Never in my life have I ever been so harassed by anyone, not in two hundred years. I can't get away from him not for one stinging second! I swear he has a double somewhere; every corner, every shadow he is there. Waiting to grab me, tickling is one of his new favorite games after he found that I started to laugh unaccountably when he kissed the back of my neck which then always lead to other things. Much to my dismay, the only way I could escape was to out run him. Thank the lord his isn't as fast as Leah or I'd be screwed.
Finally I can breath! I thought most pitifully, it wasn't fair all he had to do was make eye contact and he won! It's just not fair!
I heard footsteps rushing towards me at incredible speeds. But a four-legged creature didn't make it, it was two feet…vampire. I looked around wildly, I wasn't in the reservation anymore and Jacob was still looking for me there if it was vampire and he was hungry. I'd be in deep shit; really deep cause there's two sets now coming right for me.
I didn't think, I didn't pause I just bolted back to the line, into what I could only hope would be a safe zone. I could fight them, I would probably win but the price would be costly. If I changed it would bring only more attention to myself and I would waste energy. I thought as I leaped throw the forest blindly hoping I was heading in the right direction. I should have eaten today what was I thinking!? Damn it where am I?
I stopped to look around, and glanced back they were a mile behind maybe closer and closing the gap. Damn it at this pace I'll never get rid of them! Cursing I changed coarse going up in the trees. Leaping from one to another, throwing off my scent slightly giving a few extra second but not much. I had to find Jacob and warn him. It didn't work they where still right behind me only a ¼ of a mile now.
"God damn it!" I cursed, jumping down from the tree and turning halfway wasting what little strength I had left to get across the boarder and no farther I was forced out of the change just as they came upon me. But when I braced myself nothing happened. I opened one of my eyes, they were standing there right on the boarder line staring at me. I looked closer, and sniffed the air. Jacob was just about here, but still it shouldn't have stopped them. Again I smelled something familiar and I looked closer again rising to me feet.
"Carlisle?" I asked straightening even more, "Carlisle Cullen?"
"Yes, I am Carlisle…you wouldn't happen to be related to a Danielle Huckens would you?" Carlisle said with the same velvety voice that I remembered, I smiled brightly. "Oh hello Jacob is this young lady a friend of yours?"
Jacob appeared beside me wrapping an arm around my waist and pulling me close to him. I could feel the tension in his side and arm, I bests not move for the moment.
"Yes, what do you want?" Jacob hissed, I jabbed him in the side with my elbow but he pretended not to notice. Carlisle smiled, his normal friendly smile he hadn't changed much in all theses years.
"Jacob don't be so rude, its nice to see you again Carlisle I had heard you have been having trouble with the Voltaic. Got you and your new companions in pretty deep?" I said looking to the women beside him and bowing my head. "It is a pleasure to met you miss my name is Danielle Huckens. I'd shake your hand but...well I seem to be detained at the moment."
As usual Jacob ignored my hint, what was he so worried about it was just Carlisle they seemed to know each other, men I swear such childish creatures.
"Danny?" Carlisle said looking a struck, "You can't still be? You died back in England I saw you fall from the cliff...I saw?"
"Whoa easy Carlisle doesn't blow a gasket here." I said laughing; the normally composed vampire seemed to be having a mental deli ma. How could a person he had know as human, who he had seen die a hundred and ten years ago after leaving the Voltaic still be alive and younger? "It's all very easily explained but shall we save that for another time. It seems we're about to have some company on both sides."
Paul and Jared appeared on our side and two more vampires, one male the other female, on theirs.
"It was nice to see you again Carlisle we'll have to talk later when tempers settle a little. Ado my old friend." With that Jacob scooped me up in his arms and darted back towards the reservation. I waved over his shoulder to Carlisle; he waved back then disappeared behind the trees.
"You will not go see him!" Jacob yelled pounding on my table and breaking it in half. We've been fighting since we got back and I can't even count the things he's broken and now my poor table.
"He is one of my oldest friends Jacob and I will be paying him a visit weather you like it or not. Now stop breaking my things you mindless ogre!" I barked back pointing at me table, he looked at it for a moment and sighed.
"Dyane.."
"Don't Dyane me Jacob Black!" I growled pointing my finger at him, really ticked off now. "I am going to go see him and you are going to deal with it! And if you think you can control who I am friends with and who I talk to then you are sorely mistaken!"
His mouth was still in a frown but instead of breaking something else he just stormed out side and took out his anger on the poor trees. I rolled my eyes and went up stairs to change into something more suitable to go out and talk to Carlisle. When I came back down Jacob still wasn't back, big baby I thought starting up my pill of bolts. I half expected him to come tearing out of the forest demanding that I get out of the thing but he didn't. So I drove the thing into Forks, and much to my surprise the guy in the gas station actually knew roughly where the Cullen's lived. I followed my nose to find the rest of the way. Unsurprisingly Carlisle was standing on his front porch with an entire brood.
Ok I think I understand Jacob's overreaction now. I thought stepping out of the car. There where seven of them four males and three females, but I ignored then and casually at a human speed walked up to Carlisle and hugged him. He hugged me back then held me out at arms length.
"It is truly grand to see you again old friend," He spoke then changed to French, "Welcome to our home."
I answered him in French as well saying, "I am glade to be so welcomed my dear friend, how have you been these past hundred year…or so. I believe it's been about a hundred years."
Carlisle chuckled softly, and returned to English. "You seem to have lost your track of time. Come inside there is much to disguise much you have missed..ah but first I must introduce you to my family."
"Everyone this is Dyane Huckens, she is a very old friend of mine. Danny this is my family." He pointed to each one they would say hello or ignore me all together. Rosalie was a tall blonde the prettiest vampire I think I've ever seen, Edward the one who was going to marry Bella was close behind. Anyway her mate was Emmett he said hello and was very friendly and would be fun to wrestle with. Alice was a cute little pixie like creature with pointy black hair, her mate was Jasper he stayed the farthest away a tall lengthily fellow with blonde hair. Esme was Carlisle mate a sweet woman with a heart shaped face. They all kind of wondered around as Carlisle and I caught up with one another. Turns out that Edward was his first child the others followed not long after. They don't hunt humans not that I had ever really minded that fact but I was thrilled that they were doing so well. But they had run into a problem with the Voltaic he wouldn't go into detail but it wasn't good. I promised that if they ever came here that I would speak and fight in their defense against Aro.
"Ha, what could a muesli human like you do to help us?" Rosalie spat, from the staircase.
"Rose?" Emmett said in a plaintive tone but she ignored him.
'No Emmett I want to hear this." She said gracefully floating down the stairs, at a normal vampire speed. She failed to notice both that fact that my eyes had maintained contact with her the entire time or my scent changing. Yes over the years I had learned the ability to change my scent. That's why Carlisle didn't know me before in the forest. But when she came right up next to me she sure did. Her noise wrinkled back and a hiss came threw her teeth.
"You're one of those offal dogs!"
"Wrong, I'm not exactly like Jacob and the rest of his pack as you can." I changed half way while speaking, flicking my tail in her general direction, "see my dear, and there is much I can do to help young one, so hold your tongue if you don't mind. The grown up are talking now."
She broke out laughing and not a funny ha ha laugh either its was most horrible in its tone. "Young one…did you hear that Edward. I'll have you know I'm over 60 years old."
"And I'm almost two and ten what's your point?" I said, and then broke out laughing when her jaw almost hit the floor. "When I said that I was an old friend of Carlisle what did you think I meant? And just so you know I used to work with the Voltaic and happen to know Aro very well. So shut up sit down and let the adults finish their conversation. If that's not to much trouble."
She closed her mouth and slandered back up the stairs, her mate Emmett broke out in a booming laugh.
"I've been waiting for years for someone to do that! Oh she's going to hate you for ever."
I shrugged and he boomed louder, Alice came over and disked my now ruined set of cloths. Carlisle quickly reiterated when she started going on about having to take me out shopping and that there was no point in me arguing about it cause all three of us where going to go and there was nothing that I could do about it.
I looked panicked to Carlisle who chuckled and explained that Alice could see into the future. That Edward could read thoughts; Jasper could control emotions and as I had suspected Emmett was very strong. What worried me most was Edwards little trick, he has been reading my thoughts the entire time, probably analyze my inner analyzation
of my analyaztions. Is a analyzations a word, oh now I have a headache. I rubbed my aching head and smiled at Edward. The others looked back and forth between us when he cracked a smile and said.
"Your inner analyaztions are nearly all correct, and yes when I went there I had thought Bella was dead." He spoke smoothly, to end everyone else misery or mine I wasn't sure
I said, "Thanks and stay out of my head." Then added in my mind there are things in here you might not like to see. Then thought of a Child of the Moon. The Big black creature in the darkness of a shed, his back to me but his head turned me, eyes glowing red boring into mine. The beast growled, I looked to see him standing over a man his head a few feet away blood everywhere, the smell of it, covering the front of the creature now facing me. Letting out yet another growl, before lunging jumping high in the air. The last image I left him with was the wide-open mouth, the smell of rotting flesh, coming down to tare out my throat eye again boring into mine.
He gasped sharply stepping back with his arms up to block the creature that wasn't really there. They all looked over to him, he blinked a few times then righted himself.
"Danny?"
"Sorry Carl just showing the boy what he will get if he ventures to far into the darkness." I said chuckling, and moved towards the door. "It was nice to see you again Carlisle and to met your family. But if I wait any longer a unwanted guest my arrive to relive you of this one."
Carlisle came over and placed his hand over his heart, "Strength to you." He spoke in French again.
I smiled and mimicked him, "Wisdom to you, and life to your family."
With that I left the house at human speed, got in my car waited a moment for it to start.
"Damn piece of junk start or I'll rip you onto tiny incandescent piece." I hissed under my breath, I could hear Emmett booming laughter again when the car rumbled to life then went boom causing me to jump slightly.
"She always drives the worst cars." Carlisle said, standing again on their front porch wincing when it boomed again.
I stuck my head out the window, "I heard that Carlisle! And I do not; they just tend to crash on me is all! It's not my fault!"
He smiled and waved I stuck my tongue out at him and drove away as he rolled with laughter.
Jacob was standing cross-armed in the middle of the road right on the boarder line. His face was a mixture of relief, annoyance, anger and worry. I guessed he was relieved that I was alright, annoyed that I had gone, angry that I had driven the rust bucket and worried cause right now I was stomping down on the brake pedal and nothing was happening.
His face turned to absolute panic when he stepped out of the way and realized that I was in fact trying to stop just couldn't.
He darted after me as I coasted along towards a 20 mile an hour corner going 50. I think I should just bail, I looked in my review mirror and saw a big brown wolf lopping towards me then changed into a naked boy and grabbed the back of my car.
Why didn't I think of that? I wondered as he pulled me to a stop. Stormed over yanked open my door and drag me out of the car.
"You are never getting in that thing again!" He said crushing me against his chest, "Never again!"
"Jacob I just need to fix the brakes again is all." I mumbled, trying to wiggle me way out of his iron grip, he let me step back a little.
"Just fix the brakes Danny you could have been hurt or worse because of that unreliable piece of junk! No you are not driving that thing again ever. End of discussion! I'm getting rid of this thing."
"No!" I snapped, getting away from him, "This is my car, it was my home, Jacob! You can't just get rid of it." I felt the tears welding up in my eyes, I loved this car it was my baby and he was going to destroy it! Like hell he was, these weren't tears of pain but anger. I was pissed that he could even say such a thing.
He looked horrified that I was crying, and hugged me again. "Ok I won't get rid of it, I won't even touch it ok just please don't cry."
I forced myself to let him hug me even though I was pissed off, but I couldn't stop the tail from coming lucky for me that baggy sweater I was wearing hid it long enough for us to push my car off the road and get in his. He promised that he would come and get it in the morning and put it back in my garage for me. We went to his house instead of mine, I threw my coat on the floor ignored Billy's hello and slammed Jacob's own bed room door in his face.
Threw the door I heard Billy scold Jacob, "Jacob Black what did you do this time?"
"I didn't so anything it was her!" He accused, I could totally see him pointing a finger at the door I was behind. "Her and that damned thing she calls a car….it nearly killed her tonight and she's mad at me for threatening to burn it."
"Jacob think of it from her point of view, she actually lived in that car for over a year, it's not just a car to her it's a safe place. I didn't tell you this cause I knew it's upset you but when you disappeared for a while. She slept in there again, clinging to one of your shirts. Paul found her in there when he was looking for you. I don't even think she knows he saw her in there but anyway. For Danny it's a kind of safety net, a place that she'll have to escape to is all." Billy paused, and then Jacob yelped. Billy must have slapped him or something. "So go apologize you moron!"
I muffled a laugh and crawled into his bed, he came in not long after and snuggled up against my back. Making little whimpering noises, I pretended not to notice.