Life Choices Remade
Warning: With this chapter, it's going to be another day, before he's back in school and things start speeding up from here. But her life is going wolf and staying human now, as to that it's going to take time, before things start warming up in the story as the indicators start coming one by one as the memories of the packs, her father and friends at the school start getting rearranged by this point.
But for the ones who want action keep in mind that it's always the slow point, before things start picking up and the action starts, as to that, the future versions are going to realize what's going in the past, before she does it, which is the Butterfly effect and it's going to keep up till she returns to the future.
Disclaimers: Twilight doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else bselongs to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 13: Memory Changes, Plans and Friendship and Tracking
Jake 2006
"Guys, I think something just changed directions in the past here." I said and Quil looked at me, before he could say my memories shifted directions and I smiled. "Josh, Elliot and Eric just returned to the pack that makes seven and our pack just got the news we're werewolves and we're getting ready to join the pack ourselves now. I also just asked you and the duo to protect her till Embry and I joined you Sam." I said to him smiling.
"Looks like we're in training, before we even start in the pack as we prepare now." Seth said and I nodded in agreement, as a box appeared in front of us and I saw a box. "Typical, we just had that box appear in front of us and it just reappeared a second time here, this keeps up and every memory we don't need resurrected is about to get worse Jake." Quil said and I nodded in agreement to that.
"That leach is a total maniac, he touches and he's turning into flame broiled barbecue." Jesse said in answer to that and Colin answered that he exchanged looks with his trio. "I swear if that leach touches her he's winding up dead, he's done enough damage to her." Colin said and I nodded in agreement to that. "Alright Cubs cool it with the swearing okay." Jack said and I nodded to him. "Sorry Sir." Colin said to him as Emily said it.
"Guys for now we just wait it out, but we got eighteen months till she gets back so we just wait it out, now relax, before you destroy coffee table." Emily said to us and we nodded to that as we ended it at that. Though before we could though, Leah had a playful smirk on her face and I could see the her I remembered shining through.
"What are the chances of the others realizing their memories are being screwed around with right now Alice?" Leah asked her and she smiled. "Extremely high, but her bonds with the seven are getting stronger every day and I think that Tyler is going to be the first to figure it out, if he hasn't already. Though if he did, he's going to put it together when it's in reverse order soon enough, like she did with us." she said to her smiling.
"Yeah well she did that with you, but my fatal mistake was I broke the treaty and her curiousity winds up nearly killing the cat after you ran into the trio that night Alice. Our pack is developing its bonds before we even turn into one, she's dropping the act with you and to top it off she's making a public remark that she belongs to me at the talent show now." I said and Colin finished that sentence.
"She gave us our wolf aliases and our bonds are becoming brothers and sisters, but here's the clincher, she said that this new timeline is going werewolf and she's ready to start living now that we're about to get that axe off her head here." he said and I nodded in agreement, before I could answer though I heard a thunk, followed by a crash as something went flying across the room and landed in the fireplace.
"Emmett are you trying break something, watch where you're aiming that, will you!" Rose called out from across the room and we started laughing at that. "What the devil was that exactly Rose?" Dad asked and she smiled. "He's screwing around with the dominoes and that one threw the spatula across the kitchen and into the fireplace." she said and he nodded to that.
"I'm lucky we told you early, but she made it clear that with you here Alice, that's not causing us to phase, but the trio, that's causing the fever to set in around here, though you moved to town a year ago and the duo phase and the quintet caused me to when I was seventeen." Sam said to me and I nodded to that. "So move within range of the reservation and you guys start phasing, huh." Emmett asked and we nodded to him.
"Yeah it's promixity range, so if your revolutionary buddy comes to Forks, get him out of range, before the trio phase all at once, once the five of us deal with the Jamaican leach. Well this just took the words right out of my mouth Sam, I told her that when she came to see me. In fact our bonds of brotherhood are going to be strong now, and our pack is going to be stronger than ever now after that." I said to him and he nodded to that.
"She explained the difference between you and the nomads to us already, but we're in training by the seven and Harry's got two months, before you see him as the adult version of Seth. To her, a second chance is more precious than these parasites realize, and she's not giving it up now, our conversation when she told me that she was getting changed at graduation, it was enough for me to realize I never wanted to lose her."
"She wasn't ready to let go of her life, or choose her true love, make her own choices, because these leaches had that axe on her head, she just couldn't tell me that. But everything she told me when they told us we were werewolves I told her that before the party a week earlier, she doesn't care what I am. She made her choice and chose me now in advance, before he starts getting crazy jealous with her."
"Is that what Cullen's intention was, get her away from me and then have these leaches drop this bomb on her so he never had to lose her and you said you can't see past us? As to why I'm asking that, he's jealous I can be for her what he couldn't and now that she has the truth, she's never taking him back. His intention was destroying her, before she found out the truth, is this the intention to keep him from losing her."
"With her always with me, you can't see passed me to know what's happening to her right?" I asked her and her eyes narrowed and she nodded. "Now that you put it like that, yes, that's the intention alright Jake. To answer your second question, when she's surrounded by the nineteen of you I can't see her future, I didn't know she was at cliff just for sport when you jumped in after her, I thought she really had committed suicide."
"I came to investigate, but seeing her standing there and then meeting you I realized it then I can't see past you, because you're not completely human anymore. Whatever biology lesson is involved in this you and your father's can tell me later, but if that gene had activated in her, she's half human now as well. You're human and a werewolf, she's half werewolf, you belong together and I'm not debating that if she chose already."
"What's the next sequence here exactly, if she told you already?" she asked and I opened up the book and read the chapter. "Third degree interrogations, great, he's trying to figure why she came here aside from normal reasons, but her plans are focused on always being with the seven and the guys, Leah, Emily and me now."
"Before you six get involved and she chose you in advance, Carlisle, as her PCG." I said and they both nodded. "I guess that's because I'm not the type to ask questions with my being a vampire, I understand and our partnership is starting a year earlier than normal this way Billy. For the fight though, I recommend that the Clearwaters stay with her and Emmett is with the, and you're at my side and with eleven good vampires and the seventeen of you, that should do it." he said and dad nodded in agreement to that.
"But though we stay friends, she belongs to you now. Her place is human, not vampire and with those words, we ensure these nomads never touch her. Daniel do you have the same block out effect on my premonitions that the guys do? If she's this comfortable with you, she can talk to us with the mind block and he can't hear us that way, and with you always surrounding her that works too." she asked and the seven all nodded to her.
"I'm lucky she gave us the books, but that first story she sent us shows everything that went on when they met, and when we came into her life. But you're not going to take that movie well of the attack, let alone her hurting Charlie, when we saved her life in Phoenix guys, as you know, when we got the test results back. She lost a lot of blood and we barely kept her from getting converted, because Edward sucked the venom out like a rattle snake." Emmett said to him and he nodded to that.
"Well that's not happening this time, we take out James, we do it together Emmett." Daniel said to him and he nodded in agreement to that. "That's an understatement Daniel, but Rose and I are your contacts and starting the day we talk this over after the vocal brawl in dad's station at work. She and I can drop the barriers and I'm the first of the five of us to get added to the mental phone caller list." he said to him smiling.
"Alright what's with the relaxed demeanor here, you've never called me that before you guys?" Carlisle said with an amused look and the four of them smiled. "With the chance to start over, its time we acted like we really are your children, Carlisle, you're our parents we can act like teenagers in this new time frame and she's got us as her friends and adoptive family now as well." Rose said and he nodded smiling as he gave her a hug.
"Aside from your friends at school, I'm being added to the faculty Alice, so she's got me with her next term, but Paul is joining your group, is that enough to protect the kids when we arrange Jasper's need to eat and stay fed without him losing it in school?" Jack asked and she nodded. "Yes Jack it is, once the year starts up fully, and we arrest whoever it is that starts an altercation in school."
"If any injuries she takes in our past cover an alibi for the ones in this one, the four of us are joining her at their table and we can act normal. Than next year once things get started Jasper is part of the basketball team, I'm with her on the volleyball team and Paul is on the football team, but that's enough that she's completely safe after that. So are you teaching us your histories if we all get added to the your class?" she asked him.
"Yeah, but you and your friends are a third of my class, but we need you in the exact same classes together for added police protection, Eric is a army ranger but he runs the team like a soldier, Jasper." he said and Jasper nodded to that. "That's fine Jack, if you're our teacher, your stench is enough that blocks my need to hunt and with Paul in every class and lunch with me, I'm safe from having an outburst in class." he said to him gently and Esme changed the subject.
"What's the pack leadership here exactly, so I can expect it with you guys once your pack is fully assembled?" Esme asked me and I explained that to her. "I'm alpha, Sam is beta, Seth is third, Leah fourth, Quil fifth, or secondary beta, Jared is fifth, Embry six, with the Uley family being second in command of the pack." I said and she nodded.
"Son if his memories haven't changed yet they will now, they're getting ready to leave for college on Saturday, so you better go check on the seven now." Charlie said and I nodded as Alice got up with me then and we headed for their school then.
Tyler-2006
I'd been getting ready for college when I felt something shift in my memory as the memory of her week of school with us hit me, seeing her with a smile on her face, us getting into a snowball fight during our snow day, us just acting as a normal group of friends, her sitting between me, Mike and Eric and the girls with a grin on her face and I looked at Mike.
"Guys are your memories recording anything different about Bella's first week of school right now?" I asked and Eric answered that. "Yeah our conversation at lunch, she's engaged to Jake, Cullen's reaction in class, and she dismissed that and we were discussing something about her pack that day, before we got into a snowball fight and it turned into a war zone in the court yard at the time." he said and Mike chuckled as he answered that.
"The reason I was trying to get her to start dating me last winter is to get her to realize Jake is who she belongs to here. The bastard did enough damage to her and I'd rather have her with a man with a heart like a wolf than dating an emotionally damaging monster, if he is one." he said and we nodded in agreement to that.
"So what's going on here exactly, it's like our memories are showing everything we wished for her first day and ten days in school than what it turned into the last twenty months?" Angie asked me. "I'm not sure, but I'm finding out, if the chief and Jake know what's going on, they know why our memories are changing, but if this means what I think."
"It means whatever she didn't tell us yet when we met is going to come out if our memories are changing during her first month back home here in Forks." I said and Angie looked at me as Jessi answered that. "Jake, she belongs to Jake, she said she's betrothed to him and mentioned two members of her pack by name. Pack, why would she call a group of oversized wolves her pack exactly?" she asked and I heard a voice answer that gently and we turned to see Alice standing there.
"It's because she's their omega Jessi, to answer your second question, if you want to hear everything you're going to have to come back up to my house later guys, because if your memories are being redone now, it's because it's a secret we and the guys never told you and we need it to stay secret deal." she said and we all nodded to her request.
"What's going on, she's been gone for a week, and suddenly our memories are recataloguing everything we wanted as her first week in school with us?" I asked and she sighed. "Long story Tyler, but everything our memories haven't changed is the last nineteen months, but the first ten days did, but we're coming up on the car accident." she said and I felt my heart stop as I realized exactly what she was talking about.
"She's in the past doing everything all over again, the car accident is when she met your father Alice. Mom was furious when I ran into her truck and I lost my license for a month at the time, but the chief never pressed charges, because she told him they already punished me enough for yanking my license and I was benched for another week thanks to the concussion." I said and Angie repeated that in shock.
"She got sent back in time into the second semester of our junior year, but if that's the case, everything we remember of the past nineteen months is getting replaced with what she's doing, why is she doing that exactly?" she asked and my eyes hardened as I answered that. " Cullen was hiding key information about the pack from her and that Jake is her soulmate and she just remembered everything and was told the information, by the adult pack and Madam Clearwater, but everything that he's hiding from her is now back, he's history, the wedding is off, we got her back finally." I said and they nodded in relief.
"It was too soon to get married anyway, we're eighteen, and we just developed our bonds with her with our memories changing directions. Thank god, alright so the seven of us have a chance to really build that bond now, and if Dave, Adam and Rick are getting involved so are the team captains, before someone lands themselves in the hospital last winter, she's joining our council and you and her are under order by your parents to find out what the heck is going on right now in our teams." Angie said and I nodded smiling.
"Yeah exactly Tyler, you read everything right, he was hiding the fact that the council, both age groups, are really her family pack and she's engaged to Jake, and she's half Quileute, not just from her, but us and the guys. Her mother was the omega of the adult pack, and the trio you saw, Eric, were the Cubs of her mother's pack members. Her position is heredity." she said and Mike answered do her at that.
"Her mother is half Quileute, so that position as a human omega is hereditary here, why do I feel like we're seeing a member of the adult pack face to face sometime within the next week, before the car accident?" he asked and I closed my eyes. " It's because we are, to them she's their cub, and us being her friends, we're adoptive Cubs, so he's cub sitting to protect us, in case our homicides decide to attack." I said and they nodded.
"If this brings back Elder Clearwater and gets Chief Black out of his wheelchair than all the better, what's pack positions if its the adult council exactly?" Angie asked and I heard a call out at that and we turned to see Jake. "Dad's alpha, Uncle Josh Beta, Harry's alpha's third and Uncle Eric is secondary Beta Angie, while Leah is her personal bodyguard. You guys okay?" he asked and we nodded as I answered that.
"Aside from having our memories tampered with, yeah, the connection between her and me is turning into the one she had with you, before she finally admitted it man. Alright if she chose you, than I think I took your place as best guy friend now and the guys, in both your pack and our friends on the team, are acting like her surrogate brothers if this keeps up. Pack..., you guys are the wolves aren't you?" I asked and he nodded to that.
"Wolves, heart of a wolf, she meant that literally?" Mike repeated and he nodded. "Yeah Mike, that's why I was furious when you interrupted our conversation, she's my imprint, I'm everything she needs and she needed a good listener when she opened up the vein to me when we were at the movies. So if we do a double date that night or a few weeks later, once that flu strand wears off, her and me and you and Jessi. Just try to give us some privacy and then we can get back to it, okay." he said and Mike nodded to him.
"So you're a horse sized wolf, you're werewolves, that's amazing, so if you mentioned your dad, he's grizzly sized, but you're horse sized is that it?" he asked and Jake chuckled as he answered him. "Yeah dad's adult sized, I'm cub sized, Sam's got five years than he looks like Uncle Josh in fur coloring, but he's only three years old in wolf years, I'm seven months old, because I phased that night during our movie night."
"We got the lighter versions of the colors, because we're Cubs, and we're matched to our father wolves, but I'm alpha, Sam beta, Seth third, Leah fourth, Quil Secondary Beta, Jared sixth, and Paul seven, while Embry is eight, Colin is nine, Brady ten and Jesse is the youngest of us." he said and I thought it over and felt my heart start speeding up out of fear as it hit me then on why the duo hated each other this much as I remembered Underworld and it hit me then. "When he's around you I know you go into green ranger mode Jake, reverse the sequence guys, what's a werewolves biggest enemy."
"Jake why did she break it off with him, aside from your betrothal bracelets?" I asked and he explained that. "She blames him for what happened to Harry, he got him killed by the stalker we were hunting down and he died through a heart attack, her memories of him are back now as well, she knows what our parents are to her and chose us and the life of a human, she's Quileute, she chose her own kind." he said and I nodded to that.
"Her own kind, aside from being human and Quileute, her life is now focused on living and having a life, she doesn't want to give that up and we're really beginning to build our friendships now as a result. So human, Quileute and we're mid middle class, she chose her own kind, and our family's are either cops, medics or sporting good salesman, so she chose her own kind, it's mid middle class, and Quileute. Okay I get it." I said to him.
"The bastard is practically a billionaire, but with him getting thrown out of their tribe, he's a drifter now, but a more dangerous type of drifter. Fact of the matter is she saw our future, her's and mine, and she wants it now, our kids are the younger versions of us in cub form, it's hereditary I'm matched to dad, the trio to Uncles Josh, Daniel and Elliot and so on, aside from Embry and Leah, but the paternal quintet are my father and their fathers, Eric and Harry, our family have been friends for thirty years."
"To her it doesn't matter, wolf, human, she loves us in either form, she doesn't care what the sextet are either, but yeah go ahead here and say it Tyler, you've seen Underworld, the vamps had red eyes. So with that you already guessed on me and our families, we're wolves, so what's our natural enemy, we're here to take out the other version. So what's the cause of all the murders here, if the Cullens are already here, what else could it be that causes the rest of my pack to start going active one by one." he said and I nodded as I got what he was saying and I felt disgusted at the leach for what he did to her.
"These homicide are being done by red eyes, they're human drinkers, so that's the reason she's had both of you protecting her the last eighteen months?" I asked and they nodded. "Yeah, she and the quintet had ordered that no red eye was allowed to hunt here, and these nomads turned it into a sick game of cat and mouse and he put my mate right in the middle of it by the baseball game that night, before she ended up in the hospital." he said and I felt my anger surge at that as Mike looked at me as he said it.
"What's up if you understand that, but we can't Tyler?" Mike asked and I sighed as I explained that. "Mike, Eric we saw Underworld, so think it over, a werewolf is the natural enemy of a vampire, so why does Jake hate Cullen this much, if he's a werewolf, she broke it off with Cullen, and chose her own kind, because she's half werewolf, the mate of one and was born half Quileute, she was raised by wolves, she wanted her soulmate to be a wolf, secondly her parents are a school teacher and a cop and chief of police."
"We're looking at the Outsiders just as the Underworld version to it and with that fact in mind, we're looking at the fight in the book here, what's the catalyst for the rumble and why did the group's fight, it's always one thing and one thing only for a girl, one girl, two mates and she had to make a choice, and the fight kills three people, including the boyfriend, or in this case, the adoptive uncle of said girl and she hates the person that caused it, so what's the fight about here exactly, and finally the sextet don't hunt humans, they hunt animals, not just for sport, but for food, so what does that leave and it explains her scar and why we had fifty murders?" I asked and Angie answered that in shock.
"Aside from boy trouble in this case, they were fighting over her during the last three months of school, before we graduated, Jake went into defense mode when we were standing right behind him listening to the conversation. Her parents are middle class, we're middle class, though we were working towards athletic scholarships last year, and part number two is their tribe is a wolf clan, she wanted her mate to be a wolf, she hates the fact she's got to be so careful of exposed blood around him."
"No intimacy with the man she loves, he stopped your van with just one hand, he was there within the blink of an eye. Strength, speed, dangerous aversion to blood, he's got the body of a movie star. She knows things about him she can't tell us, and he hates the tribe and Jake though they were helping her to move forward, she's feeling dislocated, because he won't let her back with Jake and the guys till she goes to see her mother."
"They were hunting down the stalker that was after her, and he mentioned the treaty, oh my god, this isn't just a Romeo and Juliet feud or The Outsiders gang wars, it's feuding species. Hunting animals, not for the meat, but for..., aw god that's disgusting. Yeah alright I get it, you hate Cullen, because he's a..." she said and he nodded. "Yeah precisely, for two reasons, one because he's my enemy, and two because he hurt my wife this much emotionally, Tyler just go ahead and say it." he said to me calmly and I nodded.
"You don't have to say anything Alice, i know what you are and I don't care, you, your parents, Jazz and your brother and sister are the good ones. You've been protecting us ever since you start sitting at our table with us, if that explains the scar that is shaped like a crescent on her wrist than I know what the hell caused that and with that fact in mind here, she's not able to completely relax around him, but she's able to with Jake."
"He's tried to hide the truth from her ever since he mind raped the Chief and Chief Black for that information, and he's just turned into a incubus, which is just another word for a red eyed demon vampire here, out of jealousy, because he's known ever since he mind raped your father for that information Jake, before she ended up in the hospital. The bastard is a vampire, a gold eyed turned red eyed vampire on his way to becoming an incubus out of crazed jealousy, she's taking him out in the past, before it reaches this."
"Chief Swan likes Jake more than Cullen, because he approved of him, and his way of thinking if he's got the truth is this and it's he'd rather have a werewolf for a son-in-law than an emotionally damaging vampire, and in our case he likes us because we're the guys he'd approve of, if she'd been fully human and there was nothing in the way." I said with a growl and they nodded in amazement at that.
"God you're fast, you did us both in ten minutes, yes you're right, the quintet and I are good ones, we were hunting down our trio of homicides ever since they started killing fifteen people in the side of two months." Alice said and I nodded. "If you're gold eyes and you don't hunt humans, it means our homicides are a trio of human blood drinking vampires. That explains the scar on her wrist and why she ended up at the hospital, the attack put her in ICU, she's lucky to be alive, because of Cullen."
"She barely missed being killed by a nomad, that's what happened: her abilities activated, she came home and...?" Mike asked and I nodded. "To protect us and the chief, she tried to get them out of town, and the leader lures her into a trap using Councilor Dwyer to do it and nearly kills her, but Cullen saved her life and starts doing something to her till it causes her to shut down on us when the sextet left."
"Alright if she's in the past, it means she's got added wolf protection, but he's an enemy after that night, their parents are them in thirty years, Chief Black is Jake at forty six years old and it's the same for the guys, but their parents are setting aside the rivalries and we're working as one. But the PTA meeting is just the beginning, our parents are coming to the meeting, but Elder Denali is going to be acting as council protection for us in school now, he's paternal wolf in the school next year." I explained to him smiling.
"Alright we swear to secrecy, we're never telling anyone guys, we promise." I said and she held her hand out and we put ours on top of hers to seal the agreement. "Well that's the unseen item attached to the changes now, you guys are part of our world now, she won't have to hide the truth from you anymore later, because you're the first to figure it out Ty'." Jake said and I nodded as Mike turned to him then.
"Alice if you guys are spending time with us, you better adjust your feeding habits here, though if she suggests that, it's going hunting at night, and bringing it to the cafeteria with you, so you can relax completely with 120 teenagers and twenty five adults in the room with you. Though if Paul gets a transfer that covers the added issue, his, if you guys smell strange to each other, but his can mask our scents while you're having lunch." he said and she nodded to that idea as she looked at me and Angie changed the subject.
"So when does she tell us and the cops how to distinguish between Alice and her family and our homicides?" he asked and she answered that. "In the E.R." she said and I sighed. "With us in the hospital for a couple concussions, she's telling our parents and Benson and the rest of their team how to do it and the guys are with us, but if a fight breaks out that's when our theme for the prom, 'We Are One' comes into it. Because she's throwing the book in his face to make a point." I told him and he nodded to that one.
"Alright we better call this, I can feel our bonds getting stronger every day, I've never seen her this relaxed and playful before." Jessi added and I smiled. "She said we should just act normal and our bonds are growing, we enjoyed a real snowball fight between us, before it turned into a warzone out there." I said and she chuckled as we relaxed at that as we waited for things to shift directions.
January 2005/The Game, The Search and School- Bella's POV:
It was after dinner that night that I came to decision then. 'Sam, Jared, Paul, Leah, I think it's time we did our tracking skills tonight, just make sure we get back, before midnight, and do it as quietly as possible.' I said and they looked at me as we went into a huddle. "Wait, are we just redoing your entire storyline for us here at the moment and this is the first piece to it?" Jared asked in shock and I nodded to him.
"Are you crazy, we're teenagers sure, but we're not invincible." Leah said in a whisper and I sighed as I looked at her as she sighed as she nodded. "Guys at this rate to insure, they're not sticking around when our parents are hunting we got to give it a shot. The five of us are the oldest of our pack at the moment we can just improvise everything in front of your friends and the faculty tomorrow when we report to the adult pack."
"I'm your bodyguard now, but this time we're not going unarmed, we may not have gotten ambushed then, but we're coming up with a new alibi to how you gained those injuries on you." she said and the trio nodded with a sigh as Sam said it for them. "At the moment at our age, the recklessness comes with the job, but let's make sure you don't get hurt a second time here. What with the fact you got hurt in your timeline, it's not happening in ours." Sam said to me and I nodded in agreement to that thought.
"If we're improvising here in how I got these injuries, I'm going to have to tell them the truth, just change vampire for junkie, that is a cannibal in this case. Their, our parents, homicides are junkies, with bloodshot irises and and have a taste for human blood. That's as close to the truth as we can get it till we have my friends figure it out on their own, you're meeting the duo and Carlisle tomorrow Sam." I said to him softly then.
"What injuries in addition addition to your leg and wrist did you get, if our parents were that pissed?" Paul asked and I knew he wasn't going to like this as I answered him. "In addition to those two, I took a piece of glass to my thigh and that tore an artery, touch and go to my spleen and and thirty stitches to the back of my head, second degree concussion Paul." I told him and he nodded to that explanation.
"So we're just improvising this to it not happening in an alternate timeline, but when we were kids?" Jared asked and I nodded. "Yeah like say, just before your parents retired from field duty and Aunt Beth left for Makah, that's a good enough timeline, though with us as near adults and adults. Then we're not getting too reckless in this case, because last time we got jumped, this time, we're not making the same mistake."
"And we're all carrying flare guns, just try to stay as quiet as possible when sneaking out, though I'm recalling Aunt Beth so you got an adult you to work with as you learn in hands on training now. Leah with you and Sam working things out now, can you handle being his pack sister when in his head all the time later?" I asked and she nodded. "Now that I know the truth, yeah I can, I still love him, but soon enough there's going to be a balance I just have to wait it out now." she said and he pulled her into a hug at that.
"With us being Cubs, though we're in training, we're going to have to risk getting grounded here, but our parents are all the size of a buffalo, we're the size of a lion, and I'm the biggest of the three of us at the moment. I'm a cub version of dad, but he's me when on duty, so telling my father we went tracking at night, without them, they're going to be furious at this." he said and I nodded to that in agreement.
"Were you expecting us to create that strong a bond in less then two weeks since I returned and already we're getting ready to pull stunts like this?" I asked and he nodded. "Not quite, but in this timeline we're remembering who we were to each other, she knows fifteen months in advance she's a wolf, and we're a pack and our bonds as a pack are getting stronger every day now." he said and Jared looked at us at that.
"Alright guys, I think we better cool it now. Hey guys how about a game." he said to us as he called out to the seven and they nodded as I thought it over. "So kickball or volleyball?" I asked and they grinned. "How about soccer?" Jake asked and our parents all looked at us. "You guys want to play, do it on that side of the lawn and watch where you kick that." Dad said for the entire adult pack and we all nodded to him.
"God after the last batch of fooling around at the Super Bowl party that night, get ready to duck, especially after Sam knocked the axe over during our camping trip when we were pitching the tents." Harry said to him and he nodded as we got ready to start playing as the guys and I exchanged smiles. "I think we started something with our parents now if they're saying that." Seth said to me and I started laughing at that.
"Hey dad could you be empire here!" Paul called out and he nodded. "Sure, I'm going to be staying over here, but one: watch where you're kicking the ball and two: the first fight between you ends the game." he called out and we nodded as we got ready to start. "Anyone pick up on the fact that now dad knows about you and you know about your fathers the bonds between us are now acting like we're a bunch of ten to thirteen years olds now?" I asked and they nodded to me as Seth smiled as he looked at me.
"Yeah we did, our relationships with our fathers now that they reactivated have only deepened since they revealed themselves to us that they're our adult versions, if this is what they look like. I can't wait till I'm activated so I've got my adult version hunting at my side. And I can't wait to see dad as his furry self." Seth said smiling and Leah started laughing as she looked at him. "I saw him like till I was eleven to twelve Seth."
"He retired when you were seven or eight after his heart problems got worse. But my adult version is Aunt Beth, she's me as an adult, so you got your version, I've got my mine, and I'm not alone in this, but our family is the three of us and we're charged with protecting her when we activate. Though in the mean time dad and Aunt Beth are doing it for us and they're training us till we're ready later, but for now in the mean time."
"Well at least it's not dark enough to see where you kick the ball in the case, and get a tire or something to run the bases in, and just watch where you're going so we don't collide with each other when running bases here little brother." Leah said to him smiling and he nodded to that. "Yeah alright, there's sixteen of of us here, two girls on each team and six boys, coin toss." Sam said and we nodded as I pulled a quarter.
"Tails." Jared said to me and I threw it up and it landed on the ground in front of us. "Heads, we got first bat, you got the outfield." I said and they nodded, as I took home plate as Sam tossed the ball and I hit it as it went flying into the bushes and I headed for first. "Beginners luck." Jake said and I chuckled. "I'll show you beginners luck, you overgrown fluff ball." I said and I dumped a handful of snow on his head then, smiling.
Smiling as I took the lead as I waited, he tossed the ball to Colin and it went flying sideways as my father ducked it. "Again watch where you aim that, before you knock over the lighter fluid over here guys." Adam called out and we nodded to that. "Foul!" Elliot called out and I smiled as he tried again and this time it went into a line drive directly into the bushes thirty yards out and we both went running, before taking a sliding dive, before I ended up colliding with Embry.
"Whoa!" Embry said as he went down as I ran right into him. "Sorry Em." I said to him and he nodded as I helped him up then as I looked at them. "Guys we're not playing Norwegian baseball here so watch the side turns, before we run into each other." Leah called out to us and we nodded to her. Watching Paul move forward, he got into position and Sam through the ball to him and it went flying fifty yards and he went to second as I hit home plate and Embry ended up on third.
"1-0 red team." Elliot said as they shifted position and to watch the game as Seth came to home plate as the ball went flying as it landed a good forty yards out and that put the bases as loaded as Quil came to the plate then. "Somebody better get a catch soon guys, we're getting the fur beaten out of us here." Brady called out to Jake and he smiled as Emily came to the plate then, as she hit it.
The ball went wide and landed in Jared's arms as Paul was stuck between him and Jake, before he ducked the throw and dived into third base. "Safe." Elliot called out and Embry slid into home. "One out, players on second and third." Dad added and I smiled as Paul, got ready to run, as he took his lead as Jesse came to bat and Sam tossed it to him and he scored the next two lead run, but got tagged out just as he was sliding into third.
As it went back and forth the game switched back and forth, one mild cat call and a bickering match I had to end till the ninth inning and I channeled Paul's strength, and kicked it so hard it went flying seventy yards out to get us the winning kick to win the game. In the end the score ended up for 15-12 in our favor as Jake walked up to me smiling. "You won this time, we can try this again next weekend beautiful." he said to me and I nodded as I gave him a hug and he pulled me into his arms as he kissed me.
That night, after I finished my homework, I went downstairs. "I'm going to bed now dad." I told him and he nodded. "See you in the morning baby." he said and I nodded as he gave me a hug then as I headed upstairs. As I carefully went to my closet, I grabbed my survival bag that had ten bottles of water, three boxes of nutrigrain bars, my flashlight, a lighter and a flare gun, I snagged from dad's equipment bag, I grabbed my jacket and then and looked out the window to see Sam looking up at me.
"The rope is in place, just climb down Bella." he said in a whisper and I nodded as he tosed the rope up to me and I grabbed it as I swung down the rest of the way and then let go at three feet above the ground and landed next to him. "I don't think he realizes it, but we better go, before he decides to check my room and we got to get the trio." I told him and he nodded to me as we headed for the Clearwaters next.
Just as we got to the kitchen door, Leah opened it and put her jacket on as she then yanked her flashlight. "Ready guys?" she asked and we nodded. "I got ten bottles of water and three boxes worth of cherry and raspberry breakfast bars here. You?" I asked and she smiled. "I bagged ten bags worth of trail mix and ten bottles of water in this case, but at least this way none of us are going to be getting too drained here later." she told me as we headed for Jared's next and he climbed out the window.
"Alright we got to keep it down, with our hearing we make any type of noise and dad's going to be out here, before we can leave, girls." he said to us softly and we nodded to that as we went to get Paul as he tossed his survival bag to him and climbed out the window and landed on the ground, as he pulled it on and then yanked his flashlight. "Ready?" he asked and we all nodded. "Alright, let's do this." Sam said as we got undercover of the bushes, out of sight, and turned on our flashlights.
"I never thought we'd be acting like we're cat burglars when we're going hunting guys, but at this rate, best just to watch where you're going here." Jared said to him and he nodded as we got to the halfway point and I pointed my flashlight on the ground. "Got something, we got a footprint, our homicides are going tracking, but does this smell familiar to you guys?" I asked and they started growling as Sam said it for all of them.
"No that's not the Cullens, that's got fresh blood attached to it and it's not animal either." he said with a dangerous growl, before I heard a snap and I yanked my flare gun as the quartet surrounded me and the trio put their bags back down. "Whoa easy, guys relax, it's us!" I heard a male voice shout. "Whoever's out there show yourself, or you're getting barbecued." I replied in answer to that and then I heard a female voice.
"Bella hold fire, it's us. Guys what are you doing out here?" I heard and turned to see Rose walking over to us, as I lowered my gun and put it back in my belt as I said in exasperation to her. "For gods sakes, alright it's just you, alright let me guess, hunting mission, or just checking the crime scene?" I asked and Carlisle answered that softly as he walked up to me. "Both actually, just relax, it's just us. They're jumping territories and ended up in Canada honey." he said to me softly and I relaxed completely.
"Jesus, are you trying to give me a damn heart attack Rose, after my last encounter with these guys, I'm jumpy enough without you sneaking up on us like that." I said to her. "Coming prepared this time works, but going tracking without your adult versions in the middle of the night with a trio of red eyes homicides running loose. Honey if you don't relax you could have shot someone." he said to me gently and I sighed as I said it.
"Just a flare gun, I remember everything from my timeline, but this time, I'm not getting another injury taken by these maniacs, especially the redhead. I had that fear of her coming after me ever since your future selves left, and her friend nearly attacked me when the guys were listening to the conversation. But the bitch is a stalker after your son killed her mate, I'm not taking another injury by them. I..." I said to him, feeling the fear creep up on me and he nodded to me as he sighed as he said it.
"Alright shh, it's okay, it's okay, I understand, but if you don't get that fear under control its only going to do more damage than it has already. We need the entire story to understand, but I know these red eyes, once they lose their mate they goes on a killing spree. I'm a doctor it's true, but in your case, I'm insuring they can't get to you that way a second time and with you're being under my protection it's a death sentence."
"Post traumatic stress, terrific, alright I'm lucky I found you, before they did, if you're this jumpy, but if you know us on sight then your taking your job just a little too seriously now." he said and I sighed. "Did our future selves give you added details if you're carrying that around with you, when you chose to do this?" he added and I nodded. "Yeah after spending close to a year with your family, I learned quite a bit."
"Your conversation when you decided to kill the leader, gave me key details to do it, but carrying flare guns means they're getting barbecued, if they try to attack, and I'm passing that to my father. And secondly your weaknesses are like Freddy Krueger and you're afraid of fire and evidently are afraid of werewolves as well. Which in this case means get ready, because father wolf and his pack are back on active duty again."
"But if they think I don't know what they are, they better think again, because the sequence it's playing itself out in year right now, and Edward nearly exposes you by showing off his strength in front of the entire high school. Aside from barely surviving the original attack by these maniacs, I know their skills a little too well and two I wasn't expecting to find you out here as well tonight. We thought they weren't around, but finding that there was enough, till you startled us." I said and he nodded as she said it.
"Sorry and again what the heck are you doing out here." she asked and Jared said it for me. "Tracking, we got our first indication, what are you doing out here Rosalie?" Jared asked her and I heard several people walk over to us as the quartet walked over to us. "We're going hunting actually, have you lost your minds, what are you guys thinking here, and where are your fathers?" Esme asked us and we exchanged looks.
"At home, we decided to do this on our own." Sam told her and she covered her eyes at that. "Than we're lucky we found you, before our homicides did, because you're outnumbered and Leah hasn't activated yet." Jasper said with annoyance and I nodded to him. "I guess you picked up on their scents, before you realized I was with them?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah I did and I'm lucky dad called out or you could have broken your ankle tripping over that log." he said as he pointed his torch towards the tree.
"I'm also lucky I'm surrounded by them, because that's preventing my scent from getting to you right now." I said to him and he nodded in agreement to that. "If Paul is joining our graduating class than that's my best chance of staying in control when around you Bella, you find anymore footprints though, because we found ten and there's splattered blood all over the trees by the boundary." he said and I nodded to him at that.
"Yeah they're heading in this direction, before you startled us." I told him and he nodded. "Well if you guys are the start of your pack than you all look like cub versions of your fathers and aunt, am I right?" Emmett asked and the quartet all nodded to him. "Yeah my aunt is an adult version of what I look like, and their fathers look the trio if you met them before." Leah said and Carlisle sighed as he answered her.
"We did, but we also met Ephraim, Quil and Joseph at the time, but she-wolves are not uncommon either, your family had three or four Leah, your familial gene hit when the alpha found his imprint, that's why you activated the second your brother does. Alright what's your curfew guys, Bella?" he asked looking at the duo and me and Jared said it for all of us then as he looked at him then.
"Midnight." Jared said and he looked at his watch. "Than you better go, or you're going to get caught by your folks guys. We'll report into you tomorrow at lunch to let you know what we find, just keep your voice down, so our friends don't get too curious." Rose said to me and I nodded. "Yeah well I'm coming up with a few alibis for both of us so they're going to be lese wary around you with your eyes that color."
"And you're out of school on sunny days, but they're all human related, and the fact that you're looking like you're recovering from a life threatening disease and in your case. But a sexual assault, that made you lose a lot of blood, with these schmucks running loose right now, I'm not saying that, but you got attacked by a guy with pneumonia and you got hit by it as a result, while the rest of you are recovering physically from mono. And in your case you've driven yourself into exhaustion Carlisle, because the murders are driving you and our parents crazy right now." I said and Carlisle answered me at that.
"Classic signs of sleep deprivation and I'm showing all of them in my looks, but thankfully I've studied everything in the books to be able to know what I'm doing here. But if I've got to create a dream suppressant for you so you can get some sleep after your original encounter with these nomads, I'll do it just so you can heal up finally. At the moment if I was your PCG in your timeline, I'm taking back my job with you as of now."
"That's going to track alright, and the quartet are just beginning to heal from it, while I'm dealing with working myself into sleep deprivation with working around the clock with these murders and that should help here, what with the fact that it's the flu season, flu leads to pneumonia, and mono. Alright whatever ideas you got you can explain your injuries, whatever they are in subterfuge anf then tell us who did it. Just whatever you got planned we make it believable as possible." he said and I nodded to him.
"Guys meeting after school, Sam and Leah are coming to the PTA meeting in addition to our parents, but that's a good enough time for you to see the adult pack face to face now Carlisle. With Edward still out of town." I told him and he nodded. "Alright I'm coming to the meeting, but it's time lay off the pretenses and we can work as one now." I said and he nodded. "I take it you know where he went at the moment?" she asked me softly.
"Yeah he went to see Tanya and Katie in Denali at the moment, as for why he took off on us it's because, to him, I've just been identified as his La Tua Cantante." I told her and the trio moved to us in shock at that. "You're his singer, so choice between imprint and singer, he gets you targeted by these nomads and from there it results in..., Aro, Caius, no not going to happen, we can't let them find out about you." Esme said to me then.
"Indeed, our only chance of that is double duty between our tribes, alright we got to meet at my house after the PTA meeting honey." he said and the duo and I nodded. "Alright, but dad's coming to it, he said so long as you can protect me he doesn't care what you are." I said and he nodded to that. "Alright I'll explain it, see you guys at the meeting, son, ladies." he said and we all nodded as we left and headed home as Sam walked me back and I checked dad's window to see it dark and smiled.
After climbing up, I carefully opened it set my bag on the side of the window seat and then climbed in, waved to him and closed the window as I turned on my light and grabbed the map to check off the route we did and marked a red circle in the spot we just did. "Damn it, they're heading for the tribe, we got to take them out and soon." I thought with a growl as I put my bag into the cubby in the window seat and went to bed.
After getting to the class that morning then, I took my usual spot in between the guys then and hid a smile. "What's the usual set up for this semester with us graduating next year guys?" I asked and Jessi answered that. "We got the talent show in a few weeks and the volleyball team trial outs actually, why?" she asked and I smiled. "How about the three of us doing a girl group in the talent show, I mean the entire gang can do that, we just do selections of songs and I can get the guys involved in it as well." I said to her smiling.
"Great idea Bella, alright what songs should we choose exactly?" Tyler asked, before I could answer Angie went to the follow up question in that. "Hey did Mike tell you about our group plans this weekend?" she asked and I nodded with a smile. "Yeah and the guys and I decided to split the weekend with you on that. To answer your question we need to find songs that are meant to say we had enough of these people toying with us."
"And none of us are available." I said and she smiled as she thought it over then. "Bella the talent show is in just short of a month and you do a song set for him, so he knows you're taken already and you belong to the pack and we're who you choose now, friends for life and we're always together, Angie and I are your trio now." Jessi said and I smiled. "Alright I'm lead singer you girls are my back up, which one though?" I asked and she smiled. "There's one focused on another show on Nickelodeon called, 'Take a Hint', you sing that and everyone in school is going to know you're sick of him harassing you about this and you're taken already." Angie said and the guys grinned at that.
"No I got a better idea, Jess, you do the lyrics with me, I take one half of it and you do the other and then the three of us sing out the chorus together, are you guys getting hit on by anyone, since we're all taken right now." I said and she smiled at that. "Great idea Bella, we can make it clear you're not available by humiliating him in public here, if it takes a public humiliation tactic for him or anyone else, we do it together."
"To answer your question yeah we are, I'm dating Eric and Jessi is getting ready to start dating Mike, but we're at the early stages of our relationships here, and these guys don't know when to quit." she said and I nodded as I felt annoyance at this. "What is it with these guys, can't they take no for an answer. Alright any other girl agree with us that this one is perfect for telling off these guys who don't want to take a hint here?" I asked and every girl in the room nodded in agreement to that.
"Okay what was that first verse here, because we're swapping off per piece in the lyrics here till we hit the chorus and the three of us do that together?" I asked and she smiled. "Why I am always being hit on by the boys I never like, I can always see them coming from the left and from the right." she sung out and I smiled, already knowing the lyrics to that one . "I don't want to be a priss, I'm just trying to polite, but it always seems to bite me on the... Yeah, okay cut, we're not doing the whole song in here, before we do it in the talent show in two weeks, just wait till we get it worked out guys." I said and the rest of the class started laughing as she looked at them smiling.
"I think that blacked out word was ass actually, or breasts, but whichever it is, we just make it clear, with us looking like models, whoever wants to get into our pants had better think again, because we're not going in that direction, till we're ready. Fact of the matter is they either act like that punk on Power Rangers or Biff Tannen on 'Back to the Future' and our mates are ready to beat the crap out of them here."
"These guys need to get their hormones under control, so we just dial it up, if they're vipers we tell them that they don't have us fooled, they want us, it's public humiliation now, because we're all getting sick of this and with that we're not available, we never will be and leave us alone, you touch us where we don't want to be touched you're getting smacked in the face." Crystal Jenkins said and I smiled at her remark.
"You better believe it, they touch us in either spot their getting smacked and we tell them we're not available at all, so what's the under current of that need a mint statement?" I asked and she smiled. "The clip was played at a teenagers bar, like the Youth center on the show, and these guys were drunk when they were hitting on the duo singing. So these guys we're dealing with are athletes, and they're getting into alcohol, but none of us drink, so we just say they want to date us, they better clean up their act."
"But we're taken already, so dress and act decent and you get a girl, act crude and you get smacked for touching the forbidden areas on a girl's body. That's the underlining meaning to the song. But we really take it to the max here ladies, us girls in here, we tell the rivals of our mates they're not getting a chance, we're taken already. So that's what Fox's mother meant on 'Back to the Future', the guy harassing her was like these guys, always drinking till someone in the school stands up to him and smacks him in the head, before he marries her himself. So with that let's rock." she said and I nodded.