"I just don't see why-"

"Jacob, you and her make me sick, do you know that? It's disgusting. Completely wrong-"

"Shut it Leah before I shut your mouth for good!"

"Try it Jacob, I dare you-"

"Shut it both of you!" Sam's order silenced me, but not Leah, who was stubborn, like always. She carried on the argument even though I had finished.

"Go on Jacob. Not frightened of Sam are you?" Leah mocked me nastily, I growled to myself causing Seth to glance at me as we ran in wolf form. I knew he didn't like Leah and me arguing, as she was his sister and I was his best friend, though most of the time he sided with me, because Leah could be a complete…

"Want to carry that thought on Jacob?" Leah suddenly growled in her mind to me, though the rest of the pack heard it just as clearly.

"Leah I said shut up!" Leah was silent now as Sam ordered her a second time.

The pack mind was really starting to irritate me, I wished I could shut it off, but it was impossible. We had all tried to do it with no success. "Phase back then," was Sam's response to that, but I simply refused, I liked being in wolf form other than the mind thing. To me it felt like I was free and careless, even if I wasn't. I was worrying about Bella, she seemed troubled to me. I knew she was torn between the two clans. The vampires were her family, but we wolves were even more of her family. She had been with us for over half a year and she was one of us except the fact that she couldn't phase, but she didn't need to.

"She is NOT one of us!" Leah growled suddenly and the whole pack groaned mentally together. I knew all of them accepted Bella as part of the pack, just like they had accepted Emily as one of us.

"Leah, you know as well as we all do that Bella IS one of us!" Seth cut in before I had a chance to say a thing.

"Jacob phase now!" Sam ordered after Seth had barked furiously at Leah.

"What?! Why?" I demanded furiously, but I already knew why, it was in case I flipped again at what Leah was saying. I had been known to do some damage when I flipped, so I didn't need telling twice. I phased quickly as Seth carried on patrol on the part of La Push that we had been running around.

Slipping on some cut-off jeans I headed back towards the house at a fast run. It was getting dark and I knew Bella would already be asleep, but even still I wanted to see her before I crashed for the night. As I entered the kitchen I turned on the light heading straight for the fridge for some food, we could get very hungry at times. I pulled some stuff out to make a sub, and then turned back, jumping and dropping all of the food in my arms.

To my surprise Bella was sat at the table, head on arms fast asleep. She was breathing deeply, and didn't move even when the jar of pickle cracked on the floor. I stepped over the food on the floor and across to her. She looked so peaceful that I didn't want to move, though I knew I had to, she would hurt her back if she slept like that all night. Slowly I picked her up like a baby in my arms and headed for my room, which was now hers as well as mine. I was sleeping on the made up bed on the floor of our shared room, though she had tried to convince me she would sleep on the floor, but I was having none of that.

Gently I placed her on the bed and she stirred gently before cuddling into the duvet and going back into a deep sleep. I watched her for a while, loving how pretty she looked just lead there, her cheeks flushed slightly, and the peaceful look still on her face. I crept out after that, knowing that I shouldn't look at my adopted sister in that way, but it was hard not to. We were so close, we always had been and I loved her more than anything. I was willingly to do anything for her, even if it meant I had to risk my own life to do so, I would do it.

If I was to lose Bella then I wouldn't know what to do, that's why I didn't want her to be with the vampires all of the time, at least if she wasn't I would know if she was safe or not. Sighing I set about cleaning up the mess I had made before, I was still thinking about Bella.

I didn't see why the Cullens had taken such a liking to Bella anyway, she was just a girl. Well she wasn't just a girl to me, but to them she was. Just another girl that they passed in their never ending lives. Why were they concerned about her welfare? Why did they want to hurt her? Because that's what they were going to do, I knew they were. After all they had to move away eventually, so that no-one would guess what they were, and they would leave Bella behind, they wouldn't have a choice in the matter.

I wouldn't let them take Bella with them; I would hunt them down if they did. She was part of my family as well, and I wasn't prepared to lose her just like that, it was unthinkable. I knew the rest of the pack, with the exception of Leah and possibly Sam, would be behind me on the matter.

I couldn't be bothered to get anything to eat now so instead I shoved it all back into the fridge and headed off to bed. I slipped onto the mattress on the bed, not bothering with a cover as I was toasty enough. For quite a while I listened to Bella's light breathing as she slept peacefully. I smiled to myself and closed my eyes gently, falling into a deep sleep, I was exhausted.