Natural Enemies

Chapter One

Stiles' Pov

My Jeep smelled of curly fries, and coke that Scott had spilled earlier that day. We had been driving for hours; and I could tell that the silence was getting to him.

"Hey," I said as I shook him by the shoulder, "we're almost there!" I was taking him to see his cousin, Bell, or Belle… something like that. His mom had asked me to drive him since Allison and Aiden had died not even a week ago. And she wanted someone to be there for him.

"Where are we again?"

"Forks," He said dully.

"And when are we going to get to Spoons?" I said smiling stupidly. But he didn't budge. "So…What's your cousin's name again?"

"Bella."

" And why are we here again?" his mother had already told me that she had gotten married. Although the wedding was in August, and they didn't have enough time to get there between the Kanima, and Darach crap. She just wanted for him to clear his mind.

He didn't reply. So rather than trying to further the conversation, I left it at that.

We drove for another while, I don't know how long. But long enough for me to sing 'Stars' from Les Miserables in my head at least seven times. When we pulled into the car port, I could tell that the house was old, well taken care of. But old.

As Scott stepped out of the jeep he tried to be chipper, but I could tell. "Hey Bells!" he hollered as she ran for a hug.

Scott's POV

"Hey Scott! I haven't seen you in forever!"

"You seem… different… how long has it been? Three? Four years?" I tried to act like I wasn't serious but… there really was something different… I just couldn't point it out…

"Yeah!" she replied."Look at you! You've gotten taller! And stronger!" She reached out and grabbed my bicep, and squeezed it.

That was it! She felt cold! And pale… well… she was always kinda pale… but not that pale.

"Bells, are you OK?" I asked. "You seem kinda cold."

"Yeah," she replied, "I'm fine. You guys wanna come inside?"

We followed her in as she opened to door, the aroma of fresh cookies over took Stiles. "Cookies! Dude!" he practically screamed. "Can I have one?!" Bella pulled to tray of cookies out of the oven, and sat them on the counter. She smiled and gestured towards the tray.

Stiles had practically ran over to the counter where she had set it. He shoved a whole cookie into his mouth. Then spitting it back out into his hand. "That was really hot…" he said awkwardly.

Then it hit me. My gut retched in a way that I've never felt before! It twisted into a knot so tight that I would have sworn that a boy scout had been tying my intestines together. It moved through me like lightning!

I fell to the floor, and crunched into a ball. I heard a blood curtailing scream echo through the house. I hadn't realized that it was mine.

"Scott?" Bella yelled. I could hear her start to run toward me.

"No!" yelled Stiles "Stay back!" Kneeling down to my face. "Come on buddy!"

"HOLLY…!" Screamed Bella. That was it! I was shifting! "Edward!" she screamed. Who was Edward? Was that her husband?

WHOOOOOSH! And he was there, standing in front of her; kind of crouching into a something almost like a battle stance.

I saw his eyes! Yellow! Like a beta's, but different… I heard a loud crash. And that was it…