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Author's note - First off thank you for anyone who has posted a comment. I appreciate the feedback. Also, I made some slight edits to the first chapter, nothing ground breaking, just a couple of tweaks. Thanks!
Chapter 2 - They can what now...
As I kept my gun trained on dog boy Jake, I heard Billy yelling at me. "Charlie you damn fool, put that gun down before you shoot my boy!" Hmmm...what to do, what to do. "Billy, you are like my brother, but until I see Jake in front of me instead of this horse sized dog, then I'm fine where I am at." Billy muttered to himself for a few moments, and stated loudly, "Jake, son, I know you are upset, but save us all some grief, and phase back now." I stood there transfixed as I watch Jake change...shift...morph...what did Billy call it?…oh yeah…phase back into his human, non-dog like form. NAKED! As the day he was born. My dear lord, that is something I sooo did not need to see in my lifetime. I quickly grabbed a blanket from the back of the squad for such said emergencies, although I don't think anyone quite had this type of need in mind. However, now that I think about it, there was that time that the Newton boy and Stanley girl were swimming oh natural down by First Beach, but I transgress, back to Jake. I handed the blanket to Jake, who stood there breathing heavily while Billy was telling him to calm down, and for me to be careful. Not that I didn't want to get some logical answers right away, but I felt the Black's front lawn was probably not the best place to continue this conversation.
We got Jake back in the house, and he flopped down on the couch, after I made him go to his room and throw on some clothes. Billy rolled himself next to Jake and got himself prepared to spill the beans. Taking a moment to look at the sight in front on me, I walked into the kitchen and grabbed the case of beer out of the fridge, that we had intended to drink while watching the game tonight. Opening one for myself, I then proceeded to hand out one to Billy, and after staring at the dead eyes of Jake, handed him one as well. That seemed to snap him out of his pit of despair, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly into the grin I knew oh so well. Billy tipped his can towards me, and we proceeded to kill off the first part of that case in less than 15 minutes. Now that we had the necessary liquid courage in place, we began the deep conversation about what had happened in the front yard shortly before. I sat there mesmerized as both Billy and Jake explain all the horrors and other events that had been happening to the boys and young lady I've known most of their lives on the Rez over the last couple of years. Sam and Leah's breakup, Emily's accidental Bear (now known wolf) injury, something called imprinting, the strange disappearances and rebuffed appearances of the members of the Pack, the mysterious animal attacks, and the latest being Jake's "Motorbike" accident. And now, all of their flimsy excuses and poor explanations of the weird events happening lately began to make sense. I can't say I agreed with the way they handled everything, but the Quileutes have always been secretive. To think that not only Billy, but Harry and Sue and my other friends deceived me, pissed me off royally. I must of ranted at Billy and then at Jake for an hour about how their antics could of hurt others by not being more forthcoming. And while the Quileutes were in the "know" and were safely being guarded, what about the citizens of Forks? They messed with my domain. By choosing to withhold information, and how me being kept out of the loop, they impinged on my ability to properly do my job. My face changed to a more enraged color of red, my choice of vocabulary became a little more explicit, and my tone of voice got a little bit higher. At least they had the good sense to know when not to interrupt, and when to keep quiet.
And as I ranted, I kept trying to figure out how Bella and the Cullens fit into all of this. Billy and Jake had been very forthcoming now with information on the Pack. But still something was missing, it was on the tip of my tongue, but it's like they were waiting for me to guess. I expelled a deeply held breath, and tried to wrap my mind around on what I was missing. Fact one, the legends were true. Fact two, if that was known, then the young men and women members of the tribe were descended from wolves. Fact three, as I just saw Jake turn into a wolf, something had to be the catalyst for the transformation. Fact four, if the enemies of the tribe were the Cold Ones...wait a second...Cold Ones...shaking Edward's cold clammy hand...Alices freezing hugs...that Jasper, never mind, he just freaks me out. But wait, wasn't there some kind of Treaty with the enemy of Cold Ones who weren't like the other Cold Ones that the tribe had known. They fed off of animals or something like that. And Billy and the rest of the tribe refused to ever go to the hospital ever since Dr. Coldones, I mean Cullen. Oh crap, my daughter was dating, no worse than that, marrying a Cold One.
"What the hell Billy! The Cullens are what, the Cold Ones, from your legends! And you what, you kept me in the dark, and let my daughter get involved with one. I thought we were brothers, how, how could you let this happen? How could you let them steal my daughter from me? You know what loosing her the first time did to me, and now your lack of action just might make me loose her again!" Billy lowered his head in shame. My shoulders slumped in defeat, I didn't think I had it in me to look him in the eyes anymore tonight. I got up and began to walk out the door, my head was swimming with all these new facts, and I needed time to process stuff by myself. I was getting close to the cruiser when Jake came running out of the house. Billy was screaming at him to let me be, but apparently Jake was having none of that. Jake ran up to me, and begged me to let him go with me. He said he had some additional information I needed to know about the Cullens before I did anything about it. I looked him in the eyes, and could see his desperation staring back at me. I reluctantly told him to get in. As we pulled away, he told me we needed to get far away from Forks to have the rest on this conversation. I asked him why we needed to do that, and he explained that some of the Cullens had special powers. Well that makes sense. Wait, they can what now...