Hello again! I hope you all had a lovely Valentine's Day. Shout out to my reviewers from Chapter 2... dkjkaden, oh believe me, they will be dealt with! And Lovetwilight, I appreciate the compliment and am glad that you're enjoying the story! Your valentine would be Seth, huh? Perfect. You'll enjoy this then. He is adorable and he will be a central part of my stories! Keep the reviews coming guys, I love hearing from you! (Don't own Twilight)

Chapter 3: You'll be in My Heart

"I can't believe you just did that," Jacob laughed when they had run deep into the woods and were out of the vampires' earshot.

"My dad didn't give me much of a choice," Renesmee smiled, sitting at the base of a tree. "I don't like having him in my head."

"Welcome to my world," he groaned sitting beside her and draping an arm around her shoulders.

Renesmee leaned into him and sighed. Her mother had been right. She and Jacob hadn't had much alone time. Not since before he had gotten sick anyway. She had missed it.

Jacob kissed her head. "You're beautiful, Renesmee Cullen," he whispered.

"You're a little biased," she laughed lightly, feeling her cheeks grow hot as they became an embarrassing shade of red.

"Maybe," he smiled, taking her hand in his and she began playing with his fingers. "I've seen the way guys look at you in town though. I'm not the only one who's noticed how breathtakingly gorgeous you are."

"Really?" she asked, a bit shocked. She saw girls gawking at Jacob every time they went somewhere, but she had never noticed any guys looking at her.

"Oh yeah," he said, remembering one time a few years ago when a kid had had inappropriate thoughts about Renesmee and he and Edward had nearly torn him to pieces.

"Well I know why they only stare," she laughed. "Most of them are probably scared to death by the massive Quileute man who was always there guarding me."

"They'd better be," Jacob muttered.

"Do I detect a hint of jealously, Jacob Black?" she asked smiling up at him playfully.

"No," he said, perhaps too quickly.

"Don't worry, Jake. You're the only man in the entire world I could ever love," she sighed, snuggling closer to him. Jacob smiled and wrapped his other arm around her. "Even if you did kiss my mother," she added, unable to help herself. It was just too easy of a shot not to take.

"Not fair. That was such a long time ago!" Jacob groaned. "Besides, the part of Bella that I loved was the part of her that would eventually become you. After you were born, all of my romantic feelings for her disappeared. Believe me, had I known that Bella and Edward's child would become the reason for my existence and the love of my life, I would have bought them the finest hotel room in Forks and begged them to make you."

"I know you would have, Babe," Renesmee laughed again. "I'm sorry. That was a cheap shot."

Jacob placed a finger under her chin and tilted her head so he could look her in the eye. "You know I love you, Nessie. More than anything else in the entire world. I would be nothing without you."

"And don't you ever forget it," she said. Jacob grinned and brought his lips down upon hers. Renesmee melted. She loved him so much.

A sound from somewhere in the trees pulled her out of her trance. "Did you hear that?" she asked Jacob.

"Hear what?" he asked, slightly confused.

"Something moving in the trees," she said, her eyes frantic.

They were silent for a moment as Jacob listened for the noise. "I don't hear anything," Jacob growled, his hands beginning to shake, "but I can sure smell something."

"Renesmee," a voice echoed in the darkness. Renesmee gasped. She looked at Jacob to see if he had heard that or if she was just going crazy. The angry set of his jaw told her that he had.

"Stay here, Ness," he said, standing up quickly. "I'll be right back."

"No," she begged him, clutching his hand. "Please don't leave, Jake."

"I have to," he said as a shiver rippled through every muscle in his body. His instincts were about to make him phase to protect the girl he loved. He needed to be away from her when he did. "I promise I won't be gone long."

Renesmee saw his pained expression and his shaking form and nodded as she let go of his hand. Jacob ran into the trees to phase, and Renesmee curled up against the tree while she waited for him. She gasped. Was that a flash of blonde hair through those leaves?

"Renesmee," the voice whispered again. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to ignore the terrifying sound. "Renesmee," it said again, and a small cry escaped Renesmee's lips. "Renesmee, Renesmee, Renesmee," it said over and over, it's voice growing louder and louder.

Renesmee covered her ears with her hands, and said under her breath, "Stop it! Leave me alone!"

When Jacob came out of the trees in his wolf form, Renesmee was so scared that she shrieked at the sight of him.

Although he knew why she was so frightened, that shriek still felt like a dagger through his heart. It's me, Nessie, he thought, lowering his head to look her in the eye.

Renesmee said nothing. She simply ran over to him and wrapped her arms around his furry neck. Let's go home, she thought. Please, Jake.

Of course, Ness. Climb on.

She jumped on his back and he took off back toward the Cullen mansion as fast as his legs would carry them, his paws pounding against the soft dirt. His only thought was getting Renesmee to safety. He wanted to put as much distance as he could between her and whatever had scared her so badly back there.

**~J/N~**

"Thank God," Bella breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Jacob emerge from the woods with Renesmee on his back. She ran out to them, Esme and Alice following close behind her. Renesmee slid off Jacob, her knees buckling beneath her as soon as her feet touched the ground. "Renesmee," she heard her mother, her auntie, and her grandmother cry all at the same time. Inside her head, she heard Jacob's frantic voice call out for her as well.

Bella was at her daughter's side in a flash. Renesmee felt cold hands grip her shoulders and suddenly she was being cradled in her mother's arms as Bella made her way back to the house. "Mom," she whispered, struggling against the dizziness and darkness that threatened to claim her.

"Hush, Baby," Bella soothed, lying Renesmee down on the bed in Edward's old room of the mansion. She brushed her daughter's bronze hair away from her face and kissed her forehead after tucking the covers up around Renesmee's chin. "You're safe now."

Renesmee nodded, closing her eyes and letting herself slip into unconsciousness.

**~J/N~**

"Where is she, Bells?" Jacob asked anxiously when he entered the house moments after phasing back into his human form.

"She fainted, Jake. She's upstairs in bed," Bella said. Then she looked up at him with the same frightened expression he had seen on Renesmee's face, and asked him, "What happened to you two out there?"

"Olivia," he growled.

Alice shook her head. "But I didn't see her. All I saw was Renesmee scared out of her mind and crying."

Jacob flinched as the image flashed in his mind, but he pushed it away, and told Alice, "That's because she didn't do anything. She was just... there. We could feel her, hear her, and I could smell her, but we couldn't see her."

"Do you think it was just her, or were there more?" Esme asked. Would her family ever be safe?

"I'm pretty sure it was just her," Jacob said. Then, he realized that the house that usually held nine people, now only had four. "Where is everyone?"

"They went to find you two when Alice had her vision," Bella said.

"I wish they'd find Olivia instead," he said, with a nervous glance toward the stairs. "That bloodsucker's got her so scared... I can't stand to see her like this. I feel about as helpless as I did when Victoria was after you."

"You weren't helpless then, Jake," Bella said with a soft smile, "and you're not helpless now. Go on up there. I know she wants you with her."

Jacob nodded gratefully, taking the stairs two at a time. He opened the door of Edward's old room, and saw Renesmee lying still on the bed. To anyone else, she would have appeared to be sleeping, but Jacob knew better. He had watched his true love sleep for seven years, and she always slept in the funniest of positions. An arm over her face, one leg over the edge of the mattress, flat on her stomach with her arms flung across either side of the bed. But now she lay flat on her back, her arms down by her sides, in a state of unconsciousness that gave him chills. He knew she'd be alright. He had grown used to Bella fainting as a human, but somehow, it was different now. Seeing Renesmee like this was more unnerving than seeing Bella in this state had been.

He climbed up on the bed beside her, laying close to her to keep her warm. She never seemed warm enough. He stroked her head a few times, like he had when she was younger, before reaching for her hand to hold it gently in his. He was immediately drawn into her world, and Renesmee's unconscious dreams danced before his eyes.

Jacob saw himself entering Renesmee's room, around the time when she looked about five, maybe six. "What's wrong, Ness?" he asked, sitting on the edge of her bed and stroking her curly hair away from her face.

"Jakey," she whispered, a deeply troubled look on her face for such a little girl, "I had a bad dream."

"You did? Guess I need to fix your dream catcher, huh?" he asked, giving her a small smile. "What was your dream about, Honey?"

"The bad people with the red eyes," she sniffed. "They came to take you away."

"Oh, Nessie," he sighed, scooping her up and cradling her against his chest. "That won't ever happen. I promise. I'm never going to leave you."

Jacob felt her tears soak through his shirt. Crap. She was so scared. A kid her age should be having nightmares about lions and clowns or whatever, not bloodthirsty vampires taking away her family. Jacob kissed her head and wrapped his arms tighter around her, rocking her back and forth gently as he began to softly sing a certain song to her that he had sang to her since the day she was born.

"Come stop your crying, it'll be alright. Just take my hand, hold it tight," he sang, his voice low and soft, but strong and comforting. "I will protect from all around you. I will be here, don't you cry."

Jacob felt Renesmee snuggle deeper into his chest, sighing with contentment as he continued to sing, "For one so small, you seem so strong. My arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm. This bond between us, can't be broken. I will be here, don't you cry."

Renesmee's eyelids began to droop as she listened to the beautiful, familiar sound of her Jacob's voice. In his arms, everything was alright. She was safe from all the monsters when he was with her, and somewhere inside her, she knew he always would be right by her side. Jacob continued to sing as she fell asleep, "'Cause you'll be in my heart. Yes, you'll be in my heart. From this day on, now and forever more. You'll be in my heart, no matter what they say. You'll be here in my heart, always."

Looking down, he realized Renesmee was asleep, one tiny hand in between her cheek and his shirt. He chuckled a little, and shifted so he could tuck her back into bed. Drawing the covers up around her chin, she suddenly whispered, without ever opening her eyes, "I love you, Jakey."

"Always and forever, Nessie," he smiled, kissing her cheek before turning out the light.

The image began to fade, and suddenly Jacob was back in Edward's old room, Renesmee still laying unconscious next to him. He had forgotten that old song he had sang to her, but she hadn't. She remembered it now when her life had become just as frightening as that nightmare had been. Might it give her that same comfort now as it had then? Jacob closed his eyes and searched his memory. What was the rest of that song?

"Why can't they... understand the way we... feel," he began to sing under his breath, the words coming back to him as he looked down at her. "They just don't trust what they... can't explain. I know we're different... but deep inside us, we're not that different at all. And you'll be in my heart. Yes, you'll be in my heart. From this day on, now and forevermore."

Jacob smiled. How could a song, written by someone they'd never met, describe them so perfectly? Renesmee sighed and shifted a bit as she began to come out of her faint. Jacob continued to sing, "Don't listen to them, 'cause what do they know? We need each other, to have to hold. They'll see in time. I know. We'll show them together. When destiny calls you, you must be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to hold on. They'll see in time. I know. We'll show them together."

As Renesmee's eyes fluttered open, Jacob's voice faded and he smiled, kissing her forehead. "Welcome back, Sleeping Beauty," he whispered.

"Jake," she sighed, rolling over onto her side and snuggling up against him. She didn't want to face the world. Not yet. Right now, all she wanted was to be right here beside him. "Will you finish the song? You haven't sang it in a long time, and I've missed it."

"Sure, Ness," he smiled, and wrapping his arms around her, he continued, "'Cause you'll be in my heart. Yes, you'll be in my heart. From this day on, now and forevermore. Oh you'll be in my heart. No matter what they say. You'll be right here, in my heart, always. Always, Nessie."

Renesmee smiled a little. "Forever, Jake," she whispered.

A/N: I really love that song for Nessie & Jake, don't you? Thanks for reading :)