Chapter Two

Away

"We'll take you home Bella." said the same voice. It was Jared. She could hear the Sam's large wolf form following behind with the other guy. She wanted to protest, that it wasn't safe for Charlie, but her voice didn't seem to want to work as she drifted off to sleep.

Bella's eyes flittered open. She'd dreamt of nothing, nothing at all. She sat up. She felt so emotionless, so lost. She looked around her room. Edward wasn't there. He was never coming back. Bella wrapped her arms around herself. The look of terror on his face when she had...exploded. She groaned and got up to her feet. She realized that she was naked. She was only wrapped in a blanket. She sighed to herself. Last night wasn't a dream. She rustled through her drawers for some comfy whatever clothes that she didn't care to ruin and headed downstairs.

When she entered the kitchen she was caught off guard. It was like a huge meeting was taking place. Most of the people there were strangers to her. Her heart pounded in her chest. They were speaking rabidly in some other language. Was this even her house? Fear flooded her entire body. Her arms clamped around herself. She wanted someone there to help her. Edward. A stabbing pain shot through her heart.

The sudden pain had caught her off guard and she tumbled backwards onto the stairs with of course as much noise as humanly possible, no. Wolf-ily possible? The talking immediately ceased. All of the fifteen native heads snapped in Bella's direction.

"Bella," said a familiar voice that she hadn't heard in a long time. On the end of the group sat Billy black, smiling and relaxed. "We should talk. A grumpy voice followed Billy's

"No Bella and I have to talk." said a very frustrated Charlie, clearly the house full of native elders wasn't exactly his favourite wake up call. Bella scrambled back onto her feet. Charlie had already made his way around the table. "I do want to talk to you alone, but they said it's too dangerous."

Bella's heart sunk. Her own father. She'd blindly attack her father? Did he actually not trust her?

"Bella, Your mother and I were going to tell you so many times, but it just never ended up happening that way. By right Bella, I'm not your birth father." Said Charlie, he began to fumble with buttons on his jacket. Bella had stiffened up. "When we were trying to have a baby, we found out that I was sterile. I couldn't have kids the way your mother wanted. So she decided to try that medical thing. But she had to find a donor. Of course I told Billy about the problems, you know how we like to gossip. And – "

"Wait so Billy is..." Bella looked to at Billy who was whispering rapidly with the guy next to him.

"No. A man named Joshua Uley, was the...donor." said Charlie. "I still love you kid. You're still my little girl no matter what." Bella stared at the floor. It was like this is all a dream. "But listen kiddo, the elders say that you should be going to live on the reservation, with Sam and his fiancé. For safety."

So he was afraid of her. And now he was sending her away. Bella swallowed hard ad turned, she ran full speed out the back door. She barely hit the grass before she exploded. Her long legs pounded the ground and she raced off into the woods gigantic tears pouring out of her eyes.

"Bella, what happened?" asked a voice.

"He's sending me away." Thought Bella, her voice sounded just as broken and sad as her real voice would have. "I'm too dangerous to be around him. The guy who raised me! And this Joshua Uley guy, if I ever get my hands on him, I'll fucking kill him."

"Hm? Sam's dad? Why would you want to kill him?"

"Sam's dad?" Bella shrieked in her mind, of course she was caught off guard, she stumbled and crashed into a stream of water. "So that means...I...he's...AH" Bella growled angrily getting up and stoping in the river.

"Yes Bella, I am your half brother." said the alpha's voice. Bella flopped down into the grass now soaking wet. She closed her eyes.

"Go away." She thought tiredly. There was too much stuff going on.

"They don't mean to send you away Bella, but its only until you can get your phasing under control. Charlie wasn't happy with the decision, he's been fighting it all morning."

"Really?"

"Yes Bella"

Bella sighed and got back up.

"It looks like I'm going to be staying with ya for a while Sam." Said Bella grumpily. She just realized that her clothes were torn to shreds. She groaned and flopped back onto the grass. She'd only just realized that Jared's voice had disappeared. She looked up to see Jared walking towards her with some clothes.

"I knew you'd end up in a pickle like this." said Jared laughing. Bella rolled her eyes. If she was human she'd have blushed. Bella nudged him to he fell backward onto his ass. She laughed to herself as she grabbed the clothes with her teeth, being so careful not to rip them. She tottered deeper into the forest to change.

She came running back out. Jared had been waiting by the back door of the small Swan residence.

"I'm your official escort." said Jared. "Sam's orders." Jared smiled. Bella smiled too. She didn't feel so numb with this guy around. She shook her head. Edward hadn't even been gone a day and Bella was clinging to the next thing that would make her happy. Of course that wasn't a bad thing all the time but, she felt weird about it. She opened the door and held it for him to walk ahead of her, which he did.

Bella strode into the kitchen. Billy looked pale as a ghost. He'd seen her phase.

"Sorry about that. I'll go pack my stuff." said Bella quickly. She turned and dashed up the stairs. Charlie looked so afraid. Tears streamed down her face. She ran down the hall to her room and flopped onto the bed, trying to choke back sobs. She could hear muffled voices downstairs. She got up off of her bed after a few minutes and grabbed a duffel bag from her closet. She went through her drawers throwing any clothes she could into the bag.

"Hey." said a voice at the door.

"Yes Jared, come in." said Bella grabbing her bag of toiletries and stuffing them into the bag as well.

"Are you alright?" he asked still standing in the door way.

"Alright as I can be right now." muttered Bella. Jared nodded. He knew how tough it was. Bella grabbed her tiny, tiny makeup bag from her desk and threw it into the bag. She zipped it up and picked it up off the bed. "Let's go." She said softly. Jared nodded and headed down the stairs, Bella on his heels.

"I'm going." announced Bella. Charlie stepped forward to give her a hug. He looked scared shitless. It broke Bella's heart. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tight.

"Come home...soon Bells." He whispered. Bella nodded and let go of him. She noticed that the elders were gone.

"Bye dad." Whispered Bells. Jared walked ahead of Bella holding the door for her and nodding a quick goodbye to Charlie. Jared followed her to the truck and climbed into the passenger side.

"Just wait till you try Emily's cooking." said Jared, happily, trying to lighten the mood. Bella smiled a bit as she backed out of the drive way and drove to the reserve.