"Ness, Darling, I was alpha, my great-grandfather was alpha, trust me when I say Mason – who is my son – is now alpha" I was trying to soothe my imprint, she could wind herself up sometimes.

"B-but he said he can't order the pack around..." it sounded like she was loosing the will to live...

"I'll talk to him later, if I see him." I replied.

"ok. Love you bye!" The phone line went dead before I could even reply.

I slipped the phone into my pocket and turn to face Jared with Ria who was sitting beside him.

"Ah hello Ria! You here for your check-up?" I asked, I had to put my serious hat on now. Just after Mason was born I started training to be a doctor, I now work in the Forks hospital.

Ria stood up and turned to her dad,

"Shouldn't be long, wait here, I no longer need you to come with me." Ria bent down and kissed her dad on his cheek. Jared grinned and whispered something I didn't hear into her ear.

I walked down the corridor and walked into my office. Ria was right behind me. Ria is a kid full of medical problems, bless her. She has diabetes which has put her in hospital multiple times, and she had a kidney transplant when she was 9 and her body didn't like it, so we had to hospitalize her for weeks with constant medical attention until the body accepted it. And now she has to come here every Month for a check up, and every other month to run tests. She is anaemic, and last year she was diagnosed with a underactive immune system. I have once seen her with all her medication she has to take every day – when she stayed round ours – and there was a lot. She has to test her blood twice a day, Cellcept pills, Anaemic pills and 5ml of this immunity support stuff.

Ria sat on the edge of her chair, she looked on edge..

"Ria, I know you hate sharing this with me, but I need you to tell me the usual stuff please"

I told her. There's 4 questions she has to answer every month. 1. Have you generally been well? your blood sugar level been ok? 3. When was your last 'time of the month' 4. Did you take any pain killers?

"I've been being sick a lot, but I think that is because the immunity stuff tastes sooooooo bad! My sugar level has but ok, it went a bit low a few days ago but I had a chocolate bar and its fine now, I was due yesterday, buts it late, and I took paracetamol for a head ache a few times."

She was very nervous, and she had no reason to be, we had done this every month for the last 4 years!

"Well you're tests results from last month came back last week and good news! I can move you onto the Immunity pills! And are you often late? I can put you on the pill if you like, obviously that is NOT my blessing to do anything, bad with my son. But it will stop your periods being late." I told her, and to my surprised, she burst into tears, "What's wrong?"

She stiffened, and suddenly tried to stop the tears from flowing and breathed heavy to try and control herself. I noticed that she was started to hyperventilate and I picked her up and sat her of the bed, and removed her hands from her face and waited for her to breathe normally again. After a few minutes, she still wasn't calm and the colour from her faced had drained, and that was when I realised something was wrong. I lay her down and checked her pulse; It was very high. It wasn't until I heard her inhale really loudly that I realised she was having a full on panic attack.

What brought this on? I racked my brain for some snippet of information I must had learnt about dealing with panic attacks. And I remembered what my teacher had told me 'As they panic, you must stay calm and check they are breathing. If they do not come up in 2 minutes, put an oxygen mask on them and wait a bit longer, and as long as they are still breathing things as swell, and keep reassuraring.

Had it been 2 minutes? I put a mask on her anyway.

"Ria – Calm down and tell me what's wrong, I need to know, even as it's as your doctor not your uncle." I whispered into her ear.

Did the clock get louder?

She sat up and apologized for her behaviour and for scaring me. I asked her to tell me why she had panicked and she wouldn't tell me.

"I would tell you if you were just my doctor, or just my uncle, its just... I need to let someone else know before you." she explained, trying to pass it off as something pointless, I saw through though.

Our gazes locked and I wasn't backing down she told me.

"Remember Christmas?" She slurred her words.

"I do, quite literally remember Christmas" I joked.

"How me and Henry got drunk and I ended up sleeping in his room?" She asked.

"I can't believe how drunk we let you get!" I was trying desperately trying to lighten the mood.

"well, before, I lied to you... My period isn't late, well, technically it is, but I'm not expecting it, and would it be possible to come off the cellcept?" Ria was almost in tears.

And then it clicked. She got drunk, isn't expecting her period and wants to come off the pills that increases the chance of miscarriage, and she had a fit when I told her she didn't have my blessing to do bad stuff with Henry. Instead of getting angry – like I should – I wrote down her prescriptions, which didn't include her cellcept, wrote her an appointment with down in the pregnancy department. I hugged her and gave her all her stuff.

"I'm guessing your dad doesn't know, and neither does Henry?"

"she shook her head – Marie does though." she got onto her feet and went to examine herself in mirror so her dad wouldn't suspect anything.

As she left I sunk into my chair. My son had got a girl pregnant, and he didn't even know. They were both still in school for crying out loud, but I knew Ria, and no-way was she going give up this baby, so Henry better like it or lump it. I had to tell Nessie. I got my phone out my pocket and held 2 until it started ringing.

"Nessie." I stated as soon as she picked up, "Henry got Ria pregnant."

"Is that why Ria just showed up here in tears? Marie answered the door and then Ria just broke down in Marie arms shouting for Henry" she had the tone of understanding in her voice, "They've all gone for a picnic in the woods now, except from Samantha she's with Zara and Violet's with Emily. She's sleeping there tonight."

"erm, I guess that would make sense, well I'm coming home now – I'm missing you too much" and I hang up before Nessie could say bye.

I put my coat on and turned off all the lights in my office. I locked the door behind me and went to the reception area.

"I'm outta here" I told Ms. Downey behind the desk, "I'll be back tomorrow lunch time"

She clicked on her computer and smiled up at me,

"Goodbye"

My drive home took about 10 minutes in a car, and 5 if I'm on my motorcycle. I pulled into the driveway and went inside. I opened the door and Nessie was sat in the kitchen waiting for me, our dazes locked, and I bent down for a kiss – it was meant to be peck but she intensified it and soon we were both gasping for air.

"The kids left about 10 minutes ago, and Emily picked up Samantha just after lunch." She whispered into my ear, "You need to talk to Henry and Mason"

I pulled away and dragged her to the living room. Our house was pretty big. Its a 6 bedroom house designed by Esme herself. It had a cloakroom at the back which had clothes and showers in for the pack, It was built in a clearing that is found 1 mile away from the Cullen's main house. There was once a footpath that led to it from halfway up the Cullen drive, but Esme insisted we laid some road down so we could get to it in our cars. It didn't have the white – on – cream colour scheme like most Cullen properties, it was very homely and Nessie loves the colours brown and Dark green together, most of our furniture was Brown and the walls were plain, but all assets were dark green (lampshades, Blankets, Picture frames etc) We sat down on the loveseat, and she took her hand in mine and stared into my eyes,

"Are you angry with Henry? Or Ria?" she was worried.

"Surprisingly, no. - I know Ria didn't want to tell me, but I think she's glad now. Marie knew, did you know that? We need to support her, because she ain't giving it up!" I explained quite simply.

"Good." Nessie stated. "Because I think its wonderful, they may be young, and Henry has imprinted on Ria so Henry will grow up like he has to to be a father of my grandchild."

"So what happened this morning with Mason?" I asked suddenly remembering the whole alpha thing with Mason.

"Well he told me that he can't order the pack around – but you could... and I swear alpha could do that?" she explained.

"Yes, well maybe he is doing it wrong..." I was really shocked that Mason couldn't the pack around, but I tried to blow it over as something non-important to Nessie, "why were you talking about it anyway?"

"Well, he wants to stop phasing – he wants to tell the pack to retire until the next generation arrive." Nessie had now stood up and dragged me to the kitchen, she was fixing up some dinner for later – it looked like it would be some sort of stew – she was putting the ingredients into our slowcooker.

"He wants that?" I was even more shocked now, I assumed Mason loved being wolf.

"Yes, and please please please don't tell him what he should and shouldn't do, you have a habit of doing that" she was getting all defensive of Mason, she did this a lot because me and Mason didn't always get on – and she always took Mason's side.