YOU MUST SURVIVE

A/N: Special thanks to the greatest beta in the world "JSH"…Donna you totally rock…you're the best, thanks girlfriend.

A/N: The characters in this story belong to Stephanie Meyers, but the plot is all mine.

CHAPTER TEN

PHONE HOME

We arrived at the Cullens house, just north of New York City in a rural area. The wide open spaceswere filled with large houses, clearly with well to do residence, money being no object. Their house sat back off the road, where no one could see anything and farther away from the other houses which set them apart from most of the other ones in the area. It was surrounded with trees, obviously for privacy. In a way, it kind of reminded me of the house they left in Forks.

Jasper got out and opened the back door. I slid across the seat and stood on the other side of the door, holding my hand out for Bella to grab. She slid her hand into mine, and I helped her. Once she was out, Bella positioned herself next to me, grabbed my arm tightly, more like a death grip! I looked down at her and saw the fear in her eyes. Jasper chuckled when he noticed Bella clinging onto me in dear life.

"Bella, your safe here. I promise." Jasper reassured her as she blushed, and laid her head against my chest. I followed them into the large house with Bella at my side, she didn't say much and she only spoke when spoken to. I could tell this troubled Alice. She hated that Bella was so frightened of her and her surroundings.The stench of the house burnt my nose. The smell of vampire was pungent and I knew it would take some getting used to before I could get comfortable being here. Onceinside, we were greeted by Carlisle and Esmeat the doors entry,their smile welcoming, and we walked in.

"Welcome! Please make yourselves at home. Our home is your home, for as long as needed." Carlisle told us.

"Poor dears, what you must have been through all these months." Esme said caringly. "We have a room all set up for you, there are clothes in the closet and all the necessities in the bathroom if you would like to shower. After you have finished, we have prepared a nice dinner for you both, then if you would like you may call your families. I'm sure you would like to talk to them, to let them know that you're both are safe. Alice, why don't you show them to their room."
Alice started walking down the hallway, we followed behind her. Suddenly she stopped and turned to us."Bella, Jake, if you follow me I'll take you to your room. We only set up one room, but if you would prefer separate rooms that can be arranged as well." Alice informed uslooking to us for an answer.Bella gripped my arm tighter, silently letting me know she didn't want to be alone. Looking down at her, I could see the continuing fear in her eyes. I knew I had to get her out of here as soon as possible, but for now I had no choice but to make her feel safe."No…One room's fine, thanks." I replied, trying to be polite. Alice nodded her head and led us to our room. She opened the door and motioned for us to come in.

"If you need anything just let me know." She said.

Alice turned to Bella, and gave her a sad smile, then closed the door and left us alone. I turned to Bella and wrapped my arms around her waist."Are you alright honey?" I asked her, she shook her head from side to side.She reached up and pulled my head down to her and whispered into my ear. I know she was trying to be secretive, but I also knew that they would hear everything we were saying or doing. I didn't care if they knew Bella was frightened, I preferred it actually; maybe they would keep their distance if they knew how she felt about them."Jake, please don't leave me alone okay?" she begged, I smiled trying to comfort her.

"I won't sweetheart, I promise but you don't have to be afraid, I don't think they mean us any harm, if they did they wouldn't have came to get us in the first place." I told her.

"I don't care;" she said snidely. Pushing out a breath of air, sighing.
"Don't get me wrong, Jake… I appreciate that they helped us I really do, but I can't help but to be frightened of them, please don't leave me," she begged once again.

"I won't baby, I promise. "Now let's see what's in this closet so we can get cleaned up, and then we'll go down and eat. I can smell the food and I am starving!" I told her excitedly.

Thesmell the food caused my stomach to rumble loudly, it smelt delightful. We haven't had real food in over six months, and it smelled so good I could probably wolf down the whole menu in one sitting.I walked over to the closet and opened it as Bella clung to my side. I couldn't help but chuckle at her innocence, Bella had changed since the crash, when we sat and talked on the plane she seemed so sure of herself, and knew what she wanted. Now, she was shy and distant from other people or at least it seemed that way. Of course the Cullens don't count as people, and Bella had no experience with vampires, so I could see why she distancedherself away from them.But it seems she had made a friend with Alice while she was away at school studying, and I couldn't understand what had changed other than her finding out that she was a vampire. I talked to Bella as I pulled a pair of jeans, a black tee-shirt and leather jacket out of the closet. Bella pulled out a pair of skinny blue jeans, a long sleeve blue button up shirt and a tight tee-shirt to wear underneath.
"Honey, where exactly did you meet the Cullens?" I asked, gathering the clothes together."Ummm…in Paris, Alice was at this little café I stumbled across. I didn't speak French very well, and I wanted to order a latte, but I couldn't. She over-heard the conversation, and helped me out and told how to pronounce it. She came over to my table and asked if she could join me. I felt like an idiot, but I still said yes and that's how I met her." Bella explained. I smiled at how sweetly innocent my angel was.

"Is that the only time you talked to her?" I asked.

"No, she met me at school one time. She was with her brother Edward, they invited me to their house," she answered.

It had me wondered why afterone meeting at a coffee shop they would go to Bella's school? Not only that,ask her to go to their house? It all seemed fishy to me, and it was something I had to find out about in the near future. I didn't want them anywhere near Bella; I don't care how much they put themselves out to save us.
"Did you go?" I asked, I tried not to cringe, knowing what the answer already was.

"Yeah, they seemed nice enough; there wasn't anyone there except Tonya, Edward's girlfriend. We watched a movie and Alice drove me back to my apartment. I had an early class the next day so I had to get home." Bella added.

"So, you became close friends with them then?" I asked. She bit her bottom lip, looking at me then over to the door.

"Not really…" She whispered. If I hadn't been a wolf, I wouldn't have been able to hear Bella, she said it so low.I didn't like where this was going.

"No, why?" I asked.

"They seemed a little weird, I mean, it's nothing they said or the way they acted, they just never ate. I had lunch with Alice a few times and she made excuses about not feeling hungry. I felt stupid sitting there eating in front of her, while she carried on a conversation with me. After that, I kind of stayed away from them." Bella pause, and continued.

"Oh, I would see them every once in awhile, and she drug me along on a lot of shopping sprees but I just felt uncomfortable around her. Now, I find out that their vampire's. I now understand why I felt so uncomfortable around them," she said.

"Okay, I understand that, but honey, your around me and I'm a wolf, you don't feel uncomfortable around me do you?" I asked.

"No Jake! Your…your Jake, I've been around you all my life up until Renee drug me off from you, and besides I love you, there's a big difference." She stated firmly. I chuckled at her resolution.

But I still wasn't satisfied why would a group of vampires want to hang out with a human, it was clear they didn't want to feed from her, what did they want from her? None of this made any sense. I was glad that Bella was keeping her distance from them.

"Okay baby, you can stay as close as you want to me." I reassured her. I reached down and kissed the tip of her nose, "Now do you want to take a shower first or do you want me to go first?" I asked her, her face turned white. The look on her face scared the life out of me.

"What's wrong baby?" I asked hastily.

"You said you wouldn't leave me," she answered. I raised my eyebrows in shock and let out the breath I held inadvertently.

"Honey, I'm not leaving you." I said, trying to sooth her.

"Yes you are. If you take a shower without me you are." she answered, clearly shaken. I couldn't help but to chuckled.

"Okay, you want to take a shower with me?" I asked, she quickly nodded her head yes. It was clear Bella was scared to death to be left alone in this house even with me just in the next room.

I gathered our clothes and led her to the bathroom and turned on the shower and we both climbed in. The Cullens were true to their word, there was everything we needed in the bathroom, even Bella's brand of shampoo and body wash. I found that to be unusual.

I lathered Bella's hair in her shampoo and breathed in her fragrance that I loved so much. She smelt so good. I tried to control my wolf from taking her here in the Cullens bathroom. I knew if we did make love in here the Cullens would hear every sound and although I didn't care one way or the other, I knew that Bella would be embarrassed.

Once we were done and dress I felt like a million dollars! I ran a comb through Bella's hair for her, she moaned from the sensation of the comb, and my fingers pulling through her scalp.

"Oh Jake, that feels wonderful." She cooed. I laughed from the little sounds she was making. I remembered back when my hair was long, and how good it felt for someone to run a comb through my hair. Although it was a long time ago and come to think of it, the last time I had ever had it done, it was Bella who did it. I silently giggled at the thought of how long ago it had been.

When I finished combing Bella's hair I braided it for her, something I use to do with my hair.

"Thank you, baby." she said. I put the comb down and pulled her to my chest and kissed her soft sweet lips.

"You're welcome; you ready to get something to eat?" I asked. Bella nodded her head and grabbed my arm. It caused me to chuckle once again.

"I'm not going anywhere Bells," I told her, she blushed and still didn't let go of my arm.

After prying Bella hands off of my arm, I put my arm around Bella's waist and led her back down the hall to the Cullens living area. Alice smiled when we came in.

"Feel better?" she asked, she bounced over to us excitedly. I felt Bella's fingers dig into my waist the closer Alice came to us.

"Bella, I wish you wouldn't be afraid of me, I would never harm you." Alice said. Bella lowered her head and leaned closer to me.

"Alice, Bella is a little shy and I think it's mostly due to the accident, she'll get better with time." I told Alice. She smiled and seemed happy with my analogy.

"Well, I bet you're both starving! Come on I'll take you to the dining room."

We followed her to a large room with a table that would clearly seat twelve people. We sat down at the table,Esme brought out a huge turkey with all the trimmings. Baked beans, mashed potatoes and gravy. Sweet potatoes, dumplings, a side salad and dinner rolls smothered in butter. I could smell the fresh baked apple pie before I saw it. It's my favorite, the aroma was heavenly.

"Wow…this smells great!" I commented, eager to dive in. Esme smiled.

"Eat as much as you want, enjoy!" She urged us, turning to leave, dragging Alice with her.

Bella and I ate ourselves sick.

"Oh my god Jake, I'm stuffed," she said, and I smiled happily at her.

"I think I am too, and that's saying something for me!" I told Bella. She giggled for the first time since we had been here.

I reached over and gave Bella a quick peck on her lips and run a finger down her cheek.

"You feeling a little better?" I asked, as she nodded her head. She got up and started gathering up dishes, Esme and Alice entered the room.

"Oh, no you don't! Well handle these, you two go relax in the living room, why don't you go ahead and call you families." Alice said, I grabbed Bella's hand and led her into the living room.

I was so worried about Bella when we first arrived; I hadn't paid any attention to the living area. It was really nice, it a huge open fireplace, that even I could stand up in, with a flat screen television above the mantle, the room was painted white and there were a lot of painting on the walls. I'm no art critic, but if I had to say, I'd bet these painting are originals and worth a lot of money!

A white wrap around couch filled the outside of the entire room. There were twoopenings you could walk through, one from the dining room and the other was from the foyer both led into the living area, as to sit on the couch, a large glass coffee table in the middle hosted fresh flowers in the center to give the room some color. The carpet was wall to wall white in color. It is thick and plush; you could probably sleep on it and feel like you were on a mattress. I noticed a phone that sat on one of the end tables. I picked it up, and handed it to Bella, as we sat down. I wrapped an arm around her and pulled her close.

"Don't you want to call Billy first?" she asked, I shook my head.

"I will after you call Charlie, go ahead." I encouraged her. I watched Bella dial the number, I could hear the operator say that the number had been changed and gave her another number.

"Why would dad change his number?" she asked me confused.

"I don't know baby, do you remember what the operator said the new number was?" I had heard it, and memorized it just in case she didn't catch it.

"Yes, I remember." she said, and began to dial the new number. I heard it ringing for a number of times, and then finally the answering machine picked up.

"You've reached the Swan residence; I'm not in right now, leave a message or if it's important call my cell phone."

"He's not home." she told me, and the look of a little sadness played on her face.

"Baby, call his cell." I told her, she sighed and dialed his cell phone. It rang a few times then he answered.

"Hello!" Charlie said and he sounded a little put out. Bella paused for a minute, clearly thrown by his attitude. She looked at me and I nodded my head for her to say something.

"Dad," she said, and then there was complete silence. Bella looked at me clearly upset that her dad didn't answer right away.

"Bella?"

"Daddy," she said as the tears began to fall. I pulled her into my arms, as she started talking to her dad.

"Where are you sweetheart? Are you alright is Jake with you? Is he alright, oh honey I've been so afraid, I missed you so much," Charlie rambled.

"Dad…Dad…I'm okay, and yes Jake is with me and he's okay too. I have so much to tell you but I can't really go into it right now, we're in New York, and as soon as we can get home we will be there, I promise. As much as I want and need to talk with you, Jake still needs to call his dad and let him know his alright as well, we should be home no later than tomorrow evening." she told him, through tears.

"Bella, Billy is with me, just put Jake on and I'll hand Billy the phone." he said.

"Okay dad, and dad… I love you, and I'll see you soon, I promise."

"Okay sweetheart, we'll see you soon, and I love you too." I heard Charlie say to Bella, and she handed me the phone. I knew dad was there, I could hear him in the background, when Charlie was talking to Bella.

"Dad…" I said all I could hear was dad crying into the phone. I tried to calm him, "Dad I'm okay, please don't cry." I looked down at Bella, she had tears in her eyes, and they spilled over and ran down her check, what I didn't know was I was crying as well, just the sound of Billy sobbing into the phone, caused me to give way to tears as well.

"Son…Son…are you sure your okay?" he said through tears.

"I'm fine dad, we both are, we'll be home soon, I promise." I told him.

"You took care of Bella didn't you son?" I looked down at Bella and wiped away the tears from her cheek and smiled at her lovingly.

"Of course I did dad, did you think I wouldn't?"

"No. I knew you would, I love you son, I'm so glad your okay and will be home soon, I've missed you and so has the whole tribe." Billy replied, with pride.

"I know dad, we'll be home tomorrow, I love you dad." I told him.

"I love you too son, we'll see you tomorrow." I hung up the phone, and grabbed Bella, holding her tight and stroked her hair lightly and kissed the top of her head. Now feeling at peace.