A/N: So, apologies on how long it has been since I updated, I have not forgetten the book. I went on a slight writers block, but that is expected. But I am back, and I hope that you enjoy this chapter. I hope to have the next chapter up in a week, but that might not be happening. To be truthful, I have been working on my own story, and I am hoping to have it finished, and ready to be looked at by a publisher. This will still be worked on though. Don't worry. ;) Enjoy the Chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own it. Cassady, Abby, Reina are mine, though there are times... lmao.
Chapter Twenty-Four- You bring my heart to it's knees
Christmas had come and gone, and the Volturri had been abnormally silent in their quests to get the half breed. Cassady sat in the living room, watching another re-run of Jerry Springer, sighing. Jacob hadn't been as open about the Volturri deal since Cassady started showing, and the more her belly poked out, the harder he fought to keep her out of it. So, while Jacob was at another meeting with the Cullens, she was stuck in the house staring at a wall, waiting on him to get home.
She stared at the phone, urging it to ring and tell her that they needed her, but nothing happened, and once again her eyes became glued to the tranvestite that was screwing his mother. She sighed again, feeling the many brain cells that she once had diminish in the craziness called psycho T.V. So, when the phone rang, she jumped up and took off for it.
"Hello?"
"Cassady?" Cassady recognized Sam's voice, and jumped for joy.
"What Sam?"
"Abby and Emily are on their way to pick you up, the Volturri are on their way, and they know about the wolves. We are going to try to find somewhere safe to hide you guys." Cassady raised an eyebrow at this, decidedly not going to say anything about the safe house situation.
"Alright, I'll have my cell on me, where are we meeting?"
"The Cullens house. Be prepared to deal with them." Cassady nodded, shrugging at the lack of interest in the fact that she would be working with the Cullens. She hadn't had to deal with them since Reina had been booted out by the family. Though, from what Cassady understood, there was lots of controversy within the Cullen group when Carlisle took it upon himself to remove her.
"I will. Anything else?" Cassady stood up, walking in to her bedroom to throw on a pair of jeans that barely fit her, and a big t-shirt that covered her baby bump.
"Yeah, bring an extra set of clothes. We dont know how long it will be, but I'd much prefer you having overnight clothes just in case. Don't forget your prenatals either!" Cassady snorted, glancing over at the bottle that she had come to despise.
"I wont, going in the bag RIGHT NOW!" She said loudly, as she tossed them in the bag. She glanced around the room, before her eyes landed on the emergency kit. Better be safe than sorry.
"Which reminds me, Cass, we need to talk when you get here. It's about Jacob."Cassady frowned.
"Ok, Sam, that one time you found us in that one position was a total fluke and-" Cassady heard Sam gagging multiple times on the other end, while it was evident that Paul stood their laughing at his misery.
"No! Not about that, though now I have to go burn my eyes out, and douse my brain in sulfuric Acid in an attempt to get rid of the images. And while the layers of my brain are slowly being flayed away, I will attempt to discuss with you the importance of keeping your damn door locked if you dont want people seeing you in such compromising positions." Cassady felt her herself giggle hysterically.
"I think it just bothers you that we kept going."
"Yeah, That too. But no, it's about his position as Alpha, and it can wait until you get here or later, it wont kill us." Cassady felt herself nod once again before pausing, realizing that they couldn't see her and that she actually had to respond once again.
"Alright, Sounds good to me. Now, don't you have a meeting to prep for?" Cassady heard Sam sigh, and begin to whine.
"But mommy, I dont want to go back and get chased by the big bad vampires again. They're so sparkly then they grab you and rip you apart like the bad Jaws remake. Then afterwards they go sparkle some more and grab more little kids like me. It's a necrophilia, Pedophilia nightmare that seems to mimick Hansel and Gretel, instead of Romeo and Juliet." Cassady started laughing hard. Tears streamed down her face, as she laughed, and continued to laugh, until the muscles in her pregnant stomach protested.
"Let me guess, Bella mentioned something about her love life being similar to Romeo and Juliet?" Cassady asked, afterward, as Sam sighed again.
"And Withering Heights, or whatever it was, you know how that goes."
"Well, then , my life is like a Lora Leigh novel with a little Charlaine Harris, and Rachel Vincent mixed in. God, I love my life." Cassady laughed out. She heard the silence over on Sam's end.
"Oh, come on. Please tell me you at least know those authors." More silence met her request as she pouted. " Lora Leigh writes the breed series, you know. The one about the genetically mutated humans who have animal DNA in them, and must proctect themselves from the darker side of human nature, and survive!" More silence. " What about Rachel Vincent? Wrote about Faythe and her attempts to train to become Alpha of the pack, and figure out her love life, all the while losing everything that she has ever known, or dreamed about?" More Silence. " O.K., I know you know Charlaine Harris, wrote the Sookie Stackhouse novels, about a girl who falls in love with were's and vampires, and works at a bar, has psychic powers." More silence. Cassady sighed. "True Blood on HBO."
"OOOHHHH, Yeah, I know what your talking about True Blood is the shit! Great T.V. Show, wonderful actors, and Sookie is such a babe huh?" Cassady felt her I.Q. Points lower, sadly.
"Yeah, it began as a book..."
"Is it just me or do women seem to overdramatize books a little more than men do? Or anything for that matter?"
"Nuhuh! We do not, and I do not appreciate the insinuation that I am a drama queen." Cassady threw some clothes in to the duffel bag that she had brought with her, making sure to grab her pregnancy jeans, and not her old ones. Pregnancy didn't work too well with her weight.
"Yeah, well, really think about what you said, how you said it, and the way in which it was delivered, then come talk to me about it. It's kind of sickening when you hear you guys talk..." Cassady shook her head, zipping up her duffel bag, and looking around the room.
"Do you think I might need to grab a book?" She finally asked, as she wandered over to her incredibly stacked books from the library that did not have a limit. They would soon, because of her.
"Do you want to read Romeo and Juliet, or Withering Heights, or some other pathetic drama where the female has no inner strength, relies on the men to help her, and she's the biggest pussy ever?"Cassady snorted, grabbing her Night huntress Series by Jeanine Frost. Smiling, she thought of the argument that would ensue about her reading culture, and not the crap that she was reading now.
"Found one!" Cassady called out, as Sam groaned.
"Let me guess, it's the one with the ninja assassin chick who finds out her little sister is alive and is out to kill the mob boss of the south?" Cassady shook her head.
"No, thats the Elemental Assassin Series. I'm reading the Night huntress Series." Cassady laughed, as Sam sighed even louder,.
"Ah, Bones and Cat, and the quirky adventures of a half vampire that kills her own kind. You like being Ironic, dont you?" Cassady smiled wide.
"Not ironic. Being a bitch is soooo much more fun," Cassady stated, as she tossed the books in to her bag, and put it on her shoulder. With the phone on speaker, she put it in to her pocket, and walked out the door, locking it, and sitting on the porch.
"SO, what are you going to do about Bella? She's going to cause a problem with you, and pick on you. You know it as well, as I do." Cassady sat there, staring at the woods and road in front in of her.
"Be the better person, and not beat the shit out of her. Can't say the same for her. She doesn't like my jokes as much as I enjoy her attempts to bad mouth me. I will never understand that. I think that my jokes are pretty quirky, actually." She watched as Emily drove down the road toward the house, and pulled in to the driveway. Cassady stood up, picking up her bag, and walked to the car.
"Cassady, we both know your jokes can get you in to a lot of trouble. If I remember correctly, you got suspend from school for telling your teacher that you thought he looked like a hells angels reject, and that he ought to cut his hair every once in a while." Cassady snickered, as she slid in to the car, waving at the two girls who smiled.
"She only said that because he tried to claim that she was too young to understand the impact that gang life had on the people around the gang members." Abby stated, as Cassady slammed the door shut. Sam sighed on the other end, as both girls said their greetings.
"I was explaining to Cassady that she needed to behave while she was here, and keep her quirky comments, insults, threats, or what ever to herself lately. Seeing as she will be staying with Vampires, she needs to be able to keep the peace with these said vampires." Abby nodded, turning in her seat to look Cassady.
"I fully agree with Sam, Cass. Be nice to them. Please? I understand that you haven't been allowed to see them since the Reina incident, but dont mention it. Don't say anything. Okay?" Cassady rolled her eyes and nodded, picking up her cell phone and glaring at it.
"We'll be there soon, Sam. We'll see you in a little bit - " Emily looked in the rearview mirror and yelled, " I love you baby!"
"I love you too. See ya'll." Cassady hung up the phone. They drove in relative silence, no one saying anything until they turned in to the driveway that was the Cullens.
"You guys ready?" Emily asked, as Abby and Cassady nodded their head, grabbing their bags, while opening doors. They walked up to the house, staring at the abnormally pretty house that they were entering.
"Is it just me? Or does their seem to be this whole prettiness thing going on with them? I mean... It's like you sparkle or something, and now you have to have every pretty thing in the world. What happened to old fashion down and dirty? Playing in the dirt, and mud? The raggedy old houses with nothing to it, but a hope or a dream that one day you'll make it a home?" Abby and Emily looked at Cassady, who was staring at the house after her rant.
"Do you feel better now?"Emily asked, Cassady smiled at her.
"Yes, I do, actually," Cassady stated, before knocking on the door. A yell was heard from inside, along with massive thumping, and a little growling. The dorr was yanked open to reveal Paul, his hair ruffled, and gasping for breath. Behind him was Sam, and Jacob, eyes sparkling as they untangled themselves from the mess they had put themselves in.
"Hi Girls," Paul exclaimed, wrapping his arms around Abby, before placing a light kiss on her lips, purposefully blocking Sam and Jacob from getting to the other girls. Cassady laughed as the other two boys huffed and pouted behind Paul who was smirking.
"Paul, move so that I can give my fiance a kiss, and I think Emily would like to see her Sam, since you guys have been so busy as of late." Paul pouted, before moving out of the way, and letting Cassady through, who crossed her arms and stared at Jacob, while he ran over and hugged her.
She stood like that as Jacob hugged her, and rubbed her belly. It was a minutes before Jacob realized that Cassady was not responding back with the same passion as he was, and had an angry look on her face.
"Whats wrong?" He asked, as Cassady raised an eyebrow at him.
"Whats wrong? Really? You have to ask? I've seen you twice in a week, because your here with the vampires, and instead of letting me come along, and being the alpha female that I am, you've decided to let your nuts drop and think that i'm just going to allow that. No." Cassady turned away from him, and pouted, looking at Paul, and Sam who were snickering in their girlfriends shoulders.
"Baby, I can't put you and the twins at risk. Not like the last time.. remember?" Jacob asked softly, causing Cassady to turn and look at him, her eyebrow raised, and a sigh resting on her lips.
"I love you, you know that?" She asked, finnally turning to hug him, as he wrapped his arms around her. She took in his scent, and smiled, basking in the joys of what was the most manly smell she could find.
"Yes, I know you love me," Jacob whispered in her ear, making her smile, as she released him, and turned to look at the other love struck couple. All three girls smiled at each other, before what sounded like rampaging foot steps came at them.
One by one the pack came running in in wolf form, panting at the girls that they hadn't seen in days. Cassady got on her knees, and hugged both Seth and Leah, petting them softly, as Reina walked in smiling.
"They've been pouting with out you guys. It's been horrible, especially Sam and Jacob, god you'd think you had their nuts in your hand," Reina laughed, as Cassady and Emily laughed.
"We have to find a way to keep them in check. They are horrible without being controlled." Abby stated, as she lightly kissed a scowling Pauls cheek. He smiled at her, before laying his hand on her lightly protruding stomach.
"Don't worry, Reina, once you got one of them by the balls the others are worried that you'll break theirs so listen very well," Cassady laughed out loud, as she rested her hand on her lower back. It seemed to be a little harder to stay on her feet as of late, it seemed to bother her lower back a lot. Jacob glanced at the motion before looking at Abby and Emily, and seeing them do the same thing.
"Come on in to the kitchen," Jacob stated, lightly pulling at Cassady's hand, causing her to frown lightly. Paul and Sam started to do the same, so instead of arguing with them (and they tried to argue about the luggage), they went in to the kitchen. Sitting at the table, the girls instructed the boys on how to cook pancakes ( "You would think that you guys would know how to cook"), and ate happily with the boys. They moved downstairs to the rooms that they would be hiding in, and watched movies until the girls fell asleep, or so they thought.
Cassady felt Jacob's warmth leave her, as the laid in the bed. She curled in to what was his side of the bed, before getting fed up at trying to find the warmth that had once been there. She waited, and waited, thinking that it couldn't take that long to go the bathroom, only to cue off her baby pressured bladder.
Climbing out the bed, she clambered upstairs, hand on her lower back from laying too long. Damn Pregnancy Pains, She thought as she reached the top of the stairs where the living room was. Off to the side was the bathroom, where she went to the bathroom, and went to get some water out the kitchen. Halfway there, she saw that the light was on, and heard voices in there. She stopped, sitting the hallway as she heard Jacobs voice.
"Look, I dont care what you say, we will not endanger my pregnant wife just because of your damn whims. You'd think you'd done enough to her," Jacob snarled, as Cassady's butt hit the ground.
"Jacob, there is another kid involved-" Esme started to say, as the sound of a fist hitting the table echoed through the hall.
"So your going to put my kid in the middle of your fucked up situation? I think not." He snarled.
"Reina.." Emmetts pleading voice sounded out.
"I'm not helping you guys in this. I'm sorry. Cassady is a close friend of mine, and Jacob's imprint. Not only that but the will be mother of his child. She cannot be endangered on that level." Cassady felt a snort come out softly.
"I dont see why we're even arguing with Jacob, the bitch is here," Edward stated, as a low growling sound echoed.
"Try and take her."
"We need her Jacob," Carlisle stated.
"Your not using my wife as bait. I'm sorry, not happening. You would have to get it over my dead rotting corpse." Jacobs footsteps could be heard heading outside, as the rest sighed.
"Let me see if I can go talk to him," Bellas voice was heard saying, as her footsteps too faded. Cassady sat in the dark hallway for another minute, listening to the Cullens and Reina murmur about Reina's thoughts. Cassady went to stand up and walk towards the basement where the rooms were, when she glanced out the window, and stopped cold.
Bella's arms were wrapped around Jacobs neck, her lips locked on his, her body pressed against his. Cassady felt the breath exit her body as she watched Bella and Jacob lip lock in a very intimate embrace. Tears burned at her eyes, as she turned, and quickly hurried down the steps, missing one. She was falling, the tears taking away any sight that she once had. She felt her body bounce down the steps, landing on her stomach.
MY BABY! She thought when every other fleeting thought left her, and darkness enveloped her.