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Jacob

My date with Bella had left me less happy than I thought it would. I dropped her off at her house and went back to see Billy. It was late. The sun was going to set soon.

I walked into our living room and saw Billy ready to leave. I assumed he was going to spend the day with some of the others from the tribe. I was already planning what I was going to do when he left, but he burst my barely formed bubble.

"Sam and the boys came to look for you. They were headed to Sam's house. They want to talk to you. What did you do?"

I ran my hands through my hair. "Nothing. Sam is crazy and the others are crazy because they listen to him."

Billy gave me a look that said he didn't believe me, but he didn't press. He let me leave. I would have walked him to wherever he was going, but I knew Billy when it came to watching the tribe. I slowed my walk to a crawl when I noticed that the moon would be out soon. It would still be mostly a full moon, but for now the sun was still out. I knew that Bella called me her sun, but I liked the moon better.

I remembered the others after a while and started walking again. Sam's house was on the other side of the reservation and walking there was a pain, but duty was duty. The others were standing outside of Sam's house.

"Jake! Where have you been all day?" Quil called out as soon as I was close enough to hear.

"I was on a date." I said stressing the word date.

Quil roared with laughter.

I ignored him and spoke to Sam. "I heard you wanted to see me, Boss."

"We're going to keep watch today, all of us. Embry saw the redhead earlier today and we think she's coming back tonight. The problem is, when we went out to check the place, we smelled more than one vampire. We're talking about a massive amount of vampires." Sam answered.

"And? There's no way we can't take on a couple of bloodsuckers." I said.

It was obvious from the looks on their faces that we couldn't take on a couple of bloodsuckers.

"There's a lot Jake. We need help." Embry said.

I understood what they were trying to tell me immediately. They wanted to go beg the Cullens for help.

I laughed. "You want me to go ask the Cullens for help, don't you? Wait. Don't answer that, of course you want me to go ask the Cullens for help."

"You know them better than we do because you know Bella better than we do." Sam reasoned.

"Yeah, yeah, I know how this goes. When and where?"

"Tonight. As a matter of fact, bring them all with you." Sam said.

I nodded vaguely and started walking back home. They were making me go talk to the Cullens. I was going to have to be civil to the bloodsuckers and admit that we needed their help. It was enough to make me throw up.

And then, I remembered the green eyed bloodsucker. If I saw her with the Cullens then that proved she was a bloodsucker.

When I got home, I picked up my car keys and started driving. I was going to kill Sam and then I'd kill all the bloodsuckers. Well, I'd let the doctor and his wife live. They'd never done anything to me. I might even let the others live, but I knew who wouldn't live.

I was planning different ways to get rid of Bella's bloodsucker when I realized that I'd passed the Cullens house. I parked my car and announced mentally that I was coming.

Dr. Carlisle opened the door for me. Bella's bloodsucker was at his side. I looked at him and let him read my thoughts.

"We need your help." I said.

Both of them looked at me as if I'd grown extra limbs. I stopped myself from rolling my eyes. I was being nice, I hoped Bella's blood…Edward would act accordingly. I tried not to throw up from mentally calling him Edward. I stood there a little longer waiting for them to come back from their surprise induced comas.

The doctor recovered first. "Of course, we will help. When did you say that Victoria was coming?"

"We think tonight and from what we gathered, she's bringing backup. She has—

"She has an army of newborns." Edward said.

"Yes, she has a lot of vampires with her, we know. The point is we need help, because there are too many of them." I said.

"Yes, we know. Where do you want to get together?" Edward asked.

"We'll let the treaty go for a second and meet in the forest, across our border. We need to head them off early. We can't let them get past the border or they'll be close to Bella. She's staying either in your house with one of you or she's staying at home and we have to have some of us with her. I think it would be better if we tell her." I said knowing that Edward didn't want to.

"I agree with you until the very end." He said.

"Listen, you know Bella, or well you don't which is why you haven't come up with this conclusion. But, Bella will not be happy if we don't tell her. It's fine with me if we don't, she'll just blame you." I said matter-of-factly.

I saw Edward work out the possibilities in his head.

"I'll go talk to her. We'll leave her with Charlie and have Alice stay with her. I'll meet you in the forest as soon as I arrange things with Bella."

I nodded and turned to the doctor. "Can the rest of you come with me?"

"Of course."

I didn't have to wait long. The doctor called the rest of them and I didn't have to wait long. Everyone seemed to be okay with following me except the blond vampire, the one that probably thought she was better than anyone else. I didn't like her. I probably would never like her.

The small one who was called Alice wasn't with us. She had stayed behind with Edward to protect Bella. I wasn't sure if I trusted them with her, but Bella had put her life in their hands before. And it didn't bother me as much as I thought it would to think that she was in their hands. Maybe I was getting the hang of this letting go thing. Or I could just be numb and defeated. I decided that I was doing a good job at letting go of Bella.

After a while I noticed that I hadn't seen Cassandra. She wasn't with the Cullens now and I hadn't smelled her back at their house. Then again, I hadn't really been looking for her back there and I didn't even go in the house.

I put Cassandra out of my head when we got to the woods. Sam and the others were human. I just looked at them. Sam had drilled it into our heads that we should NEVER be defenseless against leeches. But, when I looked around I noticed that without Bella's leech, we wouldn't be able to talk to each other.

"Hello, Doctor." Sam said extending a hand to the doctor.

Everyone went silent. Sam was giving his hand to a vampire. That was like an offering of peace. He was basically telling us we had to play nice. Even the doctor leech looked surprised, but he shook Sam's hand.

"How can we help you?" Carlisle said.

"We need to divide into groups. There are a lot of them, too many. We need your help and you need ours."

I zoned out as they started discussing tactics. The blond one, Jasper, went to talk to them and the three of them discussed our brilliant plan. All I had to do was get rid of the leeches. I could do that.

I looked up and saw the moon. It was still mostly a full moon. I loved moons especially when they were full. I could look at them all night. They reminded me of my mother. She used to love going out and looking at the moon, or so says Billy. I was too young to remember her.

"How many do you think there are?"

I looked up and was surprised to see the blond girl talking to me. I debated just ignoring her, but I saw how she looked at the big leech and I couldn't. Her look reminded me too much of the looks I gave Bella.

"There are enough for us to have some fun. Don't worry." I said.

She looked like she was going to say something nasty, but she didn't. She smiled instead and I wondered for maybe the twelfth time this night, whether we had all gone insane.

It didn't take long for Sam and the others to fill us in on what we had to do. The blond, Jasper, gave us a few pointers and we listened. Sam had pretty much messed up our anti-leech thing so we were civil.

We went so low as to make jokes with the Cullens. I couldn't believe where my life was going. I was fraternizing with leeched. I shuddered.

The forest was quiet, a little too quiet. We couldn't hear any animals and that was never a good thing. Sam had us all change and we were all spread out across the forest. The plan was to head off the vampires, newborns according to the Cullens, as close to the border as possible. We didn't want to risk having them get past us.

It was near midnight when we heard the first of them. They came out of a knot of trees, three at a time. Sam, Jasper and the big one, Emmett, took care of those. Three more followed them and we all had our fun. It didn't take long for the leeches to realize that they were getting killed, because they started pouring out of everywhere. We had fifty of them surrounding us and they were fast. Sam was barking orders in my head, but I pretty much ignored them. I knew what I had to do. I always knew what I had to do.

I snapped necks easily. Newborns it seemed weren't a problem for me. But, Quil and Embry didn't seem to be doing so well. Leah was vicious as always but she had her eye on Seth and that was slowing her down. It wasn't long before I realize we couldn't win. There were too many and more were coming. Even the Cullens were slowing down. I took down two leeches who weren't letting go of Embry. He stood up.

Jake, how the hell are we supposed to win? There are too damn many.

I don't know Embry. I don't know, but I'm not stopping now. I said.

Sam looked at us and gave a small nod. I turned back to the leeches before me and that's when I saw her.

The redhead who was after Bella. She was watching us from far away. She looked amused and that made me angry. I don't know why I did it. But, I ran for her. She didn't see me coming and I rammed into her. She fell and I fell on top of her. She was fast, but I had her and she wasn't going anywhere.

She tried to bite me, but I snapped her hand and felt her bone break. It was sick, but I was enjoying myself. She had done so much to Bella. She was a leech and for that alone she deserved to die. But, then I remembered Cassandra. I remembered her green eyes. She didn't deserve to die.

I looked back at the redhead under me and then just snapped her neck. I was so sick and tired of vampires. The others noticed right away that the redhead wasn't moving, but they didn't leave. I don't think we expected them to leave. According to that Jasper, they were here because they wanted blood and they weren't going anywhere until the got it.

I watched them fight. I knew we weren't going to make it out of this alive. There were too many of them, some of us were going down tonight. It was a good thing the leech was with Bella otherwise she'd be upset that he died. She wouldn't care too much when they found my body al drained.

I heard Leah laugh in my head.

She was right. I was being overdramatic. It was just a good thing that Cassandra wasn't anywhere near here. At least she'd be alright.

Cassandra? Why do you know her name and why do you keep calling her that? I thought you hated leeches?

I growled at Leah and went after the nearest leech. I ripped its head off just to show Leah how much I loved the little bloodsuckers.

"We're not going to make it?" The blond called Rosalie said after a while.

She was watching Jasper fight the newborns. He was doing a good job, but even he couldn't deal with the sheer number of all these leeches. I ran back to where Leah was and helped her finish off a bloodsucker. She growled at me.

Your welcome, Leah.

I didn't ask for your help, Black. Go dream about your green eyed bloodsucker. I hope the next leech gets a bite out of you.

I made sure she heard the loud laughter in my head.

It wasn't so fun when I had three of them on me. I had them mostly off when another three jumped on me. I was stuck.

Shit. I had never pictured my death. I always thought that if I did die I would be fighting and winning. I would die taking a real worthwhile opponent down with me. I never imagined I'd be stuck under six leeches. I knew the others would come and help, but they were still too busy with their leeches.

I was about to give in and call for help when I felt the leeches come off. I looked up from the floor right into a pair of green eyes.

"You owe me one." She said.

I barked out a laugh and looked at her. I didn't know if she could hear my thoughts or not, but I pretended she could.

Thank you.

"Your welcome. Now come, we have some more newborns to finish." She said winking.

I watched her a little stunned. She ran right into the mess with the short black haired vampire, Alice. Watching her fight was marvelous. She took on three at a time and won. The fight turned quickly. Cassandra was fast and efficient. I moved right in and helped her. I didn't know I was following her until Leah's voice broke through.

And you say you haven't imprinted? You act like a lovesick puppy. Quit following her and fight with us where you belong.

I shook my head. Shut it Leah.

But, I stopped following her. I went back to the others and pretty soon we had the situation under control. There were definitely a lot of bodies. I didn't know what they were going to do with them all, but the Cullens said they would handle them.

Sam changed back to talk to the Cullen, but the rest of us stayed the way we were. You never know when there could be a coward hiding, just waiting for you to be defenseless.

"What happened to Edward?" Emmett asked.

"Bella convinced him to stay with her. You know how she is and you know how crazy he is when it comes to her. He would do anything for her." Alice said crossing her arms.

"Well, we're done here. And the treaty starts again tomorrow as soon as the sun comes up. Thank you for your help." Sam said holding out his hand.

"We're here, we've always been here. If you need help, just ask."

But, it wasn't the doctor that said it, it was Cassandra. She stepped forward even though Sam was huge and shook his hand. Sam turned halfway to me and I didn't need to read his thoughts to know what he was thinking.

I saw Cassandra smile and look my way.

Great. Was everybody going to think I liked this bloodsucker?

I heard soft laughter and was surprised. I had never heard anything sound so sweet and it was coming from her.

I furrowed my nose and turned away. Sam transformed and the rest of the pack followed me back to the reservation.

And there we go. What do you guys think? This is the longest chapter I have so far I think. The next chapter is going to be fun to write. I hope you guys give me some reviews so you can see the chapter before Wednesday. Please read and review. Thanks guys.