Bella

Hearing the Cullens' names, I paused and watched them. Jasmine looked kind for a vampire, her eyes were gentle despite they were the colour of the blood they consumed, her smile was ensuring, I was hit with an instant feeling of trust, but I couldn't trust that feeling. I kept my guard despite their promise to not harm us, I knew about vampires, learnt a lot about them in just the past week; I knew that they could control facial emotions and body language, this could be a perfect act, to trick us into letting our guard down and then they'd slaughter us.

I had to be careful. Jacob took a step forward and lifted his head up tall, he kept a brave face even now, showing no fear but I could still sense his emotions, still hear his heartbeat, a panicked echo of my own.

'Bella, I need you to do something for me.' Jake thought as calmly as he could.

'I won't leave you.' I replied, knowing all too well he'd want me to.

'You don't have to go far, I just need you to get in range of the pack, call for them, and get them over here. Bella you and I can't do this alone, I need you to do this for me.' He chuffed, his eyes never leaving them.

I knew it was the truth, if the two of them, Jasmine and Mark, if they attacked us now then they would most likely kill me easily in my attempt to help Jacob and then after that he'd have to take on the two of them alone, but on the other hand if I did leave and get help, they could just as easily kill him and flee. But out of the two terrible outcomes, I knew if I called for the pack that I would survive to tell them what was happening; maybe they could get here before the two of them murdered my best friend.

'Bella, don't argue with me. Go!' I pulled a hurt face at him before reluctantly turning my back on the vampires and chairing through the green. I ran and let my mind race, I threw thoughts, images and emotions out there, pushing them past the boundaries of my mind, hoping that the closer I'd get to town, a member of the pack would pick up the frequency and it would only take that one pack member to discover what had happened to send out his own frequency to all other wolves in his range.

I just needed one wolf to start the ripple effect and finally, after what seemed like hours of running but it had only been a minute and a half, I felt someone receive what I had sent out, like someone answering the telephone. It took less than a second for Embry to pick up my thoughts.

'Holy . . . Bella keep coming to town. I'm on my way.' Embry thought. As he spoke to me he connected, he got the events that had happened and I had got his and to my surprise, she was on a date. I didn't recognize the girl but I did know her name, only by the scar on her face. Emily. I knew Sam had a girlfriend a couple years back who he hurt once he phased.

The two remained a couple even thought he had accidentally scarred her for life, but he couldn't take the guilt so the two broke it off. It seemed that my brother had picked up where our Alpha had left off. I watched my brother explain the situation to Emily before kissing her goodbye and running into the woods. Eventually I felt his mind connect with others. As they saw what happened, I came to an abrupt half in the trees and turned to return to Jacob.

'Bella, don't!' The voice was Paul's, 'Listen to your brother, don't go back there. If they attack you could be killed.'

'I don't care, I won't leave Jacob alone.' And I was on my way. I pushed out the voices, the warnings and calls from the others.

Sam who had caught on quickly was about to use the Alpha voice, command me to wait for them but I told him if he did, I'd never forgive him, I instantly felt his worry, his shock and horror that something like that could happen, I don't know why but it terrified him more than it should have and he let me be. Eventually I returned to the clearing where we found the vampires and I walked slowly, I kept sound to a minimal but I knew they'd hear my heartbeat. I crouched low, bared my fangs and walked out of the trees. Jacob looked as if he hadn't moved, a little shaken but alive. The vampires were...sitting down. One of them was . . . texting? Jacob growled for attention, Mark's eyes looked up at him but he just looked down again.

"I presume you've gone to alert your pack. I promise you this, little wolves, that we wish no harm to you or anyone in your little town. We will not fight you or your pack...of you attacks however, we will defend ourselves as we should." Jasmine said.

I wish I could have phased back, shown her that we didn't mean harm either as long as they didn't. Suddenly from all corners of the clearing, the pack emerged. Sam was first, charging out in the form of a giant black wolf, he stopped next to me, in front of us all. Showing his leadership. Jasmine dropped down from the branch she sat in and sighed, walking forward without a worry.

'Let's kill her.' Leah thought.

'No, they said they mean us no harm. We should at least listen to them.' I tried to protest but the pack spoke all at once, a giant mental voice in all of our heads. Seth was the only one, Jake too maybe, who thought we should listen first before the battle, try to find out who they are and what they want instead of going ahead without knowing the facts and getting in a battle that most likely will result in injury, if not a casualty.

"You're the Alpha, are you not?" Jasmine said. Sam hesitated and everyone's voices died out.

Sam nodded to her. "I think we could speak better if you were able to speak." she told him. "You needn't fear us, I promise you this."

'Promises from your kind mean very little to me.' Sam thought, even though we all knew he could not hear her. He just stood for a moment, thinking. Jasmine was not happy, she looked bored.

"We could stand here all day, just me talking to you and getting growls in response but we will achieve nothing, I blame you not for your worry, we are vampires after all." Jasmine looked over her shoulder at Mark, who was focusing entirely on her. It was clear the two were mates, they way their eyes hung on each other's lips.

'We going to attack or what?' Paul asked.

'No, we're not. It's not right to attack without reason. They've killed no one in this area, they've not attacked us. They could be like the Cullen's, they said they were friends.' I replied.

'I think she seems nice'. Seth thought gently but Leah butted in.

'Shut it, Seth, you don't know anything about them.' Leah growled, her two cents were unneeded right now.

'And you do?' Embry snapped at her.

'Do not start with me today,' Em, Leah replied, her thoughts laced with venom and anger.

'Stop it, the both of you. We do not need this!' Sam demanded.

'So we're just going to stand here in silence, waiting...for what to happen?' Quill asked.

'Phase back, Sam.' Jake thought, 'Talk to them.'

'I will not, I will not let my guard down around strangers.'

'Oh for Christ's sake!' I thought aloud without properly thinking and I took a step, before Sam's Alpha voice could stop me, I phased back into my human form. As I shrunk down to human sized Bella, the pack went crazy with growls of shock and worry and anger, some of them went to guard me while others went to block the vampires.

Jasmine smiled gently at me. Mark looked me up and down and I realized I was naked. But Paul hurried then and he stood before me, he stood in a way that he was blocking my naked body from the vampires view but wasn't watching himself. I rested my hand on the soft dark fur of his back, ensuring him I was grateful.

"M-My name is Bella," speaking physically always was a pain after speaking only through emotion and thought.

"Hello, Bella," Jasmine said gently. "You are the Alpha?" I shook my head.

"Sam is our Alpha, he is more paranoid than I. He refuses to phase back." Sam growled lowly, I didn't care if he was angry with me. I had a feeling inside, the same feeling Edward used to give me. A good one.

"Do you not fear us?" Mark asked. This comment resulted in the shifting of the pack, their growls alerting. I settled them before looking at him and shrugging.

"I guess. I'm new to all this but you're not the first vampires I've met. True I don't know what you're like or who you are, but you know the Cullen's. If you know the Cullen's then you must be friends, if you were enemies the two of you would not take them all on by yourselves unless you were incredibly stupid or confident. I know you're not Volturi guards, even on missions I know those guys still have to wear the symbolic cloak.

"So I'm presuming that you are friends of the Cullen's which means, you're not terrible people. You should know that Edward Cullen and I are friends, we were very close once upon a time. So even if you still thought about an attack, you'd have angry Edward to deal with, you wouldn't want to ruin your relationship with the Cullen's and perhaps start a battle just because you killed some wolves, so I'm betting you're not here to kill us,"

"Duh." Jasmine sighed. "You're a clever girl, Bella, but I told you earlier we mean no harm." I nodded to her, wanting to trust her for an unknown reason.

"So..." I sighed, "You say you're friends of the Cullen's, the Cullen's and my pack, my tribe have an agreement, a treaty that they do not harm any humans in this area, it keeps the peace. If you are here visiting then we ask of you to abide by these rules or I'm afraid that we will have to stop you and the Cullen's too if they interfere," I had practiced that talk a dozen times since I phased, the pack had told me loads of times how to sound strong and brave and powerful when facing your enemy even if they terrified you, your strength combines with the pack, we're stronger together, it helped. I knew that I would never hurt the Cullen's, especially Edward but I had to sound threatening. Mark looked like he wanted to laugh but Jasmine nodded and smiled.

"Mark and I do feed from humans, yet we feed only from those who deserve to die. Murderers, molesters, rapists, pedophiles, the ones that don't deserve a chance of happiness. We assure you we do not kill for sport like many of our kind and we shall not harm anyone in your town, this I promise you. We are simply here to help the Cullen's."

"Help them with what?" I asked, knowing it was the questions my brothers and Leah wondered also.

"With their new problem of course, I thought you would have known about it having a treaty with them," Jasmine smiled. I shook my head and looked down at Sam with worry, what could the Cullen's have done. I looked up puzzled and she sighed a laugh. "With their newborn of course, Edward Cullen turned his girlfriend,"

A/N: SURPRISE?! Well I hope its a surprise for those of you who haven't read FWH's version (even though technically this is FWH's version up until a certain chapter!). I will see ya'll soon with Ch 7!