JPOV

"Talk!" She yelled out at us before she went inside. I stared at the guy in front of me.

"So what do you want?" I asked simply.

"The same thing you do." The blond girl behind him answered. "We can't really talk about it here, there are too many chances someone will hear." I rolled my eyes.

"Then where are we supposed to talk?"

The blond girl stiffened and looked toward the house with wide eyes.

"Bella." She whispered, and took off, with me right on her heels. By the time we got inside, Bella was near to having a full panic attack. I turned her around to face me, trying to get her attention. I was screaming at her by the time her eyes focused on me. She mumbled something and pushed past me to the porch, and puked off the side before.

I was about to walk over to her when I heard the blonde girl gasp. I turned and saw maybe a hundred pictures covering the wall, and they were all of Bella, but she obviously didn't know they had been taken of her.

The one that hit me hard was the one taken of both of us, we were asleep in the living room, and it was taken as if someone was standing above us. Someone had been in the house with us. It was before my change, but I couldn't tell when.

I didn't even realize I was trembling until the blonde leech started yelling at me.

"Jacob, get out of the house, now!" I just looked at her, continuing to growl. She started pushing me towards the door. "Get out Jacob!" And with a swift kick from her, I landed halfway down the yard, phased and ready to attack.

"Jacob STOP!" The male roared at me. "You need to help Bella!"

With that thought, I stopped and I took several deep breaths, enough to calm down. I phased back, and went to where Bella had passed out, carefully picking her up and carrying her inside, leaving the other two outside. I laid her on the couch and went to find some extra clothes.

Why was all this stuff happening to Bella? What had caused this crazy vampire to come after her? I could feel my anger spike once I started thinking about what all she had been going through, and how none of this was fair to anyone. I at least had an excuse that I was born into my messed up situation, but she was just an innocent bystander. She didn't deserve any of this.

After finding some spare clothes for myself, I went back down to where Bella laid. She looked like she was sleeping, so I assumed she had just passed out from either fear, or just being so overwhelmed. I struggled with the need to take out anyone who could possibly be a threat, which included the two standing outside. I decided to try and get some information from them instead.

"Was that him?" Pointing inside, once I got out on the porch.

"I don't know." The girl answered angrily. "I don't recognize the smell, so he wasn't the one who was here." I suddenly felt slightly panicked.

"You mean, it wasn't Cullen?" They both shook their heads.

"No, we know him, know his smell, and that isn't it."

I clenched my fists.

"I've gotta get her to the Rez. That's the only place she can be safe." They both nodded. I refused to admit it, but I felt like I could trust them, even though it went against everything I believed in, that I had been taught.

"Jacob." The blonde whispered, almost too low for me to hear. "We need to talk, and I don't think we can here." I stiffened, trying to find a new scent, but all I could smell were the two leeches in front of me. I ran back into the house, wrapped Bella in an afghan and brought her back out. The guy opened the back door to her car, and I placed her gently inside.

"Is there someone within hearing range right now? I can't get a scent outside of the two of you."

They closed their eyes in concentration, then shook their heads.

"The far north line. 3 hours. Meet me there." I said as low as I could, knowing they would hear me.

Driving back to the rez, I kept trying to figure out how I was going to explain this to the rest of the pack. They had to understand that when it came to Bella, I had to do whatever I could to keep her safe, even if that meant working with those two bloodsuckers. How did that saying go? The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Well that was certainly true in this instance. I heard her moving around in the backseat.

"Ugh….Jake?"

"Yeah babe, I'm right here."

"Where are we going?" She sounded so groggy.

"We're going to the rez. Go back to sleep sweetie."

"How did I….what were we doing?" I watched her in the rearview mirror and could see the exact moment she remembered. Her eyes went wide and her chest shuddered, and I was scared she'd slip into another panic attack.

"Bella? Bella, it's ok. I'm taking you to the rez. No one can get to you there, ok?" She nodded, but I could tell she was still in shock.

"We….we need to call the police." She said in a small voice.

"Bella, the police can't do anything. This is…..out of their jurisdiction."

"What about Rosalie and Emmett? What did they say?"

"We didn't get a chance to talk."

"Jacob, why are you so stubborn?"

"Now wait, calm down, we are going to talk, we just didn't have a chance there. I needed to get you here, but we set up a meeting for later."

"Where are we meeting them?" I snorted and she glared at me again.

"WE aren't going anywhere. YOU are going to the house and getting some rest. I'll meet them later."

"Jacob, that's not fair! I deserve to know-"

"And you will! I promise! But really, you need your rest. You've been through a lot, and I have a feeling it's gonna be awhile before things get back to normal." She snorted as I pulled into the driveway. I turned to face her. "What?"

"Normal." She smiled sadly. "Who would have ever thought I would be so far away from having a normal life. I would give anything to have that life back again." My heart broke as I heard her words. I got out and pulled her out of the car, picked her up and carried her into my house, and laid her down on my bed. I sat down beside her, and pushed past the stabbing pain in my chest to say the next words.

"You know, you still can." I couldn't stand to look at her as I said it.

"I can still what?" She sniffed.

"You can still have a normal life." I clasped my hands in front of me, willing my voice to stay steady. "Once we finally get rid of this Cullen guy, you can go back to your normal life."

"Jake." She said in a strained whisper. "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying, that even though I don't have a choice, you do. You can choose to live a normal life. You don't have to-"

I stopped at the sting that spread across my face, and looked up to see her cradling her hand from the pain of slapping me, tears falling down her face as she looked at me in fury.

"How dare you! I was wrong, you aren't the same Jacob that I thought you were! You did change!" And she jumped up and ran out of my room.

I sat there in shock for a minute before I registered that I needed to run after her. But by the time I got out the door, she was already pulling out of the driveway. I went to run after the car, but she turned to drive further into the rez, so as long as she wasn't leaving, I decided to give her some time to cool off. And for me to figure out what the hell I had actually done.

I went ahead and phased, confident she was probably heading to Leah's and decided to bite the bullet and let the rest of the pack know what was going on. It was met with mixed opinions.

"Are you insane?"

"Jake, I don't know if it's such a good idea."

"I don't know, I think if it was me, I would do whatever I could."

"You never know, they could be nothing like the others."

"Or this could be a trick to ambush us"

"They're only expecting one of us."

"Unless they know we'll back him up."

"Listen, if they wanted to hurt Bella or Jacob, they would have had plenty of opportunities away from the treaty line.'

"Exactly, to come that close to the line would be suicide if they tried anything."

"ENOUGH!"

Sam's voice echoed through our heads.

"Jacob, this is your call. This seems to be between you, them, and Bella. We'll come with you if you want, but you make this decision."

I thought what the best strategy would be, worst case scenario.

"Ok, we don't leave the rez completely unprotected. Paul, you and Jared stay here. The rest of us will spread out, staying just within hearing range of each other, but not close enough to where they would be able to tell there were more of us than just me."

Luckily I was met with total agreement, which I definitely didn't expect. We started out for our posts and me to our agreed meeting place.

"Oh, Jake, by the way, have you mentioned the imprint thing to her?"

"Please don't remind me. No, I haven't, and that's one conversation I am definitely not looking forward to having with her."