Of Life and Death

Pairing : Edward/Jacob

Rating : R for now, might escalated

Disclaimer : All of it except the plot belongs to Stephanie Meyer, and I'm not her.

I'll start replying reviews directly after this chapter. Right now, I'll post it here

dnanne : Thank you so much for your effort on reviewing. I really appreciates it, so much that I've finished another chapter.

milkchocolatehot64, Sayomi-hime, rebelwilla :Here's the next chapter. Hope you like it. My muse went crazy from all of the lovely responses

DarioArentoSyndrome: Yeah, he's my favorite too. Like him better than Bella, another reason why I wrote this fic.

Kenssy : Yup, poor Jacob. I really like to torture him. I guess it shows from chapter two. Heheee, but I will make him better, promise. Scout's honor. Oh, and the next chapter ( ch. 3) is about the Cullen's, so make sure to stay tuned.

Cherry Jade : You can't wait, eh? Too bad you have to, because the meeting is not until chapter 4, if everything goes as planned. As for the other comment, well, you just had to wait for quite a long, long time. Don't mean to scare you though.

HyugaHiazi : That's an interesting question you ask me. No, Jake is not heartless, he just didn't care of humans in general and other vampires outside the Volturi. The reason, well, it's revealed in this chapter.

Chapter 2 Playing Hours


After the leaders dismissed them all, Jacob immediately went back to his room. He threw himself on the large bed Caius had bought for him. As with every item he had in the room, the bed was luxurious, almost extravagant. Normal vampires didn't need sleep, but apparently Jacob needed one. The first time Caius caught him sleeping on the floor, in the middle of his room, the blond vampire had immediately gone out on his way to buy it for the newborn.

As if on cue, the rest of the Volturi followed Caius example. Aro bought him a complete set of furniture for his bare room, while Marcus insisted to install a full set entertainment center in a room beside the hybrid's. He even got a connecting door build in between the rooms. Jane and Heidi - after he was being presented formally to the guards - went to a shopping spree, buying him an entire wardrobe he couldn't possibly fathom when he's going to wear it all.

He was quickly considered the baby of the Volturi and they all treated him as such. Out of everyone though, Jacob liked Caius the most. The older vampire saw him as a fascination, taking in each and every single gesture he made and trying to decipher it at the same time. As such, he had the most understanding of Jacob compared to the others.

Marcus, his sire, well...he had tried to get closer to Jacob. The young hybrid understood that after his wife's death, the elder vampire had no one to get close to and therefore he wanted to enforce the bond he had with his childe. But Jacob was too terrified of him to let him get close, the lingering agony of his turning always on the forefront of his mind. He didn't blame Marcus or anybody for it, not really. But the fear was uncontrollable, his mind insisted to remember every bit of the pain every time he looked at his sire. It was his traumatic response, Caius had called it.

Aro treated him like a son, acting very fatherly and awfully lenient toward him. Of course, the fact that he's deeply impressed of the hybrid's ability also helped. It was a long while after his turning before they realized that he had an unusual ability. Marcus could never sense any relationship his childe might have left, but they wrote it off as being a newborn. The real discovery was when Aro had tried to read him, wanting to find out how to progress with him.

He failed, completely unable to read the newborn's mind. Aro was impressed, thinking that maybe Jacob had the same ability like Bella's. He set up an experiment, setting the guards with ability on Jacob. The hybrid managed to throw off every single one of them without being conscious of doing it. The real surprise though, was when Jacob even managed to fight off Kate, a visiting guest with the ability to shock others with an electric current on her skin.

It had been an accident, actually. He was running, trying to hide from Marcus again. Aro accompanied the guest walking around the palace, hoping that the vampiress would change her mind about the Volturi's offer. Jacob came from a corner, not really looking where he run off to and heading to Kate's direction. Other guards had learned early on to move out of the way when the half-breed was running like that. But Kate saw him as a threat and therefore used her ability to defend herself.

To their surprise, Jacob didn't seem to be affected at all, crashing on Kate with loud, thundering noise. He stood immediately and stuttered apologies over and over, but didn't seem to be in pain. Aro was curious, knowing the vampiress' ability, and touched Kate. He didn't get electrocuted either, even though he knew Kate was using her ability, or at least trying to. Ever since, Aro scheduled Jacob's training, pushing the half-breed to the very bound of his ability.

Jacob got up and went to his playroom, realizing that several of the guards were there already. As he expected, he found Jane, Alec and Demetri waiting for him there.

Jane immediately jumped to his back, demanding for a piggyback. "So, how are you really Jake? Aren't you feeling anxious going back to Forks? And hey, you're going to finally meet your mate." She asked excitedly.

Jacob tried to shake off the petite vampiress, to no avail. If he really wanted, he could use his ability and throw off Jane as easily as he'd a human. But since he didn't, everybody knew he wasn't really annoyed. "I don't feel a thing, except maybe annoyed that I had to leave at all. And what is this mate you're talking about? Everyone always spoke about it in front of me, but none of you willing to tell me about this ' the one' for me." Jake complained; something he's doing often, every time the talk of his mate emerged in a conversation. He always thought it wasn't fair that every single of the guards knew his mate, except him.

Jane only smiled very childishly while Alec shook his head. Demetri smirked tauntingly - he always hated Jacob's ability that prevented him from tracking the half-breed and making sure he's okay - the knowledge of the boy's mate was a one up on him.

Jacob rolled his eyes, deeply unimpressed with their show of interest, or a lack thereof. It was always like this. It's not that he was that crazy over having a mate - he's got a whole set of family to care about such irrelevant thing - but he hated how everybody seemed to think it was okay to taunt him with the fact. He was awfully curious of said mate, but no one wanted to give him the information he required to satisfy his curiosity. It was like dangling a bottle of water in front of a thirsty man.

"Right. Let's just play until it's time for leave," Jacob grabbed the X-Box controller and motioned for them to do the same. Soon, they were engrossed in a competition to see who the best player among them is. It was the best way to pass the time in Jacob's opinion. That's until Jane stood up and turned the huge, flat screen TV off.

"Hey!" Jacob cried a protest, trying to get pass Jane and turn the TV back on.

Jane shook her head, "Nuh-uh, you're going to sleep now, Jake. We don't want you to slow us down tomorrow by falling a sleep during the trip, do we? I think Felix had finished his patrol by now."

Alec and Demetri nodded their agreement and it took Jake little time to realize that wass their real intention coming here in the first place. He grumbled angrily and stormed off to his room, where Felix had waited for him.

His pseudo parent/brother was already lying on the bed, smiling as he saw him. Jacob quickly stripped to his boxer and jumped to the bed.

"You're alright? I know meeting Marcus was...taxing." Felix asked.

Jacob snorted, "To put it mildly, I guess. Why did they put me on the audience chair, Felix? I still don't understand that."

Felix thought about it for awhile before deciding that Jacob had a right to know. "They wanted to see your reaction over the news. Like it or not, it's your birth place and you know those people once. Aro was wondering if taking you along is a wise decision."

Jacob shook his head, "Volterra is my birth place. Forks were my previous life's birth place and those people you mentioned? I don't even remember them that much; bits and pieces, Felix. Though why Aro didn't just decide not to bring me along is beyond me."

The older vampire sighed, "They are quite a coven, the Cullens. A seer, a mind reader, and an empath; a force to be reckon with, Jake. Not to mention that this human girl he mentioned of has an ability to block mental power. Aro needs your ability, quite a lot."

"Well, that's explain it I guess."

"Good, now go to sleep. I'll try to make sure Jane and Heidi keeps the packing minimal."

Jacob groaned at that, but he admitted he was sleepy. The half-breed closed his eyes and immediately fell asleep.

"Well, that was easy," Jane commented as they left the playroom.

Demetri scoffed, "Of course it was easy. The kid is just too predictable, sometimes."

"Well, we should probably prepare for the trip. I'm going to pack for Jake as well. I knew if it was up to him, he's going to bring his cell phone and wallet and be done with it. Honestly, he should bring some of the newest clothes we bought him, and of course his grooming tools and..."

Jane's inane chatter had driven his brother and Demetri away as swift as exorcism, but the excited vampiress didn't notice and didn't care. She planned to get Heidi to pack for Jacob as well, after she finished her own packing of course. Sometimes, Jane was also very predictable.

TBC...

A.N. : Whew, would you believe it or not? Not only I've finished another chapter, I also revised this one. The Felix part especially, to make it in accordance with the newest chapter I wrote, and also Kate's part. At first I was using Renata to show Jacob's ability on physical attack. But then I read that Renata's ability is being descripted as mental force field to avoid physical attack. So I used Kate.

Sometimes…I really scared myself. (^ ^)