This is a sequel to Between Love and Lust, there are new characters and plot line that do not follow the books, it is very important you read Between Love and Lust first. I do not own these most of these characters.

Chapter 1:

Moving In

"Yea, just put that down right there," I said to Emmett as he carried the paisley printed sofa under his arm like it was a sack of potatoes. He set it down with a large thud and pushed it up against the wall I was pointing at. Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, Seth, Quil, and Sam filed in one by one filling that already cramped apartment with boxes and furniture, myself and Torrance (who was looking bigger by the second) just stood there directing traffic due to our "weakened states," hers of course only being temporary. It only took an hour before most of the boxes were in and it was time for me to work, combining Jacob's stuff and mine was not as hard as I thought it was going to be, both of us only had a limited amount, but making the rooms not look as divided was more difficult.

"So how much of this is he letting you pitch," Alice asked as she danced into the room carrying a large bouquet of wild flowers. She looked around at the miss matched furniture we had collected from various thrift stores, Jacob and I had agreed early on that even though they were being very pushy, we would not let anyone in the Cullen family purchase anything for our new place. It was going to be ours, only ours. "I know you said that I couldn't buy you anything, but I figured you needed…" She paused and looked around the room, "Color."

"Thanks," I said sarcastically, "Put them anywhere, I haven't really figured out where anything is going yet."

"Can I help?" She said, "As you know I can organize things very well, and I work very very fast." She completed with a wink. Before I could answer however Rosalie came storming in looking furious, but her stare wasn't at me, that flaming stare that could burn out someone's soul, was directed at Torrance. In the past couple of weeks since I had been home I had noticed that Rosalie had a very strange and intense draw towards Torrance, my attention was really spiked when I caught Rosalie sprinting and hovering over Torrance after she had slipped. Edward of course was there worried and upset, but he barely got close enough to help her up because of Rosalie's hovering.

Rosalie made it over to Torrance in a split second and I watched with a half smile on my face as Torrance rolled her eyes and put her hands out in front of her, stopping Rosalie dead in her tracks, "Stop right there Rosalie…" Torrance said in a stern voice.

"I'm sorry," She paused, "But should you be doing this, I mean just this morning it took you almost an hour to get out of bed, your stomach is all bruised up, and…"

Torrance could tell that Rosalie could keep going with the very long list of difficulties Torrance was having with this pregnancy, I mean how easy could it be to have a vampire's baby, even if you are a werewolf. "I'm not doing any lifting and I feel fine, please," Torrance grabbed Rosalie's hand in hers, I watched as Rosalie's eyes widened and her nose squinched up a bit, "Don't treat me like I'm porcelain, it's more annoying than you can imagine."

"I get that, I just…I worry," Rosalie sounded sincere, but after conversations with Edward about this anomaly I was beginning to understand, Rosalie wasn't as interested in the health of Torrance, but the health of the child she was carrying.

"I know, but believe me I get enough of that from Edward," Torrance said with even more annoyance in her voice.

"Speaking of Edward, where is he? Where is Jacob? Why is all the work left up to the females, I find that a little odd," Rosalie said looking around the room for the people she knew weren't here.

"Hey what am I supposed to be?" Emmett said carrying another box and dropping it on the floor.

"You know what I mean?" Rosalie said back and watched him turn angrily out of the door.

"I'll show you who's a man when we get home," He muttered under his breath before he was out of sight.

"Edward is running the store, he wanted to help, but I kind of need him away from me right now. If he asks me one more time if I'm alright I'm going to lose it." Torrance said and I gave out a laugh a little more loudly than the rest.

"Believe me I know how that goes, at least you're a little more sturdy than me, I got that question if I breathed too loudly." Torrance smiled and nodded, it was nice that there wasn't any weird feelings between us because of him and our history, in fact with the stories she and I shared, I'm sure Edward would have wanted there to have been at least a little weirdness. "Oh, and Jacob is with the pack, they got some sort of scent today they couldn't quite sniff out. It's probably nothing, he said he'll be home as soon as possible." I had to smile when I said "home," the thought of us having a home, a real place that's ours, that we share. A place I can fall asleep and wake up to the man I love was a feeling much more amazing than I could have imagined.

"Edward's coming," Alice said and we all looked at the door, she noticed and laughed, "Well he just left work, give him a minute."

We continued working, setting everything up one room at a time, Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, then living room. By the time that Edward had walked through my front door he looked around and mockingly turned around, "Oh no you don't," Torrance said pulling him back around, "We have done our part, it's your turn my love," She motioned to all the girls to sit down on my couch and armchair, which we did, then motioned to Edward with her hand to get to work. He smiled and went to the nearest box labeled books, picked it up, and looked at me. To which I smiled and pointed to my gorgeous cherry wood bookshelf I "stole" from Edward's bookstore. He got pretty much the same treatment when the boys returned with Pizza, they lazed on the floor and watched him work with huge smiles on their faces.

Before I knew it, the place looked perfect, everything in order, unpacked, and organized. Everyone had left except for Edward and Torrance, who decided to wait until Jacob came back. "So no Charlie?" Edward said as he cradled a very sleepy Torrance.

"Seems that way," I said trying not to show how hurt I really was.

"How has he been?"

"I don't really know to tell you the truth, all I know is what I hear from Renee, he hasn't really talked to me in a while. He says hi, and bye, but other than that…"

"Silence" He finished my sentence.

"He wasn't even here today when I went to get my stuff, Renee said he got called into work, but I doubt it." I shook my head like I was shaking away the thoughts.

"Everything will work out Bella, you will get everything you have ever wanted, I promise." He smiled that little crooked smile I loved and then looked at Torrance.

I heard the key in the lock and my eyes darted to the door which burst open, "Sorry, sorry. I'm here, what can I do?"

I got up lazily from the couch pretending to be beat tired and wrapped my arms around my Jacob, "It's all done. You missed the whole thing."

"I'm so sorry," He said again and kissed my forehead, "Was it hell?"

"You have no idea, but now all you have to think about is how you're going to make it up to me." I said resting my head against his burning chest, "Did you run all the way here?"

"Yeah, following that…whatever it was took a lot longer than I thought, I tried to be back sooner…" I pressed my hand against his lips to stop him from talking.

"I know you did, it really wasn't that bad, we were done a while ago." I said looking up at him.

"Yeah, and she's not as tired as she seems, ask her how much work she actually did," Edward said and Jacob looked at me suspiciously.

"Hey I delegated, it was tough." With that Jacob picked me up and threw me over his shoulder.

He walked me over to the couch and placed me back where I was sitting, "So are you going to stay for a while, maybe watch a movie?" He said to Edward.

"No I think we're going to get going, she's been in and out for awhile," Edward said looking at Torrance, "we'll let you guys get settled in."

"How's she doing? The pack has been asking about her?" Jacob said, and Edward almost winced.

"It changes from day to day, today was pretty hard, the blood only goes so far, Carlisle thinks she only has a couple of days left."

"What was wrong today?" I asked.

"Well she tried getting out of bed in the morning, and the little one kicked her so hard it broke two of her ribs. It's a good thing she heals so quickly, I try not to worry, but it's hard seeing her in that much pain."

"Well it's almost over, right? I mean soon you'll have a bouncing baby boy or girl?" Jacob said sarcastically.

"Yea we are a little worried about that too," Edward said and I couldn't help but think I was missing something.

"You're worried about the baby? I thought it was doing a lot better since the blood thing?" I asked.

"Not really the health of the baby, but the fact that we know nothing about what kind of baby it's going to be. There is no precedence here, at the rate it's consuming blood, we're worried it will be very similar to a newborn vampire with it's needs and lack of restraint, but also it's part wolf, we just don't know what kind of effect any of those things will have on it." Edward said in a whispered tone, we've had this sort of talk before, and it's made Torrance a little upset. She refused to see anything but joy about her situation. "Well…" He said shrugged and stood up. He turned to pick up Torrance, but as soon as he touched her, her eyes shot open and she let out a blood curdling scream.

Sorry it took my forever to write the sequel, I was trying to find the motivation and where to take the story. please read and review, I'd love to see what you think of where I'm taking this.