When I woke I was facing the direction of my largest bedroom window. The morning was gray and the no sun was apparent. The rain was steady and light as it blurred everything ourside my window into a gray and green square.
His arms were around me, and I was hugging tight onto his right arm, that was draped over me, to my chest. His hot breath grazed the back of my neck and right ear softly; everytime he exhaled goosebumps rose all over my back and arms.
I spun around softly not to disturb him, and watched him sleep.
His face was all soft, unlike the beautiful planes and hard angles it was when he was awake, but it was still heartbreaking. His raven colored hair covered his eyes and long lashes; I itched to wipe it away. His lips were slightly parted and a soft pink that I loved, I couldnt help but remember how soft they were.
His skin was still beautiful in the dull grey light that didnt match him. I played with his large, graceful hands and sizing them up to mine, I couldnt believe how big they were. My middle finger just clears his palm. I tried to convey how how soft and tender they were last night, but looked as if he could take a bowling ball in one hand and crush it to powder (Which I had no doubt he could do with his freaky shapeshifter/werewolf self).
I repressed a sigh of contemptment and my eyes drifted to his wide chest; It was twice the size of mine, and twice as thick. His shoulders were wide and strong, and his long wry muscles looked to be that of a God. They rippled and bulgged in a smooth pattern from head to toe.
Before I could run my hands all over him, I decided to let him sleep. I silently eased out of my large bed and onto the thick white carpet. I crept, naked, to my closet and pulled out a long, black silk robe and put it on. I shuddered as the cool fabric slithered on my body.
I tip toed down the long wooden stairs and into my kitchen. I fluttered around and made a huge batch of eggs and bacon. Just as I was scooping the last of the eggs onto a plate, long warm arms snaked around my waist and hot lips pressed to my neck, I jumped slightly and laughed with him at my squeaky gasp. His chuckle rumbled in my ear and and vibrated against my body, and just then I realized how thin the material of my silky robe was, how I could feel every inch of his warm body, and how naked I was under it.
I twisted around in his hold and gazed up at his gorgeus face. He held me to his bare chest as I stared into his dark eyes and felt my body seep away from me.
He intruppted my daydreaming by kissing me on the lips and sighing.
"God, your so beautiful..." He reapted over and over as he pecked my mouth with his big lips as I laughed.
I finnally got a grip and playfully shoved him away. "No lying before breakfast. Now shut up, sit down, and eat."
He smirked, a dangerous thing to do when I was thisclose to dragging him back upstairs without eating.
"Yes, master." He mused sarcastically.
I tried to keep my smile away as I handed him his huge plate of food.
"Isnt it Alpha?" I replied laughing.
He gave me a look and rolled his eyes. I sighed as I sat down and pulled out a newspaper. He raised and eyebrow as he shovled a scoop of eggs into his mouth.
"What?" I mumbled through my bite of toast, and flipped to a new page.
He smiled and swallowed his food before speaking, he waved his fork around as he spoke. "Can you understand all reading in English? I mean, I wouldnt have known if you told me that you grew up in Europe, but I didnt know they were that extensive in teaching foreign languages..."
I rolled my eyes and sighed heavily, this was going to be a long talk. I decided to just take the big stinkin' bull my the horns, or i'd never get through this.
"I was born in California on May 2, 1652. My father was a Spanish explorer who was claiming land for Spain, and my mother came with him after he met and married her in Romania. They settled in California since it belonged to spain, and I grew up there in a small town with a girl named Rebbecca. Her father and mine were distant cousins or something. Well, I made friends with the one of the Native American girls there named Oloki with Becca. Oloki was sixteen when she was married and pregnat with her first baby. Her husband, Atkan, was only a couple years older than us. He was also the Cheif's son, and a nice man; even though he used to put frogs in our skirts when we were little...
"Well, anyway, one day I was visiting them a couple day's after Oloki had her baby. And after she fell asleep, Atkan asked if he could speak to me. At first I was afraid that something was wrong with the baby, or he had to go off to war with one of the nearby tribes and wanted me to watch Oloki. But he took me into the woods, and told me that I had the spirit of the Panther inside me, and so did Becca. Even though he was twenty, and a married man, I thought he was was joking like when were were little. But he kept trying to warn me, and telling me that a white man came and asked if they knew us from the town nearby. Atkan lied and told him no because he was afraid he was up to no good, and before the man left he told Atkan that the two girls were 'werecats' and needed to be warned. Atkan didnt believe it but followed the man after he left the village and saw him phase. He knew he was telling the truth and came to tell me.
"Becca was the first to phase, she was afraid and didnt tell anyone. The white man, Charles came back and found her. They became friends and agreed to wait until I phased. One day, I was at the river with Becca, Oloki, and her baby and a bear came out of the trees... I didnt know what happened, I just phased. Oloki wasnt afraid of me, and said she has heard of stories like this. Make a very long story short, I met Charles and he explained everything. He was disantly related to us, and said it was genetic. We had no choice. Becca and I coped, and after awhile people were becoming suspicous of us. We wern't aging, and we refused to get married. Eventually, Becca and I convinced Charles to take us back to Europe and we could live there since werewolves weren't here anymore, and Russia and Romania were having pest problems. Eventually, we met up with the rest of the pack over time. Charles stopped phasing first and got married, then after a while the rest of the pack stopped and settled down too. Now they all live in different places, but I continued to work. I just... couldnt stop. I had no reason to."
I looked up from the tablecloth I was mangling with my hands. He stared at me as my stomach started to desend to my knees, he barley breathed.
"What?" I squeaked after a solid minute as he stared at me with his eyebrows pushed together and like I jsut said something that requires me to be admitted, which actaually, I think I just did.
He oozed out of his frozen expression and smiled. "Your almost four hundred years old?"
I nodded heavily, and felt the large lump in my throat throb. And then he looked at me seriously and then his face crumpled. He practically took the table with him as he came to my side of the table and crouched in front of me.
"Ave, whats wrong?" He asked urgantly, and wiped something off my cheek.
I reached up to see what was on my face and saw it was a tear. Damn me.
"Your not freaked out?" I whispered.
He raised my chin with his fingers and looked me in the eye. "Avery," He sighed and closed his eyes. "I am not freaked out. Sorry I spaced out for a sec, I was just trying to wrap my head around how old you were. Not that its a bad thing, you dont look a day over sixteen, but... ya'know." He smiled and pressed his forehead to mine. "I've always had a problem wrapping my head around that. I cant imagine that happening to myself. Although its been about fifteen years, I look in the mirror everymorning and expect to see a middle aged man."
I felt my lips pull into a slight smirk. "That passes in about forty years, we all did it."
He pulled away and looked me in the face again, he face torn between embarassed and amused. "Well then, I guess I feel better." He pressed his lips to mine.
He heard them first.
"arrrggghhhhhh...." He groaned between my lips.
"Wh-at." I said between kisses.
We continued to kiss as he spoke one syllable words. "Quil. Claire. Seth. Paul. Jake. Jared. And. I. Think. Kim." He pulled away to finish the sentence. "There on their way. I hear the girls in the car." He kissed me again. "But, the boys are running." He kissed me again.
It was my turn to Groan between our lips. I felt him smile. "I know..."
A spilt second later, we both stopped at the intake of breath I inhaled. I opened my eyes and he was looking at me questioningly, with his mouth slightly parted and his lips a soft red from kissing.
Right then, I felt them. Like you knew when your family was in the other room and you wernt alone. You knew.
I felt my face stretch to fit the smile I was plastering to it. I could see all my teeth in his dark eyes.
I untangled myself out of his arms and ran to the door screaming joyfully. I flung the door open and jumped into Eziel's open arms.
"Oh my God!" I gasped and hugged him tightly. I pressed my face into his long brown hair.
The fact that they were all here willing to die completly flitted my mind. I was just so happy to see them I could practically burst.
Emma, Remora and Becca were both laughing as I squoze them to my chest. When I finally released them, I realized that Jacob, Paul, Quil, Jared, and Sam just emerged out of the woods in human form and looked bigger than ever.
Andre, Azra, Ethan and Eziel crouched in front of me and the three girls I had clutched to me. The wolves knew who they were, but still crouched in defense.
To my horror, I realized that they were challenging each other. Before I could stop it, a snarl eurupted from my throat. I lept in front of a crouched eziel and put my hand on his chest.
"Eziel! Stop! Andre, stop hissing!" I snapped and turned to the boys. "Its okay, they dont know yet!"
I was frantically trying to stop the frenzy before it began and someone in my pack attempted to phase. But paul was still shaking, and I realized so was Ethan as they stared each other down.
"Ethan, stop it!" I screamed and ran to him. I braced myself between the two and put my hand on Ethans face and looked him the eye. "Ethan! Please stop, stop! They're my friends. Its okay, they're helping me." It wasnt working, he was still staring at a blurring paul.
"EMBRY!" I screamed at th house. I looked out at Sam who was still locking eyes with Eziel. "Sam stop Paul! Ethan wants to phase!"
Just then Embry leapt out of the house and ran in front of me, I was still kneeled down and held Ethan's face in my hands. He looked at me asking.
"Get paul to stop! We cant back down from a challenge. He'll die if paul keeps challenging him." I looked back to see that jake and Sam were both trying to calm paul down. I could tell he was trying to stop, but couldnt. Just like Ethan couldnt. A whimper esacaped me.
Embry's eyes flashed down to mine then he grabbed paul and shoved him inot he forrest.
He stared at me increduoulsy and started to relax a bit, but he was still trembling. After Paul was gone with Embry, everything instantly calmed. Ethan came back to normal and he stopped shaking.
I sighed in releif and clutched him to me.
"Dont you ever do that to me again!" I said into his chest as he held me to him. He pressed his lips to my head and laughed. "Sorry, Ave. We didnt know."
I nodded and swallowed down the lump in my throat.
I pulled away and looked up at his dull brown eyes. He was smiling as if nothing happened. I rolled my eyes and shoved him in the shoulder playfully.
I looked at the drive way and Kim, Claire, and Seth just arrived in Seth's old car. They walked out and towards us warily.
I just realized that I was only wearing my robe, and everyone just saw Embry come out of my house only in cut offs. I turned and saw Azra and Andre snickering. Eziel and the girls were all smiling naughtily in the corner of my eye. The wolves were all smiling just as knowingly.
"So," Remora started flashing a white smile, her vivid green eyes were leering. "You have been naughty, haven't you?" She asked cocking an eyebrow. I rolled my eyes and felt my face redden and ignored the chortling.
"Shut up Rem. Just come inside and i'll explain everything. Everyone followed me inside into the living room and I went up stairs to change.
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I was hesitant to coming out, I stayed at the kitchen door and waited for her to finish as I watched the food grow cold.
I leant against the counter top and closed my eyes and tried to remember if i've ever been this happy.
Nope.
I thought back to last night and after she fell asleep. I was too happy to sleep so I just watched her as she clutched herself to me. I was surprised at her warmth, and a little interested on how warm she was. She felt to be the same or a bit warmer than I was I wondered what the difference in temperature was between a dog and a cat was.
I smiled at that thought. So, what did the almighty sam think to that, huh? So maybe it wasn't genetics that lured us to each other. Maybe it was the sheer will of love.
She kept mumbling her pack's names and mine. I felt bad for her to not be around them, I can tell she loves them. I couldnt help but also feel a little angry that they just let her leave like that on her own. Let her roam the earth for the rest of eternity by herself, why didnt they see how alone she was?
I pushed away those thoughts, I shouldn't think of them like that and not even know them. Besides, it hurt too much to think of her in pain.
I put my thoughts into yesterday, and how she looked in her panther form. Even phased she was gorgeous. Her eyes didnt change, and she was graceful as ever. I still dont understand how she could convey that I think of her as a monster.
She wasn't. She was the small, beautiful little angel I held in my arms all night. She was the angel that agreed that we both belonged together, and last night wasn't a mistake. For normal humans who didnt love each other like we did, maybe. But not us.
I love her, so much, it physically hurts....
"EMBRY"
My sensed flared, and my heart lurched from me as I hurled myself towards the door.
Three women stood still in shock, the guys were in human from but stood defensively. Three men stood in front of them in position of protecting the three girls, everyone looked okay and seemed to be straightening out, except Paul and a man that Avery was knelt in front of. Her eyes were glassy and panicked. She held his head in her hands and she was looking into the man's eyes and speaking to him. His fists were clutched to his sides and I realized he was trying not to phase. His eyes were locked with Pauls.
When I tore in front of her, she looked up to me. Her face was twisted in potential horror, she answered the question I couldn't speak.
"Get Paul to stop! We cant back down from a challenge. He'll die if paul keeps challenging him." We both looked to see that sam was trying to calm Paul down, but he couldnt stop either.
A whimper of pain came from her, and tore a serrating flash of fire through my heart. The angel was holding the man's face in her tiny hands tenderly, I could see the fear etched in her face.
I lunged myself at paul and shoved his quivering body into the forest. I motioned Sam and Jake to stay.
When I dragged Paul far enough away, he sat down on a fallen spruce tree and buried his face into his arms.
"Sorry, man. I guess we surprised them. And after that one locked eyes with me, I couldnt help it.... I tried....."
I sighed and sat down next to him. " S'okay, man. I saw you were trying to stop."
He nodded and straightened out. He laid his head back against a long branch that stuck up. We were silent for a minute, until he started to snigger.
"What?" I asked and closed my eyes again.
"I see that someone didnt go home last night, and a certain girl seemed to be wearing a robe at this time of morning. Which, tells me that that someone had a sleepover and didnt have time to change."
I opened my eyes and the same time I snapped a branch off the tree and speared it at him, he grabbed it midair and tossed it over his shoulder.
"Shut up," I muttered.
He laughed. "Its okay man, we're all big Wereboys and Weregirls." He sighed. "But hey, isnt this imprinting stuff cool? I'm telling you, it never gets old. You will wake up every morning and the love will be stronger than ever." He snorted a laugh before he said. "And hey, isnt the night thing a fun little past time?"
I rolled my eyes and shoved him playfully.
"Come on, lets go perv, before I remind jake that your doing his sister." It was my turn to laugh has he sobered and frowned. "Yeah, dude, that's really not cool."
I threw my head back and laughed. "Well, we all suffer. It's all you think about."
He smirked. "Its not all I think about. Besides, you'll see how it is soon enough."
I rolled my eyes again and shoved off the log.
When we walked in everyone was sitting in the living room and laughing. A woman who looked to be in her late twenties sat at Avery's left side. She had light brown hair and blue eyes. The woman who sat on her right looked to be about twenty. She almost looked like a super model. She had raven black hair that hung to her waist and nearly lime, green eyes. They were vivid and framed by black lashes almost as long as Avery's and touched her face when she blinked. She was leant over and talking to Kim and Claire who were laughing so hard no sound came out of their mouths. The three men were talking to the guys. The one that almost phased had dull brown hair and eyes. Another had shoulder length hair that was a rich, chocolate brown. His eyes were also black brown like Aves. His face was kind and serene, almost the same kindness at Carlisle's. But still held humorous demeanor.
The third and fourth were twins, and had fiery scarlet hair and sky blue eyes. They stood, arms crossed, and watched over the situation as they kept an eye over the girls.
Avery caught my eye and smiled widely. The girls furrowed their brows at her expression and followed the direction she was beaming at. They smiled once they saw.
She leapt off the couch and led me into the living room with Paul following behind. She introduced me to the Brunet woman as Rebecca, the girl with green eyes was Remora, the man who almost phased was Ethan, the Twins were Andre and Azra, Eziel was the man with long hair and who Avery told me she was friends with. And she introduced a small blonde woman who came out of the kitchen with a tray of coffee and mugs as Emma.
While everyone sat and drank their coffee, Avery told them everything and told them why the werewolves wanted them there.
Eziel was the first to speak after Ave finished. "Avery, we all knew that. But what could we do? Let them come here and kill you?" He asked appallingly. Like he didn't believe it.
She shook her head and rubbed her eyes tiredly. "Eziel. That would be better than all of you dying to save a lost cause? No, never…" She whipped her head up and her eyes flashed darkly as she stared him down. For a moment, I saw the panther inside her and shivered at the sudden flush of fear I felt. "If anything happens Eziel, you let me die. You will all go back to your husbands, wives, and children. None of you will fight for me." her words hung in the air as she spoke through bared teeth.
And even though she was talking to her pack, mine crouched under the power of her words. Even Sam looked a bit jostled.I felt a flash of fire run through me as I replayed what she said. She caught my trembling hands and gripped them to reassure me, but it didn't help.
Her pack all glanced at each other warily, like they weren't sure.
Remora spoke. "Avery," Started the pretty woman, she sounded almost at luring as a vampire. "What are you going to do? We don't know if the legends are true? None of us has seen anyone die trying to re-phase…" She trailed off at the death glare Avery was giving her.
"And what Remora? Try and Phase?" Aver all but snarled. "Why would you do that? You just got married! No, its totally out of the question. Your going back to South Africa to Eric and that's it!" She was fuming and I had hold on to her hand incase she burst from the couch in sheer fury.
Just then there was a knock at the door that echoed through the sharp silence. Everyone looked to the door and I offered to get it incase Avery combusts in anger.
When I opened the door there was a girl, who looked to be about Seth's age. She was tiny and pretty like Avery. She had dark brown hair, that had a red tint as rare the sun reflected off of it, that hung passed her shoulders. Her eyes were black brown and held the same intensity of Eziel's, and that's when I realized that he was somehow related to her…
She looked up to me, and took in my size with wide eyes. And then she spoke.
"Is Avery here?" She all but whispered in an English accent, but it wasn't enough for Avery not to here.""No…" Avery all but hissed as she heard the voice. I then heard Sam's command for Seth to sit back down in Quileute.
She was at the door. "Iza! What the hell are you doing here? Eziel, come say hello to your Daughter!" She snapped and turned back to the living room as she spun on her heel.
I looked down to the girl, she held a sheepish expression and I instantly felt bad for her. I smiled and led her inside.
Eziel's mouth was pressed into a thin line, and Avery had her eyes narrowed into slits. The pack all had their eyes on Seth, I was confused for a minute until I took in the expression no one but my pack noticed, Seth imprinted.
"Dad?" She mumbled and hid some dark hair in front of her face. She looked around the room and glanced at my pack, and then looked back down once she caught Seth's expression.
"Iza," He sighed and buried his face into his hands. "Does your mother know you're here?"
She shook her head and fiddled with a button on her coat. "I told her I was in Manchester to see Grandmum." Her accent was very pronounced, and I felt like a weight was pressing on my chest the more Seth stared at her. Jake and Quil kept sharing panicky look.
"Why would you do that? Why did you leave London?"
She opened her mouth but no words came out. I could tell she was starting to crack under the weight of everyone staring at her. She gave a once more glance around the room before mouthing, "I came to help..."
Eziel gave a snort in disbelief, the girl werecats hissed. Avery snarled, and Seth started to quake.
"And," Eziel locked eyes with his daughter, "how, for the love of England, do you suppose you were going to help?"
The tiny girl looked down once more to her shoes. "I phased."
Her words hung in the air. Avery's mouth dropped and Eziel's face turned to one of horror.
The other werecats all shared a worried glance, I assumed they had children also, and instantly thought of them.
"What?" Eziel choked and stumbled towards his daughter.
Her shoulders started to heave and she started to cry. I sat her down and glared at Seth until he sat back down.
Eziel sat next to her and she buried her head into his chest. He smoothed her hair down as she sobbed and tried to speak.
"I wanted to tell you, I was just afraid. It happened when Azra came and brought Nicole and Justin to visit. Remember when we all went to the woods? Well, We were in the trees and I fell out of one. It just happened, I thought I was going to die and break my neck but I phased into what you used to tell me in stories when I was little. I was afraid to tell you… I just couldn't. I was afraid that it meant I had to leave you guys, I thought you would make me leave London." He hugged her tight and continued to stare into Avery's eyes, they both wore the same expression of horrid worry.
"I'm ss-oorr-rry" She gasped through sobs. Eziel snapped out of his trance and murmured to her.
"Iza, shhhhhh….. Its okay. Your not going anywhere. Your staying with me. Don't worry. You don't have to be afraid."
She started to calm after a moment. She pulled away and took the tissue Remora gave to her. Avery stood and sat next to them. She ran her hands through the girls silky hair.
"Iza, don't be afraid. Everything will be okay, its not your fault."
Iza dabbed her red eyes, and wiped a lock of hair from her face. Even after crying, she looked prettier than ever.
When the phone rang, I took the chance to steal a glace at Seth. Jared and Paul both had a steel grip on his upper arms. Seth looked closed to crying himself as he unconsciously leaned towards her.
Avery picked up the phone with a sigh.
"Hello?"
Avery? Its Bella, is Jake around?
Avery furrowed her brow. "Yes, hold on."
She handed the phone to Jake.
"'Ello?"
Jake, you all need to get here. Alice saw something. Hurry, Edward and her are on their way back. She said something about another panther. Tell Ave she needs to get here ASAP. The Voultri have something to do with this.
He nodded and hung up. He knew we all heard and started the orders. "Ok, Ave you run with us. Iza, this probably has to do with you, too, so it'd be better if you came. Claire and Kim will show the rest of you guys how to get to the Cullen's. Kim, call Nessie for me and tell her I'm on my way."
With that he and the other wolves slipped out the back door. Ave and I looked at each other and nodded in understanding. Ave took Iza's hand and we fell in behind the wolves.
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Come on.... No praise? You all know what I want.... and it has to do with a certain little review..... or two.
How do ya like it? Think I should do an Iza and Seth story? I know that I am for sure going to put in their POVS now too. But I don't think I'm going to get too kinky with them.. Unless you want me to. lolol jkjkjk.
Come on, after Breaking Dawn I fell a teenisy bit in love with seth too. He's so cute! I need to hook him up in my story!!!
