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I just wanted to give a quick shoutout to Azlady2003. I absolutely love your questions, I have a tendency to focus on painting the bigger picture that I tend to omit small details, you're reviews help me focus in on some of those details that I might have overlooked.

Also you didn't think I'd leave the wolves out, now did you? They'll be making a reappearance soon... (and maybe Charlie too)

BPOV

Then I was running. This was the first time I had run alone without Edward. It felt like there was a ton of lead in my stomach weighing me down. I felt the dread building and washing over me in waves. My instincts told me to run, to take Edward and Renesmee and run as far away as possible and never look back. It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control. The only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. In all fairness, surviving and enduring weren't easy by any definition, but now I had an opportunity, to defend the people I loved and I was going to take it without a second thought.

Carlisle and Esme would watch over Charlie. If by some off chance Charlie saw them, he'd just think they were visiting him again. Rosalie and Alice would stay with Renesmee. I could trust them to defend Renesmee with everything they had, and Alice would see if anything was coming giving them more time to prepare. Even though I could count on them to protect her, I still had the overwhelming urge to keep her in my sight. It was impossible as I was running headfirst into danger.

I was going along with the plan even though I knew I was a terrible liar. I had to convince James that I had gone rogue. That Edward was far behind me, instead of trailing me by 10 minutes. It was cutting it close but Edward refused to budge on waiting any longer, he wanted us to go together, but everyone except him believed that was a bad idea.

Alice had seen that if we ran together James wouldn't approach, he would continue to wait until he got his perfect opportunity, and if that opportunity didn't come organically, James would create the opportunity. That without this opportunity we were giving him, he wouldn't wait anymore. If he found one of us alone, he'd tear them to shreds, but never actually kill us, just inflict enough harm to send a message. If that didn't work, Forks was next, my parents, old friends, anyone who got in his way, it would be a complete bloodbath.

Edward was fairly unhappy about this plan, but if we didn't lure James out, he would do just about anything to get our attention. The only thing that mattered to Edward was Renesmee's and my safety, but I wasn't about to let a whole town be slaughter in fear of what could happen. Jasper had to convince him that this was the best way, the only way we could all possibly come out unscathed.

All I needed to do was give everyone enough time to make sure our bases were covered. I was just supposed to stall James and keep him from inflicting damage on this small town that I called home.

Emmett and Jasper to alert the wolves. Emmett probably could have gone by himself if not for his innate offensive disposition while Jasper could smooth things over, and no one believed it to be safe enough to go alone.

So they took off to let the wolves know that these nomads weren't with us, we weren't exactly sure if they had encountered them yet or not, but with the threat that they posed, we needed to make sure they were on guard to defend themselves and Forks. I was going to lead James away from the town to lessen the risk of casualties, and we were going to try to barricade them from the town, but if they slipped past us, none of us wanted to risk any human lives. I hoped that talking to the wolves would go over smoothly, but from what I had been told any interaction with the wolves was always difficult and strained.

It was strange to think about people I had called friends and family, may now see me as nothing more than an enemy, a threat they couldn't do anything about.

I ran to Forks alone. As much as I longed to return home, I didn't want to do it under these circumstances.

Once Emmett and Jasper were done, they would join Edward who would ambush a, hopefully, unknowing James. I just kept reminding myself that all I had to do was keep him distracted long enough to maintain the element of surprise.

I knew we had to play this smart, but this plan made me anxious, I wasn't exactly known for my lying skills. James knew Edward and I wouldn't separate voluntarily, but if he thought that I had gone rogue, James would take the bait, I just had to convince him of such.

A twig snapped behind me. James.

It was completely intentional. A vampire could travel through the woods silently never alerting their prey that they were closing in on them. He was trying to scare me so I played along. I instinctively whipped around to see nothing, then a creepy laugh echoed through the forest. I could see how he was turning this into a sadistic game, it wasn't enough to catch me, he wanted to torment me first.

Jasper and Edward said he would be expecting everything I did to be instinctual so I need to play into that preconceived notion without actually letting my instincts take over, a difficult ask for someone brand new to this life, but I would do my best to keep myself rational.

I took off toward a clearing in the outskirts of Forks. I knew he'd follow.

I had enough of a head start that he wouldn't have been able to catch me until we reached the clearing Jasper and Edward had told me about.

Apparently he had known were I was leading him. I stopped at close to the center of the field at the sight of a video camera, it looked so out of place in the open field. I wasn't completely sure what he intended to do with it, but I couldn't focus on that right now.

Dread continued building I realized he knew.

He knew where I was going to take him, this was the only open field that I knew of in Forks. It was also the field that the Cullen's had first encountered these nomads for the first time. I wasn't sure how much of our plan he had anticipated, but I felt the panic and fear rising again. I pushed it away as best I could.

I had ten minutes. Ten minutes to stall him. I just hoped I could hold him off until then.

"This is incredibly stupid of you, Isabella," James' voice boomed through the clearing.