“Bella, relax.” Edwards smooth voice attempted to calm me as we sped down the interstate towards the state line.

I was pouting rather severely. My attempts to talk any sense into this action-addicted family were futile. They had all insisted on coming back to La Push with me.

“Why do you guys keep letting me put you in danger?” I scowled.

“Oh Bella, Please.” Alice groaned

“No way are you going to save that filthy dogs ass and then have him turn around and kill you because of some stupid treaty.” Jasper argued.

Edwards arm merely tightened around my waist in response.

The rest of the ride went by relatively quickly. I fumed in the backseat as Alice and Edward made fun of my temper and Jasper tried his hardest to calm me down. I found myself to be much more resistant to Jasper’s emotion control when I had so many mixed emotions for him to focus on.

As the surrounding territory grew more and more familiar, I pulled out my phone and dialed Sam’s number.

“Hello?” Sam said flatly.

“Sam, have you found him?”

“No, Bella. Things don’t look good. Its pointless for you to even bother coming here. We can’t find him and you wont be much help, I’m sure.”

“Shut up Sam. We’ll be there in ten minutes.”

“WE!?” He moaned. “Bella, you’re not bringing all of them here are you!?”

“We’re helping!” I shouted and snapped the phone shut.

“Jasper,” I addressed him as calmly as I could. “The pack is somewhat less than amused that we are all coming there, you might need to stop focusing on me so much and start focusing on the large pack of werewolves that blame us for Jacob’s disappearance.”

He nodded.

We pulled into Billy’s driveway to find a large, unhappy group of absurdly large native teenagers. The pack, I noted, had grown. The Volvo containing Esme, Carlisle, Rosalie, and Emmet pulled in behind us.

“Keep Billy in the house.” Edward ordered Sam, “Bella has poor resistance to human blood yet.”

We had stopped to hunt a short distance out of Denali, but even with a full stomach, I could still smell the temptation of human blood everywhere. My adrenaline was keeping me focused on our purpose of being here, though. I maintained a decent and surprising resistance.