Chapter 9

I continued towards the deathly flames, and knew in my mind that here was nothing to stop me now. I would leave my family forever; I could finally be reunited with my dad…

The final seconds felt like hours, as the heat increased as I got closer, I knew my final destination was enclosing.

"Bella, NO!!!" A familiar body crashed into me, his arms wrapped around my body, pushing me away from the flames. I smacked into the ground, a few feet from the flames. I looked up to see his golden eyes look upon me, his face masked in fear and hurt.

I lifted my hand up to his face, to touch his skin, to check if he was really there on top of me. "Edward?" I whispered, my mouth pulling up to the corners. He responded and crushed his lips to mine, a sense of being reunited as his lips moved in unison with mine. He pulled away and looked to my wound, a snarl rippling from his throat.

He stood up suddenly and faced the oncoming wolves. Angry that I was not being burnt by the flames at that moment. They walked slowly towards us, growls erupting from either side.

Edward pulled away from his crouch and smiled, looking over the monstrous wolves, and then I heard the howl. I continued lying on my back, my head turned to where the howl came from, and I recognised it's familiarity, it's authority. The Alpha had returned.

The six wolves whipped their heads around to the unrecognised howl. They split into two, leaving an empty pathway for the large russet wolf to gallop in, Renesmee on his back. He trotted round them stopped as he saw my bloody body on the floor, looking lifeless as usual. He whined to Edward, "No, she's fine, just a few bites." Edward glared at the wolves. Jacob's eyes followed Edward's direction of sight.

"Oh my God, mum." Renesmee jumped off Jacob's back, and limped hastily towards me. She bent down and hugged me tightly. I lifted myself up and returned the hug kissing her head. "I thought I was never going to see you again," she sobbed into my good shoulder.

"Same for me," I said, as I continued hugging her. Another pair of arms wrapped around the both of us. "And me." Edward said, kissing my hair, "I thought I was going to lose you forever…I was planning to throw myself in the flames with you…" I released my grasp and smacked him hard over the head. He rubbed his hand over the spot where I made contact, "Edward Cullen, don't you ever plan to kill yourself, ever. We've already had this conversation about a million times, but remember you still have a daughter. At least give her the dignity to have one parent instead of losing both at the same time." He nodded his head in agreement.

"Dad," Renesmee said, looking over to the seven wolves, "What are they saying?"

"Well, Jacob's furious, and not just at the fact you got hurt Ness, but at the fact they nearly killed your mother. He wants to know what happened. They're replaying the fight in their mind." He winced at the images being projected, and held me closer to him. His teeth clenched together and his muscles tightened, at the image of them biting me I presume. I turned his head to face mine; I pressed my lips against his slightly. "Calm down, I'm ok aren't I?" He looked down to my injuries and raised his eyebrow. "I mean I'm not dead."

He shuddered at the thought, and then continued translating the wolves' conversation. "My God Bella, you fought all 6 by yourself." I smiled, but his face was angry and not quite humorous. "Jacob is just going over a few things with them. Especially at how the humans are going to come and see what the fire is. We'll have to go." He stood up and placed his hand out infront, I took it and he lifted me up. I put my weight on both my legs, and then nearly fell due to the bite on my leg. Edward caught me and lifted me up again, grasping me tightly so I wouldn't fall again. His face turned angry again after looking at my leg. He sighed, "Well, I guess we're going to do this our old fashioned way Bells." He smiled and I laughed. He scooped me up into his arms-we both decided to stop the piggyback thing. He strode over to Jacob, Renesmee followed along side us. Jacob turned his head to face us. I'm sure he was terribly guilty for what had happened; I guess I would just have to persuade him not to apologise.

"Jacob, I just want to know one thing. Which one nearly killed Bella?" I interrupted before Jacob replied.

"I could tell you that Edward," he looked down at me, and I looked over to the wolves before me. I knew, not just by the way the other wolves were in formation around him, but by his evil face. "The one in the middle, the one that's almost black in colour." My eyes glared at the eyes of the wolf. The other five stepped away from him casually. Leaving him alone.

"Excuse me darling." He said, placing me back down on my feet, I leaned against Jacob for support.

"Edward what are you going to do?" He continued walking towards the lone wolf. "Stop now Edward," I carried on shouting to him.

"Sorry Bella, but sometimes revenge can be sweet. Jacob may I?" Jacob nodded a slight nod.

"Jake! What have you let him do?" I stared at him in disgust, and then looked back to Edward. He stopped infront of the wolf; it almost towered over him, like Jacob used to do. But it bowed it's head in shame.

"Yeh, you better be sorry you mutt!" He pulled his arm back and punched him in the face, the wolf whelped and staggered to the side. It shook his head, trying to shake away the pain, then faced Edward again. He knew that he couldn't do anything against the vampires whilst the alpha was standing there. Edward walked back smugly and went to pick me back up, but I held my hand out to stop him. "One sec."

I placed my leg gently back on the ground. I could see that my muscle was already repairing itself. I gently released some weight onto it. Satisfied with the amount of pain I could deal with, I limped one step. The pain was searing through my leg. I winced at the pain and Edward grabbed my hand. I shook it off, "I want to do this." I gave up on the limping and hopped gracefully to the wolf, still whining from the punch it had received to it's nose. I heard Jacob's barking laugh as he watched me attempt to hop-which I done perfectly.

I reached the wolf, and placed my leg on the floor. "These hurt you know." I stated to the wolf, pointing to my two injuries. "I hope that hurt, and I hope this really treats you as a dog." I lifted my arm back, the wolf shut it's eyes and flinched to the attack, but I moved my hand swiftly to it's nose, and flicked it, hard. "Bad dog." Edward laughed at my gesture, as did Jacob. I went to walk away but decided that it wasn't enough, so I turned and punched the wolf full force in the face, the power sent it crashing to the floor, lying limp against the grassy floor.

"Crap, have I knocked it out Jake?" He nodded his head, and carried on laughing. I hopped back to Edward who held his arms out for me. I jumped and landed gracefully in them. "Shall we?"

"Yeh, let's go home." He reached down and kissed me on my forehead, and ran away from the woods, Jacob following behind. Edward stopped in response to something Jacob thought. We turned away to see Renesmee by herself, and no huge wolf besides her. I looked around in confusion, then relaxed when I saw Jacob, fully human walking out from behind a tree. He looked over to Renesmee, and a huge smile spread across his face. He ran over to her in a few strides, placed his hands upon her cheeks and kissed her passionately. I looked away.

"Should two 16/17 year olds be kissing like that?" Edward whispered to me, his voice filled with fatherly concern. I looked back to them both and watched Renesmee wrap her arms around his body. I looked back to Edward.

"We kissed like that." I smirked at Edward and he nodded in agreement.

"Yeh, but it's weird with her being our daughter. It's bad enough that I have to see in their minds what they get up to." I looked back to the couple, who were just hugging. Jacob turned his head to me, then whispered something to Renesmee. She nodded and he pulled away from her, and faced me. "Watch out, you've got an incoming hug." Edward whispered, then placed me gently on the ground. A second later I was trapped into a hug.

I reacted to his blazing skin, as he did with my cold skin, but he continued crushing me into a hug, no doubt if I was human, my bones would be broken.

"Bella, I'm so sorry they did that, if you would have died I would never forgive myself, 'cos it's my pack, and they went against the treaty, and they bit you, and you tried not to kill them, which I'm grateful for, but still I feel terr-" I cut him off.

"Jacob, I'm telling you now, there is no need to apologise to me for what happened back there."

"But-" I hushed him

"No apologies from you. I think you will be getting apologies for a while in your head anyway. I think they're pretty sad, because they finally saw the Alpha, but you roared at them." He smiled and pulled me away. He looked to my bloody shoulder. "Don't worry Jake, they're starting to heal already. Go comfort Ness, I'll be fine." He smiled at me and pulled me away.

"Sorry." He ran back to Ness before I had a chance to hit him. He laughed and hugged Renesmee again. I felt Edward's arms wrap around my waist, his lips kissing my neck. "Ready." I nodded, and he swooped me into his arms again.

We began to run again, when a thunderous crash echoed from behind us. One of the trees had collapsed from under the intense heat, and the other trees were about to follow suit. We looked back to the burning circle to see the wolves running and limping away, except one.

"Jake, there's still one person there." He looked back to the fire and saw the unconscious wolf lying on the floor unaware what was happening. Jacob looked to Renesmee, "I have to go." She held him tight in refusal, but he pulled away. "I'll be ok, just get out of here, the fire is spreading." He kissed her on the lips briefly then ran towards the helpless wolf.

"Nessie, trust him, he'll be fine." Edward called out to her, and she nodded and turned around, her face full of worry. "Are you able to run Ness?" Edward asked, looking down to her leg.

"Yes, I can run, just slow down for me dad ok." He nodded and they both ran, with me in Edward's arms. I looked back to the fire, and saw one wolf helping another. The alpha looking after his pack.

A/N Hope you enjoyed reading it-please review!!! Won't update for a while because I have tonnes of revision to do, so don't kill me ok!! I'll try and write it a.s.a.p for my readers. I love it when I get reviews! Thanks