Dorian
JPOV
I had called Edward and the others to come to the camp site as soon as possible. Quil and Embry had fazed back into human form with me and were with me at the camp. They were going to be my witnesses. I would need it. Seth and the others were all looking through the woods trying to find the guy that had taken Nessie. I was pacing the camp, trying to keep myself under control. I was hysterical, and everyone knew it.
I had no idea what to do. I chased after that fucking leech for miles. When I had noticed that he was in the camp, I ran as fast as I could back. But the vampire ran away. I had no idea what happened once we had caught up to him. One minute, I was about to bring him down and save Nessie, the next minute my body was being forced in the other direction. Embry and Quil could at least attest to that being true. Edward would know I wasn't lying anyway. That didn't make him less angry though.
"Jacob, we'll find her. She'll be alright." Quil had been trying to convince me that everything would be okay for the past ten minutes. I knew they wouldn't be. Whoever this bastard was had killed one of the girls from the Makka Reservation. I knew that girl. I had gone to school with her.
"No, Quil, it won't be okay!" I was close to tears now. How could I have let her out of my sight? How could I have let this happen? Renesmee. I kneeled down and put my face in my crossed arms, close to crying. I didn't care who saw me.
"Edward and the others have plenty of friends that can help look for her." I couldn't answer this time. Edward was another story. He was furious. He didn't give me a chance to explain what happened when I called. The moment I told him, 'Nessie's been kidnapped', Edward blew a fuse, blamed everything on me, then hung up the phone. I heard him scream to everyone to start getting ready to leave, and then the phone line disconnected.
Edward was going to kill me, but I didn't care. I deserved it. I let her out of my sight for only a few minutes, and this happens. I would give anything to save her. Or even just to know that she was okay. I would do anything to get her back. Hell, I would find a way to take her to the fucking moon if that's what she wanted, as long as I could hold her, see her alive and safe. I heard two cars driving up in the distance. He was here. I forced myself to stand upright and wiped the tears that had fallen away from my face. Embry and Quil flanked close behind me.
The first car to stop abruptly in front of us was Edward's silver Volvo and Emmett's Jeep behind him. Edward turned off the car and got out in what seemed like the same motion. Bella came out too. She didn't look furious like Edward did. She looked crushed. It was almost the same way she had looked after Edward had left. Maybe worse even. Everyone got out of the cars and were walking over to me. Once Edward was close enough, he looked like he was about to pounce me.
"You let this happen. Where were you when this happened!?!!!" Bella ran in front of Edward to keep him from jumping me and tearing me apart.
"Edward, don't. Killing him isn't going to get Renesmee back!!!" Bella looked and sounded like she would start crying hysterically at any moment, whether she actually could or not. Rosalie was the one to get to me. Emmett was right behind her. When Rosalie was right in front of me, Bella grabbed onto her, but she was still able to punch me across the face. She looked just as hysterical as Bella. So did Esme and Alice. The others were just angry, like Edward. Carlisle was the only one whose face was composed.
"YOU FUCKING MUTT!!!!! HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN?!!! RENESMEE'S ALL ALONE OUT THERE!!!!!" Bella pulled Rosalie away from me, but I didn't react in any way. I deserved this.
"You're damn straight you deserve this. What happened?!" I thought about what happened. Edward's face never changed from anger, but it was somehow subtly being transferred to whoever had done this. Awareness passed over his face. Then his face became angry at me again.
"Edward, I couldn't get to her. When I tried to, my body was forced away. It happened to all of us." Embry and Quil nodded their heads, conforming this. Edward looked away from me and to Jasper. Jasper sensed the subtle change in Edward's anger.
"What is it Edward?" Everyone paid attention to Edward now.
"It was Dorian." Jasper's face changed from his composed anger, to full outrage. I looked between them, my heart beating faster.
"You guys know who did this?" Jasper looked at me and so did Edward. Jasper answered me through gritted teeth.
"Yes, I know him. I met him several decades ago when I was traveling with Peter and Charlotte. We never liked each other. If anything, he and Peter were convenient friends. They only called on one another if the other needed something. Peter never really liked Dorian either. He's ruthless. More so than even James or Victoria. He was insane when he was human, and he's still insane now." I was getting panicky now. I knew that this guy had a power. How else would he have been able to keep me and the others away?
"What do you mean, insane? What are we dealing with?" I was still on the verge of tears. But crying wouldn't help bring her back, so I held it in. Jasper and Edward sighed.
"In his human life, he had been a serial killer. Dorian Deerfield you would know him as." I felt my heart stop. We had learned about this guy in my history class when I was a sophomore. He had been around during the revolutionary war. He had lived in Mississippi as a printer, if I recall correctly.
That wasn't what had me frozen where I stood though. Dorian Deerfield had been a sick man in every sense of the word. Movies were based off of his murders, Saw being one of the most famous imitations. His victims were never connected though. He killed whomever and whenever he chose. And all of his victims had suffered horrible torture before they died.
One of his most famous murders was when he had held an entire group of nurses' hostage in a small warehouse on the outskirts of the town he was in at the time. He had beaten and raped all of them one at a time and had forced each of them watch him do it. When he had raped them, he tore them limb from limb, very slowly and with a rusty knife that the police had later found at the scene. They had never caught him. No one ever found his body either. As far as records could show about him, he almost literally just disappeared.
"He's a vampire?" Jasper nodded his head.
"I'm sure you all already know his history. After the murder of the seven nurses, he ran away from the scene. That's when he ran into a vampire. No human ever saw him again after that." I was shaking now. What would he do to Renesmee? Obviously, Bella knew who the man was too and was getting just as hysterical as I was.
"What is he going to do to her?" I could barely hear my own voice. I knew they could hear me at least. Edward's face became slightly relieved, but somehow, even angrier at the same time.
"He won't kill her. He has an affinity for beautiful things. He would consider it a waste to harm her. I can't promise that he won't use her though." Edward's face was truly infuriated now, and Bella was clutching to him as if she would die if she didn't. I was shaking even more now.
"What do you mean by, 'use her'?" Jasper just looked at the ground, and I felt my heart drop to my stomach. I felt like I would vomit. He wouldn't dare. I would kill him with my own bare hands if he ever dared to.
"You and me both, Jacob." Edward's voice was cold as snow and ice. It sent a chill down my spine. Bella finally let go of Edward and walked over to me, her face pained to the core. It made me feel even worse.
"We have to find her Jacob. Do you hear me?" Her voice wasn't shaky at all. It was stern and hateful, but her face was forcefully trying to hide the pain she was in. I nodded my head.
"If it's the last thing I do, I'll find her." Edward looked over at Carlisle, who was now taking out his cell phone and dialing a number at a speed that I could just barely follow. I wondered who he was calling.
"Help." That was all Edward said. Carlisle brought the phone to his ear. I walked closer so that I would be able to hear both sides of the conversation.
Carlisle? What can I do for you? It was Garret who had answered. He was calling the Denali clan. Carlisle sighed and sounded shaky.
"Renesmee's been taken away. We need you to come to Washington and help us get her back." Garret was stunned into silence. Kate, Tanya and Carmen on the other had were screaming at the phone. 'How did this happen?', 'Who took her away?', 'Where was the mutt/you guys when this happened?' "We know who took her."
I heard another round of screaming. All were asking who had done this. I was still shaking. I wasn't sure if I wanted to faze, if I was breaking apart, or a combination of the two. Quil came a little closer to me and put his head on my shoulder, trying to calm me down. Carlisle finally managed to get everyone to be quiet so he could talk.
"Dorian took her. I believe you know him, Garret." I heard Garret hiss. This might be a good thing. The more people who knew this guy, the more we knew about him and what he was capable of. I heard Garret start asking questions.
I'm assuming that Jacob and the others know about his little power by now? I sighed. All I knew was that whatever it was, it made me unable to save Renesmee.
"What is his power, exactly?" Edward knew it the moment Jasper thought of it.
I guess you could say he has the power to repel. It's a little like Renata's power, only stronger, believe it or not. He can put a shield around him that keeps his enemies as far away from him as he chooses. He can't hide himself from a tracker, but he can make it so that they never catch him even if they do find him. It's a physical defense, so Bella's shield won't work against him. No. I had been relying on Bella's shield. I was trying to think of what we could do. There had to be something we could do. I heard Bella sigh in what would be a cry if any human made that sound.
"Please come as soon as you can. I'll call Alistair to come. He's the only tracker that I am formally acquainted with. Hopefully he'll be willing to help us." Garret and everyone else said they were on their way. "Thank you, very much. I'll see you when you get here. Bye."
Carlisle hung up the phone and looked at Alice. Alice was already ahead of Carlisle and nodded her head. She concentrated as hard as she could as she thought about what it was that Carlisle was asking her to predict. She breathed out when her vision was done.
"He's near a phone. The number to it is 020-8980-4010." Carlisle nodded his head and started dialing the number. The man that answered was a bartender, who called out for Alistair when Carlisle gave them his name.
If this has anything to do with the Voulturi, then I want nothing to do with it Carlisle. Carlisle sighed heavily, but kept his patience.
"The Voulturi aren't involved. I can assure you of that. I'm in need of your tracking skills." I heard a low growl on the other end of the line.
You sound distressed Carlisle. What has happened that you're in need of my tracking gift? Alistair's British accent was thick. Any other moment and it would have made me laugh. Nessie always thought Alistair's accent was funny. Mostly because I had showed her a few Monty Python movies. My heart ached when I thought about it.
"My granddaughter's been kidnapped by a vampire named Dorian. I need you to help us track Renesmee so we can save her and kill Dorian." I heard a sigh at the other end of the line.
Alright. I'll be out of England and in the Atlantic Ocean by tonight. I'll be there by tomorrow morning. With that, Alistair hung up and Carlisle closed his phone. He turned back to us.
"Now that we have a tracker on our side, we at least will be able to find her. Now we just need to figure out how to get passed his shield. Jasper." Jasper looked up from the ground and at Carlisle. "Are you sure that Dorian's shield is physical and not mental?" Jasper nodded.
"Yes. His power forces your body to move away from him. You're consciously aware that you're moving the wrong way, but you can't control you body enough to run in the right direction." Edward sighed heavily and Bella looked like she was taking the blame for what was happening.
"I'm sorry." Everyone looked at me. Edward wasn't glaring at me anymore. Rosalie still was though. Bella looked at me and walked over to me. When she reached me, she hugged me. I hugged her back, desperate for anything.
"I know that you would've never let this happen had you been able to control the situation." Edward's voice was still cold, but it was so torn with sadness and fear, that I couldn't tell he was angry anymore. "She means the world to you, I know that. And if anyone will be able to save her, it's you." I was crying now. Silently, but I was. My face was buried in the spot between Bella's head and shoulder. She was clutching onto me too, looking for the same comfort.
"I'll save her, Bella. I swear that I will." My voice was shaky and quiet, but I knew she could hear me. She simply nodded her head. Then I heard footsteps. It was Seth and the others. I lifted my head away from Bella and looked in the direction of the sound. Seth and the others stopped abruptly, fazed, put on their sweat pants, then came out of the trees.
Seth was holding something that made me feel cold for the first time since I had become a wolf. Seth had a pained look on his face. The others looked like they were scared of how I would react. They had every reason to. Seth was holding Nessie's clothes. Her pajama pants and the slipknot shirt I had seen her in the last time I saw her.
"Where did you find these?" My tone was harsher than it should have been. I was angry, scared that she was hurt, and a number of other things.
"We found them three miles to the north. The scent was still strong when we found these, and we didn't smell any blood or anything else that would cause alarm." I felt some slight relief. She was okay it seemed. Emmett and Jasper were already packing up the camp. They packed everything within minutes and stuffed everything in my car.
"We'll keep patrolling the woods to look for her." Edward came closer to me.
"I'm coming with you. I can let everyone know what's going on and so on." I nodded my head at Edward. Everyone got back into their cars and started driving away. Bella drove my car back to my apartment and would tell Billy what was going on. He would then pass on the news and so on.
Once it was just Edward and my pack left in the clearing, we started walking into the woods in the direction that Seth and the others came out of. We started running once all of us had fazed. We went into the woods, searching. Edward kept his phone out so he would be able to update every chance possible. We didn't stop looking until the morning light shone through the trees and glittered off of Edward's skin.
RPOV
Once I had changed into the clothes that Dorian had told me to put on, we started running north. He didn't say where we were going, only that it was away from Washington. In the past several hours that I've been with him, I have made several attempts to escape from him. Each time I tried, he would let me run maybe a mile, then he would grab me and take me back the other direction. After the fifth time, I gave up on that method.
I kept thinking and thinking, trying to figure out a way that I would be able to escape from him, or at the very least, manage to distract him enough that he would let down his defenses and daddy, Jacob and the others would be able to get to me. I already figured out that momma's shield wouldn't do any good against Dorian. If it were purely mental, everyone would have easily been able to save me.
"You'll learn to like me, dearest. I can guarantee you that." I felt a shudder go down my spine. I would sooner attempt to cut off my own head.
"It's Renesmee." He laughed lightly at my tone. He turned around to face me, his face oddly cocky.
"I'll call you what I deem worthy. You've been quite the little nuisance since we've started our journey. I would love for you to behave yourself. Bear in mind that you could never win a fight against me, and you're family won't be able to save you, even with a tracker on your side. The more you cooperate with me, the happier we'll all be. Can you do that for me honey?" I didn't answer him.
He laughed lightly again at my expression and pulled me with him in the direction he wanted to go. The sun finally came up shortly after, and his skin glittered in the sun light. This I had to my advantage at least. He would want to stay still during the day. According to Jasper, vampires rarely traveled during the day. He saw the light and smirked.
"We should take shelter. I would hate for some humans to see us, don't you agree?" For the first time since I'd met him, I answered his question with an enthusiastic nod. He threw me onto his back and climbed one of the trees until we got to the top. When we were at the top, I tried to move to another branch. But he held me in his cold arms, not letting me go.
"Let go. I want to sit on one of the other branches." He chuckled.
"Sorry, dearest. I don't trust you to not try and escape me while we're in this tree. Not only would you most likely hurt yourself if you jumped out of this tree, but if you did live, I would have to punish you. Don't make that necessary, my sweet." I glared at him, but said nothing more. This branch had a better view anyway.
I looked around the woods, looking for someone. Anyone. Even a human. As horrible as it may have sounded, I wouldn't mind having him attack a hiker if it meant I could run away from this guy. I looked as far as I could. I could only see wilderness, though.
"Even if you see them, they won't be able to come get you." His chuckle was beginning to annoy me. His voice was still smooth and handsome, but he might as well have been an ogre for all it was worth.
"They will find me. And when they do, they will rip you to shreds." He chuckled again.
"I can't wait." I'd had it. I slapped Dorian straight across the face as hard as I could. I didn't know how much good it would do me, but I didn't care anymore. When I slapped him, he growled and released me. Evidently, I had hit him with enough force to take him off guard. He let go of me, and I started to fall to the ground.
I looked down behind me to mark the distance from the ground. When I was close enough, I grabbed onto a branch and took a little off of the force of my impact. Then I let go of the branch and landed safely on the ground. He was still growling, so I ran in the opposite direction than where we had been going. I needed to remember to thank Alice for forcing me to keep my nails long. It seems that I scratched his eye when I had hit him.
I ran as fast as I could into the forest. It seemed like he wasn't following me, but I didn't look behind me to make sure. I only hoped that I had injured him badly enough that he would be distracted long enough for me to get away. Once I had reached three miles, I started calling out names. Jacob's, Carlisle, the pack members, momma, daddy, anyone who might be out here looking for me.
I didn't hear anything around me but forest, and I didn't hear any footsteps either. I was beginning to hope that he really wasn't following me. I started running even faster, trying to get as far away as I could. I kept calling out to everyone, hoping I would get an answer. After reaching about five miles, I called out Jacob's name again, and I heard a roar. It was Jacob's roar, I knew it was. I ran towards the sound and called again. Now the sound was coming closer to me.
I kept screaming his name. Willing for him to find me. But then I heard that same roar sound again, but this time in frustration and anger. I couldn't see them or anything, but I kept running. Suddenly, I was stopped abruptly from my head impacting on a cold hand that was suddenly there.
I woke up again in cold arms. The smell was that of sweet passion fruit and hibiscus. My eyes flew open and I tried to get out of those arms. They held me tighter the more I struggled.
"LET GO OF ME!!!!" Then I was thrown to the ground. I tried to lift myself up, but his shoe went onto my back to keep me down.
"You scratched my eye. That took a while to heal." He put more pressure on my back after he said this. His voice was terrifying now. It wasn't his usual calm, cocky voice. This voice actually sent a chill down my spine. "If you ever do that to me again, I will rip that sweet little hand off of your wrist. Is that perfectly clear?" I didn't answer at first. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction. "IS THAT CLEAR?!!!!" I nodded my head this time.
He took his foot off of my back and I lifted myself up from the ground. I looked around. We weren't in the area that I remembered. This area wasn't as wooded. There were trees around us, but there was water in the distance.
"Where are we?" I felt a little dizzy as I stood up.
"We're seventy miles west of Mount Vernon."
"WHAT?!!" I couldn't help but scream. How did he get us that far? Come to think of it, how long had I been out? "How long have I been asleep?" He chuckled.
"Exactly thirty two hours." He said it so calmly. As if this was something I always did. I felt the spot on my head where my head hit his hand. It was sore. Any bruise or cut I'd gotten had healed, but it still felt sore. "Did you have a pleasant sleep?" He chuckled lightly.
I hissed at him and kept rubbing my temple. Fantastic. I'd been out for almost two whole days. Now it would take all the longer for everyone to find me. And I didn't know the way home from here. Even if I managed to escape from him again, I wouldn't know where to run. I think he knew that.
"Guess who I ran into after you passed out." I didn't look at him. I wasn't in the mood for games. "I saw that wolf of yours. The reddish brown colored wolf. I believe you called him Jacob." I froze.
"What did you do to him?" He laughed again.
"I only shielded us from him. Edward Cullen was with him. You should have seen the look on that wolf's face when I pushed him back. You'd think I'd just stolen something from him." He kept laughing. I ran over to him and tried to hit him again. But he caught my fist and started squeezing my hand hard. I screamed. "You were….?"
He let go of my hand after coming extremely close to breaking it. I breathed in and out, trying to make it hurt less if at all possible. He chuckled again at my pain stricken face. After a few minutes, the pain went away. He hadn't broken anything, at least. Then he grabbed my hand and dragged me with him to the north. It was dark out now, so he wouldn't stand out.
We walked along the cost not talking to each other. I didn't want to talk to him anyway. Thanks to him, I had been away from home for over three days. I wondered if daddy and Jacob were really okay. Dorian didn't strike me as the kind of vampire that would let his enemies live if they came across him. He had let go of my hand a few hours ago. He smirked wider at some point in the early morning.
"We're nearing Canada. We'll be there by tomorrow." I glared at him. I felt the need to ask, for my sake.
"Where exactly do you want to go?" He chuckled at my tone.
"I figure we can go through Canada, go to New York, and then take a train or run to Mississippi. I haven't been there in a while and I miss it." Once the sun came up, Dorian grabbed me and threw me onto his back so he could climb into a tree. He kept me close to him, keeping an eye on me.
A few hours later, sometime during the afternoon, a couple started running together along the beach hand in hand. They were kissing each other randomly as they ran across the beach until eventually, they were making out and lying down in the sand. Dorian laughed.
"I think I should crash their party." I looked at him as if he was insane. For all he knew, there were more people nearby. Not that he would care, I suppose. The more the merrier as far as he was concerned, I'm sure. He stood up on the branch and placed me down. When I was sitting on the branch, he jumped out of the tree and started walking to the couple.
They continued as if nothing was happening. Their swimsuits started coming off. I stopped looking then. I didn't want to see any of this. Shortly after that, I heard the man and the woman screaming at the gleaming man that was walking towards them. First there was screaming, then two deafening cracks that could only be Dorian breaking their necks.
After a few minutes, I finally opened my eyes. Dorian had already finished off the man. He and the woman were completely naked and were covered in what little blood they had left in their bodies. When he was done, he took out what I assumed was a lighter from his pants pocket and lit the couple on fire. The venom in their veins from Dorian's attack made the flames burst into purple. The smell of burning passion fruit and hibiscus filled the air.
He left the flaming pyre and started walking back to the tree. He ran to the top of the tree where I was and lifted me into his lap so he could sit down. I could smell the human blood on his breath. It made me thirsty.
"Forgive me, my dear. I should have thought to let you have some." He didn't sound sorry at all. He sounded amused. I didn't answer him. Then he did something I hadn't expected him to do. He lifted my chin so that I was facing him. His eyes remained amused.
"What?" I didn't hide my annoyance. There was no point. He smiled seductively at me before answering me.
"Young love. It's a beautiful thing." I felt myself getting sick. I didn't like where he was going with this.
"And your point is?" He chuckled lightly.
"My point, my dear, is that it's been a while since I had done such a thing. The last time I'd been with a woman was decades ago when I had murdered those nurses in Mississippi. I was just thinking about how much I missed it." I started shaking. I didn't want to talk about this. I didn't answer him. "You know what?"
I didn't look back at him. I was too scared to. I was scared that he would do something to me. His next words cut me in a way I had never thought possible.
"I don't see the point in waiting for you to grow. You're as good as any thirteen year old girl." Before I could ask what he meant by that, his lips were on mine. He tasted as he smelled, but it was revolting. I slashed my nails over his throat and he hissed and let me go. I scotched farther away from him, keeping my nails out and ready to scratch him again.
"Don't you touch me. Don't you ever touch me!!!" My first kiss! He dared! I didn't know who I would want my first kiss to be with, but it wasn't this monster. I rubbed my lips, as if doing so would wipe away any trace of that vile kiss. He started laughing.
"I suppose you're right. You're too young to bring me any real pleasure, anyway." He slapped me across the face after he said that. I was about to hit him back, but he grabbed my hand. "I say what I can and can't do. Not you. In essence, when I say jump you say how high. Remember that for next time." He threw me away from him, then looked out at the sky. Several hours later, when it was dark, he jumped out of the tree, still holding me. Once we hit the ground, he put me down and pulled me with him before letting go of my hand.
I wasn't sure how long we had been traveling for. It was still dark out when we went back into the woods and away from the ocean. We walked a little longer before he suddenly stiffened again. Then I heard what he was so scared of. I heard footsteps coming towards us, and the wind blew the scent to me. It was daddy, momma and the others. I even smelled a few of the wolves. He went to grab me but I dodged him.
He reached for me again, but I dodged again. This time, when he reached for me, I let my hand fly across his face. I felt my nails tear into his skin and he roared in pain. I took the opportunity to run. I could smell the others in the distance and I ran as fast as I could towards the smell. Then I picked up another scent. It was the smell of sweet raspberries and tobacco. That was Alistair's scent.
I ran even faster. All I needed to do was reach daddy and I would be safe. Then I heard footsteps running towards me from behind me. I ran even faster. But it wasn't fast enough. I felt something grab my hair and pull me back. I hit something hard.
"What did I say about trying to blind me?" His voice was cold and angry and he pulled even harder on my hair. Then I heard roaring sounds come from both sides. Before either of us knew it, two wolves popped out of nowhere and attacked Dorian. He let go of my hair and I looked back at the wolves. It was Seth and Embry. Seth roared, telling me to run. I did as he said as several other members of the pack started coming in to attack.
As I ran away, I heard roars, cracking, and a piercing scream. I ran as fast as I could. Eventually, I saw momma and daddy and the others in the distance. Everyone's faces lit up when they saw me running towards them. Momma and daddy started running faster to get to me. When I was close enough, I leaped into their arms and hugged them.
"Oh my god, Renesmee. Are you okay, honey?" Momma sounded like she was sobbing. I nodded my head. Suddenly, everyone was hugging me. I heard Rosalie screaming at me to never scare everyone like that again. I heard Emmett and Jasper saying how worried they were about me and how much they missed me. Everyone agreed with their comments. I started crying from happiness.
When I opened my eyes, momma and daddy placed me down on my feet and looked me over to make sure I was really okay. Then I heard a bark. I would know that bark anywhere. I looked up in the direction I heard the bark. I saw Jacob standing there in his wolf form, with a combination of sheer joy, relief, guilt, and what I thought looked like love. I started crying again. Daddy moved everyone aside so I could run to Jacob.
When I ran over to him, he started running towards me too. When I was close enough, I jumped for him. Just before I could wrap my arms around his neck, he fazed back into his human form and wrapped his arms around me when I got to him. When I was in his arms, he started spinning me around.
"Oh my god, Nessie. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry." His voice was thick with tears. Mine was to. I didn't bother talking.
Its okay now Jacob. Everything's okay now. I'm sorry I worried you. Jacob shook his head.
"No. You have nothing to be sorry about. This was all my fault. I swear I'll never let this happen to you ever again." I cried into his shoulder.
Is he dead? Jacob nodded his head.
"Yeah. Seth and the others took care of him. He won't hurt you anymore." I started crying again. What a relief.
Good. Jacob laughed at that thought. He hugged me tighter to him and I held tighter onto him. I heard daddy clear his throat and Jacob lifted his head and nodded.
"I need to let go of you, Nessie." No. I don't want to let go. He put me down and I looked at his face as he smiled at me. He fazed back into a wolf. Then daddy spoke.
"Take her home, Jacob. We'll finish everything up here." Jacob nodded his head at daddy and looked back at me. He kneeled down so I would be able to jump onto his back. I held on tightly to his fur and braced myself for him to start running. As soon as I was secure, Jacob started running.
While he was running, I took in his scent. I was so tired, but I forced myself not to fall asleep. I listened to his heartbeat, too. The most beautiful song I'd ever known. It was at least two hours before we were finally back home. When we got to the house, Jacob fazed and put on his pants as quickly as he could. When he was dressed, he looked at me, his eyes in pain.
"I'm so sorry, Nessie." I shook my head and walked to him, giving him a hug.
"It's okay, Jacob. It will never happen again, don't worry about it."
"Damn straight it'll never happen again. I came too close to losing you. I'll never go through that again. I'll never let anything like that happen to you." I was crying again and holding tightly onto him. His scent surrounded me and his heartbeat was loud and strong. His strong arms were so warm and soothing. I felt myself getting tired. His voice took me by surprise. "He didn't dare hurt you, did he?"
I sighed. I brought my hand to his cheek and showed him everything. Ever slap, every hair tug, when he had stepped on my back, and then I showed him the kiss. Jacob's face had already been outraged from the images he'd seen. When he saw that image, his body started shaking violently.
"That son of a bitch." He was shaking hard. I wanted to try and calm him. But I couldn't think of what to say to him. "How dare he? Your first kiss and with that fucker." I had never heard Jacob use that harsh a word in front of me. He really was mad. I was too. But then I thought of something.
"That wasn't my first kiss." Jacob went from outraged, to hurt and confused.
"What?" I grabbed his face gently with both of my hands and brought him close.
"This was." With that, I kissed Jacob. Jacob's eyes were wide. They stayed that way. I kept my eyes closed, savoring the moment. It felt oddly right for whatever reason. Maybe because he was my best friend. It was a sweet and simple peck. When I let Jacob go, he just stared at me.
"Renesmee." I smiled at him.
"That was my first kiss. And it was extremely memorable. " He laughed lightly. Then I hugged him again, wrapping my arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around my waist.
I felt my eyelids getting heavy and my breathing becoming more steady. I breathed him in one more time. Jacob lifted me into his arms and held me in place so I could rest my head onto my nook.
"Sleep, Nessie. You deserve it." I did as he said, and I let myself fall asleep in Jacob's arms. The place where I felt the safest.