Chapter 23 Parents watch

Disclaimer: the characters and all recognisable situations belong to Stephenie Meyer - this is a work of fan fiction, except for the legends and histories of the Quileute and the Makah that, of course, belong to them. I pay my respects to their gods.

Thanks to BanSidhe for betaing.

Victor and Winona stood together in their living room. They watched as Seth and Rose played in the yard.

Winona was stressing. "Look at them, Victor. Rose is so young to be so head over heels in love with this boy."

Victor disagreed. "That boy is the key to her survival. He literally saved her life Winona. I can't begrudge him wanting to share it with her." Victor hugged her to his side. "You let him nurse her, because you trusted your feelings about him. Lord, we even pay him to look after her. And he does. She gets to all her appointments, she does her exercises and that is all down to Seth. You believed in him then, what has changed now?"

She didn't reply; just chewed at her lip.

Victor continued, "Think about a year ago when we had a difficult, sulky, depressed teen daughter. You remember? She acted out, she argued with us constantly. She was starting to hang out with the wrong kind of kids. And that electrical zap thing? How much was it costing us to keep replacing everything? As well as the damage she was doing to herself. I do not know how, but somehow he has helped her get herself under control. She is even able to be alone for short periods now. She has less accidents and less of those absence seizures."

"From the way they are together, I would guess they are having sex, but they are both old enough and she had that shot so we know there are no issues there."

He watched Rose. "Especially in the last few weeks. She has just healed so fast… it's a miracle…"

"Now look out in the back yard and tell me which you would rather have?"

He put his arm over Winona's shoulder so that his hand hung down in front of her chest. She held his hand with her other hand and played with his fingers. It was a habit for them.

Victor continued, "The whole 'take her home to ask the Elders trip' was supposed to help her and in a weird way it has. She has met Seth; and he and the Quileute seem to be helping her control her gift. In one way, I am kind of glad you didn't make it to Neah bay." He kissed the side of her head. "The accident was awful, but look at the final result."

Seth and Rose were playing football on the grass. He was ducking and dodging her attempted tackles.

"Damn, that boy is fast," said Victor.

Rose was laughing and her face was flushed. Seth made a touch down and then he did a victory dance; with the ball held over his head. His knees lifted high in the air. Rose insisted it was her turn but she couldn't reach the ball. He was too tall. His arm held it way over her head. She tried to climb up him to get it and they both fell over onto the grass. He made an 'oof' noise as she landed on him. He wrapped his arms around her and they both laughed. Then he rolled over, pinned her to the grass and tickled her.

Winona kissed Victor's hand. "Yes, you're right, but she is so young…"

He gave her a look.

"Oh," she almost blushed. "Yes, I know, I was not much older than she is, when I decided you were the one I wanted."

He hugged her. "You got me…, and you still have me. And everything you went through to get me…" he reminds her.

She rolled her eyes. "I remember. He's Not Makah; he's older than you are, if you marry him you will have to leave… Yes, all right, you have made your point."

"Can I make another one?" he asked.

"What?"

"Prove that I still love you and I'm still worth giving it all up for." He turned and led her towards their bedroom.

"But the children…" she protested.

"They're busy," he said.

Outside Seth said, "We should go for a walk or something; stay out of the house for an hour or so."

"Why?"

"Your parents have gone to have sex."

"Eww… hang on, how do you know?"

"I can hear them talking."

"Oh, that has to be a negative sometimes."

He shrugged, "You get used to it. Like being overwhelmed by smells and sounds. You learn to filter out the stuff you don't need to know. Like if I were tracking you for instance… no other smell would get in my way…" He rolled her over so she is on top of him again.

She looked at him. "Was that a compliment? Sometimes I am not sure." She sat astride him as he lay on the grass.

"You smell good… Besides, your parents are cool. At least they don't have sex as often or as noisily as Jake and Leah do."

"Do you think they know that we…?"

"Yep."

"You heard them talking about that?"

"Sort of… let me summarise… they know we are, but they know you are safe… your mum worries you are too young and your dad pointed out you are the same age she was, when she dated him. A good argument, given they are still together and seeing as how they are still hard at it, I would call that a successful marriage, wouldn't you?"

"Do you think when we are their age we will still be 'at it'?"

It made him inordinately happy that she assumed they would still be together in the future.

"Heck yeah… Paul and Bella have sex every day… we can't let them beat us…"

"I do not want to know how you know that…"

"Pack," he explained.

"Hey, I said I didn't want to know…Jeez and people think girls over share."

Seth sat up and held her in his lap. "Maybe we would have to go two or three times a day, just to catch up… I mean they started before us and all." He was kissing her neck.

"I thought you said we could go for a walk."

"Yeah. But I think there might be a storm… in fact, I would bet on it."

"That's it! I could be a rainmaker."

"You think?" he kept kissing her neck.

"Yeah… you and I could travel around the country bringing rain to the arid areas."

"Doesn't the moisture have to be in the clouds in the first place; like cloud seeding? I would have to come with you too. Besides as a protector of la push, I can't go travelling around the country for too long. We could do it occasionally. But isn't the point that you learn how to control it?"

"Practice makes perfect." She grinned at him

"Hell yeah…"

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