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10 - Edward

That was a very long flight home. Emmett had 'conveniently' convinced himself that Bella needed entertaining, as she had to go back to 'boring' work tomorrow. To my great embarrassment he had her rolling around in her seat for the whole flight home. Ironically enough, all the annoyed looks from the rest of the passengers were directed at me. To each I gave a timid smile.

When we got to the airport I was once again loaded up like a pack mule. By this rate I was going to be stronger than Emmett in a couple of weeks. Then again, I think Jasper has already reached that mark…. After many complaints I finally relived myself of driving the Joker home. Instead it would be me, Carlisle, Esme and Harlequin in the red Ferrari. Thank god! To be honest, the ride back was extremely uneventful. Bella hadn't uttered a word since she told me to be careful with her bags. Alice was transforming her into…well Alice.

"Bella, what's the matter?" I interrupted Carlisle mid-sentence, "You haven't said a word since we got in the car."

"Nothings wrong. I'm just thinking," she replied slowly.

"Well what are you thinking about?" I questioned.

"How I'm going to manipulate school rules so my kids can watch a 12 rated film," she replied casually as if we were discussing garden plants.

"Bella…" I objected.

"You wanted to know," she retorted. All was silent for a couple of minutes. "Could you drop me off at the primary school?" she asked abruptly.

"Why?"

"I bought some sweets fro the kids. You know to hand out at home time. And Mondays are always hard for them, especially since we're doing algebra in math's…." She trailed off. Algebra at 6! She was barking mad.

"Oh alright! But you only have 10 minutes. I'll drop you off, go home, unpack, then come back and get you," I gave in, "Deal?" She gave me a huge smile, before lightly peeking me on the cheek. I'll take that as a yes.

Before I had even stopped the car she was through the double doors.

"Bye then," I muttered under my breath.

"Oh Edward, she's just excited," Esme soothed, placing a comforting hand on my shoulder. "You know she's always had a strong maternal instinct."

"Don't remind me," I sighed thinking back to when Bella had run into Rosalie's arms at the airport after our disastrous honeymoon. She did anything for children.

I pulled into the large garage with ease. There it was again; that feeling of coming back. It was kind of nice. After several trips I actually got Bella's entire luggage upstairs, alive. Seeing as I didn't even need Alice to know she would complain I had collected her too soon, I started to unpack her things. 4 bags and 3 department stores worth of clothes later, my hands settled on a sleek black box. I flipped in over. On the other side there was a note written on a rough piece of scrap paper. It read:

Edward

Don't even think about it. You leave this box alone! Or else!

Bellaxx

Reluctantly I placed the box in a nearby draw. I could open it know, but I'd pay hell for it later. So I headed down stairs. Here, Emmett was dealing poker chips out to Jasper, Alice and Rosalie. Esme was doing laundry and Carlisle was attempting to help. "Hay, bro you wanna play?" Emmett called, gesturing to the cards in his hand. "You know she won't be ready to leave for hours yet," he joked. In all honest he was right. "Yeah, all right." We were five minutes into our third game. Emmett complained for the umpteenth time that he was playing with a bunch of supernatural cheats. In return we all told him where to stick it. My head snapped up. "Did you hear that?" I asked. There it was again; the snapping of twigs and the rustling of leaves.

"Hear what?" Carlisle's head popped round the edge of the wall.

"Outside. It sounds like someone's running…"

"It's probably your wife playing tricks on you mate," Emmett chuckled. "Ahh. I taught her well!"

"No, I think its someone else…"

11 - Bella

I tapped my foot impatiently against the sidewalk. We both knew he should have been here by now, even taking in to account the extra time he would throw in for me. Well, I'd been waiting here for 10 minutes and the scenery had lost my attention at 2, so I guess I would have to make my own way back. I can't believe he's making me walk home; it isn't like him at all.

As soon as I reached the turn off to the house I knew something was wrong. There was a faint scent of someone here, someone I didn't know. I wondered idly if that was what was keeping Edward. But there couldn't possibly be ant threat, there was only one. And he/she might even be friendly….

12 - Edward

My family and me hurtled through the woods at top speed, hot on the intruders trail. Millions of questions flashed through my mind… Why where they here? What did they want? Were they hostile, their minds clouded with hate and uncontrollable thirst? Or were they just curious innocents, here to find out why our scents were so strong all across town? In the back of my mind I felt a sudden pang on guilt. I'd had collected Bella. She'd probably walk home now…she wouldn't be patient enough to wait.

We finally pushed through a fringe of young trees into an open clearing. The wolf and small child both looked up at our entrance.

"Jacob, Nessie what are you doing here?" I stuttered.

"Same as you. We smelled something fishy on the way up your drive. Thought we'd check it out," he replied casually, as if the answer was extremely obvious; which, to be honest, was. "There was a second trail, but it was weaker, only one vampire. So, seeing as we didn't want to split up and you would have killed me anyway, we followed the group of intruders."

"Have you found anything yet?" Carlisle asked politely.

"We only got here a few minutes before you arrived…"

"Wait did you say there was a second trail?" I questioned abruptly.

"Yeah, off your driveway…" Jacob replied, suspicious. "What you thinking mate?" To tell the truth I wasn't really thinking, more searching for thoughts. There was something…

"Bella…" I uttered before darting off into the forest again.