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The Love Bites Chronicles: The Alpha Bite
Previously...
BPOV
"I, well there's someone else. She's incredible, Bella." I tried to pick out each of the shadows of the people that walked by the window but it was too difficult.
"Someone else? How long have you been planning this? The whole time I've been back home? Is that why we never see you anymore?"
"Leah Clearwater."
"WHAT?! As in Leah wolf-girl Clearwater?"
"That would be her."
"You don't mean..."
"I do."
"But no.."
"She imprinted Bella, on me." Oh Jesus Christ, and just like that; I could feel a headache coming on.
BPOV
"Bella..?" Jasper's arm rested on my forearm, nudging me softly.
"That's just...wow, how...when did you even.. wow." I was making less sense than Emmett.
"Three weeks ago, I went to the top of those cliffs that overlook La Push, I didn't even realise she was there. She charged me, almost bit my damn arm off before snarling and charging through the forest. I gave chase, I found her in a small clearing not far from the cliffs; sobbing.I had the strangest urge to comfort her, I'd never seen her before, she must have been one of the newer wolves. Nevertheless I sat beside her projecting the calming waves until she stopped mumbling about the 'damn fucking leeches' we talked until the sun set, agreed to meet there again the next day at that same time before parting ways. After I'd left her company, instantly I felt the loss of something I didn't even know I had." Jasper's eyes glazed over while he told his story, his voice took on a soft tone he rarely used and the grin he wore lit up his whole face.
"I.. uh, well we should probably head in now.." Jasper shook his head, clearing all previous thoughts from his mind.
We hadn't even set foot on the porch before we were ambushed, seven tanned bodies tumbled through the doorway surrounding Jasper and I. Sam, Leah, Paul, Jared, Seth, Colin and Brady were all there.
Sam, with his hands resting on my shoulders appeared to be checking me over.
"I'm fine, really." I couldn't help but watch the embrace that Leah and Jasper were swept up in, her arms wrapped around his neck, his around her waist; her feet dangled in the air as they spun full circle and just like that, ever so gently he set her back on the ground then in such a Jasper fashion, pressed his lips to her forehead.
"What the.." Colin.
"Hell..." Brady.
"Jesus.." Jared.
"Gross, that's my sister!" Seth.
"Fucking hell." The ever classy, Paul.
"Uh..well," Even Sam struggled to articulate words.
"Oh come on; you've seen the imprint work its magic before. Now inside, I want to know why we had to come all the way down here." My belly fluttered with the two little people inside as they moved and kicked, collapsing on the closest couch and was soon joined by Sam on one side and Jasper on the other.
"You knew?" Sam's eyes travelled suspiciously between Jasper's face and mine.
"You didn't?"
"No. She's refused to shift for three weeks now."
"What, no alpha order to make her tell you what was going on? You can do that right?" The other boys heads moved back and forth like they were watching the ball in a table tennis match.
"No. Well I can.. it's just..." his eyes focused on an odd coloured stain on the plush carpet.
"He doesn't think it's right for him to be able to order is ex around."
"His ex?"
"Was going to be his high school sweetheart if we're being precise." Thank you oh, so much for filling that missing detail in for me Paul.
"Paul shut up." Leah and Sam chimed at the same time.
"Well I'm not wrong, if you hadn't gone wolf boy you'd probably have knocked her up already!"
"Alright shut up now." My stomach squeezed and clenched, the idea of Sam with another woman made me feel like shit.
"Bella..."
"I said shut up. What are we doing here Sam?"
"There's a vampire hanging around, dancing across the border like he knows we can't get him. He hasn't fed on anyone, hasn't taken any prisoners, we can't work out what he wants."
"He wants Bella." Jacob entered through the front door, buttoning up his jean shorts.
"What? Who could possibly..."
"Bella don't, you sent him packing. He wouldn't be stupid enough to risk coming back for you." Jasper placed a hand on my shoulder, emitting his calming waves.
"Jas, we spent time in that stupid castle. Edward is the definition of stupid. Nothing can ever run smoothly, can it?" Struggling to get off the couch, I slowly made my way into the kitchen where I picked up the phone that hung on the wall. Punching in the familiar number, Rose answered on the second ring.
"Hello?"
"Rose we have a bit of a problem."
"Bella, where are you? What's going on?"
"Jas and I are on the reservation with the wolves, we've run into a bit of a problem..."
"YOU TOOK JASPER ONTO THE RESERVATION, ARE YOU INSANE?!" Alice's high pitched voice was loud enough to make the whole room flinch.
"Alice, there's no time for this. Give the phone to Carlisle or Rose."
"If he gets hurt, I'll kill you Bella." Alice's voice was further away and then Carlisle's voice was in my ear.
"Bella, what's going on? You said trouble?"
"It would appear Edward is far more stupid than we thought, he's back in town, lurking around the border. He's playing games with the wolves, games that won't end well. I can't stop him this time, I don't think I'm vampire enough to do it again."
"Bella, calm down. This stress won't be good for the babies, Alice, Emmett and Rose are already coming your way, Esme's out feeding but when she gets back we'll be there too."
"Thank you Carlisle, truly. Travel safe."
"Always, Bella."
After getting off the phone, I found that all eyes were on me again, was it something I said?
"What are you all looking at?"
"You just let Alice Cullen threaten you, you did nothing!" Jake said.
"You didn't even threaten her back!" Seth joined in.
"Alright shut up, she's full of empty threats, you should have seen her when I wasn't pregnant. If this is going to work, if we're going to catch Edward, we need to work together, both pack and coven."
"No fuckin' way! No chance!" Paul, always the charmer.
"Right then, you don't want to work with us? You can take Colin and Seth with you, round up the elders and keep them at Jake's house."
"You want us to babysit?"
"You'll be the back up, if things go south, we'll need you out there too. The elders are important too, we have to think of the reservation as well as ourselves." Sam chimed in.
"Leah and Jake, go and patrol. Chase him off if he gets too close, he might have company so be on the lookout for anyone else too. Oh, one more thing? He can read minds."
"What? You want me to leave? You know what the little pixie bitch is like! I'm not leaving this house!" Leah protested.
"You are, Jasper has to tell Alice what's going on, you can't be around when that happens. Alice doesn't like surprises, she relies on her vision, you guys block her vision. She won't like this, she'll blame me and she'll fight dirty. If you aren't here, it might just run a little smooth. Go on now, go patrol. Jasper's not going anywhere."
Leah left with a enraged expression on her face as Jake dragged her out to the tree line through the front door, if anything happened to Jasper, I'd never hear the end of it, these next few hours would be insanity.
It was another forty minutes before the chaos began, first it was Rosalie that reached us throwing Sam's front door wide open before tumbling over the nearest wolf and landing not far from Jasper's feet.
"The stench of dickward is all over this damn town." she snarled as Jasper helped her back onto her expensive designer shoes.
"I thought about as much, uh Rose... aren't you missing someone?" She gave me a puzzled look before realising who I was talking about.
"They'll be here in about twenty minutes I wasn't slowing down for them, so do we have a game plan yet?"
"At this point, Paul, Colin and Seth are looking after the Elders, they'll be the extra hands if things get ugly, and until we know anything else Leah and Jacob are patrolling the border. I figured we'd wait until they have news to share or until Carlisle and Esme arrive, which ever comes first I guess."
Those next twenty minutes passed by awkwardly no one wanting to break the tense silence, while msot of the wolves were okay with Rosalie and Emmett and now had to be okay with Jasper, neither of the supposed to be sworn enemies knew how to interact with each other. Sam was just rising from the couch to get me a glass of water when Emmett's body barrelled through the doorway crashing into Sam and the pair of them destroyed the coffee table next to the couch.
"Pity if I liked that coffee table. Emmett you're buying a replacement for breaking it, and get off my wolf. Please." The pair groaned lazily before separate Emmett remained on the floor not far from our feet while Sam avoided Alice's entrance into the room by ducking into the kitchen.
"I am never going to get this stench out of my clothes you know. It's putrid." She danced over the wooden shards that had made up a coffee table moments ago.
"You could always burn them, just make sure you're still in them." Quipped Embry to which Alice just snarled.
"Right, so is someone going to tell me why I'm surrounded by puppies?" She moved to Jasper's side, running her hands over his cheeks then up through his hair, more than one of the remaining wolves pulled an expression that resembled that of someone gagging.
"That would be because the most moronic vampire that happens to exist on this planet has a rather large obsession with our coven and has yet again returned for what he believes is his, only this time I won't be able to send him packing."
"Right, so once again we're here to clean up your mess? You really know how to ruin a hunting trip Bella."
There was the sound of smashing glass before Sam made a reappearance, only he wasn't carrying a glass of water. His fists were clenched to the point that his Quileute colour knuckles were losing colour, his jaw was locked, his neck and shoulders were tensed. The remaining wolves jumped to their feet after witnessing Sam's posture, moving close enough to be able to intervene if need be. What came next made the little munchkins in my belly kick and move harder and faster than I'd ever felt them move.
"Listen here leech, you are in my house which means you will respect my imprint. By no means do you have to be here, and anyone in this room will be more than happy to show you the fucking door. There isn't a single person in this room that requires your presence and any number of us will be ecstatic to throw you out if you don't shut the fuck up." You could almost see the smoke coming out of his nose and ears, his fists had loosened their grip marginally but it was barely noticeable. "Jasper take her into the spare room to explain things to her before someone removes her head from the rest of her body." Turning the tiniest bit to the left, Sam removed Alice from his view focussing on me. He dropped to his knees in front of me and everyone seemed to relax that little bit, Sam released his fists and let his head fall forward so it was leaning on my bulging belly.
As if it was habit my hands went straight to his hair running from front to back in a soothing motion, from the corner of my right eye I saw a smirk resting on Rosalie's lips where she was perched on the arm of the couch with Emmett's protective arm around her waist. For once, Emmett was indeed speechless, perhaps it was the fact that he hadn't seen Sam so angry before.
The whole room sat in silence, exactly the way we were as we listened to Jasper break the news to Alice waiting for her explosive reaction. Expecting her to charge through the doorway ready to decapitate me, we weren't the least bit disappointed when her tiny pixie sized figured appeared in the doorway.
"You. You bitch! What did you do?! You made him do this! It's all your fault! You have been nothing but trouble how Carlisle put up with your bullshit is beyond me! You have completely stolen my family! I cannot wait for the day that you burn in hell Isabella." She snarled in the temper tantrum state of a three year old.
"Alice, I hate to break this to you... well actually, I've been wanting to do this since we were first introduced. Jasper is his own person whether you see that or not, I could care less but him finally doing this just proves that somewhere underneath all of that care and compassion he carries for every single person he meets, there is a back bone. I am not the one to blame for your manipulative ways, you are the reason you've lost this family and I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone other than Esme when I say that. Since I've been apart of this coven, you have never once treated Jasper like your equal, your partner. If anything he was the only male that would put up with your ridiculous games of dress up and was there when you wanted a fuck buddy. So don't you stand there for even one minute and tell me that any of this is my fault. I'm not the one to blame, that's all you." At some point during my speech, Sam had helped me to my feet and I was now standing in the centre of a somewhat semi circle of wolves and Emmett and Rosalie with Sam standing beside me. "And as for burning in hell, what do you think I've been doing since I started living under the same roof as you?" Emmett appeared to be choking on his most recent intake of breath and several of the wolves appeared to be struggling to maintain their stoic expressions.
"You will regret this very conversation, every word you've just spoken you'll wish you hadn't. I can guarantee you that much, I may not have Jasper anymore, I may not have my siblings or even Carlisle but this will be your demise, Isabella, I promise you that much." And with a blink of an eye, Sam had Alice pinned against the closest wall, every limb was trembling with his fingers wrapped around her neck she dangled well above the ground we were stood on.
"I do not take kindly to threats, Cullen, especially when they are directed at my imprint, the mother of my children, there is nothing stopping me from taking your head clean off and then setting your entire body alight until there is nothing left but ash, having one less pain in the ass in this painfully intolerable world would be a blessing. So, little pixie final words?"
"Sam!" Came the shrill voice that was Esme and it was enough of a distraction for Sam to loosen his hold on Alice that tiny bit and with a swift kick to a man's most sensitive part of the body, his grip released entirely. Alice dropped to the floor with a sadistic grin and before anyone could react she was gone, through the house and then we heard the back door slam.
"Jared, Embry, Quill, follow her scent. She's unpredictable at the moment, make sure she doesn't feed on any of your people." Everyone still seemed shocked at the fact that Sam had fallen so easily, frozen where they stood. "Move it! GO!" All three jumped slightly, before taking off to the back of the house, their bodies already trembling.
Other than the heavy rise of his chest, Sam wasn't moving. With his eyes closed, he wouldn't look at anyone either.
"Would someone care to explain what on Earth we've just walked into?" Carlisle made his way to the middle of the room with Esme behind him, stopping not far from where I stood.
"Well, you'll find out sooner or later I suppose, Alice was being her usual insensitive self, Sam snapped at her, Jasper took her into the spare bedroom and dumped her for Leah Clearwater she imprinted on him, it was going to happen sooner or later and that's where he's been disappearing to since I moved back home, Alice came out here and blamed me for everything and declared that she wished I'd burn in hell, I told her how it was, telling her exactly what she's been doing wrong since I joined the family, there was something about Jasper's backbone too. She threatened me so Sam pinned her against the wall told her he didn't take threats kindly especially when they were directed at his imprint, he threatened to rip her head of and burn her to ashes" at this point Esme had raised a hand to cover her mouth leaving the other one to desperately clutch at Carlisle. "At that point you came in and she kicked him in the groin and disappeared out the back door. Meanwhile there's three wolves with the Elder's just as a precaution and Jake, Leah and one of the twins are out patrolling the border because we can't really tell how many vampires are out there if Edward's brought company. That just about sums it up. So, what are we doing about Edward's existence?"
At some point during my recount of the most recent events Sam had found his feet again and was by my side when I fell back ever so ungracefully onto the couch. Carlisle had opened his mouth to speak when there was a knock at the door.
Please, for the love of God be a girl scout selling cookies.
Done!
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