"What are you doing with him Bella?" Jacob asks my mate. I tense, not liking his tone of voice.
Fuck! Bella says, through our mind-link. She looks up at me, as our eyes lock.
What do I say? She asks. Placing her free hand on my arm, that has our hands linked.
"Bella?" He demands, of her as he steps closer.
Do you trust me? I ask her. She nods, as she say's yes. I turn to face Jacob, as he eyes us suspiciously.
"Bella and I have been seeing each other for a couple of weeks now. We bumped into one another when she saw me and the boys cliff diving. She stopped by on her way back from hanging out with you. We have just come back from a walk, and wanted to speak to the Chief about something." I tell him. Clearly not liking this new development!
"You get dumped by one asshole and move on to another? What's wrong with me Bella? I've made it clear how much I liked you." He tells her, angrily.
"That will do Jacob! Bella's made it more than clear on several occasions with mine and Charlie's meddling included, that she does not see you as more than a friend." Billy's firm voice came from the door way. I turn to look and our eyes lock!
He assess the situation, eyeing me and Bella, and glanced at her neck, seeing more than his son did.
"I see, come in. Jake call Seth and tell Harry to come over and pick old Quil up on the way, will ya? You can stay with Seth till tomorrow. Don't even thinking about arguing against it. This is council business!" Jacobs eyes narrowed on his father, then glared at myself more than Bella.
"How come Bella is allowed in on your secret meetings, all of a sudden and I'm not?" He asked, ignoring his fathers words.
"Just do as your told Jacob. Come in." Billy said stepping side for Bella and I. We enter, and head on into the kitchen whilst Billy and Jake argue outside.
I feel bad. Bella didn't say it out loud.
Don't babe. Sometimes a guy finds it hard to accept being told no by a girl! Even Billy's said he and Charlie have heard you make it perfectly clear, that you don't see him as more than a friend. Bella shook her head, and leaned it against his shoulder. Billy clearing his throat makes us both jump and turn to stare at him in shock.
"I see the spirits have blessed you both with a gift! Or perhaps one of you, already had one and was waiting for the right key to unlock it?" He looked directly at Bella as he said this.
How? Her mind was blank with shock, other than the how. She shook her head, to clear it.
"He couldn't read my mind? Is the only thing I can think of, but I don't see how that is a gift?"
"How did you know I? ask him. He smirked!
"You both sat there staring at each other intently, not speaking, but when Bella shook her hear and then leaned against your shoulder. I'm saw you've claimed and marked her marked her already?"
"That is why we've come." I say, glancing at Bella, who looked to me, nodding after silently asking her permission; before we spoke about something more intimate out loud. I squeezed her the space above her knee, my hand is resting on. Bella's arm is currently around said arm of mine too.
"What happened?"
Bella tells him the story of how she had taken to walking, to clear her mind and relax her nerves after the Cullen's abandoned her; and found the clearing of wild flowers I found her in. She told him about Laurent the dreadlocked vamp, and Victoria. Then seeing my wolf, and me phasing. She looked to me to explain the rest.
"My wolf and I almost became one person, in human form. He was still very much present, instead of in the background. The threat of Laurent still hovering, he felt conflicted so I didn't fight it, we'd just found our mate. We weren't going to let anything happen to her. After the boys came and chased Laurent away. I felt magic I start to play around us, and the elements swirl in the air. It's how we ended up mating and, I marking Bella so soon." I said.
"I see..." Billy said just as Harry and old Quil walked in. I closed my eyes annoyed, they only just got hear knowing I'd have to repeat everything. Bella tensed, and I moved my hand down and moved her leg over mine under the bench table Billy has in the kitchen.
"I'm sorry we are late. Your son neglected to ring us, but took his time, to come over and then told me half an hour into being at ours, that you requested our presence at yours, Billy." Billy swore, and cursed his son, sending us an apologetic look.
"Take a seat, and make yourselves at home. I'll put the kettle on, whilst Bella and Sam re-tell their story of what happened today." And that's exactly what we did, do. And I didn't move past the part where we'd ended at with Billy.
"I think we need to give Aro a call Billy. He owes us for saving Caius, when thy visited American soil seventeen year's ago! He said eyeing Bella, with great interest. I feel Bella shift, clearly feeling uncomfortable with the attention on her.
"I thought you might say that. Do you think it wise though?" Billy asks his remaining pack members.
"Aro? I've heard that name before... I think the Cullen's told me about them once." She said, lost in thought, and I saw the memory in her mind.
"They've broken a very big rule." Old Quil said.
"What's going on? And why do I get the feeling I'm not going to like what ever it is you three are cryptically planning?" I ask them.
"Vampires have three very strict rules they must follow. If one is broken, then a trial in Italy where the three brothers rule the Vampire kingdom from. Will take place. The rules are as follows:
1: Do not reveal yourselves to humans
2: Do not speak of the Vampire rulers, or Vampire politics with humans.
3: if you chose to keep a human who's a willing companion as a pet, then you are to change them with there consent and not by force.
Harry explained to us.
"Oh!" Bella says.
"Oh indeed, young one. Oh indeed." Old Quil says, still eyeing Bella with intense curiosity.
"I'll go and get the phone." Billy said after handing out coffee's to everyone.
"What gift did the spirits give you, both?" Quil asked. I looked to Bella, who nodded.
"Edward Cullen couldn't read my mind, and when Sam marked me, it opened up a connection between the two of us, that allows us to communicate without forming words. I can't hear him as a wolf though." She said frowning, and I can tell that bothers her, as I think on it, it does me too.
"Bella, Charlie just sent me a text asking if you where with Jake. It's getting late, and he came home an hour ago, with still no sign of you."
"Shit! I completely forgot about anything else except for what's happened today." She picked her phone out of the back of her jeans pocket.
"Uh-oh." She whispered, showing me her phone. The Cullen's had contacted her multiple times. Our eyes locked. And I could tell by her thoughts she felt disgusted and conflicted.
"What's happened?" Harry asked as Billy sat down with two phones. An old looking brick of a mobile phone, and his own, slightly more modern one.
"The Cullen's have been trying to contact me all day." She hands me the phone and tells me the password telepathically, so I can access it.
"They are trying to find out if she is still alive." Charlie rings then, and you can hear the panic in his voice as he speaks.
"Bella? Bella please speak. Tell me you are still alive? I just had an upsetting phone call from Alice. She said you where talking as you drove and it just went dead the line."
"She is fine Charlie," Harry speaks, when Bella can't form words. "I think you should come down to Billy's there's been some changes that's happened today that needs to be spoken of."
Silence greeted his words.
"Bella is alive?" He questioned.
"Yes."
"This isn't going to be one of those conversations where you tell me about all that supernatural bullshit being real? Please tell me you haven't fucked Bella's mind up by spewing all that shit to her as well? It's why I never had her come to bonfires, on first beach when she first arrived. Why me and Billy fell out after he warned me about Bella's involvement with the Cullen's." He snapped.
"It's true Dad." Bella whispered after some time when silence settled around the room, from Charlie's out burst. Charlie groaned, and you can feel him slapping his face with his hand in frustration, grumbling swear words.
"I want you to wait on the side of the road, and do not move an inch from Billy's drive way, entrance. I'm coming to get you and taking you back home! I don't want you mixed up in all their crazy beliefs." I glanced at Billy, not liking the thought of Bella being taken from me, and her grip tightened on my arm.
"I'm not going back to Fork's Ch-Dad." She said, and the phone line went dead.
"Call Paul and Jared, he's not going to take this lightly, I'll call Aro and inform him of our discoveries. Harry, your strongest out of all of us. Depending on what the boys are doing you and Sam can stop Charlie from entering and taking Bella, which I have a bad feeling he's going to try and do."
Bella's mind had gone into shock, as I looked worriedly at my mate, shaking her a little bit.
"Take her to the sitting room, close the curtains and lay her down on the couch young Alpha. Harry instructed me! And that is exactly what I did do.
"Billy Black? What a unexpected surprise!" I hear a thick European accent fill the kitchen, as I left.
"Aro, it has been a while."
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