Chapter Ten
I'd barely put a foot through the door when I heard Brady's pained howl closely followed by my Dad's. I wasn't sure what the hell was going on but I knew it couldn't be good I was stripping my clothes off as my mom ran to the door. "What is it what's happening did I hear Jake's howl?" she asked biting her nails. I pushed past her into the house and grabbed her car keys before she'd even turned to see what I was doing I wrapped my hand around her arm and ushered her to her car. "Riddoc?" she questioned but I didn't answer I wasn't sure what was happening but I'm pretty sure my Alpha's howl meant vampires.
"Get in the car go to Grandpa Edward and Grandma Bella's now" I told her and I scared myself how much like an alpha I sounded. My mom didn't argue she just got in the car. "Where's Willow?" I asked.
"She's at the surf shack with Adrian" she said tears filling her eyes
"I'll find her now go" I said and the second she started the engine I phased and ran like hell towards First beach and towards the rest of the pack everyone was phased even the older wolves that hadn't for a while.
Me: Dad what is it?
Before he could answer I was crushed by Brady's emotions, intense fear, panic, pain, all for his imprint, my sister, Willow. Then Dad showed me everything. Dad had done a double patrol today after he'd finished his patrol with me he'd gone straight into another with Brady. They'd been patrolling near the Canadian border when Willow had forced her way into Dad's head, she knew he'd be phased. Willow had been working hard to see just how far her talent's went and in the last year she'd realised if she focused enough she could project thoughts into Dad's head if he was phased she'd tried it on me once and put me in a coma for five days needless to say she hadn't tried again since. Great Grandpa Carlisle's theory was that either only Jake could hear her because he was her Father or because he was the pack Alpha and therefore was strong enough to take it. She couldn't project words as such but emotions were doable. The one she'd put in our Dad's head tonight was panic. Sheer and absolute panic.
Jake: Brady's all over the place he too jittery use the imprint to track her
I tried to block out Brady's inner monologue and focus on what Dad was saying he was repeating over and over how he'd never forgive himself if something happened to her Dad was right the dude was losing it.
Jake: does anyone know where she could be
Me: she's with Adrian at the surf shack
And suddenly I couldn't hold it in any longer all of my terror that my imprint and my sister were in harms way spilled out before I could stop it and the pack took off towards the coast.
Dad gave the order for me, Brady, Embry and himself to phase while the others waited at the tree line for orders. We quickly dressed and the four of us sprinted down the pier when we got there Forks police had the place cornered off they were dragging a burly man in hand cuffs down towards a parked police car. The chief of police Duncan Swan was there I suppose in some long winded way he was Dad's great Uncle in law, he was the son of Charlie Swan and Sue Clearwater, Leah and Seth's mom.
Just like his late father Duncan had followed in his father's footsteps and became a policeman, he was about ten maybe fifteen years older than me but he was still young to be chief. Duncan knew nothing of our world and although my great Grandpa Charlie had known something about something he didn't want Duncan to know Charlie always said don't ask you won't like it and Bella respected that and so did Duncan but he was no idiot he knew something wasn't right. For starters his half sister Bella and his Niece Ness hadn't aged since he was born. "Hey Chief you hear for little Lo" Duncan asked reaching to shake Dad's hand as always.
"She's ok?" My Dad asked sounding relieved.
"She's fine, she had a friend with her I wouldn't like to think how different things could have been had she been alone" Duncan said shaking his head. "She's asking for you Chief you can all go through if you like"
"Thanks Chief, Embry why don't you head back and tell the others the news" Dad suggested, I usually found it funny that my Dad and Duncan insisted on calling each other Chief but I was too panicked to find amusement in it right now.
"Sure thing Jake" Embry nodded and took off in a jog. Duncan lead us into the bar the first thing I smelt was blood and the hair on my neck stood up.
"Dad!" Willow squealed happily and ran straight into his arms, Brady started whining and whimpering next to him and after a minuet Dad rolled his eyes he passed Willow into Brady's waiting arms. I scanned the room and spotted my angel sat at the bar with a paramedic he was giving her stitches on the inside of her arm while she held an ice pack to her bottom lip. My heart sank my imprint my beautiful Angel was hurt, I managed to stumble my way to her and drop to my knees at her side her eyes lit up when they fell on mine.
"Oh Angel what happened?" I whispered.
"Hey it's not as bad as it looks" she tells me but when she pulls the ice pack away to talk I see her lip is swollen and burst open, I gasped and she quickly covered it back up. The paramedic finished up and left telling Adrian to take it easy and take some painkillers when she got home. "Please don't be worried or upset?" she says
"Riddoc?" Willow asks from behind me, I turn to look at her and she's holding her hands out for a hug. I smile and stand and hug her Willow places her palm against my cheek and I know she's about to show me something, so I close my eyes and wait for the vision to start.
Willow is sat in the bar with Adrian they're both laughing. "He's gonna love this Willow" Adrian tells her
"I hope so" Willow smiles "It's about time he realized I'm not sixteen anymore"
"Have you been dating long?" Adrian asks and Willow giggles, she was laughing at an inside joke because Brady had imprinted on her the day she was born so in reality they'd always been together of course Willow couldn't tell Adrian that.
"Well we were best friends first but we started dating officially when I was sixteen. It was pretty hard considering he was friends with Duck and my Dad but they could see how in love we were and they didn't maul him too much" she laughs
"Yeah I can see Riddoc doing that, he's very..." she trails off searching for the right word "Protective" She chooses and Willow laughs and nods.
"Yep he's always been quick to jump to someone's aid or defend a girls honour" Willow tells her
"Does he have a lot of girlfriends?" Adrian asks
"No of course not just you" Willow says
"What about in the past" she says
"Are you asking if he's a player?" Willow giggles "he had one serious girlfriend in high school then a couple of not so serious ones in college but he's been single since he came home last year. Willow was being polite when she said that, I wouldn't have said not so serious girlfriend's infact I don't think I'd have used the word girlfriend at all, but multiple mutual sex partners didn't really make me sound too good. Adrian and my sister sat and talked at the bar while working on the present for Brady it was his birthday in a couple of days I couldn't see what it was though Willow kept skipping bits so I wouldn't see and accidentally show Brady next time we were phased. All I could get was it involved Scissors and glue.
After a while Adrian got up and excused herself to the bathroom as soon as Adrian left the room the front doors slammed open and the man I'd just seen in handcuffs walked in he stumbled he was obviously drunk, Willow politely told the man the surf shack was closed and apologised but he didn't leave he came right up to Willow and backed her up against the counter. I felt the fear in my sisters eyes as she tried and failed to push the man away he was strong and big but human. Willow could have used her abilities but he was human and she'd always been told to never use them on humans. I watched as the scene unveiled in horror completely helpless in a quick motion he had Willow on her back on one of the tables grabbing at her clothes she screamed out for help and struggled and before I knew it Adrian was there and she swung a chair over her head and broke it across his back. He rolled off of Willow in pain and Adrian grabbed Willow pulling her up. She ushered Willow over to the door and pushed her towards it.
"Go Willow! Now!" she yelled and pushed her again then the man tackled Adrian around the waist and they both crashed to the floor in a tussle. Willow screwed her eyes shut and for the moment I could only hear the fight. Willow projected and called to our Dad she had no way of knowing if he'd heard she just had to hope she slumped to the floor exhausted and opened her eyes just in time for me to witness the drunk clock Adrian in the jaw. Willow immediately pulled out her phone dialling 911, while the man picked Adrian up and launched her against the wall of sprits behind the bar. Adrian crashed into it and her and every bottle hit the floor I heard her scream out in pain then not a second afterwards Adrian smashed a bottle of Jack over the mans face, he hit the floor knocking himself out in the process, Willow stumbled shakily over to Adrian there was a lot of blood. She hugged her and Willow cried.
Then my sister released her hold on me bringing me back to reality.