An Everlasting Love

Jackie sat beside Jacob’s bed holding his warm hand in hers. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of red from having licked up the dried blood from his body and she was rocking back and forth on her chair like a crazed woman locked away in an insane asylum.

Her eyes widened when she began to feel Jacob’s warm temperature begin to drop and she began to think that maybe, just maybe her plan had work that Jacob was indeed becoming a vampire.

She grew so happy that she couldn’t help but plant a kiss on his lips, and sit on the bed beside him waiting for his skin to reach her temperature and for him to wake up.

He never did.

Jackie waited by his side for his temperature to be like hers but he never did. His skin simply got cold as death and any sign of life that he once possessed was gone, completely and utterly gone.

“Wake up. Wake up. You can’t be dead I gave you venom YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE ALIVE GODDAMNIT! WAKE UP! Please wake up.”

Her screams and sobs echoed throughout the house, piercing into everyone’s souls; vampires and shape shifters alike.

Bella stared at the wall unable to comprehend that the man who was once her best friend was gone.

Edward could not shake the guilt and shame off of himself.

Rosalie and Emmett clung to one another trying to figure out how to console Jackie.

Esme’s heart ached in solidarity with Jackie, she had only known her for a little while but she felt as if she was her own grandchild.

Carlisle always knew that it was never going to work but he tried to keep it positive, for Jackie’s sake.

Jasper was overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of everyone’s emotions around him, it was driving him crazy, had he been human his wrist would have been slit instantaneously.

Alice had a vision.

The pack ran towards the Cullen home, Sam was driving in a truck with Billy inside because he refused to be left at home. They told him he was most likely dead, he still wanted to go.

As they approached the house the screams of a melodic voice filled their ears and they knew that something had gone terribly wrong.

Billy’s heart constricted when he realized that this meant that his son was dead, that his only son, his little boy had been killed mercilessly by a bloodsucker.

The pack and Billy entered the house and Billy was carried up the stairs by the boys. They ended up in front of the closed door and pounded on it incessantly but Jackie would not open up. Finally they grew weary of this behavior and just knocked the door down.

Their breath caught in their throat when they saw Jackie lying on the bed, clutching Jacob’s body in her lap with her mouth half open and face contorted in such a pained manner that her beautiful features became hideous.

Everyone tried to talk to her, but there was no reasoning with Jackie, it’s not like she could hear them to begin with her mind was a million miles away and she was reliving the wonderful moments that she had, had at Jacob’s side.

She thought of the many mornings that they had woken up at the beach after a long night of making love and the brilliant colors that painted the sky and the twinkle in his eye.

Billy knew what Jackie was going through, he had gone through it when he lost Jacob’s mother and it is the absolute worst feeling on the face of the planet to have the person you love most in all the world die.

Somehow he managed to wheel himself over by the bed and placed a hand on Jackie’s shoulder. She moved her face out of the crook of Jacob’s neck and turned to look at Billy.

“Jacqueline.”

His voice was so much like Jacob’s, and for a moment she forgot that Jacob was lying dead in her arms, that he was gone.

Billy managed to get himself on the bed beside Jackie and wrapped an arm around her and one around his deceased son and whispered

“Let us mourn our loss together.”

Jackie was literally beside Jacob’s dead body throughout the entire funeral process, she sat inside the morgue by the table where he was looked at. She lay inside the steel tomb while the week was up to go ahead and bury him.

She dressed to the tee the day of his wake, sitting at the very front beside Billy and receiving the condolences from the many people from La Push.

Jackie was also in the room where they cremated him as the process took place, she refused to let go until she absolutely had to.

His ashes would remain with Billy until Billy passed and then they would be given to Jackie and she would keep them for the rest of eternity.

Edward and Bella tried to speak with Jackie but she refused to hear them out, she banned them from the wake and the funeral. To reinforce this statement Sam told Bella and Edward that if they stepped foot on La Push ever, they would be killed without any questions.

Emmett and Rosalie tried to talk to Jackie, but there was no talking to her she just looked at them with a forlorn look in her eyes, only nodding or shaking her head to express herself.

“Where are you going Jackie?”

“I have to leave.”

“Don’t just stay here, please don’t go.”

“I’m sorry.”

Jackie left Forks and went wandering through the forest, to plan what she would do next in her eternity; in her hell.

Bella ran through the forest in search of a deer or something to satisfy her thirst, she ran deeper than she had ever gone before but she wasn’t worried after all what could be more dangerous than her?

She ran until she spotted an injured deer on the floor and decided that she might as well have her since it would die either way.

Bella knelt down beside the animal and brought her mouth down to its neck when she was knocked off her feet by an incredibly strong figure.

Bella’s eyes widened in horror when she saw Jackie straddling her with a demented look spread across her face. Jackie smirked crazily and the next thing Bella knew her neck was snapped and her body was being torn apart and thrown into fire.

Edward sensed that something was wrong with Bella and ran out the door. He ran and ran until the scent of a vampire’s burning body hit him, that scent was so familiar; it was his Bella’s.

“WHO DID THIS?!”

Jackie stuck out Bella’s left hand that still carried her wedding band. Edward’s eyes widened in fury when he saw that and Jackie couldn’t help but let out a cackle,

“Hello Edward, nice of you to join us.”

With that Jackie tossed the left hand into the raging fire and turned her face back to Edward, with a smile on it that would be more fitting on the Joker than on the once peaceful philosopher.

“Why?”

“OH don’t say WHY?! YOU KNOW WHY?! I told you what would happen IF HE DIED! I warned you, oh yes I warned you, but no, no no no nono NOOOOOO! He died and now Bella died and you know who’s next? Want to know whose next. I’ll let you guess,” an insane laughter escaped her lips and when she saw that Edward wasn’t laughing she stepped closer and said, “since you’re not guessing I guess I have to tell you. It’s you.”

What ensued was a fifteen minute fight between to mythical creatures, in the end Jackie won and threw Edward on a separate fire, he wouldn’t even give him the satisfaction of burning on the same one as Bella; neither one of them deserved that honor.

The Cullen’s jumped up from their seats when they saw the door open, they expected to see Bella and Edward but instead saw a frazzled looking Jackie. She knew what they were going to ask and she beat them to it

“I killed them.”

No one was angry with her, they were sad for the loss of Edward and Bella, but they couldn’t be angry. She had told them what would happen if her Jacob died and once Jacob died she had to carry out her promise.

They deserved it.

Jackie walked up the stairs without another word and went to the bathroom. She grabbed a pair of extra scissors and began chopping off her hair, it would grow back before the next night but she still wanted to cut it.

She cut it until it was the same length as the day that she came to La Push, as the day when she first laid eyes on Jacob Black.

She jumped into the shower and scrubbed her body clean; once she was clean she dried off and slipped on a pair of shorts similar to the ones that she once wore to go hiking and Jacob’s flannel shirt.

Jackie smiled at her reflection in the mirror and then turned to go back to the living room.

“Mom, Dad, I need a favor.”

They followed Jackie outside into the forest and she turned to them and said

“I need you to kill me, please.”

“NO.”

“But I want you too, I need you too! I’m nothing without him! I’ve barely made it two weeks and every single second has been a constant struggle to keep my sanity. I need him and I want to be with him so please, please just do me in.”

“We won’t kill you Jackie; we won’t have your venom on my hands.”

“Then I’ll find someone who will.”

Jackie quickly hugged Emmett and Rosalie before transporting herself to La Push using her power. She stood outside of Sam Uley’s house, unsure of how to go about this, but she knew that if anyone would do this it would be him.

Emily came to the door when she heard a knock at the door and froze when she saw Jackie standing there, looking as she did all those years ago

“Can I talk to Sam please?”

Emily nodded her head and nodded for Sam to come to the door, he ran to the door and when he saw Jackie he asked Emi to go inside and that he’d be back.

“I have to ask a favor.”

“What is it?”

“I need you to kill me.”

Sam wasn’t taken aback or surprised by this request. From the moment that Jacob had died he knew that Jackie was going to come to him asking for this.

“Right now?”

“I’m dressed up for it aren’t I?”

Sam smiled sadly and the pair began walking into the forest. Jackie didn’t want to make him do all the work so she helped him gather the wood and set fire to it.

“You don’t have to do this Jackie.”

“You don’t even believe that. How would you feel if Emily died?”

“Like hell.”

“But the beautiful thing about you is that you could die normally like a human if you stopped phasing, I can’t. I’d stay here on this planet forever. Cursed to wander without Jacob at my side. I won’t put myself through that any longer. I want to be with him and if this is the only way I get him, then this is what I’m going to do; I have to.”

Jackie stood in front of Sam, and closed her eyes and for the first time in weeks she gave a genuine smile. Sam hugged her tightly and said

“He loved you till the very end Jackie, he’ll always love you. Are you ready?”

Jackie closed her eyes and felt the gentle breeze caress the side of her face; it was as if Jacob was right there telling her it was all going to be okay. She nodded her head and his warm hands reached out to her neck.

Her head fell towards the fire, her eyes were glued to the sky, it was one of those beautiful days in Forks when the sky is crystal blue and the sun illuminates the landscape making it seem like heaven on earth.

As her began to fall towards the middle of the fire she saw Jacob’s figure hovering above her, his face inched towards hers until his lips finally brushed against hers.

The fire burning her limbs was no longer an issue, she felt no pain, he held out his hand and Jackie took it, amazed by the tan color her skin now possessed, he held her in his arms tightly and whispered into her ear

“It’s finally our time.”