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Chapter Thirteen

Saturday morning brought a cloudless sky with the sun shining down on the town of Forks. Charlie, Hermione and Teddy sat at the table in the kitchen eating breakfast, Teddy was eating some oatmeal with his fingers and Charlie watched him with a small smile.

"You know, even though I haven't gotten to speak to you much since you got here, I am glad that I got to take you in. It gets pretty lonely here. I had hoped that Bella may come see me again once she got older but she hates it here. And Teddy just seems to make the house brighter as well."

"It's fine Charlie. I know you take your job very seriously, you are the police chief. And even though I've never met Bella, she's missing out. I love it here."

Charlie laughed, "You are used to the rain though, and I've been meaning to ask you, where is your accent? I haven't heard you slip up once since you got here."

Hermione held up her right hand where a small ring lay on her ring finger. "It's charmed to hide my accent. If I took it off you would hear it, I could have just spoken in an American accent but I didn't want to risk slipping up."

Charlie nodded his head, "That's a good idea, you never know. So do you know what you and Teddy plan on doing today?"

Hermione shrugged, "I'm not sure, it's a sunny day outside so it's not like the Cullens will be out."

"You could always go to First Beach in La Push, the reservation. A lot of kids normally go out there on nice days. Jacob Black may be out there. He was friends with Bella when they were younger and his father and I have known each other for a long time. He has two sisters. Rachel and Rebecca, but Bella liked Jacob more." Charlie pulled a picture out of his wallet of a Native American boy sitting beside a very pale girl, Hermione guessed that the girl was Bella and the little boy was Jacob Black.

Hermione sat forward, "Those are the shape shifters correct?"

He nodded, "Yeah, I believe that Billy is a tribal elder. There are a lot of legends about the shape shifters and the cold one, which are the vampires. Now since they don't know that I am aware of the magical world, they haven't told me anything so I could be wrong. But I'm sure that Jacob may end up shifting in the next few years. My father, who was a half-blood, did extensive research on the La Push shape shifters when he first moved here. He found that once vampires moved here the shifting begins. He became friends with William Black Sr., Billy's father, and gathered the information by watching."

"So now that the Cullens are back in Forks the shifting has begun. When I was in Volterra, Kingsley said there was one shifter so far. But with seven vampires in town I'm sure there will be more soon." That's when an idea struck Hermione. If she could get Jacob to spill the beans on the Cullen family and then I could approach Edward about it. "Well I think that Teddy and I will go to First Beach today, to see if I can some information from him."

Charlie looked uncomfortable for a moment, "Not that I have a problem with them, but are you sure it's safe to be getting close to the Cullens? Something could happen."

Hermione smiled at him, "Everything will be fine, but if something does happen I'll try to find a way to tell you. But I'm used to danger and adventures, I guess you could say that sometimes I looked forward to see what trouble we could stir up at Hogwarts, but I will deny it to anyone else."

They spoke for a few more minutes before Hermione took Teddy upstairs to get him cleaned and changed. Thirty minutes later they were on their way to First Beach.

When they got to the beach around noon and there were only three others on the beach, Native American boys and one kept glancing in Hermione's direction. Hermione sat Teddy down in the sand and smiled and he became to throw some.

She could hear the boys getting a bit louder talking back and forth, seems like one of them was trying to gather the courage to come over here. If he came over here to flirt she knew she would have to turn him away quickly, she was not interested in romance at the moment. But as soon as she thought that, Edward popped up in her head again. She squeezed her eyes close and sighed, she needed to stop thinking about him like that. Even if she admitted that she might possibly have a small crush on the copper headed vampire, it didn't mean that anything would come from it.

She was brought back to the present as she felt a presence behind her and someone cleared their throat. She turned and faced a boy who stood about four inches taller than her five foot six, his raven black hair was tied into a low pony tail down his back and his russet skin seemed shine a little in the sunlight. His dark brown eyes seemed to look over Hermione with excitement.

He scratched the back of his head, "Uh, Bella Swan?"

Hermione was momentarily confused the realized that this could be Jacob Black. He looked a lot like the child in the picture Charlie had shown her during breakfast. "Yes, hi!"

He blushed, "I'm Jacob Black, you and your dad used to come over all the time when we were younger."

"Yeah, how have you been?"

"I've been good. I almost didn't recognize you."

"Well I haven't been to Fork in a long time."

"And who is this?" He asked while looking at Teddy.

"This is my son Teddy."

"You have a son? But you're only seventeen!"

Nineteen, Hermione added mentally. "I adopted him last year after the death of his parents."

"Well I'm sure Charlie is thrilled that you're living with him now, and on top that he gets a grandson."

Hermione had to make sure that Jacob couldn't see her discomfort at that statement. Even though he had said he was fine with having her here, she knew that he really missed his daughter.

"So have you made any friends now that you're living in town?" He asked and Hermione realized that this was her chance to get some information from him.

Hermione picked up Teddy and looked Jacob in the eyes, "Oh yeah, everyone is great. I've especially gotten along with the Cullens."

"I've never met them personally but my dad was pretty upset when they moved to Forks, he's very superstitious."

Hermione tried to play oblivious to what he was saying. "Superstitious? Why would he feel that way towards the Cullens?"

Jacob took a deep breath and looked around. "Well I'm not supposed to tell anyone."

Hermione smiled and rocked Teddy a bit, "But now I am curious, please tell me."

"I think its nothing more than a scary story, but my dad truly believes in it. There is a Quileute legend that we are descended from wolves and that it runs in our blood. When the cold ones emerged, the wolves became the protectors of the village.

"Cold ones?"

Jacob seemed to pause for dramatic effect, "Vampires. Legend says that men from the village could transform into wolves and protected the villagers from the cold ones. Up until about sixty years ago, when they some cold ones that were different from the rest, they were animal drinkers. So my great-grandfather and grandfather made a treaty with them. They wouldn't be hunted if they stayed off Quileute land and stuck to their food source. Story says that it was the Cullens who met my grandfather and great-grandfather. The same Cullens who moved back two years ago."

Hermione waited for a moment, "Wow that is some story."

Jacob grinned, "Yeah and I'm sure the only reason my father believes it was because his father said he was there."

Hermione laughed, and inside she was grinning, she had what she needed. She then looked down at Teddy to see that he was lying against her shoulder with his eyes closed. "Well I guess I should get this little guy home for a nap. Thanks for the story Jacob, and maybe I'll see you around."

"Bye Bella!"

Hermione went home to Charlie's with a smile on her face; soon she would be able to confront the Cullens about the facts she had gathered.