Chapter 1.

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A/N: Here's the long awaited sequel to AWIT. Don't forget this is six months after where AWIT left off. I hope you all enjoy this as much as the first!

"Aunt Alice, it's not in here." I called.

"Check Rose's room!"

I sighed and jogged over to my other aunt's room. "Auntie Rose, have you seen Aunt Alice's pearl earrings that match that new bracelet she bought?"

Aunt Rose went over to her jewelry box and pulled them out. "I forgot I wore them at Emmett and I's last wedding."

I took the delicate earrings from her hands and went back to find Aunt A. On my way down the hallway, I saw Nahuel coming from the game room. It was actually a recent installment in the house. Uncle Emmett claimed he wanted the game room to be a present for me, however I knew he did it for himself. And sometimes, if the pack isn't patrolling, they can be found in there as well.

"Nessie, how are you?" He asked.

I smiled. "Just fine, and you?"

"I think I'm going to need another hunt soon." Nahuel looked guilty.

"Seriously?" I said. I didn't know how hard it was to adapt to our lifestyle. I've always been a vegetarian. "I think you need more self confidence. I'm sure you can do this." I told him confidently. I put a consoling hand on his shoulder, something I recently picked up from Mom.

It was amazing to see how hard he tried. I couldn't help but try to help him out whenever he needed it. "Thanks, Nessie. But I don't deserve you as a friend. You're much too considerate and you've helped me this whole time."

I blushed. "It's no problem, really."

"Do you think we could go hunting today? You and I?" He asked.

"Of course. Anything to help you out."

"Nessie! Have you found it yet?" I heard Aunt A yell from her room. It sounded so loud to my sensitive ears.

"Coming!" I told her. Then I addressed Nahuel. "6 pm?"

"Sure." He smiled.

I dashed down the hallway to find Aunt A frantically searching through every nook and cranny in her humongous closet. Uncle Emmett and Uncle Jasper sat on the bed watching the scene take place.

"Aunt Ali, Rose had 'em." I tossed the earrings her way and she caught them.

She caressed them in her hands. "Renesmee, never throw earrings. Especially these pearl earrings. Do you realize how expensive these are?"

I sighed and lounged on her gold chaise, my feet hanging off the end of the chair. I tuned her out as she began her rant on how I should treat jewelry with care.

"Ness, I got that new game you were talking about. Ready to play? I know Quil doesn't have this game yet. It just came out yesterday." Uncle Emmett said. He was still mad about the time I beat him because I already had practice and experience on that game with Quil.

"No can do, Uncle Em." I twirled my side-bang with my finger. "I've got plans."

"Plans?" He repeated. "You've never passed up Nessie and Emmett time, squirt."

I shrugged. "Sorry Uncle Em. But I really do have to take a rain check."

He pouted, and Uncle Jasper stared at me curiously. "Do these plans involve Nahuel?"

I nodded and my uncles frowned. "I don't like him," Uncle Em muttered.

"I don't see why you all hate him. Nahuel is so nice." My uncles and Aunt A were the only people besides Jacob who were against Nahuel staying with us.

Uncle Emmett looked like he was about to vomit. "Sure…" He sighed.

"Jacob's been acting differently lately." Uncle Jazz commented.

"He has?" Aunt A asked. She came out of her closet with clothes in her hand. "Change into this Nessie. I'm sure you're going hunting with Nahuel again."

Uncle Emmett groaned. "How many times does that dude need to hunt? Every other day is too much. And he only wants Renesmee to go with him."

I took the clothes from Aunt Ali. "Does it matter?" I asked Uncle Em. "He's still adapting. If you all were nicer to him, maybe he'd ask you all to join us."

"We aren't allowed to rough him up some? Ness, you seem a bit too protective of the 'halfie.'" Uncle Emmett laughed at the new nickname he gave Nahuel for half-vampires.

"I'm not protective of him!" I yelled. I mentally scolded myself for getting worked up over this. "I guess I'm the only one who can relate to Nahuel," I muttered.

Uncle Jazz sensed the tension building in the room and calmed us down. Ever since Nahuel joined us some months ago, tension just seems to rise within every conversation in this house. Jasper's been trying his hardest to ease it.

"Ness, are you still going to Spain with Carmen, Eleazar, and Jacob?" Uncle Jazz asked. We couldn't use the tickets sooner because Nahuel showed up and I decided to postpone the trip.

I shrugged. "Why wouldn't I?"

Aunt A squealed happily, preventing him from answering. "We have to get your bag packed!"

"Aunt Ali, I have a few days before we leave," I reminded her.

"Of course. Just enough time to make sure you have everything you need." Aunt A smiled and rushed me out of the room so that I could change. I didn't doubt that she would fill my luggage up and pack it tightly.

I changed into some khaki capris and a blue v-neck and met Nahuel downstairs at the door.

"You look nice," He commented, earning another blush from me. Why couldn't I have inherited the vampire trait of not blushing? I seemed to take after my mother in all the bad aspects.

"Thanks." I smiled. "You don't look bad yourself."

Nahuel was always the gentleman and treated me like a lady. He took my hand leisurely, and we left out the front door. It was a sweet gesture.

"Do you want to run there?" He asked as we walked across the yard.

"Do you mind if we take the motorcycles? We can store them right off the hiking trail." I suggested.

"Sounds perfect." He said as we began heading to the garage. "There's just one thing…"

"Yeah?" I inputted the code on the garage panel and the garage doors opened.

"I have no motorcycle." He pointed out.

I frowned. "Oh yeah." I glanced over the motorcycles sitting there. No way would Jasper or Rosalie let him borrow their motorcycles. That only left Jacob's. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

"Use Jake's," I said and handed him my spare keys to Jacob's motorcycle.

I climbed onto my Ducati and drove to the end of the driveway. Nahuel followed closely behind me.

"Race you!" I yelled excitedly as I took off with my head start.

He caught up to me within a few minutes, and I willed my expensive motorcycle to move faster. We were neck to neck.

"Head start? So not fair, Nessie." I heard him say. I wasn't going to risk turning around to see him.

Dad didn't know that I rode the motorcycle so often. He got one of his own so that he could monitor my driving. Officially, I'm only allowed to ride my motorcycle when I have an adult with me. Apparently, Nahuel didn't count as an adult.

I swerved from one side of the street to the other, preventing Nahuel from gaining any lead. I heard him laugh when he realized my tactic.

I was grateful for the secluded empty road. We took a sharp turn, one that I was not familiar with and Nahuel somehow got the lead.

I growled at him and pushed my speed to 120 mph. We reached the hiking trail and slowed our speed down. We passed the small off-road parking lot and the signs for no motorized vehicles on the trail.

"Do we stop here?" Nahuel asked.

"No, we're leaving our motorcycles in my spot off the trail," I called behind me.

We came to my tree that I marked a long time ago with Jacob and I got off the bike. "We need to move the motorcycles a little further. But we can't drive in this area."

He nodded and stopped the motorcycle, easily walking it along beside me. It was just as if a human walked their bike. This motorcycle felt weightless, though.

I leaned my motorcycle against a tree and Nahuel did the same. "It's all running from here. Think you can handle that?" I teased.

"I'm only worried about you, Renesmee."

I rolled my eyes at him and we went into hunting mode.

"Cougar?" He asked. Nahuel always went for my favorite.

"You don't have a favorite, yet?"

He frowned guiltily, and I gave him a comforting smile. "That's fine. But we're not in the mountains so that's out of the question. How about some elk?" I asked.

Nahuel agreed and we started the hunt.

Everything was going well so far, we successfully tracked the elk deeper into the forest. I drained two and Nahuel had three. But then, the wind shifted and a breeze brought a different scent our way.

A human scent.

I was undeterred by the smell, but Nahuel wasn't. Before I could register what was going on, Nahuel was already gone into the trees.

The herd of elk took this advantage to get away, and I was thrown off the hunt. "Nahuel!" I called after him and darted off in his general direction.

He was moving fast. I tracked his scent back to a secluded area. It was close to the hiking trail, but not exactly near it. He was watching the humans in the distance.

A boy and his father. The boy was no doubt a teenager and they'd strayed off the trail. Not a problem for me, but it posed a big dilemma for Nahuel.

"Nahuel," I hissed. I ran to him. He was still in the hunt, that much I could tell. His eyes looked distant.

He said nothing to me.

I wasn't going to let him waste all this practice in adapting to our lifestyle on this. "Nahuel!" I yelled in a whisper. I pulled his arm back and he lashed out at me, biting me.

I screamed out in pain at the burning sensation in my arm. The pain was excruciating. I stumbled back and fell, too confused to do anything. Then I watched as he lunged at the unsuspecting boy and his father. I couldn't do anything but watch. It was hard, but I forced my eyes to remain open and ignore the searing feeling in my arm. I couldn't even move it without feeling pain, not that I wanted to move it through this pain anyways.

Then I looked on as he lunged at the unsuspecting boy and his father. Out the corner of my eye, I saw a reddish-brown blur shoot out from the trees in the opposite direction.

Jacob, in wolf form, charged at Nahuel, knocking him down. The boy and his father saw all of that take place and attempted to run away.

Despite my aching arm, where he bit me, I ran into the clearing where they were. "Jacob!"

Jake and Nahuel were fighting on the ground. I was unsure of who had the upper hand. Nahuel hissed at Jacob and I jogged over to where they were.

Nahuel darted off after the humans because Jacob was too distracted by my presence.

"Jacob, how did you-" I started. He gave me a look that said to 'stay put.' I hated feeling useless and he took off after Nahuel.

I sat on a rock, monitoring the bite mark on my arm. Nahuel bit me. I just couldn't believe it. I was seeing us as good friends, and I kept forgetting about his weakness. His old diet.

I huffed and moved some hair out of my face, wincing as the sharp movement hurt me. I'd never known so much pain in my life.

An agonizing minute or so later, Jacob came out of the forest, in human form. He ran over to me. "What the hell did he do to you?"

I sighed and pushed back the pain. "It's nothing." My words contradicted myself as I cradled my hurt arm close to my chest.

"Did he... I saw him... did he bite you?" Jake struggled for words as he sat down beside me.

I frowned and nodded, the searing pain wasn't helping one bit.

"I swear, I'll kill him myself." Jacob's fists clenched. He stood up and started walking back.

"Jacob, stop! I just need to see Grandpa Carlisle, other than that I'm fine. Nahuel just made a mistake. He didn't mean to. He's not fully adjusted to our lifestyle yet." I tried to reason with him.

Jacob slowly came back and sat beside me. I knew he was trying with all his might not to go back there. "Show me your arm," He demanded.

His movements were soft as he examined my arm. "I don't think its broken. Maybe fractured since you fell back at his swift movement."

I nodded in understanding. "Where are the humans?"

"They got away safely."

"And Nahuel?"

He shrugged. "I sent him back to the house. Quil and Embry are in wolf form escorting him back." He said. I hadn't seen either of the two, but I believed Jacob wanted to make sure Nahuel went straight home... to my dad. He and I both knew my dad would be pissed off. Jacob frowned. "I don't want you hanging around him right now. That was just a show of how dangerous he can be."

I rolled my eyes. "Can we discuss this later? Take me to Grandpa Carlisle."

Jacob lifted me up and carried me bridal-style running to where our motorcycles were stored.

"Ness, just sit on my lap," Jake said when we reached his motorcycle.

"Why?"

"You're in no condition to hold on while we drive." He said. After seeing that I was being stubborn and wasn't moving, he frowned. "Please Ness?"

I complied and Jacob drove faster than ever to Grandpa Carlisle's hospital.

"We need to see Dr. Carlisle Cullen." Jacob said to the receptionist once we walked inside.

"He's with another patient, do you have an appointment?" The receptionist asked. I could tell she was trying to stick with the rules, but I needed to see Grandpa right now.

"It's a family emergency," I said.

She placed a phone call and not a minute later, Grandpa Carlisle came down the hallway.

"Renesmee." He saw my arm that I was cradling. A look of sadness and slight hidden anger came to his face. I'd never seen Grandpa Carlisle show any anger before, so that tiny trace of anger I saw in his face stunned me. "What happened?"

Jake spoke to him and explained what happened, while Grandpa Carlisle found me an empty room and inspected my arm. He went into full doctor mode. Jacob stayed until Grandpa Carlisle confirmed it was a small fracture and then Jake left for some reason. Apparently, the bone had already begun to heal rapidly, but that wasn't my concern.

I wasn't sure how much time had passed, but at some point, Dad stormed into the hospital room. "Let me see her arm," He gritted through his teeth. His eyes were dark and angry.

I would've hated to come across him when he was looking this pissed off. "He bit you…" Dad realized as he examined it. "Nahuel is venomous, isn't he?" He asked Grandpa.

Grandpa Carlisle simply nodded. "Fortunately enough, the venom didn't get under the skin. Renesmee is fine. Just a small fracture." Grandpa Carlisle explained. They began a thought conversation, leaving me out of the matter and I leaned back against the bed.

Jacob came back in at that moment. "I went back and brought your motorcycle home, Nessie. What's the update?"

Dad and Grandpa Carlisle stepped out so we couldn't hear them and Jacob sat at the edge of my bed.

"No venom got under my skin. It was just a bite." I informed him.

Jake frowned. "And a fracture," He added while grimacing.

"A small fracture," I corrected.

He kissed my forehead and sighed. "Ness, you're not going back there tonight."

"What are you talking about?"

"We agreed that you'd stay in La Push with us for a little while, until things have cooled off."

I frowned. "Who's we? And when did you all make this decision? Because you forgot to include me on this."

"I spoke with your parents a few minutes ago. Just roll with it, please Ness?" His eyes pleaded and I could tell he was tired.

"Fine," I huffed.

This was just one slip-up. I didn't understand why everyone was so worked up. Dad had his rebellious stage and killed many humans. Uncle Em had even slipped up a few times. No one's track record was especially clean except Mom, Aunt Rose, Grandma and Grandpa. Why not forgive Nahuel?

I sighed as Grandpa Carlisle stepped into the room without Dad. "Would you like a cast, Nessie?"

"No thanks." I said. In less than a day, it would've already been healed. No need for a cast when it wouldn't really help. I wouldn't see Nahuel to be able to tell him he was forgiven. There were no hard feelings.

I wished everyone would just see him the way I did. He posed no threat to us. I just didn't understand why they couldn't see that.

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