Author's Notes: OK this is a new story I'm trying it's Bella/Paul. I've never done a Bella/Paul before so your views would be appreciated. As always thanks so much to JenJenSon my beta she's a real star! This takes off after Edward has left and goes from there writing a nice new future as if the Cullen's never returned...although I haven't decided whether to have any of them come back later or not I'll admit but the focus of the story is Bella and Paul so sit back and I hope you all enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, the characters, book or film and make no money from this story it is pure fiction for fan purposes. I also don't own the lyrics in this chapter they are some random lyrics from Rihanna and Eminem's Love the Way you Lie Part Two and some other random lyrics from Save Me by Remy Zero. Obviously if you're not a fan of lyrics in stories you don't have to read them.

Chapter One: Fables

On the first page of our story
The future seemed so bright

I lay on my bed helplessly thinking about what Jake had said. I needed to figure out his secret for myself...I already knew it. I sighed in frustration and climbed into bed. Maybe a good night of sleep would clear my head so I could try and figure it out tomorrow.

Then this thing turned out so evil
I don't know why I'm still surprised

The nightmare came again. Edward and I in the meadow and I knew he was going to leave me again. I relived the nightmare so often I no longer fought it, no longer screamed...I just cried in my sleep.

Even angels have their wicked schemes
And you take that to new extremes
But you'll always be my hero

Tonight though, it was different. Edward turned away from me to face a giant wolf; like the wolves that saved me from Laurent... Maybe my subconscious was just guilty that some innocent creatures took my place.

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's all right because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

Then Edward leapt for the wolf and drank. I heard myself shout for him to stop but he didn't until he was crouched over a limp body, a human body...Jacob...

In this tug of war, you'll always win...

'Cause you feed me fables from your hand...

"Edward don't!" I screamed aloud. Then as always Edward walked away and on the ground lay my Jake... "Jacob!" I sat bolt upright gasping for breath. The wolves from the story... New realisation hit me like a bucket of cold water at the whole truth of the Quileute legend that Jacob had told me so long ago. Was every myth or legend like this? Was there some truth in every magical, mythical creature? How could we have been so blind? Non-human creatures had been living under our very noses since the beginning and we were clueless!

Oh god Charlie! My blood ran cold as I leapt out of bed and checked outside for his cruiser. It was gone already. It was still early but I had to warn Jacob. I don't think I've ever gotten up and dressed as fast as I did this time. Moments later I was reversing my truck off of the drive.

This morning, you wake, a sunray hits your face
Smeared makeup as we lay in the wake of destruction

By the time I pulled up outside Billy Black's house I had lost my nerve. I forced myself out of my truck and knocked on the door. Billy begrudgingly let me in after I practically pushed past him. I pushed open Jake's bedroom door and froze in my tracks. There lay my Jacob sound asleep. So relaxed and content even though he was now so huge he was hanging off of both ends of his bed.

I sighed and ran my hand through my hair.

I'm nothing, I'm so lost, hug me...

"Tell him to come and meet me on the beach please." I told Billy before leaving the house as quickly as I had come. I didn't get far before I spotted a group of boys approaching the house. Sam's gang; the ones Jake had always been so afraid of. Before I had time to think it through I was stomping my way over to them.

"What have you done to him?" I shouted. "What have you done?"

"What did he tell you?" the one on the far left growled right in my face threateningly. I pushed him, trying to gain back some personal space.

"Nothing! He told me nothing because he's afraid of you!" I shouted, stepping back a tad since my shove hadn't worked. But he did look pissed off now.

"Easy." Sam told him.

"Answer me!" I shouted, shoving harder. Then everything was in slow motion. The boy seemed to practically tear apart and in heartbeats a huge wolf as tall as me stood in his place. I stepped back very quickly turning to run from him. I spotted Jake coming out of his house.

Then after that, shove me, in the aftermath of the
Destructive path that we're on, two psychopaths...

"Bella!" he shouted to me, running towards me.

"No Jake run!" I shouted back to him. But he didn't run. I saw him jump but I never saw him land. Instead in place of Jake was an enormous wolf, only this one wasn't grey it was more of a copper colour.

"You guys get Bella out of here, take her to Emily's." Sam called, running after the two wolves now fighting in the bushes.

"Come on...I think I should drive you don't look so good." Embry said, as they guided me towards my truck. Before long we stood outside a small wooden house. It was lovely, so charming and homely. The two boys were discussing Jake and Paul fighting and I really did feel sick.

"What if one of them gets hurt?" I spoke up. They just laughed in response to this.

"Come in Bella, we don't bite." Jared said, entering the house.

"And about Emily, don't stare. It bugs the hell out of Sam." Embry added, following Jared inside.

I was going to ask them why but it was too late, they were already inside so I helplessly followed. Both boys now sat at the table tucking into the food the woman they called Emily was placing on the table. Now I saw what they meant. Half of her beautiful face was scarred, causing one side of her face to drop in an almost constant grimace.

"So, who do we have here?" she asked.

"Bella Swan." Embry replied.

"So you're the vampire girl...should've known if anyone would find a way past Sam's gag order it would be Jake." She smiled.

"So you're the...wolf girl." I said lamely, she just smiled contentedly.

"I guess I am." She said, turning back to the steaming pot.

Then another figure entered the house, the one who had got pissed at me. He sat down at the table and then smirked up at me.

"Sorry." He winked. Then he froze and his smirk dropped, his face was a picture of shock. I glanced around awkwardly, feeling self-conscious.

"What?" I finally asked. He blinked a few times and then lowered his eyes to the bread in front of him.

"Sorry, just deep in thought." He shrugged. The others looked at him suspiciously but I didn't have time to think on it before Jacob appeared in the doorway.

"Come on." He said. I nodded and waved at the others briefly before following Jake back out of the warm house.

"So you're a werewolf." I said after a long awkward silence.

"Yeah...last time I checked." He replied.

'Cause you feed me fables from your hand

I don't know why I'm still surprised...

"So that's the deal with the secrets?" I asked.

"Yeah, Alpha's orders." He nodded.

By the time we returned to the house it was as if nothing had even happened. Warm arms caught me as I tripped on the steps entering the house. Embry stifled a chuckle at my clumsiness and I flushed in embarrassment as usual.

"Hey Bella it's goes left foot then right foot then repeat. Pretty straightforward." Paul snorted in my ear. I flushed even more but I glared at him and he looked at me strangely again.

"I'll try to remember that." I said sarcastically.

"You always were a clumsy kid guess some things never change." He retorted, dropping me. I narrowed my eyes at him. He dropped me? He had caught me from falling and then dropped me like I was hot coal anyway! I muttered a few choice words under my breath as I got to my feet secretly hoping her heard every word.

"I don't remember ever meeting you before." I replied evenly, turning back towards Jake now talking to `Sam and Emily. Although all I knew about Paul was that he was older than me so it was possible that I had met him as a kid and never known since I knew Jake and Jake looks nothing like he did just months ago let alone years ago.

In fact I knew nearly nothing about the pack. I knew that Sam was engaged to Emily, that he was the oldest and that he was the alpha and I knew that Paul was the second oldest and pretty much his second in command by the look of things. Jared was the same age as me and some of my friends knew him really well because up until the "cold ones" as they put it had moved to Folks he went to the high school with them and then Jake and Embry were just bit younger than me. They all looked around twenty-one though and all pretty hot, I'd be blind not to notice. Everyone always wondered what they fed the kids up here but now I knew...they were wolves.

I try to run but I don't wanna ever leave

With the exception of one wolf in particular everyone was very welcoming and Sam and Emily's house was warm, cosy and homely. I was beginning to think that hanging around here may help numb the pain again.

~Two Weeks Later~

"Morning Bella!" Emily smiled as I entered her house. "Jake said you'd be coming to visit today."

"Forced me to is more like it." I mumbled; then I had the grace to look suitably embarrassed at my bad manners. "Not that I don't enjoy coming to see you I'm just...suspicious of his motives."

"I understand. He does have a certain spark for you but I assure you he's getting over it." Emily replied. "I think the boys just think it's safer here. They'd probably heard half the town up here if they could."

I was about to question her further when I noticed Paul and Sam enter the room. Sam gathered his fiancée in his arms and kissed her across her cheek to her lips. Paul just looked fed up and waited.

"Come on, let's go get the bitch already!" he snarled. Sam broke away from Emily and smiled at me as he moved towards the door.

"You two keep out of trouble." He said.

"Be careful!" Emily told him firmly.

"I'm sure the five of us can take the red head no sweat!" he told her, that's when my blood ran cold. I just kept picturing her red curls as she left the baseball field, glancing back at me almost threateningly.

"What red head?" I croaked out, but it was too late they were gone. I rushed to the door and stepped out onto the porch. "What red head?" I called louder. They stopped and looked at me curiously.

"Just a vampire, she not a...friend of yours is she?" Sam asked carefully. I shook my head numbly. "She's been hunting in the area so it's our job to take her out."

"Laurent..." I gasped realising that it was Sam and the others who had saved me that day.

"What are you going on about?" Paul snapped. "We're in a hurry here!" By this time I saw Emily come outside behind me out the corner of my eye.

"You saved me from Laurent." I said. "But V-Victoria's..."

"You mean the other leech, we killed him pretty easy." Sam grinned. "It's what we do."

"Is Victoria here? Now?" I asked, my legs could barely hold me now.

And they pull me under
I would give you anything you want
Well all I wanted
And all my dreams have fallen down
Crawling around somebody save me

"Near the border...she just keeps running around the area." Sam replied. Then my legs gave out and I crumpled on the floor. I just stared at the ground...it was never going to end.

"Hey guys!" Jake called, joining the group now gathering outside Emily and Sam's house. The other two boys behind him. "What's taking so long?...Bella!"

Jacob crouched in front of me and looked closely at me.

"Victoria's here." I whispered to him. He looked to Emily, Sam and Paul for any clues but they had none. Jake reached out to lift my chin up. The first thing I saw was Sam and Paul behind him. Sam looked confused and Paul looked angry, very angry...then I focused on Jacob's concerned face in front of me.

"Let's get her inside, we need to get moving but maybe one of us should stay long enough to make sure she alright just in case." Sam commanded. Jake moved closer to me but I heard a growl and he practically leapt back. Then a hot arm lifted me from under my arm and practically dragged me to my feet.

And two warm hands break right through me
Somebody save me

It was Paul and he still looked angry for no reason other than me delaying their hunting, so I glared back. He just smirked and lifted me into his arms causing me to turn red from my cheeks to my ears. He put me down on a chair in the kitchen and soon the kitchen was full with us all in it.

"Bella what's wrong? What did you say to her?" Jake asked, turning on Paul and Sam.

"Nothing!" Paul snapped.

"Cut it out you two!" Sam said, the alpha tone clear in his voice. "The last thing we need is you losing your tempers. We were just talking about our red headed leech problem and she lost it."

"You don't understand you can't fight her. You'll lose." I said quietly, looking up at Jake.

"Don't worry, as much as I'd like to fight her and rip that bloodsucking head of hers off, any time we get even close enough for a fight she bolts. She's trying to get to Forks...we don't know what she wants but whatever it is we manage to run her off before she gets close enough." Jake smiled.

"I know what she wants." I breathed. Everything was silent, I swear most of them even stopped breathing. Then the silence was shattered.

"Well are you going to spit it out or what?" Paul muttered.

And all my dreams are on the ground
Crawling around somebody save me

"Me." I glared at him. "Victoria wants me." Everyone was staring at me but I couldn't form any more words. I hated feeling so scared, so useless. Everyone was shocked and for a second I could have sworn Paul even looked scared himself.

"Do you know why?" Sam asked me.

"Yeah Bella did you turn into such a leech lover that you pissed off a few females for-" Paul started but my fear was gone now, now I was just angry.

"Will you just shut the hell up about things you know nothing about!" I screamed at him. Then his nostrils flared and fist clenched at his sides and in a heartbeat Jake stood between us. Paul seemed to calm himself then and stepped back in front of me, and Jake let him! Was he crazy?

"Sorry." Paul mumbled, looking like it killed him to say it. "Would you like to explain?"

"It's a long story." I replied.

"Jared, Embry!" Sam called. "Go to Bella's house and keep a lookout, if Charlie comes home we don't want him to have any unwanted visitors. Jake go find Leah and guard the perimeter round the res. If Bella's what she wants we've got an advantage."

Jake looked desperate not to leave me but he did. He just gave me a look that said sorry before disappearing out of the door.

"You were saying?" Sam said, looking at me expectantly and taking a seat at the table.

"Charlie's in danger because of me?" I asked, more to myself than to anyone else. "Oh God...I really am a danger magnet."

I feel the waves crash down inside
And they pull me under

"Focus Bella. Why does she want you?" Sam asked.

"Do you remember last year...when I had my accident?" I asked them. "When the strange wild animal attacks started?" They nodded at last. "Right well, I was in a clearing with the...with them. We were playing baseball and must have caught their attention. Three of them; James, Laurent and Victoria, James was a tracker...he made it a game to hunt me down and so we fled to Phoenix. Anyway, Ed-Edward had to kill James and Victoria was his mate. Mate for mate Laurent said...she won't stop..."

"But you're not his mate anymore." Paul fumed in a frustrated voice.

"I don't think that'll bother her much..." Sam sighed. I couldn't hold it in anymore, I tried I really tried because Jake wasn't here. Jake was the only person who I wanted right now. I didn't even want Edward. I had been so stupid, I had gone diving into a dangerous world and now it wasn't just me that may have to deal with the consequences. A sob escaped my lips and then the tears came.

And two warm hands break right through me
Somebody save me

"Ah damn." Paul muttered, and then I was pulled against his solid frame. It was surprising how comforting it was being in his arms, even if it was Paul holding me. He practically hated me, we always brushed each other up the wrong way but right now I was clinging to him like he was my lifeline. "Come on Bells we'll get her for you."

"He's right, we know what she wants now. We can lure her to where we want her and take her out away from anyone that might get hurt." Sam agreed.

"Want to help?" Paul asked me, I glanced up and his smirk was almost evil. "You know you do. Help us, you could play bait. Got to be better than staying here waiting."

He was right. She had had enough of being protected and coddled; she didn't want to stay here while they risked their lives for her, not if she could help. It took Paul's twisted view on things to allow her to do that.

"Yes." I croaked out.

"Alright, but Bella when we do this, if you're there you have to follow the orders we give you exactly got it? It's not a game. You'll be a great help but if you don't do as I say you'll very quickly be more of a hindrance than a help."

"Of course." I nodded, stepping back from Paul awkwardly.

"I'll go call the boys." Paul said, turning quickly away from me. "and Leah."

I watched him leave and then continued to stare at the door. No matter how much we hated each other and no matter how much we seemed to get into fights...the worrying thing was that he seemed to get me more than anyone. There's no way Jake would ever let me do something so reckless and Edward definitely wouldn't have.

I don't care how you do it

Just save me...

Author's Notes: Well That's the first chapter, pretty much just introducing where the story is starting from really so it does follow New Moon quite a lot at the beginning but I hope you were able to bear with me through that and will come back for the next chapter. This is a repost to try to fix the italics for the lyrics but it really doesn't want to play ball so if it hasn't worked I'm sorry I swear on my word document the lyrics are italic and the story normal.