Paul it is. I needed that vote for this chapter. It's not much, but i'm using all my creative juices on another fic i'm working on. Have fun and let me know how you like it. Oh and I rewrote the last chapter and added a scene that this chapter would sound stupid without.

~Amanda~


Chapter 4

As soon as the door of the Volvo was closed, the Volvo took off a break neck speeds. If she didn't have catlike reflexes, she would have probably puked or freaked or something. She hated speed when she was human.

"Um, do you think you could slow down? You know my father's the Chief of Police." She said. Then she glanced at him. Edwards face was hard, and his eyes were pitch black.

"On the other hand, you know, if we did get pulled over, I could get my dad to let us off. It does pay to have people in high places." She was rambling, but if he decided to attack her, she didn't know what she would do. She couldn't transform, she was in a car.

"Do you know what those men were thinking?" She heard a hiss. She would never have heard it, if she was still human. She turned to see him clenching the steering wheel in an effort not to break something.

"No, and neither do you." Bella heard what sounded like a grunt. Then he pulled up in front of a resteraunt. It was the one she was supposed to meet Angela and Jessica in front of. She turned to look at him.

"How'd you know they were here?" Edward tilted his head and it looked like he was inspecting her.

"Have you thought about what I am yet?" He asked. She sucked in a breath. What the hell did she say to that? If she told him she knew, then he would want to know how. So she shook her head.

"Try to guess, I want to hear what you come up with."

She exhaled the breath she was holding. Why the hell was he trying to get her to guess? Did he just go around telling people what he was? "Radioactive spiders." Really, Bella? Radioactive spiders? Is that the best you can come up with? She berated herself for her lack of imagionation.

"What if I told you, I'm not the good guys? That I'm one of the bad guys."

Bella looked him over. She remembered the treaty. They only fed on animal blood. As far as she knew, they never slipped. The whole family placed themselves in danger every day in the off chance that they would feel more human. She could sympothize.

"Edward, everyone is a bad guy. It's all about the choices you make. If you choose to act on it or not. From what I have seen, you and your family do everything to be good. That has to count for something. I never said, I was perfect either. Now, I have to go, Angela needs me."

She quickly escaped with out him realizing it, and ran into the resteraunt. She spotted Angela and Jessica in the back and ran over to them, totoally ignoring the hostess. She dropped down in the booth next to Jessica and groaned.

"Bella! Where have you been? We've been worried." Angela said.

"I got lost."

"You got lost? How in the world does a c..." Angela broke off as Bella kicked her shin and nodded towards Jessica.

"Edward 'saved' me." Bella whispered. Angela's eyes all but popped out of her head.

"Edward freakin Cullen!" Jessica screeched. Bella nodded.

They didn't get home till late, but Angela stayed with Bella so that they could patrol.

Bella was patrolling near the border of the Cullen property when she caught a wiff of a vampire that didn't belong there.

Angela! Got one.-Bella

Where?-Angela

Near the Cullen property. It's not one that I recognize.-Bella

You better check the eyes before you attack.-Sam

I was planning on it-Bella

Bella waited till Angela caught up with her and they took off after the scent. It took them to the border of La Push. Once the wolves realized that, Sam and Jared combined with them. Paul, the newest member was on a sorta confinement. He apparently had a very nasty temper, so Sam had ordered him to stay in human form at Sams house till they could train him for control.

We lost it-Jared

We're gonna head back. We'll meet tomorrow night to resume this.-Bella

They went their seperate ways, and Bella dropped off Angela before going home and crashing herself.

Bella stepped out of her truck and walked into the school. She was early, but it was her job to make sure no one got hurt by any vampires. Especially with that new scent around.

She seen Angela pull up and walk over to her.

"You know, I really hate these early mornings. Especially with the late nights."

"I know, Ang, But we have the upperhand here. There were no werecats the last time around. Speaking of which, Sam said there's a bonfire next weekend and he wants me to tell the Swan legend."

Soon the parking lot began to fill up. Bella and Angela stood there keeping watch over the students. Bella could hear all the whispers starting. One that made her laugh was theat she had joined the gang from down in La Push and she was recruiting from Forks. If they only knew.

School went fast. Soon she was at home. She noticed a note on the table from Charlie.

Bells,

Went down for dinner at Billy's. Your welcome to come. Jacob's really upset you won't take his calls. Just tell him something to get him to stop.

Dad

Bella sighed. She really didn't even knowthe kid that well. When she went down to see Billy, was the first time she had seen him in years. She couldn't hang with him now. She had almost perfect control, but he would notice the changes in her, that were not normal.

Bella shook her head. Ang, was supposed to meet her and the Pack down at the store in La Push. She called the Blacks, and told Billy to let her dad know that she was meeting the Wolves, and tell Jacob that she had plans. She grabbed her keys and ran out the door.

Bella parked her old slow truck in front of the store. It would have been faster to just run there, but Charlie would have her tail for calling attention to herself like that. She noticed Angela already standing there with Jared and someone that she had never seen. She didn't get a good look at the guy as she parked her snail. As she walked up to them, her eyes fell on who she could only assume was Paul, and everything froze. It was like the world stopped spinning and the only thing that mattered was this guy and her. She didn't have much time to analyse anything since Angela came running up at the same moment as her. It seemed no one else but Paul had noticed what happened. She wanted to keep it that way till she knew just what the hell had happened.

"Hey, guys, hows it going?" Bella said while looking around, anywhere but Paul. "Where's Sam?"

"He's following Jacob and Quil. We think they'll be next, but it will be a long time before they change." Jared said.

Sam popped up from no where, and the first words out of his mouth were, "We're being watched."

They all spun around as one, which was in itself kinda creepy, and seen Jacob, Quil, and Embry were standing at the edge of the woods staring at them. They ducked out of sight as soon as Bella and the rest of them seen them. And she could have sworn she heard one of the squeak.

"Jacob is pissed that I won't return his calls." Bells said quietly so that only the 5 of them would hear.

"Hey, how bout that scent from last night? It was strange. Like it almost smelled human!" Jared said trying to get everyone out of their funk. Bella looked at him. He seemed happy, but from sharing his thoughts, she could tell he wasn't looking forward to ignoring his friends when he finally went back to school. Sam was keeping them all out for at least two weeks. But she could understand after seeing Emily in his thoughts.

"Is that even possible? A vampire-human?" She said looking at Sam. Even though she was Alpha of her Pride, he had way more experience than her, and she probably would always defer to him when it came to things like these.

"I don't know. I don't see how it could be. Vampires are dead, it's not like they could reproduce, and if a human is bit, they change, end of story." Sam told them looking confused, which was a first for them to see. He was always so sure of himself.

"We'll have to keep an eye on it. The scent came from the Cullens. Maybe it's staying with them. I'd ask, but that would defeat the purpose of staying a secret." Bella said.

They soon changed topic and talked about patrols and the dance at Forks. Bella wanted the Pack to come, but didn't think they could control theirselves around the leeches. Bella soon sighed and told them that she should probably make a stop at the Blacks, just to make Charlie happy, and she secretly wanted to ask Billy what the hell happened between her and Paul. It really didn't matter because both Charlie and Billy knew about the Pack and Pride, it was only Jacob who didn't and he would learn of it soon enough.