Author's Note- Don't get too made, this is my first Twilight fic, I tended to stick to X-Men and things like that. I do have some experience writing, just not in this genre. If I mess something up really badly please tell me, I won't react badly- I like constructive criticism- but don't flame me because then I won't take it very well, and odds are I won't pay any attention because I'll just assume you hated it and that your opinion is biased because of that.

Also, I don't plan on having all the extra wolves. It is my understanding that they all inherited the gift with the large amount of newborns that Victoria created. So I think I'm keeping it just the original six- Sam, Paul, Jared, Embry, Quil and Jake. Unless I am mistaken Seth and Leah didn't change until after the Cullens came back, if it was before then I will just add them into the mix, but otherwise I won't.

Avoiding the Unavoidable

Chapter 1

Death of Love

"Now girls, I know we've been teaching this class for a few weeks now, I want you all to get a view of a real attack. With the way things in this area have become I don't want any of you caught unaware of what you can do to an attacker. On this reservation you have plenty of people you can run to, but outside you don't. You all know how I feel about leaving- it's up to you and I won't judge you, but if you do decide to leave you need to know how to defend yourselves." I begin nervously in front of my audience of young girls from the La Push Reservation, my home for the past few years.

"Bells- get on with it. If you keep talking then the Elders that are paying for this will die of old age before you finish your speech." Jacob Black- my husband of three years- chides from behind me. Slowly he inches toward me from the shadows, like someone intent on attacking a defenseless woman at night.

"Let me show you what you would do. Now you may not hear them coming up from behind you- like I can't hear Jake- but that doesn't matter." I instruct as Jake grabs my left shoulder in his large right hand. "Sir, would you please be so kind as to remove your hand from my shoulder?" I ask tilting my head slightly toward him, making eye contact out of the corner of my eye.

"And what if I don't wanna, yer really pretty. Ya shouldn't be out here alone, might come up on someone wantin' ta hurt ya." Jake slurs in a perfect imitation of a drunken assailant.

"Sir, if you don't remove your hand I will be forced to remove it for you." I warn scathingly, continuing the act, even though his innocent touch sends goosebumps up and down my arms.

"Well, I've decided I like ya. Yer comin' home wit me and I won't take no fer an answer." He replies with a voice laced with authority as he puffs out his chest in a display of masculine pride and an attempt at intimidation.

"You can't say I didn't warn you." I reply grabbing three fingers or the offending hand in a tight grip before spinning away from him and placing the edge of my free hand under his wrist and pushing up with enough force to hurt a normal male. The great thing about Jake being my partner in these classes is that I can't hurt him if I chose to.

"Ouch! I give!" Jake yells as he pulls his hand back quickly before sending his fist toward my face, a move I blocked easily by throwing up my forearm.

"Jake! Crap! You're not supposed to hurt me!" I cry out as his fist comes in contact with my arm, one of the many drawbacks of being married to one of the werewolves on the reservation. "Well, with the exception that Jake here can punch harder than a trained fighter that was realistic. Now I want you to pair up and practice removing that offending hand. You can go on to practice blocks, parries and kicks if you want, but make sure you have removal down first, okay?" I announce as the small group of girls jump up and break off into groups to practice the move I had just demonstrated.

"Do you need to get to the hospital, Bells? I can drive you down now if you want, Sam can finish the class." He rambles quickly grabbing my arm and placing his feverish lips to the large red mark that bruises as he inspects it.

"How long have you known me, Jake? I bruise easily. I think I might ask Sam to do the next demonstration though, he'll be a little gentler." I retort pulling my arm from his grasp. "Plus your body heat is not going to make it any better- if you want to do something productive to grab the ice pack out of the freezer in the kitchen. You should know where that is, since you're in there enough throughout the day." I tease before wrapping my arms around his abdomen and his arms wrap around my shoulders.

"Fine. I can do that." He replies before giving me a quick peck on the lips and rushing off inside of our small house and out of my eyesight.

"I can do the next demonstration, if you have another one planned." Paul says coming up beside me as he watches the girls practice.

"That might work. You can pair off with Jake and show them what it would look like if they meet someone their own strength." I admit smiling slightly at the offer. "I can demonstrate with someone else on what to do if they are of superior strength."

"I never thought that this would be a good idea Bella, but I am glad that you got this started. We can't be around to protect these kids all the time." Paul confesses sending a charming smile my way before scowling as Jake runs back toward us.

"The girls need someone who will tell them it's okay to leave here. Look at all the good that you all have done. After James- I don't want to think about all of that. These kids need information that I never had."

"Don't worry- we are trying to help these kids." Sam says reassuringly. "I don't want to see any one of them hurt. If this is a success, and the elders approve of what you are doing, we will take it to the other local tribes. They will want to help their children- and they don't have helpers like us." Sam assures me, laying a hand on my right shoulder, and causing chill bumps to rise up once again, but this time only from the temperature difference.

"Hey! You've got your own wife, lay off of mine." Jake yells out running over and picking me up in his arms and pulling me away from Sam's gentle touch on my shoulder.

"Jake! Put me down this instant before I make you an example of why men shouldn't pick on women that are smaller than they are." I warn scathingly causing him to set me down gently on my feet and placing the ice pack to my now bruised arm. "Good boy." I tease, patting his chest softly like you would a family pet.

"Just because of what I can do doesn't mean that you can treat me like a dog." He replies, sounding offended.

"Point taken, but it's time to move on to our next lesson. Girls, I need your attention up here." I call out somewhat softly so that the three men with super sensitive hearing don't have trails of blood running down from their ears. "We are going to show you what it's like if you find yourselves grabbed from behind.

"We're going to let Paul and Jake take out some anger and turn them into punching bags for each other, but Sam is going to help me show what to do if the attacker isn't the same size as you. I think we'll both agree that Sam is not only bigger than I am, but stronger, right?" I ask causing all the girls to burst into giggles. "Now, this isn't much different. In the situation that Paul and Jake are going to show the weak points would be the eyes, nose or the face in general. They would also have the groin, knees, shins and the tops of the feet. I'll explain it before they show it, but I am going to have Sam help me demonstrate what to do when they are larger than you are. He's going to grab me around the shoulders, over my arms, and I can't reach his face." I explain before Sam grabs me as I had instructed.

"Here is what you are going to do, should you be grabbed like that. You are going to lean your weight to whichever side you don't write with, and bend that knee." I explain slowly being my left knee and dropping my weight to that side, throwing Sam off balance. "Now from here you have a few choices, but I'll explain them one at a time. A couple of them are easy. You can lift the foot that you don't have your weight on and either kick their shins, or stomp on their foot, they will let go but it may take a couple of times. Or, if that isn't working you can reach your hand back and deliver a blow that will knock them to the ground, it can just be a little extreme, so I don't want to do it to Sam- I think Emily would hurt me if I send Sam home limping." I joke causing all the kids to laugh at the idea of Emily coming after me. Even with their simple understanding of the whole situation they know it would never happen.

"Yeah, but Emily would get through me." Jake retorts crossing his arms in front of his chest as Sam lets go of me and stands in front of him.

"I hope you weren't just threatening Emily, I'd have to do something about that." Same replies with a mischievous smile plastered on his face.

"Okay, scratch the new lesson girls, let's just give these two guys some room to sort this out and we'll meet again next week. Have fun, and don't share any of this!" I call out as the girls run in every direction but toward the four instructors. "Now I'm tired." I complain slowly sinking down to the ground and laying down on the grass in the sunlight.

"You've been acting off today, what's up?" Jake asks me walking up behind me and placing his arms around me lightly, warming me skin and causing goosebumps.

"Nothing really, I've just been thinking about why we started this whole thing. We never did talk about that- about the attack. I never told you what happened." I confess leaning into his embrace.

"You don't have to, I won't force you." Jake assures me, clearly uncomfortable with the topic of Vampires- especially when it has anything to do with Edward Cullen and saving me from anything.

"Look, you don't truly understand how it happened. We were playing baseball, well I guess it's more accurate to say they were playing and I was playing Umpire. That is when the three Vampires came up to us- James, Victoria and another one of their coven. It was all good until he caught one whiff of my scent, and let's just sum it up to say he was dying of thirst and ran into a lake. It escalated from there."

"He never would have come near you if you weren't out with the bloodsuckers. I know that you tell me not to call them that, but honestly Bella, do you expect me to just say 'Oh, it's okay' when they put you in that position."

"Look Jake, I know you don't like the idea of them, but it happened. They saved me from death. I was laying there dying, I was becoming one of them! Edward is the only reason that I am standing here breathing, he is the only reason that we could be married! Are you going to tell me that you are unhappy? Do you think that he should have just let me be turned? Oh yes, let's have this argument. The only way this can end is that you are unhappy with the eight years that we have been together. Are you jealous of what Sam and Emily have? Do you want what they have and you just can't have it? Fine Jacob, I'll just go back to my dad's and you can try to imprint on someone. You can admit that we have wasted the last eight years of our lives together. It's okay Jake, I'll just go back to Edward and beg him to turn me, and maybe this time he'll listen." I scream grabbing my purse off of the couch and running into the bedroom and opening the drawer and throwing random articles of clothing into the bag.

"Look Bella, let me explain." Jake pleads running into the room and placing his hand on my arm.

"Let go of me." I demand through clenched teeth, causing him to respond and let go of my arm. "We both need some time to cool down, why don't you just stay here and invite Embry and Quil over for some beers and I'll spend a couple of nights with my dad. Let's just cool off for a few nights, and then we'll talk about all of this. Jake this is why we don't talk about this, but I felt the need to do it- I can't have this gap between us. You aren't ready to talk about this now Jake, and I'm not ready to let this go."

Edward's POV

"What do you mean Alice?" I hiss into the phone. Did she think she could just call and tell me 'Bella needs you' and that I would travel all the way to Forks from Maine? Here I am, minding my own business and she drops that bomb on me. There is no way that I'd just drop everything and leave.

"You told Bella you'd be the first to step in if something changed. There is an issue. Jake's dead." She says softly before she hangs up.

Of course, right when I get my new start her husband keels over. He can't die while I'm just in Seattle, under a days drive from her. He has to drop dead.... wait, the wolves can die short of Vampire attacks?

"Alice, what did you mean?"

"I knew you'd call back."