Jaq looked out of the window. It was nearing the end of the day. Maybe they should think about leaving. Connor needed to sleep. She could see his eyelids drooping as he joked with Renesmee.

"You know," Said Edward looking at her. "You are very welcome to stay. We have plenty of room here."

Carlisle nodded in agreement. "We would be delighted to have you stay."

"And it's Nessie's birthday on Friday. We'd love to have some more party guests."

"Not that we don't have loads already." Bella laughed. "But it would be lovely to have someone closer to her age."

"I ... err..." Jaq began.

"Oh please can we?" Connor pleaded. "Please Jaq. Nathan tell her."

"I don't know kid." Nathan murmured looking at the wolves.

"Guys." Connor whined.

Jaq looked at Nathan who was sat beside her. She could tell he still wasn't comfortable here.

Do you think it's safe? His expression seemed to scream.

Jaq bit her lip and considered. This family, strange as they were, did seem to be okay. She even felt comfortable with the shape shifters, despite Nathan's obvious distrust. None of the auras in this room seemed dangerous.

She looked down to Connor's pleading expression and sighed. How could she disappoint that?

"Okay..."

"YES!" Connor made a kerrching motion with his arm.

"But," She warned. "I want you to go to bed right now. You are way too tired."

He rolled his eyes. "Alright."

Renesmee and Rosalie jumped up. "Come with us. We'll find you a room."

"I'll come and see you in a bit." Jaq promised as they left the room.

The wolves stayed in the same place but Jaq noticed Jacob's eyes follow Renesmee out the door.

She turned to Nathan who was looking at her with raised eyebrows.

I think they're okay. She tried to communicate silently and squeezed his hand to comfort him.

He regarded her silently for a moment, then shrugged and nodded. As usual he had complete faith in her assessment - despite what had happened in the past.

"So," Carlisle asked. "Do you stay in one place often?"

Nathan shook his head. "We move around a lot. It's easier that way - for us." He answered. Jaq noticed he was so much more comfortable than he had been before her people assessment. It killed her that he still trusted her so absolutely.

"What about Connor? He's still quite young. What do you do about school?"

"We teach him. I know a lot of history - for obvious reasons - and I was also pretty good at maths when I was human." He grinned and looked at Jaq. "And Jaq helps him with English. She's amazingly gifted at languages so she's been teaching him those..." His grin grew wider. "Along with other things." He winked at her.

Edward laughed and the others looked confused.

"What languages?" He asked Jaq ignoring the curious eyes.

"French, Spanish, Italian and Nathan's been teaching me Greek."

Both Seth's and Jacob's mouths flew open and they looked at each other and back to Jaq at exactly the same time. Jaq would've laughed, if she wasn't so embarrassed.

"And you say you're only three years old?"

Jaq nodded.

"That's impressive."

"Thanks..." She shrugged. "But I was already fluent in French and Spanish when I was human. It's not really a big deal. I picked up Italian when we stayed there last year."

"Italy?" Bella made a face. "You didn't meet the Volturi did you?"

Jaq stiffened. Nathan had told her of these Italian Vampires and she had no desire to ever meet them.

"No we steered well clear of them." Nathan answered for her.

Bella shuddered.

Before anyone could say anything else there was a loud howl from outside. Jaq and Nathan tensed but the others stayed relaxed.

"Sounds like Quil and Embry have got something for us." Jacob said as he and Seth stood up. They both walked out the room and Edward and Bella stood up too.

"Want to see some giant mutated dogs?" Bella asked Jaq and Nathan with a grin.

"S-sure." Jaq exchanged a look with Nathan and they both stood up and followed Bella and Edward outside.

On the front lawn there were four huge – big as horses - wolves. Jaq suppressed a gasp and stepped back nearer to Nathan who tensed up.

The wolves seemed to be having some sort of conversation though no sound could be heard. Jaq could tell that the biggest wolf with ruddy brown fur was Jacob and the smallest sandy coloured wolf was Seth because their auras were the same as when they were human. She noticed the auras of the wolves were the same colour as their fur with the same red shimmer that Jacob and Seth had. It must've been a wolf thing. The other two wolves – one with the chocolate coloured fur and aura and the one with mahogany coloured fur – were between the sizes of Jacob and Seth - the chocolate coloured wolf slightly bigger than the mahogany.

"What's going on Edward?" Bella asked.

"They caught Jaq and Nathan's scent and wanted to check they were friends."

As Edward said that the mahogany wolf turned his head in their direction. He caught eyes with Jaq and she froze. His stare was penetrating but she couldn't look away. It didn't seem like he could either. His wide brown eyes that were far too intelligent to belong to a normal animal stared at her like she was something entirely new to him – like he had never seen anything like her before. Jaq stopped breathing at the intensity of his expression.

The other wolves had noticed his distraction and were looking back and forward between the pair with shocked expressions. Bella and Edward's faces were similar.

"Oh. My. God." Bella whispered.

Nathan grabbed Jaq's arm and pulled her backwards away from the wolves. But the wolf continued to stare. From the corner of her eye, Jaq noticed both Edward and Jacob nodding a yes as if someone had asked them to do something. Though no one had said anything.

"Lets go back inside." Edward said quietly still in shock at whatever had just happened. He held the door open for them and Nathan pulled Jaq towards the door.

All the while that she walked through the door the wolf watched her with the same expression.

They walked back into the lounge which was now empty. Alice, Jasper, Rosalie and Emmett must have left when they were outside. They sat back down on the sofas and Jaq frowned. Why had that wolf been looking at her so strangely? What was his problem?

Before she had a chance to ask Jacob and Seth walked back into the room. Their faces were still shocked.

"Hey... ermm... Jaq isn't it?" Jacob asked without even sitting down. Jaq nodded cautiously. "You said you weren't venomous right?"

Jaq nodded again. Where was he leading with this?

"And this guy, Nathan," Jacob gestured to Nathan. "He's not like... your mate or anything is he?"

"No," Jaq shook her head confused at his nervous expression. "He's always been more of a brother to me. Never anything like that."

Jacob and Seth relaxed and Bella gave a sigh of relief.

"I guess that's lucky then." Jacob smiled jokingly now. "That could've been difficult." He sat down and laid his head back, closing his eyes.

"What exactly was that?" Jaq asked. "Why was that wolf looking at me like that?"

Jacob's eyes snapped open again. "What? I don't know what you mean."

"He was watching Jaq with the oddest expression I have ever seen." Nathan said frowning. "There was definatly something going on there."

"Nope, sorry. No idea."

"Edward?" Jaq asked. "What was going on?" He would know. He would've been able to read the wolf's thoughts.

"I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about." He shrugged. He was better at lying than Jacob.

Jaq narrowed her eyes and stood up. "I'm going to go check Connor." She said as she left the room.