I DON'T OWN TWILIGHT

Chapter Twenty

Jake's POV

For the next hour, while we wait for the rest of Tanya's clan to come back, Tanya practically throws herself at Edward.

He keeps himself wedged under my arm and does his best to say as little as possible without coming across as rude.

And so I'm grateful when I hear the rest of the coven show up. I'm glad that more vampires arrived. That alone should tell you how uncomfortable Tanya throwing herself at Edward was making me.

The door opens and four of them walk through. There is a beautiful blond woman. Great. Another gorgeous blond vampire. A woman with silver chin-length hair, and a raven-haired woman leaning up against a tall Hispanic man.

"What's that smell?" the dark haired woman asks, sniffing the air.

I shift uncomfortably in my seat. Okay, so maybe this isn't much better. "Sorry."

At once all four of their heads snap over to look at me.

"What is going on here?" The one with silver hair asks, "Who is he?"

"Jake," Edward says, "This is the Denali coven. Irina," he says pointing at the vamp with silver hair, "Kate," the blond woman, "Carmen," the woman closest to the man, "And Eleazar." He smiles at me before turning to look at them, "And this is Jake. He's a werewolf."

"They're together," Tanya says, gritting her teeth, "Isn't that wonderful."

Kate jumps over the back of the couch and sits beside Edward and I, "A werewolf!? That's so cool. I want to know everything about you," then her nose wrinkles up, "Yuck," she moves over to one of the chairs, "I want to know everything from over here."

"Irina, can you open up the windows?" Carmen asks. She looks at me apologetically, "I don't mean to be rude or anything."

"It's fine," I say, "I'd actually appreciate it; vampires don't smell any better to me than I do to you."

"It's alright if he stays here with me for a few days, right?" Edward asks.

"It's fine with me!" Kate pipes in quickly.

"And me," Irina says.

Tanya puts on a pouting face, "I'm alright with it."

Eleazar looks at me oddly, but hesitantly nods.

"Welcome to our home, Jacob," Carmen says warmly. She almost reminds me of Esme.....

"Can I see your wolf form?!" Kate asks excitedly.

"My family told them about wolf packs awhile back," Edward whispers into my ear, "Kate was.....well.....like she is now, but we didn't have many answers for her. I'm guessing she'll have questions for you nearly the whole time we're here."

"Please, please, please?" Kate begs.

I look over at Edward. He nods, "You go ahead. I'm going to stay here and talk with them a little bit."

"M'k," I place a kiss lightly on his cheek before following the bouncing vampire out into the yard.

The smell is so much better out in the yard. It's still terrible, but now I don't feel like I'm going to throw up any second. It continues to amaze me that Edward smells so good when the rest of his lot smell so.....repulsive.

"I want to know everything about your um.....species," Kate says.

I scratch the back of my head, "It's not really my 'species'. I'm human. I'm just......an odd human."

She sits down in the grass, so I take a seat next to her.

"How many of you are there?"

I hesitate. "I'm not sure if I'm allowed to tell you that."

"Allowed?" she asks, giving me a funny look.

"See, wolves have a pack leader," I pause slightly embarrassed, "We all have to do as he says and......he doesn't even like the Cullens knowing so much about us. He knows that they have to know because of Edward, but......" I pause again, "And I wouldn't want to put up with him if he found out I told vampires otherthan the Cullens about us."

"He doesn't like vampires then?" Kate asks.

"We're naturally enemies with red-eyed vampires. We didn't know much about you 'vegitarians' until I was with Edward; the Cullens kept to their land and we kept to ours."

She looks puzzled for a moment, "Then how did you fall in love with Edward?"

"Imprinting," She opens her mouth, but I cut off her questions, continuing my explanation, "I can only explain it as love at first sight. When a wolf sees the one. We just know. All I had to do is see Edward, and I knew that he should be mine and I should be his."

"Well what did your pack leader do?" She asks.

"There wasn't much he could do. The only time a wolf doesn't have to obey the Alfa is when it involves our imprints," I smile, "But he was really good about it. He helped me out with my uncertainties."

"Any other cool things about werewolves?" she asks

"Um......" Hmmm......what are cool things about being one of us, "Werewolves only age if we want to."

"That's good," Kate says, "That's essential if you're going to be with a vampire."

I nod, "Any more questions?"

"Can I see your wolf form?"

"I suppose," I say. She smiles widely at me.

"I'll be right back," I say, heading off into the woods.

"Where are you going?" She calls.

"I'll be right back," I start stripping down, throwing my clothes in a pile underneath a tree. My world trembles as I fall down onto four paws.

I trot back out of the trees and over to Kate. She gasps, looking at me with wide eyes, "You're huge."

I nod at her.

"In fact, you're so big that......" she lets her sentence trail off.

Standing up, she moves closer to me.

I don't like the gleam in her eyes.

Edward's POV

Jake kisses me on the cheek, before following Kate out into the yard. I hope she doesn't torture him too badly.

"So Edward," Carmen says with a smile, "How long has that been going on?"

"Me and Jake?" I ask, "Not long."

"The first time you talked about these beings you made it seem like you hated them," Tanya says.

I shrug, "So. I wasn't a big fan of Jake's great-grandpa. They didn't like or trust us which gave us reason not to like or trust them."

"Are you sure that prejudices are behind them? Are you sure it's not a trick?" Eleazar asks.

"It's not," I tap at my skull reminding them of my abilities, "I'm sure."

Eleazar nods, but then Tanya starts up, "How can you be sure?" she asks, "He could be hiding things if he looked after his thoughts carefully enough. You should break up with him just to be on the safe side."

Carmen glares at her, "Stop it Tanya," she looks back at me, "We're all very happy for you Edward."

"Thank you, Carmen," I say, purposely avoiding Tanya's gaze.

"I'm curious," Irina says, "How did you and Jake get started?"

"Alice had a vision that some dangerous vampires were coming into town," I say, cutting the story to make it shorter, "We needed some help so we went to talk to the wolves about a short term alliance. When wolves see their soul mates, they know it; they can sense it and suddenly they're bound to the person."

"And Jake got bound to you?" Irina asks.

"Yes."

"What I want to know is if you were in trouble why you didn't come and talk to us," Carmen grumbles.

I feel my eyebrows crinkle together, "I'd forgotten. You were supposed to be out of town."

"Oh," Carmen says, nodding as if that makes sense, "We were out of town. We only got back a couple days ago. I just thought Alice would've seen us coming back too."

"She's been busy watching for the dangerous coven."

"If it's so dangerous then why aren't you there to help?" Irina asks.

"I-I had to go. I'll go back for the fight, but I had to be gone."

"Why?" Irina asks stubbornly.

"I'm going to go see what Jake's doing," I say, standing up abruptly.

I run out of the room and to their yard quickly so they can't ask me anymore questions.

I feel a laugh bubble my way up to my throat as I see Kate. Kate is sitting on Jake's back as he's in wolf form her hands clutching at his fur tightly, Jake is spinning around in circles.

Edward! he cries silently, Get her off!

I can't hold in my laugh as I save him from the slightly crazed werewolf fan.

*Sighs* I've got to go get ready for school so I can't write anymore.

Um.....I need a beta. If anyone is interested could you please PM me? I thought I'd ask for a beta from people who already read this story before I browsed for one.