Life Choices Remade
Characters: Bella Swan, Jacob Black, Sam Uley, Jared Trueheart, Paul Lahote, Embry Call, Charlie Swan, Billy Black, Edward Cullen, Alice Cullen, Carlisle Cullen
Synopsis: The week of their wedding, Bella gets a flash of what could happen if they were married and have children and winds up back eighteen months in the past to the day she sees Edward first, only this time she knows what the circumstances are, can she change her future or will things play out like they did in this time.
Disclaimers: Twilight doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else bselongs to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 9: Talks and Meetings With the Council
Looking across the table at the quartet, I hid a smile as they had amused looks on their faces at what we were talking about this time as I looked at them. 'Alright with him out of town here whatever you got planned you better get your adult council on duty, because if they're just as the quintet remember their grandfathers to be here.'
'You need the added protection of both packs, if he starts getting crazy jealous, you belong to Ephraim's great grandson.' Alice said and I hid a smile. 'Yeah I did actually, my godfather is retired, but Levi, David, Job, Quil and Joseph's grandsons are going active by one by one along with Jack Denali, Joe White and Adam Daniels. But my pack are colored to their fathers and my mother, I'm Tala's great grand daughter and the guys are color coded to their fathers and grandfathers.' I told them and Emmett asked the next.
'Who's who exactly, we just remember the quartet, but we don't know who each wolf is exactly?' he asked and I hid a smile. 'You remember the quartet you met that day you killed the stag?' I asked and they both gave an affirmative. 'Billy is the twin of Ephraim, Josh is Levi, Eric is Quil and Harry is Joseph. My godfather and uncles are colored coded to the quartet you met that day, it's genetic. Billy is reddish brown, Josh is jet black, Eric is chocolate furred and Harry is sandy brown, near gold, furred.'
'As for David and Job, David is light, near chocolate, brown and Job was blackish grey and white furred in his case, but my brothers and Jake have the lighter furred versions of their colors, because their just cubs at the moment.' I told him and he gave a mental nod to that. 'So quick tempers and they see him they're going to get defensive of you. Alright with that fact in mind, I'll try to prevent a fight in dad's station, though if this gets out of hand we're going to have problems later.' Rose said and I nodded in agreement to that.
That afternoon I was at my godfather's house then. "Dad what are the chance of Cocoa deciding to come back as well, with the trio also preparing to come home here?" I asked and he chuckled. "He learns that little Cocoa is activating soon enough and that's enough a reason to do so, but with you being our baby omega and you're back as well, and the first leach, be it human or otherwise, is getting torn apart when he hears this." he said and I nodded as the trio walked into the living room before I heard a playful call to Paul at that from the kitchen.
"Alright who let the big bad wolf in the house dad?" I heard my mate call out and the quartet started laughing at that as I turned to him and he walked over to me. "Hey baby, how was your day?" I asked him and he smiled and gave me a hug as he swung me around and I tightened my arms around his shoulders as he answered me. 'It's too late Edward, I belong to my Jake, I'm a wolfmate and nothing you do is going to change that." I thought hiding a smirk as I heard the exact same remark from Billy.
'You're out of luck leach she belongs to my son, and you're never getting her away from us, you bloodsucker.' I heard him think and I knew he was hiding a smirk as Jake answered me with a smile. "It went fine babe, so who's the hunter who let the wolf in the house because the place is turning into a wolf den these days?" he asked and I chuckled as Paul playfully quipped back at him at that remark.
"Watch the wolf jokes brother otherwise you're getting one right in the head." Paul said and smacked him in the head with the pillow and and I quickly headed off a pillow fight. "Alright guys, heel alright, whoever gets that started you're all grounded now cool it." I said and the quartet all nodded as we exchanged looks at that as we tried to keep from laughing at that, but I knew the adult pack was exchanging amused looks at this.
"Thank god I got the four of you right now, but our fifth youngest cub is the last piece to our puzzle, because your families are my father's best friends." I said and Daniel answered that gently. "Whatever his problem is is he better get that temper checked at the door here." he said and I nodded. "At the moment he touches you like that and we're tearing him apart ourselves." Jake said and the trio nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Anybody pick up on the fact that its just short ten days since I got back and already we're about to get racial and social status problems here, if he realizes who you guys are to me?" I asked and they nodded. "Yeah, but you're the center of our pack, the human leader, in the stories, is the entire world to the wolves and that's how we see you, you're our entire world, and we're not letting go." Jake said and she smiled as she answered him.
"Yeah well, you're my betrothed honey, when you get your hunter training, I'm not letting go, I'm yours forever." I said smiling and he smiled and he pulled me into a hug as we pressed our foreheads together and I hid a smile as the gentle conversation between my godfather and his pack at the way we were together. 'Our young alpha, it won't be long, before he's ready to take the mantle here.' Harry said and I hid a smile as I mentally nodded in agreement. "You think Leah's going to mind about us being together, she and Sam need to rebuild their friendship now?" I asked Harry shook his head.
"No just keep up what you been doing to keep her busy honey, but ease back on the pillow fights here, last thing I need is to get smacked again or caught in the line of after you guys got into that snowball fight in Friday and to repeat that, I get hit and you're getting it by the entire paternal pack so watch it." he said and I nodded I hid as a chuckle at that. "What's the call this weekend guys?" he asked and I explained that to him
"Guys, you want to join me for the game tonight, Mike got me a few tickets for five bucks." I said and they smiled. "Gladly, I haven't seen them play since I started high school." Jake said the trio nodded. "The adult hunters are on duty, so you got the night off boys." Harry added and they all nodded. "And to answer the question, the gangs coming to the beach tomorrow, Daniel's joining you on the beach as a police escort tomorrow, but that's enough protection where you kids aware concerned." he said and the quintet all nodded to that.
"I can't wait to see the look on their faces when Brown shows up at the beach, he's the size of a grizzly bear, say dad, what's the size difference between the big pack and young pack exactly, since I'm going to be needing a guide when I start my training here?" he asked and I explained that to him. "The young pack, when they start out are no taller than a three year old colt, and their fur is lighter, than once they reach twenty five, in human years, they reach full adulthood and their fur colors get darker."
"To put it gently 'if' I was a wolf, I'd look like reddish brown wolf the size of a grizzly bear son, while you'd look like a toddler version of me if you were one, till you were a young adult then you'd look like my twin after that." Billy said and he nodded to that. "I'd hate to be the poor idiot who pisses you off if you were a wolf, because when it comes to the girls, because wolves mate for life and we go alpha male when it comes to them." he said and I chuckled at that, because he was right.
"Yes, well, you're the younger version of me son, in every way, though you kids, if we were wolves, are color coded to us, because you're our Cubs son. As to that, she's your omega, Seth and Sam are your beta and third in command, Leah is fourth and Quil is the secondary beta. Your mother-in-law is my advisor, it's hereditary, with you guys being the council of elders in ten years, you're getting trained by us and your parents to take over."
"Eric was my secondary beta, while Josh was my beta, Harry is my third and Daniel is my fourth right now till Elliot gets started again. That's the code of leadership, but with the rest of the pack they get overly protective of their alpha and alpha's mate and you happen to be both that and their omega baby, so expect the kids to get overly protective." Billy said and he nodded to that as Quil turned to him.
"Omega what's that translate to exactly?" Quil asked and he chuckled as he answered that. "With us being descended from wolves it means she's the human leader of the pack son." he said and they both nodded to that as I looked at my brothers then. "At the moment it's just the trio and me, but you're next Embry, Jake you're coming up on your birthday and Quil you, Seth and Leah are two months after."
"Our young pack is all that matters to me now though, you guys, our parents and my friends. I'm making it clear to him I'm not giving you up no matter what he says, once he hears first hand what I happen to be to you guys." I said and he smiled and gave me a hug. "Who's next up on the junior council to become a hunter exactly. Because if the trio are firsts who's next of the ten of us?" Quil asked and I smiled as I answered him.
"Embry is, than Jake, you and Seth, and Leah, but you're going to enjoy the changes that come with it, because we're building the bonds needed for a young pack right now, before you get started. Quil I know you're furious at Uncle Eric for taking off, but if I can get him back up here, would that be enough to heal the bonds now, so you can be ready for it when the time comes?" I asked and he sighed. "Once he explains to me why he left yeah I'll let it go, but it's going to take more than a year to let go of my anger at him, though I'll still be calling him dad." he said and I nodded to that.
'He's kidding, he's really going to forgive me for leaving. Little Cocoa you hear me?' I heard, before hearing my brothers wolf answer that with a surprised growl. 'Dad, wait a second, I thought you were retired here, what's going on?' he asked and he explained that. 'With your omega now back you, Hurricane and Reddy are going active one by one son, at the moment your humans are looking like they're sixteen, give it seven months you'll look like you're eighteen and then when you guys activate they'll be in your bodies, but you activate when there vampires around son.'
'With your name, it's because you're a cub version of what I look like as a wolf, baby you hear me?' he asked and I quickly answered him. 'Uncle Eric yeah I do, what's going on here, I've already got a line with ninety percent of the pack and your packs going active one by one here, you coming home?' I asked and he quickly answered me. 'Yeah I am, it's going to take a week to run back up there, but why the heck are your pack activating exactly?' he asked and I sighed as I answered.
'Aside from the Cullens coming back, we got a string of homicides running loose here, we got a trio of nomads running loose in Olympia and they're not bothering to follow Cullen territory rules either, the hunting is against the law and Carlisle is going to give the go ahead to take them out if this keeps up.' I said and I knew he nodded as he answered me. 'Baby you alright?' he asked and I gave a mental nod. 'Yeah I am, but mom is still out of town, I'm dropping the news to her so your omega is going to come back for a visit soon enough, so we got seven weeks till the night we come face to face with the trio.' I said and he answered me at that.
'Alright, listen to me carefully, with the boys waking it up it takes a few months to get to full power, just keep them calm till their birthdays, than let them go at it, I'm driving back the night, before, but we got some work to do to make phasing easier on us, because the other wolf tribes have perfected a better way to do it. I'm going to one of them, so I can show the eight an easier way to do it, before we destroy every set of clothing we've got here.' he said and I hid a smile as I tried to hide my laughter at that remark as I heard an amused tone as he answered my thoughts at that.
'Alright laugh it up cub, I can hear your internal laughter at that, so your brothers and Jake are going active, who's the first exactly, before Little Cocoa, Reddy and Sunny get started?" he asked and I explained that. ' Embry is looking like he's seventeen now, but he's got four months till he activates here. But Smokey, Brownie and Twister have gone active here. With the Cullens back the trio just activated, and me along with them." I said and I heard his gentle tone answer me at that.
"My baby omega, alright, I'm coming home, that makes the entire pack till your mother comes for a visit. Sweetheart whatever Shadow said I'm saying the same here, stay out of trouble, you're still a cub and got a curfew, so be careful, I'll see you in a few weeks baby." he said and I smiled. 'You too Cocoa, love you.' I thought to him and heard a chuckle as he answered that. 'Love you too cub.' he said and I looked at the trio.
"Well that's the entire adult pack boys, Cocoa's coming home the night Shadow does." I said to the ten and they all nodded smiling. "Alright eight adult, and four teenage, while do I feel like this is going to get out of hand later?" Embry asked and dad answered that with a chuckle as he walked in the door. "Because once one of the guys starts it, it turns into a free for all son, as to that. What's Eric's choice, you talk to him over the phone?" he asked and Billy smiled as he answered him.
Before he could though I heard a gentle scratch at the door and found Jack standing there in his wolf. "Orangie you can't fit through the backdoor how can you get into the house?" Dad asked with a smile, before he nudged the door sideways further and then carefully manuevered himself through the back door. "I guess that answers your question dad." I said as I started laughing at that as he curled up on the floor in front of me.
"Why do I feel like this is going to happen every time you're alone in the house and the trio start begging to come in to keep you company like this baby?" he asked with a bemused smile and Billy answered that one. "Because the quartet still see her as a cub at the moment, and to answer your second question. Shadow, Cocoa, Goldie and Storm are coming back in March, so for now we got four and the quartet get back in a few weeks."
"Which is when he and Josh are coming home so that's the entire council, we're back in action in six weeks Charlie. Josh is leading the council in the field, while Harry is acting as her paternal bodyguard, but the seven are in the field with the adult pack hunting down our homicides. Red's retired so Reddy is taking over next winter." he said and dad nodded as they went into conversation over the Super Bowl and I was in a huddle with my pack during dinner that night, as I thought over this way to get into the house and tent.
"Orangie was that how you guys got into my tent when I was little and why did you need to do that exactly?" I asked and he nodded as he answered the second question as he leaned his side against my legs and then pressed his furry forehead to mine. "From ages two to nine you did it to keep me warm, and you thought of me as your cub and was cub sitting when dad was going hunting for supplies during our camping trips." I guessed and he nodded as he nudged my head with his with a smile in his eyes. "Love you too." I said smiling and gave him a hug as he rested his head on my legs.
"Let me guess, next to the the quintet I was closest to you and either Cocoa, Val or Stripes, right." I asked and he chuckled as I heard him answer me mentally at that. "It was me, Joe and Adam, you and Eric were like you and Quil are together, but the guys and me, we got overly protective when you were a cub, and you loved being in arms when we were like this. To us you're still our cub, we'd never give you up, we love you." he said with a purring growl and I wrapped my arms around his neck and hugged him.
"Well that answers how I kept finding him or Val in the tent with you, while Red, Goldie Shadow, Brown and Storm were dealing with Leah, the twins and the boys during our camping trips, before they swapped off, because you guys needed to be separated for pillow fights, with you guys this size your fur and body temperatures are higher and can keep a two to nine year old cub warm. Though nowadays we're just wearing heavy duty camp jackets on these camping trips now." Dad said with a chuckle as I looked at him.
Before I could answer, I felt something start brushing my feet then and looked down to see his tail gently running itself across the soles of my feet. "Hey come on Orangie, stop." I said trying to get my feet out from under him, but he shifted position to hold my legs down as he let me have it as I tried to keep from laughing. "Alright whatever I told you the other night I take it back come on let me go." I said and I knew he could hear the suppressed laughter in my voice then.
"Come on I give up." I said again as I tried to hide a giggle as he stopped as I wrapped both arms around his furry neck and gave him a hug and he pressed the side of his head against my chest and started purring. "I haven't seen the quartet like this since they returned what's the deal here?" Dad asked and he chuckled as Harry answered that with a smile. "Goldie and Red told the quartet to take care of her till they got back, Orangie is just acting like a normal playful uncle wolf with her." he said and dad nodded to that.
"With my being their baby omega, expect them to act like this when around me, though for the trio it's I'm their pack sister, mom's their mother omega, and vice versa here as to that , if we go camping it's a swap up on duty so expect our camping to be loaded with thirteen horse to grizzly sized wolves this July later, and speaking of which."
"How many times does it snow on our campsite exactly during the summer exactly?" I asked and he hid a chuckle. "Three times out of ten, if the weather in the peaks suddenly hits a barometric pressure drop during the mid summer around here. Fortunately with wearing your normal winter gear it's not a problem here anymore, just keep the snowball fights under control guys." he said and we nodded smiling at that, before I heard a rhythmic purring coming out of Jack and recognized the song he sang to me when I was two, just in wolf.
"That sounds like the lullaby that Jack sang to you during your toddler years." Dad said smiling and I nodded to that as I heard his response to that with a gentle growl. 'It is Charlie, this is just another way to do it when I'm like this, to me, she still the little baby girl I remember.' he said as he continued as I said this out loud to him. "It is, Orangie just found another way to do it for me, just as wolf. With the adult pack back, they still see me as their little cub and he's making that clear now."
"For an adult wolf this size I'm the cub human in their eyes and Orangies cub is the last to start, he's got four years as to that. Their Cubs are going to activate one by one the day the guys and Leah do, but my pack has twelve, mom has ten, including in herself, so we can control each other's packs." I said and he nodded as we settled in for a spaghetti dinner, before we headed for home and it was time to settle in for the night.
That night before bed I was just getting ready for bed when I heard a soft growl and turned around to see the quintet moving around on the bed and moved over to it and sat down. 'Who are you?' I asked and Tala looked at me gently as Cocoa jumped off the window seat and on to the bed. 'I'm Ephraim Isabella, the six of us wanted to talk to you and decided to use your toy versions of us.' he said and I smiled at that.
'I didn't think you could possess stuffed animals that looked like you.' I said and Brownie answered that. 'With the fact our grandsons got cub version stuffed wolves for you it's the best way to keep in touch now. Quil was correct when he said your prophecy starts in a few weeks, you completed eighty percent of the prophecy in your timeline, but the Volturi need to be eliminated. The true vampire government here is the Cullens my dear, they're the ones to run the vampire government.'
'We sent you back so you could finish the prophecy, your destiny is to stop the murders and protect our lands, and make friends with four of five of the quintet and their latest arrivals and their relatives. Tala and your mother had it right that you've got a bigger destiny than you'd expect, but when the time comes for you to have to deal with the red head and Harold's children start, ignore his attempt to kill himself if you and our great grandsons are going cliff diving.' he said and I nodded as I answered him out loud softly then with a smile.
"So keep it up till I have my run in with the Volturi, but when that day comes, ignore his attempt to kill himself and stay here, and they'll never know I'm an omega or that I know everything about them?" I asked and they nodded to that. "Yes, your great, great, great grandmother declared that once you reach the age you are that you and the rest of her descendants were never to go to Europe or leave the Northern Cascades and America. To prevent them from finding out you were back."
"We and the rest of the tribal spirits decided certain members out of the tribe deserved the truth of us and the Cullens, those chosen were meant to be part of our world, they're meant to be part of our lives. Tala chose the first by your friend Tyler, but your gang is meant to know the truth, as are several members of the student body and their parents and your stepfather, they're the humans meant to know the truth." David said and I nodded to that as I answered him.
"So what's this mean now, my friends get involved and suddenly we got added problems, Edward is losing his mind out crazy jealousy. How do I explain to the others members of the Forks residents that they're ten years younger than their looks, because Carlisle looks like he's nearly forty, Edward is seventeen and Rose is eighteen years old while Emmett is twenty three and he's a senior in high school at the moment?" I asked and Joseph answered that one. "They get to stay, but there's a way to fix that, just tell the town residents that they're slower in the aging process than normal humans, though they're vampires, they're the good ones."
"We'll admit we had reservations of them coming and going when they arrived but the treaty was specific, whoever hunts a human, if they're a red eye, is getting exterminated, despite the fact you wanted to be one, that would have turned the treaty void as would getting pregnant with Edwards child Isabella. As to why getting pregnant by a vampire can kill a human, the male ones are incubi and the females are succubi. Edward Cullen is turning into an incubus now out of his jealousy, you belong to Jacob."
"Your pack would have had no choice but to kill you and the infant, as to why, that baby would be half human, and in his or her mind would hold the knowledge of how to destroy vampires. If Carlisle's youngest cousin saw the infant from afar she'd think it was a human toddler or kindergartner they changed and tell the Volturi. What he did could have made them realize you were back, your family is the strongest clan on the reservation, you're the strongest of Tala's heirs at the current moment."
"With a month till your encounter with the trio, keep testing him, but work with the quartet till you meet the duo for real, but as a friend and human member of the coven, you're part of the tribe and their coven starting the night of your game." he said and I nodded. "Why do I have the ability to communicate to my grandmother exactly, because Papa said he's got a direct line to you now?" I asked and Ephraim answered that. "As an omega you had the added ability to communicate with the spirits too."
"Your skills as an omega are growing every day, but as Susan said don't lose your temper or they get channeled into whatever is lying around and throw it across the room like what happened yesterday. As for Rosalie's background, that's one of the situations you can prevent now, just reverse the attack on you and lead them into your own ambush and your father, Daniel and Elliot arrest them."
"For now you and the boys deal with the drug dealers and the rapists and then the night of the game you take it it to the next level and deal with the trio and prophecy gets started for real." he said and I nodded to that as I answered him. "I'm going to see you again like this aren't I, I know how you met Carlisle, and my grandmother gave specific requests in the treaty, but he's going to do anything to make me his." I said and he answered me softly.
"As Reddy said for the time you string him along, but your place is wolf, you should be able to grow up normally and our grandsons are relieved you're back where you belong now. The night it starts I'm dropping the message to Joshua that the betrothal contract is getting activated six months earlier than it should be and you're moving back on to the reservation and the sextet and their relatives have permission to come and go as they please, but Cullen is restricted from the reservation to protect you."
"My recommendations here is that in addition to your friends, your father's second in command has permission to know the truth as well, so tell your friend to bring him to the Black homestead and we can work out a new treaty with five revisions, but the original key points are kept in it and your mother is keeping in touch with Carlisle from wherever she's living once Philip is finished getting his contract signed, though they're going to have to move back soon enough till we end things with the trio." he said and I nodded to that as I answered him.
"Mama's key points are the ones I'm enforcing correct?" I asked and he nodded. "Yes that's right, our key-points were no biting a human, no coming onto our land and no using their weapons on humans. Hers are the same, but five added ones to the list, when we're in public there's to be no violence in front of bystanders, we work together with the gold eyes and Carlisle's friends whoever they might be, and three others."
"With you being the youngest of your clan, you taking charge like this is exactly what we wanted you to remember, your memories in your timeline are the key to protecting everyone from the parasites, both human and red eyes, but your added problem is the group of tourists you saw that leach bring in. That woman is a fisherman, if you could send a tip to them so they can check out another section of Volterra that would save fifty lives at once, the Volturi will never know you know what they are that way."
"You can save lives, just remember the details you wanted to black out, your body will build the immunity to their pheromones, but if you get gassed when you're around our grand and great grandsons, stay next to Harold, because the side effect of it now will be a massive burst of adrenaline and you need to be around Harold and Susan to prevent a collapse he's your paternal protector now, so he's around you full time." Quil said and I nodded as I answered him.
"Papa, I know they need the information, but could you send the information in books one at a time, like say the night I met the trio, the second my life fell apart in the other timeline, the third when our tribes have a run-in with each other and finally what would have happened if you hadn't stopped me in time. So I can be ready to return to my versions of my friends and family, their memories are going to be reworked, but they and their parents, and I'm adding the faculty to the list of the ones who will be in the know and change several more details here." I said and they nodded to that.
"How do you propose to do it this way, reverse the situations in the storyline, had you not known you're Quileute my cub?" Levi asked and I nodded to him. "Yes, our memories faded, because we all forgot who we were to each other. Jessi, Angie, Eric and Mike, as well as Ben and Tyler need the truth of what really happened to me and why I reacted like that back then. Since I've been back I've made more friends and been developing the real relationship of a Quileute woman with her mate and future husband. And it's because I let my heart take control now in this timeline."
"In that other timeline I was listening to my head too much, if I'd just followed my heart I wouldn't be in the situation I was back then, dad, mom, Uncles Billy, Harry, Josh and Daniel, as well as the adult pack, my aunts and the guys and Leah, and the girls, need to hear the real story of what put me in that condition, and with the faculty of my timeline. But they see me like I am now, but they don't know what caused it, so with that, I'm giving them that reason by telling them my inner most thoughts and everything Cullen did to me by his not leaving me alone and staying away from me."
"So with that, just start with the first book and from there we work our way to every situation down the list and send the last three weeks before the wedding in the other timeline. Chapter one to my storyline here is going by the name 'Twilight', we're using the dating of every day, so my first on the list is the day I came home. 'Chapter 1: Open Book' that's the day I saw him in school, just read it out like I hadn't known who I was at the time. I'm sending the entire group a message to them, a few days, before I deal with the quartet and the following night is the talent show here." I said and sighed.
"Chapters two through four are going by the titles New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, New Moon is when I was with my uncles and Jake and learned you're werewolves, Eclipse is about the duo fighting over me and I deal with the newborn battle and the last is what the consequences would be if you hadn't gotten to me in time, as for current wolves at the moment we got four adults and three Cubs.
"At the moment we got seven, so what now, if I finally meet them face to face, what's going to happen exactly?" I asked and he explained that. "That night when the partnership goes full, not only are you telling your father, but I'm sending a message to my grandson, it's time to reconcile with cub and his mother and be back with the pack. Cubs furious he took off on his mother, my son, and him. Time to heal that bond between my Cubs and their Cubs laters on."
"At the moment what you chose in building the bonds of a pack, before they join the pack was a very good idea, as they see at a certain age they get more athletic, and because brothers, but the bonds of brotherhood just get enforced, when you're a wolf, we become permanent brothers in a pack. As for Leah, she's your chosen bodyguard, she was meant to phase when Jacob took his position as alpha of your pack."
"Till she phases continue what you have been doing to help her and she's going to be comfortable, in your case what Harold said was true, your abilities speed up and and you get stronger, more athletic, to enjoy being in high school this time around, stay with your friends and once the partnership goes full, you're going to have Paul, and the younger Cullens acting as your bodyguards, and you can enjoy the term as the boys swap off and you got Alice with you on the volleyball court after that." he said and I nodded.
"So my abilities kick in at seventeen to eighteen, and why was I hearing their voices when I was toddler in their wolf forms at the time?" I asked and he chuckled. "As an omega the ability kicks at seven months old, but with you being around our grandsons all the time, the connection was so unstable as a toddler they could hear everything you're thinking, as you get older you get more control over it."
"It was due to being gone for five years that you forgot how to use your gift and your knowledge of their kind, but your instincts kicked in automatically when you saw them. William had it right though, if you'd spent your time with the tribe, you'd be safe, but instead, because Cullen read his mind, it landed you right in the middle of it. Our prophecy stated that a heir of our omega was to marry my heir, and they, and their pack, would be the strongest out of the generations, because they'd be the ones to destroy the Volturi and create a new government with our gold eyed allies."
"You'd be working together, but with the arrival of new members means that if they choose to stick around they need a change in their diets, it's animal blood or they to get eliminated afterwards, but our packs are the ones acting as the protectors of the entire region as we and the Cullens work together, but with that, it means if they keep having to come visit you get new young wolves popping up every time and with that, eighty percent of the reservation has the gene, if the nomads or Carlisle's friends start showing up repeatedly the reservation is going to be over run later." he said and I nodded as I ended our conversation as I felt a jolt of love shoot through me then.
"Thanks for the visit Papa, it's good to meet all of you finally." I said and he moved into my arms for a cuddle, before the others did the same. "Don't worry sweetheart you'll see and hear from us again, we promise." Levi said and I smiled. "Love you Uncle Levi, Uncle David." I said and David said it for both of them. "Love you too Isabella, take care of our sons and grandsons, we will see you again." he said and I nodded as they stopped moving and I knew they went back into the void again as I put the quintet back into place and Cocoa back on the windowsill.
After sitting at my desk, I got to work on the letter and gently phrased it so they knew things were going to get better, before I looked at it then and read it quietly to myself then. 'Hey everyone, if you're reading this, than you know your memories have recorded the new situations, dad I know you're worried about my plans here, but with what I've been through thanks to Edward, its no more dangerous than facing off against Laurent a second time here, but for emotional healing I have to.'
'With the changes being brought, I'm making sure the balance is staying that way, but like you remember the first battle and situation you deal with comes up the night of the game, dad you learn the truth that night for both groups. As for our friendships, they're in the beginning stages Rose, Em', Carlisle, but as you thought when we saw each other, our bonds went deeper and our lives are fused together for life. To protect all of you, I'm going to be bending several rules as the omega here, but Cullen is getting no where with me now."
"My job is peace keeper and in order to do that there has to be a balance, if we need to talk and meet, guys, we can let each other know mentally and when off duty everyone relax, because whoever is going to defect is likely one of Tanya's family and Kate's new mate is probably the revolutionary rebel you told me about. But in order to pull these take downs off we need a floor plan. Every group is working in tandem till the day of the game and we break it to him that you know his plans."
"Guys the added changes you're going to see in me are going to show that I'm no longer the quiet mature person you saw in 'our' timeline, but I've changed, I'm going to show a side you never got the chance to see in me. While the guys, Jessi and Angie get to see me as needing a true friendship with them. You get to see me enjoy being a seventeen, near eighteen, year old now."
"Because everything I was too focused on with Cullen is going to show during the added changes in our timeline, you get to see the side of me, my love, that you remember when we were together last winter, when we were together, during my early stages as our group omega. Dad, Uncle Billy, the me you remember as a little girl is going to return, though I'm a young omega."
"I'm going to act like a normal young teenager, our bonds as father and daughter are going to deepen, don't worry, daddy, I'm never leaving you, with things growing closer within the changes the added side effect is its going to result in my gang member joining the group here in the know as well. My friends in school are going to learn the truth and the first is going to be Tyler."
"With the connection between me and Tyler growing stronger, he's not going to care what we are anymore than you will dad, and neither will the rest of my friends, as to that, in bending a few rules here in that area, starting the week of and after the car accident. To protect not only the packs, but the sextet
"Tyler, the ability connects to humans as well so soon enough I'll be using it on you, so you can report the last and final stage of the subterfuge to my father at my godfather's house the night before I yanked myself out of school in our timeline, but in this one, it's police protection, you guys just get whatever assignment and test I need and bring it to Sam's house, but as of now, you've all got access to the entire reservation."
"That's if the eleven also figure it out, after what I told you guys so far, but the twelve of you are now under the protection of my tribe. I'm fixing things so the guys, Angie, Jessi and Dana are involved in things with us, but one by one they're going to do research and realize that everything our conversation the Thursday, before we headed for the beach, but you've all got some research to do, before I tell you the truth as well where I'm concerned.'
"As time goes on, the entire gang is going to learn the truth, but like with you, they're sworn to secrecy, every group is completely equaled out, though it's four and seven to eight and later twelve, but with superman abilities it's completely equal now, and they get to see us in our normalcy, and see the tribes in our own ways. What you've seen so far is just the beginning brother and I'm taking control of my position and destiny, so there are going to be a select few human teenagers who know the truth and it's limited to twelve as of now, that's includes your families as well, since with our class council that's the catch, they're the ones who learn it."
"That's you, the quintet and the guys and Dana, but you guys are going to be the ones in the know and are under the protection of both tribes when you figure it out and come to see us when I'm at my godfather's house. I'm equalizing each group out, and I'm doing balance with each group as well, so with that our lives were fused together for life from the day we met."
"My friendship with you and the quintet is all that matters to me where you're concerned, by this everything is going to be changing your lives and ours for the better, no more secrets, you'll see them in the way I do when the time comes for my wedding all of you, in each group, get to see it. Our friendships are for life, and we can rebuild and add onto the town, make it safe for everyone together, but things are changing in your futures for the better."
"Don't worry guys, I'm not leaving you without a fight, as I said in the last letter the day of the convergence is the day I got the letter from your grandparents and my thirty five year old self, you'll get me back that day and from there on forward it's a new history and change for all of us, sooner or later the last bit of the prophecy activates, but till it does, we just live as normally as we can. I love you guys, see you soon. Bella.'I wrote our and smiled as I looked at the letter.
To add a final touch to it I wrote on the envelope 'Don't open till a week after the car accident' in bold letters and underlined it twice then as I yanked a second envelope and wrote the first half of the letter to my family, all three sides of it, then the second was saved for when mom and Phil heard, as the memory shifts started affecting Tyler next
It didn't matter I was in the past now, I was going to live my life like a normal teenager and really enjoy the school year and the next eighteen months, let myself go of my original reservation and become the person their memories are going to see as they saw a change in me.
The next day in school, I looked at the quartet. 'Rose where's your locker exactly, I have something I need to put in there?' I asked and she smiled then. 'Two halls downs from yours Bella, just drop it through the grate, if this has to do with our mental conversations it's between us as of now.' she said and I nodded as I waited till P.E., headed for the gym and dropped them through the grate and waited for the effects to hit my family next.
Jake-2009
After thinking over the conversation she and I had with my father the year before, I looked at my father with a chuckle. "If I was a wolf, I'd look like a reddish brown wolf the size of a grizzly bear and you'd look like a toddler version of me till you're twenty five in human years and then you'd like my twin after that', I should have read that as literally and not metaphorically dad, because you know way too much about this."
"So you're not just any normal hunter dad, you are a werewolf, so this entire time, I looked like a toddler version of you when you're on active duty, and you're telling me that our responsibilities are going to get a bit crazy once the entire adult pack is completely back at full strength finally?" I asked and he started laughing as he answered me. "Yes, when I said that I meant it literally son, you're a toddler version of me in wolf form."
"You guys were color coded to us, because you're our Cubs, the only ones singled out are Embry and Leah. As to that, the bonds you guys are building now are making it easier for when you all activate, with the ten of you always together the bonds are going to be so strong it doesn't matter you're wolves or not you're family and a pack and the twelve of you are us in ten years son." he said and I nodded as Rachel looked at him then.
"So..., wait a minute reddish brown, that was Reddy, you mean you're the adult reddish brown wolf dad?" she asked and he nodded. " Yes baby I am, your memories of us as the pack of grizzly sized wolves in the campsite may have faded, but what's one of the things you remember when we went camping exactly?" he asked and she chuckled. " That Reddy started purring whenever I was hanging on to his leg as he gave me a ride around the yard like that." she said and he smiled as he leaned forward.
"That was me, the purring you heard from me when I was a wolf was meant to say ' I love you baby', for us it was meant to be a kind of sound of affection for your mothers and you kids when you were little. You may have forgotten, but somethings come back later in life, that being one of them." he said and she nodded as Charlie walked in the door then. "Well the added side effects of her being in the past just hit her bedroom finally here boys."
"You guys are back on the bed and the window seat finally and everything you gave her is covering the walls and desk and dresser and the little dream catcher is back in place on the head of the bed again." he said and he smiled. "Well if that's the case she's just made it clear, it's the life of a wolfmate forever now. Rose what was next after that outburst in their biology class?" he asked and she chuckled as she answered him.
"Aside from three days of tension a snowball fight broke out in the court yard that day after he left and it turned into a war-zone, but it was a better day than I expected that morning what went on that afternoon after school let out exactly?" she asked and Sam answered that. "Study group after school and she showed us her bedroom, followed by a council family get together and a snowball fight broke out in the front yard." he said to her and she smiled and nodded as she answered him.
Just as she got ready to say it, Papa Quil froze and focused and then smiled and chuckled as he looked at our fathers. "You're lucky you bought her stuffed versions of yourselves son." he said looking at dad and Uncle Daniel looked at him. "Why exactly?" he asked him and Dad thought it over and smiled. "Because our grandfathers just found a way to communicate to her by possessing our stuffed counterparts, by us, I mean you, me, Elliot, Harry, Josh and Eric." he said and they nodded with a chuckle at that and Rose looked at the table and then saw something she didn't catch before then.
"Hey guys here's message number one from Bella." She called out and the entire group walked into their living room as we wanted to hear this now as I saw a second sitting next to it. "Don't open till two weeks after the car accident', why would she put that on the second envelope?" Seth asked and Charlie answered that. "Because it's about whatever changes come with your brothers and her always being able to get along and if I have to guess here, it's related to Renee's memories getting rearranged and with her and Phil, yes alright I see what she has in mind here and the first to know is her gang."
"That remark is connected to Tyler actually, she said that she and Tyler are beginning to build the bond she has with you son, before she admitted it and broke off the engagement here in our timeline." he said and he nodded as she opened it and smiled. "Okay, here we go, 'Hey everyone, if you're reading this, than you know your memories have recorded the new situations, dad I know you're worried about my plans here, but with what I've been through thanks to Edward, its no more dangerous than facing off against Laurent a second time here, but for emotional healing I have to.'
'With the changes being brought, I'm making sure the balance is staying that way, but like you remember the first battle and situation you deal with comes up the night of the game, dad you learn the truth that night for both groups. As for our friendships, they're in the beginning stages Rose, Em', Alice Jasper, but as you thought when we saw each other, our bonds went deeper and our lives are fused together for life. To protect all of you, I'm going to be bending several rules as the omega here, but Cullen is getting no where with me now."
"My job is peace keeper and in order to do that there has to be a balance, if we need to talk and meet, guys, we can let each other know mentally and when off duty everyone relax, because whoever is going to defect is likely one of Tanya's family and Kate's new mate is probably the revolutionary rebel you told me about. But in order to pull these take downs off we need a floor plan. Every group is working in tandem till the day of the game and we break it to him that you know his plans."
"Guys the added changes you're going to see in me are going to show that I'm no longer the quiet, mature person you saw in 'our' timeline, but I've changed, I'm going to show a side you never got the chance to see in me. While the guys, Jessi and Angie get to see me as needing a true friendship with them. You get to see me enjoy being a seventeen, near eighteen, year old now."
"Because everything I was too focused on with Cullen is going to show during the added changes in our timeline, you get to see the side of me, my love, that you remember when we were together last winter, when we were together, during my early stages as our group omega. Dad, Uncle Billy, the me you remember as a little girl is going to return, though I'm a young omega."
"I'm going to act like a normal young teenager, our bonds as father and daughter are going to deepen, don't worry, daddy, I'm never leaving you, with things growing closer within the changes the added side effect is its going to result in my gang member joining the group here in the know as well. My friends in school are going to learn the truth and the first is going to be Tyler."
"With the connection between me and Tyler growing stronger, he's not going to care what we are anymore than you will dad, and neither will the rest of my friends, as to that, I'm bending a few rules here in that area, starting the week of and after the car accident. To protect not only the packs, but the sextet."
"As to that the first of said changes are to be the day of the car accident, and from there and forward it's going to show a side of me you never got the chance to see before and after the red eyed leaches landed me in the hospital. But every injury in our timeline you saw with guys is probably going to get an alibi or just get hit with something else in your new updated memories."
"Don't worry guys, things are going to change and get better from here on in, I've got family, friends and parents in all three species now as a result of this time jump, as I said before I left. The time convergence is the day the letter arrived, so that's when I return. We completed three of the four situations, but we got to finish the job here and with that."
"Carlisle, if he spreads some stupid story that he got me impregnated with a half human/half vampire hybrid get your friends and we need as many of your friends involved as possible, because the Volturi are a dictatorship that needs to be eliminated, but that's the last item on the list. For now just focus on the trio and the newborns, after that we got time to deal with the last one."
"Don't worry guys, I'm not leaving you and I never will, you're all that matter to me and with that, I'm going to ensure I save as many lives as I can now here. Alice, he heads for Volterra, redirect the touring, that saves fifty lives there. And number two, under no circumstances am I leaving the peninsula this time. And I'll explain why later, but if he tries to kill himself, because the guys and I are going cliff diving and you can't see me, because I'm surrounded by five young werewolves and an adult one, let him go."
"Dad, I'm making it clear here, if the sextet, or eight, are with you and Officer Benson and you hear them give you three growls and a whine, when you're hunting down the redhead, followed by them turning their heads to you, they're saying, 'Get out Charlie, don't argue with us, just go!', the hunt is going to get redirected this time, because while they're chasing her off the cliff the guys, Harry and I are waiting to intercept at the beach, that's my plan now."
"This covers things things, till you open up the second letter guys, but like the envelope says wait till these conversations and my questions over my powers and abilities start hitting mom and get her up to Forks, time for a full scale reunion of the adult pack because this entire situation is going to hit both Cocoa and Shadow at the exact same time here."
"Before you ask Carlisle, Cocoa and Shadow are Josh and Eric, Red is Billy, Orangie is Jack, Val is Joe, Stripes is Adam, Storm is Elliot, Brown is Daniel and Goldie is Harry, in wolf form. The first photo you and Rose get to see is me with Harry, as a wolf, when I'm still a toddler, cub, with them, and that's next week at the hospital. It didn't and doesn't matter to me what they are."
"By that I mean the guys and Leah, and it's because I saw the adult pack like this all the time, my memories of that are now back completely, everything in 'our' timeline I'm telling this version of you, but you need to understand why I was so furious at him. The guys are my pack, my family is the adult and young packs. I'm not leaving my parents or my friends, my life is as a human."
"As to that, that's the true catalyst of my anger at him, along with Harry, I'm seeing Harry and my godfather every day now, and with that, dad, with you being at work the day of the car accident, it's time to enact parental/medical orders catch twenty two when you've got a concussion and you're a minor."
"Sam, guys, I'm telling you everything later that morning, I need some pack family time till our family meets up that night, Emily, if you're also listening to this, I need you around for the part, you guys are going to be furious at that here, because that trip to P.A. just got dragged into it as well. Until the next letter guys, see you soon, I love you, Bella." she read out and we nodded to that.
"P.A., Port Angeles, she and the girls went to go dress shopping and I was tracking down, wait a sec that was when we had that quartet on the loose..., oh my god, you don't mean to tell me that those little hooligans caught sight of her alone, do you?" Charlie asked and Carlisle stood up at that as he yanked the dates from his pocket and read through one of them and his tone went dangerous as he answered him. "Yes that's exactly what she means and she'd rather tell the girls first, before she tells us."
"By meeting me I became her PCG and that's the catch now with meeting me in a week, because our tribes are working as one, if a vocal brawl breaks out in my station, this is going to have to get squared off, when we got thirty two outsiders in the room with you, me, our kids, Dan, Harry and the trio, along with Tyler Charlie. Okay next week in our past that's when the car accident is and that's when we go over tribe preparations before this happens, she needs me as her doctor, because I'm practically her father in our timeline, and I sense she needs me protecting her like she needs you, Dan and Harry at the time and with that fact in mind, that's why she needs to tell Sue this."
"Only a girl could understand this for obvious reasons, they're more vulnerable than we are, because, they're not as strong as we are, it's a woman's worst nightmare, she needs Sue and the girls to tell this to." he said and looked at Rose. "Baby, I know why she'd put that in there, what you'd tell her when you tried to talk her out of becoming one of us?" he asked and she covered her eyes. "I told her about what Royce and his friends did to me. But she never told me this, if this is another traumatizing memory." she said and I moved to her side and crouched in front of her.
"What they did to you, are we talking.." I trailed off and she nodded and I pulled her into a hug today that. "That's why she needs our mothers hearing this, she's the near attack you're the full attack, and she knows the only option left is making sure that what happened to you doesn't happen to anyone else, that's why she put that in there Rose. Dad she wrote that so you, and Uncles Charlie, Elliot and Dan knew when and where to intercept, it's an ambush, just as she redirects the ambush, by having you arrive at the right time." I said and he nodded as she looked at Charlie and said it for Carlisle firmly.
"Okay if that's in your dating Charlie she put that in there, because...?" she started to say and he finished it off with a dangerous growl in his tone. " I'm a cop and the chief of police, human situations in needing my protection in areas that don't call for supernatural help, but the help of a cop and the man she needs most is one and said man is me, that's the understatement of the century here, I'm a cop, she needed me protecting her."
"We're cops, it's just mixed as we're her paternal gang, I'm her father and the duo are the fathers of her pack members, okay a reverse attack, reverse, fresh bait and..., alright I know what she's trying to tell me. I get the idea, she's pulling a sting operation, like the narc squad does with a woman on the team. She's going to lead them into her own ambush and we arrive to arrest them, before they can touch her."
"And with that fact in mind here, listen to me you idiots, if she calls you to call these little shits in, you better phone me or I'm having your heads and your jobs when I get through with you, my baby girl is not being subjected to that." he said with a dangerous growl, and I knew he was referring to the cops at Port Angeles Police department when he said that as he sighed as he looked at us to go into why that would be in there then.
"Alright dating I don't remember the key dates in these situations, but you guys do, she met you and Rose that day at the hospital that's next week in the new timeline, so why redirect the situations here?" he asked and I answered that. "To prevent her from ending up at the hospital again for several near fatal injuries, a near rape and a broken leg twice in two years, she's still suffering arthritis from her leg getting broken right now."
"Okay, she said whatever injuries covers an alibi here, so whatever happens in school, or just when we're together should answer that question, if the stupid idiot doesn't cause a repeat performance at the party and what the hell caused that exactly?" I asked and Jasper answered that one. "She got a paper cut and a drop of blood landed on the rug."
"I'm not completely in control, because I spent 200 hundred years as a red eye, before Alice came into my life and I chose abstinence, whatever plans she's got to help us, I'll take it if it means I can be around her more easily here, because we joined their gang a week into our senior year of high school at the time. Alright that scar on her arm."
"Her forehead, the back of her head, her leg and the bite mark on her wrist, that's every single injury. Alright dad, she, when she got thrown into the pillar, took damage to her abdomen, did you check for internal injuries when we brought her to the hospital?" he asked and Carlisle nodded. "Yeah I did, a bit of surgery to her spleen in addition to her leg getting broken in two places that's not happening twice here either."
"She lost three units of blood and it was touch and go, and she was unconscious for a week at the time. So our first step is making sure she doesn't get her leg broken twice, everything else I can deal with but the little brats who cross the line at school and touch her at all are getting arrested if she turns them in because of a medical suspension on the team's later, because the epidemic of drug related health problems in your class had me and Caroline worried." he said and dad looked at him at that as he answered at remark.
"So Dan, Harry and I are going into a conference conversation in the E.R. with you, knowing her she's acting as my junior cop representative so we can keep the locals out of the forest and the woods till we catch the leaches, the game is going through on schedule, but if I know the duo, he and Eric are heading for the clearing as wolf protection, before you see this trio face to face." he said and Carlisle nodded as Sam looked at Alice at that.
"Areas that bring out a part of her we don't normally see here, Alice what was going on during the second semester at the school right after she arrived and after the car accident?" Sam asked and she chuckled. "The talent show, and the volleyball team tryouts actually, along with the prom." she said and he nodded. "She said she chose an outsiders theme for the prom, by that I mean the book, you're dressed in three different areas but the remark is the same, but the..." he started to say and then he chuckled as he said it.
"The talent show, she's doing a girl group with the girls and she's singing in the talent show and she's trying out for the team." he said and I smiled as I said it. "If she's telling him anything it's that she belongs to me, if I have to guess, the song is going in two different areas here, one being my going alpha male with her and the other I'm her mate and nothing he says or does is taking her away from me. So I'll give you two guesses on what songs she chose for that one." I told him and he started laughing as he said it.
"My boyfriend's back and both songs connected to the chorus line in Sister Act, yeah I get the idea here, she's opening the side of her we remember when she was twelve, before her memories started fading of dad and the adult pack as wolves, and she's able to be her twelve year old self again with the guys, Emily, the girls and me. Well I'm not missing out on that concert if she and the gang decide to go for a minor concert in the middle of talent show." he said and the nine of us nodded in agreement to his thoughts as dad answered me at that with an amused look on his face.
"Yes and during your spring break next year, you guys are going to have Harry with you at the cliff side, but I'm going to be activated by that point once Renee combines her healing powers with Bella's. Here's the thing though, with the seven of you at the beach, and us hunting her down, she knows she's not going to stand a chance at getting near her here."
"Carlisle if you guys are on stand by be ready, because the hunt is going to end up jumping off the cliff between the border of the reservation and the highway. With the kids being Cubs at the moment, the guys and I have more power in order to handle the situation here." he said and Carlisle nodded with an amused smile at our conversation.
"Why do I feel like once things are completely active in our friendship it's going to result in the sparring matches getting out of hand to the point I got to replace the windows in my kitchen repeatedly here?" he asked and we started laughing at that as we took a break as I waited for the situation to start unfolding within our family with my mate in our past.