Chapter 10
I'm mid conversation with Newt when I hear her heart start racing; he doesn't notice and is still talking to me when I barrel out of the door.
"Hey Skar?" he complains. But I don't stop I can hear her blood pumping faster, the imprint bond lets me feel her panic and now fear. What's wrong? I have to get to her; I hear Alice's voice through a phone before I reach Fable.
"What happened!" I hear Fable yell as I take the stairs two at a time, the panic is adamant in her voice, her breathing is laboured, and then Alice's voice sounds again.
"Nothing yet but I think he might be in trouble, does he know you're in Washington? I think he's looking for you he's somewhere in north America but I can't pinpoint him. Have you spoke to him lately do you know where he is" Alice says, she waits for an answer but Fable says nothing.
"Fable are you ok" Carlisle says in a concerned tone, I round the corner and see Fable with her back to me the cell phone falls from her hand.
"Fable!" I hear myself shout, her knees buckle beneath her and she falls to the floor I only just manage to grab her in time I scoop her into my arms and kneel with her on the floor as she blacks out. "What's wrong with her?" I demand, Carlisle took her wrist and felt for her pulse, then felt the temperature of her forehead.
"She'll be ok, let's take her up to my office" he suggests. I get up on my feet and follow Carlisle up the stairs to his office I lay Fable down on the metal table like instructed to.
"What Happened? Is she going to be ok doc?" I ask him as I brushed her hair away from her face; she looked so beautiful as if she was sleeping.
"Don't worry Oskar, she'll be fine, I think it was just from the shock. She's clearly very worried about her friend" he says. What had Alice's vision been about and why had it upset Fable so much?
"So what did Alice see anyway?" I ask.
"Something about Fable's brother, or at least Alice thinks it's her brother it could be another relative, she saw him lying bloody and bruised in a clearing surrounded by vampires she didn't recognise, Fable was there standing over him in her alternate form" he tells me. Brother? I didn't even know she had a brother she said her mother had died in childbirth so it must be either an older sibling or a half brother on her father's side. Either way does that make him a shifter too? Wait what if it wasn't her brother at all? What if it was her imprint? Oh no he was coming here looking for her, what would happen when or if he and I met, I mean I'm a wolf would there be some kind of stand off, that's what wolves do right fight over females but what would a cat do? I still didn't understand how she could have two imprints, maybe I wasn't supposed to love her maybe I was only meant to protect her, one lover and one best friend that made more sense than two imprints. God I really hoped it was her brother Alice had seen and not her imprint, I would fight for her to my last breath if I had to but fighting her imprint would only hurt Fable and I never wanted to do that. I listened to her steady breathing and was sure she was still unconscious.
"Carlisle? Can I ask you a question" I say.
"Of course Oskar, is it a medical question?" he asks, I shake my head.
"No, and please don't call me Oskar I hate that, everybody calls me Skar" I tell him "I know Jake and Seth let you examine them, study them and stuff, so I know you know a lot about how we work" I stammer, Carlisle nods and smiles at me.
"Yes, what is it that's troubling you?" he asks.
"How much do you know about the imprint bond?" I ask.
"Ah you imprinted?" he asks, I nod and glance in Fable's direction, he smiles and nods back in understanding "I see, well it seems you imprint to ensure the wolf gene is passed along or atleast that would be the scientific reason behind it. But I'm sure your pack brothers and sister can tell you more about it than I" he says kindly.
"Can you think of a reason for one person to have two imprints?" I ask.
"You imprinted twice?" he asks "well that is unheard of as I'm sure you well know"
"Not me, Fable I imprinted on her but she already has an imprint" I say, I don't realise until I say them how much these words hurt, Carlisle seems to ponder this for a moment.
"Did she imprint or..." he starts.
"No from what I can gather it was he who imprinted on her" I say solemnly, Carlisle pats me on the shoulder.
"As I said Skar to pass on the gene is the scientific reason but who knows the true reason, perhaps you are able to give her something he can no longer" Carlisle says.
"If you talking about kids, female shifters can't have children everyone knows that" I say.
"Three females in all these years that theory has hardly been tested enough to be absolute" he says and as I think about his words I realise how badly I wish he was right, I mean I guess he has a point just because Leah couldn't, Gypsy has never even tried so who's to say Fable can't. I heard Carlisle leave the room and I take Fable's hand in both of mine pulling a wheelie stool up to the table to sit by her, almost an hour had passed when Fable stirred I squeezed her hand and kissed her knuckles.
"It's ok you're safe" I whisper, and then she jolted up on the table sucking in her breath her eyes flickered around the room before they fell on mine I was in complete shock when she lunged from the table and into my lap. She threw her arms around my neck and hugged herself into me, I'd never been this close to her aside from when I'd carried her up the stairs but she was conscious now and clinging on to me like her life depended on it, I wrapped my arms around her and held her tightly, planting a kiss in her hair. We sat this way for a long measure of time but I didn't mind I never wanted to let go, I loved her being this close her hair against my nose overwhelming me with her warm Christmassy scent.
"Did it happen yet? Alice's vision?" she whispers into my neck, the worry in her voice causes me physical pain and I wrap my arms around her tighter desperate to comfort her.
"I don't know, they didn't say..." I start, then Fable pushes back from me and swings her legs off of me as if to hop down from my lap but I hold her in place still not wanting to let go.
"I have to go to Montana" she stammers out.
"What? No you can't go to Montana, what for?" I say the panic evident in my voice.
"I was in Montana last time I checked in, that's the first place he'll look for me. I need to get to a phone booth, where is there a phone booth?" she demands.
"Phone booth? Here" I say I reach into my jeans pocket and pull out my cell phone then pass it to her the nearest phone booth is in forks and it hasn't worked since 98, she looks at the object in her hand as if it's alien then throws me a confused look.
"Ok I can barely work the phone booth, this doesn't even have buttons" she says, I laugh and take the phone from her.
"What's the number?" I ask. She reaches forward and pulls down the sock I gave her and reveals a tattoo on her instep it's a phone number, I glance up at her and see she's looking back at me, I hold her eyes for a moment and when my glance slides to her lips I notice that they're trembling. I clear my throat and look down at her tattoo before tapping the number onto the touch screen of my phone, dialling and handing it over to her. She presses the phone to her ear and waits while it dials, a female voice picks up at the other end and greats Fable in Russian, Fable sounds relieved and then they continue there conversation in Russian it sounds like the woman on the other end is crying, when Fable hangs up the phone less than a minuet later she sighs but she doesn't sounded relieved. "He left this morning, his flight lands at Billing's international tomorrow morning I have to be there"
"Ok I'll drive you" I say without a second thought "Who was the woman?" I ask
"Tara, Gabriel's imprint" she says "they still live in Siberia; I haven't seen them for over seven years something was... something sounded off with her I hope they're ok. If I don't get to that airport before he does I'll loose him I'll only be able to track him as long as the weather holds up, he'll head north he knows I hate the sun" she says so this guy has an imprint that means it's not her imprint, well that's a weight off my mind. She jumps down off my lap and I stand too and I follow her out and down the stairs.
"If we're leaving the state tonight we need to tell Jake and Seth first" I say, she stops halfway down the stairs and turns to face me.
"I'm not asking you to come" she says.
"Good because I'm not asking if I can" I say, I grab her hand and pull her down the stairs and in the direction of the front door. "We're leaving" I say to nobody in particular, but I know that everyone in the house just heard me including Newt. They probably heard our conversation upstairs as well as Fable's talk with the imprint, weather any of them can speak Russian though I don't know. I get on the bike and Fable jumps on behind me, before I know it we're speeding in the direction of home.
The second I pull up at the house I shift, only hesitating to pull my jacket off and kick my boots away but don't bother with anything else and ask Jake to call a pack meeting I show him my memories of what has just happened he doesn't say anything he can already understand the urgency in my mind. I'm about to phase back to tell Fable the pack is coming but I realise I've just burst out of my clothes, I stay in wolf form and turn to look at her, she's moved away from my bike and is stepping down from the porch she throws a pair of cut off jeans to me smirking. She's clearly seen my dilemma; I catch them in my giant wolf jaws before trotting to the privacy of the trees to phase back. When I return Fable isn't on the porch I can hear someone upstairs in the house I assume it's her and head inside to find her. I find Fable in Jake and Nessie's room she's sat cross legged in Nessie's closet testing her foot against the sole of some of Nessie's shoes, she glances up at me and I frown at her.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"Well if I'm getting back on that death machine with you I want some form of footwear" she says smiling.
"We should take my car if we're gonna have a passenger tomorrow" I say, she nods in agreement, she tries another shoe and huffs.
"You know for such a petite little thing she has massive feet" Fable sighs and I laugh "I guess I could stuff the toes of these" she says grabbing a pair of cherry red doc martin's and standing up. I didn't realise how close I was stood to her until she stood up, the space in the closet is cramped and we're almost chest to chest, the tension between us is killing me, every inch of me wants her, my wolf senses let me know she's felling it too, I can smell something in the confined air of the closet, as a wolf I'm able to scent certain emotions, panic, terror, happiness even misery but I'm pretty sure this was arousal. Our eyes locked and this time I couldn't stop myself I moved into her and lowered my head to hers, she backed away until her back hit the wardrobe doors, I wasn't gonna let her deny her want for any longer, partly for selfish reasons I couldn't be apart from her for another second. I knew she'd regret it afterwards, I knew if her imprint found out he'd probably kill me and I knew Teague would hate me even more than he did right now but I didn't care all I cared about was her lips and how badly I wanted them on mine. I grabbed her hips and pulled them against mine, she moaned against my mouth as our lips started to touch. I couldn't hold back a second longer and my lips crushed into hers and her fingers travelled across my chest and found their way into my hair, they tugged at it gently, I loved the way that felt. Our kiss was rudely interrupted by Jake's alpha howl he was outside it was time for the pack meeting, I wanted to ignore it but he was alpha when he howled that way we had to come running, it didn't matter if you were sick as a dog or in a closet making out with the hottest girl in existence, which was my current predicament. I pulled away from Fable and we were both breathless, I rested my own forehead against hers my eyes still closed still trying to control my breathing, Jake howled a second time I was obviously the last to arrive and he was getting aggravated, I turned my head in his direction and I practically growled. Oh shit I just growled at the alpha I'm gonna have to explain that one later.
"You'd better go" Fable says, I turn back to her and kiss her once more.
"I don't want to" I say then kiss her again.
"I know" she says I growl against her neck and then she puts her hands flat on my chest and pushes me to the door "go". I head out of the room and down the stairs my head is literally spinning form our kiss, I'm replaying it over in my head and almost knock Nessie on her ass leaving the house I grab her shoulders to keep her upright.
"Shit sorry Ness" I stammer, but she smiles it off and giggles.
"Don't worry, where's Fable?" she asks.
"Upstairs" I say and I can't stop the grin that spreads across my face, Nessie smirks and raises her eyebrows.
"And is she decent?" she asks in a mocking tone, I feel my cheeks heat and I press my lips together for a second before answering her.
"Of course" I say, still slightly embarrassed by what she was insinuating, she laughs it off and heads upstairs. Once I'm alone I slip off the cut offs I'm wearing and phase into wolf form, I can hear they're voices discussing the need for an urgent meeting, Jake silences them the second he feels me phase, I round the corner and see them sitting in a circle and I take my regular seat on Jake's left.
Jake: Skar what's going on?
Me: Fable and I were at the Cullen's visiting Newt and Alice had a vision
Seth: I thought Alice and Jasper were in the amazons still
Me: they are but she called the house and asked to speak to Fable
Teague: what was the vision?
Me: Alice saw Fable defending her brother who was lying on the ground, she was alone I don't know were the hell we were but she was weak surrounded and out numbered
Jake: surrounded by who?
Me: some vampires Alice didn't recognise.
Seth: so not the Volturi then
Me: Fable wants to go to the airport and head him off she knows when he's landing and she wants to be there when he does
Jake: great now there are two of them
Me: he gets into Montana in the morning and I want to go with her
Jake: absolutely not I need you here
Me: Jake I can't let her go alone
Kaden: why are you so desperate to go with her?
Seth: Kaden!
Me: Jake please reconsider? You know why I have to go with her it could be dangerous
Gypsy: wait why does Skar suddenly care about someone other than himself this is weird
Jaide: you can say that again
Seth: guys enough!
Jake: this feels like a trap, I don't want anyone leaving the res let alone the state including Fable but there's nothing I can do to stop her
I guess I understood why Jake wanted me here, with Nessie possibly in immanent danger he wanted as much protection for her as possible, if it was Fable I'd want that too but that wasn't good enough I had to go with her.
Me: then let me go I can protect her
Jake: I'm sorry Skar
And with that Jake phased back into his human form I wasn't done with this conversation and not being able to hear his thoughts wasn't going to stop me.
Seth: Skar don't...
It was too late I was already mid phase "Jake!" I shouted he stopped at the porch to face me.
"Be very careful what you say next Skar" he warns.
"She's my imprint you can't expect me to be apart from her like that, not that far away for who knows how long" I say my voice raised.
"Skar calm down?" he tells me.
"You can't do this to me" I say and he sighs.
"Jeez Skar she's your imprint not your oxygen, stop being such a diva" I hear Teague snap behind me and laugh, I turn on him and I'm literally shaking.
"You know that's exactly what it feels like!" I shout.
"No I don't because you got in there first didn't you!" he yells back.
"I can't listen to your bullshit right now Teague" I say.
"Bullshit? What's bullshit is you imprinting on her, she was supposed to be for me and you stole her! You're supposed to be my brother!" Teague practically screamed at me there were tears in his eyes and then he phased and went for my throat.