BELLAS POV

"What?" I asked, I could feel my hand coming to my forehead involuntarily… "Wait…what!?" I shook my head as if I was trying to clear it out.

"Bella." Emmett said grabbing my free hand into his. But I pulled it away, instead bringing both my hands to cover my mouth in my instant shock.

"No… no.. no!" I said almost laughing in disbelief. "That can't be true, he would never hurt me." I said to Emmett, talking about Jacob.

"Like I told you before, don't be too sure you can trust him. He's different Bella. He's something else, he's not like me or the rest, and maybe not even like the baby. And they all know that, he was made to kill my kind Bella."

"But we don't know what the baby will come out to be! For all we know the baby won't even be close to a vampire." I insisted.

"Bella, look at your stomach, no regular baby could have so much strength to do that." He said.

"But he wouldn't touch me, and he wouldn't hurt my baby, because in hurting the baby, he'd be hurting me." I said trying to ignore the fact that he had tried to kill my baby back in the woods. "Its part of their packs belief- not to harm humans."

"Don't be too sure of that Bella, It's different now… they haven't dealt with anything like this before, and if they need to take heavy measures, then they will." Emmett said

"No no no." I said shaking my head. This couldn't be happening. Because even I would be lying, if I said I didn't care about Jacob. I loved him as an older sister would love their younger sibling. He was that little brother I couldn't have, even if his feelings were deeper towards me, then mine.

"Bella look, I know you care about Jacob Black, but right now, your main concern should be the baby." He said.

I looked at him, "I do care about the baby…" Was he trying to say I didn't?

He sighed almost as if he had read my mind. "I didn't say you didn't Bells. It's just… what needs to be done, needs to be done. We are outnumbered by them. I'm the only present male right now, and you sure as hell know I don't want Esme or Rosalie to fight."

I started to tear up, how did this all go so bad? It's not like we were the first people ever to have an affair.

But then again, who was I kidding? We weren't exactly just regular people, in regular relationships to begin with.

"Let me talk to him." I said "Yeah maybe I can stop this." I said nodding more to myself.

Emmett shook his head, "Bells you know that won't work.

"We won't know unless I try!" I said trying to get up. But the weight of my stomach was making it hard for me, to even sit up straight.

"Bella please stop being so stubborn, the mutts have made up their mind about this situation." He said trying to get me to lay back down.

But I pushed his hand away, well sort of, because it felt like I was trying to move a heavy building.

"But I can't let you three fight alone!" I shouted at him.

We turned when we heard a knock at my door.

"Bella?" I heard Seth from the other side of the door.

"Come in." I said weakly. An exaggerated difference in tone, to what it had just been.

This time I finally was able to sit up. I scooted back, so my back was able to touch the head rest.

Seth opened the door and came in followed by his sister.

They both looked a mess, had I not known them, and just seen them walking around for the first time. I'd think they were homeless, or perhaps even a bit insane.

Leah's hair was an even messier mass, if that could have even been possible. Her face had dirt stains. Emmett's over sized shirt on her, had some holes, from what I imagine were from her running in the woods. Her bare feet were covered in dirt.

Seth was in about the same shape as her, with the exception that his hair was short. So instead of looking as bad as Leah, it just looked like he had come back from a wild day of playing with his buddies outside.

Another thing they both had in common, was they looked unbelievably tired, the dark bags under their eyes, made it seem as if they hadn't slept for days. But the main thing that stood out to me, were their eyes… they seemed so empty. Seth whose face was normally a sight of happiness, now looked as if he had just lost someone.

"Is everything okay?" Leah asked.

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EMMETTS POV

I looked down, away from Seth and his sister, and grabbed Bella's hand.

They were both in a terrible state. I shook my head as I knew what was happening to them.

"I think… its time for you two to go." I said to them.

Bella looked at me surprised.

"What?" Seth asked, I could hear him take a step forward, but stopped himself.

"Their coming." I said them, finally turning to them.

"Sam is coming?" Leah asked her brother.

Seth continued to look at me, nodding he swallowed.

"What's going to happen now?" Leah asked her brother.

"I can't let anything happen to the baby." Seth said looking at me.

"And I can't allow you to continue to be broken away from your pack. Don't think I don't know what happens to those, who do that for a long time. Look at you two, it's already getting to you, and it hasn't even been a week." I said.

Seth looked at Bella then at his sister. His sister turned away from us.

"What happening?" Bella asked.

I looked at Seth, waiting for him to answer, but when I saw he wouldn't, I decided to answer Bella. Who has re-asked once more, what happens to his kind, when they part from their pack's.

"They become lost, it's like they wander off into a complete forsakenness. They begin to lose all connection to their roots if you would like to say. And they no longer can really control their shift." I said.

"So they can no longer turn into wolfs?" Bella asked looking at Seth and Leah.

"No, it means they can't turn back to human. They become stuck in one form, forgetting how to shift again, and unlike now, they age. They no longer control when they want to age. With no pack, and the unacceptness from other territorial wolf packs, they slowly die an isolated lonely death. That's why when they imprint, it's important, because if anything were to happen to the pack. They are not alone at least, because they have the person they want to spend the rest of their lives with." I said finishing.

I didn't know if Seth or his sister had ever imprinted, but my guess was no, since they were here, and not with their loved one.

Seth, who was hugging his sister to his chest, didn't look at us the whole time I was talking.

"We were having a hard time shifting back after we both shifted. It took so much out of us." Seth said kissing the top of his sister's head, who just like Seth, was tall, but not like him.

"Does it hurt?" Bella asked him.

"Not physically, no." Seth said.

His sister pulled away from him and turned to face us again.

"When we tried shifting back, it felt like we were stuck in between both worlds. We were able to hear other wolfs, not shifters, but the actual packs from miles away. But it's like everything became black and white. Like we were lost." Leah said shuddering.

"How did you shift back?" I asked them curious

Both Leah and Seth look at each other uncomfortably.

"Well I… I shifted back because I couldn't let myself become lost from… sam." She said.

"From who?" asked Bella, because Leah had said the last part in a very low voice.

Although Leah was not as light as Bella, I could clearly see the rise of her blood to her face. She sighed before answering. "Sam. I rather live away knowing he is real, then him become a lost memory."

Sam? Sam… that must be the big one in command, their alpha. I thought to myself.

I nodded to her in understandment. No one had to even tell me, she obviously held feelings for him, that he did not share back with her.

"And you?" I asked Seth.

He shrugged. "I really don't know, all I knew was, I couldn't let Bella and the baby get hurt. It's not fair, I am who I am to keep safety from the cold ones." He said looking away from me. " Except now, I have to keep safety against my own brothers."

I had grown a great level of respect for him. I guess not all the mutts were too bad.

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EDWARDS POV

I paced back and forward as I took in everything Jacob Black was thinking to me.

"Are you seriously okay with this?" he asked me

I stopped pacing, as I looked up at a full moon. I rested my forearm on a tree trunk, and rested my forehead on to it.

"As much as it hurts. Yes." I said in a very emotionless voice.

"WHY!?" he demanded to me.

"… because she's happy… because I love her so much, that I'm happy as long as she's happy, even if it means by someone else's side." I said. I swore I could feel my un beating heart, want to break.

"But she's pregnant with one of your kind." He said.

"You don't say." I said closing my eyes. Pain shooting at me, at the fact of knowing that my Bella, and my brother had slept together.

"I had to give her up for one blood sucker, in hopes that when she was done with you or vise versa, I'd be there. Because I wasn't ever planning on losing hope, no matter how long I had to wait. And all of a sudden that asshole comes in and "sweeps" her off her feet. And tosses me back another spot!? So how the hell is it that if you claim to love her so much, your okay with your brother fucking her, and stealing her away from you?" His thoughts were so loud it felt like he was screaming right in my ear next to me.

I swallowed as I turned my back to the tree trunk, I let myself fall into a sitting position to the ground. I balled my hands and let them keep pounding on to my knees.

"She's happy… she's happy… she's happy." I said to myself.

"How does it feel to know that she loves someone else? HUH?" Jacob said.

I knew he was trying to compare my feelings, to what he felt, when she choose me, instead of him.

"To know, you gave her yourself completely to her, for her to just toss it all back to you." He said angrily.

I closed my eyes and bit on my lip.

"To know that she gives someone else those looks you once got, to know someone else kisses her, and tell her the words you feel about her?" He growled into my head.

I ran my fingers through my hair, and took a firm hold of it, yanking at it a bit. I let out a sob.

"EDWARD! ANSWER ME YOU THICKHEADED-" I could hear say no longer in his thoughts, but out loud.

I couldn't answer him, I didn't know what to say, without letting him know how I truly felt right now.

"Fine if you don't kill him, then I will. And then…. Then I'm coming for you." He said out loud once again.

"Shit… SHIT!" I said out loud, as I got up and went on a run towards the territory line.

They were actually planning on attacking, I didn't even begin to think that this would happen.

As I came to the clearing, I could clearly see the big wolf pack as they stood before the invisible territory line.

I could hear him growl loudly. I wasn't sure if it was at me, or at the other wolfs.

Because when he did, he directed his attention at two of the big wolfs next to him.

Yeah, it was towards them, because I was sure he didn't even know I was near.

I wasn't sure if Jacob would be able to hear me, but I had to try, I had to try and stop them now, before it was to late. Before I would leave to Italy.

"You can't hurt Bella. You love her." I said desperately.

"It's different now, what needs to be done, needs to be done." I heard him say.

"Jacob, she's still Bella, she's still the same girl you fell in love with, your best friend!" I said to him.

But I knew he wouldn't listen anymore.

Jacob howled loudly, and took a step past the territory line.

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BELLAS POV

"Em, I'm scared." I said to him as he massaged my arm.

He was laying next to me on the bed.

Laying on the floor was Leah sleeping on her back. Her head was resting on Seth's lap, as he slept with his back against the wall, next to the door. Both had their mouths wide open, drool coming out the sides of their mouths.

"I know you are. I am too." He said kissing me.

"It's so sad, what could happen to them." I said looking at Seth and Leah again.

I could feel Emmett's head turn to them, as he continued to rest his head on the top of mine.

"You know their doing so much for you right now right?" he asked me.

"I know. I know why Leah is, because she felt she had to follow her brother. But why is Seth going against Jake and the rest? Their his family." I said to him.

I could hear Emmett swallow. "He loves you a lot."

When he said that, I was wondering if he meant love, as in a deeper meaning.

"Like…" I began.

"No. Not in that way." He said.

I laughed a little feeling stupid. Making Emmett to smile.

He raised my shirt up, and rested his hand on my stomach, the coldness from it, felt so soothing on my bruised belly.

He scooted down and kissed my stomach.

He started running his fingers up and down my stomach, "Hi baby." He said to my stomach.

"Have you thought of what you would like to name the baby?" I asked him.

"No." he said. "I honestly haven't thought that far ahead, if you haven't noticed, I never do. I just go with what I want or feel at the time."

I understood exactly what he was talking about, cause I was the same. I didn't think or care about consequences, I just went with that I felt, just cared about the current outcome.

Had we both thought about the consequences, I'm sure we would have thought twice about what we did. But it didn't matter anymore, not at this point.

We both laid in a comfortable silence, I could see his head rising and falling with my stomach, as I breathed.

But we were both startled when both Leah and Seth jumped up from their slumber.

Before I could even blink, Emmett was already off the bed and on his feet.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Emmett nodded to them as if he knew what was going on. "Go." He said to them.

Seth looked at me and smacked his chest, where his heart is. "Till thee end Bella." He said before he and Leah bolted out the door.

Esme and Rosalie were in the room before I could even catch my breath.

"Oh Emmett." Esme said sobbing into Emmett chest.

"WHAT'S GOING ON!?" I asked angrily now, it was upsetting me that everyone knew but me. I screamed as the lights of the house went out, we were left in pitch black.

I began breathing heavily as I panicked, I was afraid of the dark.

"EMMETT! EMMETT!" I began screaming.

"Ssh shh I'm right here." He said hugging me.

I started crying as I suspected what was going on, but even then I still had to get it confirmed, to believe it. "What's happening?"

But he ignored my question, instead he picked me up.

"Esme take Bella, and hide her. Rose outside." He said handing me over to who I figured was Esme.

Unlike Emmett, her thin arms seemed to fragile, but I new different.

I could hear something ripping, like cloth. And then a cold breeze, as I knew Rosalie has just ran past me to go outside.

"Emmett!" I screamed. I started crying more as I realized it was time.

"Bella.. Bella listen to me-" Emmett began grabbing my face lightly. His sweet breath slightly calming me down. "Listen to me… no matter what happens, don't leave your hiding spot. Do you understand?"

I shook my head, unsure he could see it. I could feel tears running down my cheeks.

"Emmett, no, no please this doesn't have to happen." I said

"Bella, I love you." He said kissing my forehead. And then he was gone, I could feel the same cold breeze Rosalie had left.

"EMMETT!" I screamed, and I didn't stop. I just continued to scream his name over and over as Esme carried me along with her.

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Guess what!? I passed! I'm officially a certified Chef. 2 yrs, and I finally got my AAS degree.