Chapter 9

"We're getting very close. Jacob can smell it and I can hear it's panicked thoughts." Edward had pierced the silence that had overcome us only minutes ago. Jacob and his pack – it was strange saying his pack since it had been so long since a pack was formed – were in the lead of our search party making sure that we didn't approach the thing too fast and frighten it away. Right behind Jacob was Carlisle, Jasper, and Edward they were so close behind because they would need to act fast in order to mediate and calm the strange werewolf. Emmett and Rosalie were right behind them for physical support. Then it was Alice and I behind them. Alice stayed behind with me because it was easier to see around Jacob and his pack this way, over the decades Alice had become very comfortable seeing around things since she could never see the future for the wolves or for Renesmee so she always had to adjust her vision which now was a breeze for her. And behind us, were Esme and Renesmee. Renesmee would not stay behind so Esme volunteered to keep stride with her for the time being. Edward was going to argue but I told him not to because it would have just been an argument he would have lost.

Suddenly Alice spoke.

"I can see it." I was confused by what she said.

"See what Alice?

"Bella I can see the werewolf and it is bracing itself for this encounter."

"How far are we? And what do you mean you can see the werewolf?" I asked.

"Less than a minute. And I wasn't looking before but when I was looking to see how long it would take to get to the werewolf, I was expecting my vision to go dark and then it just appeared."

Everyone in the front started to slow. A human would have to be at a jogger's pace to keep up with our sluggish walk. I could smell that we were walking up on a stream let alone this new visitor.

"Hold on. Jacob is talking to her."

"Her?" Emmett questioned with a little bit of disappointment in his voice. He loved a good fight but he would never seriously fight a girl even if she was a werewolf.

"Yes. It's a girl I heard her mind." Edward responded. "Jacob is convincing her to come back to the house. They are walking this was now." As he spoke we saw Jacob and his pack come through the trees with a fourth wolf. The fourth wolf was not like the rest of the pack. She was noticeably smaller than Jacob but she was still bigger than any of us. Anyone would guess that they were two different species. One born to be what they are, the other turned into what they had become.

"Jasper?" Carlisle said looking toward the fourth wolf.

"I've got it. She almost ran away when she saw us." I figured that Jasper was putting his power to good use and calming the werewolf or just making her feel safe, either way it helped.

Once the werewolf was with us we started to make our way back to the main house. Jasper stayed close to the werewolf just to make sure her emotions were under control. When we got back to the house Jacob made the werewolf comfortable in one of the empty rooms in the house since we would not be learning much until she was in her human form again. Jacob came back downstairs this time in his human form to tell us what he learned about our new visitor.

"Well how is she?" I asked him.

"She's a little disturbed, from what I could gather she's not used to getting help from vampires."

"I'm sure." Edward interjected. "The Volturi have been hunting her kind for millenia." It still chilled me to the core to hear their name.

"Yea I think they have something to do with why she's here. Her mind was mostly a blur while we talking." Jacob huffed.

"I got that when I was trying to read her mind."

"Well I guess we just have to wait until daylight to get to the bottom of this." Carlisle said.

"Okay, I'll come back around dawn, but I'm going to return with Ethan and Kai back to La Push. I'll see you tomorrow Nessie." Jacob was heading for the door as he said this. Renesmee was already asleep on the sofa as he said this.

"I'll see you later Jake." I said as he left. I glided over to Edward, who was contemplating tonight's events by the window that overlooked the forest.

"What do you think?" I asked Edward.

"It's too soon to tell, I'm still not sure if she will be a threat or not."

"Well we will just have to wait until morning to find out." Carlisle said. "And we have a few hours so we may as well go back to our normal activities."

As he said that Edward went to scoop up Renesmee off of the couch so that we could take her home and put her in bed. Jasper went upstairs to sit outside of the werewolf's room so he could keep her calm. Emmett and Rosalie flashed upstairs to their room like giddy teenagers, no doubt to exchange in their marital affairs. Alice danced to Jasper to keep him company, Esme went back to the blueprints she had been working on, and Carlisle went back to his library to throw himself into research to find out more about werewolves.

When Edward and I arrived back at our home we put Renesmee in her bed and then we went upstairs to our room. Edward and I spent the next few hours completely in bliss. As the sun rose we just laid in bed watching each other sparkle. Even after 90 years I still marveled at his beauty and still wondered how I was so lucky to have him. My gaze was interrupted when we heard Renesmee stirring.

"Guess we better get ready to go back to the house." Edward said breaking our contented silence.

I nodded my head as he got up from our bed. I got up and went to our closet to find something to wear which only took me about a second. I had become very accustomed with the smell of the comfortable clothes that I loved to wear and I almost always avoided Alice's deathtraps. Once we were dressed we went downstairs to get Renesmee and head to the house. Renesmee was already at the door when we got to the bottom of the steps and out the door as we got to the door. We ran to the house. I wasn't exactly excited to meet our new guest but I was most definitely anxious.

When we got to the house Jacob was outside in his human form, no doubt waiting for Renesmee. As we arrived Renesmee ran into Jacob's arms, he picked her up and hugged her as she gave him a kiss, it was like they hadn't seen each other in years as opposed to hours. We all went into the house to deal with today's events. Emmet and Rosalie were both on the couch watching, or what seemed like watching, sports. I could hear from the sound of keystrokes on a keyboard that Carlisle was still in his library in his research. Esme was in the kitchen making breakfast for Jacob and Renesmee since they were the only ones who ate human food. Alice and Jasper came downstairs to greet us.

"Has she woken up yet?" Edward asked.

"Yes but give her a moment to gather her thoughts." Alice responded.

At this moment everyone in the house was on edge to make it to this werewolf's room to see her, to speak to her, and to just observe her but Alice had cut off all of us.

"She will be down in two minutes. She can smell Esme's wonderful cookind." Alice interjected.

And like clockwork two minutes later we heard someone descend on the stairs we all awaited in the living room for her to make her entrance. As she came down the steps we saw her in her human form. If shock was an emotion that could easily happen to vampires our mouths would have been to the floor, Jacob's and Renesmee's actually were. We could not believe out eye's at what we were seeing.