7. The Collaborative

Fen was not ashamed with what went on between him and Leah, and he reached around gripping her shoulder looking down at her amused while petting the back of her head. "Did you forget that you're a wolf, Leah?" He asked, which she only looked up at him shaking her head with a faint smile before returning to her refuge into his chest rubbing her face into him taking in his scent.

Jacob crossed his arms over his chest giving things farther thought. "He does make a good point. He might draw more vampires here once the rumor spreads about some of the most powerful vampires ever were taken out by nobodies. They treaty line is irrelevant now that he's here. They are going to know we are a threat"

"They see us as a threat now! What difference does it make!?" Leah spoke up.

"This is why I never stay in one place…" Fen muttered.

"Well, perhaps you can remind the Cullens once they return that they have nothing to fear if they honor the treaty" Sue suggested.

Jacob cringed before he sighed heavily. "Yea, if they come back"

"Nessie will make sure they come back…" Charlie added while crossing his arms over his chest annoyed with that notion.

Fen looked at Leah oddly wanting farther context. "You care to explain to me who Nessie is?" he asked.

"She's Jacob's imprintee" she explained.

"She's my granddaughter" Charlie reminded.

Fen quickly pieced things together with Nessie being a Cullen, Charlie being human, and her being his granddaughter. "So she's a dhampir, huh?" Fen muttered.

"The heck is a dhampir?" Seth asked.

"A dhampir is what you get when you cross a human with a vampire. They are extremely rare, but theoretically with their own blood supply the can be just as strong as newborns. The only downside is that their body consumes its blood supply" Ruth explained.

Fen smirked. "A little bit of family drama, huh? Sounds like something I can exploit later…" he muttered, but only Leah heard him, and she gave him a look and shook her head at him.

Jacob glared at him and stood over him having overheard Leah's thoughts. "You will do as you're told! Do not go over there!" he attempted to use his alpha voice on him.

Fen smirked evilly, and Leah sighed. "You know your alpha voice won't work on him…just give up"

Fen got up and got into Jacob's face then snickered. "You know…I can continue to make your life a living hell, or you can back off and stop your damn barking!" he said calmly.

"Oh yea? And just how are you going to do that?" Jacob said puffing his chest up.

"Like I'd tell you, but…just remember I have the ability to create new werewolves…Iet that little tid bit sink in for a while" Fen mumbled.

"You wouldn't dare…" Jacob growled.

Fen smirked and glanced over at Billy. "Maybe your father would like to no longer be confined to his wheelchair? I'm sure he can't bear to say on the sidelines and not fight for his tribe's survival…I could remedy that in an instant" he said before Jacob suckerpunched him in the face.

Fen fell back into the house and slid down the siding laughing. "If you ever come near my dad…I'll kill you!" Jacob shouted.

Fen glance towards Billy and smirked. "Just take it into consideration…I'm the only living example of Spirit Warrior merged with Werewolf powers. Taha Aki didn't just send me here to fight one battle for you"

Billy frowned staring off into space, which Sue and Old Quil looked at each other neither of them saying anything much to Jacob's annoyance. Fen struggled to stand up and looked at Jacob defiantly. "How much are you willing to sacrifice to protect the ones you love? I'm going wager that your father is more than willing to give up his humanity in order to fight! Your vampire friends aren't coming to save you! They all made their choice…what will yours be?" he said before he opened the sliding glass door. "The clock is ticking" he said as he shuffled his feet inside.

Leah got up following him inside. "Where are you going!?" she shouted chasing after him inside. She grabbed his arm and stopped him. "You aren't even going to apologize to them for acting like an ass!?" she shouted.

"I ain't apologizing to anyone! He's had his mind made up since he met me. Nothing's going to change it, so why bother? Like I've said before I don't give a shit about anyone's feelings. I'm not here to make friends! I'm here to do a job!" Fen shouted walking through the living room.

"So what about me? You don't care about my feelings?"

Fen stopped and looked at her sternly. "Let me ask you this…had you not imprinted on me…would you have been jumped onto the same hate bandwagon as the others?" he asked as he entered her room.

She rubbed her arm and looked away. "Seth doesn't hate you…my mother doesn't hate you…Charlie doesn't hate you. I mean we're all nervous, but…I don't know anything about werewolves…actual ones…give them time to see what you are like" she spoke a lot softer before she placed her hand upon his chest. "Will you please stop fighting them and get along…for me?"

He stared at her with an eye twitching after hearing her tone and feeling her light gentle caresses. He knew she was controlling him, and he could not resist her as easily as the others. He growled lowly and looked away. "You're asking too much out of me" he said softly.

"If you try to hurt them again, then there will be no sex" she said.

He looked back at her knowing that she had something in her dresser drawer to back up her bluff. "And what if they start it?"

"Then I will handle it! You will shut up and ignore them" she said before she pulled him and locked lips with him. "You got to show me how to do that trick you did to Sam…that was amazing babe" she said with admiration.

"Um, I'll teach you much more than that" he said as they went into her bedroom. He closed his eyes and sighed as he sat down on the edge of her bed. "There are not a lot of us left. The only ones left are pretty much the strongest, smartest, or have some quirk that gave them an advantage. My father took a play from the turned me into a werewolf when he saw how proficient I was as a spirit warrior. I had no idea how much discrimination there would be towards me. I can just tell with a look someone gives me if they bear ill will towards me" he said before he glanced back over at her with his yellow eyes. "My grievances are not with you or Seth"

"I guess all they want to know is if you can control yourself on the full moon. If you can't control yourself even now, then how can they be confident in you doing it once you transform?"

"No one's dead Leah. I have to keep some loose standards, so that the both of us stay satisfied. I'm not afraid of him. I know what he needs, and I know what he doesn't"

"Oh yea? Well what does he want right now?"

He stared into her eyes and smiled. "What he wants now is to be with his mate away from everyone else"

Leah crossed her arms over her chest and scowled at him. "I'm still mad at you for beating up Sam and Jacob"

"Heh heh, just think what I can do to a bunch of blood suckers fully transformed?"

A smiled started to creep upon her lips as she imagined what he did to Stefan and Vladimir. She crawled into bed with him and planted a smooch on his lips and stroked his jawline looking up into his eyes. "Do you remember that offering you made about letting me ride you?" she asked, which he gulped as she pushed him onto his back. "Just relax, don't move, and let me do everything" she said throwing off her shirt and unclasping her bra.

Meanwhile back at the meeting, Seth was shocked with what his sister, and he looked towards Embry. "Oh my god! She's at it again?"

"She's in heat dude…she's going to be like this for a while probably" Embry said calmly.

"Please stop talking about it!" Jacob grumbled trying to push back Leah's erotic thoughts. "About those two vampires the Fen fought earlier. Apparently they were tracking another werewolf before they came across him. The full moon is supposed to be in a couple days night. I think we should focus on locating the werewolf before they cause us any problems" he said before he shuttered again.

Seth was in a loss for words hearing Leah shouting out Fen's name and being so big, and Sam growled lowly. The rest of his pack figured out what was going on with Fen and Leah. "Really? Right now?" Jared muttered.

Rachel stared between Jacob and Billy. "What if we evacuate the town? Could that work? I don't want innocent lives to get caught up in this…and become hostages"

"I'm not running away…none of us are" Sam shouted.

"We could call for a Tsunami Evacuation Drill…I don't know how they could tell ones who don't have the gene from those whose genes are dormant" Sue added.

"They will find a way…besides we don't know exactly when they'll attack" Jacob said.

"I can tell them apart…those with the gene have a particular pattern in their mana. We can have them stay behind in a safe place, and yes we do know exactly when they'll attack" Ruth said. They all looked at her strangely before she continued. "Since the Romanian Coven said they will attack within the week, and the full moon is coming, I'm sure they will attack the day after the full moon when a werewolf would be suffering transformation burnout. This would be perfect for them if they were up against the average werewolf"

"This is where Fen comes in isn't it?" Jacob asked.

"Precisely, he can repress the transformation on full moon to a degree. He should be able to recover much faster; moreover, he can still aid in the fight with his astral projection while he's sidelined" Ruth said.

"So what's the plan? Are we just stalling them out until Fen recovers?" Seth asked.

"No, you all are capable of taking a few of the guards out…though…I want to find those informants again before we can discuss who to take out first. Fen is just clean up" Ruth muttered.

"They're around here somewhere…I can smell their stench. I really don't want to be working with the likes of them" Jacob remarked.

"You're going to have to Jacob. I don't like having to work with them as much as you do, but they do have information" Sam chimed in.

Ruth turned towards the others and flew onto the chimney. "The other spirit warriors have arrived…I must return to my body now. I will give them directions" she said before she flew off.

"Do you think that Taha Aki will be with them?" Billy asked Old Quil.

"He will…but he won't be in human form" Old Quil stated.

Fifteen minutes passed and three sets of head lights started rolling down the driveway. Jacob and Sam both wondered around watching them pull up and shut their engines off. They were two white GMC vans and the other was a Black Ford F-150. When they doors opened, they could count twenty five people and a red Siberian husky.

An older woman started ushering them around the house and past Jacob and Sam. One of the women had strange fishy scent, and one of the men was white large burly and had a scent similar to Fen. They all sat down at the picnic tables and looked around at the wolf packs. "These are all the spirit warriors and other members of the Collaborative who were able to make it today" Ruth said.

"Where are you all coming from?" Sue asked.

"They're from all over: Puyallup, Yakima, Nisqually, Muskleshoot, Lummi, Warm Springs, Siletz, Spokane, Lewiston, Nanaimo, and Tofino" Ruth said.

Seth looked towards the dog and smiled. "I bet that's Taha Aki. You were right! He wasn't in human form!" he said.

"I'm a girl genius!" The dog shouted.

They all laughed at him before he took a few steps back. "I knew that…" he muttered.

"This is my granddaughter, Tami…she's not able to be here physically due to some unfortunate circumstances" Ruth said.

"My brother and I survived a twelve car pile-up on Snoqualmie pass, a couple years ago…I've been in a coma since" she explained.

Jacob crossed his arms over his chest finding Fen to be a hypocrite. "Oh yea? Why didn't you ask your brother to turn you into a werewolf then? Wouldn't it heal you?" he asked briefly glancing towards Billy as if pointing out deception.

Tami's ears pinned back uncomfortably and whimpered softly. "Yea, but…" she muttered as she laid her head on the ground. "I've seen what he goes through. You all are lucky. You all get treated like gods almost. My brother…all he gets is…" she said before Fen slid the door open scowling at them. He was only in his boxer shorts bearing all his wolfman fur for all to see.

Tami sat up with her ears erect with her tail beginning to wag with excitement. "Hey Fen!"

Fen stared at her in disapproval, which she lowered her head realizing he was listening. He looked around at everyone staring at him in shock and awe and growled loudly. "What the hell are you all lookin at!?" he roared at them.

"Fen, Fen, Fen, Fen!" Leah shouted as she rushed over to him wrapped in a blanket. She held it up with one hand and grabbed him while spinning herself around in front of him making him look at her. "What did I just get through telling you?" she muttered giving him a look. He stared at her confused as she pressed her body up against his. "And I thought you were hurt!?" She reached up to squeeze his shoulder.

"Nghaa! What the hell!?" he shouted before he struggled to reach over and pull her hand off.

She pulled her hand away and stared at him in disbelief. "Don't tell me that you got so pissed off that you forgot you were in pain" she mumbled to herself before she sighed heavily. "Just come back to bed" she said pulling him away. "You're going to be giving me nothing but trouble when I supposed to nurse you back to health!"

"But, I'm not..injured" He protested. She gave him a shove into the bedroom, and he yelped. She slammed the door behind her and transformed taking up most of the room and sitting in front of the door growling at him. "Seriously?" he muttered. She barked at him and snarled ferociously ordering him to get in the bed!

Once Leah had successfully isolated Fen into her bedroom and roleplay as a naughty nurse, the other spirit warriors looked at each other in unnerved. "Did you feel that?"

"Yea, I did…I can't believe that something like that could come from a werewolf"

"Can you imagine how strong he would be if he wasn't defiled?"

The only white man at the table started to laugh and gave off a toothy grin. "His powers have been enhanced due to lycanthropy" he said proudly with a thick French accent. He crossed his arms over his large chest about to boast about his son as if he was some kind of superstar athlete. He glanced over at Tami which she looked down timidly and sighed.

"I don't think either of you know how his powers work" she mumbled more to herself.

"Why is he here!? Isn't bad enough we have to worry about one of them" One of them whispered.

"Actually there's three you have to worry about" The man said holding up three fingers.

"Dad…please, you're embarrassing me" Tami groaned.

"Well, why is he here?" Jacob raised his voice.

"Loup is here to help you find and detain the other werewolf, so Fen can rest. Wendy will be his tamer" Ruth said as she glanced over at a woman around Sue's age. Most of the spirit warriors looked remarkably young between teenagers to mid-30s with Ruth being the only elder around.

Wendy sat beside Loup and waved at them. "He won't be up to no good…I can promise you that" she said before she nudged him. He looked at her and started chuckling with her.

"As I was saying…I have gotten to look at all of your aura, and there are a lot more than I expected who have above average mana. This is good…I will try to pair you all up with a tutor, but for some of you wolves, you're just going to have to share. Although I would only need to give Jacob and Sam a tutor, and you could learn vicariously" she said before she started to count off heads and form groups.

Loup looked over at Charlie and Sue smirking evilly. "Well, looks like your daughter has imprinted on my boy, eh?" he said before he took a sniff. "I don't know why you smell of mannequins though"

"Mannequins?" Charlie muttered.

"If you're talking about the Cullens, they are…" Sue said before Fen's father laughed.

"Pacifists?" He interrupted. He laughed at them. "The collaborative know of them and how quick they are to turn tail and run or puss out when they have the advantage. At least with us you won't have to worry about. We look after our own, and we won't lie to you. You are already initiated. You best pick a side and not play both sides…It will always biting you in the ass in the end"

"But Jacob has imprinted on one of them" Seth spoke up.

Fen's father focused his yellow eyes intensely onto Seth. "Imprinted you say? You know, I don't buy that shit. Sounds too convenient to me. Knowing how some of their powers work, it isn't out of the question that they tricked him into thinking he imprinted as a self-defense mechanism. Only someone with a weak mind could allow such a thing to affect them" he muttered before Jacob slammed his fist into the table breaking a board.

"You don't know what the fuck you're talking about!" he shouted.

Fen's father smirked. "I'm over a thousand years old pup. You can live whatever fantasy you want to live in. Just don't get mad at me that I pointed out the fact. Whatever zombie fungus they got inside you has already corrupted your brain chemistry!"

"I guess we can see where Fen gets his soft cuddly personality" Tabitha remarked sarcastically. Seth snickered with her until Fen's father glanced over at her and his eyes changed color. They both tensed up, but Fen's father said nothing.

"I am going to break you all off right now, and your partner can answer any other questions you may have. We got to be quick about this because we got to get back to our motel rooms. Some of us have been on the road for more than 18 hours" Ruth announced. Eventually all were assigned one or two students, which more senior spirit warriors got two to work with. Ruth got Sam and Jacob, and Seth unfortunately was not assigned anyone; although, that were not entirely true. Fen was assigned to him and Leah, while his mother was assigned with Tami.