Coping with grief is hard enough without having heightened emotions. Still, life can't be even that simple. There's an army coming, and the threat of Jay losing more than she already has is very real.
She can't run away to a new town now; she's goin...
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Most of the vampires are gathered in the Cullens living room upstairs, and Bella's sitting on the couch beside Alice. Carlisle's standing about a foot away from them, with Edward standing on the opposite side of the coffee table. Rosalie's sitting in a chair to her brother's left, and Esme's standing beside her. Jay's near the entrance of the room with Stefan a few feet behind her, leaning in the doorway, and Damon walks over to the youngest.
"You don't know how to make friends that don't have life endangering tendencies, do you?"
Jay narrows her dark eyes as she looks up at him. "Shut up."
"That's like your new favorite catch phrase." Damon says, and she shoves him away from her.
"Damon, leave her alone." Stefan tells his brother as the older boy crosses the room to look out the floor-to-ceiling window.
"Speaking of new catch phrases..."
"Who is it?" Carlisle asks his son once the bickering ends. "Someone we know?"
"It was a stranger. I didn't recognize his scent." Edward tells him.
"A nomad passing through?" Esme asks, but she doesn't sound as though she actually believes that to be a possibility.
"A passerby wouldn't have left Bella's father alive." Rosalie reasons just as Jasper and Emmett walk into the living room.
"The scent disappeared about five miles south of Bella's house." The blond tells them as his burly brother rests his elbow on Jay's shoulder.
"Could it have been someone that you know?" Edward looks at Jay, and the brunette shakes her head.
"We are overdue for a visit from Stefan's favorite ex." Damon says, and his younger brother shakes his head at him.
"Besides the fact that there's no reason for Katherine to come anywhere near me—" Jay starts, shooting him a dirty look. "—she couldn't get into Bella's house without an invitation. And I gave all of my friends vervain months ago."
"What about Bella's father?" Stefan asks.
"She puts it in his coffee every morning."
"Elena?" Damon suggests, but the little brunette shakes her head.
"She knows that you have the cure, and we want her to flip her switch back. She's not stupid, this is the last place that she'll ever come." Jay tells him. "It has to be someone who was already tied to Bella before I got here."
