Full summary: Dairine, a too-smart-for-her-own-good 15 year old girl, hasn't been herself since her mother died from cancer a few months ago. Her father and older sister noticed this and decided to send her to La Push, Washington with some of her mother's old friends for a few months, to take a break from all the problems back in New York. Jacob Black is not at all the type of person she'd expect to be living in cold Washington. She knows they have a secret, but her manual Spot can't gather the information. Meanwhile she has to keep her own secret away from them and it turns out to be a lot more work than she thought it'd be. Jacob/Dairine.

"Dairine? Can I see you down here for a second?" came my father's voice from downstairs. Lately, I don't even see why I bother to listen to what he says; there's no point.

I thumped down the stairs into the kitchen and plopped down in front of him in a chair at the table.

"Yes?" I asked.

"Listen, uh, I've been thinking about some things and I think it's best if you… take a break from the city for a while, you know? You could use it and—"

I interrupted him. "And what? Try to forget my responsibilities here? No way, Daddy, I can't go. I mean, what if I go on assignment? What will I do then? They obviously don't know about wizardry! And I won't be able to tell them, because they'd overreact!" I protested in one breath.

"Well, I've talked with Carl and Tom about it and we've come to an agreement; if you go on assignment over there, then you can either beam over here, or call Nita and Kit to help you. They're too busy to go over there just for you, so you would have to come to them," Dad explained.

His tone grew softer. "Please baby, don't argue with me about this. I really think you need this, and so does Nita. Your mother wouldn't want you to exclude yourself from the world. She wouldn't want you to keep skipping school, or not doing your homework. Please just go with them. They'll take care of you, I promise they will. You've even met them once when you were barely a few months old!" he pleaded.

I couldn't bear the sound of his voice, so desperate to stop my pain, even when he was going through it, too.

"Fine. I'll go, I'll be good, and I won't beam back here after a week just because I don't like it there."

I saw him look up from his hands, surprise written all over his face. I almost smiled; almost.

"Thank you so much, sweetie. You won't regret going there, I know it. Trust me, it's a very friendly and small town called La Push, Washington. It's kind of cold and rainy, but it's near a beach and it'll hopefully clear up now that it's summer," he told me.

This time I cracked a small smile. It felt weird on my face, though because I hadn't smiled in such a long time.

"When am I leaving? And who am I staying with?" I asked him. I wondered why I hadn't asked him that first.

"Oh, you'll be leaving on Friday and you'll be staying with Billy Black, an old friend of your mom's."

I nodded. Billy Black… that sounded familiar. I didn't think about it much after that thought; my head started hurting a little.

"Okay, so I'll go…pack?" it sounded like a question.

He nodded and smiled at me. "Yep. You only have two days to pack up for a whole two months," he chuckled.

"Wait, how am I going to get there? Do I just beam myself up there, or what?" I asked, perplexed.

"Well, like you said, they don't know about wizardry, so you'll have to go on a plane." Dad told me.

I nodded and jogged upstairs to go pack. I felt oddly excited and a lot lighter, as if this invisible weight had been suddenly lifted off my shoulders.

I shook my head as I entered my room and got my two suitcases out of my closet.

"Spot?" I called to my wizards' manual/laptop.

He appeared out from under my bed and scuttled over to me on his spidery mechanic legs.

Yes? He said in my mind.

"Get me some info on La Push, Washington, please," I told him.

Loading… done. His whole screen lit up and filled with text, mostly telling of the dreary weather and of the tribe that lived on the reservation, the Quileute's.

What struck me most odd was that the history of their legends was restricted.

We'll see about that. Spot; try getting more info from the Internet, instead of the manual.

Working… access has been denied. Should I try again?

I didn't answer right away. Denied?

"Why am I being denied? I should be able to use the Internet freely! It has nothing at all to do with wizardry!" I raged.

"You know what? Forget it. I'll just ask Billy. I'm sure he would tell me," I said to no one in particular.

"What are you ragging about now?" a tired voice said behind me.

I turned around to give Nita a dirty look before saying, "SomeOne is denying me access to the Internet and I do not like it."

She chuckled at me before sighing tiredly.

"You want any help packing up?" Nita asked me.

I hesitated, and then nodded. She came over to where I was kneeling and pulled open the drawer above the one I was filling one of my suitcases with and started refolding it into my other case.

Together, we both worked in a comfortable, sisterly silence.

A/N: Soooo, whatcha think? Probably not many of you have read the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane, but you don't have to have read the series to read this fanfic. Please review and tell me what you think! Reviews make me write faster!

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN TWILIGHT OR YOUNG WIZARDS SERIES (as sad as that makes me *sniff sniff*)!

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