Okay people here is the highly anticipated (by me D) fifth chapter! This is where the action starts and everything gets a little more "Rated T". Well, actually this chapter is pretty clean but it's probably the darkest. I'm not sure. Well whatever enjoy the story and please review! Hope you like it!

DISCLAIMER: I obviously don't own Twilight or any of it's characters or else I wouldn't be writing a fanfiction. I only own this basic plot. Thanks for reading anyways!

Chapter Five

My eyes slowly crept open. I was on the living room couch, lying on my back, looking up at a very concerned Charlie.

"Bella," said Charlie, his voice saturated with relief. "You broke out into a heavy sweat and just fainted. I was so scared that you hit your head, I almost called 911."

"I'm fine," I lied groggily. I almost passed out again as I remembered everything Charlie told me. "I just was really hot. I think I'll go take a shower."

Charlie looked reluctant at letting me wander away from his sight, but didn't object. What I really need was time to think, to concentrate. Billy couldn't want me dead, he was best friends with Charlie and really only had my best interests at mind. He did want the Cullens dead, though, or at the very least out of Forks. And he was obviously angry enough to take action. I pondered to myself what had set him off.

The warm water relaxed and soothed me, calming me and washing away some of my worries. I still hadn't heard from Edward, which was really unlike him. My head swam with unanswered questions. I soon gave up on trying to relax completely; I was too on edge for that to even be a possibility.

As I toweled off I started to wonder if everything could possibly be linked. The letter, Billy and the other Tribal Elders, Edward's strange disappearance from my life. They had to be, I just had no clue how. I was trying to solve a puzzle, but I was missing a very crucial piece. I had to find that piece. My sanity depended on it. I could only hope that Edward already found it, in which case I would just have to find Edward. I internally screamed in exasperation. Why did everything have to be so difficult!

I figured the best place to start looking for him would be his house. I felt pathetic, getting so easily frustrated, even though I hadn't even started my search. Tomorrow I would look for him. I said good night to Charlie and pretended to take some pain pills. I couldn't afford to be sleepy tonight. I had a mission. As soon as I heard Charlie start to snore, I took action.

There was no way I could even hope to sleep tonight when my head was so full. I pulled on a pair of jeans, leaving on the black spaghetti strap tank top that Edward had once complimented, and shrugged into a light gray hoodie. Once downstairs I put on my raincoat and grabbed Charlie's cruiser keys from on top of the small table in the foyer. My truck would be too loud and I couldn't risk Charlie waking up.

As I got into the cruiser and put the keys into the ignition, I prayed that Charlie wouldn't find out that I snuck out in his work car. A police cruiser, no less. Despite it's age, the cruiser ran pretty quietly, unlike my truck. I drove quickly, actually over the speed limit, to the Cullen's house. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw lights on in the house and no angry mobs or wolves outside. I ran to the front door and knocked. I heard someone swear under their breath inside. Carlisle opened the door and looked relieved when he saw me.

"Come in, Bella. We weren't expecting you, but we needed to speak with you anyway," he said, gesturing me to come inside.

I wasted no time in asking questions. "Is Edward here? Where has he been? Have you heard what Billy did? Do you know who wrote the letter? Has Bill-" but I stopped suddenly when Edward appeared at the bottom of the stairs.

I ran to him, the sooner to be in his arms. He held me close to him, each of us breathing in the other's scent.

"My Bella, I've missed you so much. Please forgive me for not staying with you in your time of danger," he started, his voice burning with sadness.

"It's okay, Edward. Just please tell me what you know and where you have been before I combust!" I said, exasperated. I was strangely filled with relief and despair at finally being united with him. Relief because I was worried he had left me forever, which he obviously hadn't, and despair because by the way he was speaking, I knew he was harboring a bomb shell that he would soon be forced to drop on me.

"I'm sorry Bella, but I haven't been able to leave the confines of the house. Emmett and Jasper have been keeping an eye on your house for me, though." He said.

"Why weren't you able to leave?" I asked, my voice burning with curiosity. Edward and I were now seated next to each other on the couch. Carlisle was sitting in a chair that matched the couch near us; Esme was leaning on the arm of the same chair. Alice was sitting on the bottom mantle of the large fireplace, watching us intently. Rosalie was leaning against a wall a little ways away, glaring at me. Emmett and Jasper were nowhere to be seen, most likely keeping an eye on Charlie's house.

He seemed to be deliberating on where to start. Finally he took a deep breath and started.

"The Quileute tribe has suffered terrible losses lately. Many of the Elders have been killed. They haven't taken the bodies to a medical examiner, but all the evidence points to vampires. They told us straight out that if we didn't stop hunting on them, they would break the treaty and tell the residents of Forks what we truly are. Now of course, we haven't had anything to do with the murders. We tried to prove it by showing them that if we had drank any person's blood our eyes would be burgundy. They chose not to believe us. Just last night, another Elder was killed. They came directly to us to confront our family, but I wasn't home. I was with you."

He heard my sharp intake of breath and looked down at me solemnly. He continued.
"Realizing I was gone at the same time the murder took place, the Quileutes were furious. That was the last straw for them. We can see why they would assume it was us, don't get us wrong, us being the only vampires anywhere near the Reservation and with me being absent on the night of the murder, but they took it out of context. They said they would gather mobs and tell 'white faces' about us. They said that they would make sure our faces were known all over the world so that we couldn't hide. They even said that they would stop trying to repress the lycanthrope genes in their younger tribe members."

I gasped in horror. They were trying to create wolf men, werewolves, to kill the Cullens. His face grew even darker as he continued.

"They even said they had one of our kind, a vampire, on their side. They said that he was going to trying and murder us also." I flinched at the word. "We aren't sure if they were serious about their plans or if they were just angry, but when you came in you said something about what Billy had done, please explain."

"In the Elk's Lodge today, Billy and some Tribal Elders were warning men and women about you. Supposedly they had a large audience listening. Even cops believed them. He told them to prepare for a war." My voice was just a mere whisper by the time I had finished, but I knew they could hear me.

"I knew Billy Black was a man of his word. He stopped going to the hospital when I got a job there" said Carlisle grimly. "This is most likely the first stage in his plan. We still have time to leave. Bella, did you get your information from a valid source?"

I was in utter shock at Carlisle's words. Edward pulled me closer to him, but I stood up, devastated. "You can't go! You can't leave me in this God forsaken town! They won't give up by you leaving! They will track you down and you know it! They won't stop until hey avenge their Tribe's losses! They'll just question me and everyone else you had contact with until they find you!" I screamed. It was just dawning on me what would happen if the Cullens left just as these accusations started forming. No doubt my connections with the Cullens would affect us. Charlie could lose his job; we would be treated like pariahs. But I couldn't think of myself now, not when they were talking about leaving.

"Bella," Edward soothed. "It's okay, we'll figure this out. I won't leave you." He said these words as truly as he could, yet I knew he was just trying to comfort me.

"Bella, please, where did you get your information from?" Carlisle probed.

I sat back on the couch, feeling more emotionally drained then I ever thought possible. "Charlie had to bring Billy and the other Elders to the station," I said, devoid of emotion.

Carlisle muttered a curse under his breath, "That probably means they've already stopped repressing the gene too. Any tribal member coming of age should be getting symptoms. The transformations won't be complete until the next New Moon, though. Alice, when is that?" Carlisle asked intensely.

We all watched as Alice became incredibly still. Her eyes fluttered open moments later.

"In four days," she said, the fear in her voice completely unmasked.

"That's good and bad. Good because we should be able to see the symptoms that come before the change – more hair, sleeker skin, sharper teeth, deeper eyes, taller in height, deeper voice, more charming in looks, and broadened chest and shoulders." Carlisle listed. "And bad because we won't be able to leave."

I felt a surge of happiness that I knew I shouldn't be feeling, but I couldn't help it. Suddenly I remembered seeing Jacob on the day Billy got charged. All the different features I noticed about him. My heart skipped a beat.

"Billy's son recently turned sixteen. I saw him this morning. I noticed basically all the traits you just named about him." I said, shocked. All of their eyes started at me in astonishment.

"I never thought he would bring such a curse upon his own son," Esme murmured.

"I think this was something Jacob wanted," I said, they all gaped at me again. "I told him about the letter today," I confessed. "He immediately suspected one of you. I don't think he trusts you or likes you very much."

"You think he would attempt to murder us?" Carlisle asked in astonishment.

"I think he would just want us out of Forks, but who knows what Billy could convince him of. He's a very impressionable young boy." Alice said warily.

"And so the war begins," Carlisle said softly, so my ears barely heard it.

Alice's next words scared me more than anything else has in my entire life. "I tried to look at the end of this war, to see how it would conclude, but anyway I tried, all I saw was death."

So that chapter really is just a taste of what's to come! I hope you enjoyed it because that chapter really set up the whole rest of the book and set a couple of things in motion! PLEASE REVIEW! Some constructive criticism or a nice little compliment really helps a writer write! Thanks for reading! Oh and did you like the length? It's longer then the other chapters so let me know if you like them longer or shorter