The New Isabella Swan

Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own any of the Twilight books.

A/N: I'm really sorry about all the changes I've made in the first chapter. This is my first novel and I promise not to upload till I'm 100% with it.

JPOV

Chapter 2: My mind was blank with shock, with all the crazy things going on around here you don't expect someone to die from something as common as a heart attack. I guess it's ironic how both of Harry's kids are werewolves that are trying to kill a psychotic vampire and then he dies of a heart attack. Life is cruel.

I was contemplating this while the sermon was on, everyone was crammed into the Clearwater's backyard. The entire pack's here, Sam wanted to keep some of us on patrol in case the red head came back but I said since we chased her half-way to Canada last night we'd be okay (and also because Seth, Leah and Sue needed us all) I wish I realised how much I'd regret that decision later.

My thoughts strayed to Bella, when I asked if she'd wanted to come she claimed that she didn't have the right to. When I said that of course she did she just shook her head and told me she'd be at the beach. Again

I hated to think of her there now all by herself without any protection and told her as much but she said that the pack needed me and she was right I couldn't. Then with a play full shove she told me that she wasn't entirely hopeless and could take care of herself for a couple of hours.

I was jolted out of my musing by my dad shaking my shoulder. "Jake it's over I'm going to stay here, you should talk to Seth." His eyes were heavy with concern.

"I will but the pack's having a meeting first."

"Oh, are Seth and Leah going?"

"No Sam's giving them time to grieve first."

"Okay then I'll see you later then." He said wheeling off to a grief stricken Sue.

I got up and walked to the edge of the backyard where the forest met the fence and jumped over it. Taking off my slacks and black jumper as I did and tying them to the piece of rope round on my ankle. I felt the familiar tremor of heat as I transformed from man to wolf in a second. Then I was off, I know that I usually complained about being a werewolf but this slightly made up for everything. There was no greater high then pelting around the dense forest in this body, a hundred times better than my bike.

I then realised that I wasn't alone in my head. Jacob this not the time for fun come to the clearing, now! It was Sam, so I altered my course slightly to my left and within 5 seconds I was in the clearing. I must have been the only one screwing around because everyone was there even the new kids, Colin and Brady. I strode around the circle that they had formed to Sam's right. I realised with a shock that both Seth and Leah was there. Seth? What are you doing here I thought you were staying at home. I couldn't believe this, why would Sam bring them here?

Crap, I thought, I must have missed something, something big. I don't know, replied Seth, Sam said we had to come, and that he had something to tell us. I turned my attention to Sam, who hadn't said a thing during our entire conversation. Well, I asked him, what is so important that you had to drag both of them from their father's funeral? I was angry now, I couldn't think of anything that would cause Sam to do this. Who the hell did he think he was? Jake, the red head is back and we now have a great opportunity to kill her. I hadn't been expecting that, usually once we scared her off she would come back a few days later, never right away.

Wait, she's back? Where is she? I couldn't believe that Sam would withhold this until now. Quil, Embry and I chased her to the cliff, she jumped off and started swimming, we went up and down the coast in case she doubled back. But we've had no sighting, we have assumed that she'll come up soon, then…

Sam had stopped because I had just yelled Wait! She's in the water? Bella's on the beach! We have to. I froze, everyone did, we all heard it, I was positive that that sound would haunt me for the rest of my days, the sound of Bella screaming.

We acted as one, everyone running full pelt towards the beach, my head was chaos everyone shouting their thoughts. When did she come back? How didn't we know that she was this close? How did she know where Bella was? Then we heard it again, the sound of her screams made me want to claw at my ears. I tried to tune it out and focus on my running, within seconds we'd made the beach. The sight before us was sickening. Bella lying broken on the multi-coloured pepples, staring fearfully into eyes of the predator. Victoria. As we ran towards them I saw her take Bella's hand and stroke it almost reverently. I didn't see anymore as I sunk my teeth into her neck.

I don't know why, maybe it was Bella's blood dripping from her broken leg, but she didn't realise that we were there until it was too late. She managed one shriek of defiance before I ripped her head from her shoulders. I let my brother's do the rest I was to focused on Bella, she appeared to be unconscious. I quickly morphed back to human, yanked my pants on and ran to her.

I knelt beside her and grabbed her shoulders "Bella oh God no! Bella come on talk to me." I was sobbing by now. I felt someone standing next to me and looked up to see Sam with disturbing expression on his face. "Is she dead?" I asked him between sobs. He shifted his gaze from Bella to me. "The red head? Yeah she's dead Jake."

"No Bella! Is she dead?" I yelled, Bella's whole body was shaking with force of my sobs." No she's not Jake you can still hear her heart beat." Anger and relief flooded through me. And once I paused to actually listen I realised I could hear it too, it was beating a little faster than usual but considering what she'd been through, I guessed that was to be expected.

"Then why aren't we taking her to the hospital?" I stood up as I said this. I had thought Sam had gotten over his aversion to Bella and she was still a human so why would he want to kill her? "Jake, it's too late." He replied.

"Damn it! It's not too late her heart's still beating!" I couldn't believe this, there was no way he would leave Emily dying there and say it's too late. "Jacob! Calm down!" I hadn't realised when I moved but Sam and I were suddenly face to face. "HOW CAN I CALM DOWN WHEN BELLA IS LYING HERE DYING AND YOU DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?"

In a dangerously calm voice Sam then said "She's not dying." I stopped shaking, the brief anger I'd just felt towards Sam evaporated and the red haze fled my vision I was so dumbstruck. "She's….not dying?" I asked perplexed. Sam looked back down to Bella lying broken like a thrown away doll. He took a deep breath and said "Jake look at…..look at her hand."

I quickly crouched down next to her and picked up her hand, and I saw it, a little smaller than her other one but right next to it was a cut like a crescent moon. A vampire bit mark. I sucked in a sharp breath. "Oh my God, the bitch bit her." I felt Sam's hand on my shoulder. "I'm so sorry Jake." He said in a grave voice. I couldn't believe it. Bella, warm, clumsy Bella was going to become a vampire. A killer.

I made my decision then and there that I was not going to kill her or let anyone else kill her no matter what I thought before having Bella as a vampire was better than having her dead. I could make this work I decided, I would. "So what now where are we going to put her?" I asked

Sam looked at me like I had gone crazy, which in a way I had. "Jake we can't let her live." I felt my brief anger return in a flash. I stood up again to face Sam.

"WHAT? You're not going to kill her! The treaty isn't broken!" Sam suddenly looked around us and said. "Jacob can we take this inside? People are going to notice us soon." I looked around and saw that only Quil and Embry were in wolf form by the edge of the trees, everyone else was picking up pieces of our kill or of wood to start a fire. I noticed that Seth and Leah were no where in sight.

"Fine." I said. "But we take her to my house." I said.

"Okay buy be quick." He hissed. I bent and scooped Bella up in my arms, trying to me careful with her leg. And started to lightly jog towards my house, Sam following in my wake. Within minutes I was walking through the hall to my room and laid Bella gently on my bed, then walked out to Sam in the hallway.

"Jake you can't think we can let a newborn vampire loose in Forks! Our job is to protect the people NOT kill them which is what we're doing by letting her live!" I couldn't believe I was hearing this if it was Emily lying there he would attack anyone that even mentioned killing her, I nearly said us much but a voice in my head- that spoke in my mum's voice- told me that Sam's control, though much better than any of ours, wasn't perfect and that saying that might just push him over the edge. Instead I said.

"We CAN let her live she'll be like the Cullen's and live off the blood of animal's!"

"She won't be able to control herself! What are you going to do? Take her to Charlie like this? Offer him as her first kill? Jake we have to do this!" I was shaking again but the red haze hadn't tinged my vision yet.

"I will not let anyone touch her." I hissed. Sam started to shake his head which only infuriated me more. "What are you going to do Jacob attack one of you're brothers? Kill one?" Suddenly all the anger drained from I couldn't believe Sam would suggest such a thing. "No." I said "I won't attack any of you but I will not let anyone touch her." Sam looked right into my eyes and I knew what he was going to do before he did it. "You will do as I say." He said in the double toned voice of the Alpha. I felt my will crumble slightly.

But as I looked behind me and saw Bella lying on my bed I felt a surge of strength and looked Sam right in the eye as well. And said "No Sam I won't." He shifted so that we were a few inches apart. "Jacob, you will do as I say." The force was so strong that I felt my knees buckle so I was suddenly knelling before him.

I hated this, the feeling of helplessness but I would end up doing what he wanted, if he was willing to push it which he obviously was. But there was a good reason for the Alpha's authority. Even a pack as strong as ours wasn't much of a force without a leader. We had to move together, to think together, in order to be effective. And that required the body to have a head.

So what if Sam was wrong now? There was nothing, I or the rest of the pack could do. No one could dispute the Alpha's decision.

Except.

And there it was- a thought I'd never, never wanted to have. But now, with my will as Sam's puppet and the fact that Sam wanted to kill the girl I loved, I recognized the exception with relief- more than relief, with a fierce joy.

No one could dispute the Alpha's decision- except for me.

I hadn't earned anything. But there were things that had been born in me, things I'd left unclaimed. I'd never wanted to lead the pack. I didn't want to do it now. I didn't want the responsibility for all our fates resting on my shoulders. I knew Sam was better at it than I could ever be.

But he was wrong now.

I had not been born to kneel before him. The bonds fell of my body the second I embraced my birthright. I could feel it gathering in me, both a freedom and also a strange hollow power. Hollow because an Alpha's power came from his pack, and I had no pack. For a second loneliness overwhelmed me. I had no pack now.

I stood up and Sam's eyes widened as I said "No." He jumped back into the wall. I knew he saw it right away as I defied him. "Jacob? What have you done?"

"You will not touch her, and I will not follow you."

"You'll choose her over your family? She'll never love you Jacob especially now! You're in love with a parasite!" I took a deep breath, they were hard words but probably true nonetheless. " I don't care, you will not hurt her!."

" We have to protect our families!"

"Then I'll leave with her!"

"Jacob—you can't turn you're back on the tribe, for one bloodsucker!" I could hear the double echo of the Alpha in his voice. I stared into his furious eyes and said "Ephraim Black's son was not born to follow Levi Uley's. Now get out of my house." Then I turned around and slammed the door in his face.

My heart was still pounding the urge to fight him was so strong. But as I saw Bella lying there slowly morphing from breakable, fragile human to cold, unyielding stone. I felt myself calm down. And went and sat in my desk chair. I was asleep within seconds.

I woke up a little later and heard Billy talking on the phone to some one. "Three days that's what Jake said." I jolted at the sound of my name and listened closer. "Yeah, she hasn't screamed or moved once she he brought her here." There was a pause here. "Well either she is awake and just going through it in silence, so not to freak Jake out. That or when she passed out on the beach, the blood sucker bit afterwards and she'll stay unconscious until it's over." Another pause. "Yeah, I don't know what will happen between them now. Apparently he told Sam he was going to take off with her, I'm not sure what he'll do." A long pause. "Okay, goodnight Sue."

It took me a while to get back to sleep after that. Billy's conversation kept buzzing round my head. She is awake and just going through it in silence. To imagine that Bella was lying there not two feet from me in unimaginable pain was almost too much for me. I eventually fell asleep only to be plagued with dreams of Bella screaming.

I woke up to Seth shaking my shoulder with a bowl of cereal in his hand. "Jake, wake up you got to eat something." He said, his voice heavy with concern. "Thanks, Seth." I managed to say around the cereal in my mouth. Seth then looked at Bella with a confused expression. 'How come she isn't screaming? Didn't she say that the others were conscious during their transformations?" He asked. I took me a long time to answer, Billy and Sue's conversation was still buzzing around my head and making it ache.

Eventually I said "Billy has two theories one is that she is awake and just enduring it in silence," On saying that my voice broke. "Theory two is that when the blood-sucker tortured her she passed out before she bit her and her body won't awaken until it's over." I said this with a bitter edge to my voice.

"What are we telling Charlie?" Seth asked.

'That she's sleeping over here for a few days, Charlie's so distraught about Harry that he barely said anything on the phone."

"What about when she wakes up? What are we going to tell Charlie? And what is we can't control her? Will you be able to kill her?" His voice was thick with worry.

"I don't know Seth, I just don't know." I said suddenly very tired which was saying something considering it was 7:23 in the morning which meant I'd slept for about 12 hours. He nodded his head at that and we sat in silence for a while. Then Seth asked "Is it true? Are you really not a part of the pack any more?" I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before I answered him, after exhaling in a large gust I said " Yes, it's true I just couldn't let him hurt her, I'm sorry Seth."

"But you'll come back won't you, after all this is over?" I thought about that for a moment. "No, I don't think so, I can't just turn this off, it feels kind of permanent." Seth took this in with a sober expression before saying. "Well then I'll just become apart of your pack." His expression brightened at this, while mine turned to one of horror. " No, you're not, you'll stay with Sam!" Seth's expression was still joyous. "Too late! I've decided I'm going to join you and Bella when she wakes up, she'll be a bit of a handful so you'll need some help anyway.

I could tell he was serious, as that hollow power inside of me lessened a bit. "Oh God." I muttered. "Leah's going to kill me."

The rest of the day passed without incident I only left my room for the most basic needs, I didn't expect Sam to try anything but I was always on my guard. Seth stopped by often, even went wolf once and told me that no one else was in his head even though he new Sam and most of the pack were in wolf form. That was kind of a downer as it would have been helpful to know what they were planning to do about Bella but at least they couldn't hear us either.

It was about 12 o'clock the next day when Leah arrived. Seth had answered the door (I still wouldn't leave Bella's side) she just pushed past him and walked straight into my room and said "Jacob I want to join you're pack." I couldn't believe this Seth I could understand wanting to join me but Leah? I had know idea. "Ugh." I said. "What is with you Clearwater's? I know this is harsh but you're dad just died for Christ's sake! Don't you think you're mum might need you now?"

Seth suddenly spoke up from the doorway "You like me don't you Jake? I've been helpful haven't I?" I had to admit that the kid had been pretty helpful by patrolling my house in case anyone came by, which thankfully no one had. I sighed "Yeah kid you've been pretty helpful but you're mum needs you and also if you and Leah are a packaged deal I'm afraid you have to go home." Seth turned to Leah after this.

"Aww Leah you ruin everything!" He said. She sighed and said.

"Yer, I know." She said glumly.

I took a deep breath than exhaled slowly. "Fine! You can stay Leah but both of you have got to stay with your mum unless I really need you, okay?" Leah's expression brightened considerably. And said "Fine." Then it clicked, Leah had wanted to get away from Sam; she was so sick of being the bitchy ex-girlfriend that everyone resented that she took the first way out even if it meant protecting Bella as a vampire. Jeeze she really was desperate.

"Okay." I said "But first I want to know what happened after I left."

"I can show you if you want." I deliberated this for a moment it was true that I doubted any one was going to come for Bella and I was seriously curious about the silence that Seth had told me about. "Okay but only for a few minutes."

We quickly jogged to the edge of my tiny backyard and jumped the fence. Leah went in a different direction to us to take off her clothes. Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'd all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. Leah had average control when it came to her temper—it took her the usual length of time to stop exploding out of her clothes every time she got pissed. We'd all caught a glimpse. And it wasn't like she wasn't worth looking at; it was just that it was so not worth it when she caught you thinking about it later.

Anyway, once we were all in wolf form Leah started to show us what had happened after I left them. Sam had brought in a command saying neither Quil nor Embry were allowed to come any where near me or my house. What? I asked her. Why would he do that? She rolled her eyes at me and sat down on the dirt. Because, you idiot, they want to join our little ragtag pack as well. She then showed us Sam talking to the pack. He's preparing to wait until Bella's a vampire and see what happens, I must warn you she's been included in the Cullen's treaty so if she kills one person they'll try to kill her. Okay I thought, that just means I'll have to take her somewhere remote until she can control herself.

We went back after that, Seth and Leah went back home- once I told them that I would kick their butts all the way there if they didn't- and I was pretty sure my dad was there anyway, so it was just me in the house. I had just settled down into my desk chair when I saw a flicker of movement. I whipped around, I could have sworn it was Bella's hand moving. I moved closer to her and grabbed her hand. "Bella? Can you hear me, sweetheart?" I squeezed her hand, but nothing changed. I sat like that for about half an hour but it felt like forever. I heard her heart beat faster and faster spluttered once, then silence.

Then slowly, so slowly I thought I might be imaging it she opened her eyes. "Wow, Jake you stink." She in a trilling bell like voice, I managed a watery laugh.

BPOV

Pain, pain, pain that's all that was going through my mind as I laid on Jacob's bed while I burned. With every crack and sizzle I felt like I was going to slip and loose my control, I tried to remember why I was doing this. Because I knew that if I started screaming I'd be hurting Jacob even more than I already had. After all he did for me I could do this for him.

I tried focusing on other things like Jake's and sometimes Seth's breathing, I couldn't really concentrate on their conversations anymore because I really didn't understand them and when Leah came it made everything more complicated rather then clear it up. Once she came Jake left with her and Seth but he came back soon.

Then I noticed the fire had started to fade from my fingertips and toes, I moved them, then heard Jake's breath catch. He moved over to me and grabbed my hand. "Bella? Can you hear me sweetheart?" I wanted to yell yes, I can. But I knew my resolve would slip and I would start screaming. Then as the fire retracted to my palms, the fire in my heart grew even hotter. How was that possible? Then slowly, oh so slowly it retracted to my elbows and knees. My heart started to beat faster and faster as though trying to fit a lifetimes worth in the minuets it had left. Until finally the fire retracted to my heart, which was beating ridiculously fast, it spluttered once, then was silent.

The fire had fully evaporated from my system. I slowly opened my eyes and saw Jake looking down at me. I sniffed and was pleased to realise that Jake's scent was not at all appetising in fact it was quite repulsive. "Wow, Jake you stink." I said and my eyes widened at the sound of my trilling bell like voice.

He laughed weakly.