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Chapter Thirteen: GAINING CONTROL

Alice POV

Today had been a good day. We had taken Bella to a small village in Canada and she hadn't attacked anyone. We had been able to stay there for almost two hours before she needed to hunt. Sure we didn't go into any areas where there were a lot of people or where it was closed in, like the clothing store I had wanted to show her, but she had been able to walk through the streets like everything was normal.

I was so proud of her. She had really put her mind to this and it was paying off. I just wished that she wasn't so withdrawn. I had asked Jasper about it and he was completely confused. He said that he felt happiness from her but there was something blocking it. Almost as if something was holding her back from feeling her true joy. I had wondered if it was worry over Charlie but he had assured me that he could feel that but this was different.

I didn't like to think that it had anything to do with that mutt Jacob. It wasn't that he didn't seem nice as dogs went but she belonged with Edward. The last thing this family needed was to lose either of them again. I had seen Edward's plans if something were to happen to Bella in one of the scariest visions I had ever had and I knew that if he followed through with that it would destroy Carlisle not to mention the rest of us. Esme would be beside herself. I shook my head to clear that thought. Nothing was going to happen to Bella and Edward wasn't going to be making any sudden trips abroad without one of us to make sure he came back.

I hummed a light song in my head as we made our way back to the house. Edward looked past Emmett to me and I had to smile. He always thought that when I started singing to myself I was blocking him. It would surprise him to know just how many times I was singing just because I liked the song. Maybe one day I would tell him but where would the fun be in that. I liked keeping him on his toes.

I let my mind wonder as the song played on repeat. I thought about shopping trips Bella and I could take in the future. I thought about all the ways that we could really bond as sisters. I saw one vision that had Rosalie with us and she and Bella were actually laughing together. I was glad. Things had been touchy after Bella had jumped on her but it looked as if they were going to work themselves out in the future.

I didn't like the fact that most of my visions of Bella lately had been fuzzy. Like they were jagged at the edge. That could only mean one thing; that they weren't set in stone. True no vision was always accurate. People changed their minds all the time. A spit second choice to go left instead of right could alter a whole lifetime. Almost like if Edward had skipped biology that first day like he had originally thought about doing. He never would have met Bella and she wouldn't be here now.

I could only hope that these fuzzy visions didn't have anything to do with……I breathed deep. My mind started to swirl as new visions were flooding through me. I felt my knees give way but Jasper had his arms around me before I could touch the ground. I could hear them calling to me, voice after voice, but I couldn't speak. This was one of the strongest set of visions I had gotten since I first started getting them when I first woke up a vampire.

Suddenly my head cleared and I could see what my mind had been trying to block out. I gasped. This couldn't be. I searched for the rest but he was the only one. I tried to search his future to see if I could see them all but nothing. There was still some fuzziness to these pictures but he was as clear as day or at least a Forks day which still was quite cloudy.

"Alice?" Jasper's voice came back to me slowly. "Alice are you okay?"

I wanted to answer but I need to know something first. I had to know that I wasn't losing my mind. "Did you see?" I looked toward Edward.

"I did" He looked just as startled and confused as I felt. "What does it mean?"

"I don't know" I couldn't answer him. I didn't have any answers for myself. "We need to reach Carlisle."

"I agree" Edward was pulling out his phone to give him a call.

"What happened?" Jasper's worried face covered mine.

"I had a vision" I told him. "It was really intense but the biggest thing was" I looked to Bella. "I saw Jacob."

"What?" She was staring at me.

"I saw him heading toward the house determined to see you." I told her.

"Charlie" She said and then took off running.

"Go after her Emmett" I directed him. "Let her know that it has nothing to do with Charlie."

"Got it." He took off after her. I probably should have sent Edward with him being the fastest of us but he was busy explaining what had happened to Carlisle.

"Okay he is going to try to met us back at the house but right now he is check on Charlie and arranging more therapy for him." Edward filled us in as he closed his phone.

"Did he have any idea way she could see the dog?" Jasper was asking.

"No" Edward shook his head. "The only thing he could think of was the fact that Alice becomes more sensitive to people the more time she spends with them and he has been around quite a bit."

"But that wouldn't explain why I couldn't see him with the other wolves." I was worried this had more to do with Bella then with me.

"So am I" Edward responded to my thoughts.

"Give her time Edward" I reassured him.

"How much more time Alice?" He was running a hand through his hair. "Should I wait until she falls in love with that mutt or until they've decided to get married? How much time is enough?" He asked running off in the opposite direction from the house.

"He really isn't handling this well" I said coming to my feet.

"Who would?" Jasper helped. "I can't say that I would be any better if there was some other guy that thought he had a claim to you."

"No" I agreed. "I guess I wouldn't be all that happy about it either if it was you."

"What do you see happening?" He was asking.

"I don't know" Which frustrated me "For so long I've seen Bella with Edward but with these new visions that's changed. One will show her with him and another with show her with the dog. I think there's something missing. Some part of the puzzle that hasn't been decided yet."

"Like maybe Bella herself?"

"Maybe" I scrunched up my nose. "All of the visions are fuzzy so that can only mean that there's a chance for change. I just wish I knew what that change was going to be. I hate see Edward so hurt."

"So do I" He kissed my temple and wrapped his arm around me. "Let's go home."

"Alright" I let him lead me back to the house trying to see what we would find there as we went.

Jacob POV

I had to get to Bella. I had to prove them wrong. All of them, Sam, Billy, Carlisle, they didn't know what they were talking about. Bella wouldn't leave me. She couldn't leave me. I didn't care what they said or how much they thought we couldn't work this out. She was my heat, my soul mate, I couldn't, wouldn't lose her.

I pushed myself faster than before. I had to stop by the reservation to find new clothes which had slowed me down but I didn't think Bella or the rest of the bloodsuckers would appreciate my showing up naked. Besides the first time Bella saw me naked I wanted it to be just the two of us. I wanted it to be in love and commitment. I wanted to know that she was mine, just mine, forever.

I rushed through the trees almost there when I heard her. "Jake?" She was yelling for me. How had she known I was coming? "Jake, where are you?" Her voice sounded strained, scared. My heart pounded out of my chest. I forgot about my state of dress and rushed to her changing back along the way.

"Bella?" I was still running when I saw her. She spun around and ran toward me leaping into my arms. I didn't want to think about what could have happened to have her trembling like this. She felt like me before the change.

"Bella, baby, what's wrong?" I rubbed her back pulling her closer to me. "What happened?" I prayed that she hadn't taken a life. I wasn't sure that I could bring her back from something like that. I knew that it would weigh heavy on her if she had but I would try my best not to judge her. I would just love her and make sure that I was with her from now on to protect her from doing it again.

"What happened with Charlie?" She didn't answer my question but asked her own.

"Charlie?" Did something happen with Charlie after I left?

"Alice had a vision of you rushing to see me." She explained. "Did something happen with Charlie?"

"No, Charlie's fine." I let her know.

"Then why are you here?" She pulled back to look at me. "Why were you so determined to get to me in her vision?"

"How did she see me? I thought she couldn't see us?"

"For some reason she saw you." Bella was looking into my eyes. "Just you."

"Just me" What did that mean?

"Yeah" She shrugged. "You're sure Charlie is alright?"

"Bella?" I heard the big one calling for her right before he came into view. "Man, you're fast. You're like Edward fast. I'm not even sure he could catch you." He looked over at the two of us. "Woaw, didn't mean to interrupt." He was averting his eyes. "I'll be inside."

I looked around wondering what could be wrong with him when I saw Bella look down and her eyes widen. I followed her gaze remembering that I had forgotten to change.

"Sorry" I covered myself and backed up. "I'll go change in the woods and be right back."

"Don't be silly Jake." She put her hand on my shoulder. "I've seen you naked before."

"Excuse me?" I racked my brain trying to remember an occasion when I would have been naked in front of her.

"Remember that summer when Charlie convinced me to come back." She was trying to jog my memory. "It's blurry for me now but I think we were out swimming at First Beach and we had to change before going back to your place. So we ducked behind a tree and both changed in front of the other."

"Bella, you were like eight which would mean that I was like six" I remembered the experience. "Things have changed a little since then."

"Of course they have but you don't have to be shy around me." She was laughing. "And you don't have to change in the woods. Just go up to my room. There's a shower in there and everything."

"Trying to tell me I stink?" I joked.

"No more than usual but like you I've learned to manage." She quipped back.

"I don't know Bells" I eyed the back door to that house wearingly.

"Look you promised that you would try to get along with them and they have been trying to be polite to you so go upstairs and change and then we can talk." She was pulling my arm toward the house.

"You're not mad at me for leaving the hospital?"

"Jake I didn't want you living there." She smirked. "I admit that the last time you were here I went a little overboard." She looked sheepish. "But that was almost two weeks ago and Charlie's doing much better now. So I guess you don't have to be there every minute of the day."

"Thanks, Bells" I sighed thinking of what Sam had said earlier. "It would be nice to sleep in a bed for a change."

"Oh Jake" She rubbed my arm. "I'm sorry." She pulled me even closer to the house. "Go upstairs right this minute and take a shower. Third floor, first door on the left."

"You're sure?"

"Jake" Her voice held a note of scolding.

"Bella?" I heard a high pitched voice. "Did Emmett catch you before….oh." The short one came to a halt at the edge of the trees. The blond guy that she was always with bumped into her but once his eyes found me he seemed to understand.

"I'll just go" I ran back into the trees picking up my clothes quickly and I ran into the house not needing to stand there while two more leeches saw me. I rounded a corner and realized this wasn't going to be my day.

Sitting in the front room were the other two females. Great, I thought. All I need now was for Edward to walk in.

"Um" The mom looked lost for words.

"Bella said I could use her room to change." I told them.

"I see…I mean…Um…" She was shaking her head while the other one just looked with a combination of interest and revulsion. "Upstairs, third floor."

"Thanks, she already told me." I moved even fast to the steps and headed up.

"No wonder she's having a hard time deciding" I heard the younger one say with a laugh. "I might be willing to get over the smell for that."

"Rose" The other's voice raised.

"I'm simply saying." I tried to tune them out. I didn't want to think about any bloodsuckers looking at me that way except for Bella.

I was almost to the door when I heard the high pitched one again. "Did you see him?" She sounded excited.

"Of course" I couldn't tell which female that was but I had an idea it was the young one.

"Oh my God" the excited voice came again. "Too bad he's a werewolf. That might be worth a test drive."

"Alice" I could hear Bella's voice but it was mingled with a male's.

"Sorry but built is built."

"And that boy is built."

I opened the door heading for the bathroom. Turning on the water I let myself try to relax and forget that I was in a home with six vampires. The rest of the pack would not like this. I went through Bella's room noticing that it had some of her touches to it. I could see her books on the shelf and the bear that I had won for her when the fair came through town a few months ago. There were clothes on the chair in the corner and the blanket that her grandmother had left her at the foot of the bed.

I tried to imagine living here with Bella like the doctor had suggested. Could I leave my family and the pack to travel with the bloodsuckers for the woman I love? I knew Billy would hate it. Sam and the others would try their best to talk me out of it but it was preferable to not seeing her ever again.

There was the other problem of age. I wasn't aging now but once I gained the control needed to stop shifting I would. Bella would be stuck at eighteen for eternity. Did I really want to never quit being a wolf just so I could be with her forever? Could I do it even if I wanted to?

There were so many obstacles I thought as I let the water run over me. Sam and the doctor had been right but fate had put us together. It had given me the girl of my dreams. I couldn't turn my back on that. Bella was everything I had ever wanted even before I had imprinted. Even when we were kids I always thought of us together. She was perfect.

I turned off the water and pulled on my cut off jeans. I didn't want to go back down there right away. I wasn't sure if they were still talking about me but just the thought made me sick. I guess I'm going to have to get use to it. I wasn't letting Bella go and that would mean that I was going to have to get use to being here or wherever they were.

I laid down on the bed. Wow it was comfortable. I didn't know if it was just better because it was bigger than my twin sized bed or because I hadn't been in a real bed in weeks. My eyes closed and before I knew it I was sleep.

I'm not sure how long I slept but when I woke up Bella was sitting in the chair. "Whatcha reading?"

"Wuthering Heights" She told me putting the book down. "You ready to talk now?"

"Come here" I reached for her.

"Why?"

"Just get over here." I rolled my eyes. She stood up and walked toward me. I pulled her onto the bed next to me wrapping my large arm around her.

"Jake" She struggled against me but not that hard obviously not wanting to hurt me. I had to laugh at the thought.

"Relax Bells" I kissed her neck and she stopped moving. I pulled her closer to my body closing my eyes and letting my mind wonder. "Promise we will always be like this?"

"Jake, don't" Her voice was quiet but I heard the doubt there and felt the piecing that one moment did to my heart.

"Just promise we will always be important to each other?" I settled. "Promise that you will always want me around?"

She didn't say anything for so long that I started to worry. Had I lost her already? Was Sam right?

"I promise" It was barely audible but I heard it.

I kissed the top of her head and snuggled close to her. Yeah, I could get use to this; was the last thought I had before I drifted back to sleep.

AN: Well that is it for this week; I think (hahahaha). I hope you all have a great weekend and don't forget to review. Even if you want to review as two or three or sixteen different people that is quite alright :). See ya soon.