AN: Thanks for being patient! WARNING: This chapter contains Bella's story about her stocker. Depending on your situation this may contain a trigger for you so please proceed with caution!

Seth POV

As soon as I pressed the phone's little red button I was racing towards the back door. Leah must have been listening to my phone conversation because she was less than 12 seconds behind me. She had just finished her patrol a few hours ago and was sleeping. Embry and Paul felt us phase in and I relayed them my conversation with Bella as we ran. Leah and I ran the perimeter to the beach as Embry ran towards the beach from where he was and Paul ran the rest of the Res perimeter when Leah and I hit a wall of bleachy sweetness.

Leah recovered first and sent up a howl. Embry and Paul barked at me to check on Bella. I passed Jake on my way to his house. I quickly relayed what was happening as everyone else phased in. Sam nodded at what I was doing as the rest of them tracked the Leech.

I tried the back door but she must have locked it. I pounded on the door and heard Billy maneuvering inside. I was listening for the heart beats in the house, Billy's was regular, but Bella's was irregular and panicked.

"It's always unlocked." Billy was grumbling as he wheeled himself to the backdoor. Taking longer to shift his wheels into the kitchen, I was going to have to talk to Jake about fixing the lip on the floor and making that doorway larger for his chair.

As soon as he flipped the lock I banged the door open. "Hey!" Billy gruffed.

"Where's Bella?" My voice didn't sound winded, even though I had just been running. It sounded slightly panicked.

"What?" Billy reacted to my voice. Moving his chair backward out of my way as I came inside.

I heard a knocking sound inside the kitchen. I stepped closer to her heartbeat and listened to the shallow breathing. My eyes widened as I listened to the tapping, she was knocking on the fridge. Bella had wedged herself between the fridge and the standing cabinet.

"Bella?" I asked getting close to the fridge, my eyes shifted over to Billy who sat by the table looking at me like I was crazy.

I heard a howl come from outside. It must have been close to the edge of the reservation by the sounds of it. Bella tapped again, drawing my attention back.

Good Spirits.

Bella had wedged herself so far back, her once steady breaths were now erratic and it looked like she was squirming.

"Bella?" I questioned as I reached my hand into her small crawl space. She grabbed my hand immediately and I started to tug her gently out of her hiding spot. I had to tug on her a few times. "You're really wedged in there huh Bells?"

She nodded as much as she could and pulled on my hand as if asking me to pull again. It probably only took thirty seconds to get her out of there, but with another howl she was shaking something fierce.

When she was finally out she clung to my arm that had pulled her free. She was trying to talk but nothing was coming out and she looked like death rolled over.

Billy shoved a bottle of apple juice in her hands and told me to sit her down. But she wouldn't let go. She was still shaking like a leaf when Jake burst into the house. He reeked of Leech. Bella's eyes bugged out at his state of undress and their eyes met, but Jake was just looking her over and shook his head at me.

"What's going on?" He tried to make it sound like he had no idea what was going on.

"Bella felt like she was being followed, so I told her to come here because it's safe."

Jake looked to Bella again, then back to me. Jake stood there while I sat with Bella half on my lap and Billy looked between us all for a few minutes when the phone rang. Billy picked it up, "Yeah."

"Hey Chief. We got a wondering blood sucker. How is she doing?"

Quietly as he could, Billy let Sam know the state Bella was in.

"Wanna hand her the phone? I'll tell her it was just some dumb kid hanging around the res causing trouble and she helped us know he was a problem and he was kicked off the res." They talked a little bit more before Billy handed me the phone. I pressed it to Bella's ear.

"Hey Bella, I'm Sam Uley."

She made the smallest, "hum" noise and took another sip of her apple juice. Jake stood looking at the whole thing, but I knew his heart was breaking that he didn't imprint.

Sam relayed the story he came up with that Billy okayed. After about a minute Bella cleared her throat, "What did he look like?" Her voice was small and cracked.

All of us had to pause. It wasn't an unusual question, I guess. That is, it wasn't unusual if you had a description to watch out for.

Sam gave Bella a loose description, most likely a loose description of the vampire they killed. But the description made Bella sag in my arms. I looked at her face to make sure she was still conscious when she thanked Sam.

Sam responded that it was no problem, and he was just doing his job, when Bella asked him, "Are you the law enforcement for the Quileute Reservation?"

"Uh. Yeah. I guess you could say that."

"Okay. Um. Could-" Bella cleared her throat, "Could we meet sometime?" her volume when low, but we could all still hear her, even Billy.

"I'll be over in ten minutes."

Bella tried to argue that it wasn't urgent, but Sam wouldn't hear it. Jake excused himself to take a shower, probably what Sam was doing, after checking in with the rest of the Pack who were no doubt checking the res over.

Bella had finished her juice and Billy was giving her some more. He tried to offer her something to eat, but she was still shaky and declined. Making sure to thank me and him more than once, and apologizing for her behavior, ruining our evening, yadda yadda. She even tried telling me I could get back to my plans, but I just rose an eyebrow at her and handed her a bag of Doritos.

I stared at her long enough that she started to eat the chips.

Sam POV

I was just getting home from work when a howl sounded that wasn't Paul or Embry, the two wolves on patrol, but Leah.

I tore my shirt off and kicked off my work boots as I phased into the woods. Emily would probably drive the park the truck, close the door, take my keys and clothes inside, but I hoped she would just stay inside.

"What-?" I didn't get to ask what was going on when Seth informed us of Bella feeling watched. He was already heading back to Jakes to look in on her when Leah and Paul ran parallel to the sent. I gave Seth my approval as I pulled in behind Paul and Leah. Leah is are fastest runner, and Paul is the best fighter. I pulled back and let Embry and Jake cover their flanks as I took up the rear, like a real wolf leader would. Leah picked up speed as we got closer to the treaty line. By the time I got to them, they had formed a circle around the Leech and Quil had finally joined us.

I would like to say it was a team effort, but between Leah, Paul, and Embry the Leech was basically ask. Quil and Jake got a few swipes in, but I stepped towards the treaty line as I head their feet approaching.

The blonde haired boy and the penny boy got as close to the line as they dared. Seeing the purple smoke they asked what happened.

This Leech was stocking an imprint. - Leah

An almost imprint - Embry

The penny head relayed everything to the blonde.

One of you will imprint. - Quil

Embry or Paul will imprint. - Jake

Enough! -Me

"Was he lone?" The blonde asked.

"How long was he there?" The penny head asked. And growled in annoyance.

He's stink is the only thing Leech I smell except you two. -Quil quipped. Jared laughed in our mind link on the opposite side of the reservation still doing his sweep.

Quil go join him. - Me

With how much of his sent was around the beach, I would say he was there a while. He must have stuck to the trees all morning though, because I didn't smell him at all on my loops earlier. - Leah

Leah said this more to me, but the Leeches still heard it with is mind reading ability. He was quickly relaying everything to the blonde haired one as we thought it.

"We gonna let Carlisle know and we'll take a run-round Forks." The blonde nodded to me as the Penny head raced away, earning a few growls from the pack. "I apologize fur him. His girlfriend was at the Beach earlier. He's worried she may a been da target." Some of the pack started to leave, but I waited for him to get farther from our territory before moving. "Carlisle ill be in touch soon. Fur what it's worth, thank ya fur keepin' Angela safe." He tipped his imaginary hat and sped away.

As soon as I couldn't see or hear him I raced home to my Emily. I let everyone know we would have a meeting before the movie tonight, if we got a movie night, and told everyone do a quick loop before showering in shifts.

The truck was parked and my clothes and boots picked up when I got home. I met my Emily at the door and carried her inside. I gave her the cliff notes version before she thrust a phone into my hand to call Billy's house to check on Bella. "She is probably scared if she thought someone was following her, and you need to tell her something. Paul and Embry haven't met her yet, so she cannot know what's really happened." She reminded me as she went back to the food she had on the stove.

After the quick and odd conversation with Bella and Billy I hopped in the shower. Letting Emily know what was going on as I tugged on my cut offs.

"See you soon. I'm sure your brothers are going to try and eat you out of house and home before you get back." she laughed as she pushed me out the door. I could smell her worry on her, but spirtis bless her if she tried to make me feel better.

Bella POV

Jake was still in the shower when a knock came from the front door.

"It's open," Billy shouted from the kitchen.

The knob jiggled but didn't budge. "I locked it when I came in." I murmured to Seth.

He shifted me off his lap, kissed my head, "Good girl." he smirked and sprung up to the door to unlock it. Sam called out his hellos and went into the kitchen to help Billy. He helped Billy carry a few beers and another juice for me. Billy had my camera in his lap. I felt around my neck, but didn't remember taking it off.

"Sam picked it up off the ground for me. Must have fallen off your neck. It was on the kitchen floor by the sink." Billy answered my unasked question. He put it on end table by his side as Sam sat in the chair next to Billy. Handing Seth my juice for me and opening a beer for Billy, handing it to him, and one for himself.

I kicked off my shoes pulled them to my chest, holding them closer to myself. I rested my head on my knees as I heard him take a big gulp.

"What's up Bells?" Billy asked, my father's nickname for me, reminding me of him.

"Can we not tell Charlie what I'm about to say?" I looked at all of them for confirmation. Once they all agreed I took a deep breath. "Okay" I said with my exhale.

After a few minutes of silence, and I mean silence. Jake must have even gotten done with his hower, and everyone was almost holding their breath waiting for me to talk, "Bella?" Seth urged me on, bumping his shoulder into mine.

"Ihaveastocker." I spoke into my knees.

"Huh?" Billy was the first to talk.

"She said she has a stocker." Jake said from the stairs, he must have joined us.

"How serious is this stocker?" Sam spoke at the same time as Seth. "What has your stocker done?"

I sighed and looked up at them. "He's in jail right now. As far as I know." And the uproar started. Seth's voice got higher and panicked with his questions. Sam's eyes were huge and his muscles almost started to shimmer as he started spouting off questions. Jake came closer and started pacing, throwing in qualifiers to their questions.

"Enough!" Billy silenced them. Once they sat down, Sam back in his chair, Seth next to me, and Jake in front of me, facing me on the floor. All of them looking chastised. "Bella want to answer any of those?"

"I took a class in Phoenix when I was 16. I had to take an intro to writing course and I choose to take a photography course, and my high school let me do half days while I took some courses at the local community college, but I wanted to go a little faster so I started taking some courses at the college in Phoenix. One professor put us into groups and I was paired up with two other girls and a guy named Harrison Hansen. He was in my writing class too and we exchanged information just incase one of us was sick.

"I did that with a few other kids in the community college and it seemed to work out really well. He seemed normal and everyone in the group exchanged information." I looked up to see them all following me.

"After the semester ended, he asked me which classes I was taking the following semester, and I told him I wasn't taking summer courses. He knew by then that I was in high school and hung out on the Apache Reservation. He asked me about Fall and I told him I would probably wait until senior year to go back to the University because community colleges were cheaper.

"I didn't think anything of it. He asked for my personal email, because my University one would get shut off, and I gave it to him, because he seemed interested in going to a community college and he was nice enough, I mean he was a good group member. But then over the summer he got clingy, and would email me alot. I was doing work on the Reservation and helping mom out a bunch at home. I took a course at the community college and bumped into him a bunch in random places. I mean he lived in Phoenix, so I didn't think he would be in the suburbs that often. But he always had an excuse and I didn't think anything of it.

I sighed and looked up at them. They looked confused and worried, "It just kept getting weird. He asked me out directly a few times," I shifted my eyes to the side and added quietly, "I guess I missed his more subtle clues." Taking a deep breath felt like needles bouncing around my chest. "Eventually his snuck onto the Reservation. He started following me and I blocked his email address. He created more and kept calling and texting my phone. I changed my number and email address and mom and I moved into a new house in a different suburb. Eventually I had to change schools and I took most of my courses online. I started getting a little paranoid and took some self-defense classes, but things seemed to calm down." I tried to force a smile on my face.

"Why do I think there's a but coming?" Seth reached for my hand and rubbed the back of it with his thumb. I didn't realized I was shaking.

"But when I met Neil," I paused at their ruffled foreheads, "He's my manager."

"Manager for what?" Jake asked.

"My books and photographs. He is the go between for setting up meetings, signings, meet and greets, readings, and his firm looks over my contracts before I sign them and I get legal help for everything that has to deal with that." A small genuine smile made its way to my face before Sam gestured for me to continue.

I took a shaky breath before Seth let go of my hand and put a brotherly arm around my shoulder. "In short, he broke into our new house when mom was on a date. I was sleeping. He- he…" I shifted in Seth's arms and lifted up some of my hair to show them the short section of hair. "He broke my bedroom window and held me down while he cut-" I gestured to the cut hair. "He-uh-he…" I put the hair back together and pressed myself into Seth.

"He is in prison. His sentence was supposed to be another eleven months, but I guess they could let him out as soon as next week." My voice sounded weak, "Or whenever next week was on the document Neil found when I was on the phone with him. He is looking into it, but I guess if someone wrote him a good enough character reference, he could get out early on top of his good behavior." I did good behavior in small finger quotes.

"Did he?" Billy asked as he make a circle gesture with his hand.

"Rape me?" I asked. By the look on his face I know I guessed right. "No."

"Thank the spirits" one of them said.

"He was on top of me- feeling me, when Phil and Mom got home." I closed my eyes flinching at the memories. "My bedroom faces the main street. They told me Mom stayed in the car and called 9-1-1 while Phil checked to make sure I was safe. It was their first date but Mom said they just knew. I had questioned Phil like a protective mother hen before they left on their date, and he insisted on checking on me. He grabbed Harrison off me and pinned him to the ground while he waited for the cops to come."

My body sagged a bit, "I have the forms at the Clearwaters, and I was meaning to go to the Forks Police Department after I pickup a car later this week, but I just knew someone was watching me. I could feel it. Because I know what it feels like to be watched." I felt a panic attack coming on, but I didn't want it to show. I clutched Seth's arm around me to ground me.

They asked me a few questions, and I answered them the best I could while fending off the panic. Eventually, Seth and Jake left with Sam, after double checking to make sure I didn't want to go to the movie night, "You know, be around people?" Seth asked for the fourth time.

Billy finally told them to leave me alone and they left. I laid my head on the back of the couch waiting for Billy to ask his question, he so politely waited to ask until we were alone, "Why doesn't your dad know?"

"I don't want him to know."

"Okay, but why not?"

"I feel guilty." Billy waited, knowing their was more, "He has always warned me, what not to do, and I feel like I did everything he told me not to do. I should have been able to do more. Protect myself. Protect Renee… I mean what would I have done if he broke into Jan's house on the reservation with little Steven and Morgan? He just… I couldn't budge him. I tried to push him off. I tried… so hard. But he was on top of me," I sucked in air, "And I couldn't breath. I can't breath."

He had me put my head between my legs and he talked to me as he rubbed by back, but he realized the light pressure was only making it worse. I'm not sure how much time passed before I head a woman's voice.

AN: The next chapter will begin with Leah POV (I don't plan to keep you waiting long). Please let me know if you'd like Bella/Embry or Bella/Paul and let me know why you think they would go together well. Not just because you like the pairing, because I hope my Bella is different enough to make that difference. Thank you for your likes and reviews! Your comments make me excited to write this story! If you are enjoying this story, my other story, For The Good Of The Tribe is very similar idea for the beginning but is a Leah/Bella paring, by popular demand. If you are enjoying this story or my writing and enjoy F/F pairings, please check it out!