Stark Stange: The Protector

25

I'm on my way to Billy's house to let him know that I wouldn't be staying at his house anymore. I walked up to the door and opened it.

"Hi Billy, sorry I didn't call before but I just wanted to let you know..." I stop my sentence, when I see he's with three people.

"Oh I'm sorry I should have called or at the very least knocked I'll go" I started turning around.

"Nia no it's all right, come in stay. It's just Sue, Seth, and Leah." Billy made his way over to me.

"Oh no I don't mean to intrude and I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable with me here."

Leah gets up and makes her way over to me.

"Nia I'm sorry for the way I acted before, I didn't know that you were the one that my dad was talking about. I was just filled with anger and sadness I was blinded from hearing you out" she said apologetically and I can feel her emotions changing.

"Leah, it's fine. I know that you are going through a rough time right now, and I just didn't want to be another sore spot for you."
"You're not, I promise you."

"Okay well I hope you Seth and I can do something together now"

"Oh my god yes I want to" Seth ran up to me and Leah, wrapping both of us in a hug.

We let go of the hug and Seth and Leah went back to sit near their mom. Billy asked me what I wanted to talk about.

"Oh yeah umm I just wanted to thank you for letting me stay here a couple nights for the past couple months. Umm my family is back in town so I'm moving back home. So thank you again and if you ever need anything I'm here"

"Oh Nia, it was Jake's and my pleasure. You really helped Jacob out too."

I nodded and told them that I was leaving. Sue told me to come by her house next week so we can get to know each other. I agreed and made a portal to the woods around my house. I forgot that I didn't tell Seth yet so he was freaking out but I told him I would explain next week.

I stepped through the portal and it closed behind me.

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"Where have you been?" Rosalie asked.
"Oh I just went to thank and let Billy know that I'm moving back home."

She just nodded.

"Ah mira mira,  que alguien me extraño. You miss my amazing presence?"

"Hey hey not so much Spanish, I don't know it too well. And don't get too cocky Nia, we still saw you all the time."

"Seeing me all the time is still not living my me and my charming ways."

"Oh my god sometimes you're too much Nia. You know that right."

"Yeah I was raised by a 'genius billionaire playboy philanthropist'" she looked at me weird then I and "sorry my dad's words not mine."

"But I was also raised by the sweetest caring woman who tried hard to not let me be as cocky as both my dads are."

"Well thank goodness for your mom"

I just stood there quietly, I mean I've always known that Pepper is my mother figure, she raised me. She took me shopping, to the doctors, she's helped me with a lot of problems that my dads would never understand or be too awkward to sit down and have the conversation. I've just...I can't... I don't know why I can't call her mom. I want to and have been wanting to for the longest time but I can't and I don't know why.

Out of nowhere Edward comes to my side, "are you okay?"

I forgot that I didn't block out Edward from my thoughts, which means he heard my breakdown in my head right now.

"Nia it's okay you can talk to me, brother to sister" Edward tried to make it easier.

"Umm it's fine, I mean i'm fine. I don't want to trouble you with my problems." That's when all the Cullen's came into the room asking what's going on.

"I don't know, I was talking to Nia and all of a sudden she stopped talking and that's when Edward came. I guess he heard her thoughts." Rosalie explained.

"What were you guys talking about?" Alice asked.

"Umm just about where she was, and about her dads and her mom"

"Come on Nia we can go to the living room" Edward said and I nodded.

While walking out I could hear their conversation.

"Rosalie, why would you say that?" Carlisle asked.

"What was so wrong about that," Emmett asked and Jasper grunted in a questioning way.

"Nia has told us about how she doesn't know much about her mom and how she feels that she can't call her mother figure mom"

"Oh shoot, how could I forget, I need to talk to her" Rosalie realizes.

"Yes I think that that is wise but wait a bit she's talking to Edward" Carlisle said to her.

"I think it's nice that Nia and Edward are getting along because they don't have to talk to each other, they can just let their thoughts talk," Emmett said.

"Yes, they really do have the older brother, little sister bond" Esme told them.

Then I couldn't hear anything anymore because we went to the second floor living room. Edward told me to sit on the couch and he sat at an angle to look at me.

"Hey you know that you can talk to me right? Or just let your thoughts be known to me, well just what you want me to know" he let out a small laugh.

"No umm it's just something that I don't really talk about, I mean I've talked about this with my Tia Nat but that is about it. She told me not to rush anything because I know that my mother figure has done a lot for me and Pepper knows I love her. But every time I want to, I don't know I guess that a part of me is telling me not to"

"Nia, its okay, you know all of us took so much time to call Carlisle and Esme our mom and dad, but after some time you will get there. As a matter of fact you should speak to a mother" Edward gets up and runs to get Esme.
Edward and Esme sit down on opposite sides of me.

"Edward wanted me to come and talk to you but you don't have to if you are not comfortable with it" She starts by saying. I let her know it's fine that I think talking about it right now might be for the better.

"I know you are having, and maybe have been having, a hard time calling your mother figure your 'mom' and honey I just want to tell you that that is alright. She knows that you see her as a mother figure and you love her. With these kids I knew that they were grown and could take care of themselves but I still cared about them, and now you. But your mother figure has watched you since you were a baby, you weren't her but you absolutely were and are. She knows how much she cares about you and you to her. The label doesn't mean anything as you both have that love there for each other." Esme looked at me and put her hand on top of mine.

"Yeah and for me it took me a while to call her my mom, me telling Bella that Esme was my mother was years in the making, but Nia, I know you'll get there soon." Edward looked at me.

"Thank you, both of you. Esme thank you, it really did help me. Edward you too, I don't have siblings in my reality but you really are a great brother." I hugged Esme first and then Edward.

Esme said that she was going to find Carlisle, and Edward and I walked back to the rest of our siblings.

"Nia I'm so so sorry, I didn't mean to say it like that. I don't know how it slipped my mind, but it did and I'm sorry." Rosalie said right when she saw me.

"Rosalie it's fine I promise you, it's something that I try to really not think about but I really do now. So thank you actually."

She just smiles and nods her head. Then we all went into our respective rooms.