BELLA

It had been two weeks since I have started giving Embry work that we have done in class. He has finished all of it and doing pretty could to from what Mr. Banner said. The school was let out for the week because one too many pipes burst wreaking havoc on the school. So until the pipes and damages were fixed I wouldn't be going to school. Instead I was spending my days helping embry with his homework.

"I've gone over the sheet twice." I told Embry. "You got everyone correct and with that you have finished the first half of the school years home work."

"So how much more do I have to do?" Embry asked.

"Um… January, February, and the first half of March," I told him. "You've been doing the second half of March already with me but we have till June to finish everything up."

"It sounds daunting but I have to prove that I can pass those finals." Embry said.

"You will." I told him.

"You know we still haven't talked about the Imprint thing."

"I don't know what to say, I guess it is nice knowing that someone will always be there for me but it took your choice away and Ben broke Angela's heart when he joined you guys."

"I would have chosen you anyway well if Jake didn't do it first anyway."

"But that still doesn't undo Angela's or even Leah's heartbreak." I said.

"I know that and I have been telling Ben to just look Angela in the eye's and see if she's his imprint but he just won't do it."

"Then maybe we should make him do it." I said.

"What do you mean?"

"You invite him here and I invite Angela here and who ever arrives first we make them answer the door when the other one arrives."

"You watch too many chick flicks."

"Blame Alice." I replied.

"Why don't we do it tomorrow? I could have Ben come over under the guise of giving me a ride home and you could invite Angela over for a sleepover or whatever girls like to do now a days."

"We still have sleepovers and from what I can tell from school the topics are much more risqué if you catch my drift but since it's Angela and I, I doubt that we'd talk about anything that would be risqué."

"I don't need to know. So what time should I have been here tomorrow?"

"Six because Charlie will have left for work by then and well things could get kind of hairy."

"True. I'm going to head out now. I'll have those three essays ready to. I don't have access to a printer so they'll be written by hand." He said standing up.

"Just make sure I can read your hand writing."

He leaned down and kissed my cheek before he grabbed his bag and left. I don't know what but something has been going on with him. I just hope he wasn't regretting the imprint. He says he didn't but people say one thing and mean another all the time.

"Bells," Charlie called.

"In my room." I yelled back.

"Are you all right? I saw Embry leaving?" He asked from the door way.

"I'm fine and he had to talk to Ben and Sam about something." I told him. "As for dinner you are on your own because I was invited over to Angela's."

"I was headed to the dinner anyway." Charlie replied.

I knew there was something up with that. My guess was that he was probably eating with Sue. He didn't think I knew that but I did. He had a crush on her and while some kids would be grossed out I find that adorable, as long as I don't walk in on them doing anything I'll be fine. He hasn't been with any one since my mom left him. I wouldn't have minded my mom has dated more than enough for the both of them.

"If you are going on a date just say so." I told him.

My dad just turned red, turned on his heel and walked away. I guess I know where I get it from.

I grabbed a bag and headed down stairs.

"I'm heading to Angela's now." I tell Charlie as I pass him.

"Don't stay out to late."

"Dad I'm going to the minister's house. Not much I can get up to there." I replied.

"Just be careful."

I got to Angela's just before dinner was about to start. I sat next to her on one side of the table while the twins sat on the other side of the table and her parents at the ends of the table. They asked me where I had planned on going to college –I wasn't sure—and how I was doing since the Cullen family left town –I was fine.

"So what do you know about this Ben fellow that seems to have ditched my daughter?" Mr. Webber asked.

I had choked on the water that I had been drinking.

"Not much. I did run into him the other day. He ask me to tell Angela that he was sorry but I told him that he needed to do it himself."

"Right you are. Do you know anything about the guy I've seen him hanging around?"

"Only a few of them, and they are pretty decent and spend most of their time doing things to help the people of La Push."

"I wasn't aware Ben was a native."

"He's only half." I reply.

"Daddy that's enough Bella didn't come to dinner to get integrated by you." Angela said. "And if Ben doesn't want to date me anymore that's fine. It's not like everyone meets the one they were going to get married to in high school."

"Right, sorry Bella."

"That's okay Mr. Webber. I've got to be getting home anyway."

"Angela can walk you home."

Angela got up from her seat. She kissed her parents goodbye and walked me out the door.

"Sorry about my dad." Angela said.

"That's fine. My dad would be worse because he's a cop."

"Did you really mean it about Ben?"

"Yes. I really did tell him that he should talk to you and he really was sorry about ditching you the way he did. Something tells me that he didn't really want to ditch you."

"That means a lot but if he did come to apologies then he better have a dang good reason for everything."

"Why don't you come over tomorrow? We can talk about Ben and whatever else you need to vent about but can't talk to your mom or dad about." I said. "Charlie will be at work so we can take over the living room."

"I'll think about it. What time should I come over if I do come?"

"Six or sometime after that." I told her.

"Alright."

"My house is only a few blocks from here why don't you head back home. I'll be fine; I still have the pepper spray my dad gave me."

"Only use it if you have to and make sure the nozzle is turned away from your face." Angela said.

"I will. I've seen the videos of people who sprayed themselves with it and I'd rather not become like them." I told her. "Remember six or sometime after that."

I made sure that Angela made it to her street just fine before running back to her own. I knew the wolves were out and watching me so I would be okay. I even had the pepper spray for the human predators that were out there but I doubted that there was even was one in forks but I also knew that crimes can happen anywhere no matter what was going on or what made the town was made of.

"Bella!"

I flipped around looking for the source of the voice. I found them under a barely working street light. It was Mike Newton. I should have known with my luck.

"Mike; leave me the hell alone." I told him.

"I just wanted to say hello."

"Well now you have said it so leave me alone." I told him.

"Bella come on at least let me walk you home."

"Seeing as I'm almost there no thank you. Now go home." I shouted.

"No I want to talk to you." He said.

"NO." I said taking my pepper spray from my bag.

I didn't spray him but I kept a tight grip on it while I walked toward my house now that it was insight. Mike had continued to walk behind me and grabbed my wrist when I got in front of my house thankfully Charlie was home. I turned to face him and sprayed him right into the eyes with the pepper spray. He fell straight to the ground moaning in pain.

I ran to the front door and threw it open.

"Mike Newton is on the ground. I sprayed him with pepper spray."

Charlie didn't wait. He got up and walked outside to where Mike was.

ALICE I had come to Italy after I saw Edward head here. It was a shock after I saw him with that Mexican woman that Jasper had been with before he met me. I'm still mad that Jasper left but I knew he would die. I couldn't see him after he left.

A door creaked open so I looked up from my phone.

"Mrs. Brandon. He will see you now."

I got up from my seat and walked down the cold dark stone hallway. If I was human I would need a jacket. I walked all the way down the hallway to a large mahogany door. I raised my hand up and knocked on the door three times.

"Come in."

The door opened by its self and I walked in. Though there were three chairs in front of the desk I remained standing. It would be the best way for me to show the man –I need to get help from—some respect.

"You may sit."

The man didn't look at me. I've seen him before. The family didn't know, it was just another shopping trip to them. I took a seat in one of the chairs. I waited while he went over my file. I smooth my skirt out again and again just for something to do while he clicked his tongue and went over my file.

"You have been here quite a few times."

"Yes."

"You haven't changed much."

"No."

"Is there a reason for that?"

"Yes but I'd rather not discuss it."

"What are you hear to get treatment for? Is it what's listed in your file or something new?" he asked.

"Yes and no." I said.

"Explain."

"I'm here for everything listed plus something new."

"And that would be?"

"An anxiety disorder."

"And why do you think that?"

"Because I freak over little things."

"And your old disorders?"

"I feel like I'm close to slipping back into my old ways again."

"Well you have to continuously seek treatment not just here and there." He said. "Even if we just talked over the phone once a week but you didn't even keep that up."

"I couldn't. I couldn't let my family know what was going on. They would think I was crazy for sure."

"That doesn't matter." He said. "Go to the room next door a nurse will be waiting with scrubs, a tracking and prevention devices."

"You can leave your property here. All jewelry –wedding rings included."

I took off all my jewelry and placed it into the tub he had on his desk. It was already marked with my name. I put my purse into the tub also. My clothes would also go in once I changed out of them. I cringed at the cotton polyester blend I would be forced to wear.

I walked to the next room changed into the scrubs they had set out for me. I set my clothes on the table inside the room.

"Remember Mrs. Brandon it's only two months."

EDWARD

I had no idea what to do. I had gone to Italy to face the Volturi after the Maria situation didn't pan out. They had thought that I had access to some girl that was part of a prophecy. I didn't know anyone to the description they gave.

"Edward. It is a pleasure to see you again." Aro said.

He was just the same as the last time I had a run in with the Volturi.

I nodded.

"What is the reason for your visit? Surly it's not to join the guard."

"It's not to join but to work with." I replied.

"And what does Carlisle think of you working with us?"

"We have split up for the time being." I said.

"Can I see?" He asked holding out is hand.

I gave him my hand knowing what would happen if I didn't. He held it tightly as my memories flashed through his mind. I could hear his excited gasp as I particular interesting one popped up.

"Interesting life you have lived. The one you love gone before you could make her one of us so sad."

"Yes it is but I fear she wasn't my mate. Just someone meant to be one of us as some would say." I replied.

"And you have no idea what took her?"

"She disappeared from my sisters visions one day and she has yet to reappear in any of them since." I said. "I also fear my sister may be a bit off kilter."

"I could see that. Now about that Mexican woman in some of your last memories."

"I thought I could live the life like she does however I found that life to be too savage like and my human mother didn't raise me to be a savage."

"That I could also see." Aro said. "Let me confer with my brothers. We will call you when we have made our decision. Be sure to stay in the shadows."

I nodded once again and was led out of the castle by a woman with blond hair. She was a cold woman and looked like she was changed when she was in or barely out of her teens.

"You stay here and wait until three o'clock if the brothers haven't called you back yet. There will be enough shadow cover for you then. If not use this robe to cover yourself, wouldn't want to give the brothers a reason to kill an amazing power. "

I took the gray robe that she had handed me. It was more of a cloak but I'd rather not deal with technicality at the moment. I slipped the cloak on and stepped outside. I kept my face hidden. I had walked around the square a few times before being tapped on the shoulder.

"The brothers would like to see you." The blonde said.

I was led back to the three brothers. Aro had a creepy grin on his face.

"We've decided that you may work for us."

ARO

We decided that you may work for us." I told him.

"Thank you." He replied.

"There is no thanks needed. To let a power like yours go to waste would be wrong."

"It has its limits." He replied.

"Every power has its limits including mine." I said.

I knew he would be good for our quest to get the child that can turn us human. Who would want to go back to being human after experiencing all we have. The child had to be killed. It wouldn't be an actual child. They would surely be grown up by now. But anyone born so long after me, I can't help but see them as a child, including the young man standing in front of me.

"Yes of course."

"Where will you be staying?" I asked.

"I have a room in a hotel in a town about a few hours' drive from here." He replied. "But with our speed it would only take me a few minutes to get here."

"That is true. You may leave no but be aware that we will call sometime tomorrow, we have someone coming in that we might need a little help talking to."

"Of course." He said.

I lifted my hand and gestured for him to leave. I turned to face my brothers both sitting bored in their thrones.

"I hope you are right about this Aro. It could come back to bite us."

"I know Markus but Jane and Alec have yet to report back this week and they were so close last week. They could be ashes by now for all we know."

"If you were so worried about them being turned to ashes dear brother you should have kept them here and sent out another team." Caius snapped.

"I tried but you sent the team –which I put together — out while I was out hunting." Aro shouted back.

I started to pace back and forth in front of my throne. I was worried. My plan to get the girl from the prophecy hadn't been going right. I hadn't gotten a call from Jane or Alec in a few days and I was really starting to worry.

"Master Aro I have received news from Alec." A new vampire in our guard said.

"What is it Michael?"

"They've made contact with a woman in the Maria for the southern blood wars. Alec also said the woman told him Maria plans to move north." Michael replied.

He was panting like a human after their physical education class. I'm rather glad that my human schooling did not require us to be physical. Instead we had to play piano, speak Latin and two other languages we didn't already know along with a whole other list of things that probably seemed pointless to me in my teens.

"Very good Michael, You may go to your room for now. A goblet of blood will be brought up for you." I told him.

Felix escorted him up to his room.

JASPER

I had been waiting for a while now for whoever Peter wanted us to meet. I was in a disserted truck stop. Peter was hunting with Charlotte they hadn't been able to pay for the blood this week so a hunting trip was needed for them. I got stuck meeting their friends because they wouldn't be back in time.

It wasn't until I had been waiting an hour when something happened. A large black Chevy truck pealed into the parking lot of the truck stop. I stood up straight ready to fight if I had to. The truck came to a screeching halt right in front of me. A man jumped out holding what I believed to be a blow torch with some modifications added to it.

"Who are you and where is Peter Whitlock?" The man asked.

"I am Jasper Whitlock, Peter's brother. He had to go hunt so he sent me to meet up with you but he didn't tell me why."

"I want your ID," The man asked.

"It's in my pocket." I replied.

"Grab it but any other moves and you get the flame." The man said.

"Alright," I said.

Slowly so I wouldn't spook them I put my hand into my pocket and removed my wallet. I handed it over to him.

"My ID is in the top slot." I told him.

I watched as the man flipped the wallet open and removed the ID. I knew without a doubt what the ID would say. It would have my real name, my birth date with the year changed, what my age would be according to that year and my height, weight, eye color, hair color and my address.

"This could be fake." The man said.

"Everything on that ID is real except my age and year of birth."

"How do I kno—"

"Hey hey Jackson, hold off there. He's a good guy." Peter said running from deep inside the woods.

"Bout time brother," I say as he comes to a stop next to me.

"Sorry Char and I got distracted."

"I don't need all the gory details. Now tell me why you are here." I said.

"You know how Char and I said we had a run in with some other shape shifters."

"Honestly no and I am a vampire."

"That is pretty bad." The guy with the blow torch said. "And you guys are supposed to have perfect memory."

"I guess I'm a bit more human than you thought."

"Yeah that would never happen." He replied.

"So what are you guys doing here?"

"We are looking for the subject of a prophecy. It is that a human child is said to have the power to turn a vampire back to human. We do not know if the child is boy or girl but our sources have led us here to the story of a human girl who hangs out with Vampires without them drinking a drop of her blood."

"We know a girl that fits that. She's actually a biological relative of mine from when I was human; a great so many times over granddaughter." I told him. I had spotted her tree a few days ago but she hadn't shown it to me yet. "I don't know if she had any kind of power to turn a vampire human. She hasn't tried it on us at the very least anyway and I'm not sure if she has even told the shape shifters or not."

"That doesn't matter anyway." Peter said. "What do you want with her?"

"To protect her, a female from our tribe was kidnapped and possibly murdered a year ago because she was thought to have been the girl from the prophecy." The man said. "That girl was my sister."

"We might be willing to work with you but there is a pack of shape shifter wolves in the area so you'll have to meet with them." I replied.

"We can do that."

"If you don't mind my asking what do you –by the sounds of your heartbeats—three turn into?" Peter asked.

"That will have to wait until we have met with the pack you say is in the area." The man replied.

"I understand. I'll call them tonight when I get home and Peter can let you know what they say."

"Please don't take too long," he said. "We are staying at the oldest INN in forks."

Peter and I stayed at the truck stop until the shape shifters from Florida. I climbed into my truck and Peter followed he was going on and on about something on the phone to Charlotte but I tuned him out –well as much as I could anyway.

"Dude you need to speed up. Bella's in the hospital." Peter said screaming at me.

"Why is she in the hospital?" I asked pressing down on the accelerator.

"Char just said that she was found on the ground outside her house with her head busted open." Peter said. "She's fine though."

"How the hell is she fine if she busted her head open?" I asked.

"I'm just telling you what Char said."

Bella was family to me and more so than she was to any of the Cullens' were. After all she was biologically related to me. Weather I was her uncle or grandfather I would protect her not to mention the wolf pack would to. I got to the hospital faster than someone who obeyed the speed limit would have. The hospital parking lot wasn't that full, only a few patient and employee cars in the lot. I took a spot closest to the building that wouldn't take up a handicap space.

I walked in the emergency door and found Charlotte, Charlie, and a few of the pack members waiting. Peter and I walked over and took seats across from them. They didn't say anything but I could tell that they didn't know what to say. Charlotte was the one to take pity on Peter and me and tell us what was going on.

"After I came back from my little trip with Peter I went to see her. I found her on the back step with her head bleeding." Charlotte explained. "The doctors think that she was just going outside when she tripped and hit her head but I smelled a new vamp sent in the area."

The last part was just low enough for us to here.

"Why are you all out here then?"I asked.

"They took her to do some test to make sure everything is working alright. They will keep her one or two days to observer her." Charlotte told us.

"That is good. Do you know when she'll be done?"

"She just went back for testing so I could be an hour maybe more." Charlie replied. "It depends how long they want to look around."

A few hours later I was back at home. Bella had fallen asleep after her test and was been kept overnight to make sure everything was okay. She wasn't awake when I left so I didn't get to see her but I did stop Sam on his way out and told him that there were some friends of Peter's that wanted to meet the pack and that they weren't vampires. The non-vampire part peaked his interest and he told us to meet him at the Forks La Push border just after midnight.

Peter got a hold of the shape-shifters that wanted to meet the pack about ten minutes after we left and we were now heading down to the border to meet up with Sam and some of the pack. We parked the car on the side of the road and made it looked like we were waiting for someone to help us come fix it.

I stood by a tree watching the car. It was registered to Peter this time around but it was my baby. I bought that Chevy off the line backing fifty-seven on modification I added to it was the new paint job; solid black pain with chrome accents. The second group of shifters arrived not long after Peter and I, charlotte stayed behind to keep an eye on Bella.

"Are these the people that wanted to meet with us?" Sam asked.

"Yes." I replied. "I just met them a few hours ago; peter had known them much longer than I have."

"We wanted to meet with you because we believe a girl that lives in town is the subject of the prophecy. We want to protect her since my sister was kidnapped by some vampires that thought she was the subject of the prophecy." Jackson said.

"What prophecy are you talking about?" Sam asked.

"There is a prophecy that states a human child can turn a vampire back into a human with a single bite."

"That sounds vaguely familiar." Sam said.

"It was prophesized a long time ago by a physic in the area that is now known as France."

"How would you know who the child in the prophecy was?" Sam asked.

"All I've heard is that there is a birth mark on a wrist." The guy replied. "I have also heard that it was the prophecy in French."

"We will check to see if the girl in question has that particular gift."

"And if she is?" the man asked.

"You may stay either way but I do need you to reveal who you are and allow us to get to know your scents."

"We can abide by that." He said.

"Names would be good too." Sam said.

"There are only three of us in the area now but more of our kind might arrive as time goes on."

"Just the three of you that are here now would be fine but any others will have to do the same once they come." Sam said.

It was weird seeing this happening. I hadn't said anything in the past five minutes. I was fine with watch it all happen though.

"My name is Jackson. I am the beta of the pack." Jackson said. "The two standing behind me are Eric and Will.(1)"

"What do you shift into?" I asked finally speaking up again. Peter had moved away from me to take a call on his phone.

"We are all turn into Siberian huskies very much like you and your pack turn into wolves from what I've seen."

"I believe that covers everything for now." Sam told them. "We will let you know about the girl in the next few days but only if she wants us to tell you and that goes for if she is the child in the prophecy or not."

After a round of shaking hands I walked back to my car with Jake and Embry following me. Peter was standing by the car.

"Bella is up and asking for us all." Peter said.

"Do you know why?" I asked.

"Nope. She wouldn't tell Charlotte or Charlie but you might want to go get Sam and tell him he should be there too."

"I'll get him." Embry said. "You go on ahead, we'll meet you there."

He disappeared into the trees again. I climbed into the car and drove toward the hospital again. Only this time I didn't have the worry like I did last time. We were told to a certain room number. It wasn't hard for us to find it at all.

Bella was sitting propped up by pillows in the bed. Charlie and Charlotte were sitting on either side of her bed. She and Charlotte were talking about some TV show they had just got done watching.

"Where is Sam?" She asked.

"He's coming right behind us; couldn't exactly fit us all in the car." I told her.

"True but you should have used your truck."

"It's illegal to have people in the bed of a truck."

Sam and Embry walked in just after that. They were also slightly out of breath clearly they had run the all the way there. Charlie left to get something to eat.

"So what did you want Bella?" I asked.

"I wanted to explain this." Bella said pointing to the mark on her wrist. "Plus a lot of other stuff we need to talk about."

(1) The names Eric and Will are in reference to True Blood's Eric and Bill because Bill is sometimes a nick name for someone with the name William for which Will is also a nick name.