A/N: Hey guys, here's a little shortie. I keep having this horrid wall of writers block…so I've been doing other stuff… hopefully it will come to me. I hate it if it's forced. But I promise I'm still around, even if it's a while in coming. Good things come to those who wait, right?

**Reality Check**

The air grew cold as summer was drawing to a close in the Canadian Rockies, signaling a cold front in anticipation of winter. Snuggled on the bed after having a satisfying hunt and taken a luxurious bubble bath, Renesmee rested her head on Jake's warm chest, tracing his abdomen with her fingertips.

Jake rested with one arm behind his head while the other stroked Nessie's skin on her forearm as he stared out the high vaulted glass ceiling, watching the rain begin to fall complementing the soft music drifting through the speakers.

While there were so many unified thoughts in their minds, their center was founded on one thing: How much they loved each other. Renesmee smiled into Jacob's skin as she would occasionally blush.

"What's so funny?" Jake asked knowing she was smiling without looking at her.

"Hum," Nessie sighed with a smile, "nothing's particularly funny," she shrugged, "I'm just so happy."

Jake's eyes closed at the sound of her voice. His happiness filled him more than he could find words to express so he settled with saying, "I'm glad baby… I love you too."

"No, I don't think you can fathom how happy I am…" Nessie said turning her face, kissing Jake's abdomen, trailing her finger down the deep indentation of his pelvis, "I'm almost delirious with happiness."

Jake chuckle rumbled in his chest, partially because her finger tickled and partially because she was so transparent, "Mmm, baby, that tickles," he murmured.

Etta James began singing over the speakers softly; laughter bubbled in Nessie's chest listening to the words, then she began singing along.

'I found a dream that I could speak to, a dream that I can call my own…' she started, kissing his chest, 'I found a thrill, to press my cheek to, a thrill that I have never known,' she sang pressing her cheek to the tight skin of his belly.

Jake's smile spread across his lips as she crawled back up his body, the song dripping from her lips, 'you smile, you smile, oh and then a spell was cast, and here we are in heaven, for you are mine – At Last.'

"I love it when you sing baby," Jake said when the music had ended moving his arm to circle her waist, resting his hand on her gloriously sculpted belly, then rolling her onto her back he began kissing her stomach then rested his head on her tummy.

They lay in the stillness of the room, the quiet music filling the air until her tummy began to make noises under his ear. "Didn't you have enough to eat?" He giggled, kissing where the noise emitted from.

Nessie's face contorted in almost pain. "Ugh, no, that's not food…" she groaned getting up. When she doubled over, Jake was up at her side in a flash of movement.

"Ness, what's wrong?" he asked cradling her body.

"Oh, god Jake… it hurts…" she moaned running to the bathroom.

Leaning over the toilet, Nessie threw up the contents of her stomach.

Jake rubbed her back in circles on his black dress shirt she was wearing. "Are you okay?" he asked worried.

"Yeah, I'm fine… I guess it just turned on me…" she said coughing out the rest of the blood she had just consumed.

"Since when does blood make you sick?" Jake asked after having gone to the closet and retrieving a red towel. Nessie stood up accepting the towel and looking at Jake as the realization came to her mind. Instantly Jake dropped to his knees pressing his face to her stomach, smiling, "We're having a baby."

"How did you know?" Nessie asked mystified running her fingers through his hair.

"We're one flesh my love…" Jake said hugging her gently then picking her up. Cradled in his arms Jake carried Nessie back to the bed.

"I love you Jacob Black," she said "you give me life."

"Seems fast…" Jake began.

"-the first time probably, it's been four days," Nessie said.

Jake laughed, "…the lake? That was six days ago Nessie."

"It hasn't been six days," Nessie said in disbelief.

"Yes it has…" he laughed kissing her cheek, "you've been too busy to keep track of the days love."

"Didn't momma say that aunties would be back in a few days yesterday?"

"No, that was almost four days ago…" he laughed, watching her expression turn from puzzle to surprise.

Almost instantly Alice was in the room.

"Alice you're back," Nessie exclaimed.

"Er, well yea… I've been back," she said flitting over to the bed, "don't get up."

"Oh don't be silly, I'm not an invalid," Nessie laughed sitting up to give Alice a hug. "Did you tell the family yet?"

"No, I seriously just walked in the door. I went out hunting with Jasper."

"Where is Aunt Rose?" Nessie asked Alice who was touching her stomach with a loving smile.

"With the babies… since you've been holding up in your room for days now, she's in heaven, you may need to fight her to get them back…"

Nessie blushed crimson picking up the sheet to hide her face behind, "Yea, I guess we've been busy," she said giggling.

"Well, it looks like you've missed another stage… they've grown almost another inch…" Alice said smiling.

Nessie threw the sheet off and almost instantly had on a pair of Jake's sweats.

"Stylish Ness," Alice teased.

Nessie looked down and laughed, she had forgotten she was still in Jake's shirt, no bra and now his sweats…"Well, it's not like it's a secret what we've been in here doing for the past week…"

"With the exception of your hunt today love," Jake reminded her and then laughed, "okay never mind."

"Oh good lord," Alice said laughing rolling her eyes.

"Right. Children. Come on Jake guess it's back to reality," Nessie said pulling her husband behind her out the door.

Nessie arrived in Rosalie and Emmett's room just in time to witness Josiah 'playing' with the stereo.

"Remember kid, if you break it, you have to get a new one…" Emmett warned a boy that Nessie was shocked to see as her son.

He had indeed grown taller, his face seemed to be longer as well, while his eyes definitely seemed to carry some new sparkle behind them. The little boy looked more like a midget of Emmett than of Jacob with his skin tone seeming to change color to a cooler tan than the golden brown skin of his father. Matching Emmett in a pair of beige khaki's and a white long sleeve shirt, he stood with his eyes rolling toward his uncle.

"Where is he supposed to get a new one from genius?" Rosalie asked snickering at her husband.

"What! That's what you always tell me…"

Rose rolled her eyes smiling and turning away from her goofy husband, "go ahead sweetheart, we're watching."

Josiah pushed up his sleeve and watched in his hand the blue spinning energy appear and dissipate and waiving it toward the stereo, it turned on. "What would you like to hear," the little one asked.

Xenia, in a pretty blue and white sundress, jumped up and down clapped her hands laughing.

"Can you turn on a game?" Emmett asked smiling.

"What game?" Josiah asked.

"Oh, anything," Emmett shrugged.

The television then came to life and an old basketball game was on ESPN Classic.

"This is awesome, no more remotes!" Emmett laughed receiving a punch in the arm from Rosalie.

"Gettin' a little feisty are we?" Emmett asked throatily grabbing Rose around the waist.

"Not in front of the children!" Rose said mortified.

"Or their parents…" Nessie's said laughing as her parents strolled into the room behind her.

"Oh well look who finally decided to grace us with her presence," Rosalie pouted looking disapprovingly at her attire.

"Look at my babies!" Ness exclaimed kneeling down to catch her children in a double embrace.

"What babies?" Jake asked amused behind her.

"Did you see momma?" Josiah asked glowing with pride.

"I did baby. How did you do that?" Nessie asked ignoring her husband.

"I can talk to it," Josiah declared.

"You can talk to it?" Nessie asked her son while looking up toward her father for clarification.

Edward just shrugged his shoulders unable to give a response to his daughters pleading eyes.

"Yup," Josiah said hopping down from his mother's knee and leaping back into Rosalie's arms.

"So what's new with you two?" Rosalie asked, adjusting Josiah in her arms.

Nessie said standing up with Xenia still in her arms smiled at her father. Edward's eyes were the first to light up before she spoke, as she declared, "Jacob and I are going to have another baby…" she said and waited for the range of exclamations.

"So are you guys just gonna keep poppin' out kids every time you do it?" Emmett blurted out first.

"Shut up Emmett," everyone said almost in unison.

"What? " He laughed, "You know you're thinkin' it too."

"That's incredible news," Bella said embracing her daughter, but in truth, they were all thinking what Emmett had said…

"I'm gonna be a big sister?" Xenia said smiling cradling her mother's face passing images of herself toting around a little sibling.

"I guess so baby," she smiled, being joined in an embrace by her husband.

The envy in Rosalie's heart was masked well enough by a smile, however not well enough to escape the notice of Edward or Renesmee.

"Would you name the baby Rosalie?" Nessie asked smiling at her aunt hoping to ease some of the pain she was feeling at not being able to have children of her own.

Rose couldn't find words to say but a small smile tugging at the corners of her mouth gave Nessie the answer.

"Guess we should go see the Edmond…" Jake suggested giving Nessie's waist a little squeeze.