LEMON ALERT! Another lemon towards the beginning. Its the last one so enjoy.

Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns all Twilight Saga and characters.

Renesmee

Leah and I were having dessert when Jacob barged in through the door. He was breathless.

"What's going on?"

"Baby I'm sorry about before. I want to talk, can we go out for a walk?"

"Ok. Is something wrong?"

"No." He told me smiling. He looked at me with such a loving look that I would have followed him anywhere.

"Alright you idiots. Go on and make up. I have some news of my own I need to take care of." I smiled at her reassuringly and then I went with my wolf out into the forest. He led me to the lake where he proposed which made me think he was up to something.

"What are you up to?" I asked him. He smiled at me and scooped me up into his arms and set me on a large stone by the lake. He kneeled before me and held on to both of my hands. He kissed my palms and then he looked up into my eyes. There were tears in his eyes which brought tears to mine. I could feel the emotion he was feeling at it was overwhelming me. I stroked his face and used my gift to tell him how much I loved him and that I was sorry for fighting.

"I'm sorry too especially because we didn't have to fight." He told me gently.

"I know." I told him but he shook his head. He was smiling and giving me that loving look he was giving me before.

"No baby, you don't. That's why I brought you here. We didn't have to fight about it because… We're pregnant Ness. We're going to have a baby!" His words didn't make any sense. He saw the confusion in my face and continued.

"Alice had a vision. You're pregnant baby. There's a little girl growing inside of you. Alice saw her. She'll have your curls." I felt like I was having an out of body experience. His words hung in the air. My emotion couldn't be contained and my joy burst out of me with a force that surprised us both. I placed my hand of my belly and closed my eyes. I felt my tears trickle down my cheeks and a second later I felt Jacob pepper my face with kisses and trailed down my neck to my abdomen. It wasn't sexual, it was loving and gentile.

"I can't believe it. I mean, I do but... we had been so careful."

"I guess not careful enough." We both laughed.

"We have to go tell momma and ... well daddy probably already knows and told momma."

"Yea, they know already so does Jasper, but the rest of them don't. I told them we can tell everyone tomorrow but we can head over there now if you want."

"No, tonight I celebrate with my husband and tomorrow we celebrate with everyone else. Take me home Jacob." I told him in a soft voice because I could hold in all the emotion I was feeling. There was a certain pride that came along with knowing that I had his baby, our baby, growing inside of me. I needed him. I needed him to love me and to make love to me in acknowledgement of the life we had just created. Jake took me in his arms, bridal style and he ran home at top speed. It wasn't far and when we got home we walked through the threshold and laid me gently on out bed. He crawled on top of me until he was able to reach my forehead. He kissed it and his lips trailed soft kisses down the side of my face and jaw before he hovered over my lips.

"Tonight I'm making love to the mother of my child." He told me. His eyes were dark with desire but also full of love. I put my hand around his neck and brought him closer to me. I suddenly needed him near me. He took my upper lip and I suckled his lower lip with a new passion that was foreign but also completely familiar. His hands made trails up and down my waist as my hands found their way to the hem of his shirt. He lifted for a moment to allow me to pull it off and I threw the shirt aside. He was on me again. I felt his tongue stroke the roof of my mouth as our tongues danced. I could spend all night kissing this man like this.

His hands started to undo the buttons of my blouse gently. It was infuriatingly slow. My fire was already ablaze and I needed his hands on me. He must have sensed my need or maybe I was projecting because, without warning he moved the fabric of my blouse aside and took on of my right breast onto his mouth in a wide open movement that allowed him to draw circles around my nipple with his tongue right before he suctioned it hard.

"Jacob!" I screamed in ecstasy. My other breast was still covered by the other flap of my blouse because the last button was not yet undone. As he tortured and tormented my right breast, I felt the other hand unbutton the last blasted button. I wasn't wearing a bra so my left breast was finally free. He took it into his mouth and gave it the same treatment he had the right. I moaned at the stark contrast, as my right breast was now wet and cold from the night air and the left was warm in his hot mouth.

I ran my hands through his hair and he moaned. He's always liked that. He then looked at me. His eyes penetrated into mine for a moment before he began trailing kisses down my abdomen stopping for a moment to nuzzle my belly. I giggled. He looked up and smiled at. It was such a loving smile that I felt my eyes sting with tears because I was so overwhelmed by the emotions I was feeling. He crawled up to me again and took my lips only this time out kissing wasn't slow. We kissed in earnest as our love and passion suffused us. He unzipped my jeans in the mist of our passion and helped me wiggle out of them slowly until they were long gone and forgotten. He then straitened and looked at my body. I was only wearing a thong and my opened blouse left my chest exposed.

"You are so beautiful. I am so lucky to have you in my life."

"You are everything to me. My husband. Father of my child... Love of my existence." I told him. He smiled again and wordlessly he slipped off my thong and opened my legs. I was completely exposed to him but this was the man I trusted with everything that I was. His eyes somehow got even darker and I could visibly see him grow tighter in his jeans. He got up in one movement to stand on the bed and remove his jeans. He stood before me fully erect and he was glorious. I could feel myself flood in excitement. I felt like I would spontaneously combust. I needed him to touch me. As if he could read my mind he shook his head.

"Tonight, I want to take in every inch of you skin and memorize it. I want to be able to notice every change of my wife's beautiful body as our baby grows inside of you." He told me as his eyes scanned my body. He finally lowered his body and was on his knees beside me. He kissed my belly again before he laid next to me. His hand stoked my skin so gently but the effect still left trails of fire on my skin and left me panting. He was looking at my body, examining it, measuring it with his eyes. Finally he touched me in the place I wanted most.

"Fuck Ness! Baby, you're so wet." He smiled coyly and moved between my legs. He dipped his head between my thighs and I felt his fingers open me lower lips. When I felt his tongue I moaned loudly and closed my eyed but he only took one swift vertical lick. I opened my eyes just as he suctioned hard against my clit. I screamed as his tongue danced in circular motions along my slit. His fingers penetrated me and started to move in and out of my in a slow torturing pace that built my pleasure slowly.

"Jake!" I needed him inside me bu pleas fell on deaf ears as he pumped me slowly with his fingers and his tongue circled around my clit. My pleasure was building and quickly it become too much to contain and I exploded, my gift projecting out of me and onto him. He moaned and the vibrations of his mouth only increased my pleasure. I wanted more. I needed more.

"You taste too fucking good. I'm sorry baby. I was planning to just take care of you but I need you NOW." I growled that last part and was on top of me.

"Please Jake. Just take me. I'm yours." I told him and he positioned his pelvis between my thighs. I wrapped my legs around his waist and he entered me in one move. We both groaned.

"You're always so damn hot in there! Like heated velvet."

"So are you. Please Jake. Burn with me." I begged him moving my hips in circles so that I could stimulate my clit against his heated skin. He thrust into me slowly again, allowing the fire to build slowly. My legs were around his torso so it was easy for me to meet him thrust for thrust. My hips moved against him in an equality slow rhythm. We both made love staring into each other's eyes, slowly letting our pleasure build until our powerful orgasms left us spent and trembling on the bed. It always amazed me when Jake could make the missionary position hotter than the entire Kama Sutra. This was definitely one of those occasions. We made love several times that night. Each time different from the last, each time hotter than the last until we finally saw the sun come up.

I laid lazily across his chest as he drew circles on my back with his fingertips. He held me tightly against him and sighed contently. I smiled before I kissed his chest and then I turned my head up to look at him.

"What?" I asked him, wondering what was going through his mind.

"I love you, I love you both so much." He told me. The emotions were clear on his face but I was always happy to hear those words come out of his mouth.

"We love you too. Forever." I kissed his lips softly before we both positioned ourselves to sleep. I slowly drifted into a magical dream where Jacob and I held a beautiful baby girl in our arms. Our baby girl.

Harry

Chris and I walked out the door as soon as we heard girl talk. Kal came out with us and we went out to hunt. He phased into an eagle and watched over us as Chris and I hunted. Chris already looked like my babysitter. I really didn't need another one but Kal was just being protective. Kal was even more protective than Embry. Embry... I missed Embry and I felt guilty sometimes because I really liked Kal. He made my mom so happy. As much as Embry wanted to give her that, he couldn't because of the worry that either one of them could imprint at any moment.

Kal was firm and detached which was nothing like Embry had been but he was caring and protective when he needed to be. It was never going to be like when Embry was around and he would put his arm around me and mom as we watched a movie. Kal came from a different time so instead mom would snuggle against him and I would sit on a different sofa or on the floor when we had movie night. But that didn't make Kal a bad father. He went through a lot of trouble to make me forget about my sire. He and I would talk a bout my feelings, my past, my future. Even though our relationship consisted mainly of talking, I could not ignore that the biological connection I had to Kal was something tangible which was something Embry and I couldn't share. A part of me still wished Embry was my father but the more I got to know Kal the more that feeling was starting to disappear. I was Kal's descendant and that meant something to me. Embry, like my other uncles, made me feel like I was part of the family but Kal made me feel like I was his pack, or flock I guess. Even with all his prejudices, Kal claimed me as his from the moment he realized who he was and I would always be grateful to him for that. I still felt a little insecure about who I was but it wasn't as bad anymore. I had to admit that I was starting to love him like a father even if I couldn't accept it just yet. Nevertheless, I could even sense him when he was near me sometimes as I did now. That feeling started getting stronger over the past few months. Probably because I was finally starting to accept him.

"Hey, why are you so quiet?" Chris asked me. He had throne a piece of bark at my head too but I caught it.

"I was just thinking about stuff." I shrugged and threw the piece had enough to have it bounce of a tree and hit him on the head. He looked annoyed.

"You worried about Ness. I'm sure your mom has it handled." He picked up a rock this time and gave me an evil smile before he flung it at me at full speed. I dodged it, but just barely.

"Naw. Jake and aunt Ness will be making up by tonight. I was thinking about mom and Kal." He was about to throw another one at me but he stopped when I mentioned Kal. Now that he was older he knew when to be serious and when to mess around. Kal and mom's relationship was still a bit of a sour subject for me.

"What about them?"

"They're happy and I really like Kal." I confessed to him. He smiled and nodded.

"Yea, he's pretty cool now that he doesn't hate us." I laughed.

"Yea, I guess that does make it better. Hey, do you want to go see what Eve is up to?" I said trying to change the subject.

"There's nothing interesting going on at the house. Eve's out with grandma and grandpa Cullen. My parents are probably out getting busy and uncle Jaz and uncle Edward are out hunting and Alice was torturing Bella with online shopping when I left but then I felt uncle Jake there a while ago so I don't know."

"Do you want to play video games?"

"Sure but let's wait for aunt Leah. She's on her way." We waited for a few moments and mom appeared through the bushes.

"Hi boys. Whatcha up to?"

"We were going to play video games. How's aunt Nessie?" I asked her.

"Jake came to talk to her. I'm sure they're fine." She looked up to the tree and waved down Kal.

"So what's up?" Chris asked her as Kal flew down.

"We just wanted to talk to you guys." She said as Kal jumped down from the trees fully dressed. He walked up to my mom and took her hand. They looked at each other and she nodded as him. He nodded back as if they had just had some silent conversation. It was very irritating.

"We have some news and I wanted to tell you before we told the rest of the family."

"What is it?" She smiled and placed her hand on her stomach. Shit!

"We're pregnant. You're going to have a little brother or sister. And you are going to have a new little cousin." She told Chris.

"Sweet!" I heard Chris say at a distance even though he was right next to me. My own heart was beating faster and my mind was racing. I saw Chris hug my mom and then shake Kal's hand but I couldn't move.

"Harry?" The hurt in my mom's voice brought me out of my stupor. I smiled at her and hugged my pregnant mother.

"Congratulations mom. This is really great. I'm really really happy for you guys." I told them with the best smile I could muster. My mom looked into my eyes and the smile she had was gone. Kal looked at the two of us. He kissed my mom's forehead and whispered into her ear to get the bath ready because he and I were going for a walk. Great! More talking. 'Going for a walk' was always Kal's code for talking. Mom and Chris left us. Kal started walking and I followed. He went over to the highest tree in the forest and started to climb it in human form. I followed him up wordlessly. Kal loved it up in the trees.

"I thought you wanted your mother to be happy." He said when I finally reached him at the top.

"I do." I sat on the same branch he was but I made sure there was some distance between us. He was looking out into the sky but he turned to me and lokked at me with concern.

"Then why are you upset at this news?"

"I'm not upset. I'm glad you guys are having a baby. Mom always wanted children. I am glad that she finally gets to have one the right way." I looked away because I didn't want him to see my turmoil.

"But you wish it was with Embry?" He asked me in a sad voice that forced me to look at him.

"No! You and my mom are meant to be together, have a family. I get that. You're a great dad too." I told him. It was the first time I called him my dad, but that was just it. He wasn't my dad and he never would be. Not not anyways.

"This new world is so different. I am trying to understand but I do not. I don't understand why you are upset about having a younger brother or sister." I felt my face get warm as I tried to swallow down the emotion that was building. I didn't say anything so he continued.

"Your mother was worried that you might react this way. She said that you would feel rejected. I know I have not been a proper father for you but I am trying my best to show you that you are not rejected. Have I rejected you recently?"

"That's not it Kal." I closed my eyes and a tear escaped. I hated myself for it. I promised myself a long time ago that I wouldn't let him see me cry again. Kal was old school. He was from a time when men didn't cry. I had to show him I was strong but I was about to loose it. I jumped off the branch and fell to the ground on my feet. Kal quickly followed me and took my arm before I could run off on him.

"Please help me understand, son." I looked away to hide the tears that were forming.

"I am not you son. You'll have a real son now. The son you and my mom were supposed to have. Where does that leave me?" I hated that I sounded like such a whiny bitch. I wasn't a child. I was finally starting to look and feel like a teenager. Kal was quiet for a while. I hadn't looked at him so when I did I was surprised to see emotion in his face. He was upset. Maybe even angry.

"You are a part of me. You are my son!" He told me. He put his hands on both my shoulders. "I have told you this before. I am connected to all of my descendants including you. As much as I hate what happened to your mother, you were meant to exist. You were meant to bring me to her."

"The imprint brought you to her. I wasn't meant for anything. I'm just a mistake." My tears finally came out and I tried to get away from him but he held me in place and forced me to face him.

"No my son. You are no mistake. Harry... There is something I have been keeping from you and your mother. I think its time for you both to understand how important you truly are."

"What do you mean?"

"After you told me what happened to your mother I left for a while but when I came back, who was the first person I visited?"

"Me." I didn't get where this was going. Of course he tried to patch things up with me. It was the only way he could show my mom how sorry he really was.

"It wasn't the imprint that called me back here. It was you. I felt your spirit like a beacon from the moment you were born, possibly even conceived. I felt your pain calling out to me. I can feel your mother through the imprint but that was only after I saw her and imprinted on her. You, I felt before I ever imprinted on your mother. You I felt though your spirit. If you had never existed, I might still be flying aimlessly without any recollection of who I was. I would have never found your mother."

"How could I have possibly done that?" I asked him skeptically. He was always trying to get me to believe that I was someone important. Sometimes I think he was just making up stories to get me to like him so I gave him points for effort.

"This new body may not be genetically related to Taha Aki or his descendants but my spirit is. I have always been a spirit warrior and my spirit can recognize when another spirit warrior has come to this world." WTF! Well that was certainly a new angle. I sure as hell wasn't expecting that one.

"What?! You think I am a spirit warrior?! That's impossible. I'm a half leech half wolf hybrid. Carlise doesn't even know what I am except that I am a mutation."

"I was waiting until you were older to tell you this. But you are different from my previous children. You have the mind of a young man even though you have the body of a boy."

"What were you waiting to tell me?" I growled at him. This lie was getting out of hand.

"I realized what you were, the day you used your power on me. Like I've told you before, you did not paralyze my body, you trapped my spirit. You broke its connection from my body but you are still new to your powers so you did not know how to take the spirit out so I stayed there, disconnected, trapped in my body. Manipulating the spirit is not the gift of a cold one. These are the gifts of a spirit warrior. It has been so long since I felt another spirit warrior. They all died and my new son's lost their ability because they were bonded to the wolf. You are not a wolf. Your parentage would not allow you to shift into any single form. Your spirit is free to connect with the world around it as your ancestors did before the wolf, before my human form died and my new form changed everything." This had to be some other bullshit story to get me to like him. What he was saying was impossible.

"Yeah right! I don't feel like a spirit warrior. The only power I have is his. I mean, I always guessed my heritage merged with his gift somehow but I can't be a spirit warrior. How could I have brought you here?" It was hard to keep the anger from my voice. I hated mentioning him. Kal nodded and looked to the sky.

"Your hatred for your father has made you reject your power. You have closed yourself to something that is a part of who you are and in doing so you have closed yourself to all of your gifts. Your power doesn't just come from him, it also comes from your ancestors, from me… You can feel it already. You can feel your mother, me, the pack. It is their spirits that you are sensing just as I sense the. The pack cannot sense one another across the distance unless they are in wolf form. You and I are connected to them regardless of the wolf because you and I are spirit warriors." Fuck! I staired at him in shock. I was speechless because he was right. I could sense him, my mom, the packs. I always could but I never thought anything of it. Kal crouched a bit so that we were at eye level.

"You are the first spirit warrior in a thousand years. You are my legacy. You are the legacy that the wolf took from me. If you let me, I can help you become a spirit warrior and our heritage will be restored." He told me hopeful.

"You really think I can become a spirit warrior? How?" He smiled please and straightened up again.

"I would be honored to help you become who you were born to be. I told you before. You are my son, the son I never thought could exist. I know that asking you to accept your gifts is difficult for you but you ARE a spirit warrior. You have barely begun to discover what your powers can really do..." I got this horrible feeling at the pit of my stomach and then a thought occured to me. The only reason he was being nice to me this whole time was because he wanted our heritage restored. I could feel that insecurity and the rejection that usually came with it wash over me. Tears stung my eyes again and I felt my anger build.

"What if I don't want to be a spirit warrior? What if I reject my heritage?" I asked him. He looked at my face and his expression was hurt. I felt instantly guilty. He placed one hand on my shoulder again to get my attention.

"Even if you choose not to, I am proud and grateful that you exist and that you brought me here. No matter how many children Leah and I may have, you will always by my son." Kal came from a different time so he never showed much emotion. However, moments like these it was hard for him to hold back the emotion he felt. I could see it on his face and I could feel it somehow too. Who was I fucking kidding? I wanted this. I wanted it bad. I wanted to be connected to my family and I wanted Kal to be my father.

"I would be honored too. I want to be your son." He placed his hand on my neck and brought me closer to him. He looked at me straight in the eyes with an intense look at made me feel secure.

"You are." I put my arms around his neck and hugged him. I had never done that before and I wasn't sure how it would be received but my insecurities went away when he returned my embrace and said, "Thank you."

"Thank you, dad. I am happy to be your son and to be a spirit warrior." When he let go of me, I saw that his face was full of emotion even though he wasn't crying. He smiled at me and I saw how happy my acceptance made him. He put his arm around my shoulders and we walked home, together.

We returned home and told mom and Chris. They were both as shocked as I was. It was a lot of information to get in one night so we all went to bed early. I could tell that something had changed inside of me. Knowing that I was a spirit warrior had given me a new perspective in life. I was no longer the son of a cold one; I was the first heir of a spirit warrior.

Chris slept over and we spent the rest of the night speculating about what this meant and about what my new powers would be. I was hoping that I could manipulate the elements, like Benjamin, but the legends said that every spirit warrior connected to nature in different ways. What surprised me the most was that I of all people, tuned out to be a spirit warrior.

Chris had his own ideas about this. He remembered that Carlisle had mentioned that when the wolf and vampire genes had neutralized and mutated. This happened when wolves and vampires bred. Sam and the other wolves had hated vampires, but vampires did not turn Taha Aki into a wolf. It was human greed that cause Taha Aki to blend with the wolves. The only connection between the vampires and the wolves was venom. Vampires and male hybrids had venom which is why Chris the Cullen's smelled vile to the pack. The scent of vampire, which was caused by their venom, activated the wolf genes but in turn vampire DNA de-activated wolf so that the spirit warrior could finally exist. This was probably why wolves had imprinted on half vampires. Thanks to the vampire lineage, soon there might me more spirit warriors. For the first time in my life, I was glad to be a half vampire. I still hated my 'sperm donor' but, for the first time in my life, I didn't hate myself. That was yet another gift that Kal, my father, had given me.

The following day, uncle Jacob called everyone to the main house. Apparently they had an announcement of their own. Based on what mom and aunt Ness had talked about, we thought that they were going to announce that they were going to start trying to have a baby. Kal was the only one who thought different. He said he felt an odd connection to aunt Nessie. As soon as he mentioned it, I felt it too. I felt so stupid because it was so obvious, just like it was so obvious of the new connection I was feeling from my mother. I laughed, out loud in front of everybody.

"Are you ok?" Eve whispered to me with a weird look. I nodded.

"Yea, I just have a feeling I know where this is going." I whispered back. I definitely knew what the announcement was but I don't think the rest of the family were prepared for what they announced.

"We're pregnant!" There was a long silence which was interrupted by Chris being an idiot.

"Awesome! Two new cousins!" Chris blabbed.

"Nice going dip shit!"

"What?" Aunt Rose asked looking at us.

Aunt Nessie laughed at us and she looked at my mom.

"Aw crap! I was hoping I could just email you all the news when I was for far away from the pixie." She told everyone.

"Eep!" Aunt Alice leaped out into the air clapping. Everyone started talking at once. Some people congratulated, some confessed they already knew. Kal looked at everyone confused.

"Why is the little cold one so excited?" He asked mom quietly.

"Because she gets two new dress up dolls. Alice shows her love by shopping."

"That's right! I can't wait to get started!" Mom growled and aunt Nessie laughed. Uncle Jake looked so proud at his wife. Aunt Nessie and my mom were both beaming in their own way. Mom had her arms crossed trying to look annoyed but her eyes gave her away. I could sense how happy and excited she was. Aunt Nessie couldn't stop smiling. She looked and uncle Jake every few minutes and they both shared loving looks. Kal was next to my mom listening as she explained how she found out to aunt Rose. He wasn't big on public displays of affection. The most he would do was put an arm around mom or sit very close to her. At home it was a different story, but not in public so I was taken aback when he lovingly kissed her temple as she talked to aunt Rose about the baby. He smiled at me, realizing I was looking at them, and he signaled to the seat next to him. I walked over to them and smiled realizing how foolish I had been to from the start. This baby wasn't just a connection between my parents. He or she would be connected to me too because we were finally a family. We always had been and we always would be.

Training with Kal was hard. He couldn't remember his training because it was 3 lifetimes ago but he could remember his connection to the spirit world from when he turned into an eagle. Being a spirit warrior was about being connected to nature and the essence of the living things around me. Training consisted of a lot of trial and error. Uncle Jake asked the council to help by giving us any more information on the spirit warriors. For once, the council was more than happy to help me. They sent over several books and letters full of stories on the spirit warriors.

Kal suggested that I used me gift to guide me. My gift was not a mental power. If that was so, then Edward would have been able to read the minds of those that I froze. Having been frozen before, Kal said that my gift separated the mind/spirit from the body, only the spirit never got released because the body was still alive and separating the spirit from the body would could cause death when you didn't know what you were doing. It scared me a bit to think that I could kill people with my gift. The body could not survive without the spirit. That's why back in Taha Aki's time, spirit warriors were the only ones with the ability to separate the spirit and body while still remaining alive. I worked hard on separating myself from my body and within a few weeks I managed it. My spirit body was different from my physical one. After my first projection, it became easy to separate my mind and body. In my spirit body I was connected to the world in a way that I never thought possible. I could share myself with animals and see the world through their eyes.

Manipulating the elements was a whole other story. Spirit warriors were thought to manipulate all sourced of energy and pretty much everything had some kind of energy, people, animals, weather, rocks, wind, even time itself. The stories mentioned that even the most skilled warriors had difficulty with that. I tried to start with something easy like weather and the other elements but it was very hard. I could sense the wind, water and earth as energy but I was having a hard time making them do anything. It was a lesson that would have to wait because my family needed my attention.

Being around two pregnant supernatural women was no walk in the park. Aunt Nessie's body started to change to accommodate the growing baby. Her body started to become more human in a way. She became weaker and her scent was slightly different. Mom's body also changed. She couldn't phase anymore and her scent was also a bit different. Kal and Jake went a little nuts with the over protection. Uncle Jake practically carried aunt Ness around the house for her last trimester.

Mom would never allow that so Kal didn't even ask to do that type of stuff for her; instead, he would constantly watch her. Kal was very smart and observant. He never really asked mom for what she needed. He observed her and when he saw something, he stepped into action without ever asking. Like if mom would shift from one leg to another too much while she was cooking, he would walk up to her, take the spatula and tell her to go sit on the couch while he finished. She would go without protesting because his observations were always correct and she really was too tiered to be standing up. After dinner, he would rub her feet and she would get so relaxed that she would fall asleep on the couch and, then, he would then carry her off to their bed. It took me over a month to realize what he was doing. Once I figured it out, I confronted him.

"I may not remember much about my past life but I know I have been a husband many many times. Those instincts stay with you." He told me.

"I guess I better take notes then." I told him. He put his arm around me.

"I think that would be a very wise idea, just don't tell your mother." He warned me and I laughed. After that, he and I would smile at each other every time she fell for it. My, usually astute, mother never did figure it out so I guessed it was true what they said about pregnancy brain.

The women seemed to be having normal pregnancies so we had nine months to get ready for the babies; however, no amount of preparation prepared us for what happened after. None of us anticipated a betrayal. Alice still saw the summoning letter from Volterra. No matter what we did to try to keep aunt Nessie's pregnancy a secret, she still saw it coming. After months of hiding the pregnancy from everyone, it turned out that we were the ones who let the Volturi know about the babies. They had been monitoring our computers, credit cards, travel, and they even had humans spy on us. The worst part was that Duilio was well aware of it. He was the one who betrayed us.