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 16: PTA, Sports Department, Council Meetings and Alibis
"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. "What did Billy look when phased exactly?" Emmett asked and Josh smiled. "He was a deep cherrywood red in fur coloring and he's brown eyes."
"With us meeting you before you meet Billy, we can get used to this and work as one, but the Cubs are dealing with school stuff when we're at work, though my son is a carpenter and a woodsman, as am I. So if we need to go hunting expect us in the woods later on here, but Harry's got two months before he phases and he's reactivating the night of the game and the hunt begins for us." he said and they nodded to that gently.
"Dad, Tyler, the Cullens and I went into a medical/police protection conference during lunch, and we're looking into it at the moment, but the six of us combined forces and the junior/senior councils got into it. We find out and we're reporting it to their coaches, but if this leads to them self destructing it's getting nasty." I said and he nodded. "Lovely, they start self destructing, because you're doing my orders for me, and that's going to get them expelled if they attack you or your peers for reporting them." he said to me.
"Yeah I know, but if another fight breaks out on the grounds and we're calling it and getting the ones screwing around with whatever's getting them arrested off the team for a medical suspension." I told him and he nodded to that. "Alright, I'm also here to see Derek, so we can arrange things more easily next year ahead of time, before the school term gets started." dad said and I nodded to that as we headed for the library.
"I'd hate to be the poor idiot that pisses you off man, if you're three years old." Emmett said to Sam and he chuckled. "Now that I got it under control and our memories are back, our bonds are three times stronger than we expected, she's my cousin actually. But our great grandmothers were her great aunts and they each married our grandfathers, but the red and blue cords are knotted with the green to indicate marriage or betrothal contracts, though the first generation supposedly had three there were six wolves and the council was the rest of the pack."
"It jumped our grandfathers and hit our fathers when they were fifteen, and from there for the thirty years, they were hunting down any red eyes that came through here. Our fathers retired when Leah and I were ten, before you came back and we got started, so once we reach phasing age, the betrothal contract goes full and we give them a promise bracelet, mine is the Quileute version of engagement ring though."
"At the moment, my cord is knotted into Emily's to indicate she's my fiancé, but that explains this." he said pointing out his bracelet and they nodded. "So the secondary bracelet on her wrist is she's engaged to Jake?" Jasper asked and they nodded to him. "And the multiple colors on her bracelet?" Alice asked and Daniel answered that. "It's to indicate a family group, but the four of us we're made blood brothers to Charlie when we were sixteen and your red eyed compatriots ended up coming through here."
"A pack this size is enough to scare a red eye vampire when they see us in wolf form, because we look like beyond furious wolves the size of buffalo. Though our kids are the size of a lion." he said and they nodded to that. "Bella watch out for Grant, he's the hothead on the team and he's going to see your relationship with Mike as Mike's dating you, if he's on anything and he's getting paranoid." Alice said and I nodded to her.
"What's his position on the team?" I asked and she sighed. "He's the power forward and a real hothead. Though if we're playing sports now, we're going to have to find some way to make it look like we're drenched in sweat like humans are with the amount of exertion going on. If you've seen us play baseball, it's because we can really let go, but playing up the act on the court we got to play and act human while doing it." she said to me and I nodded to that as I looked at the guys then.
"Though you're not sweating, just act as though you're spraying the water canteens on your face and use the towels, to wipe it off, Jazz. Bentley is not going to notice the difference till the spirits deem him and our teachers ready to know that truth later. You too Emmett, guys." I said and she nodded to that as they smiled at the idea as I went further as I looked at them gently.
"My other recommendation here is during the games, Jazz, you drink like ten bottles and that'll keep you going during the game, just monitor the others in case you see one of them acting odd, and if they do start getting erratic. Get the guys to flag me down and I'll call a timeout and let the coach know we got another one, before a riot breaks out on the court." I said and he nodded to that as dad answered me with a firm look on his face.
"Well whoever is on drugs, natural or otherwise, are banned from the cars or the athletic equipment, let alone the pool, because I'm not risking a lawsuit here. And it was because they crashed into a light pole, because they passed out at the wheel, nearly drowned in the pool or broke any bones or twisted any muscles because they're coming down off the high." Dad said firmly to her and she nodded in agreement to that.
As we walked into the room the gang looked up in confusion to see our tribes this relaxed around each other. "Tyler where are the captains?" I asked and he explained that. "Mike went and told them to run a head count, but our team's got a guaranteed seven addicts on it. That are screwing around with the stuff that the coaches forbid us to be fooling around with, and the teams are running a head count of the next five sports." he told me and I nodded as dad and the adult pack turned to the faculty then.
"Hey Derek." he said and Carlisle looked up at him with a smile. "Charlie, guys, I wasn't expecting to see you guys today, what's going on?" he asked and Harry answered that. "In addition to getting her enrolled here at the high school, I'm adding my name to the emergency contact list Derek, Billy, Jack and I are the emergency contacts in case of trouble here." he said and the principal nodded to that as we went over this.
"Like she told you I'm transferring here next school year, to act as added police protection for her father." Jack said and Carlisle nodded as Bentley walked over. "Hey guys, if you're wondering about adjustments around her with her and my players, they're getting along fine now." he said and I hid a smile as Tyler nudged me in the shoulder. "Yes I can see that." Dad said with a smile as he looked at us together then.
"Alright wise guy, no rough housing in the library and you test me and you're getting it aimed at your head for hitting me in the back yesterday, Emmett." I said to him and our coaches chuckled at that. "Hey you started it." he said and Bentley answered that. "Yeah, alright you two, I don't care who started it, I'm ending it, and she's right. You want to start fooling around do it in the gym or just on the lawn, but not in the library."
"And I get another snowball thrown at me and you're really going to get it young lady." he said and I nodded smiling. "Is this the side of your daughter we don't normally see Charlie, because the snowball fight turned into a free for all?" Anderson asked smiling and he chuckled and nodded. "So added council meeting in addition to school today Arizona?" Mike asked and I chuckled as I answered him. "Yeah it is, the guys and the quartet had to meet with what's going on so Sam is able to meet them face to face."
"Alright don't start with state nicknames buddy, otherwise you're getting it aimed at your head next time." I told him and our parents chuckled at that. "I take it that's the remark leading into the snowball fight last week?" Dad asked and our coaches and principal started laughing and nodded as Bentley answered that. "Yeah, just as the kids were heading into the cafeteria, someone started it, before the kids started going at it."
"Adam got hit in the back and one them threw the snowball right into the cafeteria door, because I heard a metallic clang when it hit the door in there." he said and dad chuckled at that as Emmett looked at Mike to answer his question. "To answer your question, yeah, this is the first time we've actually met face to face, rather than over the phone Mike. Though dad's got connections to the cops and he's helping Chief Swan with the murders." Emmett told him and he nodded to that as Dave looked at him.
"I take it your brother is far more prejudiced than you are around the guys, let alone their fathers, if she said to stay twenty feet out of range in case the guys lost control?" Tyler asked and he nodded with a sigh. "Yeah he is, as to why, it's because he's going to want her for himself, but wolves and vampires are natural enemies, we're ending that feud starting today and can work as one to protect the entire peninsula." he said to him.
"Guys if you start putting it together, in both their cases, keep it to yourself alright starting the day you figure it out and we're writing up an NDA, NDA, you can't tell anyone outside our circle after that so you're part of our lives full time after that. You're getting the rest of the legends this coming school term, with Uncle Jack starting work here and Aunt Beth is also working here as the trig/calculus teacher this coming year."
"So once you figure it out its your secret to keep after that, and tell your parents that, from the day we get this set up, but from here on in, try to keep it quiet after that." I added and the Cullens and the council both nodded in agreement to my thoughts and my coaches and friends nodded to the request as we got work. "If I'm the first to figure it out of the entire gang and our sextet of team-mates, and I'm not saying it till after they figure it out for themselves Bell." Tyler told me and I nodded as I took my seat between him and Mike and I nodded to him as Dave added on to that.
"Say Tyler, what was your last name exactly?" I asked and he smiled. "Crowley, my name is Tyler Crowley, aside from being the son of an M.D., my father is working in the framework auto body shop and both together make a decent living. Though at the moment, I'm a jock, I'd rather work the academics over the athletic scholarship, there's more money in that." he said and I nodded as Dave looked at the quartet.
"I understand that sentiment, the SAT's are enough you can get a scholarship to every college in the country that, but the athletics are not enough, they only last till the coach decides to renew it at wherever you're going son." Bentley said to him and he nodded. "Yes well that's my main focus, I'm going for both in addition to our working out the creative arts department at the talent show in a month." I said and he smiled at me.
"What she said to you earlier, we weren't kidding with you guys, you guys are welcome to join us when you want." Dave said and he nodded to that. "So where do we start, special teams?" Adam asked and we nodded. "Yeah if one of us gets laid out we need a fill in for their spot, though if a quarter of our team gets expelled from the team for whatever reason, we got to fill in those spots later." I said to him and he nodded to that.
"Guys remember what I said: if I catch you with drugs or alcohol or you get arrested for that and you're off the team." Bentley said and they nodded to him. "Well fortunately we're the straight ones, and the seven of us are keeping the girls surrounded if we figure it out. Though if my guess is right Grant and the sextet are our rotten apples in the orchard, but if they're on drugs or worse, I'm calling it and telling you automatically."
"Coach you're an army ranger, what's the penalty going to be if they pull a hit on one of us intentionally to pay us back for reporting them to you, just for following direct orders by the entire faculty, the council, the police and the hospital?" he asked and dad answered that. "If it's like any of the homemade boobytraps I dealt with at work and it's in the locker, they're getting arrested for it, but they attack my daughter and I'm hauling their buts up on charges, if it was attempted murder and she needs stitches."
"And with those words son, you find any injuries serious enough to warrant a week in the hospital, considering that, like the quintet, you're the son of an M.D.. You know what to look for better that your friends do and you see any injuries, or worse, that are enough to make me take my shotgun to the kid, I want to know about it. Because these things are enough to land her in the hospital for a week and in bed for a month."
"Like what happened to the narrator in your book, and you report it directly to us okay." he said and the captains and our gang all nodded to his orders. "Our connection is deepening every day now, but I understand her better than the guys do and our bonds are getting stronger as a result, but with my being the son of medical doctor and I'm a jock, any guy, on any of the spring sports teams, is getting their head removed for it."
" But yes Sir we will, but whoever is screwing around with the contraband is getting turned into you coach, I promise." Tyler said to him and he nodded he nodded to that gently. "At the moment, had I not just connected to him on this scale as well. I doubt our friendship would last, but with the fact we're in every class together now, we're going to be the same way the pack is together now dad. The sextet are my pack in school, and the guys, Leah and Emily are my pack outside of school." I said and the sextet grinned at the news.
"And with those words we're getting overly protective if Cullen doesn't know when to back off when he learns you're connected to the tribe council. Though the boys, let alone I, don't tolerate harassment if you made your choice and with that fact in mind here. You guys better start doing co-captains here Tyler, Michael." Bentley said to him and they both nodded as his remark shot through me and I started laughing as I answered him.
"I can guess that's the accidental pregnancy dad?" I asked through my laughter and he nodded. "Yes and laugh it up young lady, because with you being my daughter, any boy that crosses that line is asking to get my shotgun pointed directly at them." he said and I nodded as my P.E. teachers exchanged bemused looks at this conversation. "Well that explains our conversation at lunch, but I didn't think you were serious Bella." Tyler said though his laughter and I nodded as he looked at my father to answer his remark.
"Bella's turning into my best female friend and we're getting closer every day, but I swear, if they do try that and I'm killing them myself for hurting her like that and she needs stitches, for whatever reason." he said and the guys all nodded in agreement. "Yeah well that's the issue of being a gang bro, we take care of each other." I said to him and he smiled at the address as we were going over this.
"Issues of these projects at the moment is our term paper was focused on 'The Outsiders' this semester dad, unfortunately though the guys are getting along with the quartet, every time they see Edward himself it turns into the Greaser/Soc war in the book. But this time, the story just shifted to what the story turned into, only I'm playing Cherry." I told him and the Cullens and the adult pack exchanged looks at the reference.
"But if this results in a play by play, I've got to intervene, before Paul loses his temper entirely, especially if I got my fellow patient sitting that close to me when they get into it. And at the moment, I really hope said patient isn't you Tyler, or I'm really going to be furious." I said and our parents all nodded to that as I heard an answering remark to that, before he could say it, Elliot sighed. "Great, that's just great and what's going to happen if he insults us in front of you?" Elliot asked and I sighed as I answered him.
"If the guys are in the room with me to put this bluntly, Sam is playing the older brother mixed with the third member of the trio, Jared is the wiseacre in the group, and Paul is playing the narrator's brother's best friend, and I'm playing Cherry, leading into the self defense/murder scenario right there in the hospital. And if Seth was in the room with us he's playing the narrator himself, before he's nearly killed and his best friend saves his life." I told him and the quartet exchanged looks at the wording.
"Alright that's it, starting now the four of us are your contacts, but if he's starting fights with your pack every time they see each other, I'm the one acting as the tribal rep starting now and you're our go-between Bella." Rose said and I nodded as I heard answering remark to that. "Yes well if he starts one right there in my station he's grounded for a month, if we got thirty outsiders in the room with us and my patients."
"Alright with the weather still like it is, nobody's driving faster then the speed limit, especially when we got black ice on the road out there. Second whoever's screwing around with the stimulates and we find out who it is, I want them yanked off the teams and placed in medical recovery till further notice, they can practice, but they're not getting on the court." I heard and looked over my shoulder to see Carlisle walking in.
"Hey dad, mom just contact you about the council meeting this afternoon?" Rose asked and he nodded with an amused look at their new title for him. "Yes honey, hey Charlie, ah and you must be Bella." he said and I nodded. "Yes, and nice to meet you Dr. Cullen, don't worry your kids and I are becoming friends now." I said and he smiled as he looked at the quintet. "Elders of the Quileute tribe?" He asked and my uncles all nodded.
"Yes we are, and nice to finally make your acquaintance now Doctor Cullen, though over the phone, it's nice to meet you face to face finally. Don't worry, your kids and we have already have had a conference, but we're going over things in case one of the kids ends up in the E.R." Harry said and he nodded. "Alright let's see, Billy Black, Joshua Uley, Harry Clearwater, Eric Quil Ateara, Daniel Trueheart, Elliot Lehote and Jack Denali, am I right?" he asked, looking between them and they all nodded to him gently.
"Yes we are, I'm Billy Black, and these guys are Josh Uley, Harry Clearwater, Eric Ateara, Daniel Trueheart, Elliot Lehote and Jack Denali, like Harry said we just spoke to your kids and Charlie knows already, he's fine with it." he said and Carlisle nodded as he looked over my shoulder. "Well than we can drop the evasiveness with each other if she winds up in the E.R. for whatever reason, but she's under my protection as well starting now." he said to him and the quartet smiled at me as I exchanged grins with them.
As he looked at the duo he smiled as he looked from Sam to Josh and back again. "Well I see that your son looks like a cub version of you." He said and Sam smiled at his father as he wrapped his arm across his shoulders. "Yeah and that's literal here as well, if we were wolves, I'm jet black, he's black with brown mixed into his fur." he said and Carlisle nodded to that. "The boys are cub versions of each of you." he said and the seven all nodded to him. "Yes, but my cub version doesn't start till next winter." Billy said to him.
"Cub version, I take it this is what you meant Bells if you said they looked like their parents, just as a mini me?" Mike said and I nodded as they chuckled at the wording. "Yeah if they were wolves they'd looked like my collection of stuffed wolves and Smokey looks like Shadow, just with brown mixed into his black fur. Once twenty five, in human years, they reach full size and their fur colors darken." I said and they nodded to that.
"Carlisle, Renee and I are making it very clear here, but this is not turning into a tug a war for her affections, if she chooses, it's of her own free will, he does anything to disrupt that or breaks the treaty, he's getting banished from Olympia." Dad said to him firmly and he nodded to that. "Emmett, Rose and I can agree to that Charlie, you have our word, the five of us and Esme can protect her if he starts losing control later."
"Renee is the grand-daughter of Tala Marquez, am I right?" he asked and I nodded as dad answered that. "Yeah actually, but the rules she inputted into the treaty still stand if a fight breaks out between your son and my nephews." he said to him and Carlisle nodded as he changed subjects as he focused on the PTA meeting. "Thirty arrests, multiple cases of sexual harassment, multiple DUI's, alright we got to get this under control, just what the heck is going on around here." he said in annoyed aggravation.
"I wish I knew, but the council is looking into it Doctor, but the six of us are combining forces and doing this together. Though if these guys start self destructing, it's getting them thrown out of the high school if they attack a peer just for worrying about them. Especially when we're under your orders to report them once we figured it out." I said to him and he nodded in agreement to that as I looked at him.
"With you being our ally and contact now, I'd prefer it if you were my PCG starting now Doctor, and you're our ally." I told him and he nodded as he looked at my father. "Charlie I'll take her on as my permanent patient, if you already know, than we can work as one now." he said and my father and uncles all nodded in agreement to that. "Thanks and I appreciate that Carlisle, with my daughter living with me now."
"I'm going to be a very overly protective father now." he said and I smiled. "I've got eleven in addition to you dad, that's includes the pack, and Phil and soon enough another paternal friend and surrogate father." I said looking over my shoulder at my doctor and he smiled at that as he got the reference as he gave my shoulder a gentle squeeze. "Carlisle how serious is the issue with Deacon exactly?" I asked and Jamie Reynolds answered that one with a sigh.
"If your uncles told you this already, he's been arrested five times and whatever he's on I've got no clue where he's getting it from. I mean it's not enough we got our peers getting arrested for drugs and alcohol, we got the murders going on, and we got the quartet to deal with as well. Chief, should the student body council just give out your orders for you later on, before someone lands themselves in rehab at the hospital once they get caught?" he asked and my father nodded to him.
"Cheating in academics, let alone sports is going to disqualify you from the games let alone the championships if you get caught kiddo, and I've already lost my shot. And if you get caught and it hits your permanent record and you get arrested than its bye bye scholarship and you got to work your way through college son. Whoever is screwing around with the stimulates, drugs or alcohol is getting removed for medical recovery."
"But if they take it out on you guys, simply for being a good student and looking out for them, they're getting arrested for attacking a fellow student, especially if it's a girl, and the injury is enough to land you in the hospital for stitches or worse. But if Eric and the other coaches find it in the locker they're getting expelled and hauled up on charges for it, especially if they attack a girl and it's getting them expelled from this school."
"But my daughter is not only the daughter of the chief of police, she's the god daughter of two more officials in the county government, be it the reservation, but still the government, one being the tribe leader and the other the adoptive daughter of the third in command." he said and the coaches and the principal looked at him in shock. "Billy you took the mantle as the chief of the tribe twenty years ago and it's not just you, but Harry who are her adoptive fathers?" Bentley repeated and Billy nodded to him.
"Williamson is going to find it more than ironic if I wind up arresting some kid for my mistakes and I'm the chief this time and this kid gets caught with the drugs or alcohol in the locker, let alone the car." Dad said and he nodded. "You better explain that one to us later Chief, those of us who are not risking blowing our shot are going to take it far more seriously then the ones self destructing for it." Tyler said and he nodded to that one.
"I know I'm not going to like this, but she mentioned her pack, what's the governmental position for you guys if she dragged that up exactly, if you're the leadership of the tribe and a pack is the same as government officials?" he asked and Josh crossed his arms. "Our kids are the next generation high council after we retire in ten years, she's the female leader of the pack, Jake is the next chief of the tribe, my son is second in command and the ranks go down from there Derek, to put this bluntly at the moment."
"If we were in D.C. Jake would be the president, Sam is Vice President and Bella is the First Lady, but she's got more authority then the entire council together, because her maternal family is the most powerful and influential family in the reservation. So they attack her for reporting them to you, and it's getting them arrested, because it's a federal offense, she's the future wife of the next high chief of the tribe." he said to him.
"Unfortunately the idiot male player, or players, that do that, don't have to worry about his parents killing him vocally if he gets arrested because my brothers and Jake are going to do it. To the guys and Leah, in this case, we're descended from wolves, but as a pack the wolves see the omega as the most important thing in their world, while the girls are their everything, I'm their entire world and together, we become their entire life."
"So the idiot who attacks me is getting mauled by a pack of eleven Quileute boys and they go alpha male with their mates and sisters, let alone girl cousins." I added and they all nodded to that. "I'd hate the be the poor idiot that does that, because I've seen the way you guys are together. And they couldn't be more gentle with you, if you're the omega, you're their pack leader." Angie said and I nodded as I heard an irritated shout.
"For god's sakes here, alright who knocked that over this book, that book is fifteen dollars and we just added that to the school library, in addition to the other five the last six months." I heard and looked at the guys. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" Coach Clapp repeated, looking at the title and we nodded as my tone firmed up. "Well that's another violation here, destruction of school property and whoever did this is going to have to pay for the books. Just like we pay for our textbook in case of damages."
"Let alone the private property that gets destroyed here, that book, was just added to the school library. Alright enough is enough here, academics matter more than athletics here in this case, with your grades you can get into the college or the Air Force academy. But cheating in academics or sports is wrong no matter which way you look at it and destruction of private property. Well whoever did that has to replace that book, there's black paint all over the cover page of this book." I said as I got a look at the cover.
"Who's the last person that had that exactly, if the book has damage?" Anderson asked and I read the name and sighed as I looked at her and Mrs. Wilcox. "It's the wiseacre I just reprimanded at lunch Coach. So whatever he was screwing around with dropped a bottle of black ink all over the open book in the bedroom, his parents have to replace this book as a result." I told her and they nodded as Carlisle looked at them gently.
"Derek I'm giving a donation of $10,000,000 which should pay for school supplies and equipment needed to train your students and I'm doing this as favor, it's not Quid Pro Quo here either." he said and they all nodded to that. "What do you think student body school council for the eighteen of us guys, in addition to junior and senior class, we're the school economics team as well. We work as the faculty's junior faculty and economics team starting today." I suggested and my friends all nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, alright, Mr. Carlisle, the council's of both junior and senior year are acting as your junior class faculty, if we discover what is going on we're telling you immediately. So with thatwe can run the PEP club for pep rallies and anything else and do added circulation into the school newspaper once things change directions here. But the girls, Jasper and I are added special teams in case our teams need a hand if we find out what the heck is going on here." Emmett said to him and the faculty and the principal nodded to him.
"At the moment, I'm better off running the family budget dad, I'll deal with the monthly bills, you just deal with your job and making sure nobody does anything stupid, before we catch these maniacs." I added and he nodded to that suggestion as I looked at him. "Ten days in already you're taking charge to have us running the school more smoothly kids, keep this up and you're on the honor roll with you're becoming one of my top students later." Carlisle said smiling and dad chuckled at that as I looked at him.
"Let's just say we can work on my being part of the staff as a junior member and with me are the guys and the junior senior class councils Mr. Carlisle." I told him and he nodded. "We can consider this extra credit for you kids with you acting as our junior staff members young lady. What with you working over time and I'm working here as your home room teacher next term baby." Jack told me and I smiled as I answered him.
Going into that with him, I tried to keep from laughing. "With having one of my paternal members as well as my adult bodyguard working here, that certainly helps, because this is about to turn into a bit of a fiasco later, in athletics." I said before hearing a bemused tone come from the door as she answered that. "Alright young lady you test me and you're grounded in the den next year and I mean that." I heard and smiled as Leah grinned.
"Hey Beth welcome home." Dad said smiling and she grinned as she walked over to us smiling. "Hey Charlie, Billy, my brother, it's good to see you." she said as Harry gave her a hug and she tightened her arms around him, before pulling Leah and me into a hug. "My girls, God you grown, hey baby, you've certainly turned into a man I could be proud of." She said pulling Sam into a hug and he tightened his arms around her smiling.
"Quick question, does the gene hit the women in our family as well as the men?" Leah asked her and she nodded. "Yes, but yours is because we got a bunch type two killers running loose around here and with that, yours starts in seven months as you start looking like I do in physique, like you're working in the military, so you got the body of a female marine." she said and we both nodded then as I went to a quick question.
"Did they tell you that truth?" I asked and she nodded. "Yes they did, I find these homicides and they're getting taken apart for that, they try it again and I'm tearing them to shreds myself this time. I should have been around to protect you, before their memories faded and you should have been with us from day one, but woulda, coulda, shoulda. I'm ensuring you heal from this now. You're my little girl and I'm protecting you with my life now baby." she told me softly and I smiled at her then, as Tyler looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
'Guys time to tell our fathers the truth, with the fact that the five of us are the start, we got to tell our fathers and Aunt Beth the truth, we went hunting last night after they all went to bed, just in human form.' I told him and he sighed. 'Dad's going to kill me, if we're improvising our story regarding your injuries right now, get ready for the explosion, our parents are going to kill us when they hear that we did that last night without them.' he said to me and I nodded as I looked at Beth then to tell her.
"I'm dealing with a repeater of the last attack Aunt Beth, it started again, only, whoever it is I haven't seen them face to face yet." I told her and Leah added onto that and our and Sam's fathers exchanged looks at that as she went further. "Yeah we went tracking last night, it's a repeater alright, our murderers are the same as the junkies that attacked her when we were kids." Leah told her and she nodded to that explanation.
"Before you say it, they ended up running into us Charlie, before they ran into our homicides last night." Carlisle told him and he covered his eyes at that in relief. "You guys going scouting last night, before you went to bed?" Josh asked and he nodded. "Yeah and just as we're checking a crime scene, she nearly has a panic attack when she heard us." he said to him and he nodded to that as Billy leaned forward at that.
"I didn't hear the kitchen door close and your mother and I were in our bedroom young lady, girls you're supposed to be focusing on school, were you sneaking out last night?" Harry asked and we exchanged looks. "Don't bother answering that, because if this is the same as the last injury and I'm really going to be pissed Bella, you know I'm up until eleven and I didn't see you leave the house last night young lady and with that."
"When did this happen exactly you three, and was it just the three of you?" Dad asked with a stern growl and I swallowed at his tone as I answered him. "The five of us went tracking last night, after you went to bed dad. The guys were in curfew, but we snuck out to do this together, we didn't find anything though, aside from a bloody footprint." I told him and he nodded slowly as Josh said it for the five of them in shock as he looked at us.
"The five of you: you mean my son, Jared, Paul, Leah and yourself?" he asked and we nodded. "You went out there alone?" Harry said with a low growl and we nodded. "When did you do this exactly, because I didn't hear the front door close?" Dad asked and I swallowed as I answered him. "Went out the window, Sam was waiting for me by the tree." I said and he slammed his hand against the table as Josh said for all of them.
"You went out there alone, what the hell were you thinking of here, you guys are Cubs, you're not fully trained yet, ladies, son. You could have been killed, there's strength in numbers, without the pack that can get you killed if you're letting your bravado get in the way you guys." Josh said as he looked at us with a furious look on his face as Billy and Harry both looked at us in shocked disbelief as he said it for both of them.
"Have you lost your minds, we ordered you to not be going tracking without us, Samuel, Leah, Isabella, not after you were nearly killed in the last attack, alright I'm just saying it now, but do not, I repeat do not ever do that again. If the five of you are going tracking your fathers are with you, but you do this after we go to bed and you're all grounded, understand." Billy said in in shock as he and the adult pack went on the alert at that.
"The guys, Bella and I are as teenagers dad, but we didn't have another run in, we got a scent, but we didn't find them, yet. But whoever it is, they're getting executed when we find them." Leah said for me, looking at her father and they nodded with a sigh. "After the last near fatal injury Leah, I'm not chancing it anymore, yes you're hunters, but without the strength of the pack, you're helpless." Harry said to her with a furious growl.
"Alright, before any of you try this twice, guys, Elliot, Dan and I are coming with you next time." Josh told us firmly and we all nodded to the orders as we looked at him. "Somebody want to clue us on what you're talking about here Bella?" Bentley asked and I sighed. "We were taught to go tracking in case we came along something like our homicides, but his reaction is because it resulted in a near fatal injury when they were twelve and the rest of my trio and I were ten." I said to him and he nodded to that.
"Why do I feel like last night was a broken rule regarding you guys, if Harry said that to you Leah, if he's relieved we found you, before they did last night?" Alice asked and I sighed as Leah answered that. "Because we did this once when he and I were twelve and it nearly killed her in the process, with our previous homicides. With us being Cubs, we were human wolves Cubs going on our first tracking expedition and ran into a trio that looked like our current homicides." she said and I finished that remark with a sigh.
"Alright to explain that remark guys. It was seven years ago, the guys, Leah and I had an encounter with a trio of junkies, what happened was the guys, Leah and I were in the woods going tracking and we encountered a trio of junkies, the pack was, to them, smelling of wet dog. While I was considered what they were looking for and it got extremely dangerous, without their fathers and the adult pack. It was just as the leader was getting ready to give the death blow that the adult pack came charging in."
"Just as the leader got me across the wrist, spilled blood and it was turning into a feeding frenzy and while the nine were taking him and the duo apart behind the trees, Aunt Beth was with me and they sucked the synthesized venom out of me, because their bite was like acid. To sum this up, Aunt Sue and Rose wrapped my wrist, and wrapped my leg, before attending to my leg as well and setting it, which explains the arthritis as well in addition to that bite mark, but a need for severe surgery here."
"And which explains my wrist Tyler, I'm just saying that now. But if you heard several rifle explosions, followed by a burst of fire in the woods if you were hunting out there Coach, one of them had to be shot, while the trio were executed by the pack when I was ten. They were like what we are dealing with now, but one of them bit me in the wrist and I needed a transfusion and a tetanus shock, because it was with a rusted knife in my thigh, broken leg, touch and go to the spleen and a second degree concussion."
"Getting the test results back that did it. That's why the adult pack and hunters of my tribe get so overly protective of me. It was after this that our parents forbid us to go hunting on our own since, last night was a test drive and the guys, Leah and I are now at the halfway point in our training, but this time it wasn't a repeater at all, we just got a scent, nothing more." I explained and Bentley covered his eyes at that as he answered me, his tone loaded with annoyance and protective anger as he said it.
"Well I don't blame your fathers for being pissed at the moment, that was extremely reckless girls, son." he said and the eight all nodded to his thoughts. "To them attack the daughter of an omega and the perp is getting it by the death sentence before they do the kill. Which explains the last fire in the woods and dad took me to the hospital." I told them and they nodded angrily. "She's right, we retired when my daughter was twelve, but that's what happened." Harry said, and I knew he was hiding a smile at the improv.
'Honey what are you doing?' Jack asked and I explained that to the eight and the Cullens as well as my father. "To make this more believable and why I got these injuries, if the girls see me in the locker room. I'm giving them the truth, but I'm just substituting vampire for junkie. Our murderers are cannibals with a taste for human blood. That explains the puncture wounds in the neck and why the bodies are drained."
'Our killers are on drugs and blood is like a specific brand of heroin for the vampire, or in this case cannibal that is after it, red bloodshot irises, pale skin. Our murderers are on drugs and every weapon that you, as gold eyes never use, is synthesized and it's as deadly as it gets, my injuries are not from another timeline. I got them, before the eleven of you retired completely, seven years ago dad.' I said to him and he nodded.
'When you were ten, that's the improv here, I left when Embry was five, but stuck around long enough for your big brother to mature into the hunter he is now?' Josh repeated. 'Yeah that's the improv alright, you guys taught me plenty, but the act is of trying to prove we were ready resulted in this. Your claws, Carlisle, I'm substituting for use of a knife here, but the glass in my leg, I was stabbed by a rusted dagger."
'The ballet studio is getting changed to being out in the woods going tracking, my seventeen year old self is getting changed to the my ten year old self. And finally last, but not least, every injury I took at the ballet studio in the attack, in the other timeline is getting replaced by natural weapons, instead of super enhanced speed and strength here. Our murderers are nothing more than a trio of murderous, cannibalistic junkies."
'So age ten, the quartet and I are going tracking, and we get ambushed, I shout out to you mentally that we need help and the ten of you come to our rescue and destroy all of them. You suck out the venom, wrap and set my leg and wrist and take me to the hospital. And the test results by Gerandy are as follows, because this is enough you're ready to go for overkill because they nearly killed me at the time: but rusted dagger to the main artery in my femur, lost of close to the entire 1.5 gallons of blood at the time.'
' I hit the back of my head against a boulder, he broke my leg, touch and go to my spleen, and finally the venom was like an extended upgrade to crack or heroin and was like acid when I got bit. I got these injuries seven years ago, when the quartet and I went tracking, that's why you're furious right now dad, guys, Aunt Beth.' I said to them and they all mentally nodded to the subterfuge then as Emmett looked at me then.
'Thats the improv, to explain your injuries now to us and how you got them Bella, that's what happened in your timeline, you're just improvising that truth for our friends?' Emmett asked me and I gave a mental nod to him. 'Yeah, and this is our parents when your new friends and allies are a pack quintet of seventeen to nineteen year old wolf Cubs and one of them is nearly killed in the last attack.' I said to them and they nodded.
'Where are you coming up with the improv here, because this is beyond perfect at the moment honey?' Daniel asked and I explained that to him. 'The five of us talked it over last night, to ensure no one gets too curious of why you guys are this fast or strong, or why the Cullens look like they're suffering a cross between STD's and sleep deprivation. Best to just come up with a cover story till the spirits deem them ready to know.'
'With your enhanced skills you just turned me into a half werewolf myself by mixing your blood with mine back then, and I took on every characteristic you have, just without the gene at the time when you got the venom out. And with it the crap the leech injected me with at the time, I was already a human wolf and you turned me into a half werewolf when you saved my life, you gave me the transfusion Uncle Daniel.' I said to him and he gave me a mental nod as Beth said it for the fourteen of them in amazement.
'Nice thinking baby, I never would have thought of that. To explain things so your friends and teachers, as well your fellow students parents understand it, turn our homicides into a trio of cannibals that are junkies for human blood. Yes okay, that explains our reaction perfectly and why your uncles and I are pissed right now, that last attack nearly killed you when you were still a cub and with you just returning to the pack, we're not risking you going out there, alone, anymore without us.' Beth said to me softly and I nodded.
"So if we were still kids, I'm betting that this just got worse, if these red eyes nearly killed you as the great grand daughter of the woman that has authority to have them executed. But they could have turned you into an immortal child and that's going to get them killed anyway, by the Volturi, so death by werewolf is preferable to being killed by a bunch of mobsters at the moment." Jasper said in an undertone to us and I nodded.
"Too late, the maniacs that did this were dressed in black robes with red felt interiors, and had this symbol around their necks." I said and passed the charm to Carlisle and he looked at it, before he covered his eyes. "You killed several members of the Volturi guard boys, Beth. Well this answers the question to why Aro was annoyed none of his guards came back to report in." he said and they all nodded to him and he looked at me.
'So this attack was a close call when you were ten in your timeline, but you got it for real later this semester. Same injuries, so you can explain this to us, but you blocked out that memory till you saw the 5 of us, saw the colors of our eyes. And realized you knew exactly what we were, because the close call was beginning to come back in your memories, before the trio scared you enough to bring it back completely.'
'Were you paying attention to our conversation when Emmett, Carlisle and I were talking about how we could be killed?' Jasper added and I nodded. 'Yeah I did, but you and Alice were chosen as my protectors and we headed for Phoenix, it's not going to work like that this time, our only chance to prevent a repeat of this. Once we find them, is it's going to take us a week for them to try and the sixteen of you together, execute the leader.' I said to him and he nodded to me at that as Emmett answered me, his tone turning firm.
'Alright so our murderers are trio of red eyes, and the leader broke your leg, bit you in the wrist, second degree concussion to the back of the head, multiple stitches and you got stabbed in the primary artery in the femur, touch and go to your..., that definitely could have killed you, these red eyes are not getting a second chance to try that.' Emmett said with a dangerous growl in mental tone and Rose nodded in agreement to his thoughts then as Anderson said what they were all thinking.
"You were ten years old when you got attacked by these guys?" Anderson repeated in a low growl and I nodded. "Yes, but this just made the training very clear, and it's why I'm trying to prevent it from happening again, I bet if we took them out. Then their twins are getting ready to come back and exact revenge on me for my relatives killing them for this, but if that's who are our killers are, they just sentenced themselves to death as of now." I said and Angie looked at me at that as she said what the ten of them thought.
"Why exactly?" she asked and I sighed as I explained that to her. "As to why, it's because, their grouping is under a certain set of rules and bylaws created by both my tribe and the Cullens, which was 80 to 90 years ago, the laws are exact. There is no middle ground for their kind, they attack a straight and are sporting bloodshot irises and they're getting torn apart and cremated, before they can infect anyone else."
"To put this bluntly, not only are they junkies, but they're STD positive, AIDS, you get bit, that's going to infect you with it and that explains the circles under the eyes and the pale almost ghoul like skin on their bodies. With the fact we learned this in biology, and how I survived the attack at the time, my wolf brothers and uncles are 24 pairs of chromosomes, they saved me by getting the venom and saliva out."
"So I'm not STD or suffering from anything else, and I've just ended up with the added ability to channel my pack's abilities now and that explains what happened at lunch, enhanced reflexes, hearing and smell, so I'm half wolf now. As for the sextet, they're all recovering from either sleep deprivation of just getting over pneumonia at the moment. While Cullen left to go see his cousin in Denali here at the moment." I said and they nodded as she sighed as Anderson answered me at that.
"If you're trying to prevent this from happening again, who are these junkies if we've got their relatives going on a hunting spree around here?" she asked and I sighed as I explained that to her then, knowing the ten needed this. "To go onto my attackers here and their descriptions of what they looked like. But my attackers were a Jamaican man with dreadlocks and a French accent, a red headed woman in a white fur coat."
"And as for the leader of the group that did this and landed me in the E.R. back then, it was a blonde headed man dressed in a red leather jacket, blue jeans and looking like a member of the Sheppard gang in the book. Just as dangerous and cunning as they are." I said as I tried to control the shudder at the memory as Sam pulled me into a hug from behind. 'Alright just relax, it's not happening twice Bells.' he said to me soothingly.
'So that's our trio of homicides, alright, time for the last piece of it, their names and with that in mind...' Carlisle thought to me as he said it out loud. "Did you get their names when you ran into these guys back then honey. Because if their twins show up when you're with my family, they're not getting a second chance to try it whatsoever?" he asked and I nodded as remembered their faces and tried to control the shudder.
"The leader is named James Fargough, his wife Victoria and their friend Laurent Deacon." I told them and the Cullens nodded as he answered me. "Our homicides are Jim Fargough, Vickie Rothman and Laurie Deacon. I should have seen that coming, they're nomads Charlie, but if their twins came here then to go hunting they're not going to realize we're back till now and come after her." he said and Bentley looked up at him.
"You know these people?" he asked and Carlisle nodded to him. "Yeah we ran into each other once or twice when my family went camping or backpacking in Canada, before. But with the fact we're back, they don't realize their twins just committed an act that is enough to get them executed when my grandfather created that treaty with Ephraim at the time and with those words in mind. I'm not thinking twice about it, James's twin is getting executed, before he can try it a second time with her."
"And this time there's sixteen protectors instead of ten now. With the fact I, or rather my grandfather, created that treaty, I'm warning them they just violated specific laws in our territory and they try to attack when you're with us and they're getting executed on the spot. Billy, she's safe with us, but best to be waiting at her house in case Edward tries any foolhardy stunts." he said to him and he nodded to him as I looked at him.
'Honey did you have the movie, I want to confirm my thoughts here, so I know them on sight later, if we're in the field playing baseball and they meet our family face to face when you're with us.' he asked me and I gave a nod to him. 'Yeah it's my bag, after we're done here, we're going back to your house and I can jump several scenes so we can get to what you need to know when you meet them.' I said to him and he nodded.
"If their twins just showed up I've got to find them and this time, we got added back up, because our tribes are working together as one to eliminate the threat, before it turns into a bloodbath. So with that in mind here and as of now, you're under the protection of the tribes, with what I'm about to tell you next, and by that I mean everyone in this room and your families, guys." I said, looking at my friends and they nodded to me.
"That's why you're so weary of Cullen, he's showing that behavior when around you, was that what the outburst in class was a few days ago." Mike asked, leaning forward and I nodded. "Yeah it was, but whether or not he's on drugs is another question altogether, but what I will say is that if he's acting like an abusive boyfriend when I'm not even dating him, it's enough the pack is keeping me surrounded after this later."
"Though he so much as crosses the line and my mother is giving the word here. He's next on my list if I wind up with another in the same place that I got the last one. Because I'm engaged to my paternal alpha's son, and the contract is signed and sealed. He wants to fight over me, my decision is eighteen months in advance and there's no use fighting over it, I belong to Jake." I told him and he nodded as the quintet exchanged looks then at that as my principal said it for all of them.
"Well I don't blame you for killing these leeches, but attacking a child, that's beyond damning." Carlisle said in disgusted shock at the news. "Yes Sir I know, but this is why we take being protectors so seriously. It started up again, though if it's their twins it just got worse, because their on a revenge tactic, kill the loved ones of these cult members and it turns into a vice presidential birdhunt and it's why we're all back on duty."
"With my job, I'm charged with the protection of the entire peninsula, so I had to recall the entire adult pack, what with their kids just a few months to a couple years old. So that's why the pack came back as well. So if our murderers are the same as this trio that attacked me back then, I'm making it clear now, but keep your guard up and secondly stay downwind of them, and I'm just saying it now for dad, the police department and the pack, with the fact that we're the two main grouping charged with protecting you."
"And by that I mean the tribe and the Cullens, we're your protection from people like this, if they're hunting or killing us straights at the moment. Now everyone, I'm making it very clear here with the fact dad is giving this order, but one: stay out of the woods, two carrying a flare gun and a flashlight, as well as a walkie talkie with you when you're in the woods, boys." I said, looking at his team and Benson answered me.
"What's number three here, because we're all skilled hunters Bella." he said and I looked at them and the faculty then. "And three carry a lighter. But don't go out there alone, because it's going to get you killed and two, if you're seeing paw prints all over the place that are the size of an over sized Siberian Huskie, following the footprints, don't worry about it, that's the young and adult packs, they're also tracking these guys okay."
"Everyone this is need to know, because what I'm divulging to you is going to be like a horror movie or paranormal mass murderer, because they've got the body like a Mach truck, it's going to take being torn apart. If you're a hunter carry these things if you're out there in the middle of the night or in groups: But carry a lighter, a flare gun or a pack of matches, as to why these guys, our murderers, their saliva is highly flammable, but it's like acid, and their body exacts the oils from their body and it's like lighter fluid."
"Alright I'm just explaining this now everyone, I know that you're going to see these parasites like you're looking at a fictional vampire, but it doesn't work like that, they can't be killed by crosses or stakes through the heart, it's takes getting torn apart and burned, by cremation. But our murderers are a group of junkies that are like cannibals hiding in the woods, but it's not human flesh they're after, but human blood. Human blood, it's like opium fumes to them, they find a specific smell and it's like heroin, like you're their personal brand of heroin or crack and they're cannibals as well too."
"So if you run into our group out there, and see a trio standing around hunting, but they have red bloodshot eyes, in the irises, than you just found them. But get out now, it takes a wolf or, in the case of the Cullens, someone who knows what their doing to kill them, our tribes work together, but it takes getting torn apart and burned to end these maniacs. So if they got eyes like that, make sure you're carrying a flare gun on you, because they're covered in the oils of the opium they've been screwing around with and its highly flammable, so one lit match, flare or lighter and they're a roasted chicken."
"But do not I repeat, do not, go into the woods and two carry any of the above I just named off, their clothes are drenched in oil, one spark from the lighter, if you're in the woods and they're going to get cremated after that." I said and the entire staff and my junior board all nodded to the orders then. "Yeah so why do the Cullens have gold irises exactly, that's a bit spooky at the moment?" Mike asked and I explained that to him.
"Certain wild game have less hemoglobin than others, but they've been hunting wild animals for meat and food, that's why they go camping so much, they're skilled survivalists in the woods. But with the fact they eat their meat medium rare, it's changed the colors of their eyes from their natural color to butterscotch Amber, since." I said and they all nodded to that as Carlisle hid a smile at my way of explaining it to them.