Life Choice Remade
Disclaimers: Twilight doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 2: Hearing the Truth of the Bonds of the Bracelet
'Wait a sec, he's not the only wolf doll I have, he can't be, get back upstairs, I need to look again.' I thought to myself and quickly went back up the attic and looked at each box, before seeing a box that said stuffed animals on it and opened it to find eight more stuffed wolves in it, in the colors of my friends and I grinned at that.
"Okay, I saw the guy's bracelets, Paul was Turquoise, Quil had black, Seth and Leah both had sky blue, Jake was burgundy, Sam was red, Jared was navy blue, who are the other three exactly?" I asked softly, before I dug them out and set them side by side, and saw my orange wolf with a bronze neck band, another with gold and the last with chocolate brown. "Okay color comparison now here." I said and pulled my photos out.
"My stuffed wolves have neckbands in the colors of their clan colors here, okay Smokey you're first." I said, looking from the wristbands and looked at his collar and saw a red leather band wrapped around its neck, 'Smokey is Uncle Josh, Stormy is Uncle Elliot, he's turquoise, Tala was burgundy, he's Uncle Billy, Brownie was Daniel, he's in navy blue, Goldie was sky blue that's Harry, Candy was Eric, Little Orangie was Orangie. J.D., Jack, no Jesse, okay, A.D., Adam, J.W., Joe, my wolves are the guys." I said softly and then looked at the initials and smiled.
'Stormy, Tala, Sunny, Brownie, Smokey, Patch, Copper, Candy and Little Orangie, my toy wolves are my brothers and mate, but I have to be sure of that, but how exactly?' I asked myself, before seeing something I hadn't before, and saw two sets of initials on their collars and smiled as I got what they were trying to tell me now with that as I said the words out loud as I read the initials, already knowing each wolf they belonged to.
"Two sets of initials on the neckbands here, B.B. Billy, J.B. Jake, H.C. Harry, S.C., Seth, Q.E.A., Eric, Q.A. Quil, J.U. Josh, S.U., Sam, D.T., Daniel, J.T., Jared, A.D. Adam, C.D. Colin, J.W. Joe White, B.W., Brady, and finally, J.D., Jack, J.D., Jesse. Two sets of initials, my toy wolves are really my mother's pack and my pack in cub form, I've known since I was five years old who the guys were on sight, because I had them as a toy wolf and guarding me every night, without realizing it." I thought and then I smiled as it hit me at what they had chosen to do to help jog my memory here at my darkest hour now.
"They each got me one, so I could sleep with my paternal pack, when I wasn't with them for real, thanks guys, I love you too, I remember everything and I'm hearing everything you want me to remember now, I'm not going through with it, I'll see you soon guys." I said softly. 'Shadow, I found the box of stuffed wolves I've got yours in front of me, your humans did that on purpose in case I couldn't remember didn't you, if you put your initials and color bracelets as a neck band, or collar, on my wolves this entire time?' I asked him and I heard a smile in his voice as he answered me.
"Yeah we did, we got you the other eight when you were five, you had us watching over you, when we weren't around for real, you have two sets for each of us, like you do with Tala, he's Reddy in cub form, the other eight are with your mom, but that's what we wanted you to remember, for the rest of it go see Reddy and Goldie's mate, it's time to come home now Cub, we love you, and we're not giving you up.' Shadow said and I nodded as that cemented my thoughts I was hearing the truth from my paternal friend.
After dialing a number, I got in touch with my godfather. "Hello?" I heard Billy said and I got started. "Billy, it's Bella is it alright if I come to see you, I have a few questions, whatever you wanted me to know just broke through today, and I need to see you, because those memories are coming forward pretty fast now and I need more information now." I asked and heard his tone turn puzzled, but relieved then.
"Yeah honey it's fine, I'm having someone meet up with you at the treaty line." he said and I nodded as I grabbed everything and put it in my truck and drove to his house after reaching the boundary line. 'Whoever he's got meeting up with me probably is one of the adult pack, alright seeing the guys like this is one thing, but seeing my father's friends like this is a bit too much right now, guys don't sneak up on me like that, I'm jumpy enough without this too.' I thought as I drove my truck to where we went cliff diving.
After getting there, I waited a few minutes as I saw two wolves coming out of the trees, one looking like Jared and the other like Colin or Brady. "Guys, Uncle Daniel is that you?" I asked and heard his voice answer me at that. "Yeah honey it's me, don't worry, like your brothers we got the same block out effect to hide your conversation. The three of us are surrounding Billy's house while you're having your conversation with Billy and Sue." he said and I nodded as I drove to the county line and then crossed it.
Just as I parked a second time I heard a gentle growl and looked out my window and jumped in shock as I turned to see a wolf the size of a grizzly bear with orange fur standing there next to me, with a gentle look in his eyes then as he looked through the window of my side of the truck then at me. "Honey it's alright it's me." I heard him say and I realized who it was. "Elder Denali?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah baby it's me, sorry for scaring you, but this is just to get you to the reservation undetected."
"Get the trunk latch open, I'm blocking your signature till we get to Billy's house." he said and I nodded as I got out and popped the back of the truck and he hopped into it and I went on. "I take it Jake told you that?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah he did, with multiple adult wolves, once you cross, Edward's not able to pick her mind for information, and he does cross and he's getting executed by Joe, Adam and Elliot."
"We've got thirty years combat experience though we've been retired for nine." he said and I nodded. "So you're what the guys will grow into as we get older, I'm adding that to the letter I'm sending the past you, so you can reactivate and I see you like this, before the arrival of the cold one scenario and third wife scenario gets started." I told him and he chuckled as he answered me. "How many of the histories did he tell you, if you're that interested, because these histories were meant to teach you, when you got started as a pack?" he asked me and I explained that to him as I sat on the edge of my truck bed.
"He told me about Ephraim and the treaty and you did the others when he brought me along for the bonfire story time, after you and Carlisle renegotiated the lines when you started your partnership last spring, I'm thankful I had both of you, but his crazy jealousy was aggravating me to no end, and I've made my choice here."
"How does your, or I should say our, gene do that exactly, Jake never explained it to me?" I asked and he explained it as he adjusted himself in the cargo portion of my truck till he sat himself down. "Like he said our gene activates when we're in our mid teens, but the added side effects are some of what he told you, but the biology lesson is bigger than that, because it explains the enhanced senses you saw in the kids back then."
"Wolves have twenty four pairs of chromosome, we heal faster, are stronger and faster than normal humans, for the leaches who have super powers it enables us to block out the ones who see the future, because we're half human now, instead of regular humans." he said and I sat down next to him. "You guys were more than I thought to me aren't you, my memory is coming back now, but I forgot what you looked like till now when I saw you and the duo." I said and he nodded as he answered me.
"Your mother knew, because we're her pack, this was your destiny honey, every wolf pack had a human leader to it, your mother was ours, yours is the kids, I'm glad your memories are coming back, we missed you a lot." he said and I smiled. "So by blood my place is with the pack, and everything he hid from me is about to be exposed now, and whatever you have to tell me I'm taking and then killing him myself."
"When did the six of you reactivate exactly, Harry's gone, Josh is out of town and Eric took off when I was twelve?" I asked and he explained that. "We did it when we were getting ready to tell your father the truth now, he's seen the guys and me like this already and he's fine with it now. In fact he couldn't care any more than you do, just relax." he said and I nodded to that as he leaned forward and nudged my shoulder.
At that I knew he was asking for a hug and I wrapped my arms around his neck, feeling his fur brush my neck like this stirred up another memory of when I was a toddler and I did it with Billy and gently scratched his head above the ears and he started purring and I hid a chuckle. "Okay, that I remember, Billy hugging me like this, I still have that photo, alright I'm sure you all look like you do, if your colors were a match to my pack."
"So dad knows half of it, but when he hears the whole story he's going to kill him, because what I have to tell you guys you're not going to like whatsoever right now, and three of you are cops, so with that get ready for the near altercation."
"I take it he's faking the responses in front of Edward though, before letting him know he's screwed himself for life, I've made my choice now and I choose you guys, whatever you have to tell me is the final nail in the coffin where Edward is concerned, I'm not ready to get married yet, I'm also not ready to give up my humanity and I'm staying human when I hear it, because the link just completely activated now, when I spoke to Shadow." I said and I heard his voice turned shocked at that.
'Josh has gone active again, when is he coming home?' he asked and I explained that him. "In a month actually so that makes seven, but whatever this is going to bring up, your memories are going to get a serious jolt from it here, because I'm getting mental messages and phone calls from your wolves right now, and I want to know why that is."
"The other thing I want to know is why did my ability choose now to go active?"I said and he explained that. "You've been around us when we're wolves the last seven months, but takes a while to reboot itself, with the fact your memories are coming forward, it snapped itself back into place and reactivated now." he said and I nodded.
"Yeah well I wound up with a field test when Sam heard my thoughts when I thought about fixing our bond, whatever it might be." I said and he nodded. "He's your current alpha right now, the connection in a field test goes to five hundred miles, if Jake is still in range he'll hear you no matter what, Quil hears this and calls him back up here." he said and I nodded as I closed the truck latch, got into the truck a second time and drove us to the Black homestead and found him and Sue there waiting for me.
"Hey sweetie, what is it, what's going on?" he asked as he and Sue got a look at me and her eyes narrowed in concern then. "Jeez, what happened now?" Sue asked me quickly and I sat down on the couch, before he looked at the trio. "Adam, Daniel, surround the house, and Jack when I tell you too call the seven and get them up here okay." he said and they nodded as he wheeled himself in front of the couch as I went into it then.
"Alright what happened if you decided to call me?" he asked and explained that. "Whatever blocked memories of you I had before the separation, it just broke down the barrier of my memories from the previous twelve years, and I'm now hearing their voices in my head now, I've also spoken to your, Jack and Josh's wolves, and I think I just spoke to Harry's spirit as well, before I spoke to the trio and then heard from Sam right after that, while speaking to Paul, Jared and Embry during the conference call, while looking over this stuff, but that brings it to the questions I wanted to ask you."
"Billy, I have a question, do I have any family that were members of the tribe, before they were exiled or anything?" I asked him and I heard the shock as he answered me. "Yes, your grandmother married a pale face when she was twenty." he said and I nodded. "So I'm one of you through my parents, is that why you were trying to deter me from the Cullens?" I asked him and he gently answered me. "Yes, your chosen soul mate is my son, I knew this was going to happen eventually, but why do you need the details?" he asked and I thought over how to explain this.
"Do you believe in getting messages from the future?" I asked and he explained that. "If you're getting messages from the future than our spirits are pointing out your true path honey, you are meant to return to the tribe now, in fact you were supposed to rejoin last winter, right after you came home again." he said and I nodded as I answered him."Who am I related to, if I'm a member of the tribe?" I asked and he said three names I never expected to hear at all as Josh's statement suddenly became clear to me then.
"Your cousins are Sam Uley, Jared Trueheart and Embry Call, your great grandmother had two sisters and one of them married Levi and he's their grandfather, the other married David Trueheart, and he's Jared's great grandfather, your mother is half Quileute, as are you, it's time to come home." he said and I felt my pain shoot through me, my cousin was the man I ridiculed ever since I learned my Jacob was a werewolf. "What were their family colors exactly?" I asked and he explained it.
"Sam's family color was red, Jared was blue and you being the only girl in the three had your maiden color of green, your maternal side was green, but this was to show who your family is, as I said they and Embry are your cousins, their mothers and yours were close, they were your mothers cousins, through blood, though your parents were only children, the girls had sisters, but your mother was part of the tribe on your side of the line, which explains the miniature bracelet you had tied around your wrist as a baby." he said and I nodded.
"How old are the guys exactly, if they were acting like my big brothers?" I asked and he shifted slightly. "Sam is the oldest of the three of you, and Jared's birthday was in February, you're the youngest of the three of you, though you and Jared are the same age, though cousins, they love you like you're their real sister, Jared was practically your twin brother during the early years honey." he said and I nodded as I went to the next. "What was your color if it had been knotted into my bracelet exactly, because the memories faded since the separation?" I asked him and he explained it to me.
"My family was burgundy, because of our fur color when we phase, while the Clearwaters were a light, near sky, blue for their name. Altogether they were mixed in with your color and the boys to indicate we are your family honey, Sue and I were your adoptive relatives, had something happened to your parents, we were your guardians, while Josh and Daniel are your uncles by blood, because your aunts were your mother's cousins."
"The trio are your cousins and their fathers are your uncles, those photos of you with their parents are because their your blood relatives, Sam, Embry and Jared are your cousins." he said and I felt my heart give a painful throb at that as I asked the next one, feeling like every word was a knife through my heart or the nails of those leaches, what Cullen had done to me was unforgivable and I was going to kill him for this.
"What does it mean if the cords were intertwined with each other?" I asked and his tone shifted as he answered me. "Within the tribe it means, if you're a woman, you're mated to that hunter, and the betrothal contracts activate completely when the boys are at the age for phasing, Jake had his intertwined with yours, because you were his betrothed, and the other colors meant family, though the women kept their family color it was intertwined with whoever they're mated to." he said and I nodded as I thought over my photos and why I was always with the guys growing up.
"Who were part of our family gang exactly, because I saw the photos of me, Leah, the guys and the twins together?" I asked and his tone turned paternal. "It was your family, mine, Jared's, Sam's and the Clearwaters, we raised you kids together, and we had you every summer, but the memories faded, since you were gone for a few years." he said, his tone filled with pain, and I knew he loved me like a daughter as I asked the next one.
"Why'd mom leave, why did she take me with her when I was supposed to be raised with the rest of the tribe and pack?" I asked him and he sighed as he answered me. "There were two portions of your back history she didn't want to live up to any more one being your omega position, one is you're the future female leader of the tribe, like your Aunt Sarah was, and the second is your position within the young pack, you were born to be the female leader of the pack honey." he said and I nodded as I asked the question I had to know of the first three months before the accident landed me in the cast.
"Would you have come after me to tell me the truth, if I hadn't chosen the course of action that landed me in that cast last year?" I asked him. "Yes, the boys, once they heard the truth, would do anything to protect you, they forgot, because it had been several years, but had they'd known they would do anything to protect you, as I said Sam considers you his baby sister and Jared is your surrogate twin brother honey."
"The memories faded over time, but if they know the truth now they're going to kill Cullen for what he did to you, and with that so will Jake, the boys see you as a sister, but that's the reason Jake took off, he's trying to run from his pain, we can't change what happened in this time line, but we can if you go back and change things, The boys get the whole truth from a letter, like the one you got and they'll kill Cullen for this."
"Especially Sam, he didn't need to say it out loud, but I knew he thought of you as a baby sister, if we change the past, you get to get know your cousins, the pack and the tribe for real as a true member of the tribe. Sweetheart, the reason I was so wary is because I was waiting for you to come home." he said and I nodded. "You're my father-in-law?" I asked him and his tone shifted to that of a father as he answered.
"I am, the other reason you were always around me and Harry, as well as Daniel, Josh and Elliot, is because I'm your godfather and they're your parental pack, we helped your father raise you every summer when you came to visit, as I said we were your adoptive relatives, letting you go now is not easy." he said and I sat down at those words as I tried to hold it in, I now had every bit of truth, they were my family, I was born Quileute, I couldn't leave them. 'No I can't do this, I can't leave them or dad, how do I get him back, I want my uncle back.' I thought, crying inwardly, as I asked the next question.
"You're my godfather, why can't I remember that?" I asked and his voice went soft and paternal as he answered me and I knew he could hear the silent crying as his tone went fatherly then as he took my hand. "Your memories started fading by the time you were eleven honey, you don't remember because whatever Cullen did started blocking those memories, but those feelings of parental love when you were with me started breaking through when they left, because being around us was bringing your memories back." he said and I nodded as I asked the next question, knowing this would confirm what I thought as I looked at the picture I had taken off the wall of me and the adult red wolf.
"Baby I'm your godmother as well." she said and I felt my heart snap at that, both of my godparents were here, as was my father, my mother was an omega and I was getting information Edward was keeping from me and his family as I answered them as I hold it in. "He read your mind the day before I went to see the others and he saw everything, is that what happened with the standoff in the cars?" I asked and he nodded gently.
"Yeah, he was meant to re-introduce you back into our world when you came home honey, had we gotten to you first, you would have been with us all the time, and we would have our family pack back in one piece finally." Sue said and I nodded as I held up my wolf as I looked at him. "Is that what was my wolf was, you guys, he's Jake and you in wolf form?" I asked and they nodded as I went into it.
"I saw several pictures of me with a quintet of wolves and they all looked like Jake, Sam Jared, Paul and Seth, why do I feel like I know exactly who they are, if I see those looks in your eyes every time I saw you the last six months, I was able to get a look at Jake's eyes when he chased off the Jamaican leach that day, and I knew something was up, because I felt like I was seeing another version of you when I was little here."
"And it felt like it was normal, I also saw a paternal look in the eyes of those wolves and they have the same looks in the eyes of the duo, and they both look like a forty six year old version of Sam and Jared, though I can't remember who the black wolf was, or didn't till I got in touch with Uncle Josh earlier or why I felt that with him or the brown one, are they you guys?" I asked and his voice turned paternal as he answered me.
"Yes, do you remember your feelings of feeling like being around me and Harry was familiar and normal when it came to being around the boys when they were phased, baby?" he asked and I gave a nod. "Yeah I do, but most of the memories faded, why is it that I felt that when I was with you and him, let alone being to relax that quickly once I saw Jake and Paul phase in front of me, because it doesn't matter to me what you guys are?" I asked and his next statement caused a jolt of shock to go through me.
"Though it had been twelve years, the feelings of safety and normalcy were because we were the ones you saw first from an early age, those pictures of you with us we're because you were around us like that all the time, your memories of that faded, because you got older, but your brothers and sister were younger versions of us when phased, we're retired due to our health problems or just emotional pain, but we were the ones you saw first, because you knew us on sight, you knew instinctively that it was safe and we'd never hurt you, as wolves we would never hurt anyone or do anything to hurt our cubs, be it real or adoptive, he saw that the minute you remembered this it was over with in his case."
"Because we were the grizzly sized wolves you were with on our camping trips honey, I'm the adult version of Jake and Harry was the adult version of Seth in wolf form, your uncles are the exact same way as well, I'm the red wolf, Josh was the black, Daniel the brown and Harry was the sandy brown furred colored wolf, we also look like the adult versions of the boys when they're phased. That photo of them on both sides of you, your mother and Charlie, in both forms, were because they were your uncles honey, your aunts were the connection, by blood, while Harry is by adoption and I'm your godfather." he said and I nodded quickly as I went to the next one.
"Who was in your pack, if mom was acting as the omega, because I have that photo in my pile?" I asked and he explained it to me. "You've got eight out of nine in the young pack right now, but it was me, Harry, Daniel, Josh, Eric, Elliot, Joe, Adam and Jack, but my pack had nine in it including me, while your mother was my omega, if we'd had the chance we would have told you before this started getting out of control, and your mother met Carlisle the day you woke up finally after the accident at the ballet studio." he said gently and I nodded as she shifted it to what happened the year before.
"What happened to cause that exactly?" she asked and I explained it to them. "I was with them at the field the newborn battle was in, watching them play baseball when the red eyes showed up, and the leader caught my scent and turned it into a game of cat and mouse, to protect dad, I decided to get out of town till they took him out."
"But the leader lured me into an ambush using mom as the bait while she was still out of town, he was the one to break my leg, and he nearly turned me into one through the scar, but Edward got the venom out, though the glass that I landed on severed a vein, on top of the broken leg and the blow to the head, but that explains the subterfuge." I told her. "Is there a reason he's been hiding this from me all this time and how are you able to know what's going on Aunt Sue?" I asked and she explained it to me.
"Aside from being a nurse, the imprint insures I know everything that's going on, I've known since your uncles and I were your age they were werewolves, like Emily I was a Makah, till I came to visit and he imprinted on me when they were barely two years old wolf wise, Emily's my sister's daughter, which explains that problem, that's happened three times in the last thirty years as well, Josh had the same lapse as Sam did."
"Embry is his son, it's the same reaction as Sam too, imprinted, had to choose and it breaks three hearts at once. Unfortunately you're dealing with it yourself here, but with the fact you made your choice, the tug a war is over and the game is up, and here's why, because your mother was furious when she found out what happened to put you in the hospital at the time, because she still takes our tribe by-laws seriously right now."
"But though your family was on the other side of the line, you were one of the tribe, because you had your own version of our clan bracelets, and your father did a blood brothers ritual with the quartet when they were twelve to ensure he was part of the tribe though he was a pale face, but your mother was half Quileute, as are you, it's in your blood, you were meant to return to the tribe now honey."
"To answer the second question, he's been keeping you under watch to make sure you can't get the truth, because the minute you do that is it and he's toast when the others hear this, because the truth is he's been hiding the fact that you're engaged to Jake, Billy and I are your godparents and you're related to the Uleys and the Truehearts through your great grandmother and great aunts and when Carlisle hears this he's going to be furious, especially when I give him the diagnosis of what their leaving did to you." she said and I nodded as I looked at him so I could figure out how my gift worked then.
"Gerandy said I was nearly catatonic, you got the record, because I'm showing it to Carlisle, after this?" I asked and she nodded and gave it to me as I answered her, feeling my anger growing by the minute as I looked at her and Billy. "He's been hiding this fact from his family for a year, and nearly gets me killed, by turning me into a magnet for these parasites and the ending results of his killing James is he triggers an eye for an eye incident, and it kills forty people, including Harry, and I've got an axe on my head due to his not just getting out of my life and staying out of it."
"Jake said if he'd just waited six more months to come back, I'd be fully healed and our imprint would be in place, but the damn bastard, after using whatever drug he had, kept me focused on him, I choose the one day that triggers total chain reaction and results in Edward turning into a complete maniac out of jealousy, because my heart was telling me I belong to Jake and he drives a wedge into our bond the last six months."
"Alright so he mind raped you when he locked gazes with you that day before I met the sextet, and for whatever reason I can't figure out how he isn't able to hear mine and neither can the Volturi point guard and with that, he was keeping me with him and his family till I resorted to split second decisions just to see you. Alice didn't get sent out here, she came to check on me and dad, but she couldn't see the guys, because you are shape-shifters and the gene keeps her from seeing you and me when I'm with you, which explains that sudden appearance right after Harry died."
"Alright, he had her watching my decisions, and keeping me dosed with whatever weapon they had on them for six months and it takes four to wear off, dad uses mom to snap me out of it, and I spend three months with you and you're healing the damage, till Jake phased and then he and the pack kill the Jamaican parasite, before the heart attack and that causes the next axe to fall, and I get blackmailed into marrying him and becoming one and continues the issue of his keeping me from you till the newborns come up, and I sneak out twice and he continues with the crazy jealous crap."
"Alright, that is it, he lied to me four times in fifteen months, one promising to stay, secondly he was keeping this from me, Paul and Emmett and why he had to get me out of town at the time, and then he practically tears Jake's heart out by bringing up the wedding when he's barely out of earshot, the wedding is off, I'm not leaving you or dad, I'm breaking up with him, I'm staying human." I told him and he sighed in relief at that.
"We didn't want to let you go, your father was furious enough at the damage Cullen did to you, but losing you immortality would have killed him, your position is going to keep you like you are now, anyway, the imprint keeps the imprints at the same age, though you grow in age you stay like you are, physically, like it does with the wolves." he said and I nodded as I got ready to ask the next one.
"Was that what you were going to tell me that day, every time we saw each other, you were looking at me with a more than protective look on your face." I asked and he nodded. "As to the reason for that, I was really trying to tell you, I was the adult red wolf, you had me as a toy wolf that entire time. And it wasn't just me, but the eight as well, we are your toy wolves, after I bought you the first one, the guys decided on the same thing." he said and I nodded.
"What memories you wanted me to remember, just broke down the front door a bit ago, its all back, everything you wanted me to remember is back on full force now. Josh, Elliot, Harry, Daniel, you five were my dad's sextet. So if I'm reading this right, all of you were color coded to the guys and instead of one minor eyeful after the idiot took off me, while didn't you just bring me to the reservation, and I could connect to you if that's why I shut down like that?" I asked and he sighed. "Because none of the kids remembered who you were to them, and you never remembered who you were to us, till now."
"If Sam is the first to figure it out, the memories just broke down the front door, but he, Jared, Seth, Leah and Paul, let alone Embry, figure it out and they're going to kill Cullen themselves for this. Though I told Jake, here's the thing you're his imprint, at this rate, if you hadn't chosen now to break off the wedding and you got pregnant, the treaty is void." he said and I nodded to that. "I've got to find some way to send this information back to yourselves if I'm doing everything all over again and if I am I'm seeing you guys first and life is getting put in a new direction." I said and sighed as I finished that remark.
"No biting a human, no using their hunting weapons on humans and no coming on to Quileute land, so I just dodged a bullet by having that mental conference call with Uncle Josh and the guys, let alone their wolves, before I drove up here. Alright screw it, I'm taking that jump back to the past and we're seeing each other first, before the bastard exposes me to the dangerous side of our world. Alright you said I was born into this world, I must have seen you at an early age if seeing the duo phase in front of me was becoming normal at the time." I said and he nodded as he smiled then.
"You did see us like that, in fact you saw us like that all the time, the guys and I were the oversized wolves running around the front yard and our campsite and to you this became normal. You were born into this world and this is normal to you, because you saw it in action from your babyhood. The boys and Leah were the first of your pack that you saw, but the quartet were your childhood pack. After the kids were five to seven years old, we retired when you were twelve and the kids were ten and we were hoping you weren't going to activate but the Cullens returning tripped off a landmine." he said and I nodded.
Before I could ask the next question though, I heard the seven walk into the room, along with Colin and Brady and they froze in shock. "Bella, it worked?" Sam asked and I nodded as I stood up and moved over to him as I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and he tightened his arms around me. "Yeah I just got the truth, but you're going to kill him when you hear this, I'm not giving you up, its over in his case." I said and he nodded in relief at that as Seth interrupted our conversation as he looked at me. "We pulled it off?" Jared asked and I nodded and they grinned and pulled me into a hug.
"Here's the news none of you could remember though guys, and Paul you better come here, you need to know this." I said and he moved next to the four of us. "I knew there was a reason for why we connected after I cooled off that day, but if this has to do with why we wind up with hearing the truth from you about who we are to each other and Cullen is a dead man for it. Because our connection feels more like its more than friends, it feels like you're my adoptive sister." he sad and they all nodded in agreement to that as I answered him with the next remark
"Good to have you back brothers, sister." I said looking at them, Paul and Leah and they looked me in shock at the address. "Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, no it can't be, the memory is coming back, Bella that really you?" Leah asked me quickly and I nodded. "Yeah its me Le' what memories we had of each other faded till now and if your remembering us using that address for each other, its because to four of you and I were the start of our pack. Our toddlerhood. " I said and they nodded in shocked relief and happiness at the news then.
"Swans, Clearwaters, Blacks, Uleys, Truehearts and Lehotes, we're the toddler pack of our paternal pack guys." I said and they nodded as Rachel pulled me into a hug. "Welcome home Bells." she said and I smiled at her. "The wedding is off and I'm engaged to Jake, but first I've got to get to the you of the past and rearrange things so I see the ten of you first, before I see the Cullens, but he's getting executed this time when I get through with him." I told her and she nodded. "Yeah well after hearing from Jake that our fathers are werewolves that's one thing, but seeing them like that when the memory faded is another thing altogether." Jared said and she nodded to that as Seth changed the subject then.
"Bella what are you doing here?" Seth asked me gently and gave me a hug and I tightened my arms around him as he did it. "I came to see you guys actually, the wedding is off, I'm breaking up with him, I'm staying human, I'm not leaving you guys." I told him and they sighed in relief at that as they hugged me as well. "You're not going through with it, what caused that decision in the first place?" Sam asked and I sighed.
"I've had an axe on my head for the last six months since the funeral Sam, the truth is that whatever he used on me was keeping my mind on him, but my time here was draining it while I was with Jake and the six of you and things were easing up, before the incident in the woods and that bring it to the alliance, because the red head Seth helped take out is the reason for the massacre and murder of thirty five lives."
"Cullen decided, after the bout of cliff diving the day Alice came to check, that he wouldn't live if I was gone and went to Italy to try and kill himself, and I had to deal with it, but the truth is I've been blackmailed into becoming one, because one of their rules is no human can know the truth, with the leadership it was death or becoming one, and then Cullen proposed, and I was putting it off for months, because it was really a decision between you and them, and they forced my hand with the multiple murders."
"The trio we killed were the blonde who put me in the hospital, which explains the broken leg, and Cullen killed that one and got the venom out, the Jamaican leach you killed the day I saw you in your wolf forms, he was about to attack me, and by that I mean violate, before the kill, if you hadn't chosen that moment to show yourselves to him and the red head, but they're the ones I was being terrorized by."
"The memory you saw in his head explains my reaction when he told me the duo were hunting in the woods before I met you and the guys for real finally, and for whatever reason I'm a magnet for those parasites, and I'm not exactly sure why, but it has to do with my connection to you, the pack and the tribe." I said and his eyes narrowed in anger as he pulled me into a protective hug then as Seth said it for him.
"Violate, he would have attacked you if the quintet hadn't shown up in time?" he repeated and I nodded. "Jake looked at me before going after him, but it was enough that I tried to fit the pieces together, before I came to see you the week after, the reaction you saw in his eyes and his memory was because the red head planned to do a lot of damage before she killed me." I said and he nodded with a furious look at that one.
"We were listening to your entire conversation that day, we weren't sure if he was a friend or enemy to you." Sam said and I nodded. "When he was up in Denali, he took on the prohibition rules they live by, but when I saw his eyes, I knew he was cheating on their diet and decided to find out what was going on and what he was doing here, and found out that the redhead and decided it was an eye for an eye now and was determined to get rid of me, he was about to attack when you showed yourselves to him." I said and he nodded with a furious look at that as Leah answered me at that.
"What caused this exactly, I caught the tail end of it after we phased, but I don't know all the details?" she asked and I waved her to sit down. "The red head was the mate of the one who put me in the hospital last winter, her mate turned it into a sadistic game of cat and mouse, and used mom as the bait to get to me, and I was nearly killed that day, which explains the broken leg, this scar on my wrist and the scars, in my leg and the back of my head from the glass, and why I looked like I got into a car accident."
"As to why your father's were pissed I was bit in the middle of the attack, which explains your parents reaction, right before I moved back for good, and Cullen triggered an eye for an eye incident, it's the stereotypical homicidal maniac, we take her mate from her and she's going to see it an eye for eye by destroying multiple lives in the process."
"Which resulted in two more near attacks, after Cullen left and took the family with him, your parents took over my protection and I spend three months here on the reservation after they took out the Jamaican leach that you saw in Sam's memory, the red head Seth helped kill was a lunatic and decided on retribution by killing me, truthfully I decided to be changed to keep the leadership away from the peninsula and our territories and the only way to do that was by accepting Cullen's proposal, before I got changed, I never wanted to hurt you guys, but I was trying to protect you." I said and she nodded.
"You weren't messing with him, you were trying to protect us by getting turned to keep them away from Olympia?" she repeated and I nodded. "Cullen triggered a chain reaction by falling in love with me, and the six who arrived after you got Jake back to the house were the leadership point guard, had Cullen not done that, I would have just thrown him out of my life so I could be with Jake and you guys, and move on, I was on the edge of choosing him, before that trip to Volterra last spring at the time."
"By getting involved with me he essentially put me at risk out of killing the leader I told you about, and the entire county at risk by causing her to go on a killing spree, Leah I love Jake, but they trapped me by using my bonds of friendship and love for you guys and I wasn't losing you and decided on immortality to protect you guys." I said and she nodded as Paul asked the next question, his eyes gentle but furious then.
Before he could say anything though I told her the truth then as I looked at her and Seth. "Leah your mother is my guardian, she's my godmother and Billy is my godfather, your father was my uncle, I just learned this and this is part of what he's been keeping from me, and the rest is coming up in this, buts that reason I came here, to get the truth of what he's been hiding from me and why Jake kept coming to see me and bring me back here." I said and she nodded angrily as her eyes flared up protectively.
"The bastard blocked out your memory that I was your sister and we and Seth are family, and you're one of us, you got the bracelet, I need to see it." she said and I passed it to her. "Guys she's not kidding here, mine is next to hers and Jake's, but I don't recognize the other two, who's who exactly, because our colors are mixed in with red and a dark blue?" she asked and Sam stood up in shock at that as he answered her.
"I'm red and Jared is blue, but how could we be on your bracelet?" he asked, and Billy answered that question. "It's because your parents are her aunts and uncles boys, I think it's time you heard everything, because the separation shut down your memories of each other." he said as Paul got a better look at me and his eyes narrowed in anger. "Aw crap, you just learn this now and you look like you hadn't slept in months here."
"What happened now if you look like you got your heart ripped out, because, wait a minute, you mentioned the funeral, and said you were.., it finally gave out, you were holding in a lot of anger of what happened the last fifteen months and nearly losing us and losing Harry and it came out now, is that what caused this and why you came to see us?" Paul asked and I nodded as I quickly dropped the bomb, before I could though, Jared's eyes landed on the photos and then saw the photo of the seventeen of us.
"Aside from that, whatever he was intending before just got shutdown for good, my memory is back now, because I found a photo of my mother with the adult pack when they're phased, with a smile on her face, meaning she already knows knows what you guys are, and just before I found it, I got this one out of no where." I told them and passed Jared the picture and he looked at it, before looking at me, Leah and the guys.
"What is that, oh my god, guys, this is us and her, and she looks like she's around twenty five to thirty, while the bear sized wolves could be our fathers, reactivated, good grief Sam, Seth, Paul check it out five of them of them look like us and Jake." he said and they looked at it, before turning to me. "Billy would the colors be genetic on top of what type of soul you have?" Sam asked and he nodded. "Yes, it's hereditary son, your colors were passed from father to son for the last four generation." he said and they nodded as Seth said it for the seven of them with a bemused look.
"So the sandy brown is my father, Uncle Daniel is the brown furred one, Uncle Elliot is the Silver and white, Uncle Josh is the black furred one, reddish brown.., hold up, Billy you're one of the wolves in this picture." he said and he took it. "Yeah that's me alright, evidently the future you fixed my spine to get me back on active duty again here." he said and I nodded. "I take it my ability results in healing your injuries when you're hurt." I asked and he nodded as Seth went to the next question then as he hid a smile.
"Alright, next question is why there are only the fifteen and where's Colin and Brady, if the adult duo look like them?" Seth asked and I answered that one. "It gets better guys, check this out, I drew this when we were five, Jared, Paul." I said and showed it to them and Sam looked over my shoulder at it. "I recognize the first six, J.D. Jack Denali, A.D., J.W., oh my god, Brady Colin, check this out, these are your fathers when they were activated then." he said and they looked at it in amazement.
"That's the other reason I came up here, Seth do you ever get a good look at the photos on the wall at your house and wonder why I'd been in them?" I asked and he shook his head and Leah's eyes narrowed at that. "Our parents have been friends for years, but what are we to each other if there is one of you and me together with the twins, let alone you holding Seth when he was a year old or even the three of us together?" she asked and Paul looked at me at that.
"What's going on here Bella, why did you really come up here?" Paul asked me and I explained it to him, knowing he was going to be furious. "I came to see you guys, and this is not to twist the knife deeper Paul, while I was thinking over things, a message showed up out of no where and that picture was in the envelope, but that's why I came to the reservation, I'm here to get the truth of what Cullen's been keeping from me, because whatever it is, I can now hear the eight of you when phased, and I can hear what you're thinking right now as well as your wolf.' I said and he nodded in disbelief at that and Quil crouched in front of me at that statement.
"Bella what are you talking about and where did those photos come from?" he asked and I sighed as I waved for them to sit down and they did. "Guys do you remember the photos of when you were seven or eight years old, and the girl with the green bracelet wrapped around her wrist or the one of the boy with the blue bracelet with his arms around that girl?" I asked looking at Paul and Jared and they nodded as Jared's eyes narrowed at that as she answered that looking at me with a wary look on her face.
"Yeah we do, you mean to tell me that girl was you, it's been five years since we saw each other, and suddenly the memories break through the barrier, we forgot what we looked like to each other back then, after you were gone for five years, things started getting out of hand, before I left for school?" she asked and I nodded and she sat down.
"Yeah, they're back completely now, you're my big sister Leah as I said your mother is my godmother, your parents are my adoptive guardians next to to the Blacks, our fathers are blood brothers and by that I mean Harry, my father, Billy, Josh and Daniel, while the rest of the adult pack are my fathers closest friends." I said and she nodded in shock as the guys exchanged looks of shock as Sam, Embry and Jared sat down next to us and Seth. "Than that means..?" Seth asked in disbelief and I nodded gently to him.
"Yeah you're my baby brother Seth, this is what he's been hiding from me the last fifteen months boys, you guys are my family, the reason I relaxed so fast when I saw you phase in front of me is your fathers, I watched them phase in front of me repeatedly when we were little, the camping trips, I was here every summer for eleven years and they did it for seven to ten years straight, before they retired, our memories of this and us together were faded as we got older, but we grew up together Leah, guys." I said and they nodded with a furious look at that as he pulled me into a hug and I tightened my arms around him as Leah, Jared, Embry and Sam did the same thing as I explained to them.
"The first five years were faded slightly, but you, Sam, Paul, Leah the twins and I were always together, before the quartet were born, alright you got a photo of you and me?" Jared asked and I passed it to him. "Yeah I remember that day, so we were more than friends, but blood bonded, next question is who we are to each other." he said as he looked over my shoulder at the one of him, me and Sam as Sam said it for him.
"Son of a bitch, he's been hiding the fact that the pack is really your family from his own tribe, you mean everything to Jake and the bastard tears his heart out by saying it when Jake is barely out of earshot, and this is to get him out of your life, because to his way of thinking we're dangerous, which is a load of crap, if from the way you look at me now, I know I'm probably the closest thing to a big brother you have and the guys see it the same way and with that we'd never hurt you in that way at all."
"We don't have to exercise control over our strength, though we do over our anger, which we're still working on here in some cases, since only one of us are hotheads, which explains that, we're not attracted to human blood and we don't hurt humans, in either area, though we'll take a limb off if some human parasite hurts another human." Sam said with a growl and they nodded in agreement as Paul looked at him at that.
"Don't start pointing fingers at me Sam, my temper eased up since Rachel and I got together." Paul said to him with annoyed tone at that and we tried to keep from laughing at that remark. "Alright guys we need to focus here at the moment." Leah said and they nodded as Seth looked at the quintet. "At the moment if that leach had touched her like that I would have killed him myself." Seth said with a growl and Embry, Paul and Jared nodded in agreement as I pulled the next picture out.
"I think I better show you this one, though, boys." I said and passed them a group shot of our families. "Whoa, so that's our gang when we were toddlers, but, wait a minute, Bella why is there a clan bracelet on your wrist?" Paul asked and I dropped the bomb to him then. "This is the secret he's been hiding from his family the last fifteen months Paul, your parents considered me a surrogate cub growing up, and you're my adoptive brothers and sisters." I said and he nodded as his eyes turned furious at that as Quil said it for him.
"So you're one of us through blood and adoption, so there is more to our bonds than what we thought, you said the bastard is a mind reader when you told the guys about the Jamaican leach and the red head and he mind raped Billy when he and Harry came over the night before you met the others and found out what you are to us, alright hang on I need to get Jake back here." Quil said and I nodded as he went outside and phased. 'Jake can you hear me?' he called out and then I heard Jake answer him.
'Quil what is it?' he asked and Quil quickly answered him. ' Jake we gained certain information, which explains the knife in the back move Cullen did to you and you're going to kill him when you hear this.' he told him and Jake answered him at that. 'What are you talking about, does this have to do with 'her', because if it does he's in big trouble, is she at my house, because I want to see her?' he asked and I answered that one, using my ability on him now as I called out to him.
'Jake can you hear me?' I called out to him through my mind and heard the shock in his voice as he answered me, but the relief that I answered him then. 'Bella, how are you doing that, I can hear your internal emotional pain, through your voice, what is going on here?' he asked and I gave a quick order back. 'Jake come home please, the situation took a different turn here, the certain memories and information mentioned is that the contracts and the bracelets just opened up a vein in my memory.' '
'Everything that was blocked before when around him just broke through and I'm at your house with your father, Sue and the pack, I know about the betrothal contracts and the bracelets and with that what he was trying to keep me from finding out and the damn wedding is off, I'm yours, our bracelets just broke through my memory honey, I know what the bastard's been hiding from me and I'm breaking it off.' I said and I heard the relief in his voice as he called back gently as he answered Quil at the same time.
' Alright I'm coming home I'll be there in fifteen minutes, I'm north of Mount St. Helens and it's a ten minute wolf run from here, Quil tell the guys and Leah to protect her if he comes to the reservation, don't worry honey I'm coming home, so I'll see you soon baby.' he said in relief and I nodded as Quil nodded to the instructions as I turned back to the six members of the pack who had amazed smiles at that demonstration.
"What he say Quil, what are the orders he wants to do in her case?" Leah asked and he explained. "He gave orders to protect her in case Cullen decides to cross the border, but if he tries that he's toast, at the moment I'm furious at this, alright so you come home, he was meant to re-introduce you back into our world, since you're our other leader, though I'm not exactly sure what the position is called or what it is, and he reads Billy's mind and that cuts it and he starts distracting you long enough to keep you away from us and..." he started to say as he looked at the healed laceration scar on my arm.
"Your arm, that's what caused him to leave, what happened at the birthday party last year?" he asked and I explained it as the quintet leaned forward. "As I was opening up the envelope for the vouchers Carlisle gave me, I accidentally got a paper cut and it caused Jasper to lose control and Cullen knocked me into the table to get me out of range, but the result was I wound up with twenty stitches there."
"After that incident he decided enough was enough and left town and taking the others with him, and whatever chemical or drug he used on me gave and I passed out in the woods." I told him and he nodded as Sam crouched in front of me at that. "I was the first to get to you that night, but I wasn't sure what caused it, because you looked like you were suffering withdrawal when I got to you." he said and I nodded as I told it to him as Paul shifted position out of the way to keep from losing it then.
"Sam whatever he used on me 'is' the reason you found me looking like I was suffering from withdrawal when I collapsed in the woods, I'm investigating what it was he was keeping from me, since, for some reason, I can block him out." I said and he nodded. "What else did you learn if this is coming up now and you look like you were dealing with a years worth unexpressed anger, if you decided to break off the wedding and you're looking at me like I'm really you're big brother?" Sam asked me gently and I dropped the bomb to him then, knowing the quintet would be furious at this.
"Guys I was born half Quileute, my mother was a member of the tribe on my side of the line, we knew each other from an early age, because you're my childhood gang and those memories just came forward now, but that's why I came up to talk Billy and your mother, to answer the second question he lied, it wasn't catatonia, but withdrawal from whatever he used on me, six or seven months give or take and it wears off that night." I said and they nodded as Jared answered that with a beyond furious look then.
"The bastard's been keeping this and us from you for the last eighteen months?" Jared growled and I nodded and Seth asked the next one. "Who are the connections exactly, if you're one of us and Charlie was in that much pain exactly after dad died and from the look in your eyes it hit you hard at the time?" he asked and Sue answered that one. "The red head killed him through the heart attack when your brothers were hunting her down that day, before Cullen tried to kill himself." she said and Leah's eyes started blazing in a beyond furious anger and she turned to the quartet.
"Guys what happened that day when Seth and I phased?" she asked and Sam answered that one. "We were tracking her, while your father and Charlie were in the woods, and he was hiding our footprints, the red head was up in the trees and nearly got the drop on Charlie, but your father aimed his rifle at her, she was getting ready to break his neck when Jake jumped between them, I think he sensed you had phased at the same time."
"We chased her off the cliff, but Jake spotted Bella at the edge where we always go cliff diving and went in after her, because of the current and the blow to the head when she hit the side of the cliff it nearly made her drown, I told him to take her home so I could head for the hospital but that's happened that day, we killed her, you have vengeance, but this resulted in that massacre she just told us about." he said to her and she nodded.
"So dad is gone, because the red head caused us to phase at the same time and killed him through the heart attack. What was he to Bella if Charlie is having such a hard time dealing with the loss here?" Seth asked and Sue answered that one. " Like she said I'm her godmother, but he saw her as a second daughter and he was one of your uncle's best friends, in truth they had a blood brother bond with Josh, Daniel and Billy, we were connected, because your uncle spent eighty percent of his time here."
"Look at your bracelets guys." she said and they took them off and the quintets eyes narrowed in anger. "The quartet of families connected to you are the five of us and Jake?" Sam growled and I nodded. "Green, red and blue, you, me, Sam and Embry, next to them are sky blue and burgundy and those two are Leah, Seth and Jake and Jake is next to you, the bastard is a dead man, and he did enough damage that you reach the point of a vocal explosion." Jared growled angrily as I answered that statement.
"It gets better guys, look at my bracelet." I told the trio and Sam picked it up and looked at the cords intertwined. "The green cord is intertwined with the burgundy one, you and Jake were supposed to betrothed and the bastard tore Jake's heart out, and you're just learning this now. The son of a bitch was keeping this from you since the day before you met the others, do they know about this?" he asked and I shook my head.
"Leah I'm sorry, I never meant for your father to be in the woods that day." I said and she sighed as she pulled me into a hug and I knew her anger eased as she answered me. "I don't blame you for what happened Bella, I never blamed you, I blame Cullen and those ticks, if this meant what I thought, our family was your designated bodyguards, our families have been friends for years, but my memories of you were faded, I forgot what we were like as kids. He was a retired werewolf, but he was acting as a protector even though he was in hunting mode that day, he wasn't giving you up either."
"I just never expected to become one myself, but now that I think about it, I was supposed to be your body guard from the very beginning, if my brother and I phased at the same time, alright so for whatever reason he's holding back information from you and a piece of it is that you can speak to us mentally, now what else, and, whoa, that wolf looks like Jake as an adult, and the others look like the quintet in here, who is it, and how is that they got your colors and we are the only ones singled out?" she asked, looking at the one of my mother with the adult pack and I turned to Billy to get that one.
"If it's the second cub in the family he gets his own color, but when the alpha finds a mate, the gene activates for a female bodyguard and becomes the alpha's mate protector, you're her personal bodyguard honey, and your family was chosen to be her bodyguards when you all reached your mid to late teens. The other position you have is the omega's bodyguard." he said and she nodded as her eyes widened in shock at that.
"I never knew my position was that high up, so she chooses Jake or Jake imprints on her, I activate and I become her personal bodyguard after that, how long before I find a mate though?" she asked and Sue answered that. "If she chooses to return to the past she's going to heal your heart by being the sister you need and then when the duo come back and you activate that finishes it off and you're fully healed after that." Sue explained and she nodded to that.
"Sam, Jared, it gets better, when I went to the attic I found a box loaded with stuffed wolves, I've known along, because I've had you from day one, my red wolf is Jake, the others look like the seven of you, they've even got your color bands wrapped around their necks, with your initials on them, your parents each got me one by the time I was five, so I was ready when we started as a pack." I said and they nodded in shock.
"So you relaxed for two reasons when you saw us that day, one because you had us in cub form as a toy wolf, and two, because you knew us on sight, because our fathers phased in front of you repeatedly, nice touch in jogging her memory mom, if you go back now, it means the ones you got on the bed with you watching over you are us and Jake." Seth said and I nodded to answer that. "Yeah and I'm keeping you, Jake, Sam, Jared and Paul on the bed and the quartet blocking the window to keep him out now."
"You're my wolves, my pack, I'm ready to take on that responsibility now, Leah where you're concerned, you and I are fixing our bond and I can help you get your mind off it, but it wasn't just a fluke that you became a wolf, you're fourth in command of our pack."
"I heard from your wolf actually, she said you were supposed to become one actually." I said and she nodded. "So who's got the gene in both sides of the family here exactly?" Colin asked and Quil answered that one. "Jake and I do, my mother was born a Denali, while his was born an Ateara, but that sums it up, we were born to be werewolves, while the rest of the pack had it on the paternal side, but for some reason it hit her, though the next question is why." he said and he nodded to that as Billy answered that.
"Her position in the pack is the alpha's fourth Quil, if Jake took the mantle it's him, Sam, Seth and then Leah, with you guys following up from there, but to answer the unasked question here. Seth is the alpha's third, you're the secondary Beta, Sam is the second in command and Jake is the Alpha, if we change the past, you and Bella lead the pack till the quartet join the pack, Sam." he said to him and he nodded to that as I looked at him at that then as he looked at me then.
"To get back to the original question, were you guys supposed to be that big when you're adults Uncle Billy?" Quil asked and he explained. "When you're first starting out you're the size you are now, and when you reach twenty five you reach adulthood, wolf style, and your fur colors get darker as you grow older." he said and we nodded to that.
"I had a flashback of that day when I was two here at the house with you in the yard with me and me napping in your arms, was that really you who thought that to me?" I asked and I saw him smile as he answered me. "Yeah baby it was, I meant it too, you mean everything to me, surrogate or not, you're my daughter, and I love you." he said and I nodded as I felt the paternal love growing by the minute as I asked the next question, as I tried to hold back a laugh as I said it, knowing it was wolf for 'love you'.
"I guess that explains the purring then, though I can take a guess that was wolf for 'I love you' in this case." I said and he nodded with a smile as the guys started laughing at that as she looked at him. "All this time and I never remembered that when I heard it from dad, let alone Uncle Josh and Daniel, the four of you always took our histories seriously and I never knew why till I phased myself finally last spring."
"You're the adult reddish brown wolf, I can't believe I forgot that, you and dad retired when Sam and I were nine?" she repeated and he nodded as I heard a howl in greeting and then felt a shift and then Jake ran in the front door and saw us together and I quickly stood up and threw my arms around him with a smile and he swung me around.
"Welcome home." I said and I kissed him and he tightened his arms around me before pulling back a bit. "I saw the bracelet intertwines, I know the truth, I belong to you." I said and he nodded softly. "How'd you find out exactly?" he asked and I looked at Billy. "You arrived at the right time actually, whatever power I've got to talk to you when you're a wolf has to do with my origins, and you're a piece of it and dad was getting ready to tell me the reason." I said and he nodded as I asked the next question to him.
"Though at this rate, that song just came back for real, you're my boyfriend and you're back." I told him and he smiled. " My Boyfriend's Back, and yes, you are in trouble now Cullen, so you better watch your back and look out now, because I'm coming after you." he said with a dangerous smirk on his face and I tightened my arms around his neck smiling. "The contract's active, I belong to you now Jake, it's over with in his case, I know and remember everything now." I told him and he nodded to me smiling.
"Billy if this means you're my father-in-law, what's this mean for my dad and me now, if I go back and change our futures?" I asked and he smiled as he answered that. "With the fact you chose Jake, and the contracts activated now, you're status changed permanently, your family is getting their original status back." he said and I thought it over of what he meant and then felt it shoot through me.
"We're returning to reservation, our family is moving back into the reservation finally, after eighty years, moms going to be thrilled with that. Alright so I made my choice, dad and I move onto the reservation and I'm protected permanently after that, alright that explains that, but that brings to the next one what position do I hold in the tribe here?" I asked, hoping this would explain why I was able to hear them in both forms now.
"Everything you wanted me to remember, it's back completely now, I remember everything Uncle Billy, Aunt Sue, our families are a trio. And you guys and the Uleys, Truehearts, and Lehotes are our familial sextet, that's back completely, as is what this symbolized on my bracelet." I said and he smiled at the news. "Familial sextet, we're a sextet!" Paul repeated and I nodded and he picked me up and swung me around smiling.
"My sister, before I never remembered that, but I do now Bells, of the six of us, you, me and Jared are the youngest of our sextet, and we were always together during our toddlerhood, with Sam and Leah always with us. The five of us were the start of our pack, before the sextet were born, we were a sextet, before we became sextet. Earlier this year." he said smiling and I looked at him and Jared with a smile.