Chapter 4

The Storm

Nessie POV

It was a Saturday night and I was over at Jakes. We were snuggling on his couch watching a movie. It had started to rain, not a heavy rain, just a slight drizzle.

I was nuzzled against Jake's neck when I heard it start to pour. I looked out the window, it was really coming down hard and the sky was an almost purpely color. It was frightening to look at. It had started to thunder slightly. I hated thunderstorms so I nuzzled closer into Jake.

He wrapped his arms around me sensing the stress. "It's okay love." He whispered into my hair. "It's just a thunderstorm there's nothing to be afraid of."

He kissed my forehead. "I know I replied. "I just don't like thunderstorms." I shuddered as a loud rumble sounded. "Can you close the curtains?" I asked.

Jake sighed and stood up, but I clutched onto his hand. "Nessie love I thought you wanted me to close the curtain?" he asked. I nodded my head and let his hand go. Jacob walked away and started to close the window. I heard a sharp intake of breath.

"Jake?" I asked worriedly. "Are you okay?" I looked over at him and he had a shocked expression on his face.

Jacob POV

I looked out the window as I went to close the curtain for Nessie. The sky had turned a dark purple. I looked to my left and saw a funnel shaped cloud. I inhaled sharply. Nessie heard me.

"Jake?" she asked. "are you okay?" I couldn't respond. I was in a sort of shock. "Jake please answer me."

"Nessie come here." I finally said, very slowly. "Why?" she asked as she stood up.

I stretched my hand out for her. She grasped it. The funnel cloud was starting to rotate faster. Nessie and I were alone in the house. Billy had gone over to Charlie's house to watch a baseball game. We didn't have a cellar to hide in.

"Nessie I think we need to go and hide in the bathroom for awhile." He stated. "Why?" Nessie asked nervously. "I think there's a tornado coming right for us." I told her.

Her eyes widened. She looked scared. "It'll be alright." I said rubbing her hand as I pulled her back from the window just as the tornado touched ground right in front of the house.

I didn't have much time to react. The tornado was at the front door within a second. "Run!" I shouted.

We ran as fast as we could to the bathroom. Nessie tripped on something and I pulled her up. But it was to late, at that point the tornado was ripping through the house. Nessie screamed. Planks of wood were flying everywhere; one flew right past my head.

Nessie screamed again and the next thing I knew she was laying on the floor. There was blood coming from the side of her head. Shit something must have hit her. I had to find something to hold on to, the wind of the tornado was so strong.

The tornado was over as fast as it had come. Thank god for that. I looked around the house. It was completely destroyed. All that was standing was a side of the house.

Nessie was still laying unconscious beside me. Debris was covering her. I started to pull the debris off of her. After I finally got it all of I rubbed her arm and called her name. "Nessie?" I asked. "Nessie darling please answer me!" I shouted, near tears. I grabbed my cell phone that was in my pocket and tried to call Carlisle. He could help me with Nessie.

"Hello?" Carlisle answered. "Carlisle, its Jacob." I whispered, my voice shaking. "Jacob are you all right?" he asked. I didn't answer right away. "Jacob?" he asked again. "Carlisle its Nessie." I answered. "What's wrong, is she okay?" he asked. "No," I said again.

"Tell me everything." Carlisle demanded. I took a deep breath. "There was a tornado. We tried to run for it. But we didn't have enough time to make it to the bathroom before the tornado tore through the house. Something hit Nessie. She's unconscious and her head is bleeding pretty badly."

I was crying now. "Jacob calm down." He told me. "Can you bring Nessie over to me?" he asked. "No," I said. "I'm afraid to move her. "Okay, just stay where you are. I'm coming now." He assured me. "Just keep pressure on the wound until I get there."

Carlisle hung up the phone. I did as he said and took my shirt off and applied pressure onto Nessie's head. She wasn't breathing. "Nessie honey." I called again. "Please answer me." I sobbed. Still no answer.

I closed my eyes and layed my head on Nessie's chest.

I felt someone's hand on my shoulder. My head shot up. "I'm sorry Jacob, I didn't mean to frighten you." Carlisle apologized. I nodded my head. "How is she?" he asked. "the same." I whispered." The words barely audible.

I moved out of the way to let Carlisle work on Nessie. "Jacob we need to move Nessie to my office at home. I can't work here." He stated. "Of course." I said as he lifted Nessie up carefully. I slowly got up and followed as he raced back to the house.

Edward opened the door for us "What happened?" he demanded. "Relax Edward, it wasn't Jacob's fault." Carlisle said. "What happened!" he asked again. "The tornado hit Jacob's house. He and Nessie were trying to hide, but they didn't have time." He paused. "Their house is destroyed by the way." He added quietly as he carried Nessie upstairs.

Carlisle made me wait downstairs while he worked on Nessie. The wait was driving me insane. I sat down on the couch, put my head in my hands, and started sobbing.

Someone placed their hand on my hands and tried to pull them away from my face. "Shh..Jacob. It's okay." Bella tried to comfort me.

"This is all my fault." I told her. "If only I could have gotten us out faster." Bella shook her head.

"No Jacob. There was no way you could have known. Stop blaming yourself." She demanded.

Bella wrapped her arms around me rocking me back and forth trying to comfort me. It worked some. It reminded me of when I was little when my mother would do the same thing to me whenever I was afraid.

My loud sobbing finally subsided and now they were silent tears.

I lifted my head from Bella's shoulder, who was still trying to comfort me, and saw Carlisle coming down the stairs.

"Carlisle." I said "How's Nessie?" I asked. He shook his head.

"There's no way to know until she wakes up. She's still unconscious." He told me. "She does have a pretty bad head wound, I'm worried about that."

"Thank you Carlisle." I told him. He nodded his head. "You may go see her now if you like."

I looked over at Bella. "Is it okay?"I asked her. She nodded her head. "Of course Jacob."

I walked slowly up the stairs holding on to the guard rail, afraid that I might fall over if I didn't have something to support myself.

I finally made it to the top of the stairs and down the hall, where Carlisle's office was. I hated this room. I thought to myself. It was the place where Bella "died." I couldn't stand being in there, but I had to see Nessie.

I opened the door and saw Nessie laying under the covers. She looked so peaceful. I walked in and gently closed the door behind me.

I walked over to the bed and sat on the chair beside her. My hand stretched to her head and I caressed it. Her hair was so soft, but it was coated in blood, as were her cheek and neck.

I looked around for something to find so I could try and clean her up. I went to pull my shirt off, then I remembered I didn't even have a shirt on. All I owned now was a pair of pants, a pair of underware, a pair of socks, and a pair of shoes. I sighed to myself. I didn't know what I was going to tell Billy.

I spotted a rag on the table, next to the rag was a glass of water in it. I dipped the rag into the glass and got it slightly wet.

I dabbed Nessie's face gently, afraid that it might hurt her. The blood didn't want to come off so I gave up.

Nessie stirred slightly. "Nessie?" I asked. "Nessie can you hear me?" No answer. I jumped up from my seat and ran out the door.

"Carlisle!" I shouted at the top of the stairs. "What is it Jacob?" he asked as he got to the bottom of the stairs.

He reached me in half a second. "Nessie, she just stirred." I told him. As I grabbed his hand and pulled him into the office. Wow that was creepy, did I just grab Carlisle's hand? That didn't matter now, all that mattered was Nessie.

"Okay," Carlisle said. "Tell me exactly what you saw. "Well," I started. "I was trying to clean the blood off of her face and neck. When I stopped she stirred. I tried calling her name, but she didn't answer me. That's when I came and got you."

Bella was now standing outside the door. "Carlisle?" she asked. "Is she okay?"

Carlisle shook his head. "I don't know. Jacob was just finishing telling me what happened."

Bella looked at me, hoping for some answer. I just shrugged my shoulders.

There was a low moan that came over from the bed. I whipped my head around to Nessie. I ran to the bed. "Nessie honey, please answer me." Her lips moved but nothing came out.

Bella was now at my side, she placed a hand on Nessies arm. "Nessie darling it's mom. Please answer me." She said worriedly.

"Mom." She whispered. I sighed. Thank god. I thought to myself. "Oh Nessie thank goodness you're okay." Bella said as she went to hug Nessie. "Bells careful. I still don't know what's wrong with Nessie and I don't want her being jostled about until I'm sure she's okay." Carlisle told her.

"of course. I'm sorry. I was just so happy that she responded." Bella replied.

"Jake?" Nessie asked. "I'm right here baby." I told her. "What happened?" she asked. "well, there was a tornado, remember?" I asked her. She shook her head. "No." I looked over at Carlisle who just shrugged his shoulders.

"I thought you were a doctor?" I asked him. "I know, I am. Sometimes when something hard hits a person's head the person can get what is called amnesia." He responded.

"Amne what?" I asked him "Amnesia. It's a type of memory loss." "So what is she going to remember nothing at all?" I asked him curiously. "It's hard to tell." Carlisle looked over at Nessie. "Now can you remember anything at all?"

Nessie shook her head. "I remember sitting on the couch watching a movie with Jake." She squeezed her eyes tight trying to remember; distorting her beautiful face. "That's all. I can't remember anything else."

"It's okay baby. Don't strain yourself." Bella told her as she patted Nessie's head.

"I'm tired, can I sleep now?" she asked. "My head hurts." Of course sweaty." Bella responded. "Can we get you something for the pain?"

Nessie just shook her head. "No sleep." Was all she said. "Okay baby."

"Come on Jake let's give Nessie some rest." Bella told me. I just shook my head. "No!" I shouted. "I'm staying with her. "It's okay Jake. I promise." I looked down at her sweet face and nodded. "Okay honey." I said as I bent down to kiss her forehead. "I'll be back in a little bit."

Nessie didn't respond. She was already asleep. I pulled the blankets over her and backed out the door with Bella. She gently shut the door behind us.

I sank to the floor and put my hands in my head. "Thank god she is okay." I said d out loud. Bella sat down beside me, put her arms around and cradled me yet again.

"Why don't you go home and get some rest." She whispered. My head shot up. "Home, what home?" I asked her. "Oh Jake! I'm so sorry." She rubbed my shoulder. "I forgot. You're more than welcome to stay here. I'm sure Esme won't mind."

I shook my head. "No, Billy won't want to put everyone out." "Nonsense Jake. Esme will love too." "I still don't know how I'm going to tell Billy." I told her.

Just then the door opened to Nessie's room and Carlisle walked out. "How's Nessie?" I asked him. Carlisle put a hand on my shoulder. "She's fine Jacob. She's asleep. You should get some rest too, you look worn out."

I went to hesitate. "I'm serious Jacob, your health is important too" I sighed. I just couldn't bare the thought of leaving Nessie. "Alright." I muttered. "I'll just rest on the couch downstairs since I can't go home."

Carlisle nodded his head. "That's fine. Just let us know if you need anything." I nodded my head and walked down the stairs . I heard voices behind me and didn't really care. I was really tired all of a sudden. I found the couch, plopped down on it, and shut my eyes. Within minutes I was asleep.