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Charlie's Point of View
"What, no way was that over the foul line. What are you playing at ref?" I shouted in disbelief at the TV. The Florida Marlins were playing the Detroit Tigers and the game was pretty intense. "Yes, go on, run, Yeahhhh!" I shouted jumping out of my seat. The phone rang, interrupting my celebrating.
"Hello" I said in the receiver.
"Charlie? It's Billy." Said a husky voice,
"Billy, how are you? And Jake? I was going to come and see you two today" I asked enthusiastically.
"Erm... Yeah I'm good, err Jakes good as well. Is Bella in?"
"No she's at Edward's" I heard a short quiet growl in the background "Why, is something wrong?" It took Billy a few seconds to answer;
"No, no just we are ok to come and see you then, we need to talk" he replied quickly.
"Yes, that's fine but..." I stopped as the line went dead. "Funny" I said to myself as I hung the phone back on its cradle, "lines must be bad, there's probably a storm coming." I pulled the takeaway leaflet out of the drawer and looked around for Bella coming to reprimand me about fast food out of habit. You know she's out, stop being an old fool. You'll be believing in ghosts and ghouls next. I laughed at my own stupidity before taking the phone down off the wall and printed in the number.
Billy and Jacob arrived at half five, ten minutes before the pizzas were dropped off and we dug straight in. After about two or three minutes of munching on pepperoni pizza I put down the crust on the edge of my plate and turning to Billy said
"So, you guys wanted to speak with me about something." Billy and Jacob shared a glance before Billy looked me in the eye. The intensity of his stare was quite unnerving. I swallowed quickly before Billy open his mouth to speak
"Do you believe in Myths and Legends" he said in a daunting whisper.
"What do you mean?" I asked feeling slightly daft that I was having this conversation with a fully grown man in my kitchen.
"What we mean is do you believe in blood, I mean Vampires and the likes?" Jake said bluntly leaning across the table.
"Why, are you trying to tell me that you are a blood-sucking vampire Jake?" I heard my voice quiver slightly as I spoke. Jacob leaped up from the table and began to pace quickly, muttering what sounded like a steady stream of profanities under his breath,
"Bloody bloodsucker, is that what I look like...frigging parasites...stealing my girl..."
"Jacob!" Billy spoke sharply which caused Jake to stop pacing and allowed his mouth to still before nodding the tiniest amount before continuing to stalk back and forth across the kitchen but now silently.
I stopped my eyes from following Jake's path and turned back to face Billy. His mouth was set but his eyes sympathetic. "No Charlie, Jacob is not a vampire but there are vampires living in this town," I froze, staring in horror at him, "they have not caused any trouble to the people of Forks personally but some of their... er friends have given your force something to work on."
I opened and closed my mouth a couple of times, acting like a fish before gulping once and opened my mouth a final time and stuttered one word "Who?"
Jacob suddenly quit burning a hole in the floor and plopped back down in his chair and grabbed another slice of pizza and swallowed quickly before speaking;
"Are you sure you want to know which citizens of this town are actually the undead and are allowed to walk quite freely with innocent human beings that could become their next meal if they accidently slip?"
"Yes," I said firmly " yes Jacob, god damn it tell me who are the filth that are allowing their kind to kill whomever they feel like and who is putting everyone's life at risk by existing" I added quickly as I watched Billy and Jacob share and shocked glance, my voice was gradually getting louder in my mounting desperation.
"Thinks Charlie, who in the town doesn't look like everyone else, you know, looks different to the other people?" Jacob probed gently.
"How so?" I asked quickly,
"What Jacob means is for example; pale skin, weird coloured eyes..." Billy said carefully
I stood slowly and turned to the small window facing the backyard. No it can't be right, Bella must not know. Surely, she must know, it would be too dangerous. Argh, my baby girl with those...things, but Alice and Esme are too kind and caring and Carlisle; he's a doctor; he saves people so he have some good in him. And he left her, so he must be bad, I also don't like the look of that blond one...Oh yeah, Jasper; that's his name. I twisted sharply to face the Quileutes seated nervously at the square oak table,
"The Cullens" I all but snarled, making it a statement rather than a question as I was so sure of my reasoning. I waited impatiently for a short nod from Jake before snatching the phone off its cradle and punching in Bella's cell number. It rang twice before I heard a slight click as she received the call,
"Hello?"
"Bella!" I shouted in relief, as I was so happy to hear that she was alright. "I want you home, right now young lady" I started to use my fatherly tone which I had not used in quite a while so I had no idea how effective it would be.
"Dad, what's wrong and Dad I'm an adult I can do what I want." She sounded annoyed but slightly worried, maybe they have hurt her!
I angered quickly at the thought and snapped into the phone ""I don't care, put Edward" I sneered the name "on the phone, now Bella!"
She seemed to sigh quietly before saying "okay dad, chill"
The next thing I heard was the voice of my to-be son-in-law which set me off again;
"You filthy, disgusting parasite, how dare you think you can marry my daughter, you should be in hell..." Bella quickly cut me off by saying
"Dad, who is with you now?"
"Erm..." I was slightly stumped by her question; why does she want to know who I'm with; surely she doesn't know that Billy and Jacob are here? No, it'll be one of the bloodsuckers telling her to say that! I continued "Billy and Jacob, Why?" I decided to check anyway.
Her reply was so abrupt that I caught me off guard
"I'm coming home now" before I once again heard the dial tone.
"What now?" I addressed the men in my kitchen, turning away from the wall.
"Now we wait" said Jacob, ominously.