As I turned the bike to the right and up the lonely road that lead to the path of a journey that Bella and I were about to take. Hopefully I'll get to see Bella again after this was all over with. I felt her tighten her arms around me as we went around the corner. I could see the path that lead up the hillside. As I remembered what the Ancestors told me, I had two options and I had to decide before the fight.

I stopped the bike and allowed Bella to get off before I kicked the kickstand. She stood there looking radiant in the sunset, with the orange hitting her face making her look as tan as me. She looked back at me and smiled, I could feel a smile creep across my face. I leaned in and kissed her softly as I grabbed her hand. We walked in silence up the hill until we reached the open field. The pack and Cullen's were already there.

The sun was hitting the Cullen's and sending colors of the rainbow all over the place. It was breath taking to see them in this form. I could understand now why people were intrigued by them. Edward chuckled walking over towards us as he clapped my back. Bella gave him a hug and whispered her thanks to everyone.

"You ready, Bella?" I asked her. She nodded her head and took Edward's hand. As they walked off the little pixie came up beside me. "Have you told her?" I shook my head no and continued to watch Bella walk away from me. I could feel the stinging in my eyes as I continued to stare at her. "Jacob, it will be okay. You have already decided and from what I have seen, something good does come out of this. You will still be close to Bella, I promise." I looked at the little pixie with the wind-chimed voice. She smiled at me and lightly touched my forearm. The sun was hitting her face and the colors were breathtaking. I gasped for air as I was holding my breath being around them. They really didn't smell all that bad but it was hard to get use to the burning. I nodded and a little smile, "Thanks Alice. I really needed that." She nodded and looked the way Edward and Bella went, "You better go Jacob. It's time."

I looked over at the pack; Sam nodded his head and looked at Paul. They both took off to the woods to get ready. I took off in a dead sprint towards the location that I was to meet Edward. When I arrived, Bella had her arms wrapped around her as Edward stood nearby. I looked at Edward's eyes and I saw hurt and sadness. I wonder what, but before I could continue my thought Bella was throwing her arms around me. A sigh escaped the both of us and I whispered in her ear, "Come on Bella. We have to make camp before the snow hits." She pulled away and I notice tears falling from her eyes. I reached up and whipped them away with my thumb and kissed her lips.

I looked into her eyes and saw the same thing that I say in Edward's. I looked over to Edward but he was gone. I decided it was time to move. I grabbed Bella's hand and whispered, "I'm going to carry you so you don't touch anything. Try your best to stay tucked in okay." She nodded and I picked her up in my arms when I noticed Edward was back. In his soft musical voice, "You forgot something." He handed the basket to Bella to carry. "Thank you Edward. Will you come up later to fill me in on the stats?" He nodded his head the whole time looking at Bella. I looked down at Bella and she was staring at her hands. What the hell is going on here?

Edward spoke up, "No worries Jacob. We were just talking and got into a little fight, nothing for you to worry about. I'll see you soon, need to find out the plan and then I'll come passing it along to you." I nodded and then he was gone.

I slowly walked toward the cave thinking about what I just saw. "What were you fighting about?" Bella became very stiff in my arms, okay not a good sign. She played with the basket still ignoring my question. "Bella, please tell me or I'll think the worse." I continued to look down at her, and she finally looked up at me. The tears were building up and started to silently fall down her face. "Edward was telling me that things aren't going to work out as I think they will. He said that you had made a decision and if you decided the way you were thinking, things were not going to go the way I want." I looked up and stared start ahead. "What is it that you wanted to happen, Bella?"

She sighed and continued to play with the basket. "I hoped that you and I would get married. I hoped that the tribe and the Cullen's would become friends. I hoped for children, well not anytime soon but little Jacob's and little Bella's." My heart was aching the more she talked. I have dreamt about her saying these words to me and here I am about to do what I had to do. I could feel the stinging in my eyes again. Bella continued, "I hoped that you and I would grow old together with the Cullen's by our side. I hoped to make Charlie happy by marrying you." I stopped dead in my tracks and looked down at her.

"You hoped to make Charlie happy? You don't want to marry me?" She looked up at me confused and then she realized what she said. "Oh god Jacob, I didn't mean it that way and you know it." I spoke with a little growl behind it, "Well if Charlie would be happy with me, then maybe I should marry him instead of you." She looked at me in horror; she thought that I was angry. I started to laugh and she smacked my chest. I started to walk again.

We talked the rest of the way up to the cave about the wedding. What we will have and not have. What we thought about this song and that old traditions. She asked about the tribes traditions and then told me her families. We reached the cave right when the soft flakes began to fall. I hurried and put the tent up, inside the cave. It will help with the wind until the winds shifted and then it would be blowing into the front of the tent.

I told Bella to stay in the tent and that I was going to get some wood when I sensed someone coming up towards the cave. It was vampire and then I noticed it was Edward. When he came into focus he was carrying some wood. "I heard you needed some of this." I gave him a half smile and said my thanks. Edward set up the fire as Bella moved inside the tent so that she had her feet out but her body was still inside. We lit the wood and a nice fire was started. The pink came back to Bella's cheeks as she started to get warm.

"So what is the word?" I asked Edward. "Well, Alice saw them coming after the snow fall. She said it looks around early morning, the moon will be high in the sky." I looked into his eyes and he shot them over towards Bella and then back to me. I shook my head and looked down at the ground. The snow was starting to come down thick, the flakes where huge and wet. They would hit me and melt away before a thought, but they clung to Edward. "Well, I'll be back before the fight to confirm everything. I'll give you guys some alone time." As he turned to walk away, I reach out for his shoulder. He turned his head to look at me, "Thank you Edward. For everything, and thank your family for me." He smiled half heartily and then whispered, "You need to tell her. Get to it and you're welcome."

I hated him for bringing up the situation again. It was almost like he wanted this to happen. He snapped his whole body towards me this time and with a low growl from deep in his chest he hissed, "I only want her happy. If that's with you it's with you. If it's with me, well you get the point." I had to laugh at the anger in his eyes. I didn't even have to say a word to get him all started, but I still wonder where this all stood. He nodded his head and whispered again, "It's all up to you, not me." He turned and took off through the woods.

I turned around and looked at Bella, who was on the verge of sleep. "Come on Bella, let's get you to bed. You're like the walking dead." She laughed a little and scooted herself back into the tent. I climbed in there with her to keep her warm. She crawled up beside me and I started to rub her back. "Jacob," she whispered. I kissed the top of her head, "Yes dear." She laughed a little and then yawned. "What were you and Edward talking about?"

My heart stopped, I needed to tell her and it needed to be right now. Hopefully she would think it was a horrible dream and never bring it up again. "Well Bella, I have something to tell you but I just don't know how to tell you. Of course Edward can hear my thoughts so he is trying to encourage me to tell you what it's about." I wasn't totally lying, I was just fibbing a little. "And what is it that you need to tell me Jacob?" Damn it, she's going to make me do this. Why do women do that? Men would just leave it at that, but no women have to push it.

I sighed and tried to think of a way to say everything. I guess starting from the beginning is best. "Okay Bella, you remember the dreams that I've been having and how they haven't been all that good." I closed my eyes for a second and I felt Bella move. Her hand lightly touched the side of my face as I opened my eyes and looked at her. She was so beautiful, "Jacob tell me what's wrong," she whispered. I sat up and turned to face her. "My dreams have showed different endings to this fight as you know. One is you get hurt and Edward changes you. The other is you get hurt and Edward refuses to change you and then both, Edward and I, go and kill ourselves to be with you." She nodded that she remembered those but I continued, "Well there has been more added to the story so I asked for guidance from the tribe and they told me to get advice from our Ancestors. I had to go into a deep sleep and when I finally made it past those dreams the Ancestors came to me."

I stopped and reached for her hand, I needed her close for this. She moved so that our legs where overlapping but yet still to far away. I knew though that she would be mad at the next information I was about to give her. "The ancestors told me that one of two things would happen and it was up to me on which way it goes." I looked up into her eyes and saw the confusion, passion, love, and sadness in them. I continued to look into her eyes as I told her the rest. "They told me that if I stay with you, we both die in one way or another. Either you get killed or I do and the other will suffer and never live a normal life. The second one was..." I paused and she squeezed my hand, "I leave you and we will be together forever...as friends."

I looked down at our hands and she started to pull away from me. "Please Bella," I said panicking and reaching for her. She pushed me away and moved as far away from me as she could. I started to let my tears fall without sound. I looked over at her balled up in the corner, sobbing quietly. "Bella, please say something," I said with cracking voice. I didn't like the silence; I wanted to hear her voice and her tell me everything will be alright.

She whispered, "What do you choose Jacob?" I sat there frozen; I was getting chills all over my body even though I wasn't really cold. I looked down at my hands and mumbled back to her, "I choose to keep you forever. I can't see you die; I can't be without you Bella. Please, understand that. I have to go this path for the both of us." She started to cry harder. I started to move over towards her but she put her hands up, "Don't you dare Jacob Black. Don't you come close to me? You fixed me Jacob, you helped me in the darkest time in my life and now you are taking it back. Who gives a rat's ass what the ancestors say? Maybe they were trying to test your love for me. Did you think of that? No you didn't. If you want us done, then you have it. Jacob Black I don't ever want to see you after tonight. Do you understand?"

As the tears still fell to the hard ground, I nodded and started to leave the tent. As I came out Edward was standing at the opening. Bella was sobbing and he looked in the direction of the sound. He nudged his head for us to walk out. I walked behind him and didn't make it too far before I fell to the ground in a mess. My heart was breaking, I felt like I was being torn apart. Edward stood in front of me and just let me cry. He watched the area as I wept for the one that I love. I broke her heart just like he did. I heard a growl from him as I continued to think, you know its right Edward. You broke her, I fixed her and now she's broke again. Why are they so against her happiness?

"Maybe just maybe Jacob, she was never really meant to be with you. Maybe your path is to someone else, but you have been blinded by her." I looked up at him and his golden eyes hit me. I stood up and continued the conversation out loud. "You knew this was going to happen. All this time you knew but didn't say anything. That's why you were so relaxed with our relationship. You knew." The pain in my chest ignited and I wanted to rip him apart. He smiled and with growl, "A little pup like you wouldn't hurt me. And no, I didn't know this was going to happen until your first dream. Then Alice started to have flashes of the fight and Bella coming home with me not you. I didn't know, I swear on Bella's life, I didn't know until then."

There was dead silence for what seemed like years, the next thing we heard was a howl from the far east. I looked up in the sky and saw the moon was in mid sky. Edward listened and then spoke, "They are coming in from the south, coming up to the east. Embry caught their smell, they are moving fast. I'm going to go into the woods and track around this area...you stay with Bella." As he was saying this, I transformed into my other self. Edward ran to the tent and whispered where Bella was sitting. She was still sobbing but we could see her nod her head.

Edward took off toward the tree line and I stood at the ready. The next thing I see is red eyes, and a growl coming from my left. I looked over at the tree line from the north and saw them. There was three, one female with fire as hair. The other two were male, one tall with black hair and very skinny. The other male was about the same height as the red haired bitch, but he had shoulder length hair pulled back in a low ponytail. Now the fight starts, to save Bella. A low growl escaped my lips as I leapt to where they stood.