I started the coffee machine and pulled a mug out of the dish rack. Quil Sr has definitely been hanging around here more then just feeding the cat, he spent time here to get away from all the people in town that called him a traitor for helping me. The mug said "best husband" so I know it was a favorite. I placed it back and pulled another one out, a white mug with a lemon painted on it. I heard footsteps getting closer, four pairs and they were just reaching the porch steps when I poured myself a cup. I sat at the kitchen table and waited for the boys to walk in. I had a hunch they were the new protectors and was trying to figure out why the old "witch" house was being lived in again.
"So what brings you?" I called out when I saw them through the beaded curtains. They were looking around like they were trying to find the spooky things that were hidden in plain sight. One stepped through and then the others. The alpha stood in front me. I knew two faces from their elders but two looked new to me.
"Quil Sr told us to keep an eye on the house until someone, I'm guessing you, came back," the alpha stated while looking around the kitchen. He saw many cookbooks on the counter, a stove, a dish rack and a sink. Some spices along the counter that were probably long expired and the damn coffee machine.
"Well I'm back. I was called to help and here I am. But I prefer to talk about this business with him," I sat my cup down and held out my hand to the machine, a silent offering. The one boy went to move for it but was stopped by another.
"Quil...Jr I'm guessing?" I raised my eyebrow at the boy who stopped the other one, the younger one.
"And you...Harry Clearwater's son?" His face had the same boyish look that Harry's did when he was that age.
"You...Billy Blacks son?" The boy gave me alpha vibes as well which confused me.
Then I looked at the last boy and froze. I felt the pull. The tugging on my body he gave me. The warm sensation that filled me. I knew exactly what just happened but this was not the time for it.
"Quil Sr has left the rest up to us but he will be back to visit you, once you are made aware of what is going on," the alpha spoke again which made me break the trance with the one boy. I sighed knowing he wasn't going to let up and if I wanted them to trust me I couldn't use my manipulation power on him. I offered them sits and winked at the younger boy to go get the drink, this time glaring at the boy who stopped him.
"Well, then I need to know names first. I can't protect you if I dont know names," I took a sip of hot coffee while avoiding the eyes I felt next to me.
"I'm Sam, I run this pack and I'm the one who asked Quil Sr to call for you," he had a twinge of desperation in his voice.
"I'm Seth, Harry Clearwater's son. He never mentioned you though," he looked confused on why only Sam knew.
"I was a secret Seth. I was only meant to help the pack and the loved ones, I still help them to this day with a protection spell I put on them many years ago," I thought about the night I had to flee town but before I left I called all the pack and their loved ones to put a blessing on them that helped their linage keep going. A blessing that has obviously held up.
"I'm Jacob, if you put a protection thing on them then why is my mom dead and my dad in a wheelchair?" Silly boy didn't understand this.
"I could protect them from supernatural events, not natural ones. Accidents, death, sickness, I can't control that. I can help the best I can but I can't fix it after a certain point," thinking back to all the people dead over the last 150 years I tried to help but couldn't. My mother was the person that could do all that, I could just heal wounds and protect. Not bring back life.
"This is Paul," Seth told me when the last boy wasn't speaking. I refused to look at him, I didn't come here for love. I didn't come here for a distraction. I came here to help, pay a favor, then leave. I nodded my head acknowledging that I heard him.
"I'm Elena, your on the call witch," I did a tiny bow in my chair. "I helped a pack many years ago when vampires were trying to run this town and when all cleared up the town was catching on to me. Quil Sr helped me escap and I owed a debt since," I shrugged my shoulders letting them know exactly why I came and that when it was done I'll be gone.
"We are about to go into a giant battle. Vampires and werewolves against the Volturi," Sam confuses me when he included vampires and werewolves in the same sentence against the Volturi. I never met them, only heard of them but I knew they were strong and powerful then any other.
What did I get myself into?