Charlie POV

"So Charlie, what would you like to know?"

How about everything? How about my daughter knowing all of this and not telling me! And the bite mark?

My inner rambeling was cut off when I heard Edward laugh. "Sorry Charlie, um... you were thinking pretty loudly over there."

Thinking! ...can Edward hear my thoughts?

"I can. Hearing what people think is my gift. And curse. There are some things that I never want to hear."

"Well... that's just creepy. And embaressing." And it was.

"You have no idea. There are things that I really should never seen. I am only seventeen. Impreasionable teenager and all that."

I couldn't help chuckling as Emmett and Jasper both flipped him off. Edward just stuck his tongue out at them.

I felt Alice laughing silently next to me. "What is your gift Alice? Seeing the future? I see you always seem to know everything before it...happens... Actually, thats not so surprising."

She just smiled and nodded. "Jasper can control emotions. The drawback to that is that he feels everyones emotions."

"And being around Edward and Bella the past couple of weeks... talk about sexual tension."

"Neh neh neh! While I may accept the they are married, as far as I am concerend they only sleep nothing more." I really don't want to hear about my daughter's love life...

Edward coughed. 'Stay outta my head'

The little brat actually chuckled and then nodded.

Carlisle smiled, "Alright Charlie, would you like us to start from the begining, when each of us were turned or just start the day Bella and Edward met?"

"Umm... Just start when Bella entered the picture."

"Oh how I remember that day," Emmett said in a whitful voice. "It was a perfect 57 degrees, nice and cloudy. We had entered the cafeteria in pairs, poor Eddie entered last. Always one for an enterance. We all sat at the tabke and then Eddie boy here took a sniff and let out a small snarl. He had caught Bella's scent."

"Emmett, shut up before you hurt yourself." Edward said as he threw a couch pillow at his brother then turned to me. "A few reasons why Bella's blood called to me was that she is what the ancients of our world calls 'My singer'. Her blood litteraly calls to me. Another reason, is that she is my mate. I didn't realise what was happening at the time, Carlisle and Alice knew. That day, at school, during biology, I had to resist the urge to attack her and drain her iff her blood right then and there."

I held my hand up to stop him. "'Singer', 'Mate'? Please explain."

"We knew she was my mate that day because of the connection we had. We didn't find out that she was my singer until we were in Italy."

"Is there a real reason as to why you three were there?"

They all shared a look. They are hiding something from me. "We will get to that shortly. Anyway, after school that day I ran to the hospital and Carlisle gave me the keys to his car. I drove up to our family in Alaska and satyed with them for a few days trying to gather my thoughts. I came back that Sunday and went to school that next day. I actually introduced myself to Bella and we talked while doing our lab assignment."

"We talked about the weather."

"Yeah well... I actually have to act human around you because I can't read your thoughts. I am used to hearing people either thinking or mentally speaking to me. You cam't do either so I had to guess. Weather sounded like a good topic at the time."

"You were so emotionally stunted bro. Still are."

"Emmett..." Bella said in a sweet voice. "12."

12? Emmett froze and then fell off the windowseat laughing. Everybody else but Edward chuckled. "You told him?"

"It wad he only way to get him to shut up."

12...12...12...oh hell! I really didn't need to know that!

"Anyway, that was the day I realised that Edward's ees had changed black they were the previous monday to the amber gold they were that morning. He got all flustered when I asked. It was kinda cute."

"Ooo... Edward just got called cute!"

"Well Jazz... you are cute too. As cute a soaked puppy."

"Damn bro. She is chewing us out today."

"How the hell am I puppy?"

"Well Jasper, you did trail after Alice like a lost puppy at school. Back to the story, the next day was when Tyler's van almost squished me. I had just gotten oit of my truck and was standing at the tailgate. I had seen Edward leaning against his car with his family. Next thing I know I hear this screech and something hard nocking me to the ground. I heard Edwad curse and opened my eyes intime to see hime swing my legs around before they could get ran over and then the van ramming into his shoulder.

"I confronted him after I got dischargrd and he froze. He told me to drop it but I couldn't."

"I then avoided you for the rest of the month."

"God I was pissed at you."

"Don't worry, Alice was too."

"Finally you decided to talk to me and we began sitting together at lunch. That weekend I went to La Push with Jessica, Ang, Mike and Eric. We met Jacob and that was when he told me the ledgends of the tribe and of the 'Cold Ones.' I didn't believe it. Not until that day in Port Angeles when you showed up and saved me from the drunk guys."

"Wah woah woah! Drunk guys? Bells what the hell happened?"

Edward and Bella shared a look. "Alright, I wanted to go to this bookstore and get a book on Quileute legends. I arriced there, but t was already closed. I turned around and headed toward the resturant. Just my luck that I got turned around. I eneded up being herded by a few guys. I had kneed one guy and was about the thrust my hand up when we heard a car speeping toward us. I jumped out of the way and Edward her swung the car around and told me to get in. Didn't have to tell me twice."

"Then I took her out to eat to make sure she didn't go into shock. Fortunatly Bella has no self preservation feelings. She knew something was up when I didn't eat."

"And when your jacket was Ice cold after it had been on your body the whole time."

"That too. okay, so the next day she comes up to me and said I was a vampire. I didn't deny. That saturday instaed of her going to Seattle, she and I went hiking. She made it the five miles. There I showed her what we look like under direct sunlight. She wasn't scared. I shiwed her how fast and how strong. Still wasn't scared."

"Yes well, I was never afraid of you. You had already saved me twice so I knew you would never hurt me."

"Gamble that you took."

"And it paid off. Anyway, that next Sunday I met his family and I watched them play baseball. That is when troble started."

I notticed Edward rubbing her right wrist. "Wasn't that the day you stormed home and said you wanted to leave?"

"Yes, but the reason why I did that will be explined shortly."

Carlisle spoke up for the first time since thus started. "My family and I have to wait for storms before we can play baseball. Everytime we hit the bat it soundes like thunder. Anyway, halfway through the game Alice got a vision of three nomads coming our way. We had attracked them.

"Most vampires do drink human blood, but some, like us and our friends in Alaska, drink animal blood. That is why our eyes are gold and the others are red.

"These nomads had red eyes. Two men one woman. We knew Bella would be in danger from them so we gathered around her to try and dilute her scent. It didn't work. A wind sent her scent straight at James. He was a tracker and he loved the thrill of the hunt."

"Wait... James? Why does that sound familer?"

"Because when Bella was in her medically induced come she shouted out for James to stop and for a woman named Victoria. They were mated. The other male with them is called Laurent."

Edward turned to Bella, "You were in a coma? When?"

"Two weeks after you all left I found her passed out from dehydration, sleep deprivation and almost starving. She hadn't been able to keep anything down simce you had left, and she only got two hours of sleep on a good night. The rest she was tossing and turning, sometimes screaming in her sleep." Okay... that might have been a little harsh but..

Everyone was quiet and Bella just sighed and smacked me upside the head. "Dad... thanks. Now they are going to be worrying and Edward will be feeling guilty. That was in the past, let's leave it there."

"For now. So... what happened to this James guy?"

Bella spoke up. "He lunged for me but Edward blocked him and everyone else started hissing and growling at each other. Edward, Alice and Emmett got me out of there because Edward had read his mind. I was his next target. It took a lot if convincing but Ibwas not going to risk James going after you. So we came up with the plan for me to somehow convince you that I was going away because I didn't want to be here anymore. Edward was in my room packing me a bag while I argued with you. I am sorry for that by the way.

"I drove my truck till Edward jumped in and drove while I cried. Alice was in the jeep behind us and Emmett was standing up in the bed of my truck. We got here, Esme and I changed clothes, Alice and Jasper drove me to Pheniox while Esme and Rose took my truck to lead the guy away. Emmett, Carlisle and Edward chased after him. Victoria gave up and broke into the school to find the address in pheniox. Laurent wipped his hands of all of this and made his way up to Alaska."

"Woah there. You mean to tell me that all of that argument was staged?!"

"Yes."

"James heard the argument and decided to leave you alone. He realised that he had been duped and made his way to Arizona."

"I had a vision of hime being in a ballet studio with a tv and videocamera. Bella identified it as her old one. James had broken in and had stolen a home video. He had used Renee's voice to lure Bella there. She was quiet sneaky too. She ran off from me and Jasper when we were waiting for Edward, Carlisle amd Emmet to arrive. Esme and Rose stayed here to guard you from Victoria."

"I don't like where this is going..."

"I arrived at the studio and realised it was a trap. He smiled and said that he was going to record the whole thing. You should be proud dad, I used the pepper spray on him."

"YOU PEPPER SPRAYED HIM!?" The Cullens and I yelled at her.

"Um...yeah. It pissed him off but it let me get away..."

"Bella... you are crazy!" Edward sighed into her hair.

"Thank you. Anyway, we struggled, he threw me into a wall, broke my leg and Edward showed up and shoved him off of me. Edward was thrown into a window and James bit my wrist. Edward ripped out his throat while Jasper and Emmet dragged him away and started ripping up the wood floor. Alice and Carlisle helped stop me from bleeding out and Edward sucked the venom out. Before I passed out I recall seeing Alice rip James' head of and tossing in in the fire. That is what happened in Pheniox."

"Okay...part of me is pissed that you guys killed another person, but you saved Bella so I think that works."

"This group was also responsible for the killings that had happened last year." Carlisle said in a soft voice. "We don't enjoy killing another of our kind but he was a direct threat to Bella."

"Okay... now can I close those cases and say that a guy had confessed to me before he jumped off a cliff and commeted suicide?"

"Whatever you want to do Charlie."

"Okay, why did you guys leave right after Bella's birthday?"

"I threw her a birthday party against her wishes and she got a papercut."

"A papercut caused you guys to leave?"

"...Jasper is our newest vegitarian, he went into bloodlust and attacked Bella. Edward blocked him and shoved Bella onto the glass ciffee table. I pulled out several small pieces of glass and stitched up her arm. Jasper ran off to Denali and Edward was guiltridden so He decided that we should move."

"Yeah... He not only made you guys move, he cleaned out my room before he took me into the woods and broke up with me." Bella sighed and crossed her arms. I saw Edward cringe and stare at the floor.

"Okay... Sore subject. Got it."

"Yeah... I regreted leaving her everyday since I did. But I honestly thought that she would be beter off without me."

I watched in silent amusement as Bella turned to Rosalie.

"Rosalie, would you mind terriably comeing over here and smacking my delusional husband upside the head?"

"Gladly." Rosalie growled out as she stood up and made her way over to Edward. "What are you going to do now Edward?"

Edward chuckled and jumped over the couch. "I am going to run away from my evil sister!" And he did just that as he ran out the front door with Rosalie hot on his trail.

Everyone laughed for a few minutes before Bella sighed. "Dad, you know how hard it was on me when he left. Please don't guilt him anymore."

I hugged her and shook my head. "I won't. You actually slept through the nights when he returned. Which makes me wonder... was he sneaking into your room at nights?"

Bella smiled and nodded. "If you can still hear me Cullen, we are going to have a talk about you sneaking into my daughter's room at nights."

Edward was marched back in by Rosalie and he nodded at me.

"So, you all left and it was four months before Bella talked to her friends again. But what I don't understand Bella is why you decided to get a motercycle and jump off a cliff?"

I smiled as Edward glared at Bella. Seems he didn't approve of it either. Good boy.

"Okay, I got the motercycles at a junk yard. I thought that fixing them up was something that Jacob and I could do together. I actually learned alot from fixing them up. Jacobed help get me out of my funk. But not always. He had to sit there a few times when I would shut down for a couple of hours or when I would get depressed again.

"The first time I rode my cycle, I crashed. That was when I got that cuncussion. I had to beg him to let me ride my bike again. I finally was able to balancr correctly, and brake, without crashing or falling off. Pretty soon we were riding our bikes all over La Push."

"I still don't like it."

"I agree with Charlie. You could die from that."

Bella froze and slowly turned to face Edward. "You are definatly in the dog house boy. Start appologizing and groveling. Maybe offer Chocolates as a peace offering."

"Bella, love, I appologize. I didn't mean it like that. Old habbits are slowly dieing. You know I need alot of work. I'm sorry love. ...would you like some milk chocoloate? We have some in the pantry."

Bella gaped at him in shock, I laughed silently. "U..um...okay. Yeah... chocolate sounds good right now..."

He sighed and swifty kissed her before he sped of and grabed a chocolate bar for her. "Smart choice there son."

"Thanks Charlie," Edward said sarcastically as he sat back down next to Bella and hamded her some chocolate. "You tell me to stay put of your head yet you keep forcing thoughts at me. talk about whiplash."

I smirked, "But it's such fun..."

"Good God you are like Emmett and Jasper mixed." Edward groaned. I just leaned over and patted his shoulder.

"Okay, now that you have had your fix, would you mind telling me why you jumped off the cliff?"

"mmm. good chocolate. Thank you Edward. I'm getting to that. First you need to hear what happened between then. You remember the movie that Jess, Ang, Ben, Mike, Jacob and I were going to see, how Ang was sick with the flu and Ben stayed wth her? Jess had to cancel so it was just Mike, Jacob and Me. Halfway during the movie Mike got the flu and we had to take him home. Jacob started to feel sick too. So I told him to go staraight home."

"That was when he was sick woth Mono?"

"He didn't have Mono. That was when he was starting to change into his wolf form. When I finally went to see what the hell was going on Jacob told me to leave and not to come back. The friend who had helped me out had kicked me out of his life. I was pissed. So I decided to go to the medow that Edward had taken me to.

"When I got there, Laurent was there. He said that he had come to see the Cullens but they weren't there. Then he picked up my scent and followed me here. He said he was here to pass on a message -"

We jumped when everyone hissed. Well damn, they actually look like vampires now.

"But he never did tell me. He decided hat he was going to kill me. He never got the chance because five giant wolves decided to arrive at that time and chase him down. I found out later that they took him down easily enough.

"I got home, freaked out as I told you. Then when I fell asleep I dreamt of the day Jacob told me the ledgends and about him turning into a wolf. I had my answer.

"I eventually demanded to see him, shoved Billy out of the way, and then comfronted Sam, Paul, Jared and Embry.

"Paul got pissed at me and transformed but Jacob was already running and had phased as he jumped over me and tackled Paul to the ground. They wrestled and Jared and Embry took me to Emily's house. We all talked and they quickly became my friends.

"They told me that they had killed Laurent but then a red head was running around. It was Victoria."

"Why did you never tell us Bella? We would have come and helped you!" Esme gasped out.

"Mom... I couldn't reach you no matter how hard I tried. I have a mail box full of emails that I sent to Alice everyday. The all were sent back to me."

Alice looked over at Bella. "I read those when I arrived that day. Well, half of them anyway..."

"We will talk about that latter Pixie. So, Jacob decided to guard the house at night times ontop of his normal patrol. It took two weeks or so before the rest of the guys started helping. The day Henry Clearwater died was the day Victoria arrived again. She evaded the pack by jumping in the water. That was the day I decided to go cliff diving. I saw her in the water before everything went black and then Jacob was telling me to breath.

"I got a good lecture from him for being an ass and then I changed clithes and he took me home. That was when we met Alice."

BEEP BEEP BEEP.

"HOLY HELL!" Yes... I admit it. I jumped five feet off of the couch. Bella wasn't much better. She let out a shriek and fell off.

"Oh! The cake is ready!" Rosalie said as she got up and ran to the kitchen. Esme and Alice were right behind her.

"Cake?" Bella and I asked as we turned to Carlisle.

He chuckled and shook his head.

"Well since our little brother had to run off and get married, we decided that we would at least bake you two a cake." Alice called from the kitchen.

"Shove the cake in his face when it's time Bells."

"Emmett... "Edward growled.

Thd ladies came back and sat back down. "Okay, the cakes are out and cooling."

"Alice..." Bella groaned.

"Go with it Bella. You will like it ...HEY! Don't even think about it sister!"

"I will do it Alice. I will have Jasper hold you down while I shove the cake in your face." Bella said with an evil smile.

Alice sighed. "Fine... I will take the top layer away and you can enjoy it at your own time. But we are still keeping the two other layers!"

"Deal." Bella looked at me and asked, "How are you holding up dad?"

"I think pretty well since I found out that Jacob is a werewolf and that my daughter's husband and in-laws are all vampires... Yup. Just a normal day in Forks."

Alice patted my knee sympathetically. "We can stop of you want us too."

"No." I shook my head. "Get it all out in one go."

"Alright. If you are sure. So.. that day when Bella jumped, all of us minus Edward were in Ithaca. I was laying in bed with Jasper when a vision of Bella jumping off and dying hit me. I told everyone what I saw while I was grabbing Carlisle's keys. I hightailed it down here. Broke some speeing laws but what the hell.

"I jumled through her window and saw the emails that she had sent me. If I could cry I would have as I read the emails from the first five months. Halfway thru the sixth month I heard Bella's truck and I smelled her. I did a little happy dance. I forgot to call my family because I was getting an armfull of Bella.

"She was in the kitchen with Jacob when Edward called-"

"Why was Jacob answering the phone and why were you in the kitchen with him?" Edward asked curiously.

"I was trying to get him to not kiss me. And your call came at the perfect time."

Edward growled and I think I heard him swear bodily harm to Jacob. "You know... chief of police here Edward. Don't go harming Jake. ...That's my privilage."

Edward chuckled and nodded. "DAD!" "Oops, Bells might just be a wee bit pissed at me...and don't go chuckeling over there you little brat."

The little brat actually fell off the couch and held his stomach while he laughed. Bella smaked his chest. "Whatever dad is saying... inore him." "Well that's not nice."

"Edward had called me to check in and I told him of Alice's vision. That was why he had called. When the mutt said that you were planning a funeral he took it as Bella was dead." Rosalie said in a quiet voice as she hung her head

"I was hit with a vision of Edward going to the Volturi, the three guys who rule all of us, and begging for death."

Edward looked at Bella and kissed her hair. "I thought Bella was dead and I couldn't live with that pain. If they weren't going to grant me that then I was planning on exposing us for who we were."

"Alice told me what Edward was planning and I didn't think twice before I hopped in the car and went to Italy with Alice."

"I will confess to grand theft auto that day but the car wasn't damaged and it was returned. Eventually. We reached the place with five minutes to spare. Bella ran and knocked Edward aside before he could expose us."

"Hell, I thought I was in heaven when I heard her voice. Then she told me to open my eyes. Their she was, hugging me, alive and warm."

"After convincing the Volturi that Bella will be one of us eventually, we were able to leave. Bella was exsausted but she staid awake until we arrived and were in the car on our way home."

Edward looked at me and cringed. "No amount of appologizing will ever convey how sorry I am."

I reached behind Bella and smacked him. "Boy you have a hard head. Mentally and physically. If I had known that you were pulling some shitty move like that I would have let her go after you. Because if you had died... Bella would never have recovered."

I shook my hand to get some feelig back into it. "What do mean by Bella becoming like you?"

Carlisle sighef and spoke, "The one rule that we must never break is lettig people find out who we are. If a person found out who we are, they must die, or be changed."

"...And Bella knew this?"

Bella looked at me and nodded.

"Okay... hold on... I know about you now too. What is going to happen to me?"

There was silence for a few minutes before Edward spoke, his voice grave. "You can either change and leave your life that you have here in Forks, or..."

"I don't particuarlly like the or part..."

"You see... when a person is changed they go into blood lust They crave blood and are nearly uncontrolable for the first year."

"Great.. I'd be craving blood... That just put me off steaks and burgers .."

Bella laughed. "The pain will be excruciating, and it takes three days to fully change. I don't think I will have any...or many problems because I will have a great support system here. That and the fact that the smell of blood makes me naucious."

"And you are a straight up vegitarian. You never liked the taste of meat even when you were little."

"Meat always made me sick."

Edward looked at me in shock. "You are okay with her becoming like us?"

"Edward, if the only choices are turning her or killing her... I will always choose changing her. I can live my life knowing that she is still alive and not dead rotting in a grave. And if that means that I have to change to because I know your secret... give me one year to make my excuse and then I will alow you to change me."

He sighed and hung his head. "There is no winning when it comes to you Swans."

Bella and I chuckled, "Damn straight."