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Chapter 21: The shot heard around La Push.
When Charlie yelled that question Jacob and I just stood there dumbstruck and shocked for a couple of moments. We defiantly weren't expecting to be caught red handed sneaking back into the house after our late night patrol. I knew that Billy wouldn't be waiting up for us because he knew about the whole secret about us being werewolf's but Charlie was a completely different story all together. And I was the one to blame I should of known Charlie would come to check on me in the middle of the night like he always did at home and I should of known that he would be half worried to death half pissed off when I didn't return by my curfew but what could I say I had to stop a potential war with the Cullen's tonight and not only that but I had late night patrol.
"Well I am waiting Isabella!" Yelled Charlie using my full name letting me know for certain that he was clearly ticked off. Charlie never called me Isabella unless he was really angry.
"Well we were doing some security stuff for the tribe." I replied using the security excuse that the rest of the boys used knowing the elders would back them up if their parents questioned them about it. Also it wasn't a complete lie we were patrolling.
"Really Isabella that's your excuse. Security. Now that may fly with Jacob. But what kind of security could your tiny 90 lbs body provide?" Asked Charlie mocking my excuse.
"Hey I resent that. I am not tiny. I am travel size for your convince." I joked trying to lighten the mood that filled the room.
"Really Charlie Bells is telling the truth." Butted in Jacob trying to back me up.
But at Jacobs statement Charlie just gave him a glare that was shouting loud and clear that he was to remain silent if he didn't want to get shot.
"Even if I did believe you which I don't. What kind of security requires you to be half naked?" Asked Charlie yet again noticing our clothing or lack of clothing for that matter of fact.
"Well… Uh…. You see…." I said trying to come up with some excuse that would at least be some what believable.
"Okay I got nothing." I said turning to look at Jacob after I fought for a couple of minutes trying to come up with some plausible explanation. But came up empty handed.
"Yeah that is what I thought. You know Bella I think that it might be better if I take up the Cullen's offer of letting you stay with them since it is obvious that I can't trust you and Jacob to be alone together." Stated Charlie standing up from his chair with the shot gun still planted in his hands.
"NO!" Both Jacob and I yelled at same time.
I can't have Charlie send me to live with the Cullen's. That would be like dropping a mouse into a tank full of snakes. And everyone knows what happens next. But I would be the one playing the role of the mouse and the Cullen's would be the snakes. Yeah that wouldn't end nice.
"No use in trying to change my mind Isabella. I have made my mind up and that final. Come tomorrow morning I am going to call the Cullen's and take them up on their generous offer. And since I know you and Edwin are no longer a couple. I don't have to worry about you and him being alone together." Said Charlie in his authoritive voice.
I was about to protest yet again determined not to give up until I got my way when someone beat me to the punch.
"Charlie I can't allow you to do that." Said Billy as he rolled into the room in his wheelchair still in his night clothes.
"Billy do you realize that I just caught Bella and Jacob sneaking back into the house at two am in the morning half naked. I am doing this so you and I don't become grandparents in nine months." Said Charlie trying to explain the situation at hand.
At that explanation Billy just gave out a big sigh and said in a defeated tone. "I think it is about time that we let Charlie in on our little secret. Don't you think Jacob and Bella?" Asked Billy rolling over to the dining room table and then mentioning us to sit down.
Jacob and a now a very confused Charlie just followed his lead and sat down at the table opposite each other as Billy sat at the end of the table. Myself I just went into the kitchen and proceeded to take out four ice cold bottles of water out of the fridge knowing that Charlie was going to need a drink in order to digest all the information we were about to give him. And then with the bottles of water in hand I went to the dining room table and sat down next to Jacob after handing everyone their own individual bottles of water.
When I sat down next to Jacob at the table. I took a deep breath and Jacob took my hand as added comfort that everything was going to be alright and then seeing I was seated at the table with them. Billy started out explaining and letting Charlie in our biggest secret.
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After Billy finally finished explaining the whole secret and about what has happened up until now. Charlie was just staring down at the table in shock as if not believing what he was hearing. He was in shock and we all knew it. It was a lot to digest I must admit but it was better that he knew everything now instead of getting the wrong idea and then finding out later.
"Dad please say something?" I said in a quiet tone after we gave him a couple of minutes to let all the new info sink in.
When I said that Charlie's staring contest with the table ended as he looked up and took time to look at each one of us in the eyes before saying "You all are crazy you know that."
Okay that was so not the reaction I was expecting. I half expected him to run screaming from the house. But it never occurred to me that he thought that we were totally loony.
"Dad everything that Billy has said is true." I replied back to Charlie trying to convince him of the truth.
"You really expect me a officer of the law to believe that there is such a thing as vampires and werewolves and not only believe in them but to be convinced that my daughter, my best friends son and my nephew are all werewolves!" Yelled Charlie clearly not believing a word we said.
(AN: Before anyone ask Charlie was referring to Sam when he said nephew. Because that is what Sam is. And even though Bella is Charlie's niece he adopted her and sees her as his daughter so that is why he didn't say niece.)
"Billy he is obvious that he won't believe us unless he sees us with his own two eyes. So can we show him to convince him? You know the old saying seeing is believing." I asked
Billy just nodded at my request and with that I looked over at Charlie and said "Dad will you please just go outside with us for a second so we can prove to you that we are telling the truth and afterwards if you still don't believe us I will go live the Cullen's or do whatever you say. But I can almost guarantee that you will believe us after seeing this." I said and at that Charlie just nodded his head also and we all filed outside to the backyard of the Blacks house.
When we got outside it was still pitch black out but there was just enough light coming from the light pole that you could still dimly make out the backyard.
Charlie walked out into the middle of the yard as Billy rolled up next to him to stand beside him as Jacob and I went to stand far enough in front of them so we wouldn't hurt them when we phased.
"All I ask Charlie is to do your very best not to scream." Requested Billy right before both Jacob and I concentrated so we could phase and have our clothes phase with us so they wouldn't be shredded when we phased.
It was so easy to phase now a days for all I had to do was think back to a memory that made me the angriest and usually Edward was my phase button. I don't know what it was but something about that boy just ticked me off to no end. But I still had to wrangle in my anger so that I didn't shred my clothes. I knew Dean and all my pack brothers would be so disappointed if I let Edward get me so worked up that I would of shredded my clothes when I phased. Especially when they spend so much time with me when I first phased to make sure that no matter what I shouldn't loose my cool so much that I shredded my clothes.
As soon as both Jacob and I phased Charlie eyes went wide and stumbled a few steps backwards until he tripped on his own two feet.
"Well at least now I know where I get my clumsiness from." I thought through the pack mind with a little chuckle.
But as soon as I chuckled in my wolf form Charlie must of taken that the wrong way. For as soon as he heard that he ran back inside that house and not but a second later he came running back out armed with his shotgun and as quick as lightning he raised that shotgun up and aimed it right at me and before anyone could react. Charlie pulled the trigger and a shot rang through the air as a bullet came charging through the air and hit me directly in the shoulder.
Everyone including me was so shocked that we didn't react in time before Charlie cocked his shotgun again and pulled the trigger yet again and let another bullet fire from his gun but this time it hit me square in middle of my chest. Okay the first bullet hurt. But the second one hurt like a son of a gun. I could actually feel that bullet pierce the skin and rip through the muscles tissue and head straight for my heart.
I knew since I was a werewolf I would live through this but it didn't mean it didn't hurt any less. And since my dad was such a good shot since he was Chief of police I was sure that he had hit my heart with that second shot. Lucky me.
By the time I got hit by the second shot. I was in so much pain that I had to phase back. I phased back while still standing up due to the shock that my own dad didn't shoot me once but twice! When I phased back I still had on the clothes that I was wearing before but now I had a gunshot wound on my right shoulder and one right in the middle of my chest where my heart was.
I clutched at the gunshot wound that hit my heart with my hands and then feeling the blood on my hands I pulled my hands back to look at them and saw my hands were filled with dark crimson colored blood.
"You shot me." I said in a mere whisper as I held up my blood covered hands as if to prove my point.
I looked up from my hands to see my dad staring at me with wide, tear filled eyes. At the realization that his daughter was the wolf that he just shot not once but twice. Just then as if the shock that he received all night was too much for him to bare he fainted right there on the spot.
Right then the adrenaline and the shock the was keeping me numb from the pain and keeping me upright caught up with me and the pain hit my heart like a ton full of bricks. I fell to the cold wet ground clutching my chest hoping that that somehow would lessen the pain. It was getting harder to breathe and pain the was accoriated with the gunshot wound was becoming unbearable.
"Bella!" I heard Jacob yell as he ran over to my crumpled and bleeding body that was lying on the cold wet forest floor.
I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer because my strength was slowly fading from my body. But knowing that Jacob was right by my side clutching my hand gave me the strength to hold on a little while longer.
"Dad is she going to make it?" I heard Jacobs frantic voice ask through my closed eyes.
"I don't know son. If it was just a regular shot gun shot I would say yes. But she has been hit in the heart and has lost a lot of blood." I could hear Billy reply through the darkness of uncoincincess that was pulling me closer and closer into it's deaths.
As I lay there on the ground I couldn't help but think of how much I wanted to live for. There was still too many things I wanted to do and experience. I didn't want to die. Not this way and not yet.
But I guess if I had to die I couldn't ask for a better then Charlie to do it because he knew exactly where to shoot someone so they wouldn't suffer.
I love you everyone was my last thought as my strength gave up on me I faded into sweet calming pain free uncoinincess.
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