BELLA

I couldn't help but shake as we crossed the threshold and stepped into the early evening sun. While I knew that I was surrounded by my family and wouldn't have to deal with this alone, I couldn't help but be afraid.

Carlisle and Jasper were right. I may have been the strongest vampire in the family, but I was still newborn and had no idea what I was doing. I had no idea how to fight anyone, let alone werewolves that had been trained by my boyfriend to kill vampires like me. All I had to go by were my insincts, but I wasn't sure if those would be enough. What if they weren't?

I found myself shuddering at the thought at that thought. Jasper, who knew exactly what I was feeling, tightened his grip on my shoulders.

"Don't worry," he whispered. "I'll take care of you."

'Yeah, but who's going to take care of you?" I whispered back.

"I don't know, but we'll figure it out." he answereed. "Just remember that whatever happens, I love you."

"I love you too." I answered and he placed a kiss in my hair.

All too soon, we were lined up face to face with a human Sam who was flanked by four other wolves. I recognized them as Jared, Paul, Quil, and Embry. The original five, the ones that were closest to Jacob, who wanted the most revenge for what happened to him. I knew the remaining ten wolves were probably scattered through out the woods, just waiting for Sam to give the order.

We all stared for a long moment before Carlisle released Esme and stepped forward with his hands raised. I heard a sharp intake of breath and it wasn't until Jasper squeezed my shoulders again, that I realized it was me.

"Relax." he whispered.

Esme looked torn. I knew she wanted nothing more than to go and stand beside him. However, he'd want her to stay as far away as possible from this conversation. The two wants warred with each other for a couple seconds before she stepped back to stand beside Emmett, who wrapped a comforting and protective arm around her.

"Look, Sam, we all know why you're here and what you want. We killed Jacob and broke the treaty and now you want justice for those two crimes. We understand that. We really do. However, none of us want to fight you and I know that you don't really want to fight you. Too many young lives would be needlessly lost. I know you don't wanna see any of your family fall. We don't want to see any of ours die, either. And we most definitely don't want to be responsible for killing any of yours. Especially when their only crime was trying to avenge a brother. So, in order to keep the peace, we are prepared to leave the second you allow us to and never come back. Wouldn't that be a much better alternative to bloodshed?" Carlisle stated.

Sam face turned up into a sick twisted grin that churned my stomach.

"I don't think so, Dr. Cullen." he replied in a deathly whisper. "See, my brothers, sister and I have been inching for a fight with you for months, and now that you've finally given us a reason, we aren't going to walk away without that fight. Besides, I would never push your kind off on some other poor community. You chose to break the treaty and take Bella's life away, now you're going to have to face the consequences."

Sam was already trembling as he said the words. I gulped knowing it wouldn't be too much longer before something happened.

"Now, you listen here mutt." Emmett growled releasing Rosalie and Esme and walking to stand beside Carlisle. "We didn't choose to do anything. We were going to leave Bella human out of respect for our brother, but because that dumbass excuse for a dog didn't give us any other choice. Because of what he did to her, we had no choice but to change her, or she would've died. If this is anyone's fault, it's Jacob's and seeing as he's already been punished for it, we shouldn't even be here, right now."

"See, leech, the thing about that is, the treaty never specified what condition that bitten human was in. It never stated that it mattered whether or not you were doing it to save the human. So why you did is a moot point. The fact is, you broke and we have every right to attack. Which is exactly what we're gonna do know." Sam stated.

He shape had already started to blur before he even finshed the speech. We had less than a second notice before his body exploded and a giant wolf was standing where Sam had been snapping and snarling. He didn't even give us a chance to adjust to the change before he lunged at Carlisle and all hell broke loose.

The rest of the pack started leaping at us from all sides. Jasper immediately jumped in front of me and started shoving as many of them away from me as possible. I heard snarling and snapping as my family took on their own wolves. The family was smart ebough to move their individual fights away from each other. They were trying to seperate the pack. We all knew the pack worked better in groups but if they couldn't get closer enough to gang up on one of us, then they weren't very good.

It took me a couple of seconds to realize that Jasper and I had bigger problems than what was going on with the rest of the family. I hadn't noticed that the wolves Jasper had force away from me, had now surrounded us.

There were five of them all forming a perfect circle around the two of us. I only recognized three of them. There was the smaller sandy haired Seth. The beautiful gray Leah. And the chocolate colored Quil. I could only assume the other two were from the younger genersation. The one that I hadn't known long enough to recognize.

Jasper grasped my hand firmly in his.

"Stand with your back to me." he whispered so low only I could hear. "Relax and remember that even though, they no how to destroy you, you do know how to stop them. Remember the things you saw in the clearing that night. They'll know you know they were taught not to go for the obvious kill, so watch all areas. Don't let them get too close and don't let them catch you by surprise. If you can get behind them, grab them, squeeze and don't let go. And if all else fails, use your venom." He said all of this in less than five seconds but I caught every word.

We stood there for another few seconds watching the wolves snarl at us, waiting for them to attack. I was sure they were working out a strategy in their head. They were probably going to attack at the same time so we would be too distracted to help each other.

Sure enough, after another interminable second, Leah lunged at me and Quil lunged for Jasper. I didn't pay attention to what the other three did. I let my instincts take over and lunged myself at Leah. I hit her hard against the chest and brought her slamming down hard on the ground. I was disgusted to know that I was satisfied with the whimper of pain that escaped her muzzle.

I was know on top of her. She struggled and snapped at me trying desperately to knock me off, but I was ten times stronger than her. It was no competition. There was a small part of my brain that registered Jasper trying to do battle with four. His gift was an immense help. I could also hear the whimpers and howls of wolves in pain and the panting of my family. They were putting up a good fight and so far I hadn't heard the metallic screech that would signal one of their demises.

Most of my brain was focused on Leah, though. I had her on the ground and wasn't exactly sure what to do next. I wasn't going to be able to get my arms around her like Jasper had said unless I moved, but that would give her the chance to get to me. I knew what my instincts were telling me to do, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

It wasn't right. I wasn't a killer. Besides, Leah wasn't an enemy, she was an alley. Or at least she had been before everything with Jacob. I couldn't bring myself to kill a former alley. Leah continued to struggle under me and was making some ground as I stayed on top of her, hesitating.

That's when I heard it. It was the first time I heard the velvety voice in my head since the cliff diving incident. It was just as perfect and beautiful as it was then.

"You have to do it, Bella." It said. "If you don't kill her, she'll kill you. It doesn't matter to her what you used to be. All that matter is what you are now. The enemy. You need to do it and get back into the fight. The family needs your help. I know you don't want to, but you don't have a choice. Please, for yourself and the family. The won't stop just because you show them mercy."

I knew the voice was right and that was all the push I needed. I grabbed Leah's muzzle in my hand and held it shut as I pushed her face to the side to expose her neck. I then leaned down and sunk my teeth into her neck. My teeth went through the fur, muscle, and sinew like a knife. Easily and effortlessly. I tried not to suck when I tasted the blood, it was the most disgusting thing in the world. I held myself there for a long moment letting the venom poor out of my mouth and into her blood stream.

Her struggles turned into convulsion of pain after a couple seconds and I pulled away. I looked at her laying helplessly on the ground her face contorted in pain as she slowly shifted back to human and began to regret what I had done. She was so young, barely even an adult and I killed her. It didn't matter why. All that mattered was that I killed her. I was a monster and I hated myself for doing it.

I didn't have too much time to dwell on the remorse, though.

"Bella, look out!" Jasper yelled less than two seconds after I pulled away from Leah.

I looked back just in time to see a sandy colored Seth leaping at me. I didn't even have a chance to throw my hands up to protect myself before he collided with me and sent my flying off of Leah and onto the ground. I cringed as pain shot up and down my back, but I knew I didn't have too much time to be a baby about it. Seth was straddling me snapping at my neck. I quickly reched my hands up and tried to force his muzzle away from me.

In the meantime, I could hear Jasper still going at it with the other three wolves. I could hear all of them whimpering in fear and pain as Jasper was, no doubt, using his gift to keep two of them a bay, while he worked on one. There were other noises too. I could still hear the distant sounds of my family fighting and the snarling and yowls of pain from the wolves. I was relieved to realize that I hadn't yet heard the sound that would tell me that I'd lost a family member.

I tried my hardest to force Seth's mouth away from my neck, but it wasn't working. Yes, I was stronger than him, but he was fueled by anger and hate after what I did to his sister. I realized then that Seth no longer thought of me the way he used to. I was no longer the good human that I had once been. And I definitely wasn't his friend anymore. No, to Seth Clearwater, I was now a bloodsucking monster, his enemy. The creature that he was sworn to protect his tribe from. The creature that had killed his sister. A monster, that was all Seth saw, now. Maybe that was true, I did kill Leah, after all.

It was that thought that maybe realize that maybe I deserved to die at this moment. Maybe, that was my punishment for killing Leah, to die before I ever had a chance to live my immortal life. I supposed I could live with that, if only there was a way to save my family before I went.

I felt the fight start draining from my body and my grip on his face got looser. This went an for another couple of seconds before I finally decided that I really did deserve to die. I was just about to release Seth and let him do what he had to do, when I felt him being knocked off of me.

I managed to sit myself up and saw that it was Jasper who had knocked him off of me. Jasper brought him crashing to the ground and he let out a yowl of pain. Jasper didn't give him any time to recover, in less than a second, he had his hands in position behind Seth's head and had snapped his neck. I cringed as Seth's body fell limply underneath him.

"Are you alright?" Jasper asked getting up and walking over too me. I could tell by the sound of his voice that he felt just as horrible about the killing as I did. We both knew, though, that it was the only way we could live through this fight.

"I'm fine." I stated. "What about you?"

"Better now that you're not on the wrong end of those teeth." he replied.

We didn't have much time to celebrate because there was growling and snarling coming from behind us. We whipped around to see three wolves standing there this time. The weren't the same ones that were there when I got into with Leah. I recognized one as Paul and one as Jared. I froze in fear when I saw the third. It was Sam.

Why was Sam standing here looking at me? Shouldn't he be fighting Carlisle? Unless...But I would've heard the screeching and seen the fire. I did a quick inventory without taking my mind off of Sam. Nope, the enotire family was still alive. Carlisle was across the yard helping Esme fight. I breathed a sigh of relief then met Sam's eyes head on.

I could see anger, hate, and accusation in those eyes. And all of those emotions were directed at me. It was then that I realized why he had stopped his fight with Carlisle. He wanted to be the one to destroy me, because in his eyes this was all my fault. I was the one who got in too deep with Jacob. My rejection had caused him to snap and kill Edward and Charlie. Charlie, who was probably the best man that Sam knew, was completely inoccent except that he was a connection to me. Something Jacob new would hurt me. Jacob trying to kill me and getting killed himself. This fight and the lost of a brother and sister. It all boiled down to me. If I hadn't come into Jacob's life then none of this would've happened. Sam knew it and I did too.

I was completelt selfish about everything. I should've just walked away when I realized our feelings for each other weren't the same. But I really needed him and I was too selfish to realize how much pain he was in. This was all my fault and I deserved to be punished for it. I knew that. I also knew that Sam wanted to be the one to do it. Maybe I could convince to just punish me and let the rest of the family leave. If it was the last thing I could do for them, then I'd do it.

I was vaguely aware of the fact that Paul and Jared had launched an attack on Jasper. I was sure that Sam wanted him distracted for this. I was glad for that because I didn't want Jasper to have to see it. Or any of the family for that matter. I was going to die and, with any luck, end it all. I could handle that, as long as the family was safe. That's all that mattered to me.

I found myself walking a fewq steps closer to Sam. He growled and the showed his teeth.

"Sam, please?" I whispered. "I know you think it's my fault. I know it's my fault. All of it. I was selfish. Please, just take me and do what you want, but just let my family go, please."

Sam paused for a moment as if telling his brothers something. He, then looked back at me and sprang. His jaw wide open and claws out, prepared to finish the job the minute he landed. U braced myself for it and then,

"Bella, no!" Jasper's yell rent the air and his body collided with mine. I was unprepared for a side attack and was knocked to the ground. Jasper was standing in my place, where Sam was about to land in less than a second.

The next second happened so fast that I would've missed it if I were human. Alice's body collided with Sam in midair and she sunk her teeth into his neck as the came crashing to the ground. Sam let out a howl of pain as Alice pulled away. The venom was fast, but not fast enough.

The pair landed on the ground with Sam on top of Alice, who wasn't even struggling. He managed to get his teeth around her neck and ripped her throat out.

The fighting had stopped with Sam's yowl of pain and the quiet air was filled with the metallice screeching of Alice's throat being torn off. Before the family got over the shock enough to act, the wolves had surround Alice's and Sam's bodies and the clearing was once again filled with the screeching of them finishing Alice off.

I made to run in there to save her, because Alice couldn't be dying, not because of me. Jasper, however, grabbed me around the waist and pulled me back.

"There's nothing we can do." He whispered sadly. "She gone."

"No!" I yelled struggling against him.

I was wondering why he was able to hold me while I was throwing all of my strength into getting free. It took a long time to remember that he had trained newborns before and knew exactly how to keep them in line. I gave up after a long minute and started dry sobbing into his chest.

The clearing was soon filled with the awful smelling purple smoke of a burning vampire. I sobbed even harder into Jasper chest. I could feel the dry sobs wracking his body too and I put my arms tightly around him.

After an interminable amount of time, I heard footsteps and I turned to see Jared, in human form, walking to the still shocked and grieving family with his hands in the end air. It looked like he was surrendering or something.

"We don't wanna do this anymore." he stated and I could see tears running down his face. "We done, it's over. Just leave and never come back."

"Alright." Carlisle replied his voice sounded very faraway. "We're sorry that it had to come to this. And even more sorry for your losses."

"Just go!" Jared answwered as though it took everything he had to stay calm.

"Okay. Thank you, Jared." Carlisle returned with a nod of his head.

Jared turned around and walked back to his grieveing family. Mine turned to leave but I couldn't make myself move. Not even when Jasper tried to pull me. I couldn't go anywhere. What was the point? There was nowhere to go. Alice, my best friend and sister, the one who was always there for me, the girl who gave up everything for my happiness, had died for my happiness. Surly the world, was going to come crashing down around me at any minute. I didn't understand why it wasn't.

I saw for gone in my grief that I barely noticed Jasper pick me up and start to carry me away. It was ironic, I hadn't even been a vampire for twenty four hours and I found myself wishing I was human again. At least then I could sleep and forget this ever happened.

A/N: Well, what do you guys think? I hope it turned out alright. Let me know. PLease review.