Hi so here is another chapter and the final chapter. This is short but this story became more and more difficult as it continued and I'd like to believe that I did it justice despite my frustrations.
I would like to send out a BIG thank you to all of you who have read and reviewed and favourited and followed this story. This came from a torn notepad a long time ago and closing the door on this story feels like I have closed the door on something important. This story couldn't have continued without all of you and I hope you enjoy the Happy Ending.
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I Would For You
Paul/Rachel Fanfiction: When Rachel Black left La Push nearly four years ago to go to college, she was carrying a secret. When she returns to help pick up the pieces in the aftermath of her brother's disappearance, she has no idea of what fate has in store for her and the effect it has on her life. Mature Themes, Please Read and Review.
Chapter 20-I Would For You
Paul's Point of View
So I guess it was official. Sort of. After much deliberation Rachel and Shay moved into my house. Shay had looked at me over the hot chocolate I had bought her and asked me point blank if I planned to leave anytime soon.
"Absolutely not" I had answered and Shay rather satisfied with that answer after a lengthy stare nodded and promptly asked me for a cookie.
So that was that really. The reality was for a lot of the Pack things were settling down. In the months after Rachel had moved in, Kim had graduated High School, Emily and Sam had gotten married and Leah had moved away to go to school something which I think brought a great amount of peace across the Pack. Leah had always been a tough subject. While she had been a bitch to everyone and anyone nobody could deny she had the right to be and now she was away and finally getting the chance to know herself without Sam in the picture it seemed like everything was falling into place.
Things with the Cullen's had also settled down. Renesmee and Shay were good friends which pleased Jacob, Rachel and Edward Cullen who while not impressed that his daughter literacy tastes had gone from his style to Shay's, he was happy if his daughter was happy. According to Bella who had told Jacob.
I was currently gearing myself up for when one of them wanted to spend the night with the other and it looked like a fragile peace was forming even if it was through the friendship of some children.
The rest of the Pack had settled down to, the little wolves seemed to have all of their transformations under some control. The younger ones had at least one parent that knew their secret and what to do in a crisis. Embry had finally gone to Jacob's pack along with Quill both claiming that it didn't feel right in Sam's without him. They had gone with his blessing and were always welcome at Emily's house for breakfast. Though it appeared Mrs Cullen was feeding them just fine.
Jackson was constantly on the couch at my place. Things with his father had gone south and he had couch surfed for a bit until Billy finally had enough and told him to take Rachel's old room no arguments. He looked happier than he had in a long time and much to my relief his grades had begun to go up. There was a close bond between us that had come with me being the one that had helped him the first time. Sam had the same bond with me and Jared and Jared with Embry and so on. It was something that never went away and everyone respected it.
The littler wolves and their imprints had all settled down somewhat. Both Morag and Luna had allowed their wolves to move from the holding hands stage to the kissing stage much to their delight while Ella was taking longer, Emily ensured however each girl had the support of all the others and slowly but surely they were making progress. The family was expanding and still remaining together much to everyone's relief.
As for me and Rachel we were living together, taking it slow I will admit but over the course of the next couple of years we both realised we had the time. There were no more vampires or invading armies and slowly the autopilot a lot of us had been on was slowly fading, we could relax and start talking about the future in a more liberal sense rather than a dream none of us were sure we were going to live to see.
Two years ago had I envisioned that I would be waking up in bed with the woman I had fallen in love with when I was still a teenager? Had I envisioned out kid asleep in the room down the hall? No. however I had no regrets and I knew while Rachel did it wasn't about me.
While I still sometimes wanted another baby with Rachel and even Carlisle Cullen had admitted it was a possibility we had both decided (or rather I had insisted) that her health came first. The chances of carrying a child to full term with a uterus that was as damaged as Rachel's was, was slim. It was a dent in our happiness that much would grant you but I was more than happy when Shay would come in after school nine times out of ten covered in either paint or mud talking animatedly about her day. Then Rachel would come home and it was the kind of family gathering I wished I'd been able to have whenever I had been home.
I had a family. It didn't matter how small or how big it was. Only that it was mine and that it was real. And that I would let nobody take it away from me.
So that was it. There wasn't much of an ending to this story rather than a new beginning. There was no drama. Rachel and I slipped from our lonely little lives to one together and we were stronger than ever. While I hoped marriage was still on the table we had the luxury of time and we both knew it.
"No regrets?" I asked Rachel one night. She looked at me and snorted. "Plenty" she said finally. "But none about this" she gestured to us on the bed together simple and easy, no drama.
"Good" I said finally.
No regrets indeed.
I would for my imprint.
I would for my daughter.
I would for you.
And I knew Rachel felt it to.
And I leave you with another big thank you for your time reading this story.