LMAO! You make me laugh Ailish (I like your name better than your profile name, it's prettier and easier to remember so I hope you don't mind) and so what if it's a bit obsessive? Lol I don't care; I love that someone loves my story, besides me lol Enjoy the story like I enjoyed party+friends+alcohol last night (hella mad!!) =]

17) Party?

"She should wake up soon. I don't think that because she's half of us that the venom will kill or change her; she has enough vampire in her for her body to repress the changes."

"Are you sure? She's been out for ages, I'm starting to worry."

"Jacob, you can hear her heart as well as the rest of us; its not changing, and its not dying."

The voices of Jacob and my grandfather Carlisle were close yet very foggy to my mind. I recorded Granddad fussing over me and checking my health status before he muttered something about blood and unmonitored diets and stress levels and paper work before he flashed out of the room.

I was laying flat on my bed with the light covers pulled up to my chest to cover my body. My arms were above the covers and crossed lightly over my stomach and my right cheek was cushioned against the soft feather pillow.

Jacob's hand consistently brushed over my face and arms, and I felt him lean down a few times to press reassuring kisses to my throat, forehead and throughout my hair. I don't know whether those kisses were for me to know he was always there for me or for him to know I was still there. His lips met mine softly once and I constricted my hand a little and twitched my lips in an attempt to move them with his.

"Carlisle!" Jacob exclaimed after he had pulled back and grasped both my hands in his.

Granddad was in the room again in under a second.

"What happened?" he asked as he ran his hands over me to give me another checkup.

"She moved. Her hands… they… and her lips… uh… they… uh… twitched. Well… she tried to squeeze my hand. I think," Jacob spluttered anxiously.

"What did you do?" Granddad asked Jacob calmly.

"I kissed her."

"You kissed her? Are you sure you weren't playing out reactions?"

"No," my father walked though the door laughing to all our perplexity. "She felt it. She feels him. And she wants out."

Mmm… Maybe having a mind reading father wasn't so bad at times like these, I reasoned.

I heard my Dad laugh again at my thought as Jacob leant over me and whispered in my ear, pressing light kisses to my face.

"Nessie?" he asked timidly. "Nessie, honey, wake up. Come on, baby."

Come on. Let me out.

I held the iron bars caging me from awareness and shook them roughly.

Let me out, let me out. Let me out! My Jacob's out there!

I huffed an internal sigh when the bars wouldn't budge and twisted them ruthlessly.

Fine! You won't let me out? Okay, then I'll break out.

"Jacob?"

As soon as was able to open my eyes of my own free will, I searched for him and didn't have to look very far.

"Ness," he dipped his head a little lower until our lips met quietly in relief. "I'm so glad you're back, baby."

I smiled at him and raised a hand to caress his cheek. He leant into it and kissed my palm, breathing in my scent and grinning widely now. I shot him a vision of his voice and how comforting it was, and his touch and how reassuring it was that he stayed with me.

"Of course I'd stay with you, honey. You're everything to me; I would never leave you," he said.

I leant forward again to press my lips to his before I sat up on the bed. He stood in front of my knees and rested his hands on my thighs. Running my hands up his arms and around his back to press on his shoulders, I parted my legs and pulled him in between so he could be closer to me.

"I missed you, honey," he breathed in my ear.

"I mi—"

A loud, over exaggerated throat clearing echoed in the room and I rolled my eyes, smiling, as I dropped my head onto Jake's chest while he wrapped his arms around me protectively and tenderly.

"I know you want to pin her down and everything, mutt, but my niece has just woken up so if you don't mind," Aunt Rose stepped forward and grabbed Jake's arm to untangle me from him.

At Aunt Rose's touch, Jacob tensed and held me tighter, while he growled and snarled at Aunt Rose who returned his threats with violent hisses of her own. I reached my hands up and held Jake's face tenderly, coaxing it down to look at me and flashing him images of love and comfort.

"Jake…"

He didn't answer me; he just kept staring at Aunt Rose and gently growling warnings towards her.

"Jacob…" I stroked his cheek and he looked down to me, his eyes softening dramatically as soon as they met mine. "It's just Aunt Rose; she won't hurt me, baby."

He sighed and closed his eyes, pressing a fisted hand against his forehead and nodding. "Sorry, I just…" he waved his hand in the air since he lacked an ending to his statement.

"I know," I used my hands around his neck to drag him in for a kiss before I leapt up and jumped into Aunt Rose's arms.

"I'm so glad you're okay, sweetheart. I was so worried about you," she hugged me tight and swayed me enthusiastically side to side while I smiled into her hair and waved a short wave to my parents and Uncle Emmett standing behind her.

As soon as she put me down, Uncle Emmett had me locked in his embrace and I laughed at him as he skipped around like a little sprite after he released me. Mom and Dad both gave me a kiss on my forehead and ran their hands over my hair before they left with my aunt and uncle to go hunting.

Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper appeared in the room as Granddad left to go find Grandma and leave to go hunting as well. To be honest, the smile on her face looked like she was planning some big party or something, it kind of scared me.

"So, do you know what wedding dress you're wearing yet?" she rushed out.

"ALICE!" Jacob shouted. "JASPER! DON'T USE YOUR FRIGGIN PSYCHE CONTROL THING ON ME OR SO HELP ME GOD!"

Alice stared at Jacob in shock for a second before she glared at him in disbelief the next.

"You haven't asked her?!"

"No," he spat at her. "I've been waiting until we were alone."

Aunt Alice took a step towards Jacob and raised herself on her tippiest tip toes. She still didn't reach his chest.

"If you don't ask her in the next five seconds, I'll shred you myself," Aunt Alice threatened as she jabbed him repeatedly in the chest. "Move it, mutt."

"Well, I'm sorry for wanting it to be special. Do you forgive me?" Jake asked sardonically.

"Not if you don't ask her I wont!" Alice spat back.

Wow, I don't recall seeing her so feisty, I thought.

I felt my world beginning to spin as their words finally processed in my mind. 'Asked her', 'alone', 'special'… 'Wedding dress'… Aunt Alice looking like she had a party to plan.

Oh my God.

"You were going to ask me to marry you," I squeaked at Jacob.

"I… uh… if you don't… I was… um… going to ask you… somewhere private… and special," he had been watching me while he spoke but lowered his eyes to the ground as he muttered the last few words.

He wanted to marry me. After everything I've said and done to him he wanted to marry me. This is the best mercy of my Jacob I could ever ask for.

I loved him so, so much.

Before I knew it I was across his hips and holding his face firmly in my little hands while I planted scorching kisses on his lips and his face and neck. He laughed after his astonishment from my sudden appearance wore off and now he was running his warm hands over my back and sides, returning my kisses with as much passion as I was giving them.

"O-Kay, so the bride-to-be says yes, yes, yes," Aunt Alice said as she pulled me off of Jake and stood me on my feet.

It wasn't until I saw him lying on the ground with his hands raised still holding mine that I realized I had knocked us to the ground. Not an easy thing to do with a werewolf. I couldn't help but wonder what he would look like without any of his clothes on lying down like that. I shoved the forming visualization out of my mind as soon as I felt my cheeks flaring. Jacob shifted and stood, keeping our hands in tact while he got to his feet and stroked my cheeks.

"Now you come with me," Aunt Alice chirped in my ear. "You, you go with Jasper," she ordered as she pointed at Jake.. "The bride and groom are not supposed to see each other the night before; classic tradition."

"And where's the classic tradition," I couldn't help but ask while I meaningfully directed my finger between me and Jacob. I let my hand drop back to my side and looked at the floor to keep myself from laughing when Aunt Alice shot me a don't-be-a-smart-ass-and-ruin-this look. "I'm just saying…"

"Yeah, and I'm just planning so don't you interfere and just do what I say, please," she said to me.

I looked at her with her deplorable so called puppy eyes and took pity on her just for trying to look cute in a canine way.

"Okay, okay…" I resigned. "Just let me give Jake one more kiss."

She sighed a fine and let me go.

I leapt into Jake's arms and he held me on him while our lips moved together.

"My gorgeous fiancé," he murmured into my lips.

I smiled into his kiss and pulled away to whisper, "Not for long, soon Ill be you gorgeous wife."

"I like the sound of that."

"Me too, my Jacob."

"My Nessie," he whispered as he kissed me again and I smiled.

Jake made the most delicious 'Mmm' sound when I pulled back and ran my thumb over his bottom lip. I pressed my lips to his again softly, catching his bottom lip between my lips, before Alice grabbed me and dragged me out of the room.

"Soon, my Nessie. Very soon," my Jacob whispered as he was taken from my sight by the closing door.