"James is coming here. He was passing through a near by town when he caught wind of our fresh scent and he could smell Bella's scent with it. He's coming to see why we have a human here." All the Cullen's were gathered in the living room. Rosalie and Bella were next to each other and Rosalie had her arm wrapped around Bella and was holding her tight.

Bella shuddered because, while she didn't know much about this James, she did know enough. She knew that he preferred humans over animals and Carlisle had described him as a vicious creature. When Carlisle refers to someone as vicious you know it must be true. Rosalie asked,

"Could one of us just run with Bella and return when he's gone?" Edward shook his head but Alice was the one to reply,

"It's too late. He'll be here any moment." Edward added,

"Not to mention, if one of us ran with Bella he would most likely just leave and follow Bella's scent."

Bella was no longer listening. She was trying to picture this vampire in her mind but all she could see was a pair of mean, terrifyingly red eyes. She was trying to take deep breaths to keep herself calm but she was finding it increasingly hard to breath, one of her natural reactions to fear. Bella had grown up in a house full of vampires and yet she'd never really been exposed to the level of fear that coursed through her veins as she thought about James.

"It's possible that we're overreacting to this. It is extremely probable that he truly is just curious and once we explain he will leave," Esme reasoned. Bella looked around the room, praying for some sort of confirmation that Esme's words may ring true. Carlisle put a hand on Esme's shoulder but said nothing. Emmett asked,

"Is Victoria coming with him?" Edward nodded.

"Who's Victoria?" Bella asked, trying to keep her voice even.

"She's James's bitch mate." Of course that was Emmett's response.

"Emmett!" Esme chastised. Emmett rolled his eyes before continuing,

"I wouldn't worry. It's not like we're outnumbered or something. If they don't want to play nice we could easily kick some nomad ass."

"Dad!" Bella was the one to chastise this time. The thought of her family fighting with other vampires was awful. She couldn't bare the thought that someone in he family could possibly be hurt. There was no more time to talk though because Edward said quietly,

"There in the elevator." Everyone stood. Rosalie flattened Bella's hair down and kissed her forehead which Bella fount quite odd.

"Are you seriously trying to mask her scent? It's everywhere," Jasper said. They all stood in silence for what seemed like hours to Bella but was most likely minutes until there was a slight knock on the door. Bella tried to calm herself by keeping her breaths even with Jaspers, who was standing right next to her. Emmett opened the door and in walked the two most terryfing creatures Bella had ever seen.

Victoria had fiery red hair that looked almost unnatural with her pale skin and James had long light brown hair that seemed to reach down past his chest. The terrifying part were the eyes. They were not the awful red that she had imagined. They were stone cold black. The universal sign that a vampire was hungry. Bella gulped. Carlisle spoke calmly,

"Hello. It is nice to see you two again. What brings you to the area?" James spoke smoothly,

"Well, we'd just finished a family up both a couple miles and we were on our way to Miami to do some night hunting when we noticed your scent." He said this to Carlisle but his eyes were on Bella, making her shudder. Carlisle pretended to be unaware.

"Yes we'll I believe your only familiar with Edward, Esme, and myself. Allow me to introduce you to the rest of my family. This is Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett, and Bella."

"Bella," James whispered. "What use do you have with a human?"

"It's quite a long story but in summary, Rosalie and Emmett have raised Bella since she was a mere baby." Victoria growled,

"But she's human!" Victoria and James took a step closer to Bella and Rosalie hissed at them. Bella's heart felt as though I was going to burst out of her chest it was beating so hard. Carlisle continued calmly,

"Yes she is human, Victoria. She is also family to us. You would do well to remember that." Victoria straightened slightly but James took another step towards me. Emmett stepped in front of him, blocking Bella's view.

"Going somewhere?" Emmett asked. Something in Emmett's tone set James off. Maybe James was looking for a fight. He grabbed Emmett's arm and tried to push passed him but Emmett knocked James in the jaw with his shoulder and he stumbled back a few steps. Then things got confusing.

Everyone was moving too fast for Bella to really see but from what Bella could tell, James had attacked Emmett and Rosalie had then pounced on James. At that point Victoria tried to intervene and was attacked by Alice and Jasper. The others were simultaneously helping the fights.

It was clear that James and Victoria were losing miserably but they were still fighting. Then Bella noticed something. It seemed as though Victoria and James were slowly moving the fight. Like they were trying to position themselves towards something. Bella looked around herself and was suddenly terrified that they were moving towards her. Bella was so scared that she had stopped breathing.

She quickly realized though that she was wrong. They were going the wrong way to be trying to get to her, so what were they doing? Whatever they were doing Edward and Alice were obviously aware of what was happening because they were fighting harder than the others. But with so many people involved in the fight it was complicated because they were all up on each other and were trying really hard to hurt Victoria and James instead of accidentally hurting each other.

Bella realized a moment to late what Victoria and James were doing. Once they were close enough, they both latched arms and jumped out the open window and on to the dark street. Emmett hollered,

"Damn," before jumping out after them. Seconds later, after a moments hesitation, both Rosalie, Alice, and Jasper followed.

My parents aren't here! Alice and Jasper aren't here! That seemed to be my train of thought for several minutes. I couldn't believe they went after this psychopaths! I wasn't sure why, but I felt as though those two vampires were somehow stronger than my family. I'm sure that's probably just 'cause I'm worried though.

"They'll be fine," everyone kept saying. They told me not to worry because they would be home any minute. I didn't believe them and apparently I had a good reason because they weren't back all night. I sat on one of the couches for hours, just staring at the window. My family told me I should rest but, how could I?

I don't know why I watched the window, because surely when they came home they'd come through the door. It just seemed as though staring out the window would make everything better. I must have fallen asleep at some point and when I awoke I was laying in my bed.

A/N: Sorry for any mistakes. Review!