Okay so, this chapter is suuuuuuuuper short. And it's the last of this story! Yeah, I know, it sneaked up on me, too. Some of you won't like the way I've ended it, but I felt that it was time to move on even though I love William! But never fear! I will be back ASAP with what happens next. Remember, Jules is up next. And I'm still not telling about the third! It was a surprise in the dream and will stay that way until Nessie and Jacob are good and ready to tell you!

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February

RPOV

While the phone against my ear rang, I quietly closed the door to the nursery and went upstairs. Toys were scattered around the house as were blankets and bottles. Even a pacifier under the playpen when I moved it off against the wall. While Will was down for the count, I was going to super clean this house. I'd already tested how thick and sound proof the floors were with the vacuum. It was all good.

"Hello?"

"Oh, hey, Shannon?" I asked.

"Yes. Nessie?"

"Yep. Hey how are you?"

"I'm great, thanks. What about you?"

Carrying some empty bottles to the sink, I tossed them in and started the process of cleaning them out. "I'm good, actually. I had a question for you if you're not busy."

There was some rustling on her end. "No, not at all. I actually need a break from all the studying. The only time I can study is when Xavier is at the shop. So what's up?"

Once the water in the sink had heated up, I'd started scrubbing the bottles out. "Well, Jacob and I were wondering if you'd like to start making a little extra money by watching Will for us on occasion."

"Really?" she said excitedly. "Like babysitting?"

"Yeah. Jacob planned an early Valentine's for us because he knows I hate going out on the actual day because of all the cute couples, so you would still have the big day for you and Xavier. We're going into Seattle just for a night. You could stay at the house or Will could stay with you and Xavier. Give you guys some experience. Goodness knows you two are going to be thinking kids eventually."

Instead of sounding like a horrified teenager, she laughed. "He would love that. Xavier loves that baby. And he's already talking kids and marriage. Man is driving me nuts. I'd like to get my degree first and out of the way."

"That," I said, "is good thinking. Exactly what you should do, especially if you plan on working after a baby."

More rustling and then what sounded like a screen door closed. She must have gone outside because the sound of birds calling out was loud and clear. "Rachel, Cricket, and I have been talking about it. We'd love to open a little gift shop of sorts, you know? It would be fun. Like a pack family business, kind of how the shop is going for the guys, but something for the girls."

"That does sound pretty cool. I think it's a wonderful idea."

"Thanks. And to answer your question, yes, I will gladly watch him. I'd rather stay at your place since you have everything he needs there. If that's okay."

"That's perfectly fine. Xavier is welcome, too. There's an extra bedroom for grown-ups on the third floor."

She laughed. "So many babies. I wonder who's next other than Rachel."

That made me laugh. "Oh, there could be quite a few of us pregnant at the same time. Our one major enemy has agreed to truce. We're all safe now, so like someone told me, it's probably going to be a baby boom of our own. Our war is over."

"The way I hear it, you were amazing out there."

Chuckling, I dried out the bottles and put them neck down on a towel. "You shouldn't believe everything you hear. I just did what I had to in order to protect my family and other families. It's not something you think of as amazing because you're terrified the whole time that maybe they have more cards to bring to the table than you do. We were just lucky that it worked out in our favor."

"Well, whatever it was that you did, thanks. As both the girlfriend of a Child of the Moon and a woman from the rez, you saved both of my worlds."

Touched, I tried to speak normally. "Aw, well, you're welcome, sweetheart." I did have to clear my throat. "So Jacob made plans for Friday the twelfth. We come back on the thirteenth."

"Oh sure, this weekend. Let me just go write that down. Don't want to forget even though that's just the day after tomorrow. Do you have internet connection? I might have an assignment due."

"Yes, we do. We'll leave you the wi-fi password with all the instructions for Will. Don't worry, I won't leave you a novel. He's pretty easy to take care of. But he has started teething. Those suckers are sharp. He has teething rings, but he also likes the cold washcloths to chew on."

"Got it. And I just wrote it down. I'll let Xavier know when he gets home unless Jake has talked to him."

"He might, but he knew I was going to call you today." There was a knock on the door. I checked the clock on the wall. Shoot. Shelby. Holding the phone from my ear, I called, "Come on in."

"Oh you have company. I'll let you go. Gotta get back to studying."

"Oh sure. Thank you so much."

"Not a problem."

We hung up. Just in time, too, because Brayden was already tottering over to me with a big grin. I scooped him up while Shelby just the door.

"Mama," he said toothily.

Chuckling, I shook my head. "Oh no. I'm not mama."

Shelby shook her head. "Every woman he sees is mama. And every man is dada. He's just excited he can talk now. Seth is well on his way to teaching him how to say no now that he's helping Frank set up the new shop here in Forks. Bastard."

That made me laugh. "Hey, language. He'll start copying you soon."

She glowered. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where's your rugrat?"

"Napping, thank goodness. I need to clean this house a little. Jacob is pulling him around, trying to get him to crawl, so blankets and toys are everywhere. I'm beginning to understand why parents hate Christmas when they have little ones."

Shelby rolled her eyes. "Amen to that. Luckily Brayden mostly got clothes."

At the sound of his name, he turned toward her and reached out. "Mama."

Her smile was proud and emotional as she reached for him. "Now you got the right one. How's Will doing with the teething?"

"My heart breaks when he starts screaming. He used to sleep through most of the night but not now. Now he's up all the time."

"Maybe he'll get like Brayden. After the third tooth, he was used to it. Didn't scream as much. But we did make sure he had enough children's Tylenol and cold rags. Have you tried any medicine?"

I shook my head. "No, but I probably should. He's got a second tooth coming in. Nearly cut me with it."

"Yeah, they're sharp. Why don't we clean a little? I told Em we'd probably be down around one-ish."

It was only eleven so we had a couple hours. "Sure."

She put Brayden in the playpen so he wouldn't get into anything while she helped me pick up around the house. I vacuumed and dusted the best that I could, cleaned out the diaper bag, took out the trash. With Shelby's help, it didn't take long at all until my house looked halfway decent.

"Thanks for helping. I appreciate it."

"That's what best friends are for. So, tell me, how did Will like Christmas? I think I forgot to ask you that."

I smiled, remembering his face. "I'm just glad he was old enough to be able to react, you know? He loved the lights on the tree. Mom and Dad gave us an ornament engraved with his name and the date, his first Christmas and all that." Chuckling, I shook my head. "He also really liked the bows. We have this cute picture from where Jacob stuck a bow on the top of his head. He was grinning like crazy."

"That's cute. How are you doing? You know, since...? You seem better, more normal."

After shoving the vacuum in the hall closet, I turned to her with a smile. "I feel much better. Jacob and I are...as feisty as ever. He's home on the days that we don't have play dates. I asked him to change his schedule. After years of spending every day with him and then going to just nights and weekends was really hard on me, especially with Will. But we talk all the time. And we're trying to get pregnant. We figure it would be a good time, so that the kids would be a year or so apart. They can grow up together. We're also doing more as a couple as you know, leaving Will with other people to watch. It's good for us. And hunting again feels amazing. What about you? How are you and Seth coming on the second kidlet?"

Her expression closed down, eyes not meeting mine. Instead, she looked at her son. "He's having problems again. Bad nightmares about hurting me and Brayden. Carlisle offered to have sessions with him, thinking that Caden and Calahan are too logical, not emotional enough to understand. Seth has been going to him a couple weeks. It's helping, I think, but he doesn't want to talk about it to me. I think that he thinks I'll look at him differently if I know the details of the dreams." She hugged herself. "Sometimes I wonder if mixing our blood was a mistake. Maybe I should have just left him alone."

Going to her, I hugged her. "Sweetie, you couldn't have known what was going to happen. Not the fact that it brought him back or the aftereffects. Brayden has a father, a father that is doing whatever he has to in order to heal himself. Has Carlisle said what could be wrong with him?"

"Post traumatic stress most likely. Dying in a fight left the imprints of it in his mind. It was the last thing he went through before he died. Carlisle thinks it probably wouldn't be so bad if it had just been an accident of some sort. He also thinks that if Seth were able to get a good night's sleep that it would help him, so he's been working on trying to make a sleeping pill that can help, that will last in his system." She wrapped her arms around me and buried her face in my shoulder.

I rubbed her back. "It's okay. My grandfather will come up with something. Seth will be okay. I promise."

"Carlisle's looking at other cultures for resurrection. Maybe he can find something."

"That is how they found Nahuel." My heart hurt for his aunt. She had to be missing her nephew, the boy she raised as if he were her own. Aunt Alice had spoken to her briefly over the phone after the showdown, but she was still a recluse.

I frowned. Aunt Alice. A psychic. Hmmm.

"What is that?"

"Hm?"

"That sound. What is it?"

Pausing, I listened, thinking she meant the baby monitor. Will was still snoozing apparently. Not a sound.

I looked back at her as she pulled back a little. "What are you talking about?"

Her eyes widened before she put her ear against my chest again. She did this a few more times. I watched her with eyebrows raised as she pulled back, listening, and then pressed her ear back to my body, my hands raised out to my side as I stood still.

"Uh, Shelby. My heartbeat has always been like that. You're just now noticing?"

She shook her head. "I don't want to be an alarmist, but...either you grew a second heart to explain the extra flutter or..."

My eyes widened. "You think...?"

"I don't know if it's too early for a test."

"If it's a baby's heartbeat then that means that I'm more than just a couple weeks, unless it's like Will. Will's heartbeat showed up at around two weeks because of his quick development."

"You don't have any symptoms? No cravings, body aches, nothing?"

I shook my head. "No, nothing."

"When was your last period?"

This was why I loved best friends. I could talk to her about anything. And at the though of having another baby, my heart raced. A baby girl. I knew it as sure as if I knew Jacob was my husband and the father of my son and any future kids.

"Ness?"

I shook my head. "Sorry. Um...my last period? Hold on." Digging my phone out of my pocket, I pulled up my calendar. I'd started keeping track of my monthly visitor ever since Jake and I had started having sex from the get-go. Frowning at the screen, I paged between December and January knowing that I wouldn't forget to plug the information into the app.

"Well?" Shelby asked impatiently.

"December," I whispered. Clearing my throat, I repeated it. "My last period was in December. I never forget to put it in my calendar, not since Jake and I started having sex."

Her green eyes widened. "Two months."

"What?"

She shrugged. "I looked it up. Some doctors determine due dates by calculating from your last period. By that theory, you're two months pregnant. Do you have a test in the house?"

I nodded. "I bought them when we started trying again."

"Welp, I think it's time to take one, honeybunch. Might have a bun in the oven. And another holiday to surprise Jake with." She laughed. "That's funny. The love holiday and you get to tell him you're pregnant with baby number two."

"We don't know for sure."

Giving me a look, she pushed be toward the bathroom. "Well, we will if you go take that test. It's best to take it in the morning, but I'm impatient. You know that."

"I don't have to pee, though," I said, half laughing as she shoved me into the bathroom.

She snapped her fingers. "A tall glass of ice cold water should do it."

"Really?" I said when she rushed off toward the kitchen.

She came back a moment later with a huge glass that was normally reserved for Jacob. Pushing it into my hands, she ordered, "Now chug it. All of it."

Knowing she wouldn't stop glaring at me until I did as she ordered, I started chugging. It took me about five minutes to get the, as promised, ice cold liquid down. My throat was frozen with that pain in the back of my throat that comes from eating ice cream too fast. I handed the glass back to her and we waited for the water to shoot through my system.

It actually didn't take long, probably about twenty minutes. But during that time, my mind was racing. Pregnant again. Excited didn't begin to cover it. I wanted another baby, wanted Will to have a sister. Let's face it, I was going by my dream as much as Jake was. My next baby was going to be a girl; I could feel it. Jacob would be thrilled. It seemed like he was ready for a second baby from the way he made love to me, going as deep as he could when he released, trying to get his seed as far inside me as he could.

Closing the door on Shelby, I did my thing and set the timer on my phone after washing my hands. Shelby practically took the door off its hinges when I told her she could come in. With Will, these three minutes had been the longest of my life, but this time, it flashed by, showing up with a plus sign.

Shelby squealed, her aversion to babies and motherhood left in the past, while I stood there in pleasant shock, a slow smile curling my lips.

Shelby shook me. "Nessie, you're having another baby! Oh my god, how did you beat me?!"

Laughing, I hugged her. "I'm not going to wait to tell him. I can't."

"You have to! Tell him on your little romantic leave. And then come home and show me his reaction. Please?"

"Two days! I have to wait two days!"

"You can do it! I have faith in you."

Grabbing her shoulders to still her, I gave her a very serious look. "Okay, okay. I won't say anything to him, but you have to promise not to say anything. I don't want the pack knowing before he does. That's not fair since he's the father."

She rolled her eyes. "Well, duh. I know how to keep my mouth shut."

In the kitchen, I heard the baby monitor start wailing. Shelby checked my phone for the time.

"Just in time. We gotta go down to Emily's."

"Right."

While Shelby went to check on Brayden, I went down to the nursery. Jacob and I still hadn't tried putting Will in the upstairs nursery. But it looked like we'd have to with another baby on the way. It still surprised me that I didn't know. Two months pregnant. That meant that next month we could see if it really was a girl. It was stupid, but I felt like the pregnancy was already half over. I'd known almost immediately with Will.

Speaking of, when I got down to him, I found that he'd managed to roll over and sit up on his own. He was wailing at the top of his lungs, eyes still sleepy. I could see his teeth gleam in the faint light of the nightlight. When he finally calmed enough to open his eyes, he calmed even further when he saw me.

"Good afternoon, my little prince." I couldn't help the baby talk even though Carlisle told me it wouldn't help him in the long run. He hiccuped and gurgled when I picked him up. His hands went to his mouth, pulling at his lips. "Oh, I know, little man. You're hurting. We'll give you something to help that, I promise."

When his teeth had started coming in, I'd completely stopped breastfeeding him. Purely bottle fed with pumped breast milk. It hurt too bad when he'd bite down. We'd also started introducing him to sippy cups and bananas. Jacob was always amused when Will would suck on his fingers long after the food was gone. He definitely didn't like mangoes though. He always made funny faces and spit them out.

Before I changed him, I put together his diaper bag and made sure to grab his stuffed wolf. It was his favorite toy, and it looked just like his father. After the bag was ready, I brushed his teeth gently and changed him. Carlisle had given me a numbing gel to spread thinly over his gums that would help.

On the counter beside me, Shelby dropped a bottle of medicine. Brayden was squirming in her arms, pulling at her lips. "Children's Tylenol in liquid form. Half a teaspoon. That's what Carlisle told me when Brayden was that age. I have another bottle at home. You can have that one."

"Thanks."

Will didn't like it. He made a face but didn't spit it out, probably because it was new to him. He'd probably try next time. Once I brushed his black hair with its highlights of copper and auburn, we all trudged out of the house and down to the rez. Brayden was still progressing fast physically and mentally. He could could walk well and loved to play in the leaves, digging through them for sticks and rocks. He could talk, but the only thing that made any sense was when he called Shelby mama. The rest was just babble.

Eventually we made it to Emily's. She'd made lunch for us. Rachel was four months pregnant now and definitely showing. She was having a baby girl. Shelby had elbowed me gently. I'd poked her in return. Seemed like we were all trying to have girls now. Both Emily and Rachel knew something was up. They kept asking me if I was okay and telling me that I looked really happy.

And I was. While they talked, my hands kept finding my stomach, drawing little circles. Two months along and no morning sickness, no cravings. It was almost hard to believe. So much different than with Will, who had made me sick almost immediately.

At around four-thirty, Shelby walked home with me. Will was passed out in my arms after having been worn out by Haleigh. She loved him, and he was pretty fond of her.

I had just enough time to get him settled, make dinner, and get rid of the pregnancy test before Jacob got home.

Friday just couldn't come fast enough.

Saturday

JPOV

I'd never done anything like this in my life. The hotel room was a wedding suite and gorgeous, according to Nessie. It was done in reds and yellows, which was perfect for her. Vibrant, alive, beautiful.

Last night had been as perfect as I had imagined it. Cliche romantic with the rose petals, but done in orange to compliment the red and yellow of the room. I was convinced that we needed a jacuzzi tub installed in our house. To use Nessie's word, it had been divine. The bed was orgy-size and so plush the blankets and pillows had fluffed up around us, creating a cocoon of our own little world.

The love-making was slow and deliberate. No claws. No blood. Gentle, savoring. We'd pleasured each other until the sun had come up, taking breaks to play in the chocolate fondu and eat strawberries from a silver tray. She'd gotten me to chase her around the room by smearing chocolate on my chest, and I'd told her she had to clean it off. She'd refused playfully and took off. We'd ended up on the floor, her underneath me. Everything I'd ever wanted for her in one night.

It had been perfect.

Now, I opened my eyes to early afternoon sunlight and an empty bed. Going up on my elbows, I found Nessie in a royal purple robe, her hair shining brightly against the darker fabric. Her eyes were closed as she basked in the afternoon sunlight streaming in from a tall window.

"You're up early," I said.

She smiled, but didn't open her eyes. "I'm just excited."

This time, I went with the dirty thought. "Well, I can certainly take care of that. Pretty sure I owned you last night."

The smile turned to a grin. "Mmmm, I don't mean that kind of excited, though I know you could certainly take care of that."

Sitting up, I pulled my knees up and rested my forearms on them. "Then what are you excited about?"

That was what she'd been waiting for. Opening her eyes, she came to the bed and crawled through the heavy comforter and satin sheets. Sitting on her knees beside me, she smiled and bit her lower lip before holding her hand out to me.

"I want to show you."

Quirking an eyebrow, I took her hand in mine.

Immediately, images flashed across my vision. Instinctively, I closed my eyes so that I could see them clearly. She was so excited that she couldn't quite get her thoughts to calm, so I put her hand on my chest and exaggerated deep breaths. After a moment, she followed my example and things started to calm and slow.

Sorry, she thought at me.

And then she stopped my heart with the next image.

A positive pregnancy test.

After that, the same little girl that had been in her dreams. A little girl with bronze curls and gold skin, not quite as dark as mine or Will's, and eyes the color of bright green sea glass.

Snapping my eyes open with the image of the girl superimposed over over everything, I stared at Nessie.

She stopped the vision and smiled at me.

"We're pregnant again?"

She nodded. "Yeah. If Shelby hadn't heard the heartbeat, I wouldn't have ever known."

"What do you mean?" I asked breathlessly.

"She hugged me and heard the heartbeat. If our calculations are right, I'm about two months pregnant, but I don't have any symptoms like I did with Will."

A little girl. And I was going to be a dad twice. A dad. Holy shit, it just didn't stop amazing me to think that.

Her grin shined brighter than the afternoon sunlight as if she knew what I was thinking.

"Jacob, we're having another baby."

Moving so fast even I didn't remember it, I pulled her lips to mine and gently pulled her on top of me.

The End

Stay tuned for more of the cute Black family with baby Will and his sister Jules! More Jacob and Will time to come! Promise!

*Clears throat* I think you all know what to do! Please Review. Yes, short, but I felt it was effective. I love Jacob and cannot wait to see him with his baby girl! The next one won't be as many chapters. Hopefully, I'll concentrate more on after the birth. And I know all of you are doing math, thinking that Nessie got pregnant with Will around the same time. Breathe. I got this covered. I love each and every one of my fans. Y'all are amazing. And yes, I'm southern. I say things like "y'all"! xoxoxoxoxoxo