Chapter 10
The next few weeks passed quickly for Mary. She started school, and hung around with Paul when the pack wasn't out patrolling for the red headed leech. Jake was his mopey old self. Bella hadn't come around in a long time. The Pack had a feeling that the leeches were holding her hostage. Mary had been asked numerous times to look in her future, but it was rare that she was even able to see her. No one could figure out why the minute Bella walked into the leeches house, she disappeared. It was like the day of the funeral.
Mary was sitting on the porch one day after school, writing in her journal all the visions she seen, when Jacob came out of the garage with a red motorcycle. Mary looked at him trying to figure out what he was doing with Bella's bike, when she was hit with a vision. She gasped and jumped up.
"Jake, you can't! Please, your gonna get her grounded!" Mary yelled after him.
He stopped as he was climbing on the bike and looked at her with an agonized expression on his face.
"Mary....maybe if she was grounded, she wouldn't be with those bloodsuckers so much. One of them could slip! I mean, remember what she told us about her birthday? The newest one isn't controlled!" He all but yelled. Mary sighed. She wanted to believe that this was for the best. But she seen it only coming to a bad end.
"Jake, I don't think this is a good idea. I think it's gonna push her farther away from us."
"Is that what you see?"
Mary frowned and put her hand on Jacob's arm. Images of Bella, Jacob, and who she assumed was Edward came forward. She seen the betrayed look on Bella's face, the look of fury on the leeches face. Then it flickered. She seen images of Bella coming and telling Jacob that she wanted nothing to do with him, Bella coming and telling Jacob that she chose him over the leech, Bella a leech, Bella a mother to little black haired children. Mary scrunched up her face and tried to look at the more concrete visions, but they were too blurry. They were changing too rapidly.
"I can't see the outcome. No decisions have been made yet. But Jake, it isn't good. Please don't do this!" Mary all but got on her knees and begged.
"I have to try..." Jacob's voice cracked. Mary looked at him sadly before taking a step back and letting him go. She had no right to prevent him from doing something. She just hoped in the end it all worked out.
Mary shook her head and decided that she would go down to Emily's house to wait for Jacob's verdict. It was Emily's birthday on Saturday, and she would need help preparing for the party.
She walked in the door and let the noise of the pack envelope her. This was family. This was home. This was where she belonged. She looked around and seen Emily hit Paul over the head with a wooden spoon when he went to grab a cookie. Quil and Embry were fighting in front of the TV. Seth was watching Quil and Embry with interest, throwing his two cents in every once in a while. Leah, well, she was sitting with her back in the corner glaring at Emily and Sam. And Jared and Kim were making out on the couch.
Mary felt like crying. Her visions haven't been changing. It was still death and destruction. All this, her family, they were all going to die if she didn't get to the bottom of it. There was one clue, something she was missing. And she had to find it before it was too late.
Paul must have noticed that she was standing there staring off into space, because she felt his huge arms wrap around her waist and lead her to the kitchen.
"Where's Jake?" Sam asked as he got hit with the same spoon Paul did while trying to also steal a cookie.
Mary sighed. "He went to ruin his life."
"Well, you sure are being melodramatic today." Paul told her. She looked up at him to find him staring at a tray of cooling cookies with drool beginning to form. She giggled and grabbed a napkin off the table and wiped his mouth. It earned a snicker from Emily.
"I'm not being melodramatic. Jake decided that he would try to get Bella grounded so she can't hang out with the leeches. But it's gonna back fire on him. It's gonna push her away from him, but he won't listen! I tried to tell him!" Mary threw her hands up in the air and huffed. She felt Paul's chest shake and she threw a wary glance at him to see him trying to hold in his laughter.
She jumped up and walked over to Emily. "Well, I'm glad I amuse you. But this is serious. He's going to make all you guys miserable and you don't care." She grabbed a bowl of cookie dough and started to stir it. "It's gonna distract you guys and your gonna end up getting killed. All because he won't listen!"
She felt a hand on her arm and looked up to see Emily smiling at her. "Your gonna kill the batter. It will be ok. It always is. She'll end up with Jake. It's impossible to deny the imprint. You know that."
Mary sighed and her shoulders slouched. "I know. But it's just so frustrating. I have these visions for a reason. And he won't listen to me."
"Mary." Sam said, coming to stand next to her. "You have those visions to help people. That doesn't mean everyone will want the help. The important thing is that you tried. People have free will. They will do as they please. But at least in the end, you can say you tried."
"I know. It's just so frustrating."
"Here, put these cookies on this tray and wrap them up." Emily said while handing her a batch of cooled off cookies. Mary smiled and took it.
She was putting the last cookie on a cookie tray when she was hit with a vision. There were two little girls playing on the floor of Emily's living room, when Quil walked in. He froze when he looked at the youngest. His eyes widened and his arms started to tremble.
Mary gasped and dropped the cookie. Everyone in the kitchen turned to look at her, but she turned to look at Quil. She knew that look. She had seen it before. Quil had imprinted on a little baby.
"What'd you see?" Paul asked her.
"I didn't know it was possible." Mary whispered. She turned to look back at Quil. The rest of them looked at her and then at Quil trying to figure out what was wrong.
"What is going on?" Paul grabbed her by her shoulders to shake her out of her funk. She looked up at him with wide eyes.
"Quil's gonna imprint." Everyone went silent and Mary heard something drop in the living room and then heavy footsteps come running into the kitchen.
"Who is she?" Quil asked.
Mary frowned. "I don't know. I never seen her before." Then more to herself. "This is crazy." Quil imprinting on a baby? What was this gonna do to the pack? No one wanted to see a boy make lovey dovey eyes on a baby. How the hell was this gonna work.
She looked up at everyone looking at her with concern. She took a step closer to Quil and layed her hand on his arm and was immediately hit with a monstrous vision.
She watched as Quil and a little girl walked down the beach with the girl on his shoulders. Then the girl was 5 and fell off her bike and a frantic Quil came running and put a band aid on her knee after making sure she was all in one piece. The girl was 9 and came running to him to show him that she got an A. The girl was 14 and she came to him crying that her boyfriend broke up with her. Quil comforted her all the while he was being torn up inside. The girl was 16 and they were sitting on the dock fishing. The girl was throwing shy glances at Quil and finally stood up and gave the oblivious Quil a kiss on the cheek. The girl was 18 and was walking down the aisle of her wedding and Quil was waiting at the end till his bride got to him. The girl made it down to him and looked at him with such love and devotion that you would think she had imprinted on him, not the other way around. She was going to marry her protector, her best friend, and then her lover.
Mary opened her eyes, and let a huge grin take over her face. She had tears coming down her face. She turned to Quil who looked concerned and she jumped at him and gave him a hug.
"Oh Quil, it was so beautiful!"
"What'd you see?" Asked Emily.
Mary looked at her. "Ok, look. I'm not telling you who or when. But I will say, everyone needs to have an open mind. This is going to be like nothing any of you had ever seen before. It's going to go against everything you know. But, it will turn out fine."
They were just going to bombard her with more questions when the front door slammed off the wall and an enraged Jacob came flying into the house.
Jake all but roared. "They're gonna bite her!"