Moon," he explains and stops walking all together.

"You need to sit down?" I ask him.

"No," he says, walking into one of the baby shops in the mall, "I might as well bring Misty back a few things while I'm here," he says.

"This looks expensive," I whisper so the shop keepers don't hear as I follow him inside.

"Not any more expensive then the other shops," he says and wanders off into the toddler section. Misty is 10 months, wow, soon she'll be 1 whole year old. I let him go look around and I walk around the corner just looking at all the baby crap people think they need. There are little jumpers for babies under three month. Are you serious? Why bother dressing the baby when it messes its diaper every other minute? I turn to go find where Chuck went when my eye catches an adorable little baby dress covered in red and orange butterflies; it is the cutest thing I have ever seen. I smile a little.

"Adorable, isn't it?" the shop keeper asks me.

"It's very cute," I smile back and check out the matching hat and shoes.

"When are you due?" she asks me and I laugh out loud.

"Wow, I'm that fat?" I tease and watch her face turn bright red.

"No, I uh… just thought that… ugh… I'm going to go over there and die now, excuse me," she says and excuses herself to the other side of the shop. I laugh again, poor girl. I'm too wicked. I sigh and look at the dress one more time before catching up with Kalan who was adding some baby socks to the pile he had accumulated.

"Can we go now?" I say almost bouncing up and down, I want out of here. I'm not aloud to think baby junk is cute—personal rule.

"Something wrong?" he asks and looks at me for a moment before picking out more socks.

"Yeah, my ovaries are starting to throb," I reply bluntly and Kalan laughs out loud.

"Don't let Jake hear you say that."

"Yeah no kidding—hey, when you're done meet us in the food court," I lightly pat his shoulder and shuffle out of the shop and head back to find Kat and Seth sitting at the table with the fast food bags.

"Where's Kalan?" Seth asks.

"Shopping a little," I reply, "looks like the next train out of here is going to be a while so we're stuck here for a few hours. Which is probably for the best anyways because Kat can't keep raiding my closet and if she takes anything else from Rose she is going to end up dead," I fold my arms, Rose had almost slapped Kat for borrowing her cropped sweater without asking.

"Uh, okay, sure," Kat says and I open up the fast food bag and take out a burger and put some more ketchup in it before scarfing it down. God I am so hungry.

"What do you need?" I ask Kat and pass her some French fries.

"Everything, the only thing I have of mine is what I wore when I came here in the winter," she says.

"We'll shop around," I promise her and hear my phone ring. I take it out of my pocket and groan when I see caller ID is my father's phone. "Hello?"

"Where in the hell are you?" his tone is angry.

"Uh, at the down town shopping centre," I reply, "in the city. What's your problem?"

"Well a little warning would be nice. Carlisle sat down to pay off some bills this afternoon and lo and behold I get the news that R. Black, aka my daughter, who has a track record of running away, has purchased train tickets—one way train tickets."

"Relax, Dad. Kalan bought the ones for our return. I'm sitting here with Seth and Kat as we speak so there are no plans to run away… just yet. Give me time though," I reply because I feel smothered right now. "You know, you need to stop treating me like a child, I am a grown adult who is married, by the way."

I hear silence on the other end followed by a long sigh, "fine, and your right. I'm sorry. I guess it just brought up some bad memories, that's all," he apologizes. "So, what are you doing in the city, just to let you know Alice is extremely jealous and upset that she wasn't invited."

"Oh, tell her not to be. This wasn't a shopping trip, it just sort of turned into a trip of that nature. Next train doesn't leave until later. You know what, I'll make sure to explain everything later."

"Alright, sorry again for overreacting," Dad says sounding much calmer.

"Maybe next time you should just call Jacob and ask," I reply, "I tell him where I am all the time."

"I remember a time when it was I who you would tell where you would be," he said in a sulky tone.

"Alright, hanging up now," I grumble, I hate it when he does this, "I promise when I get back we can hang out some time," I roll my eyes and hang up quickly.

"Awww," Kat and Seth say in union.

"Put a sock in it," I shoot a glare at both of them and put fries into my mouth. I glance to my side to see Kalan has returned with two big bags from that baby store. "She's going to be so spoiled," I warn him in a musical voice.

"Yeah, Kalan, I don't know why you waste your money she'll only wear it for a total of a few months and then what are you going to do with all that clothing?" Seth says trying to shake mustard out of the bottle to put on his burger; it was giving give a hard time.

"Give it to Nessie," Kalan teased me.

"I'm not pregnant!" I say quickly before Seth and Kat can freak out.

"Not what the lady in the shop thought," Chuck teases me with a little grin. "She thought you were pregnant because you kept rubbing your belly."

"I was starving!" I defend.

"She thought you were with child."

"I could have eaten a child," I glare at him and then quickly change the subject, "Kat, lets start with the basics, there is an Aerie right over there," I point.

"Aerie? What do they sell?" she asks munching on a fry. I frown glancing over to Seth who is still trying to squeeze mustard out of that bottle. He should just give up and use ketchup like a normal person.

"Underwear, bras and all that stuff... Trust me, they sell the best underwear, don't go anywhere else," I warn her.

Kat frowns, "yeah… I've seen your underwear, Ness… granny-panties," Kat raises her brows.

"Bikini-cut is far from granny-panties—what the hell kind of underwear do you wear?" I question her.

"I don't," Kat says simply. Seth gawks at Kat, squeezing the yellow bottle by accident and squirts mustard about 7 feet into the air from where we're sitting.

"Metaphorical mustard… I love it," I chuckle and get up from the table and dial Jacob.

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