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All Grown Up: Jacob and Renesmee Part III	By : VanessaWolfe Category: Twilight Series > Het > Jacob/Renesmee Views: 9413 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, and am not making any money from this story.

Chapter List
- 1-Going Back
- 2-Important Things
- 3-Walking On Eggshells
- 4-Run
- 5-Chunky Monkey
- 6-The Evolution of a Swan
- 7-Awesome
- 8-Normal
- 9-My Girl
- 10-Sex Hair and Ice Cream
- 11-Renewal
- 12-Secrets
- 13-My Heart
- 14-14
- 15-15
- 16-16
- 17-17
- 18-18
- 19-19
- 20-20
- 21-21
- 22-22
- 23-23
- 24-24
- 25-25
- 26-26
- 27-27
- 28-28
- 29-29
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A/N: Hello again! A little disclaimer, hopefully nobody thinks I’m being preachy in any way, shape or form. That is totally not what I’m going for here.
Now, it’s show time!
Swan

It wasn't opening night of the show,‭ ‬but it felt like it to me,‭ ‬because it was the first night I'd get to play Mary.
I was super pumped.
I had rehearsed on the stage a hundred times,‭ ‬and in my head at least a thousand.‭ ‬I knew all of my cues,‭ ‬and all of my songs.
‭I’d read up on Mary, and found some interesting stuff. Depending on who you talk to, the kind of relationship she had with Jesus is somewhat disputed. Some people think they were in love, or even married. The debates I found online cited all kinds of verses from The Bible, which left me lost, so I looked up those too.
‭For the purposes of playing Mary, one thing was clear. She cared for him very deeply.
Our lovely director Josie had told us that it didn’t matter what we believe, and that she wasn’t really concerned with that, but these were real people. Whether or not you think Jesus was the son of God, somebody named Jesus did exist, and was crucified.
The whole cast had worked really hard.‭ ‬ Josie had warned us from the start that Jesus Christ Superstar wasn't an easy show, and if you were as passionate about it as you should be, it would wear you out.‭
At first I wasn't worried about it.‭ There weren’t any spoken words, just singing. Songs would be a lot easier to remember than lines. I already had a ‬better than average memory. I thought that, ‭ ‬and my superhuman endurance when it comes to the physical stuff would make me exempt from the challenges the other cast members would face.
Wrong‭!
I was often emotionally exhausted after practice.‭ ‬Even though you are‭ “‬faking it‭”‬,‭ ‬it doesn't feel like it at the time,‭ ‬and it takes a lot out of you.
It was all about to become worth it!
As I was sitting backstage my friend Tara,‭ ‬who'd gotten me into this,‭ ‬said she couldn't believe I wasn't nervous.
‭“‬I wouldn't call it nervous,‭” ‬I explained.‭ “‬It's more like anxious excitement, I just wanna hurry up and do it‭!”
‭Everyone had come in from Montana. I hadn’t seen them yet so I was also super excited for after the show. The only person missing was Anthony. He just wouldn’t leave Amy. He had promised me that he would at least ask her if she would come to another performance, but this show isn’t for kids and he said there was nobody close by to watch Daisy. I reminded him that Daisy really liked Mollie. He’d given me a maybe, that sounded more like a probably not, but I really hoped he would make it. I was also hoping he’d come over tonight. He had said it would depend on how Daisy and Amy were doing.
‭A couple of the ushers would run back with flowers for somebody every so often. I knew my family was out there somewhere, so every time a bouquet came through I’d look up to see if it was for me. When it was only fifteen minutes until curtain, I started to get a little discouraged, but when I saw the bright bunch of pink roses, I just knew they had to be mine.
‭I read the card out loud.
‭“Break a leg, love Asa. Nobody else, just Asa.”
‭I smiled and shook my head.
‭He had kept telling me he wasn’t going to come. I told Mom she should make him! She insisted he was only teasing, just to get a rise out of me. I guess that’s what little brothers are for.
‭“Green room! Josie wants everybody in the green room!” the guy playing Simon called out as he quickly passed by. We all made our way to the tiny back hallway that was known as the green room. I don’t know where that expression came from, but our “green room” made me giggle because it wasn’t even a room, and it certainly wasn’t green.
‭Once we’d all crammed ourselves in there, Josie began her pep talk.
‭“Okay, my little sugar plums. We’ve got a few great shows under our belt now, so we know we can do it. However, that also means there’s a real danger in getting too cocky, so don’t do it! Give it everything you have been, keep that same level of intensity. Now, tonight is the night for the understudies!”
‭Jim, the understudy for Jesus, gave me a slightly nervous smile from across the hallway as Josie continued.
‭“Let’s have a nice, seamless transition. You’ve got a great cast behind you to support you, and back you up. I’m so proud of everyone already, now let’s go tell this story!”
‭Danny, who was playing King Herod, lead a short prayer. Now there’s a guy who could make you laugh until your sides hurt. He was a big dude, with a big personality. King Herod was the perfect role for him. This was such a heavy show, and Herod’s song provided some much needed comic relief. Not just for the audience, but for us too. Seeing him prance around on his tip toes with his little harem of gorgeous dancers was always hilarious.
‭After a quick amen, we all scurried off to our places.
‭W‬hen I heard the first few notes of the overture, I got butterflies in my stomach. I probably will every time I hear it for the rest of my life!
‭The understudy for Judas told me he can watch the movie of a show he was in years ago, and hear a certain line or part of a song, and still feel the urge to get up and go to his place.
‭“Those cues get so ‬ingrained in you, sometimes they just stay!” he’d told me.
I watched the instrumental overture from backstage. Josie said it was one of her favorite parts because you can do pretty much whatever you can dream up. She staged it with three ballet dancers, and it was so beautiful. I was a little jealous of them! Dancing was the one thing I didn’t get to do much in this show. Not to say I wasn’t happy with my role, but next time I’d really like to try something where I could dance.
I wasn’t in the second song either, that one was all Judas. Heaven on Their Minds was a very difficult song. When he got to those tricky notes that had given him trouble during practices, I’d hold my breath and then cheer for him in my head when he hit them.
I stood from my chair when the song neared it’s end. It was time to be Mary.
Renesmee

I was already so proud of the work Swan had put into this. For one thing, she’d gotten her drivers license so that she could be sure she wouldn’t miss a rehearsal. She’d also made her own costume, a light blue dress with long, wide sleeves that was slightly off the shoulder.
It was interesting to see this in modern clothes instead of robes.
When my little birdie came onstage, I had to hold back the urge to applaud before she even opened her mouth.
Once she did, she sounded just wonderful. Her voice was clear as a bell as she sang to Jesus, and washed his feet.
“I can’t believe she’s touching somebody’s feet!” Xandra whispered to Mollie. They both snickered.
“Cram it, you two,” Jake warned. “Don’t distract her!”
They sat up perfectly straight, but still wore identical smirks.
I know my little ladies love each other, but they also love to tease each other. I’ve learned to accept it. I just roll my eyes, and move on.
Swan was great in Everything’s Alright. Jesus and Judas got into it a little bit, so Jesus was upset and she soothed him.
The number in the temple was very cool. The lepers surrounded Jesus, and he got overwhelmed as they begged him to cure them. The song got faster and faster as they closed in on him. The dance they were doing with mostly their arms as they hobbled around him made it look like they were jaws about to swallow him up.
Most of the lepers had their faces covered, I knew one of them was Swan. She’d told me all about the process of making those itchy leper costumes look as pitiable as possible. Part of it involved laying them all down in the parking lot, and somebody running them over with their SUV. She was glad she had her regular costume on underneath it.
“Can you tell which one is her?” I whispered to Jake.
“Can’t you?” he whispered back.
“Of course I can. Can you?”
“Right there in the middle, the most graceful leper there is,” he said proudly.
She and a few of the others dragged themselves off stage, she was back on as Mary in under a minute, ready to sooth Jesus once again as the rest of the lepers went back to wherever they came from.
After his exit came her big number. I Don’t Know How to Love Him missed being the longest song in the show by only a few seconds, according to the track list on Swan’s CD. She was the only one onstage beside the dancers, who came back during the instrumental part of the song.
Swan positively nailed it, and the audience seemed to agree.
At intermission, Jake popped out of his seat.
“Hey, Asa. Wanna come with me to get something to eat, buddy?”
“For sure! Mom, do you want anything?” Asa asked.
“That’s okay, I don’t think they’ll have much for me out there, sweetie.”
“I figured,” he said.
Seth went along with them to get Mollie some candy.
I turned around to look for my family. I knew they were here. I had caught a whiff of all their scents mixed together, it smelled like home. Since they couldn’t be seen, even though we weren’t in Forks, they’d planned to sneak in right before the show started, and take some seats in the back. I knew Aunt Alice had been super busy making sure they wouldn’t see anyone that would recognize them. They had to be very careful. I didn’t see them anywhere, so I figured they must not have wanted to just sit there while all the people walked by to get some fresh air, or refreshments during intermission. That was okay, they were all going to stay around until tomorrow night, I reminded myself with a smile.
There must not have been much of a line, the guys came back in no time. Before Seth sat down, he tossed Xandra a pack of M&Ms.
“Nice. Spank you very much!” she said.
I smiled, happy he hadn’t left her out. He never did.
Asa was having a conversation with Jake about how he wanted Swan to fix him up with one of the girls in the cast. He didn’t have a particular one in mind, but she kept telling him he was too young.
When it came to having a social life outside of A.J. and his sisters, that boy sure was ready to hit the ground running.
A nice thing about having such good hearing, was I could find out what much of the audience thought of the show so far.
“Did you read the program?” I heard a woman’s voice speaking somewhere behind and to the left of me. “Mary’s name is Swan. Isn’t that pretty?”
“Wow, really? That’s a lovely name,” her companion replied. “It’s unique without being strange. It seems to suit her, too.”
I looked over at Jake and grinned.
“Did you catch that?” I asked.
“About her name? Yup.”
He returned my grin, and we high fived each other.
The second act was where things really started to go wrong for Jesus. He saw it coming, and did a very powerful song about it in the garden as all of his still loyal followers slept around him.
Swan had told me Herod’s Song would be hilarious, and she could not have been more right. It was pretty funny to see a man that big wearing a sheer pink veil over his face, and getting up on his tip toes.
Jesus receiving the 39 lashes from Pontius Pilate was hard to watch. Swan had told me how they did the blood, but it looked so real! All during that scene, she was over in a corner going ballistic and being held back by guards.
It was a real emotional roller coaster, because the next number was the really fun and upbeat title track. Swan really got to show her stuff when it came to dancing in that one. The audience was quickly pulled back into “reality” the second the song ended. In the darkness, you could hear the sounds of Jesus being nailed to the huge wooden cross that was onstage. As the lights came back up, the eerie music started.
The few followers he still had were at the base of the cross. They were kicked at and spat on as people came through to laugh and jeer at Jesus.
Swan was not afraid to go into “the ugly cry” as she calls it.
The last song was an instrumental. Jesus had died, and the faithful took him down from the cross. I was impressed at how many of them could actually cry real tears as they wrapped him in a blanket. It was heart wrenching. They carried him off the stage as Swan followed, still weeping.
When it went dark, people started to applaud like the show was over, but I knew it wasn’t.
Fog appeared from one side of the stage, as a spotlight very slowly lit up. After a moment, Jesus walked through the fog with no more blood, his crown of thorns gone. On the other side of the stage Swan ran on, also lit by a spotlight. When she saw Jesus, resurrected, she dropped to her knees in just about the middle of the stage. A smile lit up her tear stained face.
Both spotlights abruptly went out, then it was over.
The applause for her was thunderous when she took her bow. It wasn’t just our group, although we did make plenty of noise.
I knew she’d have to take care of a few things, and change back into her own clothes, so we went home to get things going.
We were going to have a late night cookout to celebrate.
When we pulled up to the house, our three little wolves were quite active.
“You guys are gonna get some steak tonight!” I sang.
Those three were really showing their age. Recently I saw the boys, but not my Ophelia for quite a while. She’d had me worried! We didn’t see them all the time, but it had been strange for one to be missing like that.
My family arrived right after we did. They had been over before the show, but I was still excited they were here. Swan hadn’t seen them yet, so she really rushed home. They gave her another round of applause as soon as she burst through the door.
“Well done!” Dad told her.
“You were sensational,” Nanna told her, giving her a tight squeeze.
“If I could still cry, I’d have been bawling for sure!” Mom added.
After everyone had given her some love, Jake stole her away to give her a kiss on the forehead.
“Great job, baby. I’m really proud of you.”
She beamed up at him.
“Same here, Swan,” I told her. “You really were incredible.”
“Thanks, Mom!”
Jake and Seth went outside to get the grill started.
“Did you see how many people cried!?” Aunt Alice said to me in the kitchen.
“Oh, yeah. There were plenty,” I said.
“It was strange,” Uncle Jasper said. “All the emotions coming from the stage were very strong, and felt so real.”
I hadn’t even considered what a crazy experience that would be for him.
Grandpa starting asking Swan all about her “process”, and she was thrilled to tell him.
When we heard barking in the woods, all of our heads turned.
“It’s Anthony!” I cried happily.
By the time I got outside, he was strolling through the yard, pulling up his shorts. His buddy Pizza trotted right up to him.
“You smell that good stuff cooking, don’t ya?” he said as Pizza jumped all over him.
I ran to give him a hug.
“I’m so happy to see you!” I told him.
“I’m happy to see you too, Mom,” he said into my hair.
When he came inside to greet everyone, he got almost as much applause as Swan had.
“So, how are the little women doing?” Uncle Emmett asked him.
“They are good, they are really good,” he said with a broad grin.
“Have you taken her on a proper date yet?” Aunt Rosalie wanted to know.
“Not yet,” he admitted. “I’m working up to it.”
Everyone was full of dating tips for him.
“Let her pick where to go,” my Mom suggested.
“I definitely will,” he said.
Aunt Alice interrupted Uncle Emmett to pull Anthony aside.
“Here is what’s gonna happen,” she began authoritatively. “Before you do that, I must take her shopping.”
Anthony bit his lip.
“Eh...”
“She does need clothes,” Dad pointed out gently from behind Aunt Alice.
“I know. She just isn’t really comfortable with people spending money on her.”
“Hmm. Since this wouldn’t involve you, and I haven’t actually met her yet, she’s kind of tricky to see. Do you think she’d feel better about it if we skipped the designer stuff? There can be some fun items in thrift shops,” she said.
Anthony considered.
“That may work. Not this visit though, next time. When she meets you, I want to be able to tell her the truth about who you are,” he told her.
“Fair enough,” she agreed. “But get a move on!” she teased, poking him in the side.
“Yeah, yeah!” he shot back, trying to dodge her. But with Aunt Alice, you can’t really do that!
I went outside with Anthony as he threw some half cooked steaks to the wolves. As always, they chomped them up happily.
“These guys have come over to visit a couple of times,” Anthony told me.
“Ah, I should have known,” I said. “You guys have been getting a little exercise, huh?” I cooed.
“Hey, Dad. Amy wants to go wolf watching. What do you guys think?”
Jake and Seth looked up from the grill, and at each other.
“Could be interesting,” Seth said.
I enjoyed my steak sitting out there on the back porch with Mom. It was so nice to have everybody here. Except Amy and Daisy, that is. It would be truly complete when they could join us for nights like this.
“How many wolves have you got over there guarding your fortress?” I heard Uncle Emmett ask Anthony inside.
“Not that many,” he said.
“How many is not that many?” Uncle Jasper pressed.
“Let’s just say more than one, but less than six.”
For the first time he’d left her alone since she’d moved out of her old place, my bets were on five.

A/N: I highly recommend renting the movie (either version!) or looking up some of Jesus Christ Superstar on youtube, it’s an amazing show! I’m hoping those who aren’t familiar with it enjoyed this chapter just as much as those who are.
Til next time, be safe ;)
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