Victoria race against time that night. She was out number and over powered and she knew it. She wanted her revenge but she couldn't think of any way of getting it. She had to deal with the wolf, his pack, his vampire lover and the vampire coven. There seem to be no other way. "Your wrong" a voice came out of the darkness. Victoria look around her, trying to figure out where that voice was coming from. "Relax friend. We were sent to you by someone you know."
"Who are you. Show yourself if you're not a coward." Victoria said, but in reality she was scared. She thought it was some kind of trick or something.
A dark figured appear out of the shadow. It was a man with a dark complexion, with long black hair and dark piercing red eyes. He was six feet tall, muscular body and chocolate skin tone. "Relax Victoria, I came here looking for an ally not an enemy. My name Lucas, I believe you knew my 'Brother' Laurent." the man said.
Victoria was shock. She knew that Laurent had a 'Brother' vampire that was supposed to be beautiful, based on Laurent description of him, but Laurent did no justice to his brother. "You need an ally against who." she ask him.
"Against the wolves who murder my brother. In the town you came from, there is a whole tribes of wolves, to many for one vampire to face. We could work together and exterminate that clan." Lucas told Victoria.
"That would be fun. But you should know that one of the wolf from that tribe has found a mate against our own kind." Victoria told Lucas.
"Vampire in love with a wolf. I heard of such things, but they rarely ever last. The majority of the time, either the wolf clan kills the vampire clan or the vampire clan kills the wolf clan." He stated. He was interested in the fact that such a union was possible to exist for so long.
"How did you know about this tribe. I mean I didn't know. We didn't see them the first time we pass by here, James, Laurent and me. I only realized that they might be a clan of wolves when the vampire lover attack James after James smell him, other wise than that, we never knew." she ask him. She wanted to know who told him about the situation here.
"Another vampire name Irina. She apparently was Laurent mate and they were happy until you force my brother to come here. Now she is angry and she wants revenge against the beast who murder her lover. She told me about the pack and I came here." he told her.
"And now you want to help me get my revenge for my mate death. We will work together to kill the wolf responsible for James death and his clan. We will also kill the family that help them. That may be to much, they are many and we are two." she told him
"No matter, do we have a deal? I help you with your problem and you help me with mine." Lucas asked Victoria. She nodded her head and like that the deal was made. Two vampires will work together to exact their revenge against the Cullen and the Wolf pack. Lets hope they are strong enough to deal with it.
Billy POV
The moment they left I got on the phone and called Edward. "Edward, this is Billy, is Jacob with you?" I ask him, knowing very well that they were together.
"Yes Mr. Black, he is sleeping right next to me. Is something wrong, do you want me to wake him up." he ask me.
"No, let him sleep until its time for school." I told him and than I went to the reason that I needed to talk to him. "Edward we need to talk face to face. Is there anyway that Alice could drive Jacob to school today and you can come here." I ask him.
"Yeah, that's possible. I actually was planning to ask Alice to go shopping with Jake later today. So I guess it will make more sense that they go to school together. So I guess I'll see you later?" He hung up on me and I called Sue and Sam. I needed all the help I could muster if I was going to save my son.
Alice POV
I was passing through, going downstairs to the kitchen when Edward called me. "Alice, can you come in here for a minute." I knew for a while that Edward has been more than worry about his relationship between him and Jacob. Especially now that Jake is this legendary pure alpha and there for, the chosen one to his people.
"Yes Edward, how can I help you?" I ask my brother.
"I need for you to go shopping with Jake today. I'll give you the money." he told me.
"Why now. What happened today Edward." I ask him.
"Billy called me this morning and he sound worried. I don't know what's going on at La Push, but what ever it is, it's not good." I look at him, giving him a stare. I knew there was more to the story and he needed to tell me what it was. He knew that I could tell when he was hiding something and he knew he should just tell me. The power that Edward and I have seem to make it impossible to lie to each other. "And I need him to dress up more. I am already having a hard time keeping my hands off of him."
"Why would you want to. From where I'm standing he could give Jasper a run for his money." I started laughing. But from Edward expression I could tell that he didn't find humor in what I was saying. Edward loved Jake and he wanted to keep their relationship as traditional as possible. So I am guessing that he doesn't want to sleep with Jake until the moment is right or until they get married. "Wait, Edward are you having a problem with the way Jake looks now, because you want to marry him and then sleep with him. How cute." I started laughing again.
"What's so funny Alice. How is the fact that I want Jake to make a honest man out of me funny." he ask me.
"Because I don't see Billy Black giving you his blessing to marry his only son. Do you?" I continue laughing. Halfway into my laughter, Edward started laughing. But his laughing was different than mine. It was more like, you don't know. And then I stop. "Wait, he already gave you his blessing. You can ask Jake to marry you. OH MY GOD. I am so happy for you. You have to let me be the one to plan the wedding. You are gonna look so cute in you tux and Jake too. I am assuming that you are gonna wear a traditional tux, while Jake is gonna be in a mixture of black and white. And I am gonna invite everyone I know. This is gonna be so much fun."
"Can you keep your mouth shut, Jake doesn't know. I didn't have a chance to ask him yet" He took me to another room to explain the whole situation. "OK, Billy gave me his blessing that true. However, its only in the condition that I do it after his seventeen birth day, which is less than five weeks from now."
"Well that explain your behavior lately. You've been afraid of him saying no. But I don't see him saying no or you being lonely." I told my brother.
He gave me this weird look. The look he gets when he doesn't understand what I am saying or what I mean. "Oh, I didn't tell you. I have been able to see Jake in my vision lately. It isn't perfect or anything, but its clear enough to see some things." And then I pause. I struggle with myself, wondering if it was the right time to tell Edward what I saw. Looking at his expression, I realized that I had no choice, plus what's the point of hiding it, he could just read my mind . "Ok, I had a vision of Jacob having this new form, new power. He was stronger, faster and more powerful. If my calculations are correct, Jake will reach his alpha status in a matter of weeks." I told him.
From his expression I could tell that he was even more worried than he was before. He knew that if Jake have become this wolf, the tribe will do everything in their power to separate them. "Alice are you sure, is that what you have seen." he ask me.
"Yes, I wish I didn't, but I have." I told him.
"Then if this is true, the tribe need to know." Gathering everything I just said, he came up with a solution to his new problem. "Listen come with me to the meeting with Billy. If I am right, he will include the other elders. If they are here, you could tell them what you have seen, and maybe we could come up with a compromise or something"
"What about Jake. You wanted me to go shopping with him today." I ask him.
"I'll make Rosalie do it. She doesn't like shopping as much as you, but she will help him pick up something nice. Something that will cover him better." he told me.
"Are you kidding. Jake hates Rosalie. He always stay away from her. He doesn't even try to be polite to her anymore. They might end up killing each other. I thought you wanted to marry the boy, not kill him." I started laughing. In reality, Rosalie have become a whole lot nicer to Jake, but he didn't want to deal with her anymore. I guess he finally had enough of her abuse.
"I know how Jake feel about Rosalie. And he doesn't hate her, he is just mad at her right now. Look I need her to keep an eye on him. So she will drop him off at school and than pick him up and take him shopping. That should be easy enough." he said.
"Do I get a choice in the matter." Jacob ask as he open the door from Edward room."No, I need you to do this for me. I know how you feel about her, but she is the only person that could protect you right now, and I need you safe. So for me don't argue." Edward asks his lover.
I think Jake would have normally argue with Edward about this, but he barely got any sleep last night and looking at Edward face, he didn't struggle or fight. "Fine. But I am taking Bella with me. I am not staying alone with your sister got it." Edward gave Jake a small kiss and than they went inside Edward's room.
Billy POV
I was in my home waiting with Sue and Sam for Edward to come. We needed to discuss this situation and come up with a solution. "I can't believe that you allowed that bloodsucker to come here to one of our meeting." Sam said while he was giving me one of his famous looks that Jake told me about. It seems that Sam used that look a lot to keep the other members of the pack in check when it came to their duties. Only Jake and Leah were not effected by this look. Jake, because he was to independent for it to work, and Leah because she was to angry and hurt by Sam for it to work.
Looking at Sam, I could tell he was worried about Jake fate. He never thought that the little kid that use to follow him everywhere he went would be destine to be the most powerful one of us all. In addition, the fact that he was destine to be with a vampire, a male vampire, that was a lot to take in. "Sam, I understand that you are worried about Jake, but we will find a solution to our problem. And for Edward, you have to understand that Jake love him and imprinted on him. They don't have a choice, they are meant to be together."
"That makes no sense, it just doesn't" Sam said.
I was about to say more when Sue cut me off. "Jake has always been special, but he has always suppress his uniqueness. Every time he came here for the summer, I notice that he was distance and cold. He hardly let himself out and he rarely show any emotion to any one. But then he met the Cullen and he became a better person."
"But the Cullen almost destroyed him. I mean they almost got him killed by those vampires a couple of months ago. He also went to Italy and could have died there and there was nothing that we could do. Nothing that I could do to stop it." Jerry spoke as he entered my house. Jerry was the spokes person for Nadine tribe. He was second in command now and I could tell that he wanted Jake for himself. He definitely didn't hide it.
"Jerry, this isn't the time for personal issues. We need to deal with what we know." I told him.
"What we know." he started raising his voice. "We know that they came to take Jake away from us, away from me. I won't let them do it." Jerry stated.
"His not yours. He doesn't belong to anybody but himself and he didn't chose you, he chose me." Everyone stared at the direction of that voice. It was Edward Cullen, with a pixie looking girl. From what I learned from Jacob, she must be Alice Cullen, the one who could see the future.
"What are you doing here bloodsucker. Don't you think you have done enough. Because of you, the elders are planning to take Jake away from us." Jerry said. From his expression, I could tell that he wanted to kill Edward with his bare hands. I always suspected that Jerry had a thing for my son, but come on.
"Don't you mean 'from you.' I know you have feeling for Jake. But we are together and your gonna have to deal with it." Edward told him. He was giving him a gaze that was filled with hate and contempt. These two men hated each other and it was all because of Jake.
"He was better off without you. He was able to do great things for his people when you were gone. He protected us, cared for us and help us any way he could. Jake was great and now, because of you, he may never be able to do it again." Jerry said.
"I don't want Jake to leave here. He loves his family and he wants to stay here and protect you all. I just want to be by his side when he does it." Edward kept staring at us as he was saying what he was feeling. Sue and I were taking it very seriously. My son was much more happy, and having Edward here didn't take him away from his responsibility. But Sam and Jerry was different. Sam wanted Jake away from Edward, and Jerry wanted Jake for himself. "You could stop now Jerry. I already know how much I hurt him."
Jerry was smiling at Edward direction. I wasn't sure what was going on, but if I could guess, I would say that Jerry was letting Edward read his mind. Edward was supposed to be gifted and Jerry experience first hand, how Edward hurt my son. But Jake got over it and I wish Edward and Jerry would too. We had bigger things to worry about.
Bella POV
I don't like going shopping. The whole idea feels alien to me, it like a creature entering my body and killing me from the inside out. But here I am at the mall going shopping with my best friend, and Rosalie. The only reason why I am here is because Jake beg me to come. He beg me to accompany him in this 'fun' trip so he wouldn't be alone with Rosalie. Gush he must really hate her. But considering what she did to him and Edward, I don't blame her.
Anyway, here we are at the mall, looking at Jake picking out clothes when Rosalie took me to the side and started talking to me "I know Jake ask you to come with us so he wouldn't be alone with me. Thanks for coming." she said.
I was confused. I thought Rosalie didn't like me or Jake, so why would she be happy that she came with us to the mall. "Your welcome, I guess." I answered her back.
We continued to look at Jake in uncomfortable silence until I broke the ice "Rosalie why did you agree to come to the mall with Jake. I mean you don't like him or me, so why are you here with us any way."
"Because, Jake is important to my family" She said.
"Yeah I know, Edward is in loves with him and the rest of your family love him, but you. You made it clear that Jake was nothing but a dog, so why did you change your mind all of a sudden. What's going on with you." I ask her.
"After what I did, don't you think I should make it up to my brother and his boyfriend. Because of me, they almost got killed. I almost lost my brother because of my stupidity and if it wasn't for Jake, I don't think I would've been ok with what I've done." she said.
"So that's it. Your only doing it because you feel guilty. Your only doing it to make yourself feel better. How selfish are." I can't believe this. Her being nice to us is just an act so she could feel better about herself.
"Your right, I am selfish. I want to keep Edward and Jake to myself. I guess Emmett was right after all." she told me.
"What was he right about. What did he tell you." I ask her.
"Emmett told me that I love Jake too. That he has affected my life in a positive way and I want him in my life just as much as everyone else." She than look at me to see if I was paying attention and than continue. "When Jake told me off on his ride back home, I realized how cool he is. I always thought of him as nothing more than a loser, but when he told me off, I realized what everybody saw in him. I realized why we all love him and I realized that I want his to stay in our lives."
"So is that why you are trying to be so nice to him, you want him to stay." I ask her.
"No, I want to make it up to him. I know he hasn't forgiven me for how I treated him, I don't think he has forgiven us all, not completely. But I know he loves us and he will one day get over it." she said.
At that moment Jake came in front off us and said "I got over it. I just keep my distance because I don't want you to leave, I don't want to be separated from any of you."
"What's makes you think that we would leave. Didn't Edward say that he wouldn't leave without you." Rosalie told Jake.
"I don't think I have a choice. Something big is going to happen and if I don't find a way to over come it by myself, I won't be able to be with Edward." Jake told us.
"Jake what are you talking about." I ask him. But than I realized what he was saying. He was supposed to be this legendary werewolf. If that was true, his tribe would have something to say about his relationship with Edward, how unfair is that. "Jake it's the whole Alpha wolf status right, is that it." I ask him.
"Yeah, the tribe leaders are against us. They want me to leave him and they don't care what it does to me. They just want what they want." He told us.
"OH Jake. What are you going to do." I ask him.
"I am pretty sure that Edward is trying to deal with the situation himself. Thats why he wanted us to go shopping. That and the fact that he has a hard time trying to keep his hand off of me." Jake said with a smile on his face.
"What is that supposed to mean." I ask him.
"Well it seem that Edward is trying to keep our relationship as pure as possible. So the clothes was the best way to keep Edward straight. Pun not attendant." Rosalie said.
"Ok, you two have the hardest problem in the world." I started laughing when everything came clear to me. "I mean, Mr. Good looking over there (pointing at Jake) is having a hard time keeping his hand off his own Mr. Gorgeous. Plus Jake tribe is unhappy about their relationship, and wants to end it. Their life really does suck some time." On that note we ended the day and went back home.
