A/N: I finally found a word to describe most of my characters, Tsundere.
Definition is straight from Wikipedia : "Japanese concept of a character archetype which describes a person with a conceited, irritable, and/or violent personality that suddenly becomes modest and loving when triggered by some sort of cause (such as being alone with someone). It can also describe a contradictory personality which is good-willed on the inside, but with a harsh attitude on the outside."
I'm going to be doing that a lot. Get Leah and Nicole alone or have something trigger Nicole's softer side.
The story is almost done now. I'd saw about halfway or 3/4 done. Leah will have a happy ending, Nicole and Leah realize their love for each other blah, blah but Nicole isn't. So character death warning.
Chapter Ten
Leah growled, fist tightening around the wheel. She almost left imprints. She was driving to the Cullens, picking up Jacob and Renesmee. Unfortunately Rahne was in the passenger seat next to her. Leah refuses to give Nicole a chance. Rahne wouldn't just let it go.
"People change, Rahne." Leah said taking a deep breath. "I haven't seen your Nicole yet. The Nicole I know is bipolar, violent, and arrogant. Not reserve, not humble, not understanding."
"Nicole was always violent." Rahne stated. She looked out the window, at the usual grey sky in Forks. "You forgot playful. Most of the time she's usually joki-"
"GRAH!!" Through the side of the wall Nicole and Rosalie flew. Their eyes widen as the vampire easily threw off Nicole. Nicole's body twisted in the rain, a larger splash of water cushioning her fall. Her body shook as if she was going to shift. Leah stared into bright sea green eyes. She didn't like the way it glowed so brightly that it seemed to take over her entire eye. Both the whites and her pupil.
Rahne stepped out of the car. Her body in a daze as she walked towards Nicole. Nicole's breath was visible, the water at her feet solid ice. There were hot pricks on her touch skin, anger just buzzing around her. Leah immediately parked her car and stepped out. The buzzing slowly turned into crashing waves, pounding on her own emotions.
"Rosalie." Nicole's voice was threatening. Leah didn't like it, she didn't like the way Rahne kept on walking towards her. "This is your final warning." Nicole growled. She noticed Nicole's teeth growing sharper and larger. "Rahne stay back." Rahne stopped at Nicole's cold order. Leah couldn't tell if it was a threat or an advice. But the waves of anger faltered, fear raising the hair on her arms.
"Rahne!" Nicole yelled, her eyes torn away from Rosalie. "Stay back-" Her body suddenly jerked, Rosalie suddenly standing were she was. And then Nicole was lifted off the ground by a pale hand around her neck. Leah could tell by the grip, Rosalie wasn't letting any air through. Not a wheeze or gasp came from Nicole's mouth. She thrashed around, grip fingers bleeding as she clawed at Rosalie's arm.
"Niki!!" Leah sprinted to Rahne, tackling her to the ground before she moved any closer. "Leah! Let me go! She need help!"
"No she doesn't!" Leah felt Rahne shake in her hold. She glanced at Nicole. Nicole released Rosalie's arm, the rain suddenly spiraling around her skin
"AAAHH!!" Rosalie threw Nicole to the ground, the water falling to the ground with chunks of flesh. "You bitch!"
"You want a bitch!?" Nicole snarled. Her body shook, vibrating. "Fine!" That when her body exploded. For a fraction of a second there was only a sea green mist, then there was her werewolf, shoulder tackling into Rosalie.
"Rosalie!!" Emmett screamed. Edward and Jasper barely tackled their brother to the ground. "Let me go! She needs me! That werewolf bitch said-"
"Rosalie started it!"
"I don't care!!"
Leah growled, shoving Rahne into the ground. She sprinted forward. Letting her body expand. She felt her cloths stretch then didn't feel them at all. Her front paw rocketing her wolf body forward. Her shoulders shoving Nicole off Rosalie. They tumbled in the wet grass. Leah snarled, claws digging into her sides and she was flying through the air. Water and mud splashed around Leah. Probably getting into her wounds.
"Leah!" Jacob's voice was hard to concentrate on. Her ears rather focused on Nicole's snarls and feline roars. Leah looked at Nicole. She grabbed Jacob's russet brown fur and hurled him towards Leah. Leah snarled, mind screaming as pain burned her entire body. "Leah! I'm so sorry!" Jacob quickly lifted his massive body off of her. "Are you alright!"
"No!!" Leah groaned. Her stomach hurt as she stood on her four paws. She shook her body, mud and water flying off her grey-red coat. The pain in her sides started to fade.
"She isn't suppose to be able to transform! She lied!"
"To her it isn't lying!" Edward yelled, grunting as Emmett finally freed himself. Emmett ran to Rosalie who was still holding her arm. "We didn't ask!"
"Emmett stop!!" Jasper was suddenly in front of Emmett. Him and Edward dragging him back from charging at Nicole. She shook her head, taking a step back on her back paws. She turned, once her front paws hit the ground she was off and so was Leah and Jacob. Leah quickly sprinted pas Jacob, gaining on Nicole as they entered the forest.
"Rahne is following! She just past me!"
"Rahne?!" Leah snarled, her mouth snapping at Nicole's long tail. "Stop her!! You and Rahne will never catch up!" Leah growled. She took harder steps for longer strides. Nicole's body jumped up, her back curving like a house cat and she dashed on in another direction. Leah snarled, her paws digging into the ground as she turned as sharp as she could. By the time she did Nicole was gone.
Leah growled. Her entire body tensing. She took deep breaths calming herself down before she snarled. Of course the witch would be faster than the fastest wolf in La Push. Of course the witch would be able to transform without the Full Moon. Of course Nicole would lie! Leah's mind reached out for Jacob's but didn't feel anything.
Of course he would shift back into human form. Leah finally snarled out of frustration. Her paws turning and hitting a tree. A large portion ripped off and causing the tree to fall. With another snarl, Leah took deep breaths. There was a faint ocean sent, a forging forest smell floating in the air. Leah's noise sniffed the a ground, picking up Nicole's trail. Despite the rain it was still fresh and rather strong to her sensitive nose. The wind blew through the forest, the ocean sent coming in the direction the tree landed in.
Leah leaped onto the fallen tree, claws tearing up the bark as she sprinting down the 300+ tall tree. Leah slowed, the tree breaking into a clearing with a small lake. The tree top of the tree even dipping into the lake slightly…
No. Leah took a deep breath, letting the familiar ocean and forest smell enter her lungs. Leah jumped into the air, her body shimmering into it's human form before her feet hit the ground. She walked towards the end of the tree, near the middle of the lake. Her eyes focused on the water. Thousands of ripples on the surface thanks to the rain. She huff and puff, staring at her distorted reflection.
"She couldn't…" Her heart tugged her down to the water. The sudden need to be near Nicole filling her body. When bubbles broke the surface Leah dived into the lake. Leah saw a dark figure sinking, very close to the lake floor. If she didn't need the air Leah would have growled. Instead she swam towards Nicole. Her body burning with the need and chilling with the slight fear that she'll be to late.
Rahne would be furious. Her family would be furious. La Push and everyone would be in danger.
Leah didn't even notice she grabbed Nicole and swam fro the surface until she was gasping for air. Nicole wasn't breathing. Her body felt cold –er than usual. She grunted, swimming for the land and dragging Nicole's body. She felt for a pulse and held her ear above Nicole's mouth. Faint pulse, no breath.
"Shit!" Leah immediately closed Nicole's noise and breathed two breaths into Nicole's mouth. She stopped, heart bounding so hard she was afraid she wouldn't be able to hear anything. Instead Leah felt no breath against her ear. Now Leah's hand started to shake, holding Nicole's noise and lifting her chin up as she gave 2 more breaths, then started compressing.
Hands on the other and started pushing down. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
"Shit! Come on –Rahne's never going to forgive me!!"
13. 14. 15. 16.
Nicole's body jerked, water spitting out of her mouth. She gasped for air, eyes blazing around. They were still too bright to see the pupil but Leah could see the whites of her eyes. As well as the fear in them. They instantly calmed when they focused on Leah's own brown eyes. Leah even felt the fast heartbeat under her hands slow down immediately.
"You got beautiful eyes."
Thack! Leah hit Nicole's head on impulse. Her jaw dropped as Nicole fell back to the ground. Unconscious, a bruise forming on her chest and another on her head. Maybe two on her head.
"Stupid girl." Leah scowled, standing up and letting her body shake. How would she move Nicole onto her back in wolf form? Leah stopped shifting immediately. With a sigh she slung the girl onto her back. She could barely feel Nicole's numb body against her constantly hot one. "Can you freeze to death…" As expected Leah didn't get an answer. Leah walked in a few minutes of silents before talking to the unconscious witch.
"Rahne says your reserve, humble, understanding." Leah continued to speak, following her deep wolf tracks, now filled with water. "She talked a lot about you when she was still in my pack. She described you as a knight playing villain." Leah frowned at the memory. She always had to stay with Rahne to make sure she didn't call Nicole. "She hated me for the first few years."
"She read all the emails and letters you sent. She often cried back then." Leah paused, Thinking how Vanessa always comforted Rahne and glared at Leah when she coldly told Rahne off. "She was finally able to get over it went you sent that last letter. We were surprised when Rahne burnt and deleted all of them. She cheered up a lot afterwards. What did you say?"
"I said that love is about loving not being together." Leah's eyes widen, Nicole just whispering into her ear. She could tell by the heavy slurs Nicole was barely awake. "I apologize for telling her off in some of my letters and for bothering her." Leah's ears focused on the soft voice, "It wasn't until my father got married to Raven was that I understood that you do not need to be together to love. True love is in the acceptance and knowledge of it, not physical attachments."
Leah clenched her mouth, body tightening as she continued to walk down the trail. She listened to any difference in Nicole's heart beat or breath on her neck. There wasn't anything different.
"I'm sorry. I'm probably not making any sense." Nicole muttered. She dug her face into Leah's neck with a soft purr, "Thank you for taking care of Rahne. It means a lot to me." Leah heard something she didn't expect, sincere gratitude and love. Directed at her, even if she ruined their relationship.
"You still love her." Leah noted. She waited for a response but only felt Nicole drooling onto her shoulder. "Ugh! Wake up!" Leah screamed, throwing Nicole off her back and whipping he drool off her shoulder. Then she was staring up at Nicole's angry sea green eyes, her arms and back pressed into the mud.
"What the hell was that for!?"
"For drooling on me!"
"Then why'd you carry me in the first place!" Nicole growled.
"You wanted me to drag you!?"
Nicole didn't answer. Instead she hissed, cold breath breathing onto Leah's face. Nicole's eyes seemed to calm as she thought about it. From an a storm to a still lake in a few seconds. She grunted pushing herself to her feet and combing her soaked hair back. She looked around the forest with a confused face.
"Why are we in the forest? I remember Rosalie choking me and that it."
"Well you shifted, I chased you down and drowned in a lake. I had to do CPR."
"That explains why my ribs are bruised." Nicole hissed in pain, her body flinching. Leah glanced down at the bruise in the center of Nicole's chest. Her hand then extended to Leah. "Thanks for saving me though. Sorry about drooling on you." Leah stared at her hand, mind replaying the words. It didn't sound as sincere as before but her words were still sincere. There was gratitude and when Leah examined her face Nicole's cheeks were slightly pink from embarrassment. Leah grabbed the hand and let Nicole pull her up.
"Please, don't tell the others I drown!" Nicole asked. "I'd never her the end of it."
"Why is it so embarrassing?"
"I control the water!" Nicole stated. Leah immediately thought about how she easily shredded Rosalie's arm. "It's like a sniper killing herself with her own gun!"
"Fine." Leah nodded. Easier for her, she didn't need to admit she was the reason why the tree fell and knocked Nicole out. "But why did Rosalie attack you?" Immediately there was a change in Nicole's face. From relief to grudging.
"We got into an argument about physical contact in a relationship." Nicole growled to herself. "She insulted Rahne, I insulted her. Next thing I knew we were flying through the wall." Her face suddenly seemed more lively and curious. Along with a smirk she studied Leah's face. "So you actually kept up with me?"
"Yes." Leah growled through her gritting teeth. "How were you able to shift?"
"I'm a mage so isn't it obvious? Magic." Nicole shrugged her face growing confused.
"Don't give me that look!" Immediately Nicole was angry again.
"How am I suppose to look? Happy that I have no idea why the hell I keep pissing you off?" Nicole huffed crossing her hands.
"You keep pissing me off because your so bipolar!"
"At least I'm happy sometimes." Nicole grunted. "You got a stick so far up your ass it stabbed your heart! I can see your aura!" Nicole pointed to her glowing eyes. Once again Leah didn't like the way her pupils disappeared. "Right now you have some serious negative pent up energy! Because I have so many tattoos that effects me!"
Leah blinked, raising a brow at Nicole. She got lost after 'aura'. "My what effects you how?"
"This is why I didn't say anything last night." Nicole groaned, rubbing her temples. She took a deep breath and restrained her frustration. "The tattoo on our bodies receive energy. Because your energy is negative it's making me negative. The real problem is that I'm a werewolf and I react to it."
"That makes no sense."
"Makes more sense than transforming into a giant wolf every Full Moon." Nicole huffed. She raised an arm above her head, Water collected above her in a thin layer, spreading out like an umbrella. She looked at Leah with another questioning glance. "You want to stay in the rain?" Leah rolled her eyes, walking underneath the suspended water.
"No. Why are we walking?" Leah asked, "Wouldn't it be faster if we shifted and ran?"
"For you yes." Nicole nodded. "When ever I shift and it's not a Full Moon my body is in pain. Right now my body is comfortably stiff." Leah looked at Nicole's face, trying to see if she was lying or just casual. She rotated her other shoulder and neck. "Also if I were to ride on your back while you ran I would suffocate because of the speed."
"No wonder why you werewolves are endangered…" Leah growled walking down the path towards the Cullen's house. She only heard Nicole growl beside her.
"Agh!" Leah quickly caught Nicole before she fell. Leah's grip tighten, the water Nicole was suspending in air falling on both of them. "Cold!"
"Idiot!" Leah snarled, pulling Nicole to her feet. Judging by Nicole's face she was rough, not that Leah cared, "Watch where you going!"
"I can't see the floor without my glasses! I didn't I tell you guys that yesterday?"
"No!" Leah's grip on Nicole's bicep tighten. She didn't get nearly enough information last night. "You just said what species you guys are. Who the Breg Pack was and what you wanted from us!" With that she let go of Nicole's arm.
"Oh…" She blinked. Nicole's frustrated voice toned down and smoothed out to a lecturing tone. "Well when mages do magic our eye sight focuses on energies making our sight worse. The more we use magic the more our eyes focused on the energies to the point physical materials will be black and white."
"English." Leah ordered. She was lost when Nicole said energies.
"That was English." Nicole muttered slowly. She looked confused for a few seconds before realization set it. "Oh! You mean simplify it! Basically our sight weakens and we go color blind. But we're able to see energies… aura, chakra, chi, or whatever is easier for you." Nicole waved around. She raised her hand over her head, making her umbrella again. "Right now you're a blur with to much pent up energy. It's all swirly inside of you." Nicole said, her other hand drawing spirals in the air. "Also the color is unhealthy."
Leah raised a brow. She crossed her arms as Nicole's eyes ran up and down her body. It was rather awkward to have someone look at her naked body with a medical eye.
"So it's a Chinese energy flow chi thing? Stress block the flow and all that."
"Yeah…" Nicole muttered. "Then you should also know acupuncture and massages help. I'm better at massages so-"
"No!" Leah barked. She couldn't imagine Nicole sneaking in a few touches. She seemed to green and innocent for that but she didn't want Nicole touching her either. "No needles. No touching."
"Then I suggest your vent some of that energy." Nicole shrugged. She continued walking, this time Leah noticed the muddy floor freezing under her feet. "It's defiantly not healthy. By the way it's just 'chi', not 'Chinese energy flow chi thing'."
Raven rode Nicole's bike further and further away from Forks. She took deep breaths, the sent of vampires becoming more familiar as she followed it. She turned off the road and onto the rocky trail. The first thing she noticed was that most of the family was bent over shifting through grass. Rosalie was at the side holding her arm. Everyone stopped and looked at her as she drove up.
"You guys look ridicules." Raven stated shaking her head. "We're vampires not chickens. What are you guys looking for?"
"Last piece of Rosalie's arm." Edward answered. "Rosalie attacked Nicole. Nicole shredded her arm in defiance." Raven immediately imagined compressed and pressured water tearing at Rosalie's arm. "Something like that." Edward nodded.
"So you're the mind reader…" Raven muttered staring at Edward. In the Volturi report on the Olympic Coven several of the vampires had talents. A mind reader, empathy, precognition, mental shielding, mental penetration and image projection. She smirked, eyes flickering to Edward's feet. "Did you try under your shoe?"
Edward frowned. He reluctantly lifted his food and picked up a sliver of Rosalie's arm.
"How –Possibility Manipulation." Edward answered himself. He walked over to Rosalie, handing the final piece of her arm to her. Raven got off the bike and looked at the hole in the wall. She looked around, Nicole gone. "Nicole didn't do anything. Rosalie did. Why are you here?"
"Olivier sent me here for extra precaution. I think Olivier and Monica are over thinking this." Raven shrugged. She and Abigail tried to convince the two werewolves that the Olympic coven could be trusted. Olivier was still skeptical.
"And you think we'll help you because…" Jasper trailed off.
"Who said we think you'll help us?" Raven returned. "The real question is are you going to turn us into the Volturi. I don't think you will, considering the False Immortal Child claim 70 years ago."
"Then why are you here!?" Rosalie screamed. "We already have enough from Nicole!"
"Officially I am here for extra precautions." Raven stated. "Unofficially I'm here to help translate what Nicole is says and to make sure she doesn't say to much –just a precaution. Personally I think Nicole could use a bit of luck."