He was getting older.

I don't know how I knew but I did. Maybe it was that he had a few more wrinkles on his face. Maybe it was when he shifted to his wolf form there were gray furs mixed in with the russet. Or maybe it was that he was moving slower, his senses dulling.

But he still looked like a teen. As did I.

I didn't know how to bring it up. The last time I had was over 20 years ago; around the time she stopped changing. I had asked him how long they would be together. He told me forever.

Did he not know he would die while she stayed young? That he would grow old while she remained 17. That when he died, it would be worse then when I left to 'save' Bella. She needed Jacob more then he needed her. He was her sun, a stronger pull then Bella and I had on each other.

Speaking of Bella, this wasn't the time to be thinking about this. Renesmee and Jacob were out spending the day together with some friends. Which meant Bella and I had the day to ourselves. For once no child or dog to interrupt us.

"It's so quite." I whisper to Bella. She grins as she curls up in my lap. "Maybe me should let the children out to play more often." I murmured.

Bella chuckled lightly, reaching up to run a hand along my face. "Children? I only recall giving birth to one child. And having an annoying younger brother."

"Child, annoying brother, either way. I like this. It's peaceful and I like it." I pulled Bella's face up and leaned in to kiss her when her phone started to ring.

Bella pulled away with a small grimace and picked up her phone. Without even looking at the screen she flipped it open. "Hey Alice. What's up?"

I heard Alice laugh at Bella's obvious annoyance at being interrupted. I picked out my own name and another round of tinkling laughter. Bella nodded and passed the phone to me. I took it with a raided eyebrow. "Hi Edward. Sorry to interrupt you and Bella but Seth didn't know who to call. He was with Jacob and Nessie when Nessie and Jacob suddenly took off. Jacob phased into his wolf form and when Seth phased into his own he could hear Jacob's fear. Something happened. You should catch up and see what's going on. I gotta go. I can't see much but if I try I might be able to see Nessie." With that the phone went dead.

I looked up to see Bella was glaring at a spot on the wall. "That mutt was suppose to watch over her. How the hell did something get past him to get to her?!" She was upset. She only called Jacob by the slurs used between the wolves and vampires when she was pissed off at the shape-shifters.

"Bella, calm down. We need to go and find Jacob. I'm sure something happened that we don't know about. After all both Seth and Alice were in a hurry to explain things so they could have left something out." Even as I said that I knew if Jacob hadn't protected our daughter like he swore he would I was going to kill the dog very painfully.

"Let's go." I whispered, taking Bella's hand and dashing out the door.

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Lilly: Sorry. This one took longer for me to write cause I had so many plans to wrap up the summer with my friends that I had to work on. I am also sorry cause I started sending messages to people thank them for adding this story to their favs or their watch and then I just stopped cause it was getting to be too much. I will still reply to reviews and I tend to leave a review for a review (Am working on it!) so feel free to leave a review as always. Next chapter is form Seth's point of view, as it may be hard to tell.