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Chapter Eight:

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon at the Cullen household. It had been nearly two weeks since the famous (to Alice, at least) first date and things have been, dare I be so cliché, magical. Edward has taken me on two dates since. Nothing as exciting, but just as amazing. We haven't had the all important "talk" yet, but I was fine with that. Whatever we were, I loved it.

It worked.

Alice came barreling into the living room at record speed, which is saying something since she's a vampire. I could feel the anxiety rolling off of her in waves. I couldn't even imagine how Jasper felt if the rest of us took notice so easily.

"Alice, what's wrong, love?" Jasper asked, quick to pull his mate into his lap. He stroked her hair lovingly while she answered, "I found this in the forest." She held up a black sweater that highly confused me, but everyone else seemed alarmed.

I watched as Rosalie and Jasper exchanged worried glances from across the room and I eyed them oddly.

"Okay, what's so frightening about this? The fact that its cable knit pattern is so ugly?" I asked from my place on the floor leaning against Edward's legs.

"It smells of a vampire, one that we are unfamiliar with. It could be potentially dangerous," Carlisle explained ominously.

Emmett seemed to be the only one excited at the prospect of a new challenge. I wasn't so convinced of the threat. "Hey Alice, can I see that for a second?" She looked at me for a moment, but said nothing as she tossed it to me with precision.

The second my hand caught it a premonition struck me.

There were flashes of forest behind a few smaller houses. I could see a fire haired vampire with red eyes circling a giant, rust colored wolf. They kept pace for half a turn before she launched herself at him, quickly ripping into his flesh.

There was so much blood.

Another flash and there was a teenage boy where the wolf had been, littered in long gashes and bites marks, covered in blood.

I gasped hard as I came to, lurching forward. I was panting heavily, it had been quite some time since my last premonition and it was exhausting work.

I looked up and everyone was surrounding me closely, watching me with eyes full of concern. Edward had his arms gently supporting me around my waist. He looked scared.

"What was that?" And surprisingly it was Rosalie's worried voice that broke the silence.

"A premonition. It's my passive power so it doesn't really happen often," I explained, regaining my breath. "What did you see?" Alice asked from my left.

"It's a vampire all right. Flaming hair and eyes just as red. She was attacking a shapeshifter. Why didn't anyone tell me you had them in your area?"

"That's why I couldn't see anything!" Alice exclaimed and I gave her a curious look. "For some reason I can't see anything where the wolves are involved."

"So what's with them being here? Are there a lot of them?" I questioned, still fully surrounded by the entire Cullen clan.

"It's in their ancestry for a pack to form when near a coven of vampires. We've written a treaty, however, seeing as how we are no threat to the people they are supposed to protect. We are not to harm any humans, which is unlikely, and we can't cross the treaty line or they will attack," Carlisle said, eyeing all of his children in turn.

"What did you see, Hannah?" Edward finally asked. I described to them my premonition in as much detail as possible and all their faces turned grim. "She crossed the treaty line into their territory and they defended what's theirs. Victoria is her name and she is strong. That wolf doesn't stand a chance alone."

"I have to go after him. I have to help." Immediately there was an uproar. "Absolutely not! There is no way I'd ever let you just waltz into such obvious danger like that," Edward practically shouted and I snorted, feeling my anger begin to bubble.

"Whoa, hold the metaphorical phone, Edward. You won't "let" me? If you think I'm some 1950s housewife that will just sit back and take orders from you then you're in for some serious fucking disappointment," I seethed back at him. I could tell I was pissing him off, but I didn't care.

"Look, if I had a premonition about him then he's my innocent and I am supposed to save him. That's my job, my destiny. The whole reason I was born with these powers is to protect the innocent and I won't let you stand in my way," I said sternly, squaring my shoulders.

I was already formulating a plan in my head. It had to be precise. I needed them all close together for it to work. I needed as much time as possible for it to work.

"I won't let you leave, Hannah. I'm sorry."

"Don't make me do this Edward. Don't make me choose because it can't be you," I begged, but he just shook his head and I sighed.

"So mote it be."

I threw up my force field effectively throwing all of them back into the living room walls, hard. I leapt forward toward the open balcony where half of their house was sat on a large hill overlooking the forest. At the last second, I spun around launching myself backwards out of the window. Midair, I flicked both my wrists freezing, hopefully, all the Cullens before letting myself fall the two stories to the ground. I used my telekinesis to cushion my fall and rolled onto my feet into a full-blown sprint.

I took off to where I knew my innocent was and where I hoped the treaty line to be, hoping to protect both Edward and I from each other. My heart squeezed at the thought of him and I felt guilt rush through me.

Don't feel guilty.
It had to happen like this. How can I fulfil my destiny if he won't let me?
How could this work out if he won't trust me? If he won't let me be who I am?

We needed to talk, but this wasn't the time to be thinking about any of that.

I was almost to the clearing where my premonition took place when I heard fast rustling beside me. My force field went up instinctually and I was grateful it did when I saw Edward behind me.

"Hannah!" He called out after me, fully catching up to me now. I just shook my head and kept running.

"Don't Edward. Just go! If you can't accept me for what I am and what I have to do, then this is never going to work!" I shouted at him. Either I crossed the treaty line or my words really stung him because he stopped dead in his tracks.

There's no time for this, Hannah.
Go!

There it was. The clearing was just ahead. I saw the giant wolf instantly and, off into the distance a ways, I saw Victoria. She was positioned to attack and I felt my eyes widen. I pushed myself to run faster and when I was close enough I launched myself at the wolf. I encased both of us in my protective shield just in time as the vampire slammed into it. It threw all of us back a good thirty feet and I felt, and heard, my ankle snap as both my own weight and the wolf's landed on it.

I didn't have time to pay it any attention, though, and threw a quickly formed energy ball at her. It got her in the leg and she screeched in pain before taking off into the forest. I tried to freeze her, but she was too fast.

Damn.

I felt the wolf nudge me and I smiled at him gently. "You're welcome." He tried to tug me to my feet by the front of my shirt and I hissed slightly when my ankle touched the ground. He looked at its odd angle and whined at me softly.

"I'm fine. Just a broken ankle. I've had worse. Just a few weeks ago I had an arrow ripped out of my side," I explained and laughed at his comical surprised wolf expression. "Plus I can have this fixed in no time. Whyatt!" The wolf gave me a curious look then his eyes bugged out when a familiar shower of blue orbs floated next to me.

"Hey Hannah- whoa! Get back!" He shouted then reached to grab me, trying to pull me to him. "No, Whyatt, he's not the problem," I tried to explain. He opened his mouth to protest, but I cut him off. "Trust me. Now could heal my ankle? Vampire attack, you know how it goes."

"Vampires, Hannah, really? The ones you've been paling around with?" He asked angrily while holding his hands over my very broken ankle. Ten seconds of glowy hands and I was all good.

"No! Not the Cullens. Wait, how did you know about them?" I rolled my ankle around and sighed in appreciation. Meanwhile the wolf had gotten comfy with his head in my lap.

"Dad knew the older vampire, Carlisle. Also, Chris has been snooping. He's been losing his mind ever since he found out about your little boyfriend." I groaned and threw Mr. Wolf a heated glare as he somehow managed a wolf snicker. "He's not my boyfriend. He may not be my anything soon. He doesn't get the whole "saving innocents" thing. Wants to put me on a nice, little shelf. Not going to happen."

"Well, whatever is going on, please be careful. And I'm talking demonically and otherwise, okay? Oh and by the way, the next time Piper sees you, you're going to get a talking to," he said before giving me a tight hug and orbing away.

"Okay pup, now that I've gotten that all taken care of maybe we should head somewhere to talk. You know, all human and whatnot." I didn't think a huge, terrifying wolf could look shocked, but they can.

"Yeah, yeah, I know you're a shapeshifter and I'll explain all the hows and exactly what I am somewhere a little bit more private," I saiding waving off his quirked head, a clear look of confusion. He lead me a little ways north until we reach the Indian reservation that I've heard a bit about. Since no one was freaking out because of the giant, killer wolf, I assumed this was normal. He took me to a small house further into the town and bolted inside before I could say anything so I just waited outside. About two minutes later a very tall, very muscular, very tan teenager emerged with short, dark brown hair and eyes that were almost black. He was sporting jeans and a tight, black tank top.

This guy was seriously massive.
Whoa.

"Jacob Black, shapeshifter," he introduced, holding a hand out for me to shake.

"Hannah Halliwell, witch." I placed my hand in his and shook it extravagantly, laughing at his surprised face.

"Did you just say witch?" He asked incredulously and rather loudly. I jumped forward and covered his mouth with my hand, shooshing him all the while.

"Will you keep it down? That's not exactly common knowledge, okay? And I want to keep it that way." I eyed him for a minute before finally releasing him.

He looked around quickly before pulling me into the house he just came from and all the way to the back where his room was. It was a mess of clothes and paper, but at least it wasn't really dirty.

"Okay, spill it," he said once we were comfortable, me in a desk chair and him on his bed.

"I'm a witch. Yes, I have powers, I can write spells, and mix potions. No, I can't fly, I don't wear pointy hats, and my cackle is sub par at best," I said with a straight face until Jacob started howling in laughter then I lost it and joined in.

"But in as much seriousness as I can muster up, my kind are sort of a big deal. We have magic in our bloodline and every generation in my family has been magical. We use our powers to fight evil, to put it simply. We are meant to protect the innocent, which is where you come in. I had a premonition of that vampire bitch ripping you to shreds with her hideous talons and when I get a premonition like that about someone it means I'm meant to save them. You're the innocent, Jake. I had to protect you."

He was stunned into silence for three minutes before he whispered, "I would have died today?" He looked up and made eye contact with me.

I nodded solemnly. "The important thing here is that you didn't. You just have to warn the rest if your pack and tell them to run in threes. Any less and you run a risk, okay?" He looked thoughtful for a moment before standing up and hugging me.

"I don't know where you came from, but thanks." I hugged him back and smiled as he pulled away. "San Francisco. I'm from San Francisco." At that we both chuckled for some reason.

"Hey!" I exclaimed suddenly. "Want to see the rest of my powers?" He grinned and nodded. "What else you got besides that shield and those crazy death balls?"

"My force field and energy balls? I can also freeze things and I'm telekinetic." I explained then, like with the Cullens, I had him toss something at me (a book) and I froze it. I also decided to lift not only him, but his bed under him up which he thought was way cool. After that we discussed the need for a meeting between me and the rest of the pack. Jacob explained that once he changed they would see everything so there was no point in trying to hide anything. He said that there would be a bonfire where I could tell them of my ancestry and they would tell me theirs.

Once my little show and tell was over and we agreed there would have to be another meeting, I checked the time and sighed. "I should head back, Jake. I'm sure I have a bunch of angry vampires awaiting my return, like I really care."

"How'd you get all the way here? Did you need a ride?" He asked while standing up and stretching.

"Yeah, probably. I sprinted from the Cullen's house to where you were in the forest after making the great escape." He just laughed at me, saying, "Okay, follow me."

He lead me out to a garage with a Franken-looking car and a pretty sweet motorcycle. He tossed me a helmet and smiled cheekily at me.

I climbed on behind him after he kick started it and wrapped my arms securely around his waist. I could practically feel him grinning.

He took off fast and I laughed loudly against the wind whipping my face.

This was what freedom was all about.
This was what life was all about.

As we approached the treaty line I could see the familiar Volvo waiting off to the side. I cringed openly as Jacob began to slow down.

"Are you okay here?" He asked knowing full well that Edward could hear everything. "Yeah, I'll be fine, Jake. Thanks for the ride." I let him pull me into a tight hug and wound my arms around him in return.

After he pulled away I tossed him my helmet and said, "Call me with the bonfire details okay?"

"Absolutely! See you later Hannah!" He shouted as he pealed out and squealed back down the same road we just came from.

I turned to face Edward and frowned openly at him, he flinched.

"I'm sorry, Hannah. I was out of line-" he started as he walked towards me. I pushed him back with my telekinesis and cut him off, "Oh, I know. And I don't really care either. You don't trust me and you don't respect me. I can't be with someone who blatantly ignores everything I say and doesn't care about my happiness at all."

His mouth dropped open, very un-Edward like of him. "That's not true at all. All I care about is making you happy, Hannah." I just shook my head at him.

"No, you don't. You care about your own happiness and putting me on a shelf. I can't do that, Edward. I'm not that girl." I took a deep breath and finally made eye contact with him. "This is hard for me because I'm pretty sure that I'm in love with you, but you need to take some time and give me space." At this point I let my telekinetic hold on him go and took a tentative step forward. Grasping his hands in mine, I said, "You need to think about what you want because I'm not the type of girl you're trying to make me be. Fighting evil and saving innocents is what I do, it's what I'm here for and if you can't handle that then you can't handle me."

With that I started down the road to home, hoping that time would help the stabbing pain in my chest. Edward didn't bother trying to stop me and he only moved when I was a few blocks away. His car drove passed me at a dangerous speed and I felt my heart clinch. I didn't even realize I was crying until I looked up as I heard a car stopping next to me. It was Alice in her Porsche 911. She motioned for me to get in and I assumed Edward had sent her knowing I couldn't refuse Alice.

She didn't even talk to me as I cried in her car all the way to my house. She did, however, hug me tightly to her before letting me go.

I spent the entire night awake in my bed, crying and secretly hating myself all the while knowing there was no other way.