A Way to Heal
Chapter Ten
A Blessing In Disguise
I had stayed around the house for a few days and was happy that I had my graduation signed off and I was done with NC State. My veterinarian degree had cost
the crap out of me, not in money but in time. I had spent year long training sessions every day of the past eight years to play softball and I had missed Jaxon so
much. I still missed him and it was all I could do at times to keep myself from crying. I looked around myself and found that I was standing at the middle part of
the long, curvy, drive way that led to my Nana's house. As I looked off into the trees I saw a figure coming toward me. I instantly drew up into the trees thinking
it was a werewolf but as it came closer I saw that it was Jake. I dropped from the tree at first making him stop and stare and then he grinned wide. "Hey, I
hoped I would find you here," he said, coming closer to me. "How did it go with the vamp?" he asked. I could smell the musk and beautiful scent of the werewolf
on him, it was like a perfume that could never be washed off. "He's gone back to where he came from and I'm staying here. I wish that somebody would have
stopped Klaus before he snapped my neck. It's because of him that I'm a vampire and all screwed up!" I growled. Jake looked at me and frowned, "You didn't
turn, willingly?" I just looked at him with a questioning stare. "No, I didn't turn willingly. Damon fed me his blood before Klaus snapped my neck. I don't see how
it didn't kill Tucker when I made my transition. But it didn't, he truly is my miracle," I said smiling back toward the house. "I wonder if you could change into a
wolf?" Jake asked, looking from the woods to me. I growled and said, "I don't want to try it sounds and looks painful." Jake made the chicken move and I
asked, "How do you change?" He smiled and said, "Think only of the wolf that you would like to look like. Then think of yourself as that wolf." It only took
a few seconds for me to concentrate when I was standing and looking at Jake from all four paws. I let my tongue hang out and he smiled and his teeth started
getting longer and he smiled wickedly at me. I gave him a wink and I was off running through the woods like my life depended on it and I was graceful. The whole
pack, I knew, were watching Jake and I run and it was harmony like no other. Suddenly I pulled up sharp and I smelled a strong scent line. Jake put on brakes
and knew the scent line well, I looked at him expecting an answer but all I got was nervousness. Then a huge black wolf stepped out of the brush and behind
him followed several gray and silver wolves. The last one to come out was a chocolate furred wolf that had blue eyes. I looked from one wolf to the other.
Jake and the black wolf was the same size and I wasn't much smaller than Jake himself. I stood beside Jake and noticed that we had more wolves than the black
wolf did. We were now a strong pack of nine and they were a pack of seven. Jake and the black wolf faced off for what seemed like an eternity and then another
wolf stood beside the black wolf. It was the chocolate blue eyed wolf that had brought up the rear end of the pack. She looked at me and I brought my lip above
my fangs instantly. She stood only for a moment and then she was on top of me. It was like the sounds of the air and earth had stopped to watch and to listen
for the victor. I knew that the one that walked away the victor would carry hardly any scars and the loser would be close to death. I finally got my left fang to
pop into the neck of the she-wolf. She let go howling and her eyes were rolling to where you could see the white parts. Jake and the black alpha never moved
and nobody else did either. I stood proud and then the sun broke through the clouds washing over me like a cloak. But the moon had started to cover the sun
and in that split second the mixed color of the cloak of both the sun and the moon covered my body and I knew the curse. Then my legs buckled underneath
me and my eyes rolled back into my head making me see a vision of importance.
When my eyes rolled back around to where I could see the two packs were waiting and when I slowly got up some stepped away from me and I frowned. Jake
sighed and the black alpha's eyes went wide, suddenly his pack was backing away into the cover of the trees. Jake just sighed and led me through the pine trees,
toward the house. When we had changed back into our human forms I looked at him and said, "Why did they leave?" He looked at me and put his hand on my
face making it feel so right. "When you go inside look into the mirror and you will understand. I will be back tonight because of the bonfires; be ready," he said.
I grabbed his arm and shook my head, "I'm tired and Tucker needs me. Maybe another night Jake." He stood there for a minute and then he nodded and was gone
when I let go of his arm. I turned and walked back toward the house wondering why everybody was so scared of me.
I looked into the mirror of the middle bathroom of the house. No wonder Jake had let me do this alone! I just stood there and looked at my eyes. My right eye was
brown like it had always been but my left eye was blue. The door opened and Nana looked at my face and just stood there. "What happened?" she asked, looking
at my eyes. "I don't know, I was outside and a tree branch fell and hit my eye," I said. She just looked at me and asked, "Can you see out of it?" I frowned and
looked from the mirror to her face. "Somewhat," I answered. "You need to go to the doctor and see what they can do," she said. I just stood there and then I
said, "Nah, it's alright. It's kinda cool this way," I said now smiling. Nana rolled her eyes and shook her head. She turned and left me standing there, still staring
at my eyes. Then my mind flashed back to the vision that had appeared to me. There was Jake, the black alpha male, Damon, Stefan, Katherine, and the rest of the
wolves. But there was something different this time. As I looked around I noticed that there was fine line that was drawn between the wolves and vampires.
But on one side, in front of Damon, and the rest of the vampires stood Apollo, full grown and sneering. On the other side standing in front of Jake and the wolves
was my son, Tucker. His tan skin, dark brown hair, and brown eyes reminded me so much of his father and then I saw Tucker's wolf form connect with Apollo's
vampire form. This was the end of the long war that had been going on for centuries. More wolves and vampires started emerging from the trees and I looked
down where my feet or hands should have been. One half of my body was already growing in fur and the other half was still human but it was glowing like a
vampire's skin. I knew what I was supposed to do, I was supposed to kill the attacker of my son. Not only taking the threat of the werewolves with me to my
death, but also ending the age old war because the werewolves would have the upper hand against the vampires. The vampires had ruled long enough and now
a new era was beginning, containing the rulers called the werewolves. I was going to end this war by killing Apollo. I came back to the bathroom and sighed
with a heavy heart. "I'm sorry Elena, but you know that it must be done. He wasn't supposed to be born and I wasn't supposed to be turned, but you know what
must be done. Tucker must rule the werewolves of New Hope and the new era has to begin. I'm sorry," I whispered, looking at the clock that was ticking by
on the wall above the television.