I heard something shift behind me; the smaller vampire was moving towards me now, any ferociousness she had was gone, though she was still holding a twitching arm. She looked down at me, a quizzical and saddened look on her face.

"You didn't get bit…" her musical voice sounded disappointed.

Jacob reacted instantly. He darted directly next to me, baring his teeth between the two girls. The black-haired girl held her arms up in surrender.

She smiled at him. "You really know how to pick the interesting ones though, don't you? You can relax. We aren't going to hurt her."

Jacob made an odd noise, a snort of some sort, probably at the 'relax' part the girl had said. He inched so close to me then that I could feel his hot temperature emanating from him.

"Jake, don't be like that. Please," the brown haired girl begged. She extended her arm towards him and both Jacob and my eyes caught sight of the glinting silver bracelet around her wrist.

His growling stopped as he stared at the bracelet. She was close enough that I could see two small charms hanging from the bracelet. A crystal heart and what looked like a little figurine. I had to squint my eyes to make out the shape and when I did I finally understood; it was a wolf.

"That's her, isn't it?" I asked him, "The girl you told me about."

The brown haired girl raised her eyebrow, "I see you've been talking about me."

A small breeze moved the snow across the ground, but it had caused Jacob to look down at my blood-stained pants leg. He shot his eyes between to two girls so fast I nearly missed it.

She lowered her hand down by her side, a hurt expression appearing on her face. "I won't hurt her. I've got this under control. I promise. Alice and I wouldn't even consider it."

He looked over at the shorter girl, Alice, this time. She tossed the dismembered arm to the ground and crossed her own, "don't insult me. You know I wouldn't"

I looked between the two newcomers, taking in their entirety. They were completely different than the vampires that had just attacked us. The most obvious difference is what drew me to them the most; their eyes were a strange but beautiful topaz color. In my mind I compared these vampires to the others; warm, welcoming golden eyes or fierce want-to-shred-your-skin red eyes? I thought the choice was obvious.

I placed my palm on the side of Jacob's neck to calm him. "I trust them." His large dark eyes locked on me as I pleaded with my eyes for him to trust them as well. I knew these two girls meant no harm. They did save just us, after all.

Jacob finally rolled his eyes, huffing out a large puff of smoke. The girl with the long brown hair smiled at me; her silent way of thanking me I supposed. Then an annoying chattering caused all three of them to look at me.

"W-w-what" I felt my teeth clatter against each other. "O-oh"

I had been so preoccupied with my surroundings that I had completely forgotten that it was well below zero degrees outside. The cold snow seeping through my clothes wasn't helping much either. No wonder my body felt so stiff. I tried to clench my hand into a fist; my fingers barely moved. Stupid good for nothing winter clothing.

"She's going to freeze to death," the small one piped. "Bella, let's quickly finish up here and take her back to the house. Carlisle can fix her up when we get there."

"Stay next to her, Jake. Keep her warm." Bella turned from us in the blink of an eye and began to help the smaller girl pile in various chunks of what I supposed to be body parts. I looked away when I saw a torso being tossed like it was as light as a paper ball but clunked loudly into the pile.

Jacob listened to her though; he pressed his furry side against my own, and immediately put my face into the warmth. It was wonderful, being able to get some feeling into my face again, but that didn't stop me when I let out a groan. What else is going to happen tonight? Is Santa going to come crashing down from the sky and squash me?

Alice ignited a lighter with a flame nearly as big as her head and tossed it into the pile. Large billows of choking smoke immediately erupted, making my eyes sting. Once the two vampires were satisfied with their burning piles they returned to us, Bella carrying my small suitcase.

"Let's hurry. The house is a bit further that way," she tilted her head towards our right.

I barely moved my foot before a growl escaped from Jacob. I expected him to be making such a noise at one of the girls but I was shocked to see he was staring directly at me.

Bella laughed.

"W-what?" I asked. Before I could get a response I was being lifted off of the ground by Alice. Jacob slightly lowered himself to the ground as Alice placed me on his back. I didn't even have time to protest before I was towering six feet above the two girls.

"You're not walking on that leg," Alice said sternly, "we'll get there faster this way anyways."

"You have no idea how awkward this feels…" I managed to get out as I straddled his back. Jacob made a weird coughing noise. He was laughing at me! Regardless, feeling like I was sitting on top of a heater was rather nice; after only a few seconds of having my hands through his fur I was getting feeling some feeling back in my fingertips.

"I'm going to go on ahead and tell Carlisle to get things ready. I'll steal some of Emmett's clothes for you too, Jacob." Alice was gone from sight in the blink of an eye.

Jacob made a disapproving noise but I supposed to him it would be better than wearing another skirt of mine…or nothing at all.

"Hold on tight," Bella said to me.

And we were off.

Branches and large rocks passed by me in a blur. The cold air whipped so fiercely against my face that I had no choice but to press myself lower onto Jacob's back so as to avoid both the wind and thin braches that could probably slice my face open at this speed. My face was on his neck. I expected to hear struggling breathes coming from him, but he was breathing as if this was a stroll in the park for him.

All of this might have been frightening to someone else, but my inner adrenaline junkie was creeping out. I knew the speed we were going at was much faster than normal, but it still wasn't fast enough for me. Hell, the fastest roller coaster in the world probably wasn't fast enough for me. I moved the slightest bit closer to his ear.

"Faster," I whispered. And faster we went. My surroundings were no longer discernable. It was all just one mess of dark colors that passed by us in the night. I couldn't help but laugh. Who knew such speed was possible! Then again, who knew that vampire and werewolves really existed? Well, now I did.

Before I knew it a light was growing closer and closer as a large house loomed ahead. Jacob skidded to a halt right next to a door, sending clouds of powdery snow into the air. We had not fully stopped moving before the night was filled with light from the door opening. Three people stepped out; Alice, carrying a pile of clothes, and a man and woman followed close behind.

The woman, who was carrying a large blanket, was unfamiliar. But I had to squint my eyes because of the lighting and register the gorgeous man walking towards me. Jacob lowered himself to the ground.

"Dr. Cullen?" I asked, completely lost. Surely I was imagining things.

The man laughed, "I could always count on a visit from you whenever I'm in town." He held his arms out to help me off Jacob's back. I grabbed his icy hands and felt a new shiver run down my spine after being on the warmth of Jacob's back for a time.

As soon as I was off his back Jacob snatched the pile of clothes from Alice's hands with his teeth and darted around the corner of the house. But that hardly distracted me from the man in front of me.

"Why hello there, Samantha. Esme," Dr. Cullen nodded at me and the woman came forward.

"Oh my god! I knew it! I knew there was something off about you!" I shrieked, actually delighted.

"You two have met before?" Esme asked, wrapping the warm blanket around me. The warmth of the blanket was nothing compared to Jacob.

"Oh yes, several times," he informed her. "Her medical record knocks Bella's out of the park. She's the reason I had stopped coming to this part of Colorado the past couple of years. The last time I was here she asked me if I was a vampire." He laughed. "I must say I was a little taken aback and I couldn't blame a concussion on her that time since she was in for a broken arm." He laughed again, smiling at me.

"Well, let's get her inside. The poor thing looks frozen to the bone. It's good to see you again, Jacob." Emse said over my shoulder.

I felt Jacob's warm arms wrap around me and lift me off the ground before I could even turn to see him. I could feel he was tense, uncomfortable in the current situation.

"I didn't think I would need to carry around any supplies with me since Bella was changed," Carlisle called over his shoulder. "But Alice informed us we would have a visitor tonight so I brought some along just in case."

I saw Jacob frown when he looked over at Alice, "I thought you couldn't see me?"

"I didn't see you. I saw her. That's why Bella and I were in the area.." Alice beamed at me.

"But she's with me. I thought you can't see when people are around me?"

"I can't. She wasn't with you in my vision."

"You can see the future?" I asked apprehensively, my eyes darting between Alice and Jacob. I felt lost. Everyone obviously knew much more about each other than I did while I was the awkward newcomer being cradled in a werewolf's arms.

"Yep!" she piped.

"What do you mean she wasn't with me?" Jacob snapped. We had reached the kitchen and Carlisle motioned for Jacob to set me down on the counter. The icy marble was just as bad as the snow outside and the throbbing in my leg was beginning to return now that all of the dangerous action was over.

"It's a shame really," Alice continued, slighting pouting with her head in her palm as she stared at me. "From what I saw she would have made a pretty awesome vampire."

Alice barely had time to finish her sentence before Jacob began to shake with angry, a growl forming inside his chest as he moved to shield me from Alice. I grabbed his hand and gave it a squeeze. He looked down at me into my eyes, his brows furrowed in anger. "Relax", I mouthed.. He gave a sigh before turning back to Alice. "She would not have been a bloodsucker like you."

She held her hands up, as if signifying that she didn't mean any actual harm. "I'm just going by what I saw. Don't kill the messenger" Then she eyed me up and down with a frown. "I'll be right back." And disappeared from the kitchen.

Dr. Cullen was washing his hands in the large sink. "Edwa--Er…Emmett," he said as if he was talking to someone in the kitchen, casting a wary glance at Jacob. "Could you bring my bag down? Hold your breath too, just in case."

There was a loud thud that came from upstairs followed by a triumphant laughter. I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard a loud voice behind me. "Is she turning or did the wolf stop her? Can I see?"

Behind me was a large guy, around twenty years old, with dark curly hair and topaz eyes like Alice and Bella had. Come to think of it, all of them have the same eye, even Carlisle and Esme. He was trying to peer around the others like a child would who is trying to see an exciting new toy or something. When my eyes caught his he immediately stopped his anxious bouncing. "Creepy…" he trailed off.

Carlisle immediately began working on my leg, apologizing to me when he cut open my jeans to get to the ripped flesh. It really looked a lot worse than it felt, I thought to myself. Mind you, the stitches are what made it look gross. I watched attentively as he worked to clean up and re-stitch my leg, thanking myself that I wasn't the least bit squeamish.

"So what was it this time?" Carlisle asked me, not looking up from his work. "Jumping off roofs? Playing on the high way?" He smiled up at me before pulling out a large needle.

"Carlisle!" Esme hissed, clearly disapproving at his humor.

"Nope. None of those. Just a good dose of step-fatherly love again," I said freely. I remembered a couple of years ago, when I had gone in with a fracture wrist and my step-father a swelling purple eye, he questioned me about what exactly had happened. I had to give him a stare down before I fully convinced him that I really had hit a bump in the side walk while skateboarding and I accidently punched my step-dad in the eye when he tried to catch me. Of course, that was a lie but what's done is done.

The doctor frowned at me. "I knew it," he tossed his tool on the table. "I should have investigated further into the matter. I'm sorry."

"Why are you apologizing?" Alice had reappeared, brining with her a fresh wave of smoke and looking absolutely delighted. "She probably started it."

"What?" I turned to face her so quickly my neck cracked. "I did not!...Well, okay maybe a couple of times…well, I finished them at least."

"What happened wasn't her fault." Esme came over to me and laid a comforting hand on my shoulder.

Why was my life suddenly becoming a topic of discussion among a bunch of vampires?

"Uh, hellooo?" Alice rolled her eyes, "were none of you listening to me when I told you about her in my vision? What she could do? Obviously she has some of that ability now. She's an instigator! So technically, yes. It was her fault."

I had only just noticed that Jacob, who had seemed to have something to say every time someone talked about me, had been very quiet, taking in each word that everyone was saying.

"What are you talking about?" I finally asked as Carlisle began to clean up the area around the stitches and finish up.

"They're talking about what you do and what you would have been able to do had the two of you not met." A new voice said from the doorway. I felt Jacob's grip on my hand tighten.

The source of the voice was from a gorgeous looking guy with bronze colored hair and straight features. He seemed standoff-ish. Like he wished to be further back from the door. Bella stood by his side, not keeping her eyes focused on one thing for too long.

"All done," Carlisle said, interrupting the growing tension in the kitchen. "Alice, why don't you get her her clothes and we'll talk about this later when she's warmed up a bit?"

The tiny vampire tried to hide a smile, "Well. You see, her clothes were covered in bits of taxi driver…so I had to burn them."

"What! They were not! They were in a suit case and in the trunk!" Was I really going to have to wear these wet, sticky, blood-soaked clothes the rest of the night?

"Of course not," the bronze-haired boy said, smiling, "Alice wouldn't allow that."

Did he just answer the question I had…in my head? It took me a moment to register before I shrieked "Stay out of my head!" Everyone in the kitchen laughed, except Jacob that is. Of course there had to be at least one vampire out of this group that could read minds. After all, how many vampires could read minds in some way or another in the movies or in books? That's right. A lot.

If the boys face could have turned any paler I'm sure it would have at that moment, since his eyes widened and his jaw dropped an inch or two.

"Pretty cool, huh?" Alice said, smirking at the boy before turning to me, holding her arms out. "Come on; let's go get you some clothes. Edward, Emmett. Get your butts upstairs so these two can talk things out a bit, yeah?"

Jacob and Bella exchanged a quick glance before looking away.

"Great idea," Carlisle said. "Everyone else, upstairs now."

I pushed myself off the counter, but was caught by my waist before by nearly frozen feet touched the floor. I could feel two hot palms pressing into my sides. "He just fixed you up so why would you jump off a counter onto your leg right after that?" Jacob gave me a hard look. I smiled back innocently.

"Sorry, I generally forget about injuries once they're fixed up." I said quietly.

"Yeah. I realized that when you wanted to jump out of the hospital window. Get her out of these wet clothes already, will you?" he said, handing me off to Alice like I was a child.

I felt awkward, yet again, as I was cradled in tiny Alice's arms. There was a whoosh while the walls seemed to melt together. I blinked several times before I realized I was sitting on a bed outside of a rather large closet. It was stocked with clothes of all colors, shapes, and sizes. There were even two entire walls devoted to pumps and strappy heels. Bits of taxi driver my ass…I thought. She just wanted to play dress up!

"So this is her, huh?" Someone said next to me. It was, of course, a gorgeous girl with long flowing blond hair. She barely glanced at me before returning her attention to the magazine she was reading while perched on a chair by the window.

"Yeah," Alice said, her tiny body already burrowing herself into the mass amount of clothing. "She's more your size than mine or Bella's so I figured we could raid your closet." She began flinging clothes in my direction.

"Whatever," the blond said, turning the page.

I watched as the pile of clothes by my dangling feet grew more and more with colors raging from black to hot pink. I tried to avert my attention from it. "So, uhm. What did you mean down there? About abilities and what I could do?"

Alice poked her head out from behind her own pile in her hands. She grinned at me. "Well, I mean. What you do now isn't even close to what you could have done if you were one of us."

I stared back at her with a burning desire to continue on. What was it that I can do now?

"Do you really want to know?"

I nodded furiously, feeling an excited energy coursing through me.

"Then let's get you dressed so we can properly introduce you to everyone in the family. Then we'll get to you." She winked at me.

Everyone? So that wasn't everyone down in the kitchen? There were more? I snatched the shirt up closest to me, eager to get dressed and find out everything I could.

A/N: Well, winter break is officially over (Yippee for month long breaks in college!) so I am back to the stories and figured I would work on this one since it doesn't seem to get much attention. What do YOU think Sam can do, even now as a human? What WOULD she have been able to do had she been bitten? Hmmm??