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About halfway to the house, I saw two white blurs heading toward Charlie's place, and figured that my soul brothers were called to investigate, since the broody idiot couldn't do such a thing himself.

A few minutes later, I was pulling up to the house, already spotting Marcus pacing outside the front door.

When I stopped, I barely unbuckled my seat belt before my door was opened and Marcus pulled me from the car and into his arms.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt? Was the intruder still there?" He rambled, slipping into our native language in his obvious panic, running his hands up and down my arms, seeming to check for injuries.

"Marcus, calm yourself! I am fine, I'm not hurt, and no, the intruder was not still there when I got there." I replied in a soothing tone, using Greek as well.

He said nothing, and just buried his face in my hair, seeming to take comfort in my scent before picking me up and running inside the house and up to the living room. When we got there, I was met with the sight of worried looks from each member of my family as Marcus sat down on the couch, setting me down next to him.

"Do you have any idea what the intruder could have wanted?" Carlisle asked, all business.

Marcus tightened his grip where his arm was around my waist at the mention of the intruder, but I ignored it since it wasn't painful.

"No, I've got no idea. I didn't even know there had been an intruder until Broodward came by to bitch at Bella for going to the reservation, and apparently, the scent lead to her room. I don't think it went into any other bedroom, and mine has a barrier on it so that no vampires can get in uninvited." I said, just as Bella and Broodward came up the stairs.

"How could you not know someone had been in there?! They're clearly a threat to Bella!" Broodward snapped at me, making Marcus growl.

I inwardly rolled my eyes, idly wondering how long Marcus would be buried in his mating instincts.

"I'm so glad you're proving how much you care about Charlie, asshole. You know, the whole world doesn't revolve around you and the broody bitch I share a house with, Charlie could have been hurt." I snapped at him, just in time to hear the door open and close again.

I looked to the staircase right as Emmett and Jasper came up, both looking grim.

"The scent disappeared about five miles south of the house. Whoever it is, they're long gone." Jasper reported.

I frowned in worry, making Jasper look over at me when he felt the emotion. I shrugged at him, telling him silently that I couldn't help it, making him nod in understanding. I had spaced out the conversation that the others were having, thinking about if I should place the vampire barrier on Charlie's room when I heard Broodward open mouth and insert foot.

"In Italy, I read Aro's mind. He wants Alice and I to join his guard." He said, making Marcus release a feral sounding growl, but it was me who reacted, throwing a wall of solidified air at him to knock him into a wall, ripping him away from Bella.

"Listen here, you son of a bitch. Don't you be so stupidly self-important to think that Aro, or any of the Volturi would be stupid enough to send someone into the house they all know Marcus's mate lives in without permission! As for Aro wanting you to join the guard, it's laughable that you think he still wants such a thing after Alice and I spoke with them for hours! Alice is watching Aro's decisions so she can help them, a choice she made during the few hours we spoke in Volterra, and he knows this! Neither you, or Bella are important enough to waste their time on before her 19th birthday, so don't be so conceited as to think that this is the Volturi coming for you." I snapped.

I stomped back over to Marcus, curling into his side as I released the wind wall I had Broodward pinned with to try and calm myself down. I kept my eyes closed and just focused on calming the rage burning through my veins, blocking out everything else for a minute.

Once I was sufficiently calmed down, I allowed noise to filter back in to make sense while I slowly opened my eyes just in time to hear Rosalie complain about another protection detail, and the short argument that followed it.

"What about the gods? Can they not help keep an eye out? I mean, Stella is their daughter, surely they would want to keep an eye out for any threats made to her." Carlisle suggested, and everyone turned to me, Bella and Broodward glaring at being reminded that I had at least 14 gods on my side.

I sighed inwardly, before shaking my head slowly in response to Carlisle's question.

"Something like this, although bad, wouldn't be that high up on the emergency watch list. There's a lot of shit going on in New York, and they're trying to get it straightened out. If it's not a direct death threat to me, I'm not going to be able to convince them. With camp being the shit storm it is right now, I don't even want to try anyway." I told them.

They nodded, and all but the broody duo had looks of mild concern on their faces when I mentioned that things weren't well at the moment. I knew I was likely to be questioned about it, but resolved to worry about it later.

"I can ask the wolves." Bella piped up, and I glared at her.

"Any dogs in the house beyond just getting the scent, and I won't hold back any comments." I told her stiffly. She just rolled her eyes, and I couldn't help but get the feeling that I was not going to enjoy this arrangement at all.


Two weeks later


After two weeks of this annoying arrangement, I couldn't help but wonder if my Apollo genes were warning me when I though I wouldn't like this.

Every damn night, I'd have to look out my window and see two overgrown mutts standing just inside the trees. The idiots clearly didn't know the meaning of the word stealth since all Charlie would have to do if he saw them move, or even so much as blink, would be to shine a flashlight and they'd be busted.

The only two wolves who had any sense to stay hidden was a small silver wolf, and a sandy colored wolf who would come forward just enough to let us know that they'd arrived, and then retreat back into the trees.

Marcus hated the arrangement as well, saying that any time he'd be out there watching, it would smell like wet dog. Jane had told me the few times I'd talked to her that Marcus wouldn't stop telling her how horrible the scent was. We had had a few eventful days though.

The first was confirming that the newborn army in Seattle was anything but careful about how they fed. It was starting to show up all over the news, and Jane, Alec, Felix, and Demetri were getting tired of watching them. Marcus had tasked them to find out why they were being created, along with seeing if it would slip who the creator was.

I'd asked Marcus why he hadn't just had them destroy the army yet, but he had told me that they needed to find out why they were created, and who the creator was, and their only hope of that was to hope that the newborns would talk to each other about it. I knew the importance of trying to figure out the creator, they didn't want whoever did this to create another army after all, so they needed to know who was stupid enough to do it in the first place, so they could be taken out. I left it alone after that, albeit, reluctantly.

So we were left watching newscast after newscast of the rising death toll, and receiving phone calls with nothing to report other than messy feeding habits.

The other interesting thing that had happened, had been a couple days ago when Bella had sprained her hand punching her pet wolf in the face after he kissed her. It had been the only time I had ever stood up for Broodward with Charlie, but I had told him flat out when Jacob brought her home, and Charlie ad I walked out to see Jacob and Edward about to trade blows, that Jacob was stronger than Bella physically. And if he could kiss her against her will, who was to say that he wouldn't try anything else, being deluded as he was into thinking Bella was in love with him despite being with Edward.

Jacob was now no longer allowed near Bella without supervision, and if he was, he would be facing sexual harassment charges. I had laughed myself silly about it when I told the Cullen's when the three of us got over to their house, the Broody Duo arriving in the Soccer Mom Monstrosity, so I had been in the middle of telling the story when they arrived, and Carlisle had been ready. It had been the only time that the broody bastard actually thanked me too.

"I may despise her, but Bella is Charlie's daughter. If she got hurt, Charlie would be upset, and I'd go on a rampage because of that. Besides, most of my mothers happen to be virgin goddesses, so sexual harassment is something I won't condone. He should just count his blessings that I haven't called momma Artemis and invited her over for a neutering party." I had told him, before walking over to watch Beauty and the Beast with Marcus, something I'd begged him to watch with me.

Today though, was a special day. Today was graduation. I beamed at the thought as I pulled out the emerald green knee length dress by Vera Wang, and my silver Louboutin's that momma Aphrodite had sent me for the event today.

As I put on my makeup, I couldn't help but wonder if any of my godly family would try to make it for the ceremony. I shrugged it off as I put on ruby red lipstick for the finishing touch, knowing that even if none of my godly family could come, at least Marcus would be there. Finally finished getting ready, I headed downstairs, grabbing my ugly yellow graduation robe and cap from my bed on my way out of my room.

When I got downstairs, I saw that Bella and Broodward were already waiting with Charlie for me to show up.

"You look beautiful, sweetheart." Charlie said, taking in my outfit. I smiled at him kindly, knowing that I wouldn't be able to say much about my outfit choice since he had no clue about fashion.

"Thanks, Charlie. The shoes were actually a graduation gift from momma Aphrodite." I told him, leaving it at that so I wouldn't confuse him by talking about designers.

He nodded, before looking at the three of us, though mostly focusing on Bella and I.

"Ready to graduate?" He asked, and giggled while Bella rolled her eyes.

I wanted to smack her for acting like this when it was obvious that Charlie was proud and excited for us.

"I am!" I said, cutting him some slack since Bella refused to.

He nodded at me thankfully, and we all left the house, heading to his cruiser. I had agreed to ride with him and the broody duo, so long as I had the front seat because I couldn't promise him that we'd arrive at the school without someone having a bruise or possibly a bloody nose.

Since Edward was to ride in the back seat, he knew that I was actually warning him that if I sat next to the brood master, he would likely have to arrest me for assault. Bella had been irritated that she would have to ride in the back of Charlie's cop car, but there was nothing she could do since I had requested the front seat a couple days ago, and she hadn't thought of that.


Hey! So, I ended it here because the chapter was getting long, and I thought it would be a decent place to cut off without the risk of an angry mob. The graduation bit will be next chapter though, promise! As always, hope you all loved the chapter, and remember to read and review!