Life Choices Remade
Disclaimers: Twilight doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else bselongs to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 15: Wolf Visits, PTA, Sports Department and Council Meetings
"What's the two before practice exactly?" Dave asked and I looked at him. "It's regarding our quartet of rapists, medical concerns conceding the amount of arrests in our class at the moment and police safety if you're going into the woods and Eric Ateara and Josh Uley just got back and getting involved in police protection, if you see them hunting in the woods, it's they're on duty now at the moment." I said and he nodded to that.
"Hey guys, we still on for a trip to the beach this weekend?" I asked and Tyler smiled as he said it for the sextet. "Yeah definitely, who we got coming from your pack exactly?" he asked and I chuckled. "Jake, Em' and Quil, along with Jared, but we're being cub sat by Brown, with our homicides on the loose at the moment." I told him and he nodded to that. "Cub sat, what's with the adult pack exactly?" Eric asked and I started laughing as I said it to him smiling.
"With being a seventeen year old omega, the adult pack see me as their baby omega, because mom is their omega, though she's retired at the moment, as to that with seven to eleven teenagers he's acting like a paternal wolf and decided on cub watch duty, in case we got unwanted visitors crashing the party later, though if Orangie decides to break the rules of Red, it's he's coming into public places next here." I said, before I heard a gentle growl from outside at that in answer to that and the coach walked over to the window. "I think you spoke too soon honey, about the coming into public places."
"Bella you know who this one is, because I just found an orange wolf the size of a grizzly bear over here and he's looking at me with a gentle smile in his eyes at the moment as well." he said and I covered my eyes, as I turned to see Jack looking through the window at us, with a playful smile in his eyes and I hid a chuckle as my sextet exchanged amused looks at this. "Well I guess that's our first view of these guys, he's the biggest wolf I've ever seen." Dave said and they started laughing at that as Eric answered him.
"Well here's something you don't see every day." One of the players on the hockey team said laughing and they all nodded in agreement as Eric answered that remark with one of his own. "For gods sakes, what's he doing up here, you just mentioned the adult pack, but I wasn't expecting him to come see us when school is in session Bells." Eric said and I knew he decided to come visit like this then as I answered his remark.
"Dang it, if Red told him not to go into public places like this, he's trying to bend the rules by coming to see me right now coach, that's Orangie. He's Red's fifth, with Shadow and Cocoa back in town. He's fifth in command of the pack and Goldie is third in command of the pack and Red's working from La Push, because he's retired from hunting duty now, but he's going to beat the crap out of him for breaking whatever rules they gave them for this and with that fact in mind here." I said as I looked at my uncle.
"This one's been acting like an overly protective uncle wolf ever since I moved back, but he's the wiseacre in the pack, Alright hang on I'll take care of it." I said and he nodded as I walked outside at that. "Emmett, Rose, Alice, Jazz, come on." I said and they both nodded and walked outside with me. "Are you just choosing now to just dropping the pretenses with us here?" Emmett asked and I nodded as I explained that to him.
"Long story short, with your brother out of town still I can act normal with you guys, but the first piece of trouble is next week, between your tribe and mine, guys this is Jack Denali." I told them and they nodded as they looked at him. "What happened to Red exactly if he's working from La Push anyway?" Rose asked and he answered that. "Car accident, he's lost his ability to use his hind legs Rosalie."
"Red happens to Ephraim's grandson. Though once Renee gets back you're seeing him as the twin to Ephraim Black in wolf form." he said and they nodded. "William Black, he's your godfather Bella, alright so you're a friend of the family Jack, and decided on cub watch duty in case our trio of homicides or a stray predator decide to come onto the school grounds here." Emmett asked and he nodded as I crouched in front of him then.
"Uncle Jack what are you doing up here, whatever mom told you I'm repeating, you're not supposed to be going into public places like this, you just scared the heck out of my gym teacher?" I asked softly and he nuzzled me as he answered me. 'I decided to check on you at the moment. I wanted to check on you baby." he said and Emmett answered him. "He's not getting back till the day after tomorrow, Elder Denali." he said to him.
"If he's your lab partner, here's your next test, just keep your neck down and your guard up, he can't be trusted.' he said and I nodded to him and gave him a hug. "I'll see you this afternoon, but it's probably better you're picking me up as a human after school." I said and he gave a chuckle. "Alright I'll come pick you up after school baby, and this will be the norm now for us too." he said and I nodded as I wrapped my arms around his neck and I heard him start purring at that.
"Uncle Jack I got another idea, but get Aunt Beth and bring her home, two packs of each version, though we got one more than you, but that should do it by the time Colin and Brady phase. Until Leah gets started I need an alpha's fourth, she's my best shot and the Clearwater tribe is back in one piece." I told him and he nodded to me. "Got it and I'll let her know that the hunt has begun and we're working it out." he said and I nodded as we ended our meeting and I looked into his eyes smiling.
As he pressed his forehead to mine he started purring and I chuckled, that had become the ritual between us since I was a toddler and I did that with the entire adult pack to strengthen our bonds, but with my being their baby omega it was now meant to tighten the bonds between me and the adult pack for our telepathic connection now, as I pressed my forehead to his I felt his fur and closed my eyes and felt our bond fuse into place.
"You just fused your bond into place with me honey, that's part of the omega bonds with their pack. See you this afternoon baby.' he said and I nodded as he turned and hid in the bushes and I knew he decided on guard duty at the school and we walked back into the room. "Who's Beth exactly." Alice asked and I smiled. "She's my Uncle Harry's twin sister, it runs in their family, but not only is he third in command, he's the paternal leader of my pack. The Clearwaters are the protection of the alpha's mate and omega."
"With my getting back last weekend, Beth doesn't know the hunt is about to start, or that you're back, let alone that we got a trio of red eyes running loose in the woods right now. Once I explain everything I'm about to tell you to her, and she's going to be furious, but she's the personal bodyguard to the omega and alpha's mate, and in Jake's case, I happen to be both here." I said and they both nodded to that.
"So she's going to look like an adult version of the she-wolf I saw in that picture you gave me. How big are these guys exactly, he looked like he was buffalo sized." Rose said and I chuckled. "Cub sized is lion to two year old colt, adult sized is grizzly to buffalo and with that, with a male and female hanging around the courtyard with us on sunny days and every member of the faculty here is going to find this slightly odd at this rate."
"As to why my mother was their previous omega and to any normal person, a woman being able to tame wolves this size is more than normal, but superhuman." I said and they nodded as we walked back in. "Yes and that's the understatement of the century young lady, I've never seen a wolf that size before." Carlisle said with an amused look and I smiled. "I take it you were watching us from the window Sir?" I asked and he and the coach both nodded as Coach Anderson answered that.
"He seems almost human in the way he was acting with you, like you're either his daughter or niece actually sweetie." Anderson said and I chuckled at that. "Yes as to why that is, I'm actually the daughter of his omega coach, he and his pack, are my mother's pack, I'm half and half here, but dad's keeping me here at the school with the gang once the contract activates completely." I said and they all nodded to that.
"Yeah well I found it slightly odd that Renee had these guys acting like obedient wolves when they were around her at the time. So she's part of the council on our side of the line baby?" Bentley asked and I nodded as I hid a smile at his use of the word, already seeing our bond as student and teacher changing into a deeper bond.
"Yes Sir, at the moment I've taken her position till she comes up for a visit later, but I've had these guys in my life ever since I was cub myself, to put it gently this is what the adults are sized to, theiyee the size of a rhino, but their Cubs are the size of a two year old colt. Smokey, Brownie and Twister just activated, and Cocoa and Shadow just got back last night, along with Storm." I said and he nodded as he answered me.
"So at the moment we've got ten oversized wolves running around and we just got full peek at one of of the adults, seeing these guys up close and personal is enough to scare the daylights out of anyone if you hadn't been raised by a pack of wolves all your life baby. So if they're like this around you, they're going to get extremely territorial of a bunch of Cubs here at the high school, if our homicides decide on crashing the party someday."
"For gods sakes, alright if they see you as a cub, they're going to see your peers as adoptive Cubs later and start taking shifts as added protection here later." he said and I nodded. "Once he, or they, get territorial with one cub, they get overly protective of the Cubs connected to their adopted cub coach. But don't worry he's harmless to humans, he's hunting down our homicides right now and on watch in case we got any of our game coming out of the woods later." I told him and they all nodded in relief to that news.
"The added catch, if you like to go hunting Coach, is he's going to be seeing you as his human peer and pack member and start getting overly protective." I told him gently. "With the woods stocked with predators I'm relieved you're saying that, so the pack, or packs, if their Cubs just activated now, are now on watch in case our homicides or we got a stray predator coming to crash the party when you're at school."
"So he's sticking around to protect not only you, but the entire student body and the faculty and staff now, Orangie and Cocoa are deciding on guard duty once it's warm enough to eat in the courtyard later. So expect to see one or both of these guys sitting next to me when the seven of us are at the bench outside, just before school lets out for the summer and Cocoa and Shadow out there all school year next year." I said to him.
"Alright so their harmless to us, but they're, once they get testy or overly protective of their human counterparts like myself as I'm a retired army ranger, he's going to be dropping in to see us or you repeatedly right, as to why I'm saying that we've had a few stray Grizzlies wonder into the courtyard in the spring here, he's big enough to protect you kids in case one actually does drop in." the coach said and I nodded as I answered his remark. "Yes Sir that's it exactly, he's here to protect us in case these things now."
"Yeah I know, but they're really good at fighting off a bear and with the murders, they're scouting out in the woods for our homicides right now. He's my designated wolf protector actually, so expect him to be in the woods till school lets out after school every day." I told him and he nodded. "He sees you as his cub, I saw the look in his eyes, he's looking at you like you're his daughter." the coach said and I smiled as I answered him.
"He and his pack were always around my father and me when I was little, so they practically raised me themselves, his human clan is the Denali clan, so expect my uncle to come pick me up, after school today." I said and they nodded. "Denali Clan, Jack Denali, so your parental guardians are the Quileute council?" he asked and I nodded. "Yes Sir, my godfather is Billy Black actually, but he and his friends helped dad raise me."
"My biological aunts are Sally Uley and Anna Trueheart, my godmother is Susan Clearwater, while my fourth aunt was Jessica Lehote, but their family's are my dad's closest friends, while Jack Denali, Joe White, Eric Ateara and Adam Daniels were the rest of my mother's pack. The nine are my mother's pack actually, I'm the younger version of her so they see me as their baby omega now, but I'm the only one who can control them and their Cubs guys. Guys if anyone's heading for first beach this weekend, expect to see him or another member of his pack to come onto the beach, okay."
"They're doing cub watch duty in case our homicides decide to drop in, and don't wander too far away from our campfire setting either, otherwise you're going to get lost and Stripes or Orangie are going to have to track you down and bring you back to the safety of our group, okay." I called out and the entire cafeteria all nodded to my request. "Alright I got a question if we're seeing these guys hanging around the courtyard now."
"But what are their names, who is Stripes exactly?" Anderson asked and I smiled. "He's the cherry red wolf with white stripes in his leg fur coach, that was the name mom gave him, this one is called Orangie. But the nine in the pack are Red, Shadow, Cocoa, Goldie, Brown, Val, Stripes, Orangie and Storm, and Red is the leader of the pack, as for why he got that name, his fur is reddish brown and he's the alpha of the pack."
"While Brown is the dark, near chocolate, furred wolf and and Val is the chocolate furred wolf with the white patch on his chest. But the homicides have resulted in bringing back the entire adult pack guys, so expect Shadow to have Orangie picking me up every day after school later the term. At the moment we got seven and Shadow is back as Beta, while Cocoa and Storm just rejoined the pack last night." I said and she and the entire faculty all nodded to that as they exchanged bemused looks at this.
"As for why they got those names, Shadow is jet black, Goldie is brownish gold, Cocoa is chocolate furred and Storm is greyish black with white spots on him, their Cubs are lighter tinged in fur coloring, but at the moment the trio are just getting started right now. And the quintet don't start till next winter, aside from Hurricane he starts this summer, if our homicides decide to make a come back." I added and they nodded.
"Oh, before I forget, Mr. Carlisle, Jack Denali has requested a transfer here, next school year to teach here, in addition to added police protection later, but acting guardian for me and the class gets some added interest in it as well." I said and he nodded. "What's his expertise exactly if he's doing that?" he asked and I smiled. "He's ancient history actually, but he's adding some of our legends to the class, and Paul Lehote is transferring here as well, to keep me company as well." I said and he nodded to that gently.
"Alright, when Billy sends me that request, it's getting granted, and he's your homeroom teacher as well." he said and the seven, Dave, Rick and several members of our class exchanged smiles. "Well what do you think, every class together next year, Paul as well?" Tyler asked and they all nodded as Alice and Jasper also nodded and we exchanged grins then. "Uh oh, I can see if these kids are in every class together, it's going to be a madhouse next year." Bentley said with an amused look on his face and I hid a chuckle.
"We're going to be a third of every class in the schedule next year Coach, so with that expect things to get a bit out of hand. Though if Edward suddenly starts getting crazy jealous, he's getting involved in every class we are, to be around me, though there's a restraining order, so if a fight breaks out between him and Paul, when I'm surrounded. The rules are he's getting the consequences and enough of the special treatment here."
"The Cullens maybe new in the school, but they're invited to join in activities, everything, if we learn who's screwing around with what's landing our team-mates in the tank for DUI's we're doing special teams and added tryouts and with that. The Cullens are invited to try out with whoever never got a place on the team last semester." I said and he nodded smiling as the quartet looked at me with thankful smiles on their faces at that.
"That's not an exaggeration either, Tyler, you, Mike, Jessie and I are rewriting the book for this, we got to get them comfortable and make things as easy as we can on them later. Alice and Jasper are in our graduating clas, as is Paul, he's seventeen. So he's got us and our gang and that makes fouteen with thirty three kids in a clas." I said and they smiled as we ended our conversation and started going over the talent show.
After school that day I found him waiting by my truck with a smile on his face and I gave him a hug and he tightened his arms around me as I looked at him. "You're not showing up furry too often are you, because the coaches in my lunch period weren't expecting to see you standing by the door like that this morning Uncle Jack." I said and he chuckled. "He was right that there been several Grizzlies coming out of the woods lately."
"But if you guys are doing your lunch period outside best for me to stick around like that, aside from that Red and Shadow gave me orders to act as wolf bodyguard and take care of you and I'm secondary beta right now til Eric gets back. As to that, with him back right now, I'm not taking chances with him around you right now, if he hasn't seen the look on my face in wolf he knows that he crosses me and he's a dead leach at the moment." he said and I nodded to that as I answered him as the sextet walked over.
"Hi Elder Denali, good to see you." Tyler said and he smiled gently. "Hey son, guys, so I see you guys are growing closer now huh?" he asked and he and I exchanged smiles as he gave my hand a squeeze then. "Yeah our friendship is getting stronger every day, but learning we got another person joining our pack that's great once we got you as our home room teacher later." Angie said and I smiled as I looked at my friends.
"Best friends and she's got us as her guy friends and at the moment things are changing directions at the moment, we're growing closer every day now." Mike said as he wrapped his arm around my shoulders and I smiled as I gently nudged him in the side."Watch it Mikey or you're in big trouble." I said to him and he smiled then as I looked at Jack.
"What's the verdict exactly regarding Aunt Beth?" I asked and Jack smiled. "Beth said that she was coming home for the next few years to help out, she didn't realize you'd just activated your position in the pack and is training Leah till she's ready, but once this information gets back to your mother, she's got double duty next winter, before Leah gets started." he said to me. "That's great, I can't wait to see her later." I said smiling.
"We got a bit of a delay here, but if Elders Uley or Ateara wants to come help with this, I could use your opinions, because this issue of arrests is beginning to get annoying where the coaches and sports department are concerned. I mean it's been four months into the school year and we've had thirty arrests in both grade levels in the sports department Elder Denali." Jessie said and he nodded as we headed in for the meeting then.
"Eighty percent of the council are coming for this, as are Sam and Leah, so expect a full house in the PTA meeting this afternoon." he said to her and she nodded. "Well dad is now part of the council on our side of the line at this rate, but if this keeps up. He's filling in for mom till she comes for a visit." I said to him and he nodded in agreement. "Eric's father named him our Forks representative today actually." he said and I smiled at that.
Before I heard a car pull up, and saw my father's cruiser as he, Daniel, Harry, Josh, Eric and Elliot got out of it. "PTA meeting here dad, I wasn't expecting you to come see me before the council meeting this afternoon." I said and he nodded as he gave me a hug. "I take it dad's sending a message to the quartet through you for him, if three out of four showed up today?" I asked and they nodded as Josh explained that to me.
"Yeah honey, but with us running security between the border of Forks and the reservation, we're trying to make sure no one does anything stupid here, though if this results in an injury and trip to the E.R. and they're in serious trouble for it. With you being related to four of the five of us at the moment, though the little brat that does that is going to get it." Uncle Josh told me and I nodded with a smile as I answered him.
"As if that's not enough I've got the adult versions of my quartet on the grounds here as well." I said to him and he chuckled, before he could say it, I saw the Cullens give them a wave and they gave a nod to them gently. "Guys go ahead I'll be in the library in a few minutes." I said and the seven nodded and left as the quartet came over to join us then. "Hey kids, as she probably told you I know already, but so long as you can protect her in school that's all I care about, okay." Dad said and they nodded as they focused.
"Hello Elders Uley, Trueheart, Lehote, Clearwater, Ateara and Denali, nice to finally meet you now. Emmett and I are part of the quintet your grandfathers met 90 years ago." Rose said and Josh nodded to her. "Did Carlisle get the message, because though you five know that truth, your brother is in serious trouble with our future selves at the moment Rose." he said and they nodded to that and she answered that.
"Yeah I told him right after Edward left that night, though at the moment she gave us the first book and we're changing the situation at the hospital, Elder Lehote how old is Paul exactly anyway?" she asked and he sighed. "He's six months old, at the moment Rosalie, fact of the matter if she phrased this situation into the book. Leading into the self defense murder scenario in the story and she's got to make that clear to him."
"It's you're looking at the older brother's best friend when he loses his temper, she's the only one who's able to control that temper, because she's the buffer to our tempers." he said and they nodded to him. "Sam is the oldest of the trio, but at the moment, I can't phase yet till I get myself checked out with the cardiologist, but you'll see me in wolf form the night of the game that causes you to bump into this trio." Harry added to her.
"Great, he sees the guys and it's going into a fist fight, before she deals with it, and what's going to happen if she loses her temper exactly?" Emmett asked and I answered that. "In addition to being the buffer to their tempers, I'm also telekinetic as well, I lose my temper and something is going to get launched across the room. We can bend certain rules in the treaty, but the key points I'm leaving in there."
"But only if need be you guys can cross the border, and tell that to Carlisle." I said and the quartet nodded to that. "I'm lucky we decided on tribal meetings instead of meeting in the emergency room for the first time, though if Cullen sees our sons and it's going to West Side Story without the violence every time." Josh said and they nodded in agreement to that as Rose answered him then.
"Yeah well we can work side by side with you Elder Uley, we promise, she suggested, that with us graduating this year, to have your son here at the high school with Alice and Jasper later." She said and Elliot nodded as he answered her. "Yeah that's the police protection action in the treaty we're putting in, but in addition to the reason we came to see you was because we're here to see Derek about getting Jack into place here."
"And getting added medical and police orders to the faculty and your and the junior class councils, if you're sticking around for a while." he said and we all nodded as I looked at my father. "Nice touch, so your son is in our gang and and we got you telling us a bit of history, if we're partners and the law here in the paranormal police department covering the entire peninsula at the moment." Emmett said and he chuckled and nodded.
"The law, you mean you're dealing with the paranormal parasites and I'm dealing with the human one at the moment?" Dad asked and we nodded to him. "Yeah exactly, it's against the law to hunt humans in our territory, but these nomads don't realize they just broke the law here, we find them and they're getting executed Charlie. By the law we mean this is our territory, from La Push and Forks, and in both directions from Tacoma to the Canadian Border." Emmett said and dad nodded to that gently.
"Great, in other words, with the fact they just killed five people since Thanksgiving they just sentenced themselves to death here." he said and thry nodded. "Yeah exactly, our key points in the treaty were no biting a human, never crossing the border, unless we get permission to by the council and the pack and never using our hunting weapons on a human. That was the agreement and in exchange they'd never tell you what we are."
"We agreed to their grandfathers that there was no hunting humans here in the peninsula and we set up the treaty with the council, that was 90 years ago as well in fact, but in that time we never expected your generation to start phasing and why did that happen exactly?" Rose asked and Harry sighed. "After you left, we had thirty more come through here and the ten of us started phasing one by one."
"I just got my twin sister involved, she's coming home on Saturday, that is if she decides to hot foot it back up here. She's twice as fast as I am, and she looks like an adult version of my daughter in wolf form as well. We were all hoping our Cubs weren't going to start and live normal lives, but having you show up again, just reactivated the prophecy, we were all hoping wasn't coming true here Rose. But if you can help us, we become allies and friends now." he said and she nodded to him softly.
"No offense fellas, but I'd like to see the four of you as your wolves, so I know what to expect now in case I meet the guys in the woods." she said, looking at the quartet and they all nodded and we headed into the forest and they phased in front of us and she looked at the duo in amazement. "Levi, Quil, David and Job. Alright so you four are the exact look alike to your grandfathers." she said and they nodded as they phased back.
"I'm just beginning to get used to the menthol stench again here, but our kids are not taking it too well later, if they see you face to face Rose." Elliot said as he phased back and she nodded. "So the guys are in school, but you are doing work hours now?" Alice asked and they all nodded. "Yeah, Dan and I are working on tracking, because we're all skilled hunters, and we took her tracking from the time she was two."
"But if you and your family see us before dark get out of the woods and quick, before the rest of the department see you, or just say your tracking skills are as good as ours and we're working at doing it together." he said and they all nodded. "We better call this, but if we could meet a second time, this time at my house that would work better later, so you'll get to see what my brothers and Jake look like when phased later." I said to her and she nodded to that as we ended the tribal meeting and we turned it to school stuff.
"But if you and your family see us before dark get out of the woods and quick, before the rest of the department see you, or just say your tracking skills are as good as ours and we start working at doing it together." he said and they all nodded. "Yeah well you're getting used to that again, I'm getting used to seeing you guys phase in front of me again Uncle Elliot, though you did it repeatedly when I was a cub."
"I'm just beginning to get used to that again, after seeing the guys do it in front of me at the time for a first time." I told him and he nodded. "Being retired for seven years, let alone being gone for five, you forget things that were so natural to you, but you were born into this world, it's completely natural to you to be around us and the sextet." Harry said to me gently and I nodded to that in agreement as Alice looked at me at that.
"If you thought that something was strange with you when you were that comfortable being around the kids, let alone their family, being able to open up to us, feeling so comfortable in this world. Well it's it's because it's completely natural to you, this life is so normal to you, it's because you were born into this world and saw it in action from your babyhood." Elliot added and I nodded to that explanation as the quartet nodded.
Before I could say it, a car pulled into the driveway and I saw my brother and sister get out of it. "Hey guys." I said and they smiled as they walked over. "Rose, Emmett, these two are Sam Uley and Leah Clearwater, they're my Beta and alpha's fourth." I said and the duo nodded to that as Sam wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "Nice to meet you both, Leah don't worry, once we find that trio, nothing's changing the fact she belongs to your alpha, I'll make sure of that." Rose said and they both nodded to her.
"I guess I can trust you Rose, just do me a favor and if your brother puts her at risk get her to her house and we'll take it from there. She's my baby sister, I'm not giving her up to a gold eye turned red eye." Leah said to her and she nodded to her. "How old are you guys?" Emmett asked and Sam answered that. "Second year of college actually, though I'm a carpenter/woodsman, my primary job at the moment is training my brothers, the two of us are working with the council as college reps." he said and they nodded to him.
"You're the current alpha and when Jake phases he takes over and you take the second in command position, yeah okay got it, so ranks are going from first generation to third and now the fourth is that it?" he asked and they nodded. "Yeah but though our parents had eleven, with Embry being the second born cub in his family, we went one further and had twelve in our pack, but my position is I'm her personal bodyguard."
"Bella's the only one who can control our wolves, but we're making it very clear here, if he crosses the line between crazy jealous and turns into a rapist, he's getting castrated and I mean that with every fiber of my being." Leah said to her and she nodded to that. Before Rose could answer though I saw a truck pull in and saw my godfather with a smile on his face as Josh gave him a hand and Eric got the wheelchair out of the truck bed.
"I take it you decided to get involved man, if you've left the store managers in charge today, after school let out?" Dad asked and he nodded. "Derek called for an order of fresh game balls, all kinds and added equipment for every sport, aside from the track team, and I'm getting the forms for him to sign. That's why I came up, but I'm lucky I did, this way I can meet the duo that my grandfather met, before I meet Carlisle." he said and dad nodded.
"I'm lucky you run the store that sells this stuff, we got everything we need to go camping or play sports dad." I said and he chuckled. "Yes and I've been running swap offs for the tents and camping supplies needed with Peter Newton and ever since then. If he needs stuff for camping and tracking and vice versa we do a deal and the discounts are at 50% off, which explains the added equipment we bring when we go camping at the ridge." he said to me as I smiled and gave him a hug as the quartet hid a smile.
"Billy Black, chief of the Quileute tribe?" Rose asked and he nodded as he focused on the duo gently as he got to work. "I am Rose, I'm the alpha of the adult pack, though I'm retired from active duty, the guys are covering for me til Renee fixes my spinal cord and then you'll see me and Harry as the twin versions of our grandfathers." he said to her and I smiled at him. "I can't wait to see you like that again, dad." I told him and he smiled at me.
"We got Beth back as the alpha's fourth honey, so when not in school, you got her protecting you, but we're rearranging things the night of the baseball game. Harry and Beth, as well as Eric, are in the field watching over things and then you tell them head for the house, they're meeting up with the trio and we're bringing you home." he said and the five of us nodded to that as I looked at the quartet then.
"I'm lucky that Jake and Quil yanked the controls for the pedals and turned the car into being able to drive with just a joystick and added controls. What with your being paralyzed from the waist down, but when mom fixes your spine you need to get that truck modified a second time dad." I said and he chuckled and nodded in agreement. "Yes well they did this with Justin Yoder when he was doing the soapbox racer derby."
"But my son is such a mechanic he and the boys are starting they're own garage later, and every member of the reservation is going to them for car work." he said and I nodded. "Yeah well once I start year number two, college wise, I'm moving in with you and Jake after that and our family, the Swan/Black family is getting bigger later on." I said and he smiled as he gave me a hug and I could see them hiding a smile.
"Alright out of curiosity, what's with the title you're giving him?" Emmett asked and I chuckled. "Aside from being my godfather, we decided to go with the titles now, him and aunt in my case, and dad and my mother in Jake's, but we're getting married in six years. So we decided we're calling each other's parents parents by parental titles then by name now." I said and he nodded to that as I finished as I looked at the seven and then said it.
"Before you ask, the nine were actually my father's best friends, Rose, Alice, he couldn't care less that they're wolves or descended from them. The tribe is actually the one place where he could be himself, and Uncles Billy, Harry and Eric were his quartet from the time they were Cubs themselves. And then he did a blood brother ritual with the duo and Uncles Josh and Daniel, but I'm not keeping that truth from him."
"With my being an omega, he deserved to know the truth and we told him last night, but as he said, he doesn't care what the tribes are just as long as you can protect me and our friends and hunt down our homicides, that's all he cares about, and protecting us and the entire human population from the red eyes." I said and the quartet smiled as she answered me for the four of them as she looked at him resting his hand on my shoulders and I leaned into his chest and he tightened his arms around me smiling.
"This just brought you guys even closer together huh?" Alice asked and we nodded. "Yeah it did, with me back our relationship was already really strong, but with him involved nothing is in that way and we've only grown closer now. He also knows the truth of the letter and he's as determined as you guys and the packs to change what the books I gave you played out now, but I've been involved in a conference call meeting with the sextet you met the night I sent that letter to your future selves."
"They possessed my pack of miniature versions of their wolf forms and gave the same applications to the treaty you agreed to. Just to remind you and Ephraim said hello as well, he trusts the six of you, and your family in Denali, but your brother is an enemy in their eyes now, as is the Volturi and the trio we're about to deal with." I said and the duo's eyes widened in shock at the news as Emmett said it for both of them.
"You spoke to Ephram, Levi and Quil, we understand the treaty requirements and the six of us aren't breaking the treaty, we swear. But what's this mean, Edward breaks it and he's going to get us killed by your tribe." he said and Eric answered that. "Actually no it won't, for the individual it will, however you guys are innocent, he bites a human or uses the pheromone on her, the treaty is moot and he's getting executed if he tries it repeatedly."
"But you guys never broke the treaty, you're not in trouble, just as long as we work together, but keep to the requirements we put into the treaty like we agreed to and you're safe. And if your friends, like your revolutionary friend, decided to drop in, tell them they're forbidden to go hunting in the peninsula and they're going to have to swear abstinence. The agreed to plan we just set up for you is the dietary requirement for them. They attack a human and the treaty is off." he said and they nodded as Emmett answered them gently at that.
"I take it your father is the tribe council connected to your grandparents Eric?" Emmett asked and he nodded. "Yes, my sister happens to be Billy's wife, but at the moment I'm healing the rift by taking care of our father and raising my son. Though she's the same with my son that she's with me, we're really close, to her it doesn't matter what we are, just that we're careful, when we go hunting." he said and they nodded as she said it.
"So they watched you grow up huh?" Rose asked and the eight all nodded. "Yeah we did, our sons and daughters thought of her as their pack sister, but we raised our Cubs together from the time they were toddlers. But my son and Leah are the oldest of the pack, followed by her, Paul and Jared, but the quintet are the start of our cub pack, but my youngest cub phases this summer and then the quintet start next year." Josh said and the quartet nodded to that explanation as Alice answered him.
"Well that explains things, we were meant to re-introduce you back into our world again, and instead of seeing the guys first, before you saw the dangerous portion of it, Edward exposed you to the more dangerous side of our world and you were traumatized in the process. So is that what happened here if you chose to do everything a second time, but decided to get reunited with your mother's pack, let alone yours, before you met us."
"See the safe side of things before the trouble got started and things started getting dangerous?" Alice asked and I nodded to her. "Yeah that's it exactly, but frankly this was to insure the Volturi don't know my tribe is back in action and frankly the packs are my family, I'm not giving them up for Edward's sake." I told her and she nodded. "Wait Menthol, whoa, menthol, well that explains why you guys react like that around us, but to us it's a wet dog smell." Emmett said and I chuckled as I answered him at that.
"Yeah I know, Jake said you smell like cinnamon with peppermint mixed into it and I had to phrase this so the guys understand this. But to you it's wet dog, to them it's cinnamon with peppermint and menthol mixed into the type of malt that is enough to annoy a bloodhound. But if I'm rotating between you guys to throw these maniacs off, Jake's not getting jealous you're protecting me when he's not around to do it."
"The other benefit to this is that masks the smell of the teenagers in the class in Jasper's case, and speaking of which, what's Aunt Beth's occupation exactly anyway?" I asked and Josh smiled as he got the idea. "She's a high school basketball coach and teaches Algebra actually, alright I get the idea, extended police protection and you got three wolves in the school, we set up several new requirements, if we're at their house."
"And finally we rotate the shifts in police protection next school term and you've got two of us adult wolves in the school with you and we're getting involved in preventing any fights from breaking out in the high school. While you got family right here and your brother is in the same set schedule you have now, Susan is going to love this idea with having Jeanie back." he said and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts.
"Basketball, volleyball, and extended academics, in addition to my job as an omega and I'm working at the Newtons camping and hunting equipment store later. Fortunately I'm spending afternoons after practice with you guys now." I said and he nodded in agreement to that. "Guys rather than our other meeting at the hospital, I'm setting this up now here, so you can act normal around town in this here."
"To make it easier on you and your family now, I suggest you guys do your hunting at night, and to ensure you're never figured out now, we put a few frame changes into the woodworks here, when in the cafeteria grab lunch, you guys may not eat human food, but at least make it seem like you do, secondly, ease up on your strength when we're fooling around outside, as for you're needing to eat, here's my next suggestion for it."
"The intention here is, along with your physical looks, I'm going by biology here to throw them off that you're not human. But animal blood hemoglobin has less hemoglobin than human and you've been hunting wild game in the woods for meat, and eating it medium/rare and that's altered your eye color as a result from whatever natural color it once was and secondly and here's the big one as to the other reason."
"I'm making several recommendations here, but one rather than go hunting every time, drain the blood from that animal, put it into the types of juice bottles they sell at the cafeteria lunch aisles, and pretend you're drinking tomato juice or that V8 vegetable drink, and all of you keep four or five bottles in your book bags, and have Carlisle right a parental authorization to do this, you guys may not eat real food, but just grab some small stuff, with Jasper completely full he won't lose it it when he's around several hundred teenagers, if one of them accidentally does something stupid."
"Leave the bottle name tags on the bottles and that's just going to add on to the ruse as well. But get whatever they're serving at lunch and have the bottle sitting next to it as well, act like you're eating what they're serving, I know you don't eat human food, but to prevent anyone else, that doesn't know what you are from figuring it out, you have to start doing that now guys, I spent a great deal of time with you."
"So with that, to prevent the outsiders from figuring it out, you need to play up the act, eat like a human, drink like a human and as you learned act more human and that's going to have everyone relax around you after that. But with us in the know, during these war council meetings between us, starting keeping human food in the house, but altogether, just play up the act and once you're done getting a swallow close the cap."
"As for the fruit juice itself, or Gatorade, let alone the V8 vegetable juice, put it into pitchers for us, and the guys, our gang, our parents, Leah and I can drink that. With seeing what normal humans drink, start keeping that in the house for us, and considering I spent sixty percent of my time there, I know what to look now, but we're setting this up so the packs can get together with you as often as possible."
"Just act like you're eating, though you're all drinking a lot of 'tomato juice' to the outside observers, once my sister activates, you, Alice and I, as well as she and the girls can get together for a girls day and you bring a cooler full of those bottles for yourselves, while we have lunch or go the movies or go shopping. So you can act normal this way, though you're superhuman, just pretend you're human and do it this way to make it easier on you guys?" I said and she nodded to that idea with a smile.
"I can't believe we never thought of this before, if you were always around us at the time in your timeline. Okay we're going on the alibi now that we've been hunting wild game in the woods, that my family is on a health food/fruit juice binge, and we're just getting over a severe case of pneumonia or mono at the moment, which explains our complexions and dad is driving himself into the ground physically with the murders."
"Whatever happened in your timeline and we took off for whatever reason, I bet the council and your parents were pissed, if we left you unprotected, it you had to return and fix this, if the entire pack came to see us?" Emmett asked and I nodded. "If she went into an emotional shutdown and we were, because though you were gone, the council and cub pack were, though relieved, that none of the rest of our cub pack were phasing. We were also beyond pissed that you left and didn't tell us us you were leaving."
"Because, to us, knowing what being an omega does when she doesn't realize she is one, it takes severe emotional healing just to be able to connect to another species. Whatever your brother did, it was enough that Harry, Billy, Elliot, Jack and I were beyond pissed at you and Carlisle for taking off on us. And without telling us, if Renee gave orders before you did, said orders being call us and let us know and we'd take over her protection."
"If you had to leave for whatever reason why not just..., alright I see it now, he wanted her focused on you and your brother, probably broke your father's orders of never using your hunting weapons and dosed her with that crap. Withdrawal, being an omega, alright he's not getting a second chance to try it, Rose if you have to leave, call us and let us know first and we'll take it from there." Daniel said and the quartet nodded.
"Well we already decided we're not going anywhere, if we were that close, it's friends for life and we're not leaving her this time. Edward's outnumbered in votes, it's four to one." Alice said and he nodded. "After the PTA meeting we got to talk to you a second time, only with your parents involved in, so if you don't mind us dropping by your house for a first time when we do it. We can work out the added details, than she puts this into hypothetical next week." Sam asked and she nodded as Rose said it for the four of them.
"Alright that's fine, Edward's not getting back till tomorrow night, so we play things out, but with you just dropping the bomb on us and us just setting aside the evasion between us, we can act as normal as possible with each other now. Trust as allies and comrades, and friends now. Just keep your throats tucked in, he's still fighting the urge to go hunting, ladies, Chief." She said and Jasper added on to that as he looked at me.
"I'm going to have to double that amount just to ensure I don't have an outburst, let alone I'm able to be around you full time later, Bella, whatever your power to control me is, get me to freeze and then get me outside and with my cup, I need to drink as much as possible to focus and then we can talk." Jasper said and I nodded. "Yeah I know Jasper, but to ensure you can be around me and our classmates and finally relax in public, you all have to start doing this. Secondly slow down your strength and it's time you're less isolated from the rest of us, with your being in my lunch period."
"Tyler said if he figured it out they're not going to care any more than my father, Emily or I will once we get you completely comfortable with us and with those cups, you're keeping yourselves always fed. With the fact you don't sleep, you can spend an entire night hunting and get everything organized by Monday and things are more relaxed in public afterwards, but we can just say you have a dangerous aversion to blood."
"Though with the sunny days and preventing you from getting figured out, we're going with those days as hunting and doing work from home now, so that's my alibi to Carlisle and I'm telling him that. That on these days, you're going on a out of school attendance on these days when it happens." I said and he smiled at that idea. "So not in the lab, you're at home studying and doing your classes from your house.
"So you're not in the biology class and if dealing with blood typing you're in the library studying the different bloodtypes after that. Aside from that your father is medical doctor, and he's been running research on things for years in addition to his job ever since, you guys know every there is to know about biology, so that cuts that class out, though it won't work in Edwards case." I said and they nodded in agreement with to that.
"Were we that close though, if you knew us that well at the time?" Emmett asked and I nodded. "We were, you adopted me as a member of your family from day one and from there I learned a lot of what to do and what not to do around you. I also learned your back histories of what happened before you were changed at the time, yours especially Jasper, and that's when we came up with the idea of combining forces to take out the newborn army, the pack joined with you for that." I said to him gently and he nodded.
"My knowledge of the newborns insured we came out of it in one piece in your timeline, dear god, you mean to tell me I told you my entire back history, Maria, how I was turned?" Jasper repeated and I nodded to him. "Yeah you did tell me, it was when you guys were sparring and after the sparring matches, Jake was standing next to me listening to the entire story as you explained things to us, but you told me and then showed me your arm." I told him and he nodded as I finished that.
"After tripling the dose of the amount, you grew more comfortable and you confided in me this information, but we started growing closer prior to that." I told him and he nodded. "Well if I'm around you full time, I'd better triple it, and always keep myself fed from now on. Whatever you learned in your timeline you better put it to use in this one, to make life as easy as possible for us if we have your friends around us." he said to me.
"Good point, we've been matriculating so much I think it's time after we graduate this year that we can do our own research and go to college in Seattle, this way we're in range and the gang isn't broken up." Emmett said and I nodded. "Yeah, once we deal with the leader of the trio, we take him out as soon as possible and then from there we meet three times a week till the red head and the Jamaican leach make their move on us." I said and they nodded as dad looked at me at that.
"Is the leader the reason for the broken leg and whatever injuries that had me, your mother and your godparents that pissed off at the time, in your timeline baby?" he asked and I nodded. "Yeah and Cullen left me exposed to these leaches after he took off on me and you and the council, let alone Jake, were all furious at that, and the leader tricked me into an ambush by using mom to do it. So rather than rushing right into things this time, get him to take me home and the adult pack and my quartet are waiting to intercept me at my house Rose, Alice." I said and the trio all nodded to the orders.
"Dad if you started reading that book, that was the version I replaced, this me is the one who remembers everything, every trip to see you every summer, every time the guys and I were together. What the guys and the council are to me, who I belong to, I'm acting like the two to twelve year old me you remember, I'm living my life and I'm really letting go, now, because with me in the past the Volturi are not going to remember. In fact, I ensure they don't know who I am, by not chasing after him this time." I said and Emmett looked at me in shock at the news.
"The Volturi, he has you exposed to the Volturi, it's against their laws for a human to know about us. That's why you wanted to fix this?" he said and I nodded. "Yeah, but as long as I never leave Olympia, they need never know I know all their secrets and everything else, if you don't see me, if we're at the cliff, it's because the guys, my council, are going cliff diving. I'm Quileute, we're just going BASE jumping into the deeper parts of the water, so don't worry, if you can't see me." I said and she nodded.
"What's the intention for the night we find our homicides if you want us to bring you home?" Rose asked and Josh smiled as he said it. "They're moving to the reservation that night Rose, she's waiting for us to intercept her and we move them to the reservation and then move them into their house a week later. The entire bloodline is living on the reservation and we got a house picked out for them already." he said and I nodded. "Yeah exactly, before he comes to our house that night to pick me up."
"I'm packing up my luggage and my room is packed and ready and you have it in the car dad, once we get to Billy's and cross the border I'm safe and we go to a conference call over the phone. But starting from that night and forward, for the next week, I'm living with Sam and then we get our house settled and we're settled by the end of the month and I'm back in school April 10th and we switch it to police protection from there."
"The other thing is starting this summer we're meeting three times a week and going over things, and you can cross in case of an emergency or if he breaks the treaty, but the rest of my pack is meeting you face to face so they can get used to things and we're the team we're supposed to be after that. Just start keeping human food in the house when we're coming to see you now and you better get a ramp or something for Billy's wheelchair." I said and the quartet nodded as dad smiled at that remark.
"With your type of metabolism we better make sure we learn to cook, if you're going to be at our house repeatedly later." Rose said and I nodded. "Yeah I know, but as far as you're concerned if your father has a ready made medical hospital right there in the house, us human have medical care already in place. But for whatever reason my smell is a lot stronger than theirs is." I said and Eric answered that one gently.
"With being an omega, the smell of blood is five times more powerful than a normal human, but with us surrounding you, if the situation at your birthday plays itself out we're surrounding you to block the stench to them. In the same way you can control us and get us to freeze, you can do that with them if they lose control at the sight of fresh blood lying around." he said and I nodded as I exchanged looks with Jasper.
"I'm a red eye turned gold eye Eric, I've just begun to get used to switching bloodtypes, it's harder on me than it is for them. So I lose it and she shouts the same order, same tone to me that she does with you and it freezes me in place automatically?" he asked and Eric nodded to him. "Yeah exactly, if a mistake is made at the party she can freeze you in place by injecting the same tone of command that she does with us."
"But for her, being an omega is more than slightly dangerous, she was connected to you and whatever your brother did to her caused her to shut down, and she bonded to our sons as a result. Without one of either species to be connected to, she's going into emotional shutdown, so I suggest, that, for her sake, to stick around. So long as the six of you never break the rules you can stay, but Cullen, if he crosses the line."
"And finally attacks a human the treaty is moot and he's either getting executed or banished from Olympia." he said and the quartet nodded. "We can agree to that and you have our word that the treaty will never be broken. Though whatever questions regarding your abilities you better talk to Renee let alone your adoptive grandfather later about this. We know what being an omega does for you and it's as dangerous as it gets." Emmett said and I nodded in agreement to that as I added on to that.
"What sports equipment needed at the time Football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, we and our friends can spend the summer practicing and life is far more relaxed that way and my father gets to see you in your elements where sports are concerned and you can be yourself with us. Especially at the field you always play ball at after that, us humans and werewolves can pretend that really is fruit or tomato juice you're drinking later as well." I added to him gently and dad nodded in agreement.
"That works much better if we're always at your house for council meetings actually, just get the styrofoam cups and cup lids so we don't have to see it though. Like the cups they sell at the fast food joints keep a supply like that in the house and get straws, if you have to, get the dark red ones, alright. To any normal perspective seeing it with a clear straw, is enough to make the human victim nauseous, so keep that lid on top of it."
"I mean I know what you eat, but I'm just beginning to get used to the paranormal world and I don't need to see what's in your cups, though I'm a cop and I've seen some grisly sights in the last twenty years, it's still not easy to stomach. That actually works though baby, balancing your life out: half supernatural and half natural, if that's what I wanted and you tried to in your timeline we're ensuring you get that chance this time."
"And secondly we're also saying you're hunting for food, instead of sport, which is the truth, you're skilled hunters, so this works into your alibi. With your father helping me with the murders and you said you hunt animals that just leaves these red eyes, so you help protect my daughter, I'll keep your secret and we call it an even trade after that, with you being apart of my life this early." Dad added and I nodded in agreement.
"I can't believe none of us considered that, it's the twenty first century and there are quite a few humans that are sensitive and have an aversion to fresh blood lying around, let alone blood tests, though Carlisle lets Doctor Bennett and Doctor Gerandy handle it, though he's a doctor, but he's not risking an accidental loss of control if he hasn't eaten. Though considering he's an M.D., he's less at risk than we are at the current moment."
"Alright I'll bring this up to Carlisle tonight and we'll start going hunting and buy the supplies to put this plan into action. This is coming from your maternal guidelines and rules for being a around a bunch of vampires huh, if your timeline resulted in being around us all the time?" she asked and I nodded to answer that. "Call a family meeting tonight though with your parents and tell your father, that the three of us are meeting with him later." Josh said and they nodded to him as I said it.
"By you three, you mean yourself, Harry and Eric?" Emmett asked and Eric nodded. "Yes, us three, our grandfathers were the ones you met, so with that, we're the ones going into war council with you now, us and Billy, though with him showing up now that's the entire sextet. But we're the twins in wolf form of our grandfathers, and the last time we saw our grandfathers phase was when they were sixty, before retiring and we took over when we were her age." he said and I answered her question as I explained that.
"Yeah it is, mom would only suggest this anyway, if she met you herself, but best to play it safe, you and the quintet haven't broken any laws in our treaty, but he's slowly heading in that direction right now and if he crosses the line, the treaty is moot for him and he's banished from Forks and Olympia, or he's getting exterminated, while you guys get to stay as long as you want now." I said and she nodded to that plan and idea.
"Alright I'll report back to Carlisle and we're making a few changes, starting tonight, I'm also calling a full family conference tonight and we're letting him have it for what just happened in there in class, if he really does start a fight with the four of you in the room with us." she said and dad answered that. "He does and he's in serious trouble Rose, because frankly I don't really care what the guys are, they're my friends, we're a pack."
"If he asks me that at the hospital, I'm telling him I already know what the guys are, because she showed me last night and then reversed it with you, so though you're a gold eyed vamp, it doesn't matter, so long as you can protect her and find these homicides that's all I care about and tell that to Carlisle as well, please." he said and they all nodded. "You really don't mind we're vampires?" Alice asked and he shook his head.
"No I don't Alice, I don't mind, though your brother, if he starts getting crazy jealous, he's the enemy for us. She's marrying my godson in six years, at the moment we can work as one and the six of us can deal with things, but tell Carlisle, if she ends up in the hospital, for whatever reason, we're calling a meeting and its stage two of the partnership, before it goes full." he said and they nodded smiling at that.