Prologue
I'd been sitting in the same spot for twenty minuets now, wagging my tail and twiddling my paws, my shift was up I wanted to got bed I'd been running boarder patrol for eight hours and it was now sometime around six in the morning, but Gypsy wasn't here to relieve me yet, then I felt her phase.
Gypsy: Sorry Skar!
Me: Finally my feet hurt and I'm fucking hungry
Gypsy: Shut up Skar I'm coming already, I said I was sorry
Me: Would you stop yapping and get out here?
I see Gypsy come running out of the trees but I heard her in my head long before that, I saw her thoughts and I know she hit snooze one too many times again, Gypsy is new to the pack and is still getting used to the unforgiving hours so I had to cut her some slack. We both remained in wolf form so we had to communicate in our heads.
Me: Where were you?
Gypsy: You already saw, I over slept
Me: Jake won't be happy
Jake: Jake isn't happy
We were both suddenly startled as the alpha phased and over heard our thoughts, the worst thing about the pack was the collective mind, you couldn't have one secret without everyone knowing it, they could choose to see everything you could just by choosing to tune in, every thought every memory they could see it as plain as day.
Me: you taking over from Teague?
Jake: yeah he's on his way home
Teague: guys I'm not on my way home
My best friends voice chimed in, I could feel he was there but he'd been quietly thinking about the forest until now, he'd picked up something
Teague: it kind of smells like vampire, it's sweet like vampire but it's different, boy it smells good.
Jake: stay put I'm almost on you
The scent Teague had picked up suddenly filled my nose through his, Jake and Gypsy's too, this wasn't a vamp, vampires smelt like hell, and this smelt incredible
Gypsy: Skar's right, whatever this is it smells way too good to be a vampire, it smells more like Nessie than anything.
Jake: I think I know the scent of my own imprint Gypsy
Gypsy: I just meant maybe it's a vampire like her
Teague: that scent is luring us in, that makes it even more dangerous than a hybrid
Jake growled, he hated it when anyone referred to his wife as a hybrid, but she wasn't human or vampire, so there wasn't really any other term for her species, besides the term didn't seem to ever upset Nessie
Jake: only because if anything ever did I'd rip its head off
That's the other bad thing about being in the pack imprinting; I hated the idea of someone other than me choosing my destiny, and the other guys who had imprinted were so loved up it made me sick, they were so ridiculously defensive about their imprints getting into a conversation about someone's imprint was like walking on eggshells.
Jake: you'll get it one day kid
I didn't need to get it, I never want to imprint on some poor girl and have her forced to love me.
Teague: maybe you'd prefer a guy? Does that mean your coming out on us bro?
Me: fuck you
Jake: enough jerking around you two, Skar you and Gypsy stay on the border, depending on what this is we may have to warn the Cullen's.
Gypsy: ok, should we alert the others?
Jake: no need until we know what were dealing with
Teague: Jake! I've got it, it's stronger here
Jake: Teague wait for me!
Teague was probably the fastest wolf in the pack with the exception of our youngest wolf Newt, but Teague was one of largest and most powerful so even though he couldn't quite keep up with Newt he could run harder and for longer and it got him into trouble... a lot.
Teague: what the fuck?
Me and every other currently phased wolf tuned in to what Teague was looking at, it was some sort of cat, like a white snow leopard, it was soaked with blood who's or what's I don't know cowering on the floor before Teague, the cat was bigger than I would have expected one like that to be but still tiny compared to him. The cat's fur stood on end and its ears were down hissing at Teague and now Jake too, Jake growled at the leopard and it swiped at his nose.
Gypsy: I don't get it, it's just a cat
Teague: it could be conjured by a vamp, one of their illusions
Jake: Maybe like Zafrina
Gypsy: who?
We all mentally shushed her and I felt her annoyance
Me: Tea's right, some of them can do that psychic shit like the Cullen's.
Jake: I don't care either way I'm taking it out
A snarl ripped out of Jake's throat and he raised one massive alpha paw when Nessie dove in its path, Jake froze and I could feel his shock.
Jake: Nessie?
Nessie gawked at Jake she'd seen him in wolf form a million times before, she probably just didn't realise how deep into wolf territory she'd come
Me: looks like she's perusing the vamp cat too
Jake: no shit. But why?
"Jacob will you please phase so we can talk?" Nessie snapped.
Me: somebody's pissed
Nessie only ever called Jake; Jacob when she was seriously steamed, and then Jake phased out and Gypsy and I continued to watch through Teague's eyes.
"Tell Teague to back off, he's scaring her" said Nessie
Teague: me? She's the one hissing
Jake turns to Teague and gives him a nod, Teague backs up a few steps but the cat doesn't relax
"What is she? Is she dangerous?" asked Jake, and I watched Nessie shake her head, then turn and crouch next to the cat who was still glaring at Teague, I see Jake tense and take a step closer.
"It's ok these are my friends, this is Jacob I showed him to you remember?" says Nessie, the cat just shakes in its defensive position.
Me: is it just me or has Nessie lost it?
Gypsy: she's talking to it like it can understand her
"I promised I wouldn't hurt you, and Jake won't let the other wolves hurt you either because it would hurt me" Nessie says, her voice soothing as ever, the rarely seen pissed off Nessie has gone. Then something amazing happens, the cat collapses to the floor and in the same instant it phases, and when I say phase I mean in the way we phase into wolves, she phases into a beautiful woman, unconscious on the floor and covered in blood.
"We have to take her back to Carlisle" Nessie says to Jake, Jake nods and scoops the naked woman up in his arms
Teague: lucky bastard
Gypsy: eugh men!
And I can't help but laugh at Teague, is there a woman in existence he doesn't fancy? I doubt it.
Teague: you know me bro
"Skar is in charge until Seth gets here, and tell him I don't care how tired he is I don't want anyone patrolling alone until I figure out what's going on, tell your brother to get out of bed and help out, Seth will be back in a couple of hours, did you get all that?" Jake tells Teague in his alpha tone. Teague nodded in response then watched as Jake and Nessie disappear into the forest towards Forks, then Teague howled a wake up call to his brother Jaide.