A/N: Sorry this took so long, I was reading New Moon. There are no spoilers, promise!

Disclamer: I own only a copy of the book named Twilight. I do not own any rights toward it.

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Edward's POV

I could kill Billy right about now. I heard every word he said to Bella. I heard every thought of hers pertaining to the situation.

He called her property!

I couldn't get around that statement. Billy would die for it. I would ensure it.

We would have to go to war now. They had Bella.

Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett had returned. The Denali coven had arrived as well.

(If you want more info on the Denali coven, go to the Twilight Lexicon.)

We were going to fight until we had her back. Well, I was. I knew at least Alice was with me.

Thankfully, the others reassured me time and time again that they would fight with me as well.

The werewolves had started this war. More specifically, Billy had started this war. I hated even thinking about him. If he did anything to Bella…

But he was under the impression that we started it. Or more specifically, I had started it, by falling in love with Bella.

We would go to the reservation and try to reason with them, or him. If they didn't cooperate, we'd have to resort to battling them. Billy would die anyway. He was marked for death, by my standards at least.

He would die.

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Bella's POV

"Bella! What are you doing here? You should have stayed away…" Charlie stammered after Billy left.

"I realize that now." I mumbled. I can't believe it, he saw right through my plan. Now there was going to be a war and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

"Dad, I'm sorry. I thought that pretending to follow his wishes would get you out of here…"

"Bella, you don't need to worry about me, I've lived my life, if I die, I'm hoping that I die knowing that your safe."

"Well, I'm not safe now."

"We'll get out of here, we just have to find a way."

"How are we going to get out of here?"

"Can you bust the door?"

I went over to it and punched it with all my strength, ouch! I don't even think Emmett could get though this. I'm not sure what it was, but it was too strong for one vampire. Seven or eight vampires on the other hand…

The thought of all of the Cullen's coming to my rescue entertained me for all about two seconds. If I didn't have to, I wouldn't wait for them to rescue me.

"Guess not…" Charlie mumbled.

I looked around. We were surrounded by rock. That's all I could see. I had never hated brown so much in my life. There were no windows, the only way out was through the door.

We were trapped.

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Edward's POV

All too soon, we were at the reservation, arguing with Billy.

He had a lot of werewolves behind him. They were all in human form, for the moment. At his word, they could all change and charge us.

There were only twelve of us. Twelve against at least fifty. They had numbers on their side, but we had strength.

"Give her over!" I shouted at Billy.

"Never!" He shouted back.

This arguing would last forever, I could hear Emmett's thoughts, Come on! I want to get on with the fighting, this is boring.

Well, that was amusing. But he was right, this was boring.

Billy's voice drew me out of my thoughts.

"I'm sorry it had to come to this," he changed into a wolf, barked a command and all of a sudden, we had fifty wolves facing us.

Here we were, mortal enemies, fighting to the death or destruction. The only question was, who would win?

They charged first. It was like a stampede of wolves swelling out and around Billy. He just crouched there, waiting for something to attack him.

Attack him I did.

The rest of the fight was trivial, if Billy died, that was all that mattered. He was the one causing all this. I hated him more than I hated James. He ruined Bella's life in every way he could think of, he tried to separate her and I, then he went and locked her up. He. Would. Pay.

I tackled him to the ground, and there we fought rolling around, vampire and wolf, mortal enemies. He clawed and snapped at me, I tore and slashed right back.

I did not care that there was blood on my clothes, the monster within me took over and I moved in for the kill.

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Bella's POV

I listened for Edward's thoughts. He was arguing with Billy. His thoughts kept wandering, he wanted Billy dead and he just wanted to kill him now. The fighting would break out any time now.

There was a knock on the door. It was almost silent, but I heard it. Charlie did not look up from his book, he had not heard it.

I crept to the door and looked through the tiny window in it. There stood Jacob, he was holding the keys.

I've come to get you out of here!

I moved away from the door.

At the sound of keys jiggling in the lock, Charlie looked up.

"What's happening?"

"It's Jacob, he's here to rescue us."

Just as I said that, Jacob opened the door.

"I've come to get you out of here!" He said, voicing his thoughts from just seconds before.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked.

"Whatever my father is up to, it's bad. All I know is that I'm forbidden to go outside until he comes home. Something about a battle he doesn't want me to get involved in. Well, I'm going to get involved anyway, so come on!"

He turned and began walking back through the tunnel.

Charlie and I followed him.

Finally, we were outside. I could hear noises, they sounded like dog yelping, then there was some snarling and a growl I knew to be Edward's. The war had begun!

"Charlie, stay here! This is a battle amongst vampires and werewolves, I don't think you want to get involved." I said.

Charlie looked as if he was going to argue, then thought the better of it when he saw the determination in my blood-red eyes.

I ran off toward the sounds of the battle. I noticed a wolf running alongside me. It was Jacob.

I reached a large clearing in the woods, this was where the battle was happening. There was blood everywhere and I knew it wasn't the vampire's. The wolves just might be losing.

I heard a snarl that was different from all the rest.

Edward.

I found him in the middle of the whole brawl, wrestling with Billy on the ground. Edward's clothes were torn, but there was no scratch on his marble skin. Billy, on the other hand, looked horrible. There was a gash in his side and he was bleeding horribly. I didn't have the heart to tell Jacob that his father wasn't going to make it out of this one alive.

He's going to die, isn't he?

I nodded, thankful that I didn't have to tell him.

Part of me didn't care that Billy was dying, he had caused only trouble. Another part of me did care though. It was a life that didn't deserve to die, no matter how twisted that life was. But it was already too late. As I looked again, Edward was standing over his kill.

Edward! I called.

He looked right at me, and within seconds, he was by my side.

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The others did not see the three of us standing on the side of the battle. They continued like we didn't exist.

That is, until Jacob changed and ran into it all and barked something that made sense only to the werewolves' ears.

But Edward and I heard the thoughts behind it.

Brothers and Elders, why do we continue fighting like this? The one who forced us to fight is dead now! Let us stop fighting this petty fight, the "cold ones" have what they want, let them leave in peace.

Before I knew it, I was running into the clearing as well, shouting words the vampires could understand.

"Billy is dead, and if the werewolves will stop fighting will you stop fighting as well? There is no need to fight anymore, I have rescued Charlie and Jacob rescued us both."

No vampire or wolf moved.

The wolves took the first move, they all changed back into human form. A sign of surrender.

Emmett let go of the man he was strangling. Rosalie stopped clawing at the one she had pinned. Jasper got off the one he was on top of. Carlisle backed away from the one he was about to hit. Esme got off the ground and dusted herself off. The men surrounding Alice backed away for her to move through. The other vampires that I didn't even know moved away from the men they were fighting as well.

We checked for casualties. Only Billy had actually died, other werewolves suffered wounds, but none of them fatal. They all helped each other back to the town where they could be treated. Soon, it was only the Cullen's, the Denali coven, Jacob and I.

"Thank you for rescuing me and Charlie," I began.

"Thank you for helping me out back there," Jacob replied.

"What will happen to the Quileute tribe now?" I asked.

"We'll pick a new pack leader. Something tells me it's me, but I hope it's not, I'm not sure I'm ready for it." He said.

"I think you are." I stated.

"Thanks." He began. Then he turned to Edward, "I forgive you for what you did to him. You did what needed to be done." Edward only nodded in agreement.

Jacob then turned, then faded into the surrounding forest.

I'll take Charlie home for you. I heard him think before he was completely gone.

"He knows I can hear his thoughts." I said.

"Come on," Esme said, "Let's all go home and clean up. Bella, do you want some help with Charlie?"

"Jacob's taking care of it."

Then, we too, faded into the woods and disappeared, to a human eye at least.

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Later that night, all thirteen of us were sitting in the Cullen's front room, discussing the past few days' events.

Edward introduced me to the Denali clan. Eleazar and Carmen, and the succumbs sisters: Kate, Tanya, and Irina.

I thanked them again and again for coming down here. They said there was going to be a battle between the werewolves and the vampires sometime and they just wanted to be involved, plus, they did it for the Cullen's. All five of them were really pleased to meet me and were happy that Edward had found someone.

All too soon, they left. We said our goodbyes and they were gone.

We'll see them again.

Rosalie and Emmett went back to Paris, Jasper went back to WSU. Soon, it was just the five of us again.

Carlisle received a call from Jacob, saying that he had been made the new pack leader. Jacob wanted to discuss peace treaties and needed Carlisle there. Carlisle went and came back saying that we were allowed on their land, just as they were allowed on ours. The only rule, none of us could tell the others true identity.

Once again, I found myself in school. It was really weird to be back in the normalcy of school after the past week's events. It was only the third week of school, yet it felt as though it should be later.

Most everyone was happy to see me back. None of them could really care less about Edward and Alice though. Maybe one day they would, but I seriously doubted it.

No one else seemed to notice any difference about me, I even feigned tripping just for the fun of it. But after what just happened, people noticing trivial differences about me, didn't seem like such a big deal.

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A/N: Well, there you have it. The story is not over yet, but it is coming to a close. Probably only another chapter or two. Don't worry, there's going to be another sequel.