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Loosing family

Jacob Black

All I could think about the entire flight home was how much I loved the girl beside me and when I was finally able to tell her all about the imprinting thing I was really nervous. I had played this part in my head a million times or more. There just never seemed to be a perfect explanation for the phenomenon that was imprinting. I decided to start with a couple she knew of, so that she wouldn´t feel too weird with the whole age difference thing. Quil and Claire, the perfect example to make her understand our situation.

She understood perfectly, right until she had the impression that I had imprinted on Bella. I almost panicked and Emmet´s comment that I wished I had didn´t exactly help my panic.

Well might as well just put it out there.

"No I didn´t imprint on your mom, Nessie," Jacob said. I shot a glare at Emmet. "And yes Emmet, at one point I really wished I had imprinted on her."

I looked at Nessie and studied her reaction. She looked hurt. Why hurt? Maybe she got the wrong impression with the whole Bella thing. I had to continue before she would conclude something on her own.

"But that all changed when I saw you Nessie," I said in a soft voice trying to meet her eyes. "I have loved you with every beat of my heart from the first time I set my eyes on you. You changed my world, you are my world. I could not exist without you. You are the reason I breathe, you are the reason I do anything at all. I would do anything you ask me to. I love you Nessie, more than you´ll ever know."

Nessie just looked stunned. I wasn´t sure that was even a good thing. And then silence as she furrowed her brows.

"AAAWWWW," was the reaction throughout the plane, even Bella´s.

"Yes he did Nessie," Edward spoke out loud with a sigh. He was having a hard time letting go. I could totally understand why.

Her reaction was immediate. She forcefully pressed her lips on mine. Who knew she could react like that?

Well I for one wasn´t going to complain any time soon. She could kiss me like that for every second of every day for all I cared. She was perfect.

It was however quite embarrassing when someone cleared their throat to let us know we weren´t alone. I had completely forgotten that we were surrounded by Nessie´s family and the whole pack. On one hand I wished that we had shared our first kiss alone and under better circumstances, but on the other hand it was still perfect.

I never wanted my lips to leave her soft lips. Even Emmet´s and Jasper´s comments couldn´t get to me.

Nessie was freaking kissing me.

I couldn´t help myself, I kept kissing the perfect girl and kept ignoring the others. It was very rude, I knew that, but I just couldn´t stop. I had never felt like this before in my life and I absolutely loved it.

Finally I heard Carlisle say something about us being in Seattle and that we had things to do. It all came back to me at that point, we didn´t have time to wallow. Even though wallowing sounded pretty great just about now. I loved wallowing.

Obviously Jasper felt the love too since he commented on it. I couldn´t help but chuckle a little at the thought of him feel what I felt. That truly was a weird power to have. Nessie also chuckled and I could feel her sweet breath in my mouth. So very intoxicating. I had waited so long for this feeling and now it was finally here.

I finally pulled away from Nessie´s lips, hopefully there would be plenty of time later on to show her just how much I loved her. Wait a minute, I could just tell her I loved her again now. Yes, no time like the present.

"I love you Nessie, but we have to get off the plane and head back home. We have to be ready for what´s to come," I said. Talk about bad timing, but I was still grateful for the opportunity to finally tell her the truth.

"Right," Nessie said. "I love you too Jacob Black."

Time stood still.

I could feel the smile on my face grow.

I couldn´t believe it.

My life finally felt complete.

Nessie loves me too.

It had been an emotional flight for Nessie so she had to talk to Bella and Edward before we drove off to the house.

"Dad, Mom. Can I talk to you before we go?" she asked.

"Of course, Nessie," Bella said. Edward looked at her and his eyes softened.

"It´s OK Nessie, we love you," he said.

"I know you do dad, but I have to tell you that I´m very sorry that I ever doubted what you guys had and still have. I don´t agree with you dad in your decision to leave your love behind. But I had a little epiphany when I was... err... kissing…" Nessie blushed. She looked like a Greek goddess. "Jacob back there. And I understand you only tried to protect her. I know that you will never stop blaming yourself and that you can never forgive yourself either. But I forgive you dad, like mom has. I love you too much to hold anything against you. From now on we look forward."

They all hugged each other.

"I´m so proud of you Ness," I whispered in Nessie´s ear.

After we had returned to the Cullen house my pack and I had agreed we needed to inform Sam and his pack of what had happened in the last couple of days. Leaving Nessie was not easy, but I would hurry, me being the alpha and all I kind of had to go.

I just had a very hard time coming down from my high; Nessie freaking Cullen loves me back. The grin on my face both in wolf form and in human form was huge.

"Yeah we kind of heard that already, Jake," Leah thought. ¨

I knew I was a pain, but she couldn´t burst my bubble no matter how hard she tried. Nessie freaking Cullen, the name just kept swirling in my head. I knew this day would come someday, but I´d just like to say, Oh My God. She kissed me.

Seth chuckled and shook his big head. "Dude, that was awesome. I´m really happy for you."

You could always count on Seth to be positive and supportive. Guess it doesn´t run in the family though.

"Hey!" Leah shouted. "I can be supportive. I just don´t wanna keep hearing about it. Let alone feeling what you´re feeling all the time."

I knew from previous experience that it wasn´t very funny to be in a pack with ones who already imprinted when you yourself hadn´t gotten there yet. But I still couldn´t help it. My insides were just bubbling.

"Thanks so much for reminding me of my lack of imprinting," Leah snorted.

"Can´t you just be happy for the guy?" Seth asked his sister.

"Sure. If he could just keep his lovey dovey feelings to himself. That would be just peachy," Leah responded.

"It was really nice the way you explained it all to her,"Quil said, "I might just come back one day for your advice. I´m really honored that you could use my situation to clarify the whole situation. I just hope that Claire someday will be just as understanding as Nessie were."

Ah yes. It was strange that Quil and Claire still hadn´t reached that level of love yet, Claire was still just about 10 years old, so she wasn´t near ready yet. Poor Quil, he had to wait so long to feel what I felt.

"I don´t mind," Quil answered. "I´m sure she´s worth it."

"Could we please just focus on finding Sam and his pack and get this over and done with. Then you can all go back to your girls," Leah said in a harsh tone.

She was right though. The sooner we had this done, the sooner I could get back to Nessie. I sure wouldn´t mind another kiss.

"JACOB," Leah shouted again.

Sorry.

We found Sam and the others pretty easily, since I could communicate with Sam because of the whole Alpha thing.

We told the whole story about our trip to Italy, the bloodsuckers who took Nessie away, Tanya´s attempt at saving the day and finally the danger ahead. This would also include Sam´s pack since the Volturi yet again would come in close proximity of the people of Forks and La Push.

Sam nodded and took a deep breath.

"Life sure is interesting with the Cullens around," Sam said sarcastically. I knew he would always be there to fight when the safety of his people were at stake. He just hated the fact that one of the people at stake was Emily. And I knew just how he felt. Nobody would crumble a hair on Nessie´s head and then live to tell about it.

I gave Sam a small smile and said, "All in a good days work, Sam."

Both of the packs were eager to kick some bloodsucker ass, but we were all a bit nervous as well. The Volturi was not your everyday bloodsucker.

"Seth, Leah. Your mother is at Jacob´s house arranging something for the wedding. Both her and Charlie have been worried about you," Sam said.

"I´ll go see mom then if you´ll run to Charlie´s," Seth said to Leah. Leah nodded and went into the woods to phase again.

"See ya, losers," Seth said with a huge grin. He was excited to be able to fight alongside the Cullens again. He could probably go as the Cullen mascot if this was a football game. Little goofy Seth.

"I´ll run back to the Cullen house. I know Carlisle is trying to get a hold of reinforcements so I guess we´ll talk later when we know more, okay?" I asked Sam.

"Yes," he said grinning. "And good luck at the Cullen house." He winked at me. Sam freaking winked. Oh well, love could do that to a guy I guess.

"Tuttelu," Paul grinned. "Oh and by the way, your sister says hi."

I shuddered. Seriously, my sister must have a serious brain tumor to keep up with that dude.

I ran off leaving the rest of them to greet their family. I knew Seth would say hello to my dad for me so I found it more urgent to see Nessie again.

Nessie was sleeping on the couch when I got back to the house. She looked so peaceful. She looked so beautiful. She was all mine. I smiled and placed myself underneath her and just held her. This was really nice. I could get used to this.

We sat there for a little while until Seth came panting through the door.

"Jacob," Seth called. I could hear in his voice that something was terribly wrong. I sat up and faced him. Nessie started to wake up so I gently pushed her to a sitting position.

"It´s Leah. She´s gone," Seth cried out. He fell to the floor sobbing.

"What do you mean she´s gone?" I said. She wouldn´t run away at a time like this would she? No, she wouldn´t. Maybe it was something important. But then surely she would be back. Leah never bailed in a time of need.

"I mean she´s dead," Seth cried out in hysterics.

Dead? Leah dead? No she couldn´t be. I was at a loss for words. If she had died then I would have failed a member of my pack. No I would have failed my pack in general. I stood up from the couch and went to Seth. I sat down beside him holding him.

"Tell me everything," I said. I tried to comfort him but I was losing it myself. I had to be strong for the rest of the pack. I had to. They needed me now.

"She... She…," he stuttered. He was in no state to continue the story. He started to whimper, "it should have been me… it should have been me…"

"Shhh," I soothed him the best I could. Nessie had gotten up from the couch and was holding Seth too. She was so compassionate. She send me a worried look and continued to rock Seth back and forth.

Bella and Edward came in to the room and saw the scene before them. Edward furrowed his brows and gasped.

"Carlisle, Esme, Emmet, Rosalie, Jasper, Alice," he called. They were down the stairs in a second.

"What´s happened?" Carlisle asked.

"It´s Leah. She´s dead," Edward answered.

Bella and the rest of the Cullens gasped.

"She ran to see Charlie and to let him know we were all back safe. When she got close to the house she saw two unfamiliar figures lurking around. She heard them knock on the door and she saw Charlie open it. That´s when she was hit with their smell. Vampires. She ran faster and started howling. She vampires turned around and smiled. Before she knew what had happened Leah was on the ground screaming in pain," Edward explained.

Once again the Cullens gasped.

"Jane," Rosalie said with a scowl.

"And Demetri," Edward answered. "Leah was killed trying to protect Charlie."

Edward looked down at Bella and gave her a squeeze. Bella looked like she was going to pass out.

"Charlie," she breathed out.

"I don´t know what happened after that, love. I´m sorry," Edward answered her.

Bella looked at Alice and immediately Alice´s eyes glazed over. When she came back from her vision she looked like she was in pain.

"He´s still alive, but barely," Alice said.

"But why Charlie?" Esme asked.

"They found out he knew too much from Tanya´s mind. Aro sent Jane and Demetri to collect Charlie right away. They plan to interrogate him and then if they find him fitting they will give him the choice of being killed or changed," Alice explained.

"We have to stop them," Bella panted.

Given the choice, what would Charlie choose? Maybe they wouldn´t even give him the choice after all. They don´t usually give the offer to someone who´s not beneficial to their guard. On top of that Charlie is Bella´s dad, so he´ll never choose sides against her. Changing him would only weaken the Volturi.

Edward looked at me and nodded. We couldn´t say it out loud. If Bella found out that Charlie was more likely to be killed than changed she would lose it for sure.

Maybe some kind of plan was already in motion for us to stand up against the Volturi. I turned to face Carlisle.

"We have been able to contact a few of our former allies from the last time we faced the Volturi," Carlisle said. "It´s however not easy to get a hold of everybody when nomads don´t usually run around with a cell phone in their pockets."

"The wolves are all ready to fight alongside you," I said.

Carlisle nodded. "Thank you, Jacob," he said. "You´re as much a part of this family than any of us."

I felt a wave of happiness run trough me at his words but it was quickly drowned out by Seth´s sobbing. I had to be there for my other family now. Leah´s death would be revenged, even if it was the last thing I did. Today we lost a member of our family.

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