Chapter 4: Helping

Can you help me, help me, help me?

Shoot me or something?

Now help me, help me, help me

Kill me or something

'Help Me' by Chris Brown

There Ana, Wendy and I saw a wounded wolf. He was bigger than you're average wolf so we knew it was a shape shifter like us.

He had sandy brown fur that was covered in blood, his blood, I could tell.

Being the Beta female in my pack I walked up to him and communicated with him through his mind.

Hi there. I'm Melanie, are you alright? I asked. The wolf looked at me with surprised eyes.

What are you doing here? This is our territory. I sighed; I know that, we were just passing through. Do you need help?

No, I'm fine. I'm already healing. My pack will be here soon.

What happened to you? I asked him, not registering his last statement.

I was attacked by a vampire. I was doing my rounds when I caught his scent and he took me from behind then ran off.

I relayed this to my sisters and they were eager to go and catch the bloodsucker. I nodded for them to go; I know they could handle one measly leech by themselves.

I stayed with who I found out was Seth. Soon he healed enough to be able to walk again.

He was about to take off when I heard a rustling in the bushes. I turned my back to Seth, got low and bared my teeth while growling at where the sound came from.

Out came another wolf the same pure black as I am, but was bigger than me. I gasped; I'd been discovered.

The wolf grinned at me, Hello. And who might you be?

I wanted to scream, I'd been discovered – and by the Alpha no less.

I was about to turn on my heels and run, so to speak, but then I was surrounded by about six other wolves.

I groaned, great I'm going to be killed. Well, I lived a good life and at least my sisters are safe.

When I was thinking that the girls came in, Ana with the vampire's head in her mouth.

We caught him Mel! You should have seen it, we-

Ana stopped cold when she saw the wolves surrounding us.

You idiot, you came back. Ah, great, now all of us are going to be killed.

Wendy whimpered, But Mel, I don't want to die.

Oh shut up and take it like a man. I said. All the while the Alpha male was watching us with amused eyes.

May I butt in?

All three of us turned our heads to him. I'm Sam Uley and this is my Quileute pack. Now you three are?

I put on my Alpha – well, Beta, I'm not Alpha yet – face and replied, I am Melanie Wolfbane and these are my younger sisters Wendria and Anastasia.

They both shyly said hello and were studying their paws with great interest.

And what is your business on our reservation?

I sighed, might as well tell him the truth, My father is the Alpha of our pack back in Canada. Our pack is getting quite large so we're scouting for a place to settle.

Why so far away from home? Why all the way down in the US?

I replied, We're not Canadian Sam; we're American and miss home but decided to stay as close as we can to our original pack; besides Alaska is too crowded now and too cold.

This earned a laugh from him; maybe he wouldn't kill us after all.

Come. It would ease the mind of my pack if they knew what you were saying. Gather you clothes and come with us.

I relayed this to my sisters and we ran off to get our fanny packs.

That's her Sam. I'm 100% sure, I said. He nodded his head, No wonder they took off so quickly. They must have caught your scent and thinking they were on your territory, fled.

This made complete sense now. I thought I had done something wrong to make her run away from me.

Sam put a comforting paw on my shoulder, such a human thing to do; it was almost comical to see wolves doing it.

Imprinting is frustrating, isn't it? I did nothing but nod as I heard the girls start to come back. Each of them had a different colored fanny pack, probably to tell whose clothes were whose.

They ran in between normal formation to our headquarters AKA Sam's place.

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After changing back the three sisters walked in and I could hear their stomach growling at the smell of Emily's cooking.

The girls plopped a seat on the couch, the younger ones looking scared and holding onto the older one's arms for dear life.

Sam pulled up a chair in front of them and sat in it backwards. "Okay, now that we're all human, tell them what you told me."

The dark haired one sighed and told the pack about how she's here to scout the area and that she's sorry for intruding and will leave if we want her to.

That made me feel sick to my stomach. I just found her and she's ready to leave. Even though we're no longer in wolf form, Sam must have read my mind.

"No you don't have to leave. We're not as hostile as you seem to think other packs are. We just need to lay down some ground rules."

She nodded as Sam explained the treaty with the Cullens and how she and her sisters aren't to harm them. Not that they should be on the reservation anyway.

"So this treaty you have with the Cullens, what happens if they break it?" the youngest asked.

Paul answered that question simply, "We kill them."

"Oh," the young one said.

"Well, I guess we better get going, you know places to see people to meet, bye!" said the blond one.

"Speaking of meeting people, you didn't tell us your name beautiful." Embry said to the blond, she blushed and Embry smirked, like every guy now-a-days, they think they're a gift from God to women everywhere. And blushing blondes like this one just made their egos bigger.

"I'm Wendria, Wendy for short; I'm the middle child." The blond said, then she pointed to red head, "That's Anastasia, or Ana, she's the youngest." She nodded to everyone, still not making eye contact.

Then Wendy pointed to the dark beauty that I imprinted on, "And that's Melanie, or Mel. She's the oldest and the soon to be Alpha female of our pack."

Melanie kicked Wendy in the calf, "Ow! What was that for?" she asked.

"Just spread our business why don't you?" she replied. Wendy seemed to realize her mistake and apologized.

"Now if you don't mind, I'd like it if we could go home now." Sam nodded at them and they rose to leave.

Emily ran to Melanie and gave her a huge bowl, obviously with some food in it. "Some for the road." Emily said to Mel and she showed a dazzling smile that left me gasping for air.

"Thank you so much Emily. We really appreciate it." Mel said genuinely.

Outside Wendy changed into the white wolf we saw and Ana change into the grayish one. So that meant that Mel was the black one.

Melanie gave the bowl to Ana and she ran off into the woods carrying it in her mouth.

I walked outside before Melanie could strip out of her clothing. "Um, Melanie?" I said to her.

She turned to me and her eyes widened, "Can I talk to you?" I asked. "Sure," she said in a soft voice.

I looked towards the trailer to see everyone unashamedly watch what was going on.

"Can we go in the woods? Away from them?" I asked and jerked my head to the trailer, she laughed and it sounded like light rain on an early spring morning.

"Yeah, let's go." She said and I followed her into the woods.