So I finally got my own laptop and can now use this instead of using my nans computer, so hopefully I will be updating more often.

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Chapter 8.

"Whoa, nice car!" One of the Quileutes exclaimed once Jasper had sat down. I stared at the car from over Jasper's shoulder, wondering if I could do something to hurt it to get Jasper to let go of me.

"Thanks." It was the pride in Jasper's voice that stopped me from maiming his car, I knew that not only would he be absoloutely pissed but he loves the car and he's hate me for hurting it. "Its an audi r8, one of the best models."

"I can see." I couldn't make out who's voice it was which made me more annoyed to be staring at Jaspers backside instead of being involved in the conversation with the Quileutes.

"So, what are we here to talk about?" Jasper's voice was no longer full of pride but had taken on a tone of polite impatience.

"First of all we need to discuss the terms of the Treaty which was made by our earlier generation and your coven." The leaders voice echoed in the silence of the open area. I huffed as loud as possible and I felt Jasper chuckle.

"I do remember exactly what the Treaty said, although I was not a part of the Cullen family when they first arrived at Forks." There was no trace of a chuckle in his voice when he spoke to the Quileutes, it was clear that I was a friend and they were not.

"Well we need to inform Miss Swan of the terms of the Treaty so please return her to a standing position so we can talk to her face-to-face." Jasper sighed and lifted me off his shoulder, but put his arm over my shoulders keeping me close to him.

"I hope you all know that when your done talking to her she's going back over my shoulder."

"I do like looking at her face but I must say the view you were giving us then was awesome." Paul spoke with a grin on his smug little face, I felt like punching him but the feel of Jasper's arm around me made me stay where I was, it just felt good.

"Shut up, Paul." I said, glaring in his direction. Instead of being scared or intimidated, like I wanted, he just grinned some more and winked at me.

"Yes, Paul, shut up." Spoke the leader (I'd really have to find out their names) then he turned to me. "Bella, I am Sam Uley, the leader of the Quileute pack-"

"Wait, pack? What does that mean?"

"I will explain if you give me time." I nodded but didn't speak as he had an impatient look on his face. "Like I was saying, I am the Alpha of the pack and just under a hundred years ago the Cullens came into out territory to hunt. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were going to attack until they showed us that they were different. We made a Treaty with them, they would stay off our land, stay feeding from animals and could not kill or turn any humans, in return we would not attck them or trespass on their land." He became quiet.

"Okay, I understand that. What I don't understand is why you said 'pack'." Sam (I am so glad he finally introduced himself) actually smiled at me.

"I said pack because thats exactly what we are. You see, at a point in the life of certain Quileute men, if there are vampires, our natural enemies, around then we begin to change and phase into something strong enough, fast enough and skilled enough to kill them, we became werewolves." Again, Sam stopped speaking. I let what he said sink in and to be perfectly honest, I wasn't surprised, I mean, if vampires exist why couldn't werewolves.

"Okay. Is that all you wanted?" I asked, I was glad that hadn't affected me because it meant my voice was strong and calm when I spoke.

"We needed to also remind your Cullen that if any of his clan broke one of these terms the Treaty becomes invalid and we have every right to attack them." This was directed at Jasper and Sam had a cruel, cold glare in his eyes.

"Do not worry, we remember the terms of the Treaty and we don't intend to break them."

"of course. The last thing we want to talk to you about is Bella."He said it so casually that my name didn't register in my brain until after Jasper spoke.

"What would you like to know?" Jasper spoke just as casually as if I wasn't around.

"We want to know what she is. She is clearly not human, at least not completely, we just want to know what she actually is and whether she is or may become a harm to humans." I couldn't get a word in edge ways, one second Sam was talking and Jasper answered straight away.

"The only way to explain this is by telling you something that happened a few months ago."

"Then tell us." The Quileutes stood looking patiently comfortable, well as comfortable as they could be while talking to a vampire.

"There were some killings not long after Bella first moved here, killings we realised were done by some of our own kind. Eventually we crossed paths with them, unfortunately Bella was with us at the time and one of their clan, James, decided that hunting Bella was a new sport. We tried to keep Bella safe, some of us took her to Arizona while others kept an eye on her father and led a trail in the opposite direction. It didn't take long for James to figure out where Bella really was and to get to her, he got her to meet him on the pretense that he had her mother and was going to kill her. He attacked Bella, beat her and broke her until, to taunt Edward when he got there, he bit her. She was almost turned, but Edward sucked the venom out and we had thought at the time that he got it all out. Then she started changing and our theory now is that because it took Edward so long to get the venom out that her body had already started changing. We will need to do tests to find out how much she's actually changed but we can deffinitely say that she is experiencing no bloodlust." When he stopped speaking there was complete silence. It was strange seeing the wolves (weird) and Jasper, a vampire, all together, in what seems like perfect harmony.

There was silence for a while, no one knew what to say. Sam was clearly thinking about what to say, contemplating what Jasper had told them, the rest of the wolves looked like they were just waiting for Sam.

"So, does that mean that she isn't a threat?" Sam asked after a long unwanted silence.

"As far as we can tell she isn't a threat but like I said before we will need to do more tests to see how much she has changed."Jasper finished speaking and there was silence again. I was glad that it didn't take Sam as long as last time to speak.

"Thats all we really wanted to know." He spoke to Jasper first, then turned to me. "Bella because you aren't seen as a threat right now you can still come onto Quileute lands, but if at any point you become a threat to anyone in the Quileute tribe then you will be treated as one of the Cullens. We would appreciate it if you kept us informed on what goes on with yourself and about the discoveries that your going to make about yourself during these test you will be doing." His voice was totally business, it was weird at how formal he was being.

"Of course." Was Jasper's only reply.

"Thank you, we will be leaving now." Sam turned and motioned for the rest of his pack to follow him to leave. The only one of them that stayed back a bit was Paul. He was grinning at me.

"See ya 'round, B." He grinned some more and winked again before following Sam further into La Push.

I took in a deep breath and ran my fingers through my hair, I didn't realise until that second that I had been tense.

"Are you alright?" Jasper's voice was soft and quiet and very close to my ear. I looked up into his golden eyes and smiled.

"Yeah, just glad that's over."

"Same." He pulled me closer to his body and wrapped his arms around me giving me a hug. I wrapped my own arms around his waist and breathed in his sweetly masculine scent. I couldn't place the smell, it was vaguely familiar but also completely foreign. It was nice.

After a few seconds of hugs he pulled away.

"You wanna go home?" He asked, his voice keeping that soft, quiet texture.

"Not just yet. Don't we have anymore shopping to do or something?" I wasn't sure why I didn't want to, maybe I wanted to spend more time with Jasper I didn't know, but I didn't want to go home, not yet.

"Not really but we can go back to mine just to relax or we could start some training." We were walking back to his car as he spoke and probably for the first time getting into a car with a Cullen (or Hale) I opened my own door.

"Sure, I'm not bothered what we do." It took me a few seconds of Jasper's silence to realise that what I had said could be taken as an innuendo. I looked at him to see his eyebrows raised and a smile playing at his lips.

"Really Miss Swan?" A chuckle left his mouth as he spoke and my mouth formed one of those annoying fish 'O' shapes.

"That is not what I meant." Jasper just kept smiling and looking like he could laugh at any minute, but his eyes were accusing. "Stop giving me that look, I did not mean that ." It was at the very last word in my sentence that he started laughing. His laugh was so full of pure joy that it became infectious, so I couldn't help myself. I laughed with him.

He started the car as we laughed and we quickly settled into a comfortable silence.

I watched the tree's as they shot by in almost a blur at how fast we were driving. I noticed then that the speed didn't bother me anymore, it was probably because even with it all blurring together I could still see every individual leaf if I concentrated hard enough. I was pleasantly surprised that, even though the speed we were going reminded me of when Edward would run with me (the few times he actually did), I wasn't very upset by it. A slight but of pain did shoot through my chest but other than that I was fine.

I think Jasper noticed the little ounce of pain within me because his eyes were suddenly searching my face.

"I'm fine Jasper." I said, looking at him and smiling slightly.

"What was that?" I loved the way his voice easily portrayed how worried he was for me, it was nice to know that one of them still cared.

"Of course I'm worried about you, so what's wrong?"

"Nothings wrong, I just had some..." I couldn't think of a word to use. "Some unpleasant thoughts." He nodded as if he knew exactly what I was talking about. It made me think of Alice, of where she was and why Jasper wasn't with her, or why she wasn't here with Jasper, and with me.

I stopped that train of thought quickly, the thought of Alice leaving me and not wanting to stay even for Jasper made me feel more abandoned than Edward had.

Jasper grabbed my hand and gave it a light squeeze probably feeling my emotional change.

We pulled up to his house and he got out. I got out with him and saw that he'd still walked around the car to me. We walked into the house together in silence and he let us then went straight into the living room where he'd left his laptop. He turned it on and went to his music library. He clicked on a song and as the beautiful female voice rang out in the room I recognised it as Christina Perri's Distance. Jasper walked back to me and grabbed my hands, he brought me closer to his body and we started moving in time with the music.

"You know Bella, I will never leave you. I couldn't abandon you the way they did." His voice was so intense, so full of emotion, with the music in the background and the way our bodies moved in sinc with each other, I felt as if we should kiss.

But I knew that would never happen because he had Alice.

I had to say something, so I lied.

"I know Jasper, I believe you." He shook his head and twirled me away from him then back into his arms.

"Don't lie to me Bella." His eyes were so intense, staring into mine as if he could see into the very depth of my soul.

I knew I wouldn't be able to lie, so instead I layed my head on his chest and whispered.

"Then don't lie to me." After that we just danced, sometimes looking at each other, sometimes just holding each other and not even moving.

We danced through the entire of the Christina Perri album and then through something I didn't recognise, but I didn't care, at that point it wasn't about the music or about dancing, for me it was about being close to him.

I don't know how long we were there and I don't know how long we would have been there if my stomach hadn't started grumbling extremely loudly because it had been ignored all day. Jasper laughed for the first time in ages and it made me smile.

"I guess I'd better get you home." His voice was quiet again and soothing. He started to pull away from me so I clung on tighter to him.

"Just one more song?" I asked, trying to keep the peace inside me by being so close to Jasper.

"Okay." We danced together for another three minutes or so and we watched each other as we danced.

All too suddenly the song was over and I knew I couldn't ask for another without looking desperate so I stayed quiet and just smiled as we walked to my truck. Jasper got in the drivers side and took my hand as he started driving.

The drive was silent, but I held onto his hand probably more tightly than I should have, just happy for the contact and the comfort.

When we got back to my house I saw the cruiser in the driveway telling me that Charlie was home. We let go of each others hand and got out the car. Jasper walked me to my door and hugged me.

"I'll see you tomorrow Bella." He went to leave but I grabbed his arm.

"Your not coming later to help me sleep?" The smile that lit up his face made me want to smile.

"Only if you want me to. Text me later if thats what you still want." Then he was gone, off into the tree's like lost deer. I sighed and stepped inside calling hello to Charlie as I walked through the kitchen into the living room.

"Hey Bells, had a good day?" Charlie was sat, beer in hand watching some news channel about some sports games he'd already watched. I smiled at my old dad and sat next to him on his worn out sofa.

"Yeah it was okay, kinda mundane." He nodded along and watched the tv as he spoke.

"Thats life baby girl, mundane." We sat together for a bit, him watching his sports, me not watching the sports and thinking about Jasper.

There was a knock on the front door. Charlie checked the time and sighed.

"Seven o'clock, thats probably for you." So I stood up leaving Charlie to watch tv, and got the door. To say that I was surprised at who was at the door was a bit of an understatement, especially considering he was holding a big bouquet of red roses.

"What do you want?" I asked, horrified that the shock of seeing him standing there had made my voice go all squeaky.

"I'm here to pick you up, B." Paul handed me the roses as he stepped over the threshold and into the house.

"Pick me up for what?" I squeaked out as I followed his path into the living room.

"Our date, obviously. Don't worry, I'll wait for you to get dressed and stuff, I don't mind hanging with Charlie for a bit." He smiled (actually smiled, not a grin or a smirk) and sat next to my dad in the seat I had just vacated to let him in.

"Go on Bells, go get ready. Hi Paul." I nodded to Charlie and went to put the roses in a vase. I knew there was no way I could get out of going on this 'date', even though he had never actually asked me out, so I went to change into an ice blue knee lenght dress. It was simple but it still made me look nice, not that I really wanted to, at least not for Paul. Once I was done dressing and had all my little essentials and accessories I went downstairs and faced Paul.

Strangely, I was happy when he gawked at me as I walked into the living room, it made me feel appreciated.

"Wow B, you look amazing." My dad said something nice about me and then we went to go. I didn't really notice the details of what Charlie was saying, all I did notice was the way Paul looked at me, the way his eyes never left me. And then I thought, Maybe this not-real-date won't be that bad after all.

I know this is a bit unexpected but it will all tie in with the ending which is hopefully ages away.

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KV =D