Chapter ten people! I have a link to the dresses Lina and Nessie wear in this chapter on my profile so you can check it out if you want.

Chapter ten: Australian shape shifting bunnies

I kicked up the water at my feet as I danced around the tub along to my iHome and started singing the next verse of the song that was playing.

"Sailorman, you really turn me onNow the guys are gone, come and let us get it onGirls like me are pretty hard to findSo if you go, I'll kick your HeineSailing, sailing, jumping off the railingDrinking, drinking 'till the ship is sinkingGambling, stealing, lots of sex-appealingCome, let us sing the sailor-songSo if we all come together, we know what to doWe all come together, just to sing we love youAnd if we all come together, we know what to doWe all come together just for you"

I turned off the water and pulled on my towel making my way out to the room where Nessie was running around putting the finishing touches on her outfit. I thought she looked beautiful but there's no point in telling her from what I've seen Jake tells her all the time just how beautiful she is.

"nice singing" she said smirking as she played with her hair in the mirror

"you herd that?" I asked feeling my ears heat up.

"I think the guys down at the rez herd your singing" she joked "but honestly it's your choice of music that makes it so funny, you sing really good"

"oh hush up" I said "now let me inspect you before you leave and make sure your up to my standards" Nessie smiled and twirled in front of me.

She was wearing a cute cream ruffle smocked dress with flowers print, gold sandals, with cute dangly gold earrings and stacked bracelets. Her auburn curls were pulled into an up do with strands falling around her face. As always Nessie didn't have any makeup on and looked radiant.

"are you going to an anniversary party or the golden globe awards?" I joked as she blushed and turned to start looking for something.

Today was Emily and Sam's tenth anniversary party down at the rez, Emily hinted that girls and guys were FORBIDDEN to wear jeans so me and Nessie opted for dresses.

"Cat! Have you seen my camera?" she asked pulling open the desk drawer.

"under your bed" I said walking over to the mirror "you kicked it under there when Sue did a room inspection yesterday" I said and began blow drying my dark brown curls so they would dry faster. I had just finished dying it back to its natural color, the red had faded into an ugly orange and I was pretty sick of it anyway.

"wow"

I stopped and looked back at Nessie who was staring at me with what looked like awe.

"what?" I grumbled feeling uncomfortable under her gaze.

"you look really beautiful your natural color" she said walking over and running her hand thru my still wet hair. Just then there was a car beeping outside and Nessie jumped.

"oh no! Jake's five minutes early!" she yelled running and reaching under the bed for her camera. "okay so me and Jake will be back in about an hour after we pick up the cake in Port Angeles, do you think you'll be done by then?" she asked rushing to the door

"gosh what ever will I do with only an hour?" I asked sarcastically

She gave me a face and headed out the door "I'm serious Cat! an hour!" she yelled up the stairs and then I herd the front door slam. Sue and Charlie had already left hours ago to help with the set up so I was home alone.

I turned and started blasting my iHome and pulled out my dress, I was going to be wearing a strapless white dress that fell mid thigh, with black embroidery across the bottom of the dress and across the bust area. I looked at it in the mirror wondering if Seth would like it.

Woah woah woah woah…since when do I think like that? Well I haven't seen him in a few days, maybe its because of that? He was patrolling a lot and he had pretty odd hours. No no no I shook the thought away and began straightening my hair now that it was dry.

I noticed that my hair had grown longer, when straightened it fell just below my shoulders in layers. I turned the ends in and swiped my bags to the side smiling at my image. I thought my hair looked like a hundred on a scale of one to ten. When I turned to go get dressed something soft brushed up against my foot, I looked down to see my stuffed rabbit Mandy gave me a few years back on the floor. I grabbed it and instantly started thinking of Armando.

It had been about two weeks and Mandy hadn't come to me in any dreams I assume he's mad at me and I feel a little abandoned. I never meant to get him so mad to the point where he wouldn't want to talk to me again. I just wanted him to understand what I did. I brushed the thought away and started pulling the dress up from under me.

Grrrrr

I stopped and looked down to where I felt the grumbling coming from, my stomach.

"well I cant ignore that now can I?" I asked myself after I pulled up the zipper and started heading down to the kitchen.

"Sailing, sailing, jumping off the railingDrinking, drinking 'till the ship is sinkingGambling, stealing, lots of sex-appealingCome, let us sing the sailor-song" I started mumbling the song as I started rummaging through the fridge. I was pretty much satisfied when I found some spread cheese, crackers, and a can of coke. I started humming the song as I made my way up to my room to munch on my snack and check my Email. I had made a new one after I had received those Emails from Xavier. I reached the room and dumped the cheese and crackers on my desk and taking a sip of the coke.

"not the healthiest choice you have there" someone said, every hair stood on and as soon as the words hit my ears. I dropped the coke and it fell all over the floor and a now empty can rolled until it collided with a very large foot. I followed the foot up to a pair of faded jeans and past a fitted v-neck tee, until I meet the cold red eyes of him.

"what are you doing here" I asked stepping out of the puddle of coke and closer to the door.

"are you telling me I'm not allowed to visit my beloved wife?" he asked faking a curious face. "especially when she's looking so beautiful?"

"wife?! What are you talking about?"

"now I see," he smiled and was in front of me before I was given a chance flinch "she's withholding your memories this time, quiet clever" one cold arm snaked around my waist holding me there while his other pushed a strand of my hair behind my ear. I could feel myself shaking in his arms, there was no one here to save me this time, he was really going to kill me.

"what do you want from me?" I asked sounding like a pathetic four year old

"only what I have always ever wanted from you Juliet" he leaned down and I turned my face away his lips brushed against my cheek "I just want my wife back at my side, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part" he smiled at the last part.

"I'm not your wife," I tried to push away from him but like last time it was useless "and stop calling me Juliet, my names Catalina"

"ah yes, Catalina, Mirabelle, Selena, Rosalina, Nattallya, and a few others, I do prefer the name I married you under though Juliet" he began rubbing his thumb across the spot on my cheek where his lips had made contact just a minute ago.

"what are you talking about" I whispered looking at the clock, only fifteen minutes left for Nessie to discover my dead body.

"I must admit Guinevere's memory suppression has done more harm then good" he said twirling a lock of my hair "now I must go into explanations" he sighed "well it cant be helped, you my Juliet are what my sister calls an old soul. Apparently after my first little mess after we got married your soul was reborn. It has been since then and I have spent quiet a long time trying to track you down time after time so we can finally be together" he smiled with a faraway look in his eye but it turned to aggravation as my cell started ringing, you've got a friend in me (the toy story song XD)

"that's Nessie" I said looking up at him "she knows where I am, she knows I always answer my phone. If I don't answer the call she'll send the guys over here and they wont hesitate killing you" I said confidant in my threat.

"your quite cute when make attempts at threats" he smiled "I'm trembling, go answer the call before I run away in fear of those mutts" sarcasm dripped from every word making me feel like an idiot, if he had escaped them once he could surly do it again. He let go of me and I walked over to the bed where my cell lay.

"hey you" I said trying to sound normal

"CAT! I have such horrible terrible news!" she whined as I herd Jake laughing in the background,

"and that being?" I asked looking over to Xavier who was looking me up and down from the other side of the room.

"the car broke down" she sniffed "we had to wait Seth to drive out here and give us a lift to the party so we're not picking you up because we really need to get this cake back to Emily ASAP" I felt my shoulders sag, I was going to die. "but don't worry!" she added " we called Brady and he was in forks picking up some extra stuff and said he could pick you up from there so he should be outside any minute" I almost smiled but when I herd Xavier hiss from behind me I turned to see him looking out the window with a scowl.

"Cat what wa-" the cell was ripped out of my hand and thrown against the floor breaking instantly.

"so one of those mutts are outside the house my love" he hissed pulling me closer to him "now's not the time to change you, it would be pointless unless you remembered" he placed his hand on the back of my head roughly pushing my head towards him until his lips crashed into mines making me flinch. I could feel the metallic taste of blood in my mouth from the force of the impact. He pulled away and smirked "I want you to remember everything Juliet, only then will I make you mines" he leaned down ago licking at my bottom lip "you taste just the same love" he whispered and was gone. I looked to see my window now open, that had to be where he left from. I shivered and ran down stairs to open the door just before Brady got a chance to ring the doorbell.

"hey- oof" he was startled hen I launched myself into his arms and started crying "whoa, what the hell happened Lina?" he asked stroking my hair.

"you cant like smell it or something?" I sniffed pulling back appalled, Seth had told me that even when they weren't in their wolf state they could smell a vampire a mile away. (exaggeration)

"what are you talking about?" he asked looking at me confused "and what happened to your lip?" I reached up and ran my fingers across the spot where Xavier had pretty much lip raped me, I felt it was wet and looked at my fingers to see they had a little blood on them.

"I must have" I shrugged "bit myself, when I was…watching then cooking channel" I lied, if Brady couldn't smell Xavier maybe I shouldn't tell him about it, after all this is Emily and Sam's big day there's really no sense ruining that. I looked up at him and faked a smile "I was so hungry! Cant you smell the food from the party or something! I feel like I'm going to pass out over here" I rubbed my eyes thankful that I didn't put any make up on.

"Lina are you okay?" he asked putting his hand to my head "your not sick or anything are you?"

I shook my head and pulled away "no just hungry!!! Now take me to get some grub" I whined closing the door and running out to the car. Brady joined me after a while and we started the drive back to Sam's house.

I started thinking everything over, I know the guys are going to get riled up over the fact that Xavier came and no one was around. I'm sure no one was expecting him either. Especially not me, I had no choice but to tell them…just not now. I figure I will tell them tomorrow after the festivities are over and done with.

"so I need to go pick up some napkins and plates, Em says their running out of them fat up at the house so we need to take a little detour if that's cool with you" Brady said

"yeah I'm fine with it" I answered and we were off to the store, honestly I thought it would be a whole lot easier if I just got my mind off of things before we hit the party. We pulled up to a market and headed inside, it was a pretty okay day, the sun was popping in and out between clouds and the weather was beautiful. I twirled in the parking lot a little feeling like a princess all dressed up. Brady smiled and walked by me.

"hurry up, didn't you say you were starving?" he yelled from the market doors, I nodded and ran up beside him, "how about I go get the napkins and plates and you get yourself a snack or something" I nodded and walked off to the food isles thinking of what I wanted while Brady headed the opposite directions.

"lets see, cereal, soda, baking, here we go!" I squealed walking into the candy isle, it was full of dispensers for all kinds of candy. I grabbed a plastic bag and started filling it up with gummy bears and snowcaps, some gumballs, and a jawbreaker. I popped a gumball in my mouth and headed out of the isle, or at least tried to, I bumped into someone on my way out making me fall back onto the floor.

"jeez I'm so sorry" a guys voice said, I looked up to see one of the market's workers standing there holding out his hand, he was cute but he really didn't catch my interest.

"it's fine" I said smiling taking his hand.

"it's really not, you could have dirtied your dress or something, I should have been watching where I was going" he said frantically.

"really Kevin no harm no foul" I said dusting off the back of my dress.

"how do you know my name?" he asked I pointed to his name tag and giggled when I saw his blush. "duh, stupid me. I'm so used to the uniform I forget that I'm pretty much labeled for the whole town to see."

"it gets you a paycheck doesn't it?" I asked

"true" he mumbled "well I'm Kevin…the person not the label"

"Catalina the person not the…yeah I got nothing" I laughed and Kevin did to.

"not everyone can have my charm" he was smiling and I had to smile back, It was infectious. Also it was pretty funny how he was trying to flirt without looking like he was flirting. I had to give the guy an A for effort. He shook my hand and smiled not letting it go.

"Lina"

I looked up to see Brady walking over to us, he had the napkins and plates in one hand and took me by the arm with another. "we need to leave, Nessie called she got worried that we weren't at the party yet." he mumbled pulling me away from Kevin.

"see you around Catalina" he called

"yeah you too" I called back trying not to be rude, I was most definitely not going to be seeing him if I had any say in it, my life is complicated enough without throwing teenage boys in it. When we got to the register I yanked my hand out of Brady's grip.

"what's your problem" I hissed trying not to let the cashier listen in.

"we will talk about this in the car" he grumbled paying for the stuff and heading out much to the disappointment of the cashier. When we got in the car I slammed the door shut and crossed my arms.

"are you going to tell me now?" I asked getting annoyed with his behavior.

"that guy was all over you" he answered simply as we pulled out of the parking lot..

"that's it? that's the reason?" I asked in disbelief

"listen, I'm playing favorite at the moment" he looked over at me then back to the road "one of my really close friends had kind of a crush on you and I am just keeping your dance card clear so he gets dibs" my jaw dropped to the floor and stayed back in forks as we drove away from it. Was he being serious! I felt angry at the fact that he was trying to "keep my dance card clear" for someone else. What ever happened to first come first serve? Not like I had plans for Kevin but that wasn't the point now.

"and who exactly is this person?" I asked getting ready to kill whoever was keeping me from having a social life.

"cant tell you" he smirked

"Brady! Who is he!" I asked with a threatening tone.

"not telling you Lina bean" he winked at the stupid nickname he must have heard from Nessie, I knew it was a mistake telling her that one.

"don't call me that, now tell me who its is…please?" I added for extra brownie points.

"give up" he muttered

"is it one of the guys from the rez?"

"no he's from Australia" he joked

"is he a shape shifter?"

"he can turn into a fuzzy bunny" Brady started smirking, he was enjoying toying with me.

"older or younger then me?" I asked

"I don't know, how old do Australian bunny's get?" I couldn't help but start laughing at his last comment and he couldn't either, pretty soon the both of us were dying of laughter in the car just laughing harder when we herd the other laugh again.

"I'm going to find out who it is" I said between laughs

"yeah? I didn't even know Australian bunnies could talk" he laughed out. Me and Brady spent the rest of the ride theorizing traits an Australian shape shifting bunny would have and that made the ride go by pretty fast. When we pulled up to the house I could see a sea of people hanging around the front and sides of the house, I couldn't imagine how many people were in the back yard or inside.

"did they invite the whole reservation?" I asked getting self conscious, everyone here knew each other, I only knew a handful of them.

"don't worry, they wont bite" Brady said smiling reading my thoughts.

"it feels like I don't know anyone here" I said not recognizing any faces just yet.

"well you recognize Seth there don't you?" he asked pointing to Seth who was walking over to the car with that intoxicating smile of his. I beamed back and when he opened the door I gave him a hug that he returned before my arms even closed themselves around him.

"hey stranger danger" I said stepping out of the car with his help

"great I slept in the whole day yesterday so I'm all rejuvenated and ready for another endless day filled with Catalina mischief" he said closing the door and walking with his hand on my lower back to the house.

"Lina you look beautiful!" Rachel said walking out the house and giving me a hug,

"thank you, so do you" I replied looking at her very cute blue sundress Rachel smiled and looked over at Seth smiling oddly "I need to go finish up a few things I hope you have a good time though I'm pretty sure I'm going to see you during the party though" she gave Seth another weird smile and headed back into the house while he walked me around.

"she's right you know" he said, I stopped and looked up to see him smiling down at me "you look really breathtaking today"

I blushed and started walking again "your allowed to not worship my ground today, while there are all these people around" I mumbled knowing he could hear me no matter how low I spoke. Suddenly he took my hand, I looked down at my tiny looking hand in his huge gentle ones and then back up at him

"I especially want to worship you with all these people here" he whispered leaning over to me as we walked through people who were smiling and giggling at us, making me blush "then they all can see just hw amazing you are"

I looked away and caught Nessie walking over to us smiling, I gave her a pleading look and apparently she was going to abandon me with a swift left turn out of my sight. I could have growled at the moment, she was the WORST best friend in the history of best friends.

I was far from uncomfortable, no this felt very nice. Seth holding my hand and whispering in my ear, it was just odd. This feeling he was giving me was so intense I had no idea it was even possible to feel this way with anyone. Like everything we did whether it was laughing or eating or just sitting down and watching a movie, it was just all right. I couldn't tell if it was a good kind of right or a bad one but I didn't want to get too tangled up in it before I know what's gotten into me.

Okay so I'm really falling asleep writing this so I'm leaving it at that, I hope you like another baby step with Seth and Lina, now things are going to start escalating with Xavier now that you know what he wants from Lina and what she is. I will give more info on the old soul thing later on so don't worry about that. But like thay say on robot chicken…what a twist 0_o review pleaseeeeee