Diamond's P.O.V.
My howl still echoes in the car. Forlornly I stared out the window where Bellae was left standing in the dust. Mommy reached back from her seat and patted my head. We pulled up at a grey house where a man was sitting in a wheelchair on the porch. His slightly weathered face smiled slightly. "Hey, Billy!" Daddy called out the window. Mr. Billy waved and wheeled over to the driver's side. "Where's the little tike, you have been telling me about?" Daddy gestured to the back. I glanced briefly over at him and turned back to the window with a sigh. I didn't notice that they took me out of the car until they set me down. "Stay, Diamond. This is your home now." Those words crushed me from the inside. Mommy leaned over and kissed me between the ears. "Be careful, Billy. She doesn't have control of her shift yet." He smiled knowingly. "I know. Don't forget, I have 3 kids myself." At that I glanced toward the door and saw three kids peeking out the door. The two oldest girls, I guess were ages 10 and 7. The youngest was a boy of three years old. My parents drove off quickly after that. I turned my ice blue gaze on Billy. He leaned over and looked me in the eye, "Diamond, I'm your father now." i inched over to him. "I promise you, that I'll never let anything hurt you again." As he said those words, a sense of peace and security washed over me. He gathered me up in his arms and nuzzled my head before blowing in my face. He motioned his children closer. The oldest girl called the whole tribe together.
Once they gathered, Billy did a ceremony. "I bring before you this girl. Her parents have given her up because she shifted at her birthday party. I wish to take her as my daughter." I shifted back into my normal form and one of the girls there handed me a dress to wear. I quickly dressed . "Billy! She is a vampire!" My eyes must have given me away. Most people wouldn't have known. I shrank back from the accusing and disgusting glares. "She is a hybrid. Half vampire, and half werewolf." Billy's son came over and implanted his feet firmly in front of me. "Back off." He snarled. A couple of other kids our age came over and formed a barrier between the adults and me. The crowd chuckled and one elder came out. "Billy has asked the tribe to make the orphaned child in and several children of our own is already attached." The crowd murmured in silent agreement. As one, they moved forward. In one voice they said, "You are now our sister, daughter, friend, and one of the tribe." I was now a part of them. My new dad placed his and on my head and said "Diamond, you are now a Black and a member of the Quileute Tribe." Just for a moment, I felt the change from abandoned orphan to being a part of a new family.
