15. Endless Bliss

Renesmee's POV

I was so happy. There wasn't any other emotion inside my body other than pure happiness. I strolled along in the woods, holding Jake's hand and feeling like I was invincible. Like nothing could ever happen to me as long as I was holding his big warm hand. I brought our hands up to my lips and kissed the back of his hand.

He looked down at me in adoration.

"I love you." I said smiling.

He kissed me passionately on the lips and then he leaned his forehead against mine. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that."

It was in this moment; this moment of pure bliss that I heard a voice packed with anger calling my name.

"Renesmee." Nahuel said slowly.

"Nahuel." I said my eyes bulging wide. I had forgotten about him completely. My eyes flashed to Jake and he was looking down at me with a curious but somehow also knowing face.

"What have you done?" It was more a statement than a question forced through Nahuel's clenched jaw.

My body seemed frozen and my mind was completely blank. I stared back at Nahuel with an empty expression. Nahuel's glare intensified and I felt Jake move to stand in front of me.

"She hasn't done anything wrong." He said protectively.

Nahuel's expression turned sweet.

"Oh, Jake. You wouldn't know. She didn't tell you."

"It doesn't matter if she never told me you two were trying to date. It's her business."

Now my surprised stare turned to Jacob. This guy really did know me inside and out.

"She kissed you when she was dating me. She didn't even want you before today. She's probably just faking it now. Slut."

Jake stood a little taller before me and squared his shoulders at Nahuel. "Don't ever call my Nessie a liar or a slut."

"But Jacob, that's what she is. You know this."

I felt Jake trembling in anger. "No. I know that she is not either of those things. I also know that she was confused earlier about our relationship, but based on her current actions I think you and I could both agree that she is sure now. She never wanted you Nahuel. She's just too nice to tell you how much you creep her out."

Nahuel let out an enraged howl. It was clear his plan to turn Jake against me wasn't going to work. I saw him crouch into a hunter's lunge and Jake saw it too. He pushed me back a little farther and became a wolf right before my eyes.

"No." I whispered finally able to speak.

I watched Jake snarl at Nahuel before lunging toward him with horror planting my feet where I stood. My heart pounded hard in my chest as I watched Nahuel jump high in the air right before Jake could reach him and land swiftly on his back. Jake turned his head around fiercely snapping at Nahuel's leg. One of his bites grazed his leg and the blood began to run down Nahuel's pants.

In a way this was good. The smell of blood would bring my family here quickly. Nahuel learned quickly though and when Jake went to bite at him again, he kicked him firmly in the nose. Jacob yipped in pain and in that second I watched Nahuel take out a long dagger out of his belt. He raised it above his head with two hands and prepared to slam it down right into Jake's neck.

"No!" I screamed finding my feet and leaping towards Nahuel. My adrenaline had given me an amazing jump and I hit Nahuel right as the dagger came into contact with Jake's neck. It was just a shallow scratch and I knew it would heal in seconds. Before I could feel relief though, Nahuel and I slammed down onto the ground in a tangled heap. As I hit the ground I felt a different kind of pain in my chest. It erased the pain of the fall and clouded out everything else.

I looked up at Nahuel and he stared back at me with terrified eyes as he grabbed the back of my head to support it.

"Renes--" He started to scream my name but he was ripped of by Jake's enormous hand. He had apparently phased back and was now leaning over me on the ground. But I could barely notice. My vision was failing me. I looked weakly at my chest and saw Nahuel's dagger protruding from it.

It was placed in the only weak spot of my body. The one thing that was vital to protect, that not even my vampire half could heal. The dagger was plunged into my heart which was beating unevenly and steadily slower.

"Renesmee look at me!" I heard Jake's thick voice shout.

I turned my weak gaze to his face and his eyes locked with mine.

"You don't leave me, Nessie. Stay with me! Carlisle is almost here, I can hear him! Please Nessie hang in there!"

My breath was failing rapidly and it became uncomfortable for me to keep my lungs moving in and out. It felt like my whole body had been weighted to the ground. I could no longer feel my limbs, but I forced my lips to move.

"Love you." I said the words bubbling with the blood that gurgled in my throat.

"What happened?" I heard several voices shout at once. I felt Carlisle's cold hands on my chest and I tried to ignore his golden hair hovering over me, ripping my shirts to shreds trying to stop the bleeding, to know what to do, but with one glance at his stunning face, I knew there was nothing he could do. I knew he was too late. My eyelids grew heavy and I looked at Jake; I wanted him to be the last thing I saw. As my eyes closed, I watched his perfect lips form my name and I knew he was yelling, but I couldn't hear him. I closed my eyes, with visions of Jake dancing behind my eyelids and died in endless bliss.