I wasn't going to update, but I decided to anyway! :) Slightly longer, but not considered as long. This week has been horrible, a two-day headache and now a sore throat! I had my exams two weeks ago, I've now gotten all of my results and I'm NOT HAPPY. Read the chapter, and review. I have a plan for the ending (don't worry, that won't come soon!) and so now I just have to find stuff to fill the middle ;D


Enjoy!

Song for this Chapter - Uprising by Muse (doesn't fit all to well...but it'll do!)

Chapter Seven

Emmett's POV

Emmett was panicking.

He had made it back to Forks already and had searched the town, not leaving a single rock unturned. Bella wasn't there. He was sitting on a huge boulder in the middle of the forest. He dug his pale hand into the rock and watched as it sank down easily. Bella, Bella, Bella. Emmett could only think of her. He couldn't think of where she had gone.

Bella's POV

Bella woke up slowly, her eyelids fluttering open. She was jostled around quite a bit. As she tried to sit up she realised how much her head hurt. Groaning quietly, she threw her arms out behind her to keep herself up. Bella looked around herself. She was in a tiny room, with two seats in the front and…a steering wheel? Her brain took a minute to be fully awake, and she remembered that she was in the back of Jacob's car. It was moving, and Jacob himself was driving. He caught Bella's eye in the mirror.

"Hey, Bella! Glad you're awake." He whistled softly to himself. "Not long to go now." She crawled into a sitting position and buckled her seatbelt instinctively. A flood of memories rushed into her.

"Bella get out!"

She remembered getting out…and the vampire. Oh God. Jacob killed that vampire…he could've been killed! She thought, frozen. Horror overwhelmed her, thinking about what would have happened if she would have been alone. She was deep in terrifying thoughts when her best friend spoke quietly.

"Bells…" he started. "That bl- vampire, did you, um, know her? Because in my collection of 'em, they don't exactly fight that hard for their food." Bella took a sharp intake of breath, and didn't speak for a whole minute that seemed to go on forever.

"Yes." She said finally. "She came to me a few days ago. She said that she would let me go 'this time'. I guess that means she was coming back." Jacob sighed and pounded the dashboard.

"You're just a magnet for trouble." He muttered, loud enough for Bella to hear. As she peered out of the window she gazed through the fog to see a sign coming up. It was familiar…

Welcome to Forks, it read.

Sam Uley's POV

Growling and muttering to himself, Sam impatiently paced the large room. Jacob Black, the stupid boy, had gone out to get Bella back. But Bella had made her choice, and that was to stay with the enemy. The vampires. He tried to talk Jacob out of it, but that boy was so madly in love…

He was going to get killed. Why on earth would Bella want to leave her bloodsucker (no. 2)? Jacob would somehow start a fight, like always, and it would end terribly. And that would ignite a war between the species, and that would lead on to a long chain of events that ended with those freak Italian bloodsuckers. Sam shuddered and sat down on a stool by the kitchen counter, when the phone rang. He stood swiftly and grabbed it out of it's socket, pressing it to his ear.

"Yes?"

"Sam!" a young, impatient voice was squealing on the other line. Seth. "I was wolf and I saw Jake! He was way out on the highway, with Bella! But Sam, they were attacked! Only one vampire, but Sam, Sam, it was so cool, he got that woman easily." Sam listened to Seth go on for ten whole minutes about the fight, before he interrupted.

"That's enough, Seth. I get the picture. Was he hurt, at all?" Sam's cold voice broke Seth's excitement.

"Yeah, he's fine." The younger boy said quietly.

"Good. Now, was that vampire a Cullen?" he asked.

"Not that I recognised."

Sam hung up without a goodbye and sat back down. He leaned his head into his hands and decided that he needed to talk to Emily. So the currently-human werewolf waited for his love to return to him.

Bella's POV

As soon as the car stopped Bella slowly turned her head around to look out the window. She didn't recognise where they had parked, it looked like a normal Forks house. She sat in the car, staring at it. Now that she thought about it, it was slightly familiar. Bella's car door flew open and someone stood, towering over her. He smiled, and a memory resurfaced itself.

"Come on, Bella." Bella looked up and he grinned her favourite crooked smile. Smiling herself, she stood up and got out of the shiny silver Volvo, and into the pale, cold arms of Edward.

Shaking her head, Bella jolted back into reality, where Jacob Black was waving a hand in front of her eyes.

"Bella? Come on, enough daydreaming." He rolled his eyes whilst taking her hand. Bella froze at the unfamiliarity of his warm hands. She was expecting cold, hard skin. Sighing, she let Jacob pull her out of the car, muttering. He led her to the door, where he dropped her hand and faced her.

"Are you ready?" he was still grinning like a mad fool. Ready?

"It's not like – oh." Bella remembered Charlie. "Of course!" she didn't smile, but knocked gently on the door. There were some loud thuds and footsteps from inside, but no one came to the door. Frowning, Jacob leaned forward and knocked harder. Inside someone grunted and yelled something vaguely sounding like "I'm coming".

Charlie's POV

Kicking mess out of his way, Charlie made his journey slowly to the door. There was a loud knock, which annoyed him.

"'Coming!" he yelled, whilst coughing. He saw the door and walked towards it, expecting some stupid mailman. Charlie paused with his hand on the knob.

"Hello? Anyone home?" Jacob Black dragged out the word home, annoying Charlie enough to pull the door open. It took a minute to process exactly what he was seeing. There stood Jacob, as expected, standing tall as ever and smiling down at him. To the boy's left there was a little gasp, barely audible. Charlie shifted his gaze to the short girl standing there. She had dark brown hair that was painfully familiar, and plain brown eyes that were filled with tears. The girl had deep purple bags under her eyes and wore plain, casual clothing. Jeans. White T-shirt. Sneakers. He looked at her eyes again, and recognised his own daughter.

"Dad?" the small voice fit the girl, who launched herself into Charlie's arms.

"Hey, Bells." Until Bella had pulled away, he didn't notice that he was crying.

"I'm going to kill that son of a…" Charlie cut off into quiet muttering. Himself, Bella and Jacob were sitting in the messy living room. His daughter had just gone over what had happened in the previous few days. Only a week? It had felt like a year. Emmett Cullen, the second Cullen to capture Bella's heart, had broken it as easily as gained it. Charlie had always known that that family was no good…or did he?

He had always thought Dr. Carlisle as a nice man. He saved lives. But his sons were monsters. How long before that Jasper kid fell in love with Bella? He tuned in his ears as Jacob continued the story.

"…me and I picked her up and drove her back here. Stupid bl – Cullen." He stopped abruptly, frowning at whatever he was about to say. Probably some new swear word that hadn't spread to the adults yet. Charlie didn't give a damn. Let them be rude – but only to each other.

"I'm glad you're safe Bella. So are you staying here or…" he left the question open, waving his hand in the air.

"I'm staying here." Bella confirmed, trying to smile. But Charlie could see the sadness in her eyes.

Emmett's POV

Yes. He could definitely smell Bella's scent around here. He was headed in the right direction. As he turned down the street where Charlie lived, her voice hit him like a brick wall (even though that wouldn't hurt…)

"…staying here." She said. Emmett could hear the misery. Bella was down the street, but with vampire senses he could hear her easily. He needed to set things right; convince Bella that he was over Rosalie. As soon as he was darting down the street he was stopped. Something fast and white hurled itself at Emmett, throwing him on the ground. Snarling, Emmett tried to see what was pinning him down. He gasped in air and his brother Edward's scent filled his nostrils.

"Edward? What're you doing?" Emmett demanded as he was dragged into the forest at the side of the road. He didn't fight. He was simply curious. When they reached the trees he spun around, shaking off Edward's hand.

"Keeping you away from her." He growled. Emmett looked at his brother in surprise.

What? He thought.

"You heard me. After what you've done…" he shook his head in disgust. "No way are you ever seeing her again."

How would you know what I've done? Peeking into heads?

"No. I heard it. With my own ears. I saw what you did to her. Why would you pretend to love her like that? It's killing her!" Edward was yelling now.

"You heard it? How?" Emmett spoke aloud.

"I was there, you piece of shit!" Wow. Edward never swore. But it wasn't exactly criminal…

"So what, you've been stalking her? You creep! Is that how sick you've gotten?" Emmett spat. His brother snarled furiously and launched himself at Emmett, who knocked him off and threw him down.

"I don't want to fight with you, Edward, so piss off." But Edward was already in a crouch, jumping at Emmett again. He cried out in pain as one of his arms was ripped off violently. Now he was mad. He grabbed Edward whilst he was on his next leap and managed to grab hold of his right leg, which he used as a spring-board to get up on to his back. As he jumped there was an ear splitting crack and Edward's leg flew off, nearly making Emmett laugh. What a crude way to kill a vampire. After that, his brother glared at him with blazing crimson eyes. Emmett gasped. He had been drinking from humans? Wow…he really was messed up. He grabbed his rolling leg and stuck it into place, showing a face full of pain for a second, before running off in the direction of deeper forests. Emmett himself turned the opposite way, towards Bella, while grabbing his fallen arm and painfully shoving it back into place, where it stuck itself. Shuddering, he found himself already at Charlie's door. He knocked. He waited.

Emmett was unpleasantly surprised when Jacob Black answered the door. As soon as he knocked, a foul wet-dog smell drifted to him. The pale blue door swung open and the tall werewolf looked lazily at Emmett, but when he realised who it was his eyes widened and he tried to slam the door shut. Emmett stopped it with his hand.

"Please, Jacob, I just want to talk to Bella." He whispered.

"No." Jacob's husky voice was angry. "You've said enough." He slammed the door in Emmett's surprised face, who crept to the thick forest behind the Swan's residence. He decided to wait. Jacob would leave eventually, and that would give Emmett a chance to talk to Bella.

Bella's POV

Jacob was different when he returned from the front door. His face hid nothing of the anger playing across it. His hands were shaking slightly, and Bella knew that wasn't good. So she walked upstairs, tugging Jake along with her. When they made it to her room Jacob paced, occasionally glaring out the window. Finally, Bella had enough.

"Jake, what's the matter? Who was at the door?" she demanded, grabbing his arm to stop his annoying pacing. He faced her with a blank expression.

"I – no one." His lies were all too easy to detect. He was nervous, too.

"Jake, don't lie to me!" Bella cried. What was he hiding from her?

"Okay! Fine! But you won't be happy!" Jacob was shouting too, now. "It was your bloodsucker buddy, Emmett!" Her eyes widened, and Bella closed them quickly to avoid tears making it to her cheeks.

"Emmett. He was…here?" she couldn't believe it. Maybe he really did still love her…maybe what he said really was a mistake. Bella shook that last thought out of her already crowded head. I can't let myself fall for him again, in case he breaks my heart again. She thought silently.

"Yes." Jacob snapped, making Bella open her eyes. She wiped them with her sleeve and watched Jacob walk over to her desk, where he lifted something Bella couldn't see. She stood and silently walked over to his side, and another tear streamed down her face when she saw what he held.

It was a plain silver picture frame with a photo of Jacob and Bella. Charlie had taken that photo. They were laughing at something out of the focus, but they sat next to each other. On the frame hung the little charm bracelet with the tiny carved wolf and the little diamond. These made Bella smile.

This was the first time she had cried,

In happiness.


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Lauren