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I slept like a baby that night maybe it was because of the pain pills but maybe it was because I was so happy. I don't know which it was but when I opened my eyes I couldn't even feel the pain in my arm anymore. Luckily it was Saturday and I wouldn't have to worry about school for the time being. It had been an eventful week, I had only just arrived and I not only found out that I may like girls more than boys, but it just so happens the girl I liked was also a vampire. I got into a fight and missed school. Kids would get kicked out of school for pulling half of that in a year, and for that matter they would find themselves sitting in a facility much like I did if they started telling the stories that I knew to be true.

Part of me thought that I might have just snapped back in Phoenix and all of this was just in my head. Then that moment of dread hit me, what if it all really was a psychotic break? I looked up to see that my door had been left open ajar, which I could specifically remember closing. I was about to get up out of bed when I spotted a pair of eyes looking through the door at me. That Alice, always with the break in and entering, I smiled and leaned forward.

"Alright Alice come on in." I ran my hand through my hair, trying to untangle any knots as the door opened wide and I felt my heart suddenly come to a stop. That wasn't Alice.

"Well thank you miss." The man said, he was wearing a black vest and camouflage pants. He looked like a military man; hanging off of the belt of his pants was a silver sword. He was smiling and I tried to back up, until I pushed up against the wall. My heart started pounding in my ears as he walked into my room. "Now now, don't be afraid."

"Who are you?" I asked, trying to sound braver than I actually was. I don't think it had the I was aiming for. He let out a laugh and considering how loud he was being, either Charlie wasn't here or he was dead. I hoped against all hope that he was at work. The man grabbed the sword and pulled it out, as if checking for imperfections. After finding none, he swung it around before the sound of a car pulling up the driveway. He took a step towards me quicker than anyone I have ever seen before and I could feel the cold blade pressed against my throat.

"Make one sound, and not only will I kill you, But I will kill everyone you know. Your father, your little leech of a girlfriend, her whole family, EVERY SINGLE ONE." A knock at the door took his attention away from me for a second, but when he turned back to face me I had no choice but to agree. I nodded and he stood up and walked out of my bedroom and I could hear him walking down the stairs and into the landing. What could I do? I heard the door open downstairs and a familiar voice filled the house. It was Billy Black!

Then I had what was either a really smart or really stupid idea. I wasn't sure which it was but I wasn't going to argue with it. I walked to the window in my room and pulled it open, as slowly and quietly as possible. Peering outside it was a good 30 feet down. If I jumped I would hurt myself more, but I would be alive. Billy didn't sound like he was accepting the excuse the intruder was giving. Then I saw I face I haven't in ages, he looked much older than the last time I had seen him. Jacob Black was walking around the back of the house as if looking for something.

"Jake!" I half whispered, half yelled. He looked up and smiled for a moment before he realized the gravity of the situation.

"Bella? What is happening?" He looked down at the front door and back up to me.

"You need to get out of here, quickly! The man down there is dangerous! You and your dad have to get out of here!" The silence that buzzed through the house sent a shiver down my spine. I spun around and standing in the doorway was the intruder. He began twirling the blade in his hand and he began to make that tsking sound.

"Miss Swan.. What did I tell you?" He took two steps forward when there was a flash past me, like a white blur. It wasn't until everything came to a stop did I realize exactly what, or who for the matter, it was. Alice was standing between me and the intruder she was hunched forward in a threatening manner growling and snarling. The intruder didn't seem fazed at all. He continued to twirl the weapon in his hand. "I was waiting for you to show up."

Alice suddenly stopped moving all together, I didn't see her react to anything and I certainly didn't see him move but all of a sudden, Alice was like stone. At this point he began laughing and I looked up at him.

"Don't worry, She isn't dead.. Well, any more dead than she already is. She is just in a sort of.. Stasis I guess would be the best term. You see, there is so much to this world, I know vampires think they are next to immortal but there is always a bigger fish. That's the final lesson you will learn in this life Miss Swan. Now if you will excuse me, I need to remove her head before the effects wear off." He walked towards Alice now and placed the blade against the back of her head. I had to do something; I couldn't let him hurt Alice! So I charged at him but he swatted me away like I was nothing. I collided with the wall and landed on my bed with a soft thump. My heart was racing now, I was useless to protect Alice. He was here because of me; she was here because of me.

'No.'

It was a simple word and it wasn't spoken out loud, it was inside my head. Oh great, now I'm hearing voices.

'NO.'

Louder now, and I began to feel a rushing through my body, like adrenaline but no adrenaline rush I had ever experienced was quite like this feeling. The sound of metal screeching brought my eyes up to see the man cutting through the neck of Alice and then everything clicked.

"NO!" I yelled it now, and suddenly the man was no longer standing next to Alice, but pinned against the wall. The silver weapon lay at her feet. I stood up and off the bed and put my hand on her shoulder. I began to feel something, like a snake coiling around her petite frame. After I released my hand she finally slumped her shoulders. She turned to look at me with wide eyes. I smiled at her and pulled her close, into a hug. I felt the coolness of her body and the sweet aroma of her scent, sort of like a summer breeze combined with a hint of vanilla. I was so engrossed with just holding her that I had forgotten about the intruder. When I looked up he was nowhere to be seen.

"Are you okay?" I asked placing my hand on her shoulder, Alice was still watching me with an incredulous look in her eyes and I was starting to get worried. "Alice?" She tilted her head now, as if she was examining me. Things started getting tense for a moment before a smile crossed her face.

"Bella that was amazing! How did you do that?" She threw her arms around my neck and I felt her envelop my senses, sight, smell and even taste. Before I could enjoy it more however, I felt a tingling shoot up my spine and then what felt like a fire burn right afterwards, Problem was, I couldn't move, I couldn't scream out the terrible pain that I was in. My only reprieve was being in the arms of Alice Cullen.

"Aw.. So touching. I almost hated having to do that, but luckily I don't care." I could hear the intruder speaking behind me and I could hear the victory in his voice. I don't know what he was doing but it was some of the worst pain I had ever felt in my life. I tried with all my might to even move my big toe but it was as if I stood encased in concrete. "It is rare, even for me. The closeness between you, and I'm not just talking about how you both are now. There is a bond there, deeper than that. Too bad however, that it won't be for much longer." He was taunting us again. I could feel the anger rising up inside me again; It was even beginning to over-power the pain. And once again I felt the feeling of a snake crawling through me and by extension Alice.

"Goodbye." He whispered and I could feel the point of the blade touch the back of my neck. Again I felt that click, everything fell into place and I collapsed down, Alice reached forward and snapped the blade in half, as if it was nothing at all. "How the..?" Was all he could ask before Alice had put him against the wall and in the next moment, a large gaping wound was in his neck. He grasped at it and began to slump down the wall, coughing; the blood began to run out of his mouth as well. Normally I didn't do very well around blood but in this case, I wanted to be sure he was dying, for putting my girl in danger.

"You- you think.." He was trying to talk now, I took a step forward but Alice put her arm out in front of me, both to impede my progress and to protect me so I stayed back. "This world is full of creatures B- Bella.." coughing again and more blood, for a moment I felt bad for watching this. That feeling didn't last for very long though. I looked at Alice who was still standing with her body half in front of me. All around her mouth was the blood from this man; she had used her teeth to tear the chunk out of his neck.

"You are just… beginning…" That was his last word as his hand slowly left his neck and fell into his lap. Alice stood next to me, still not moving a muscle. I was breathing heavily before the thought occurred to me, what about Charlie! I turned to look at Alice and put my hand on her shoulder; only on my touch did I notice her relax considerably.

"Alice! What about Charlie?" I asked, she didn't answer right away but closed her eyes, concentrating on something for a moment before she stepped out from under my hand and pulled a phone out of the pocket of her jeans and dialled a number quickly. I watched as she paced around the room, her eyes never leaving the body of the man who now lay dead against the wall of my bedroom. She must have gotten an answer because she began to speak quickly, so much so that I couldn't hear what she was saying before she hung up and turned to look at me, her eyes filled with what looked like sadness.

"I'm sorry Bella," my heart sank at those words. Charlie was hurt. She must have noticed the look of horror on my face because she took my face in her hands and against the heat I could feel in my face, her hands felt good. "Nonono, Charlie is fine. He is in town actually, but he should be coming back soon. Adam, Emmett and Jasper are going to head over here before he gets back and do their best to clean up.. In the meantime, I wanted Carlisle to look you over."

I smiled at finding out Charlie was okay, and I was curious about a few things too. So I nodded and she kissed me on the forehead. I felt the blood rushing forward again, what a time to get all blushy Bella. Alice laughed for a moment then took my hand in hers and we walked towards the window. I didn't know what she wanted to do at first until I remembered Adam had done the same thing a couple of days ago, For a moment I didn't think she could do it but then I realized I should never doubt my Alice.

It was only about 5 minutes before we arrived in the backyard of the Cullens house. Alice let me down off of her back and I tried to stop the world rushing past me so I held her arm while trying to keep my bearings. When the world stopped spinning, Alice and I began to walk up the yard towards the house. Just inside the door, waiting for us was Esme and Carlisle. I had barely gotten through the door when Esme engulfed me in a hug. I wasn't opposed to a hug right now so I held her tight. She released me and held me by the tops of my arms then looked me over.

"Are you okay Bella? Alice told us what happened." She continued to look and I couldn't contain the smile that crossed my face. I wasn't used to the mothering bit but I'm glad someone was mothering. Carlisle stepped forward now as Esme let go of me and he held out his hand for me to shake, which I did.

"Thank you guys," As I was talking I felt Alices arm snake around my waist, holding me securely. After what happened today I was glad she was there for me. Carlisle looked from me to Alice and then finally over to Esme who held an expression of worry. "I'm okay, I promise." I looked around for a moment at the rest of the house and noticed no one else was there. I turned to ask where the others were but Alice spoke, noticing my confusion.

"Edward isn't back yet. He went to Alaska. Rose and Serena went into town, half to keep an eye on your dad and half to go clothes shopping." She smiled and of course I smiled also, I really did like seeing her smile. "And Jazz and the two lugs went to check out your house." I remembered that much. We stood for a moment before Carlisle put his arm around Esme and looked over through a doorway just behind them.

"Would you like something to eat dear?" Esme asked and I nodded, as if to add to it my stomach let out a loud growl which completely erased any hint of tension in the room and I heard two of the most beautiful voices laughing ring in my ear. Esme and Alice were laughing at that and I felt the heat rising once again in my cheeks, Carlisle was chuckling also but nowhere near as loud as Alice and Esme.

"Okay, looks like that was answered," Carlisle said as he stepped forward and put his hand on Alices shoulder. "Alice would you please accompany your mother into the kitchen and help her out," Alice looked like she was about to oppose but Carlisle just gave her a look, it was quick but I didn't miss it. She finally nodded her head and then I felt her cool lips press against my cheek for a moment before she walked off with Esme towards the kitchen, leaving just Carlisle and I standing in the room before he turned around and grabbed a brilliantly white towel and he handed it to me. I didn't get it at first until he motioned towards my cheek and I remembered that Alice still had the blood from the creep on her face. I let out a groan and began to wipe my face.

"Would you like to accompany me to my study Bella? I understand that Alice wanted me to take a look at you." He held out a hand for me to follow which I did. I knew I wasn't hurt, if I was, I'm sure I would still be able to feel it. Besides that I did want to ask him about that feeling, the one that felt like a snake. I was pretty sure the blood was clean off my face as we arrived at a large door, he pushed it open and I was surprised from what I saw inside.

It was huge and there were bookshelves lining two of the walls. They were packed full of books that looked to be so old. There were shelves with very large volumes of medical books and some with small books that they looked to be journals or diaries. We walked towards the desk that sat at the back of the room. There was also large painting on the wall that had the door and quite a few windows where ever they could be fit. I was just taken aback at the appearance of the room. I stood for a full minute just looking around the room before Carlisle leaned against the desk and crossed his arms in front of his chest, waiting for me.

"I'm sorry, I just haven't seen a room this beautiful before," I walked forward as I heard Carlisle chuckle once again.

"I quite understand Bella, it is quite breathtaking. I will make sure to pass on the sentiment to my wife." He smiled as I stopped in front of him. The look of confusion on my face told everything. Why would he tell Esme something like that? "She is quite the designer, and handy-woman. She has personally designed most of this house." I felt my jaw hit the floor at that one.

"It really is amazing." Were all the adjectives I could think to say before I sat down in the chair that sat next to where he was leaning. He looked me over for a moment and waiting, duh Bella, he wants to know how you feel.

"Things seem mostly okay Bella, Your walking fine and you don't seem to have an visible injuries. Is there anything?" He crossed his arms again and watched me, not in a creepy way either but in a loving way. I felt instantly I calmer, then I remembered the feeling.

"There was one thing," he nodded his head and waited for me to continue. I took a breath and tried to say it without sounding crazy. "The guy, he… had some sort of.. Power I guess? I don't know. It was as if I was paralyzed by Fire. It hurt to even think and not to mention the pain from trying to move. He managed to use it on both Alice and I." He cocked his head to the side on that one.

"Alice was affected too? Hmm.." He stood up now and walked to one of the shelves and began to rifle through books quickly. He paused for a moment and looked over his shoulder at me. "I'm sorry Bella, please continue."

"That's not the only thing though. There was something else too. With me or, well I don't know if it was him or me but there was another feeling, Like a slithering, like a velvety feeling running through my arms and into Alice. At first it shot out at the man before he could hurt Alice and then once again it freed us both from whatever he was doing before he could.." I trailed off for a second, remembering the fear I felt at losing Alice. I was looking down at my hands, when I felt his eyes on me again. I looked up to see his golden brown eyes looking at me. "Before he could kill Alice or me…"

There was knock on the door now so I turned my head to look and watched as Alice walked into the room, she was carrying a plate that had what looked like a sandwich. I felt my stomach rumble once again and she skipped towards me, placing the plate in my hand. I looked at the fried egg sandwich and took my first bite. It was likely the best sandwich I had ever eaten. Carlisle and Alice were talking now so I figured I should pay attention.

"What about you?" He asked placing his hand on her shoulder. "How are you feeling?"

"It was nothing I had ever felt before Carlisle. It was as if my entire spine was on fire. It reminded me of the pain Jane can inflict, and his weapon. It was dipped in something, whatever it was, it could cut through my skin like it was a humans." At this point I had to ask.

"Who is Jane?" I asked as I swallowed another bite. Both Alice and Carlisle stopped talking and turned to look at me incredulously as if I just preformed some magic trick. Alice leaned down close to me and place her hand on my knee.

"You could hear us?" She asked and I just nodded. She stood up and turned to look at Carlisle before he walked towards the bookshelves and began to rifle through books again. I was confused so I stood up and looked at Alice.

"Why are you surprised? It's not like you were talking quietly.." I asked, placing the sandwich down on the desk. Part of me knew it from the reaction they had but I didn't want to believe it.

"Bella, only a vampire would have heard us talking like that…" Before I could say anything however, a sound caused both Alice and Carlisle to jump up. Something wasn't right. They both walked towards the door, quicker than a human but not too fast, so I followed the best I could. As I moved down the hallways and towards the back door a ringing phone caught my attention. I wasn't concerned however as I managed to go out the door to find Jasper, Emmett and Adam walking back up looking somewhat tired. Carlisle walked past me and back into the house to get the phone as I walked up behind Alice.

"What happened Adam?" Esme asked as he looked back behind him. He didn't answer before Emmett spoke up.

"You would not believe what we came across when we got to Bellas place." He said as he looked past Alice for a moment before. I felt my heart drop right then, I hope Charlie was okay, I hoped that the man was dead and not up and roaming around. As all the fears I could possibly have rushed through my head, I was vaguely aware that Carlisle had walked up to the group again.

"I have a good idea. It was the Quileute Tribe on the phone. They want to set up a meeting tomorrow on neutral ground to discuss the events of today. They even requested Bella came along." He looked at me, followed by every other member of the Cullens. Alice stepped forward and put her arm around me in a protective manner.

"No! I do not want her around those mutts!" She said, and I was almost insulted by the way she referred to them as mutts, they were just people. And why would they want to meet with the Cullens, there was no way they knew the big secret did they? I could still feel Alice holding me and if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have had the bravery to say what I did.

"Count me in."

A/N - Another chapter in the books, Thanks for the wonderful feedback I have gotten, I hope to keep things moving at a good pace. I have also toyed with the idea of splitting this story into two or maybe max 3 different parts as I have ALOT of ideas to get me that far. Ill need to consult with my board of governors! Which is just a 8 ball that will answer yes or no. Or not today. I don't know! Anyways, dont forget to Favorite/Follow/Review, I love getting that little ding when someone new or someone old lets me know!

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