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Chapter Twelve

It was one long day. Momma, Alice and Esme were trying to calm me down as I just sobbed all day, not able to comprehend what had happened. Rosalie, on the other hand, joined Emmett, Jasper and Daddy in their discussions on how were the best ways to torture a human. I wondered why, maybe I'd ask her later.

Carlisle was shocked at first, then angry, then he decided that fighting was no choice. He was just stopping anyone who'd think of hurting a human, even when he was convinced himself that Peterson deserved it and every second of it.

Jacob stayed by my side, comforting me and telling me that everything would be fine, that nothing major had happened, that I shouldn't cry. He wiped away his anger all the time he was with me, though I could see it in his eyes whenever someone talks about it. He could literally rip him apart and get rid of every piece in a different way, just like all of them could. There were a lot of suggestions...

"We could take turns sucking this jerk's blood, the more the merrier," Rose said, her voice venomous.

"Rose, he's not worth losing ourselves for," Carlisle objected, shaking his head.

"I have a good idea!" Emmett said, hopping up and down on the couch from excitement.

"No, Emmett, we can't just rip him apart. I was thinking maybe burn him first," Daddy commented.

"Not very original, Edward. Listen to this one; we cut him into shreds, and, while he's still alive, burn him. Then we can rip him apart as much as Emmett would like," Jasper said.

"STOP IT! You realize you're discussing a human life here, don't you?" Momma asked, yelling.

"Yes, Bella, I do know that we're discussing a human life. The same human that almost raped my daughter," Daddy answered through his teeth. She couldn't respond. I felt Jacob shaking beside me, I held him closer, reminding him to calm down.

"Please, Jake, for me," I whispered. I'd made it clear earlier that I didn't want to be the reason a human, even if he was a disgusting, repulsive, sick human, is killed.

He ran his hands through the curls of my hair and whispered, "Sorry."

"Does anyone have any better suggestions, then?" Esme asked. I thought for a while...

Maybe if we did this the way humans would do it. I mean, just go to the police or something like that; he will be questioned, of course; one of Carlisle's colleagues told him that he went into a coma. It lasted a few hours only though. And that he had a broken jaw. He probably won't be able to talk for a while but the police won't just let it go. He will get fired and probably imprisoned for it and we can hire the best lawyers. Plus the fact that he was my teacher, that would definitely make the verdict harsher.

"Too slow and too easy on him," Daddy disagreed, "I want him to wish for the blessing called 'death'."

"But, Daddy, really, it would cause too much trouble! And then we'd have to move again and probably away from Forks. I'm not okay with that, you know,"

He nodded in agreement, "Well, I guess it is a good idea." Everybody looked at us questioningly. "She wants to take the legal path," he informed them.

"And take away the fun? No way; I want to kill him myself!" Emmett whined.

"No, Emmett! Remember who you are," Carlisle said calmly.

"Oh, I know what I am! I am the uncle of a six-year-old girl who almost got raped by a disgusting teacher, that's what I am!" Emmett shouted.

I felt my head spinning; that was really too much for one day. I leaned on Jacob's shoulder for support.

"Do you want to sleep, honey?" he asked quietly. I nodded.

He took me to my room upstairs and tucked me under the covers.

"Jake?" I whispered.

"Yes, Nessie?"

"I'm afraid," I said, my voice breaking.

"Don't be; you have all of us here," he said, hugging me.

"I'm not afraid of that, Jake; I'm afraid of being the reason more trouble happen!"

"You did nothing wrong," he said for the millionth time tonight, "Now, I have to go patrol. Will you sleep or do you want me to stay?"

I thought about that for a moment. I wanted him to stay but, at the same time, he had to patrol.

"No, I'll sleep," I said, forcing a smile.

He kissed my forehead and jumped out of the window to the woods...

Jacob Black

She had been blaming herself! She thought she was the reason there was always trouble. Typical Nessie.

I thought I would be able to get over that anger with time, but the images of him touching her and the horrified look on her face never left my mind. I wanted to kill him right there and then.

As soon as I was safely inside the woods, I phased. I had to patrol tonight, unfortunately; I wanted to have more time to think. Ha! They could tell me what to do!

Tell you what? Seth thought. I felt Quil and Embry there, too.

Creative ways to torture a human without pissing off Carlisle. I thought. They laughed, thinking it's some kind of a joke.

I'm serious by the way.

WHAT?!! - They thought together.

What I said!

You're a damn 'protector', Jacob. We don't torture people! Embry thought.

I have reason enough! I defended myself.

Which is...?! Quil asked.

That disgusting teacher of NESSIE almost RAPED her today! That's why! I thought as it replayed in my head, every single second of it. I could feel the growls and the swears. Embry surprised me by reacting coolly.

Nothing major happened, Jake. There's no need for this.

I said that to her without believing it, Embry, you got to be kidding me!

I say we can scare him to death? -Seth suggested

I'm so IN! I would've done more than that if it was Claire. God I can't even imagine it! -Quil commented.

Good. But I need something more realistic! I thought. Embry just sighed mentally.

What suggestions did THEY have?

Suck his blood, tear him apart, burn him slowly...somethings like that. Nessie suggested the legal path though.

Creative! Seth commented.

I agree with Ness, I don't see any other way to solve this. -Embry said.

Me too, Jake. As much as I would like to tear him apart myself; Nessie is like my little sister. -Seth said. Quil agreed.

I sighed, okay, fine. I'll tell them what you think. Thanks. -then I remembered something else more important- Did you guys catch that new scent?

No. But it doesn't smell like a vampire.-Embry replied.

Less sweet but still sweeter than a human,-Quil agreed.

Do you think it's some kind of a hybrid or something? You know, like half-vampire. -Seth asked.

I considered that for a moment. Nessie was a hybrid herself. She did smell sweeter than humans but less sweet than the rest of her family. Maybe it was a hybrid after all. But what would a hybrid do wandering around Port Angeles and Forks? No victims were found, so obviously not hunting. That's weird.

We're not that sure yet, Jake. We have to be careful. If it was a hybrid, some sort of a half-vampire, there's a chance it's no 'vegetarian'. -Quil thought.

He was right. I can't just assume that there were no victims because there weren't any found. Vamps could do more than just hunt, they can destroy evidence if they want.

Yep! -Seth agreed.

The rest of the night was peaceful. Peaceful as in 'we didn't catch any vampires' peaceful. So, after I was done patrolling, around dawn, I went back to the Cullens'. I found them all sitting in the 'dining room', still discussing what to do.

"Come in, Jacob; we're about to vote," Edward said. Vote?

"I have agreed to vote on what we should do about what had happened today-" Carlisle glanced at the window,"- or rather yesterday to be more specific."

"So what are the 'options'?" I asked.

"We're either torturing him to death, and enjoying every second of it -without sucking his blood, of course- or we're going to contact Charlie, he'd know people here, and go through the 'legal path'," Bella answered. It was obvious that she didn't want to lose her 'diet' for 'him' but, at the same time, she would really enjoy seeing him suffer. Edward nodded in agreement to my thought.

"So, shall we?" Carlisle said, sitting on the head of the table.

"Legal," Esme voted.

"Rip him apart!" Emmett said.

"I agree with Emmett," Blondie said, her eyes burning with fury.

"Legal," Alice and Bella said in unison.

"You're actually asking? I'd enjoy applying every method of torture that I'd learned throughout the centuries of my life," Jasper said, obviously mad.

Edward agreed with Jasper. They turned their heads to me, waiting for my vote.

"Doesn't Renesmee have a say in this?" I asked.

"No; she doesn't need to worry about this for more time," Bella said.

"She's not stupid, Bells, really; she'd know." Bella sighed in defeat.

"Just tell us what you think!" Emmett was getting impatient.

"Legal," I said, almost whispering.

"What?" Emmett and Jasper asked together.

"What you've heard!"

"But why?" Jasper asked, confused.

"Because it's more 'realistic' to him; less suspicious. Besides, we won't have to move away then," Edward said. As much as I hated the fact that he has full access to my head, sometimes it's useful. He smiled.

"I say legal, too. Then, legal it is," Carlisle ended the discussion.

"But-"

"No buts, Emmett; he'll get what he deserves. It's better this way and it's over!" Bella said with finality. He sighed.

"Fine," he mumbled grudgingly.

Renesmee Cullen

I woke up to find Daddy sitting on the edge of my bed, putting on his poker face again.

'Morning Daddy.

"Good morning, Nessie. Have you slept well?"

"Not really, with all the stress in this house, no one can actually sleep!" I complained. He hugged me.

"Sorry, sweetie. It's over now, you know." What? What's over? Did they kill him? "No, we didn't get to kill him; we decided to follow your suggestion and take it to a legal path. Now, get ready because we have to go to school." School? What the hell happened yesterday?

"What I've told you. We're pressing charges against him. Charlie was more than happy to help, he's going to be here after we come back from school to discuss what would happen. He doesn't know anything yet. All he knows is that we need to press charges against a teacher," Daddy explained, "But we have to go to school. So, out of bed and to the bathroom!" His mood was getting better, just the tiniest bit better.

I sighed in half-relief, half-defeat; despite the fact that I didn't want to be the reason more trouble would happen, I wanted my own revenge.

Jasper did a good job keeping everyone in a good mood today, even the anger in his eyes turned to defeat.

I did my morning routine and dressed myself up. Today, once again, I was riding with Emmett and Rosalie.

"You're sure you want to go to school today? You don't want to stay here?" Jake asked me. I rolled my eyes.

"I'm fine, Jacob, really. I'd have to face everyone sooner or later." He sighed.

"Take care," he whispered before he kissed me quickly.

"I will," I whispered back.

"Nessie! How are you?" Stacey asked before we entered the classroom.

"Fine." I kept my reply simple; still uncomfortable about what had happened, especially while being at school.

"Did you hear what happened?" she asked. Did anyone know?

"What?"

"Mr. Peterson, the Geometry teacher, was attacked in the staff room! He said it was some kind of a robber or something." WHAT? This lying jerk! He actually got the nerves to say that?

"Who told you?" I asked, expecting it to be Samantha.

"Dad works in the hospital. He was the one treating him," she explained.

"Oh, so was anything 'robbed'?" I asked, sarcasm obvious in my voice.

"Do you know something about this, Nessie?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. We were pressing charges, everyone would know sooner or later so I decided that sooner is better; at least stop what this thing was spreading. Stupid Geometry teacher!

"Yes, Stacey! I know everything about this! I was there! Happy?" I yelled.

"Easy! You said you were there?" She seemed shocked. Of course, all she knew was that it was a robber and that I was there. Confusing, eh?

"Yes, I was. I'll tell you later. At lunch maybe. Now we have French." Annoyance was obvious in my tone. She decided to drop the subject for now.

French passed quickly as I was looking forward to Lunch; everyone would stop pitying Peterson, they'd know what really happened. I didn't think Daddy was going to object this; he'd said he'd be watching everyone's thoughts today so obviously he'd know about my little plan, and so would Alice.

Of course, during Geometry, there was no teacher so it was a free lesson. Chemistry passed quite quickly, too.

"Stacey!" I called from behind her on my way to the cafeteria, she turned her head to me immediately.

"Hey," she was still confused, or probably ran into her own conclusions. Brad joined us shortly.

"So are you going to tell me what 'really' happened?" Stacey asked, confused. Brad looked at us questioningly so I decided to just spit it out. I felt my heart beat unevenly as I remembered what happened in details.

"Long story short, Mr. Peterson-" I spit his name,"- tricked me into going to the Staff Room after school and almost raped me there! Jake knew I was in there and when I was late, he came in, fought with him and saved me. He called the ambulance, too. That's what 'really' happened," I explained, my voice strangled.

Their eyes widened in shock. Both of them lost words for a moment then Brad spoke.

"You mean Mr. Peterson as in John Peterson Samantha's brother?" He managed to choke, still shocked. Now I was sure he was her brother. John! now I hate that name! I used to like it!

"Yeah," I whispered, looking at the ground, tears threatening to fall. Stacey hugged me. Brad was still shocked though.

"Sorry," she whispered in my ear. I hugged her back and let out a few tears, with one hand of course; the other was still in cast.

"So you guys are pressing any charges?" Brad asked after recovering from the shock. I nodded. "Wow; I never thought he'd go that far," he whispered to himself. What? THAT far? What happened before? Of course, I wasn't supposed to hear that so I decided to ask someone later.

We walked to the cafeteria together where we met Mary and Matt. Samantha, of course, wasn't there.

"Hey, Ness!" Matt and Mary greeted me. I waved at them.

"So I'm all alone today! Does anyone know where Samantha is? She's not answering her phone," Matt asked, worried about her.

"Probably with her brother at the hospital," I answered calmly. Brad stiffened his grip around Stacey in a protective way.

"John?" he asked. I nodded.

When he tried to get into details Stacey stopped him, knowing about the whole thing, she didn't want to hurt me more.

I was surprised she didn't question my story. Maybe it was my gift after all; I've been known for gaining people's trust easily since the day I was born.

We met Charlie at home after school as Daddy'd said. He was thrilled to see us again. Of course, we told him the whole thing. His reaction was no better than Daddy's; he was truly mad. However, he told us not to worry about anything concerning this issue; he knew a lot of people in Port Angeles and that wouldn't be hard. Though he was a little confused when he knew that Carlisle was supposed to be my foster dad, but he understood the reason behind it; Momma and Daddy looked like they were as old as me. He just muttered his usual "Need to know."

This 'legal path' was as long as Daddy said it would be; after a whole month of witnessing, interrogations and courts, Peterson was fired from school, of course, and was going to be in jail for good 5 years. After he was released, on the other hand, he had to register his addresses and would probably have a hard time finding any in the first place. Good; he deserved it.

The verdict was announced yesterday.

"So, Ness, I see you're relieved," Jake whispered, playing with a loose strand of my hair. I sighed.

"Yeah; a lot of pressure is finally taken away," I whispered back and kissed him quickly. He chuckled.

"I see," he said, still smiling. He got up from the sand; we were on First Beach.

"Where are you going?" I groaned. He laughed.

"Come on, Ness; don't you want to go to the bonfire?" Yeah, the bonfire. I liked it on First Beach!

"Can't we just stay here?"

Jacob Black

The verdict wasn't anywhere near what I wanted him to receive. But Nessie was happy now. That was all what really mattered. Her family got to accept it, too; they figured out that they had nothing else to do so they dropped it. Just the perfect happy ending. Well, not so perfect as I didn't get to take my revenge but it didn't matter that much now; I was going to ask Nessie on our first date tonight.

I wanted it to be perfect. So I would ask her at the bonfire; I'd told the guys that at midnight, they'd just go home. I laughed at the thought.

"No, Ness; it's night already. Come on, you lazy little half-vampire." She glared at me but then we both laughed.

"Okay, okay; I'm coming!"

I grabbed her little hand and led her to where the bonfire was, a couple of miles away.

"Hey, Jake! Hey, Nessie!" Seth greeted us.

"Hey, Seth!" We both said.

Everyone was there; Seth and his new imprint, Amy, Paul and my sister, Rachel, Sam and Emily, Quil and Claire, Jared and Kim, and finally Embry. Sometimes I felt sorry for him for being lonely, but we knew that there was a great chance that he'd imprint. I mean, the rest of the Pack did.

We talked, ate, and had fun the whole night. Nessie was laughing all the time. I, on the other hand, was getting more nervous every second.

I glanced at my watch for the hundredth time this evening, it was 12:00am sharp.

Everyone started to excuse themselves gradually.

"Do you want to spend the whole night here or what? Everyone has left, you know," Nessie said, smiling.

"Come; I want to show you something." She looked confused but let it go; she knew I surprised her a lot.

I took her to the shore, where was a wooden bench. Which wasn't there by accident. I sat her down and got a rose out of my pocket. It had been there for a while but it looked like I'd just bought it. That salesman was right; it lived long, apparently.

I sat down beside her, facing her and gave her the rose.

"Nessie," I started, a little nervous. I didn't know why; I knew she would go out with me.

"Yes, Jacob?" Apparently, she sensed my nervousness. Perfect!

I gained more power to my voice when I said this...

Renesmee Cullen

He was nervous the whole night, I could tell. He was definitely hiding something but I let it go then.

But, now, as he gave me the rose and called my name in a shaky voice, my suspicions were confirmed; he was hiding something.

"Yes, Jacob?" I said, encouraging him to continue.

"Would you go out with me next Friday? On a date, I mean." Oh. My. God! Finally! I was irrevocably happy now. I bet it showed on my face.

"Yes! Yes, Jake, I'd love to!" Okay, so that was too much; what would I do if he asked me to marry him? I chuckled mentally at the thought; I would probably explode from happiness. I laughed at the thought, though not mentally this time.

He hugged me tightly then went back a couple of inches only to take my face in his hands and kiss me. We pulled away after a few seconds, grinning. I cuddled in his arms and relaxed. The next thing I felt was his hand shaking me lightly.

"Do you want to go home now, sweetie?" he whispered. I nodded; too tired to do anything else.

He carried me to the car to drive me home.

Now, my life was officially perfect!