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JB POV

I had to figure out a way to see Nessie. I had been staying to the woods around Forks, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. I was hoping to maybe catch her out on her own or with just one of her babysitters. No such luck; she always had three or four bodyguards with her. I knew they were keeping an eye on her, so she wouldn't come running to me. That had to be it; that was why they ran sixteen years ago. I would not let her get away from me again. She was mine.

Finally on Friday night, I caught a break. I saw my beautiful Nessie as she entered the diner. It was just her and the dark-haired leach; I could easily take him down. I knew Nessie would help me too. I sat in my hiding place downwind of the diner, so I knew they wouldn't be able to smell my scent, while watching her. I felt the anger growing inside of me as I watched them together. He kept touching her; he would stroke her hair, her face, and would give her little pecks on the lips. How could she stand him touching her? My girl had to be a good actress.

When their food arrived, I watched as she ate and he pretended to. They looked like they had this down to a science. She ate off of both of their plates or he would feed her bites of food. She looked like she was having a good time. I tried not to think too much of that. They sat there while she ate their food laughing and talking. I was beginning to hate the leach more and more. That should be me sitting there laughing and talking.

Soon, they got up to leave the diner; I watched her while he paid. I never took my eyes off her beautiful face and body. As they walked to his fancy sports car, I started to creep a little closer getting ready to make my move. It would be so easy to reach out and grab her; they were the only ones in the parking lot. She was walking beside him holding on to his hand and staring up at him with what looked like love in her eyes. Once again, I tried not to read too much into this. She giggled and skipped ahead of him a couple of paces, but still kept a tight hold on his hand. He watched her with an indulgent and adoring smile on his face. I tried not to gag.

"What are you so tickled about, my beautiful girl?" the leach asked her, as he gently pulled her back to him and wrapped his arms around her small frame.

"I had a wonderful time tonight, Colin," Nessie said.

Ahh Colin, so the leach had a name.

"Thank you for taking me out. I really needed the alone time, just being us," Nessie said.

Then she did the unthinkable. She pulled his head down to her and kissed him. It was not just a small chaste kiss either; it looked like she was putting everything she had into that kiss.

"I love you, baby," Colin growled out.

He pulled away, but continued to kiss down her slender neck.

"I love you, Colin," my Nessie said.

Unknowingly, she ripped my heart out. She had to be acting; that was the only way I could keep my sanity.

She then pulled him away from her neck and attacked his mouth again, as she jumped into his arms. She wrapped her slender legs around his waist, as he held her up by her rear. I felt the anger boiling inside of me. How dared he touch her like that! How dared she look like she was enjoying it!

"Baby, as much as I would love to continue this, we had better head back home. We promised not to be out too late," he said which caused Nessie to pout.

The stupid leach kissed her cute little pout. I was so close to losing it, but I tried to hang on.

"I will be so glad when this whole Jacob Black mess is over with. I hate not being able to go out when I want to with my mate. I really hate him and this whole imprinting business," she said, as he set her down on her feet by the car.

Anger the likes of which I had never felt before bubbled up inside of me. I instantly phased and let out a loud howl; Nessie and Colin froze.

CR POV

It was only a second before I unfroze and swung into action. I had to get back to the family; I had to get Ren home to safety. I'd die if anything ever happened to her.

"Get in the car, Ren. Jacob Black is out there watching us," I told her.

Nessie got in the car, and I ran at full speed to the other side. I got in the car and was off before I knew it. I wasn't really concentrating at the moment.

JB POV

I couldn't believe what I had heard. My beautiful Nessie hated me and our imprint. That was impossible; they had brainwashed her and told her unspeakable lies to get her to say those things. Worst of all, she thought she loved the leach named Colin. Well, there was only one thing I could do now. Get rid of Colin!

With my heart in pieces, I took off running deep into the forest; I didn't want the pack to get wind of what I was planning to do, so I phased back to human form. I would get my Nessie one way or the other. She would not get away from me again.

Once I got home and was alone in my garage, I began to make my plans. I paced and talked it all out to myself to make sure I had all my ducks in a row. I knew I wouldn't have but one good shot, so I'd have to do this right the first time.

Ren POV

As Colin raced back home, we were both quiet. Colin was quiet because he was angry that our alone time was ruined, and the mutt had been spying on us. I was quiet because I was nervous, but I knew that Colin would protect me. It hit me just then why my parents moved away from Forks when I was born. They didn't want him hanging all over me every minute; they wanted me to live a normal happy childhood, and that was what they gave me by moving away.

We made it back to the house quickly and went inside. Alice was frantic because she hadn't been able to see us, not even Colin, the whole time we'd been gone. We hadn't realized it; but Colin's phone battery had died, and I had left my phone in my bedroom.

"Oh thank God!" Alice nearly screamed, as she ran over and hugged us both.

"We're sorry, Aunt Alice. We didn't realize until a few minutes ago that Colin's phone battery had died.

"It's alright, kids; the important thing is that you are safe and sound. Now tell us what happened," Papa Carlisle said.

"Well, we went to the diner like we said. I don't know how long Jacob had been watching us; we never felt like we were being watched," I said.

"The mutt should be good at spying on people undetected; he certainly got enough practice on Bella," Emmett said with an angry huff, as everyone nodded in agreement.

"When did you realize you were being watched?" Papa asked, getting everyone back on track.

"We were out in the parking lot talking," Colin started to say, when Dad interrupted with a growl.

I was sure at what Colin was remembering. I felt myself blush, even though we did nothing wrong.

"Stop it, Edward! Good grief, they weren't doing anything wrong," Mom said, slapping Dad on the arm.

"Please continue, Colin," Mom said with a smile while Dad pouted over being hit.

"Our conversation eventually led to Jacob and the imprint. Ren made a comment about hating Jacob and the imprint; that is when we heard the howling. We then jumped in the car and came straight home. I would have loved to have gotten my hands on that mutt; there was no way I was going to risk Ren getting hurt, and I didn't know how angry he was at her over the comments she made," Colin said, looking extremely irritated that he couldn't finish Jacob off tonight.

"This is crazy, Edward. I don't want our baby being kept a prisoner at home because of Jacob's obsession," Mom said, but then was cut off by the phone ringing. Papa got up to answer it.

"Hello," he said.

"Carlisle, this is Sam Uley. We have news about Jacob that is going to affect your...family," Sam said.

"We were just discussing him actually. What is going on?" Papa asked.

"This is something that needs to be discussed in person. If it is alright with you, I and the two members of Jacob's pack will come to your house to discuss it," Sam said in return.

"That is fine Sam," Papa said.

"We will be there in ten minutes," Sam said, as the phone disconnected.

"Great! Now the house is going to stink for weeks," Aunt Rose said with a growl.

"Rosalie, if this will help keep my family safe, I don't care if the house stinks for months and neither should you; they didn't have to call us, so you will be polite. Better yet, don't say anything at all." Aunt Rose had the good grace to look ashamed at the reprimand by Nana, but then slapped Uncle Em on the back of the head for snickering at her.

Like Sam had promised ten minutes later, I smelled and heard the wolves approaching. To her credit Aunt Rose wrinkled her nose in disgust, but kept her mouth shut. She must have had some pretty colorful thoughts though because Dad started chuckling, and Aunt Rose just winked at him.

"Sam, welcome," Papa said, as he opened the door and let the three Quileutes walk up the steps and enter our home.

"You didn't have to let us in on this information, but we greatly appreciate that you have," Papa said. The three men nodded curtly.

"Well, what is it that you have found out?" Dad asked, getting right to the point. Immediately, Dad started growling at the wolves thoughts.

"What is that idiot thinking?" Mom said, sounding exasperated and sad all at once.

"Would you two cut that out and let them tell the story?" Uncle Em said, sounding aggravated.

"Jacob is going to try and pin a human murder on your boy here," the shortest of the three men said pointing at Colin.

"What?" everyone cried out at once.

"Quil, what are you talking about?" Papa asked, as everyone looked shocked.

"Embry overheard his thoughts, as he was talking to himself out loud; then he phased before he thought about it, so I should let him tell it," Quil said pointing to the other man.

"I was running some patrols earlier when Jacob phased. He wasn't in wolf form for long, when he realized I was in his head. It was long enough that I caught onto his plan. He is planning on killing a human and trying to blame it on your boy here, so we would have to kill him and leaving the way for him and your daughter to be together," Embry said, looking over at me. Everyone in the room looked shocked and disgusted.

"We can't let him do this! Do you know where he is now?" Nana asked, fear and worry written all over her face.

"He is still in human form, so we don't know his exact location. I have my men out looking for him now; we can't let him do this," Sam said in a sad voice.

I could tell he was worried. If I understood correctly, the wolves sole purpose was to protect humans, so to have one of their own kind planning to kill one was unspeakable.

"We will help as well, Sam. You may not believe it, but we value human life as much as you; and he is also trying to hurt our family. We want to help," Papa said.

Sam nodded his head in agreement, and they set up a plan to stop Jacob.

JB POV

Shit! I had messed up; I had not been paying close enough attention; and my pack mates overheard me talking about my plans, then I phased. Double Shit! I have to move fast in order to accomplish my plan before they have time to run to the Cullens, and they figure out a way to stop me. I needed to make Nessie realize she was choosing as wrong as her mother did. I'd still love to rid the planet of Edward too, but I would settle for just getting rid of Colin. Now that I have the perfect plan worked out, I just have to put it into action and then Nessie will be all mine.

C POV

I was deeply saddened at the news that had been delivered to us. I never thought Jacob Black would do something like this. He had really gone off the deep end. I had hoped and obviously in vain that while we were gone all those years; he would have moved on. I also hoped that once we came back and he saw that Nessie was rejecting the imprint; he would let this go. After all that had happened with Edward and Bella, you would think he would have learned his lesson; sadly that had not happened.

The wolves and my family, minus Ren and Alyssa, all set out to try and stop Jacob from doing this unspeakable crime. I hoped we'd be fast enough to stop him. Ren and Alyssa were going to stay with Charlie and Cora until this was settled completely, whatever that might entail.

With a plan in place, the family set out to hopefully catch Jake and stop him from making an even more horrible mistake than ever before. It had been agreed that we would split up into teams. One wolf and one vampire would make up each team. We decided it was better that way since the wolves could track Jacob mentally if he phased and the vamps could track him in his human form.

It took some time and several tries, but we finally caught his scent on the back side of the reservation. It was densely populated out that way and would be easy enough for him to put his plan into action. Lucky for us, we knew what he was planning to do and could possibly stop him. Unfortunately, we weren't quick enough before he reached his goal. He got to his target and was already attacking by the time we got there. He was in wolf form and had her pinned on the floor of her cabin style house.

I knew this was not going to end well for the wolves. I didn't have to be Edward to know this was killing them to see their own brother and pack mate hurting one of their own kind. I also knew it had to be a crushing blow to their pride for us to see it, knowing how they felt about our kind for so long.

As we ran up on the scene, we made a split second decision for the wolves to distract Jacob while Edward charged him and got him off of the girl. Once the girl was free, I began seeing to her wounds; Edward and Jacob were tied up in a fight. Jacob was still in wolf form and was trying to snap at Edward; with lightning quick speed, Edward grabbed his snout and gave it a sharp quick twist. Jacob fell to the ground and laid there for a minute just breathing heavily. Then, he was back in human form holding his chin in his hand; it was apparent his jaw bones were broken.

After Jacob was off the ground, he looked at Edward and you could see the pure hate in his eyes.

"Don't do it, Jacob; walk away and let it be. You've already caused enough damage with trying to hang on to something that was never yours to begin with," Seth told him.

I liked Seth; he was a good boy with kind heart. Jacob really couldn't talk, but he turned his hate filled gaze toward Seth and made a low growling sound. It appeared as if he was going to attack him. Before anything could be said, Edward lunged throwing himself between the two Quileutes.

"Jacob, you damn fool! Stop this before you get yourself killed!" Embry yelled.

Edward and Jacob were circling each other; one waiting for the other to make a move.

"You've done enough, Jacob. Their daughter rejected the imprint and has verbally stated she doesn't choose you. You've severely injured one of our own people in your pursuit of two women who both rejected you," Sam said.

Jacob then lunged for him; Colin was closer than Edward at the time and charged at Jacob from the side. All that was heard was a loud crunch and a piercing scream. Jacob fell to the ground and didn't get back up. His ribs were most likely broken.

The fight was over finally. The girl was going to be okay, but she would have some scars luckily not bad ones. A few of the Quileutes picked Jacob up and took him back toward his house. The rest of us followed behind shortly after.