Thank you all for your reviews! Here is the next chapter. Now that my boyfriend is gone to Christian Camp for a week then I have absolutely nothing to do. So I'll have 2 or 3 more chapters coming this week. Enjoy!

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Chapter Five: The Gang's All Here...

Edward and I ran downstairs as quickly as we could, only slowing down so Edward could help me regain my balance when I slipped as we ran down the hall. I could see Emmett and Jasper blocking the stairs, Esme by the entrance to the living room, Carlisle was blocking the way to the dining room, and Alice and Rosalie were standing in front of the front door, their arms grossed, eyes narrowed viciously. As Edward and I descended the stairs, I saw who was standing in the middle of this all: Jacob Black and Sam. One thought passed through my head as my mind raced when I saw them standing there, staring up at Edward and I: What the hell were they doing here?

"What do you want?" Edward hissed, his arm sliding protectively around my waist, pulling me tightly against his side. "You have no rights to be in this house! Leave. Now!"

"Edward," Carlisle interrupted, holding up a hand to silence him. "Let us hear what they have to say first, shall we?"

Edward's jaw clenched and, with some effort, forced a small nod.

At the bottom of the stairs, dangerously close--a mere five feet away from Jasper and Emmett--Jacob took yet another step foreward in our direction. "What do you think I'm doing here, you leech?" He sneered. "I came to make sure you hadn't broken the treaty. If you had, there would have been hell to pay. But she looks the same...the same average, yet beautiful, Bella I once knew...the only think different about her is her personality...no thanks to you." He said, his black eyes staring straight into Edward's indentical ones. I knew Edward was probably thinking of a plan; either a plan on how to get me out of here incase things got ugly, or a plan of attack. But you know...it was probably both, knowing him.

"Does it look like she's been changed to you, mutt?" Edward snarled at him, tensed. "And yes, her personality has changed, but it's for the better. Now she won't get mixed up with the likes of your people."

Everyone in the room was staring at the two boys, verbally battling it out over me; the only human in the room.

"Yeah right...when you and your bloodsucker family leave again, she'll come crying back to me...she'll be lucky to have me. I can give her things that you can't." Jacob said, his fists clenched at his sides.

"I'm not going anywhere. If I do, I'm taking Bella with me: away from you and Forks and this whole damned place!" Edward basically yelled at him, making me flinch and his arm reassuringly tightened around me.

"At least I'm not going to kill her like you plan on doing!" Jacob said as loudly back to Edward and took a menacing step foreward and Emmett growled viciously at him and Jasper took up a defensive position, and Sam grabbed Jacob's arm, keeping him back at a safe distance.

"You almost killed her for no good reason when I was gone..." Edward's voice faltered; Jacob was breaking Edward's defense. He'd gotten Edward to admit that he hadn't been there to protect me.

Jacob smirked. "Looks like you haven't been doing such a great job...leech." Jacob jerked his arm out of Sam's grasp and started backing up towards the door. "Let's split Sam...I can't believe I actually wanted to come here. It was a waste of our time." He said loud enough for everyone to hear. Sam obliged gratefully and followed him to the door as Alice and Rosalie quickly stepped away and went to Esme's side. Jacob let Sam out of the door ahead of him, and he turned back to face me; I hadn't said a word the entire time. "Don't have anything to say, Bells?" He questioned with a smirk aimed in my direction. "He can't protect you all the time...he wasn't there last time to keep you safe, and he won't be there next time. Remember that, Cullen. You won't be able to help her next time; she'll be mine and you'll be dead." With that threat hanging in the air, he stepped out and slammed the door, hard, behind him.

We were all standing there in silence for a moment until Emmett broke it. "He's bluffing..." His voice was unsure though.

"No...he's serious." Edward said quietly, surprising me. "One of us has to be with Bella at all times. Two of us is possible."

"That's not necessary; I don't want you putting yourselves in danger for me...I'm not worth it." I said firmly, looking sternly at them all.

"Bella..that's ridiculous...you are apart of this family." Esme said in a motherly voice, looking at me in concern and I could tell she was worried. As I looked around at all their faces, I could tell that they all were, Edward especially.

"Bella..you aren't worth it? Where did that come from? You are more worth it than anyone to me...I would be devastated if anything like what he has planned happened to you...I wouldn't be able to live with myself." Edward said, his voice getting shaky.

I looked up at his eyes, which had changed from black to a liquid golden. "Edward...he's not going to do anything to me. Like Emmett said...he's probably just lying so we'll be vulnerable and he can look for an opening. We can't give him that advantage." I said softly, holding his hands tightly in mine.

"Bella is right, Edward." Rosalie jumped in, and I looked at her in surprise. Since when did Rosalie come to my defense? "We can't give him what he wants. We'll be playing into the palm of his hand." She looked at the rest of the family for backup and they all nodded and said words of agreement.

"We should move..." Carlisle murmured and we all looked at him.

"What?" We all chorused. We knew we would have to move sooner or later...but now?

"We should move." He repeated. "Soon. Within the next two weeks. Esme and I will go out of town this week to look for some property by another vampire coven in New England--" He paused to look at Esme who nodded "--and Emmett and Rosalie will go to look at another property in Alaska where another family, that we are very good friends with, lives. Alice and Jasper, we'll need your help packing up the house and all our belongings. Edward...you'll have to change Bella. Or I will have to. We cannot risk her staying human, and staying vulnerable to him. It is out of the question, and more dangerous than you can even begin to understand. Do we all have an agreement?" Everyone nodded eagerly...except for Edward who forced a small nod, his beautiful eyes downcast with sadness.

"Good." Carlisle said briskly, clasping his hands. "Esme and I will leave early in the morning and Emmett and Rosalie need to do so as well. Another one of Edward's duties, along with Bella, is to inform Charlie. I know, it's not right to tell him of our nature, but it needs to be done so he knows to be on his guard."

I nodded slowly as he spoke. "I think we can manage that..." I said, squeezing Edward's hand reassuringly and giving him a small smile, which his eyes lit up at.

"Great. Edward, you should go ahead and take Bella home. Stay with her through the night to make sure that Jacob and Sam and the others aren't planning anything."

Without a word, Edward took my hand more firmly and led me towards the door without looking at any of the others, his eyes troubled. I gave a small wave and smile to the rest of the family. "Bye..." I said, a bit sadly; it was my fault we all had to pack our lives up here in Forks and move away from the danger that wouldn't be calling my name, if I had only listened to Renee and moved to Florida with her and Phil.