Jaq came back down into the lounge to Emmett, Rosalie and Nathan talking together. When she came through the door Rosalie and Emmett grinned. Obviously they had been told the big secret now.

"Okay, what the hell is going on?" She asked frowning.

"Nothing."

"Nathan?"

"Jaq, nothing's going on." So he was in on the secret now too. Well that was just fine. She narrowed her eyes and sat down.

"So," Emmett grinned. "I was wondering. Isn't Jack a boy's name?"

"Yeah, but my name's short for Jacqueline." She grimaced. "I'm Jaq with a 'q'."

"Right," His grin widened. "So I can call you Jacqueline?"

"No," She made a face. "No way."

"Jacqui?"

"No."

"Aww..."

"Seriously, don't."

"Fine, Jaq-with-a-q it is."

"You have a sad sense of humour."

"Finally," Rosalie grinned. "Someone else notices."

Alice skipped into the lounge with a huge grin on her face. "Hey guys, guess wh-a-at?" She sang.

"What Alice?" Emmett sighed. "I was in the middle of making fun of Jaq-with-a-q."

"Oh har har." Jaq made a face.

Alice rolled her eyes and her face lit up again. "Anyway .... I was thinking... since its Nessie's birthday on....." She stopped and her face blanked. "Oh."

"What is it Alice?" Rosalie asked concerned. "What did you see?"

"I-" Alice murmured. "The others...they're coming."

"What others?" Jaq asked.

"When I saw you guys coming," Alice explained. "Immediately after I had a vision of these other vampires coming too."

"Other...vampires?"

"Yeah. At least four or five of them." Alice nodded. "One of them keeps changing their mind though."

Four or five? "What did they look like?" Jaq asked nonchalantly avoiding Nathan's worried glance.

"Well all of them have red eyes so they're not vegetarians. Err..." She closed her eyes in concentration. "Two males, both blonde and three females one blonde, one brunette and one braided."

Jaq felt faint. "Delano." She whispered glancing at Nathan. He had frozen in place with a similar expression to hers. "Oh God..."

Nathan stood up in one swift motion. "We'll have to leave."

Jaq nodded. "I'll go get Connor."

"Hey, now," Emmett said blocking the doorway. "What's going on?"

"Do you know them?" Alice asked.

Jaq nodded stiffly. "I'm so sorry. I- We shouldn't have stayed here." She gabbled. "We led them here. Should've thought...oh ... god I'm so sorry..."

"Who are they?" Rosalie frowned. "Why are you guys so scared of them? Why are they following you?"

Jaq took in a long breath calming herself. "It's Delano's clan. They- they're the reason Connor's parents, my brother, died..."

"What's so scary about them?" Emmett asked. "There're more of us than there is of them."

"Delano is... very power hungry..." Nathan explained stiffly. "He only allows those with talents in his clan. His ambition is to take over the Volturi."

"Don't the Volturi know about them?"

"No, not yet. Delano has thus far managed to keep himself quiet. His plan is to attack when they're not expecting it."

"Well, he sounds like the regular psycho."

"He's dangerous." Jaq shuddered. "I'm so sorry. We led them here. We need to leave before they get to you..."

"Hang on you can't just leave!"

"We can't lead them here and put you in danger!" Jaq cried. "Not after what you've done for us..."

"Hang on," Alice said calmly. "Just think this through for a moment. They're going to come here if you leave or not. I can see that far. You leaving here will be pointless."

"But-"

"You'll be safer with us. Like Emmett said, we'll outnumber them easily."

"But Alice, I don't think you understand how-"

"The wolves will almost certainly help, especially as..." Alice trailed off and looked away. Emmett laughed. Nathan frowned, not amused, next to her.

"They'll defiantly help." He grinned impishly at Jaq. She felt confused. Obviously she was missing something. "And besides," He said slightly more seriously. "You can't prevent me from fighting the bad guys. That's just cruel."

"I-" Jaq hesitated.

"I don't know." Nathan murmured. "It makes sense, but I don't feel comfortable dragging you guys into it..."

Alice grinned. "Don't worry we're experts at this."

Emmett snorted. "Yeah the amount of vamps that have tried to kill Bella."

"Jaq, Nathan," Rosalie smiled. "You realise that even if we let you go, Carlisle and Esme wouldn't. Of course neither would the do-" She coughed disguising the rest of her sentence.

Emmett gave a booming laugh again and Jaq frowned at him. What the hell....?