A/N: So what's this one? A triple entry... nice...

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Love is Kind: War

Max was tense. He was pacing. He couldn't help it. He knew the outcome of this war. He knew what was going to happen. He'd heard the stories before, many times. He had to try and stop it from happening. How? He didn't know yet. But he had to stop it from happening...

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Rosalie's POV

Watching him pace like that was unnerving. It's like he knew something but he couldn't tell us. We'd all tired to ask him what was wrong. Alice had tried, Esme had tried, I had tried, even the boys, but Edward just wouldn't stop pacing.

"Something's not right," he kept saying. "Something's wrong."

"Then tell us!" I shouted, annoyed at him. Max was in a corner somewhere, practising a spell that he wouldn't show anyone.

"I don't know what it is Rosalie, but it's big... I can feel it." Edward had been having those 'feelings' since Alice's vision about some unknown vampires sniffing Bella's clothing.

"Relax Edward," Esme said in that motherly voice of hers. "We have to go meet up with the pack now anyway. You can tell us or something when it finally hits you." Edward nodded but we could still see that he was worried about whatever it was that was wrong.

"Let's go then," Alice said.

"You seem excited about this," I accused.

"I am not! It's just... well I don't know okay. Lay off me Rose!" I smiled slightly. Jacob was rubbing off on her. Edward chuckled at my thought.

"Stay out of my head leech," I scold. The family laughed. It was good to laugh. Things had been so tense lately, laughing was a relief. And to think it was because of a certain young wolf was amazing... Who would've thought...

"Where's Max?" Emmett asked looking around the living room.

"He's around somewhere. I don't know. He said he needed a quiet place to concentrate."

"Oh..."

"Sometimes it's hard to believe that he's only ten," Jasper said.

"I know right? It's crazy." We all sighed. Max walked into the room with a sigh and went and sat on Edward's lap, curing into a ball in his daddy's arms.

"You okay?" Edward asked him?

"Mm..." Max replied sleepily.

"You aren't over working yourself are you?"

"No daddy."

"Promise?"

"Yep."

"If you are I'll ban you from practising magick for a week."

"Yeah, sure, sure, daddy, okay." We were all quiet for a second. Did he just say 'sure, sure'? Only one person said 'sure, sure'. A certain young someone that could suddenly make my family laugh even without his presence.

"Max?" Alice said in her usual small voice.

"Hmm...?"

"Do you know who Jacob is?"

"Yep."

"Oh... is he like going to be a family friend in the future?"

"You could say that."

"Hmm... I see." Well... since I actually liked the human-smelling-wolf, I was fine with him being a family friend in ten years time. That wouldn't bother me a bit.

We were all quiet for a while till Alice gasped. We all turned and looked at her.

"It's... it's tomorrow," she said in a small strangled voice. "They are coming tomorrow." Only Victoria could spoil a good mood...

It all changes tomorrow...

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After weeks of training it was finally coming. The war was going to begin. They had it all planned out. Bella was going to lie to her father and say she was going to be spending the weekend with Alice at the Cullen house while the rest of the family went camping but Bella was going to go up the mountain with Jacob (to hide her scent) and stay there till the war was over. Rosalie had organised for Max to stay with Billy, Emily and Sue at the Rez till the war was over.

Edward – as an extra precaution – had taken another route up the mountain and would meet the duo up there. He'd borrowed some of Jacob's too big clothes in order to mask his own scent.

Bella and Jacob finally made it to the top.

"Bella!" Edward said in relief, rushing towards Bella and Jacob. Jacob slightly flinched as he set Bella down. Just because him and Edward didn't completely hate each other anymore, didn't mean that they liked each other either. "Thank you Jacob." Jacob shrugged his shoulders, putting on that 'calm' face Bella hated.

"Get her inside. This is going to be bad – my hair's standing up on my scalp... Is that thing going to hold?" He gestured to the small tent.

"I all but fused it to the rock."

"Good... I'm going to phase now, see what's going on at home."

"Of course." Jacob glared at Edward before walking into the tree to phase...

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The weather was bad, very bad. It was like Alice had predicted. Bella was shaking in her sleeping, the air was ice-cold. Edward was sitting across from where she was trying to sleep, feeling helpless. He knew it wasn't anything but he tried to keep away from her, in case he increased the coldness.

"W-w-w-what t-t-t-time i-i-is i-i-it?" she quivered, her teeth vibrated uncontrollably from the coldness.

"Two," he replied in a voice filled with worry. Bella wanted to peak out and see his face, but she didn't have enough power to do that. It was just so cold. "Maybe..."

"No, I'm f-f-f-f-fine, r-r-r-r-really. I d-d-d-don't w-w-w-w-want to g-g-g-go out-outside." Edward had been trying to persuade Bella to go back home for a while, but naturally Bella refused. She wasn't too eager about leaving the tent, afraid that if she even thought about leaving she'd freeze out there.

"What can I do?" Edward said in a broken, pleading voice. Bella couldn't reply she was so cold, so she just shook her head as an answer. There was nothing he could do. Outside the tent, Jacob whimpered in his wolf form.

"G-g-g-get out-out of h-h-h-here J-Jake," Bella managed to shout.

"He's fine," Edward replied.

"H-h-h-h-h." Bella failed. She'd wanted to know how Edward knew, but the words wouldn't come out. She continued to shake from the coldness. Another whine was heard outside.

"What the hell do you expect me to do?" Edward hissed angrily, figuring that Jacob was whining because he was worried about Bella. "Carry her through that? You aren't doing much to help either! Why don't you go fetch a space heater or something?"

"I'm o-o-o-k-k-k-kay," I shuddered. She wasn't convincing anyone. Jacob growled outside then whined. It was almost like he was arguing with himself. "W-w-w-w-what's he-he s-s-s-saying?" Edward sighed, he couldn't hear a thing.

"I don't know Bella."

"W-w-w-w-what'd ya m-m-m-mean?"

"I can't hear his thoughts either."

"H-h-h-how c-c-c-come?"

"I don't know." Jacob growled then whined once again. The wind was too loud for him to hear what Edward had just said.

"Screw this shit," Jacob's human voice said. "Fucking leech telling me to go fetch a fucken space heater like I'm a fucken St. Bernard!" The zipper to the tent opened and Jacob tried to get in as quickly and in as small an opening as possible so not much air would get in... He failed. The air gushed in with a whole lot of snow and Bella shook wildly.

"What are you doing mutt?" Edward asked dangerously. Jacob was carrying a coat so Edward assumed that's why he was in the tent. "Just give her the coat and get out." Bella peaked out just enough to be able to see the parka Jacob was holding.

"W-w-w-w-w," Bella tried but failed. It was just too cold.

"The parka's for tomorrow," Jacob said. "She's too cold to warm it up herself. It's frozen anyhow." Jacob dropped the clothing on the ground. "You said you needed a space heater right? Well here I am." Bella peaked and saw that Jacob only had on a pair of sweats and nothing else, not even shoes. She managed a dramatic gasp.

"J-J-J-Jake, you-you'll free-freeze!"

"Nah, not me." he smirked. "I go at a toasty one-oh-eight point nine these days... well that's a lie. I'm actually hotter than that, but that's not the point right? Don't worry Bells; I'll have you warmed up in no time at all." Edward hissed.

Jacob didn't even acknowledge the vampire; instead he walked towards Bella and started to unzip the bag she was in. Edward tried to stop him by putting his hand on the wolf's shoulder.

Jacob stiffened uncomfortably, trying to keep calm. He could not afford to phase when Bella was right in front of him.

"Get your hand off me leech," he said dangerously.

"Keep your hands off of her," Edward replied coldly.

"D-d-d-don't... p-p-p-p-please," Bella begged shaking some more.

"I'm sure she'll thank you for this when her toes freeze and start dropping off," Jacob said, still in that cold, dangerous voice. Edward hesitated but then he backed off, going back to his original spot, as far away from Bella as possible.

"Watch yourself Black," Edward said, leaving the 'you're treading through thin ice' bit unsaid. Jacob grinned, letting out a small chuckle.

"Scoot over Bells, I'm coming in." Bella looked at him in shock as he unzipped the bag a little more.

"N-n-n-n-n," she tried to protest but failed.

"Come on Bells. Don't be stupid. Don't you like having all your toes?" He squeezed himself into the tiny space left and zipped up the sleeping bag behind himself. At first Bella wanted to protest, but then the warmth hit her and she couldn't say a word. "Damn Bells, you're freezing."

"S-s-s-sorry."

"Ain't no thang. Just try and relax, you'll be warm in no time... of course you'd warm up faster if we got... uncovered." Edward let out a threatening hiss. "It's a known fact leech. Survival one-oh-one."

"S-s-s-stop it Jake," Bella said through clenched teeth. "N-n-n-nobody's g-g-g-getting naked... and it's n-n-n-not like w-w-w-w-we need ten t-t-t-t-toes." Jacob chuckled.

"Don't worry about the bloodsucker Bells," Jacob said in a smug-filled voice. "He's just jealous*."

"Of course I am!" Edward said, his usual, 'I've got this' voice back. "You have no idea how I long to be able to do what you're doing for her, mongrel."

"Yeah... well at least you know she wishes it was you."

"True." Finally, Bella's body stopped shaking so much.

"There now," Jacob said in a pleased voice. "All better then?"

"Yeah," Bella said, finally being able to speak normally.

"You're lips are still blue," he said in a sneaky 'thoughtful' voice. "Want those warmed up for you too? All you have to do is ask." Edward sighed.

"Behave Jake." It was getting warmer and warmer in the sleeping bag so Bella figured it was safe to take her shoes off and get her feet warm. Jacob was surprised by the cold little toes that touched his shins but then quickly adjust and let Bella snuggle closer to him. Bella yawned loudly. She was starting to feel sleepy the warmth was so good. "Hey Jake?"

"Yeah Bells?"

"Thanks... for this."

"Ain't no thang." And with that Bella fell asleep. The tent was quiet for a while, the only thing making a sound being the wind outside. "You know, she could still change her mind right? Considering all the things I could do with her that you can't... at least without killing her, that is."

"Sleep Jacob, you're getting on my nerves," Edward muttured.

"I think I will. It's actually real comfy in here." Edward seized to reply. "I have a question."

"Ask?"

"Do you... do you ever wish you could know what she was thinking?" Edward was quite for a while, thinking about the response.

"Yes, and no. Bella likes it better when I can't hear her thoughts. It sometimes makes me go mad but I'm glad she's happy."

"Hmm... I see." There was silence for a while.

"Thank you," Edward whispered. "As weird as this will sound, I'm glad you came Jacob."

"You mean, 'as much as I'd love to murder you, I'm glad she isn't freezing to death' right?"

"It's an uncomfortable truce isn't it?" Jacob smirked to himself.

"I knew you were as insanely jealous as I am." Edward might not have said it outright, but he still said it.

"I'm not such a fool as to show it like you do Jacob. It doesn't help your situation."

"Yeah... well I'm not as patient as you."

"I should be. I've been practising for a hundred years... a hundred years of waiting for her."

"So... why'd you keep this Victoria thing a secret from her?"

"I was trying to protect her. She's so fragile."

"So you hid the truth so you'd 'protect' her?" Edward nodded. "That's an ass move."

"I know."

"You think you know everything," Jacob muttered in a sleep filled voice.

"I don't know what the future holds." They were quiet for a while, thoughtful. Jacob, thinking about his next question, and Edward, thinking about why he couldn't hear Jacob's thoughts like he could the rest of the pack.

"What would you do if she suddenly picked me?"

"I don't know that either."

"Would you try to kill me?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"I could never hurt Bella that way."

"Yeah... you're right. I know that's right. But sometimes..."

"Sometimes it's a fascinating question."

"Exactly!" There was another pause. "How did it feel? When you thought you'd lost her forever?" There was longer pause this time. Edward was thinking of all the ways he could answer this question.

"I can't tell you how it felt Jake. There aren't any words to describe it." More silence.

"You know... if she hadn't jumped off that cliff and if you're stayed away for six more months before coming to 'check on her' you would've come back and realised that she was practically happy. I had a game plan." Edward chuckled.

"Maybe it would've worked too."

"Yeah... I know it would've... if you'd stayed away and hadn't acted like a stupid suicidal vamp." Edward chuckled again.

"I suppose so."

"What if she decides that she wants to be with me?"

"I would let her go."

"Just like that?" Jake wasn't so convinced.

"Yes Jacob. Even if it would be hard for me, I'd let her go. I'd let her be happy. But I would keep watch because you might leave her. Like Sam did to Leah, you wouldn't have a choice. I would always be there, waiting, hoping for that to happen." Jacob grinned a little at that.

"Well... you've been quiet honest with me... Edward... Thanks for letting me in your head." Edward smiled genuinely.

"You know Jacob, if it weren't for us being natural enemies... and you weren't trying to steal away my only reason for existing... I might actually like you."

"Well... maybe if you weren't a disgusting bloodsucking leech who was planning on sucking the life out of the only girl I've ever fallen in love with... well... no... Not even then." Edward chuckled.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Why would you have to ask? Can't you read my thoughts leech?" Edward sighed.

"No Jacob. I cannot."

"Oh?" Jacob was both surprised and confused.

"Yes... but that's not the point... Bella mentioned something about a third wife..."

"What about it?"

"What is it?"

"Old Quileute legend." Edward sighed. Jacob wasn't going to share.

"She seems to think she can relate to the third wife."

"Oh... oh..."

"She wants to be at clearing tomorrow, she wants to help as much as she can... that's why we're here, to keep her away."

"It was you're military brother who gave her the idea as much as the legend did."

"None meant any harm."

"Hmm... So when does this little truce end then? First light? Or maybe till after the fight?" There was quite a long pause as they both thought about it.

"First light," they both said, and then laughed quietly as to not wake Bella.

"Sleep, Jacob. Enjoy the moment." Jacob got more comfortable, snuggling closer to the sleeping Bella and sighing satisfactorily. "I didn't mean it quiet so literally."

"Sorry, couldn't let the moment pass." Jacob grinned again. "You could give us some privacy you know."

"Would you like me to help you sleep Jacob?" Edward offered with sarcasm.

"You could try," Jacob said nonchalantly. "It would be interesting to see who walked out of it, wouldn't it?"

"Don't tempt me too far, wolf. Even I'm not that patient." Jacob laughed quietly.

"I'd rather not move right now, if your leechness doesn't mind."

"Hmm..."

"Good-night leech."

"Good-night mutt." Jacob looked up to grin at Edward again when their eyes met for a brief second.

In that second the world seized to exist to Jacob. All off a sudden everything fell away, the wind outside was silent; Bella's warmed body was unfelt as all his focus zoned in on one person and one person alone... Edward Cullen.

TBC

And that's it for now... yeah neh? Cool stuff right? I hope

*One of my favourite lines in the saga along with:

Face it, I am hotter than you

You're such a hypocrite Bella, what are we not the right type of monsters for you (I don't even know why I like this one, I just do)

Never go for the obvious kill. They'll be expecting that. And you will lose

Never lose focus... and one more thing... Never turn your back on your enemy (I just love Jasper's accent... damn!)

You know I could've uploaded five but I was too lato write it out… but no stress, you'll get it soon, soon… Don't kill me Agz…

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