Chapter Twenty Four - Kidnapped

I woke up to the sun rising. Jacob was already up, staring at me intently as I slept. A broad smile crossed his face when my eyes opened. I groaned as I rolled over and noticed the soreness in my body. This was strange - I had never felt sore before. My stomach began to turn violently as I stood up.

Jake's expression changed from completely happy to very worried. "What's wrong, Nessie?"

I pushed him easily aside and went for the bathroom. He came in right behind me and held my hair so that I did not vomit in it. I tried to push him out of the bathroom as he filled a washcloth with water to clean me up with, but he ignored me.

"Are you okay?" he asked as he dabbed at my forehead. "The only other time I've seen you puke is when you tried to eat salad."

"Yeah, I actually feel fine now. Except I'm hungry....."

Jacob laid me down on the couch in the living room. "What do you want? I'll cook you anything," he smiled. He pushed me back down as I tried to stand up.

"I have to go look. I have to sniff it out to know what I want." He allowed me to stand, so I walked slowly into the kitchen. I smelled around for a few minutes as my nose led me to the refrigerator. I opened it up and found a plate of leftover bacon that smelled extremely appetizing. I scarfed down the few peices, but my hunger only seemed to increase.

"You want some more bacon?" Jacob asked as he watched me. "I didn't think you liked meat......"

Neither did I. There were alot of foods I didn't usually like that I did all of a sudden. People food was turning out to be irresistible, which was fine with me. If I could live happily off of that instead of killing my own food, that was only a good thing.

"Yeah," I answered. "It's really good, actually."

"You can go lay back down. I'm going to call your parents."

"Why?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"To tell them you're not going to school today," he said happily. He hated me going away from him every day, even if the past week he'd been there to keep an eye on me. I didn't feel sick anymore, but I might as well take a day off when it was handed to me.

"I'm going to brush my teeth first," I decided as Jake dialed my father's number. My breath was probably reeking by now. I walked down the little hall to the bathroom before going back to lay down on the couch. I wondered to myself if Billy was here...... He didn't seem to be. I got up and went to Jacob's room to find my new mp3 stereo.

I hooked it up in the little living room while I inhaled the delicious bacon Jacob was cooking for me. I scrolled down my list until I found Agents of Oblivion. They were my absolute favorites, and I hadn't listened to them in so long. Not all of them, at least; Dax Riggs had been in a lot of bands. The melody swirled itself from the speakers, filling the house with it's beauty.

Jacob walked into the living room with his eyes closed. "I love this music, Nessie," he said in an awed tone. "Isn't this what you played for me that one day?"

I giggled. He was right, and I knew exactly what day he was talking about. "Yeah, that one day," I agreed, still giggling. The last time I had listened to this band was the day I figured out I was madly in love with Jacob. He slowly returned to the kitchen with his eyes still closed.

I was tired of laying around so I got up and put some real clothes on. I pulled my hair up into a sloppy pony-tail, and looked at myself in the mirror. I looked...... good. Really good, especially for a day like this. My skin was glowing and radiant, my eyes were round as if in excitement. I pulled my hair down and let it swirl around my face. I walked back to the livingroom to find that Jake and my bacon were waiting on me.

He looked at me smiling before the blankness entered his face. I was getting more used to the new reaction everyone was having to me, so I didn't let it bother me. I smiled hugely at him, testing out how bad the dazzling was getting to really be. He looked like he'd just gotten drunk off of me. Better not do too much of that, then.

I sat down beside him and started piling bacon into my mouth as he stared into space for a few minutes. He shook his head then, and seemed to mostly snap out of it. He closed his eyes and listened again to the music.

"Hey, I thought this song was all slow....." he said with slight disappointment.

"It is, this is a different version. And technically, a different band."

"Isn't that the one he wrote about to you?" he asked after a familiar line was spoken. He was Nahuel.

"Yeah," was all I said. Jacob had enough problems surrounding me right now, I did not want him worrying any more than he already was. The song changed a few moments later, and I relaxed. I put my face into Jacob's neck as I cuddled up closer to him. He wrapped his big arms around me and held me tight.

"You smell....." he took a big whiff of me, "Different," he finished.

"How's that?" What the hell did I smell like? Puke?

"It smells good, it's just not the way you usually smell. Your regular scent is there, but there's more to it," he said slightly confused. "It's weird."

"What's not these days?" I asked with true curiosity. Everything had been getting stranger and stranger. I thought about the last week of my life, running through everything off that I had noticed. "Anthony said I smelled good," I realized. "Is that normal? Do I always smell good to humans?"

It was obvious that my mention of Anthony was not making Jacob too happy. "I don't know, has anyone ever said it to you before?" His hands balled up into fists as he tried unsuccessfully to calm himself. "I'd like to snap that guy in two....."

"Another weird thing..." I thought out loud. I hadn't thought much about it, but Jacob had never even mentioned the fact that Anthony had kissed me again. He'd never said even a word about Anthony constantly professing his love for me, even though he'd heard every word. I didn't mind that it wasn't bothering him, it was just so out of character for Jacob to let something like that go. He usually freaked out, or did the one time at least.

"What's weird?" he asked with one perfect black eyebrow tilted up at me.

"You didn't get mad before. I thought you would have killed him, especially after he followed me and you saw him right after he'd said all that stuff, but you couldn't pull yourself away from me enough to even pay him any mind."

"Huh? What did he do?" Jacobs eyes were completely puzzled.

"Weren't you watching? You looked mad when I got to you, for a second, at least," I said, just as puzzled as he was. I thought he'd seen everything, heard everything that had been said in the parking lot.

Jacob's expression changed quickly to anger. "What did he do?" he asked again, slower than before. I placed my hand to his face and let him see, apparently for the first time. His breathing quickened as his hands balled back up and his eyebrows pulled together. His face started to turn red as I pulled my hand away. "That little -" was all he got out before the phone started ringing.

He jumped up and loped off to the kitchen. "Hello?" he answered with anger still in his voice. "WHAT?!?" he yelled with much more feeling than before. "I'll be there, give me a few minutes to get someone here to watch Nessie." He hung up the phone, then picked up again and dialed a number.

What was going on? It must be pretty bad if he was leaving and making someone else come to stay with me.

"He's close to her house right now, Edward and Bella just caught his scent. Come here now and keep Nessie safe while I'm gone...." he said into the line. Oh, crap. At my house?? Why would he go there again? He already stole my stuff, and it's not like he was going to meet me if I'd been there. Why would he go when my parents were home?

Jacob hung up the phone and practically ran to me in the livingroom. He grabbed me up and pushed his lips against mine as my hands felt their way to his neck and his hair. My mouth parted his lips slowly, and I tasted the flavor coming off of him. It was wonderful. My head was already becoming entirely filled with need for him when he pulled away and laid me back on the couch.

"I hear Leah coming. I have to go," he said hastily.

"No!" I protested, making him smile slightly. He couldn't leave me; What if something happened to him? I could not breathe without Jacob.

He hugged me up tightly and buried his face into the top of my head. "I'll be back soon, and I'll make Leah update you while I'm gone. I love you so much, Renesmee," he whispered the last sentence, and I looked up to see pain in his beautiful eyes.

"I love you too, Jacob. I'll be here waiting for you," I said as we reluctantly released one another. He looked at me longingly until Leah came in through the door. She turned her head away from us so as not to impose on our personal moment, and Jacob handed me his shorts and phased.

He flew out the door without looking back, and I felt a pang to my heart as I watched him go. I decided right then that a life without Jacob would not be worth living. If anything ever happened to end him, I would soon follow. I would not live in a world with no Jacob Black, because in my eyes he was the world. This decision made me happier than I would have expected, to know that no matter what, I would never be without him.

Leah stood guard by the door as I plopped onto the couch. "It's onnnnnlllllyyyy the end...." I sang silently along with my beautiful music. I was in a place of peace right now, despite the current situation.

The phone rang loudly and I drifted to the melody into the kitchen. "Hello," I practically sang into the receiver.

"Renesmee," my dad's voice answered. He sounded a little confused, which was unusual for him. "We are trying to find him now, and Jacob and the pack have just gotten here. He's left trails again, miles long this time."

My mind ripped away from his voice and my newfound peacefulness as I heard Leah growl and snarl wildly. I dropped the phone as if in a daze, and it dangled lifelessly from the chord. "Renesmee? What's happening?" I heard Dad's voice say as I walked to the living room.

Leah was on the floor, blood seeping out of wounds made to her chest. "Leah!!!!" I screamed as I flew to her, not yet realizing the predicament I was in. As I hovered over top of her, I noticed the giant shadow of a wolf standing still behind me.

I ignored the mystery person for the time being; I needed to make sure Leah was okay. She twitched slightly, then her breathing picked up again. I let out a huge sigh of releif as I stroked her face softly. She whimpered into my palm as I felt two long, warm arms wrapping around my body.

I felt comforted at first, because the feeling was so familiar to me. I wished that these were Jacob's arms, but my mind quickly reminded me that they were not. The fur was more brown than red, with an icy wintry smell clinging to it. One paw smashed over top of my mouth as I felt myself being carried away.

My music player was ripped from the wall in a flurry as I was carried into Jacob's room. The wolf holding me grabbed my bag of things and then was out the front door like a bolt of lightning. I thrashed and kicked, trying with every bit of might inside of me to free myself from this grasp, but he was much stronger than I was. I screamed, but his paw muffled it well.

He flew across the highway towards a black Lambourghini, but passed it by as he stopped behind the trees. He phased with me in his arms still, something I hadn't even known was possible. He was back out of the forest faster than he'd entered, pulling me into the driver's side of the car with him. I knew there was no chance now - I'd been kidnapped. The sun would disappear forever.