HANNAHS POV
I didn't miss a single beat, my heart was making. My scream felt like it was going on and on. Even when my family came running into my room, I didn't stop.
"HANNAH?" My mother asked alarmed, until she saw the naked man. My family stayed horror struck.
The man began to cough loudly. "Where am I?" he asked. His voice sounded confused, and much younger then I expected it to sound.
"Seth?" My mom asked.
"Seth?" I repeated to my parents. This was Seth? My little wolf? Did they know he was a man? I was so confused. What was going on?
"Carlisle, Alice, get the kids away from here." My father ordered.
"Who is he?" my brother asked.
I continued to stare at the man, who had now given up trying to pull himself out from under my bed.
He was now laying on my carpet stomach down. Coughing loudly.
My aunt quickly rose me to my feet and began to walk me out my room. I continued to stare at what was happening until my mother closed the door.
EDWARDS POV
The baby,I have to save the baby I heard Seth think.
"The baby is safe... actually the babies are safe." I said to him. He had never had a chance to know, that their was two.
"Babies? What? What are you talking about? Seth said.
Bella looked at me confused. "I think he still thinks,, he's back in that night, when Hannah and Emmett were born." I said to her, in a tone so silent, only she could hear.
"Seth?" Bella asked. She got down on her knees in front of him. And traced what appeared to be claw marks, on his back.
She brushed his hair away from his face. As his head fell to the side, I noticed marks on his neck too. It looked like stab wounds all around. I quickly counted them, and counted four on each side. It must have been from that night. One of his brothers, must have dug their nails into his neck.
"There we are Seth… you've grown." Bella said. She turned to look at me.
"I was wondering when this would happen, so I did a little snooping into it. It wasn't easy but if I understood, and was able to translate his peoples history. He only ages every three years. He's some months over twenty now, Bella." I said to her.
"Bella?" Seth asked.
"Yes Seth, its me." she said.
"Bella… you smell awful… you.. you became a leech?" He said to her.
Bella and I couldn't control from laughing at that.
"Hey you don't smell so swell either." She said to him
He flipped over on to his back, his naked torso still under the bed. On his chest he bore eight long scar marks. Four on each side. You could clearly see his ribs, when he was stuck as a small wolf. His body only needed to feed less, then he would have to now.
Bella sobbed. And traced the scars with her fingers. "Even till the end, you stood by our side." She said to him.
"Bella where am I? What happened? Where are the others? Where's my sister?" he asked.
When he remembered about his sister, he quickly got out from under the bed, and stood up.
Bella looked away embarrassed. "Oh my. You're in our home." She said, when we noticed that he was not just shirtless. When she said that, it reminded me so much of Esme. That's how she reacted, every time she saw one of them naked.
I went to Hannah's closet, and pulled out a pair of her baggy black sweat pants. I knew that, with his weight loss, he would fit in them. I handed them to him. He put them on. They seemed a little snug, but it will do.
As he did, he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror. He walked to it in disbelief.
I tried not to laugh, as the back part of the jogging pants said 'Princess' on it.
He touched his face, and pulled at the length of his hair. It was longer, then when he was still human, seventeen years ago. Or five years ago, to his body.
SETHS POV
Is that.. Is that really me? I asked myself.
I pulled at my cheeks, and traced the scars I had on my chest, and neck.
"Yes." Edward answered my question. I had forgotten he could read minds.
"Bella… Bella what happened?" I asked her again. I turned to look at them.
"You don't remember anything?" she asked.
I looked down to the rooms carpet, and tried to remember back.
"I remember.. I remember you were dying.. you were having the baby. Emmett told me to go look for his wife… I left you alone with him-"
Edward cleared his throat. I ignored him and continued.
"…Paul gave me these scars… I tried protecting you and the baby. Then I felt a lot of pain. It was so awful that I felt like, I was being crushed to death. My body felt like it was going inside its self.. and then I remember being afraid.. not afraid for myself.. but not being there to protect the baby." I said.
"The babies." Edward said.
Babies? I asked in my head.
Edward nodded. "Yes babies.. twins. My twins: Hannah and Emmett."
Emmett? Emmett? Why does that name sound so familiar?
"Emmett… wasn't that… your brother?" I asked him.
Bella nodded. "The children don't know about him, they know Edward as their father.
"Why?" I asked them.
They both looked at one another.
"That's not important right now, what is important is that you find out something." Edward said.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Do you know why you were afraid for the babies?" Edward asked.
I nodded. "Because its against us, to hurt the innocent." I said.
Bella shook her head. She went to Edward and hugged him.
Are they a couple again? But I thought she was with Emmett. I thought to myself.
"Not exactly. No. We really love each other, but Bella's heart is still my brothers." He said.
Bella looked up at him, then at me. She was obviously becoming annoyed, that she couldn't hear my thoughts.
I wonder if they sleep together.
Edward smirked.
"As I was saying Seth. The reason you were so worried, was because you thought it was only one baby. You imprinted on my daughter." Edward said.
"Imprinted on your daughter? But I never even saw your daughter." I said.
"That is true… but you still felt spiritually attached to her.. if that's what you would like to call it." Edward said.
I thought about what he said. They both gave me a few minutes of silence, before Bella broke it.
"Would you like to meet her?" Bella asked.
I looked at them. "She's here?" I asked.
"Seth… you're perhaps her best friend. She found you in the woods when she was small. She brought you in, and you have been with her for over twelve years. She's seventeen now." Edward said.
"Brought me in? I was her pet?" I asked a bit upset.
"You really do not remember anything? When you became a small wolf?" Bella asked.
"No." I said.
"You will, eventually you will." Edward said.
"Can… can I see her?"
"I will bring her, but you need to give me a few minutes. She didn't know about you. She will have many questions, and I need to clear them out. Before she see's you again. Until then, maybe you should have a shower and change. Edward can let you use his clothes." Bella said.
I nodded.
HANNAHS POV
I was crying and rocking my body back and forward. I was sitting on the couch, next to Emmett.
"I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand." I continued to repeat over and over. Seth was a guy all this time? I told him all my secrets. I changed in front of him.. I had took baths with him!
"Your father and mother will explain it to you." My grandfather said. My aunt had left the house, she said she couldn't bare to be here. When Emmett tried asking why, my grandfather just used the same line he had just used.
Both Emmett and I stood up, when our mother came into the room.
We burst out with questions. But she raised her hand, to silence us.
"I want you both to let me speak, and save the answers till last." She said.
Emmett looked at me, and nodded to my mother. I did the same, before I sat down, Emmett joining me.
"There's a lot of things you both do not know… Before you two came along, our family was bigger. Your grandfather had a wife, her name was Esme. Your aunt Alice, she had a husband, his name was Jasper. And you both had another aunt, her name was Rosalie, her husbands name was… Emmett." She said closing her eyes for a moment.
Emmett stared at her. Why was he named after our uncle? Was it for a memory? I guess he could have easily, have been called Jasper then.
"What happened? To them?" I asked. I knew she had said, to not ask anything, but I couldn't help it.
"They were killed. Kids we are not the only things hiding from humans. There are other things out there." She said.
"You mean like zombies, and witches, and were wolves?" Emmett asked excited.
"Well… zombies I don't know… but there are witches, good and bad. Just like there are good and bad vampires… and there are also good and bad werewolves. Seth just happens to be a good one." She said.
"Seth is a werewolf?" I asked.
"… well he was… he was a shape shifter. Seventeen years ago. Seth was only fifteen years old. He was in a pack in La Push, made up of Native American boys of the Quileute tribe. They are not made into were wolves, but they come from a line of it. They… are the bad wolfs." I noticed she said the last part very painfully.
But what caught my attention the most was when my grandfather turned his head to her in confusion.
"Bella." He said. But my mother glared at him.
"Why are they bad?" Emmett asked.
"They have their ability for one, and only one purpose. To destroy our kind." She said.
"But.. La push is so close." Emmett said.
"Long ago, we made a treaty with them, this was before I was even a vampire. And before Seth even became a shifter. The deal was, that your grandfather and his coven would not harm a human, then they would live in peace, as long as we stayed in our territory. When I became pregnant. They knew I would not survive it, unless I was changed. So they called war on us. The result of it was the lives of your grandfathers wife and children." She said.
"So… so we won?" I asked.
My mother stood quiet, Emmett and I both looked at each other, not knowing what to ask next. This was all to much to take in. Why hadn't they told us sooner? What if we would have wondered of to La Push. What if we had ran into one of these shape shifters… what if I already did?.
My heart felt as if it was about to stop beating. Native American boys from La Push?... could… could Paul be one of these?
"Mom.. what sort of traits do these shape shifters have?" I asked.
"Well they smell awful to us, I don't know if they do to you two, because your part human. Their bodies body heat is very are fast, because they need to catch us. They are strong, because they need to fight us, and they have a keen sense of sight and hearing, because they need to hunt us. Unlike us, they can walk around humans, however they do stand out. They are very tall and athletic built for their ages." She said.
It felt like someone had just ripped my heart into two.
Paul was all that… he was Native American, tall, built. Fast, strong, he heard Emmett before I did. And when I told him about Seth, it was like he knew who he was.
"Hannah… Seth became trapped into what he was, because he was abandoned by his pack. He turned his back on them to protect me… to protect you both. That is something that no wolf does, they never turn their back on their brothers. You know why he did that?" she asked me.
I shook my head.
"He imprinted on you." She said.
Imprinted.. what the hell was that? My mother must have noticed my confusion.
"Imprinting.. is when they find their soul mate. They only see that person, they only care to protect them, to be with them forever." She said.
"What? But.. I don't even know him.. he had never seen me before." I said to her.
"I know. But don't you understand baby? He turned his back on his brothers for you. He fought his brothers for you. He left his life for you, and became trapped as the Seth you knew- for seventeen years. He has gone through so much. He didn't even know he had imprinted on you, until now." She said.
"What do you mean he fought his brothers?" I asked her.
"Seth wants to meet you." She said, ignoring my question.
My heart was pounding. "Don't be afraid." She said.
She gave me her hand, I looked at my brother then at my grandfather, who nodded.
"I don't understand what you want me to do." I said. She said I was his soul mate? Was she expecting me to get married with him?
"Just talk to him."
SETHS POV
I wiped away at the film of steam, that developed on the mirror, with a towel. I stared at my self, looking at how much I had changed. Was I really gone seventeen years? I wonder how my family was, how the pack was.
When I was in the shower, my arms had begun to ache, and feel heavy. The same way, they did, when I was first changed in appearance. And I wondered if I would get even more muscular, then before, because I was older.
And if that was what was happening… could I still phase then? I was afraid to try it, because what if I became stuck again?
Using the brush that Hannah had in her bathroom, I brushed my hair back. I was going to have to get a hair cut. At least a few inches off. I had never had my hair reach past my shoulders before.
"Seth?" I heard Edward call, from the other side of the door.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"I left some clothes laying on Hannah's bed, when you are ready, let us know. And we will bring her up to meet you." He said.
"… okay."
I watched as his shadow, under the door walked away.
Opening the door, I walked over to the bed, where awaiting for me. Were: fancy silky looking boxers, black jeans, and a plain white tshirt. What an odd mixture. With boxers like these, he might as well have gave me a tux.
I quickly dressed, and looked at myself in the mirror. I looked a mess, my face looked tired, I had bags under my eyes, the scars on my neck, were the main things that I couldn't take my gaze away from.
I sighed loudly, before I figured it was time to meet her.
Opening the rooms door, I stuck my head out. "Okay." I said loudly.
I closed it half way, and sat at the bed, waiting for them to come up.
I could hear them as they brought Hannah, because I could hear her.
"But what am I supposed to say to him?" she asked.
"Just talk to him about whatever." Her mother said.
How did I imprint on a leech? It just makes no sense I thought to myself.
"Because shes part human." Edward said from the hall.
Oh man, I'm gonna have to remember that he can read my thoughts.
Edward laughed.
Bella stuck her head in, I stood up from the bed, my heart beating quickly. I was nervous and excited at the same.
"It's my pleasure to introduce you to our daughter, Hannah Cullen."
A slender girl came in, looking down at the floor, her hair covering her face. She was shorter then Edward, but taller then Bella. I didn't understand, how they claim I imprinted on her, when I felt nothing.
"We will give you two a little privacy. If you need us, we will be downstairs." Edward said, closing the door.
We both kept our distance, I was trying hard not to walk up to her, and move her hair out her face.
Bella had been a pretty girl, and well their father had been a pretty boy. So the mixture of them to produce her, sounded interesting.
I cleared my throat. "Hi." I said to her.
"Hi." She said. "Are you really my little Seth?" she asked.
"Well I don't know about little anymo-" she caught me off guard, when she finally looked up to see me.
As soon as our eyes met, I felt an odd sensation. Butterflies began to form in my stomach, my heart began to beat faster, my palms felt like they were drenched. She was beautiful. All I could think about, was how breath taking she was to me right now. And I felt thankful that she was alive, thankful I had a chance to see her.
She stared at me, and eyed me from my feet to my face. And then looked away again, letting her hair fall to her face.
"I don't understand why my parents let me shower with you, and change in front of you, and sleep with you. If they knew you were a guy." She said.
"I did?" I asked embarrassed. "Um.. well just so you know. I don't remember anything. And I promise I've never been a pervert. I was brought up to respect." I quickly said to her.
I became antsy quickly. I felt like going over to her and hugging her, or at least having her sit next to me. I had imprinted on her. Her parents were right.
"Have your parents… told you?" I asked.
"About you imprinting on me?" She asked. She finally looked at me again.
I felt nervous, just talking to her.
I nodded. They must have, if she knew what it meant.
"Yes.." she said.
I walked over to her, and moved the hair away form her face.
"And?" I asked her. I lifted her face up, so we were staring into each others eyes.
"And.. and I don't know what to think.. I mean this is all happening so fast. Its all a big shock to me." She said.
"I know, but if you just let me be your friend. I can be your best friend, like I have been. I will take it slowly." I said nervously.
Her eyes began to get teary. But no tears fell. She hugged me hard, and then she let the tears fall.
"Thank you." She said.
"For what?' I asked confused.
"For being there for me. For giving up who you were." She said.
"It really wasn't my choice, to become what you knew me as, Hannah." I said to her. I caressed her hair, with my free hand. Letting her rest her head into my chest.
"But you choose to turn your back on your brothers." She said.
My brothers… After so many years, what are they up to now? I wondered.
HANNAHS POV
Its odd, but I felt comfortable with this guy. I didn't know why, perhaps it had something to do with him imprinting on me. His body felt so hot against mine. But it felt so good right now.
But there was something bothering me.
"Seth.. why did you come back? Why after all this time, why today?" I asked him.
I looked up at him, and fell in love with his eyes, his eyes seemed so pure and honest. So loving and wanting, so warm and welcoming.
"I don't know. But there is something I do know. I know that I love you. I love you Hannah." He said.
… I love you? I LOVE YOU… those words triggered at my brain… I had told him I could see myself falling in love with Paul… could that have done it?
I continued to stare at him.
"And she stays silent." He said to himself. He smirked before he let go of me.
He went back to my bed and sat down.
"Seth… can I ask you something?" I wasn't sure if what I was going to ask, was right. But I had to ask.
"What are you brothers names?" I asked him.
He looked down at the carpet. And pondered for a moment. "I can't believe its so hard to remember.." he said. He closed his eyes. "Sam.. there's Sam, Jared… Jacob… my sister Leah, Embry, and Paul. But after that night they fought with your family.. I don't know who made it and who didn't." he said.
My heart dropped… Paul was his brother… Paul is a shape shifter… Paul was created to kill me… that's why he was so eager to get to know me.. it was all a trick.. it was all a trap. Paul didn't like me, he had been one of the wolves who killed my family.
I brought my hand to my mouth and cried.
"Whats wrong?" Seth asked me
I didn't answer him, but instead I went to him and hugged him.
He didn't say anything, but let me hold on tightly to him. And this is how he let me spend my time with him. He let me cry my hearts desire. He didn't say anything, he didn't urge me into telling him why I cried. Its like he was trying to comfort me with his silence. And knowing this, I felt protected with him. I wished Paul was Seth.
By the time I had cried myself tired. I yawned loudly. My crying had left my body tired.
"Are you tired?" he asked me.
"Mhmm." I said lazily. My eyes felt heavy, they felt swollen from my crying.
He picked me up off the bed, and carried me over to the side of it.
I could feel him doing something, and I guessed, he was pulling the covers of my bed down.
SETHS POV
I didn't understand why she was crying, but I didn't want to push her. I felt she just needed someone to hold. I knew this was all too much for her.
I was actually surprised that her parents had allowed, us to be in her room with the door closed. But then again, I had been with her for years now. And they knew how I was.
I would never pressure Hannah, never. I knew she didn't love me, like I loved her.
But I knew with time, she could fall in love with me. I would protect her, I would be by her side. I would be her best friend for now, until she allowed me to enter her heart.
As I laid her down on her bed. I pulled the covers back up. I was about to walk away, when I felt her grip my wrist.
"Stay with me? Please?" she asked.
"But your parents." I said.
"You've slept with me before." She said.
"But it's different now."
"Please?" she pleaded.
I looked at the door and asked Edward.
Edward… Hannah wants me to sleep next to her. I promise to respect her. If you're not okay with this. Then please come get me, because I don't know how to say no to her.
I waited a few seconds, expecting to see Edward running through the door, but nothing.
"Seth?" she asked again.
I turned to her. "Do you sleep with the lights on?" I asked.
"Just turn the closet light on." She said letting go of my wrist.
I took my time walking to the closets light switch, just in case it was taking Edward a few seconds to barge into the door. But he didn't
I turned the closets light switch on, and turned the rooms lights off.
"Seth.. I'm cold." She said.
I walked over to the bed, and took a deep breath, and noticed she didn't smell like the others. Which to be honest, I was very thankful for. She stared up at me, and patted the space next to her.
I laid down, pulling the covers over myself. I kept my distance from her. Even though her bed wasn't that big. I knew my bodies heat was radiating to her.
"Your so warm." She said.
I kept looking at her face, she was so beautiful. I couldn't believe that I would be spending the rest of my life with her.
She kept her body away from me, but she nuzzled her head closer to me.
She stood quiet, after a few minutes.
"Hannah?" I whispered.
She moaned lazily. Letting me know she was trying to listen, but sleep was beating her.
"Can I keep you?" I whispered.
But her breathing had already changed, as she had fallen asleep.
HANNAHS POV
I woke up after my alarm had gone off.
What a crazy dream I had. I stretched as I yawned loudly. My hand brushed against something hot. I turned to my side, and found Seth.
I jumped, as I realized it had all really happened. He jumped up, as I had woken him up.
"Good morning." He said stretching.
"Good morning." I said quickly getting off the bed. I had actually slept with a guy in my bed.
"So what do you want to do today?" he asked me.
"Actually… I have to go to school." I said.
"Oh.. okay." He said disappointed.
I quickly went to my bathroom and closed the door.
After I took my shower, I opened the door, wondering if Seth would still be in my room.
But he wasn't, he had done my bed, and had left my room.
I quickly changed into denim short shorts, and a tan and brown stripped shirt. With a matching tan belt. I put on the half of my family crest necklace. I looked at the time, I still had close to an hour before I had to head out. I quickly applied my makeup and straightened my hair.
"Well, here we go." I said to myself in the mirror. I did a turn and headed out my room to the kitchen.
When I got there, I found Emmett, mom, dad, my grandfather, and Seth.. whoa.. Seth had gotten bigger. He looked healthier and muscular then he did last night. And if anything he actually looked more handsome.
"Wow, you look bigger." I said to him.
He looked up from his plate of food and smiled.
"Wow you look beautiful." Seth mused at me.
My brother snorted, he was also eating. I glared at Emmett, but smiled at Seth.
"That's nothing, you should have seen him when was fifteen, he still has a little more bulking to go." My mom said.
The first thing I pictured, was Paul and his friends bodies.
"Do you want me to serve you a plate?" My mother asked.
I shook my head "No. I'm not hungry." I was still full from the rabbit.
"You don't need to be shy in front of Seth, he's not exactly a light eater either." My father said.
I smiled. "I actually want to head to school already, I forgot my math homework at school." I said. Believe it or not, this was actually true. "You coming?" I asked Emmett.
He gulped his orange juice down. "Smell ya later." He waved at my parents and grandfather. He winked at Seth. "Wolf boy."
"What time will you be back home" Seth asked.
"After school." I said to him. "I really have to go now."
"Okay." He said looking down sadly.
I tuned around and didn't take another glance back at them.