Jacob's POV

I don't like to be away from Nessie if I can help it. I was sitting at home, watching a baseball game with my father, yelling at the TV when I felt like I was starting to phase. In the living room. With my dad. That is so not happening. So I grabbed my back pack with a change of clothes and ran deep into the woods and threw the bag up into a tree.

I was running close to the boundary line out of habit when I saw him. I immediately went to back up, but I froze when I saw he had no intention of stopping anytime soon. He followed the mountain lion clear over the line, and I backed away while the leech sucked the lion dry. When he had finished and looked full, something about looking at his face made me phase. Which should be ludicrous, but I found myself thinking that this vamp was clueless in this affair. So when human thoughts returned to me, I found the vampire's name, Charlie.

I grab the clothes from my backpack, we're painfully close to my dad's house.

"Charlie?" I ask with my hands up, painfully aware that he had been hunting not even a minute ago. His dull orange eyes fell on mine, and I watched as he locked his hands behind his back and sat down rather clumsily. He must be still working on his control.

"Yeah?" He said quietly, holding his breath. I sat down too because it felt weird looking down on him.

"Do you realize what line you crossed?" I ask him, not remembering what Bella had told him specifically.

"Uhhhhhh... What?" He asks me, suddenly his eyes widen "you're not talking about the boundary line thing with the vampire/werewolf treaty, are you?" he asks hesitantly, his voice squeaking in nervousness. "Don't tell me the first time I go hunting by myself I mess up that bad..."

I shrug my shoulders, biting my lip and trying to figure out what I'm suppose to do, I mean, Charlie didn't know better, right?

"Dad!" We both hear from a distance, the sound of several pairs of almost-silent feet running quickly towards us. The Cullen's stop just before the line, and I see Nessie jump off Edward's back. She comes running to me, looking desperate.

"Jacob, he didn't know... C'mon, after all these years?" Nessie begs me as she draws nearer.

Charlie and I stand up, and he looks more relaxed now that he has the leeches as back up in case he jumps me by accident.

"How come Ness can cross the line? She still is kind of a vampire, right?" Charlie asks as she reaches me and squeezes me into a hug.

"I'm Jacob's imprint, so technically the fact that I'm a halfie is beat by that." Nessie says, and I can't help but smile at the proud sound of her voice, but my grin quickly fades when my eyes absorb the eight vampires biting their nails in the distance.

What am I going to do? I can't hate Charlie, no matter if he's a vampire. Is there a newborn exception? A loop hole? Something? I think as my hand starts to sweat inside Nessie's.

"So it's possible that we can just walk away, no harm done?" Edward shouts at me. Prying leech needs to learn what privacy is. Edward scowls at me, rolling his eyes.

"Sorry dog. I'm just trying to assess the damage. So pardon me." Edward shouts at me. After all these years he still had the nerve to...

"Would you two stop it!" Nessie shouts at us, and right in my ear.

"Get over yourselves! After all these years I would think you guys would learn to let it go." Bella shouts, probably in Edward's ear. We both huff.

"Well Jake, who's to decide what will happen?" Carlisle asks me. I breath out, running my hands through my hair, beyond frustrated. Charlie is backing away, across the boundary line. All I do is stare at him with my hands in my hair, making no move to stop him. It would be pointless. They didn't do this on purpose, and Charlie didn't know where the line was.

Charlie is with them, and I haven't moved an inch.

"Nessie!" Bella calls, eyeing her down with her hands on her hips.

"Mom..." Ness whines, tightening her grip on my hand.

"Now, Nessie." Bella says sternly. She's a good mother.

Nessie huffs, kisses me on the cheek and trudging back to her parents. I wait until all of them are out of my sight, and I walk back to my dad's house.

Bella's POV

After, we talk to Charlie about the specifics of the boundary line to prevent future mistakes. We also instruct to ask before hunting.

"How is it that I look like the oldest out of all of us and I'm still getting bossed around by my daughter?" Charlie asks.

"It's a matter of experience." Carlisle tells him, slapping him on the back with a wide grin on his face. Just like that, the tension disappears as we walk home.


A/N: Please be truthful! How was it? Too painful? Please tell me! More ahead kiddies, don't fret! ;-) Yes, I know this chapter was short, but it Lind of was how it had to work out. Again, sorry.