DISCLAIMER: The Twilight Saga belongs to Stephanie Meyer. I own nothing but my AU story line.
Working in Jacob's garage made me feel better, almost whole again. I still had the nightmares, but each day I spent down on the reservation, I felt more alive again, not broken.
Each time I was down there, Quil and Embry would show up and we would all three just hang out while we worked on the bikes. For weeks, that was how it was. We would all hang out, grab pizza, work on the bikes, Jake and Quil would end up wrestling. We just had fun.
One day I went down to Jakes, it was a Saturday, I met him in his garage. I hadn't been able to come down to the res since the previous Saturday, but I was excited about how close we were to finishing the bikes.
When I walked up to the garage, Jake was waiting for me, but the other two Quileutes weren't there like they normally would have been.
"Hey, where's Quil and Embry?" I asked him and he looked away, his long hair swinging in the sun on this unusual day.
"Glad you're happy to see me, too, Bella." Jake said pretending like he was hurt. "Nah, Quil is helping his grandfather, and Embry… I don't know, he's probably with Sam." Jacob told me, almost like he was hurt.
"Oh." I said, not sure what to say.
"In brighter news, they're done!" He said with an almost sad smile.
"Really?" I asked, super excited to see them.
"Yep" He led me outside to an area just beside the garage. He lifted the cover off and showed me the two bikes, looking nearly brand new.
"Wow, Jake, these look amazing!" I told him. Without any help, he lifted the bikes into the back of my truck and then we were off to a spot he said would be great to test them out.
We were almost there when I saw 4 guys standing on the edge of the cliff.
"Is that Sam Uley?" I asked him.
"Yeah, him and his cult." He told me.
Two of them looked like they were wrestling then two of the guys grabbed one of them and all of a sudden they threw him off the Cliffside, into the water below. I pulled over the truck immediately.
"Oh my god!" I got out of the truck. "Did you see that?" I asked Jacob as he got out of the truck too, I couldn't keep my eyes off of the three men left standing on the Cliffside and worrying about the other one that fell.
"They're not really fighting, Bella." Jake said with a laugh. "They're cliffdiving. Scary as hell, but a total rush."
"A rush?" I asked, wondering if I would be able to see him if I did it too. I was suddenly intrigued.
"Most of us jump from lower down, we leave the showing off to Sam and his disciples." I turned back to Jacob and started walking back across the road.
"You have some kind of beef with him or something?" I asked. When I got back to my truck, I turned around to watch them again.
"I don't know, they just think they run this place. Embry used to call them hall monitors on steroids, now look at him." He said and I looked at the tall, muscular but lean man I could barely recognize as Embry, jumping off the cliff with a yell.
"That's Embry?" I asked, clearly confused. I had just seen him a week ago. "What happened to him?"
"He missed some school, then he started following Sam around like a little puppy. Same thing happened with Paul and Jared. Sam keeps giving me this look like he's waiting for me or something. It's kinda starting to freak me out." Jacob said, with genuine worry on his face.
"Well, you should just avoid him or something." I told him, wishing I could help him more.
"I try." Jacob told me. I turned back to look, just as Sam was jumping.
A few weeks later.
I stormed down to Jacobs house after he had come to my house, begging me to remember the legends. I remembered them. He had told me about the pale faces and the spirit wolves. The wolves, that's what he wanted me to remember. The wolves I saw in the clearing, the ones who went after Laurent.
I knocked on the door and Billy answered.
"Bella." Billy said, just inside the doorway.
"I need to see him." I told him, disparity in my voice.
"He's not in." He said, but I knew he was lying. I was sick of people lying to me. I pushed by him and walked around.
"I'm sorry but I really need to see him." I told him, walking directly to Jacobs room.
"Bella." Billy tried to say but it was too late.
I pushed open Jacob's door to see him sleeping on his undersized bed. I looked at him for a second before hearing some sort of animal call outside. I looked out and could see the four guys in Sam's crew at the edge of the woods.
I stormed out of Jake's house, seeing the 4 shirtless Quileute's walking out of the woods. I'd had enough, I was going to figure out what they did to Jake.
I scrambled outside rushing to face them, to face Sam and his disciples. "What did you do?! What did you do to him?!" I yelled, pushing into Sam, although it felt like I had hit a concrete wall. "He didn't want this!"
Suddenly the one standing beside Sam spoke up. "What did we do, what did we do? What did he tell you?!" He spoke hurriedly. I glanced over to him, he was shaking mad.
"Nothing, he tells me nothing because he's scared of you." I could see him shaking, like visibly shaking with heat rolling off of him in waves. They all started laughing and I couldn't help myself. I smacked him square across the face. It nearly felt like I broke my hand, but I wasn't paying attention to that.
I noticed that he was shaking even more now, like an animal. I heard growling coming from deep inside him and I started freaking out. "Too late now!" The one on the end said, laughing.
"Bella, get back, now!" Sam shouted, but I was determined to see what would happen. I started backing away slowly. "Paul," that must have been his name. "Calm down now." Sam told him while still motioning for me to walk away.
I heard a deep growl come from him as he hunched over, his shorts ripping into shreds as he turned from man into a giant silvery gray wolf. He shook out his fur and started growling at me. I knew about the wolves, but it was much different seeing one in person. He looked at me with such human eyes. I didn't feel scared of him, I felt scared for Jake.
I got nervous and turned around, starting to run. I saw Jake come out of his house, running towards me. "Bella!" He yelled as the wolf behind me growled viciously.
"Run!" I yelled, "Jake, run!" but he kept running towards me. I tripped over something on the ground and fell, right as Jake jumped over me, I saw him turn into a wolf in mid-air. I couldn't believe Jake was one of them. I just stared as the two wolves stood there, growling at each other, then they lunged for each other. They circled each other and fought, eventually making their way into the woods as they bit one another.
"Hey, take Bella back to Emily's place." Sam told the other two who nodded and began walking toward me.
"Guess the wolf's out of the bag."
Embry reached his hand out to help me up and when I was finally on my feet, I looked up at him. My eyes caught his for just a split second, but I felt like I was transported to a different world. I felt the broken pieces of me stitch themselves back together in an instant and I nearly forgot all of the pain Edward had put me through. It hadn't even hurt to think his name. I felt odd, sort of light, but anchored at the same time. I hadn't realized I was still staring into Embry's dark brown eyes until I heard Jared behind me.
"Oh shit! This just got real interesting." I broke my eye contact, but my hand was still in Embry's. It felt nice. Right. What in the world was happening?!
"Um, what just happened?" I asked Embry, but he seemed to still be dazed as he looked at me. "Em?" I asked, waving my free hand in front of his face. He seemed to snap out of it then, looking down, then back over to the woods.
"Fuck." He muttered, and it caught me by surprise, I'd never heard Embry Call curse.
"Damn, Embry, only you, man, only you." Jared said to him, patting him on the back and shaking his head as he walked to my truck.