Ok, I think there will only be 3 more chapters left. Next is when Bella punches Jake, and the graduation party. The battle is after that, then the last chapter is Mary knocking more sense into Bella. I might write an epilogue but who knows. If you want one, I could write one. I know that the past couple chapters haven't been that up to par with the rest, but I'm sorta just trying to get this done so I can focus on other stories. As always please review.

~Amanda~

Chapter 18

Saturday passed quickly for Mary. By Sunday, Mary was nervously pacing the house trying to figure out why she felt so uneasy. Just to prove how out of it she was, when the phone rang on Sunday, she jumped about a foot high. Jacob gave her a funny look as he reached for the phone. Mary watched as his expression quickly turned stormy.

"What happened?" She asked him when he slammed the phone down. Jacob rushed around trying to find his keys before just throwing off his shoes and heading for the door.

"Jacob William Black, what happened?!" She yelled.

He turned to look at her standing there huffing and puffing. All 4' 10" of her. "Shouldn't you know?" He raised an eyebrow with a sneer on his face. Mary was shocked. She took a step back. "There was a leech in Bella's room last night. A fucking leech! Not even 20 feet from where Charlie was sleeping! Some of her things are missing. I'm going over there to see if I can track the scent or see if the pack has run across it before."

He then slammed the door. Mary stood there for a moment before falling onto her knees. She never seen it. How could she not see it? She fumbled for a vision. Anything to make it up to Jake. She closed her eyes and thought about Bella. Trying to force herself to have a vision with out touching anything. And she got one. Oh, did she get one.

Bella was sitting on a giant bed in a beautiful room. The bed had a gold coverlet on it. Edward was on one knee in front of her. Mary took deep breaths at what was happening. Then Bella said yes.

Jacob running, ever running, giving in to his wolf. Living out his life miserable as a wolf. Billy living alone by himself, always wondering about what happened to his son.

Bella as a vampire. Jacob dead. The pack and the Cullens fighting against each other. Vampires in dark cloaks. Mary being changed into a vampire. The pack being dead.

Some one was shaking her. Mary ignored it as she sobbed. How could she? Does she not feel the imprint? Mary had asked both Emily and Kim and they both felt the imprint. Even little Claire hated to have Quil out of her sight. So what was so wrong with Bella's imprint?

She opened her eyes to see Billy staring at her with his hand on the phone. She jumped up and grabbed the phone out of his hand before he could call anyone.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Billy. But this has to stay quiet. I have to think." Mary didn't say anything more, she just barricaded herself in her room, Rachel's old room. She knew that it would be better to get Alice's input on this, but Alice couldn't see the wolves, and Mary couldn't see Alice. But there must be some way to have Bella with Jake and make everyone happy.

Mary pulled out her vision journal and pulled out a separate piece of paper. For now, there was the vampire problem. After that, she would deal with everything else. She read the journal front to back, then jotted down everything that came to mind that she thought was strange.

She spent the whole night staring at her notes of everything and she knew there was something missing, and it had to do with the blond haired vampire. She just needed one clue to click everything together. Laying down, she stared up at the ceiling. What the hell did the blond haired vampire have to do with anything? And how did it tie in with the red-head?

After school the next day, Mary plopped down next to Emily on her couch. Even though her mind was a thousand miles away, she immediately knew when Paul walked in the door and pulled her up on his lap. She looked into his eyes, and ran her hands through his short but shaggy hair.

When he was around, she could almost believe everything was normal. "What's wrong, you look troubled?" Paul asked. Mary wished that she could convey her visions on someone else so she could have a second opinion, and almost like he could hear her, Paul gasped.

"What was that?" He asked her.

"What?"

"I saw something, did you do it?" She scrunched up her face.

"What?"

"I saw....it looked like...a blond bloodsucker."

Mary gasped, and if Paul wasn't holding her, she would have fallen off. Her thoughts started whirling. Did she really do that? Did she put her thoughts in his head? Her mind went to when she touched Alice's hand for the first time. Did they do that? Or were they reading each other? As she was thinking it, her mind got another vision of Bella.

Bella and Edward were laying on her bed. It was dawn, and Bella looked like she had been up all night crying. Edward looked pained, and conflicted. Bella looked up at him and gave him a sad smile. Edward looked deep in her eyes and spoke in a strangled voice, "Bella, if it hurts this much, how can it be right?" His eyes looked down to the wolf pendant she was playing with.

Mary opened her eyes to see the pack looking at her. She noticed that she was crying. But she actually felt Bella's pain in that one, and it was almost the same thing that she would have felt if she ever had to leave Paul. Mary understood that Bella had chosen to leave Jacob for Edward. She sighed.

"It's ok, guys. Nothing to do with anything." Paul didn't look like he believed her, but said nothing. He just pulled her back into him and she glanced at the TV. It was the news and it was showing about how there were now over almost 20 unsolved murders and disappearances in Seattle.

"Damn vampires." She muttered. Every wolf that was in the room turned to look at her in what could be only horror. Her eyes widened as she thought about what she said. Sam jumped up and ran to the phone and called a mandatory pack meeting, including the elders.

An hour later, all 11 of the pack mates were there including the two new ones, Collin and Brady. And Billy, Sue, and Old Quil.

"Mary said something earlier that makes a lot of sense. But we just don't know how, or what it means. We think that the things that are going on in Seattle have to do with vampires. The police have found badly disposed bodies, and people are missing left and right. We don't know the technical things about changing vampires, but what we understand is all it takes is one bite. We think that there is a vampire or two on the loose in Seattle."

"It might be the blond haired one that I keep seeing. I think he was the one in Bella's room." Mary said. Sam nodded and they chatted for a bit, trying to figure out what was going on.

Jacob came up to her when everyone started to leave. "Mary, I'm sorry I freaked on you. I know your doing your best." He looked down at his feet. "I just don't know what to do about her, and it scares me."

Mary took his giant hand in her tiny one. The contrast in sizes was almost comical. "It's ok, Jake. I have an idea that I got earlier, and I think it might work. Just keep showing her how much you love her. And that she doesn't have to change for you. I'll deal with the rest. But for now, these vampires are priority."

He nodded and walked her out and back to their house. They were almost to the house when Mary got another vision. She grimaced and looked to glare at Jake. "On Friday, you might want to watch out. Because I do have a crow bar."

She left him standing dumbfounded in the front yard, while she went to the garage to get a crow bar and take it to her room. If Bella ever asked for it, Mary had it. And even if Bella didn't want it, well....the wolves could always use some sense knocked into them.