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 18: PTA Meetings, Wolf Explanations and Conference Calls
"Alright Emmett, Jasper, I want to see you with the basketball, so it's ten on ten in the gym tomorrow after school for the next practice and we can set up special teams while we're doing it till our current junkies are fully recovered." Tyler said and they both nodded. "Alice, Rose, same for you and Bella." Jessie added and we all nodded, smiling. "This ought to be good I can't wait to see you with the basketball." Dana said smiling to them and the duo chuckled as Emmett answered her.
"Like the guys we got the same type of situation here, so while Paul is likely to break a rib through the pads, we got the added issue of slowing things down so those slam dunks are likely to break the board, so watch yourself." Emmett said and Carlisle hid a smile. "I'm lucky I'm donating to the school then, but slow your strength down son, before you break the hoop and the backboard while shooting." he said and they chuckled at that
"So we can expect your training to be like what we saw in the tv show guys?" Dave asked and the five of us all nodded. "Yeah, their's are added reflexes are the speed of wolf and ours are both that and the strength of a bear. To quote what Mowgli said on the live action version the Jungle book what does Jake have that Edward doesn't. Well it's the strength of the bear, speed of the panther and a heart of a wolf."
"You figure it out on your own and you're seeing us cut loose as you see us in our elements later." Emmett said to him and he nodded smiling. "I got to read these books more often." he said to him and he nodded as Billy looked at us to quote something. "Yeah well just remember that the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. Your strength comes from your pack and without the pack, the alpha has no strength." Billy said to Sam softly and he nodded to that that.
"At the moment it's just the four of us, but soon my brother is joining the pack." he said and Leah shook her head. "No it's the five of us, though I'm not a wolf yet, I can still hang with you, like we always have before Sam." she said and he smiled and nodded as he gave her a hug then and she tightened her arms around him. "A chance to fix our bonds and you and Emily like you were before, and us back together in friendship."
"I wouldn't have it any other way Le', us as a trio once again, that all I want. What with the fact that the twins are out of the picture, she needs us, and the guys. So for now the pack is the six of us and Em' is seven by this coming summer" he said and she nodded in agreement to that. "Alright check that, it's the seven of you guys: Kim, Emily, Leah, me and you three, we're the pack till Em' gets started this summer." I said and they nodded.
"Well five of six were part of the group from the very beginning, we're missing Rach', but we're all here sis, but we're the oldest of the pack, followed by my baby brother. So we just act like we did as four to six year old Cubs and have our bonds back to the way we were then." he said and I nodded I nodded in agreement. "Yeah that's what I mean alright, Rachel's coming home this summer, but our family pack is back in place."
"We're pack now and we stay pack all our young adult lives now, nothing is getting between us, including love triangles. As to that, we just get our bonds into place now and as piece by piece joins the pack, it's we're acting like our parents when they were our age." I said and our fathers all started laughing at that remark as Sam said it smiling at the amused look on our fathers faces at the way we decided on this. "Agreed we're the pack till my brother gets started and it's not one group or the other."
"But our council is sticking together either way now. So we're pack, before we become pack completely and we have friends outside pack too now." Sam said and I nodded in agreement to his thoughts. Seeing the confused looks on my friends faces, she smiled and explained it to them. "Alright, before you ask guys, our familial backhistory, before we started dating, was we were raised together from the time we were infants."
"The first of the gang were me, Sam, the twins, Uncle Billy's daughters I mean, Bella, Emily and the duo. We were the first born, two years later came Embry, Jacob and Quil, my brother, Colin, and Brady and last of all was Jesse. So one by one we're getting added to the pack, I'm acting as her bodyguard when or if Cullen is hanging around, but Aunt Beth is the adult version of me, if I was a wolf and with those words in mind."
"My spirit wolf is white with golden blonde highlights through my fur. Our job as the alpha's fourth is to protect the alpha's mate and the omega, and Bella happens to be both. Us Clearwaters are charged with protection of the Alpha's mate, so in the mean time we split off with getting together, so expect, Sam and me to be around if you come to first beach each weekend." she told them and they smiled and nodded to that.
"The alpha's third and fourth are the best friends of the omega, in the adult pack, in ours, they're my brother and sister, Harry's my uncle, his wife is my godmother, with my aunt back now, I'm protected with her and Uncle Jack here at school till he's back on the job." I added and they nodded as my coach smiled slightly at that. "Adopted relatives are the ones that protecting you now, while your father in law is the adult alpha."
"Nice touch, so with Harry out of commission still, protection detail goes to Jack and Beth is her personal bodyguard once she starts work here in school. Heart of a wolf, what's your position exactly in that anyway Jack?" Bentley asked and Jack answered that question. "The ranks are alpha, omega, beta, alpha's third, fourth, secondary Beta, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. I'm alpha's fifth, so when the alpha's third is out of commission, physically, for protection detail."
"Then the protection and safety of the omega, or alpha's mate goes to the alpha's fourth and fifth. With our children not active yet, that's our job till the boys and Leah get started. But I'm number six on her necklace, her familial bonds became a group of seven, like the quintet, I'm just as close to her and Beth helped raise her, but to us she's our baby omega." he said and they nodded. "I'm going to see this, if the compromised members of every team see her with you and you getting protective."
"As she's getting special attention to be making the Decisons for us and their parents, but trust me, they even lay a hand on her. Or an injury serious enough to need stitches, they're getting the consequences, I'm a retired army ranger and she's becoming my favorite student. She and my players are building their bonds and they're beginning to get overly protective now." he said and they nodded as I looked at the faculty then.
"Look in time we'll tell you the truth, if you figure it out on your own, but you must promise never to tell anyone else, guys, and when I do you're seeing the reason." I said and they all nodded to my request. "What reason?" Anderson asked and I sighed. "The secondary reason I chose the songs I did and why I'm moving onto the reservation now. It's nothing personal, regarding Edward, but he's a lion, I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing."
"As we said, our tribes were natural enemies, before, but now we're allies and friends, but that information you're learning at a later time. But Edward is like the maniacs that nearly killed me, though he hasn't crossed that line yet and won't till he realizes I belong to Jacob and the packs. Seeing Jake like he is right now is one thing, but his case of turning into his inner wolf is getting stronger every day now at the moment."
"As to that, he's the one, my soulmate, my imprint, it's completely natural to us, he's a eighteen months younger, but it doesn't matter to me, he's who I belong to. My place is with my tribe, lions with lions, wolves with Wolves, I'm engaged to my real alpha and that's it." I said and Harry looked at me at that. "To put this bluntly if Edward was going to hypothesize this, it's he's a lion, I'm a lamb, but that's where the facts shift course."
"I'm not a sheep, but a wolf in sheep's clothing, once I master my abilities, I become just as strong, fast and smart as he is. But my knowledge is meant to protect everyone, from the town and up to the Canadian border in the Olympian peninsula from these guys. My grandmother was the omega for the original pack, who happened to be the sextet's grandfathers, and you'll be learning that in ancient history." I said and my friends nodded as Harry smiled as he thought it to me and I knew he realized I was quoting him.
'Did I tell him that when we told him, we'd be watching over you in case they left?' he asked me softly. 'Yeah you did Uncle Harry, but your eyes were opening up vein in my memory when you said that, because they matched what I remembered when you were a wolf. But he blocked the memory out and everything after the prom was blocked, you told me the truth early, but he blocked it all out.' I said and they all nodded to that.
'So you saw me, Uncle Jack and the guys as our wolves first and started acting like our omega, and you realize it's completely natural to you, you're not afraid of us, and you hug me like you did dad. I bury my head into your shoulder and you wrap your arms around my neck, that what happened when you saw us as our wolves?' Sam asked me softly and I nodded to him as I answered him smiling and he hid a smile as he wrapped his arms around me.
'Yeah you showed yourself to dad that same day and I was on your father's back when Cullen lost his temper. But his reaction to my petting him is the same as yours and he was also amused at my reacting like my six to nine years old self by resting my head between his ears.' I told him and I heard a gentle chuckle as Josh said it. 'Well that makes perfect sense, my reaction to my baby omega back on my back again."
'Fortunately we just prevented you from seeing him, by having you see us first and to you this is completely natural now, the entire pack is back on full strength now. So two wolves here, Daniel, Elliot and I are patrolling the school grounds to protect you kids later, both this term and next school year to protect you guys.' Josh said and I nodded as I turned to my father then. "Dad should I just tell him the first piece of that truth?" I asked and my father nodded to me gently.
"You mean the reason you came home baby?" he asked and I nodded and he smiled. "Yeah honey, tell him, if he's going for the third degree inquisition here, that your mother remarried and she and Phil went to Jacksonville, because he's in spring training there and you chose to come live with me and be with your pack and new friends. And with that is the fact you chose to strengthen our relationship as well too."
"Though we were already close this just makes it even stronger now at the moment, as to that, it's two fold strengthen up our father/daughter bond. And giving your mother and stepfather a a chance to go on their honeymoon, but not till he sees you with the boys and Leah is he going to get the message here. And said message is that the families at the hospital not just anyone, if you get hurt, but are the quintet, their colors are the colors on your necklace." He said and smiled dangerously as he finished.
"Billy, if you're the father of my son-in-law, can you create one of those blond bonding bracelets for me, because I'm part of the council and I'm taking Renee's place in La Push at the reservation when we move out there." He said and the ten all nodded. "Sure thing Charlie, so that's the Swann/Marquez clan in green, and surrounding you are me, Harry, Josh, Daniel, and Elliot in our colors and you're doing Renee's decisions for her."
"And that's fine now. But as she's just admitting half the truth here and it's giving her mother some privacy for her anniversary now, we don't tell him the truth till she busts him and only then do we let him know what she really is. Not an open book, just completely selfless here, but though not much to do in either town it doesn't matter, because though no shopping mall or movie theater, we have other things to do a survivalist can see as fun." he said and I nodded to that remark in agreement.
'Dad how far does the span reach right now, Mom and Phil haven't moved out of Chandler yet?' I asked and Billy quickly explained that. 'With you drawing on our connection, 10,000 miles honey. Why..., wait never mind, you're going to our omega to get orders by doing this now. Your mother's going to agree with one practical demonstration, as do I, but don't over do it baby, you're just getting started, you can't keep pushing the envelope like this right now.'
'You start pushing your abilities too hard it's going to lay you out cub, just take it slow till you have more training under your belt.' he said and I nodded. 'God I hope the link works from here, mom can you hear me!' I called out mentally and I quickly heard her answer me at that. 'What's up baby?' she asked and I explained that to her. 'Dad knows the truth now, you mind if he takes your position on the council till you come back for a visit, because we plan to create a blood bonding bracelet for him.'
'As well, to indicate you're still matched to each other, and as for why here. Carlisle's back in town, the trio are active and the pack, my pack, is going active one by one right now. But your pack is back on the job right now, eight of ten are back on active duty right now. But I need your help with Uncle Billy, Harry's got three to four months before he's back on duty and that makes nine.' I told her and her tone went firm at that.
'Carlisle, Carlisle Cullen, the quintet moved back to Forks. Yes alright with that in mind, Charlie is taking my place till I come back to visit, but remind Carlisle of the rules. And if your father already said it here, you choose, it's of your own free will now.' she said and I nodded to her mentally. 'Mom what's the side effect if some boy broke your heart, be it human or supernatural, before the imprint if you're an omega?' I asked her and she explained that to me gently as she said it to me.
'Its, in the early stages have you returning every day to be with the wolf you imprinted on and as he heals your broken heart, the effect and connection leaves it's mark on both of you. To the point that the wolf in question and the pack are determined to not have you destroyed emotionally a second time. Once fully accepting the imprint, the connections of the old love dies for good.'
'And you're free of him forever now after that. If he's about to start falling in love with you, if you're asking that, and past lives are a good word for it here right, if you're now free of him completely. And I know this is a question based on a past life now, I can feel your anger and hatred at Cullen himself right now. But if this is about what our future selves dealt with now baby.'
'Than wait till whatever happens next to drop the bomb on him that you're the daughter of Renee Marquez. And I'm the grand daughter of Tala Marquez and secondly, if your childhood quintet are going active one by one, though Leah hasn't activated yet. Then the four of them are your bodyguards starting now, but you belong to Jake, the betrothal contract is signed and sealed.'
'The bracelet he gave you was a betrothal bracelet.' she said and I nodded to the orders. 'Mom listen to me, the me you know, this me acting like a cub version of you, doing your orders and suggestions to the pack and meetings with the Cullens for you. This me is from the future, that's why you can feel this in me. Grandma and the sextet got to me just in time, I returned to the past to change the future now.'
'He had me targeted by the leadership, and I'm changing the entire eighteen months leading up to the deadline, which is three weeks before the wedding. In that timeline, I'm engaged to him, but the seven got to me just in time and Harry did as well. I'm free of him and I'm fullfilling my destiny now, I'm never leaving you and I will fullfill the prophecy now. I'm your cub, and I'm never leaving you no matter what happens now."
"I got the last story, I know what I'm destined to do to now.' I told her and she quickly answered me at that, her tone firm at the wording then. 'He got you targeted by the leadership in your timeline. If they figured out you're an omega it was a choice between being converted or them destroying our tribe and everyone we care about in Forks. Alright enough is enough, I'm coming before the idiot gets you targeted by them, and I'm letting him have it for that myself.'
'Wait a minute, Harry got to you in time, through the void, Harry is dead in your timeline..., no, Harry is gone, Josh and Eric left. And that has the quintet out of commission and that's not if they decided to reactivate after that, while Beth is living in Makah in your future. Alright I get it, you came back to prevent him from destroying your future and from us being destroyed. Alright with that in mind, whatever decisions you chose, put them into a effect.'
'Charlie's taking my place on the council, because with you and Jake engaged, that yanks us back into the reservation now. We can come and go as we please, and then once whatever happens we yank the protective custody card, with your father, Elliot and Daniel and bring you home to the reservation. Cullen can't cross onto our lands, but the sextet can, with permission, tell them that." she said and I gave a mental nod to her orders as I answered her softly as I explained my alibies and ideas as I finished our conversation.
'Sure thing and I'll call you tonight, we're getting together tonight at dinner, but we're doing a conference call, so you can talk to the packs now, but we bent a couple rules and the sextet know they're getting added to the pack one by one. But with us creating the alliance with the Cullens, my new contact is Rosalie and her mate Emmett, the duo are part of the original quintet and Cullen himself is out of town right now.'
'Its a sting operation, so he knows that no matter how hard he tries now, I belong to Jake, my friends in school already accepted that, as did his brothers and sisters. But that's everything. The added rules bent are I decided to class our situation with the war against the red eyes as their homicidal maniacs with a cannibalistic feature to them and they got a taste for human blood.' I told her and and I heard a bemused tone at that.
'Nice choice in alibies baby, alright, if your friends, their parents or your teachers start cracking it, add them to the treaty and we write up a new one to protect them from the red eyed leadership sweetie. With you just getting started, go easy in the training for now. And I'm going to need to talk to Reddy, Shadow and Goldie tonight later. Just be careful, and I'll see you at Christmas, baby girl.' she said and I hid a smile at the nickname as I answered her.
'You too mom, see you at Christmas, love you.' I thought to her and I heard a gentle smile in her tone as she answered me. 'Love you too baby.' she said and I refocused at that as I saw the entire group looking at me. "What the heck was that?" Mike asked and I smiled. "Added side effect of being an omega, telepathy, I just got into a conference call with my mother, she said it's fine dad, you're taking her place till she comes back."
"Sam, you, Leah and the guys are now my personal bodyguards when we get to the Cullens for conference calls starting now and with that guys is if you start figuring it out. You're in on our secret and we write up a new treaty that has you involved in it now. Dad, expect to hear from her tonight at your house, she needs to talk to you and Uncles Harry and Josh later." I said and Billy nodded to the orders then as we exchanged looks.
"Dad she knows, she's figured it out and explained to me what happens during emotional recovery from a previous break up once I start hanging around Jake and the guys, you healed me up, and it worked. I'm free of Eddie finally, and I can move on now, you got to me first here now and the circle has been cut, it's a new future for us." I told him and the nine nodded in relief at the news as Billy answered me at that as he said it softly.
"Alpha, omega, beta and Alpha's third, nice, alright conference calls and if she needs to talk to you Carlisle she can do that over the phone after this meeting ends later." he said and Carlisle and Esme nodded in agreement as the ten of us exchanged looks at that. "What else did she say exactly, Bella?" Carlisle asked and I sighed. "She's repeating what dad said to you regarding my choosing between the boys and the clans."
"And reminding you of the rules, but we need to rewrite the treaty, certain key details remain in it, but I'm working some new rules and regulations into it as well to." I told him and Emmett said it for him. "Whatever she and you put into it we agree to Bella, though you're a cub. You're still an omega and you have more power than the entire council in this regarding our fates." he said and I nodded as we ended it at that.
"And I thought these abilities were something out of comic books, but this is getting ridiculous right now." Mike said as he started laughing at this as both groups looked at him smiling at the wording as Sam said it for all of us. "Trust me, you think its bad now just wait, because it's like the X-men comic books and movies you read about and see on tv Mike." Sam said as he started laughing at his remark as Rose started laughing at his remark. "Yeah, and aside from that P.A. and Seattle are 30 minutes away."
"And it's we can go there to see a movie or just hang out during the day. But beaches, tracking and camping, the lake, there's plenty to do here. You moved back so you could make some new friends and start your side of the job." Rose said smiling and I nodded in agreement. "So that's the entirety huh, you moved here, to give your mother and your stepfather a chance to go on their honeymoon and travel the country. While you and your father redevelop your bonds?" Mike asked and I nodded to him gently.
"Yeah, but I do believe if he's listening in we're going to have to catch him red handed, because evidently he can't hear me, but he can hear you." I said and the team looked at me in disbelief. "He's been listening in on our conversations, just how low can you get here exactly. Alright he does that again, and give us some sort of signal when we pretend to invite you along on our trip to La Push next weekend, see his reaction to where we're going." Dave said and I nodded as I looked at him and the quintet then.
"Well fortunately with the fact I'm taken now, I don't have anymore girls trying to get to me for dating rights." I heard and looked over my shoulder to see Jake walking into the room. "Don't count on it Jake, Hawthorne's been hunting you for dating rights, you remember that BSB song, well that's her all over, so when we come see you, you better make your relationship clear here." Tyler said and he nodded to him then as I said it
"Yeah I know, but that song can be taken both ways, male and female, as the lyrics to your chosen song can be thrown at who I once dated boys. And with that, no matter how much he comes crawling back, I don't want him back now. That's the point, every lyric of that song is my feelings to the person who broke my heart and I just want to move on without him always being the elephant in the room now." I said and he crossed his arms.
"I take it he destroyed you emotionally when in Phoenix if you're saying that, huh?" Jessi said with a growl and I nodded. "Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying and with that in mind here, it's why I'm surrounding myself by you guys or the pack now. You'll get it once he starts pulling the personality swaps, but Edward looks just like him. In fact he's his identical brother, every feature is matched to the boy I was dating before."
"It was after an accident at my 14th birthday party that he and his brother took off on me and mom was pissed. She, dad and the adult pack decided I was spending as much time with the adult and young packs as possible and I was just beginning to get over him. When I encountered someone else, looking just like him, but twice stung by the very same boy, or clan name. Edward's birth name was Masen, but that sums it up."
"He's not good for me, and I've been put through too much thanks to him as it is, that includes the attack by these maniacs I mentioned. But that's where Jake comes into it, he stitched me back together, and he, Leah and the guys became my life line after that. That's why I came back, my pack, fresh start, I just wanted to get out of Phoenix and away from Tony Masen after that." I told them and the gang all nodded to me.
"As for Jake and me, once I was healing that switched up and the song took on a whole new meaning and its difference in our case. But in ours there's a couple songs set up for this, but the one that comes to mind in ours is 'Everything I do', he got to me first and vice versa, there's no chance at all for either of them to get to us. As to why, we only have eyes for each other now." I told him and he nodded in agreement to that remark.
"You're right about that, if Cullen had a twin brother that destroyed you emotionally once already, I'm not letting him get away with it right now. As I'm your best friend, I'm doing whatever it takes to insure your happiness Bells." He said and I nodded. 'Perfect that gives me a perfect alibi regarding this and why I'm not bothering with him now, I can split his name into three pieces now. So Edward, Anthony, Eddie Cullen, Mason Cullen, Tony Cullen.' I thought hiding a smile then as I answered that as I looked at my father.
"Hey dad, here's a question if one of us went out of town for school stuff and our relationship was this strong, what's your advice?" I asked and he chuckled as he said it. "To protect that relationship, set things on hold and rebuild it til you're back together, and if there's any vultures flying around looking for a freebie, act like you're still together when you come home for a visit." he said and I smiled at Jake as I answered him.
"And if the guy in question was one of a set of triplets, two living in Phoenix and the third here in Forks, and one of them did the damage and you and the pack had seen me shut down?" I asked and he crossed his arms as he answered me. "If they're identical triplets and the first tore you apart emotionally. I'm not having your heart ripped apart a second time and I'd want you with someone not connected to their familial clan trio at all."
"And hearing that subtext, I take it his brother was the one who did it at the time, if you're staying clear of Edward Cullen right now?" he asked and I nodded as I looked at the sextet then to give my alibi regarding this, knowing they weren't going to take it well then as I said it. "Tony and Mason are the duo in Phoenix and I wind up running into their brother when I met the five of you Rose. Tony was the one who did it."
"You remember mom's reaction, she was furious he tore me apart and you decided you were bringing me up here to get away from Phoenix for a while. Though his influence was enough to piss you off after a case of cliff diving without you guys supervising us and Jake and I were screwing around with a few motorcycles as he retrofitted them in the rebuild, though we promised to be careful I ended up hitting my head in the drive."
"And you guys and Aunts Sue, Rose, Sally, Anna and Jessica took charge after that one, because the injuries were in the exact same places, along with going cliff diving when you weren't with us and again it was close, because you dived in after me Uncle Elliot. And this was enough to piss all of you off after that at the time. That you decided I wasn't going back to Phoenix till I was fully recovered at the time."
"But our family gang back together and I spent six months with the packs, healing up and you, Aunt Sue and Uncles Harry and Billy were relieved that Jake was everything I needed at the time dad. Jake was stitching me back together, but his return created a love triangle and I decided to return home after I heard Jake was injured in a fight with one of these maniacs. After you destroyed them all." I said and the adult pack stiffened, as Ellot said it for all of them, his tone beyond furious as he said it.
'That's the sum of it baby?' Elliot said with a furious mental growl. 'Yeah it is, with the five of you retired in my timeline, I had to get you all reactivated completely, because this is exactly what happened during the entire eighteen months. Just before I came to the past, I'm just naming off the crucial details you all needed to know now. But with this information it's enough he's not getting a second chance at it.' I said and dad answered, his tone furious, but firm as he said it for the eleven of them.
'Alright just name it off for of us baby.' he said and I nodded. "The promise bracelet returned and I was coming home here and back to you, Jake and the packs, I've made my choice and you're it. My family, over him, you're who I chose and choose and it's over in his case, I'm free of him." I said and he nodded as his eyes narrowed at the wording then as he answered me. 'Jesus, so that little bastard turned you into an adrenaline junkie at the time, alright that's not happening again.'
'I don't care what he says, he's not getting to you this time, Jake is a much healthier choice for you anyway right now baby. He's like his father and me in that area, we'd protect you, but we don't obsess over it, we let you do what you want and we'd trust your judgement. But we made recommendations and were setting standards and family time and you're just beginning to heal physically and emotionally from him.' he thought back to me and I gave a mental nod and he nodded as he answered me firmly as he said it for the entire adult pack.
"Yeah I remember that perfectly baby, and it's not happening again if I have anything to say about it now. If Cullen starts getting jealous it's not his business now, I choose who and what's best for you and you've already made your choice honey and it's Jake. Aside from that the marriage and betrothal contract is signed and sealed, you belong to Jake now anyway." he said and I nodded as I explained it to my friends and the sextet.
'That was in reverse in your timeline, wasn't it, I reached my limit regarding what he did to you emotionally. Because I didn't know he was a vampire and your mother came to get you, but you refused and she and your godparents decided to help you by getting you involved in the pack again. You were just beginning to make progress, before the leaches that murdered Harry came back, Jake and Embry both get turned and you have a relapse.'
'Cullen destroyed your progress a second time by going to the leadership and that's it as you get an axe hanging over your head. You took that engagement to protect not just me, but your mother, the packs and the tribe and town, baby girl. Don't worry baby, this is never happening again now, I'm not giving you up. It's too late I made my choice, you belong to Jake and it's friendship or nothing now, that's it, I'm part of the council now and it's that clear.'
'With your mother out of town it's the reverse in mates here. Well now I'm acting like the father you need me to be, I'm in on your secret, I know and I don't care what the guys or the tribe are, let alone what the sextet and their relatives Denali are. So long as they can protect you that's all I care about now and with those words in mind. Cullen is being held under severe scrutiny later if he crosses the line in the E.R. later.' he thought back to me softly and I hid a nod
"Tony was the guy in question, I broke up with him before I moved back, you took care of healing my broken heart and I belong to you Jake. Edward Cullen doesn't stand a chance now. Because Tony already ripped me apart, it doesn't matter if they're triplets or not, once by him is enough, I'm not getting together with his identical brother and that's all there is to now." I said and he smiled as the sextet got the remark automatically.
"My son's brother out in Phoenix, he tore you apart and you broke it off with him, fell in love with Jake and you belong to Jake now?" Esme repeated and I nodded to her. "Tony was the reason the guys got territorial with me Mrs. Cullen, they weren't having me being destroyed emotionally a second time, brought me home to the reservation and healed my heart, I've moved on with Jake." I said and she nodded as I looked at him.
'Where are you coming up with these alibis, this is perfect in explaining things to us as our future selves are recording the new scenarios now?' Emmet said and and I hid a smile. 'I had to spend a lot of time improvising while I was hanging around with you in my timeline, so Edward Anthony Masen Cullen, I'm splitting his name into pieces now. But the subtext is-is I'm not taking him back now.'
'As to that, your future selves are cataloguing these conversations I just have to explain this to you now.' I thought back to him and I explained that to my pack then as I said it to my friends. "Tony took me to the junior prom at Chandler middle school after I wound up running into a group of these maniacs. As it was it another close call as every injury was in the exact same places as the ones from when we were 10 to 12 year old Cubs."
"After the accident at my 14th birthday party he gave me this line regarding I'm not good for him, or putting that in our language girls, not enough for him. When he was from the high upper class, I'm talking the Soc side of the grouping, my parents from the mid middle class, and Phil was a baseball player. And to him and his brother, that's not enough, nor is the fact that I just want to be myself and he and Mason took off on me."
"Mom and several of her friends went looking for me and that's when another tribe, just like ours, got involved and helped her track me down after three months in an emotional shut down, she reached her limit and dad came to get me and bring me home up here. As time went on and I was trying to work things out he turned me into this completely reckless person and one stunt after another resulted in Jake and Sam needing to take charge now so they could break whatever he'd done to me, till it broke completely."
"After like four months together with my pack I was beginning to heal and our bond was reaching the point of healing my heart and Jake stitched me back together. In fact Jake's words to me were what stitched me back together, he'd never let me down and he never has. He'd be there for me no matter what now, but Tony came back and it turned into a fight between him and Jake and that sums it up, and I chose Jake in the end."
"Tony had done the damage to my heart, Jake stitched me back together, the boys gave me the brotherly support I needed, Emily and Leah the big sister bit and that was it. The ending results left their imprint on both of us as I saw everything I missed when we were Cubs younger than ten and I now saw him as everything I wanted. The imprint was the early stages and I decided, now, that I wanted to return home after she remarried."
"While they're traveling around on their honeymoon and he's in spring training at the moment, I get the chance to be in a town that is more my personality and I'm back where I belong now." I said and they nodded as the sextet got it automatically. "That's what happened, you don't want anything to do with Edward, because of Tony?" Angela said in shocked amazement and I nodded to her and they nodded to that.
"Yeah that's it exactly, that's why, before I started school, to get with my pack and re-establish the soulmate connection with Jake. Prevent this from happening again. Though my Jake is an mechanic, we're taking safety measures and I can hang around with him and his trio in his garage when I'm not with you guys now next winter." I said and she nodded. "Good idea, best to prevent a relapse if he takes off for no reason."
" And while I'm the subject, young lady, I want you wearing a full helmet with the visor if you're taking that thing for a test drive and stay off the main roads, Harry, Josh." Dad said and they nodded. "We'll take care of it Charlie, but I'm not risking a real heart attack, because you weren't wearing a helmet and crashed into a boulder this time young lady, be careful." Harry said as Leah covered her eyes as she and Sam said it.
"And I'm not having him destroying you out of recklessness if it takes my being there to keep you from doing something completely dangerous I will, because I just got you back little sister." Leah and Sam said together in shocked anger at the information they just got. "Is anything left of his influence still on you, little sister, because he's not doing what his brother did if I have anything to say about it now. You're my baby sister, I'm not losing you?" Sam asked and I shook my head and he and the adult pack sighed in relief.
'You're seeing the extent of those things in book two, but I'm giving a debrief to the twelve of you, and your mothers at the pack/council meeting, but trust me you're not going to like it.' I said and Leah answered me for both of them as I heard a sigh in her mental voice. 'I hate it already, if this you has been put through an emotional hell, I'm not letting him get away with it now.' she said as Carlisle said it for all Of them, his tone furious at his future version of Edward then as he said it.
"Well that tells us everything we need to know and it's friendship or nothing where Edward is concerned now. You're taken already and with the fact that Tony destroyed you once, I'm not having it a second time now and not when I just met you now, sweetheart." Carlisle said with a firm growl in his tone at that. "And it's not taking sides, if you want to go neutral regarding this we're fine with that as well in our clans."
"We're a pride, you're a pack, lions with lions, wolves with wolves, you belong to your wolf and we're accepting that no matter what he says now." Rose added and we nodded to that firmly. "Well that solves these areas, but starting now the middle ground begins guys, you want to come to our house that's fine with us, we just get him out of the house, if we're doing repeated meetings together now." Emmett finished and I nodded.
"I take that car you have was his, before he gave it to you, huh?" Mike asked and I nodded. "Yeah he's building his own, but he reworked the engine on my truck, and he and the duo are getting into business for themselves now later. As a mechanic workshop now. But as he's my future husband, he's got access to my truck and he and I are acting like we're engaged. So too late, Cullen is out of luck." I said and he nodded, smiling.
"Hey Babe, had a good day?" Jake asked me, smiling and I nodded with a grin. "Yeah thank you, what do you say to dinner and a movie Friday night, baby?" I asked and he grinned and nodded as he swung me around and I felt the amusement in our paternal pack shoot throught me and I knew they were thrilled we were like this together. Before he put me down and pressed his forehead to mine, as I looked into his eyes.
'Look into my eyes, you will see, what you mean to me.' I heard him thinking and I smiled as I pressed my forehead to his. 'Take me as I am, take my life, I would give it all, I would sacrifice. You know it's true, everything I do, I do it for you, baby.' he finished as he kissed my cheek and I tightened my arms around him as I pulled him into a hug and he tightened his arms around me as I hold him, remembering my past.
As I thought about my future with him at my side and with him, my pack, feeling his arms around me I remembered that line from the song, 'He could be the one. 'He's got something special, he's got something special, and when he's looking at me I want to get all sentimental and he could be the one, he could be the one'. I sang to myself as he hold me as I looked at him at smiling as I finished that thought to myself.
'Yeah he's the one alright, it's him and it will always be him now, before I was listening to my head and it tears us both apart. Now I'm listening to my heart and we both get to have our happiness now. My Jake, my wolf, I'm a wolf girl and I belong to him, I'm never letting him go, before it was a choice between him and Cullen and I chose Cullen so I never lost Jake. Well now I'm choosing of my own accord and I choose my wolf.'
"I'm never letting him go, my mate, the reddish brown wolf I love with all my heart, I'm never letting him go.' I thought to myself then as I buried my head into his shoulder and pressed my head to his. 'I love you Jake.' I thought to him and I heard him think back to me at that. 'I love you too Bells, my Bells.' he thought to me as he looked into my eyes. Pressing my forehead to his, we closed our eyes and I activated our link then.
'Baby what are you doing here, you know the truth.' I said to him and he smiled as he thought it back to me. 'The imprint may not be activated yet, but I can't stay away from you anymore now baby, whatever we did in New Moon we do it, spend as much time together as possible. Cullen wants to take off that's his choice, but from the day of your birthday and forward. I'm not making the same mistake twice you're with me and the boys all the time after that.'
'We create our pack and it's the seven of us and Leah after that, but either way the me you remember. Before and after I turned into a wolf is here to protect you now, I may not be able to protect you from the red eyes yet. But from guys like Grant or that quartet, I can, I'm not leaving you alone anymore. Paul is being ordered to protect you from Cullen when he starts school next semester.' he thought back to me and I nodded as we ended our mental conversation.
"Hey honey, just get out of school now?" I asked and he nodded as he pressed his forehead to mine smiling and I knew our fathers were smiling at this as he answered me. "Is that what these soulmate connections do, you can talk to each other mentally?" Mike said smiling gently and we nodded to him. "Yeah and the song Hannah Montana created is the perfect song for this, 'He could be the one', well that's him all over now."
"And from the day we got back together, he's all I can think about now, but trust me, being a man with a heart of wolf, once the spirit wolf imprints, he's all you're going to be able to think about girls. Trust me, but this is what the connection does to a teenager, you're on each other's minds all the time and everything about him drives you crazy." I said to my quintet and they started laughing at that as Anderson smiled at the remark.
While Jacob grinned at the wording as I saw the amused looks on our father's faces at the wording then. "I think that's maybe because you were looking forward to seeing me again ever since you came home, and once back together. The connection snapped itself into place and we can't stop thinking about each other. With you at my place or at the Clearwaters every day after school now baby. But we're on our minds all the time and as a result we're like this together." he said with a laugh and I nodded to him smiling.
"It's been ten days into that relationship and since you came home now for good and already it's acting like you've been together for three months now, that's got to be a record here. If we weren't descended from wolves I'd say this was going too fast. But with the fact we are, I'd say the imprint has gone crazy and is now running amok." Sam added as he started laughing at that as I smiled at him as I answered him.
"I think that's the understatement of the century, I'm just beginning to get used to my abilities again and already the connection is going haywire right now, but the imprint, I'd say that either me, or Reddy, has lost control of it now. Is this what it did to you Sam, falling in love for the first time, she's all you can think about. And as a result you're acting like you've been hit head over heels for the person you'd fallen in love with."
"Because that's what it's doing to me right now, ten days back together, back here in Forks, ten days as a whole familial gang once again and already the connection is enough to start going haywire right now." I said and he chuckled. "Yeah I think he started something here, because I've never seen you like this before when we were kids. But now it's the reaction of a fully blown one and he hasn't even started yet."
"Hey dad is this what it does to us when we're Cubs, than you as a adults?" he asked and Josh nodded with an amused look on his face. "Yes but to you as your Cubs it's driving up the head over heels reaction of finding the one you're meant to be with. And Reddy is over doing it right now. And with that, get it together you little fuzzball, I know you're in love with her, but take it down a notch here, she needs to focus right now."
"And baby pull yourself together alright, come on. Though once she's ready to fully accept the imprint that's when it hits you like a Mach truck. And I think she did accept it fully now, if she's looking at him like this. Well there's no use fighting over her now, she's accepted the imprint fully, and she belongs to him now." he said smiling in happiness as Dad repeated that remark with an amused look on his face at that.
"Once accepting the imprint, it goes full, and it results in the girls never letting their wolf go, Josh. In other words my daughter made the conversion, and she's now fully healed from what these maniacs did to her then. And her heart has accepted the imprint and she's chosen Jake now to protect her from anymore maniacs like this?" he asked and they nodded and he nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly now at the moment Charlie."
"She's fully recovered from what these lunatic's did to her, and she's ready to move on, her heart is healed now from the damage of the break up and she's letting herself go. The imprint has gone fully active now and she belongs to my son now, there's no use fighting over her for dating rights, she belongs to Jake now." Billy said and we nodded. 'I'm now fully healed from everything he'd done to me and I belong to Jake now.'
'Yes, yes, yes, I'm free of him now, I'm free and I can move on finally from Cullen. I belong to Jake and Cullen is nothing but a memory now, I'm free. I'm free yes, I can move forward now!' I thought in delight as the eleven all looked at me at that and I knew they were hiding smiles at my reaction and I knew they were thrilled that I was finally free of him, but I knew my happiness was overwhelming them as Harry said it.
"Sweetheart pull yourself together alright, I know you're glad to be free of Tony now, but you're losing control over that connection, pull it together here." Harry said to me gently and I nodded as I relaxed, but pulled Jake closer and he tightened his arms. "I take it the empathy link is going crazy right now with you guys if you're feeling it like I can right now, Elder?" Jasper asked and he nodded as I explained it to them with a sigh.
"Tony ripped my heart out by taking off on me Uncle Harry, I was in emotional shut down for three months till you took over to help me move on. And once he came back, that just made it worse, I wanted to be with Jake, but getting caught between a rock and hard place. I just wanted to follow my heart and be free of the connection, his hold on me and move on, be with my pack, and stay with you and now that I have with Jake."
"I'm happy now, in fact, I'm delighted Tony is nothing but a memory now, he's lost me forever now and I belong to Jake now." I said and the adult pack nodded softly. "Alright pull yourselves together you guys, you need to get that under control, before you get started Jake. You may not have started yet, but Reddy needs to get it together right now." Dad said to me smiling as he saw the delighted look on my face at the news.
"I think Reddy lost control over his emotions if they're affecting me right now when I'm around her, and vice versa, dad." Jake said to him and Billy and they looked at us. "Who's Reddy exactly?" Anderson asked and he chuckled. "My spirit wolf, our spirit wolves are the cub versions of our fathers wolves. But the reason my wolf has that name is he looks like Red, if I'd been a wolf, my wolf is a cub version of my father's wolf."
"I'm fifteen, but he's going to be the size of a horse once you see him face to face, while the adult pack is the size of a buffalo. But it's a symbiotic relationship, everything he feels, I feel, and everything I feel, he feels. So once one of us falls in love we both feel it and it hits the person we imprinted on as a result, but in the early stages, like us right now the connection starts going haywire now. And it's resulting in she can't focus."
"When she's not around me, because I'm all she's able to think about, but that explains the line in the song, 'Everywhere I go, he's always on my mind, I'm going crazy', and it's because Reddy has her emotions going crazy right now and now that we're back together she can focus now. But that sums it up, the imprint for us teenagers is the head over heels reaction of falling in love, truly for the first time, and you know you find the right one." he said and the girls chuckled at that as Jessi and Angie both looked at me.
"That's what he's doing to you right now?" Jessi said through her laughter and I nodded smiling. "Yeah, I'm crazy about him, nobody could ever come close to him. Once imprinted on, you're everything to each other and after that, and I'm giving an example here. Jared is mated to Kim Bealy, she goes to the reservation school. But once connected they're always on each other's minds and inseparable now."
"But two songs are considered here. Bryan Adams 'Everything I do, I do it for you' and 'He could be the one', as to that. That's us all over now, that's the imprint right there, these two songs together, us as teenagers the connection is so strong. It's like the head over heels reaction once you find a someone you got a crush on, but much more powerful. But this is like the love story on our favorite childhood tv show."
"That's us wolves and imprints all over as teenagers, they got the tough guy demeanor to their rivals, but when with us, we're the only thing on their minds, they'd do anything be anything for us. And it's not gravity holding them down its us, we're their everything and nothing means more to them then our happiness now. Jake and I are in the early stages of this, once he activates as Hunter you're seeing him as the inner wolf he is."
"But he's the tough guy to his rivals, to me he's my Prince Charming and everything about his life revolves around me now. That we never let each other out of our sight, so no one can move in on him, because I'm always at his side and vice versa. He's my imprint, to put that in normal wording here, he's my soulmate with the fact I found him and got back to him, before Edward saw me. I'm taken already and there's no fighting over me, because I belong to him." I said and the girls nodded at the explanation.
As they and their parents smiled at the possibility of that bond. "That's one heck of a connection, if this is what it does to a teenage girl I'd hate to be the mate of a fully grown wolf spirit later, I bet the reaction is even worse." Anderson said with a chuckle and dad started laughing as Billy's answered that remark smiling. "It is, once mated it results in you're never wanting to leave her side or in her case, yours, for our Cubs it's the basic raging hormones, but us adults it's twenty years of a relationship."
"Our mates don't mind we've got the heart of a wolf, because we're completely committed to our mates now. Us wolves, we mate for life once we find an exact match. To them, she and my son are my wife and me in thirty years, but this is just the early stages, whatever the added details are, Cullen blew his chances at a good first impression last week when he reacted like that. But she and Jake they hit it right off that first night." he said as he looked at us with me in Jake's arms.
"So my son's attitude problem screwed up his chances at getting her and she belongs to your son now that you've spent ten days back together Billy?" Carlisle asked and he nodded to him. "Raging hormones, we're going through puberty and it just gets worse at this age, alright before you guys add a teenage wolf to the high school whoever is hanging around get ready, because the imprint is going to result in something here." Jake said to him softly as Bentley ended the conversation at that remark.
"Alright subject change now guys, let's get on with this." Bentley said with an amused look on his face. "Right sorry Coach, but I'm acting like a normal student, and as last week's demonstration as a normal high school student, so get ready in case that happens again out there." I said and my gang started laughing as they nodded. "By that, I take it you mean the warzone in the courtyard on Thursday last week, Bella?" Anderson asked bemused and we nodded to her and Bentley said it for both of them.
"Alright you guys, you want to go at it go ahead, just let us get out of the way and secondly we get hit and you're all going to get so take it down a notch out there, will you please." He said and we nodded as our parents started laughing at that as I looked at him. "Jared gave me a lift up here, so I could check on you and so I could meet our tribe's allies finally." Jake said and I nodded as he looked at the sextet smiling.
"Hello Doctor, I'm Jacob Black, I'm the future chief of the Quileute tribe." he said to hiand he nodded smiling to him. "Nice to meet you too Jacob, I'm Carlisle, this my wife Esme, and my children Rose, Alice Emmett and Jasper. Say where's your third exactly, because the five of you together can negotiate things with my family?" he asked and Seth answered that as he walked in, as he gave me a hug as well.
"Right here Dr. Cullen, I'm Seth Clearwater, Alpha's third of the young pack." he said and he nodded smiling as he looked at the trio and then at their fathers and smiled. "Well I see all three of you look like a cub version of your father boys." he said and our parents chuckled at that as I heard a playful remark in answer to that. "Yeah well it's the same for me as well Doc, I'm Quil Ateara." I heard and smiled as Quil moved to his father and he looked at the young quartet then smiling.
"Alright guys that's enough of that." I said as I started laughing and they nodded as he pulled me into a hug as well. 'Are you guys doing that on purpose right now, boys?' I asked them mentally and they nodded to me. 'Yes make it clear that though you're making friends with them, you belong to us as our omega. Bells, it's we need to make it clear now that no matter what Cullen thinks you belong to us now.'
'You're my mate, they're your brothers and sisters, we're pack, and family, it's time to make it clear. That though we make take shifts in protection detail once the war starts, but I may trust Alice, Rose and Emmett to protect you, but you belong to me now. He's going to do anything he can to screw with that, so just writing up the treaty lines now, before this gets out of control later.' Jake thought back to me and I hid a nod gently as as Carlisle looked at Quil.
"I'm guessing secondary beta kiddo?" he asked and Eric nodded to him. "Yeah their ranks are matched to us as their adult versions Carlisle. But alpha, omega, beta, alpha's third, alpha's fourth, secondary beta, fifth and sixth." Josh said to him gently and he nodded, before I saw the duo weren't there and closed my eyes as I realized what they did now then. "Guys where are the duo, are they?..." I asked trailing off and the trio all nodded as my father realized it at the exact same time as he said it for both of us.
"Great first Orangie and now Twister and Brownie, alright guys, you walk right up to the building and you're in big trouble." Dad said in aggravation as I started laughing at that. "Are they always like this?" Jessi asked and I nodded. "Yeah and it's been repeated pranks ever since I got back and it's getting annoying right now." I said and the girls started laughing as Carlisle switched subjects with a bemused smile on his face at that.