AUTHORS NOTE:
I realize that the timeline's all over the place. This is basically a mashup of three of the four books in the series, told through the eyes of my oc and based around the wolf pack. If you like Bella or the vampires, I would strongly advise against reading this. I don't. I didn't like any of the vampires but Emmett and Jasper. And I hated Bella. I wanted to have the scene where Bella punched Paul in the story, but I've made slight changes.. Like I've made her a little more 'aware' of the existance of werewolves, so for arguments sake, Jacob told her about his first phase.. But not when he did in the series, for the sake of this story's very screwy timeline.
The pairing is Embry x OC and there might be a Jacob x OC one later, because I hated the way Jacob had to kind of take a backseat to Cullen and it kind of grossed me out when he wound up imprinting Bella's offspring because yeah, I disliked her character that much. I only actually liked the wolves, and I'd have loved to have read more about them, honestly. So, yes, this is a pack centric Embry love story.
You've been warned about all that lies ahead. And I'll warn you guys now, I might deviate/add/take away things that actually happened in the series simply because I've forgotten them over time, or I didn't like them or I have a good idea I want to use instead. I plan to have this span the series from the second book forward too.
No flames please? I'm not really good at this writing thing, this is just an idea I had while watching one of the movies on television the other night.
Oh and I tried my best to write a realistic reaction to finding out that humans aren't the only species in the world. If it's over the top or something, I apologize. I just know if it were me and I saw what she did? I'd have shit a golden brick. Or a shit ton of them, lol.
" It's 7 am, Bella, Christ. Go away." Carlie grumbled as she rolled over in the bed, shoved her head back beneath the pillow for darkness.
Bella pulled the pillow away, of course and Carlie shot up in the bed, swearing angrily. She'd never been an early riser, and to wake her before noon for anything other than food or a good horror movie was a crime punishable by death.
Carlie sat up, rubbing her eyes, feeling around on her nightstand for the black framed glasses she wore as she glared angrily at her older sister. Bella, of course, stood there, arms crossed, solemn look on her face. "You really didn't think you were going to sleep all day, did you?" she asked impatiently as Carlie grumbled and stood, stretched and reached for a pair of pajama shorts to put on with her Halloween t shirt.
"That was kind of the idea, yes. What are you, my mom?" Carlie asked after she got dressed and flopped back down on her unmade and messy bed. Bella grumbled as she began to pick up the slight mess that Carlie somehow managed to make without even having been in the house for more than 12 hours. Carlie snatched the dirty clothes she'd worn the day before and said quietly, "I'm not helpless, damn."
"We have a clothes hamper for a reason, Carlie."
"I realize this, Bella. Why the hell are you up so early anyway?" Carlie asked, not remembering at that particular moment that she'd said she'd go with Bella to La Push later. She grabbed a hair brush and worked on getting her long wavy mess of dyed dark blonde and caramel brown highlighted hair into a messy ponytail or something even remotely close to one and Bella looked at her a moment then said quietly, "Dad got called in on a case or something.. And your snoring made it kinda hard to sleep in. Who's Elvis?"
Carlie rolled her eyes as she shoved her feet into a pair of pull on black boots and then said with a shrug, "Why?"
"You were talking to Elvis in your sleep last night?"
'Elvis, Bella, is the wolf that I snuck off to find. The one from our yard when I got here? Yeah, that sounds perfectly sane. Not crazy at all.' she thought to herself as she shrugged and played it off by remarking "I don't know, man, it was a dream, damn." in a hostile tone.
Bella gave her a dirty look and muttered "No need to be a bitch about it."
"Sorry.. I just.. Sleepy, okay? You know I hate getting up early. Why'd you wake me up?" Carlie asked, looking at her as she waited on an answer.
Bella shrugged and then said "Because you said last night, Carlie, you wanted to go hang out in La Push with me today. I didn't want to leave you here because Charlie specifically said that you're not allowed to be left unsupervised because of the incidents at Renee and Phil's."
"Which incidents? I mean I've done so many things.." Carlie joked sarcastically as she looked at her sister who stared at her intently as if she wanted to say something or ask something even. The moment passed and Bella said stiffly, "Either way, Jacob's waiting on us. And what you see today you cannot tell Charlie about. I'm pretty sure he'd lose it."
"Our dad? Lose it? Nah.. Not with you, Bella. I'm the only one capable of making him crazy. I'm the bad one, remember?" Carlie joked only partially as she grabbed the bottled water from her nightstand, her cell phone and walked towards the door, excited a little bit. She didn't know why she was excited, of course, she just knew she was excited. "So.. Let's go already."
Bella grabbed the keys to the truck and the two girls set off to La Push for the day. On the drive there, Carlie mostly watched the scenery go by on the road, hummed to herself. She hated that Bella had to have absolute silence to drive, it annoyed the living hell out of her. The music and noise was a distraction, and given the tension between the two sisters, it would be a welcome one.. But nooooo.. Bella wanted silence.
Bella sighed and admitted quietly at last, "Jacob kind of doesn't know we're showing up."
Carlie gave her sister a raised brow and asked "Why?"
"Because, okay, he's been avoiding me lately. And I'm gonna confront him about it. I have nobody else right now and I need him to be my friend."
'I need, I have nobody.. Again with the all about Bella show.. Tell me, sis, if you even knew how selfish you sounded right now, would you give a damn? What about what other people need? And maybe he got sick of trying to compete with Edward fucking Cullen.. I mean the guy was rammed up your ass, practically.. And Jacob has always kinda had a thing for you..' Carlie thought to herself as she laughed a little. The laughter earned her a dirty look from Bella who asked "What's so funny?"
"Nothing, Bells, not a damn thing. Just drive, okay?"
Bella watched her sister quietly out of the corner of her eye as she tried to figure out just how and why things were so strained and awful between them, why Carlie seemed to have this hostility towards her lately. Renee said once that all teenagers went through a rebellious and mean phase, but this went above and beyond in Bella's opinion.
Something was really wrong with her normally sweet and laid back baby sister. Then again, Carlie hadn't been sweet and laid back Carlie in at least two or three years now.. And she'd been distancing herself from everyone who cared about her, doing stupid and wild, reckless things..
'I just wish I could figure out what the hell's going on in her head. We used to be closer than this. Now we can't even sit in the same car for more than ten minutes without a big fight or hostile words. I hate it, actually.' Bella thought to herself as she pulled the truck into the main road leading into the small reservation.
Carlie's eyes darted around from place to place. For some reason her heart sped up a little, her stomach felt like she had a hive of bees in it and she was excited, hyper and nervous all at the same time. She puzzled over this as she raked her hand slowly through her hair, worked on keeping a calm and non caring look on her face. She didn't want Bella thinking she was as excited as she was right now.
The truck came to a stop in Jacob's driveway and Bella spotted Paul, Embry and Sam nearby. She grumbled and got out, angry, remembering what Jacob had told her the last actual time she'd seen him. They had to have something to do with Jacob's not coming around.
Embry watched the truck like a hawk. The scent hung heavily in the air and he knew Carlie was with Bella, he'd seen her. Even if he hadn't seen her in the passenger seat just now, he'd have known, the imprint process was a bond almost too strong to comprehend.
And truth be told, he wasn't sure if he'd ever get his head around it happening to him. Paul nudged him and nodded towards the truck as Carlie got out, eyes darting around warily.
Carlie swore as she tried to catch up to her melodramatic idiot of a sister before Bella did something supremely stupid, because she'd caught the gist of what Bella was upset about and now she was figuring out what Bella was going over to the three tall Quileute males to do.
"I swear to fucking Christ, she is the biggest damn drama queen I have ever known. Blaming them for Jacob being done with playing second to some fucking loser douchebag asswipe who left her in the woods to die and abandoning her.." Carlie mumbled only clearly enough for the males to pick up on with their sharpened senses of hearing.
Paul smirked a little as Bella approached and nudging Embry whispered "And she's gonna throw a fit in three.. Two.. One.." as Bella started telling them all off.
"You should leave."
"No, I'm staying. Jacob's afraid of you, all of you. You're all the reason he's not seeing me."
"Bella, get back in the fucking truck, seriously. If your little boyfriend doesn't wanna play house, leave the guy alone, fuck." Carlie said from the background as Bella turned and gave her sister a warning look as she said stiffly, "You don't know what's going on here. You should probably just be quiet."
Carlie waved her hands and then muttered "Okay, but when you step into a man's shoes, sis.. I'm damn sure not fighting any of these Hulk sized bastards to save your whiny overdramatic ass." as she slunk back towards the truck.
"Who's she?"
"Don't change the subject. Just tell me what you all did to make Jacob so afraid?" Bella stated firmly, arms crossed, waiting on an answer she expected soon.
"Us? We didn't do anything, Bella.. Your little leech did it." Paul snapped as Sam gave him a warning glare.
Paul gave him an angry glare in return as Embry watched Carlie walking around the truck. Jared nudged Embry and whispered "Might not wanna stare so much."
Embry growled at him and Sam gave them a look.
Then it happened. Bella swung, her fist connected with Paul's face, and Paul transformed. Carlie froze in place, jaw dropped, hand in her hair.
She'd started walking towards the whole crazy scene, but Embry caught her and shook his head. "You might wanna stay back."
"The fuck? My sister's about to get fucking eaten by that thing! I may not like her, she might make me want to punch her.."
"She's fine. Trust me." Embry said as he pleaded with his eyes for Carlie not to go over there. She bit her lower lip and eyed him suspiciously, while at the same time noticing how his eyes had this sort of golden gleam to them.
Something about his eyes reminded her of the wolf from the night before, Elvis as she called him.. She remembered bits and pieces of a story that she'd heard Jacob's dad Billy tell a time or two when they were all kids and went camping during her and Bella's summer visits.
But they were just fucking stories, she reminded herself impatiently. This is not the same thing.. So what his eyes happen to be brown? That's a coincidence and quite a common one at that.'
Before anything else could be said, Jacob ran out of his house and lunged.. In mid air, he turned into this large wolf and Carlie gaped at it and muttered "What in the hell is going on here?" for a moment before promptly fainting. Embry caught her and thought to himself 'Just great.. Now this was not what I was thinking would happen.. And how in the hell am I going to explain this, huh?' while carrying her towards Emily and Sam's house to lie her down, get her away from all of the impending chaos.
Leave it to Bella to show up and do something like this.
If Carlie freaked out and fainted just seeing what happened just now, he was dreading the conversation they'd have to have about her being his imprint.
Emily stifled a laugh as Embry emerged through the front door of the cabin carrying about a 5'2 girl who wore biker boots, a pair of cutoffs and a plaid shirt that was probably about two sizes too large. "So that's her?" she asked, Embry smiling and nodding.
"She saw Jacob and Paul transform just now, fainted on the spot."
"Poor girl. Taking it she was more than shocked." Emily said as Leah looked at the latest imprintee of the pack. She grumbled to herself and walked out on the porch. Everyone was imprinting but her.. She felt alone. And the fact that Embry's imprint was the leech loving bimbo known as Bella's baby sister, well..
Somehow Leah wasn't too sure this was going to have a happy ending for Embry. Not if the pattern held true and little sister had the same vampire fetish that big sister had.
She'd already almost gotten attacked by a vampire one time, just the night before, being where she had no business being, alone, and at night to boot.
Leah just wasn't sure how this was going to work out.
It went without saying that she'd only seen Carlie a handful of times when they were kids. And she just wasn't sure about her.
Embry nodded his head at the cabin's door and asked Emily, "What's with her?"
"She's starting to f eel left out and lonely. You guys are all imprinting and she hasn't yet. It hurts. Especially when you take into account what happened between the her, Sam and me." Emily said with a sigh and a small shrug of her shoulders.
Carlie sat up and looked around. Her scream filled the air and Embry ran into the room.
"What the fuck? Where the hell am I? What did you do to me?"
"Whoa, calm down."
"Where's my sister?"
"She's fine. Jacob's with her. You saw something just now and you fainted. I caught you and bought you back here. I'm Embry."
"I'm getting the hell out of here. Before that thing eats my sister. Because I am not having my father blame me for his precious Bella's death. Not gonna happen." Carlie said as she headed towards the door. Embry stepped in front of her and said quietly, "You need to sit down. I'll explain everything and then it'll make sense. Bella is fine."
"The fucking hell she is, man? Or did you just miss the part where both Jacob and that other Hulk guy like changed into giant wolves?" Carlie asked, still freaking out. Normally, she didn't freak out easily.. But normally, she didn't see a guy she'd known as a kid turn into a giant wolf either.
Or that other guy.
She'd seen 3 wolves in almost twelve hours. She was starting to really question if this were reality, or it was some crazy drunken dream or something? Was she gonna wake up back in Florida with a bitching hangover and her mom nagging at her again?
Or was this real?
And if it was real, then just what the hell was going on in this town?
Embry sat down next to her, close but not too close. Not nearly as close as he wanted to be, but for now, given her shocked and upset state, it would have to suffice. Sam and the others shuffled in and Paul asked snippily, "She left her sister?"
"Apparently so, wait... She fucking left me here? With you guys?" Carlie said, going from shocked and stunned to angry within a matter of literal seconds. Sam chuckled and then said calmly, "She's talking to Jacob, they are at his father's house. I suppose you deserve an explanation."
"Not interested, really.. I'm just gonna... I'm gonna go now.." Carlie said, uncomfortable, and that was saying it mildly.
If she stayed here any longer, would they try and make a meal out of her? And that guy, Embry.. The way he watched her, the look in those damn seductive eyes of his.. She bit her lower lip and looked around the room, trying to edge towards the door.
When she saw that none of them were going to stop her, she made a break for it, running. She slid into the truck's driver seat and started fumbling around, looking for the keys.
Her sister said quietly, "What you saw, Carlie.. We need to talk.. And you can't tell Charlie any of it."
"Umm no? Look, we're not staying here. I love wolves, Bella.. But I have seen 3 of them in the past almost twelve hours and two of them were fucking human to start with. Look, I just.. This defies reason. This is not fucking reality."
"Carlie, calm down."
"Calm down? You want me to calm down? Why the hell are you not panicking right now? I mean you just saw your best friend or boyfriend or sex slave or whatever.. Either way, Bella, did you not see the guy turn into a giant wolf?" Carlie asked, giving her sister a dirty look.
"Let's go back into Sam's.."
"Let's get the fucking hell out of here."
"You need to hear this, from them. And then we need to talk too." Bella said quietly, keeping a straight face.
Carlie, however, wasn't having it. Her temper was surging and as usual, she was being stubborn.
"Nope, not gonna happen. We're leaving, now. If you're not gonna be smart, I will."
She got out of the truck and started to walk back down the road, towards the highway, her thumb out. Embry saw her from the porch and grumbled to himself then took off running. Did she not realize how dangerous hitchhiking was?
What the hell was she thinking?
He caught up to her and said quietly, "Just come back in.. Please?" as he held her gaze. She looked up at him. Everything in her was screaming at her to run like hell but she nodded and said stiffly, "Fine. But there better be a good fucking explanation.. Or I'm walking back to my fathers."
"There is, okay? You just need to let everyone explain it."
Bella watched Embry leading her little sister back towards Sam's house and muttered quietly "I'll have to remember to ask him how he did that." as she got out and walked back to Jacob's house, knocking.
"I said go away, Bella. I have nothing to say to you. And I need to go over to Sam's. Now."
"No, Jacob, you owe me an explanation."
"You want an explanation.. How about I am sick of the way you obsess over Edward? How about how wrong it is that you'd rather be one of them then have a normal life, huh?"
Bella gaped at her friend and then turned to walk away. She'd never thought Jacob was going to say that to her, ever. She'd never have thought he was a mean person.
She looked at Sam's house, an angry glare on her face.
Now she had noone. Sam Uley had taken the only person she thought she had left since losing Edward.
Inside the Uley house, Carlie sat in the living room looking at everyone around her warily. Sam explained what happened, then explained why they were shifting now and she smirked as she said bitterly, "I fucking knew it. I knew that somehow, Edward fucking Cullen was at the bottom of all of this. And she still wants this bastard why?"
The pack exchanged looks and Carlie said calmly, "So he's a... A Vampire.. Right? And he was dating my sister? Gross." as she shivered. She'd always thought Bella had weird taste in guys but a dead guy? That was just disgusting to her, really.
"Wait.. You don't like the Cullens?" Leah asked, brow raised.
"There are more of those freaky, creepy fuckers?" Carlie asked with wide eyes. She wasn't scared of much but understandably, it had been one hell of an experience for her, these past twelve or so hours had. Everything she thought she knew had been pretty much taken and flipped over.
"Yes, there are." Embry said quietly as Carlie looked at him, bit her lower lip. They held this intense gaze between them for about five minutes and Sam spoke up and then said calmly, "But the Cullens aren't the actual threat. They're bad, but they're not like the red eyed ones."
"They're all fucked up if you ask me." Carlie muttered mostly to herself, Paul smirking and laughing a little as he joked "I kinda actually like this one."
Embry gave a low warning growl and a glare as he shifted a little closer. Carlie stared at him a moment, shook her head and then said numbly, "This is a lot to get my head around.. I mean I thought all that stuff in movies and horror stories was fake.. Awesome but fake." while biting her lower lip. Embry thought to himself 'And if you think that this is a lot to get your head around, Carlie.. You don't have any idea what's left to tell.. How the hell am I going to explain that to you?' nervously as he watched her and the pack kind of watched him.
Bella's throat clearing at the door had Carlie rolling her eyes and then saying aloud "Just go ahead, Bella."
"But you won't have a way to leave."
"Go, damn it. I need to think."
"Fine, alright. I'll be back later."
"Oh joy." Carlie mumbled as Sam asked her pointedly, "So you two don't get along?"
"That's putting it mildly, sir.. And now that I know what that creep Edward is I just.. I'm not too sure I want to be around her alone. It's sick, she wants that.. that thing. He's not even living anymore, it's digusting.. and my parents say I'm the messed up one." Carlie said as Sam watched her carefully, looked at Embry who looked worried. Embry still had to tell her his own little secret. And given how she was taking this, Sam could understand Embry being worried about how she'd take that one.
"Are you good now?" Jared asked as Carlie nodded and said quietly, "I'm good.. I mean this is all weird, but I'll manage. So.. You guys.. Are all of you?"
They shared a look and Embry sighed as he spoke up and said "Yeah. Jacob's the newest member of the pack, actually."
Her eyes shifted to him and she couldn't stop staring, trying to imagine how it had to feel, having to do all this to protect their people, their land, their lives.. He had to be brave to not just end it all or run.. That made her want to get to know him better.
It didn't help that the guy looked like walking sex on two legs or something, either.
She mentally kicked herself. She barely knew this guy.
Jacob spoke up and said "And you're okay with this.. Right?"
"As long as I'm not eaten or attacked, yeah. I mean it's gotta be awkward though, for you guys? All this responsibility?"
Sam shrugged and then said "It's what we have to do to survive."
"I won't tell anyone. But if those fucking creepy Cullens come anywhere near me, I'm burning them all. I cannot believe my so called genius of an older sister was so stupid.. What the hell was she thinking, even?"
"There's no telling." Jacob answered, Carlie laughing a little. She raised a brow as she saw Embry stiffen, glare at Jacob. She made a mental note of the tension between the two guys but didn't say anything about it. It wasn't her business, she barely knew most of the people in the room currently.
She only actually knew Jacob.
But she definitely wanted to get to know Embry.
Her hair brushed his arm and he jumped a little. It felt like someone took a live wire and touched it to his skin when she touched him by accident, he wondered if he'd ever actually get used to it. She gave a shrug and muttered an apology and he said quietly, "Not a big deal."
She bit her lower lip and then stood, stretched.. "So.. What's there to actually do here?"
The pack shared a look and Sam suggested, "Well.. There is this thing we call cliff diving.."
"So let's go do it." Carlie answered boldly, her eyes meeting (and getting lost in, yet again) Embry's.
They set off for the cliffs, the scene of the morning fading into the background. As the day progressed, Carlie had the passing thought that if she were going to 'pick a side', she'd pick the pack hands down.. Screw her sister's obsession with the undead.
These guys had to take a lot of risks to keep people safe. And Carlie admired that about them. Plus, she got along with all of the guys and Emily.. She wasn't sure Leah liked her, but she hoped that maybe they'd become friends eventually too.
She'd rather be friends with the pack than the creepy Cullen family.
And she had this feeling that somewhere along the line this was going to cause an even bigger rift with her sister. But frankly, she wasn't too sure she cared.
She was happy, she felt more at home in La Push. She could be herself here. Maybe this was going to become her favorite place to go while living with her father.
Maybe she'd finally make friends who actually accepted her for the screw up she was.