All the Cullens were standing over Bella as they tried to give her advice on how to seem human again. Needless to say I don't think anyone was feeling particularly positive about this impromptu visit from Charlie Swan. My main hope was Bella didn't attempt to feed from him once she saw him. That's why Jacob and I had chosen to stay just in case we needed to intervene. A newborn couldn't necessarily be trusted with this.

I closed my eyes and sighed, I hadn't had many chances to doing any seeking since I had seen Bella fall and break her spine while pregnant. Jacob and my pack had taken up much of my time since then. Jacob stood behind me as we heard the door open to the Cullen home. Charlie stepped up to the stairs coming up them just as Johnny appeared next to us. He cleared his throat obviously remembering Johnny's wolf form.

I knew of Charlie but I had never really met him in person. Charlie however had spent enough time knowing Johnny as he had ended up behind Charlie's bars a few times for petty crimes. Usually, I went down to the station with Kota to go get him but I had never went inside. Charlie paused in front of us, I adjusted my glasses as he glanced back at Jacob then me.

"Hi, I'm Eyota Youngblood", I introduced myself and he blinked as if he recognized me.

"Oh yeah, you're Kenny's kid", my shoulders straightened as he said his name. I grew silent immediately as I remembered my father's mean face. Jacob must have sensed my discomfort as his warm hands slide around my waist pulling my back into his chest. Charlie's eyes went from my face to Jacob's hands around my waist.

"She's also my girlfriend", Jacob informed him. Charlie's eyebrows went high till he sort of nodded. He glanced over at Johnny before looking at us again.

"So I figure you turn into a big…animal too Jacob", Charlie asked. Jacob chuckled, the rumbling in his chest vibrating my back a little.

"Yeah, that would be true Charlie", he told him.

"And do you?" he asked me. I stared at him for a moment, wondering how he knew my father.

"Y-yeah I do", I told him my voice wavering a tiny bit. He seemed to nod looking us all over one more time till turning his attention to the living Bella was in. We stepped further into the other room as I mulled over how Chief Swan could have known my father. My father hated interacting with pale faces and he sourced all his necessities straight from Makah or La Push. My hands shook a little as I thought of his anger and his heavy hands striking me.

"Hey", whispered Jacob making me look up at him. He brought his hand to my face brushing his thumb over my scar. "It's okay", he said and for some reason that made everything okay. I nodded once before embracing him tightly.

"I love you", I whispered and I heard him give off a small chuckle.

"I love you too Eyota", he whispered back.

Later

I walked up to the door of the Cullen home interested in speaking to Johnny about his shift schedule. I had given Johnny a decent amount of time off from his duties as a protector but the other boys I could tell were getting weary. Kane had been sacrificing his time with Katie so Johnny could have more time with Renesmee. Jeremy and Brad I could tell were being worn thin from their lack of sleep and with finals coming up I didn't want them to suffer at all with their schooling. I was fairly certain Johnny was ditching school at times to spend time with his imprint.

I went to knock on the door but was surprised when it burst open. I blinked in surprise to find no one standing there until I glanced down further to find Renesmee looking much older since I had last saw her standing at the door.

"Hi there Auntie Eyota", she said happily and I stared at her in shock from the use of auntie. I bent down onto one knee to meet her eye.

"Well hello there Renesmee, you certainly have grown quite a bit", I stated. She smiled lifting her hand up and placing it on my face, she pressed against my mental barriers and I let her in as she shared with me the last time I had saw her. I smiled as she showed me embracing Jacob rather tightly in the living room, she seemed to like to watch us be affectionate and she liked it to her parents' affection in front of her. She asked me mentally if Uncle Jacob and I were in love.

"Yes, I suppose we are in love Renesmee", I told her. She smiled brightly at me.

"Mommy, John-John, and I are going to go catch snowflakes, do you wanna come with?" she asked me out loud. I figured it was probably talk for going to feed but I knew it would give me a chance to talk to Johnny without him avoiding me.

"I would love to", she caught my hand and with a surprising grip tugged me inside. I chuckled following her into the house.

"Well hello there Eyota, how are you?" Esme appeared with a big smile on her face.

"I'm good, you?" I asked her.

"Great, are you hungry?" she asked me motioning toward the kitchen.

"Grandma Auntie Eyota promised she'd go snowflake hunting with us", she informed her motioning toward the back door. Esme nodded with a dramatic "ohhh" before nodding and walking off.

"Have fun you two!" Renesmee motioned toward the back door and ran off. I smiled and followed behind her finding an already phased Johnny and Bella in the back.

"Hey there Eyota, I thought that was your smell I got a whiff of", Bella told me and I chuckled. Bella's eyes were still a bright red which unsettled me but she was still for the most part her old self…just less clumsy.

"Mommy I invited her to go snowflake hunting", Renesmee cried out before running over to Johnny. She grabbed a handful of his fur and pressed against him.

"Well that sounds great to me", Bella said with a bright smile. I pulled my glasses off putting them in the v of my shirt before shifting, my eye sight becoming perfect as I could see as far as I wanted. "Think you can keep up?" teased Bella and I chuckled. I hadn't seen much of Bella's strength minus when we fought when she attacked Johnny for imprinting when I woke up.

"Can you?" I replied with a smirk. We took off, Johnny was running alongside me with Renesmee on his back who was giggling up a storm. I was pushing myself to keep on the heels of Bella. It made me truly realize how strong Bella was now. She seemed, dare I say it, better off as a vampire than a human.

We paused once we met a large clearing, the snow was falling in the mountains we were on and I could feel it was chillier here than down by the Cullen home, however it didn't affect me. Renesmee jumped off Johnny's back and caught a snowflake. She and Bella were talking as I walked over to Johnny.

"Johnny", I called to him through the telepathic link. He sat up straighter glancing over at me. I pushed forward my thoughts about needing him to return to his normal schedule. He let out a whine glancing over at Renesmee. "I know Johnny but you have to learn a balance, plus Nessie needs time with her mother and father alone", I explained through the telepathy.

"It's just hard to be away from her", he replied in my head. I sighed nodding, I understood, it was difficult being away from your imprint but a part of our responsibility was making the world safer for them. I mentioned to him also he couldn't let his studies fall behind.

He mentioned to me then the thought of getting his GED, I wasn't exactly thrilled but I told him that was up to him to choose that. I blocked Johnny out as I wondered, the Cullens would have to leave the area eventually, and did that man losing Johnny as a pack member when they did?

"Who's that mommy?" I was immediately alerted to a smell of another vampire. Johnny growled as Renesmee rushed over to him hiding behind his leg. I stepped forward to where Bella stood in front of them.

"Who is that Bella?" I asked my shoulders tight and ready for an attack.

"I think that's Irina" she said in confusion. I raised an eyebrow not knowing who that was. "She's our cousin from the Denali coven", she explained and I nodded. She was staring at us but from what I could tell she wasn't planning on saying hello, which only made me more uncomfortable.

"She seems…friendly", I told her and she only gave me a glance before keeping her eyes trained on the other woman.

"IRINA" she called out but the woman took off. With a swish of my hair Bella took off after her. I walked over to Renesmee and Johnny ready to leave this area and return Renesmee to her family. Something about that whole interaction was…off. If that woman really was supposed to be their family why did she run off like that?