"Leah, I can't believe it. Quil and Embry. I'm sick of just sitting around and waiting. I can't begin to guess how you're taking it. Not being able to phase. Especially when two of your pack members have just been killed. Now you're stuck with me baby-sitting you, when I know you can take care of yourself. This has been one hell of a day. Four werewolves down, within four hours. It's gotta be hard. I have no idea how you're taking it, when you knew them so well. I mean I knew Quil and Embry, and the only thing keeping me from running tears over them is the fact that I can't run tears, if you know what I mean. But you knew them so well, through-"
"Bella, please stop." Her constant bell like blubbering was grating on my nerves. Especially when I always morn in silence. Convenient name for her. Isabella. Bella's voice Is-a-bella. That brought me a dry laugh and a curious glance from Renesmee. "I just thought of something funny." I told her.
"Miss Leah, two of your friends were murdered. Shouldn't you be sad instead of laughing?" Coming out of a grownup's mouth that would have sounded rude and like they thought I didn't care about my friends, but coming out of Renesmee's mouth, she was truly confused by it.
"Darling, I'm sure Miss Leah doesn't want to answer your questions right now."
"No, she's fine. Renesmee, different people deal with bad things in different ways. Some people cry, others get angry, others become extremely nice. You use whatever works to get you past the bad times. I tend to use a dry, sometimes hurtful, and most of the times bitter sense of sarcastic humor. If you really want to know what I was laughing about, I made a joke about your mother, Isabella's name. Cause you know how her voice sound's like a bell? I said 'Bella's voice Is-a-bella'." Renesmee laugh while Bella scowled.
"But that was nice humor. You were complimenting mama." Yeah kid, you believe that. No, I decided to play nice
"I've been known to say nice things every once in a while." The house was so silent without everyone in it. It took me a minute to remember that this was probably how Charlie's house always was. The next fifteen minutes dragged on in silence. I was just considering turning on the TV when I caught a familiar scent at the back door. What was Nahuel doing back here? I let him in before he could knock.
"What are you doing here?" Bella asked, walking up behind me with Renesmee in her arms. Gosh, the kid can walk.
"I wasn't much help there. I didn't know the scent and there was nothing I could contribute. I wanted to come be by you. I mean they were your friends. Bella, Edward wanted to see you."
"Edward's there?"
"Yeah, he heard us coming in and decided to investigate. He said not to bring Renesmee, he didn't want her to see them. I was wondering if I could take her and Leah to a movie or the beach or something? Get their minds off of it for a while?"
"Thanks Nahuel. That would be fine. A movie sounds really good, but if you take them to the beach it's really too cold for Renesmee to swim I think. I'll leave you guys the car. It'll make getting around even easier. See you all later. Love you Renesmee." She handed Renesmee to Nahuel and took off to see what her hubby needed.
Nahuel quickly put her down, fishing in his back pocket for something. He pulled out an envelope, addressed to everyone. "Just leaving them a note telling them where we went. How do you feel about Ruby Beach. I looked it up. It's a thirty minute drive on the 101. But I don't have a license. Can you drive us?"
"I don't have mine either but so long as we keep moving and don't attract attention, it shouldn't be too bad. Want to go to the beach Renesmee." I couldn't wait to get away for a while.
"Yes, Miss Leah, the beach sounds great. Thanks Mr. Nahuel." She sounded oddly serious. Then I realized it was the formalities that did that.
"Renesmee, you can just call us Leah and Nahuel. The formalities aren't needed between friends." Nahuel said dropping the envelope on the table. We walked out to the car and I strapped Renesmee into her child seat, something Charlie had apparently insisted upon. Something about daughters of cops breaking laws.
I strapped her in and slid out of the backseat, only to have Nahuel slide into it. "Why are you sitting back here? Don't you want to sit up front with me?" I asked him.
"Car's frighten me. Going in excess of eighty-five kilometers per hour, I suppose for you that would be fifty-three miles per hour, anyway going that fast without my feet touching the ground scares me. It makes me realize that I have no control over what I'm doing. Not to mention the fact I'm claustrophobic. Lets get going, the sooner we get out of here, the sooner I can get out of this death trap." He leaned against the seat and closed his eyes. He already looked faintly green so I didn't push it.
We made the trip to Ruby beach in twenty five minutes. We didn't see one cop, let alone get pulled over. I look back now and wish we had. For the minute I parked the car, and turned around to tell Nahuel we were there, he whipped out a gun and pointed it to Renesmee's head.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked, reaching for the gun.
"Nuh-uh. You so much as touch me, or her, and her head gets blown off. Just turn around and flash your headlights twice." I did what he asked. What the hell was Nahuel doing?
"Nahuel, why are you doing this? What do you want?"
"You see, that's the problem right there. My name's not Nahuel. I only pretended to be Nahuel so you would trust me. I'm his sister, Samantha. I am very good at disguises and scent matching." Nahuel's outline flickered and then I blinked, curse myself, and there was a woman I didn't know in his (or should I say her?) place.
"Who are you?" I blurted out before I could stop myself.
"I just told you, I'm Nahuel's littlest sister Samantha. The one who can shift forms almost as well as you werewolves.
"Don't show her your gift Nessie! Don't' show it to her!" I wanted to keep Nessie's gift secret, it might be able to help us escape.
"She has a gift?" Samantha asked.
"The bracelet Jacob gave her. I didn't want you guys to take it." I didn't know where I was coming up with this stuff, all I knew was I hoped Samantha believed it.
"What would I want' with some stupid bracelet?"
"It's a Quileute promise bracelet. Jacob promising himself to Renesmee, saying he was hers forever. It's beautiful and she's fond of showing it off to everyone. I didn't want you to take an envy to it and steal it." I worked to make my voice sound convincing.
"Just get out of the Damn Vehicle! We don't have time to play games." She un-strapped Renesmee and pulled her out. I sat in the car, weighing my chances of being able to quickly start the car and run Samantha down.
Don't try it Leah. There's more than just Samantha hanging around. There's another half-vamp in on this.
I don't know where the thought came from, but it was there inside my head. It reminded me of being in wolf form.
Besides, you don't want to take the chance of hurting Renesmee do you? By the way, my name is Talbot, and no, you're not schizophrenic. I'm the sibling Nahuel does not know about. This is my gift. Telepathy. Comes in handy since I'm mute. Oh and you can't converse with me telepathically, it's only a one way street. I can only give info, I can't take. I'm also very close so just step out of the car and follow Samantha. There's a good girl.
"GET OUT OF MY MIND!" I screamed to the world. Samantha didn't even stumble.
"I see you've met my favorite brother Talbot. Please keep quiet, we wouldn't want little Renesmee to get hurt now would we? Ah, here you are brother!" A half vampire came walking up the beach. Unlike Nahuel, he had white skin. His human mother must have been white.
Of course, sister. I couldn't let you leave me behind, now could I? Let's get going, shall we? We don't have much time before they realize that these two are missing.
"Quite right brother." She said, then turned towards the water, shoving Renesmee along in front of her. "Now march, out into the water. We have a couple of miles of swimming to do."
more aAbout twenty long miles later we "found" a speed boat and about four hundred miles later we were finally stepping on land in Coos Bay, Oregon. It didn't last long. Renesmee, Talbot, and I didn't even step on the land. Only Samantha did, schooling her scent to smell human to not alert the pack members if they did run the coast line this far, to get some food for all of us. Soggy salt-water-logged pork steak for me, and two recently unconscious humans for her, Talbot, and presumably Renesmee. Talbot started the boat immediately and we were off, apparently we were going to eat on the fly, or swim as it were.
Renesmee took one look at Samantha drinking from one of the poor saps and started to cry. I jumped up to comfort her, they didn't stop me, knowing I wouldn't be able to get away. Unsurprisingly Renesmee forgot she wasn't supposed to use her gift. She placed her hand on my skin and I was hit by how good they smelt to her, how hungry she was, and how she didn't want to drink from humans anyway because it wasn't right. It tore my heart out. I could never hate the Cullens again, if this was what they went through every time they smelt a human and knew they couldn't eat them.
Unfortunately I had to make Renesmee talk about it because she wasn't supposed to have a gift. "What's wrong, Renesmee? Please, tell me what's wrong!"
"I won't drink them, I won't! I only drink donated blood. Don't make me drink them, it's not right!"
Will you shut that kid up? Her voice is very grating on the ears!
"HURRY UP AND DISPOSE OF THOSE BODIES THEN!" I yelled at Talbot. Then I held Renesmee at arms length and made her look me in the eyes. "Renesmee, It's okay. You don't have to eat them."
She calmed her sobs and looked at me curiously, "What will I eat then, I'm so hungry." As if to accentuate her statement, her stomach gurgled.
"You're supposed to be able to eat human food, right?" I said, an idea coming to me. Sure I would go hungry, but I couldn't let Renesmee.
"Yes, I can eat some."
"Then you may have my steak. It's even pre-salted for you!" I said attempting to be cheery about it. I mean, it was my food I was giving up. Who knows when the next time would be that I would eat? Then it realized it didn't matter. Renesmee was the one that mattered right now. I don't think I could live with it if she died during this mess.
"But won't you be hungry then?" She asked, entirely too perceptive she was. I think Jacob said she got it from Bella.
"I am, but I'm allergic to pork. Maybe they'll be kind enough to get me something else." I lied, hoping I had never eaten pork in front of her. I never ate in the Cullen's house anyways so I don't think she knew the truth.
"I'm not going back to get anything else! My stomach hurts too much. You'll just have to make do." Samantha snapped. It was only then that I noticed that the blood on her shirt was her own.
"What happened?" I asked, curious.
"You're stupid mutt friend managed to lay a swipe on me before I was able to shoot him in the head." Good job Embry, where ever you are now.
"Wait, how were you able to take down two werewolves at once?" I asked, unable to quell my curiosity.
I helped of course. Samantha's gift is to change her smell as well as her appearance remember, she changed her smell so she would give off no smell, and I just gave off my smell, to give the illusion of one very powerful half vampire doing this.
"Right, so shut up. I want everyone quiet from now on unless you want to be next on the list of people I have killed!" Okay, not going there. Don't want curiosity to kill the cat, or dog if you will.
The second stop we were allowed off to use the bathroom and find more food, but we were supervised so we wouldn't try to contact anyone. I was so hungry that I ate two whole pizzas, leaving the third for Renesmee. The other two stuck to their filthy blood.
It took us two days of boating to reach South America, and another day of running to reach their "home" in the rainforest. By then my period had ended. I guess I was still half werewolf because I still healed fast.
We reached a clearing. There was a white sparkling vampire standing in the middle of it. He had short, dark hair and ruby red eyes. Unlike the Cullen's they were repulsive instead of alluring. If I ever liked anything about the Cullen's, it had always been their eyes.
"Hello," The vampire said, and in a totally predictable move he held out his hand and said, "My name is Joham. It is a pleasure to meet you two."