Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, added this story to alerts or just read the story so far. I love you all very much. Here's another chapter for you. This one is in Sam's POV, but the next couple after it will be more about Seth and Kira. I just needed this one in there to keep things moving. As always, I don't own.

Sam POV

I stood outside the Black's house with Billy, Paul and Quil. This situation was bad, but still salvageable. I had told Billy about the plan, Jacob's retreat and about Seth and Leah joining Jacob on the other side. He had been very quiet. He hadn't commented at all on the plan I was making with my fellow pack members. We needed to find a way to still pull off our plan, but not injury our wayward pack mates.

"What we need to do, is distract Jake, Seth and Leah long enough for us to get in and do the job." I pondered out loud. "They won't fight us. All we need to do is get them off to the side. Perhaps use a couple of the younger wolves. Once they are out of the way, we can focus our attack on the primary defenses, which will probably be Jasper and Emmett. If enough of us focus on them, it shouldn't be hard to remove them from the equation. Then we can move in on the rest of the family. I'll be the one to narrow in on Bella. We don't have to kill all of them right now. The primary target has to be Bella. We can't let whatever she is carrying be born."

I looked up at Paul and Quil. Paul was with me. I could tell he had no problem with my plan. Quil, on the other hand, looked freaked out. I needed all of the pack to have their heads on straight for this one. I didn't want to lose anyone in this attack. I knew the Cullen's would not be focused. This meant we would have to be. We had the edge on this one.

I placed my hand on Quil's shoulder. "Quil, don't worry. Jake's just not thinking clearly right now. We'll convince him afterwards that this was the best call. He'll see reason." I looked over at Paul. "Paul, go ahead and get everyone assembled. We need to go over some last minute strategies before we do this. Timing is everyth..."

That was when we heard it.

At first it sounded like a distress howl from one of our wolves. After a few seconds, I realized it wasn't coming from a wolf and it wasn't a howl.

"What in the hell it that!" Quil asked, scanning the woods. "That's not a wolf, is it?"

I released the breath I didn't realized I was holding. "It sounds feline." I replied, almost at a whisper. It sounded like a big feline. I very pissed off, big feline. I was guessing tiger.

"You don't think Kira's over there now too?" Paul asked. "Jacob didn't say anything about her being with her family. He hadn't seen her."

I sighed, taking a seat in the lawn chair next to where Billy was seated. He had yet to mutter a single word.

Now we had to contend with not just Jasper and Emmett for defense, but Kira as well. We'd have to spill her blood to get the Bella. She would fight us until her own death to protect her family, I knew that for sure."

It was then that it hit me. It was like a spark in my brain. With all the vampires over on the Cullen's land, it was the only living, breathing, true human we were out to kill. I couldn't ask my pack, my brothers, to kill Bella. She was still human. Our ancestors didn't evolve the ability to become wolves in order to kill humans, even if the human in question had been knocked up by a vampire. The simple fact was that Bella was still human and Kira, even though she's a shifter, was still human. If we went over there and carried out the plan, blood would be split.

We can't do this...

I stood quickly, walking over to my two confused looking pack mates. I had been sitting quietly for what seemed like only a moment or two, but was actually more like 20 minutes.

"Tell everyone to stand down." I said to Paul. "We'll wait until Bella's baby is born, then we'll decide what to do."

Relief was obvious on Quil's face, while Paul just nodded. They both left to spread the word of my decision to the rest of the pack. I returned to my seat next to Billy.

"You made the right choice." Billy stated, finally breaking his silence.

"How long would you have let me continue to plan Bella's murder before you stepped in and stopped me?" I asked.

Billy smiled at me, placing a reassuring hand on my shoulder.

"I knew you'd eventually figure it out. You're not a killer, Sam. The Cullen's have proven to us that they care about this town. If they didn't, they would have ran from the newborn army and allowed the town to be layed to waste. If the child Bella carries is a danger, I believe we can trust them to destroy the treat before It can hurt anyone."

"I don't trust them that far, but I guess it is best to wait until it is born before going in. Besides, the way it sounds, Bella is either going to die while giving birth, or they will change her. Either way, they break the treaty."

Billy smiled, nodding his head. "Unless, Jake gives his permission for Bella to be changed."

I looked at Billy like he had just grown a second head. "You don't really think Jake would do that? He doesn't want her to be a vampire." It had never crossed my mind that Jacob would give his permission to the Cullen's for Bella's transformation. He despised vampires as much as the rest of us did. "He had actually told Bella he would rather she die than become a vampire."

Billy sighed heavily. "It's easy to say when you're standing safe in your home that you'd rather have your best friend and first love dead than have them turned into the thing you hate most, but if Jake is there at the moment her fate is to be decided, things could be different. I know my son. It'd be hard to see someone you care about dying in front of you and not opt to have them saved. Even if it means she'll be a vampire."

I could see Billy's point. It's hard to stick to your beliefs when they are being tested right in front of you. I slumped lower into by chair. I guess the only thing to do now was wait...

To Be Continued...

The next chapter isn't really necessary for the story, but it had a bit of Seth/Kira pre-relationship goodness in it, so I decided to include it. I love writing interactions between these two and there will be many more in the future, I promise. Please let me know what you think. I should have the next chapter up very soon. The more love I get, the sooner I'll update.