As the early morning sun shined through the window Lucy thought two things. As her memory of the night before came back she remembered that Bella and herself had stayed at Emily's. Someone must have tucker her under the covers, probably Paul. She also remembered that Bella had gone cliff diving alone. She rolled over and looked at her sister. Bella was awake, her eyes focused on the ceiling as she replayed memories of cold arms and golden eyes. Lucy didn't want to upset her but she knew that she had to talk to her about it.

"Why did you go cliff diving? Alone. In that weather. It was dangerous, Bella. You're lucky Jake found you in time." Lucy's voice was tired despite her feeling well rested. She was exhausted by Bella's crazy antics the last few months. She was always worried about her, always worried that she would get a call from the hospital or Jacob saying she was in trouble.

Bella spoke in a monotone voice, "You know why I do it. It's the only way I can hear him."

Lucy scoffed at her a she too faced the ceiling, "He's been gone for months and he's still putting you in danger."

"Don't talk about him like that!" Bella snapped. The two sisters rarely fought but the topic of the Cullen's could sometimes rage an all out war between them. "Besides they never hurt you."

"Oh yeah, because getting thrown across the room classifies as not hurting me!" Lucy shot up out of bed and rolled up her shirt sleeve, showing Bella the long scars that spider webbed down the back of her arm. For a while the girls just looked at each other. Frustration ran through each of them but, as always, Lucy knew what needed to be done, "I don't want to fight. Let's go get something to eat."

The smell of pancakes radiated through the house. It reminded Lucy of when she was younger and on Sunday mornings Renee would sometimes cook the girls pancakes and everything would be cheery. It wasn't like this now though. Everyone was quietly going on with their day, unlike the other days that they had been here during the mornings. The house was usually filled with laughter and talking. The silence was deafening. Two seats in between Paul and Jacob were saved for them.

When they sat down Paul whispered into her ear, "Harry's funeral is going to be tonight."

All Lucy could saw was, "oh."

The rest of the morning Paul and Lucy sat around and talked or went and quietly joked with the other wolves. It was now known throughout the pack that Lucy knew about the imprint and that was usually the theme of the jokes much to Paul's anger and Lucy's amusement. Bella was still blissfully in the dark of the whole situation. However Lucy knew that two people, other than Paul and Bella if she ever found out, had to talk to her about it. Billy and Jacob. Jacob's time came quickly, when Bella sat down to read homework and Paul had to run patrols he took Lucy out back to a tree stump.

"So you know, huh?" He said simply.

Lucy nodded her head, "Yeah. Pretty crazy, right? Don't tell Bella, though."

"Obviously," He laughed, "She would freak out. Being a wolf girl is not for the faint of heart. Especially with Paul, the dudes are hard ass and a jackass but, if anyone would be a perfect match for him it's you."

It was Lucy's turn to laugh at Jacob, "Thanks, I think."

"That's not what I meant. You'll balance him out." He explained. Lucy put her head on her knees and sighed.

"Hey, Jake? I have a question."

"Shoot, sport."

"Why don't you want to be Alpha?" Jacob turned rigid at his best friends question. He didn't answer but remained lost in his own thought, "I understand. I wouldn't want to be any kind of leader. But you'd be great at it Jake. Any girl you imprint on is gonna be lucky."

"True Alpha's can't imprint." He told her sadly, "Our one true love has to be protecting the tribe."

"I'm sorry." Lucy said, putting her head on his shoulder like they did before all of this crazy stuff happened to them.

He rested his head on top of hers and told her quietly, "It's ok."

For as long as he could remember, Paul had hated funerals. It probably started when he was six and went to his mom's funeral. He had cried because he didn't understand why his mom wouldn't wake up. When he had come home later that night his dad had beaten him and told him that boys don't cry. Now he was older and understood why Harry Clearwater wouldn't wake up. He was never close with the tribe Elder but he still got the chills at his funeral. Maybe it was how far away he sat from Lucy, who was on the other side of the room, comforting her father and her sister. Maybe it was the pain he felt through Leah and Seth's minds. Either way as soon as it was over he was the first one out the door. Lucy walked over to him and wrapped herself around him. He in turn sheltered her from the wind in his arms.

"Sam said that since Jacob is coming over you don't have to run patrols tonight. Please get some sleep Paul." Lucy asked her, her words mumbled against his chest. It was obvious Paul was tired, he felt obligated to stay near Lucy last night so he slept on Emily's uncomfortable living room rug.

"I'll try. Bug Jacob for me, ok?" He teased her.

"Of course I will." She laughed but quickly stopped as she let the sadness of her surroundings take her. Paul tightened his arms before letting her go to her glaring father. Chief Swan tended to be protective over his youngest. If only he knew how protected she really was.

"Oh my god!" Bella screamed as they pulled up the Swan house. Lucy slammed on the brakes, causing her and Jacob to shoot forward as Bella fumbled with her seat belt and fled the car into the house. Jacob went stiff and began shaking, the car shaking with them.

"Leech." He growled through his teeth. He ran out of the car after Bella, who was swinging open the door of the house. Lucy ran after both of them and in the midst of it all she couldn't help but wonder if her neighbors saw all this. Running into the house she stopped beside Jacob and gawked at the scene in front of her. Bella, sobbing, wrapped in Alice Cullen's arms. Alice looked surprised, which was a strange sight as Lucy had never seen her surprised by anything before.

"Alice what are you doing here?" Lucy's voice wasn't as harsh as she had wanted it to be. It sounded to shocked, almost like there was excitement buried deep down in it. There was only anger.

"I should be asking you the same question. Bella what are you doing alive?" Alice asked, her voice like nails on a chalkboard to Lucy and Jacob. "I saw you jump off the cliff. You were trying to kill yourself."

"No I wasn't Alice. It was cliff diving. Purely recreational. And Jacob pulled me out of the water." Bella explained before adding a sobbed stained, "I'm so happy you're back."

A shrill noise cut through the room and Alice quickly grabbed her cell phone, answering it and talking at a rate to fast for anyone else in the room to catch. The anger on her face was evident though.

"Bella we have to go. Edward is going to kill himself. We have to go to Italy." She explained before running of and returning with a fully packed bag. She couldn't have been gone for more than three seconds. "He's going to go the Volturi. They're kind of like the vampire royalty but we have to leave now.

Bella nodded quickly before running out the door after a panicking Alice. Lucy and Jacob ran after her, Jacob was in shock but Lucy was just filled with anger.

"You can't be serious Bella. You aren't going! This is a suicide mission!" Out of her anger tears streamed down Lucy's face. How could Bella not care? After all Edward put her through how could she want to save him?

Bella turned and hugged Lucy tightly, "I love you Lucy. Tell Charlie I love him too."

"Don't do this to me! Don't do this to Charlie! You didn't have to see him after you left for Arizona or when he had to send a search party to the woods! You didn't have to know what we went through! But not anymore. You can't fucking do this." Lucy's demands fell onto deaf ears. Bella detached herself and ran into Alice's waiting car.

"Take care of her Jacob. I love you. I promise I'll come back." Bella words faded as she drove off down the street. Lucy collapsed to the ground, sobbing and screaming things that she knew Alice would still be able to hear. She grabbed handfuls of grass and through them but the grass was soon replaced with a couch cushion as Jacob moved her inside and called Sam to tell him the one thing she hoped would never happen.

The Cullen's are back.