The Next chapter people. Warning, STRONG LANGUAGE!
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J POV
Billy wheeled in with Sue behind him.
"What happened?" he looked worriedly at me, seeing me rubbing my upper arm.
"She hit me…and I felt it," I stared right at her and that made both Sue and Billy do that same thing. This was bad.
"What?" she smiled trying to lighten the mood but we all kept our eyes on her, unblinking.
"There's only one way I could have felt that and that would be if you were…" I trailed off, astonishing myself with the idea. Surely she couldn't be like us, could she?
"Shit!" something seemed to click in her head, "Shit! Double Shit! You're a werewolf!" She paled.
"Well so are you," I said, beginning to feel weird in this situation.
"How can you be? There aren't any Vampires around here, The Cullens left and I couldn't find any others around here," she said.
"Wait, Charlotte, you're a werewolf? As in phasing into a big hairy monster werewolf?" Sue piped up, "Why didn't you say something?"
"We'll I didn't know any existed around here. What was I supposed to say? 'Hi Sue, by the way I turn into a hairy dog every now and again, like the ancient Quileutes, so I'm sorry if I moult all over the couch!'" she was getting really fired up now, and beginning to shake. I wasn't about to let her phase right here in the lounge; I had to do something. I thought on my feet and went for the first thing that popped in my head. I wasn't necessarily sure if it would clam her but it would take her mind off her anger. I took her face in my hands and brought my lips down to hers, kissing her softly. It seemed to work so I pulled away and her face was even paler then before.
"Breathe, Pup," I smiled.
"Don't you dare call me-" she defended.
"Joking," I laughed and it seemed to release the tension in the room. We all went quite taking it all in.
"I didn't realise there were wolves in England," I said interested.
"I was the only one in my area. I've never met another before, but where there are Vampires, there are wolves."
"The others and going to freak," I smiled, getting excited for them.
"There are more of you here?" she asked shocked.
"We're a pack here. 40 wolves and then the families that know about it," I said proudly.
"Seriously! 40 wolves! Wow that amazing. I didn't realise there would be that many," she was smiling too now. Then she remembered Sue and Billy.
"You know about this right?" she asked.
"Honey, Seth and Leah are wolves too," she said quietly, taking in the fact that we had found another wolf, and an English one.
"This is too much, I need some air," she said and walked outside. I followed her to make sure she was ok.
"I don't need you to follow me," she said without looking at me and took off, jogging down the road.
I walked back into the house and into the kitchen where Billy and Sue had returned to.
"Come on Dad, we need to set up for tonight," I said remembering the party.
"You couldn't give me a life too cold you? I said I'd help your dad. Where's Charlotte? She said seeing I'd come in alone.
"She went for a run," I said, "sure, I'll give you a lift," I pushed Billy out the door and helped him into the car.
"Well this has been a crazy afternoon so far," Billy said as I drove.
"I can't believe I didn't know," Sue said still shocked.
"I can't believe I didn't realise. I knew there was something different about her." I was angry I hadn't been able to work it out earlier.
"None of us knew so don't get into a flap about it. We know now. When we get home you'll have to go and see if you can find her. We don't want her getting lost," Billy said thinking practically as usual.
"She's not going to want to see me. She thinks I'm crowding her," I said.
"Jake, just do it. See if you can link with her when you phase." No one spoke after that. We got home and I took off my shoes and shirt after helping Billy out of the car and took off my jeans when I was in the surrounding woods, putting them in my leg strap. Before I took another step I phase and was greeted with a conversation by Embry and Charlotte.
"Jake, that you?" Embry asked.
"Yeah. You've met Charlotte then? Where are your Charlotte?" I asked.
"You know her?" Embry sounded slightly angry.
"She's living with Sue. We only just found out about her, so I wasn't keeping anything from you. Seriously Charlotte, where are you?" I needed to find her. She had gone, obviously having changed back.
"Dammit, I need to find her," I was about to phase back to tell Sue I couldn't find her when something caught my eye. I looked to my left and saw a huge, chocolate wolf walking towards me.
"Charlotte?" I called in my head but there was nothing.
The shewolf walked over and sat directly in front of me. I knew then, looking into her eyes, that it was her. Even like this she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
She dropped her head and s sort of smile crept in the corner of her mouth. I realised she could hear my thought. Then why can't I hear yours?
"Because I don't want you to," she thought at me.
"But how can you do that? Just stop people linking with you?" I asked.
"I don't know. Remember, I've never come across another wolf before. It's not that hard to do though."
"Well, we've all been trying since we first turned and none of us can do it."
"Like I said, I don't know," she thought and stood up, trotting past me.
"Where are you going?" I asked. It was annoying me that I was right next to her and I couldn't hear her thoughts.
"Sue wanted to know where I was right? Come on," she said. I noticed a leg strap, similar to mine, around her hind leg and it held her vest and jeans.
She was facing away from me; I blinked, and she was a beautifully naked woman standing about 2 meters away from me, stepping into her jeans. I did the same, changing back and pulling my jeans on, but couldn't take my eyes off her. She slid her top on; oddly without the bra she was wearing before, and turned to me. She, apparently, could care less that I had just seen her completely naked. Granted it was only the back of her, but it was enough. She was perfect. Even more perfect then I thought possible. The look in my eyes told her exactly what I was thinking and she blushed, turning away and walking to the house.
As soon as we walking in the house, we were given tasks to help with tonight. With Sam and Emily sorting out the food, Sue and her children doing the drink, Charlotte and I were sent to the beach to set up down there. On our way there, we found a pile of fallen trees, the old trunks making great seats; we picked them up and carried on to first beach. Even though I knew she was a wolf and so would be just as strong as me, it was still a shock to see someone as slight as Charlotte carrying 4 huge tree trunks with such ease. We just reached the beach, able to see Paul Embry and Quil there setting up as well, when one of them smelt her. They looked up and were all shocked to see her carrying 4 dead trees.
We set them down when we got there and she looked at them shyly.
"Hi," she said.
"You must be Charlotte. I'm Embry," he said stepping forward, "this is Paul, Quil and Jared," he pointed to each in turn.
"You're not seriously a Wolf," Jared piped up. To prove the point, Charlotte picked up a tree and threw it at him. He caught it and dropped it on the floor; the point made. She smiled to herself and I seemed to be the only one whole noticed it.
"Let's get this place set up then," Paul said grabbing a log and arranging it around the soon-to-be-lit fire.
Just as the party started, those that had been setting up left to change. It wasn't a black tie occasion but it was a celebration and people liked to make an effort.
I dropped Charlotte and Sue off to get ready and I zipped home to shower and change. I threw on a decent pair of jeans and a button down, black shirt and returned to Sue's.
I was awe struck when I saw Charlotte walk out. She wore a long, white, summery skirt and a pale yellow scoop neck top. It sat just off her slender shoulders making my stomach flutter. I felt like a little boy just before his first kiss with someone of the opposite sex that wasn't my mom. Again it wrapped arounf her flatteringly, but all I could do was remember the way she looked without clothes and wonder what she looked like from the front. Again, she didn't wear a bra, but her breasts were so pert and full, she really didn't need one.
I was about to make a comment about her needing a jacket with how cold it got at night when I remembered that she ran at one-oh-six, just over a degree warmer then me.
She slipped into the passenger seat that Sue offered her and stared at her hands in her lap. I was never more aware of anyone in my life.
The party was in full swing when we arrived. The food was cooked and people were diving in. if there was one thing I knew about werewolves was that we ate huge amounts and Charlotte was no different.
I stuck to Charlotte the whole night; I couldn't stand to be away from her. We shared a log near enough to the fire but very slightly set apart from the big, main group of people.
"So is basically everyone here a werewolf?" she asked as we sat on the sand leaning against the log.
"Yep, you and Leah are the only girls so everyone who is twice the size of everyone else is a wolf."
She gazed around at all the people. As of yet it wasn't common knowledge that Charlotte was a Wolf too so most of the people didn't draw attention to it. I couldn't keep my eyes off of her. she was just so tempting, all I wanted to do was hold her and kiss her for the rest of my life.
"How is it that you can each as much as you have and now gain any weight?" I asked, really curiously.
"The same why you do," she laughed at the stupidity of my question; the truth was I just wanted to hear her speak.
"Yes but Sam, our alpha, has us all running perimeters all day," I said.
"Well apart from what I burn off just heating myself, I run too. Back at home, I used to do the same things you all do, running a lot to keep the locals safe. I may have been the only one, but I knew the purpose of us. My mum used to tell me the Quileutes stories when I was a child. She never knew they were real, but after I settled down after I first changed, we sort of figured out what I was. My mum was so good with everything. She helped me so much; I just wished I could have done as much to help her. She said I did because I kept the village and the county safe from the vampires, but I wanted to help her get better when she got cancer you know?"
"Yeah, but how many Vampires were there over there? Were the 'vegetarians' like we had here?"
"No, they were full on human hunting evil sons of a bitch. I trailed quite a few and kept tabs on them but I couldn't go chasing them through the country. I need to keep me the people safe so I only attacked those that attacked me," I couldn't believe she was telling me that she actually killed them. She could have been seriously hurt, if not killed. I was over whelmed with a sense of protectiveness like I had never felt before.
"You could have been killed," I said, not approving at all, "its bad enough for us but you didn't even had a pack to protect you."
"Oh shut up Jake; don't start with that bullshit. I'm not dead am I? And if you really feel obliged to you can keep an eye on my now. Just don't go and get all patriarchal on me now; I had hoped at least you weren't." she shook her head and turned away from me. I reached for her chin to turn her head back to mine but she slapped my hand away and stood up, walking towards the drink table.
Naturally I followed.
She picked up a bottle of beer from the ice box, open it with her bare hand, and downed half of it in one go.
"I just want to protect you so I don't lose you." I said trying to apologise. She turned to me, not in the slightest.
"I've been looking out for myself all my life Jake, way before you turned up, and I've not done a bad job. And for the record, you can't lose something you don't have," she turned away and walked off towards Claire, who was insisting on a piggy back ride from Quil.
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