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The Poet and the Pendulum	By : TwilightScribe Category: Twilight Series > Slash Views: 4180 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter List
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Parts: Part VIII [ Beneath the Blue ]
Pairing: Jasper/Jacob
Rating: pg13
Words: 6186 words
Disclaimer: The Twilight series and its characters belong to Stephanie Meyer, who I am definitely not. This means that I don't own the characters or anything but the strange circumstances that I slap them into. I'll put them back once I'm done with them, promise.

Beneath the Blue

The first thing that I was aware of was something cold brushing across my forehead. That and that I was feeling really sore and achy. I felt like I'd been hit by a truck, but that couldn't be right because I wasn't anywhere near a road, I was in the forest.

My brain had been really foggy when I'd been drifting back to consciousness, but at that thought everything snapped back into place and my eyes flew open. I tried to sit up, to get away, because the vampire could be back to get me at any moment, but strong hands held me down.

“Jacob... Jacob, Jake! Calm down, it's alright, you're safe.” I looked up, seeing a ceiling and Jasper leaning over me, his hands on my shoulders, holding me down onto the hard surface. “You're safe...” he murmured again.

“... Jasper...?” I frowned. Where was I? What was going on? Hadn't I been attacked? I wasn't... dead, was I?

He felt my confusion, and loosened his hold on me, his hands sliding down my arms. He took one of my hands in his, and pressed his lips to my knuckles, “You're safe now, you don't need to worry. I got to you in time, before... before the venom had the chance to spread too much.”

“I'm...?”

“You're still alive,” he replied, his other hand coming to rest over my chest. That movement made me distinctly aware of the thundering beat of my heart in my chest. “I can still feel your heart beat, can still hear it. I can still smell your blood, feel it pulse through your veins...”

I blushed at the tone of his voice and the heat which it sent shooting straight down to my crotch. He smiled at seeing that, leaning down to press his lips to mine briefly before pulling away. I had to ask, “How bad am I?”

His smile fell just a little, “You got lucky, nothing broken, no serious injuries. You just lost a lot of blood when you were bitten and then I...”

“You what?” Wait. I'd been bitten. That meant that I'd been exposed to their venom. “The venom...?”

“The bite was clean,” he began, pulling away from me. I whimpered at the loss of contact. “Even though it had been sealed using venom, I was able to reopen it without causing too much harm. I sucked the venom out; I was... you were... lucky enough to get there before it was too late.”

“You... sucked... the venom out?” I needed him to confirm that.

“Yes. I didn't think that I could, but I did.”

Well, that explained why I was hooked up to an IV that was pumping blood into me, now that I cared enough to actually look around and take in my surroundings. I was in a small room that looked like it might have been an examination room at a hospital, but I knew that they couldn't have brought me there; that would be suspicious.

“So, did you like how I tasted?”

Jasper gave a soft snort, and shook his head, “Only you would think to ask me that.”

“Well? Do you?”

He crossed his arms and let his eyes close, “Yes, rich and sweet. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to stop myself before I killed you, but I did.” He wrinkled his nose, “You're going to smell a little off for the next few hours; because of those transfusions that Carlisle gave you.”

“I feel fine now.” And it was true, I was feeling really energetic and I was eager to know how everything had gone with the others. I'd survived a vampire attack, and I'd survived having my vampire suck the venom out of me along with what was probably a lot of blood. But I'd be fine in a few hours, a day or two at the most. “Does that mean that I can get out of here? Cause I can think of a lot of things that I'd rather be doing right now.”

He picked up on my arousal easily enough, and rolled his eyes but I'd done what I'd wanted to achieve. His eyes lightened and he returned to my side, letting me reach out and take his hand in mine. I pulled him closer and he slid up onto the side of the examination table beside me. He then gently removed his hand from mine, pulling me into a sitting position and into his lap as he wrapped his arms around my waist, careful of the IV which was still attached to my arm.

“So am I free to go now? Or do I have to wait till the doctor comes back?” I tilted my head back and let it rest on his shoulder, taking comfort in his presence. I'd missed him, especially since only a few short hours earlier I'd been panicking that I'd been about to die without getting to see him again.

“Carlisle has something that he wants to talk to us about.”

“Did he say what it was?” I was a little worried. Had some of the venom already incorporated itself into my body before he'd gotten to me? But if that was the case, then wouldn't Carlisle have already told Jasper about it? That idea didn't sit too well with me, but it was the only one that really made any sense given what I knew and the circumstances. Unless it was another wolf-thing, but after the imprinting, I was pretty sure that nothing more surprising could happen.

Jasper shook his head, “He didn't say, but from his emotions, I don't think that it's bad news, per say.”

“So it's not the end of the world then.” I nodded my head in agreement, settling down more comfortably in his lap to wait for Carlisle to return. “How long has he been gone?”

“About an hour and a half,”Jasper replied smoothly. “He left for the hospital shortly after he chased Bella out of here when she was trying to see you and find out what had happened.”

There was a hard edge to his voice as he spoke, so I knew that something else had gone down while I'd been unconscious. Whatever had happened didn't seem like it was something he was proud of, but now I was curious so I asked, “What happened while I was out?”

He looked away from me and was then pointedly staring at the floor, “I let my... instincts get the better of me. I had just been so worried that I might not have made it in time that they started showing much more then they usually do. Bella was lucky that Carlisle and Edward held her back, or else I would have most likely attacked her.”

I raised an eyebrow at him, “Instincts?”

“They will always be strongest when it comes to you, Jake,” he explained. “If you're in danger, then nothing else at that moment would matter except getting to you and making sure that you're safe and unharmed. And if anyone or anything were to hurt you, then I wouldn't rest until they were dead.” His arms tightened around my waist, “I won't let anything hurt you. What I want to do is keep you alive, safe, and happy; that's all that matters to me.”

That made me smile just a little, and I snuggled closer, still feeling a little tired after all the excitement of the day, “Well then, we're in the same boat cause I'd do the same for you.”

Jasper let out a content hum at that, and let me move closer, accommodating that by shifting his position on the examining table so that his back was pressed against the wall. He easily lifted me up so that I he could pull his legs up and set me down on them once they were crossed on the table. I felt completely safe in his arms and I had no plans on moving any time soon.

The IV in my arm was bugging me, though, and I wanted that out soon. Needles are a pain, especially when you heal as fast as we wolves do.

We wound up not having to wait too long for Carlisle to return. He walked into the room with a clipboard in front of his nose, lab coat still on, and with a thoughtful frown on his face as he entered. A quick glance up from whatever was on the papers in front of him told him that I was awake now, and he grabbed the nearby rolling office stool, and pulled it over so that he could sit beside us at the examination table.

“So, Jacob, how do you feel?” He began pleasantly, but the smile on his face looked a bit forced.

I shrugged, “I feel fine, just a little tired.”

“Good, good.” Carlisle nodded his head, and fiddled a little with the charts in front of him which from my vantage point looked a little like lab results. Had he been running tests on me while I'd been out cold?

He noticed the angle of my eyes, and followed them straight to his clipboard, he sighed, “I'm sorry about that, Jacob. But you were unconscious and I was curious to learn more about your people and the other shifters in the event that I have to treat one of you again; however, it was mostly for the curiosity factor. In your case, though, I wanted to make sure that there wasn't a trace of venom left, along with making sure that you hadn't suffered from any infections.”

“We wolves don't get sick,” I replied. “It's got something to do with our temperature.”

Carlisle smiled and nodded, “I realized that after I'd taken your temperature, but I would rather err on the side of caution. You are, after all, still human Jacob, despite your rather unique genetics.”

I couldn't argue with that so I just shrugged and went on using Jasper as a pillow and seat cushion, “There was something that you wanted to tell us?”

His face fell at the remainder, but he'd been the one who'd brought the subject up to Jasper and I wasn't going to let him off the hook so easily. And I knew Jasper was anxious to know too.

“I'll start at the beginning, then.” Carlisle took a deep breath, trying to calm himself or steel himself for whatever news it was that he was going to deliver. “When I ran your blood Jacob, I noticed that there was an abnormally high level of a certain hormone. Since you're not completely human, I wasn't sure what to make of this so I called Sam and asked him if I could run a few tests on them to make sure that this was either completely natural or completely harmless.

“The two Clearwater siblings agreed to meet me at the hospital, since Forks is, as Bella calls it, 'neutral ground' where I drew enough blood to run several tests,” he glanced back down at the results. “I can say for sure now that it isn't normal, but what I do know is that it isn't harmful.”

I frowned, “What hormone was it?”

I thought back to high school biology and what little I'd learned during my health classes where they sometimes taught us about this stuff. I couldn't remember much, unfortunately.

“You have excessive amounts of human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG in your blood and if my guess is correct, then it'll show up in your urine as well if I were to run tests on that as well.”

Now I was confused. I knew that I'd heard of hCG before, but I couldn't place where I'd heard of it, what it did, or what its presence meant. I had the knowledge, I knew that much, but my memory was being stupid and human and not letting me remember what I was sure that I knew.

Carlisle continued on, “I'm not sure whether I should be offering the two of you congratulations or if I should be panicking that there's something completely wrong.”

Both Jasper and I stared at Carlisle like he was insane, because that had made absolutely no sense to either of us at all. Well, at least it didn't sound like it was bad news, which was good I suppose because that meant that I wasn't dying so Jasper had nothing to want to worry about.

He looked between the two of us, then his face broke out into a huge smile, “Well. Congratulations Jacob, Jasper. You two are going to parents.”

Oh okay, so I wasn't dying; I was just pregnant.

Wait... WHAT?!

“Hold on,” I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. “You're joking, right?”

The serious look on Carlisle's face was enough of an answer. Holy shit! How was this even possible?! I shouldn't be able to get pregnant! For one, I don't have the necessary... equipment down... there, to do that. And for another, I was pretty sure that I'd notice if I started growing another set of organs. Or at least, I think I would've; who knows what goes on inside your body?

I was too shocked to speak, and Jasper was apparently lost for words too, because all he got out was a broken, “How...?”

This Carlisle latched onto, “The most I have to go on is a theory. I guess that your body always knew that your other half was male and so it grew and developed outwardly as a male, but inwardly, you have more in common with a female. I won't actually know what's going on inside of you Jacob until I can take a look with the ultrasound in a few weeks at the hospital.

“As for how Jasper managed to...” he paused to clear his throat, “Managed to provide the necessary sperm to create this child, my best guess would be that the venom mutated over the years, as though his body knew that this would happen, into something that could be used to fertilize an egg. This is something that, as far as I know, has never happened before.”

“I'm pregnant...” I murmured. “I'm really pregnant?”

“Yes Jacob, you are,” Carlisle confirmed for what had to be the third time today.

“How far?” I asked.

“Since you're not showing yet, and since this all happened recently, I'd say that you're probably no farther then a week along, give or take a few days.”

Well that was true; up until I'd imprinted on Jasper, I'd been a virgin. And not only that, but he was the only one who I'd done any of this with, which left him as the only option as the one who'd fathered the baby. I was still having a hard time digesting the fact that yes I was pregnant and that it was real, and that in about nine months I'd be a mother.

Shut up, I know that sounded wrong, but it's true; plus, I don't really see Jasper as being very motherly.

Carlisle pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers, “This is a complete first. I have no idea if you'll even survive this Jacob or what may happen. So I must ask: do you want to keep the baby?”

I looked at him like he was insane, “Of course I do. I'm not about to kill it.” But I had to pause as Jasper's arms again tightened around me; I knew that he was worried about whether or not I could survive this, and my survival and safety was more important to him then the baby, “Well, unless you think that it could kill me. But if I can carry it without any harm, then I want to have it.”

“Well then,” Carlisle grinned, “Congratulations to you two!”

“Thank you, Carlisle.” Jasper's voice was soft, quiet, and chock full of surprise, gratitude and a whole other myriad of emotions that I couldn't put a name too, but I was getting a bucket full of them from him. I knew that he was excited about having a family.

A family. We were going to have a family and I wasn't even done high school yet.

Well screw that, I didn't think that I'd actually need to finish it anyway. If I wanted to, I could always go back and finish the years that I'd missed, but Jasper was, I knew, perfectly capable of providing for me and this unexpected development without even needing a job. There were advantages to having a vampire lover who'd already lived a lot longer then you. I guessed that I wouldn't need to work, ever, if I didn't want too.

But I also was incredibly relieved that Jasper was so open and happy about this. There were any number of ways that he could've taken this news, and yet he'd taken it surprisingly well. He was also willing to be a part of the child's life, to continue with me even though it meant the added responsibility of becoming a parent. I was overcome with a huge sense of relief, pride, and joy. I really had gotten the best deal in terms of who I'd imprinted on.

But still...

I looked down at my stomach, still in shock as to how the hell that I'd gotten pregnant with what was essentially a dead man's child. I pressed my hand over the still flat expanse of flesh through my shirt, knowing that in a few short months I'd be able to feel it growing inside there, and it would be visible. Carlisle said that I was probably, at most, a week in. He had no idea of how this was going to go, whether or not the baby would grow at what was considered a normal rate.

I had to tell my father.

Well shit, how was I supposed to tell him? For one thing, guys aren't supposed to get pregnant so how the hell did I go about presenting him with a logical reason for why? I mean, yeah sure Jasper and I had sex; but I wasn't supposed to get pregnant. Carlisle only had vague theories as to why or how this had happened, but I had the sneaking suspicion that my dad probably already knew thought this was a slight possibility. If imprinting on vampires was possible, then why shouldn't being able to have their babies be just as much of a possibility?

And that sounded wrong, even in my head. I shook my head and smoothed one hand over my still flat stomach, feeling the nervousness well up inside of me only to have it quickly squashed with a wave of love and comfort.

I looked up to Jasper, who hadn't left my side once during the entire explanation and discovery. I couldn't see a trace of disgust or anger or hate in his eyes, just surprise. Jasper was just as taken aback by this as I was, only he seemed to be handling it much more calmly. Slowly, his hand came down to, tentatively, rest over mine on my stomach.

“In there is our child...” he murmured. “Are you sure Carlisle? You're not mistaking this for something else, are you?”

Carlisle shook his head with a small smile, “I've done as much research as I could, given the information, but the only explanation that I could find for that amount of hCG in his blood was that he's pregnant. Unless there's some strange underlying condition in the shifters which causes that amount of that particular hormone to be present, then there's no other explanation. And I ran tests on others of his kind, none of them showed the same abnormal levels as he did.”

Idly, Jasper's long pale fingers stroked over mine, while his other hand held me tightly to him. When I peeked back at him, there was a wistfully happy smile on his face and I just knew that he'd be the best father, he'd dote on our child, whether it was male or female. I wanted to keep the child, despite my age, and I was just infinitely relieved that he seemed to want to keep it too. That brought warm feelings surging up inside of me, and Jasper felt them too, because the next thing I knew he'd pressed his lips to my temple.

“So he's about a week along?” Jasper asked for confirmation. “That... coincides with – yes Jacob?”

I blushed and looked away, rubbing my now sore elbow after I'd shoved it into his stomach to keep him from talking about our sex life. That was one topic that i wanted kept strictly between him and me, even if Carlisle needed to know, I'd rather that he only find out if it was absolutely necessary.

“Don't talk about that stuff.” I shot Carlisle an embarrassed look, to which he responded with a small, comforting smile.

And even though Jasper seemed perfectly okay with the fact that I was pregnant with his baby and was going to keep it, I just really wanted to make sure. I just wanted some verbal confirmation of the subject.

“So you're really okay with this?”

“Yes, more then that, I'm ecstatic.” As though to prove his point, he leaned down and pressed a blistering kiss to my lips before pulling back with one of the most dazzling smiles I'd ever seen on him. He turned to Carlisle, the smile still lingering on his lips, “There... won't be any complications, will there?”

Carlisle shrugged, “This is my first male pregnancy, Jasper. I have no idea of what may happen while Jacob's carrying this child; there are any number of complications that could occur in a normal pregnancy, but added onto that is the fact that Jacob is male and these could easily turn deadly whereas they wouldn't usually prove to be so.”

“You'll be his physician, of course.”

“Do I get a say in this?” I asked. “Not that I have any objections about Carlisle looking after me while I'm carrying the baby, but I kind of like being included in a conversation that involves me when I'm in the room while it's going on.”

“I'm sorry.” Another kiss pressed to my temple as both of Jasper's hands came to rest over my stomach and I moved mine so that they were now resting over his. “Is there anything that we should be aware of Carlisle?”

He hummed in thought for a moment, “I'll give you some literature on the subject, but for now... Jacob, there's a high chance that you'll start to suffer from morning sickness in about two to three weeks. It's fairly common during the first trimester. As well, you might feel fatigued during this time, and mood swings may or may not happen. I'll start you on prenatal vitamins.”

I frowned, “Why do I need vitamins?”

Carlisle was already writing out the prescription, “It's for the baby, Jacob. They'll compensate for any deficiencies that may happen; it's standard for all pregnancies these days. If you have any questions or concerns, you can bring them to me now or later as they come to you. I'm going to keep a close eye on you Jacob, until this child is born.”

“Sure, sure. I'm fine with that.”

“There's no one else who'd be more suited to this situation then you, Carlisle,” Jasper was saying. “I know that you'll take good care of Jacob and our baby.”

He smiled warmly at us, like a father would, “I would do no less. I can tell that the two of you mean a lot to each other and I'll do anything that's in my power to make sure that you both are healthy and well taken care of. You know that we think of you as family, Jacob.”

“I know.”

“Do you want to tell them, or shall I?” Carlisle smiled.

I shot a hesitant glance at Jasper before answering that, “Um, if you don't mind, I'd like to tell my dad that we're, you know, gonna be parents and that he's gonna be a grandfather before we tell the rest of the... family, that they're gonna be aunts and uncles. Oh.” I thought of something, “I guess this means that you and Esme are going to be grandparents then.”

Jasper chuckled at that.

Apparently everyone in the Cullen family had a bit of a strange sense of humour, because Carlisle then said, “Well, after over three hundred years it's about time, I suppose.”

“Fuck! How old are you?!” I was surprised, none of the Cullens had ever really acknowledged their real ages to me. I guessed that it was because to them, it didn't really matter.

“I am three hundred and sixty eight,” Carlisle replied evenly with a small smile and a twinkle in his eyes while he looked at me. I could tell that he was amused; either that, or this was all some private joke to them. I'd suspected that Carlisle was old, but not that old. Or maybe I had, it didn't matter right then.

But I still had to tell my dad that I was pregnant and that I was going to be keeping the baby. This was going to be a long, difficult conversation, and I had no idea how my dad would take the news, and that made me nervous as hell.

“Well let's go tell Billy that he's gonna get grandkids after all.”

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Jasper wound up running back to my house with me tucked carefully onto his back and pointedly not looking at the forest as it flashed by. I was worried about the possible nausea that doing so might incur given the fact that I was pregnant, even though I wasn't that far along yet. Still, I didn't want to take the chance of being violently sick all over either the forest ground or Jasper's back.

The trip was largely spent in a comfortable silence which I didn't mind at all. Jasper's movements as he ran were smooth and didn't jar me at all, but I suspected that he was also making a huge effort to make sure that he didn't do anything unexpected.

We reached my house in a matter of minutes, and my nervousness about telling my dad had built back up into a huge mountain inside of me. In fact, I was beyond just that, I was downright terrified about having to confront him about this because there was that sinking feeling in my chest that he wasn't going to take the news all that well.

Jasper led me into the house, opening the door for me like a gentlemen, and then pulling out a chair for me at the kitchen table as my dad wheeled himself in. Then he took up what could've been considered a protective stance behind me, his arms crossed and his eyes glued to me since I could feel them boring into the back of my head.

“So, you're back later then I thought,” Billy greeted. He only gave Jasper a slight nod of greeting. “Sam said something had happened, cause your vampire tore out of that clearing like a bat out of hell.”

I blushed, and decided not to reprimand my father about addressing Jasper by his name, especially when he was in the same room as us, but since he was my dad and he deserved to know, I explained what happened. “Uh, yeah. I got ambushed by one of the leeches on my way back from where I was with Bella and Edward... he bit me –”

“WHAT?!”

“I just said he bit me.” I hated having to repeat myself. “But let me finish before you have a huge panic attack dad! See, I would've been dead or turned, but Jasper managed to reach me in time to suck the venom back out before it could have any negative effects on me.”

Billy cast a critical eye over me, his eyes lingering for too long on the now scarring over bite which was on my neck. He didn't say anything about that, but, “And how can you be sure about that?”

“Carlisle looked over me. Jasper took me back to the house; I was unconscious, and Carlisle ran some tests and checked me out, and he says that I'm perfectly healthy.” Just minus the fact that I've got a baby growing inside of me, but you're going to find that out shortly anyhow, so I'll tell you later.

“Is that why he needed Leah and Seth to go over to the hospital? To make sure that all those tests that he was running on you were coming out normal?”

“Well yeah, you could say that.”

Since that clearly wasn't the answer that my dad wanted, he gave me a sharp glare which clearly told me to quit bullshitting and just tell him what the hell was wrong. Or going on, it depended on how you viewed the situation. I was still beyond nervous, and my fear had crept back into my stomach, making me tremble and look pointedly at anything but my dad.

“Um... you see dad... Carlisle didn't exactly needed Leah and Seth to make sure that I was alive, he needed them because he needed to confirm his suspicions about... about me...” I paused, taking a deep breath. My nerves weren't helping me at all.

Billy was giving me that harsh look again, “Spit it out Jake.”

I took a deep breath. Okay, if that was how he wanted it, then fine, I'd say it.

“I'm pregnant.”

Several minutes passed, stretched out too long as my dad stared at me with this look of absolute horror and shock on his face. This was clearly the last thing he'd ever expected to be told, and I just knew right then that he wasn't going to take it well. And that knowledge hurt, it hurt to know that my dad wouldn't accept the fact that I was pregnant with Jasper's child and he would hate me even more because I'd decided that I was going to keep it.

“Are you serious?”

“Yes,” Jasper spoke for the first time. “Carlisle confirmed it.”

My dad's face seemed to drain of all blood for a few seconds, before it all rushed back, making him turn an extremely angry shade of red. He pointed at me accusingly, his face contorted into one of pure anger, “Get rid of it. Go back to the vampire doctor and tell him that there's no way in hell that you're gonna keep it.”

I was horrified, “What?! You want me to kill it?!”

“That... thing isn't human Jacob!” My dad was shouting now. He was clearly furious with me, and even more angry that I was so horrified that he wanted me to get rid of it when I wanted to keep it. “It'll kill you! And then it'll turn on the rest of us and kill us too! You have to kill it; it's your duty!”

“No.”

“What do you mean no?! I'm the elder, I'm your father Jacob, and if I say you're not keeping it then you're not! You're getting rid of that monster whether you like it or not!”

I was on the verge of crying right now, but I was angry too, more so then I was feeling hurt, “Fuck no! I – we – are going to keep this baby! It's my choice! It's my body, and I can do with it whatever the fucking hell I want! If I want to have my vampire lover's child with it, then I damn well can!”

“The pack won't stand for this! They'll have to destroy it, and they'll destroy you if they have to Jacob, because they can't take the chance of it getting lose and killing us all!”

Oh boy, now I was crying. Stupid hormones. Stupid tear-duct being linked to my anger and to the fact that I was feeling hurt because my father was rejecting me, rejecting the child which was going to be his grandchild. Overall, I was just really pissed off, but above all, I was in a lot of pain.

“You're calling this child inhuman, you're calling it a monster, without even giving it a chance to defend itself! You're denying my baby a future because of prejudices against vampires! Well fuck that! Jasper's more human then you'll ever be if this is how you'd treat your grandchild!”

“Jake...” Jasper's hands were immediately on my shoulders, sending waves of calm into me to prevent me from doing something that we both knew that I'd regret. No matter how pissed off I was, the last thing that I wanted to do – even though I was horrified at my father's reaction to my pregnancy – was phase on my dad and probably tear his head off, along with completely trash the kitchen.

I wanted to be there in my child's life, and I couldn't do that if I was in jail. Come to think of it, if I was in jail, then there was a pretty high chance that I wouldn't last long, and neither would the baby. With Jasper's calming influence, I was able to properly think through the consequences of my actions, and also helped me to realize that it just wasn't worth it.

Turning away from my father, I grabbed Jasper's hand and pulled him gently towards the kitchen door, “C'mon Jasper, let's go let the others know that they're gonna be aunts and uncles.”

He hesitated for a moment, clearly feeling my anguish and the whirlwind of feelings that I was experiencing. I just couldn't understand how my dad couldn't accept this, couldn't accept that I was carrying Jasper's baby and that I wanted to keep it. He'd seemed perfectly fine with my imprint, so what was so wrong with the fact that it meant that I was pregnant? Imprinting, after all, did have a lot to do with procreation; it didn't just have to do with finding the one who completed you.

“Of course.” Jasper gracefully let me have my way, but I knew that I'd have to deal with him later. He'd comfort me and make sure that I knew that I was loved and would always have a place with him once we had the time and it was just the two of us. He draped an arm over my shoulder, pulling me close to my side as we left the house, my dad fuming and yelling and ranting behind us.

Once we were outside, Jasper turned to me, wrapping me up tightly in his arms for several moments, murmuring, “It'll be alright Jake, you'll see. I love you, and if Billy doesn't come around... well, you'll always have a place with our family.”

“I know, but I don't wanna think about the fact that I've practically just been disowned right now. Let's just go and tell the others, okay? This is supposed to be good news.”

He smiled as he let me onto his back so that we could return to the Cullen household, “Rose will be thrilled.”
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