Chapter Six
The Troublesome Twosome Strikes Again
Nessie
When I awoke the next morning it was to a soft snoring. I opened my eyes to see Nahuel lying across from me, his hands curled around a likewise fast asleep Alex. Alex was decidedly smelly so I lightly moved Nahuel's hands, surprisingly they flopped back pinioning me next to Alex and Nahuel until I could think of a way to get his hand from around my shoulder without waking him.
He muttered in his sleep and I smiled at the expression on his face. He was smiling in his sleep but I would never invade someone's dreams without asking first. I smiled and gently stroked his hair, he didn't even twitch he was so deeply asleep. If that was so I could free myself and take Alex to change his diaper but my original plans for freedom seemed unimportant now. I smiled at him as he slept unmoving, I decided that Alex needed a change more then I need to continue this stalkerish gesture.
I gently removed Nahuel's hand and took Alex laying him gently on the bed and getting out one of the diapers and pulling him out of his onsie as far as I could without waking him. I changed him and refastened the diaper gently. I was already falling in love with Alex and I admitted that I more then liked Nahuel, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to move on with him or not. I smiled when Nahuel shifted in his sleep to his back, one hand thrust outward, it struck me then how very alike Alex and Nahuel seemed when asleep. The only difference was that Nahuel had eyes the color of dark amber and Alex eyes were brillantly blue from his father.
I enjoyed watching him sleep however Alex awoke and I needed to take care of him. "Are you hungry Alex? Or thirsty?" I asked him gently and he nodded twice, I smiled. "Well then little man, if you'll wait a moment I'll get dressed and we will get you some food." I said and he nodded as I took out my clothes and changed behind a door. I finished and picked up Alex taking him to the main house and gave him a bowl full of corn flakes and blood. He couldn't quite manage it yet and stared angrily at the spoon. I laughed at his intense look until the spoon dipped into the bowl of its own accord and started to feed him. I fought the erdge to coo at him about what a big boy he was but just barely instead I watched him with a sense of pride that was unusual for me. He wasn't even mine and yet I couldn't help but watch him beyond fascinated at the way he ate.
He giggled and put down the spoon and held up his hands. I smiled at him and picked him up gently. "Your a big boy now aren't you?" I asked and he shook his head.
"Nahool." He replied and I laughed as he puffed up his chest.
"Well little man you look very much like your Uncle, except for those beautiful orbs of yours." I said and he smiled broadly, he had such a personality already despite not saying much more then names. I wondered why that was but I supposed that he had his own reasons. He put his fingers to his eyes and I nodded. "Orbs, a very uncommon use for the word is eyes. It is also very old fashioned." I don't know why I was talking to him as though he was the equivalent to seven or eight years old instead of only six months.
"Es'i." he said clapping his hands and turning around suddenly to give me a hug. I hugged him back smiling down at him.
"Yes, do you want to watch a movie?" I asked him and he looked puzzled. "I'll pick out something from the movies that I enjoyed when I was younger.' I said and decided upon the Fox And The Hound. Alex was mesmerized by the movie as we watched it together. He giggled but at the exciting parts, however he buried his face into my sholder. I told him when it was passed and he watched the movie once more. Rosalie joined us half way through smiling at me and Alex.
"He's cute isn't he?" She asked and I nodded.
"He can however understand every word you say, and you don't much like being called cute do you Alex?" I asked him and he shook his head.
"No." He replied and I stared at him surprised until he giggled.
"Your handsome not cute." I said and he nodded firmly as Rosalie smiled at us.
"You will want your own soon, I suppose that comes from living in a household a century out of date." She said and I both blushed and laughed. It was true my upbringing was not the most conversational.
"You forgot Carlisle." I gasped and then she too laughed.
"How could I have forgotten Carlisle?" She said. "1640's preachers sons are not easily forgotten." I laughed and Alex seeing us laughed as well.
"Wose'li." He said and She smiled at him.
"Can I hold him?" She asked. "Will you let me?" She directed this comment at Alex and we both nodded as she picked Alex up and tossed him up in the air. He laughed delighted as she caught him and threw him up again smiling as he laughed delightedly. Nahuel came in then, his hair was still disheveled but he was smiling at me his eyes warm and I felt something tender and at the same time wild within me answer.
"Good morning Nahuel." I said to him and he smiled at me in reply.
"I'm glad you woke, I wasn't sure about if I should wake you or not to help me change Alex. I wound falling asleep myself with him in my arms after soothing him with my talent."
"What is your talent?" I asked him and he smiled.
"Singing." He replied and I stared at him. "People who hear my songs want to do as I suggest, I don't like it much but its handy for lulling a child to sleep, the problem is whoever hears my songs wants to do as they suggest, including myself. I would much rather have your talent." I smiled at him in reply.
"Or Alex's?" I asked. "Do you want to show your uncle Nahuel what you can do?" I asked and he nodded before lifting a small object with his mind and smiling at Nahuel who was staring at his nephew.
"Very good my lad." He said and Alex grinned holding up his arms and Nahuel scooped him up in them. "Very good." I smiled at both of them they looked so much alike that Alex could almost be a minature version of his Uncle, apart from the blue eyes. I had a feeling I knew what Nahuel looked like a child.
"You look so much alike." I said and he looked startled at me for a moment before he smiled.
"Sometimes I wish he was my son, already and he was only a few days old." He replied and grinned taking my hand in his. It was pleasantly cool like my own. "So I believe that its about time for me to meet your friends that you keep talking about." He said suddenly and I smiled.
"Alright then, we will go shall we?" I asked him. "Although I would like to go to Port Angelos first to buy something for Sam and Emily, they just had a baby. Although they aren't my friends exactly they are related to them and I believe that I should get them something."
"Then to Port Angelos we will go." He replied smiling. "I think its best if we take Alex with us." I nodded and we went together to the car.
"So what is your favorite book?" He asked smiling.
"I like a lot of fantasy, although I really enjoy books about vampires, its funny how much people can get wrong. Dracula is a laugh and I quite enjoy reading it."
"Really I like it as well, although the whole vampire hunt thing was a bit overdone. The movies especially the old ones are terrible."
"I agree, when did you read it?" I asked and he smiled.
"Well when it first came out I had no recourse to a library or stores to purchase it in as I was a child living in the wilds." He replied bemused.
"How was your childhood?" I asked him.
"Very different from yours, we were alone in the woods, I grew up wild, but with a firm sense of right and wrong." He said. "But its a bit of a hard thing to do when you murder your own mother before you're a day old."
"You didn't murder your own mother anymore then I changed mine, my mother would have died as well if my father hadn't been so quick." I told him. "And that was with my Grandfather who is also a doctor." He nodded and I didn't need my father's gift to know that the outwardly young man in front of me was troubled. We continued to drive in silence and found the store that was geared more toward small children and babies then anyone else. We went inside and I smiled when I saw the blue fuzzy blanket with a dog printed on it.
"Is there one in pink?" I asked and the lady stared at me. "Its for a friend." I explained and she smiled.
"Yes I do, so does your friend have children who like the show?" She asked and I stared at her.
"There is a show?" I asked and she nodded.
"For toddlers." She replied and I smiled.
"Could I have a ball as well?" I asked and she nodded gesturing to where they were kept. I took out a pink ball that looked like it was pretty indestructible. I paid for both items and we left going back to the car. We drove back and I took his free hand gently in mine.
"You shouldn't hate yourself." I told him and he glanced at me catching my eyes.
"What else am I to do? I murdered my own mother as a baby! I suck the blood of living things!" He said and seemed to tear at his hair. "What am I if not a monster?"
"You are as much a monster as I am, its not what the person is that matters, but who they are." I said and he looked back at me.
"What if I don't like who I am?" He asked and I gently stroked his hair, he seemed so lost in that moment.
"You are whatever you want to be." I replied and he smiled.
"If only if it is that simple." He replied and I squeezed his hand lightly before driving over to Jake's house and parking in front of the house. We got out together Alex had fallen asleep in the car seat something that didn't surprise me as it was the middle of the afternoon. Around this time he usually got tired and the car was rather warm, we smiled as I gently took him into my arms.
"Take the gifts will you?" I asked and he nodded taking the bag into the house and fallowing after me. I knocked on the door and Seth answered.
"Hello Nessie." Seth said and I smiled.
"Hello Seth, can I come in?" I asked and he nodded.
"Jake, Quil and Embry are out." He said. "Leah, I and Sammeth are the only ones here."
"Emily brought Sammeth over?" I asked and he nodded.
"Sam wanted to take her to town and asked Leah to watch her, they haven't got clothes for her yet, but as she shifts more often then she remains in one form."
I smiled at that. "I could see how that is a problem, perhaps she will accept my gift as a peace offering then." I said and pulled out the blanket and the small round ball. Seth stared at them both in surprise. "It is my fault that she is turning into a wolf, if I had watched her more closely."
"It was no ones fault, simply a blessing that the little lad isn't very potent in the venom department and your quick on your toes and with the teeth." He said and I laughed cuffing him on the shoulder. "Although I wonder why she looks about six months old now."
"Maybe its the wolf gene, I mean it came in defense more then anything else, but I would imagine if you changed within a few months to your adult body she most probably got a bit older and taller, as to.. I don't know why that is."
"Neither do we, its a part of the shapeshifting I suppose." Seth returned and smiled. "Who is this with you then?"
"This is Nahuel, he's my boyfriend and Alex's Uncle." I replied surprised when Seth mouth dropped open and he stammered.
"But you-you cant be." He protested and I raised an eyebrow.
"I might be seven years old in a linear time but I assure you that I both look and act and feel like I'm almost an adult." I replied rather upset that he thought me incapable of romance. Nahuel was too happy to prove it and sweeping me up in his arms kissed me gently on the forehead.
"Th'..." But whatever he was going to say was stoppered up when I smiling kissed Nahuel on the cheek.
"Would it be alright if I laid down Alex?" I asked and he nodded temporally stunned. I smiled and put Alex down upon the couch going further into the house to find Leah. I did so eventually, she was fast asleep in wolf form, a much smaller body curled around her. I smiled seeing Sammeth asleep, her paws kicking in a dream. To anyone else it would seem that the family dog had a pup, but this sweet scene was made even sweeter by the truth. It appeared that Leah had fully forgiven Sam and Emily to sleep so besides their child. I realized that they were both lying on newspaper and I fought back the urge to laugh. Apparently her control of bladder has not been mastered in human form or wolf.
I smiled as the pup opened her eyes smiling at me with a wolfish grin and on unsteady feet still crawled to me. I smiled and scooped her up in my arms as I did so she licked my face before changing into a six month old baby. "Its good to see you too Sammeth." I said and she nodded, I walked out with her as she beamed.
"Who's this little lass?" Nahuel asked and I smiled, the Argentinian man using Scottish terms of endearment often brought a smile to my lips.
"This is Sammeth." I replied and he smiled.
"Hello Sammeth." He said and offered the baby a finger. She took it and sucked on it, he smiled at her. "I believe that your friend is still asleep." He said. "But you can play with him in a little while." She grinned at him. "In the meantime, how would you like to play with a ball, outside of course." She nodded and we went together outside, Seth fallowing behind us. I put her gently on the ground and she shifted.
"You need to stop doing this all the time." I said to her. "The shifting I mean, you need to learn how to control it better, or stop doing it to gain attention. Your a very lucky girl or cub and many people love you." I said smiling as she looked up at me a little black wolf cub smiling up at me. "You don't need to shift to get their attention, they will protect you and give you what you need." She nodded and I smiled I could tell she understood, she barked in reply and i laughed gently stroking her fur and rolling the ball towards her. She pounced upon it and rolled it around, I watched her play until Alex cried out.
"I'll get him." Nahuel said as I continued to play with Sammeth. He came back a moment later and Alex laughed happily reaching his arms out towards the ball and Sammeth. Nahuel put him down and they touched nose to nose. I smiled as Sammeth tackled Alex and rolled over and over together in a heap of young life. I noticed that Alex was careful to keep his mouth firmly closed as they played. Eventually they tired of rolling about in the grass and Alex bumped the ball towards Sammeth. She barked and bumped it back with her head.
The ball moved between the two and they were laughing and wagging their tails respectively. I was laughing along with Alex and Nahuel after a while as they bumped the ball back and forth with their heads. I smiled as Alex wooped getting the ball past Sammeth.
"Som'i." He said and smiled at Sammeth. "Gow'." He said and Sammeth barked in agreement. I realized that they had somehow created their own game and I stared at him in suprise, Nahuel was likewise staring. We looked behind and Seth's mouth was hanging open. "Gow'." Alex repeated.
"He's never watched a game before in his life." I said to Seth and Nahuel. "Hey little guy can I use my talent on you?" I asked and he nodded crawling over to me and I put a hand over his forehead. I wanted to get back to the game. Come on Alex, play with me. Som'i was whimpering and I want to. However the one who took care of me had asked this of me and I would do so. Is that enough? Is that enough Nessie can I play now?" I stared at him before taking my hand off of him. "They are playing soccor and can communicate by mind with one another."
"They can? Sam hasn't heard her, he thought she was too young." Seth said staring openly now.
"I don't know what has happened or why, I suppose it is because his bite brought on her change that she can speak with him mind to mind. She might be able to talk with her pack when she's a teenager like the others, or it could happen sooner." I said and looked at Alex. "Can you hear her when she isn't a wolf?" I asked him and he nodded before playing his game again.
We all stared at the two of them together. "Well this is interesting." Seth said for lack of anything better to say, I think his shock at us being together had paled to the strange thing before us.
"That's one way to put it, I wonder how far it works for them, if they were communicating from my house and she from hers." I said and he shrugged. "My father can turn it off and on but the pack can't short of transforming." Alex looked up at me and Sammeth did the same, he nodded his head twice and I stared at him. "You are a smart lad aren't you?" I asked and Sammeth growled. "And you too Lady Sammeth." She wagged her tail and smiled up at me, the she pounced upon the ball and they both went back to the game at hand.
Leah came out in that moment, fully clothed and in human form, she smiled at the two children playing. "Good afternoon." She said.
"Hello Leah." I replied and she smiled at me and then glanced at Nahuel. "This is my boyfriend Nahuel, now if you think I'm too young then tell me why you let Embry force Jake to kiss me." I said and smiled at Nahuel, he smiled back at me as Leah's jaw rested upon her chin.
"But you can't." She said and her reaction was so much like Seth's that I fought the urge to laugh as I wasn't angry anymore.
"You find that I can." I replied.
"She is a strong willed woman and she can do whatever she likes, despite that you have known her since childhood." Nahuel said and put an arm around me smiling.
"You don't have to be gallant Nahuel, its not the eighteen hundreds anymore." I said and he laughed.
"I know." He replied. "However I wish to, and my age doesn't have anything to do with it. People defend their ladies honor till this day although they aren't as frank about it." I smiled and gently stroked his cheek, then I smacked it lightly and we both laughed, he was a good friend, I knew more would come in time and so did he but for now we were good friends . Friendship within a week of knowing each other and going out with each other since yesterday, it was fast but I couldn't help but think about how right it felt to be with him.
"That's for your impudence." I said and we both laughed again. Seth and Leah both stared at us and I smiled watching Sammeth and Alex play. A moment later however they both bounded towards Leah, Som'i licked her ankle and nipped at it, Leah laughed.
"Enough Som'i." She said and picked up both of them, Som'i around the middle and scooping up Alex supporting his bottom kissing them both lightly on the head. "You silly kids." She said with no small amount of affection. I smiled at her as she put them back down, I realized that it had gotten on towards evening and none of the pack had gotten back yet.
"Do you know when they are going to come back?" I asked. "I wouldn't mind seeing the guys." One guy in particular, despite Jacob being gay I somehow couldn't entirely stop thinking of him.
"I don't think that they will return until quite late." Leah replied. "We are supposed to take the next patrol at ten, for some reason they want us to continue to patrol despite all the vampires in the area being friendly enough."
I smiled and showed my decidedly outpointed teeth. "Vi vant to suck vore blood. At least I would if it didn't smell so badly." I said and everyone broke out in laughter at my hideous 'dracula' accent.
"I thought we were just discussing how Dracula was a hilarious piece of fiction only this morning." He said and I smiled.
"That we were, but that accent is infamous." I said with a fake shudder.
"Oh and now do I have to fight with Dracula for your affections? Because I'm afraid there will be one less count in Translavania." He said and I smiled.
"Or one less cocky half vampire in Forks." I replied and we both laughed.
"So I suppose we should get back to Casa De La Cullen." He said and I smiled. "Come on you rascal time to say goodbye to your very hairy girlfriend." I couldn't help but laugh at that for a moment but quickly stifled it.
"He's much too young to date." Leah said at once and I smiled at her before picking Alex up and leaving in my car. We got back around eight in the evening.
"Are you hungry Alex?" I asked him and he nodded. "Thirsty?" He shook his head and I smiled. "Alright then we will get you something to eat." I said and went to the fridge. Esme had thought ahead enough to prepare mashed potatoes something easily enough managed by Alex. I smiled as I put the potatoes in the microwave that was about the extent of my cooking skills so far. I pulled them out after it beeped and put them on the table with a spoon. Alex smiled up at me before he began to spoon mashed potatoes, slowly into his mouth. "You my lad will have to learn how to hold it in your hand eventually, not the best way to eat while in public." I said and Nahuel laughed.
"Indeed not, I wonder where Abigale is." Nahuel said.
"She's with Alice the two of them left on a shopping trip to Las Angelos." Jasper said coming down the stairs.
"Ah." Nahuel said and Jasper smiled as the spoon catapulted potatoes across the table and onto Jasper's face. Alex giggled and clapped his hands as Jasper wiped it off his face laughing.
"Yes,well I say that you have your hands full, I believe that I am going to go up to my room." He said. "I run in fear of flying foods that I cannot eat myself nor do I have any desire to eat another man's dinner." He said and did exactly that as Alex finished spooning up the mashed potatoes and concentrating apparently very intently levitated the bowl back into the kitchen with the spoon in it.
"Thank you Alex." I said and went to the kitchen to put the bowl into the dishwasher. Easy clean up done I smiled at Nahuel finding that I was tired, the mash potatoes took about a half hour and we needed to wash Alex before putting him to bed as he was dirty from playing with Sammeth. "I believe that it is time for someone to have a bath." I said and we took Alex to the bathroom to do so. I smiled at the tub and filled it a quarter full of water. We put Alex in it and gently washed him, letting him play in it afterwards. Eventually though he yawned and his eyes slipped closed before coming quickly open.
"Come on lad time to get out." Nahuel said and wrapped him in a towel before we walked back to the cottage together. Alex was asleep before we got there and it was quite hard to put him into his nightclothes. I said goodnight to Nahuel and went to my own room got ready for bed and just managed to pull aside the blankets and get under them before I fell asleep.
AN: Aren't they cute? I love Sammy and Alex, although I wouldn't want Sammy as my baby! Wolf claws are sharp. Read and Reveiw