Chapter 23

"Jacob we have to go back, Caleb…" He pulled me into a kiss and I couldn't help but go weak at my knees. When we pulled away so Jacob could breathe I pushed him away. "Jacob, seriously." He growled and it ripped through the air, "Nessie please, we haven't been alone in 15 years and Sam is with Caleb. Please?" I couldn't help but cave when he gave me this sad little face. I pulled him back to me with as much force as I dared use.

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"Jacob did you really need to rip my shirt off?" "Oh just grab one of Bella's old shirts and stop complaining." I ran up stairs and grabbed one of mom's old shirts and was back standing beside Jacob in less than one minute. "Ok lets go and see how Caleb is and find out if Marie ran away." Jacob handed me his clothes, which was pointless for him to put back on, just before he changed. I ran back to the main house and Jacob as a werewolf behind me.

I didn't have to be Jasper to feel all the tension radiating off the house. All the Quileutes were outside with Gabriel and his group. Jacob licked the back of my hand before he took his clothes out of it and went to get dressed in the woods and then I headed into the house. Emmett jumped on my back from the steps and I purposefully fell to the floor landing on my back. "Is that little old cabin still standing?" I jabbed him in the stomach causing him to exhale all of his air."Ok you two out side if you want to ruff house." I Looked back at him and shrugged, "Wrestle?" He nodded and we both ran through the house as fast as our feet would carry us and I could easily hear Rosalie talking, "Don't hurt his ego too much."

Jacob was sitting with the werewolves under a tree watching us fight and I had to admit Emmett either got stronger or he went easy on me when I was growing up, probably the latter. The only reason he couldn't keep me down was because I would show him a memory every time we touched and it would throw him off.

After an hour that last no more than a minute we both gave up and called it a draw. "I should have guessed you would cheat just like your father." I kissed him on the cheek before heading over to Jacob, "It's not my fault you aren't 'special'." He got a good laugh at that. I sat next to a half dressed Jacob who couldn't help but pull me onto his lap.

I looked a Leah who was still in wolf form while everyone else was back to being human. "I see some things never change." She growled at me but stopped with a look from Jacob. Gabriel's presence wasn't even registering to me until he spoke. "Why were you two fighting?" I bit my bottom lip, "We weren't, we were just messing around. Emmett is always out to prove that he is a better fighter than everyone else since his only 'power' is being strong. My dad can read his mind, Alice can tell the future, mom can block certain abilities, and I can make people see my memories. He feels cheated."

Carlisle came out on the front porch, "Jacob I think Caleb would like to talk to you." We both got up and as I got closer to the house I could smell the new werewolf stink. Sam was still sitting with our son trying to comfort him but he kept calling out for Jacob. "Caleb I'm right here." I waited in the hall as he went to comfort our son.

Carlisle rested his arm on my shoulder, "Zafrina would like to speak with you about Marie." I nodded and went to find her. She was helping Marie stretch her limits in her ability to move things. "You wanted to speak with me?" "Rennesme, I was here to help protect you from the Volturi and I will stand beside you to fight for your children but is it really worth it if they both hate you?" I looked at my daughter who pretending like she couldn't hear us, "Zafrina, I owe you my life and my daughter's. You are as much my family as anyone else here, but if them hating me saves their lives then how can it be wrong. Neither of them asked for this life but it was what they were dealt. If them hating me means they are alive then I don't care. Anything else?"

She turned her whole body towards me, "Since you asked. Have you tried to use you ability without touching someone?" I tossed my head back and sighed, "Not everyone can stretch the invisible rubber band in their heads. Don't let her over do it." I left them when I heard a howling coming from inside the house followed by snarls from Jasper and knew exactly what happen. Caleb got upset.


The time in cabin will be added as a new story titleed Outake from Shooting Starr. It is a juicy lemon only ready if you mature.