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Miznana: Actually in this story its going to be a love square instead of a triangle because there are going to be 3 different guys wanting to be with Bella one is Jacob of course lol and the other guy is Dean but the third guy hasn't shown up in the story yet. Can you guess who it is? Lol Thank You for the awesome review!
Lizzie:At your request I made this chapter a lot longer then I usually write in fact it is the longest I have ever written for one chapter so I hope you like this super long chapter. Well its super long to me. It is triple what I usually write. Thanks for the wonderful review!
Chapter Four: The meeting of the packs.
"So in a couple of weeks. I have to go back to La Push and come face to face with my old pack." I asked worried of the upcoming events.
"Don't worry Bella. We'll be with you every step of the way. You'r part of our pack now." Replied Cole as he came up beside me and slid his arm around my waist.
"Hands above the waist." I said as I felt Cole's hand start to travel downwards towards my butt.
"Bella I am appalled you would even think that I was capable of such a act." Joked Cole trying to look shocked.
"Well just so everyone knows. The rule is you touch my butt you loose a hand." I joked right back. Half joking and half serious.
"See that is why I am going to train Bella and not any of you. Because at least with me Bella doesn't have to worry about me groping her in the middle of training." Said Dean.
"Which by the way we are starting training this afternoon." Added Dean.
"Yeah but until then. Can we please order some take out for dinner?" asked Cole as he got up and started looking through the phone book for the pizza diners number.
"Oh god not pizza again." Complained Jesse.
"Well what do you suggest. The pizza place is the only place that delivers. And no one here can cook." Replied Cole putting down his cell phone.
"Actually that's not true. I can cook and I am pretty good at it too. So if you would like I can cook you guys dinner." I said as everyone looked at me in disbelief as if no one has ever offered to cook for them before.
"You know. I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship." Replied Carter as he draped his arm around my shoulders.
"I see how it is. Your just using me for my cooking skills." I said joking right back.
"Okay guys while Bella fixes dinner. Why don't you go find Beck and tell him if he has calmed down enough he can come join us for dinner." Said Dean and at that the pack took off towards the forest line.
When they took off. I started searching the cabinets and freezer for food to prepare for dinner and found some chicken legs to fry and a couple of bags of potatoes I could skin for mashed potatoes. So with the food in my hands I set them on the counter to work.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Asked Dean shocking me because I never had any guy ask me if he can help me cook.
"Uhhhh sure. You can help by skinning the potatoes" I replied still trying to get over the shock as Dean went to the bag of potatoes and started skinning them.
"I am surprised that your imprint hasn't offered to cook for you or the pack." I said
"I don't have a imprint and neither does anyone in the pack. We really don't have any spare time to find anyone we care that much about." replied Dean. Confusing me in the process.
"What are you talking about? I thought that you don't get a choice on who you imprint on." I asked confused about this whole topic.
"In this pack you do. Unlike the La Push pack we have communicated with our inner wolf that we are the alpha and we are in charge. We choose who our imprint is going to be and not the other way around. With the La Push pack they let their inner wolf be the alpha and control them so they don't get to choose who their imprint is going to be their inner wolf does." Replied Dean trying to explain it in a way I would understand.
(AN: I tried to explain it in a way easy to understand but if its to confusing just contact me and I will try to explain it better.)
"I'm glad I will have a choice in the matter of who I will be spending the rest of my life with." I said with a smile on my face as I started to prepare the chicken to be fried.
I was so worried ever since I became a werewolf about imprinting. I didn't like the idea that I could possibly imprint of a complete stranger just because my inner wolf thinks that he would make a good mate. I mean I want to choose who I will spend the rest of my life and not be forced to be with someone because of imprinting.
After explaining imprinting it was pretty quite in the kitchen the whole time. Which was fine with me because imprinting wasn't exactly my favorite subject. But after awhile the silence was broken by the boys bounding into the large kitchen with Beck following behind them.
The next couple of hours was quite calm. We all sat around the kitchen table eating fried chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy. Thank god my grandmother always cooked like she was cooking for a army and that was how she taught me how to cook because it defiantly came in handy while cooking for the pack. They were like feeding a small army. I knew teenage boys ate a lot but this was redicicoulous.
Then after dinner Carter insisted that we play some baseball on the new Wii system that Dean just bought a couple of weeks ago. But the rule was that were weren't allowed to use our werewolf abilities while playing which we agreed on.
So myself and Jesse played baseball against Cole and Carter. While Dean, Alec and Beck was to be referees.
But after three rounds of baseball Cole and Carter finally excepted their fate of loosing since Jesse and myself kicked their butts all three rounds.
"How does it feel to have the newbie's kick your butt?" asked Jesse
"That's just beginners luck." answered Carter
"It's not luck. It's skill." I replied as I crossed my arms.
"Okay enough playing around. Time to get back to patrols. Beck you are to patrol the borders to the North. Jesse and Carter you have the South. Cole you have the East and Alec you have the West." Announced Dean and with their orders the pack took off to patrol the borders of the rez.
After the pack was gone. It was now time for Dean to teach me how to phase. So we got into Deans black sports car and Dean drove us to a deserted meadow the Dean explained that this was where the pack practiced and trained new members. Which I could see why. The meadow was completely secluded by trees so no one would accidentally trip across it and find out our little secret. And since their was no flat surfaces to reflect noise it was practically sound proof. The perfect place to practice.
"Okay now strip." Said Dean when we got to the center of the meadow.
I just gave him a look and said "Excuse me?" not sure if I heard him right.
"Strip down to your sports bra and underwear unless you want to shred your clothes when you phase." Answered Dean as he took off his shirt to reveal his chiseled, sculpted and muscular chest. But leaving on his skin tight black shorts.
So I did as I was told. Thankful that I had decided to wear my sports bra and black lacy bikini today.
"Okay now Bella think back to when you first phased. What were you feeling when you first phased like what were your emotions?" Asked Dean.
"Rage, Anger, Frustration." I answered thinking back to Italy.
"Do you think you could think of something that would bring out those emotions?" asked Dean.
"I don't think that will be a problem." I answered with a smile on my face as I knew the one thing that would bring out those emotions. It was just one word Edward.
"Okay now when you want to phase just think of something that would bring out those feeling but when you do try to imagine that your sports bra and bikini is part of your skin so that when you do phase that your clothes won't shred in the process." Replied Dean.
I knew it was a long shot but I did as he instructed as I closed my eyes and started to think of Edward and how he left me that day in the woods and how the Cullens left without so much as a goodbye and no way to contact them. And as I thought of this I felt the same sensation as I did before but minus the pain. I felt as if my skin was wax as it melted and reshaped it into a different form as if I was clay being molded into a different shape or form.
Then as the sensation faded. I opened my eyes to see that I was now in my wolf form but now this time it was different because just mere seconds after I opened my eyes I heard five very familiar voices and thoughts form in my head.
Some thoughts were louder then others while the others were just mere whispers. The loudest one out of all the thoughts were the ones full of anger and rage and thought of nothing else but maming and killing vampires and making them die in the worst possible way. Which I could only assume was Becks thoughts.
"Okay now Bella now I want you to phase back to your human form. And the way to do that is to think of something calming." Said Dean looking at me while he was still human.
So at that request. I closed my eyes once more and tried to think of something anything that would calm me. Now if someone would of asked me this a couple of weeks ago I would of thought of Jacob but now a days when I thought of him all I felt was heartache and sadness.
Jacob is my best friend and I care for him very deeply but ever since I headed home from Italy he has been avoiding my calls and hasn't even so much as called me or asked Charlie anything about me. It seems as thought Jacob has completely forgot about me and has made it clear that he doesn't care for anymore which brings me so much pain. We have been best friends since birth and now we don't even talk. After Edward left he was my rock and my lifeline and after all that time we spent together I felt a spark and connection with him that I had never felt with Edward and I know that Jacob felt that spark too or at least I thought he did. Which is why my heartaches every time I hear his name.
"Okay remind me to kill this Jacob when we meet him in two weeks." said a voice in my head that I recognized as Jesse's voice.
Oh no! I forgot that now everyone in the pack can hear my thoughts. And they heard everything that I thought about Jacob.
"No Jesse please don't do that. He is part of the La Push pack and soon to be Alpha and even though he has hurt me. He is still my best friend." I thought back to him.
"Okay we won't kill him. We'll just mame him." replied Cole
"Now I know what it feels like to have overprotective big brothers." I joked.
"Well you better get used to it. Because your our pack sister making you family and we protect our family." replied Carter
"That's right Bella. Your part of our pack now and we protect our pack." Said Deans voice that just appeared in my head.
At hearing Deans voice in my head. I looked to my right to see a black and white wolf standing there with piercing icy blue eyes. Dean must of got worried when I didn't phase back so he must of phased while I was talking to see what was wrong.
"Okay now stop distracting Bella. We have got to continue with her training." Said Dean
We continued with my phasing back and this time was easier because I had Dean in his wolf form there to help me. But what surprised me the most was when I phased back I had on my sports bra and lacy black bikini. They weren't torn to shreds when I phased.
"I don't understand. Why are my clothes still intact? I mean don't get me wrong. I am glad I didn't phase back in the nude but I am just confused. When the La Push pack phases they shred all their clothes in the process." I said looking down at my intact clothes.
"That is because the La Push pack phases back and forth on pure emotion. We found out that if we focus our mind on tricking it to think that our clothes is part of our skin when we phase that we are able to phase back and forth still wearing our clothes. But it only works on clothes that are skin tight." explained Dean when he also phased back wearing his skin tight black shorts.
After Dean explained what happened the rest of the training went smoothly. We phased back and together we ran a quick patrol around the rez while Dean filled me in on how the pack operated and how the rest of my training would continue for the next two weeks.
But soon the sun was setting and Dean started setting up patrols for the pack through out the night. Thankfully Dean decided to go easy on me and let me have the night off of patrols. But unluckily as Dean and I headed back to his house it started to down pour rain. I felt bad for Alec and Dean who was the ones who had to patrol in this rain but on the other hand I was glad it wasn't me.
When we got to Deans house we ran from his car to his house trying not to get wet but with no such luck and just as luck would have it just as we got to his front door I slipped on the slick deck and landed on my butt on the wooden deck as Dean started to unlock the front door.
"Are you okay?" Asked Dean as he unlocked the front door and held out a hand to help me up.
"Yeah I am okay. Nothings hurt just my pride. You know it's just my luck that I am still klutzy even as a werewolf." I joked with a little laugh as I grabbed Deans hand to help me stand up and followed him inside the dark house.
"Well the powers out." Replied Dean as he flicked the light switch on and off without any electricity. And then proceeded to go to the kitchen and came back with a couple of flashlights and candles. And handed me one of each.
"Bella I was going to wait till later to ask but if you want. You can stay here in the house with me while you are here." Offered Dean.
I was about to refuse not wanting to impose but Dean knowing what I was going to say held up a hand and said "You would actually be doing me a favor. This house is really too big for me and it would be nice to have someone else besides myself living here." So after saying that I happily accepted his gracious offer.
"I hope you don't mind but I already took the liberty of putting your bags in the spare bedroom. You have the spare bedroom that is across the hall from mine and you have your own master bath connected to your bedroom if you want to take a shower or something. I know running around the forest can get someone pretty dirty" added Dean as he told me directions to get to my bedroom.
"Actually that is not a bad idea. If you don't mind." I said and at that Dean lead me into the dark house to my bedroom and he went into his bedroom as I went into mine.
When I entered my bedroom. I was taken aback by what I saw I was in complete awe. The floor was hardwood floor covered by a large lush comfy rug. The walls were hardwood also but had a variety of different painting hanging on the wall. The room also contained a large walk in closet a large dresser, a vanity, a free standing mirror and a rocking chair but what took up most of the room was the large sleigh bed the was in the center of the room. The bed had blue silk sheet and the most plush and comfortable blanket I had ever felt and the bed and pillows were so soft it was like sleeping on a cloud. Oh yeah I could get used to this. I thought as I started putting my clothes and stuff up in the closet and dresser since I would be here for awhile.
After I was settled in. I took a quick shower to wash away the dirt and the grime and got dressed quickly in my black boxer shorts and my spaghetti strap tank top as my pajamas. After I got dressed I walked into the living room to find Dean sitting on the couch and found that he had started a fire in the stone fireplace that lit up the whole room and had lit candles on the coffee table.
"I hope you don't mind I ordered a pizza for supper." Said Dean as I walked over and joined him on the couch and happened to notice the pizza sitting on the coffee table next to the candles.
"No I don't mind at all. My dad orders out for pizza all the time." I answered him but as I did it hit me. I should really call him and let him know I am okay.
I told Dean I needed to call Charlie and was about to excuse myself so I could go into the other room to call him but Dean said he didn't mind if I talked to him in here so at least I would have light while I talked.
So I whipped out my cell phone and put it on speaker phone so Dean could hear the conversation too so he wouldn't be hearing a one sided conversation and I dialed the number I knew by heart.
It rang once then twice then three times before I heard a very gruff voice say "Hello."
"Hi Charlie. This is Bella." I said unsure of what to say.
"Bella! Hey it's Bella. Billy and Jacob are over here watching the game with me. Here I'm going to put you on speaker phone." Said Charlie before I could object.
"Where are you?" Asked Charlie once the speaker phone was on.
"I'm staying with some friends right now. The powers off right now but Dean started a fire in the fireplace and ordered us a pizza so we should be fine until the thunderstorm passes." I said as lightning flashed just outside lighting up the room for a split second and the plummeting it back into darkness once again and then following that by a mere second later a thunder that was so loud it shook the windows and walls.
"Wow it seems like you guys are getting quite a thunderstorm. And judging by the radar on the weather channel the only place that is getting hit by a storm right now is right outside of Seattle. So you see I don't need you to tell me where you are because I just figured it out. You are right outside of Seattle." said Charlie
"God Dad your such a cop." I replied
When I said that I heard Billy chuckling in the background at my comment. Followed by Billy voice saying "You better get back soon. Charlie has been moping around ever since you left this morning."
"Well it is going to be a couple of weeks until I can come back home." I said into phone.
"Wait a minute. Who is Dean?" Asked Charlie finally cheaching on to when I mentioned Deans name.
"That would be me. I'm Dean." Answered Dean who jumped in on the conversation when his name was mentioned.
"Dean is one of my friends I mentioned. I am staying with him until I come back home." I added
"And what happens to be your last name Dean?" Asked Charlie over the phone.
"Nice try Charlie. But you are just going to have to stick with his first name. Because knowing you if you knew his whole name then you would just look up his address on the computer data base." I said before Dean could answer Charlie's question.
"And his parents don't mind you staying with them?" Asked Charlie more of a question then a statement.
"Charlie. Dean is Nineteen. He lives alone." I replied.
"Well we got to get off the phone. We still have some pizza to eat for supper." I said as the lightning lit up the room once again.
"Well hold on Jacob wants to talk to you." Said Charlie.
But what he didn't know was when Charlie said that I went into panic mode this would be the first time Jacob and I have talked since I got back from Italy and since Sam banned me from the rez. I was so not ready to talk to him. I mean I just got banned yesterday and I was so not ready to deal with the pain that the banning gave me. But as I waited for Jacob to answer the phone. I felt my heartbeat speed up and felt my heart clench in pain.
"Actually I got to get off the phone my battery is dying." I lied as I quickly said my goodbyes and hung up before Jacob could get the chance to get on the phone.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Asked Dean as he noticed the look of sadness and pain etched on my face.
"I just can't believe that Billy and Jacob was talking to me like nothing happened." I said as I held my closed cell phone in my hands.
"That's probley because they didn't know. The alpha of the pack doesn't have to ask permission from the elders when he bans someone and he doesn't have to tell anyone once he does ban someone. So they probley don't know." said Dean
"Thank You Dean." I said.
"What for?" Asked Dean with a chuckle
"For taking me into your pack and training me. And for well everything." I said grateful of everything he has done.
"That's what a alpha is for. And maybe over time I will become just as important to you as Jacob once was." replied Dean.
And with that said we spent the rest of the night talking. About nothing really in particular just talking. I talked about Arizona and my mom and Charlie and about anything and Dean talked about his life. Which I loved hearing him talk about his life because it was certain he led one interesting life and only at the age of nineteen. And as I listened to him talk I could help but be happy about phasing into a werewolf because even though phasing did come with challenges and responsibilities it also gave me six wonderful pack brothers which I wouldn't change for anything in the world.
(Two weeks later)
It has amazed me at how these past two weeks have speed by and how much I have learned and changed in just two short weeks. But I guess a person is bound to change when they share their mind and thoughts with six teenage boys . Especially when all six of these teenage boys have a different personalities.
Even I myself couldn't help notice some differences. I am no longer the damsel in distress, helpless little human I used to be. I now could stand up for myself and I have even kicked some of my pack brothers butts in practice. I have also noticed I have become more outspoken when I used to be quiet and be a observer rather then the one actually engaging in conversation.
Not only was my personality changing but also was my relationships with my pack brother. Dean and I have become closer then I thought possible almost as close as Jake was. And every night after supper and patrol we would either take a walk, watch a movie together or just stay up talking which I loved doing and looked forward every night too. My relationship with Beck has greatly improved. He still doesn't like the fact that I was actually in a relationship with a vampire but it helped after he saw through my thoughts on patrols of what happened with myself and the Cullens. But Beck swore to me that if Edward ever crossed his path that he would make him pay for hurting me by making his death a long and painful one. Which gave me a mixed emotion. At first I didn't want him to hurt Edward even though he hurt me but on the other hand I was touched because it showed that Beck actually cared for me like a big brother would. And that is exactly was what the rest of the pack became to me. They were like my big brothers. Except for Jesse. I looked after him like he was my little brother I never had. Jesse and I had a close relationship that was a stronger bond then with the rest of my pack brothers except for mine and Deans relationship. The only person that even came close to Dean and my relationship was Jacob but even then it was a close call.
Even though Jesse was really younger then me and we never got to patrol together because we were both newbie's we had a strong connection. I don't know why maybe because we were both newbie's and new at this sort of thing but I don't know. A lot of the time when Dean was on patrol and when I was done cleaning the house and cooking all the meals. Jesse would stop by just to chat or would bring over his homework which I would help him with and it eventually evolved to me tutoring him in his English lit class. Which I didn't mind doing. English lit was my favorite class so it was easy for me to tutor him. Now don't get me wrong Jesse is a smart kid. It was just English lit was not one of his strengths. Not to mention the fights in school was not helping. Heck even one time while Dean was on patrol with Alec I got a call from Jesse in the middle of the day asking if I could go to his school and pretend to be his cousin. Apparently Jesse got into yet another fight at school and they wouldn't let him leave unless he was accompied by a adult relative. Jesse called me because Alec was on patrol and didn't want to get his brother upset because this time because Jesse was fighting in self defense. Which was the only reason I went along with the ruse was because he fought in self defense. Thank god we got away with that. They almost didn't believe I was Jesses cousin until I explained that I got most of my looks from my father who wasn't Quileute. But thankfully they fell for it because after a thirty minute meeting with his principle we were out the door and on our way.
Along with my relationships that changed was my appearance. My hair got darker, longer and straighter and for the first time in my life my skin actually got darker. I know it seems like a miracle that I didn't have pale white skin. I was actually tan. I didn't know if it was from being out in the sun all day because I was outside constantly when I lived in Arizona and I never got this tan. And to go with my tan I had muscles. Yeah that is right scrawny little Bella has muscles. Not overly noticeable or anything like that but I didn't have my scrawny little arms anymore that was for sure.
Finally it was the day we had to leave to go back to Forks and La Push mostly because we had to be in La Push by night fall for the annual meeting of the packs and lucky me I had to run the days last patrol before we had to leave with none other then Cole.
"That's it. I am never running patrol alone with Cole ever again." I announced as I walked into Deans living room where the rest of the pack was waiting for us to get back from patrol.
"Patrolling with him is like being forced to watch the twenty four hour porn channel. That is all he thinks about." I said as Cole came walking in right after me.
"Oh come on it wasn't all I thought about." Replied Cole as I crossed my arms over my chest.
"Oh I am sorry I forgot about that hour when you thought about me naked. Which by the way if you ever picture me naked again I will think about nothing but hot shirtless guys for the rest of the patrol." I said bluffing.
"You wouldn't." replied Cole.
"Try me." I said challenging him.
"Fine I won't picture you naked when I patrol with you. I'll just picture you naked every other time." replied Cole with a huge smirk on his face.
"Okay that's enough so we got the driving arrangement in order right? Bella and I will lead the way in her truck. Beck, Alec and Jesse will drive my black sport car which by the way Beck you scratch her you die. And Cole and Carter will be taking their Jeep. When we get to La Push we will park a couple of miles from first beach where it has been reserved for tonight's meeting so no one else will be there except those who are involved with the packs. So when we park it will be nightfall and we will phase and run to first beach and when we get there I will first un phase and greet Sam the alpha and then we will all un phase in order to sonority." Announced Dean as we all nodded our heads in agreement since we had went over the meeting the night before. During the meeting the night before I mentioned that I was banned by Sam and was under his alpha order to never return but Dean explained that since Sam was no longer my alpha that his orders no longer held any strength against me so I could disobey his orders.
So with that we were off. The whole ride I was nervous. But as we got closer and closer to La Push I was get more and more nervous to the point were I kept fidgeting and couldn't keep still. By the time we actually got to La Push I was freaking out but did my best not to let it show.
When we got to La Push we did as we had talked about we parked a couple of miles away from First Beach and in wolf form we ran towards the beach.
As we walked on to the beach from the forest line I saw everyone there standing and sitting around a large bon fire that had been made for this particular meeting. The whole pack was there including Billy, Emily, And Sue. And then I saw Jacob he was standing beside Sam obviously silently stating his second in charge status at the moment until he was ready for the alpha role. But Jacob didn't look the same it looked as if he was depressed and that it had taken a toll on his body. He looked downright terrible as if he was sick. Which worried me and made me feel guilty that I wasn't here to take care of him.
But even with my worry I did as we had planned and lined up with my pack brothers in the order of sonority. First Dean phased first and greeted Sam in a handshake and announced that this was his pack and one at a time he introduced us. First it was Beck then Alec then Cole and Carter and then Jesse. And slowly as one after another phased and got introduced I got more and more nervous it was like torture. It was the longest couple of minutes in my life. But finally when Dean got to me he announced. "This is the newest member of our pack and has just phased and joined our pack a couple of weeks ago. But I don't believe I had to introduce her because I believe you all already know her."
And with that I concentrated enough where I slowly phased back to my human form. But when I finally phased all the way back the look on everyone's face was pure shock.
Authors Note: Well there it is. It took me three days and endless hours of typing but here is the next chapter. I hope you like it. And like always if you want another update please read and review!
