(A/N): Hey everybody, how exciting to be on the second series! I hope that anyone who visits Rs&Rs {please please please PLEASE PLEEEEAAAAASSSSE} and as an additional note I would like to say that I am not Stephanie Meyer and own my original characters and story lines, nothing else in this fan fiction, thank you and enjoy!

"So you're friends with the Cullens now?" Tyler demanded at lunch. It was the first day of September and the new school year. I had to admit that I had spent most of the summer recuperating from the James incident, learning the qualities of a werewolf, and trying to accept that my blood relatives made up a group of terrible vampires that killed at will. I hadn't had much time to talk to the local HPA agents in all the hubbub.

"Well I wouldn't necessarily call it friendship-"

"You wouldn't necessArily call Anytheeng friendship, Graitchen." Catherine said, groaning with every word. I blushed. The HPA had been more than kind to me the past three quarters of a year, but I still didn't feel that they were friends. I had my own private life and didn't socialize with them much. In a way it was sad, but excuse me for not feeling like I belonged. I didn't know where I was supposed to fit in this puzzle of life, well, I had a hunch, but I didn't like thinking about it too often.

"The point is that the Cullen's aren't exactly my friends. I respect the Cullen's, and I'm thankful for them because they saved my sister and helped me figure out a big hunk of my background, and I end up there a lot because of the Bella-Edward situation, but when I'm there I still feel like a stranger. Bella acts like she never belonged anywhere else. I'm a bystander, watching everything through a window."

"I see." Tyler said.

"You can't expect to fit right in, Gretch. You're so quiet and shy. Not everyone who's able to know who you are will understand you. You're a powerful, werewolf-vampire-human! You're great, and you don't belong with the Cullens. You will forever be right here, next to me!" Luna threw her arms around me. Buddy started laughing at her enthusiasm. I awkwardly put my arms around her and attempted to analyze the warm emotion that was trying to force its way into my aura.

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I grabbed my white leather jacket that only covered the top part of my torso from the back of my computer chair and checked myself in the mirror. I was wearing a black tank top with tiny red polka dots and white, baggy jeans with my black and red skater shoes. My reddish brown hair was up in two messy buns on either side of my head. I buckled the front of the jacket as I dropped down stairs, two at a time.

"Pegasus! We're going to the beach!" He immediately started barking from somewhere in the kitchen and ran to greet me. He understood what that meant. He always understood me, even when I couldn't. I almost ran into Bella at the corner of the banister. "Hey Bella, sorry." Something other than Bella's aura hit me at that moment. There was an energy balance that was just a tiny bit off.

"No *cough* problem *cough* Gretchen *sneeze*."

"Bless you! What happened? Catch a cold?"

Between a bigger series of coughs and sneezes, she said she was tired of people asking her that, when she was perfectly fine. Edward had probably worried her to death.

"Okay, if you say so. I'm going down to La Push. You up for it?"

She couldn't stop coughing and just shook her head. After it stopped, she groaned. "I think I'm going to bed. See you in a little while."

My canvas beach bag hung at the front door next to Pegasus's leash. I took those, made sure my keys were in my pocket, and unlatched the front door. The cool wind of fall hit my face. My beautiful Silverdust Sound sat in the driveway. I had time, so there was no need to teleport. I got into the drivers side, and watched as Pegasus not only opened the passenger door, but climbed into his seat, shut the door, and buckled the seatbelt with his teeth.

"Alright, bud." I smiled at the greyhound. That's all he was until tonight. Tonight was the first full moon of the month. As we drove down the highway I sang and he howled with the music. I hated only being able to understand him three nights of the month. He was one of my best friends.

It always scared me to drive along the cliffs near La Push and see the water beside me. It was worse coming back when I was on the side of the road closest to the railing, but soon we were running down to the sandy beach where a friendly face met us.

"Hey, boy!" Jacob laughed and hugged Pegs who was jumping up and down in the excitement.

"Jacob, I just saw you yesterday afternoon! It's the first day of sophomore year and you call me out here!" Once the dogs were separated, the more human one gave me a hug.

"I'm sorry. It's just so boring around here! There's no one to talk to anymore. Sam went into this loner phase, and oddly enough Jared and Paul went with him. It's strange! Then Emily and Leah got into a fight and they aren't talking, so if I invited Emily down here Leah would give me her crap about how she isn't loved as much as Emily." He rolled his eyes. "You've never had that drama gene, Gretch. You're not allowed to borrow from them either! I need someone SANE!" I could disagree, but he wouldn't understand all the drama I caused earlier in the year if I even tried to explain.

"Thanks for counting me in the sane category, Jake. I was beginning to wonder." I laughed.

"Bella couldn't come?" He asked disappointedly.

"She's not feeling well; she's got a bad cough."

We played until the boulders cast shadows on the sand, which meant sunset was coming soon. I would need to get dinner and a shower before the sun went down.

Luckily I was able to get all that done with the help of my advanced human powers. No one noticed that I heated up my dinner with energy from my aura.

Pegasus and I stood on my window sill looking out at the stars and the forest stretched in front of us. I had never been awake for the change at 9:00 until the past few months. It was an awkward feeling, but once it was over it was just the thrill of being free.

It came. A series of tingles clanked down my spine like tumblers opening a lock. Heightened senses came next, and my body changed shape. My nose seemed ten times bigger and my arms became an extra pair of legs. Russet hairs shot out from my pores. My clothes came with me. Pegasus got nothing but a small structure change and darker hairs interwoven with the grey ones.

We launched ourselves into the forest. A raccoon was my first victim that evening. In the morning I would always feel bad for everything I ate. Being a werewolf was a state of insanity. The only thing that kept Pegasus and I from tearing each other apart was the fact that I made him. Anything that crossed our path was eaten. Did I mention my old enemy Lexi was currently in the Seattle long-term care hospital? Whoops, it was her fault for wandering around after dark.

I tore the raccoon apart with my incisors. Blood stained the grass and I gave into the blood lust. Leathery skin and prickly fir filled my mouth. I could smell nothing but the sweet scent of the blood. There was soon nothing left of the animal but bones. I dug a hole and scooped them inside. We didn't need anymore werewolf or vampire creatures running the Olympic Peninsula.

Pegs had also found himself a meal and was finishing it off a few meters away. I licked the blood off my chin, and began running, not sure where, but running. Minutes later Pegs joined me. We stopped in a small clearing

Our ears perked. There was an unfamiliar scent surrounding us. We had been running for quite a while. I didn't know where we were.

"What do you think it is?" Pegasus whispered.

"I don't know, hopefully a horde of squirrels." It didn't smell like food, though. If it had, I would have eaten it already.

Three shadows stepped out of the brush. As my eyes adjusted, I could now see the three creatures. I couldn't tell exactly what they were. Bears? Wolves? Something like that, and I didn't care. I just attacked.