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AN: Please see chapter one for story summary, warnings, and disclaimer
AN 2: I will try to update next Sunday (6/1) but it may end up being Monday (6/2) as I’m having family over the weekend.
***************************December 21st********************************
It had been exactly twenty-three days since the disappearance of Charlie. Seth had found Charlie’s cruiser abandoned about two days after he’d gone missing. Seeing as it was only four days until Christmas, no one was really in the Christmas spirit.
As of ten days ago, Jacob was now living with his father again. He didn’t want his father staying on his own anymore. He saw how depressed his father had become since Charlie had left. Carlisle had offered Billy a place to stay at their house, but he had declined saying that he was fine on his own. However, Jacob didn’t think so, so now he was taking care of both his father and himself.
‘Who the hell could that be at 8am on a Saturday morning?’ Jacob thought to himself as he heard pounding on the door.
As Jacob passed his father’s room, he noticed that he too had been asleep, that was until the pounding awoke him.
“Who would be at the door this early?” Billy asked his son.
“I don’t know, but I’m about to find out,” Jacob said making his way to the front door.
When he opened the door, he saw one of the last people he figured he’d see that early in the morning there. There stood Edward holding two boxes of what looked to be donuts and had a plastic sack with him.
“Do you know what time it is?” Jacob asked not too thrilled to be seeing Edward that early in the morning.
“Yeah, it’s already eight, sleepy head,” Edward said.
“Don’t call me that, vampire,” Jacob said still not letting Edward into the house.
“So are you going to let me in or do I need to stand out here all day?” Edward asked.
“Depends, what are you doing here? And what do you want?” Jacob asked.
“Well I came…” Edward said trailing off when he heard Billy’s voice.
“Jacob, let the boy in before you let all the hot air out,” Billy said.
“Come on in,” Jacob said standing to the side as much as he could while holding the door open for him.
“So, what’s in the box?” Jacob asked once they got into the kitchen.
“Donuts, and in the sack there’s orange juice and milk,” Edward said setting down the box and sack.
“What? No coffee?” Billy asked.
“That’s in these two cups. I didn’t know if you liked black or sugar,” Edward said.
“Sugar,” Billy said.
“Ok, sugar it is,” Edward said handing over the cup.
“What are you doing?” Edward asked seeing that Jacob had pulled out the peanut butter, jelly, and pickles.
“You’ll see,” Jacob said grabbing a chocolate glazed and regular glazed donut.
“That is wrong on so many levels,” Edward said happy that he couldn’t still get sick.
Jacob had taken the regular glazed donut and smeared the peanut butter on it. Then he took and made a layer of pickles on top of that. After that he spread the jelly on it, and to finish off, he put more pickles on top. Then he took the chocolate glazed donut and turned it upside down so the chocolate was resting on the pickles.
“Don’t knock it until you try it,” Jacob said with a grin on his face.
“For once I think I have to agree with Edward, that doesn’t even look halfway good,” Billy said putting down his donut because his son’s donut sandwich was making him feel sick to the stomach.
It only took Jacob and his father about thirty minutes to finish up the two boxes of donuts. By time they were done, Edward was counting his blessings that he wasn’t human right now. He knew that if smells still got to him, he would have been tossing his cookies. He was starting to wonder if Jacob wasn’t just doing it to make him sick. He’d come up with the nastiest things to put on a donut. He’d done honey and pickles, just pickles, maple syrup and pickles, honey and maple syrup (which Edward thought was the least grossest of them all), and then to top it off he made a donut sandwich. He took ham, cheese, pickles and of course two donuts. Even that one made Jacob not be able to finish it. He told both Edward and his father that, that one had been a bad idea to try. However, at the time it sounded good to him.
Billy thankfully didn’t have to look at his son’s creations. He’d wisely choice to go to the living room, so that he wouldn’t toss his cookies.
“So now what did you come here for? Besides to bring food, which was very good,” Jacob said.
“I was wondering if you want to see that meadow?” Edward asked.
“You mean the one in dreamland?” Jacob asked.
“Yeah,” Edward said.
“It really exists?” Jacob asked.
“I took Bella there once,” Edward said.
“So that’s what she was trying to find that day,” Jacob said more to himself then to Edward.
Of course, Edward heard none the less.
“When did you guys try finding it?” Edward asked.
“It was after you had left. She wanted to find it. We weren’t able to though,” Jacob said.
“It’s because to human eyes, it’s impossible to find,” Edward said.
“Of course it would be,” Jacob mumbled to himself.
“So, you want to go?” Edward asked.
“Sure, why not,” Jacob said.
“Son, do you think that wise in your condition?” Billy asked not wanting to see his son nor the baby get hurt.
“Trust me Billy, I won’t let anything happen to either of them,” Edward said.
“You better not,” Billy said.
“Why don’t you go get changed, and then we’ll leave,” Edward suggested.
“K,” Jacob said heading off to his bedroom.
Once Jacob got dressed, he and Edward headed off in the direction of the meadow.
“Sure, you don’t need to stop?” Edward asked seeing that Jacob seemed to be having a tough time.
“I’m fine,” Jacob said.
“Ok,” Edward said leading the way again.
Jacob definitely had to say that he thought that it was more breath taking in person than in dreamland.
“We’ll definitely have to make sure we bring the twins here when they’re older,” Jacob said.
“Maybe,” Edward said.
“Why maybe?” Jacob asked.
“Jacob, there’s something that you need to know about me that very well may affect the twins as well,” Edward said.
“What?” Jacob asked heart seeming to drop into his stomach.
“You know how we can’t go out into sun light?” Edward asked.
“Yeah, something about how you sparkle,” Jacob said not paying much attention to Edward, but more to his surroundings.
“That’s a good way to put it,” Edward said stepping out into the sunlight and blinding Jacob in the process.
“So, you’re saying our kids may glitter?” Jacob asked.
“More or so, yes,” Edward said stepping back into the shade so he wouldn’t completely blind poor Jacob.
“Great, just freaking great,” Jacob said.
“You had to know that it could happen,” Edward said.
“Yeah, but I was hoping that it wouldn’t,” Jacob said.
“Jacob, we don’t know what these two may or may not inherit from me,” Edward said.
“I hope that isn’t one of the things they get from ya. Because trying to take them to school wouldn’t be fun at all,” Jacob said.
“There’s always home schooling,” Edward said.
“I’ll pass, I’m not much for that sort of thing,” Jacob said finally sitting down before he fell down from turning around so many times to see everything.
“We’ll just wait and see,” Edward said taking a seat by the tree he was standing at.
“Yeah, we will. You know you can come over here. They don’t bite, not yet at least,” Jacob said smirking.
“Ha-ha,” Edward said fake glaring at him.
“Only joking,” Jacob said.
“I know, I know,” Edward said going to join Jacob in the shade where he had decided to sit.
Both young men stayed like that until Jacob’s stomach, well the twins decided that they were hungry again.
“Best be getting back,” Edward said.
“Yeah, before these two think they’ll starve to death,” Jacob said smiling while patting his stomach.
“Kicking up a storm?” Edward asked.
“They always do,” Jacob said taking the offered hand that was given to him.
When Edward had pulled Jacob up from the ground, Jacob’s stomach was so close to Edward’s that he could feel his babies kicking his own stomach. Seeing that both of their faces were just a hair’s breath away, both let go before anything happened that shouldn’t happen.
******************************Billy’s house*******************************
“Hey, Jacob, my family and I are going to go play baseball tonight, do you want to come?” Edward asked stepping just inside the living room.
“Isn’t it supposed to storm tonight?” Billy asked from his chair that was wheeled close to the TV.
“That’s when it’s best for us to play,” Edward said.
“Why?” Jacob asked never having been told.
“Well, if you come tonight, you’ll see,” Edward said smirking.
“Do you think it wise for him to playing while pregnant with twins?” Billy asked missing the open mouth look Edward was currently sprouting.
“Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to stare with your mouth opened?” Jacob asked.
“When? How? Why?” Edward asked not being able to form complete sentences.
“I told my father shortly after I got here as I figured that Carlisle shouldn’t be the only grandfather to know. No, that doesn’t mean that we’re telling the others,” Jacob said reading the question in Edward’s mind.
“Ok,” Edward said holding his hands up in surrender when he got a finger pointed at his chest.
“So, are you coming then?” Edward asked.
“I can’t play in my condition,” Jacob said.
“Well, you wouldn’t actually play, you would help ref. Esme swears that we cheat. She would just love for you to come help her,” Edward said.
“Fine, where at?” Jacob asked not going to miss a chance to watch vampire baseball.
“I’ll come pick you up around seven tonight and take you over there,” Edward said.
“Then I’ll see you tonight then,” Jacob said.
Without another word, Edward left the house to head home. After grabbing lunch, Jacob then went back to his room. Seeing that he had no more homework until he went to college, that’s if he did, since school was out for the year. Jacob decided to catch up on his reading. He pulled out his magazine that he’d gotten from the store a couple of days ago on cars. He couldn’t wait until he could work under the hood of a car again. He knew though that until the twins were born, there was no way he could even fit under a car.
********************************Later that evening************************
Billy was about to go get Jacob for dinner when he heard a knock on the door.
‘Now who could that be at 5:30?’ Billy thought to himself.
“I should have known,” Billy said revealing none other then Edward standing on the other side of the door.
“What are you doing here so early?” Billy asked.
“I came to pick Jacob up for the game,” Edward said stepping into the house when Billy finally ushered him in.
“You said the game wasn’t until seven, it’s only 5:30,” Billy said.
“Yes, I know that. But as you very well know, it’ll take an hour to get back to Forks,” Edward said.
“I was just about to go get Jacob for dinner,” Billy said.
“If he’s asleep, don’t wake him. He can always join us another night,” Edward said.
“And if he doesn’t eat now, he’ll wake up later hungry and pissed off that I didn’t get him up for dinner,” Billy said.
“Here let me,” Edward said heading in the direction of Jacob’s room.
“I’ll go get him, you stay put,” Billy said heading Edward off in the hallway.
“Ok,” Edward said putting his hands up in surrender.
He knew that Billy still wasn’t 100% comfortable with him being in the house. He couldn’t say that he blamed Billy for that. He had a feeling that if he was in Billy’s shoes, that he too wouldn’t be comfortable with a vampire being in his house.
******************************Jacob’s room******************************
“Jacob, dinner’s ready,” Billy said putting his hand on his son’s leg.
Seeing that he was going to have to shake his son awake, Billy rolled himself up to his son’s shoulders and did just that. Instead of waking up, Jacob just brushed his father’s hand off his shoulder and rolled over.
Billy knew at this point that he had one of three choices: he could keep shaking his son until he awoke and then deal with a grumpy, pregnant, teenage son. He could take the glass of water that sat on Jacob’s nightstand to help with the heartburn he’d been getting lately in the middle of the night over Jacob’s head and again deal with a very pissed off pregnant teenager. Or he could let Edward see if he had any luck and let Jacob be pissed off at him. Billy was thinking that was the best because unlike Edward who got to go home afterwards, Billy still had to live with his pissy son. Billy had just turned around to go get Edward, when he noticed that said vampire was already in the doorway watching over Jacob as he slept on.
“If he won’t wake, then just let him sleep,” Edward whispered.
“If I don’t wake him, then he won’t be happy with me tomorrow morning when he’s up at five hungry since he didn’t eat tonight,” Billy said.
“You know it’s not very nice to talk about a person who’s right there,” Jacob said making both men jump since neither had known that he was awake.
“I didn’t think you were awake,” Billy said.
“Well I am,” Jacob said almost rolling onto the floor had Edward not gotten to him so fast.
“Thanks,” Jacob said gripping Edward’s shoulders for support before he fell.
“You ok now?” Edward asked not releasing his hold on Jacob’s upper arms.
“Yeah,” Jacob said.
“Ok and you’re welcome,” Edward said as they were heading out of the room.
Of course Billy had seen all, but for his son’s sake, acted like he hadn’t. He didn’t know if his son had feelings for the vampire, but he wasn’t going to press. He figured that his son would come to him whenever he was ready to.
Once Jacob was done relieving himself, it wasn’t more than ten minutes later and he was already finished eating.
“Sure, you don’t want more?” Billy asked, smirking at the open mouth look Edward was currently sprouting seeing that Jacob had already put away three helpings of food.
“No, I’m stuffed,” Jacob said.
“Ok, well try to have fun,” Billy said seeing them to the door a couple of minutes later.
“Yeah I’ll try,” Jacob said as he walked out followed by Edward who thankfully had recovered while Jacob got ready.
Even though Jacob wasn’t affected by the cold anymore, he didn’t know if the twins could be or not. He didn’t want to end up sick and harming them, so he’d dressed warmer than he actually really needed to.
Next chapter: The field and the truth about the twins is reveled