Chapter 6

Smile

20 weeks…

"That's it!" Alex said, throwing the magazine she was reading on the cafeteria table.

"What's it?" Renesmee asked, taking another bite of her salad.

"I'm going to throw you a baby shower."

Renesmee coughed, nearly choking on a piece of lettuce. "You're what?"

"I'm going to throw you a baby shower." Alex smiled. "You're going to need stuff for my future nephew."

"You know Alex, he could still be a girl," Renesmee smiled, remembering the appointment she had yesterday, and finding out that she and Jacob would be having a boy.

"That's not my point," Alex huffed. "And besides, you totally look like you're having a boy."

"Since when have you become interested in baby showers, anyway?" Renesmee asked, returning to eating her food.

"I've never pegged you as the type to throw baby showers."

"It's always the best friend's job to throw the shower." Alex said simply.

Renesmee nodded. "I see."

"There's also something I've been meaning to ask you," Alex's tone of voice suddenly got serious.

"Yeah?" Renesmee furrowed her brows.

"I can see that you and Jake are getting along; I mean, you guys are roommates now. But…where do you stand with him?"

Renesmee shot her friend a puzzled look. "What do you mean?"

"I mean…" Alex set her fork down, and looked her friend in the eye. "Nessie, you two are going to have a baby together. I'm surprised that you two haven't had any relationship issues yet. What I'm trying to say is…" Alex thought for a moment, searching for the right words.

"Are you two going to raise the baby as you are now, or are you going to try dating?"

Renesmee sighed, knowing that this would have come up eventually. "We haven't talked about it…but I think we've both given it thought, or, at least, I have. I just don't know what to do about that, Alex. We met in a bar, if you don't remember. The only reason that we're together past the one-night stand is because of this baby. I don't want to ruin the…truce that we have now. If we do, and it ends in arguments…" Renesmee shook her head.

"That's the last thing I need right now, Alex."

Alex knew that her friend did not want to further the issue. Instead, she turned talk back to the baby shower that she had decided she would be planning.

Renesmee half-heartedly listened to her friend, but most of her thoughts were on the topic they just finished. She honestly did start to feel something towards Jacob; but did he feel the same?

xXx

Oh, the sweet fifteen minutes before his shift was over. Jacob smiled to himself, thinking about how it had actually been a good day. He and Relic had found a lost child, and returned her to her overjoyed parents, who had thanked them profusely. They busted a kidnapping. There were no reported cases of homicide, suicide, rape, or any other heinous offense.

Days like today were the reason Jacob had become a cop in the first place; today, he was a protector.

Ever since he had found out about the baby, it became his personal goal to make Seattle the safest place a child…his son...could grow up. He would make sure that by the time he was born, Seattle will have been swept clean of any horrendous perpetrators

Skyla was starting to slowly get better; in the five months that it's been since the rape/suicide that her boyfriend had committed, slowly, she gained her confidence back. Granted, she wouldn't be the same again; but for Jacob, the fact that she was making a turn around, and this fast, it was all that mattered to him.

"So…" Relic whistled, as the two headed back to the station. "What's up with that Nessie chick you knocked up?"

"Relic," Jacob glared at his partner. "Not only was that extremely inappropriate for you to ask, but that was also tremendously disrespectful."

"Sorry?" Relic said, perplexed.

"We do not include our private lives when we are on duty. Is that clear, officer?"

"Yes, sir." Relic said quickly.

"Relic?" Jacob sighed, slightly annoyed. "Let's grab a beer."

xXx

The two cops rolled into the parking lot of Joe's just as their shift had ended, grabbing two seats at the barstool, and ordering two bottles of Budweiser's, Relic, the younger of the two, initiated the conversation.

"So, what are you and Nessie, anyway?" He asked. "What are you planning on doing about this whole baby thing?"

Jacob took a swig of his beer. "I don't know. For Christ's sake, Relic, we meet in this very bar."

"Maybe this is a little too personal…" Relic started.

"Then you shouldn't say it," Jacob interrupted.

The young officer continued anyway. "But, shouldn't you two…well…" He searched his mind for the proper word.

"Date?" He finished.

Jacob coughed, choking slightly on his drink.

"I mean…" Relic said, slightly worried that he had offended his ranking partner.

"Usually couples who are having kids are married…or at least dating. Do you even know her?"

"Of course I do." Jacob replied, still coughing. "She's living with me. It's hard not to know your own roommate."

"What's her middle name?" Relic asked. Jacob stared back at him, his face expressionless.

"Exactly." Relic said, as Jacob rolled his eyes.

"Look at me, getting women advice from a kid who just graduated high school…"

Relic pretended to ignore the remark. "Look, sir, all I'm saying is that despite the fact that this whole baby thing was accidental, it shouldn't stop you from trying that kind of relationship with her."

Jacob shook his head. "Sure, Relic. Look, it's nice of you to help me out with this, but I'm not looking for advice from a kid with no experience." He threw a few dollar bills on the table, getting out of his seat.

"Don't come to the station with a hangover, kid."

xXx

When Jacob arrived at his apartment, he was surprised to find his sister sitting on his couch, watching The Simpsons.

"Skyla?" He asked, setting his things down on the table.

"I was wondering when you would get home," Skyla mused, as her brother walked into his living room.

"What are you doing here?"

She shrugged. "I had nothing better to do…so, I thought that I would pay my older brother a visit, and from the kindness of my heart," She feigned tears.

"Just asking…" Jacob walked back into his kitchen/dinning room, without realization that Skyla had followed him.

As he was searching in the fridge for something edible, Skyla noticed something tacked to his fridge. Was that a sonogram image of a baby? She took it off her brother's fridge, and got a closer look. Indeed, it was a baby, a boy, by the looks of it. She scanned the top of it, which read 'Swedish Central Seattle', and under patient name, 'Cullen, Renesmee, C.' Wasn't that one of the doctors that was there when she had been taken to the hospital, after what Henry did?

"Jake…" Skyla said, not taking her eyes off the picture. "Is there something you want to tell me?"

Jacob, confused, took his head out of the fridge, closing the door. He saw the image of his son in Skyla's hand.

Letting out a puff of air, Jacob ran a hand through his hair, leaning against the fridge.

"Well…"

"You will not believe my day…" Renesmee said, as she walked into the apartment. She felt lighter than air; and still couldn't believe what had happened.

"So, they brought in this kid who needed heart surgery today, and I got to scrub in, so I prepped him and brought him to the O.R., but while we were in the elevator, it got stuck. The kid's heart started failing, and if we didn't get him to an O.R. in time, he would have died. So as they're trying to get the elevator to work again, Fioni instructed me through a solo open heart surgery in an elevator. I preformed a solo open heart surgery in an elevator; Jake, my finger was in his heart, it was keeping him alive." She looked up, and found Jacob and his sister, who was holding the sonogram image of the baby.

"What the hell is going on?" Skyla asked. "Someone, please, explain to me what the hell is going on."

"Sky…" Jacob said, directing his sister to the living room. Renesmee walked into the living room, and stood next to Jacob.

Skyla sat on the couch, and Jacob and Renesmee leaned against the coffee table.

"Well…" Jacob scratched at the back of his head. He tried to think of a way to explain this to his sister.

"So, you knocked up your new girlfriend," Skyla said. "What's so hard about telling me that?"

"Oh, she's not…we're not…" Jacob started.

Skyla cradled her head. "Please, someone explain to me what's going on. Are you two a thing or not?"

"We're not dating." Renesmee said.

"So…" Skyla started. "What? Please tell me that you two didn't just meet in a bar and have a one-night stand, without using a condom," She glared at her brother, who turned bright red.

"You didn't," She gasped. Renesmee, flushed pink, looked down. Jacob's face was now a much brighter red, and he also looked down.

"My God, Jacob!" Skyla said. "You're supposed to be the responsible one. You're the one who made sure that I had condoms when you thought that I would have sex. Now you're telling me, that I'm going to be an aunt, because you forgot to use an effing condom?"

"For Christ's sake, Skyla, I just got off my shift, and headed straight to the bar. Everything happened so fast, Skyla that momentarily, I forgot, okay? Cut me some goddamned slack, will you?"

Skyla let out a puff of air, leaning into the couch. Looking between her brother, and the woman he had had a one-night stand with, she slowly began to accept it.

"So…" She started. "A nephew, huh?"