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Paul's POV:
The guys and I were sitting around watching movies and eating box after box of pizza, we're growing wolves so we're always hungry. Our grocery bills have tripled over the last year since we have so many wolves now in our pack, we're up to 10 wolves now, and for the first time we have one female included in that 10.
The pack consisted of Sam who was our Alpha, we follow his orders no matter what. Then there's me Paul, I'm beta of the pack, which means I'm second in command over everyone else, except Sam of course. Then we have Jared, Embry, Jacob, Quil, Seth, Leah, Collin and Brady who are the youngest and also twins, we have the biggest pack in over a few decades.
It probably doesn't help that we have a huge coven of our mortal enemies living right next door to us causing the gene to activate. Why don't we just kill them? Well the last pack which contained our grandparents made a treaty with the Cullens' who were vegetarian vampires. As long as they never came onto our lands, killed, fed or turned another human, we would allow them to live in peace right next door. If you ask me, I think we should still just kill them. I don't give a shit that they only drink from animals, they still drink blood, and having them here is causing so many of us to phase.
Being a wolf is great most of the time, you get to rip apart a bunch of vamps when they cross into our territory. You also have the great experience of the speed while running in wolf form; it's exhilarating running so fast, tasting that little bit of freedom while in wolf form. The only downfall about becoming a wolf is we're now bound to stay on the reservation. We can never leave this place, it's our duty as protectors of the tribe to make sure our people are taken care of at all times. The guys and Leah all have mixed feelings about this topic, some are kinda pissed that they can't fulfill their dreams of going off to college and getting of the Rez because of their duty now, and others don't mind having the burden of being a protector, they feel honored. Me? I have mixed feelings about it, I'm kinda sore that I don't get to get out of here but then again I like the freedom you get while in wolf form and the big part I love is being able to rip apart and burn the pieces of all those human drinking vamps that are dumb enough to cross onto our lands.
Another thing about being a wolf, which I guess is a nice thing, is imprinting. I haven't imprinted yet, so I guess if I ever did, I may not think it's a great thing, but for right now I'm sure it is. Imprinting is when a wolf finds their other half, their soul mate. When you find your soulmate it's like all the cables that keep you grounded to earth no longer do, it's her that now holds you to this earth. You'd do anything for her, be anything for her, either as a brother, lover or a friend, she's your whole world, you'd die for her.
Not all of us have imprinted yet. Jared imprinted on his high school girlfriend Kim not too long after he first phased, Leah and Quil, the first ever double imprint in the pack, imprinted on each other, Embry imprinted on a girl named Emily who he went to school with, but had never spoken to her prior to the imprinting. Seth, Jake, Collin, Sam, Brady and I haven't imprinted yet. I don't know if I'm happy or sad that I haven't imprinted yet. I don't want to be tied down, but then again I want to experience that unbreakable bond with my soul mate that I witness every day between all the imprinted couples we have.
I was broken out of my thoughts by Seth and Leah's desperate howls, we all jumped up and ran out the door before stripping out of our cutoffs and tying them to our ankles, before phasing one after the other. As soon as we were phased we could hear the frantic thoughts of Leah and Seth standing over a beaten girl's body.
"Give me a report on what's going on" –Sam demanded in his Alpha tone.
"God! Bella!"-Seth whimpered.
"Leah, babe, what's going on?" Quil asked his imprint.
"It's Seth and my cousin from the other tribe. She came running from I'm guessing the other reservation. She's beaten badly." Leah all but sobbed out.
"Someone must be after her" Seth started to growl out. You could tell he was very protective of his cousin.
I got a look at her through Leah and Seth's mind and couldn't help but growl myself at the sight of her beaten body. What the hell? Why am I getting all possessive all of a sudden? I heard another growl and looked over at Sam to notice he was feeling the same way about this Bella girl.
We soon arrived where they were, the sight before me made me stop dead in my tracks. The girl looked up into my eyes and my whole world froze, nothing else mattered in the world except for this fragile beaten girl, I wanted to rip out the throat of the bastard or bastards who beat this beautiful creature before me, I wanted to hold her and take away her pain and promise her that this will never happen to her again. I wanted to encase her in my big arms and never let her go, I wanted to protect her with my life.
I was pulled out of my daze with everyone saying "no fucking way" or "how is that even possible" or "not fair they get the hot babe as their imprint" I didn't know what the hell they were talking about at first.
"Holy shit the both of you just imprinted on my cousin" Leah said stunned. I froze at what she said, and looked to my left at Sam who was frozen like I was. Once again nothing like this has ever happened before, in all the centuries that our ancestors have been phasing, never have two wolves imprinted on the same girl. My Alpha and I have both just imprinted on our pack mates' cousin.
"What the hell happened" Sam demanded right away, coming out of his stupor.
"I'm not sure, like I said she must have ran from Makah reservation, she has two black eyes one looks to be swollen shut, she has bruises all over her face and a split lip. That's all I can say right now till we get her looked at." Seth said with tears in his eyes, Leah was shaking with sobs for her cousin.
"Guys, heads up, I can smell more wolves closing in fast" Jared said. I sniffed the air and sure enough I could smell more wolves coming this way, the same smell that was coming off of my imprint. My wolf growled as I came to the conclusion that these bastards were the ones to do this to my girl.
Everyone read my thoughts and growled menacingly as we all moved around Bella protectively, they weren't getting her back, they would need to come through me if they wanted her. I could tell by the thoughts of my pack mates that they felt the same way. They already felt protective of our new Alpha female and would protect her with their lives. As the new wolves came into view Sam and I phased back to human before changing into our shorts to communicate with them. Thank goodness we couldn't communicate with them through our minds, it's bad enough sharing our thoughts within our pack, I didn't want the same with another fucking pack of mutts.
As soon as they came a few feet away from us the Alpha of the pack phased back to human and dressed into his cutoffs as well.
"What can I do for your pack and yourself" Sam asked in his Alpha tone. I could tell and so could the rest of the pack that he was beyond pissed off right now.
"We've come here for the girl she's my girlfriend. I'm Jessie, Alpha of the Makah pack" This Jessie guy stated arrogantly. Our pack growled when he mentioned he was here to take our Alpha female with him, like we'd let this douche take her with them when we can tell they're the ones that did this. I'm also pretty damn sure they raped her, since she smells like every one of them. It's taking all my self control not to phase and rip these fuckers apart very slowly and painfully till they're begging for death.
"The girl stays with us" Sam said.
"That bitch is not staying here she belongs to me" Jessie growled out. I could feel myself starting to shake, ready to rip him apart for calling my imprint a bitch and saying she belongs to him, bullshit, she's mine. My wolf howled in agreement with me, we'd protect our mate from this soon-to-be dead alpha.
"She's on our lands now which include our protection, her cousins are also a part of my pack which makes her pack too. She won't be going anywhere with you" Sam all but snarled out at Jessie.
"I demand you give me Isabella right now" Jessie commanded in his alpha voice. As soon as the douche bag finished his sentence the pack and I witnessed something we've never seen happen. Sam lost all of his self-control and lunged towards Jessie and punched him right in the face. All you could hear was the satisfactory crunching sound of Sam breaking Jessie's nose from the force of his punch.
"You listen here asshole, you will never touch that girl again. Your days of beating her up are over, she's ours not yours. You ever come near her again I'll kill you. I don't give a fuck if you're Alpha to our sister tribe, she's my imprint and I'll kill any fucker who dares threatens her. Do you understand me you piece of shit?" Sam snarled in his face. I was stunned in my spot and so was the rest of our pack, never have we witnessed Sam lose his cool or cuss that much before.
The jackass at least had the common sense to nod his head like a good little boy, before he tucked his tail in between his legs and phased back running back to wherever the hell he belongs, with his little minions following behind him. As soon as they were gone, Sam took a deep breath before turning around and addressing the pack.
"I want Collin and Brady out on patrol, if you see or smell them howl and we'll take care of them. I don't want any of those fuckers on my lands again. Collin, Brady start patrol, the rest of you follow me as we take her to Sue to get treatment."
We all nodded and Collin and Brady took off for patrol. Sam walked over to Bella and the pack parted for him to enter their protective circle. He leaned down and picked her up bridal style before we took off for Sue's. Along the way she would let out little whimpers of pain and Sam would pull her closer to his chest and purr to comfort her, I thought I'd be jealous but I actually wasn't, I was content for the first time since becoming a wolf.
We soon arrived at Sue's, and Leah and Seth rushed in to get their mom and let her know what was going on. As soon as we were in the house Sue ushered us in to take Bella into the guest room.
"Oh! My poor Bella" Sue said in near tears at the site of her battered niece. Seth came back in the room with Sue's medical bag. She shooed us all out of the bedroom but Sam and I weren't leaving our mate's side until she was better. Leah ended up staying in the room to help assist her mom in looking Bella over. When Sue took off her clothes, it took all of my self-control not to phase right there in the room at the sight before us. Our poor Bella had bruises all over her stomach and several different sized hand prints all around her upper thighs and hips, my earlier suspicion about her being raped was now confirmed. Leah, Sam and I all growled at the sight and from the sounds of our pack mates they knew we discovered something that didn't sit well with us. Sue then turned Bella over to check her back and I hissed out in anger once again at the huge claw scars down her back.
"My god, now I know that accident that creep said was a bear attack was really his wolf attacking her" Leah sobbed out. I could hear the rest of the pack growl at hearing Bella being attacked by Jessie's wolf.
Two hours later Bella was all cleaned up and all of her wounds were treated, turns out she had two black eyes, one eye was swollen shut, a busted lip, sprained ankle and wrist and several bruised ribs. She was now resting comfortably in the guest bedroom since Sue gave her some pain medicine.
We walked out into the living room to let the guys know everything we'd found out. We also wanted a meeting with the elders, so Jake ran to his house to get his dad to call an emergency meeting.
I still couldn't wrap my head around all that has occurred in the last few hours. First, I finally imprint on the same girl my Alpha imprints on as well. Then if that isn't enough we find her in the woods beaten and raped, then we have the bastards who did this to her come to take her back, and the wonderful icing on the cake, the attackers are another wolf pack, just fucking perfect! But one thing is for sure, they will never lay a hand on her perfect body again, I'll kill them before I let that happen, fuck I'll kill any bastard who tries and take her from Sam and I or looks at her funny. She's ours, and I won't let anyone hurt or take that angel away from us.
A/N: So finally chapter 2 is posted. Thanks for all the great responses I've received from chapter 1 I'm glad you guys like this version better than the last, I have to admit I like this version so much better! As always review and let me know how you like it so far!
