There was too much forest between here and the border; I wanted to rip half the forest down just to get hold of that dog's scrawny neck.

I had never tasted wolf blood before, but right now the idea seemed almost too appealing.

There was nothing that could physically stop me from this; it was inevitable, no mind reader to stop me, no pesky pixie to see this as it blocked her thoughts.

For once I was a free raging vampire, and my impulses were shooting around me hard and quick.

The forest blurred through my already perfect vision as I pushed myself faster, but somehow it was still too slow for my liking. It was only a short distance before I got to rip his fur off his body, one strand at a time. Jacob black.

The vampire in me seemed to reach the surface again scratching and bubbling against my thin control as I thought about the satisfaction of beating him to a pulp.

How dare he think of my daughter that way?

How dare he?

The anger that was already peeking into white waters, seem to be rushing out of my system and into the air, like his warm blood would flow down my throat with ease.

Taking a deep breath, with one last final sprint I had reached the border. It was quiet, too quiet over there. I Knew I couldn't cross over with all that happened today; I may have been raging psychotic right now, but I knew my place in our politically confusing supernatural world.

But that didn't mean they couldn't come to me.

"SAM!" I yelled although it was more like a bark being perfectly honest. The irony of it all.

Nothing except the slight breeze, I could hear some thoughts out to the left but they seemed absorbed in something else.

"SAM!" I stretched my voice to become louder so that the trees shook with the volume. Suddenly a surge of thoughts were all around me

Hey that's Cullen what does he want now? One of the younger wolves thoughts asked then I heard the voice I wanted to hear the most.

Im dead. So dead. That's it. Goodbye guys. Im dead. Im vampire chow. Shit! Oh shit. Fuck, fuck, shit! Jacobs's thoughts were the loudest and the closest. Good. He deserved what was coming.

He sounds pretty pissed dude another one of the wolves thoughts told him as Jacob whined

It's not like I had a choice in it! These things just happen, I didn't want to imprint on the bloodsuckers daughter, but I just did okay? If he wants me to stay away from her then...I don't know what I'd do

The anger in Jacob seemed to evaporate as he thought about Renesmee's face again.

The fear that sat on it was unreal yet he was so scared to hurt her; She was like his diamond, so precious to him, so stunning that it dazzled him within a few seconds of looking at her. The lust, the passion, the devotion, the adoration.

It only made my temper burn more

"Jacob" I growled my hands curling into fists as I dug my heels into the earth. It took all my strength to not jump over the border and kick him deep right into his small furry balls to stoop those poisoned thoughts. He wouldn't be thinking about her in that way if and when that part was injured.

It was an odd feeling; that I was being the same mental age as my children actually were. But human emotions can be the most deadly of all gifts.

You feel everything excelled.

Were behind you man. The same voice called from before as the soft thudding of paws came forward and the all too familiar face of Jacob black was stood across from the river. So he had it in him to face me as a human, must of been guiltier than what I thought. Good.

"You called for me?" he said quietly his cheeks burning red as he pushed his thoughts about renesmee back.

"You care to explain?" I snapped at him and he swallowed hard before leaning forward.

"I...It...I know what it looks like, but I can't control what happened, I really wish I could but I can't. I can't deny it, or her. Edward I know she's your daughter but I..."

"NO BUTS DOG!" I growled louder my feet brushing the edge of the border curling my toes into the ground so that I stayed there. I breathed in deeply as I digested his thoughts again. Concentrating on the almost positive influence Renesmee had in there.

"She's my daughter Jacob, and now that this... connection whatever it is has been made I know it would hurt her for me to hurt you, so I won't...to the best of my ability. But as I said she IS my daughter. My flesh and somehow my blood. And I will protect her for as long as I live, I WANT an explanation of how and why it happened and it better be a good one because believe me, im doing everything in my power to try and stay on this side of the border!" I muttered everything out as carefully and quietly as I could, feeling the vibrations in my chest ready for me to growl and lunge at him and he knew that.

I watched as a glaze of sweat swept down his chest as he gulped. Nodding mutely he looked towards the ground and thought about what had happened...

He was in wolf form when he first seen her, of course, he now knew that werewolves couldn't imprint in there wolf form, whatever an "imprint" was, but there was a connection with her right from the beginning, from the first chase there lay a small etched blue mist swimming round renesmee and himself, not reachable or in sight of anyone else. She could feel it from what I had heard in her thoughts and it was apparent, that so could he.

When Sam was addressing me while my kids were coughing on the ground, he locked eyes with renesmee for a few minutes, unable to break his gaze from her, the insides of his body pulling him left and right between his line of duty and the wonder of the blue mist and renesmee. Once she had told him to leave him immediately obeyed feeling somewhat confused on how she had this hold on him, yet he liked it, much more to what his mind was letting on due to his hidden thoughts.

Later on when the wolves had come to confront us on our situation he feared to look at Renesmee knowing that she held some resemblance of Bella now.

Bella had become a close friend of Jacobs when I left her, they grew close, and however Bella didn't return his feelings for him so he suffered a great deal of pain when she went "missing"

Then there was the second chase in which both my sons had become injured because of these careless Mutts. Sam had sent Jacob after Renesmee with him being the fastest Jacob thought he could easily catch up to her and the fact he thought she turned belle immortal or "dead" as he called it made his ambitions stronger. But something had changed, when renesmee looked at him in the eye he tried to hide all his emotions from her like he knew she could understand, so you could imagine his surprise when renesmee flung herself at him and changed him back human. One minute he was the strong true alpha saving his pack and getting revenge for his love, the next he was a simple human. A naked human at that crouching over my daughter staring at her in lust, passion, dedication and so much awe that it nearly exploded out of him through pleasure. Every little string that held him to this earth; His friends, family, his life, his self, seemed to disconnect from his body as he stared into those buttery golden eyes.

So many new strings were made, like iron cables tying him to renesmee in several different ways. He would now and forever belong to her. Like a guardian, or an older brother, a best friend, or even a lover if she wanted. Whatever she wanted she would get from him. As long as she was happy so was he, they both fell on the same wavelength, she moved he moved in parallel, she cried he would hold her and make it better, she got hurt he would stop any unwilling pain no matter what the cost.

He would be and forever, a shadow onto her life, but in the most significant and plausible way that she wanted and needed.

What was worse was that it physically hurt Jacob to be away from her for such a long period of time and vice versa.

He loved her already.

And I couldn't hurt him for doing so as this would hurt Renesmee. If I tried to keep her away from him it would cause her pain to be separated from him for so long. So that's what an imprint was. It tied them together like an unbreakable bond. Like when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force. They were both stuck together and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

I fell to my knees and groaned, closing my eyes as I did. As much an I wanted to rip the beast limp from limp right now, he was now tied to my daughter. And I knew what ever loved renesmee I could not hate. And I wouldn't upset renesmee like that in anyway.

"Im sorry" Jacob wisped, it was sincere enough and I hissed again at myself in frustration. Would I not be able to keep her as my girl for any longer? Was he going to claim her so soon?

"I understand that you can't be away from her, I've read your thoughts and hers, but you must understand I have only had her as my daughter for a simple few days Jacob and I would like to keep things like that for a while longer, you can gradually become friends with her over time, make a strong bond if you will but she is my daughter. Mine. You must understand that im her father and I want you to respect my wishes of you waiting for a relationship with her; she is only 9 years old! She's still a child to me! give me at least a decade after all neither of you will age, let her be a daddy's girl for a little while longer, let her soak up the family she has missed for over 9 years please. Just keep it to a simple friendship for a decade" I never thought I'd see the day when I would beg for something from a werewolf. I guess being a father made you do strange things. I had to give it to him, he didn't even take advantage of my situation, and he knew I was right.

"As long as I can see her as much as she wants me around then that is what I'll do, I know she's a daddy's girl now, and she might not want that type of relationship with me when she's older, but as long as she wants me as a friend I'll be there for her. I promise you" He said honestly, every word he meant.

"The treaty?" He asked biting his lip as I rubbed my neck nervously, a trait in which my boys had inherited from me.

"I don't know if that's a good idea yet, you see her brothers won't be as light on this subject as I will be, they don't understand as well as I do and the wolves might harm them again. I think a few days to let everything calm down would be a good idea" The panic flashed in his eyes as I said he shouldn't see renesmee for a few days, what would that do to him physically? More importantly what would it do to her?

"Of cores renesmee will be looking for her ribbon which I think she has left on your side of the land so you could always give it back to her start a conversation that way." I nodded, Jacob looked confused as I pulled out Renesmee's black ribbon from my pocket and threw it over to him. He picked it up and smiled to me slightly. I didn't return it.

"Thank you" he nodded to me and I glared at him

"This isn't my blessing, I don't like you anymore than what your brothers like me. Im doing this for my daughter, I think she's suffered enough pain for a while it would be nice for her to be treated so properly for once. Understand?" I said sternly my voice ringing clear above everything as he nodded

"I understand" he wisped

"And id heads my words Jacob black. Hurt her once, in any shape or form or emotion. I will kill you single handily, and that is a promise I have no trouble in keeping" I growled to him sending my warning straight into his mind before I turned on my heels and headed home.

It was extremely dark when I got back, the lights on the house glowing against the black silhouette of trees that surrounded it; everyone was inside from what I could see. Everyone except Alec. He sat on the porch steps his face buried deep into his hands as he grieved over his lost friend today, the vampire he saw got killed. I could never tell who that vampire was though; his thoughts were too hazy and blank from the emotions. His eyes flicked up to meet mine in those short seconds. Big black pupils stared at me like a sad child; unfortunately my new found love for my children would not let me see this type of emotion on anyone's face, especially if it made my children upset to see them grieve. I sighed and went to sit down beside him

"So Alec" I said clasping my hands together and looking at him. He groaned

"Im guessing you already hate me" he snapped at me although it wasn't in a horrible way. More miserable if I was being honest.

"Hates a strong term to use, I prefer dislike and I suppose I owe you my life, so I could never hate you" I said looking down thinking of the 4 most important beings in my life Renesmee, Mathew, Damien and Bella.

"Thank you, I know I have been slightly unpleasant with my thoughts to your daughter but you must understand for the last 9 years I have thought of them all as my own family when they are yours clearly and it's not exactly unfishable that your daughter is so beautiful" He sighed a pain rippled through him.

"Alec, technically, you did raise them with Bella. Your just as much as there family as I am to them they see you as another role model, a...strongly bonded uncle to them if you will and I wouldn't do anything to have any more family members taken away from them. They have already lost belle over the last few years and I know they miss her terribly. So why should I tear more family members away from them? But from now on, you keep your thoughts about my renesmee away from anyone's mind, if I ever catch you thinking like that again then I will tear you away from them"

He nodded smiling slightly

"Thanks Edward you're a good guy, a good father for them" he told me and I smirked slightly, yet he still felt pain inside of him and it was laced with guilt

"You're missing your friend. The one the wolves killed today?" I asked him and he sighed nodding

"She was new to the Volturi, Aro trusted her but she seemed suspicious to begin with, Bella seemed terrified of her yet she would never tell me why. After time I grew close to her, she wasn't so bad. Maybe a little secretive but aren't we all? I told her I was going to visit some of my friends, them being the children and that she was willing to come along. Because you see, I thought I had started to fall for her. Soft long red hair and piercing red eyes. I was a sucker for her. But she was still secretive. When we got closer to where Renesmee and the boys were Aro called and it was like they were talking in code to each other. The seduction she used to try and convince me otherwise though was strong. However today when I seen her get ripped to shreds it felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders all that repressed feelings that I held for her seemed to vanish. She was like Marcus very good with manipulating people's relationships and feelings, but when she was gone the spell broke..." He said as fear took over me slowly I put two and two together

"What was her name Alec?"

"Victoria" Yep. It equalled four.