Surviving Seventeen
The sequel to Sweet Sixteen. Please read that first otherwise you will be confused. I was surprised by the reviews I got for Sweet Sixteen so I just had to carry on with it XD
All characters are not created by me but the amazing Stephenie Meyer. I only made the story line :)
Chapter Twenty - Nightmare
Edward's POV
Edward, I need to talk to you.
Alice's thoughts rang loud and clear as I walked down the hallway. I turned around the corner and knocked on her bedroom door.
"Come in Edward."
"Yes Alice?" I asked walking in, I closed the door behind me and when I turned around she was pacing across the width of her bedroom, from the wardrobe to the bed and back.
Over and over again.
"I've seen something." she whispered still pacing, but slightly slower this time. I inhaled an unesscary breath and walked forward standing in front of my pixie sister. I towered over her small frame, she had no choice but to stop the pacing.
"About Jacob?" I questioned. I talked in a low whisper just in off-chance Renesmee had woken from her slumber, she'd gotton good at hiding her thoughts around me. Renesmee's heartbeat coming from three rooms away thumped erratically at the mention of Jacob's name.
Alice nodded and I let out a sigh.
"It's not good." she said looking up at me. My silent heart started to ache. Jacob had become part of our family, I thought of him as a son. He was Renesmee's life, without him she would...she...would be like Bella was. I winced as I thought of what happened to Bella when I left, motorcycles and cliff diving.
I shuddered.
The thought of watching my daughter go through that made me sick.
"Let me see." I said nodding. She closed her eyes and replayed her vision.
I saw human Jacob stepping out from the trees, lost in thought, expression torn. It's dark-at night or very early morning. A large lorry coming down the freeway and swerving a car with joy riders, hitting straight into Jacob. The vision stopped there.
"Won't he heal?" I asked confused, werewolves had extremely fast healing rate, maybe even faster than vampires.
Alice shook her head.
Another vision played. Renesmee knelt beside a grave, dressed in black. Tears were running down her face as she touched the gravestone. His funeral.
I pinched the bridge of my nose and inhaled deeply.
"When?" I questioned, her eyes closed momentarily.
"Tonight..." she whispered back, her eyes remained shut but her head turned to the right towards where Renesmee's heart beat came from. My daughter was going to suffer the worst pain imaginable and she never even got to say goodbye. I knew her, she'd feel responsible and guilty because of their argument, she'd feel that he died thinking that she didn't love him. Jacob's love made her strong, she was going to break-- no shatter into a million pieces and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
She wasn't shatter resistant.
Alice's eyes opened and she stared at me, I heard Nessie stir in her bed and both of our heads snapped towards the right wall again.
I heard the sheets russeling and her breathing becoming faster as he heartbeat quickened, but she showed no signs of waking up.
She was stuck in a nightmare.
When she woke up she'd have to face a new nightmare.
The nightmare had only just begun.
I penertrated her innocent mind to read the horrors that were happening, her nightmare was an exact replica or Alice's vision except she was with Jake herself. Standing on the opposite side of the road calling out to him. Her pleas and shouts made me want to cry.
I left Alice's room briskly heading towards Renesmee's bedroom, when I reached it Bella and Rosalie were already there. Bella laid next to Renesmee on the bed curling her body around her daughters cradled shape. Rosalie sat beside the bed twirling her blonde curls in her fingers, If she pulled any harder the hair would most probably come out.
I didn't know what to do, I felt helpless.
I wanted to comfor hert, but didn't know how.
"Edward she's not going to want to talk about it with you when she wakes up." Rosalie whispered, she never looked away from Renesmee.
"She's my daughter." I started to hiss but Bella cut in. Her voice broke twice.
"Edward, I know what she's going through. We heard you and Alice talking. Edward, you came back but them months were the darkest of my existence. Jake isn't..." she trailed off, moving the hair out of Nessie's face. Guilt raged through my body, Bella hated to remind me of it but I never forgot it. I was always guilty for almost destroying us both.
I would never forgive myself for as long as I exist.
Never.
Bella turned to look at me and I could see Alice's vision coming to an end in Nessie's nightmare. Bella was right.
She usually was.
Jake wasn't coming back. I left the room slowly and closed the door leaning my head against it, Alice was by my side.
"Six seconds." she whispered and as she spoke Renesmee's heartbeat sped up and it continued to increase with each passing second. Six seconds later I heard her sobs as she woke up.
Little did she know the nightmare had only just begun.
Nessie's POV
"Jake!" I cried as I woke up. I launched up crying as I reran the dream in my head. Mom pulled me close and Rose came into the bed sitting on my other side. She stroked my hair softly.
"Shhhh, calm down. Breathe." Mom encouraged. My breathing was ragged and short as I saw him leaving again in my mind. I started to hyperventilate.
"Please calm down baby." Mom repeated, her hands cupped my cheeks and I tried to look at her but my vision was blurred by the constant curtain of tears that poured down my face.
I took a deep breath.
My heart broke.
"I need Jacob." I choked out gasping. I closed my eyes and focused on controlling my breathing, my heartbeat and breathing rate started to decrease. Rosalie drew in a deep breath, it was scary, she seamed nervous.
"Did you have a nightmare?" she asked quietly and I wiped my eyes.
"The worst one imaginable." I whispered and Mom kissed my cheek softly. "I want to call Jake." I wanted to make up with him, the dream had just brought it back to me that I could never live without him. I reached across the table to reach for my phone but it was turned off.
I tried to turn it on but the battery was flat.
I crawled out of bed and stumbled my way to the door, my hand searched for the handle and I finally found it, jerking the door open,.
"What not in the morning? You need to sleep." Rose called as I left the room. I just shook my head violently at her comment, I was going to speak to him now. My eyes adjusted to the light and as I passed the mirror my eyes widened at the person who stared back at me. If you could call it that.
My hair stuck up at all angles like a haystack, my eyes were red and puffy from crying with panda eyes that complemented the black streaks of mascara that stained my cheeks and the party dress that was pristine earlier that day was now creased.
I'd looked better.
Much better.
"No wonder Jake wanted to go with the pack, I look hideous." I said trying to keep the tone light. The laugh came out strangled as now humor or enthusiasm lurked behind my words. Rosalie stood behind me taming my wild hair as she spoke.
"You always look beautiful." she smiled and I rolled my eyes, vampires were supposed to have good eyesight; maybe she needed glasses.
I continued on my journey down the hallway and down the stairs keeping my eyes on my footsteps, when I reached the bottom I saw that everyone was playing cards in the diningroom. Rosalie went straight past me and sat on Emmett's lap, her head curved into the crook of his neck. Esme sat staring out of the window.
Something told me they weren't really concentrating on the game but waiting around.
Waiting for something.
Or someone.
A large blanket of doom and gloom engulfed the whole house.
Jake really was the sunshine of this place.
I took a deep breath and picked up the phone punching in the familar number - Jake's cell.
It started to ring and I chewed nervously on the skin. It continued to ring.
"Hey you've reached Jake, i'm most probably with my beautiful Nessie, leave a message and i'll get back to you. Laters!" the reciever said and when in got to "my beautiful Nessie" tears welled up in my eyes.
He wasn't with me.
He was with the pack.
The beep sounded.
"Hi Jake, it's me - Nessie. Please come home, I love you." I whispered and I saw Esme get up and leave the room, Alice flinched and Rosalie turned her face into Emmett away from my watching eyes. They knew something I didn't...
"What's going on?" I asked looking around at each person, I placed the reciever back down.
Silence.
"I said, what's going on?" I repeated. Edward gave a small nod and Alice started.
"I had a vision." she said quietly.
The phone rang. I looked to the phone and put my hand on the reciever ready to answer.
"No Ne-"
"Alice it has got to be Jake." I said smiling, it was early morning no one else would call.
He had gotton my message.
He wanted to speak to me.
"Trust me you don't want to answer it." she continued, every word rang with sincerity and seriousness. I picked up the phone and the small pixie put her head into her hands.
"Hey Jake." I said into the reciever. I was surprised when Jake didn't answer.
"Nessie?! Finally." Seth's voice said exasperated. My face fell. I was hoping it was Jake. Suddenly confusion kicked in at his words. Finally?
"Yes Seth?" I asked in a confused tone, had he been trying to get a hold of me?
"Nessie, theres been an accident..." he started, Seth's usual happy voice was replaced with a nervousness and sadness. I stiffened.
In the background I could hear an engines purr. "Hang on Ness, Quil is here...he'll talk."
I heard the phone being passed between the boys.
"Why isn't your cell on?" Quil questioned but my mind still concentrated on the word "accident".
"It's out of battery, what accident?" I demanded.
"Are you sitting down?"
"No, why?"
"Sit down then."
"I dont want to too, just tell me."
There was a pause on the other line.
"Jake's hurt."
The two words caused my world to come crashing down around me, my heartbeat accelerated and I inhaled a shaky breath. Alice's head was now tucked into her knees, and Rose was positioned so I could see the corner of only one of her eyes.
"How bad?" I managed to choke out, my legs felt like jelly and started to shake. Dad gripped my one arm, Carlisle my other.
"Pretty bad, they don't the full extent....they don't think he's going to make it." Quil whispered. All feeling left my legs and I dropped the phone, my mind fought to process the information. "Get vampire doc down there will you?"
I couldn't find my voice to answer.
"Hello? Nessie? You there?" I heard through the phone and Carlisle gently picked it up from the floor. My body slumped down and I pressed my back hard against the wall. Dad crouched in front of me, his eyes never leaving my face.
"Hello Quil?...I'll be right there." Carlisle spoke. Sobs racked my chest and my head swirled as the water works opened up again.
Not going to make it.
Not going to make it.
Not going to make it.
Jake had to make it.
The thought of life without Jake made me feel sick, with Jacob I was nothing.
We were a team.
Soulmates.
Carlisle crouched down beside me and put a cold finger under my chin, turning my face so that our eyes were level.
"I'm going to the hospital, would you like to come?" Carlisle said slowly and I started nodding. Dad let out a hiss.
"Carlisle! Does she really need to see him this way?" he questioned, his eyes burned coal black and Mom put a hand on his shoulder.
"Dad i'm going. Please help me up." It came out mush as the tears continued to fall.
I felt Dad's iron graps around my wrists and with a sharp tug I was on my feet standing in front of him.
"You don't need to see him like this Renesmee." he said each word slowly.
"Yes I do." I mumbled and he sighed. I walked around him towards the door, there was no need to change and to be honest I didn't care, I slipped on my party shoes when I reached the handle. Carlisle followed silently putting a hand on the small of my back, guiding me to the parked car. The sobs had stopped but the tears continulously fell down my face. I felt another approach and spun around to see Dad.
My teenage father's face was torn.
"I'm coming." he said sternly and I shook my head.
"I'm fine Dad."
"You need sup-" I interrupted him.
"Dad i'm fine and Grandpa is with me anyway." I shouted, my emotions were causing havoc as the shock started to settle in and the enormity of the situtation I was currently in. I didn't want my father there when I broke down by his hospital bed, I didn't even want Carlisle. I wanted to do that in private. He looked like he was about to protest but before he could get the chance to open his mouth I spoke again.
"Please Dad. I need to do this alone..."