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Chapter 16: Fight

I collapsed to the ground. Edwards quick arms caught me before I hit. I was motionless as he gently placed me down on his lap. Alice was talking on the phone to Carlisle I assume. Jacob was kneeling over me. Fear was all across his face. I could hear them talking I could see them. But my body was paralyzed I couldn't move, I couldn't talk. I couldn't bring my mouth to move.

"Edward, is she ok. Is she going to be ok?"

"Jake I don't know, she just fainted it was a lot to take in. My dads on his way."

"I shouldn't of told her, I knew I shouldn't have told her, I knew I should have come to you and just told you. I'm sorry Bella."

"Jacob, don't. She needed to know anyway. We don't have secrets. Where is the rest of your pack?"

"Patrolling. They aren't going to let Victoria get past them."

"Your pack has grown?"

"What?"

"You just thought, the pack grew."

"Oh I forgot you could do that, yeah it grew they aren't up to speed yet, but give it a day or two they will be."

"I just hope we have that long."

"Victoria wants a fight. She's only one vampire. We can take her!"

"Have you been able to get her yet? Now I don't think so. Neither have we. Shes got something else up her sleeve. She wouldn't make an empty threat. And she knows how big my family is. If she attacked she would surely die.:

"If she was alone. What if she has help? Is that possible? Do your kind ever go for help? I mean I've heard stories that they stick to groups of two. But your family is bigger than that."

"Its rare. Were only able to do it so well because we don't fight over food, we don't kill humans for our food. Its easier to coincide that way"

"What if she had help though?"

"Its possible. She would have to have more than one persons help though."

"And if she does?"

"Then my family and Bella might be the ones that need help, and everyone else on her little hit list. Including you and your pack."

"We need to find out what she's got on her side, and how many."

"Yes, we do. Can you contact your pack leader, and have him go outside the border. Sniff for any other vampires other than us?"

"I can try, but they don't all know you guys scent."

"My family will be here any minute. Would you be able to relay the smell to them?" I heard Jacobs low growl as he cringed his nose. "You don't smell to appealing to me either, but it's the only chance we've got."

My mouth finally moved, I tried to open my mouth more, and tell them not to start fighting. My voice was shaky and it cracked my throat was on fire.

"Bella. What was that my love." Edward asked me as he kissed my forehead.

"I. Said. Stop. Fighting, its not solving, anything." That was like a mouth full. But I got it out, it was shaky. I was scared. Not for myself but everyone I cared about.

Alice came out of the house with a glass of water, and made me drink it. It helped my throat was no longer on fire.

"Bella are you ok?"

"Alice, I'm fine. I think."

"What happen?" Jacob asked as Edward helped me to sit up.

"I, I panicked. She's coming after you guys. I cant let her do that. I have to go to her. Make this all stop. One of you already got hurt. I will not let her kill my family! Whether or not you guys like each other or not. Your ALL my family. I wont let any harm come to you, because of me."

"Bella we'll take care of her. Just stop. Your not doing anything crazy like turning yourself over. You did that last time! And see how well that worked out?" Edward forced.

"Yea perfect. If you wouldn't have killed James she wouldn't be after me. She wouldn't use everyone I care about to get me. You cant protect me forever!" Edward eyes got wider. As he shot his head toward Alice and glared.

"DON'T YOU EVEN THINK THAT!" he shot at her. She jumped, and looked away from his gaze. "Alice I swear to god, if you even."

"Edward! If she really does have help. What else is there to do? We cant just sit around and let her attack us one by one. We cant let her get to Bella!" she shouted.

"Do they do this a lot?" Jacob whispered to me, confusion on his face.

"Enough to the point it gets annoying. What's going on, what does Alice think?" Edward shot a quick angry glance back at Alice. She bit her bottom lip. "EDWARD?"

"She thought nothing, its stupid!"

Just as I was about to fight him the rest of the Cullen's pulled up. Jacobs eyes grew wide with worry.

"You'll be fine. Bella would kill any of us if we even though it." Edward assured him.

"But you might still want to call Sam and tell him what's going on. I think it best we all get together and talk. I would like to speak to Sam. If we are going to overcome this, we need to join forces. At least until Victoria is stopped, and I am sure he will agree." Carlisle said in a slow polite tone as he smiled at Jacob.

He walked into my house and the rest followed him. Edward carried me over to the couch. I heard Carlisle tell Jacob about the clearing they played Baseball in. To meet them there later that night. He walked over to me and kneeled beside the couch.

"Carlisle I'm fine." Edward growled. "Really, I'm ok. As I assured everyone. Edward and Jacob both insisted that Carlisle check me out. And to there surprise I was perfectly fine.

"It was a bit of the nerves, she got over excited, stressed. She fainted."

"See told you all I was fine."

"Good to have ya back little sis. Good thing your fine, I mean what would you and Edward do tonight if you were to incapacitated to do the deed." Emmet chuckled as he patted me on the back. I heard a low throaty growl come from behind us. I turned around to see Jacobs hurt expression on his face.

My phone rang and Jacob answered it. He hung up and walked back to the living room area where everyone was.

"We have a problem." he stated as he looked around at everyone else. My door suddenly flung open and Quil and Embry came bustling in. Embry's arm was still in a sling. Good as new, right.

"Oh we have a serious problem." Quil stated as the Cullen's backed slowly away.

"Its beginning to reek in here." Rose said as she walked into the kitchen, Esme behind her.

"You have got to be kidding me?" Edward asked as his face dropped and his eyes got wide. A look of fear came across his face, if you would of blinked you'd have missed it.

"What is it? What's the problem?" I asked annoyed.

"Carlisle. What have you heard about rogue wolves?"

"Rogue what?" I was being ignored. I stood up and yanked on the back of Edwards shirt. "Rogue wolves?"

"its nothing to worry yourself about Bella, I promise nothing will hurt you."

"Edward, don't lie to me!"

"Bella I promise."

"Edward your scared. You all are! So don't stand there and lie to me! Any of you!"

"Bella, dear. A rogue wolf. There very rare. I myself have only ever heard of two. One was killed in Italy. The other was presumed to be dead, no one has heard of him in over hundred years."

"What is a rogue wolf?"

"A werewolf gone bad." Jacob answered me as he lowered his head. "It's rare, there isn't really any reason to go bad. To work for our enemy." he said as he scanned the room. "Sam said that sometimes when something bad happens, the person gives up entirely on our beliefs and begins a life of solitude. He leaves and becomes a loner. Some go mad. They attack people. Attack other wolves. But he has never heard of one working with vampires."

"What do you mean? There is a rogue wolf out there working with Victoria?" I spat as I tried to calculate the odds.

"I don't know Bells, Sam just came across a wolfs trail. It wasn't any of ours. And a few feet away, he caught a whiff of Victoria." Edward tightened his grip on me as I shuttered at Jacobs words. "I'm sorry Bella, but we have to go. We have to prepare for tonight." he gave me a hug and walked out. Quil and Embry nodded.

"Tonight?" I asked I'm amazement.

"Yes, tonight we go to the field and talk to the pack. We have to come up with some game plan, we have to find out what Victoria is hiding. And who she has on her side. You however will stay here with Alice."

"WHAT?" we both blurted out simultaneously.

"It's to dangerous!"

"Edward everything is always to dangerous for me! I'm surprised you let me breath on my own!" I shouted. How could he think he wasn't going to include me in any of this. He was seriously mistaken. There was now way he was keeping me away.

"It's to dangerous, we might not handle being around the entire pack so well. This was easy were un matched. They were out numbered. Tonight will be much different. It might not go over so well. There might be a fight. And there is no way in hell I am letting you be around that."

"And there is no way in hell you can keep me away!" I pulled away from him. "Everything is always to dangerous. We can do this we can't do that. We cant be to close, We cant go here or there, We cant have sex. But news flash. We already did, and you were fine last night! Just fine! Nothing happen, I'm living I'm alive I'm FINE! So god dammit I'm going!" Everyone's eyes grew wide at my sudden out burst. As I realized what exactly I had said. Edward just stood there amazed and shocked. My mouth fell open as Carlisle looked at Edward. Esme and Rose were standing in the doorway to the kitchen in amazement.

My face flushed red.

"I uh, yes I was fine last night, but did you have to tell my entire family?" Edward asked as he lowered his head away from his families gaze.

"That's what you meant when you said 'to do the deed'" Carlisle asked Emmett he just lowered his face to look at the floor. "I think we have to have a talk later Edward."

"Of course we do." Edward rolled his eyes. I mouthed I'm sorry. He grinned at me.

"Ok you can come, but only because even if I do leave you here. Even if I do chain you to the bed. You'd still find away to come." Edward said as he put his arm around me

"Yes I would."

"We have to go I have to go look for something anything that will be able to help us. Emmet, Jasper and Alice. I want you to stay here with Edward and Bella. Rose I want you to help Esme call our friends in Denali and ask if they have ever heard of such a thing." and with that Carlisle, Esme and Rose left.

"So a rogue wolf. that's bad right?" I asked. It was a dumb question, but it broke the silence.

"Yes, very bad. Carlisle told me about the only two he knew of. The one that was killed I Italy was very strong, very agile. And very cunning. But he was killed for attacking people. The other, everyone just assumed he was killed. No one has heard of him in over a hundred years. He was lethal. He was huge, and he was a killer, he didn't care who he killed. Woman children. Didn't matter to him it was all the same. He slaughtered hundreds of people. He took out entire packs single handedly. He blamed the wolf gene on loosing his wife and two kids. It was a rogue wolf who killed his family. When his family was killed. He snapped, every werewolf pack he came across he annihilated them. Killing them all, even the receivers of the gene who hadn't transformed yet. He killed them all, killing that families gene with them."

"Oh my god." I gasped. "But he's dead right?"

"Nobody knows for sure. But presumably yeah." Edward said as my mouth opened in shock. He could still be out there. Great. I was scared. Tears starting rolling down my face. Edward put his hands on my cheek and wiped them away.

"He could still be out there." I whispered.

"Bella, I wont let anyone touch you. No one will ever hurt you! There's nothing to be scared about." Edward replied to me as he squeezed me tighter.

"Yea Bella, we'll protect you." Emmet said as he smiled. It didn't reach his eyes.

"Really? Then why do you look scared? Why is Alice speechless for once in her life? Why does jasper keep trying to calm me down, and why is Edward have tears in his eyes again?" I was close to yelling. Everyone looked at Edward as he pulled his arm away from me and felt for his cheeks and eyes.

"Dude that is seriously weird." Emmet said as he walked over and looked directly at Edward.

"Thanks!" Edward said sarcastically as he wiped his face in his sleeve.

"Bella, we are scared. I will admit it. But we will not let anything happen to you." Jasper said as he sent out another wave of calm.

"I know you guys will try, but there's always a possibility." I couldn't bring myself to say the words.

"We wont get hurt either." Jasper said as he walked over to me and put an arm on my shoulder. We can fight this. We just need to know what were fighting.

"Jasper. If anything happens. To any of you, vampire, or werewolf. I will never forgive myself. It will always be my fault."

"Nothing is going to happen to us. Were not scared for us. Were scared for you." jasper said as he walked over to look at Edward. He shook his head and laughed as he walked back to Alice.

"We need to all calm down and look normal. Charlie is a little more than a minute away." Edward stated.

We all sat down and turned the TV on.

"Bella?"

"Yea Dad. Were in here."

"We?"

"You've met Emmet and Jasper right?"

"Your brothers, right?" he asked Alice.

"One of them. Emmet. Jasper not so much." Charlie just nodded as he put his gun away.

After I made dinner, Alice, Jasper, and Emmett left. Edward went outside and snuck back in my window. We waited up stairs in my room until Charlie went to bed, and was fast asleep. We snuck out my window and ran. By now I was used to the running. It still made me dizzy sometimes but I didn't mind it gave me an excuse to be close to Edward.

"Were almost there, we can walk from here." Edward said as he came to a stop.

EDWARDS POV

"Edward, can I ask you something?"

"Anything?" what did she want to know?

"I've been thinking since earlier when it happen." She paused. "What did Alice think that got you so upset?"

"Nothing."

"Edward!"

"Ok, fine. She thought about us changing you now. Then Victoria would have no one to go after. You'd be human." her eyes grew wide with excitement.

"Do it, Do it now!" she stopped walking.

"Bella I cant just do it now. I could kill you! I need to prepare I need to hunt before I even attempt to do it. Besides, she didn't just threaten you, a human, she threatened all of us, Vampires, and Jacob, werewolves. She is not just about the humans anymore."

"But I could help."

"Bella, it takes time for you to be able to even resist the blood lust. Let alone learn everything you would need to learn to keep yourself safe, let alone fight off someone else." she sighed, and looked sad. "Bella, I will change you, I promised you. I will keep that promise. Just give me time."

"What if we don't have time? What if.." I cut her off, how could she think like that.

"Bella, we will make it through this. I promise, I will never let anything or anyone hurt you." I kissed her cheek, her neck, and eventually found her lips. She pulled me in closer. Her arms wrapped around my neck, I felt her knot her hands in my hair.

She tripped and fell backwards. I caught her, gently placing her on the grass. She moaned, when I slid my hands down her sides.

I pulled away.

"Bella." I shook my head trying to clear my thoughts.

"Edward." she sighed.

"I would not object, if it were under different circumstances. But not only do we have a wolf watching us. But my family is in listening range." I sighed, and stood up. Pulling her to her feet.

"Humph" she squinted her eyes. "Who was watching?"

"We better go love." I led her through the woods toward the clearing.

"Who?"

"Embry was walking toward to the rest of the pack and heard us. He stopped and saw."

"Great!"

"If the pack hadn't already seen that all, I doubt he would have told if he had any control over it. don't blame him."

"I don't, I'm just not looking forward to the looks were going to get." She laughed as we stepped into the clearing. Sure enough my family was staring in our direction. Emmett was grinning from ear to ear. Jasper was looking at us curiously, Alice was beaming. Carlisle and Esme. Well they were just looking at us, Carlisle was shaking his head.

"Now that everyone is here. We can begin" Carlisle yelled.

"They don't trust us enough to come to close. But they will change into human form but they will stay at the edge of the woods." Trust us. Ha I don't trust them. Stupid dogs.

They all walked forward into the clearing. Sam nodded to Carlisle.

I saw Jacob smile at Bella. She grinned back at him. His smile grew. He was really getting on my nerves, and the fantasies. God he needed to stop. Over and over he imagined himself with Bella, holding her, hugging her, kissing her. Ugh I had enough. I glared at him, and wrapped my arms around Bella and kissed her on the cheek. That got him to stop. Now he's imagining me, killing me. It made me laugh. Bella glanced up at me questionably. I leaned down and kissed her passionately on her lips. She put her hands on the back of my neck. I heard a low growl not even loud enough for Bella to hear.

I looked up and smiled at Jacob. He just scowled at me. Bella must have known what I was doing. She smacked my harm lightly and smiled up at me.

"I have checked all my sources, I've called around. No one has heard of a rogue wolf for over a hundred years. Since Marcus."

"We don't know for sure if it is a rogue wolf. It just wasn't one of us." Sam stated. "If we are going to be looking for other vampires. We are going to need to know your scent. So we don't get confused. The only one we know is the boy, and girl." He shifted his eyes to Alice and me. I didn't like the look on his face. I growled a low growl. Bella squeezed my arm.

"I assume you mean Edward, and Alice?"

Sam looked to Jacob, he nodded. "Yes."

"By all means you are helping us keep Bella Safe. What ever you need." Carlisle was to polite. Sam, Jacob and Embry Stepped forward. He was no longer in the sling. Slowly they started walking toward us. Taking a whiff of every single one of us. Jacob Stopped in front of me. He wrinkled his nose up and glared.

"Hey Jake" Bella stepped forward. I kept my arm around her.

"Bella." Jacob smiled at her, I saw his eyes flicker to me for a moment. Quickly his thoughts went to dreams, dreams of Bella, and him. I couldn't take it anymore. I pulled Bella back and positioned her so she was slightly behind me. Jacob growled, and started to shake. Sam was talking to Carlisle at the moment, he quickly was at Jacobs side in a matter of seconds. He put his hand on Jacobs shoulder. Jacob looked away, and calmed himself down. Carlisle looked at me sternly. I sighed, and loosened my grip on Bella.

Carlisle and Sam went back to talking. I paid no attention to them. I was to involved on watching Jacob.

"Bella, we will protect you."

"I know Jake. But what if something happens to you guys?" Embry laughed.

"Bella you worry to much." he laughed again

"Nothings going to happen to us." Jacob assured her. I wish something would, but I knew I shouldn't. I shook the thought out of my head. Bella would never forgive me, for even thinking it.

"Jake Embry." Sam called them.

"Bye Bella." They said as the walked back to the rest of the pack with Sam.

"We will see you again tomorrow. Same time." Carlisle said to Sam. As he walked toward Esme.

"Yes, tomorrow." Sam disappeared into the woods behind the rest of them. Jacob shot Bella one last glance and disappeared. I let out a low throaty growl.

"What is your problem?" Bella shot at me.

"What?"

"Why are you growling? What did Jake do?"

"He didn't do anything, he thought a hell of a lot!" I shot. I slumped to the ground and sat there. I should have more control than this. He shouldn't get to me this much. I realized I had raised my voice I looked up at Bella, her face was blank with emotion. "I'm sorry. Bella I'm so sorry. He just, he has a very good imagination that's all."

"No, I'm sorry you had to see that."

"You know what I saw?"

"No but I can only imagine what he was making you see." I grabbed her arm and pulled her into my lap. I put my face into her hair. "You smell amazing."

"Don't I always?" she laughed at me.

"Yes, you do." I brought my lips to hers.

"God do you guys every take a break?" Emmett asked. I pulled away and wiped my lips with my thumb and pointer finger.

"So what's going on?" Bella asked.

"Sam is going to keep an eye out for the other wolf, and also other vampires that might be in the area. So we can try to find out what or who Victoria might have. So we'll be ready. I have Alice looking for things also." I looked over to Alice she was sitting with her legs crossed eyes closed. And Jasper was holding her hand. "We are going to keep a look out on our end. Until we find out exactly what were up against. I do not want Bella to be alone at all."

"And when we find out? What then? What are we going to do?" Bella asked Carlisle. I heard the answer before he even said it. I didn't like it at all.

"Sam and I both agreed, your safety is the number one priority. We both feel that there's no other way around it." Carlisle said as he looked to the ground and back up to Bella.

"No other way around what exactly?" I saw the fear in Bella's face. I wrapped my arm around her tighter. I knew what was coming and she wasn't going to like it.

Carlisle looked at her sympathetically.

"We fight."

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