Chapter Sixteen

"What do you mean I can't take a baseball bat!?" I was standing gaping in front of Bella. She had that stern motherly look on her face and her arms were crossed. As soon as my hands grabbed onto Sam's old bat she immediately yanked it from me and told me I couldn't take it.

"Because we are suppossed to be peaceful! You can't bring a weapon, Hazel. And besides, the bat would shatter if you hit one of them with it." She shrugged and put the bat back in the closet. I crossed my arms and pouted. She rolled her eyes at me and dragged me out the front door to where the guys were waiting for us. I was still pouting when they turned to look at us.

"Why are you pouting?" Paul asked, I could tell he was trying not to laugh at me.

"Bella said I couldn't bring the bat with me." I grumbled while I walked toward him and into his arms. He was shaking with laughter at this point. Bella continued to roll her eyes at me from her position next to Jake. Paul was still shaking with laughter when Sam told everyone to phase. Jake and Paul would remain phased during the meeting while Sam and Jared wouldn't be. I smacked Paul's chest to get him to stop, he smiled down at me before kissing my cheek and walking into the woods with the boys to phase.

When they came out in their full forms I felt my heart rate speed up and my body felt hot. I closed my eyes and took several deep breaths before walking over to the silver wolf, I knew it was Paul. I could tell from the eyes and he whimpered at me so that was a total give away. He was up to my shoulder in height when he was on all fours so he sat down so his nose would be the same height as my stomach. I cautiously makde my way to him and slowly stroked the fur between his ears. I heard him grumble and he nudged me with his muzzle. I giggled at him, he was acting like a puppy who was starved for attention. I smiled softly at him before running both hands threw the fur on the sides of his face. His tongue rolled out of his mouth and he started panting with his eyes closed. When I stopped he looked at me and stood up before licking my face.

"Ew, Paul!" I laughed. He made a noise in his throat and I assumed it was his idea of a laugh in this form. "Y'know, you're kinda cute like this. Not to mention a whole lot less annoying." He nudged me a little harder this time causing me to laugh even harder.

"Alright, Haze, hop on Paul's back and let's go!"

Why was Bella yelling at me so much today?

~~~TOS~~~

The ride to the treaty line was... bumpy. Riding on a wolf was kind of like riding on a horse, but I definitely would prefer a horse. When we arrived there were three of them. Carlisle I knew, I figured the other two were the mind reader and empath. I glanced at Bella from the corner of my eye and her eyes were glaring daggers at the one that had stupid colored hair. He was just staring at her. He had to be Edward. Aka Tinkerbell. I narrowed my eyes and walked over to Bell and grabbed her hand. She looked at me and squeezed my hand before leaning her head on my shoulder. Sam was the first to speak.

"I trust that with you return the treaty stays in place and will not be violated." Sam's tone was sharp and very alpha.

"Yes that is correct. We will not be staying permanently, we are here to help capture Victoria for Bella's saftey." Carlisle answered him with a curt nod and a small smile. I glanced over at Edward and he looked angry and constipated. His brows were threaded together in concentration and his jaw was clenched.

"You constipated, Tinkerbell?" I asked. His eyes jerked toward me and his mouth opened in a snarl. Paul was immeditately in front of me, barring his teeth.

"I can't read any of their thoughts." He spoke so quickly I barely caught what he said. "I can read yours and Jasper's just fine, Carlisle. But I can't hear any of theirs." Now I was confused.

"Question!" I raised my hand like I was back in high school. Jared laughed at me while Bella grabbed my hand and pulled it down."How does the mind reading thing work?"

"Edward has the ability to read minds. The only mind he has ever come across that he could not read was Bella's. However, now it seems as though he can't read any of yours." Carlisle explained softly to me. I pursed my lips and nodded my head like how Penny does when she's confident with something.

After that little tid bit was out of the way the boys continued to talk more about Victoria and eventually came to a conclusion. The Cullens were keep an out for her on their territory and they would take turns watching Bella's house. That was when I got pissed.

"Uhm, no. Definitely not happening. And I bet you a million dollars Jake agrees with me on that." I heard jake snort and then come to stand beside me. "None of you are stepping any closer to Bella than where you're standing right now. Bella practically lives at my house anyway, so that is where she will be staying. And no, none of you will be at my house watching her. Either Jake or Paul will constantly be over anyway. There is no need at all to have any of you twinkle butts around either of us." I heard Edward growl at me and before Paul could stop me I strode right up to him and poked him in his hard chest. "And you especially are not to be near Bella. At all. You left her alone in the woods, she could have died! And that would have been on your head. I never liked you from the start, but now I really can't fucking stand you for what you did to her. Stay away from her, I will not hesitate to beat your mommobile with a baseball bat." I was standing so close to him I was starting to get chilly. Our chests were inches from each other. He was staring down at me with hate filled eyes.

"Hazel." I could hear Bella calling for me, trying to get me to come back over the line. I could hear Paul and Jake growling.

Edward continued to stare at me and I stared right back. Challenging him. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. When he opened them again they were pitch black.

"Sam, get her away from me." His teeth were clenched and his hands were fisted at his sides. I qurked and eyebrow and 'hmphed' before turning around. Only when I turned around I fell straight to the ground. I saw Bella's eyes widen and I could faintly hear her screaming.

All I could focus on was that another body was on top of mine and I felt panic. I turned around quickly to throw off whoever was on me, and when I did I saw Edward fall to the side with Paul on top of him. He was snarling and trying to bite him and Edward was holding him off, just barely. I felt myself freeze. My eyes widened and I felt a scream bubble in my throat but I couldn't make a sound. I could barely breath.

It was over almost as quick as it started. Edward was being held back by Jasper and a bigger guy with brown hair and Paul was standing in front of me, blocking me from Edward. I felt a shiver run down my spin and I felt something trickle down my wrist and into my palm. I looked down and saw that my scar from when I was bitten by a wolf was opened and bleeding just like it did when it first happened. When I looked back up, the vampires were gone and Paul was back in his human form with his shorts riding low on his hips. He reached out to grab my wrist and I felt myself jerk away from him. His face showed hurt before a mask was in place. He stood up slowly and stepped to the side while Bella dropped to her knees in front of me and wrapped a piece of cloth around my wrist before I fainted from loss of blood.

~~~TOS~~~

This chapter is much short and I apologize for that and I also apologize for how terrible it was written, but I wanted to get this out to you guys and explain something.

I am going to be taking a short break from this story, maybe two weeks tops. My grandma just died and I'm not in a very good mental state at the moment, so I'm taking a break from this and giving myself some time to get out of this funk. I hope ya'll understand. I love and appreciate each and every one of you and I promise I'll be back soon! XOXO