Chapter 29: The Start of Something New

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?

Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb

Without a soul, my spirit sleeping somewhere cold

Until you find it there and lead it back home

'Bring Me to Life' by Evanescence

Rolling around in bed with my man is how I love to wake up in the morning. But when it's interrupted by loud cries, you can guess that the mood gets broken.

Ana had moved back in with mom and dad and Wendy had moved on to the college campus. They could take the cute part of being aunties, but when the crying and diaper changing came – oh, they were out of there.

I sighed and looked at Jake who was nestled quite comfortably between my breasts.

"You know it's your turn right?" I said.

He shook his head and I laughed since he was technically motor-boating me.

"Nope, I fed him last night; it's your turn."

"I don't remember that."

"Well you were fast asleep so you didn't hear a thing."

I narrowed my eyes at him, "How do I know you're not just making that up?"

"Because there's a dirty bottle in the sink if you were to go check."

I scowled, "Fine, I'll go."

Rolling out the bed I jogged upstairs to what was once Ana's room. There, baby Chaska lay, sniffling.

"Aw, baby, what happened to you? You need a diaper change?" I said to him while picking him up.

"No, I think I scared him is all." A voice from behind me said. I whipped around to see Lucy.

"Lucy! What the hell are you doing here?" I yelled and Chaska started to cry again. Something didn't smell right at all. There was the familiar scent of another wolf but there was something else, something sickly sweet.

"I'm just here to see Sebastian's child. Is this him?" she asked.

"Come on Lucy, you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer but you can figure this one out. Why would Sebastian's kid be in my house?"

She shrugged, "Well because you two are back together. Last thing I heard about you guys was that you two had slept together.

My body stiffened, "Well this isn't his kid, it's Jake's."

"So you slept with Jacob?" she asked.

I rubbed my temple, "No, I haven't… yet. It's Jake and Erin's child."

"I'm confused."

"Look Lucy, it's a long and complicated story but what I want to know is what happened to you? Last time I heard from you is when we fought that coven of vamps."

She shrugged, "Stuff, nothing for you to worry about. What I've come here for is the address to Sebastian's house. I really need to talk to him."

"Lucy, if you're trying to get back with him I should give you a heads up that he's in another relationship right now."

She rolled her eyes, "When is he not?"

"No, I'm serious Lucy. They even have a kid together. I think it's really serious."

Her body stiffened and she growled silently. By now Chaska had fallen back to sleep but when she growled he started to fuss again.

I started to rock him back and forth.

"Thanks for the heads up Melanie. If you can tell me where he is, we'll be able to talk this out."

I saw no harm in giving Lucy Sebastian's address so that she could have some closure. I wrote it down and Lucy thanked me. With that she jumped out of the window and was off.

Taking the baby with me downstairs I ran into Jacob.

"I heard voices, what's going on?" he asked.

I kissed his nose, "We had a visitor is all. Don't worry about it."

He smiled and kissed me back, "Come on, I'll make you breakfast."

Bursting through the door of Sebastian's house had me feeling invigorated.

Ever since my transformation into the new me, violence always made me feel better.

I don't know if I've always been this way or if it's the new vampire half of me.

Rushing out in a pair of boxer shorts that I bought him for our first Christmas together made me even more agitated.

"Lucian?" he asked.

I smiled at him and walked over slowly, "Yes it's me, how are you Sebastian? I heard you're a daddy now. Who's the slut you knocked up?"

Then out walked a petite blonde, "That slut would be me. And who are you bitch?"

I shook my head at her, with my new self; I could easily kill her with a flick of my wrist. But no, I wouldn't kill her, not yet, at least.

"I'm Lucy, nice to meet you baby mama."

I sniffed the air and found the scent of an infant.

Running there towards the scent I took the baby up and ran back to my previous location.

Sebastian and the slut didn't even realize I had left; so when I magically appeared with their child in my arms there were stunned.

"What- how did you do that?" Sebastian asked.

I just shrugged, "That's for me to know and you to find out."

"What do you want?" asked the blonde.

I walked around and fingered the pretty girl's blond hair.

"She's cute, maybe I should take her for myself." I wondered out loud.

"The hell you will!" The slut yelled and lunged towards me.

I just laughed and caught her mid-air by the throat. She clawed at my hand I just smiled at her, "Aw little slut, what's wrong? Cat got your tongue?"

She gasped and then blacked out.

"Now that she's out of the way, we can talk." I said towards Sebastian. I pushed him towards the couch and set the baby back into her room.

I sat on Sebastian's lap, "So, why her baby?" I asked.

Now matter for how long I live, I will always feel something for this bastard and I hated that I did.

"She's the mother of my child," he said simply.

"But that doesn't mean you have to be with her. Look at Mel and Jacob, that isn't her kid but you don't see Jacob with the mother."

He growled, "That's because the mother is Erin."

I looked up at him, "Who's Erin?"

He rolled his eyes, "The slut?" He pointed over to the blonde on the floor.

I smiled, "Oh, she has a name."

"Yeah she does; and to tell the truth, I really like her. I might even love her. I was actually thinking of asking her to marry me."

My eyes widened and I looked towards Erin. I growled, the whore isn't gonna take my man away.

"You still want me don't you? That's why you're here. You want me to come back to you."

I looked back at him and smiled, "Of course."

He shook his head, "We had a good run Lucy but I'm ready to settle down, and what better person to do it with then the mother of my child?"

I growled again, "You left me you know. You left me out there in the woods when I'd gotten knocked out in that fight. You didn't come look for me or anything.

You wanna know what happened to me there? One of the survivors took me. He took me to their leader and they bit me."

"That's what I smell! You're part vampire now! But we're immune to their venom!"

I smiled evilly, "Well your body can only take so much. Apparently, the leader vampire was somewhat of an evil scientist. He always wanted to make a hybrid but he couldn't figure out how to get past a wolf's immunity to the venom. So he simply had twenty vamps bite me at once while my defenses were down. I'd been injured pretty badly so my body was busy healing myself that it didn't have time to protect me from the venom. So three days later I wake up and ta-da! I'm the first vampire-werewolf hybrid."

His eyes widened, "What?" I asked innocently.

"What do you want Lucy? Seriously."

I smiled at him, "I want you Sebastian."

He shook his head, "You can't have me and I love someone else."

I growled, "Well I'm just gonna have to fix that now don't I?"

With that I scooped up the slut and ran away.

I could faintly hear Sebastian try to follow us but I was ten miles away in two seconds.

Thanks to my reviewers! (Only 2 this time – I'm sad but it's okay. At least I'm getting some!)

NightmareAngel365: Yeah, you'll never guess what'll happen in my stories. Just one twist after another!

lionandthelamblove7: Yeah, sometimes everyone thinks that Mel is the perfect person. I just like for people to realize she has problems too.