I was watching Renesmee sleep on the couch. Marveling over her perfect full lips, her long eyelashes, thinking about how the colors in her face seemed brighter than all her surroundings. I kept looking at her perfect face, completely mesmerized by her, when Blondie sneered: 'If you're done drooling over the baby, dog, maybe you could go outside so we finally would get out of this stench for a couple of hours'. Reluctantly, I pulled my stare away from Ness and turned to Rose. 'Hey Blondie' I said, 'What do UFO's and smart blondes have in common?' Her sneering smile turned to a grimace. 'You don't know?' I asked, jestingly, 'You keep hearing about them, but never see any' 'I already knew that one', she said, while her teeth snapped together. 'Sure, sure' I mumbled and giving one last look at the sleeping child, I ran outside. When I to the woods I phased 'phew' I heard Leah think 'you always reek of bloodsucker when you've been there, I can smell it from here' in her head I saw her south of the Sol Duc river, six miles from where I was running. 'Sure sure Leah, give me an update' I told her. 'It's been quiet', I saw her memories of her running from the Cullen's to the rez and running into Paul, apparently, they greeted each other and ran off again. I was happy that the tension between Sam's and my pack had been almost completely resolved. I thought about the events that had happened just three months earlier, when the Volturi had come to visit the Cullens to kill Renesmee. When I thought of Renesmee everything just stopped. I found myself thinking about her beautiful little hands, her lovely smile, the way she could run so fast without falling down... 'JAKE!' Leah thought, fiercely, 'please, please, please try to save your soggy imprint thoughts until I'm not listening' 'Sorry Leah,' I thought, laughing 'hey if you want to get some sleep you can take off, I can run for a couple of hours, and if you come home, tell Seth to go do a perimeter run' ''I'll tell him, see you Jake.' And she was gone. I ran for a while, enjoying the speed, listening to the woods and the animals, when I smelled a human scent in the woods. This as such wasn't a problem, it was just remarkable, I was running very far from the trail and most hikers stayed on it. The only thing was, they were hiking next to the narrowest part of the river, and round the bit where the Cullens always crossed. Plus I was pretty sure the mood-control bloodsucker and the big one- 'Emmett and Jasper' Seth corrected me, smiling inside his own head, who had just phased in, -had gone hunting in this area. 'Whatever, Seth now you're here, you can take over with the perimeter run, and I'll go and warn the bloodsuckers' I saw him running towards the border of our territory, the stream where the ancient Quileute lands started, Sam's territory.
It wasn't hard for me to find the two vampires; their sickly sweet stench was hard to miss. I ran towards them, changed just round the corner and pulled by shorts on. They had already smelled me and the big one came running round the corner growling. When he saw it was me, he relaxed his position. 'What do you want dog?' 'Nice to see you too bloodsucker. I came to warn you, there's a couple of hikers just by the crossing at Sol Duc River, if you wanted to pass there, it's probably best to take the other route. 'Agreed' said Jasper, now also appearing. I gave them both a stiff nod and phased. The relationship between me and the Cullen's was rapidly improving. Even Blondie and I had come to an understanding. Of course, we still fought about Renesmee, and I couldn't help trying to take as much the piss out of her as possible, but we got on all right. 'Jake' Seth thought, I focused on him, I saw him standing next to Sam, Quil, Jared and Embry, who had appeared at the border, apparently wanting to talk to us 'Don't phase yet, I'm coming.'
When I arrived there I took my place directly opposite Sam, on the other side of the river bank. 'Thank you for coming Jacob' his low voice boomed in my head. 'Not at all, what's the matter?' I noticed Jared standing at Sam's left flank, the beta position, this confused me, I was sure that Quil had been his Beta before. 'It seems that Embry and Quil want to join your pack, I think this will be a good idea, we have more than enough wolves to secure our land, and you are only with the three, will you accept them?' Next to me Seth, who could not participate in the conversation between the two Alpha's, but could see what we discussed in my mind, yelped in delight 'Certainly' I replied, 'come on over', the chocolate brown wolf and the slender, grey and black wolf took one last look at Sam and Jared, while they disappeared back into the woods and then jumped over the river. The moment their paws left the ground, I could hear them. 'Hi Jake' 'Hi Jake' they both thought simultaneously 'did you miss me?' I joked, Embry attacked me in response.