Her Final Days

Chapter 17

"So, let me get this straight: someone from the Swan family has the power to phase?" Jacob cried out.

"It's Nate Swan," said Paul. "We all know that Darius is Sue's son and he's married to Nadia, who was also Quileute."

"I knew something like this was going to happen," said Leah. "It all began with Darius's birth and I told my mom that any child Darius would have could have the power to phase."

"Well of course it would happen," said Sam. "Charlie is not Quileute, and yet his grandson could phase. He already knows so much about us, so what harm could it do to tell him the truth?"

"What if Sue told him already?" Embry said.

"We'll know when we see him," Sam said as he and the others walked out the door.

*****

Jill found herself running out of the club.

Normally she wouldn't be running around the city in nothing more than a tight t-shirt, a micro miniskirt, and strappy high heels. But she had to get away immediately.

Earlier that evening, Jill had had a strange vision of an Indian telling her to leave the club and return to her grandmother. That Indian was Ephraim Black, who had been dead for many years now.

Jill struggled to recall what had lead her to this place: After her father Patrick's divorce from her mother, Juliet Brewer, Juliet's boyfriend, Rodrigo Boone, moved into the family home. While Jill's sisters 17-year-old Violet and 13-year-old Rosalind got along with Rodrigo, 14-year-old Jill did not. Jill was sure that Rodrigo didn't like her blond hair, which she inherited from her grandmother Rosalie. Rodrigo began beating and abusing Jill, even banning her from attending school or hanging out with her friends.

But when Jill found herself pregnant, she left the house, not wanting her mother to find out what had happened to her.

Rodrigo grew angry and began chasing Jill around until she was at the airport in Minneapolis buying a ticket to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where her grandparents, Laurette and Oswald Brewer, lived. Rodrigo too received word of Jill's potential destination and he hopped onto the plane hoping to catch the runaway girl.

Little did he know that Jill had changed plans and was flying to meet her grandmother Rosalie Durham in Seattle.

The plane Rodrigo was on landed in San Francisco and he was discovered in the cargo hold of the plane, dead. Dr. Carlisle Cullen was called to examine the body, and he reported that Rodrigo had been frozen to death because he sat in the cargo area of the plane, where the temperature of the sky fell to 20 degrees below zero.

Or as his adopted daughter Jacquelyn had claimed, "He [Rodrigo] died the way he had probably lived: he was a cold-hearted bastard."

Jill eventually met up with Rosalie in Forks and the next year, she gave birth to baby Emmett. Rosalie was displeased with how her granddaughter had been treated and she sought to have the girl taken from her mother. Patrick wasn't notified of what had happened to his daughter.

Rosalie spotted Jill wandering around outside the nursing home. "Jill," she cried out, "what on earth happened to you?"

"Do you know anyone named Ephraim Black?" Jill gasped.

"Well, as a matter of fact, I do," said Rosalie. "Now let's get you inside and get you some clean clothes. I certainly have a lot to tell you."

*****

Embry sat in Jacquelyn's room and sighed as he watched the werewitchpire run around the room with a book in one hand and a feather-pen tucked behind her ear. She said, "The probability of this happening is about 50:50 to 1. But as we both know, both Charlie and Bella have had dealings with the Quileutes, as do the entire Cullen family. I myself am a descendant of the Quileutes and I have passed that legacy onto Ezra."

"But that's not something you can just escape from," said Embry. "No matter how much Sam intimidates you."

"Or Sam knows something that we don't know yet," said Jacquelyn. She looked at Embry and said, "What if there's more to this than someone who is not of Quileute ancestry phasing? I bet the witch would have something to do with this."

Embry nodded and took Jacquelyn into his arms. "And when that moment comes," he said, "that witch will be regretting that she dared to mess with us at all."