Changing Tides
A/N: Ok, I know I already updated today, but this was just sitting in my computer already done, so I decided to publish it anyway. This is my last chapter that I finished ahead of time, so now I will actually have to start writing them again. I hope you like it, and I'd love some ideas for future chapters.
Ch 12 – Discovery
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Dude, I can't believe you actually slept with her. – Seth thought as we patrolled
Shut up Seth, it's none of your business. – I told him
Hey, you're the one who yelled at me for dating the high school girls; at least my girlfriend is eighteen. – Seth replied.
Seth you are such a moron, Nessie is Jake's imprint, where you are just taking advantage of these young girls, it's actually sick. – Leah told her brother
It's not sick, or illegal, she's eighteen. How old is Nessie again, Jake? – Seth thought smugly
Seth you better watch your mouth, Jake's going to kick your ass – Embry said.
I just can't believe you're really going to get married right after graduation. – Leah said to me
Well Nessie doesn't want to wait, but we can't actually get married until September when she turns eighteen. – I explained
What are you guys going to do all summer then? – Embry asked
I really want to take her back to LaPush to meet everyone, but we'll have to wait and see. – I said
So is that where you guys are going to live? – Seth asked
We haven't really talked about that yet, but I would assume so. – I told them
So how long until you stop phasing all together and grow old with her? - Embry asked me
Jeeze guys, what's with all the questioning? I don't know exactly what's going to happen but yes we are going to get married, and yes I will stop phasing sometime in the next few years so I can grow old with her, but as for the exact details of these things, I just don't know yet. – I said hoping to end their annoying questions.
Ok, man. All I'm saying is that with Sam wanting to quit and now you, I'm just wondering what's going to happen to the pack when you're both gone. – Embry added, but then everyone shut up and we finished our patrol.
The next couple of weeks past, and there was a strange sense of uneasy peace on the campus. We were entering December and the grounds were constantly covered in snow, making it hard to patrol the forest because the scents of vampires were lessened or covered by the freeze. Our football team was heavy in playoffs and we were of course, leading the stats. I almost felt bad for the other teams, it just wasn't fair that our team was stacked with four defensive super natural wolf men (I didn't know what else to call us since we weren't werewolves) and four offensive male witches. The other teams didn't have a chance.
My pack and I actually really started to get along great with the witches, once they realized we weren't a threat to anyone but vamps, they really cut the attitude and we started collaborating together on local vamp details. We would tell them about our vamp fights, and they told us stories of their own and they were all very entertaining.
"So what did the vamp say about a hybrid?" Greg asked me after practice one day.
"Nothing much, he just said that he knew the rule to stay away from the school because the hybrid was here. We've been keeping a look out, but I mean we don't even know what kind of hybrid we are supposed to be looking for. And that was in the beginning of the school year, and yet there's nothing here." I explained to him.
"That's so strange. I asked my parents if they ever heard of any hybrids of any kind, so they did some researching, and they found some old legends of like sea people and alien hybrids, even demons that come to earth to produce Halflings with humans, but they think it's all made up crap." Greg explained before, that his whole family were witches and it was also in his genes.
"Hey but you never know. I mean I always thought vampires were crap too, but we both know they exist so why not aliens and what not?" I disagreed with him
"Yeah I guess, I didn't think of it that way. Well whatever the hell kind of demoniac we're dealing with, if even a vamp is afraid, then we have to figure out what it is and take it out before it has a chance to hurt anyone. Hey my coven and I will make sure we touch as many people as possible to see if we can find any nonhumans in the mix around here. Between, our touch and your sense of smell, we should be able to unveil this thing." Greg said enthusiastically
"Hell yeah, we can. Although, my pack and I couldn't smell you guys, so maybe we can't smell this hybrid either." I responded.
"Well, like I said, we'll try and touch ever person we can in this school, and we'll be sure to find them, who knows, it's probably one of the teachers or other staff members here." Greg said.
We were walking out of the locker room, and then Nessie came up to me with a smile, but her face fell serious when she saw Greg and huddled closely to my side.
"Hey honey, how was cheer practice?" I asked her
"Fine." She gave me a short answer, which usually wasn't a good sign.
"Hey Vanessa, how would you like to be the first person in the school to try my new handshake. My plan is to get everyone in the school to learn it as sort of a school spirit thing?" Greg asked her.
Ness leaned even closer to me and tightened her hands into fist each holding on tightly to my shirt.
"No thanks, I'm sort of a germ-a-phob." She said to him nervously. "Hey, can we go, I don't want to be late?" She asked me.
"Uh, sure." I told her. "Oh hey, I'll see you later Greg" I told him before Ness and I left.
When we were far enough away from Greg I said "Ness, why are you still afraid of Greg? I told you that he's cool and he's not going to hurt you." I tried assuring her
"Can we just not talk about it please? I have my reasons for not wanting to be all buddy-buddy with him, alright?" She said coldly
"Ok, fine." I've learned to just go with whatever strange little issues Nessie has with certain things, none of them were worth the argument.
"So where are we all meeting?" I asked her. A group of her cheer friends were all having date night together with their boyfriends, so that meant Ness and I were going too. Dinner and a movie was their usually staple, so it wasn't a surprise when that was the plan tonight as well.
"La Italiano at six, then the movie is at eight." She said casually.
Dinner was good but the company was really boring. A couple of the boyfriends were on my team, but we didn't talk much, and the girls were all screechy and annoying. The movie wasn't much better; it was some lame chick flick and even Nessie seemed bored with it.
"So do you want to spend the night tonight?" Nessie asked me on our cab ride back to the school.
"When do I ever pass on sleeping over?" I said with a smile
"Poor Leah, I bet she hates me as a roommate." Nessie said with uncontrollable smile.
"Neah, I think she actually likes harassing Seth and Embry."
"Yeah, I think you're right." We both started laughing.
Nessie's phone started ringing, so she automatically pulled it out of her bag and answered it.
"Hi Mom." She said
"Hey sweet heart, is Nahuel around?" She asked, which was slightly confusing to me.
Nessie looked over at me briefly before answering her. "No, I'm out with some of my girl friends tonight" She only half lied, but her mom didn't catch it. "Why?"
"Oh, no reason really. His sister called and just wanted to get a hold of him, I guess his phone's not working." Her mom said.
"You know him; he hates technology and always forgets to charge it. But I think he's out for one of his night time hikes that he loves so much, so I probably won't see him for the rest of the night."
"Ok Sweetie, I love you, I'll talk to you later."
"Love you too mom, bye." And Nessie hung up, and then looked over to me. "Sorry, about that. What were we talking about again?"
"Ok, wait, who is Nahuel?" I asked confused
"Oh, well that's Nigel's real name. He got it in his head that people in English speaking countries can't pronounce his name right. It's no different than someone named Pedro going by Pete, or something like that." She explained
"Oh" Was all I could say. I guess I really couldn't fault the guy for changing his name, after all I changed mine.
When we got back to campus we went up to her room to ask Leah to bunk at my place so Ness and I could stay the night together. I usually stayed at Nessie's a couple nights a week, and Leah would always complain of course, but I knew she didn't really mind.
"Hey Lee." Nessie and I both greeted Leah who looked like she just finished studying.
"Hey Jake, I was just about to call you. Embry called and he said we need to have a meeting." Leah used the word meeting as code for vamp killing, because she knew Nessie hated it when we killed vampires. But she knew what was going on anyway.
"Ok, dang. Sorry babe but I have to go" I kissed Ness on the mouth then ran out with Leah.
Leah and I caught up to Seth and Embry quickly, and ambushed the small vamp coven taking them out easily. There were three of them just outside that strange imaginary boundary of the school.
Man that was fun – Embry thought
Hell yeah it was – Leah agreed.
Seth and I just rolled our wolf eyes at them. As much crap I give Seth about stuff, he was still the only one who agreed with me that it wasn't necessary fun killing vamps. He used to be friends with Edward, and I kind of had a soft spot for Dr. Fang, he did fix me up that one time. (Plus I still cared about Bella, even if I wouldn't admit it to myself)
We were running back and we had already crossed the boundary line, when we all smelled the blood.
Wow, that smells fresh. - Leah said
Yeah but it's not human, so it's probably just a bear or mountain lion eating his meal. – Embry thought
Sounds cool, I'm going to check it out. – Seth said.
As much as I didn't care about seeing a mountain lion eating his kill, I decided to go anyway. I lived for years as nothing but wolf, so I hunted deer and other game in order to eat, so I really didn't get any thrill out of seeing dead animals the way Seth and Embry did.
We followed our noses and found a dead buck lying uneaten on the forest floor.
What the hell; did it just die? - Embry asked
No, it's drained of blood, see? – Leah said
Is one of the Cullen's here or something? – Seth thought knowing that only the Cullens would have a desire to drink animal blood.
No, I don't smell any of them – I commented
Yeah me either – Seth said
Uhh, do you smell that? – Embry asked, and that's when we took off at full speed towards the familiar scent, and then we saw him.
He pushed aside the doe he was drinking, stood and hissed at us before running into the night.
Umm? – Leah thought
What the hell? – Embry thought
Since when is Nigel a vampire? – Seth thought
None of us really knew what to think or do, but all I knew was that Nessie must have answers.
When we got to the school, I asked my pack to let me talk to her alone, because I thought she would open up more if it was just the two of us, but they were all really freaked and decided to continue to patrol just in case.
"Hey honey." Nessie said happily when I came through the door. She stood up and wrapped her arms around me before kissing my neck.
"Babe, I need to talk to you" I said while pulling her arms down.
"Ok, what's wrong?" She asked
"What the hell is Nigel, or Nahuel, whatever his name is?"
"What do you mean What is he?" She asked
"He's not human Ness, we saw him draining a deer and we're pretty sure it wasn't his first" I said angrily. She knew exactly what I was talking about, but she was lying, just like she does so often and now it was really starting to get to me, and I wanted answers.
"Jake, it's not what you think." She said quickly
"Really? Because I don't know what the hell to think. Only vampires drink blood like that, but I know Nigel can't be a vampire because he has a heartbeat and his eyes are brown and all of that. So I'm going to ask you again, what the hell is he?" I asked forcefully
Nessie looked away for a moment then she looked back at me. "He's a hybrid"
I just stared at her for a long moment, not sure if I actually believed what she was telling me or not.
"It's not possible. There can't be a vampire hybrid, it's just not possible. Vampires can't reproduce like that, they're made of stone, walking corpses, they can't produce a hybrid." I said in denial.
"I'm sorry Jake; I wanted to tell you, I just knew how you would feel about…"
"YOU KNEW HOW I WOULD FEEL?" I started yelling at her in pure fury, but then I saw the panicked look on her face so I forced myself to calm down. "How can you sit there and tell me you love me and then lie about something this major?" Asked her feeling seriously betrayed.
"This right here, this is why I didn't tell you, because I knew this was how you'd react." She said with tears streaming down her face. "Jake, I promise you, I swear, he's not dangerous. Please just let this go." She begged.
"Let this go? He's a freaking vampire Ness, that's disgusting; I can't just let that go." I said before heading to the door. I heard all I needed to hear when she admitted he was a vampire. At least I knew what kind of hybrid that first vamp was talking about now.
"Wait, Jake where are you going?" Nessie asked franticly before grabbing my arm trying to restrain me.
"Where do you think I'm going? He's a vampire, I kill vampires. I think you can figure it out." I said to her coldly.
"No Jake, Please, you can't. Baby please, just hear me out Ok." She was completely shaking, and seeing her like that tore a hole in my chest, so I stopped to listen to her.
"His dad was a vampire and his mom was a human. Please, he doesn't hurt people at all. I met him when I was little and he never once tried to hurt me or anyone else, please don't do this." She begged between sobs.
"I'm sorry Nessie he's an abomination; he shouldn't exist. Vampires can't be allowed to reproduce like that, it's disgusting. How the hell did a human woman survive birthing that thing anyway?" I asked
Nessie just stared at me and covered her face with her hand.
"His mother didn't survive did she? That demon killed his mother didn't it?" Nessie's lack of denying it was conformation enough for me, so I started heading back to the door again.
"Jacob. If you hurt him, if you even try then that's it; we're done for good." She yelled at me. I turned around slowly.
"You're picking him over me?" I asked in disbelief
"No I'm picking my friend over a murderer. Because if you kill him, that's exactly what you'll be. I kept my mouth shut while you went out and killed all those other vampires because I knew that they were all killers themselves, but Nahuel is good and innocent and I will not stand by while you hurt him." She said vehemently
"Fine." I said then walked out the door.
I was so livid that I couldn't even think straight. My whole body was shaking in violent tremors and I knew if I didn't get away soon, I was going to phase right then and there. I ran back to the woods and phased immediately and then took off running. I was fighting a battle within myself on what was happening. My instincts told me to track down the demon hybrid and rid the world of its disgusting existence, but my heart told me to listen to my imprint. I was supposed to do anything in my power to make her happy, and she was definitely not happy at the moment.
Hey bro, didn't go so well huh? – Embry thought
No Em it didn't; and I have no idea what to do. – I told him
Even if I didn't mean to, I kept replaying my fight with Ness in my head, so now my whole pack knew everything.
Jake, maybe we should just trust Nessie, I mean we let the Cullen's live because they didn't kill people, maybe we should just give Nigel a pass too? – Seth thought
No Seth, we didn't let the Cullen's live; our ancestors did that and made a treaty that we were obligated to uphold. But the Cullen's broke that treaty by biting Bella and that just proves that those disgusting leeches can't be trusted, and shouldn't have been allowed to exist. If my grandfather and his pack would have just killed the Cullens back then, Bella would still be alive and I will not let Nessie suffer the same consequence as she did for befriending those blood sucking demons. – I thought to Seth, but was telling all three of them.
So is that your decision then? Are we taking the hybrid out? - Leah asked
Maybe we should contact Sam? – Seth thought
We don't need Sam, Jake is our alpha and we'll do whatever he decides. – Embry told Seth
But it's wrong to kill someone if they're innocent – Seth rebutted
It's not 'someone' Seth, it's something – Embry corrected him
Shut up both of you, I'm trying to think. Ok, here's what we're going to do, we're going to catch him and lock him up for a while until we're sure he's not a threat. – I decided
You got it boss- Seth said happy with my decision.
And we all took off trying to find the hybrid Nigel, or Nahuel, whatever. I considered telling Greg and the witches about our discovery, but I knew they would want to kill him right away, and I owed it to Nessie to at least give her friend a chance to live.
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