Jake POV

"You won't be able to find her at all," I heard a voice say.

I turned ready to rip whichever bloodsucker who said that's head off when I noticed Sam.

"What the hell are you doing here, Sam?" I asked.

"I came looking for you. I told you that you weren't to go after Bella. What do you think you are doing?" he said.

"You told me I wasn't go after Bella alone, and as you can clearly see I'm not alone," I told him coldly.

"So you're willing to team up with a gang of bloodsuckers?" he asked me.

"If that's what it takes to find Bella then yes I am," I responded.

"Return home, Jacob. I won't tell you again," he growled at me.

I could feel the pull of the alpha command pulling me towards home. Then I thought about Bella somewhere with the redheaded bloodsucker and I fought it hard. "NO!" I screamed.

"How dare you defy me? Go home now!" he commanded again.

I felt the pull again and I fought even harder. "Not without Bella!" I responded and when I said this I felt the pull of the command break and I felt even more powerful than I had ever felt. Sam looked at me bewildered so I'm assuming he felt it too.

"You have left the pack," he stated.

"Excuse me?" I said.

"You have declared yourself alpha and left our pack. You've chosen Bella over your own pack. Your path is chosen and I have no further business here. I will take my leave," he said and with that he ran into the woods. That's when I finally understood what he was telling me. I was alpha of my own pack and I no longer had to listen to him. I felt like jumping for joy until I remembered Bella.

I turned to Alice. "Bella told me you have visions. Have you seen her?"

She looked at me sadly. "Truth be told I haven't been able to see Bella since February. I assumed it was because she was spending so much time with you. Obviously that assumption was wrong being that I still can't see her."

"Well we have no choice but to follow her scent. I don't think that I will be welcomed in La Push. The outer boundaries are large. We have to search them all until we pick up Bella's scent. Let's split up search for her scent. The first one to find her scent called out to the others." I told them.

"I'm not taking orders from you, fucking mutt," pretty boy Fuckward said.

"Well dumbass it's time you learned everything is not about you. I for one plan on doing whatever it takes to find Bella so if you want to sit here with your thumb up your ass fine with me, but I swear to God if something happens to her because you were being a jackass I'll tear you to pieces myself," Alice growled.

Everyone stared at her stunned as if it's not what they expected. I approached her slowly and wrapped my arm around her shoulder. "We should go in pairs. I'll take Shortie."

The bloodsucker with the long blond hair immediately stepped forward. "I don't think so."

"I wouldn't hesitate to kill any one of ya'll if I got you alone. The only one who I don't want to kill right now is Alice. I go with her," I growled.

"It's fine I honestly I trust him. He would never do anything to harm Bella, and harming me would hurt Bella. I'm sure I'll be fine," Alice told them.

"He just threatened all of us, and you say you trust him," the Barbie said in disbelief.

"All due respect he threatened you guys and we are searching for Bella," Alice grabbed me and raced me into the forest.

We had to search slowly to try and pick up the scent it took about three days to finally pick up the scent. She had crossed the river which masked the scent well. I was going to cross when Alice grabbed me. "What about the others?"

"Look how long it took us to pick this up. There's no telling where they are. We have to go now she could be in danger. We can call on the way but please lets go now, please."

"Fine we'll go get her."

I shifted and we raced after her scent it took the rest of the day but we finally came across a cottage with her scent wafting off of it. I approached the house and noticed there was no heartbeat. My first thought was she was dead, but then I noticed there what no one at all there. "The house is empty, Alice."

"Let's go in and check around."

I nodded and walked father towards the door. Just outside I saw a large scorch mark. I knew those markings. There was a bloodsucker burned here. We walked into the house and the stench of blood hit me. I looked back at Alice and saw her eyes darken. "Are you okay?"

"There's nobody here and no offense to you, but you smell way to potent to bite."

"Okay the smell is coming from here." We walked into the back room. The bed was covered in blood that I'm sure is Bella's. "Bella."

"She can't be dead."

"I don't think she is."

"Look at all the blood there is no way she could have survived."

"If she was dead why not leave the body. I think she's okay, Alice."

"Thank you, I needed that."

I nodded. I continued to look around the room and I saw a piece of paper on the bed. I picked it up and my name was on the front in Bella's writing. "I found something."

She came and looked over at the note as I opened it.

Jacob,

I knew you would find me. That you would find this. I am okay. I wanted you to know that. Something has happened that I can't change, but for the safety of the love of my life I had to. I made a deal that you won't agree with but it had to be done. One thing I wanted to tell you was thank you. You were my sun in my darkest hour and there is no way I could repay you. I want you to stop looking for me. I made a promise to save my life and many others. I hope to see you again and remember your promise. I love you. I will return someday. Look after Charlie he's gonna need it, and tell him I love him. See you around.

Bella

"At least we know she's alive, and she doesn't want us to come after her. What promise did she mean?"

"Bella is completely in love with you and has been since the day you left or that's when she realized it."

"She's in love with me?"

"Completely and I promised her I would tell you." I sat on the part of the bed not covered in blood. "She doesn't want me to come after her. I guess I'll stay in Forks with Charlie or move him to La Push."

"I guess I'll go home. We'll see her again someday. She said she'd return and Bella doesn't make empty promises."

"I know."

She gave me a large hug. "Time to go back."