Chapter 6 – New Treaty
Bella sat silently at the kitchen table while Jacob and Tess put the children to bed. Yolanda and Josie fell asleep almost instantly (being only four and five years old), the twins, though, were a little more difficult to put to sleep. They were ten years old and had decided that they should be allowed to stay up for the meeting. Bella could hear the soft argument that Tess and the twins were having. Jacob backed her up like any good husband would and they finally gave in and fell asleep.
When the Black's reentered the room, Bella glanced up and smiled softly. "I apologize for intruding like this Tess."
"It's not a problem, Bella," Tess chuckled. "I see no reason for you to think that you're intruding."
Bella laughed as the door bell rang and her laugh suddenly became strangled. "Oh," she squeaked nervously. It seemed silly that a vampire should be scared, but she was. She was completely and utterly petrified.
"It'll be okay Bella," Tess put a hand on Bella's frozen one and Bella could see her trying not to flinch.
"It's okay, I know I'm cold," she laughed again, and again it was suffocated.
That moment, the werewolves walked into the room. She gasped at the horrible stench that extended off them. It burned her airways like paint thinner. She held her breath. "Hello."
The dogs stopped and began quivering. "I thought we were imagining things when we smelled this leech," Leah growled.
"No, I'm sorry to say you weren't imagining things. Leah I have a proposition to make and I'd like you to calm down so that I can make it," Bella forced away her instincts to rip the revolting mongrels apart. She watched as they calmed themselves with much effort and then she smiled. "Thank you. Now, I would like to reinstate the treaty."
"No way!" Seth exclaimed, quivering once more in fury. "There is no way in hell that we are going to let a blood sucker come in here and rip apart everything we've built, everything we've kept happy!"
"I don't plan to rip it apart, Seth. Please just listen to me," Bella attempted to calm the dogs once more, it did little.
"No!" Leah exclaimed. "Seth is right! We can't just let you come in here and destroy everything that we've built! You and your precious Cullens, you can all go rot in some deep dark hole like waste is supposed to!"
Bella rolled her eyes dramatically. "My 'precious Cullens' are not here."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Leah growled angrily. "I am positive that I saw your Cullen, Edward, was it? He was lurking around here trying to find Jacob to reconcile the treaty as well." Bella gasped in pain. Leah did not know how deep she had just cut her. "But I said no, just as I am saying no to you. I want you to leave Forks and never come back do you understand me, filth?" Bella snarled and then dug herself deep into Leah's mind. She began maneuvering Leah's thoughts about, removing the memory of her most recent words and changing her mind about. When she had completed, she switched over to the other werewolves in the room and quickly began altering their thoughts.
It took only mere seconds and none ever realized what she was doing to them. She left Jacob and Tess alone, she didn't see any reason to alter their thoughts when they hadn't done anything against her. She smiled sweetly. "Leah, I have a proposal to make." Leah nodded and Bella continued. "I would like to reconcile the treaty that was made with the Cullen's so many years ago, I was wondering what you would think of that?"
"I think it's an excellent idea!" Leah exclaimed cheerfully – and completely out of character – but the fact of the matter was they weren't Leah's words at all, they were Bella's. "I think that this treaty can be reconciled at this very moment! I'm sorry Bella, but that means you have to leave now."
"I know, and thank you," Bella rose gracefully from her chair and made her way over to Tess. "Thank you so much for allowing me into your home today. I'm sorry to say that I will not be back again after this evening."
"Oh, you're very welcome Bella," Tess said, confused. "And I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm sure that we'll see you around."
"Yes, that you can be sure of," Bella smiled and turned around to leave. "Jake? Will you walk me to the door please?" she asked thoughtfully. Jake walked her down the hallway to the door and opened it for her.
"Bells can I ask what exactly just happened?"
"Nothing bad, I just made Leah a little more... compliant to patching up the treaty," she chuckled. "Don't worry, all that nice stuff will wear off now that they aren't my words."
"Your words? What the hell do you mean?"
"I mean that I have a power, just like Edward, Alice and Jasper – closer to Edward's, only mine is a mind controlling one instead of mind reading. Comes in helpful don't you think?" she chuckled and hugged Jacob swiftly. "Now I really have to leave before Leah 'changes her mind'. See you around Jake."
"Bye Bells," Jake watched as she stepped out into the freezing rain, and in an instant, Bella was gone.
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