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This chapter shows the return of Edward! So cheers for that!

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My hands were wrapped tight around Jacob's waist as he leaned sharply into the bends of the road. Stephen had had to drop me off at the La Push border so he could return first and give Alice the go sign to let Edward out of her sight.

Jacob was dropping me off as my hair flew back behind me, the helmet keeping my head safe with the way he sped.

He stopped the huge bike right in front of the Swan House and swung his leg over the front of the bike before turning around to look at me.

"Have you ever thought about maybe slowing down?" I muttered; my voice muffled inside the helmet. He let out a crow of laughter before reaching out to unlatch the helmet, letting me pull it off and trying to get my hair back in place.

"What are you going to do about the information you got from Jenks?" he asked.

I settled back, frowning slightly as I looked over his head at the brewing clouds, shining orange with the sunset. "I honestly don't know. Since Sorenson isn't really dead, there is at least a 60% chance that he might still be using that credit line Jenks provided." I muttered.

He watched me with a cocked eyebrow. "What if he has more than one?"

"Then we won't find him, Jake, but we'd have tried to help. So I'd sleep easier." I said.

"Hey, T, you know you don't need to keep feeling guilty about the stuff that happens here." He said.

I slowly looked at him. "That's what I was planning before. You know, not to meddle or do anything here because I felt that it wasn't my place or my world. I just…guess, it's my world too now, right?" I asked softly, looking down at my hands.

"I understand what you mean. When I first turned I thought I could just ignore it but after you came back – don't take it the wrong way. I don't mean it like that." He said hastily when he saw me open my mouth to protest.

"What I'm saying is; I like you and Garrison. If I'm using this power for doing well, it's not so bad." He said placating.

"Yeah, I get it." I said, sliding off the bike and looking into the woods to see if Edward was around, most likely eavesdropping.

"Don't worry, he's not here." He said before pulling me back to look at him.

"What are you doing tomorrow evening?" he asked.

"I don't know, why, do you have plans?" I asked.

"There's a bonfire on the beach. It like VIP Quileute's only. What do you say? Do you want to be my plus one?" he asked.

"You sure you want me as your plus one? Paul might get jealous." I teased nudging his shoulder and he gave me a horrified look. "T…he's not gay…wait, he isn't right? I've never seen anything in his mind but he's good at hiding most of his thoughts and I always wondered…oh god, he's got a crush on me. Damn it," he said and I burst out laughing.

"Relax Jake, Paul isn't gay. Or rather, there wasn't any mention of it in the books, but I think you're fine with him." I assured and his shoulders visibly relaxed.

"Thank god, I was about to ask if you needed a pet around." He made a show of wiping sweat from his forehead and I rolled my eyes and his face returned to serious.

"So, will your jail warden let you out to go to some lowly tribe gathering?" he asked.

"Jake, shut up, he's being really nice about this. That doesn't mean you get to downgrade with me," I warned and he grinned. "I don't need to worry about you. You can't resist me."

I made an unimpressed face and got off the bike.

"Yeah whatever, I'll see if Charlie allows it," I said.

"I don't need to worry about that either. Charlie can't resist me either." He straddled the bike again.

He threw a wink my way before his head tilted towards the house for a bit before making a low whine in his head. "He's inside and he's pacing. Impatient, isn't he?" he asked.

"Jake, be careful, I might just start thinking you've got a thing for Edward." I smirked.

His eyes boggled.

"You know, I wouldn't blame you either. I've always felt Jacob was just jealous of Bella that's why he tried to pry her off Edward." I said in a thoughtful voice and he whined in protest.

"That is definitely not what is happening!" He called.

I gave him a pointed look before turning on my heel and walking inside. "I'm not in love with Cullen!" I heard him call out and sniggered as I shut the door.

Even as I turned, Edward rounded the kitchen hallway and leaned against the wall, an eyebrow raised at me.

I grinned at him, my heart slightly racing at the sight of him. My god, I didn't think I'd actually miss him this much. It felt like it had been ages even if it had only been more than half a day.

"Hi you," I whispered, walking over to him and wrapping my arms around his waist. He stayed still for a second before wrapping his arms around me; picking my up slightly and putting me back down on top his shoes so we both wouldn't have to lean that much given our height difference.

"Miss me, have you?" he asked.

I could hear a smile in his voice so I ignored it.

"How much did you hear?" I asked instead, jerking my thumb over my shoulder towards the door.

"Enough to know Jacob Black is going to give me a very wide berth in the future," he smirked as though the idea was somehow amusing to him. Judging from their history, I'd say it was.

"He invited me to a bonfire." I told him, getting off of his shoes and walking inside the kitchen, undoing my scarf and tossing it over my shoulder at the coat hanger near the doorway but Edward caught it in midair, twisting it before neatly hanging it along a peg.

"Do you want to go?" he asked.

"I'll have to see if Charlie says yes."

"He will; Billy and he are long time friends." He said.

"I suppose you want to say something about this." I poured myself a glass of water, turning and watching his expression closely over the rim of the glass. He stared back calmly, a hand on a chair.

"I have no problems with you going to the reservation. There will…of course, need to be a few precautions." He said slowly. I could feel him probing my mind gently to see if I had any problems with that. I just shrugged. "Of course, I can live with that." I said nonchalantly.

He flashed me his trademark crooked grin, his white teeth almost blinding.

"Oh, I also happened to get your mail." He pulled out a manila envelope from his jacket and slid it across the table to me. I frowned, putting the glass away and picking it up.

I had almost torn off the cover before I happened to notice the address.

"Dartmouth…?" I gasped.

The grin faded into a smirk before he nodded.

"Edward, I didn't," I began but he cut me off. "I know; I sent your application." He said. I glared at him. "You forged my signature?" I asked.

He shrugged. "You might want to choose a more elaborate one." He said.

"That is so wrong." I said, unable to help myself from checking to see if I got in or not. "You got in, didn't you?" he asked softly but I could hear the underlying streak of pride in it.

"You didn't pay them for this, did you?" I asked sternly but he made a disapproving noise before I allowed myself a small smile. "I didn't think I would."

"Well you did, you only have to agree to going." He said.

"Edward a lot is going on with me right now. I can't afford it either. In case you didn't notice, I...don't have anyone…my family…they literally don't exist here. Even if I did fly to India, I'm too afraid of what I'm going to find there. All I get is an occasional email and that woman is not my mother." I rambled, looking away, surprised when I felt tears clouding my sight.

He was immediately next to me.

"I'm sorry. I didn't…think of it like that. For what it's worth though, we're here for you." He said.

I nodded, pressing my head against his chest for a second before smiling, looking up at him. "It's ok, I know you are. It's just that…don't worry about it. I'll go put this away. I'll be right back ok?" I said.

Edward studied my face for a second then nodded, pressing his lips to mine for a split second then backing away, letting me go up to my room.

I kicked my door open and went to my desk, opening the drawer in which I'd kept all my acceptance letters. I had to agree with Edward though; it did brighten up my drawer nicely.

I grinned headily for a second and pulled my hair up into a ponytail and pulled off the clothes I'd worn to Seattle, instead going for a simple shirt and jeans. I reached out for the red top I'd left on my bed but found it gone.

I frowned, looking around to see if it had fallen to the ground or I'd thrown it into the hamper.

I came up empty. "What the hell, Alice?" I grumbled. For sure, she'd been here when she'd left these clothes and just cleaned off my room in her OCD style.

It wasn't long before my mind struck out at me, reminding me of what had happened in the book.

For a second I stood there, my heart thumping.

Did a vampire breach into the house? Was it Victoria or the guy who'd been helping her, but if it had been a vampire, wouldn't Edward or Jacob have smelt it? I wanted to scream. What was happening? Did someone take my stuff or not? I quickly went back to my desk and pulled out the hidden stuff I'd kept on Sorenson. Well, everything was intact. Only my top was gone.

"Edward!" I called at the top of my lungs, rushing to put of a shirt as he came in quickly, looking at me curiously. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Can you smell if some stranger was in my room?" I asked.

He paused; looking at me bewildered then throwing a look around the room, frowning slightly. "Did Jacob smell anything?" he asked. "No," I said, staying still so I wouldn't disturb the air.

He finally froze, moving closer to my bed and picking up a pillow, looking at it furiously. He looked back at me and threw the pillow to the ground.

"He was in your room." He snarled.

"He, are you sure it's a he?" I asked, moving closer to him and he wrapped an arm around my waist. "It's extremely faint, I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't said anything." He murmured, pulling out his phone.

"Is it human?" I asked. He nodded, holding the phone up to his ear.

"Alice…?" he said into the phone moving to the window and I sat down on the bed, looking around it, chewing my lip. "No, there's just a smell. Human, a stranger but…" he frowned, listening and occasionally throwing a look at me.

"An army," I whispered and his jaw clenched.

"Right, I'll see to it." He hung up and nodded at me. "Victoria made an army, didn't she?" he asked, arms folded. I nodded silently, making him run a hand through his hair.

"I think…it would be a good idea for you to go to Jacob's bonfire. Just, please make sure you stay in touch with me," he said.

Without another word, he walked towards me and pulled me to him, burying his face into my hair.

As expected, Charlie agreed to my going to the bonfire with Jacob.

I could tell Edward was being on edge because he told me he would drive me to the reservation line. One of his hands was on the wheel while the other he kept entangled with mine.

"Are you ok?" I asked, looking at him curiously.

He turned to look at me as if he just realized I was there before flashing a smile. "Of course I am," he raised my hand to his mouth and kissed my knuckles.

I didn't say anything, just chose to study his heartbreakingly beautiful feature that turned luminous from the light off the dashboard.

Jacob was waiting for me at the tree line, his feet kicking at the ground before he looked up at the low purr of the Volvo's engine. He straightened as Edward and I both got out, watching as we headed closer.

"Do you mind if we have a word, Jacob?" he asked, looking at the shifter carefully. The look was reciprocated. "Look, man, I'm not going to let her get hurt…and if you heard anything yesterday, I assure you, no feelings here, hard or whatever," he mumbled.

I couldn't help smirk and even Edward let out a short chuckle.

"I don't have any animosity towards you either, Jacob neither do I have romantic feelings, I'm glad we have that sorted. I just wanted to tell you that a stranger was in Tulika's bedroom sometime yesterday morning. My family and I will be trying to follow the trail but I suggest you take it too." He produced the folded pillow cover and handed it to Jacob who looked at me flabbergasted.

Without saying anything he took the pillow case and walked to the bike to put it in the storage while I turned to Edward.

"I'll be back by midnight." He said.

"Are you sure you're ok?" I pressed.

"Yes love, try to have fun tonight," he cupped my face with a cool hand, bringing it up so he could kiss me for a few seconds before pulling away, nodding at Jacob and walking back to the car.

I turned around and walked towards Jacob who handed me my helmet and helped me swing myself up on the bike behind him.

Jacob seemed to have made it his mission to distract me from all talks of all the problems in my life as he laughed loudly and drank root beer with the rest of the pack.

"Jacob, either you eat that hotdog or I will," Paul threatened when he started to wave the food item in the air above our head. "Oh, come on Paul, I'm just having fun…" he trailed off when I grabbed the hot dog and took a large bite out of it.

There was silence for a second before Paul laughed. I tossed a haughty look at Jacob who was still staring at me and turned my attention to the party on the beach.

Sam was sitting with Emily, Jared with his imprint Kim and along the way I saw Quill sitting between Embry and Seth whose chubby cheeks made him seem so innocent I didn't think he deserved to a part of this.

I looked further along to see the Elders sitting in a circle, having their own quiet party apart from the rowdy teenagers. I was just about to look back at Jake when my eyes caught another figure sitting alone almost as far back as the Elders were.

She had golden skin, almost as smooth as Alice or Rosalie's. Her hair fell and straight covering nearly her entire face and she was staring at the fire, he flickering flames making the black in her eyes seem alive. I didn't have to ask, to know she was Leah Clearwater. I felt a twinge of sympathy when I heard Emily laugh at something Sam said.

It just wasn't fair. I wondered what she had felt when Sam had told her he was breaking it off with her so he could be with Emily.

She must have felt my gaze on her face because she looked up, her eyes meeting. I jumped, shooting her a quick nervous smile before looking back away. When I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye, she was staring back at the fire but her hair was tucked behind her ears.

"Hey,"

I turned to look and smile at Jacob.

"You're having fun, right?" he asked.

"Yep, it's…normal." I smiled and he smiled back, throwing an arm around my shoulders and pulled me closer to his torso as he chugged down another bottle of root beer.

A few more minutes passed before everyone turned to look at the Elders who trudge – Billy pushed his wheelchair – closer to the circle and stopped in the middle, sitting in a triangle.

"You're going to enjoy this." I heard Jacob mutter and his arm tightened on my shoulder a little, his warmth flooding me as an eerie silence fell over the crowd, the only light coming from the flickering bonfire and the cold wind rustled in the trees making me shiver, even with Jacob sitting so close to me. I saw Emily and Kim snuggling in closer to Sam and Jared and pressed closer to Jacob as well.

"Story time," I asked Jacob and he nodded, his eyes fixed on his father.

I turned around and did the same as Billy Black started the tale on the evolution of wolf spirit and man spirit and their entangling together.

Jacob was right, I was on the edge of my seat on the tree trunk as Billy explained how the arrival of Cold Ones triggered the spirit of wolves in the children and gave them the power and motivation to protect their lands and tribe.

"The third wife was the key." He explained and I remembered the story of the woman who had stabbed her own heart to save her husband and children from the vampire woman.

"An ordinary woman, but with the strength and courage of those equaling the wolves, she plunged her eldest son's bone dagger into her own heart, letting her life blood splatter onto the Cold Woman. The woman couldn't resist the call of the fresh blood and this gave the leader time to close his jaws onto her throat. Hereby, he eliminated another threat to the tribe."

Billy's voice, low and gravelly could still be heard over the pin drop silence of the crowd as he went on to talk about how Ephraim Black and the Cullens had struck a truce which had continued for so long and hopefully would last for a long peaceful time.

Maybe it was my imagination, but I thought Billy's eyes landed on me but it didn't last as he soon moved his eyes back to the ocean. I followed his gaze.

The ocean in the cloud light looked pitch black, reflecting nothing from the skies and I shuddered at the bleak thought, wondering if that was what Billy was seeing or if he was imagining how the vampire had look, emerging from the same waters.

"Ok, it's nearly 11, we should get you home." Jacob muttered in my ear and I looked around to see that everyone was packing up. Jared was taking off with Kim and Leah and Seth were being huddled off by Sue Clearwater.

Jacob got up and offered me his hand and I took it, standing up with him. I watched Embry and Quill put the fire out and the light died out.

I suddenly realized how cold it really was and Jacob took off his much larger jacket, putting it around my shoulders before tugging my hand to lead me towards his bike.

I cast one last look at the stormy sea and followed.

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