Re-posted with Beta corrections April 1, 2011

I hope that your hate for me will not be permanent once you finish this chapter...

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Charlie POV

Once I realized that Renee must be near it felt like everything began to move in slow motion…

Bella began to walk toward me but abruptly stopped and looked shocked at something behind me. I did not have to turn around to know what she had seen. I felt the hairs as they stood up on the back of my neck as a sudden chill raced throughout my body. It felt like my heart was beating so fast it was going to leap right out my chest.

Bella stood motionless for a few moments. Her expression quickly changed from shock to focused determination. She spoke to whatever was behind me and said, "You're wrong. If you were to bite him, I wouldn't hesitate to finish the job. You and I both know Charlie would rather die than be a blood sucking leech."

The monster that used to be my wife had not said a word, so I didn't understand what Bella was talking about, but the realization that there was a possibility that I was in danger of becoming a vampire caused me to be overwhelmed with light-headedness.

Bella looked toward me and calmly reached her hand out and said, "Dad, don't turn around. Slowly walk toward me and do not stop until you are behind me. Once you are behind me close your eyes and keep your back to me. Don't open them until I tell you to."

For a moment, I didn't think I would be able to do as Bella asked. My legs felt like two blocks of cement. Fright consumed every muscle in my body. Somehow, I managed to move forward. I slowly moved one leg in front of the other and as I moved further away from Renee, I found myself breathing a little easier.

I felt somewhat safe because Bella never took her eyes off the monster that was a threat to me. Just before I was close enough to touch Bella's hand, something cold and hard grabbed me and pulled me into a cement wall.

I nearly peed my pants when I heard the shadow of the voice that used to be my wife say, "Just where do you think you're going? I've missed you sweet heart. I've come back so that we could be one big happy family again."

I silently prayed that death would come quickly for me. I was thankful that I hadn't turned around. I did not want to see the monster that my Renee had become. Quicker than I could think about blinking Bella ran toward us. She grabbed the ice-cold marble arms that were gripping me like a vice and yanked. It sounded like parts of a building crumbling and without any resistance Renee's arms were no longer around my body.

Just as quickly, Bella snatched me by my shirt and pulled me away from Renee. The momentum sent me flying across the room, and I landed partly on my knees and stomach. I quickly got up and turned around to make sure Bella was okay. I contemplated running outside and attempting to find Sam and Quil but was too afraid of what may be waiting for us outside of the house.

I watched as my daughter pushed her vampire mother on the ground and quickly sat on top of her. Fear for Bella's safety kept me from being able to comprehend what she was saying to Renee. The next thing I saw was Bella place her hands around Renee's neck, and she ripped the vampire's head from her body and threw it across the room in the opposite direction of me.

I hollered and scrambled as quickly as I could toward the wall when one of the Cullens suddenly appeared a few feet in front of Bella. I heard him say, "Take my son and get out of here. This ends for me today."

There was no hesitation when Bella looked at this creature, smiled and he exploded into a million pieces.

Sam POV

Quil was hungry and bored. I didn't like to be paired with Quil because all he did was complain about how much he hated patrolling around Jacob's house, because we weren't allowed to go inside and hang out with Bella. He didn't like that we had to stay outside and make sure that nothing got in. Quil wished that Jacob and Bella would stop being so stubborn and make up. I had to agree, because Jake was really becoming a pain in the ass and listening to Bella's screams of agony at night was becoming unbearable.

"Take my son and get out of here. This ends for me today."

What the hell? That wasn't Bella or Charlie.

I turned toward Quil as he looked at me and we both yelled out, "Bloodsucker!"

Almost simultaneously, a loud explosion came from inside the house. The force of the blast was so powerful that it caused the windows to explode, and knocked Quil and I back a few feet.

Just as we were getting up to run into the house, Jacob burst through the woods looking wild and frightened.

He roared, "Where's Bella and Charlie? What the hell happened?"

I walked toward Jacob and said, "We don't know, Jacob. We were patrolling around the house when suddenly we heard a leech inside. Right after that there was an explosion."

Jacob didn't stay back to ask any more questions. He ran toward the house and flew up the steps and through the front door.

Jacob had stopped just as he reached the entrance. Quil and I had to squeeze past him to see what was going on. There were no words to describe what the inside of the house looked like. It didn't make sense. Every window in the living room and kitchen was busted out, but nothing was damaged on the inside except for the zillions of vampire pieces that were all over the floor.

Bella stood in the middle of the living room with her fists clutched down at her sides. She was shaking, her eyes were a low simmering yellow, she had her lips pressed tightly together like she was attempting to prevent herself from speaking and she had her gaze locked on Jacob.

Jacob stood in the doorway staring at Bella with unrestrained anger and lust. Charlie was hovering in the corner clutching his chest and attempting to catch his breath. I instructed Quil to go check on Charlie, and I would keep an eye on Bella and Jacob.

Jacob slowly moved away from the doorway and stalked toward Bella. She raised her chin slightly in defiance and the yellow in her eyes intensified. She took a few shaky steps back and in a voice laced with pain she said, "Don't come any closer."

Jacob's eyes had also turned yellow. I began to feel a little nervous because Jacob's wolf was in control right now and he was angry. Jacob's imprint was not Bella right now but she was an angry, slightly crazed Slayer that was attempting to fight through an enormous amount of pain that she'd been suffering with for days. A confrontation between them right now would not turn out well.

I knew better than to try to interfere, but there was no way that Charlie could be a witness to this. I didn't know how far Jacob was going to try to push Bella to submit to his Alpha authority. Charlie wouldn't understand the dynamics behind it, and I'm sure he would attempt to protect his daughter.

"Quil, take Charlie to Harry's so Sue can take a look at him."

When Quil looked toward me in confusion, I quickly looked toward Jacob and Bella. He immediately understood why I wanted to get Charlie out of the house, so he quickly helped Charlie stand to his feet and he walked him out the door. I took my keys out of my pocket, threw them to Quil, and said, "I'll call you and let you know when to come back for me."

Quil didn't say anything but instead just nodded his head to let me know he understood to not let Charlie come back until I told him it was okay.

When Bella had told Jacob not come closer, he did stop. I attempted to defuse the situation by stepping between them and saying, "You guys can't do this right now. Jacob, Bella and her father just got attacked by vampires. She's in no condition to try and work things out between the two of you."

Jacob turned toward me and the look he gave caused me to take a step back. He was giving me a warning not to interfere with the wolf interacting with its mate. I didn't want to push my luck because if he gave me a verbal Alpha command to leave then I wouldn't be around to save them from themselves.

Jacob once again began to walk toward Bella but this time he walked at a slower pace. Bella was brave. She didn't flinch or cower away from him. Instead, she stood up straighter and watched him approach her.

Jacob began to walk around her slowly; it was a difficult thing to watch because of the raw desire that burned through Jacob's eyes. It had been days since he'd last seen Bella and he was taking in her appearance like a starved man that hadn't eaten in days.

Jacob stopped directly in front of Bella and continued to stare into her eyes. He slowly raised his right hand toward her face. Bella closed her eyes and whispered, "I said don't touch me."

A deep, angry growl erupted from Jacob's chest and he said through clinched teeth, "You dare deny your wolf? You gave yourself to me. Now you think you have the right to stop me from touching you when I want to?"

Bella's shaking increased and she collapsed to her knees and clutched her stomach as if she was attempting to hold herself together. This scared the hell out of me. I didn't know what was happening to her, so I started to reach for her.

Jacob snapped, "Stay out of this, Sam."

Bella had her head lowered to the ground and she whispered brokenly, "Look around you great and mighty Alpha. Some of the vampire bits that you see laying around are my mother, and the rest are those of the vampire that took my human mother and left me with a walking corpse. I had to kill my mother today so that gives me all the right in the world to tell you not to touch me. I can't give you what I don't have in me to give."

"What does that mean, Bella?"

"It means that the pain you've caused me may be too much for me to forgive. I don't know if I want to love you anymore."

Jacob's expression immediately went from anger to hurt and confusion. "You don't mean that, Bella. We have been best friends all of our lives. We love each other. You can't just turn that off. It's not right for you to punish me for something that I had no control over. I could not tell you about Renee. I wasn't the only one that knew about what was going to happen to her. Nata knew and she purposefully didn't interpret your whole dream, and you didn't stop speaking to her and blame her for Renee's death."

Bella slowly stood up and held onto the back of the couch for support. Instead of meeting Jacob's eyes she had her head turned to the side when she said, "I'm not married to Nata, and I didn't give my heart to her."

"Bella, look at you! You can't fight the imprint. Look what it's doing to your body. If you don't stop this it will kill you!"

"Maybe that's what I want. The imprint is irreversible; the only way out of it is death."

There was no way Bella meant that. I was standing at a different angle than Jacob was and I could see the expression on her face. It didn't match the cruel words that came out of her mouth. She was pushing Jacob away on purpose and she was doing it by attempting to shred his heart to pieces, but I could see that it was hurting her to say those words.

I turned toward Jacob. He stood motionless in the middle of the living room. He opened his mouth but nothing came out. I quickly stepped behind him and grabbed him around the waist.

"Jacob, let's go. Give Bella some time to grieve her mother. She's not in her right mind right now. She loves you, just give her some space."

He didn't respond, but Jacob did let me lead him out of the house and into the woods. I called Paul and Jared and told them to go to Jacob's house and collect the exploded vampires bits and dispose of them.

Two Hours Later…

After I walked Jacob out of his house, we went to Paul's. He went straight into the guest room and slammed the door. After that, there was silence.

The rest of the pack and the council members needed to know what was going on so I called a council meeting. We all met at Embry's. We let Charlie fill us in on what happened at Jacob's today. We were all blown away when he told us that all Bella did was look at the Cullen vamp and he exploded.

We didn't press him for details about Renee. That experience was too raw and painful for him, and we didn't want to force him to relive the horror he had to endure.

He did tell us that Bella knew the leeches were there before Renee materialized. In addition, Bella made a comment to Renee like Renee had spoken when she hadn't. She also had the ability to move way faster than a normal human.

We all agreed that it was unwise for Bella to be left unguarded at any time. Being outside was not good enough. We had no idea about what was going on. At least we would have been warned if we had been inside with her because she would have disappeared. Since I was the Beta of the pack I would approach Jacob about making sure there was at least one of us with her at all times.

Once Jared and Paul had finished gathering all of the vampire remains and disposing of them, they brought Bella over here. She hasn't spoken to anyone. She did the same thing Jacob did. Once she walked into the house, she walked into Nata's room and closed the door.

Once the meeting was over, I had all of the pack members come outside and phase. I wanted them to see for themselves what happened between Bella and Jacob. They agreed with me, it was impossible for Bella to feel that way toward Jacob. The look on her face showed remorse and hurt not hate and anger.

There wasn't much we could do except continue to be very watchful and pray that they didn't end up killing each other.

Embry POV

One week later…

I missed my old life. Even though my mother and I didn't have it easy living here in La Push, I wished for the life I had before I became a wolf. My friends and I had normal problems and we had genuine fun. I don't even know what to call this shit that is my life now.

I'm grateful that people now know the truth about my mother, I have a brother that has become a major part of my life, and I have Angela but the rest of it sucks balls.

The tension has been so tight between the pack that if someone sneezed too hard one of us could phase on the spot. Jacob was straight "Alpha Wolf". His focus was finding the bloodsuckers that were after his family and friends and ending their miserable lives for good.

He lifted the ban on the pack and imprints from seeing Bella. There was a wolf assigned to her twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. She didn't make a comment about it either way. When one of us was on Bella duty she always made sure to feed us and that we didn't need anything but that was as far as she would go. Bella wouldn't talk to us or hang out. She spent most of her time sitting in a chair in the corner looking at nothing while she shook and twitched.

Today was my day to Bella sit. I spent most of the morning patrolling the forest around our house but then decided to come inside and spend some time with Angela. We were sitting on the couch watching a movie. Bella was in my mom's room lying down.

I heard her when she went into the bathroom and took a shower. Once she opened the bathroom door, my nose was assaulted with her strawberry scented shampoo. I heard her walk down the hall and back into the bedroom. I was a little surprised when I heard Bella talking. I didn't think much of it. I assumed she must have been talking to someone on her cell phone.

A few minutes later, Bella walked into the living room and told Angela that she needed to tell her something. Angela got up and they left the room.

I had gotten so caught up in the movie that I was watching that I didn't notice that Angela never came back until Jacob yanked the front door off its hinges and charged into our living room.

"Where the hell is Bella?"

I looked at Jacob as if he'd been smoking crack before I responded. "She's in my mother's room with Angela."

Jacob grabbed me by my throat, lifted me off the ground, and swung me against the wall. Through clinched teeth he hissed, " No. She. Is .Not!"

Common sense was telling me not to argue with him but I could smell her. She was in the other room. Jacob was loosing it big time. "Dude, you need to seriously chill out. I can smell her. She's down the hall in my mom's bedroom."

Jacob abruptly let me go and backed away from me. He was straining to maintain control and talking was becoming an effort for him.

"You smell her shampoo not her scent. Listen, how many heart beats do you hear down the hall?"

I suddenly had a very difficult time swallowing once I realized that I only heard one heart beating in my mother's room. I croaked, "Angela, come here!"

She quickly came into the living room and I noticed that she wouldn't look in Jacob's direction. "Where is Bella?"

Angela looked between Jacob and me but said nothing.

"Answer me, Angela. Jacob needs to know where his imprint is!"

She opened her mouth but quickly closed it again.

"CRASH"

I turned in the direction of the sound, realizing that Jacob had picked up the coffee table and threw it across the room.

"I know you're the Alpha and all that but that doesn't give you the right to tear my house up."

Jacob ignored me and turned to Angela. "Did Bella ban you from telling us where she is and what she's doing?"

Angela stiffly nodded her head.

Chase POV

My father Edward Cullen was dead along with my grandmother and grandfather. It seemed that my family was destined for death. Sometimes I wondered what I'd gotten myself into. Was Isabella Swan worth all of this?

It was unsettling depending on the Volturi to help me obtain my May Traverse. These vampires had no reason to be loyal to me, and I didn't trust them.

Mia wouldn't admit it but I believed that she set my father up to die. The day that Edward and Renee confronted Bella we knew immediately when Bella knew they were there. Shockwaves of pain coursed through all of our bodies. It was the first time that I'd ever seen a force able to bring pain to Jane's eyes.

Due to me being half-human I experienced the most damage. My heart was beginning be beat irregularly and I could feel my shield weakening. Mia insisted that we leave before we were discovered. She claimed that my dad knew there was a chance we would have to separate and he would meet back up with us in Seattle.

I knew the moment that my father was dead. We were half-way to Port Angeles when we heard the explosion and the sound of marble shattering. I wanted to rip Mia's head off when she said, "Well I guess we won't keep the porch light on for him."

Was I sad that my father was dead? No, not really, but still, he was my father and I had wanted him in my life.

It took seven long days for me to recover from the damage Bella caused to my body. As each day went by Mia grew more and more impatient. On more than one occasion, she made it clear that she should have denied Carlisle's request to bring me back to life. I was too high maintenance for her. She considered me weak and useless.

Everything that she said about me was true. It's what I'd always believed about myself. My father always thought I had the best of both worlds. That was a lie. There was nothing redeeming about being part human.

Mia wanted to test her theory about Bella. She believed that we'd broken her enough that if I approached her correctly she would allow me to claim her as my own. What we decided to do today would be very dangerous but we were willing to take our chances.

I was actually nervous about seeing Isabella face to face. I honestly admitted to myself that it would bother me if she rejected me. I thought about what Jane said to me about how once I bit her I would be devoted to her. Isabella would own my heart. No one had ever had that kind of bond with me. I would have never allowed it. It scared me that it was something that I wanted to give to Isabella.

Once we were in La Push, Mia instructed me to go to Bella and test what her reaction to my presence would be. She warned me to get away quickly if I felt any signs that she was attempting to drain me of my powers.

I smiled smugly as I walked into their front door and right by Bella's guard dog. I followed the sound of my May Traverse's heartbeat down the hall. I stopped in front of the door she was behind and took a deep breath. I opened the door and walked in closing it behind me.

I was disgusted with the sight before me. Isabella was curled up into a ball on her bed shaking and it looked like she hadn't done anything to fix herself up in days. Her hair was an oily mess lying limply at her shoulders. She'd lost too much weight, and she was wearing an over-sized t-shirt and old cut up sweat pants that reeked of dog.

I opened my shield enough so that she would know that I was there.

"Hello, Isabella."

She slowly turned her head toward me and said, "What's up, Chase."

I had imagined many responses but "What's Up" was not one of them. She threw me off guard. I didn't know how to respond, so I blurted out the first thing that came to mind.

"I can't talk to you when you look like that. Do something with yourself, and put on something that doesn't smell like wet dog."

Isabella slowly got off the bed, walked to the closet, and pulled out some clothes. She then went to a dresser that was against the wall and opened the top drawer. She had her back to me so I didn't know what she was getting until she turned around, and was holding a red thong in front of my face.

"Are these to your satisfaction?"

I didn't respond but just stared at the red material that she had swinging in front of my face. She turned away from me and walked out the door. A few moments later, I heard her close the bathroom door and the shower come on.

I leaned against the wall and waited. Mia was right. Turning her mother into a vampire and forcing her to have to kill her mother had sent her over the edge. That was the only explanation for her behavior toward me. I wasn't cocky enough to think that my gifts worked on her now.

Ten minutes later Bella came back into the room. She looked about fifty percent better than she did when she left. She still appeared a little too pale and washed out, but at least her hair was clean and combed and she had on clothes that smelled like her and not her mutt husband.

She looked at me and said, "I can't allow you to be here. You have to leave."

"Fair enough, as long as you come with me."

Isabella walked over to the window and quietly slid it up. "Okay, give me a second and I'll meet you by the tree line."

I raised my eyebrow in confusion. "You don't expect me to climb through the window like a coward. I came through the front door and I will leave the same way."

It was at that moment that I noticed the color of Isabella's eyes. They were a dull yellowish color that was slowly getting brighter as the seconds went by. I felt a dull pain in my chest as my heart began to palpitate.

"You will not walk back through the living room past my friends. You used your shield to get in here so you're a coward either way. So what difference does it make? Climb through the window and meet me at the tree line. I'll be out in a minute."

The pain in my chest was telling me that Isabella was on the edge of controlling the slayer within her. It wouldn't take much to set her off. So I climbed through the window and waited for her by the tree line. I felt like such a b****.

I could hear her go into another room and call for someone named Angela.

They came back into the bedroom and Isabella said, "I have to go. I need you to stay in here for as long as you can. Do not leave this room until Jacob or Embry call for you."

Another voice said, "What's going on, Bella?"

"You are not allowed to tell anyone about this conversation. You are not allowed to answer any questions about where I am or why I left. Jacob will attempt to frighten you into telling him. Don't worry; he won't get mad at you once he realizes I banned you from telling them anything."

Soon after, Isabella climbed out the window and walked across the yard toward me. Once she reached me, she continued to walk past me. She yelled over her shoulder, "We can't stay here we have to find another place to have this conversation."

My instincts were telling me to go in the opposite direction because no sane human would venture off into the woods with a vampire alone to talk.

As we walked, I observed the forest around me. It was cold, foggy, and dreary. I hated Washington. Once this business was done with I planned to never come here again.

I didn't like that Isabella seemed to have the upper hand, so I stopped walking and said, "I think that we have gone far enough. I have my shield around us so we shouldn't be interrupted any time soon."

Isabella stopped and turned around and stared at me. I was relieved to see that her eyes were back to a dull yellow.

My curiosity was getting the better of me so I had to ask, "Why are your eyes yellow? They weren't that color when I first met you."

"I'm a Slayer. When there is a vampire threat or when I become angry my eyes turn yellow."

"Do your eyes ever return to their natural color?"

"Yes, but it's been a while. Having to kill my mother has kind of left me a little upset."

I knew better than to respond. I decided to change the subject.

"Why aren't you being protected by Jacob Black?"

Isabella turned away from me before she responded, "Let's get something straight right now. You and I will not discuss Jacob Black. All I want to hear come out of your mouth is why you have come into my life and turned it upside down."

I couldn't blame Isabella for the way she just responded to me. I knew that she wouldn't want to discuss her imprint with me, but I found it strange that he was allowing another wolf to watch his mate. He left her open for me to take.

I slowly walked behind her and I whispered in her ear, "You are my May Traverse. It's the hybrid's equivalent to what the wolves call imprinting. I was drawn to you when we first came to Forks, but I didn't understand it. I'd never wanted a human and it angered me that I wanted you. I handled the whole situation badly and got myself killed because of it."

Isabella shook her head and said, "But yet here you stand."

"When you're ready to hear it I will tell you how I was brought back. For now, all you need to know is that I want you. If you would give yourself to me I could take away all of the pain you are suffering with right now. You would never need for anything. I could give you the world."

"What if all I want is your heart?"

I took a chance and got as close to Isabella as I could. I placed my arms around her waist. I ran my nose from her collarbone, up the side of her neck, and stopped just behind her ear. "Then it's yours."

Isabella pulled away from me and turned around. "I'm a Slayer, which means that I am your enemy. It doesn't make sense that there could ever be a we."

"If you were to decide to become my mate then your slayer powers would be surrendered."

"If I were to give myself to you would we leave Washington and no harm would come to my family and friends?"

"If that's what you want then I can promise that no harm would come to your family. I will give you a couple of days to think about it. Since it bothers you so much, I won't come to you where you are staying. In two days, meet me at the cliffs with your decision. "

I quickly left Isabella in the forest to decide what her fate would be.

No one has guessed what's been going on the past couple of chapters. So I will reword the question. What has not happened the past three chapters?

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