A/N Hi all. I will start by saying I read Midnight sun, I highly recommend it to all readers no matter what team you are on in this fandom.

Now, to address the way I am writing Edward and Jacob.

Edward often overreacts and does impulsive things when it comes to Bella. If you need examples I would remind you of a few, starting with when they met James. Edward decided damn everyone else he was going to take Bella away from there. No matter how much Bella begged to go back and protect her father he refused to listen. It took a lot of convincing from Alice to get him to change his mind.

Leaving Bella even though he knew how depressed she would get.

Going to the Volturi to die without going back to Forks to see if Bella was really dead for himself.

And in the movie he tells Bella when she ran off with Jake that he almost broke the treaty. In the book he said. "Bella, Do you have any idea how close I came to crossing the line today?

To breaking the treaty and coming after you? Do you know what that would have meant?"

I am keeping Jacob's personality as it was before Edwared came back. The way his personality changes in the books is so egregious he is no longer the same person. To my knowledge the only way someone's personality changes like that is when they have a severe brain trauma.

I have been trying to keep the humor in this story. I am afraid this next chapter is lacking in the funny department. Due to things going on in my own life, I am finding it hard to write and my comedic side seems to be durmet. I apologize for that.

A/N

Chapter 15

Edward looked at Bella's father. "I promise, I'm not going to harm her."

Charlie balled his fists. "You have done enough harm to justify my disbelief in that statement!"

"I assure you, Chief Swan, I will regret my mistakes when it comes to Bella for the rest of my existence. It was not my intent to harm Bella when I left."

"Then what was your intent?"

"I was trying to do the right thing by giving Bella a chance to live a normal life."

"Then Why did you come back?"

"Dad!" Bella cried out, gripping Edward's arm like she was afraid he would leave her again.

He smiled sweetly at her before saying. "I couldn't help it. Staying away was no longer an option. I'm afraid I am drawn to Bella."

"Yeah, I bet," Charlie mumbled under his breath, then thought, like a spider is drawn to a fly.

One side of Edward's lips lifted as he stared lovingly at Bella. "Only if that Spider fell in love with that fly."

Charlie's eyes opened wide in shock before fury took over his features. "I was told you couldn't read my verbal thoughts!"

"Please, forgive my sister," Edward said calmly. "She did not mean to mislead you. That is my fault. The way I described seeing your thoughts was confusing. It was difficult for me to explain at the time because I didn't understand it myself."

"Do you understand it better now?" Charlie asked through gritted teeth.

"Yes, I hear snippets of your thoughts. Your visible thoughts are a little more clear but still difficult to determine."

"Well stop that!" Charlie snapped. "I don't want you in my head."

"I could attempt to tune you out." Edward placated.

An annoyed scoff came from Charlie. "Is that what you do with Bella?"

"No, sir." Edward focused his attention on Charlie. "Bella's mind is completely silent to me."

"Lucky her," Charlie grumbled. "Do the rest of you have abilities? If so, what are they?"

Even though he already heard all this from Rosalie he wanted to hear it from them.

"I have a very gifted family," Carlisle admitted.

"So I've heard. Tell me doc, what kind of gift is compassion?"

"My kind seem to lose themselves in what we have become. Still feeling compassion allowed me to hold on to my humanity and teach others of my kind to keep theirs."

"So you're telling me you're not as much of a monster as the vamp next door."

"I wouldn't call them monsters, they're just of a different nature."

Charlie scoffed. "A predator is a predator no matter what you call it."

Carlisle smiled patiently, "An alcoholic is an alcoholic, even when they are in recovery. That doesn't mean they will take a drink. And their addiction does not make them a monster."

"No, but it is a significant part of who they are, and the last I heard alcoholics don't feed off the life force of people."

"Don't they though?" Jasper piped in. "Their disease affects everyone around them. It could put those they work with in danger, depending on their job, and the people who love them suffer with them."

Charlie glared at the boy. "Speaking about people addicted to a drink, aren't you the one who almost killed my daughter?"

Jasper flinched and took a step back.

"That was an accident." Alice defended. "If she hadn't gotten that papercut, none of that would have happened."

"Right, that papercut at the party you dazzled me into letting her go to."

"Dazzle?" one of the Vampires asked.

"It's what Bella calls our charm… our influence," Edward explained. "Rosalie seems to have taken a fondness for the word."

Ignoring the chatter in the background Charlie continued. "By the way, I am pissed about that. From now on consider my answer to be no… To anything you want to ask. Tell me, you supposedly could see the future. You claim to care about my daughter, why did you put her in that situation?"

"I do care about her!" Alice cried, then sheepishly admitted. "I couldn't see the party. Bella never decided to go to it."

"So you can't predict everything."

"No."

"Then tell me this, if every day can't be guaranteed, why do you all think it's okay to go to school like any other teenager."

"We send the children to school to keep up appearances." Carlisle answered.

"So keeping up appearances is more important than keeping an entire school of people safe?"

"I assure you Chief Swan, My children are very cautious."

"How? She already admitted that she can't predict everything. Kids in school get paper cuts, scratches, scrapes, and bloody noses, what if someone got into a fight? That could lead to busted lips and bloody knuckles. What about periods? Most if not all high school girls get one. I'm sure they are not all on the same cycle. Chances are at least one if not more people are bleeding in one way or another. Are you really going to sit there and tell me that their lives are not in danger?"