A/N: I should really put a disclaimer, I just realized I have forgotten to do that so I hope if and of Stephanie Meyers lawyers see this, they relay my apologizes for having a not so great memory and the fact that I'm a guy and our first thought isn't a disclaimer. I do not own Twilight, I only really own Zeke as a human since his vampire form is technically only found in the Twilight universe. Please Review
Trapped Between the Light and This Life
The meeting only lasted another thirty minutes and as soon as it was done the various "married" couples dispersed into their bedrooms. I began cursing my vampire hearing to hell, as soon as the noises reached my ears. Jake was howling with laughter and Nessie looked mortified. I could guess why, she knew what her parents were up to although I wasn't sure she could hear them as clearly as me or Jake. Bree also was laughing pretty hard.
"Does this happen every night," I groaned.
"Typically they give us time to get the hell out of the house" Nessie answered looking mortified "but I'm guessing the recent run in with the Volturi raised everyone's passion levels."
"Why" I asked, I figured I had a right to know especially since it was because of this recent encounter with the Volturi that I was no longer human.
"The Volturi are threatened by our family." It was Jake who answered "our family besides being the second biggest grouping of vampire in existence is also extremely unique, we have me, a wolf, and Nessie a hybrid. We also have the second largest collection of powers, not even counting whatever it is you do, and some of our gifts are able to trump the Volturi's. They think we want to steal their power."
"That's absurd" I stated.
Jake rolled his eyes in response and flinched as we all heard something crack in Emmett's room.
"I vote we leave the house now" Bree said. Within 3 minutes we were where my bungalow once stood.
"It's odd being back here and seeing nothing," I whispered so low that had I been around humans no one would have heard me.
"Yah but it's gotta be better than inside the house with all the married couples going at it." Nessie said in response. Suddenly a thought dawned on me, Nessie and Jake weren't married.
"Why aren't you two married yet" I asked.
"We are engaged, and Jake wants to wait until Seth imprints or finds someone so he'll stop phasing" Nessie answered
"Who the hell is Seth?" I asked
Jake cleared his throat.
"Seth is the only member of my pack left that is still indefinite."
"Pack? There are more of you?" I said dumbfounded
"Yes, typically there are only three wolves in a pack and only one pack. As Emmett said the gene only activates when vampires are around. However do to such a large amount of vampires that appeared about fifteen years ago, not only was there close to twenty wolves at one point but there was two packs. Sam was the alpha of one pack, and I am the still the alpha of my pack. There are four wolves left including myself and they are all apart of my pack, Sam's pack hit its finale about four years back. In about five years I suspect it'll only be me and Seth. Since that seems to be such a real possibility, I don't want to make Seth feel that he is keeping me from being with my wife by staying a wolf. Most of the pack already feels bad since they feel they occasionally keep me away from being fully devoted to Nessie, can't imagine what that would do to them if I was married."
"How do you know how they feel" I asked, my curiosity peaked, something that had carried over from my human life.
"We share a joint mind when in wolf form" he answered simply.
"Oh…" I trailed off.
"Yea, it's gotten easier since Leah stopped phasing. She used to be a real bitch, no pun intended, and brought up things no one wanted to think about, but she got better and the only problem was when one of the idiots in my pack thought about seeing naked while we were all wolves, and then she would become a bitch again. It was pretty hard for her to be the only female wolf."
"Why'd she stop phasing?" I asked
"Well, she fell in love, without imprinting, with another member of my pack; Embry. They got married and decided upon trying to have kids. Since being a wolf freezes us where we are, it was impossible for her to get pregnant so she stop phasing and gave up being a wolf about a year ago, and long story short she is do in about four months. I expect Embry to give up his wolf when the child is born so that will knock our total down to three. After that Quil who imprinted upon a girl when she was only two, will probably give his wolf up in about five years when they will be the same age biologically. I'll stay a wolf for as long as Nessie's alive, so that just leaves my current Beta; Seth. I really hope he finds someone. He's Leah's little brother, when they first phased they were having a fight and there dad saw them phase and died of a heart attack, it's something that burdens him still."
Suddenly I heard footsteps enter, my hearing range. Bree and Jake reacted the same time as I did and Nessie reacted half a foot fall later. My newborn instincts kicked in and I sunk into a defensive position. I sniffed at the air and caught the familiar scents, it was Jasper and Alice. I relaxed out of my defensive squat, managing to break through my instincts.
"So this where ya kids ran off to. Guess I can't blame you, but Alice just had a vision of a thunderstorm in about three hours so we are going to play baseball. Jake can you call all the members of your pack up here to play?" Jasper asked
I got excited; I had never liked baseball and for the most part found it boring, that however was normal baseball. Supernatural baseball was amazing, it was full contact and ridiculously action packed. Bree had taken me to a game the first rainstorm after I found out about everything. I watched about two innings before deciding I wanted to play, I actually got on base, mainly because my human reactions were in peak conditions from martial arts training, and I cheated shamelessly. I was able to hit the ball by swinging right as Emmett started to move and got a solid hit, Rosalie ran forward to catch it off a bounce but I also intentionally sent my bat flying in the same direction. It caught her full in the face and she started to shriek at me without remembering to throw me out. The entire family was laughing hysterically at the dumbstruck looks of the power couple, when I reached first. Emmett paid me back by breaking my nose tagging me out at second. What happened next was lost to my foggy human memory.
"Hey Jake why weren't any members of your pack here the last time we played?" I called over to him before he phased.
"They all attend college, for various doctorates. They are probably going to be better educated than any normal human on the rez, which is slightly ironic" Then he phased.
"Bree, do you mind if I borrow Zeke for a little while, from what Carlisle said at the meeting last night his gift might be useful in getting Edward, Bella, Rosalie, and Emmett out of bed and onto the field. We already talked to Carlisle and Esme since they were done before Alice had her vision." Jasper asked in his southern drawl.
Bree fought back giggles and responded with a weak "He's all yours"
I sighed, not really wanting to, sprinted towards the house.
Esme, turned red when she saw me walk through the door, I guess she was embarrassed over her lapse in judgment.
"Hey," I greeted her. "I never got to thank you for turning me"
She turned away from me brusquely and Jasper put a hand on my shoulder.
"She almost killed you. You managed to speak a couple of words before you passed out from lack of blood. Your words are what made her let go before Emmett and Edward stepped in."
So that's why I passed out, I thought, one mystery solved. I had wondered why I passed out since none of the rest of my family passed out during there transformation.
"You stopped and that's all that really matters," I said as I pulled Esme into a hug. "Thank you"
She didn't respond but she didn't seem distressed anymore. I followed Jasper to the hallway where the bedrooms were. My skin was crawling at some of the sounds I heard but I kept my composure.
"Hey," I began letting the authority overtake me. "Thunderstorm in three hours, if you want to play baseball then be in the kitchen in five minutes." Then without the authority, I added "Hey Emmett, Edward, since I got on base as a human, I can probably whoop your asses as a vampire."
I knew that was the added incentive needed to assure they would be playing, and if they were playing then so would Bella and Rose.
I waited in the kitchen for two minutes before the two couples emerged.
"Damn, your ability and I thought Edward's was annoying as hell" Emmett complained.
"I never said you had to show, your own ego forced you here" I countered.
All I had to do now was wait for three hours, and so I went back outside to meet Bree.
"Hey baby," I said trying to sound smooth, she just laughed. "Where did Jake and Nessie go?"
"They went to meet the rest of Jake's pack. Honestly though, baby? You're the one who is a newborn" She teased
"Oh come on it's not like I'm an average newborn. I have better control of my instincts than Bella did," I tried to reason with her
"Yah but you also are the kid who was a walking mess of scars"
"Was?" I asked, I still had no idea what I looked like
"Yah the venom eradicated any scars you had, it lightened your hair a shade or two, but other than that and the obvious paleness you don't look very different, It just amplified what naturally made you look like a demigod as a human. You have to be one of the best looking vampires in the world and that is saying something."
"Like your aren't a biased opinion"
She rolled her eyes and grabbed me by the hand and dashed me back toward the house. Once inside she pulled me up to her- our room and stood me facing a giant mirror. She was mostly right, to my surprise, I also gained extremely detailed muscles but I guess that is normal for vampires as it adds to the whole look like a demigod thing. The only thing that bugged me about my appearance was the lack of a scar on my hand from brawl with Emmett by my side, not the red eyes. Out of all my fights it was the only one I was proud of because it was that fight that lead me to Bree.
"I hate it when your right" I muttered.