Bella grimaced as she stood, she wiped her sweaty hands on her trousers. She hated telling people this but it was vital to the steps taken next.
"It is no secret that me and my twin are half witch and half wolf. My mother was the wolf and my father the witch" she saw Billy frown at this news but he kept quiet. "My father's bloodline is royalty to witches and fairies. We have been protecting them for centuries, it is common in witches for reincarnation to occur. In my bloodline for instance every three or four generations a set of twins are born. This is my and my brother, we are born with genetic memory of our last reincarnations. When I was young, eight years old to be exact, my pack was being hunted. A group of humans had found out about us, they were hunting the females, thinking us weaker than the males. Me and my mother were under a lot of protection because of this at the time. My father not being a wolf, really struggled, I get my general dislike of humans from him, our pack had become extremely small as many of us had been kidnapped and experimented on. My alpha was uncontrollable in his anger, we knew that our people were being taken out of state, he put so much pressure on my father to keep us hidden, me and my mother" Bella swallowed the lump in her throat and Sam reached for her hand. That small comfort calmed her nerves.
"Bella?" Billy prompted, she looked up and tried to stop the tears from spilling over.
"My father couldn't cope and he turned to drink. He was unstable and just wanted it to end, he ended up handing me and my mother over to these people. They just wanted the females" Bella noticed Leah look down slightly afraid. "But when they found out I was a twin they went back to the house and captured my brother" she felt Sam stiffen and stood behind him and weaved her hands into his hair to calm him. "For some reason, the fact that my mother and possibly me and Gabe were wolves freaked him out. Me and Gabe were forced to watch them beat my mother" Bella paused as she swallowed the tears. "And sexually abuse her, I wanted to help protect my mother we both did but we were so small and had no control on our magic at that age. When they killed her in front of us we phased for the first time, we killed the lot of them" Bella said and looked down and not looking in Sam's face.
"I know Charlie, he is a good friend he would never do anything like this" Billy argued. Bella smiled at him.
"Charlie is not my father, he is my uncle from my mother's side. But he is more our father than our biological one. That is why we call him dad" Bella explained. Billy nodded in understanding. "When the pack understood that it had been my biological father that had been betraying the pack, they were furious, they destroyed him. Me and my brother were outcasts for a long time due to being half witch. At about nine I couldn't control the nightmares or the visions of seeing my mother brutally murdered in front of me, I spent all my time as a wolf. I nearly went wild more than once; Gabe and Charlie were the only ones that kept my witch and human side alive. Me and my brother were playing in our fur when a hunter came upon us, unknown to him he had silver bullets in his gun. He shot me, the silver caused me to shift back and he realised what we were. Since then this hunter has been obsessed with me. He has been hunting me, and making a lot of trouble for my pack. Just another reason why they hated me and my brother. About two months ago a large Italian pack took on the biggest vampire coven in Italy, they nearly wiped each other out. Because of this the vampires amassed together and pooled their powers together and created a shifter focused death storm, the intent was to kill all shifters however it didn't have the desired effect. It just mutated the wolves there, they fell to the ground unconscious and when they woke, they had an ability. My brother was visiting a friend out there and he was affected, his shift has changed. At around the same time I was also affected, and then my pack was affected." Bella explained, she pulled out some pictures from her pocket.
"This was me two months ago" she said, the pictures passed around was a quilette version of Bella. The woman in the photographs had tan skin, brown eyes and ebony hair. Now she was pale with blue eyes. "My wolf has also changed, she used to be brown now she is pure white. But I also have gained another shift, my wolf is not the only beast contained" She murmured, the elders looked up in surprise.
"What?" Old quill demanded.
"As a witch I already have magical abilities, where the wolves in my home pack have gained magical abilities, me and my brother have gained another shift" Bella explained. The elders stuttered. Including Billy.
"Can you prove it?" One asked. Bella locked eyes with Sam and almost looked frightened to show them. She nodded. Taking her jacket off, she crouched low to the ground. One second Bella was on the ground in a shift of light a snow leopard with fluffy fur was stood there looking up at the elders which were sat there in astonishment. Bella quickly shifted back into her skin, she watched Sam's expression when he nodded to her encouragingly she smiled at him.
"If it has not happened here yet, it will soon" Bella said, the elders quickly animatedly spoke to each other.
"Well, that's quite the story" Paul whistled. Sam nodded and sighed.
"thank you for coming to tell us this, this will change everything." Bella smiled and bowed her head slightly to them. The rest of the wolves stood bowed their heads out of respect. Tiredly Bella moved toward Sam and sat on his lap, he wrapped his arms around her.
"Are you okay?" he murmured into her hair?
"It's scary, all this stuff that is happening. You don't think me a freak?" she asked quietly.
"your cat is very beautiful" Was all Sam said, it was all he needed to say. He felt her relax against him.
Bella was pulled into Billy's kitchen and sat on Sam's lap, Leah had lingered in the other room. She found a letter on the table and she picked it up. There were actually two for her. one looked to have similar handwriting that she couldn't place, the other was unknown. As she was looking at the letters a man walked in, he was tall and tanned. Bella scented him quickly and her head whipped up with a massive grin on her face. The man had short curly black hair that just reached the top of his ears. His storm grey eyes sparkled with a secret that not many people knew. His cheeky smile showed his dimples. Bella was quick on her feet and had the man in a hug, she ignored Sam's growl.
"hello, hello, hello, brother bear" she said her greeting. He laughed into her neck and pulled her off her feet and swung her around. Sam stood immediately, ready to fight.
"Hey, hey, hey, sister bird" he said back, he put her down. they were still laughing. Sam growled again.
"Sammy this is Gabe, my brother" Sam's glare softened immediately. "Gabe, this is my Sam" Leah huffed. He looked over at her, Bella looked down at the letter. Bella heard two gasps. She looked up and saw them both staring at each other. Bella knew that look. She'd had that look. Between her and Sam. Shit.
her brother imprinted on Leah. Double shit. Bella sighed and looked back down at the letter.
You fucking freak! Half witch half wolf fucking freak!
How dare you think you can waltz in here and steal someone's boyfriend.
I'm not surprised your fucking father gave you up. You don't deserve to be here!
The whole pack thinks so, we don't want our alpha female to be some nutjob. You are not good enough for our alpha!
Leave while you still can, we don't need your kind of freakshow.
I hate you and so does everyone else, I wish you had never come here.
"Don't read that!" Leah shouted. Bella looked up at the hateful words written on the letter, the tears in her eyes surprised her brother, she hardly ever cried. She glanced at Leah who was standing in Gabe's arms. Making sure she had the second letter she dropped Leah's one and rushed out of the room, Sam made to grab her but she was too quick. Bella secretly had been feeling not enough for the alpha everything Leah said had hit on her insecurities, she had no idea the rest of the pack had been feeling it too.
"Bella!" Sam shouted as Bella ran for the forest, phasing mid run she was in the trees in no time, two footfalls became four, she was struggling to hide her emotions, she had tried to be less wolf but obviously not enough, Bella ran until it was dark, she had heard Sam shift when she had, but she had quickly lost him with speed and cunning from years in the forest. The thought she had upset and disappointed her imprint was taking a toll on her and she howled, her heart broke. Sitting on the edge of a cliff, she howled to the moon, the sound heart-breaking as the raw agony was screamed to the moon. Two sets of four footfalls were soon heard. Eight heavy paws hitting the ground. Bella looked out over the trees and finally the sea. She howled once more just as a large black wolf exploded form the tree line. Bella turned her head and her howl broke off half way. As her eyes connected with that of her imprints, the pain she had been feeling started to slowly disappear. He padded over as another wolf russet coloured also walked out from the trees. Looked over at her. Sam's wolf, looked at her. He barked a question.
Sam couldn't hear her thoughts in her wolf form, she wasn't a part of the pack mind yet, he licked her muzzle and she snapped her teeth at him. Bella was trying to decipher if he was angry with her. Jacob barked a laugh, Sam turned and wolf glared at him, Sam must have said something to him, because Jacob turned tail and ran. Sam was the Alpha making him dominant. So, when he lunged at her, she wasn't surprised. Bella twisted and ran back into the trees. He wanted her to shift so he could speak to her. Bella didn't want to. He would get Leah to apologise he would get her to understand that she was just upset and angry. He would say that Bella didn't understand human bitchyness he would say many things.
Bella didn't want to listen. Bella ran and he chased, she was aware this was there first run as wolves and she was trying to get away from him, Bella easily weaved between the trees, she knew how to control her wolf body more than Sam did, Sam had to slow because he was bigger and less manoeuvrable, Bella started to gain some ground, that was until Sam lengthened his strides, he barked. Bella felt his teeth nip her back leg, it wasn't painful but it was enough to make her turn, she twisted her body and lunged, her paws went straight to his shoulders, he also twisted and grabbed the baggy skin at her neck, a show of dominance. Sam shifted, his hands gripped onto her fur. She growled at him. She would not shift just because he did. He was naked as he lay on top of her. he flexed his fingers in her fur.
"Phase" he commanded, he used his Alpha voice it did make Bella feel a little guilty when she didn't but he doesn't control her. He started to brush his fingers through her fur. Bella shuddered at the pleasure at her fur being brushed. She had never let anyone touch her wolf before. He sighed and looked into her eyes. "what Leah said, wasn't true. Look she was jealous, I know for a fact that she didn't think she would imprint" Sam looked in her eyes. "She was upset that you came in and all of a sudden you imprint, and you're practically a stranger" Sam whispered the last part. Bella didn't know whether she phased back or not. Bella licked his face. It was her way of saying she understood. He laughed and continued to stroke her white fur. He scratched her ears. Oh my lord that feels good. Bella nuzzled his hand. He laughed again. Why was that such a turn on?
"I know she wants to apologise and your brother wants to catch up" Sam said into her fur. Bella turned and nuzzled his face. His chuckled when her fur tickled his arms and chest, his muscled chest that flexed when he moved his arms. "and I've started to get embarrassed" Sam winked at her. Bella phased and was in her clothes She had one of Sam's jumpers on and some of his joggers so she took them off and handed them to him, she left his jumper on.
"Here," he smiled and took it, Bella couldn't help but notice his member, he grabbed her hand and pulled her in another direction. "where did you leave your clothes?" she asked him. Maybe being a wolf made his counterparts bigger. As if he knew what she was thinking he smirked. Bella grinned at him and his pure perfection. Kara back home sure would be proud.
"How old are you Bella?" he asked. Bella thought about it, she couldn't remember if anyone had told her how old he was.
"nineteen" She said, and didn't look at him. He gasped. He looked down at her.
"That's mental you look about twenty-one" he laughed at himself.
"How old are you?" She asked him. He grinned and looked down.
"twenty-two, don't worry I'm not ancient" three years… it's not that bad, is it? Bella was never really in society, she never went to school. Gabriel often brought school books home and let her read them, she memorised them and was able to retain the information so she wasn't exactly stupid. It was down to Charlie to teach her how to read and write.
"is that good or bad?" She asked him, as he out his arm and around her shoulders when she shivered. He looked down at her. He looked thoughtful.
"I don't think so, when is your birthday?" he asked. Bella was thinking about other things when she answered absently.
"Next month" he nodded. Bella loved being surrounded by one of her elements. The nature fuelled her with power. The imprint hummed wherever Sam's body touched her. Bella wondered what would happen when skin touched skin. The hand that was wrapped around her shoulders her right hand lifted and interlocked their fingers. An electric current shot through her fingers to his. Bella gasped and looked at her fingers. She looked up at Sam. "do you feel that too?" she asked him. He nodded.
"You're not trying to fry me, are you?" he asked jokingly. Bella laughed.
"I don't think so" Bella grinned. Bella didn't have electricity. He laughed at the fact that she didn't even know. They were in the trees behind Jacobs house. Bella saw some clothes on a bush. Sam grabbed them and pulled them on, he past her the joggers back. He grabbed her hand and dragged her through the back door. There were four large bodies lounging around Jakes living room. Jake was stretched out on one sofa. Seth was sitting on the floor and now staring at Bella. Now creeped out… Paul was on another chair and was also lounging about. Then Embry but he was stuffing his face.
"Hey guys" Sam greeted. When they all turned, Bella smiled and waved half-heartedly.
