I DO NOT OWN.
THE DRESS IN THIS CHAPTER IS ALSO UP ON MY PROFILE….
(Whether or not the link works is really not my fault)
Jacob's screams echoed from his bedroom inside the house.
Mallie sat on the porch shaking with a newly bandaged leg.
Jared and Embry sat beside her trying to calm the girl down.
She was breathing heavily and kept repeating…."I'm sorry. I'm sorry…."
She wasn't listening to the boys who kept saying it wasn't her fault…
But it was. It was her that made that newborn lunge and it was for her that Jacob got into that fight and got hurt.
"Come on Mal….Jake wouldn't like you beating yourself up about this." Jared tried to tell her but she wouldn't listen.
Bella arrived minutes later in her truck just as Carlisle was leaving.
"He'll be okay." He told the pack but mostly to Mallie who let out a sigh of relief.
"Thanks Doc…" She told him finally slowing her breathing and resting her head on Embry's shoulder.
Jared suddenly clasped Embry's other shoulder tightly. "When this is all over." He hissed. "We need to have a talk."
He let him go.
Bella went inside and returned maybe twenty minutes later she looked at Mallie. "He told me to tell you stop shaking and blaming yourself you nutcase."
She grinned suddenly. "He's okay." She gave a shaky chuckle and another breath of relief.
"Can I talk to him?" She asked Billy.
He nodded. "Go on a head."
So she did entering the house but not before stopping at the fridge to get a can of coke.
"Really?" He asked her when she entered.
"Coke?"
She grinned. "It's the same thing I drank the day you phased. Running around Sam and Emily's house like a nutcase shouting while I just sat on the couch trying to watch my TV show but you kept getting in the way. I thought it'd be funny." She told him tears threatening.
"Stop crying Short-stack. Embry will have my head…."
"Yeah about that…how did you know?"
"Embry can't keep things from me and Quil. Never could…"
"That little rat…." She muttered to herself.
He smiled weakly. "You told Emily."
"Yeah but…"
"Shut it! You have no foot to stand on."
"Neither do you!"
"It's healing! I still have my left. Wanna try?"
"No! Damn you you're gonna give me a heart attack!"
"I need you to do me a favour."
"That is?"
"Look after them; the pack and Billy….and find out who you are?"
"Huh?"
"Honestly. I think you'd make an excellent Black and Billy would love to know."
She nodded. "Jacob what are you planning?" She asked him.
"No clue."
"Idiot."
"Mallie I never apologized for shouting at you all summer…I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I'm not a wolf. I can't kill vampires…I can put up a decent fight but I can't finish it…if making you slightly okay by letting you scream at me was all I could do then I'd do it. It's just who I am."
"Nuts?"
"I said who I am not what I am Jacob Black!"
He grinned. "Thanks Mallie for everything."
"Your welcome…."
She left the house and went back out to the pack. "He'll be fine. In time."
~LAPUSHWOLFPACK~
But he wasn't at soon as that blasted wedding invite arrived Jacob had flown off at a wolf into the forest followed by Quil and Embry with Mallie lagging behind.
"Let him go…." The soft voice of Sam said.
"Shift back. I'll pick you up…." Embry and Quil did what their Alpha told them.
"Thank you." Jacob said.
"Come back when you can….."
Call me when you need me." Mallie told him and then disconnected him.
Jacob kept running leaving Jacob Black behind.
~LAPUSHWOLFPACK~
Embry did get his ass kicked by Jared and Quil because of the Imprint but after that they left him alone.
Mallie spent a lot of time with Billy watching the game with him and taking him fishing.
"Going to the wedding?" She asked him.
"I have to….for Charlie….Sue and Seth are going as well."
"Do you want me to come?" She asked him.
He sighed happily and nodded. "Yeah. I'd love that."
And that's how she ended up sitting beside Seth in a pastel purple one shouldered dress that ended a couple of inches above the knee.
She wore a black belt around her waist and a pair of black sandals on her feet.
"I hate weddings." She muttered to Seth who grinned.
"Don't tell Emily."
"It's different with the pack. It's a party…here I sort of feel suffocated."
"Don't tell Embry. He'll think I'm not doing my job right."
"Shut up." She told him smiling as Bella began to walk down the aisle.
Her eyes on Edward she finally made it to the alter.
"We are gathered here on this glorious day to witness the marriage of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan."
Seth grinned and whispered in Mallie's ear. "You're smiling!" He said to his newfound best friend.
"Shut up!" She told him.
The pastor looked at Bella.
"Do you Bella Swan take Edward Cullen as your lawfully wedded husband…To have and to hold? For better for worse. In richer for poorer. In sickness and in health. For as long as you both shall live?"
"I do."
"And do you Edward Cullen take Bella Swan as your lawfully wedded wife. To have and to hold? For better for worse. In richer for poorer. In sickness and in health. For as long as you both shall live?"
"I do."
"By the power rested in me by the State of Washington. I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now kiss the bride!"
He did. And the crowd burst into applause.
Her mother's arms were the first to find her.
Bella walked through the crowd taking embrace after embrace with Edward holding her hand.
"Hey man!" Seth said giving him some kinda bro handshake. "I'm happy for you."
"Thank you."
"Congrats Bella." Mallie said smiling at her.
"I hope you'll be happy Bella."
"Thanks Billy. Thanks for coming Mallie."
The youngest member of the group grinned.
"Have you heard from him?" Bella asked.
Seth and Mallie looked at each other.
"I'm sure Jake wishes you the best." Billy told her.
"Well I plan on getting drunk!" Charlie Swan told them.
Everyone laughed. "They're serving up some pretty fancy champagne. Sue can I get you a glass?"
Billy rolled his eyes and swerved his chair around ramming lightly into Charlie.
"Usually I'd have some sparkling water. But that sounds great."
Seth and Mallie grinned before following Billy.
The Denali coven came over to them then.
Irina stared over at the Quileutes and Seth who was talking to Mallie holding a coke out for her to take looked over.
Their gazes met and Mallie looked over as well.
Seth slightly adjusted his body to block Mallie a bit.
Billy stared over at her as well sipping his champagne.
"Irina?" Carmen asked. "Come meet Bella."
She took two steps forward. "I'm sorry I can't do this."
"You promised…" Tanya whispered.
"They invited two…"
The coven looked over at Seth who was looking at them with an emotionless face. And Mallie who stood there next to him was sipping the tall thin glass of coke staring at them also.
"Mallie isn't a wolf exactly…." Bella offered weakly.
"Irina they're our friends." Edward told her gently.
"They killed Laurent!" Irina said desperately.
"He tired to kill Bella."
"I don't believe that! He wanted to be like us! To live in peace with humans…with me." She stated before walking away.
"Irina!"
"Well…lets not monopolise the bride." Eleazar said. "Congratulations."
"Thank you." Bella said they started to walk away.
"I'm sorry." Tanya told her once more."
They sat through really rather awkward speeches and a lot of suggestive jokes from Emmett.
"Embry will kill me for letting you hear that." Seth mumbled.
When it came to the dancing part Seth dragged Mallie out. "Mom's gonna be showing pictures of this might as well give Embry something to smile at!"
Contra to popular belief Seth was an amazing dancer since dancing lessons was a mandatory block in PE in their school.
He spun her around and lifted her to the fast up beat music.
Other guests wondered were they siblings or even twins because of their matching skin and shade of hair and brown eyes.
What the Cullen's noticed was the matching wolfish sparkle in their eyes.
What the humans noticed was a mirrored large grin on both their faces.
"The guardian/wolf relationship strikes again eh?" Edward asked Bella when he caught her looking at them.
"Huh?"
"They're nearly the same age. They're very close."
"But I thought…"
"Not in that way. Like siblings."
"Oh…"
"Huh." Edward said suddenly.
"What?"
"A surprise wedding gift."
"What…"
Out on the dance floor she suddenly stilled and looked around.
"Mal what's up?"
"Jacob." She said slowly. "Jacob's here."
Seth's eyes widened and they looked around.
'This can't end well…' Mallie thought.
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