Kai comes from another story of mine on another profile called "I regret everything right now", I do this a lot. Huh? I just happen to feel like Meyer sucked at creating the other halves of some of the character's she just scrapped the tops of.
Like Rosalie for example? Shes not expanded past a vapid attention whore of a victim. Rose has so much potential, like holy crap. Or theres Carlisle, a 23 year old cutie that makes a great dad in the books, nothing else is said about him. HES LIVED FOR LIKE 300 YEARS, HES GOT TO HAVE A PERSONALITY.
I was calmed down by Jake pretty easily, especially after I realised just how shook up he must be. It wasn't like he was warned about it, he thought that Sam was the cause for the guys slowly disappearing and reappearing. I can only imagine his surprise whenever he popped a tail and was told it was actually the Cullen's fault.
Jake took us home, he carried me most of the way despite Kai saying she could just take me in the truck. After spending an hour around Sam when Kai was around, I almost felt bad for the couple. She was love sick in the most despondent way but at the same time he seemed overwhelmingly happy about it.
Paul mentioned Leah Clearwater when I asked about the three scars on Kai's neck...which gave the entire room a choking feeling. They definitely had some history there. It sounded like they'd been drunk and Leah jumped her after the whole Sam incident. I felt like Kai got a lot of back lash considering Sam and Leah were like the prime couple of the reservation and she'd essentially broken them up by existing.
I didn't want any of that. I wasn't into the whole destined to be this thing with this person deal. I wanted choices, I wanted to feel free to do whatever I wanted and right now my first efforts were going towards staying in Fork's high school.
Jake, set me down onto my feet in front of our front door with a frown. "You okay? " He raised a brow as I grunted and started moving towards opening the door before I stopped and looked back at him.
"What are we telling mom?" I whispered heatedly, ignoring the buzzing in my pocket. Jake seemed to rack his mind for a second, his frown deepened.
"How about...you...fell down in the forest...and...cut yourself?" He tilted his head as I thought about the plausibility of that. My mother was more likely to just be happy I was okay but I felt like Billy had to of told her something. She wasn't about to just sit there and take it silently.
"I wonder if Billy's told her anything yet." I pursed my lips as we stood right out the door, discussing it.
"I think Sam said something about you falling and going to a hospital. Lets just stick to vague, you passed out in the trees, Sam found you right as I did and we went to the hospital." He sighed, taking a step forwards to open the door.
I put my hand over his frowning at his posture. "Jake, I really don't blame you. If anything I blame her." I tried to make him feel a little better about it all. He just sort of robotically shrugged as he opened the door and motioned for me to go inside. His shoulders were hunched forwards and his face was tired looking as I walked past slowly.
"Helena? Is that you?" My mother's mommy senses seemed to be tuned to a point today.
"Yeah, mom." I answered quickly. She came around the corner at a speedy walk, her hair was flat and dead looking while her eyes had circles under them. It seemed like she stayed up all night. I felt a pang of guilt at that.
"Oh thank goodness. I was so worried." She mumbled as she hugged my neck, she was careful to not jostle my torso which meant she knew about that bit.
"Maybe it's a good time to talk about her transferring..." Billy started, he sounded like he was in the living room.
She pulled away, tsking him almost. "Oh no. She's going to go right upstairs and rest. You can try to piss her off later, honey." She started to usher me up the stairs and into my bedroom. Jake seemed to have followed her along and sat in the corner as my mother darted in and out with different things.
She came in at first with green tea then she came in with a heating pad and asked if I thought it might help the pain. I just told her I was fine, so she left the heating pad there and came back with a cold pac maybe 10 minutes later. I was slowly realizing she was trying to take care of me but right this minute I was just more into rest.
"Momma, I'm okay. I promise, thank you for the chocolate though. I think I'm just going to try and sleep a little." I confessed quickly.
"Alright. Do you have your cell on you?" She paused, slowly nodding. I nodded back.
"Good. Call me immediately if we don't hear you downstairs and you need something." She held up a finger and demonstrated her intensity with each point.
"Alrightty." I raised a brow, a little thrown at how she was being.
"Okay. Good. We'll leave you alone." She kissed my forehead softly which made my chest fill with warm feelings.
"Jake can stay. Hes super quiet." I declared when she motioned for him to leave. She seemed to sigh and nodded, closing the door just so behind her.
I'd forgotten what it was like when I was hurt or sick with my mother. When I was little and I got sick, I'd hit a high fever easy so she kept me on the couch where she could see me at all times. My dad's life insurance policy meant she technically didn't have to work but I think it took her mind off of things when she wrote for her magazine company, it definitely gave her a reason to get out of the house.
"How are you holding up?" I asked softly when he didn't speak for a few minutes. He looked almost like a stone as he sat in the corner of my room, staring blankly out the window.
He turned his eyes towards mine and shrugged, "Could be better,". He sat back into the chair, letting his feet dangle out in front of him. They almost touched the edge of my bed.
I watched him for a few seconds longer, jumping to his features and how much they'd filled out in a few weeks. His frame was twice the size it'd been a year ago and his face made him look more like a 20 year old guy than the 15 year old he actually was. It felt unfair. Why did Jake have to grow up over night because of leeches in the next town over? Everything had changed in a single day. I didn't like it. It was too fast for me. If everything went according to Billy's plan, I'd be in
"My birthday is coming up." I mentioned offhandedly, analysing his reaction.
A small smile popped up onto his face. "The seventeenth of all the birthday's you'll get to have. Still can't drive worth a crap though." He snorted. I felt a smile pop up onto my face as well, it was funny. My 15 year old brother could race me out of town easy.
I felt my phone buzzing in my pocket again and pulled it out, the screen read out Alice in bright black letters against the blue background. I pursed lip's seriously considering whether or not I wanted to answer this.
"Are you going to answer her?" Jake's voice drifted across over the sound of the buzzing.
"I dunno. I'm starting to feel bad." I shrugged, beginning to frown. She'd been calling and messaging since yesterday I think.
"You're feeling bad...for a blood-sucker?" He asked incredulously.
"I'm weird, I know." I sighed and nodded, hitting the reject button. I didn't want to deal with her right now. I'd probably deal with her when I got to school.
It'd been close to three days before I felt good enough to get back to school the Thursday after I'd hung out with Alice for the first and probably last time. Billy hadn't breached the subject of me leaving Forks yet, most likely due to my mother's insistence.
I was sitting in my car, staring out the windshield blankly at the full parking lot. Jake told me I should just try my best to ignore the Cullens, stay out of their way. But at the same time I felt awful with every day as Alice's messages started to clutter my phone. She seemed to have spent the last few days on her phone since she'd seen me. I'm pretty sure that all the crap she paid for was still in the woods somewhere.
I was pretty much just wondering how I hadn't realised what the Cullens were when I'd grown up on the reservation. I heard all the legends close to once a month if we went to the bonfires, and when my mother married Billy we always went. She'd even tried to connect the dots for me in the car but I was just too stupid to realize what she was alluding too.
There was a quick tap at my window that made me jump a little. "Christ!" I hissed, putting a hand over my heart. Alice's angry face looked back at me through the glass as she pulled the door open, standing there with her hands on her hips.
"Has your phone just stopped freaking working?" She barked, throwing her hands up in the air. Her voice was sharp like glass cutting through my ears.
I mutely shook my head in response. "Oh? Can I see it?" She held out her hand, looking expectantly at my pockets. I pulled it out of my pocket and slowly handed it to her, not really sure of why I'd hand my phone to her.
"I knew it." She caught my bandaged hand, seemingly starting to fume as she stared at it. She took the phone from my hands and moved too quickly for me to catch her, pulling up my shirt just enough to see the bandages wrapped around my stomach.
"Alice!" I hissed her name with some annoyance as I jerked my shirt back down over my stomach, covering the wraps.
"He got you twice." Her face had darkened several levels that I didn't think were possible for someone as little and perky as Alice. I was almost a little scared, she was worrying me if nothing else. I knew she couldn't go onto our lands to hurt Jake but it sure as hell looked like she wanted too.
She turned and looked towards where her siblings were. "Cat!" She waved her arm at the blonde who nodded, starting to walk over to where we were without Jasper. She seemed to have speed walked, stopping next to Alice who had already undone my seat belt by now. Alice moved fast, too fast for me to even see at this point.
"He hurt her. I told you." She hissed, crossing her arms over her chest as she glowered at Catharin. I heard a crack and realised she'd crushed my phone with a bit of annoyance but some how I felt like it'd almost repaid my debt of ignoring her for a while.
"Well your visions were all choppy and I didn't want to get our asses handed to us by her brother. We both know how volatile they are when they're younger, Jazz would have never gone for it." She defended heatedly.
"Just heal her! She's been like this for days now." Alice brandished the cracked phone in my direction, she sounded desperate and worried over the anger.
I raised a brow at this, moving away from the pale blonde woman who sighed and nodded looking back to me. "Alright. This won't hurt a bit, Helena." She smiled at me softly. I'm sure it was supposed to be comforting but I wasn't very comforted.
She put her hands over my stomach, they were just lightly resting there but I didn't think I wanted them there. "What are you doing?" I asked with some panic building in my chest when I felt something warm start in my stomach. It didn't feel like it was me which made me think it was whatever Catharin was doing.
"You obviously already know what we are thanks to your idiot brother, her gift is healing humans. Her mate's is manipulating emotions and Edward's is to read thoughts." Alice explained in a dry voice.
"Hes not an idiot." I hissed as I took a wild guess that she meant Jasper could manipulate emotions. That didn't bode well for me which just made me try to pull away from Catharin.
"You're right. I'm sorry, I'm just really angry with you and him right now." Alice apologized as she caught my leg, keeping me in place and squeezed it gently. "She's not going to hurt you, especially if I'm standing here. Plus it's Cat, she'd never hurt you." She gave me a pinched smile as I bit my lip.
This image didn't quite match with the one Paul and Sam had painted me while I was at Kai's place. I was more or less expecting her to tell me to stay on my land and away from her family, maybe some growling or teeth in my arm but instead she just seemed worried for me instead of hateful. I pursed my lips as the pain ebbed away in my torso into nothing and Alice drew circles into my thigh.
