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Chapter 9

Can Things Get Any Worse

The ride home was silent. Well, not completely silent. Aunt Alice kept telling me about how my parents were going to be so mad at me and how she already was. I sighed, and then decided to stop listening to Alice rant on about it. Who were those strange people with Derek? All I knew was that they were a bad influence on him. They seemed so...animal like. The exact same way Derek was, pretty with eyes that looked big yet focused. The only difference I could tell was that Derek wasn't strong and he smelt human. Unlike the others that gave off a wild fragrance. Suddenly, things came to conclusion.

They were the ones who killed all those people. They had manipulated Derek into being their "friend". They were werewolves, Derek was not. So that only meant one thing. The thought brought sorrow upon me. I felt like dying to know that they were going to change Derek into a werewolf. That had to be their plan, just to increase their power, their pack. Maybe they'd already changed Derek and that's why he'd looked so different lately. No! He was so innocent! Derek can't become a werewolf, because that would mean we'd have to kill him. Because Derek would no longer be Derek. He'd be a savage beast, a monster. He would be dangerous to people, to me. I had to do something, but something inside me said that I was already too late. Those wolves had him right where they wanted him. Under their paws and never to be released. Aunt Alice noticed my worry and just took it as fear because I was about to be in trouble. Right now I didn't care about how my parents would punish me. I had to worry about Derek. My anxiety started to come to an end as I entered the house and smelt Jacob's scent. My father already read my thoughts and stopped Alice from telling them about the incident.

"Nessie, I'm sorry for leaving. I just had to get some distance, you know? I-" Jacob was stopped by my facial expression.

"Dad", I barely said, "Derek is...he...they..." I couldn't make a sentence, but my dad understood what I meant and said it for me,

"Renesmee might have run into the girl and another wolf. Can you show me her face?" I did as he said, but it took a while because I wasn't focused on the girl. I was too busy staring at Derek.

"Yes, it's her!", my father exclaimed, "And you saw Derek with them? He seemed so human, but what do we know. It's not like we know much about their kind, except for the obvious."

"No!", was all I could get out, "I mean, Derek can't be a werewolf! We'd have to kill him too!"

"Hold up! Who the hell is this Derek kid, huh?" Jacob asked.

"He's my friend. Well, he was at least..." I mumbled the last sentence.

"Friend? Since when do you have friends?" Jacob said surprised.

It kind of hurt my feelings because it felt like he was saying I was a loner that didn't have "friends". Not like a normal human would at least. Jacob realized that he'd said something wrong. He opened his mouth to apologize, but let it go because he didn't know what to say. What could he say? "Nessie, I'm sorry you have no life.". That'd just make things worse. And I think I've felt enough pain and sadness in one day.

"Derek might still be human though." Esme said after a moment of silence.

"Well even if he is he's still with them. It's not like he'd listen to us anyways." Uncle Em told her.

"We can't just kill a human, Emmett! Especially not a little boy." Aunt Rose said.

"What are we supposed to do then?" he said coldly. She didn't answer, so Uncle Em let go of his hard look and wrapped his arm around her, trying to comfort her.

"I guess we have no other choice." my father said.

"What?" I yelled. What was he thinking? We can't just kill Derek.

"If he's in the way then we'll have to, if he surrenders...well, he surrenders."

"We should discuss this when Carlisle comes back." Esme said. I silently thanked her because I couldn't listen to another word of them saying that they were going to kill Derek. I thought about what Esme said and realized that Carlisle was gone.

"Where is he?" I asked. Jacob was the one who answered,

"He's still taking care of Embry because of your special little friend, or should I say "ex-friend"."

"Hey, this wasn't Derek's fault at all! This was actually you guys' fault for being so cocky and chasing after the thing! They were just defending themselves anyways; it seems like you all are the villains in this."

"Shesh Ness, when did you become so defensive?" Uncle Em said with a smile on his face.

"I'm not being defensive. I'm just stating the facts and you all know it's true." No one said anything and they just sat there like statues, while Jacob began to look sad for hurting me.

I sighed, "Jacob, what's going on with Embry? I mean, is he getting better?"

"Well, his body's healing himself again and he's not seeing weird things anymore. I guess that's a plus. Carlisle says he should be better in a couple weeks."

"That's good."

Jake nodded. "So who is this kid anyways?"

"I already told you. He's my frie-...I mean he was my friend."

"I know that. What I mean is...who is he? You know, how did he become your friend? How he got in your life?"

"He was homeless and it's a long story, but in the end Esme and Rosalie let him in so it's technically their fault." I started to glare at them then they looked at the ground, and if they were human, they would probably be blushing.

"Ahhh." Jacob said, understandingly.

Carlisle walked through the door at that same moment. He looked worn out from a day of work, but he also looked relieved. He starred at us all and saw the stress on our faces.

"What's going on?" he asked immediately. My father told him the entire story, as well as the part about what we should do about Derek.

"What should we do Carlisle?" Esme asked him.

"I don't know Esme, but this has been going on for too long!" Carlisle busted out.

"Agreed!" I heard Quil walk in the door, along with some others like Leah, Seth, and Sam.

"I say we start a war!" Leah protested.

"Hear Hear!" Seth yelled.

"A war?" I questioned.

Carlisle stopped their planning by saying, "We can't just attack them. They're too powerful for us. We'll have to soon though, they must know what we're doing, what we're planning on doing. These werewolves seem a lot more organized from the others."

Quil interrupted by saying, "Outsmarted by a bunch of kids..."

"They've already began to increase their pack. If we wait any longer, they'll eventually have over 20 members. Remember the army with Victoria, it only took her about a month to create them all. And werewolves can just bite to change a human; they don't have to resist the urge to kill them. That'll be too much even for the Volturi to stop. This has become a huge problem it has to stop before we all die." Carlisle demanded.

"Wait a minute, what do you mean by "too much for even the Volturi to stop"?", Jacob asked, "They have powers like putting you in burning pain, cutting of your senses, and all of that. They already had a war with them, what, 1,000 centuries ago. They won then, right? I say we call those Italians and get them to end this!"

"They only won because the werewolves were disorganized.", my father told him, "If they were to have been this way so many years ago, the Volturi would have been the ones led to extinction. Why do you think Caius is so scared of them? Why do you think Aro agreed to decrease their population? It wasn't because we're natural enemies, not the entire reason at least. It's because something like this could happen. All you need is one smart werewolf, and that werewolf can form and train a very large pack and get victory upon us."

"So does this mean we just die and that's the end?" Sam asked.

"No, it means we have two options." Carlisel said.

"What are they?"

"We could make peace with them." Esme answered, sweetly.

"Like that'll ever happen, after what these...shape-shifters started with them." Uncle Jas said.

Esme frowned then my mom said, "So this means we have only one option then?"

"Technically, yes." my father said.

"Well what is it?" Jake asked him.

"We have to win the fight."

"...Yeah, we're dead."

"There is a way to make them weak though."

"I'm listening."

"Take down the alpha male and the rest should be pretty easy."

"Yeah, but how do we know which one he is?"

"We don't.", Uncle Jas said, "But there is a way to lure him out of his hiding. We just have to take one of his most precious, "possessions". Something that he cares about and will kill for."

"The alpha female." my father said.

"Wait! There's two alphas?" Jake yelled.

"Hey, how come I'm not alpha?", Leah yelled, "Jacob, make me alpha! I deserve it; I deserve freedom!"

"You know the alpha male only has an alpha female to help with the pack and so that she can be his "lover"." Uncle Em said.

Leah gagged then said, "So close to freedom."

"Shut up Leah!" Jake said.

Seth looked confused, "What do you mean by lover?"

"I mean, you know, someone to be with the rest of your life, keep you happy, mate with. Hmm, I don't think they're doing the last part though, at least I hope not, they're only what, 13 or 14 years old." Uncle Em snorted.

"So, just someone to keep you from getting lonely?"

"Yeah, but it's different. Look I don't know! Do I look like a werewolf to you?"

"If you weren't so pale..." Seth answered.

"So how are we going to get the alpha female?" my mother asked.

"Well, the alpha female usually is the one out in the open. Roaming around, not giving a crap what anyone thinks because she thinks she's "all that" just because she got chosen by the alpha male to be his mate. Some other high rankers are out in the open two, hence that red head. He must be the alpha or something like that at least, humph!" he mumbled the last sentence.

"Emmett, where did you learn all this?"

"I was online all day, what did you think I was doing?"

"Wait, so you're saying she's the only one that's out and open and some other high ranks?"

"Of course Bells, what are you going death?"

"I was just making sure.", she said, "Maybe that blonde girl is the alpha female."

"No shit!" Uncle Em said and my mother rolled her eyes.

"Okay, so how are we going to get her?" Jake asked.

"Wait a minute", I interrupted, "We can't just kidnap a little girl!"

"Why not?" Uncle Em said.

"Look what they've done Nessie.", Jacob told me, "They practically killed Embry plus they manipulated your little friend. What's his name? Derek, right? Think about it. Think about how they've hurt so many families, so many people. Think about how they ruined his life and turned him into one of them. After all that, you still have signs of compassion for them?"

I understood him completely and I knew his words were true. They did ruin his life and they almost took Embry's life away from him. I only cared for them because that was the type of person I am, that's the way I'd been raised. To respect all creatures no matter what they were. Now I didn't care for those wolves anymore. Not that I don't care for werewolves in general, just not them. The bad kinds, the killing kinds. I felt so stupid to not have come to conclusions about this before. I felt guilt for taking the side of werewolves rather than my own family. This whole time, I thought they were the good guys, but after Jacob said those few sentences it all came clear to me. I nodded, not knowing what to say. Then Sam said,

"How are we going to find the girl?"

"And capture her at that?" Jake added.

"It's going to be tough.", Carlisle said, "If she is the alpha female, he's probably got the whole pack protecting her. They'd take a bullet for her even."

"So you're saying the chances of us getting anywhere near her are?" Jacob asked.

"Slight..." my father answered.

We all sat there quietly; it seemed as if we ran out of options, until my mother's eyes widened as if she got an idea,

"Hey, you say that Derek's still human, right?"

"Yes", I answered, "What about Derek?"

"Well, if we capture him, he could tell us where the rest of them are."

"With the slate they've got him pinned down on? I doubt it."

"It sounds like a good idea." Aunt Rose agreed.

"He's still human though, it's not like they really give a shit about him right now." Jake said.

"Yes, I know that Jacob", my mom said, "But I have this theory. Emmett, you said that you found out only the high rankers are out in the open, with the exception of the alpha male, right? Well, Derek's been in Forks, Port Angeles."

We all knew where she was going with this. "You think Derek's a high ranker. Really?" Jake said sarcastically. It was a long, awkward silence then Seth busted out,

"Soooo, how about them Lakers?" We all just chuckled then Leah hit him on the back of the head and we went back to the original subject.

"Derek could be though, he was with the blonde, the alpha female." my father said.

"So we just capture the kid. It seems simple enough." Jacob nodded.

"Esme", Carlisle said, "Do you have those sheets he slept on. None of us really got his scent."

"Uhhh", she stuttered, "Sorry Carlisle, I just threw them out a couple days ago."

"Did you get his scent off of it?"

"No."

Carlisle sighed then mom's perfect plan just suddenly gone to waste. Jacob the thought of something and my father announced it quickly.

"You could be right Jacob. Nessie, did you ever pick up Derek's scent?"

"Well she should have", Aunt Alice yelled automatically, "I couldn't keep her off the poor boy when we were in Port Angeles."

"Shut up Alice! I wasn't touching him in any anyway!" I yelled at her. I then tried to keep a blush from escaping my cheeks, but Alice's glare made it two times more difficult.

"Whatever you say." Aunt Alice said while grinning at me and I rolled my eyes at her. Aunt Rose started to laugh while giving Jacob this look. Jake looked like if she was in reach he would have started to choke her.

I saw my mother holding in laughter then she said, "So you think Nessie should track him down?"

"Yes", my father said, "You do have his scent, right?"

"Yes."

"I told you so! And we don't even need her to track him down. All we have to do is smell her breath." Aunt Alice laughed.

"I said shut up ALICE!" I yelled at her.

"Touchy touchy."

"What?" Jacob yelled in shock.

"No, don't listen to her Jacob! And besides, I could have gone to Canada and back she so busy talking to Cheryl!"

"Ugh Alice", Uncle Jas said, "I told you not to talk to her anymore!"

Alice glared at me then I laughed at the karma that just happened.

"Anyways..." my mother said.

"So are you up for it Ness?" Uncle Em said.

"Yeah, I think I can do it."

"Good girl."

"We'll try and find him in Forks and La Push, then we'll go to Port Angeles and anywhere you find his scent.", my father said, "Get some rest Nessie, you've got a long day tomorrow."


End of Chapter. Thank you my reviewers, subscribers, etc..You know these chapters are getting longer and longer. Are you guys okay with it or do you want me to shorten them? Let me know and I'm sorry it didn't upload as early as I hoped it would. I just had to get my hair fixed, then I went to the movies. I've just been doing a lot of things since it's Spring Break. Yay! Well, I'll see you guys on Saturday-I hope, but it's not a promise so don't get mad at me.

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