Disclaimer: All of Twilight belongs to Mrs. Stephenie Meyer. Thanks. Also, I'm trying, TRYING, to not make Jacob Sr. the bad guy. I'm more Team Edward right now but I'm not going to destroy Jacob's 'sunny' interior. Promise. I really do love Jake. What's not to like? Plus...(BD spoiler) he is a part of the family now.

After Alix had gotten over her mild shock, she became angry. She expected the guys to be so stupid over this but she had thought her dad would've had the heart to tell her that the others had changed. She had grown up around werewolf business all her life.

"Dad is so in trouble." Alix muttered again for what felt like the thousandth time to Jake.

Jake sighed as they walked towards their house. Alix had become incredibly irritable as of late. Just because daddy's little girl didn't get what she wanted, Jake thought, annoyed.

Alix slammed open the door, her school day forgotten.

Bella jumped from her seat on the couch.

"Alix! How many times...? What's wrong with you?" Bella exclaimed when she saw Alix's hands tremble.

Jake took hold of Alix's arm. "I've got it mom."

He turned Alix around to face him, gently prying her fingers off the door which was beginning to splinter.

"Al? Cool it. Now. Or else dad's gonna blow up in your face for ruining the door." Jake ordered her.

Alix narrowed her eyes. "Fine." She hissed.

She stomped up the stairs and slammed the door to her room. She knew that her dad wasn't here yet. He was out having 'fun' at work. She'd just wait for him. Angrily.

Downstairs, Bella was talking to her son worriedly.

"What's wrong with her Jake?" She asked him.

Jake shook his head. "Nothing mom. She's just pissed that no one told her about the other werewolves."

Bella sighed. "Of course. I told him it was a bad idea to leave her in the dark. Blacks are notoriously famous for their temper." She smirked.

Jake laughed. "Yeah, he so should have listened to you mom. Now he'll really get it when he gets home."

Bella shrugged. "I guess so."

Jake stopped laughing. He stared at his mom incredulously. "No way. I mean, you're not going to warn the big guy? You'll just let him have it? What gives mom? Did he do something?"

Bella shook her head, sitting back down on the sofa and picking up her book. "No. But he has to learn from his mistakes the hard way. Plus, Alix can't really hurt Jacob. Neither can you. He'll just see what happens when he doesn't listen to me."

Jake shook his head at his mom. "Wow." Women.

Just then, Jacob Black decided to make an unhealthy appearance.

He punched the door out of his way and yelled a hearty, "I'm home honey!"

Jake dragged his hand down his face. He really didn't want to witness his dad's death today. Or any other day for that matter.

"Dad, you should leave for the sake of your health." Jake muttered to his father.

Jacob tilted his head towards his son. "What? Huh? My health?"

"DAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAADDDDDD!"

Jake jerked his thumb up towards the shaking stairs.

"That's why."

Jacob turned to his smirking wife who had her arms crossed.

"What is that?" Jacob blinked at her.

Bella smiled. "That is your daughter."

"M-my...?" Jacob stuttered, fully realizing now what was awaiting for him upstairs. He had encountered his wild child's wrath before. He still had the screams replaying over and over again in his head, barely fading away.

"Dad, under pain of death, please don't go up there." Jake begged him desperately.

Jacob shook his head and squared his shoulders.

"No son. It's time to face the music. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Fight the power. Defy the man. This town ain't big enough..."

"DAD!"

"JACOB!"

"DAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAADDDDDD!"

All three of them winced as they listened to Alix's angered yell.

"Jacob, please stop stalling. It's really not helping your case...or our ears." Bella lightly nudged him towards the stairs.

"But I don't wanna!!" Jacob wailed, despite his strong and rough appearance. "She'll kill me!"

"Oh well! C'mon, what happened to that big man of steel that I fell in love with?" Bella pured in her husband's ear.

Jacob straightened almost instantaneously, just as Bella predicted.

"You're right Bells." He said, now confident.

He puckered his lips.

"A kiss g-goodbye?" Big baby.

Bella giggled. "Well, alright."

Jake pretended to puke as his parents kissed.

Bella pulled back and caressed Jacob's face.

"Love you." She said softly.

Jacob closed his eyes at her comforting touch. "Love you more."

And with a sigh, Jacob launched himself up the stairs towards his doom...fate...uh, daughter.

Alix was pacing furiously back and forth in her room, fighting the urge to change into her wolf form.

It was so not easy being a werewolf. Especially when you were mad.

And a teenage girl.

"Why me?" Alix whispered, covering her eyes with her clenched fists. She plopped on the bed, looking like the picture of despair.

Then she heard a knock on the door.

"Argh. C'mon in." Alix said, her voice now hoarse.

The door edged open slightly as Jacob poked his head through. He looked scared like Alix might throw something at him.

"Um, you rang?" Jacob said with a weak smile, going for humor to lighten the situation.

Alix just groaned again.

Jacob frowned slightly, now taking a step into the room. He sat on the edge of his daughter's bed, taking in his surroundings.

He smiled a little, seeing how Alix room had changed and matured just like her. Instead of the pink wallpaper with daisies, cream colored walls striped elegantly with a coffee colored brown adorned the walls. The baby crib was long gone and buried and in its place was the queen size bed with gold sheets and dark brown pillows. There was only a couple of dolls and stuffed animals in sight. Posters of popular singers and boy bands littered her walls. A cork board in the corner of her room was filled with pictures and spelling bee ribbons of the past.

Jacob sighed. Where had the years gone?

He looked up and stared at his daughter.

That's where.

He smiled and pulled on one of Alix's arms covering her face.

"Hey you. What's wrong?" Jacob grinned at her.

Alix opened one eye and promptly rolled over.

"No smiling. I'm still mad at you." Alix muttered.

Jacob bounced slightly on the bed. "What did I do honey?"

Alix sighed. "Dad. You know what I found out today?"

Jacob stiffened. He knew.

"Oh come on. Why is everyone against me today?" Jacob moaned.

Alix sat up quickly with a huff. "So you know. Explain Dad."

Jacob stared at the patterns on her bedspread. He sighed and looked at the ceiling for a minute before looking back at the covers.

"Um...I take it you talked to Quil...?" He said awkwardly.

"For the last time." Alix mumbled.

Jacob looked surprised. "Why Al?"

Then his face darkened and he started to shake.

"Dad?" Alix stood up, alarmed.

"Did he do anything to you?" Jacob growled angrily.

Alix started to laugh, understanding her dad's reaction.

"Oh, you mean besides run away from me and refuse to talk to me? Then no dad. He hasn't done anything wrong to me." Alix said tonelessly.

Jacob had stopped shaking a long time ago and was now staring at his daughter incredulously.

"Alix?"

Alix looked over at him with a blank face that scared Jacob more than before.

"Alix..." Jacob murmured and leaned over to take her in his arms.

Alix shut her eyes tight willing the tears not to leak out.

"Quil just won't talk to me anymore. And it was so weird." Alix blubbered. "At the bus stop he ran away and wouldn't come back when I talked to him. He's so...distant! I don't get it daddy..."

Jacob rocked her back and forth crooning. "Alix, Alix, Alix...it's going to be okay."

Alix buried her head into his shoulder. Tears soaked through his shirt. This was turning out the complete opposite way Jacob had expected. He was prepared for a screaming, yelling red-faced Alix. Now, although she was red-faced, she wasn't screaming but crying. He hated to see tears from anyone in his family. He was suppose to protect them from everything. Tears just made him feel like he had failed at that.

There was a knock on the door. Jacob turned, still stroking Alix's hair comfortingly.

Bella's eyes tightened as she tasted the atmosphere.

"Boy troubles. My job. Get. Out."

Jacob felt himself being shoved backwards out the door. He steadied himself just as the door slammed shut in his surprised face.

He heard quiet voices and a few sobs on the other side of the door but they were careful to be quiet enough so he couldn't make out what they were saying.

Jacob sighed and looked down at his shirt.

It was drenched.

He winced as a cold breeze floated in through the open windows.

He'd have to change soon and wait for Bella to finish talking to their daughter.

He smirked. He couldn't believe that his little Bella had actually stepped up and kicked him out of the room. It was so unlike her. Walking away, he decided that he liked it. It was fun to shake things up now and then.

Inside Alix's room, Alix was seriously confused.

She loved that her mom had stepped up and taken reign and all...but it wasn't her arms that she wanted tight around her. That part confused her the most. But she also wanted to be alone. There was no way to make sense of the two conflicting emotions.

"Al, why are you so upset about Quil anyway?" Bella asked, breaking through Alix's thoughts.

Alix scrunched up her face in a disgusted manner and answered, "Who said I was upset about Quil? I don't care about him."

Bella rolled her eyes. "And you're crying because...?"

Sniffing, Alix sat up and sighed. "Mo-om! I'm just not sure what I'm feeling now. Quil's been my best friend since forever but ever since I've been the new 'wolf girl', he's treated me wrong."

"Wrong?"

"Just different, is all. He hasn't hurt me in that sense." Alix sighed.

Bella shook her head slowly, clearly in a different world. Or time...

Alix stared at her mom for a few seconds before giving up and turning away.

Why was she so spacey all the time? Alix wondered.

Alix cleared her throat, making her mother jump, and smiled.

"Thanks, mom, for this great pep talk." She tried not to inject that bit of sarcasm even though she badly wanted to.

Bella blushed badly, looking embarrassed. "Oh! Of course."

Alix rolled her eyes as her mother stood unsteadily and quietly made her way back downstairs.

"Yes, I understand mom. It'll get better in time." Alix said under her breath, scowling. Those were pieces of advice that she would have expected her mother to say. Instead, she zones out while her daughter is bawling over some guy.

"Ugh!" Alix growled, throwing herself into a plush pillow. There was no way to express her anger, her sadness, her...complete misunderstanding of her most basic emotions!

Unless...

Alix was up and on her feet before she had any time to think through it.

"JAKE!! JACOB BLACK!! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Alix yelled, her feet lightly but surely padding on the hardwood floors.

Jacob (Sr.) broke out of the confines of his and Bella's bedroom into Alix's path.

CRASH!

"Ooof!" Alix was propelled into the air immediately and clonked her head on the floor thanks to Jacob's indestructible (nearly) abdomen.

And Jacob just stood there about to crack up as usual.

"Da-ad! That's not funny!" Alix protested and rubbed her head. It was bruised. She may be a werewolf but she wasn't that indestructible.

"Ah, you'll live. Werewolves heal quickly, Al." Jacob shrugged off her incessant whining.

He reached out and tugged her up off the floor, laughing as she stumbled.

Alix tried to resist but grinned nevertheless.

"So, what did ya want me for?"

Alix frowned. "No, I don't need you."

Jacob winced. He had to admit, that hurt.

As if realizing her mistake, Alix backtracked.

"I mean, I was calling Jake junior, not senior. Sorry dad." Among other things.

Jacob blinked.

"Oh."

Alix patted her dad's abnormally muscular shoulder and breezed past him.

He was so oblivious to a girl's needs.

Anyway...

"Jake!! Jake Black junior! Where are you bro?" Alix started to shout again.

Downstairs, Jake perked up and looked towards the stairs. What did Alix want?

"Yeah, Al?" Jake said in a normal tone, knowing that Alix would hear him.

Alix grinned. Oh. Super hearing. Right.

How come I didn't remember that?

"Well, Jake, are you up for a little adventure?" Alix said casually, leaning over the banister.

Jake looked up and eyed his sister.

"With you?"

Alix smiled angelically.

"Always."

Alix danced gracefully, a first for her, down the stairs and flitted out the door. Jake shook his head and shot out after her.

As soon as they were both out the door, Alix morphed into her other, newer form. Jake followed her lead.

So you plan on enlightening me? Why are we out here?

Mmm...I just wanted to breathe a little. As a wolf, I don't feel emotions as intensely as a human does. Am I right?

Yeah...so?

So how would you take it if I stayed a wolf for...well, ever.

-Snort- Yeah, sure. You go ahead and run that past mom and see what she thinks. And dad.

You know dad would think it'd be cool.

And mom?

Eh...I was thinking you'd tell her while I ran across the country.

Not even in your dreams girl.

I thought it was something like that. So much for sibling support. Guess I'll ask Quil then.

Ha! Quil? He'd be worse than mom. You know that boy likes you Al.

Wha?

Yeah. I even noticed. And that's weird.

Whatever.

You go think it over. Tell me when you've decided. I'm going back home. I love being human more than wolf so...buh bye.

You suck.

Jake had winked out by then so her last reply came echoing back to her.

She felt like a bum.

Too many mistakes she'd made that would last a lifetime.

Then she made her decision.

I'll stay...for now. For Jake, Dad, mom...

...for Quil.

Quil...