I woke up with 2 warm eyes staring back at me and I was sweating profusely. "Yuck! How did you get so hot?"
"I was born this way," he chuckled reaching and holding me onto his chest. I pushed away and fell off the small bed.
"Ha. Ha! You know what I mean." And then Jacob just stared at me for a moment, his brows creased in confusion.
"Why are you here Bella?"
"I thought it would be better to talk to you face-to-face."
"Oh much better," Jacob snorted angrily scotting father away from me on his bed and leaning against his wall with a thump that dented his wall but he was too angry to care.
"Jacob I came here to warn you about the…"
"Rangers and hunters? We already know about it Bella. Don't worry about it. We can take care of ourselves. They make it difficult though. They disappear so easily."
"JAKE! You know how carelessly you say that ticks me off though it shouldn't because that would make me such a hypocrite! Can you just stop being a monster?" Jacob's arms shivered a bit and he glared at me.
"You are a hypocrite but you just noted that so you already knew! That makes me so mad! You can kiss that bloodsucker but dislike me!"
"I kissed you too you know!"
"Like that was a kiss!"
"Do you HAVE to chow on humans? Edward didn't have to! He stuck to animals!" Jacob's brows went up at that. Jacob started laughing hysterically at my distress, tears of mirth forming in his eyes. "This is not funny Jake! We're talking about peoples' lives. Can you not become a vegetarian?... I know you won't like it but if you try then I'll try to be a vegetarian in my own way," I said and even as I said it I felt myself grimace. I was a true carnivore who loved meat.
"You're not creeped out I turn into a wolf?"
"Why should I be?"
"That's what I thought you were talking about not the humans!"
"Well I'm kind of mad you have to eat humans but could you do me a favor and eat Mike."
……………….at that moment in time Mike lifted his head up and froze, he'd been standing at the beach playing volley ball with some friends, and the ball hit him but didn't faze him. His Bella senses had told him that she had spoken his name……..
"Bella. We don't eat humans!"
"Oh thank God!"
"You don't mind I turn into a fluffy puppy on steroids?"
"I wouldn't care if you turned into a grasshopper or the lochness monster Jake! I don't care about that." He suddenly launched himself onto me hugging me tightly and planting a large smacking kiss on my cheek.
"Eww dog slobber! Get off I can't breathe!" He got up laughing his head off.
"We're called 'the protectors' for a reason!"
"Then who attacks the humans?"
…………………somewhere in Italy the Volturi received a gift from Edward… "Look Eddykins got us something," squealed Aro happily ripping open the gift that came by FedEx to see a man tied up…….. "Yuck a man," said Marcus with disgust… "He's to eat stupids," said Caius sniffing the guy, "though he smells a little rank."… The psychiatrist squirmed in the box frightened of these immortal spectators… "I don't want to eat him," said Aro, "I prefer dark meat this is all light." "Then what will we use him for?" Marcus asked………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….10 minutes later Aro had untined the psychiatrist guy and bargained the psychiatrist guy's life for one thing…. To fix the computer and explain how it works…. The psychiatrist guy's fate was decided, he was to turn into a vampire so as not to betray their secrets upon the next morning……… and he would become their servant to contact Bella…. Caius wondered why didn't he join Stefan and Vladimir's forces? Why didn't they rule anymore…. Aro's hand brushed up against Caius's hand and as soon as he read Caius's mind Aro said, "MEANY!" and had Caius tied up with kryptonite and double layered steel sausage links and then placed in the dungeon where he was to watch, "I Love Raymond," re-runs for 10 days………….. poor….. poor…. Caius… cricket……………………….psychiatrist guy thought it was fun to sparkle…… psychiatrist guy never really had a name so Aro named him Jack-in-the-Box………
"The one enemy we have attacks humans."
"Vampire."
"Not just one," he breathed and my face paled a little.
"Anyone I know...?" I meant that as a different question… had the Cullens come back and the wolves mistakenly killed them?
"Only that vampire we chased when we found you in the meadow though he had crossed the borders. I'm sorry Bella he was a killer that had been taking out all of those hikers…"
"Wait but the killings are still going on."
"There are more… Bella aren't you mad we killed your friend?" My eyes had widened at the thought of vampires but I realized that vampires… I was far too used to them now to fear them. It was like fearing the dark, you only fear something you don't understand, I knew what was in the dark. I had no fear for them. The only fear I had was Edward coming back and breaking my heart again.
"No… its okay. If you hadn't of showed up… my body would've been used in more ways then one… thanks Jake… any other vampires?"
"No, they haven't come back… ever," he replied knowing exactly what I meant.
"Well… now I don't really have any qualms. I'm okay with it," I replied. "What danger could come from it?"
"Bella we lose control."
"We all lose control sometimes. I hit you with a bat…"
"Bella that's not what I meant."
"It's a once a month thing for you isn't it? The whole full moon thing? Don't worry Jake I know how it is to get something you hate once a month and turn incredibly moody…"
"Bella honey," he groaned, "I mean we lose control with our emotions. It's dangerous for you to be near me if my emotions get out of hand otherwise I'll kill you. I don't want to kill you."
"Neither did Edward's brother but he was kind of in the same situation as you," I replied shrugging my shoulders. "I'm used to people 'losing control.'"
"One of them attacked you?"
"He wanted to. Well he didn't want to but the beast in him did so I know what you're talking about and believe me I can handle it," I said urgently trying to get that point across. "I don't want you to leave me because you don't think I can handle it." There was silence. Jacob stared at me with a sudden light of knowledge in his eyes.
"That's what happened wasn't it? One of them attacked you and they left rather than chance it," he murmured. I still felt a little pain at the thought of being left behind. I didn't want Jacob to leave me. Not after they had. I didn't want to become a case where everyone decided to abandon her…… though I wouldn't have to worry about Charlie leaving me because I would be the one leaving soon after graduation. "I'm not like one of them and now that they know that too I definitely get to stay. I'm not going to leave you Bella."
"They?"
"The pack… You should meet them. In fact right now they insist on meeting you and me because they're incredibly angry at me."
"Why?"
"Because you got through the loophole of the biggest secret in Forks… or the second biggest," he smirked. We went outside and got in the car.
"So what about the vampires?… what did they look like?"
"Well right now one with long red hair keeps bothering us. She keeps testing our defenses trying to find a way in Forks…" I froze and my face drained of color only to be replenished by my blood and make my face red with anger as I grabbed hold of the seat of my car. Jacob crooked a brow at me. "What's wrong Bella?"
"Victoria," I said bitterly remembering what Laurent had said. She wanted revenge. She was looking for a way to get me back and Edward back. But Edward wasn't here so that meant she'd do what she could to me and mine. Jacob, Charlie, my friends, and myself were in danger though I didn't care about the latter. Edward growled in my head. "She is not going to get anyone I loved," I growled.
"Bella you know what she wants?"
"She's a witch that makes me react this way of course I know what she wants. She wants me and mine!"
"Why?"
"Edward killed James. Her mate."
"Oh now the others definitely need to see you… wait for one second." He jumped out of the car and ran into the woods doing lord knows what. When he returned he breathed, "Okay we've got a meeting. Lets go now!"
"Where did you go?"
"Had to tell my dogs that we had to meet somewhere nearer. I can't risk driving somewhere far away to talk to them."