A/N: I do not own Twilight but Lucas, Hailey Abigail and Ashley are all mine!
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~Cullen's House~
Edward sat on his front porch trying to avoid the pity glances from everyone in the family. It was bad enough that he could hear their thoughts on the subject, although he was glad that they were trying to limit those thoughts as much as they could. He heard from Carlisle that Sam found Jacob and explained the situation to him. He found out that Jacob was taking the situation in the same fashion he was; acting depressed and moody. Yet no one could blame them, after all they loved Bella completely and unconditionally.
He tensed as he felt three unfamiliar scents reach his nose and immediately stood up with the rest of the family rushing out of the house to stand behind him. Through the trees around the house they watched as a male and three females stepped out. The male looked close to 6ft tall with pale skin and golden eyes that reflected theirs; his hair was black and shaggy. He was built similar to Carlisle and seemed to be in his early 30's. He was wearing a black –shirt with dark blue jeans. The woman standing next to him had short red hair, pale skin and golden eyes like his, and her small stature reminded him of Esme. She was wearing white sundress with a black jacket over it. She looked to be in her late 20's and the family could tell that these two were vampires. The two younger females though couldn't be vampires because their eyes were not gold or red.
The girl next to the woman, who stood at 5'6 and looked to be in her late teens, had black hair with blonde highlights that stopped at her shoulders, her figure was tall and lean reminding him of Leah's figure and her skin was almost the same color as the wolf pack but a shade lighter. Her eyes, unlike the other two, were a chocolate brown and she had a small smirk on her face as if she knew something we didn't. She was wearing black leggings with a pink tunic sweater that stopped mid thighs and black ballet flats. They wondered if she was wearing contacts since she smelled similar to a vampire.
Carlisle stepped forward with a small smile, "Hello my name is Carlisle and this is my family."
"My name is Lucas Taylor; this is my wife Hailey and one of my daughters, Abigail. We recently moved here and thought we would introduce ourselves to you and the local wolf pack," the man now identified as Lucas informed them with a warm smile.
Carlisle frowned asking, "How do you know of the wolf pack?"
"Our daughter has a gift that showed us the wolves along with your family. We knew that if we wanted to live here for the time being then we would have to get permission from both you and the wolves," Hailey stated.
Esme asked from Carlisle's side, "You mentioned another daughter but she is not with you, if it is not rude may we ask where she is?"
Abigail grinned informing them, "Ashley took it upon herself to visit the wolves, in fact if I know her she is currently leading them here as we speak."
Before any more questions could be asked Hailey stepped forward and smiled, "I believe that before we answer any questions we should wait for Ashley to arrive with the wolf pack so that we can answer them all at the same time."
The Cullens nodded their head in understanding and started to relax before they heard the wolves howl in the distance.
~Meanwhile in La Push~
Ashley looked around the reservation and grinned to herself as she smelled the wolves on the beach. She headed that way concealing her scent until she was ready for them to smell her, after all she knew once they did there would be a chase.
'I wonder if I should have some fun with them or lead them directly to the others? Hmmmm choices, choices….well here goes nothing' she thought with a chuckle as she let her scent float on the wind. She grinned to herself when she saw them immediately stop what they were doing and look her way before phasing and heading towards her.
'I suppose that's my cue to run, I hope father won't be to mad if I mess with them a little,' she thought as she took off towards where she sensed her sister and the others.
She started off running fast and slowed down a little as they came closer, smiling inwardly as she felt one lunge for her before she flipped out of the way and sped up again. She heard a few of them howl and slowed down again letting a few catch up before jumping into a tree to avoid them. She jumped from branch to branch before she felt herself cross the border and paused as the wolves stopped on their side staring at her.
She turned and grinned at them before stating, "Well puppies is that all you have? I mean are you so afraid to break the treaty that you will not cross this border and kill me. I should go and have some fun with humans since you won't cross the border, after all…"
She didn't get a chance to finish that sentence since she had to dodge a russet colored wolf that let out a snarl and tried to bite her in half. She let a giggle and took off running once again towards where her family waited knowing the other wolves would follow.
~Cullen's house~
Ashley arrived a few minutes later and ignored the surprised faces of the other vampires and stood next to her sister as the wolves emerged behind her from the trees. All of the Cullens looked over the girl who ignored them and immediately started talking to her sister. She smiled to herself as she watched them from the corner of her eyes stop and looks over her family and then look at the other vampires for an explanation.
The older blonde male from the vampires she didn't know, stepped forward announcing, "Hello please try to refrain from attacking, we were informed that these four would like to ask permission to stay here in forks and knew that they would need to talk to us and yourselves."
The black colored wolf glared at Ashley before nodding his head and turned to the other barking out to the russet colored wolf, the dark gray wolf and sandy color wolf to phase back and followed him back towards the tree while the remaining six wolves stayed in their wolf form. A few minutes later four men emerge from the trees all wearing jean shorts and nothing else. They all were muscular, had some sort of tattoo the she assumed was for their tribe on their right arm and their skin color a dark color that showed their native American heritage. The tallest one, who also looked the oldest stepped forward and directed his question toward Carlisle, "You know these vampires?"
"I do not personally know them, but they have not given us any reason to not trust them at the moment. As I said they only wish to talk with us, I'm sure they will answer any questions you have," Carlisle stated.
Jacob stepped forward and growled out, "Well then who the hell is the chick that led us here?"
Everyone looked toward the two girls who had their backs to everyone and was obviously ignoring everyone but each other as they laughed and gossiped with each other.
Edward watched as the male of the group sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose before he asked, "Ashley please tell me that you did not decide to play with the wolves?"
The girl he identified as Ashley stiffened and turned to face him with her head down in shame as she replied, "Well you see you wanted me get them here and the only way I could think of was to antagonize them enough for them to keep them coming after me. I mean if I ran at full speed I would have lost them so I had to slow down a few times. Plus they didn't want to cross the border so I had to call them puppies and maybe sort of suggest..."
His eyes narrowed as she trailed off wringing her fingers, "Suggest what exactly?"
"That if they didn't follow me that I would go and play with some humans," she said softly as she inched behind her sister.
"Now Lucas calm down, I'm sure she thought it was the only way to get them here and maybe…" the older woman stated and was interrupted as he roared.
"Ashley Ann Taylor, I specifically told you to have them meet us here at the Cullen house. I knew I should have sent your sister, is this why you volunteered to get them?" Lucas demanded as he narrowed his eyes at his daughter.
Everyone watched as she stepped from behind her sister and looked at her father. The Cullens were able to see the side of her face but were still unable to see if her eyes were gold like theirs.
"Technically your exact words were 'to get them to meet here at the Cullen house,' you never specified how I had to get them here. It would have been too boring to just talk them into coming, the chase was much more fun," Ashley stated and she crossed her arms over her chest.
Lucas sighed as Hailey stated, "She is right dear, you should know that you have to specify things with her otherwise she will just find a loophole in your words."
Lucas sighed and turned to the wolves as he grabbed the arm of his daughter and stepped forward, "I apologize for my daughter's behavior; she is the devious one out of the two. Ashley apologize now or I will take away the keys to your Miata."
Ashley gasped before turning to the wolves and quickly said, "I'm so sorry for calling you puppies and antagonizing you."
The tallest nodded his head and then said, "Even though I now understand why you did, I ask that you refrain from doing so in the future. A few of the wolves here in the pack have a temper."
Ashley grinned and held her hand out, "Gotcha, I'm Ashley Taylor. This is my dad Lucas and behind us is my stepmom Hailey and my sister Abigail."
He shook her hand and stated, "My name is Sam and I am the leader of this pack. The ones which phased back with me are Jacob, Paul and Seth. The remaining wolves are Jared, Embry, Quil, Collin, Brady and Leah."
Ashley nodded her head and heard her sister gasp while looking at the one named Jacob. She grinned to herself when she knew what happened and made a promise to herself to tease her later. She turned around to face the other vampires she has yet to meet. They all looked her over and saw that unlike her sister she had dark brown shoulder length hair with bangs that framed her face in layers. She had a figure like Rosalie, stood at 5'6 feet and greenish blue eyes but her skin tone was lighter than her sisters. Her outfit consisted of blue skinny jeans with black knee high suede high heeled boots, a green laced corset top and black leather motorcycle jacket.
Carlisle stepped forward and looked at the family, "I am Carlisle, behind me is my wife Esme and our children, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, Alice and Edward.
Ashley looked at each of them as he introduced them one by one but when he got to the last one she looked him in the eyes and felt the world melt away. She only saw him and knew he felt the same because his eyes widened and he couldn't look anywhere else. However, when she heard her sister giggle she blinked and then looked at her grinning twin before she groaned out loud and covered her face with her hands and muttered to herself, "Damn it all to hell, karma is really coming back to bite me in the ass for flooding that school last year with Abby."
She heard her sister groan and her father growl as she turned and faced him laughing nervously, "I don't suppose you can forget that you heard that could you?"
Before her Dad could yell again her stepmom steeped in, "Now dear that is in the past, I think we should just focus on the now. I'm sure everyone here is very curious about us and we promised to answer their questions."
Ashley was eternally grateful to her stepmom and mouthed a 'thank you' to her as her father nodded and turned to face the wolves, "My wife is right, I think we should get comfortable and answer your questions."
Sam nodded his head and everyone got comfortable as he looked at Carlisle, "I think we should all take turns asking questions."
Carlisle nodded his head and turned to Lucas and his family, "Are you the only four in your family, or can we expect more members?"
"It is just us, and you do not have to worry about us feeding off any humans here since my wife and I are vegetarian vampires like your family" Lucas stated.
Edward who had been staring at Ashley looked towards her father when he heard what he said and asked, "Why did you just mention your wife and yourself, what about your daughters?"
Ashley spoke up then, answering with a grin, "Well my sister and I are half vampire and half something else. We only have to feed once a month and when we do it is from animals."
"Half something else?" Carlisle asked genuinely curious.
Jacob asked at the same time, "What the hell so you mean half vampire," he turned to the Cullens, "can people be half vampires?"
"I have honestly never come across a half vampire before," Carlisle stated as he looked over the girls curiously.
Ashley grinned and stood up posing; "We look awesome right?" she turned around and tugged Abby up, so she could arrange her in a pose ignoring the blush that crossed her cheeks.
Everyone laughed while her father just sighed and stated, "Ashley you're embarrassing your sister."
"Oh she's just being shy since she doesn't know anyone here Dad, trust me once she gets to know them they'll wish she would shut up," Ashley commented with a smile, and yelped when Abby hit her on the arm earning chuckles from everyone. She sat down and waved her hand, "ok on with the questions."
Sam looked at all of them individually as he said, "We would like answers to the questions that where asked earlier if you don't mind."
Abby gripped her sisters arms muttering, "Don't start with your sarcastic remarks Ash or I will demolish Hermes."
Ashley gasped replying, "If you touch Hermes I will destroy your precious laptop."
Lucas sighed and stated, "Enough with your bickering, act your age this instant."
Both girls immediately shut up and nodded their head while their father continued on, "Ashley answer their questions."
Ashley nodded her head informing them, "My sister and I are half vampires and half werewolves. Now this happened when—"
Jacob stood up and growled out, "What the hell do you mean half vampire half werewolf. How the hell did that happen?"
"Well you see when a vampire man really loves a werewolf woman they get together and have sexual intercourse which results in—" Ashley stated but was cut off when her sister put a hand over her mouth, "I think they know how a baby is made Ashley, must you always be a smartass."
Ashley licked her sisters hand grinned as he sister made a disgusted face while she heard snickers, "If I was anything else you would be extremely bored with your life."
Lucas coughed to get everyone's attention, "I can see that you are all extremely confused so allow me to explain. You see I fell in love with a beautiful woman, who I thought was just a normal human at the time, she once told me I didn't smell disgusting like other vampires and she didn't smell like other werewolves to me. It wasn't an easy relationship since she was supposed to be my mortal enemy and her family did not approve but I could not stay away from her and when I found out that she had imprinted on me I understood why I had fallen in love so fast. We eventually married, despite what her family thought, which of course led to the honeymoon. Now I thought that a male vampire couldn't impregnate a woman but that turned out be wrong when she went to her yearly physical after we got back from the honeymoon and found out she was expecting twins. The pregnancy progressed very quickly and we found out early that in order to nourish the twins she had to drink blood. My wife was pregnant for 4 months before she went into labor," he paused as he took a breath and they watched as the girls took each other's hands and bowed their head to hide their faces. Hailey took her husband's hand and squeezed it for comfort as he continued, "I had studied to be her doctor since we could not be sure what kind of children we were having. The girls were born by c-section and they were healthy but unfortunately their mother did not survive the delivery since it was way too much strain on her body."
Esme's eyes filled with venom tears that she couldn't shed and stated softly, "I'm sorry for your loss, it must have been very hard on you and your family."
Ashley looked up then and gave a watery smile, "Thank you, Esme."
Edward spoke up next, wanting to ask the question that had been burning on his mind for the last half hour, "Why do I feel drawn to you Ashley?"
Ashley started to fidget nervously, "The same reason Jacob wants to comfort Abby so badly."
Edward frowned while the wolf pack and her father realized what happened between the four of them.
Jacob clarified, "Ashley imprinted on you Edward and Abby and I imprinted on each other."
Everyone's eyes widened at the information while Abby and Ashley blushed. Edward's mouth fell opened and he gasped as Emmett blurted out, "Holy shit."
A/N:
Lunarfairyprincess1989: *sighs dramatically and plops on the bed* Alice is evil.
MoonPrincess1989: *grins* why do you say that?
Lunarfairyprincess1989: *whines* She dragged me to twenty different stores!
Rosalie walks in with Alice
Alice: *smiles* Oh don't complain, you got lots of outfits.
MoonPrincess1989: *pouts* what about me? Plus none of you told me what you think of this chapter!
Rosalie: You know it's a great chapter, and you also know Alice got you lots of outfits too.
Alice: *grins and runs out the room, only to run back in a minute later with 10 different bags* See I got you lots of things. You will love them.
MoonPrincess1989: *grins* Oh I can try them on now. *looks at Lunarfairyprincess* Could you do the honors?
Lunarfairyprincess1989: *nods and looks at reviewers as Rosalie, Alice and MoonPrincess go through the clothes* Please review and remember no flames!
