I do not own any of Stephanie Meyer's work, solely the plot and some new characters in this story.

****************************Jacob*****************************

Breathe, just breathe, everything will be ok—

"Jake."

Edward can't hear us yet so there's still a chance I can grab Ness and run for cover. Bella will keep our thoughts shielded so long as Nessie begs—

"Jake."

Or maybe I can convince Emmett to hold him down for the wedding. Wouldn't want to ruin the day for Nessie—

"Jacob."

Then again, we could always elope. We already did the other untraditional stuff anyway—

"Jacob!"

If I can just convince Bella to shield us for a bit longer, then we have a chance of—

"Ow!"

I looked up in surprise, massaging the back of my head where Nessie had suddenly swiped at me. She raised an eyebrow at me and crossed her arms expectantly. I sighed. "Sorry, sorry, I'm just really—"

"Petrified?"

"—nervous." I finished with a frown, still rubbing. She'd gotten me good.

"Jake," she started—for the thirty-seventh time—"just relax and stand by my side. That's all I ask. Let me do the all the talking, daddy won't—"

"Be very happy when he finds out—"

"Ssshh!" she hissed at me, whirling around expectantly. I nodded my head in mock understanding.

"So, you're a little nervous yourself, eh?"

She swatted me again, just not as hard this time. "Of course I'm nervous! This is I'm-going-to-kill-you-if-you-so-much-as-graze-her-butt-daddy we're talking about! Mom isn't going to be too happy either, mind you, so maybe you should get ready to run just in case—oh crap."

I turned around towards the direction of her added disappointment…and groaned in unison.

"Hello, darling," Barbie smiled at Nessie, eyes narrowed in suspicion. She turned a cold gaze at me. "Dog." She circled around so that her hand rested on Nessie's shoulder, never lifting the icy stare fixated on my soon-to-be carcass. "What's going on here? What did you do, mongrel?"

"Rosalie," Nessie immediately interjected, "Jake didn't do anything, there's just something we have to tell daddy—er, that is, inform him of..."

Rosalie might've been blonde but—sadly—she was no idiot. She noticed the immediate blush rising in my angel's face, the averting, uncomfortable eyes. And considering this was Rosalie we were talking about…

"Dog, I'm going to repeat myself once: what did you do."

Of course, blame it on the dog…damn, not even a question. Fingers pointed all the way…

I glared at her—though the huge part of me terrified with my upcoming death transformed it into a look of stomach pain instead—"None of your business, Barb—"

"Oh, children!" Alice came bounding in with a broad grin, her eyes narrowing immediately with Rosalie's looming presence. She ignored it after a quick second and turned her attention back to us. "Bella and Edward are almost here, I'd say you have about five minutes to get your wits together. Rose, just leave them alone. You can have front row seats with Jasper and me—"

"Hey, now wait a minute—" I started to protest, but Alice and Rosalie both growled before I could continue. Nessie sighed beside me.

"Ok, ok, we'll be there in a few minutes. Just give us some privacy, yeah?" she asked quietly. I looked at her in surprise. What had happened to discrepancy?

Her aunts left with similar smug expressions on their faces. I turned to Nessie in horror. "So now the ice queen is going to find out too—"

"Well, they all might as well," she sighed, her shoulders sagging with the invisible but very solid weight. I felt the ever-increasing guilt crash down on my own body with the chewed lip and downcast eyes avoiding my own. If only we had waited, if only I'd never—

"Ness," I spoke softly, drawing her small form into my larger one, "I'm so sorry, sweetie. This is all my fault, I—"

"Stop it, Jake," she cut in, a small smile lacing those beautiful features, "if I remember correctly, I seduced you, remember?"

I shifted uneasily. "Well, yes, but I could've said—"

"Said no? To sweet, little, innocent me?"

I brought her in for a kiss, one she eagerly sought back and reveled in too long for comfort—remembering what lie before us was the only thing that kept me from grabbing her and losing ourselves in the shadow of the forest. She looked up at me through glazed eyes.

"It will be fine, Jake."

I made to respond, sure of the words about to come out of my mouth, justified with that incredible smile pursing lips up at me, those telling brown eyes, a world where nothing could go wrong, when—

"Nessie, Alice told me you had something to ask me before you tell us something?"

—Bella walked in the room.

****************************Nessie**************************

I could feel Jake tense right away with mom's entrance. I took a small breath and smiled at her confidently.

"Hi, mom. Yeah, I was hoping you could do us a favor. Jake and I have something really important to tell you guys and I just think it would be better if daddy didn't know beforehand…"

She nodded in understanding, though her eyes narrowed slightly with suspicion. "You want me to shield you two?"

Jake nodded silently beside me, a nervous smile playing dumbly on his lips. I managed to find my voice. "Please?"

Mom looked at us for a long moment before nodding her consent. I quickly got up off the couch and led the way out, Jake following like a magnet behind me. I grabbed my mother's wrist on the way out.

Thanks mom, you have no idea how hard this is for me…

Which of course only narrowed her eyes even more. Nevertheless, she followed us out into the den where—nothing at all to my surprise—the rest of my family waited eagerly. My eyes only latched onto one person, however, whose golden eyes told volumes of emotions and pleas. My heart fluttered faster with the nerves, and it took all my focus and determination to not change my mind.

I took a deep breath as I finally came to a halt in the middle of the room. Mom was already by daddy's side, her arm placed securely around his waist. I was grateful; even though she undoubtedly knew something was up—something that daddy was clearly already deciding he wouldn't like—she was ready for anything.

Would she be though? After I told them all what Jake and I had…what I was now…

Carlisle cleared his throat from beside me somewhere, and I looked at him for a split-second, my sudden fear more evident than anything else in the room.

Well, maybe beside's daddy's fear…

But Carlisle simply smiled at me, an innocent expression that told me one thing: he was purposefully thinking of something else. I cast a quick glance into daddy's direction. Sure enough, he was eyeing Carlisle with increased suspicion, his stone behavior increasing with each second that passed.

My decision wavered. Maybe I should wait, two weeks wasn't too long after all. Maybe if I just—

"Jake and I have something to say," I heard myself speak, a foreign confident voice I hardly recognized as my own. The terrified version inside of me squeaked with realization.

"As you all know, our relationship has been progressing really well, and we're finally going to be married in two weeks, and…"

I could see a glimmer of something spark in daddy's eyes.

"And, we, uh, know how important it is in this family to do things the right way…"

The glimmer turned into an unfathomable hint of recognition.

"Which is why we decided to tell you in the first place…"

Daddy was starting to sit up straighter.

"Because we know how important, uh, the, uh, right thing, to do, uh…"

He was on his feet now, the thin line of his mouth getting tighter.

"And of course, Jake and I love each other very much. We know there will never be anyone else, we knew anyway…"

Oh no, the eyes are starting…

"So we figured, that is, I mostly figured, considering we were going to be married in a matter of a couple of months…"

Crap, here come the nostrils too…

"That, uh, that there was really no point in waiting to…geez, it's hot in here? Jake, don't you think it's hot in here?"

"Nessie, for pete's sake, just spit it out!" Alice suddenly cut in. But I couldn't find my voice anymore, not with daddy standing dangerously tall beside mom, his fists clenched as he waited for the dreaded words to escape my mouth. I felt my head shake side to side. Jake had been right, we should have just waited, screw it if anyone noticed my expanding abdomen, I could always blame it on overeating, no one would be the wiser. We could just say the speed was due to my vampiric genes, no need to freak anyone out now—

"We're pregnant!"

And all hell broke loose.

I stared at my fiancé in appall. How could he? Why would he? He turned a confident smile in my direction, only slightly disheveled when my eyes widened in horror and my jaw went slack. There was no time for any of us, however, the next thing I knew—

"YOU!"

And I instinctively flung myself in front of Jake, though one look at daddy's face told me even I was at risk.

"I'll deal with you later, young lady," he snarled, "now MOVE!"

Mom was by his side in a flash, and for a brief second I almost sighed in relief…before I saw her face, that is. In one fluid movement she lifted me out of the way and daddy surged forward.

"Jake, no!" I cried out, but much to my surprise—

"AAAGGH! LET ME GO NOW!"

"Woah! I finally get you in a death lock before you can see me coming! Awesome—"

"Emmett, now is not the time—" I started.

"Nessie! Our little girl, all grown up! Way to go Jake!"

I let out a strangled moan into my hands. Leave it to Emmett to make even this comical. Daddy was not going to—

"Emmett, you idiot! She's your niece! That mutt violated your—"

"Sorry, bro," he silenced daddy with an adjustment of his huge arms, "but my niece is a young woman now, and as far as I know, that mutt loves her more than anything in the world. So you need to let her talk. If I don't remember correctly—"

"Bella, stop!"

It took both Alice and Jasper to hold mom down, I only wondered why she'd taken so long to act at all.

Rosalie suddenly came into the picture, aiding Emmett but jumping into an argument nonetheless. Daddy continued to struggle against them, his eyes burning with conflicting emotions of rage and despair.

"Young woman or not, that thing has no right to just take her before marriage—"

"Rose, this is none of your business, just—"

"Oh yes it is!"

I tuned them out immediately and looked towards the remaining pair. Carlisle and Esme seemed at a loss, unsure of whether to come to my side, help out Emmett and Rosalie, or Alice and Jasper. I surveyed the room several times over, noting suddenly how ridiculous the situation was getting. It dawned on me then that there was no reason for any of this nonsense. I was pregnant, not dying.

I started to laugh.

Jake was the first to notice, a horrified expression that clearly read 'oh no, she's lost it' written all over his face. My laughter began to get louder, slowly drawing in the rest of my family's gazes with curiosity and confusion. It wasn't until daddy's hands began shaking me—apparently Emmett and Rose finally let him go—that I opened my eyes and lazily wiped the tears away from my face.

"Renesmee," he spoke evenly, though I could still hear the anger in his voice. "What is so damn funny?"

Everyone in the room froze, even Jake—who from the moment daddy had gripped my arms began to growl. I wasn't afraid anymore, however.

I took a breath and managed to gasp out, "A-all of you! I mean, come on, I'm pregnant, it's supposed to be a beautiful thing, right?"

For a second I actually thought he might throw me across the room and launch himself into strangling Jake, but instead—

"A beautiful—A BEAUTIFUL THING?" and again with the shaking…

Carlisle was suddenly by my side, looking him straight in the eye. "Edward, I don't think you should be handling her like that, she's already two months in and—"

Daddy let me go instantly and his expression tore into more pieces as he returned his grip onto Carlisle. "So you knew all along? How could you—why didn't you—"

"Because it was not my place to say anything." Carlisle replied smoothly, not at all perturbed that Edward's nose was within centimeters from his own, the infamous crazy eyes set high with life, and his fingers actually tearing into Carlisle's sweater. Daddy turned his tortured expression back on me.

"Nessie, how could you? You know how important it is to wait before marriage. It's the traditional—"

"Oh, screw traditional!"

Now it was my turn to go 'crazy-eyed.' Mom swiftly whisked daddy away from tearing away more of Carlisle's upper clothing and to her side. She had a look on her face I'd see when I knew she had her mind set. Determination and confidence.

"Nessie," she turned towards me, "first of all, you are punished for the next two weeks, grounded. Which means no Jake after a limited curfew, and definitely no more sex—"

"Bella!"

"Mom!"

She waved away our identical expressions of horror and proceeded with a roll of her eyes. "Yes, I said sex, we're all adults here, get used to it. I don't want you to get the wrong idea, Renesmee. What you and Jake did is very untraditional, and inappropriate, but considering—"

"Bella, why are you doing this to me?" daddy turned a hurt look into her eyes. I could tell it took all her control to not look and give in; though this would only really register later…I was still quite shocked.

"Be quiet, Edward. As I was saying, considering you are going to be married soon, and Jake," here she turned a pointed look into my speechless wolf's eyes, "will NEVER sleep with anyone else, then…I think no real harm has been done."

Alice squealed, Rosalie 'hmphed', Emmett high-fived Jasper, Carlisle and Esme smiled, Jake gawked, and daddy…

He was silent for a long moment, his expression changing so fast it was hard to keep up. I tentatively took a small step towards him, ready for the opposite force waiting to erupt from his incessant rage when it came to my 'purity.' His eyes were unfocused, staring but not really staring into my mother's serene golden. When he finally looked at me it was an expression that made my heart skip a beat and my mind reel with possibilities.

Two choices: reach forward, or run for my life, hmmm…

And then daddy did the most amazing thing.

In one stride he pulled not only me but Jake as well into the tightest, most fatherly hug I would ever experience.

My entire body heaved a sigh of relief as I took in his familiar, secure scent. Jake couldn't stop grinning beside me. It was a long moment of acceptance of the inevitable, of judgment, of peace. When he finally pulled away it was with a sad smile.

"I see that you really are grown up, Ness. Not that I like it," he added, frowning slightly, "but I guess Jacob will feel the same way someday, won't you?"

Jake grinned stupidly. "Yes, sir, Edward."

Daddy rubbed the back of his head, suddenly turning a quick glance towards my grandfather. As if on cue, Alice suddenly perked up.

"So, how is this going to work then, Carlisle? Is she going to have the baby like Bella, time-wise I mean?"

Uh oh…I glanced at Jake, who asked me the same question with his eyes…should we tell them the other part yet?

Daddy didn't turn our way so I assumed mom was still shielding us…thank goodness…

"Well," Carlisle was saying, "from the looks of it, the pregnancy will be a bit longer, about seven months tops, maybe. Though we do already know the gende—"

"OOH! What is it!" Rosalie suddenly squealed, by my side and putting her head against my abdomen. It was only slightly rounded at this point, nothing a normal human would relate to being pregnant, but definitely too large for a perfect, flat vampire stomach.

I chanced another glance towards daddy. Still no reaction…maybe mom's shielding Carlisle too…

"No way! It's going to be a boy! It has to be!" exclaimed Emmett excitedly.

"So what is it then, Nessie?"

"Yeah, tell us!"

"Just tell them, sweetie, it's a girl, right?" insisted Rosalie, her brilliant smile looking up at me as she continued to rub my stomach. I smiled awkwardly as I nodded.

"Well, yeah, it's a girl…"

"Aww! How cute! But it would've been nice to have another boy in the family…" Emmett's shoulders slumped slightly. Jake was clutching my hand now, ready for the final blow we were about to unleash.

"Well, it's kind of a boy…" he added slowly. At this, Rosalie suddenly stood up, her expression confused, as were the rest of my family's—excluding Carlisle, and he was beaming.

"Wait, Nessie said it was a girl—" Esme said reluctantly.

"It is." I replied.

"But Jake said it's a boy—" added Jasper calculative.

"It is." Jake responded.

"So then, it's a boy, and a girl?" mom was suddenly behind daddy, her hands locked tightly around his elbows.

Jake squeezed my hand one more time before we answered in unison. "It is."

I looked into my daddy's face, gone even paler with the last truth of the day. My stomach clenched and I winced. Damn, and just when things seemed like they were going to be ok…I took one last breath and looked directly into his wide, golden eyes.

"We're having twins."