Jacob imprinted on the baby.
Once we heard about this news, the wolves were no longer our enemies. It was in their law, and the wolves could not harm the imprintee of a fellow wolf. Since that was Bella and Edward's daughter, our family was now off limits from harm. Even though we should think of this as a sigh of relief, it was still another struggle to get through as a family. It took most of the family members to the family to hold back Edward from pulling his head off, Jacob was spared. Our one moment of bliss with the new member of the family was short lived.
Then again, there was still Bella.
She was bitten by Edward and her venom went through her though we didn't think so. She was going through the transformation of being a vampire, and although still I knew she was in pain. We knew we had to leave her be, since we ourselves couldn't do anything about it but let the venom take its course. It was now a time for waiting to see how Bella would turn out and how she would be as a vampire.
Rosalie tended to my new niece, whom was named Renesmee. She was beautiful beyond compare. I could see how she could grab the attention of the whole room in the house. Edward tended to her once in awhile, though he was in fact mostly worried over Bella. Jacob was over at our house everyday now that we were waiting for Bella to wake up. Since he was over, he has more attached to her and not letting her out of his sight.
This annoyed Rosalie to the point of almost having her wipe his head off clean from his body a few times. But on the other hand I got to hold her a few times and rock her to sleep. Since she was half human, she had a tint of glow around her instead of the glimmer in the sunlight we would get as vampires, and we could in fact feel her warmth against my skin. SHe was very unique, something we didn't expect as a child of my brother and sister-in-law.
"She's perfect." I said aloud to Edward as we sat in the living room. It was the second night that we were with Renesmee. Bella was still in transformation and Edward was hanging back with me as the rest of the family was out hunting, Jacob was outside talking to Seth and Leah about where they were going to go since there was no longer and threat and a need for their protection.
"She's beyond perfect." Edward commented to me as I held her in my arms. Although she had blood in her veins, and I could smell it just being close to her, she was no near threat to me when it came to hunger. She wasn't to the whole house, since she was in fact our newest member of the family. I saw Edward's face in her, but her hair belonged to Bella, along with her eyes.
"How does it feel to be a father?" I asked him as she fell asleep peacefully in my arms. Since she was a infant she was hardest to use my powers with, and I had to use most of my energy to not harm her. She was my niece, something that I took pride in saying in,
"I'm still shock of it all." Edward said aloud to me as he looked down at his own daughter. For a second I felt a twain of jealousy come through me, since I could not have my own child with Sam. Somehow I pictured a child in my head, but I pushed it away. This was no longer about me, but about my niece and my brother, along with my sister-in-law. I felt a hand on my shoulder, looking up and seeing Edward looking down at me.
"Emma…" He started, knowing what I was thinking. But I waved him off as I looked back down at the sleeping Renesmee.
"I'm not sad." I said to him, seeing him look at me with serious eyes, "I know what I am missing out on, but I wouldn't change it for the world. I have my life with this family and with Sam, there's nothing else I need." Edward fell silent then, having me smile from my spot and graze my finger against her cheek.
"Sam and I are going to move." I said to him aloud, breaking a few moments of silence we had together with Renesmee. Edward looked at me with serious eyes.
"I know. Alice told me when she saw you in her future." Edward explained aloud, "But are you sure you want to do this. You were gone for so long and Esme won't have it."
"She was the one who talked about us having our own place." I countered back at him, looking at him finally, "Edward, this house will have far too many vampires, it could be dangerous. But we won't be far away from you, only in Oregon." Edward smiled then, having me have a genuine smile back at my brother.
"Since Oregon is in fact only a walk away." He said in a smirk. I looked back down as Renesmee, still stroking her face gently. As soon as I touched her cheek, I saw something flash in front of my eyes, almost as if I went blind and saw from another point of view.
I saw Bella.
But she was still human, and it was right after her daughter was born. Her face, though filled with pain and no life left in her eyes, seemed to be rather beautiful through the eyes of Renesmee. This was her first memory of her mother before she was whisked away from her. I blinked a few times as I got my regular vision back once more.
"Edward, what did I just do?" I asked him aloud n a breathy tone, seeing Renesmee wake up on my arms and look at me.
"It's her gift. I witnessed it the first time I held her and the same with Rosalie." Edward said to me, having me look at up him with a confused look, "She had show you her thoughts with her touch, She just showed you her first memory of Bella." I looked back at Renesmee, seeing how powerful she already is as a infant hybrid child. She was going to bring new memories to this family already. Her power was something I have never heard before, it almost seemed unreal to be a vampire power. But before I could say anything else, I heard the front door opening and the rest of our family coming into the house. All of their eyes were golden, full from the blood hunt, and i smiled as I saw Sam. Sam was near Emmett and Esme, his grin was on me and I felt a new stirring of emotions go through me in a fast rate. It was like seeing him in the family, after 50 years of marriage and being together, made me think we were meeting all over again. I even lost my breath and blinked a few times before I saw Rosalie glide over to me.
"My turn." She said in a grin, looking down at Renesmee as if she was her own daughter, waiting to hold her. Gently, I handed the niece over to her other Aunt, hearing the infant giggle in her arms as Rosalie sat in one of the chairs, cooing over the infant with glee and happiness in her eyes. I thought of her being a wonderful mother if she had the chance. I got up from my spot and walked over to Sam, wrapping my arms around his waist and kissing him lightly on the lips, feeling him run his fingers in my hair.
"How was your hunt with the family?" I asked him with a grin, looking up at him and feeling him rub my back lightly with his knuckles. He grinned, his almond golden eyes war pouring into mine.
"Successful, I had two deers myself really." He said to me in almost a proud tone. Emmett snickered next to us.
"I stole his third one that he was about to have himself. Way to be selfish." Emmett said in a smirk. I peered over Sam's shoulder at him, seeing Emmett poke his tongue out at me in a playful banter, I poked my tongue at him as well, looking back at Sam and moving one of his black hair strands away from his eyes. That was when I knew that we needed our alone time away from the family, having our own home and letting Edward and Bella adjust to their new married life as vampires, along with their daughters.
We needed out own place.
"When are you going to come and visit? Your niece wants to see her Aunt Emma and Uncle Sam sometime soon." I heard Edward on the other line as I stood by the front window of our new home. It was a pretty nice beach house that was built for two, nice and somewhat small that we needed. We moved to a small town called Lincoln City in Oregon, 2 hours out of Portland, and a good running distance away from Forks. It was small enough for us to go unnoticed from the locals, but it was nice enough for us since we loved the beach. We also found a forest nearby to go hunting and satisfy our diet.
As we explained what we wanted with Esme and Carlisle, they helped us find a house. It was nice to have a getaway from the rest of the family and only have Sam around, since we came back from being away for about 50 years we were instantly thrown into a way with newborns and help Bella not die in childbirth.
This was a nice slowdown.
"I know, I want to see her too." I said to him on the phone as I looked out and saw Sam standing outside on out lawn. Where our house was located at in Lincoln City, out house was right on the edge of a small cliff that slopped into the beach and onto the water. We had a green lawn in front of the house, where we would love to sit out there in the night and look out at the stars. The house itself was small and white with dark blue shutters, a wrap around porch and a wind chime that Alice gave us as a house warming gift. I loved hearing it in the wind, the chimes flowing in the gentle wind gave the house a medley to listen to as I would read or play the cello. Sam was out on the grass with his hands in his pockets and standing quite still. It was December 11th, and the cold winter air was coming through the area. Which to us, was nothing we couldn't handle.
"How is Bella?" I asked him aloud, since it's been a few months since she became a vampire. According to Edward and Alice, she was quite the opposite of a newborn: in control. Even on her first hunt, she showed no need to find a human to feed. She was calm, collective and nothing in her showed aggression or fear.
"She's fine. She's out with Resnesmee and Jacob for a hunting session." Edward explained to me, having me see Sam look back at me through the window of the front of the house. I smiled while still holding the phone, seeing how Sam's hair was styled and somewhat flowing in the wind just seeing him in the leather jacket he was wearing, I had to hold my breath once more.
"We can come up tonight and surprise her." I said to him aloud as I saw Sam walk into the house from being outside.
"Sounds good to me. I'll let Esme and Bella know you two are coming. I'll see you tonight." Edward said to me over the phone. I smiled as Sam walked over to me, slowly but surely with a smile on his face and feeling his hands on my waist.
"Alright, I love you." I said to Edward on the phone and once I heard him said "I love you too", we both hung up. I placed the phone on the couch as I looked back at Sam with a smile on my face.
"Your niece wants to see us." I said to Sam, seeing him wrap his arms around me and pull me close to him. I breathed in the sea air that was clinging onto his jacket and the coolness that is in his hair.
"I want to see her too, and the rest of the family." He said to me, having me look up at him and smile.
"Perhaps we could have a hunting session with the family." I said to him in almost a teasing tone. Sam grinned from ear to ear as I rubbed my fingers in his hair.
"We can make a game out of it." Sam suggested to me with a raised eyebrow.
"I know you are too well for you not to say no." I said back to him with a grin on my face. We were silent then, just looking at each other and hearing the ocean in the background. He placed a gentle kiss on my face, close to my ear and my breath as lost. Whenever he would kiss me, even when it was a simple kiss that we would have everyday, it always felt like our first kiss. There were butterflies, a lightness in my head and my skin tingling from the sensation of kissing Sam.
"Stop trying to take my breath away." I said to him aloud in almost a whisper, seeing him smile as he placed one more kiss against my ear and then faced me, holding my head gently in his hands and framing me. I missed these moments we had together, being away from the family and having our time alone.
"On the contrary, it's you that takes my breath away from just your beauty." Sam said to me, his voice was low and more personal. He spoke as if we were the only two people left in the world, something I loved about him.
"You know, these past fifty years I have been with you, it only seems like a blink of an eye to me." I said to him in a more serious tone, placing my hands on his wrists and rubbing his skin with my thumbs gently, "But it's fifty years of this life of eternity that I would not trade for anything."
"Not even for a human life with me?" He asked me, his voice was a bit out of breath. I looked at him with a confusing tone. He sighed and looked down for a second as I saw something puzzling his mind.
"I know what you were thinking, when you held Renesmee for the first time." He said to me, "I knew you wanted a child with me. I could see it in your eyes. And I want you to know, that if I could I would give you a child, our child." I shook my head from hear him say this. I hated seeing him in pain from a small thought I had in my head. I pressed my lips against his, not just to silence his rant for wanting to give me something we both knew we couldn't have, but to show him how much he meant to me. He placed my needs before his, he knew what I wanted in this world and it pained him for not getting it for him. I loved him for that, as selfish as it sounded, I loved his chivalry.
"Sam." I said after I pulled away from him, "That was only a mere thought that lasted for a second. I am perfectly fine with the life I have at this moment, the life I have with you. I want you to know, from the very bottom of my heart and all of it really, that I would never trade what we have now for something we know is temporary." He searched my eyes when I said this, having me looking at him with my seriousness and certainty. After what seemed like ages to me, though they were mere seconds in real time, Sam smiled softly at me and I knew our conversation ended there.
"You know, our child would have your hair." Sam said in a grin, having me smile widely and giggled in my spot as his arms went back around my waist and gripped me tightly. I saw his eyes change from soft to demanding, feeling his fingers against my lower back as I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"And your cheeks." I added as he leaned closer to me, too close to have me kiss him. The feelings I had for him then and there were being filled with passion, though I was not one to ignore it.
"Plus your nose." He said against my lips as he kissed me. His kisses were now possessive, as if he was claiming me. I didn't notice us moving back to our bedroom, or Sam picking me up in his arms like I was a feather. No, I was too engrossed in his kisses and my fingers in his hair. He growled as I felt his scalp underneath my fingertips.
"Your ears." I murmured back to him against his lips as he found the bottom of my shirt, slowing peeling it off as we were both on the bed. I was laying as he was hovering over me.
"Your laugh." Sam said to me as he peeled off his own shirt, having me drag my hand across his chest.
"Your smile." I said to him, my voice was getting rougher as we kissed some more.
"Your compassion." He said to me, but this time in a softer tone than before. Even though we paused in our heated kissing session with one another, my love for him in our bed was growing. Just seeing him above me, becoming undone from just kissing him and loving him, made the moment more intimate. Sam placed a kiss on my bare shoulder, having me close my eyes for a second.
"Your kindness." I said back to him, finding my voice being a whisper just like him. He smiled slightly at me as he moved the hair from my eyes. Just looking at him and hearing his voice would satisfy my soul for the rest of eternity. His lips were still against my shoulder as I kissed his head in return.
"Your bravery." He whisper against my skin as he kissed me once more, his kiss on my shoulder was a bit more bold and I ran my hands up bis bare back to rest near his shoulders.
"Your eyes." I said simply. He stopped kissing me, pulling away from my shoulder and looking at me directly in the eyes. I saw the same eyes sixty years ago, it was as if it was yesterday when we first yet, him falling on top of me and taking my breath.
"It was your eyes that made me fall for you, literally." I said to him, seeing him search my own eyes with his and he knew I was telling the truth. He kissed me square on the mouth, having me loose thought of life and have my way with him. As my husband, my best friend, my protector, my lover, and most importantly: my life. I didn't care that we weren't human and we couldn't have a child together, that was not important to my.
Sam was my life, and that's more important to me.
