Chapter 10

I was still feeling bad about what happened yesterday with Teague and Whitley so I decided to go and see Whitley today and apologise. Fable told me she would be at the station today so I was hoping I would catch her. I wasn't really sure what I would say but I felt responsible for what Teague was going through, I knew deep down if I'd been that little bit stronger or that little bit faster Aro wouldn't have gotten the better of me and Jaide would never of had to step in. Maybe it's foolish to think helping Teague with his imprint could ever make up for what happened, but I feel like I have to at least try.

I hope Whitley won't be too upset or pissed off about what happened with Teague at the diner. He had been really fucking awful to her. It wasn't Whitley's fault, according to Fable she's been having a really hard time lately, it couldn't be fun falling in love with someone who wouldn't give you the time of day and acted like they hated your guts. Poor girl didn't even understand what she was feeling and she had to go through it alone. Sure Whitely and Fable were still great friends but with all Fable's been dealing with lately she's not been there for Whitley a hundred percent.

I pull up outside the station and head inside, at the main desk I ask for Whitley Vanderson and the rookie cop running the desk calls upstairs to find her. After a few minuets, the cop comes around the desk and escorts me to where Whitley is. She looks up and smiles at me. "Hey what are you doing here?" she asks

"I just wanted to swing by and apologise about yesterday" I say and and she sighs

"Teague's a complete asshole I don't know why I waste my time on him, he clearly hates me" she huffs and collapses into an office chair.

"Look I know he's being difficult but..."

"Difficult! Difficult I could handle, this is..." she sighs heavily again "I don't even know what this is"

"Just hang in there, Teague needs a friend right now" I tell her

"A friend? He's got you" she says

"Yeah but I'm not a chick, and I think he likes you" I say, Whitely looks at me for a minuet then laughs

"My God Skar, I appreciate you coming down here but you suck at this" she tells me and I laugh

"Yeah maybe I should leave the words of wisdom to Fable" I say.

"Yeah maybe"

Whitley starts telling me about her training and I try to listen but the conversation two officers next to us are having keeps distracting me.

"I just came from the coroners office, he said the body was drained of blood" One officer says to the other. Drained of blood? What the hell? the other officer sighs

"That's the second one this week, what the hell is this sick fucker doing?" he mutters

"The doc says the punctures looked like bite wounds, what the fuck do we do with that?" the younger officer asks

"I don't know" the other officer sighs; they chat a little while longer then walk off. I turn to Whitley hoping I can get a little information out of her, these murders sound suspiciously like vampire attacks, but if there were vampires in forks the pack would know about it right.

"What was that about?" I ask Whitley cutting her off from whatever she was saying.

"Huh?" she frowns at me.

"Those cops they were just talking about bodies drained of blood, that sounds messed up" I shrug my shoulders trying to look casual.

"Skar!" Whitley hisses at me with wide eyes "You weren't supposed to be listening to that"

"Come on? It sounded serious, is there a murderer on the loose or something?" I ask. Whitley scans the cubicles and checks the desks next to hers, there's nobody else about.

"At first we thought they were animal attacks but the wounds are too clean to be made by teeth, animal bites are jagged and messy"

"But these weren't?" I prompt her to continue

"No, but the weird part is it looks like a bite I've seen pictures, but it's impossible our teeth just can't penetrate the skin like that" Whitley shrugs. "I shouldn't be telling you any of this ok so just forget I said anything" she tells me and shoots me a serious look.

"Sure, consider it forgotten" I tell her and she seems to relax.

"Thank you" Whitley says. She had to get back to work after that so I made my excuses and left. I was eager to talk to Jake, how the hell had we missed a vampire in Forks? There was something going on and we needed to find out what before any more people died.

I made the drive to Jake's house in double quick time and told him he needed to call a meeting now. He frowned at me for a second before making his way out onto the back porch to phase. After he'd put the call in he came back into the kitchen and told me to take a seat, I did. "Skar what's going on?" Jake asks looking a little concerned. I told him about the conversation I'd over heard at the police station and Whitley's take on it. Jake agreed with me, it definitely sounded like vampires.

The rest of the pack had arrived within the hour and we all congregated on the back lawn. I showed the others what had happened at the station and felt Teague instantly stiffen when he saw Whitley.

Kaden: Vampires in Forks? How did we miss that?

Jake: its a good question

Me: yeah one we don't have an answer to

Vayle: are you sure its vampires?

Newt: you mean it could be something else? That's a scary thought

Vayle: no I mean as much we'd like to think the people we protect are worth protecting some of them aren't.

Gypsy: No way you heard Whitley she said it looked like bite marks right Skar?

Me: that's what she said.

Vayle: I was just saying

Jake: Vayle has a point, we shouldn't be ruling anything out at this point

Me: yeah but we should also be looking into this

Jake: of course we will, we'll double patrols...

That receives groans all around.

Jake: and I want you to pay extra attention to Forks, that's where the attacks took place.

Teague: was there anything else or can I go now?

Jake growls and Teague shuts up

Jake: that's everything. Teague don't even think about going anywhere we need to talk.

And with alphas orders we all phase out onto human feet and begin dressing in unison. "Is staying for this little pep talk an order?" Teague sneers at Jake

"Teague don't be awkward just shut up and listen" Jake snaps. "Talk to your girlfriend, see what else you can find out about this case"

"She's not my girlfriend" Teague tells him

"She should know about us, she'd more willing to help then" Jake says

"No!" Teague shouts suddenly "I don't want Whitley to know, I'm the one who imprinted on her so I'm the one who decides how much she knows" Teague yells

"Not if I make it an order" Jake threatens

"Oh yeah tough guy? Try and I'll quit" Teague spits the last part then walks away

"Teague?" I try to call him back but he ignores me.

The pack sat quietly in the kitchen after ward eating pasta while Jake filled Fable and Micah in on what they'd missed at the pack meeting, without the wolf telepathy they had to go over the details separately afterwards. It was a pain but there was really no way around it. "I'm worried about Teague" Ness says

"I know Baby we all are" Jake tells her rubbing her arm.

"Fable do you think you could talk to Whitley? Jake's right she needs to know" Ness asks, the room looks at Fable expectantly, none of the wolves could go behind Teague's back and tell his imprint, but as a cat the same rules didn't apply to Fable. Besides she was bad ass enough to willingly piss Teague off.

"It's Teague's decision, even I'm not going against him on this" Fable says and I sigh, I guess it was a long shot.

"But Whitley should know" Ness says

"Ness? This thing with Whitley and Teague is pack business, it's not mine" Fable says

"What are you talking about you're part of this pack" Jake says frowning at Fable.

"No I'm not"

"What? Of course you are..."

"Jake stop it" Fable scowls at Jake but Jake doesn't back down. What was Fable talking about she was as much a part of the pack as anyone else in the room.

"You are a part of this pack weather you like it not" Jake tells her

"No I'm not!" Fable shouts

"Why aren't you!" Jake shouts back, his voice shaking everything in the room.

"Because I can't shift anymore!" Fable screams.