Anna's POV:
"Err… Jacob claims that he imprinted on her….." It suddenly blurted out of me cutting through the silence that had settled among us.
Yeah, right! My subconscious scoffed. I don't buy it for a second.
"W-What?" Edward chocked out blinking in confusion.
"Ahhh ….. Jacob was bragging about it when he turned up here… guess I forgot to mention that," I shrugged. "But with her being his imprint she is not our problem anymore but belongs with the Werewolves. I mean all the imprints know about the existence of Vampires and Werewolves…." I trailed off looking questioningly at Carlisle who stared eye wide at me with his mouth agape in surprise.
"Well….in that case…." He said before he shook his head as he recovered. "If the law had not been changed Aro has no claim to Bella as long as she does not expose our existence." Carlisle murmured thoughtfully.
"That would leave you to…." Emmett looked sympathetically at me while Rosalie huffed angrily and turned her head away.
"I know," I inhaled deeply.
"But…" Edward spoke up.
"Aro will insist on the deal she made with him in the other time line when he gets to know about it." Carlisle interrupted his son.
"This is not right. This is not fair." Edward grumped under his breath before he looked over at me with such tortured and anguished eyes I felt my heart squeeze painfully in my chest.
"Do you want to become a Vampire, Anna?" Esme asked me tenderly as she stepped out of Carlisle's embrace and came over to me while Rosalie glared sharply in my direction and I heard Edward sharp intake of air.
I swallowed hard as I was gathering my thoughts on the subject.
"When I made the deal with Aro ….. I had no idea that this was real. I thought I don't know….." I shook my head and stuck my tongue out to wet my dry lips.
"To be honest I have no idea. I have not really thought about the possibility of becoming a Vampire."
It was almost comical if someone would have asked me if I wanted to become a Vampire while I still thought they were only fiction my answer would have been positive …., flippantly, ignorant, stupid … but now that I knew better …..
That's why they say be careful what you wish for. My subconscious lectured me while pitifully shaking her head at me.
"Whatever she wants or not does not matter the law leaves her only two options dying or joining our kind." Jasper drawled and Edward growled at him.
"Like it or not that is how it is, Edward." Jasper glared at his mind reading brother.
"They will be here soon," Alice announced and the air in the room grew tense.
My palms were sweaty while my heart raced in my chest as fear and nervousness were coursing through my veins.
I think I'm getting sick. My subconscious moaned miserably holding her stomach before rushing to the toilet.
I had always been aware of the fact that there was the possibility that something could go wrong and we would be find out by the Volturi but nothing could have prepare me for the case of emergency.
"Anna, are you alright? You look pale," Edward gazed worryingly at me while a cold shiver ran through me.
"No," I shook my head, "I'm not alright." A chocked whisper escaped my dry lips while I rested my head against his shoulder and closed my eyes.
The conversation around me continued as I zoned out, crossing my arms tightly around my chest and drew huge lungs full of air into my body to keep the sick feeling that had my stomach in it's ugly clutches at bay.
Feeling a little more collected I opened my eyes again and winced slightly as I felt the pounding that announced a headache, spreading through the area of my right temple.
….if not the Volturi the stress is going to be the end of me soon….
"Maybe if we show ourselves cooperative then they won't summon us to Volterra." Alice piped up hopefully.
"What do you mean, dear?" Esme looked curious at her pixie daughter.
"According to my vision the reason why we got summoned was because Edward ran with Anna but if she stays here and we tell them that she is Edward's mate and to be turned shortly we might don't have to go." She explained hopefully, looking pleadingly at a thoughtful Carlisle.
He screwed his eyes shut and exhaled heavily before raising his head and looking at all of us with uncertainty in his wise amber pools.
"I have no idea if that will be enough to appease them but we can give it a try."
"I would never ever tell anyone about your secret. I didn't when I was pretty much pissed at everyone and everything and I will not in the future." I paused briefly and held my hand up when Edward opened his mouth to say something.
"If becoming a Vampire is the only way of staying …. alive …. I'll do it." I nodded, making my choice, and I could feel Edward's body tremble with rage next to me.
Rosalie glared into the space in front of her and pressed her lips into a thin line while the others looked grave and sad trying their best not to look directly at me.
I was not exactly crazy about becoming a Vampire but that was still better than death, right?
If it was your free decision would you become a Vampire? My subconscious questioned curiously and I had to admit to myself that I had no define "No" that had the urge to leave my lips but there was also no "Yes" trying to rip it's way out of me.
The only thing that this particular question caused inside me was a huge question mark to emerge. If it was a choice that was offered to me without any consequences either way what would I want?
"What about this Aro? Doesn't he collect the ones of our kind with special abilities?" Emmett broke the depressing silence that had settled over the room while he held an angry looking Rosalie firmly in his arm.
"He was mainly interested in Alice's and Edward's ability." I sighed after Carlisle looked resigned at me.
Edward who had his arm slung around my shoulder while we sat on a love seat pressed me a little closer to him.
"We refuse of course. Didn't you say that we could refuse?" Alice looked hopefully almost pleadingly first at Carlisle and then at me.
"It worked in the book." I shrugged while Carlisle sighed.
Considering everything that had happened Aro has their asses on a silver platter. My subconscious grimaced.
A growl vibrated through Edward's chest. My head snapped around to look at him and I saw his golden pools fill with anger as he stared at Alice and his yaw clenched as a dark expression crossed his face.
Suddenly he shot up from the loveseat and stormed out onto the balcony while Alice sighed and shook her head before gazing annoyed after him.
OK, this silent conversation thing sucks a great deal. My subconscious groused.
I agreed with her entirely.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Rosalie as she seethed, her fury was radiated off her in waves and the murderous expression that had plastered itself on her face caused an icy chill to run down my spine.
Emmett opened his mouth to say something but shook his head a second later thinking better of it.
Alice and Jasper disappeared upstairs while Esme and Carlisle went into the media room as Rosalie stormed out of the house, most likely blowing off steam in her safe heaven - the garage - with Emmett hot on her heels.
My right leg was nervously bouncing as I suddenly found myself alone in the big, brightly lit living room while everyone was coping in their own way waiting for Jane and the others to arrive.
As the pounding against my skull got worse with every passing second I got up and made my way into the kitchen where the extra strong headache pills that Carlisle got me were.
If he only knew about the pack of painkillers in the nightstand…. My subconscious looked despairingly at me.
Looking down at the two while orbs in my hand I couldn't help but scoff. For the past few weeks I had been eating those and similar tablets like candy to keep the skull splintering pain away. The constant headaches were a clear sign that I needed a break and that soon.
After swallowing down the pills with a glass of coke I found myself back in the living room where my stomach started twisting and turning as I was desperately trying to force myself to stay as collected as possible.
Freaking out would do no good in this situation. My subconscious mumbled hysterically about to have a melt down.
"I have called Sam and informed him about the situation." Carlisle said when he re-entered the living room. I smiled at him silently thanking him for making the effort and informing me.
Exhaling a long breath I saw Edward out of the corner of my eye as he was leaning over the handrail on the balcony. His shoulders were hunched and he looked like a broken man.
While Esme snuggled herself to Carlisle as the both of them sat down on the love seat near the fireplace I stood up and made my way over to the balcony.
Once I shoved the glass door open the crisp night air assaulted my heated skin and I shivered lightly, what caused me to grab the blanked off the launch chair next to me before stepping outside.
Pulling the blanket tightly around my shoulders I inched closer to Edward's defeated from and I sneaked my arms around his belly hugging him from behind, pressing my cheek against his back.
A chocked sob tore from his chest before he spun around and pulled me into his chest, burying his face in the crook of my neck.
The harsh pants that left his mouth brushed over my shoulder and down my back coaxing goose flesh to arise in their wake while my arms encircled his waist.
"I don't know what I do if ….."
"Shhhh," I shook my head hugging him closer to me offering him comfort while receive a feeling of security in return.
I inhaled his unique scent letting it cloud my mind for a moment before I pulled away enough to be able to look into his pained and scared golden pools.
"I do you want to know what the best thing is about feeling numb or downright pissed?" I asked him out of the blue.
Edward's worried golden pools screwed up in confusion.
"You are braver ….. well more like you don't feel the terror that you should or just don't care that it's there because it is being dulled out…" I trailed off, cranked my neck and pressed my cheek into his chest while Edward hold on me tightened.
"Anna…." He sighed and his amber gaze softened before he leaned down and his cool, velvet lips pressed a tender kiss to my forehead.
"Death doesn't really appeal to me." I grimaced and soon heard a scoff behind me.
Cranking my neck I felt Edward's chest vibrate with the growl that left his lips while I was faced with Rosalie's fierce glare.
"Death is the far more human solution than this existence." She sneered.
"And yet you haven't lit yourself on fire to end this miserable existence, have you?" I shot at her.
Her eyes went wide and nearly popped out of their sockets as her yaw hit the floor and she looked shocked at me unable to get another word out.
Looking at her stunned expression I wanted to laugh. Not because she looked funny in that moment but because I could see the irony of the situation glare amused at me.
Only after I have been faced with the possibility of losing my humanity I suddenly began to value all those little inconveniences that made me human; the need to sleep, to eat, to breath, ….. not to have to think twice about stepping into the sunlight …
Suddenly I felt Edward's body tense and his arms drew me protectively into him. My head snapped back and I saw the raw panic in his amber depths before his face turned into an unreadable mask.
His eyes cast to mine briefly before he pressed his lips to my temple and pulled me inside with him into the living room where the others were already assembled, glum, grave and nervous faces staring at one another.
Edward and I sat down on the love seat near the fireplace opposite of Carlisle and Esme. He tugged me into his side and his right arm was firmly slung around me in a protective manner.
Seconds that seemed like eternity past by until the sound of the door bell ripped through the dead silence in the house.
Carlisle and Esme rose from their seats, exchanged wary looks before they intertwined their hands and went to answer the door. When the both of them disappeared out of my sight I closed my eyes, let my chin touch my collar bone while I took a deep breath as my heart was hammering violently against my rip cage.
Exhaling and raising my head I squeezed Edward's hand, we exchanged a wary glance before we rose from the couch as four in black clad figures entered the living room and four pair of burgundy, curious to confused eyes were immediately fixed on me.
Ohhhh. My subconscious moaned and rushed into the bathroom banging the door shut.
Swallowing hard I nodded and smiled carefully at the four visitors. I was scared out of my mind but also determinate to show a strong front.
"A human?" Jane glanced puzzled at Carlisle.
"She is my mate." Edward announced, his body tense as he stood protectively in front of me
"But she is human." Demetri exclaimed raising an eyebrow at Edward and me. "Though one with an interesting scent." He added quietly, cocking his head curiously to the side.
"Weren't we all once humans?" Carlisle asked diplomatically when he and Esme stepped around Jane and Alec who was watching Jasper closely.
Jane shot him a repulsed glare before looking back at me.
"Let me rephrase my question; why is she still human?"
"She is the daughter of the Chief of Police here in Forks. Her sudden disappearance would draw too much attention to us. Which is why we decided to delay her entry into our world until she will go off to college." Carlisle answered her question before I could.
Jane glared at him before her sinister, blood red eyes focused on me and immediately Edward started to growl about to move completely in front of me but halting his intention as her face twisted into mask of displeasure.
Demetri who had been smirking when he noticed what Jane was about to do, looked confused for a split of a second before he suddenly seemed to be rather interested into the Vampire who stood like a rock in front of me.
"You are wrong," Edward glared at Demetri, "I'm not like Renata. I'm not a shield."
Rosalie's mouth popped open and she looked as if she wanted to kill her brother while Emmett was seizing Felix, fletching his muscles as did the other bear of a Vampire in the room having a silent pissing contest with him while having his arms protectively around his wife.
"A mind reader," Demetri stated stunned as Jane's, Alec's and Felix's eyes snapped to Edward's face before they became guarded.
Esme and Carlisle exchanged wary and nervous looks while Jasper was watching the situation closely as Alice stood next to him looking pensive.
"Any more surprises?" Jane sneered, narrowing her angry sparkling pools at Carlisle.
"I can see the future," Alice piped up and for a split of a second the four red eyed Vampires, showed signs of fascination on their hard faces, "and my husband can feel and manipulate emotions." She clung to Jasper's arm.
"Who is the shield?" Demetri asked.
"That would be me." I answered as the four dark figures were looking disbelievingly at me.
It was unnerving the way they were looking at me.
Makes you feel like a yummy piece of meat, huh? My subconscious raised a sarcastic eyebrow at me.
"To what do we own the pleasure of your visit?" Carlisle asked taking their attention from me.
"Hmm…. Shouldn't you be aware?" Jane gazed from Alice to Edward before her frosty stare landed on Carlisle.
Carlisle swallowed hard and nodded.
"Why do they want to destroy you and who is responsible for those newborns?"
"Her name is Victoria." Edward growled.
"Why is she doing this?" Demetri quizzed.
"Because we killed her mate last year." Alice answered. "He had attacked us. He was a tracker, a hunter and apparently we presented quite a challenge for him. One he couldn't resist. Unfortunately for him he had thought himself smarter and stronger than he was. And now Victoria is trying to avenge his death."
"If you know all this why haven't you done anything?" Jane raised an eyebrow while her brother stood with his hands crossed behind his back next to her not uttering a word, only observing, much like Felix who had his arms crossed over his chest and stood with his legs apart towering over the others.
"Her gift makes it rather difficult to catch her." Carlisle answered.
"Gift?" Demetri narrowed his eyes.
"She appears to have a talent to sense dangerous situation and is able to escape those just in time." Carlisle explained while Jane and Alec exchanged meaningful glances.
I had to admit she was good even with Edward knowledge of when exactly she would attack and which paths she would follow neither the Cullen's nor the Werewolves were able to get a hold of her no matter how often they tried when she was looming around in the woods near Forks and La Push.
"They are going to attack on Friday. We are ready for them." Edward said drawing the attention of the Volturi to himself.
"Quite convenient to have a fortune-teller at your disposal." Demetri assessed and was met by Jasper's fierce and furious black look which was accompanied by a warning growl.
Demetri lowered himself into a crouch smirking on challenge at Jasper as Felix stepped behind him. Jasper immediately responded to the threat and readied himself for a fight.
The atmosphere in the room was charged and explosive when Emmett took a step towards his brother to have his back. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Esme's panicked and worry stricken and Carlisle's haunted face.
"Enough!" Jane suddenly barked and all eyes were focused on her while looked unfazed and bored.
She glared at Demetri who huffed and rolled his eyes before rising from his crouch while disappointment washed over Felix's face.
"We will brief Master Aro about our discoveries and I would advice you not to try to run. I would be very displeased if I had to chase you across the entire country." Jane hissed in an emotionless voice before she and her male companions left.
"Why the hell did you tell them about your abilities?" Rosalie hissed after a few moments past and our visitors were most likely out of earshot.
"Our number makes them nervous…and when Jane's attack didn't have the desired effect….." Edward grimaced angrily as he shoved his hand forcefully through his hair and glanced at his pixie sister.
"Aro will insist on meeting us." Alice added with a frown on her pixie face.
"So you are able to protect us from their mental abilities." Emmett looked curiously at me.
"I wasn't doing anything." I shook my head and held my hands up while both Edward and Carlisle narrowed their eyes at me seemingly lost in their thoughts for a moment.
Rosalie scoffed before she shook her head looking displeased and pissed off.
"I know the timing is not the best for this but if they are going to stay and also fight how are we going to deal with or explain the entire Werewolf thing?" The question blurted out of me the moment it past through my mind.
"Sam and his pack have to stay away." Carlisle answered after a few seconds.
"Do you think we should tell them about the pack?" Esme asked worryingly.
"No," Edward shook his head.
"Edward is right," Jasper agreed thoughtfully. "It's in our nature to feel threatened and to want to attack those mutts."
"We should arrange a meeting with the mutts and that soon." Edward sighed while he pinched the bridge of his nose.
(*.*)
"Jane and the others are currently in Seattle. They will most likely be back tomorrow to talk to us…." Alice frowned frustrated as she couldn't get a clear vision.
"It is too early, Alice. Aro will discuss this with Marcus and Casius." Carlisle said when he came into the dinning room just as the morning sun that announced the beginning of a new week shone through the windows and the room was filled with prisms of brilliant light and all rainbow colours.
"What did Billy say?" I asked.
"They will meet us at the border …. And they want you to be there too." His gaze lingered on me before his eyes hardened a little as he looked at Edward's tense from beside me. His son huffed and drove his hand through his hair in frustration.
I hate those silent conversations! My subconscious grumped with her arms crossed over her chest, looking put out and edgy.
"Sure I will call Deb and…..."
"You messed up and we all are paying for it, Edward." Rosalie hissed and glared hard at her brother.
"Rosalie." Esme chided and glared at her daughter as suddenly a chair was dragged loudly over the floor and Edward was on his feet.
"I know. I know it, Rosalie. Do you think it is easy for me to know that I put you all in danger? That I have a hand in destroying Anna's life."
"You should have stayed away from that cheating bitch like I told you to." Rosalie screeched at him on her feet as well and she looked like she wanted to jump over the table that separated the both of them and rip him apart.
Emmett had to hold on to his wife's waist, as growls were vibrating her fire red painted lips, or else she would have attacked Edward while Jasper's face was twisted up in concentration, trying to calm everyone down.
"Enough!" Carlisle's voice thundered through the room and all sounds ceased.
Rosalie's angry glare snapped to meet Carlisle's disapproving expression and the disappointment in his golden pools caused her to look away.
"I know this situation is not easy on any of us but it does not help if we blame one another and fight among each other."
Esme looked torn and close to tears while Alice was patting her husband's arm to help him keep the emotions in the room in check.
Reaching out my fingers sneaked around Edward's clenched fist and suddenly his head snapped around to look at me. His hard, pained and tortured eyes softened a little while he took a few deep breaths before he sighed and sat back down beside me.
A few more tense moments past before the atmosphere in the dinning room clamed down.
"We have to get through this as a family." Carlisle said in a death serious voice looking each member of his family into their face and what surprised me the most was that his gaze also lingered on the just as long as did on the others.
I had no idea why but under his intense gaze I suddenly felt compelled to nod my head.
"Good then lets discuss where we will go from here…."
(*.*)
"Punctuality is not one of their strengths, is it?" Rosalie huffed annoyed as she looked at her watch while Emmett was lazily leaning against a huge tree.
We were waiting for the Wolves to arrive somewhere in the middle of the forest. Even deep inside the woods, where no ray of sun could sneak it's way through the thick crowns of the tall trees it was warm.
Kind of hard to believe that in four days it will be snowing. My subconscious shrugged her shoulders.
Suddenly Edward tensed and sighed beside me, interrupting the conversation he was having with Carlisle and Jasper.
"What happened, son?" Carlisle asked concerned.
Edward's cranked his neck and looked apologetically at me.
"Bella is also coming."
I exhaled in annoyance and rolled my eyes as I crossed my arms over my chest feeling the anger I held for her boil freshly under my skin.
"Anna…" Edward's soft, velvet voice was filled with concern.
"I'm fine." I barked sharply at him. "Let's get this over with."
Edward sighed resigned and nodded before he stepped closer to me, looking like he wanted to say something or reach out to touch me but in the end shook his head and gazed in the direction of the line of trees in front of us.
Moments later eight massive beast emerged from behind the trees splitting in the middle, forming a protective V for the two Wolves and one monster in the shape of a human to stand at the sharp end.
Jacob had his arm slung around her waist. Her face was unnaturally pale what made the huge, dark shadows under her eyes stand out even more while she looked pleadingly and longingly at Edward.
Jacob on the other hand looked like he wanted to murder someone. His expression was sinister and the look in his eyes let my blood run cold.
Whoa! The Wolf is fully taking over, isn't he? My subconscious noted, not liking this development.
This Jacob seemed to be much darker and angrier than the one in the books.
"What is so important that you had to call in an emergency meeting?" Sam dived into the matter at hand.
"Thank you for coming on such short notice." Carlisle said before he sighed.
"Unfortunately the plan has changed…"
"What do you mean?" Jacob barked darkly interrupting Carlisle and Sam shot him a warning glare.
"Are you aware who the Volturi are?" Carlisle asked and the attention of the family stealing witch switched from the Vampire who was standing slightly in front of me to the one who led the conversation.
"Yes, Bella told us. What about them?" Sam's brow furrowed.
"Yesterday they paid us a visit." Carlisle answered.
"What?...How?...Why?" She cried stunned as her arms which she had slung around her belly tightened and something in her eyes started to sparkle.
Edward's head suddenly snapped around, his eyes narrowed as he looked at Jasper and Alice and suddenly shock and bewilderment washed over his face before he screwed his eyes shut exhaled heavily and angrily and cranked his neck to look over at her but she wouldn't meet his gaze.
Instead she blushed, fire red, and pressed herself further into a confused but still angry looking Jacob.
How blind and delusional can he be? My subconscious cried in frustration.
But I was thankful that Jacob wanted to believe with everything he was that he belonged with that family stealing witch ….. with the Volturi now in the picture.
"In this time line I didn't go to them," Edward spoke up, "Jane and the other eavesdrop on Victoria's army and heard a conversation were the colour of our eyes was mentioned what immediately led them to Carlisle."
"But how did they find you?" Sam asked curiously.
"Demetri, their tracker, knows Carlisle from long ago." Edward answered.
"Stay away from Bells. I won't let you kill her," Jacob's entire body trembled dangerously and his from began to blur at the edges.
"Bella step back!" Sam commanded as he moved to stand in front of Jacob while Edward crouched down in front of me ready to fight if needed.
Taking a step back I saw how all the wolves observed the situation tensely while the Cullens did the same. Each species ready to strike if needed, low growls of warning rumbled through the air but no one made any further move towards an attack.
"Calm down!" Sam said in a strong and even voice as he laid his hand on Jacob's trembling shoulder. "You don't wanna hurt Bella," Sam pointed at her with his chin, "do you?"
Jacob's eyes lit up with recognition and slowly he turned around to look at her eye wide and fearful face as she stood a few feet away from him, her arms were protectively slung around her middle as she stared cautiously at him.
Gritting his teeth Jacob screwed his eyes shut and forced himself to clam down.
"Bella is in no immediate danger of the Volturi. Since she is with you now our law can't claim her." Carlisle spoke calmly, straightening up from his crouch.
"Why should I trust you?" Jacob spat shooting Carlisle a glare full of hate and disgust.
"Because we don't want her. We certainly do not want to risk having to endure her presence for eternity." Rosalie threw the words at him with as much venom as she could.
The family stealing witch blanched and her wide, panicked and pained eyes sough Edward's out as tears sprang to them, rushing down her cheeks.
Edward's body tensed and he clenched his fists while she opened and closed her mouth like a god fish but no sound escaped her and she started to quietly weep behind Jacob who was too busy calming down to notice what was going on right under his nose.
Or maybe he just doesn't want to notice it. My subconscious mused and shrugged her shoulders.
"See," Jacob barked in my direction with an arrogant gleam in his pitch black, angry depths, "They are nothing more than cold blooded, heartless monster that do not care about anyone else but themselves …."
"You…" the word flew out of my mouth before I sighed royally annoyed, rolled my eyes and shook my head being too angry to be able to articulate the foul words that I wanted to spit at him.
"There is no time for this. We should concentrate on the situation at hand." Carlisle spoke in an even and strong voice.
I bit my lip and closed my eyes to refrain from pointing out to Jacob that what he said about the Cullen's was not true and how wrong he was and that if he wanted to look a real monster into her face all he had to do was to turn around but I knew it would have been useless and I certainly didn't want to lower myself onto his level.
"Sam," I called for his attention and he cranked his neck to look at me. "I would suggest that if he," I glared at Jacob, "can't control himself he should leave. All of our lives are at stake here and we certainly do not have time for immature temper tantrums."
"What?" Jacob barked sharply and looked murderously at me.
Sam shoved his hands against Jacob's massive chest.
"She's right."
Jacob's murderous glare flew from me to Sam and he looked incredulously at him.
"If you can't control yourself then go home Jacob. We don't have time for this. I warned you. The world doesn't revolve around you and Bella and your childish drama." The alpha admonished the younger wolf
Jacob grit his teeth together, clenched his fist tightly at his sides and looked away half ashamed and half furious.
"Anyway!" Sam sighed heavily as he turned around to face us. "What does that mean that they are here now?"
"We don't exactly know but until further notice it would be best if you did not show up on Friday." Carlisle answered.
"You don't expect me to leave Bells on her own!" Jacob exclaimed.
"She stays with you." Edward threw in.
"But….but…" the family stealing witch stammered, shaking her head.
"Victoria followed my scent in the other timeline believing that you would be wherever I was." Edward answered her unspoken question.
"And her leeches?" Sam brows furrowed.
"We can't use Bella's scent with the Volturi around. We will wait for them hidden in the forest not far from where they will emerge from the river …."
"If those other blood suckers will want to fight." Sam interrupted and Carlisle nodded.
"But what if …..." Sam wondered after a while and glanced back at the family stealing witch.
"If you are worried about your family and the people in La Push I would suggest that you split in half. Five of you watch over La Push and the others will watch over Bella at the old Hanson timber mil, I would suggest. It's far enough away from the battle scene as well as the town." Edward mused.
"If you think that you can deal with two of our kind because Riley will be at Victoria's side you have to be aware of that."
Sam sucked in a deep breath and nodded going quiet for a few moments.
"If we don't hear anything from you we won't show up on Friday and if something occurs on our side I will let you know." Sam stated.
"We would appreciate that." Carlisle nodded at Sam who returned the gesture and suddenly Edward tensed as Jacob looked sharply at him.
"Did those other blood suckers see her?" He questioned glancing at me.
"Jacob!" Sam hissed.
"No, listen. Bells told me that those European blood suckers have rules and if they saw her they want her life one way or another," he cranked his head and glared at us, "which means they are about to break the treaty."
Sam's head snapped to us and he was met with the grim looking faces of the Cullens as I grimaced while Jacob grinned self-satisfied and victoriously.
"May I point out that the treaty only applies to humans and that I was not even born on this planet what makes me an alien which means I'm off the menu." I piped up.
Jacob looked agape at me before he shook his head and glared at me.
"You were born human so you will forever be human. End. Of. Story!"
As if it is that easy. My subconscious scoffed shooting him a black look.
"Just ask yourself this. Do really want to fight the most powerful coven of Vampire who have nearly extinguished your kind and hate you more than anything?"
The wolves looked shocked and unsure at one another.
"They extinguished our kind?" Sam questioned confused.
"Not exactly you but the children of the moon, who would somehow be your ancestors I assume." Carlisle offered and received blank looks from Sam and Jacob.
"The children of the moon phase only during the full moon. My theory is that somehow during the course of evolution that must have changed for you since you are able to control the phasing and keep your humanity even in your beast from." The blond Vampire mused.
"You are not a concern to them as of yet. As long as you do not stick your nose into their business the Volturi won't bother with you." Edward answered to whatever was running through Sam's mind.
"Why should we believe you?" Jacob scoffed as his black pools of hate narrowed while he took a step closer to Edward.
"Jake!" She cried and threw herself at him, grabbing his arm firmly between her hands as she looked pleadingly at him.
Sam studied the naked panic in her eyes before he sighed and looked at me.
"Is this what you want?" He grimaced as he asked that.
"As much as I appreciate your concern, one way or another, this is my decision and I am not asking for your help or your permission about how to lead my life." A few wolves growled when they heard my answer while Sam swallowed hard and looked at the ground, clearly upset about what he had just learned.
He shook his head before he looked back up and narrowed his eyes at Carlisle.
"After those blood suckers are dealt with I want you to leave, never come back and I mean never."
"NO!" Jacob exclaimed furiously, shaking all over in rage. "The treaty clearly says that they have to refrain from biting humans - whether to kill or change them. That is our heritage. Do you really want to betray our ancestors because of them." He spat angriely at Sam who looked taken aback and stunned.
Carlisle and Edward shared a concerned glance while the others looked pensive as suddenly and idea hit me ….. well more like a memory.
"So that means the treaty is off the second one of the Cullen's bites me, right?"
"That is correct. We are not aloud to bite a human." Carlisle bobbed his head in defeat.
"Then alright if that is all they won't bite me." I smiled brightly at the confused and bewildered supernaturals in front of me.
For a few seconds silence settled over the thick green forest until a stratled gasp broke from the family stealing witch's throat.
"They do not have to bite to change some one." She mumbled staring horrofied at me.
"Exactly an injection filled with venom also does the job and the treaty is not broken since it only forbids to bite humans and not specifically turning them."
Smart ass! My subconscious shook her head in amusement.
Edward mouth hit the floor before his head snapped around to look at a stunned Carlisle while the air around us suddenly charged and an animalistic growl shook the tress around me a second later.
The wolves as well as the Vampires sprang into action as a rusty coloured beast made a pass at the Vampires only to be attacked by his pack. I had no idea when but Sam had phased as well positioning himself right in front of an furiously growling and snapping Jacob just as he shook a grey silver wolf off of his giant body.
The both of them had a stare down that lasted for a few tense moments before a feral and pissed off wail ripped from Jacob's throat and his massive frame retreated like a flash into the dark green woods behind him.
Jacob's POV:
My body waved effortlessly through the tress and other obstacles as I was getting closer and closer to my destination while the soft hum of voices of my pack-brothers once again murmured in the back of my mind. I had been running pissed off through the woods for hours too furious to notice that I haven't heard any voices in my head for god knows how long.
Only after I clamed down a little Jared's and Paul's voices zoomed slowly back into my mind. It was the strangest of sensations. As if reconnecting with them but any further thought about that strange occurrence flew out of the window when I caught a flash of Bells shaken from in Jared's mind as Sam packed her up in his old Pickup to drive her home.
Reaching Bells house I could hear her quiet sobs and my heart broke for her. Quickly making my way through her bedroom window I was stopped short when I was her trembling frame rolled together in fetal position.
"I'm here Bells. Everything will be alright. I will see to it." I murmured softly as I crawled onto her bed and spooned her shaking body, wrapping my arms around her fragile form to protect her from the world.
Bells began to cry a little harder while her frame melted against my own and the rage and hate I felt for the blood suckers amplified with each tear that my Bells shed.
"Don't worry Bella I won't let anyone harm you." I whispered in her ear holding her close to me while she cried herself to sleep.
I used to see Anna as a victim of those leeches as well but slowly I began to hate her as well. She saw with her own eyes how much Bells hurt and still she rubbed slat into Bella's wounds instead of blaming the blood sucker who were responsible for the entire mess that she and Bells were in.
I didn't even notice that my body had begun to shake until I heard Charlie's car pull into the driveway. Sighing regretfully I untangle myself from Bells sleeping from. As much as I didn't want to I knew it was better I left before Charlie found me in his daughters bed.
I looked one last time at her tiny body as she was curled into her sheets and forced myself to leave. Once I took of my cut offs and tied them to my ankle I phased and rushed home.
My thoughts and emotions were a mess while the wet ground beneath my strong paws gave away under the weight of my enormous body. I was running purely on instinct not really thinking about where I was going nor knowing where I was until I heard their voices and saw Sam standing together with Quil and Embry in his back yard.
The second my eyes landed on him one emotion won out. Rage.
"How could you betray me like this?" I yelled after I had forced myself to phase back despite the fury and frustration that were trying to keep me in the body of the beast.
Sam only sighed annoyed.
"How could you talk to me like that especially in front of those leeches?" I felt furry burn through my veins.
"I'm the rightfully alpha don't ever forget that." I growled at him as I was closing the distance between us and the others ran out of Sam's house to see what the commotion was about.
"Then you should behave like an alpha and not like a stupid, immature child that does not get what it wants." Sam spat at me.
Anger like I had never felt before clouded my vision.
"So now you on the side of the blood suckers, after everything they have done to us. If not for them we still would have a normal life."
"I am not on their side but if that is the only way to prevent harm from the people I have to protect then I will fight along side with them." He glared at me and a hysterical laugh broke out of me.
"You are the one who is allowing them to kill a human." I screamed at him.
"So what do you suggest we do? Get ourselves killed or have you not listened what Bella told us about those blood sucker from Europe."
"So you are running with your tail between your legs." I laughed in his face.
"I am trying to keep us, our families and our people alive."
"We were born to kill them not to submit to them." I yelled at him.
"Jake, man, I agree that the world would be a better place without them but …come on be realistic." Jared grimaced.
When I looked at them I saw it in all written on their faces even Paul stood behind Sam and his "lets wait and see agenda".
"They have turned you over just like they had Bells …"
"Oh, I can't hear any of this crap anymore!" Leah moaned while she was rapidly making her way over to me.
"As far as I recall it was her who flirted with you to get to know their secret and the only reason she is spending time with you right now is because they don't want her anymore after everything she has done or haven't you been listening. Wake the fuck up."
Gritting my teeth I pressed my clenched fists tightly against my thighs to keep from lashing out on her. No matter how angry I was at her she still was a girl. I could not just attack her like the guys.
"Man, Jake she got warned not to get close to them but she still did. Bella played with fire, she got burned and she learned her lesson. Move on." Quil mumbled in a monotone voice.
"What they did to Bells…."
"I really have got enough of you making a victim out of her. What they did to her what did she do to Anna?" Brady growled dangerously at me.
"Anna cares about Charlie and what about your girlfriend did she actually care about ripping a family apart. Well I don't see her shedding a tear for the family she destroyed."
I knew exactly what he was implying and I wanted to murder him for even thinking this way of my Bells.
"Don't you dare to compare Bells to that home wrecker!" I was in his face in an instant.
The best friend of Brady's mother had snatched his father away and destroyed their entire family without wasting even one thought to what she did to others with her behaviour. Bells wasn't like that I would never allow anyone to talk about her like this.
A feral growl ripped from his throat just before he got forcefully dragged away by Seth and Jared, glaring at me all the while and cursing.
"What I don't understand is why are you making such a fuss? You have her. The girl is yours now. So why are your constantly going on about those leeches?" Embry looked confused at me compelling me with his eyes to answer.
My mouth opened and I sucked in a deep breath but no words tumbled out. I had no answer to his question.
You know why, don't you. The sad whisper echoed in my mind ripping my heart nearly apart.
Frustrated beyond believe and pissed a feral growl ripped from my throat before I exploded and took off into the woods.