CPV

Another day another rain storm, Washington weather sucked. But at least it was better at La Push than in Forks. Claire remembered Forks life all to well. Right up until her mother was gone and she was taken away to live with Emily and Sam. She sighed, but life goes on.

Even in this cold freezing rain in the middle on December, Claire was burning up. She must be getting sick. She pulled her hood up to shield her face and trudged out into the driving rain as Emily's car appeared in the long line of cars behind the buses.

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SPV

The minute his niece walked through the door Sam knew something was wrong. He looked at Emily, even if she wasn't a werewolf she knew it too. The only thing they could do was to make sure she was around the pack as much as possible to make sure her first phasing was safe. He walked over to Emily and whispered in her ear, "I'm going to find the pack. Be careful!" She nodded and with a quick kiss and goodbye he left.

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JPV

Jake had been sound asleep in on the couch when Sam had called the meeting. It seemed rude at the time but now….

for this…

this was important!

His paws hit the ground hard, one after the other, sprinting through the forest. Finally he reached the clearing. Phasing back he stepped out of the shadows. There was the rest of the pack: Sam, Embry, Quil, Paul, Jared, Seth, and Leah.

LPV

It had been many years since Emily and Sam's wedding, but it was still hard even when she knew she could never have him, it would always be hard.

She pulled her eyes away from Sam to look around. There was her little brother Seth, Quil looking anxious as he should seeing as this was about Claire, Embry, Paul, Jared, and Jake coming out of the trees. The meeting was about to begin!

QPV

Quil barely noticed the meeting, all of them talking about "the right course of action". He was stunned that Claire, sweet loveable Claire, was a werewolf! Though he was impatient for her to grown up he still saw her as that little girl teetering around Emily's house all those years ago, before Bella had left leaving Jake miserable. Before Emily and Sam's wedding. Before Claire's mother had died. He had watched Claire grow up through her pain for 6 years now, or at least since she was in 6th grade.

Well it was time to face it weather he was ready or not. The meeting was over: they were going to tell her.

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3 weeks later

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CPV

Claire's room was very plain, with pale green walls, a day bed against one wall with a white bedspread embroidered with small brightly colored flowers, and against the other a dresser and bookshelf, on the remaining 2 walls were a desk, windows, and a door bordered with carefully stenciled flowers and vines.

Claire lay on her bed facing up to the blank white ceiling. For the first time in weeks she felt alone. Away from the pack and its thoughts, away from worry. But then worry caught up with her, arriving in hot salty tears. She lay for a long time until the tears running down her face began to irritate her. She turned onto her stomach still sobbing and fell asleep.

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When she finally went back to school the following Monday Claire was greeted by more hostility than ever. The kids at la Push's High School had never really liked her, simply because she was a girl from Forks that hadn't been brought up with the tribe. Never mind the fact that she was Emily and Sam Uley's niece, plus the fact that she had lived with them for nearly 6 years, and is part of the tribe none the less. She had crossed the line as far as they were concerned; she was part of Sam Uley's group! Of course none of them none of them knew what the group really was or what it stood for but it was common knowledge that they had the chance to someday be a part of it. No one knew how or why but they thought Claire would ruin their chances. As far as they could tell she should have been at the back of the line!

Claire dragged through the day full of rumors, glares, and just plain being ignored. When she finally stumbled through the door she was exhausted from both dodging packs of students full of snide remarks and jealousy and just from keeping herself together so she could at least keep her dignity and about to burst into tears.

She immediately noticed Jake, Quil, and Embry standing in the kitchen. It must have been obvious how horrible she felt because Quil was almost instantly at her side, his arm around her shoulders.

Jake attempted to lighten the mood, "Aw, come on! It couldn't have been that bad."

"If I'd have known school could be that bad I would have dropped out! ", Claire was almost as mad at Jake as she was upset about school.

"Ok, for one thing you can't seriously be considering dropping out of school your senior year. And for another thing-"

Embry cut him off as Claire's eye's filled with tears and anger, "Jake, just shut up!"

I know I stetching a little with Claire being a werewolf but let me know what you think. Its a WIP and subject to change. I'll update soon! ttfn!