Chapter 7 – Diner Disaster

"Well Well, if it isn't Khloe Knight. The one girl who can run faster than anyone on an Olympic team."

That voice. It was familiar...And yet somehow it wasn't at the same time. Khloe cringed when he came into view from the diner's door.

Seth growled, "Don't start Paul." Paul threw a glare at Seth, "Watch your mouth kid." His eyes traveled back to Khloe, "What the hell are you doing back in La Push?" Khloe quirked an eyebrow at Paul, "You don't own the reservation I can live here if I'd like." Paul growled, "Bullshit. I'm going to the council about this. I don't want her living on the rez." Khloe's eyes narrowed, "Well I hate to burst your bubble there mister attitude, but I own a home on the rez so you're shit out of luck."

Paul scowled, "I'll burn it to the ground before I see you living on the rez with my people." Khloe's eyes widened in shock, "You're people? Suddenly you're the only Quileute alive that lives here? I'm just as much a Quileute as you and the next person." Paul's scowl deepened, "You ran away from your people...You think they are just going to let you come back after what? 8 years?" Khloe stood up as she looked up at Paul, "What? I left for family reasons and suddenly I'm not Quileute anymore?"

Paul growled, "California trash is more like it. I heard you had a baby out of wedlock. Kind of a whorish thing to do don't you think? A half Quileute, half white trash baby? Just what we need a mutt running around our land." Khloe's heart sank as she felt tears prick her eyes. Khloe frowned, "That's what you think? You think my child is a mutt?" Paul scoffed, "I don't think I know. The sooner you and it leave the better off the people on the rez will be."

Seth growled as he took a step towards Paul, Quil and Embry grabbed Seth's arms; Jake shot a look at Quil and Embry, "Get him out of here now." They nodded as they pulled back on Seth's arms and slowly moved him out of the diner.

"Momma."

Khloe sighed heavily as she heard her daughters voice. A few minutes earlier she'd excused herself from the table to use the rest room. Khloe was suddenly thankful her daughter hadn't heard the hateful words come from Paul's mouth. Khloe looked down at her daughter, "Sami...C'mon let's go home." Sami's eyebrows shot up, "What about dinner?" Nola moved away from Jake, "I'll get it to go for you guys." Khloe nodded.

Khloe looked over and noticed Jake hadn't taken his eyes off Paul and was shaking slightly, like at any minute he was going to lay into Paul physically and verbally. Khloe touched Jake's forearm as he finally looked towards Khloe, she held out her car keys, "Can you take Sami to the car for me please?" She smiled softly as she watched Jake take the keys and he held out his hand and Khloe nodded for Samantha to go with him and she did.

Khloe waited until they'd left the diner and were at her car before she turned to Paul as she glared at him, "How DARE you! How dare you think that you can come over here and speak to me like that and speak about my child that way! You are a brute and a bully and you need to have your head knocked off your shoulders Paul Redson. I don't know what gives you the right to come up to me and talk to me like that but you will not ever speak to me like that again, and if you do you don't need to speak to me at all."

Khloe stormed past Paul and out the diner doors, she was stopped short when a hand grabbed her upper arm and she was jerked back to face the scowling face of Paul, she jerked her arm out of his grasp, "Let go of me you asshole." Paul growled deeply, "You're the one who ran away and then you come back here like nothing happened. You need to pack up your mutt and you need to hit the bricks. No one wants you here and no one needs you here." Khloe glared at Paul, "That beautiful little girl over there who you seem to love attacking who never hurt anyone in her life. That beautiful bright hearted girl who you can't stop calling a mutt...Go ahead and keep saying to Paul...I dare you. I DARE YOU to keep calling her that!"

"SHE'S A FUCKIN MUTT!" Paul practically snarled through his clenched teeth.

Khloe blinked as tears slid down her cheeks, she watched as he clenched his fists and his chest rose and fell at a fast rate. She shook her head she turned to leave, but stopped as she walked back over to him she locked eyes with Paul, "That mutt...She's your daughter. And you're nothing more than a heartless bastard."

Khloe turned as she walked to the car and got in making sure Sami was belted in and left to go back to the house.

Sami reached over and touched her mom's hand, "Momma, Are you ok?" Khloe looked over as she tried to contain the tears sliding down her cheeks as she nodded, "Yes baby." Khloe reached over as she ran her hand through Sami's beautiful raven colored hair. Sami frowned, "Was that guy a bad man?" Khloe shook her head, "No baby...He just said some mean things. He'll regret it one day."

Once they got home, they went head and ate their dinner. Seth called to check on them both to make sure they were okay. Khloe thanked Seth for calling to check up on them. He always had been one of the sweeter guys. Once Khloe had gotten Sami in the bathtub, cleaned, in her night clothes and into bed, she started unpacking a few things.

She hadn't meant to tell Paul like that. She'd tried telling him over the span of her pregnancy but he'd never return her calls. After 9 months of carrying Samantha she just gave up on trying to tell Paul he was going to be a father. She was brought out of her thoughts when there was a knock on the front door. She checked the time it was almost 11 PM. Khloe walked over and opened the door.

Yea she was really not really surprised Paul was staring back at her.