There was a long silence. I finally sat up leaning on my elbows. "Jake?" I said looking at my hands, they had never seemed so interesting before. "Yeah?" He asked. I took a deep breath and let it out. "I have to tell you something." The way I said it sounded like I had to tell him something really serious. But I guess it was serious. I kept staring at my hands. Suddenly I could tell Jake stood up. "What-"

"Shh" He said back putting his finger over his lips. Suddenly I was alert. I scrambled to get up and he grabbed my arm to help me. I heard a low groan escape his mouth. "They're coming back." He whispered through his teeth. "Who?" I asked, thinking maybe it was Seth, Quil, Embry or someone from my family. "What is going-"

But before I could finish Jake had vanished and a big furry wolf stood next to me now indicating he wanted me to jump on his back. I did, even though I knew I could run perfectly fine myself.

Well, not perfectly fine, while I could run fast like my father I had the tendency to trip like my Mother. Jake jumped from the treehouse and started running full speed in the direction of my house. My head started spinning again. I would need to concentrate to get that kiss out of my head. I couldn't be thinking about it when I got home and saw Dad. I closed my eyes, my hands buried deep in Jacob's fur, trying to think of anything but Jake. That was slightly difficult considering I was riding on his back. 'C'mon Nessie.' I thought.

Finally I got myself to think of the Wizard of Oz. I forced it into my brain. I told myself the story again and again analyzing more details when suddenly there was Dad. And Emmet? "What are you doing here and what is going on?" I yelled through the wind. Dad gave me a look so I shut up. They were running one on each side of Jake. What was going on? Dammit I thought as I lost track of where I was in the Wizard of Oz and Jacob's kiss came flooding back to me. I heard Dad make a sound.

'Uh-oh' I thought. I glanced sideways and it looked like Dad wanted to tear Jake's head off. We rounded the corner and there was our house. Before I knew what was happening Emmet ripped me off of Jake's back and into the house where he placed me on a couch in the living room. Everyone was in the room. My family and the wolf pack. They all looked serious. Jake walked in the room with Dad and sat next to me. 'Wizard of Oz.' I told myself, even though it didn't matter.

Dad had already seen on the run over here. Carlisle finally stood up seeing the confusion on my face and knelt down in front of me. "Nessie" his voice was soft as always but I could detect urgency in it too. "Did you meet anyone at the party? Anyone you've never seen before?" "Yes." I answered quietly looking at the floor as the whole conversation with the blond girl came back to me. "Show me." Carlisle said taking my hand and spreading my fingers out over his. It took little concentration but I closed my eyes anyway trying to focus only on the party and not on the kiss. Jacob wrapped his arm around my shoulder as if in support but the vision I was sharing with Carlisle suddenly changed to the treehouse.

'No.' I muttered, trying to disconnect Jacob's touch to what I was showing Carlisle. When the vision was over I quickly took my hand back and Carlisle slowly stood up glancing at Jake. He had seen some of the kiss, I knew it. Surprisingly enough he ignored that fact and turned to the others. "She met her. She even talked to Nessie." Carlisle said addressing everyone else in the room.

There were slight gasps as Alice said "I thought as much. I told Edward not to let her go to the party. I told him it was a bad idea." "Alice." Carlisle said. "Edward is not to blame." I suddenly realized I had no idea what was going on. I was so wrapped up in Jake I hadn't even thought to ask what was happening. "Whats going on?" I finally asked lamely. "The Voloturi are coming again." Dad said blankly staring at the floor.

Mom went over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You didn't know." she whispered. "Alice knew." Dad said back. "Who are the Voltori?" I asked. Seth answered me saying "They are the government for vampires. They live in Italy and they hate wolves guts." I looked around at my family with my jaw open. "What?" Rose said angrily.

"You didn't expect us to tell you that all they really wanted-" "Rose!" Dad cut her off. I stood up. Jacob tried to pull me back down on the couch but I shook him off. "What? What did they really want?" I said, my voice rising as I stared at Dad. "They really wanted…." Dad trailed off. "Tell me Edward." I growled. I only called Dad Edward when I was really mad. And I was really mad.

"They wanted to kill you." Rose said. Dad snarled and leapt for Rosalie who jumped out of the way. Emmet grabbed Dad and pushed him backwards. He landed on a chair, toppling it over. The whole wolf pack stood. "We should leave." Sam said quietly but with authority. "It was a mistake to come."

"It's not safe out there anymore." Alice said back glancing outside the window. Sam stared at her. "I'm not leaving Nessie alone." Jake said. Hearing his voice made me feel safe. I felt his warm chest against my back as he stood behind me. "She wouldn't be alone." Dad said. "Edward" Mom warned under her breath. "She is fine. Who are we then?"

"I would just feel better if I was with her, thats all." said Jake still standing behind me. "Okay." I sighed, my voice cracking slightly. "So there is this thing, in Italy called the Volutri and I am guessing that girl from the party named Jane is part of them.

Or her parents live there or something and…" I trailed off. I had nothing else to really say. "You're right." Carlisle said. "Expect she doesn't have parents. She lives there. And she is one of us." He continued "When you were born there was a war not too far off from here." Dad sat down and stared at the wall as Mom rubbed his back. "She would have to find out someday."

She said quietly to him. "Not like this." Dad said back. Carlisle looked at me. "It was a war over you. The Voluturi had never seen a girl who was half vampire half human and they wanted you destroyed." I heard Jacob take a quick breath in. "So you all knew this then huh?" I said speaking to the room as a whole. "yes, but-" "How could you keep this from me?

How could you not tell me for years about this? Someone or some group wanted me killed and nobody told me?" I realized I was screaming and hot tears were streaming down my face for the second time in one night. "What if I had gone with Jane at the party? I would be dead now, wouldn't I?" Alice interrupted me "They've changed their plan. They want to test her.

Try experiments on her." I sank to the floor. Jake kneeled down next to me. My head rested on his chest and I closed my eyes, my chest heaved trying to breath in air as all I could imagine was that blond girl shoving a needle in my arm. "It's okay Ness. It's going to be okay." Jake whispered playing with my hair in his hands. The room was silent. I heard the wolf pack members getting up to leave and heard Emmet say he would accompany them to make sure they got home safely. They thanked him and then I began to fall asleep.

I dreamed of Jake and I running through the field when I was little. Was that the field the war happened in? I jumped on Jake's back when I was three and giggled in a high pitch tone when he tried to tickle me.

But the tickle became a scream as Jane was above me, her hair was wild and her eyes were blood red. I was being shaken. My eyes shot open. "Nessie! You're having a nightmare." Jake said. I was staring into his warm chocolatey brown eyes.

"Oh." was all I said. We were still sitting on the floor and he was leaning against the couch. I could hear my family whispering in Carlisle's study.

"Let's get you a warm glass of milk." Jacob said as he scooped me up and carried me into the kitchen. He plopped me down on a stool at the island in the kitchen and grabbed the milk from the fridge. "Can I have chocolate milk please?" I asked, I was pretty sure he would say no. "No Nessie." He sighed as he put the mug of milk in the microwave. "Does Billy know you're here?" I asked. "Yeah Edward called." He said.

I tapped my fingers on the marble. This was the first time Jake and I were alone since our kiss. 'Should I say something?' I wondered. 'No. Now is not the time. I need to think about what is going to happen with this whole Volturi thing.'

Jake took the warm milk out of the microwave, handed it to me and scooped me up in his arms. I gave him a look. "You know I can walk right?" I said. "I know." He carried me up the stairs to my bedroom. "Show off." I mumbled as he lay me on my bed and tucked me in. I took a sip of the milk. "Ew. I hate hot milk." "It will help you sleep." He said kissing the top of my forehead like he used to when I was little. I groaned and downed the milk while holding my nose. Suddenly Dad came running into the room.