Book Six: Brady

Admitting Feelings

As soon as Seth and I settled our argument, we immediately left to go to La Push. Surprisingly enough, when we got to La Push there wasn't a werewolf army waiting for us.

We cautiously made our way through the town until we made it to Catalina's house which I guess doubled as Paul's house. To say I was terrified of what might when we knocked on the door would've been an understatement. In fact, it would've been the understatement of the century. I think we were all a little scared of what or who was waiting inside for us.

I knocked on the door shocked when Catalina answered it. Behind her, I could see a tired Paul and a shocked Jared sitting on the stairs. Both of them immediately jumped up and before they could move towards me I began to speak:

"Catalina, I want you to know that I'm sorry for avoiding you and all that jazz because honestly I'm kind of in love with you, and I need you in a creepy way. So I guess I hope that you can forgive me, but I completely understand if you never want to see me again." Catalina opened her mouth to reply, but I slammed my lips on hers before she could even say anything.

Let me tell you something, those two-and-a-half seconds of kissing her was so freaking amazing that I can't even describe it. So I'll just tell you this, we must've looked like we were having fun because Paul ripped me away from her so fast that it took me a moment to process what happened. Seth growled angrily as Jared roughly grabbed his arm.

"OK, you guys have fun," Alex called after us trying to make it seem like she wasn't worried. I heard her say something to Catalina, but I was too busy trying to focus on where Jared and Paul were dragging us that I didn't really notice what she said.

After a moment of dragging us, they dropped us on the ground, and within seconds the whole Pack had surrounded us. I kept my eyes glued on Embry and Collin while Seth growled at Paul.

"How's it going, traitors?" My head snapped over to Paul shocked and a little hurt that he would call us traitors to our faces. Seth seemed to be indifferent to it, but by Paul's facial expression I knew that my face showed exactly how I felt about it. "Have fun running around Spain?"

"We weren't in Spain, and we know you were following us." Seth's accusation must've hit home because out of the corner of my eye I saw Collin shift uncomfortably.

Paul didn't respond. Actually, he phased and lunged at Seth's throat. I thought Seth was risking it by waiting to the last minute to roll away, but I kept my comments to myself and lunged at Collin while phasing mid-air. Apparently, we'd been assigned to fight each other because he kept attacking me while Embry, Quil, Paul, and Jared all tried to take out Seth. None of them decided to even consider that I could've gone through the same change as Seth while I was gone.

Collin circled me for a while, and I knew that he was shocked by my new size. He lunged at me, and I met him halfway easily tackling him to the ground. We rolled down a hill before coming to a stop at the base of a tree. He wriggled out from underneath me before coming at me again. This time I was ready, and I dodged his attack before sinking my teeth into his side. He whimpered loudly while repeatedly slamming my head into a tree and by the fifth slam I was so disoriented that I released the small bit of skin that was still in my mouth.

When had he gotten so persistent?

I got up on my feet unsteadily before lunging at him. We both fell to the ground each of us clawing at each other before I managed to claw his neck.

His body went limp, and I struggled to get up. I had just killed a brother. I wanted to howl or nudge his body with my nose to convince myself that he wasn't dead, but a piece of me rose up in my head and took control of my body.

You had to do what was needed. He would've killed you if you didn't attack him first. I shuddered at the voice that spoke to me in my head. I wasn't scared of how the voice sounded, or how it justified the death of a brother; I was scared of how much the voice sounded like my own.

I glanced at Collin's body before rushing up the hill where Seth was fighting with the rest of the wolves. I would be lying if I said Seth was somehow managing to fight them off. Sure, he clawed Jared up pretty good, but between the five of them, Seth was getting his butt kicked.

I'll handle Quil and Embry. I growled at the two wolves ignoring Seth's protests.

The two of them left Seth to circle me and I lunged for Quil. I managed to claw his side up pretty good before Embry phased into his human form and wrapped his arms around my neck. I panicked and slammed into a tree which succeeded in throwing him off of me, but before I could fully appreciate my escape Quil angrily came at me.

Seth whimpered as Paul bit into his leg, and I watched for a moment as Jared almost succeeded in getting to Seth's neck. Ignoring the two wolves behind me, I tackled Paul sending us both tumbling away from Seth. Embry tried to leap at me, but Seth managed intercept him.

I leapt up and slashed at Paul's nose before running up to Quil who was clawing Seth's back. A loud whimper escaped Embry's mouth before his body went limp, and Quil started to slash at Seth with more anger than before. Honestly, I couldn't blame him. Seth had just killed Quil's two best friends and his Alpha.

Brady, get Jared! Seth's voice went through the mental link momentarily surprising me. His voice sounded raspy and far away, but I nodded anyways and lunged at the wolf who was stumbling over to help Quil. Jared didn't have enough time to even try to move out the way before my teeth cut into his neck.

His body fell on the ground, and I turned to face Paul only to see him claw at Seth's already torn up stomach. A wave of agony rolled over me as my only friend collapsed on the ground unmoving. I didn't even bother to look for a heartbeat, and instead howled loudly before lunging at Paul.

I clawed at his neck only to miss my target by mere centimeters. Paul growled at me before knocking me over. I angrily leapt back up to my feet and tried to go back to him only to feel his teeth sink into my front leg. I yelped and slashed at his chest.

He clawed at my underside and I whimpered. I tried to move, but even the slightest movement caused a jolt of pain to shoot up and down my body. Paul angrily raised his paw to finish me off when Seth tackled the older wolf off of me. I looked up through blurry eyes just in time to see Seth sink his teeth into Paul's neck.

My vision faded in and out and I could Seth crawling towards me. I closed my eyes allowing the tiredness to seep into my bones. I could really use a good nap. Seth whimpered next to me, and I let out a playful growl.

Somewhere in those next few moments, my heart stopped beating.

So we have two more chapters and an epilogue to write.

~B