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Chapter 4
Belong
LPOV
I was sat in the Cullen's living room. Jake was round early so we were just having a nice conversation, while the rest of the family did . . . uhg, you didn't want to know. It was bad enough I could here it.
Just then a tall women came in her hair cut short and her shorts raggy, if I was right her name was Leah.
"Who the hell are you?" she asked.
"I'm Lizzie" I stood up and held out my hand to shake. She sniffed the air then grabbed my hand with a grin spreading across her face.
"I'm Leah, glad to know you're not a leech" She laughed and I did to, so she was a shape shifter like Jake was that was interesting. "It's good to have a none leech around that's a girl." I laughed and Jacob scoffed, I'll teach him a lesson.
"Leah, can I go on a run with you please" She looked like she was about to accept but Jake just had to cut in.
"What, she going to run in wolf form with you tagging along in human form?" He laughed, so I went outside stripped out of the clothes Alice had put on me, she must of seen this coming because they were easy to get out of. I then pulled up the power from my centre and transformed into dog form. I then trotted back into the house and barked happily at the house. At that everyone came running in confused at the all white Alsatian stood happily in the room.
Alice came bounding up to me and started stroking my head happily.
"Hey Lizzie you make a really cute dog," She said grinning at everyone's confusion. She hugged me close and explained to the Cullen's what was going on.
"God Lizzie you, couldn't explain this with everything else could you" She feigned irritation but you could see she was happy to tell the story, "Well as you can see there is a big Alsatian in the living room. This is Lizzie, it's comes with being a guardian, but no guardian phases into the same animal. She still has all her speed and strength and everything else from her human form so don't even think about it Emmett."
"Damn" I heard him mutter then Rose slapped him across the head.
It was at this point that Edward, Bella and Nessie came into the room. Edward wasn't surprised to see me as a dog and quickly explained what was going on to Bella and Nessie, then the little girl crawled over to me and clung to my fur as she muttered my name. I nudged her cheek with my nose and her little dimples showed as she grinned.
She then crawled to Jacob and settled in his lap.
Edward can you ask Leah if she will go for a run I need to exercise my legs I thought Edward smiled at me and relayed my question to Leah who agreed.
Then we were outside, Leah was phased and we were running.
As we pushed our selves through the forest and around the boundaries I found myself letting my full self being taken in by my animalistic side for the first time in months, the speed was exhilarating. The wind in my fur felt like the freedom I had been begging for. It made me feel like I was completely safe, when I knew I was far from it.
Out of all the things I told the Cullen's, that was one thing I was going to keep to myself. They couldn't know the type of things guardians went through. Sure, they knew about the dreams but there were worse things in a guardian's life than them. But I didn't even fully understand that yet so how could I explain it to them? They will never know pain like I will go through, the pain that is destined to be for me, the emotional hatred I will have for myself and worse of all the death my destiny will cause, the death I know only half of.
I don't even know who will die.
All those thoughts swam around my head as the trees of all breeds sped past me. The greenness that I will always welcome no matter what happens.
I heard a howl break through my conscious thoughts. I heard the padding of Paws, and the look of awe on the she-wolfs face as she took in my speed then it changed to something else, Challenge. I nodded my head at her and we turned around and raced back to the Cullen's house.
The run back was more enhancing then the run out of there. It was the challenge that did it. I knew I would win with my enhanced speed but still it didn't make it any less of a challenge.
As I got close to the Cullen's I made sure all my thoughts were cleaned of those that had been thought on my run. Edward would hear what I thought and he would tell the rest of them. I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for that at all.
As I closed the distance I saw the clothes laid on the porch. I soon changed in to them and walked in to the cheery atmosphere of the house I had spent a lot of time in the last week.
I heard Leah come in soon after. I grinned at her and she returned it happily. She then left to patrol.
I looked around the room and noticed there were people missing.
"Where are Rose and Emmett?" I asked Bella who was sat reading to Ness.
"Fixing to the Jeep," I grinned at her as she laughed. I noticed Edward come over from where he had been sat at the piano.
"You really know how to take a car apart Liz" Edward said as he sat next to his wife and daughter and put his arm around them. They were the perfect picture of a happy family. The way Bella turned her head to her husband and smiled so bright, he gladly returned it and the beautiful little girl sat smiling at them from Bella's lap. It would be the perfect picture. So I took a picture.
I picked up the camera that was 'coincidently' on the table just in front of them, so as quick as I could I snapped a picture before the perfect moment was over. They must have heard the click as they looked up as I got the camera plugged in the computer with the picture up on screen.
I smiled innocently at them and waved Esme and Alice over to show them the picture
"Awww, it's so sweet" Esme cooed.
"You really have a photographer's eye" Alice said with awe covering her voice.
"Thanks, they just reminded me of my family before my parents got the divorce" Esme gave me a sympathetic look, "they were just so happy back, and now they only talk when they're worried about me, which gets really annoying" Esme put her arm around my shoulders in a motherly way, as Alice hugged me from the other side.
In just a week the Cullen's had accepted me as their own. But that was how they were. I was happy with them, content, they seemed pretty happy with me too it made me smile. Me and my dad were really close. We talked all the time but me and my mom barely spoke, she was human not a guardian. That was why she left. She was aware of my dad being a guardian but after my first dream she knew I was too. She wanted me to be human and couldn't accept that I wasn't. I loved her but she didn't understand me, and I her.
The Cullen's were different, every one of them I could relate to. Jasper and his self hatred, Alice and her craziness, Carlisle and Edward their curiosity, Rosalie and her need to protect those she cares for, Emmett and his sometimes lack of general knowledge, Esme and her love for those she cares for and Bella and her stubbornness.
I heard Edward laugh as I thought the last one but he didn't deny it. I saw Bella give him a questioning glance, then he explained it too her, and a glare was sent my way.
"Love you to Bells" I shouted across the room which caused everyone to laugh as they seemed to know what was going on as they were all eavesdroppers. I shouted that in mind specially for Edward. He shot me a playful glare as his wife had and I being the child I was stuck my tongue out at him.
It was that moment that Rose and Emmett came back in.
Rose came straight to me hugged me and whispered so Emmett couldn't hear.
"Thank you, I have been waiting for someone I liked to be able to take apart a car. Emmett's sobs were worth being able to put that car back together wrong." I laughed as did everyone else, including Jake who half of it was directed to, while Emmett stood there as clueless as ever to what was going on around him.
I smiled innocently at him. Then his face turned wary. I'd smiled innocently a lot that day. Huh. Oh well, more fun for me.
"Rose can you take me home so I can get my car, it just got back yesterday." I asked she threw a questioning glance my way at the 'just got back' I just winked at Jake who was the only one who knew about my baby and the shooting he didn't know anything really but I was going to fill him in on the details, he was good at controlling his thoughts around Edward.
"Doesn't matter Rose" I shouted, as I heard Edward gasp at the mention of shooting at which I grabbed Jakes arm and ran like a bat out of hell.
Thanks for reading, please review, and sorry about the lateness but I was on holiday for two weeks and then I didn't have a clue what to write. xx
