Life Choices Remade
Characters: Bella Swan, Jacob Black, Sam Uley, Jared Trueheart, Paul Lahote, Embry Call, Charlie Swan, Billy Black, Edward Cullen, Alice Cullen, Carlisle Cullen
Synopsis: The week of their wedding, Bella gets a flash of what could happen if they were married and have children and winds up back eighteen months in the past to the day she sees Edward first, only this time she knows what the circumstances are, can she change her future or will things play out like they did in this time.
Disclaimers: Twilight doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else bselongs to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 11: Talks and Meetings With the Council
"Mama's key points are the ones I'm enforcing correct?" I asked and he nodded. "Yes that's right, our key-points were no biting a human, no coming onto our land and no using their weapons on humans. Hers are the same, but five added ones to the list, when we're in public there's to be no violence in front of bystanders, we work together with the gold eyes and Carlisle's friends whoever they might be, and three others."
"With you being the youngest of your clan, you taking charge like this is exactly what we wanted you to remember, your memories in your timeline are the key to protecting everyone from the parasites, both human and red eyes, but your added problem is the group of tourists you saw that leach bring in. That woman is a fisherman, if you could send a tip to them so they can check out another section of Volterra that would save fifty lives at once, the Volturi will never know you know what they are that way."
"You can save lives, just remember the details you wanted to black out, your body will build the immunity to their pheromones, but if you get gassed when you're around our grand and great grandsons, stay next to Harold, because the side effect of it now will be a massive burst of adrenaline and you need to be around Harold and Susan to prevent a collapse he's your paternal protector now, so he's around you full time." Quil said and I nodded as I answered him.
"Papa, I know they need the information, but could you send the information in books one at a time, like say the night I met the trio, the second my life fell apart in the other timeline, the third when our tribes have a run-in with each other and finally what would have happened if you hadn't stopped me in time. So I can be ready to return to my versions of my friends and family, their memories are going to be reworked, but they and their parents, and I'm adding the faculty to the list of the ones who will be in the know and change several more details here." I said and they nodded to that.
"How do you propose to do it this way, reverse the situations in the storyline, had you not known you're Quileute my cub?" Levi asked and I nodded to him. "Yes, our memories faded, because we all forgot who we were to each other. Jessi, Angie, Eric and Mike, as well as Ben and Tyler need the truth of what really happened to me and why I reacted like that back then. Since I've been back I've made more friends and been developing the real relationship of a Quileute woman with her mate and future husband. And it's because I let my heart take control now in this timeline."
"In that other timeline I was listening to my head too much, if I'd just followed my heart I wouldn't be in the situation I was back then, dad, mom, Uncles Billy, Harry, Josh and Daniel, as well as the adult pack, my aunts and the guys and Leah, and the girls, need to hear the real story of what put me in that condition, and with the faculty of my timeline. But they see me like I am now, but they don't know what caused it, so with that, I'm giving them that reason by telling them my inner most thoughts and everything Cullen did to me by his not leaving me alone and staying away from me."
"So with that, just start with the first book and from there we work our way to every situation down the list and send the last three weeks before the wedding in the other timeline. Chapter one to my storyline here is going by the name 'Twilight', we're using the dating of every day, so my first on the list is the day I came home. 'Chapter 1: Open Book' that's the day I saw him in school, just read it out like I hadn't known who I was at the time. I'm sending the entire group a message to them, a few days, before I deal with the quartet and the following night is the talent show here." I said and sighed.
"Chapters two through four are going by the titles New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, New Moon is when I was with my uncles and Jake and learned you're werewolves, Eclipse is about the duo fighting over me and I deal with the newborn battle and the last is what the consequences would be if you hadn't gotten to me in time, as for current wolves at the moment we got four adults and three Cubs.
"At the moment we got seven, so what now, if I finally meet them face to face, what's going to happen exactly?" I asked and he explained that. "That night when the partnership goes full, not only are you telling your father, but I'm sending a message to my grandson, it's time to reconcile with cub and his mother and be back with the pack. Cubs furious he took off on his mother, my son, and him. Time to heal that bond between my Cubs and their Cubs laters on."
"At the moment what you chose in building the bonds of a pack, before they join the pack was a very good idea, as they see at a certain age they get more athletic, and because brothers, but the bonds of brotherhood just get enforced, when you're a wolf, we become permanent brothers in a pack. As for Leah, she's your chosen bodyguard, she was meant to phase when Jacob took his position as alpha of your pack."
"Till she phases continue what you have been doing to help her and she's going to be comfortable, in your case what Harold said was true, your abilities speed up and and you get stronger, more athletic, to enjoy being in high school this time around, stay with your friends and once the partnership goes full, you're going to have Paul, and the younger Cullens acting as your bodyguards, and you can enjoy the term as the boys swap off and you got Alice with you on the volleyball court after that." he said and I nodded.
"So my abilities kick in at seventeen to eighteen, and why was I hearing their voices when I was toddler in their wolf forms at the time?" I asked and he chuckled. "As an omega the ability kicks at seven months old, but with you being around our grandsons all the time, the connection was so unstable as a toddler they could hear everything you're thinking, as you get older you get more control over it."
"It was due to being gone for five years that you forgot how to use your gift and your knowledge of their kind, but your instincts kicked in automatically when you saw them. William had it right though, if you'd spent your time with the tribe, you'd be safe, but instead, because Cullen read his mind, it landed you right in the middle of it. Our prophecy stated that a heir of our omega was to marry my heir, and they, and their pack, would be the strongest out of the generations, because they'd be the ones to destroy the Volturi and create a new government with our gold eyed allies."
"You'd be working together, but with the arrival of new members means that if they choose to stick around they need a change in their diets, it's animal blood or they to get eliminated afterwards, but our packs are the ones acting as the protectors of the entire region as we and the Cullens work together, but with that, it means if they keep having to come visit you get new young wolves popping up every time and with that, eighty percent of the reservation has the gene, if the nomads or Carlisle's friends start showing up repeatedly the reservation is going to be over run later." he said and I nodded as I ended our conversation as I felt a jolt of love shoot through me then.
"Thanks for the visit Papa, it's good to meet all of you finally." I said and he moved into my arms for a cuddle, before the others did the same. "Don't worry sweetheart you'll see and hear from us again, we promise." Levi said and I smiled. "Love you Uncle Levi, Uncle David." I said and David said it for both of them. "Love you too Isabella, take care of our sons and grandsons, we will see you again." he said and I nodded as they stopped moving and I knew they went back into the void again as I put the quintet back into place and Cocoa back on the windowsill.
After sitting at my desk, I got to work on the letter and gently phrased it so they knew things were going to get better, before I looked at it then and read it quietly to myself then. 'Hey everyone, if you're reading this, than you know your memories have recorded the new situations, dad I know you're worried about my plans here, but with what I've been through thanks to Edward, its no more dangerous than facing off against Laurent a second time here, but for emotional healing I have to.'
'With the changes being brought, I'm making sure the balance is staying that way, but like you remember the first battle and situation you deal with comes up the night of the game, dad you learn the truth that night for both groups. As for our friendships, they're in the beginning stages Rose, Em', Carlisle, but as you thought when we saw each other, our bonds went deeper and our lives are fused together for life. To protect all of you, I'm going to be bending several rules as the omega here, but Cullen is getting no where with me now."
"My job is peace keeper and in order to do that there has to be a balance, if we need to talk and meet, guys, we can let each other know mentally and when off duty everyone relax, because whoever is going to defect is likely one of Tanya's family and Kate's new mate is probably the revolutionary rebel you told me about. But in order to pull these take downs off we need a floor plan. Every group is working in tandem till the day of the game and we break it to him that you know his plans."
"Guys the added changes you're going to see in me are going to show that I'm no longer the quiet mature person you saw in 'our' timeline, but I've changed, I'm going to show a side you never got the chance to see in me. While the guys, Jessi and Angie get to see me as needing a true friendship with them. You get to see me enjoy being a seventeen, near eighteen, year old now."
"Because everything I was too focused on with Cullen is going to show during the added changes in our timeline, you get to see the side of me, my love, that you remember when we were together last winter, when we were together, during my early stages as our group omega. Dad, Uncle Billy, the me you remember as a little girl is going to return, though I'm a young omega."
"I'm going to act like a normal young teenager, our bonds as father and daughter are going to deepen, don't worry, daddy, I'm never leaving you, with things growing closer within the changes the added side effect is its going to result in my gang member joining the group here in the know as well. My friends in school are going to learn the truth and the first is going to be Tyler."
"With the connection between me and Tyler growing stronger, he's not going to care what we are anymore than you will dad, and neither will the rest of my friends, as to that, in bending a few rules here in that area, starting the week of and after the car accident. To protect not only the packs, but the sextet
"Tyler, the ability connects to humans as well so soon enough I'll be using it on you, so you can report the last and final stage of the subterfuge to my father at my godfather's house the night before I yanked myself out of school in our timeline, but in this one, it's police protection, you guys just get whatever assignment and test I need and bring it to Sam's house, but as of now, you've all got access to the entire reservation."
"That's if the eleven also figure it out, after what I told you guys so far, but the twelve of you are now under the protection of my tribe. I'm fixing things so the guys, Angie, Jessi and Dana are involved in things with us, but one by one they're going to do research and realize that everything our conversation the Thursday, before we headed for the beach, but you've all got some research to do, before I tell you the truth as well where I'm concerned.'
"As time goes on, the entire gang is going to learn the truth, but like with you, they're sworn to secrecy, every group is completely equaled out, though it's four and seven to eight and later twelve, but with superman abilities it's completely equal now, and they get to see us in our normalcy, and see the tribes in our own ways. What you've seen so far is just the beginning brother and I'm taking control of my position and destiny, so there are going to be a select few human teenagers who know the truth and it's limited to twelve as of now, that's includes your families as well, since with our class council that's the catch, they're the ones who learn it."
"That's you, the quintet and the guys and Dana, but you guys are going to be the ones in the know and are under the protection of both tribes when you figure it out and come to see us when I'm at my godfather's house. I'm equalizing each group out, and I'm doing balance with each group as well, so with that our lives were fused together for life from the day we met."
"My friendship with you and the quintet is all that matters to me where you're concerned, by this everything is going to be changing your lives and ours for the better, no more secrets, you'll see them in the way I do when the time comes for my wedding all of you, in each group, get to see it. Our friendships are for life, and we can rebuild and add onto the town, make it safe for everyone together, but things are changing in your futures for the better."
"Don't worry guys, I'm not leaving you without a fight, as I said in the last letter the day of the convergence is the day I got the letter from your grandparents and my thirty five year old self, you'll get me back that day and from there on forward it's a new history and change for all of us, sooner or later the last bit of the prophecy activates, but till it does, we just live as normally as we can. I love you guys, see you soon. Bella.'I wrote our and smiled as I looked at the letter.
To add a final touch to it I wrote on the envelope 'Don't open till a week after the car accident' in bold letters and underlined it twice then as I yanked a second envelope and wrote the first half of the letter to my family, all three sides of it, then the second was saved for when mom and Phil heard, as the memory shifts started affecting Tyler next
It didn't matter I was in the past now, I was going to live my life like a normal teenager and really enjoy the school year and the next eighteen months, let myself go of my original reservation and become the person their memories are going to see as they saw a change in me.
The next day in school, I looked at the quartet. 'Rose where's your locker exactly, I have something I need to put in there?' I asked and she smiled then. 'Two halls downs from yours Bella, just drop it through the grate, if this has to do with our mental conversations it's between us as of now.' she said and I nodded as I waited till P.E., headed for the gym and dropped them through the grate and waited for the effects to hit my family next.
Jake-2009
After thinking over the conversation she and I had with my father the year before, I looked at my father with a chuckle. "If I was a wolf, I'd look like a reddish brown wolf the size of a grizzly bear and you'd look like a toddler version of me till you're twenty five in human years and then you'd like my twin after that', I should have read that as literally and not metaphorically dad, because you know way too much about this."
"So you're not just any normal hunter dad, you are a werewolf, so this entire time, I looked like a toddler version of you when you're on active duty, and you're telling me that our responsibilities are going to get a bit crazy once the entire adult pack is completely back at full strength finally?" I asked and he started laughing as he answered me. "Yes, when I said that I meant it literally son, you're a toddler version of me in wolf form."
"You guys were color coded to us, because you're our Cubs, the only ones singled out are Embry and Leah. As to that, the bonds you guys are building now are making it easier for when you all activate, with the ten of you always together the bonds are going to be so strong it doesn't matter you're wolves or not you're family and a pack and the twelve of you are us in ten years son." he said and I nodded as Rachel looked at him then.
"So..., wait a minute reddish brown, that was Reddy, you mean you're the adult reddish brown wolf dad?" she asked and he nodded. " Yes baby I am, your memories of us as the pack of grizzly sized wolves in the campsite may have faded, but what's one of the things you remember when we went camping exactly?" he asked and she chuckled. " That Reddy started purring whenever I was hanging on to his leg as he gave me a ride around the yard like that." she said and he smiled as he leaned forward.
"That was me, the purring you heard from me when I was a wolf was meant to say ' I love you baby', for us it was meant to be a kind of sound of affection for your mothers and you kids when you were little. You may have forgotten, but somethings come back later in life, that being one of them." he said and she nodded as Charlie walked in the door then. "Well the added side effects of her being in the past just hit her bedroom finally here boys."
"You guys are back on the bed and the window seat finally and everything you gave her is covering the walls and desk and dresser and the little dream catcher is back in place on the head of the bed again." he said and he smiled. "Well if that's the case she's just made it clear, it's the life of a wolfmate forever now. Rose what was next after that outburst in their biology class?" he asked and she chuckled as she answered him.
"Aside from three days of tension a snowball fight broke out in the court yard that day after he left and it turned into a war-zone, but it was a better day than I expected that morning what went on that afternoon after school let out exactly?" she asked and Sam answered that. "Study group after school and she showed us her bedroom, followed by a council family get together and a snowball fight broke out in the front yard." he said to her and she smiled and nodded as she answered him.
Just as she got ready to say it, Papa Quil froze and focused and then smiled and chuckled as he looked at our fathers. "You're lucky you bought her stuffed versions of yourselves son." he said looking at dad and Uncle Daniel looked at him. "Why exactly?" he asked him and Dad thought it over and smiled. "Because our grandfathers just found a way to communicate to her by possessing our stuffed counterparts, by us, I mean you, me, Elliot, Harry, Josh and Eric." he said and they nodded with a chuckle at that and Rose looked at the table and then saw something she didn't catch before then.
"Hey guys here's message number one from Bella." She called out and the entire group walked into their living room as we wanted to hear this now as I saw a second sitting next to it. "Don't open till two weeks after the car accident', why would she put that on the second envelope?" Seth asked and Charlie answered that. "Because it's about whatever changes come with your brothers and her always being able to get along and if I have to guess here, it's related to Renee's memories getting rearranged and with her and Phil, yes alright I see what she has in mind here and the first to know is her gang."
"That remark is connected to Tyler actually, she said that she and Tyler are beginning to build the bond she has with you son, before she admitted it and broke off the engagement here in our timeline." he said and he nodded as she opened it and smiled. "Okay, here we go, 'Hey everyone, if you're reading this, than you know your memories have recorded the new situations, dad I know you're worried about my plans here, but with what I've been through thanks to Edward, its no more dangerous than facing off against Laurent a second time here, but for emotional healing I have to.'
'With the changes being brought, I'm making sure the balance is staying that way, but like you remember the first battle and situation you deal with comes up the night of the game, dad you learn the truth that night for both groups. As for our friendships, they're in the beginning stages Rose, Em', Alice Jasper, but as you thought when we saw each other, our bonds went deeper and our lives are fused together for life. To protect all of you, I'm going to be bending several rules as the omega here, but Cullen is getting no where with me now."
"My job is peace keeper and in order to do that there has to be a balance, if we need to talk and meet, guys, we can let each other know mentally and when off duty everyone relax, because whoever is going to defect is likely one of Tanya's family and Kate's new mate is probably the revolutionary rebel you told me about. But in order to pull these take downs off we need a floor plan. Every group is working in tandem till the day of the game and we break it to him that you know his plans."
"Guys the added changes you're going to see in me are going to show that I'm no longer the quiet, mature person you saw in 'our' timeline, but I've changed, I'm going to show a side you never got the chance to see in me. While the guys, Jessi and Angie get to see me as needing a true friendship with them. You get to see me enjoy being a seventeen, near eighteen, year old now."
"Because everything I was too focused on with Cullen is going to show during the added changes in our timeline, you get to see the side of me, my love, that you remember when we were together last winter, when we were together, during my early stages as our group omega. Dad, Uncle Billy, the me you remember as a little girl is going to return, though I'm a young omega."
"I'm going to act like a normal young teenager, our bonds as father and daughter are going to deepen, don't worry, daddy, I'm never leaving you, with things growing closer within the changes the added side effect is its going to result in my gang member joining the group here in the know as well. My friends in school are going to learn the truth and the first is going to be Tyler."
"With the connection between me and Tyler growing stronger, he's not going to care what we are anymore than you will dad, and neither will the rest of my friends, as to that, I'm bending a few rules here in that area, starting the week of and after the car accident. To protect not only the packs, but the sextet."
"As to that the first of said changes are to be the day of the car accident, and from there and forward it's going to show a side of me you never got the chance to see before and after the red eyed leaches landed me in the hospital. But every injury in our timeline you saw with guys is probably going to get an alibi or just get hit with something else in your new updated memories."
"Don't worry guys, things are going to change and get better from here on in, I've got family, friends and parents in all three species now as a result of this time jump, as I said before I left. The time convergence is the day the letter arrived, so that's when I return. We completed three of the four situations, but we got to finish the job here and with that."
"Carlisle, if he spreads some stupid story that he got me impregnated with a half human/half vampire hybrid get your friends and we need as many of your friends involved as possible, because the Volturi are a dictatorship that needs to be eliminated, but that's the last item on the list. For now just focus on the trio and the newborns, after that we got time to deal with the last one."
"Don't worry guys, I'm not leaving you and I never will, you're all that matter to me and with that, I'm going to ensure I save as many lives as I can now here. Alice, he heads for Volterra, redirect the touring, that saves fifty lives there. And number two, under no circumstances am I leaving the peninsula this time. And I'll explain why later, but if he tries to kill himself, because the guys and I are going cliff diving and you can't see me, because I'm surrounded by five young werewolves and an adult one, let him go."
"Dad, I'm making it clear here, if the sextet, or eight, are with you and Officer Benson and you hear them give you three growls and a whine, when you're hunting down the redhead, followed by them turning their heads to you, they're saying, 'Get out Charlie, don't argue with us, just go!', the hunt is going to get redirected this time, because while they're chasing her off the cliff the guys, Harry and I are waiting to intercept at the beach, that's my plan now."
"This covers things things, till you open up the second letter guys, but like the envelope says wait till these conversations and my questions over my powers and abilities start hitting mom and get her up to Forks, time for a full scale reunion of the adult pack because this entire situation is going to hit both Cocoa and Shadow at the exact same time here."
"Before you ask Carlisle, Cocoa and Shadow are Josh and Eric, Red is Billy, Orangie is Jack, Val is Joe, Stripes is Adam, Storm is Elliot, Brown is Daniel and Goldie is Harry, in wolf form. The first photo you and Rose get to see is me with Harry, as a wolf, when I'm still a toddler, cub, with them, and that's next week at the hospital. It didn't and doesn't matter to me what they are."
"By that I mean the guys and Leah, and it's because I saw the adult pack like this all the time, my memories of that are now back completely, everything in 'our' timeline I'm telling this version of you, but you need to understand why I was so furious at him. The guys are my pack, my family is the adult and young packs. I'm not leaving my parents or my friends, my life is as a human."
"As to that, that's the true catalyst of my anger at him, along with Harry, I'm seeing Harry and my godfather every day now, and with that, dad, with you being at work the day of the car accident, it's time to enact parental/medical orders catch twenty two when you've got a concussion and you're a minor."
"Sam, guys, I'm telling you everything later that morning, I need some pack family time till our family meets up that night, Emily, if you're also listening to this, I need you around for the part, you guys are going to be furious at that here, because that trip to P.A. just got dragged into it as well. Until the next letter guys, see you soon, I love you, Bella." she read out and we nodded to that.
"P.A., Port Angeles, she and the girls went to go dress shopping and I was tracking down, wait a sec that was when we had that quartet on the loose..., oh my god, you don't mean to tell me that those little hooligans caught sight of her alone, do you?" Charlie asked and Carlisle stood up at that as he yanked the dates from his pocket and read through one of them and his tone went dangerous as he answered him. "Yes that's exactly what she means and she'd rather tell the girls first, before she tells us."
"By meeting me I became her PCG and that's the catch now with meeting me in a week, because our tribes are working as one, if a vocal brawl breaks out in my station, this is going to have to get squared off, when we got thirty two outsiders in the room with you, me, our kids, Dan, Harry and the trio, along with Tyler Charlie. Okay next week in our past that's when the car accident is and that's when we go over tribe preparations before this happens, she needs me as her doctor, because I'm practically her father in our timeline, and I sense she needs me protecting her like she needs you, Dan and Harry at the time and with that fact in mind, that's why she needs to tell Sue this."
"Only a girl could understand this for obvious reasons, they're more vulnerable than we are, because, they're not as strong as we are, it's a woman's worst nightmare, she needs Sue and the girls to tell this to." he said and looked at Rose. "Baby, I know why she'd put that in there, what you'd tell her when you tried to talk her out of becoming one of us?" he asked and she covered her eyes. "I told her about what Royce and his friends did to me. But she never told me this, if this is another traumatizing memory." she said and I moved to her side and crouched in front of her.
"What they did to you, are we talking.." I trailed off and she nodded and I pulled her into a hug today that. "That's why she needs our mothers hearing this, she's the near attack you're the full attack, and she knows the only option left is making sure that what happened to you doesn't happen to anyone else, that's why she put that in there Rose. Dad she wrote that so you, and Uncles Charlie, Elliot and Dan knew when and where to intercept, it's an ambush, just as she redirects the ambush, by having you arrive at the right time." I said and he nodded as she looked at Charlie and said it for Carlisle firmly.
"Okay if that's in your dating Charlie she put that in there, because...?" she started to say and he finished it off with a dangerous growl in his tone. " I'm a cop and the chief of police, human situations in needing my protection in areas that don't call for supernatural help, but the help of a cop and the man she needs most is one and said man is me, that's the understatement of the century here, I'm a cop, she needed me protecting her."
"We're cops, it's just mixed as we're her paternal gang, I'm her father and the duo are the fathers of her pack members, okay a reverse attack, reverse, fresh bait and..., alright I know what she's trying to tell me. I get the idea, she's pulling a sting operation, like the narc squad does with a woman on the team. She's going to lead them into her own ambush and we arrive to arrest them, before they can touch her."
"And with that fact in mind here, listen to me you idiots, if she calls you to call these little shits in, you better phone me or I'm having your heads and your jobs when I get through with you, my baby girl is not being subjected to that." he said with a dangerous growl, and I knew he was referring to the cops at Port Angeles Police department when he said that as he sighed as he looked at us to go into why that would be in there then.
"Alright dating I don't remember the key dates in these situations, but you guys do, she met you and Rose that day at the hospital that's next week in the new timeline, so why redirect the situations here?" he asked and I answered that. "To prevent her from ending up at the hospital again for several near fatal injuries, a near rape and a broken leg twice in two years, she's still suffering arthritis from her leg getting broken right now."
"Okay, she said whatever injuries covers an alibi here, so whatever happens in school, or just when we're together should answer that question, if the stupid idiot doesn't cause a repeat performance at the party and what the hell caused that exactly?" I asked and Jasper answered that one. "She got a paper cut and a drop of blood landed on the rug."
"I'm not completely in control, because I spent 200 hundred years as a red eye, before Alice came into my life and I chose abstinence, whatever plans she's got to help us, I'll take it if it means I can be around her more easily here, because we joined their gang a week into our senior year of high school at the time. Alright that scar on her arm."
"Her forehead, the back of her head, her leg and the bite mark on her wrist, that's every single injury. Alright dad, she, when she got thrown into the pillar, took damage to her abdomen, did you check for internal injuries when we brought her to the hospital?" he asked and Carlisle nodded. "Yeah I did, a bit of surgery to her spleen in addition to her leg getting broken in two places that's not happening twice here either."
"She lost three units of blood and it was touch and go, and she was unconscious for a week at the time. So our first step is making sure she doesn't get her leg broken twice, everything else I can deal with but the little brats who cross the line at school and touch her at all are getting arrested if she turns them in because of a medical suspension on the team's later, because the epidemic of drug related health problems in your class had me and Caroline worried." he said and dad looked at him at that as he answered at remark.
"So Dan, Harry and I are going into a conference conversation in the E.R. with you, knowing her she's acting as my junior cop representative so we can keep the locals out of the forest and the woods till we catch the leaches, the game is going through on schedule, but if I know the duo, he and Eric are heading for the clearing as wolf protection, before you see this trio face to face." he said and Carlisle nodded as Sam looked at Alice at that.
"Areas that bring out a part of her we don't normally see here, Alice what was going on during the second semester at the school right after she arrived and after the car accident?" Sam asked and she chuckled. "The talent show, and the volleyball team tryouts actually, along with the prom." she said and he nodded. "She said she chose an outsiders theme for the prom, by that I mean the book, you're dressed in three different areas but the remark is the same, but the..." he started to say and then he chuckled as he said it.
"The talent show, she's doing a girl group with the girls and she's singing in the talent show and she's trying out for the team." he said and I smiled as I said it. "If she's telling him anything it's that she belongs to me, if I have to guess, the song is going in two different areas here, one being my going alpha male with her and the other I'm her mate and nothing he says or does is taking her away from me. So I'll give you two guesses on what songs she chose for that one." I told him and he started laughing as he said it.
"My boyfriend's back and both songs connected to the chorus line in Sister Act, yeah I get the idea here, she's opening the side of her we remember when she was twelve, before her memories started fading of dad and the adult pack as wolves, and she's able to be her twelve year old self again with the guys, Emily, the girls and me. Well I'm not missing out on that concert if she and the gang decide to go for a minor concert in the middle of talent show." he said and the nine of us nodded in agreement to his thoughts as dad answered me at that with an amused look on his face.
"Yes and during your spring break next year, you guys are going to have Harry with you at the cliff side, but I'm going to be activated by that point once Renee combines her healing powers with Bella's. Here's the thing though, with the seven of you at the beach, and us hunting her down, she knows she's not going to stand a chance at getting near her here."
"Carlisle if you guys are on stand by be ready, because the hunt is going to end up jumping off the cliff between the border of the reservation and the highway. With the kids being Cubs at the moment, the guys and I have more power in order to handle the situation here." he said and Carlisle nodded with an amused smile at our conversation.
"Why do I feel like once things are completely active in our friendship it's going to result in the sparring matches getting out of hand to the point I got to replace the windows in my kitchen repeatedly here?" he asked and we started laughing at that as we took a break as I waited for the situation to start unfolding within our family with my mate in our past.
January 2005-Bella's POV:
Looking at my wolf uncle, I couldn't keep the smile off my face then. "What's so funny baby?" Harry asked and I chuckled. "I'm looking forward to see you as your wolf again, I'm also remembering the pillow fight that dad got caught in the middle of during our camping trip." I said to him and he chuckled at that. "Yes you're two year old self was a bit stubborn at that age when it came to napping at the time." he said to me smiling.
"You think that Seth is going to look like you?" I asked and he smiled. "Your toy wolves are your brothers and Jake when phased honey. With the guys and me being at it for thirty years, we've got the power to phase on the fly if need be. Though with my being your paternal protector, I don't doubt your mother would want me taking care of you when not in school now." he said and I nodded to that as I answered him.
"Phase on the fly, you mean phasing in the middle of a ten foot jump off the ground?" I asked and he nodded. "Yes, though it takes years of practice to get to that point, though if it's in the bloodline, on both sides of the family, then they got more power to do it. If Jake did that in the middle of protecting you when you and Paul got into a fight, it's because his instincts took total hold and he let his inner wolf, Reddy, take control completely." he said gently and I nodded as I went to the first generation.
"So did the sextet look like you when they were active?" I asked and he nodded as Billy answered that. "Yes, though our grandfathers, though the trio were active, I don't think grandpa was expecting to run into Carlisle that day when they were going hunting. But this was when we were still dealing in the old west, the old Cowboy and Indians routine." he said and I nodded as my quartet walked in then as they came over to me.
"Hey guys." I said and they smiled and gave me a hug. " Hey bells, alright before you tell us that whole story we need to know just what types of abilities the Cullens have so we can manage without it getting lethal later." Sam said and I nodded as I answered him. "Out of the seven, the quartet are completely normal, basic strength for a vampire. However the trio are the ones with the special powers and with that."
"Alice has the ability to see the future, she evidently saw me coming at the time, but with you always around me, she can't see past you to see my future, and split second decisions block her ability to see the future as well. Jasper acts as a human emotion detector and calms the nerves down, to prevent a panic attack or someone on the edge of exploding completely. As for Edward, he's the most dangerous of the three." I said and Billy leaned forward at that as he answered me.
"Why exactly?" he asked and I sighed, knowing they weren't going to take this well as I answered him. "He's able to read your mind dad, in my timeline, just before the added injuries I took. You were coming by to see us, and he locked gazes with you and saw everything." I told him and Paul leaned forward. "Everything, that you're our omega, our bonds from toddlerhood, what you are to us?" he asked and I nodded to him.
"Yes, but my memories of all of you had faded, I had no memory of my abilities or that you guys were my gang, let alone I was your cousin, and my family was right here. He kept that information, from not only the sextet, but me. Unfortunately for him, my adult self got the message to me by sending me this." I said as passed them the photograph and Bily looked at it as his eyes narrowed in shock.
"I retired after the accident, but if this is me, than either you or Renee healed my spine to get me back on active duty again." he told me and I nodded. "That's my entire intention, he just pissed of the wrong wolves, you and Uncle Harry are my paternal guardians and dad's trio. I don't give a damn how much he argues over this, I'm a wolfmate, I was born and raised a human wolf cub, I'm staying with my pack." I said to him and he nodded as I pressed my forehead to his and I heard a loud purring at that.
"Sounds like Red is awake now." I added and he chuckled. "Unexpected jolts like this, he's beyond relieved you remember this now and you made that declaration and it's the same for the guys, you're my daughter. I'm not losing you to a gold eye turned red eyed leach whatsoever. If I'm meant to go active, I'm going active once again." he said and I smiled as he pulled me into a hug and I tightened my arms around him.
"Once I graduate, I'm moving in with you dad, if that's the custom for the women now in our culture, you have me and Paul is imprinting on Rach, so you got your children-in-law living in the house with you after Christmas next year." I told him and Paul looked at me. " I imprinted on Rachel, I don't remember dad ever signing that betrothal contract when we were toddlers at the time." He said and Harry smiled as he answered him.
"At times like this it doesn't matter if we do or not, your wolf imprints and that's the marriage contract. But considering our families have been friends for years, it's best because we watched you grow up Paul. Though at the moment, with my being a hunter Eric hears I'm scouting the woods with Jack and I at the school and he's going to take far more seriously if Cullen so much as starts a fight with you." he said to him smiling.
"I wasn't expecting that reaction when we touch foreheads now." Sam said smiling and he chuckled. "For a wolf to fuse their connection to their omega it's needed, but if they start reacting like that every time you do that, whoever's in the room with you is going to think you brought in an oversized cat." Harry said to him and he started laughing at that. "So if I'm lion sized, what's that do for you guys exactly?" he asked him smiling.
"We're grizzly sized, cub sized is lion sized to two year old colt, adult sized is rhino to full sized grizzly bear. Though you're color coded to us, just don't test each other's tempers or something is going to get launched across the room next." Billy said smiling and we nodded. "I think my friends got the message things are changing, but the first real situation is at the hospital." I told him and his eyes narrowed as he answered me.
"Alright who was speeding in this weather this time, the roads are black ice and as dangerous as you can get and your father is getting aggravated enough by that at the moment in addition to the quartet, the murders and the repeated arrests of your peers for DUI's?" he asked and I sighed. "Tyler was, though in this case, it lands both of us in there for a first degree concussion. But it's not the concussion I'm worried about, it's Cullen seeing the guys standing next to us, you guys are harmless to a human being, because of those three rules to growing up with a pack."
"Though I learned quickly I actually prefer you to being around a coven of vampires full time, no need to worry about injuries, your tempers are no problem and I can handle easily and though you look dangerous, that doesn't mean you are, in fact compared to him you're not dangerous at all, I see past the looks to who you are." I said and Sam smiled. "Nice wording, if this was the book, we're the Greasers and he's a member of the Socs, you chose your own kind on purpose Sis." he said and I nodded to him.
"Yeah precisely, you got the dangerous look to you, but you're a teddy bear on the in side, and I tamed your wolves, simply by being your omega. A wolf only protects people from vampires you're, you're not about to hurt human's, unless a human harms another human. You all got brothers and sisters, mess with the sister, or girl cousin, of a werewolf, or their mate, and the poor idiot is in danger of getting mauled here."
"As for added information here, I was raised in the backwoods of Olympia, this is my territory, to put this bluntly, every time we got red eyes coming here that's when you start phasing. Sam when did you phase exactly?" I asked and he sighed in annoyance as he answered me
"Eighteen months ago Bells, I'm the lone wolf till the guys got started, but our gang, I wouldn't change this for anything, you girls are my entire life now, I'm protecting you with my life now." he said, before I felt a set of arms wrap around me and I leaned into his chest, knowing it was Jack. "Jack I know you're getting overly protective now, but stay off of the grounds of her high school when you're furry would you." Billy said to him. "Aw come on Billy, it was the one time her friends get to see me." he said to him.
"Yeah well they're going to find it slightly weird that her mother tamed a wolf the size of a rhino if Eric sees you face to face, through the cafeteria window. Though you do try that, it's a conference between you and the original duo she sent the message too, with Cullen still gone, the blond and her mate, the big brown headed guy. I just remember Carlisle's name, who are the others?" Harry asked and I explained that to him.
"The rest of the original quintet are his mate Esme, Rosalie, Emmett and Edward is the bronze haired Cullen. To put this bluntly, to him it's like I'm his own personal brand of heroin, walking in front of the fan, I could tell he was fighting his bloodlust in the class. Indicator one, number two is he's got a dangerous aversion to blood. So I'm fixing this so he gets in trouble with the faculty every time he breaks the rules." I said to him.
"Jack with the entire pack in one piece next school year I'm placing you at the high school, along with Paul, he's acting as her personal bodyguard. But you're a teacher, so I can arrange it with Derek now and you're working there next term." Billy said and I smiled at the idea. "What's your class exactly Uncle Jack?" I asked and he smiled. "I'm ancient history actually, I can just add a bit of our history to the class and you'll get to learn our histories that way baby. I'm your teacher in addition to adult protector."
"As well as your uncle." he said and I smiled. "I thought the tribe's histories were sacred and private Uncle Jack, you're intending to tell my friends and the Cullens these histories once you start working there?" I asked him and he nodded. "We can change things a bit I'm not breaking those rules, I'm just enlightening the class with some more interesting legends, along with everything you're learning baby."
"Those historical facts faded by the time you were twelve, we just gave you a few the night of the bonfire that night, to learn more you have to immerse yourself into these lessons sweetheart. You're starting your adult life soon enough, but when we retire once again, you guys are taking over from there don't worry, it's going to be okay. Nobody is going to make that connection in the truth and these legends." he said to me smiling.
"Adult protector maybe, once Eric gets to know me, he's going to see me as a very good friend after this, Though Rick Cameron is running that class here on the reversation. I'm covering you and your friends at FHS, so you and Paul have me with you, it's just a more enforced police protection when your father has me at the high school acting paternal wolf to protect you once we put this effect." he added gently and I nodded to that.
"Nine paternal wolves and four brothers by the start of the school year, I can grow up normally without trouble and our family is intact as a result, I've just got to ensure nothing pisses you off any more than necessary Uncle Harry. And like I said in that letter, Leah is one of the wolves in my pack, because if I'm reading this right, once Jake imprinted on me, she activates automatically." I said to him and they all nodded to that.
"Alright between now and the day she phases, we're always together and I'm acting as her brother rather than ex-boyfriend. At the moment you both need me, but what I will say is he's not getting near you if he starts getting crazy jealous, you belong to my alpha." Sam said and I nodded in agreement. "Yeah well at the moment I've got three, big Red, Reddy, and you, Smokey." I said and he smiled as he gave me a hug.
"You want me to report to you about the frequent case of substance abuse in the high school, if you've arrested these guys once too often, and my friends on the basketball team tell me what the heck's going on?" I asked and I heard Uncle Elliot answer that as he, dad and Uncle Daniel walked in, as he gave me a nod. "Yes please do baby, we've arrested Peter Deacon five time in the space of six months."
"And the others are acting like they're on speed, I don't know if it's a mixed chemical binge or not, but if they touch you it's getting them kicked out of high school. You're the daughter of two Tri county officials and the daughter of the chief of police. You're practically the daughter and wife of the mayor and future mayor and this is a family ran business." he said to me and I nodded and as I looked at dad.
"Any luck dad?" I asked and he shook his head. "Nothing, all I'm finding are foot prints and scattered patches of blood all over the backwoods. I don't know if it's a stray predator or not." he said and I nodded. "To prevent the guys from getting shot, we got to do something, because Smokey, Brown, Shadow and Brownie, are, from thirty to eighty yard away, are dark enough to be mistaken for a grizzly bear." I said to him and he nodded to that.
"I'm just lucky I remember my way around the woods after the scouting missions you took me on growing up." I said and he smiled. "We both prefer quiet town life and you're more like me than you think. It doesn't matter, heart of a wolf, nothing is going to change our friendship with the tribe." he said and I nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah well Edward is not going to take it well once he realizes I'm half Quileute."
"Let alone you're the blood brother to half the council, and you really don't care what you married into at all. To put this bluntly, every time they see each other it's like West Side Story or The Outsiders, just without the violence every time." I told him and he nodded to that firmly. "What I married into was a great friendship, my best friends were the quintet, our families are a sextet and the pack are my gang, my pack brothers."
"Wolf, human, I don't care what they are, nothing is getting between us. My furry friends, so long as they protect you from a stray predator, or worse, that's all I care about baby, you're my entire world, I'm not losing you this soon and not to some crazy jealous maniac." he said and I nodded. "Don't worry dad I'm not leaving you at all, I have the guys protecting me now." I said and he nodded as we ended it at that.
Before I could answer I heard a scratching on the door and opened it to find Adam standing there. "Stripes for gods sake, you as well, we're not doing this every time dad and I come up for dinner." I told him and he lowered his head at that as I looked over my shoulder to see my adult pack holding in their laughter at this. "Alright, it's just for tonight." I told him and he wedged it open slightly and walked in before curling up by the door.