Wolves

She went straight to the line, almost running right through a red light. I growled in distaste as I was stuck behind the invisible line…again. The time that it took waiting, I just stared at the ground. The thing that separated me form my purpose. From my cause.

Bella's truck rolled into viewing before the wolves could descend. She was upset, tear marks stained her face and when she reached the house she didn't leave her car. She just sat, moving her hands up and down the steering wheel, as if contemplating if she should go inside or go back. Or maybe she just wanted to stay in the car. Her hands gently left the wheel and went to the empty hole in the middle of the dashboard. She'd ripped out the present and she ever so lightly moved her index finger around the outside of the blackened hole.

She began to cry harder after that.

After about a half an hour her weak body climbed out of the car. She went straight to her room not checking in with Charlie or eating or even bathing. The bed made a sound as her body fell upon it. She cried some more, but I didn't notice. I couldn't notice. I could hear distance sounds running to the house. They were fast and heavy, as if caring tones of weight.

I fled higher into the tree and watched as the clumsy boy tried to climb the tree. He wasn't as good as a vampire. Wolves never were. My mind screamed at him to go away as his fingers scratched the window. This was not where he belonged. That was Edward's entrance, not his. He looked up to where I was hidden then jumped into the room as the window opened.

They talked and when Jake left, he left Bella with a confused look on her face. Before leaving, he looked up at my spot one more time. When he turned to leave I made my move.

My agile body flew to right in front of his large feet. As I turned, I realized how much taller he was than me, much more beefier as well. His hair cut around his shocked face as the rain pounded down on us.

"Hello Jacob." my voice was bitter and filled with warning.

"I thought I smelt something rotten." he crossed his arms and looked down to me. "You're a little small to be terrifying." he added with a cocky smile.

"You're a little ugly to be trying to replace someone so beautiful." I smiled as I saw his grin turn to a scowl. "You don't belong here."

"You're one to talk." he turned his head to the side. "Leech." he stepped forward.

"You shouldn't talk about what you don't know." I grinned and shook my head back and forth while wagging my finger.

"Who are you with then?" he asked in distaste. "Cullen's or the red head's"

I didn't reply at once, Victoria had been on the res. She'd been close to Bella. I hadn't been doing my job, but it wasn't entirely my fault. It was their fault I couldn't go to the reservation and watch over Bella like I should have been. It was their fault she was in danger.

"I asked you a question!" he pounded, getting angry.

"Who do you think I'm with?!" I shouted because it was obvious. "I'm obviously not attacking you and ripping your oversized body to shreds. So I must be good. I also haven't killed Bella, which would be far to easy right now."

"Then who are you?!" he shouted matching my tone.

"I'm Julia, Julia Frost. Has Victoria been on the Reservation?" I asked now calm.

"I've never heard of you." he replied not answering the question.

"I'm sure you're ancestors have, could you please answer the question?" I asked starting to get annoyed again. If Victoria was here, then that meant I had to be paying attention to only to Bella, which I had no ability of hearing, but the Victoria, whose voice I couldn't hear very well, only slithers.

"Yes she's been circling. Does she know you're here?"

"Maybe…" I looked down. "I hope not."

"Why don't you smell as bad as they said you would, you don't even smell as bad as Bella and her room."

"I don't smell as bad because I have never had human blood in me." I didn't pay attention to astounded look smacked upon his face. If I couldn't watch Bella as she pranced around La Push, then someone had to. This would have to be Jacob since he was the only one I had contact with. That plus he liked Bella. Then I had to start paying attention more here, so if she came close I could get her. "Will you watch Bella when she visits you?" I asked looking up at him.

"Of course I would, that's what we've been doing." he crossed his arms like he'd accomplished something.

"Well, it didn't seem like you were paying too much attention to Bella, she's felt horrible." I said, realizing my voice had gotten sad with the thought.

"That's not my fault." he shot at me. "I've had orders. I have to follow Alpha's orders."

"I'm not going to try and make you feel bad. But I can't allow Bella to fall for you, or for you to even think that." my voice was bitter. "She doesn't love you, she'll never love you."

"That's what you think." he smirked.

"I guess you don't understand the kind of love Bella and Edward have. Trust me, I've tried with Edward."

"Edward only wants her for her blood. He's a monster just like you."

"Oh. I'm hurt. But it's more than that." I said looking to the side. "You'd never understand." my head shook back and forth at his no understanding it. "Just don't make Bella feel bad for something she doesn't feel."

He looked at me, but didn't say anything.

"I'll take that as you get my message." I walked around his body and looked up at the tree. "How many of you are there?" I'd figure I'd ask. I knew there were at least five , but that didn't mean there weren't more. He might tell me, might not.

"Why would I tell you that?" he questioned as if I were insane.

"Just wondering if you would." I smiled and flew up the tree with ease. He stared at me in amazement. "Don't you wish you were a vampire like me?" I teased, smiling.

He grunted and ran off, leaving me laughing silently. My laughter stopped as I looked back into Bella's room. She was tossing and turning again in her bed. I wished a visual could play in my mind with what she was dreaming. As she shot up out of the bed my head snapped over my right shoulder. A tree branch broke loudly and the persistent light leaping footsteps continued away from me. My eyes, closed, recognized the color.

It was her.

Bella was looking out her window before I left, while running I prayed she hadn't seen me, or more that she wasn't terrified. The tree branch had snapped when my body pounced off of it. The rain hit my skin with fierceness that I'd never felt, but that meant I was going fast. And it was fast enough to catch up with her. She turned some and smiled in my direction. Her fire red color dissected with black where her eyes and mouth should be. My teeth crunched together at the thought and sight of her ugly half moon smile.

A growl sounded and she instantly she flew up. I gasped as a silvery grey furred wolf ran into me full force, sending me flying backwards into the stump of an old tree.

A weird noise came out of my mouth and the oversized dog tired to climb the tree. I could hear the cackling of Victoria's laughter going to the other direction of the woods. The wolf then looked at me, showed his teeth and inched closer.

"What?" I grunted. "It's not my fault. This is you ran into me." he pounced at the words. My body quickly avoid him. "You're going to have to be faster than that to catch up with me. Fatty."

He darted again, but I fled again. I started on Victoria's trail. "Why did you have to get in the way?" I asked knowing I couldn't understand his growls or hear what he was thinking. We continued until I was sure we'd never catch up to her, she'd gotten too much of a head start.

When I stopped, the mutt had no idea what to do. And I will admit, he gave a good effort to stop, but I wanted him to run into me this time. He hit and fell back.

"I'll give you a second to shift back." I turned and heard a weird noise. I assumed that was the noise their bodies made while transforming. "Done yet?"

His hands grabbed my arms and tried to yank them out of their sockets.

"Do you mind?!" I asked stomping on his toe, which made him release me.

"Ow!" his howl echoed around us. "You little leech."

"Look dog." I flew up and held on to a tree branch. "I don't want to hurt you."

"You shouldn't talk to Jake!" he shouted at me, and reached up trying to grab my ankles.

"Why ever not? Can't we just get along?" I smiled and kicked his hand viciously.

He whimpered some and began to grab again. "I'm going to get you down." he repeated still reaching.

"Look, I can hold on all day. And I'm sure your leader-"

"Paul!" a voice came from the left.

"Sam! Help me get her down."

"You're the one from before." Sam and I said at the same exact time. My eyebrows arched and my hands released the branch. I flew gracefully down to the ground like a piece of dust.

"Look, I mean no harm." I said, having to dodge Paul's attack.

"Paul! Stop." Sam said, his voice taking an assertive tone. Paul stopped immediately but continued a, I suppose, terrifying stare.

"You're the Alpha." I smiled. "You should give Jacob a little more room, I'll need his help with Bella."

"You don't have to worry about Bella anymore." Sam started right when I stopped. He kept a good distance away from me, I supposed he thought I might charge.

"I do, see with Edward not here, she needs the proper looking over."

"You think you can do better than us?" Paul shot at me.

"Silence." Sam direct to Paul once more. Then turned to me, "we may not be as strong individually. But with our numbers we can kill you." the way he said kill was almost as if he saw it as my future.

"I have no intentions of killing anyone. And I know you can. I know what you did with Laurent. And I congratulate you, though he wasn't much of a challenge now was he?"

"No, a lot of talk and no spunk." he half smiled. But it disappeared instantly. "I suppose you're not going to leave, no matter what I threaten you with."

"No, I wont. There's only one thing that could make me leave, and I don't see that option coming anytime soon." I looked to the ground. Edward seemed so far away at the moment, in mind and life.

"Do you have something for him." Sam asked me. "If you did, that would help Jacob out -"

"I'm only a sister looking over her brother's love while he is gone. You better tell your Jacob that." I spat. "She will never love him, there's nothing he can do to change it. He's wasting his time."

"You've already tried." Paul said after a long silence. I didn't say anything in return.

"We'll look over Bella while she's at the Reservation." Sam said, as he turned to leave.

"Thank you, and like I said, this wont interrupt the treaty. As far as I'm concerned, the Cullen's still aren't here. So you're welcome at anytime. Please just don't try and kill me." I smiled as I watched them leave, then returned to Bella's room. Where I found her sleeping like a child, better then she had in what seemed like years.

yay not dead yet : ]