I aged both Seth and Jacob for this story just a tad. It really won't change the base story any, but it will make the timeline I have in mind possible.

I don't own... never did... never will...

Jacob POV

Sam returned from his meeting with the leeches about an hour after he left. The entire pack was on alert, just in case this was a trick to take out the Alpha of our pack. It turned out to be legitimate. Through Paul and Seth, who had remained in wolf form for the meeting, we all tuned in on what was going on. An army of vampires was coming here to kill Bella! I knew that bloodsucker bitch was after Bella, but I had no idea she would go to this length to get her revenge. I had just figured she'd keep trying to get into town and eventually she'd slip up and we'd nail her. I guess I underestimated the leech and her connection to Bella.

Sam went directly to the elders, who had already been assembled in our house and were waiting for his return. I hoped they would agreed to let us in on this fight and my brothers agreed with me. This was going to be fun. A whole army of vampires we could actually kill.

Almost an hour had past and Sam had yet to emerge from the house. Was there really so much to discuss? It pained me to say it, but Doc Fang had an excellent point about not wanting any of the vampires to slip past the Cullens and make it to town. Skilled fighters or not, outnumbered is outnumbered. They had to see the logic of letting us in on this. If even one of the newborn vampires made it into town, it would be a bloodbath before we could get there to stop it.

Most of the pack had given up and had headed home, figuring they would hear the news the next time they phased. I, unlike everyone else, had to wait, since they were using my house for the meeting. Seth waited with me. He was a good kid. Not that he was much of a kid compared to me, since he was 16 to my almost 18, but still. My father liked to call it a bit of hero worship. Whatever. I didn't mind the company. We sat in a comfortable silence, making idol chit chat here and there, until finally Sam came out of the house, followed by the Elders. Sam paused by me, but waited until the Elders were gone to speak.

"The Elders have agreed. The pack will assist the Cullens." Sam looked at me directly. "Contact Bella. Tell her to tell the Doc we'll be there tomorrow in the clearing."

"Cool!" Seth sounded almost giddy. Sam and I both eyed him. He shrugged his shoulders "What? Face it, you guys are just as excited. You just don't want to admit it."

The kid had a point, but one thing bothered me. I turned back to Sam.

"You really think we need to train with the leeches to learn how to kill vampires? We exist to kill to vamps."

Sam sighed. "The training might be unnecessary, but these will be newborn vamps. For some reason the Doc was acting like newborns were different than the usual vamps we've fought. It can't hurt to listen in. Besides, we should never miss an opportunity to learn more about our enemy. We also need to plan a strategy with them." Sam cringed slightly. Planning a strategy with vampires...yay.

Sam had a point, but it still seemed stupid to take vampire killing advise, considering we were born to kill vamps. Oh well, the beauty of not being Alpha was all you had to do was follow orders. No skin off my ass. Besides, this would give me an chance to see Bella.

Edward POV

Bella had gotten a call from Jacob confirming the packs participation in the coming fight. Of course, we already had a good idea they had agreed to assist us, since Alice was getting blurry visions of the fight, and since the pack was one of the only things that could mix up Alice's visions, we had assumed they were with us. The news would relax the family greatly. I had hoped it would help calm Bella as well, but unfortunately, it seemed to do the opposite. If anything, she was even more tense.

"Bella, relax. It's not even gonna be fun anymore. We have even numbers now. We might even outnumber them by the time they arrive, considering how fast they manage to kill each other." We were walking hand in hand out of school and towards my car. Alice skipped behind us, for once not really minding the blurry visions the pack was causing.

"Edward's right, Bella." Alice said as she skipped up ahead of us, stopping in front of Bella and taking her free hand. "It's gonna be easy. We'll even have time afterwards to go shopping.

"Oh, yay." Bella sighed. Shopping with Alice was not one of her favorite activities. She said she didn't like shopping with her because Alice was impossible to keep up with, but I think it's more along the lines of not liking Alice to spend money on her. Bella had some ridiculous idea that things weren't even if she could not buy things back for Alice. Silly human. Fortunately, Bella's dislike of disappointing Alice was stronger then her dislike of Alice buying her stuff, so she'd go along with it.

Bella was stubborn, though. I had tried to convince her she didn't need to be in the clearing with us tonight for the training and planning, but she refused to be reasonable. She threatened to go wandering in the woods alone if I didn't agree to take her and I knew her well enough to know it wasn't an idol threat.

I knew one thing for sure, tonight was going to be an interesting night.

This was kinda a transition chapter. The next one will introduce Kira and soon Seth will be making his POV known.