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After a quick shower, where Bella would not let me touch her because "We don't want to keep the council fuckers waiting", her words not mine, I dressed and made my way to the kitchen to get some breakfast. I had been looking forward to a nice lazy Sunday morning, spent mostly in bed, exploring Bella's body, with the occasional break for some food. And I had a feeling that Bella would have made me a lovely breakfast, filled with bacon and eggs, toast and pancakes, and fruit. Because that was what she served me every Sunday. I didn't make her do it, I didn't even ask her. She just did it. She told me she liked making me breakfast, and couldn't wait for the time when she could do it for me everyday.

But today I had to settle for pop-tarts. With a sigh I grabbed 3 pop-tart pouches, opening two and putting the four breakfast treats in the toaster. I opened the last pouch and got a paper towel. I removed the outer edge of the two remaining pop-tarts. That's how Bella liked them, cold and with out the crust. And she only ate the cinnamon brown sugar kind. It was weird, but it was just one more thing that made me love her more.

My pop-tarts finished, and I carefully pulled them out and placed them on my own paper towel. Bella came into the kitchen and grabbed two bottles of water out of the fridge. She handed me one, and I handed her the de-crusted uncooked pop-tarts. She smiled a thank you, I picked up my slightly cooler pop-tarts and we headed out the door.

I quickly devoured my food and chugged down my water, while Bella nibbled at her food. We walked to the council building in a comfortable silence. It wasn't far from my house on Second Beach. Seeing as the house was where the chief once lived, they build the counsel buildings nearby, right on the edge of the woods. When I was a kid, I always wondered why they built the building so close to the woods, with a back entrance right after the tree line. But then I turned into a wolf, and I realized that it was designed with the wolves in mind. Because we do spend a lot of time meeting with the counsel.

Meeting with the counsel. The thought of it brought me back, I glanced over at Bella. She had finished her pop-tart, and was sipping her water. She replaced the cap, and turned to look at me, smiling. I smiled back and grabbed her free hand.

When we got to the building, the pack was waiting outside for us, looking just as pissed as I felt. My dad sat next to Sam, and I couldn't help but glare down at him a little.

He held up his hands. "This was not my idea. I wasn't even informed they were going to call a meeting today. I wasn't invited." He gestured behind him and I noticed Sue Clearwater was holding onto the handles of his chair. After Harry's death, she had taken over his position on the council. "Seems they didn't want Sue here either. Probably because they knew we wouldn't be too keen on gathering everybody on a Sunday morning, when we would be meeting you on Tuesday." He shook his head.

I looked at him in shock.

"When Sam got here before the pack, he went inside to speak with them, and seeing I wasn't there..."

"I figured out what they were doing, and went and got Billy." Sam finished the story for my father. I nodded, shooting my father an apologetic smile. He smiled and nodded, turning his face quickly to look at Bella who blushed, causing my father to chuckle.

Shit. My dad knew. Of course he had known about the plan for mating and marking this weekend, since he was on the council. But I don't think she had thought about the fact Billy would know. She knew he was on the counsel, but the thought of him knowing what we were doing, my poor Bella. I didn't really care if my dad knew. Although I admit it was a little embarrassing. And then there was Sue. She had been getting closer to Charlie these past few months. He had started out being there to help her after Harry's death, but it had turned into something more. I'm sure Bella was freaking out, thinking Sue would tell Charlie.

"Don't worry Bella I wont be saying anything to Charlie. Pack business and all." Billy winked at her, and Sue smiled, nodding in agreement, then she started pushing my dad the building. At the door Billy turning his head to add. "Well, lets go in and get this over with."

Bella buried her face in my chest. I grabbed her garbage from her, and handed it, along with mine to the nearest pack member and wrapped my arms around her, chuckling softly into her hair. She pushed away a little and looked up, furrowing her brow and frowning.

"I don't see the humor in this Jake."

I pulled her back into my arms. "Sorry hunny." I mumbled. Someone cleared their throat. I turned to see Sam and the rest of the pack, shifting uneasily. I sighed, and released Bella, taking her hand. I looked at the pack again, nodded for them to follow, turned to face the door and walked inside.

Bella's POV

We walked to the front of the great hall. Once we were in front of the council members, the pack spread out in the same positions they would take if phased. Jake led me to stand with him and Sam, in front of the pack. I stood at Jake's left side, while Sam stood at his right, slightly behind him. Jake held my hand and angerly glanced over to where the counsel sat in a semi circle.

Billy sat in the center, looking to the sides of him at the other members of the council, wearing the same angry expression as his son. The man sitting next to him, Old Quil, seem to shrink under the angry stars, and fidgeted nervously with his pen. You could tell by the look on Billy's face, that he felt more than just anger. He felt betrayed by the man he considered to be one of his closest friends.

"Well, members of the council, seeing as we were all called here to satisfy your curiosity on what powers may have been exchanged last night why don't we get this over with." Billy said and gestured at Old Quil to proceed with what ever he was going to do to test me.

Old Quil nodded and cleared his throat. He looked at Billy and said. "Billy, I know that you feel I step on some toes, with this being your son and the daughter of your best friend. But may I remind you that he is Alpha, and she," He waved his hand at me. "it seems has great powers that will benefit us and the survival of our people. I thought it in our best interest to see what had happened, so that we can start preparing ourselves for the vampire attack that is coming."

Old Quil turned to look at Jake. "Alpha, tell us. Was last night successful? Are you a fully mated alpha who has marked his imprint?"

I looked down at the floor wishing it would swallow me up, and I could feel my face burning with what was probably the deepest red blush ever. Jake squeezed my hand.

"Are you seriously asking me if I had sex with my girlfriend last night? I mean does this really have to be documented?" He shifted uncomfortably. "The answer is yes. We mated and I marked her."

"And have you experienced any change in your powers, Alpha?" A tall, tall thin gentleman sitting at the end of the semi circle on the left ask.

"Well we haven't really been experimenting with our powers. But this morning, Bella and I were able to read each others thoughts. Not only that, but we could actually talk to each other through our minds."

"Are either of you able to read the minds of anyone else in the room?" Another man on the other side of the semi circle asked.

Jake shook is head and looked at me. "No, just Jake's."

"I wonder..." Billy started, softly muttering to himself. He looked at Jake.

"Why don't we take this outside, I have a theory. But to test it, the pack needs to phase."

Jake nodded, and we made our way to the back of the hall to a door that was right in back of where the counsel sat. The council filed out first, then Jake and I, then the rest of the pack. We made our way through another large room, although not as large as the great hall. There were tables and chairs, and rows of bookshelves that were packed with books and folders filled with papers.

Jake leaned down toand started to whisper in my ear. I smiled at him and tapped my head, reminding him of our new connections. He chuckled and straightened out.

"This is all so new to me babe, I forgot I could talk to you like this. This part of the building is for the counsel and pack only. These books and manuscripts are all about the wolf pack, and other shifters. Our legends, and other things that might be useful for us to know."

I nodded as we continued towards another door at the back wall. We went through it and I realized we were outside again. We were now in back of the counsel building, directly in front of the tree line.

Again I heard Jake's voice in my head. "Easy for us wolves to enter and exit with out anyone catching us phased."

Billy looked at Jake. "Jake, you and Bella can communicate with each other while you are human, but I am guessing you didn't try communicating while you were a wolf."

"No we didn't try." Jake said and Billy nodded.

"I want you to phase and try to communicate. Bella, you'll tell us if it works. Then I want the rest of the pack to phase. You may not be able to communicate with the pack while they are in human form, but I am wondering, since the pack mind works as one when phased, if you will be able to talk to them when they are all phased with Jake."

I had to hand it to Billy, it was an interesting idea. I nodded and Jake took off towards the trees. Minutes later my Jacob appeared in wolf . He stayed within the tree line, sat on the ground, waiting.

"Alright, well, do whatever it is you guys did and see if this works." Billy said and I nodded and closed my eyes.

"Hey Jake, can you hear me?" I opened my eyes and I swear I saw Wolfy Jake grin before I heard him respond.

"Hey sexy, I hear you. This is kind of cool, we can say naughty things to each other and no one will know. I like it."

"Mmmhm, well how about we do that another time. Right now I need to let them know that I can indeed talk to you while you are a wolf."

I turned to look at Billy and I smiled. "Yes, Jake and I can communicate while he is a wolf."

There was a buzz of excitement coming from everyone, especially the counsel members. Billy nodded.

"Alright, well lets see about the rest of the pack."

With that Sam led the rest of the pack into the woods, all emerging in wolf form not 2 minutes later. The all spread out just inside the tree line with Jake in the middle. It seemed as all eyes were on me now, and I gulped as I looked back at them.

Suddenly my brain was hit with what felt like a thousand voices, all shouting my name. Then everything went black.

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