Life Choices Remade
Disclaimers: Twilight doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to Stephenie Meyers.
Chapter 10: Snowball Fights and Family Time
"Red's retired so Reddy is taking over next spring and Little Cocoa and Sunny are joining him, while Hurricane starts this summer later." I added and he nodded. "So what names are you giving the youngest trio?" he asked and I smiled. "With Stripes's cub I'm calling him Copper, with Brownie taken, I'm calling him Patch or Candy and Orangie is going by Little Orangie, though if Cocoa changes his mind I'm calling Little Cocoa by a different name later, though I'll call him Candy, because they're going to look like my pack of miniaturized wolves later." I said and he nodded to that as he answered me then.
"In other words, the guys got you toy wolves that looked like your pack and look like younger versions of your mother's pack huh?" he asked with an amused look on his face then. "Yeah the trio look like Shadow, Brown and Storm as cubs, it's hereditary in fur color, Reddy is going to look like Red, Sunny, like Goldie and so on, though Hurricane and Sandy are the ones singled out here." I told him and he nodded as he answered me.
"With you being Jake's future wife, who's your wolf bodyguard exactly?" he asked and I smiled. "Sandy's getting started next spring once Reddy gets started, but since I'm the wife of the future chief of the tribe, the guys get overly protective, so expect Goldie and Sandy to be guarding me once Jake starts his hunter training next year, though if this keeps up, I'm repeating what you said and telling the locals to stay out of the forest till we find these killers." I told him and he nodded in agreement to that.
"Well time to get going, you guys want a ride?" I asked and the girls nodded. "You better take them with you, the guys and I can head back." Sam said to me and I nodded to that, "It's five miles to the reservation and there's snow all over the place, be careful boys." Dad said to him and he nodded to that. As we got in his cruiser I felt the trio phase and run back wolf then as he looked at me.
"So how was school today?" he asked and I chuckled as I answered him then. "After the outburst on Monday I decided on lightening up the mood, and started a snowball fight, till the rest of the student body got involved and his brothers and sisters got involved as well and it turned into a war zone." I told him and he chuckled at that.
"He's out of town for the next week though, I think he went to stay with his father's cousins in Alaska." I added and he nodded to that. "I'm lucky you told me that, otherwise John would have reported truancy for him being gone longer than a week baby, at any rate he better get his attitude under control, whatever problem he has with you is no excuse for that type of behavior." he said and I nodded to that in agreement.
"A few days in and already the guys, Jessi and Angie took me in as a member of their gang, I'm splitting my time between the pack family and the gang now at this rate, but I'm going to be acting as a go between for us and the Cullens soon enough, but if his attitude gets worse later, I'm only working with the oldest of Carlisle's daughters, and his oldest son." I said and he nodded to that as his tone went stern.
"He insults us for you're being engaged to my godson and that is going to shoot his reputation even further, once it gets out later that he lost his temper once he saw you in class on Monday." he said and Emily said it to him over the seat then. "At this rate Chief the guys are now getting overly protective of her now for that response in class on Monday, if there's an outburst if they and Cullen see each other face to face finally."
"They're on the speed dial to each other, but up until now we haven't really seen each other till now, but he's hearing her true heritage face to face if we got trouble within the next month." she told him and he nodded. "You're the daughter of my best friend's former advisor, I don't give a damn if he's got a problem with that or not, you belong to my godson and nothing he says is changing the circumstances now." he said sternly.
"I completely agree with you dad, I belong to Jake, I take pride in both sides of my heritage, but my Quileute side completely activated in the last year, we'll explain that soon enough, to put this firmly 'having the heart of a wolf' is not a metaphor for the Quileutes at all." I said and he sighed. "What's this mean for us now exactly?" he asked and I smiled at that. "Once the contract activates we return to the reservation dad." I told him smiling and he grinned at that revelation.
"Nice, so once it activates we move on to the reservation, but I'm keeping you at the high school with your friends, hopefully this means we can combine both departments together as one now in case we have things getting worse later." he said with a smile and I nodded as I answered him. "I was going to suggest that next actually, combine the two branches together as one and though we're one town over, Mayor Thompson has us on the speed dial." I said to him and he smiled at that idea as he answered me.
"Rick's not going to mind that all, with the fact we don't have a commissioner in Forks, I'm in charge, so whoever the lieutenant at the La Push department is, he's got me as his commander now and we can combine both forces together." he said as he arrived at Billy's house and we got out as the guys came running in from the side of the garage and I felt them phase back then, before walking out in their sweats and jackets.
"Hey guys." I said and the quintet walked out and greeted us, before we headed in and I headed for the kitchen. "Need a hand Aunt Sue?" I asked and she smiled. "Sure thank you honey, with the guys you better make sure we got enough, these game parties and bonfire cookouts always result in us running out of food, the adult pack is just as bad as the young pack where the food is concerned right now, so with the fact that the young one isn't finished yet, next year's going to be overloaded." she said and I scanned the amount.
Remembering the first council meeting I came to in my old life I ran the amount I remembered that was sitting in warming sterno stoves to keep them hot and compared it to what was sitting there on the kitchen counter and felt a shock go through me, because there was twenty pounds worth of patties for hamburgers and fifteen packages of buns sitting on the counter with at least twelve packages of cheese.
Thirty packages of hotdogs, several coolers of soda and alcohol, thirty bags of chips and a couple dozen other items and did a few swift calculations, before answering her at that. "We're going to need several more bags of chips, a few more packages of hotdogs and several boxes of pop, but other than that we're good." I told her and she nodded. "Jack you better head for the store we need a few more items here." she said and he nodded.
"Jake and I can go with him to help him out dad, Aunt Sue." I said and they both nodded. "Any preferences here for soda and chips kids?" He asked and we exchanged looks. "Alright who likes Coke?" I asked and eight hands went up. "Pepsi?" I asked and fifteen went up. "Alright that's three of each, anybody like root beer?" I asked and ten went up. "Well that answers that question. We better share the costs for this stuff." I said and the adult pack and my father all nodded in agreement to that.
"Alright, Jack, Dan, Charlie and I cover the soda, those twelve pack are four bucks each and the twenty four are six bucks a pop, so with that, we each pass twenty five and that should do it, because the change can be used for the added supplies to. So get three boxes each of the twenty four packs. you do the chips and hotdogs." Harry said to him. "What happened during the last council meeting?" I asked and he chuckled.
"We wound up going through three cans each of soda that night, though the guys and I had something a bit stronger, while your aunts just add the liquor to the soda, but with twenty teenagers and preteens in here, plus the adult pack and your aunts, we need three each of the twenty four packs." he said and I nodded to that as I looked at my young pack and their brothers and sisters.
"During these pack family get togethers, we better start putting the money aside for grocery shopping if we're getting together several times a week and the weekends." I said and he nodded in agreement to that. "At the moment, most of us haven't gone active yet, though we will soon enough, but the idiot whoever touches you like that, better get ready, he's got ten furious father and brother wolves to deal wth." Quil said and I chuckled at that. "That's the truth, yeah okay, hey Seth what's the total exactly?"
"What's in the cooler right now exactly?" I asked and Seth went to check the kids only coolers and then looked at me. "Fifty cans a pop here, if we get seventy two more of each one that's enough for all of us and our parents and Papa Quil." he said and I nodded to that. "With the teens most of us are doing nachos on ours, but I need an idea of what to get guys, so it's another vote of what to pick up."
"Okay so regular Doritos?" I asked and twelve hands went up. "Nachos recipe, because someone made the dip here?" I asked and six went up and then I hit the cool ranch chips. "Anyone for cool ranch?" I asked and the guys all nodded to that. "Yeah okay so five of Tostitos, six bags of Doritos in both flavors, that's more than enough for everyone with everything on the kitchen counter and table since we got the added supplies."
"While we get seven more packages of hotdogs and buns and that should do it. The girls and I like both, but I prefer hotdogs over cheeseburgers right now during these games." I told him and he nodded to that as the trio passed $90 to him and Jake stood up and grabbed his coat as we headed for Jack's van and we got into the second set of seats as we headed for the store and rounded up the items we needed.
"What's the going cost for these council get togethers exactly?" I asked and he chuckled. "Half the time $130, others it's $150, but we, and the tribe, all make over fifty thousand a year, which explains the camping trips and that was my camper that was parked by the edge of the woods leading to the edge of the cliff when you were toddlers baby, and we're skilled hunters while your father and the duo are cops. We may not be like the rich guys like Cullen and his family, but we make enough to keep us comfortable."
"With the fact we're getting ready to combine forces soon enough to find our homicides, if they want to help with a few things the council's fine with that." he said and I nodded as we put the crates of soda in the basket first, and then the chips on tops of them, before we got the buns and hotdogs, before heading for the checkout to see the clerk with an amused look on his face at this. "Hey Jack what's going on, you just came to store this afternoon?" The clerk asked and I chuckled as I explained it to him.
"Council get together Eric." I said, seeing his name tag, and he nodded. "So when can we expect you back on the reservation where you belong Bella?" he asked and I smiled. "The contract activates next winter, but for now I'm acting as junior advisor for mom. While Jake and I are putting our relationship into place." I said and he nodded with a smile. "Okay good to see you kiddo." he said and I nodded. " You too Eric." I said smiling as we put the groceries into the basket then headed for the car then.
"I take it they know I'm Jake's future wife Uncle Jack?" I asked and he nodded. "Yes, and they're looking forward to have your clan back where you belong on the reservation." He said and Jake answered that. "If I'm the future chief of the tribe, I'm keep dads rules where they are here, but as the grandson of the chief, whatever role I have in the council is getting worked out here." he said and he smiled as he answered him.
"An issue of being descended from wolves here is that you act like a pack son, Sam is your beta, Seth is your third in command, Leah your fourth and Quil, Jared, Embry and Paul follow up next, followed by Collin, Brady and Jesse, but Jesse has four years, before he starts. You're the leader of the pack and Bella is your omega." he said and Jake nodded to that. "Not just my omega, my future wife, and I'm not giving her up." he said smiling and I wrapped my arm around his waist at that.
"I'm not giving you up either Jake." I said and Jack hid a smile as we loaded the groceries into the trunk and headed back to his house as the trio were cooking up the burgers and hotdogs. "Hey we're back guys." he called out and Sam, Seth, Paul and Jared came out to give us a hand. "Nice here, alright when's the game exactly?" I asked and they smiled." It's in an hour honey." Dad said and I nodded as the guys smiled.
"Hey Leah." I said and she looked at me. "What?" she asked as I was standing at the kitchen door and Jared took it then as he threw the snowball at her and got her in the back. " That's what." he said and she smiled. "Alright this is war!" she shouted and they started a snowball fight as I dodged one, got hit in the back and then threw it at the person who hit me. "Hey watch it." I heard Seth say and then ducked the next one.
"Ow hey watch it." I heard and then heard Quil answer that. "Hey he started it." he said and then I answered that. "I don't care who started, I'm ending it." I said and hit him with the next one. "Alright that's it now it's war." He said and that started things as the snow balls started flying back and forth. "Hey hold fire a sec, two forts on different sides of the yard and then it's war." Sam called out and we nodded to that.
With the amount of snow on the yard there was enough to do it. "Alright there's sixteen of us here, so the seven of us and Jake over here and the eight of you over there." Leah called out and the seven of us moved to join Leah. "Alright ready, aim, fire!" Paul called out and that started it as the war got started between us as the snowballs started going back and forth, before one knocked me over and I threw the next at Collin in response.
"You feel like we're eight years old again here?" I asked looking at Kim, Paul and Jared and they nodded to that. "If this is what being a young pack is going to be like, once our young council is fully activated, we're always going to be together now." Leah said and I nodded in agreement to that, before the next one landed between us and the third landed on top of Sam. "Alright wise guy, that's it." he called out and threw it at Seth who ducked and Embry threw a second at him and it hit Jared in the in the stomach.
"Alright that's it." he said and threw the next and it landed on top of Brady this time, before one of them got creative, as I looked over the mound as they got a big one created and loaded it on top of something. "Jake did you have a seesaw or or anything like that when we were kindergartners?" I asked and he looked at me. "Yeah I did why..., oh man incoming!" he shouted as a snowball the size of basketball landed between us.
"Rocket launcher or slingshot here boys?" I asked and Jared answered that. "Slingshot." he said and we created a catapult slingshot and shot one the size of a football at them, before the next one hit the kitchen door and I knew that got our parents attention as I heard the conversation through Billy as they were talking. "I think they started something out there, our oldest seven is really going at it with the younger one."
"Harry, Billy, guys, check this out." I heard from dad and knew he was looking out the living room window at us. "Lovely, and I thought the pillow fights were bad, just wait till one of them comes flying in through the front door." Jack said and Adam answered that with a chuckle, "No kidding you remember the last few snowball and pillow fights we kept getting caught in the middle of when they were toddlers and kindergartners."
"You remember us at this age?" he asked and Elliot started laughing. "Yeah I do and Renee let you have it after she got hit with the one that was meant for me." he said and and I heard a chuckle as I heard Joe answer that with an amused tone then. "What's going on out there?" I heard from Joe and he chuckled as he answered him.
"Snowball fight man, with today being we got snow, the kids decided to start something out there." Harry said, before Sue answered him. "Well you better get them to end it then honey, the main course is ready." Sue said and I knew he nodded as I ducked the next as he came to the door. "Hey guys!" Harry called out, before ducking the one that came flying into the house as I heard a clang in the kitchen, followed by an explosion.
"Sorry!" I called out and dad came to the door with a bemused look. "Whoever threw that, just caused one of the beer cans to explode after it got knocked off the counter, watch where you aim those, before you break something next okay." he said and the duo and I said it together. "Sorry dad, that was an accident." We said to them and they nodded smiling. "Geez I haven't seen the kids like this in years." I heard dad say and then Billy's remark to him with an amused smile in his tone.
"You think it's bad now, wait till their junior council is completely assembled they're going to be like this for years Charlie." I heard and exchanged grins with the guys, Leah, Emily and Kim, as we fooled around for a bit, before heading back in. "Go ahead and take your shoes off honey, it's your second home here." Billy said and smiled as I removed my jacket and put it on the hook and put my shoes by the door and curled up on the couch with Jake sitting next to me then.
'Now I really missed this, at least I get as much family time as I want now.' I thought gently, before hearing Sam answer that. 'No kidding, family get togethers every weekend and we spend the days after school together as well, before you move back up here.' he said and I nodded in agreement to that as Jake grabbed the blanket and put it across us and I leaned into his side then and dad and Billy were smiling as they watched us.
"If that's not enough to tell Cullen you're taken already, nothing is." Paul said in satisfaction seeing us together on the couch. "Yeah I was born and raised with the wolves, and I'm staying with the wolves. The guys don't mind I'm taken already, and they see you as good friends, just try to keep your temper if and when you see each face to face, okay." I said and he nodded to that as I changed the subject.
"So what happened exactly if that can got knocked the counter?" I asked and he chuckled as Harry answered that. "I was getting ready to call you guys in for dinner, but I wound up in the line of fire and who threw that at me exactly?" Harry asked and the duo pointed at each other. "He did." "She did." they said together and our parents all started laughing. "I get hit by the next culprit when you're going at it and you're getting it hard, now watch it." he said to them and me and I nodded to that.
"I'm lucky I pushed the tv out of range or the path of the kitchen door or you could have nailed the tv in the process girls, next time we got a snow day and you want to go at it, watch where you're aiming or you're to break or knock something over next." Billy added and we nodded to that. "At least I'm spending the summer here on the reservation at First Beach later with the gang and we got a shot to work things out." I said and he smiled as he answered me.
"Yeah, whatever's going on means you're with us during the summer, till we find and hunt the homicide, so stay close to mine or Sam's houses when on the reservation." he said and I nodded to him. "No problem dad." I told him and dad looked at me. "So soon baby?" he asked and I nodded as Jake answered him. "The contract starts a week after my birthday, so we'd rather use that title now than later, to make it clear here."
"Especially once Cullen realizes I'm the great grandson of the original alpha, he knows he's not going to stand a chance with the fact she's made her choice this early and I'm it." he said and Seth looked at him. "Wolf metaphors here bro?" he asked and he nodded as he explained it to him. "As soon as I activate the sequence begins kiddo, at the moment Sam's holding my position till my birthday next winter."
"So starting with me I'm alpha, Sam is beta, you're alpha's third, Leah's fourth, Jared fifth, Quil six, Paul seven, Embry eight, Collin nine, Brady ten and with Jesse being the youngest of our council, he's number eleven, while Bella's my advisor, my omega, okay." I said and he nodded to that. "If that legends true that explains the reason we got wolves the size of a horse and grizzly bear running around the reservation and woods man, hey dad who was the wolf for our clan exactly?" he asked and Harry chuckled.
"The adult wolf is called Goldie and his cub is Sunny kiddo, the young pack is colored coded to their father wolves, aside from Hurricane and Sandy and Sandy is the omega's personal bodyguard here too." he said and he nodded to that. "In other words once I activate that's my job, she's my younger sister so I'm protecting her with my life and if the legends are true, that means I'm that she-wolf." Leah said and he nodded to answer her.
"Who was Aunt Renee's than exactly?" Seth asked and he smiled. "Your Aunt Beth son, the adult hunters kept the job like you did, but once the wolves took over we let them deal with it, don't worry you'll be finding out soon enough." he said and they smiled as the guys exchanged grins. 'Well I can see that if we're getting our bonds into place as a pack now, they're really going to enjoy being wolves once they realize the legends are true.' I heard from Jared and nodded in agreement to that as we had dinner and settled to watch the game, as my second family night started and I relaxed.
Looking across the table at the quartet, I hid a smile as they had amused looks on their faces at what we were talking about this time as I looked at them. 'Alright with him out of town here whatever you got planned you better get your adult council on duty, because if they're just as the quintet remember their grandfathers to be here.'
'You need the added protection of both packs, if he starts getting crazy jealous, you belong to Ephraim's great grandson.' Alice said and I hid a smile. 'Yeah I did actually, my godfather is retired, but Levi, David, Job, Quil and Joseph's grandsons are going active by one by one along with Jack Denali, Joe White and Adam Daniels. But my pack are colored to their fathers and my mother, I'm Tala's great grand daughter and the guys are color coded to their fathers and grandfathers.' I told them and Emmett asked the next.
'Who's who exactly, we just remember the quartet, but we don't know who each wolf is exactly?' he asked and I hid a smile. 'You remember the quartet you met that day you killed the stag?' I asked and they both gave an affirmative. 'Billy is the twin of Ephraim, Josh is Levi, Eric is Quil and Harry is Joseph. My godfather and uncles are colored coded to the quartet you met that day, it's genetic. Billy is reddish brown, Josh is jet black, Eric is chocolate furred and Harry is sandy brown, near gold, furred.'
'As for David and Job, David is light, near chocolate, brown and Job was blackish grey and white furred in his case, but my brothers and Jake have the lighter furred versions of their colors, because their just cubs at the moment.' I told him and he gave a mental nod to that. 'So quick tempers and they see him they're going to get defensive of you. Alright with that fact in mind, I'll try to prevent a fight in dad's station, though if this gets out of hand we're going to have problems later.' Rose said and I nodded in agreement to that.
That afternoon I was at my godfather's house then. "Dad what are the chance of Cocoa deciding to come back as well, with the trio also preparing to come home here?" I asked and he chuckled. "He learns that little Cocoa is activating soon enough and that's enough a reason to do so, but with you being our baby omega and you're back as well, and the first leach, be it human or otherwise, is getting torn apart when he hears this." he said and I nodded as the trio walked into the living room before I heard a playful call to Paul at that from the kitchen.
"Alright who let the big bad wolf in the house dad?" I heard my mate call out and the quartet started laughing at that as I turned to him and he walked over to me. "Hey baby, how was your day?" I asked him and he smiled and gave me a hug as he swung me around and I tightened my arms around his shoulders as he answered me. 'It's too late Edward, I belong to my Jake, I'm a wolfmate and nothing you do is going to change that." I thought hiding a smirk as I heard the exact same remark from Billy.
'You're out of luck leach she belongs to my son, and you're never getting her away from us, you bloodsucker.' I heard him think and I knew he was hiding a smirk as Jake answered me with a smile. "It went fine babe, so who's the hunter who let the wolf in the house because the place is turning into a wolf den these days?" he asked and I chuckled as Paul playfully quipped back at him at that remark.
"Watch the wolf jokes brother otherwise you're getting one right in the head." Paul said and smacked him in the head with the pillow and and I quickly headed off a pillow fight. "Alright guys, heel alright, whoever gets that started you're all grounded now cool it." I said and the quartet all nodded as we exchanged looks at that as we tried to keep from laughing at that, but I knew the adult pack was exchanging amused looks at this.
"Thank god I got the four of you right now, but our fifth youngest cub is the last piece to our puzzle, because your families are my father's best friends." I said and Daniel answered that gently. "Whatever his problem is is he better get that temper checked at the door here." he said and I nodded. "At the moment he touches you like that and we're tearing him apart ourselves." Jake said and the trio nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Anybody pick up on the fact that its just short ten days since I got back and already we're about to get racial and social status problems here, if he realizes who you guys are to me?" I asked and they nodded. "Yeah, but you're the center of our pack, the human leader, in the stories, is the entire world to the wolves and that's how we see you, you're our entire world, and we're not letting go." Jake said and she smiled as she answered him.
"Yeah well, you're my betrothed honey, when you get your hunter training, I'm not letting go, I'm yours forever." I said smiling and he smiled and he pulled me into a hug as we pressed our foreheads together and I hid a smile as the gentle conversation between my godfather and his pack at the way we were together. 'Our young alpha, it won't be long, before he's ready to take the mantle here.' Harry said and I hid a smile as I mentally nodded in agreement. "You think Leah's going to mind about us being together, she and Sam need to rebuild their friendship now?" I asked Harry shook his head.
"No just keep up what you been doing to keep her busy honey, but ease back on the pillow fights here, last thing I need is to get smacked again or caught in the line of after you guys got into that snowball fight in Friday and to repeat that, I get hit and you're getting it by the entire paternal pack so watch it." he said and I nodded I hid as a chuckle at that. "What's the call this weekend guys?" he asked and I explained that to him
"Guys, you want to join me for the game tonight, Mike got me a few tickets for five bucks." I said and they smiled. "Gladly, I haven't seen them play since I started high school." Jake said the trio nodded. "The adult hunters are on duty, so you got the night off boys." Harry added and they all nodded. "And to answer the question, the gangs coming to the beach tomorrow, Daniel's joining you on the beach as a police escort tomorrow, but that's enough protection where you kids aware concerned." he said and the quintet all nodded to that.
"I can't wait to see the look on their faces when Brown shows up at the beach, he's the size of a grizzly bear, say dad, what's the size difference between the big pack and young pack exactly, since I'm going to be needing a guide when I start my training here?" he asked and I explained that to him. "The young pack, when they start out are no taller than a three year old colt, and their fur is lighter, than once they reach twenty five, in human years, they reach full adulthood and their fur colors get darker."
"To put it gently 'if' I was a wolf, I'd look like reddish brown wolf the size of a grizzly bear son, while you'd look like a toddler version of me if you were one, till you were a young adult then you'd look like my twin after that." Billy said and he nodded to that. "I'd hate to be the poor idiot who pisses you off if you were a wolf, because when it comes to the girls, because wolves mate for life and we go alpha male when it comes to them." he said and I chuckled at that, because he was right.
"Yes, well, you're the younger version of me son, in every way, though you kids, if we were wolves, are color coded to us, because you're our Cubs son. As to that, she's your omega, Seth and Sam are your beta and third in command, Leah is fourth and Quil is the secondary beta. Your mother-in-law is my advisor, it's hereditary, with you guys being the council of elders in ten years, you're getting trained by us and your parents to take over."
"Eric was my secondary beta, while Josh was my beta, Harry is my third and Daniel is my fourth right now till Elliot gets started again. That's the code of leadership, but with the rest of the pack they get overly protective of their alpha and alpha's mate and you happen to be both that and their omega baby, so expect the kids to get overly protective." Billy said and he nodded to that as Quil turned to him.
"Omega what's that translate to exactly?" Quil asked and he chuckled as he answered that. "With us being descended from wolves it means she's the human leader of the pack son." he said and they both nodded to that as I looked at my brothers then. "At the moment it's just the trio and me, but you're next Embry, Jake you're coming up on your birthday and Quil you, Seth and Leah are two months after."
"Our young pack is all that matters to me now though, you guys, our parents and my friends. I'm making it clear to him I'm not giving you up no matter what he says, once he hears first hand what I happen to be to you guys." I said and he smiled and gave me a hug. "Who's next up on the junior council to become a hunter exactly. Because if the trio are firsts who's next of the ten of us?" Quil asked and I smiled as I answered him.
"Embry is, than Jake, you and Seth, and Leah, but you're going to enjoy the changes that come with it, because we're building the bonds needed for a young pack right now, before you get started. Quil I know you're furious at Uncle Eric for taking off, but if I can get him back up here, would that be enough to heal the bonds now, so you can be ready for it when the time comes?" I asked and he sighed. "Once he explains to me why he left yeah I'll let it go, but it's going to take more than a year to let go of my anger at him, though I'll still be calling him dad." he said and I nodded to that.
'He's kidding, he's really going to forgive me for leaving. Little Cocoa you hear me?' I heard, before hearing my brothers wolf answer that with a surprised growl. 'Dad, wait a second, I thought you were retired here, what's going on?' he asked and he explained that. 'With your omega now back you, Hurricane and Reddy are going active one by one son, at the moment your humans are looking like they're sixteen, give it seven months you'll look like you're eighteen and then when you guys activate they'll be in your bodies, but you activate when there vampires around son.'
'With your name, it's because you're a cub version of what I look like as a wolf, baby you hear me?' he asked and I quickly answered him. 'Uncle Eric yeah I do, what's going on here, I've already got a line with ninety percent of the pack and your packs going active one by one here, you coming home?' I asked and he quickly answered me. 'Yeah I am, it's going to take a week to run back up there, but why the heck are your pack activating exactly?' he asked and I sighed as I answered.
'Aside from the Cullens coming back, we got a string of homicides running loose here, we got a trio of nomads running loose in Olympia and they're not bothering to follow Cullen territory rules either, the hunting is against the law and Carlisle is going to give the go ahead to take them out if this keeps up.' I said and I knew he nodded as he answered me. 'Baby you alright?' he asked and I gave a mental nod. 'Yeah I am, but mom is still out of town, I'm dropping the news to her so your omega is going to come back for a visit soon enough, so we got seven weeks till the night we come face to face with the trio.' I said and he answered me at that.
'Alright, listen to me carefully, with the boys waking it up it takes a few months to get to full power, just keep them calm till their birthdays, than let them go at it, I'm driving back the night, before, but we got some work to do to make phasing easier on us, because the other wolf tribes have perfected a better way to do it. I'm going to one of them, so I can show the eight an easier way to do it, before we destroy every set of clothing we've got here.' he said and I hid a smile as I tried to hide my laughter at that remark as I heard an amused tone as he answered my thoughts at that.
'Alright laugh it up cub, I can hear your internal laughter at that, so your brothers and Jake are going active, who's the first exactly, before Little Cocoa, Reddy and Sunny get started?" he asked and I explained that. ' Embry is looking like he's seventeen now, but he's got four months till he activates here. But Smokey, Brownie and Twister have gone active here. With the Cullens back the trio just activated, and me along with them." I said and I heard his gentle tone answer me at that.
"My baby omega, alright, I'm coming home, that makes the entire pack till your mother comes for a visit. Sweetheart whatever Shadow said I'm saying the same here, stay out of trouble, you're still a cub and got a curfew, so be careful, I'll see you in a few weeks baby." he said and I smiled. 'You too Cocoa, love you.' I thought to him and heard a chuckle as he answered that. 'Love you too cub.' he said and I looked at the trio.
"Well that's the entire adult pack boys, Cocoa's coming home the night Shadow does." I said to the ten and they all nodded smiling. "Alright eight adult, and four teenage, while do I feel like this is going to get out of hand later?" Embry asked and dad answered that with a chuckle as he walked in the door. "Because once one of the guys starts it, it turns into a free for all son, as to that. What's Eric's choice, you talk to him over the phone?" he asked and Billy smiled as he answered him.
Before he could though I heard a gentle scratch at the door and found Jack standing there in his wolf. "Orangie you can't fit through the backdoor how can you get into the house?" Dad asked with a smile, before he nudged the door sideways further and then carefully manuevered himself through the back door. "I guess that answers your question dad." I said as I started laughing at that as he curled up on the floor in front of me.
"Why do I feel like this is going to happen every time you're alone in the house and the trio start begging to come in to keep you company like this baby?" he asked with a bemused smile and Billy answered that one. "Because the quartet still see her as a cub at the moment, and to answer your second question. Shadow, Cocoa, Goldie and Storm are coming back in March, so for now we got four and the quartet get back in a few weeks."
"Which is when he and Josh are coming home so that's the entire council, we're back in action in six weeks Charlie. Josh is leading the council in the field, while Harry is acting as her paternal bodyguard, but the seven are in the field with the adult pack hunting down our homicides. Red's retired so Reddy is taking over next winter." he said and dad nodded as they went into conversation over the Super Bowl and I was in a huddle with my pack during dinner that night, as I thought over this way to get into the house and tent.
"Orangie was that how you guys got into my tent when I was little and why did you need to do that exactly?" I asked and he nodded as he answered the second question as he leaned his side against my legs and then pressed his furry forehead to mine. "From ages two to nine you did it to keep me warm, and you thought of me as your cub and was cub sitting when dad was going hunting for supplies during our camping trips." I guessed and he nodded as he nudged my head with his with a smile in his eyes. "Love you too." I said smiling and gave him a hug as he rested his head on my legs.
"Let me guess, next to the the quintet I was closest to you and either Cocoa, Val or Stripes, right." I asked and he chuckled as I heard him answer me mentally at that. "It was me, Joe and Adam, you and Eric were like you and Quil are together, but the guys and me, we got overly protective when you were a cub, and you loved being in arms when we were like this. To us you're still our cub, we'd never give you up, we love you." he said with a purring growl and I wrapped my arms around his neck and hugged him.
"Well that answers how I kept finding him or Val in the tent with you, while Red, Goldie Shadow, Brown and Storm were dealing with Leah, the twins and the boys during our camping trips, before they swapped off, because you guys needed to be separated for pillow fights, with you guys this size your fur and body temperatures are higher and can keep a two to nine year old cub warm. Though nowadays we're just wearing heavy duty camp jackets on these camping trips now." Dad said with a chuckle as I looked at him.
Before I could answer, I felt something start brushing my feet then and looked down to see his tail gently running itself across the soles of my feet. "Hey come on Orangie, stop." I said trying to get my feet out from under him, but he shifted position to hold my legs down as he let me have it as I tried to keep from laughing. "Alright whatever I told you the other night I take it back come on let me go." I said and I knew he could hear the suppressed laughter in my voice then.
"Come on I give up." I said again as I tried to hide a giggle as he stopped as I wrapped both arms around his furry neck and gave him a hug and he pressed the side of his head against my chest and started purring. "I haven't seen the quartet like this since they returned what's the deal here?" Dad asked and he chuckled as Harry answered that with a smile. "Goldie and Red told the quartet to take care of her till they got back, Orangie is just acting like a normal playful uncle wolf with her." he said and dad nodded to that.
"With my being their baby omega, expect them to act like this when around me, though for the trio it's I'm their pack sister, mom's their mother omega, and vice versa here as to that , if we go camping it's a swap up on duty so expect our camping to be loaded with thirteen horse to grizzly sized wolves this July later, and speaking of which."
"How many times does it snow on our campsite exactly during the summer exactly?" I asked and he hid a chuckle. "Three times out of ten, if the weather in the peaks suddenly hits a barometric pressure drop during the mid summer around here. Fortunately with wearing your normal winter gear it's not a problem here anymore, just keep the snowball fights under control guys." he said and we nodded smiling at that, before I heard a rhythmic purring coming out of Jack and recognized the song he sang to me when I was two, just in wolf.
"That sounds like the lullaby that Jack sang to you during your toddler years." Dad said smiling and I nodded to that as I heard his response to that with a gentle growl. 'It is Charlie, this is just another way to do it when I'm like this, to me, she still the little baby girl I remember.' he said as he continued as I said this out loud to him. "It is, Orangie just found another way to do it for me, just as wolf. With the adult pack back, they still see me as their little cub and he's making that clear now."
"For an adult wolf this size I'm the cub human in their eyes and Orangies cub is the last to start, he's got four years as to that. Their Cubs are going to activate one by one the day the guys and Leah do, but my pack has twelve, mom has ten, including in herself, so we can control each other's packs." I said and he nodded as we settled in for a spaghetti dinner, before we headed for home and it was time to settle in for the night.
That night before bed I was just getting ready for bed when I heard a soft growl and turned around to see the quintet moving around on the bed and moved over to it and sat down. 'Who are you?' I asked and Tala looked at me gently as Cocoa jumped off the window seat and on to the bed. 'I'm Ephraim Isabella, the six of us wanted to talk to you and decided to use your toy versions of us.' he said and I smiled at that.
'I didn't think you could possess stuffed animals that looked like you.' I said and Brownie answered that. 'With the fact our grandsons got cub version stuffed wolves for you it's the best way to keep in touch now. Quil was correct when he said your prophecy starts in a few weeks, you completed eighty percent of the prophecy in your timeline, but the Volturi need to be eliminated. The true vampire government here is the Cullens my dear, they're the ones to run the vampire government.'
'We sent you back so you could finish the prophecy, your destiny is to stop the murders and protect our lands, and make friends with four of five of the quintet and their latest arrivals and their relatives. Tala and your mother had it right that you've got a bigger destiny than you'd expect, but when the time comes for you to have to deal with the red head and Harold's children start, ignore his attempt to kill himself if you and our great grandsons are going cliff diving.' he said and I nodded as I answered him out loud softly then with a smile.
"So keep it up till I have my run in with the Volturi, but when that day comes, ignore his attempt to kill himself and stay here, and they'll never know I'm an omega or that I know everything about them?" I asked and they nodded to that. "Yes, your great, great, great grandmother declared that once you reach the age you are that you and the rest of her descendants were never to go to Europe or leave the Northern Cascades and America. To prevent them from finding out you were back."
"We and the rest of the tribal spirits decided certain members out of the tribe deserved the truth of us and the Cullens, those chosen were meant to be part of our world, they're meant to be part of our lives. Tala chose the first by your friend Tyler, but your gang is meant to know the truth, as are several members of the student body and their parents and your stepfather, they're the humans meant to know the truth." David said and I nodded to that as I answered him.
"So what's this mean now, my friends get involved and suddenly we got added problems, Edward is losing his mind out crazy jealousy. How do I explain to the others members of the Forks residents that they're ten years younger than their looks, because Carlisle looks like he's nearly forty, Edward is seventeen and Rose is eighteen years old while Emmett is twenty three and he's a senior in high school at the moment?" I asked and Joseph answered that one. "They get to stay, but there's a way to fix that, just tell the town residents that they're slower in the aging process than normal humans, though they're vampires, they're the good ones."
"We'll admit we had reservations of them coming and going when they arrived but the treaty was specific, whoever hunts a human, if they're a red eye, is getting exterminated, despite the fact you wanted to be one, that would have turned the treaty void as would getting pregnant with Edwards child Isabella. As to why getting pregnant by a vampire can kill a human, the male ones are incubi and the females are succubi. Edward Cullen is turning into an incubus now out of his jealousy, you belong to Jacob."
"Your pack would have had no choice but to kill you and the infant, as to why, that baby would be half human, and in his or her mind would hold the knowledge of how to destroy vampires. If Carlisle's youngest cousin saw the infant from afar she'd think it was a human toddler or kindergartner they changed and tell the Volturi. What he did could have made them realize you were back, your family is the strongest clan on the reservation, you're the strongest of Tala's heirs at the current moment."
"With a month till your encounter with the trio, keep testing him, but work with the quartet till you meet the duo for real, but as a friend and human member of the coven, you're part of the tribe and their coven starting the night of your game." he said and I nodded. "Why do I have the ability to communicate to my grandmother exactly, because Papa said he's got a direct line to you now?" I asked and Ephraim answered that. "As an omega you had the added ability to communicate with the spirits too."
"Your skills as an omega are growing every day, but as Susan said don't lose your temper or they get channeled into whatever is lying around and throw it across the room like what happened yesterday. As for Rosalie's background, that's one of the situations you can prevent now, just reverse the attack on you and lead them into your own ambush and your father, Daniel and Elliot arrest them."
"For now you and the boys deal with the drug dealers and the rapists and then the night of the game you take it it to the next level and deal with the trio and prophecy gets started for real." he said and I nodded to that as I answered him. "I'm going to see you again like this aren't I, I know how you met Carlisle, and my grandmother gave specific requests in the treaty, but he's going to do anything to make me his." I said and he answered me softly.
"As Reddy said for the time you string him along, but your place is wolf, you should be able to grow up normally and our grandsons are relieved you're back where you belong now. The night it starts I'm dropping the message to Joshua that the betrothal contract is getting activated six months earlier than it should be and you're moving back on to the reservation and the sextet and their relatives have permission to come and go as they please, but Cullen is restricted from the reservation to protect you."
"My recommendations here is that in addition to your friends, your father's second in command has permission to know the truth as well, so tell your friend to bring him to the Black homestead and we can work out a new treaty with five revisions, but the original key points are kept in it and your mother is keeping in touch with Carlisle from wherever she's living once Philip is finished getting his contract signed, though they're going to have to move back soon enough till we end things with the trio." he said and I nodded to that as I answered him.