Hands on Me (A Twilight Fanfiction written by IndependentIndividuality)

Chapter 60: In Which Nessie Sneezes

Chapter 60: In Which Nessie Sneezes
A/N: Okay, y'all, here's this. Not much to say about it, because it's all right there. There is something I did forget to say last time, although I can't believe I did - The Sweetest Girl won Most Unique Storyline in the Sort of Beautiful Challenge!

Yay - how crazy is that? I want to thank all of you who rock so hard and voted for me, even though I didn't win the popular vote - to know someone cared enough to vote at all makes my day. And Most Unique Storyline? Come on, that's kind of kick ass. I'm so excited!

Oh, oh, oh, and - did any of y'all guess what was happening to Nessie before it did? Do you know how hard it is to describe the urge to sneeze? I do! Oh, and if you'd like to mention in your review what you think it all means, that's be great too. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own any of it - although if you'd care to look up the video to the song for these particular lyrics, you will sob like a baby. Which has nothing to do with me owning or not owning anything, but there that is. :) I'm sleepy, if you couldn't tell.

In Which Nessie Sneezes

i miss my friend
the one my heart and soul confided in
the one i felt the safest with
the one who knew just what to say to make me laugh again

- darryl worley

It was, to say the very least . . . hard. Extremely hard. For all of us.

We wandered around the house, which we didn't leave at all, and tried to talk with each other like nothing was wrong, but it was superficial, shallow conversation and we all knew it.

We were all waiting. Just waiting.

For them to come back, or not. Everybody tried not to think about not.

I met Seth's imprint, whose name was Natalie and who seemed nice enough. She had only gotten really rough, vague, basic descriptions from Seth and was confused as to why she had to lie to her parents and tell them she was at her friend's house when she wasn't. And a little about why she had to be here at all.

She was really shy, though, and didn't ask many questions even though it was obvious that she wanted to. It was all still kind of up in the air about what to tell her - Seth obviously hadn't confided in her about everything and it was his decision, but we all felt she deserved to know.

I mean, what in the hell were we supposed to tell her if he didn't come back?

Then when you got to that, on the other hand, maybe explaining to her that her boyfriend had run off with his werewolf pack to fight a war with an army of vampires wasn't the best idea either.

So we were stuck, and didn't tell her much of anything. Until now.

"Nessie," Natalie said, surprising me even though her voice was low and she was sitting right beside me. She normally didn't speak unless spoken to.

I looked up from Katie, who I had been cradling in my arms while she slept. I was surprised that holding a baby wasn't as difficult as it seemed, although I was still a nervous wreck the first time Emily placed the tiny beating heart in my arms. I waited for her to finish addressing me, since it seemed like that wasn't the end of what she wanted to say, but she didn't.

"Yes?" I prodded.

She was older than me, of course, even older than how I appeared to be. It was strange how I felt so much older than her, and so incredibly young at the same time.

"I want to know where Seth is," she said, in a phrasing that let on that she had intended it to be firm but it still came out as a request. "I need to know where Seth is."