"Brady!" An older blonde women, grinned as we walked towards her. I actually managed to get a few hours of sleep on the plane so I wasn't dead tired when we landed at the airport. Brady on the other hand was pretty much bouncing off the walls, probably because he's never introduced us to his family or even talked about them, so to have a member of the Pack on a family vacation went against everything he's been doing since we met him. Anyways, she had shoulder length dirty blonde hair and big green eyes. I could easily see over her head but then again I can do that with most people so it wasn't that big of a surprise. She had little wrinkles near her eyes and a big dimple in her cheek when she smiled.

"Hey Aunt Vicky."

"What is your father feeding you? You've gotten so big." she said pinching his cheek lightly and Brady's face flushed. "Your grandma is going to have a heart attack when she sees how much you've grown."

"This is my friend Jacob."

"Well Jacob, it's nice to finally meet one of Brady's friends." she surprised me by stepping forward to hug me like I was a member of the family who she'd helped raise. I've always really liked people like that. I mean I've never been the guy who just welcomes people in with open arms and makes them feel as comfortable as possible. I've only seen people like that on t.v. shows and movies and stuff, well except for Alice, Carlisle, and Esme.

"Brady honey, is that you?" An older woman was walking toward us. Smiling as she looked him up and down slowly. The lady had to be at least in her 70's or 80's but she was moving around like she wasn't any older than 50. She reached up and rested her hand on his cheek. "Girls must love you."

"Thanks."

"What you have a girlfriend don't you?" she asked, her gray eyebrows furrowing together as she looked up at him and Brady shook his head slowly.

"No grandma. I don't."

"Oh honey." she said sympathetically patting his shoulder before she looked between us. "Oh I get it."

"Get what?" he asked.

"You're 'playing for the other team', that's the expression kids use today isn't it? You brought Jacob here to finally introduce him to us." she said smiling over at me and Brady's face turned bright red. Let me just put this out there, Brady is not gay, well not that I know of anyways. He just has about as much experience with girls as I do walking on a leash. Even though girls like him he just has no idea what he's supposed to do around them which is sad yeah but he doesn't really need a girlfriend anyways. Almost all the guys in the Pack are waiting for their Imprints and with everything going on with the Cullen's, adding a group of girls to the mix would just make things more difficult. Hiding the fact that you're a Werewolf isn't exactly the easiest thing to do. I've seen how hard it is for Embry and his mom.

"Grandma-"

"Aw honey there's no point in denying it. I've always had the feeling since you started doing your hair like that." she said and I snorted. Both of their eyes turned to me and I couldn't keep the smirk off my face. His aunt Vicky was even trying her hardest not to laugh.

"Sorry."

"It's fine sweetie. I'm happy for you two. You've got yourself a fine young man Brady."

"Grandma, I'm not gay. I swear. I just, I don't have time for girls right now. Everything's just... complicated."

"Oh, I'm sure it is honey. We'll talk about this later."

…...

Aro and several members of the Volturi

"As of now Jacob Black is our main priority." Aro said placing his hands in his lap thoughtfully. They'd moved from the Cullen home into the penthouse room of a prestigious hotel in Seattle all except Demetri who staid behind to keep an eye on the house and make sure they weren't trying to help Jacob.

"Is he really that important? We could take any shape shifter from his Pack and turn them." Felix said shrugging

"Yes but they wouldn't have any loyalty towards us. Jacob Black will be swayed by his love for Alice. Even if he thinks of trying to turn against, she'll convince him otherwise and he'll listen to her. And if he's still uncooperative, we'll lock him away and won't let him out for a hundred years. Then we'll see how willing he is to work with us."

"Jane, be a dear and go check on Demetri."

"Yes Aro."

"I'll accompany you sister." Alec said stepping forward and Jane nodded at him before they both headed out the door. The overcast sky made the weather perfect for running through the woods back to the Cullen's home.

"Do you really want the dog around forever?" Alec asked looking over at Jane as they walked through the woods. "I personally would love for him to be six feet under. I might even ignore the stench and drain him dry, just to make his worst nightmare come true, then rip him to pieces just to make sure he doesn't come back."

"But Aro wants him." he walked over to stand in front of Jane, placing his hands on her shoulders as he looked down at her.

"Aro thinks he wants him. He has the idea stuck in his head that the Mutt will eventually listen to him but you and I both know that's not true. He'll cause more trouble than he's worth but Aro is so blinded by his curiosity of the hybrid that he doesn't see that. If Jacob Black is turned by Aro there is no doubt in my mind that he'll turn on all of us, until he's killed. Sister, we could stop him from making the biggest mistake of the century. We can save him from himself."

"Aro would never forgive us."

"Which is exactly why he'll never find out."