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Eight hours and four cigarettes later, Bella sat in her truck outside of Jacob's house. She had been hear about thirty minutes after she realized their was no way she could go to school with this on her mind. A sight out of the corner of her eye got Bella to turn and see Sam, Paul, Jarred, and Embry walking out of the woods and approaching Jacob's house. She ducked down and snapped a few pictures of the group with her camera until she saw Jacob walk out of his backdoor. She exited the truck and purposely slammed the door bringing all the attention to her.

"Bella?" Jacob questioned as he made his way over to her "what are you doing here? I told you-"

"Werewolf" Jacob couldn't stop himself some visibly flinching at the word "oh my god, it's true"

"You told your fucking girlfriend?" came Paul's angry voice as the rest of the 'pack' made their way over to Bella and Jacob.

"He didn't say anything to me" Bella snapped, Paul walked straight up to her and Jacob pushed her behind him.

"Protect her?" Paul was shaking "She's the chief of police's daughter and she knows about us, there's only one thing we can do"

"Try it Benji!" Bella snapped coming around Jacob to meet Paul head on, her action's shocked even her. Paul was bigger than her, and stronger but she wasn't concerned about her safety at the moment.

"Paul!" Sam snapped as Paul snarled at Bella, who put her hand against his face to push him back.

"Back off!" She demanded. A light came from her palm and shot Paul twenty yards across the field causing instant silence. Bella stared at her hand in shock then clutched her stomach as a overtook her. She looked up when she heard a roar of anger and saw Paul rising to a standing position before his body contorted and, right before Bella's wide eyes, Paul the man became Paul the wold. Okay, not either of the two kinds of wolves her Hollywood-warped mind envisioned. He was just an average wolf or the standing, humanoid werewolf instead he was just a giant wolf. A giant wolf whose angry snarl was headed in her direction. Bella felt Jacob's strong, warm hands gripping her upper arms before he practically tossed her into Sam's rock hard chest and shifted. Jacob's wolf form was just as large as Paul's if not a little bigger and was apparently equally as strong as the two charged at each other in a storm of bites and scratches.

"Bella" Sam's voice snapped her out of her observation "are you alright?"

Bella nodded, not yet able to form words yet and Sam turned to Embry and Jarred.

"Take her to Emily's" he ordered "Do not let her out of your sight"

Bella watched Sam run off in the direction of the woods Jacob and Paul disappeared to. Jarred drove her truck while Embry sat in the bed and Bella still didn't say anything. The thoughts in her head were too many to choose which to voice. Maybe she was dead? Died on her grandmother's faux marble floor and everything that happened after was some weird purgatory. Maybe she was in a mental institution? Suffering from delusions brought on by post-traumatic-stress-disorder. Even as she thought it she knew it was simply wishful thinking. Jacob, Sam, Embry, Paul, Jarred and who knows who else...were werewolves. She looked up when her truck stopped and found herself staring at a humble, craftsman style home set right beside the woods with a huge porch and windows littered with flowers and greenery. The large french doors were open showcasing a large wooden table piled with food.

"Ah sweet, we're right on time" Jarred said happily and exited the truck the same time Embry hopped out of the bed.

Halfway to the porch the guys turned and gave Bella a pointed look. Getting the hint, Bella got out of her truck and walked behind them into the house. Their was a female fluttering around the kitchen wearing a blue sundress an a cardigan that made Bella think of Donna Reed and assumed the female was Emily. When she turned to look at Bella, Bella noticed that the right side of her pretty, tan face was marred by three ugly scars that looked a bit like claw marks.

"I take it you're Bella?" Emily asked with a warm smile

"Yea" Bella answered

"Jacob talks about you a lot" Emily informed her, then thought a moment "well, he thinks about you and the other guys talks about you"

"Especially after last night" Jarred muttered and moved to dig into the food.

"Hold it!" Emily scolded "ladies first"

"Of come on!" Embry cried

"Just because you turn into wolves doesn't mean you can behave like animals" she said sternly before smiling at Bella again "waffle? muffin? I have almost everything"

Bella was going to decline, her nausea not yet passed, but the looks the guys gave her said one thing. Is she didn't eat-they didn't eat and the last thing Bella wanted were two hungry werewolves on her hands. The second she touched a blueberry muffin the guys dug in.

"So Bella" Embry asked between bites "Did Jake tell you about us or what?"

"No" Bella said leaning against the far hall while watching them intently "in fact he told me to back off"

"Well if you broke into my bedroom I'd tell you to back off too" Jarred pointed out, Emily chuckled a bit.

"How did he know I was there?" Bella needed to know.

"Your smell" Embry said, mouth full of food until he noticed Emily's glare and swallowed. The exchange made Bella laugh a bit, the two guys at the table were taller, stronger, and definitely scarier then little Emily but they seemed to be more intimidated by her.

"My smell?" Bella asked, a little put off until Jarred explained

"Yea, not like stink but your scent, it's very peculiar" he said with inspecting eyes.

"Yea, your smell plus that little light show you put on make us think your not as human as we thought" Embry finished

"Light show?" Emily asked

"Paul got in Bella's face" Sam explained walking to the house "so Bella shot a beam from her hand" Bella then watched Sam kiss Emily tenderly on the lips for a while before he pulled back and planted little kisses on the scarred side of her face causing Emily to giggle.

"Yep" Embry said completely unphased by the make out session behind "shot Paul's hot head a good distance away"

"Then Jacob took a chunk out of him" Jarred finished "serves Paul right coming after Jake's girl"

"Jarred" Emily warned and Jarred resumed stuffing his face just as Bella turned and saw Jacob and Paul walking into the house. Before Paul sat down he turned to Bella with a sheepish smile that didn't suit his tough look at all.

"Sorry" he apologized and sat down to eat, Jacob moved to stand by her. Apparently, feeling Jacob's heat was a reminder of what situation she was currently in.

"Werewolves" she muttered a second before darkness took over her and and slumped in Jacob's arms.

"Aw" Emily smiled with sympathy "poor thing held out as long as she could"


Bella woke up in a warm bed with a face hovering dangerously close to hers. Gasping she threw her fist out and hit the face's nose with a satisfying crack in both her hand and his face. She sat up and wished she could see around the dimly light room better and as if on cue the window blinds went up expect it wasn't a person who did it. She saw that figure clutching their nose was in fact Embry right before the rest of the pack filled the room.

"Ow!" Embry whined while the everyone looked amused except for Jacob who sat on the bed next to Bella and inspected her sore hand.

"Sorry" Bella said "it was mostly a reflex"

Embry glared at her "Mostly?"

"You screwed my friend last night in the backseat of her car, that compensates for the rest of the punch that wasn't a reflex" the pack erupted with laughter. Bella got out of the bed and turned to Jacob when he grabbed her wrist. She let him lead her down the stairs and out of the house and they walked a while until Jacob stopped then in the middle of a clearing and Bella knew he was waiting for her to say something.

"You're a werewolf" she stated again, Jacob nodded "why?"

"It's not really a choice Bella" he told her "it's simple, vampire comes onto our land and the blood-lust sets in"

"Blood-lust?" she asked

"We don't get turned into werewolves" he explained "it's always in our blood, few members of the tribe have it, and when vampires show up it kicks in because that's when we need it"

"Vampires?" Bella questioned

"Yes" Jacob winced "Bella, vampires exist and there our only enemies, they kill people and-"

"The bear attacks, were those vampires?" Jacob nodded "and you all protect La Push?"

"No" he answered "we protect any land right now and we're doing it, the vampire hasn't managed to kill anyone else and we want it to stay that way"

"You protect any land right now?" she asked

"Yes, if the Cullen's, a family of vampires, move to Forks then we can only protect Quileute land because of a stupid treaty my great-grandfather made with them years ago" Bella froze almost instantly and reached into her pocket or her pack of cigarettes only to realize she didn't have her jacket on.

"Cullen?" she asked pacing back to Emily's house "As in Carlisle Cullen? Dr. Carlisle Cullen?"

"Yes" Jacob answered, instantly weary as Bella entered the house again and located the jacket before she dug out a cigarette and light it while under the suspicious eyes of the whole pack.

"Bella" that was Sam's voice "how do you know the Cullen's?"

Bella didn't answer at first and instead stood on the porch smoking. Vampires, werewolves, and Angela that's who she surrounded herself with and apparently vampires and werewolves were each others only enemies and Bella...didn't even know what the hell was up with her. Snubbing out her bud, Bella turned back to the awaiting looks of the group. She turned around and pulled her long hair up to show them the bite mark she had on the back of her neck and instantly heard the growls emerge before she turned back around.

"The Cullen's saved my life" she explained "that's how I know them"

"They're vampires" Embry pointed out

"I know that too" Bella retorted "but they still saved my life"

"Where?" Jacob seethed, shaking fiercely but Bella didn't notice as a wave of pain washed through her.

"Seattle"

Author's Note: Discoveries Part 2 will come later on and next Chapter we finally find out what brought Bella to Forks and what happened in Seattle.