Jacob's POV
After breakfast the kids had to go to school. Damon showed up at the last minute to get Michelle to day care. Figures.
"Ready to go?" Damon asked Michelle, smiling.
"Yep," she said holding out her arms to him. Damon smiled wider and picked her up in his arms, then kissed her on the head. Michelle giggled.
"By Daddy," Michelle said to me cheerfully.
"By princess," I said kissing her head as my son had. "I love you."
"I love you too Daddy," she said smiling.
"Damon," I said nodding at my son.
"Dad," he said nodding back before walking out the door.
He wouldn't look me in the eye; he was embarrassed and didn't want to show it. I heard Damon drive away, and I sighed.
Shortly after Damon left with Michelle, another car pulled up in the driveway and started to honk.
"Piper, Wyatt!" I called for the twins. "Your ride is here!"
I waved to Piper's friend's mom from the front window. She waved back politely.
"Bye Dad," Wyatt said walking past me. "Piper come on!" he called over his shoulder before walking out the door. About two seconds later Wyatt popped his head back in the front door. "Love you Dad," he said with a smile.
"Love you too son," I chuckled.
Just then Piper came up behind me.
"See you later Daddy," she said reaching up on her tip toes to kiss my cheek.
"Bye sweetie," I said.
Piper stopped short. "No," she said flatly.
Piper had this thing about saying goodbye. She hated it. She had it in her mind that when you said goodbye it was for good. So it was always "see you later" instead of "goodbye".
"See you later honey," I laughed.
"Love you Daddy," she said laughing with me, then walking out the door.
Something always died in me when I watched my children walk away from me… away from my protection. I sighed again and walked into the kitchen to help Nessie with the dishes. While we were cleaning the table I realized that Nessie was being really quiet.
"Everything okay baby?" I asked, putting the last of the dishes in the dish washer.
"Yeah I'm just thinking about some stuff," she said.
"Oh."
"Are you not going to work today babe?" she asked wrapping her arms around my waist.
"No I thought I'd stay home with you," I said kissing her head.
Nessie worked at a therapist's office working with kids and teenagers. But she took every Friday off for her own 'mental health day' or something like that. Usually she had Michelle home with her, but today was movie day at the day care, and Michelle could never pass up another showing of Beauty and the Beast. So Nessie and I had the house to ourselves.
"Oh how nice," Nessie purred, placing her hand on my chest.
"Well I'm a nice man," I laughed.
I kissed her tenderly. She moaned in my mouth.
"Really … well I'm not so nice," Nessie said.
"Oh really?" I asked.
"Oh yeah," she said. "I can be pretty naughty actually."
"Hmmm," I sighed as I kissed her again. "Well I do love bad girls."
We both laughed as I picked her up and carried her up to our bedroom.
A few hours later I was sitting on me and Nessie's bed with Nessie leaning on my bare chest. She sighed deeply.
She sat up and sighed again. Then she got up off the bed and walking to our bathroom. Ness still didn't have any clothes on so I couldn't help but watch as she walked away. When she came out of the bathroom she had on her silk bathrobe that she got on one of her many family trips to China as a teenager. Edward and Bella wanted to make sure that Ness got to see the world as a kid.
"Jake can we talk?" she asked me.
"Of course," I said patting my lap.
Nessie climbed on the bed and sat on my lap.
"What's going on in that head of yours?" I asked her poking her forehead.
Her brown eyes were looking a little distant. That bothered me a little. Nessie was always so put together and seeing her look so lost was just odd.
"I had a talk with Michelle this morning," she started. "She was looking at a picture of you and me when I was little. She thought it was her in the picture instead of me."
I laughed quietly. Michelle would think that. She and Nessie looked almost exactly alike minus their eye color.
"She was really upset Jakey," she continued. Nessie had always called me Jakey when she was little, it made me smile.
"About what Ness?" I asked.
"That she didn't look like her Daddy," she said. She bit her lip; she always looked like Bella when she did that. Another thing that made me smile.
"Oh really?" I laughed.
Then Nessie just sat there for a minute, starring at her hands.
"My kids don't look like me Jacob," she said finally. "With the exception of Michelle."
I just looked at her for a second, and then started to laugh.
"Jake this isn't funny!" she said slapping my chest.
"Yeah, honey, it kind of is," I said still laughing.
Was she really worrying about this?
"Babe our kids look a lot like you," I said touching her face lightly.
"How?"
"Well for starters," I said pausing. I thought about our children. "Damon has your eyes… Piper has your smile and your body figure," I paused again. "That scares me."
Nessie laughed at that.
"And Wyatt has your nose which of course means so does Piper. And Michelle is like your mini me," she laughed again, "and they all have your curls." I touched her silky, bronze, curly hair.
"Yeah I guess," she murmured.
"And honey let's face it they don't look that much like me," I said.
"Pu-lease!" she scoffed, hitting my chest again.
"What?" I asked.
"Jake they all look like you! Damon is the spitting image of you, all the kids have your skin tone, and they boys have your facial features!" she pouted.
"Well at least I know they are mine," I joked.
"Jacob I'm serious," Nessie whined.
"Nessie think about it. The twins have your side of the family's gold eyes," I said. "Which I don't quite understand considering gold isn't their actual eye color. But anyway…" I paused. "And so what if Damon looks exactly like me, Michelle looks exactly like you. Minus her eyes which we know she gets from your father."
"Yeah," she laughed. "Daddy was pretty excited about that."
"He sure was," I sighed thinking about when my youngest was born.
"I miss them," she said quietly. "I miss home."
"We are home," I whispered. "Denver is our home, has been for fourteen years."
"Oh come one Jakey," she said. "You know better than I do that Forks is our real home. It always has been, always will be."
I looked at my wife closely. Nessie and I have had this conversation before. She missed Forks, and in all honesty so did I. I was still Alpha and my pack was back in Forks, along with Billy, Charlie, and the Cullens. Sure we kept in touch with everyone, but it wasn't the same. I also missed home.
"Baby," I said grabbing her hands.
"Hmmm?"
"Let's go home."
"Oh Jacob really?" Nessie squealed, wrapping her hands around my neck.
"Really," I said when she pulled back.
The conversation from before was completely forgotten as my wife crushed her lips to mine.