Ch 10.

Bella POV.

We had been sitting in silence for a little over an hour, Jacob asleep on the couch that he didn't fit on, me and Alwin sitting on the floor. After about thirty minutes Alwin had pulled me onto his lap.

"We still need to talk about everything you told me. Running away and turning a little girl into a vampire kid for all of us didn't make me forget." he said with a small grin on his face. I smiled a little in return.

"I don't really think right now is the best time." I told him and he nodded his head, seeming to understand. We continued sitting like that and we probably would have continued to stay like that had Alwin's cell phone not started ringing from his pocket. I slid off his lap to give him room to get to his phone. He looked at it and then looked at me, a question in his eyes.

"Yeah we probably should start answering our phones, I'm sure Maureen and Victor are freaking by now." I told him. He nodded his head and flipped the phone open.

"Hello?" he said. I could a long string of babble coming from the other end, it was Maureen.

"Look, we know you guys were probably really worried but I kind of figured Victor would see something eventually anyway. We just got settled, I promise we were gonna call soon." he informed her.

"No Victor can't see anything! Why are you guys in La Push? With Jacob? Yeah that's right I remember Bella telling me about him, he's a wolf! WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING. ?!" I heard her through the phone and couldn't help but smile a little at her reaction. I know she was worried and everything but I could just picture her yelling into the phone, the phone floating by her head so she could use her hands to gesture around even though we couldn't see.

"Well-" he started but Maureen cut in.

"Somebody was bit. This treaty that the Cullens made with the wolves, we thought it was broken but now it isn't because there was an attack. You guys need to get here." she was speaking a mile a minute and I grabbed Alwin's shoulder when she mentioned something about an attack. Jacob had woken and was sitting up staring at me sleepily.

"What's going on?" he mumbled and I shook my head at him.

"We can't go anywhere right now Maureen." Alwin told her but she wasn't having it. She caught on pretty quick, but then again I'd expected her to.

"Was it Bella? Did you help her?" she was suddenly calm now, asking these questions in a voice barely above a whisper.

"It's a long story." he told her simply. There was silence on her end for a minute and I was waiting for an argument.

"Alright. When will you guys be home?" she asked. I was shocked, no argument? No nothing?

"About two days." he told her and they said goodbye. He flipped the phone closed and turned to me.

"I supposed you heard her?" he asked. I nodded my head.

"I know the treaty she's talking about. It should be broken." I told him. He pressed his lips together into a thin tight line.

"She didn't say much, just mentioned an attack. I get the feeling someone else was there. I wish there was some way I could've had physical contact with her so I could know everything. It seems there's a lot going on here besides this." he waved a hand toward Jacob's bedroom which held the still sleeping little angel. Alwin got up and started pacing but stopped when he brushed past Jacob.

"What?" he sneered at him. I stared at him, Jacob hadn't said anything. Then I realized that Alwin had brushed right past Jacob, his leg touching his knee. What had Jacob been thinking that had Alwin so upset? Jacob looked up, shocked. He looked from Alwin to me and back again, his eyes finally resting on my face.

"He's kind of like Edward." I told him and didn't need to say anymore, he understood.

"How dare you? You have no right to think of Bella in that way and you will not hurt that little girl in there. You understand me?" Alwin spat in Jacob's face and Jacob started to rise from his sitting position. I heard a scuffle behind me and snapped my head around.

"Guys!" I snapped at them and when they turned around their fight was instantly forgotten.

There, in the doorway to the bedroom stood the most beautiful little girl I'd ever seen. She had a thin frame and just as I'd thought her hair had curled during the change. Perfect little ringlets in a gorgeous strawberry blonde color. Her hair had been straight and murky blonde before, of course it had also been hard to tell, it was so matted with blood. It looked like I had gotten most of it with the wet washcloth I'd used to get the dried blood off while she was sleeping. She was pale and her features delicate and small. She looked like a perfect porcelain doll. She looked around the room for a minute and then her eyes flitted to me. She held out her little arms and I rushed over to scoop her up. I looked at Alwin who was staring adoringly at her. She raised her head and I brushed some of the curls out of her face. Her eyes kept darting around the room and then they finally stopped and I felt her little hands tighten on my shoulders.

"Get him away from me." she whispered in my ear and I turned around to see who she was talking about. The only person there was Jacob.

Alice POV.

"What kind of an attack?" I asked Carlisle. His eyes had worry itched in them and his brow furrowed. I saw him sneak a quick glance at Quil.

"It seems to be a wolf. We don't know much yet, just what Quil here has been kind enough to share with us."he said. I looked over at him and he was staring down at his feet. Edward growled next to me.

"Dogs." he snarled.

"Oh and you're any better, bloodsucker?!" Quil shot back at him. Carlisle moved me and Jasper out of the way and stood in between Edward and Quil who seemed ready to go at each other.

"Edward, that's enough. He's here, and he's trying to help. He was kind enough to tell us everything he knows, which he in no way had to do." Carlisle said, causing Edward to sulk back to his piano bench and Quil to return to his spot on the floor.

"What exactly do we know?" I asked Carlisle. He turned his attention away from Edward and Quil and looked at me.

"As I said, not much. Quil came here and told us that while he was in wold form back in La Push he could hear one of the others loose control. He doesn't know who or who they attacked." he told me.

Maureen POV.

I knew there was an attack and I knew Bella had changed someone. I'd already put this much together in my head. A wolf had attacked someone and now Bella was in La Push and her and Alwin couldn't leave and wouldn't be back for two more days, it had to be the same person. It wasn't that hard to figure out, I knew Bells and I knew Alwin. That was the only explanation. I'd told all this to Victor and he'd just nodded thoughtfully. I knew it was hard for him, not being able to see their futures. I went and joined him on the couch, he looked too uncomfortable next to Embry. They were sitting in silence so I reached my hand up and the remote flew across the room to land gently in my palm. Embry's eyes got huge and I gave him a small smile.

"Sorry Embry. It's become a habit." I told him. He nodded but still looked a little shocked.

"So who do you think was attacked? Anybody we know?" I asked to nobody in particular, flipping on the television. Nobody answered, but I hadn't really expected them to. I started flipping mindlessly through the channels.

"I think we should go to La Push." Victor said suddenly. Embry looked over and bared his teeth.

"Your kind isn't welcome there." he said and turned his attention back to the television. I flicked it off and strained around Victor to look at Embry.

"We welcome you into our home after one of your kind attacks someone and that's what you have to say? How dare you talk to him like that?!" I knew my voice was starting to rise and Victor pulled me effortlessly back to the other side of the couch.

"Sorry." I heard Embry mumble. We were back to sitting in silence. For a few minutes anyway. I heard somebody running through the backyard and by the time I glanced up I saw Bella and Alwin coming through the back door. They slammed it shut and when they turned around I realized it wasn't just Bella and Alwin. Bella had a bundle in her arms, a rather large bundle and upon entering the house she put it down. No, not it. Her.

I took a slow step forward, I didn't want to frighten her.

"Is this her?" I asked although I already knew. Bella nodded her head.

"This is Candice." she told me.

"But right now isn't the time. I know what happened to her. Ja-" she stopped short when she saw Embry. From the couch I heard the slightest intake of breath and I turned my head to see Victor staring at Bella with huge eyes.

"What?" I asked him.

"Bella, what are you planning to do to Jacob?" he asked her. She shuffled her feet and shrugged her shoulders.

"I saw it Bells. You can't do that. You can't kill him." he said.