Family Is Complicated

by gianahennelly

With Jakes dad recently deceased,his half-brothers are breathing down his neck,so he finds comfort with the new girl.But as his love becomes all consuming.Will their relationship last when his family past is revealed?Things become complicated as his brother imprints on Bella.Will she choose Jake or Paul? Her choice could affect her livelihood as a new coven of vampire come to town

49. Chapter 47

Chapter 47 Family Woes

Danny POV

I was taking my usual stroll in the forest after my shift at the station when I got blurred images of wolves running through the forest. What they were doing, I couldn't quite make out but I knew that I was seeing this through Paul mind. It must have been painful to send his mind out to me this far from telepathic range. "It is, but I figured that I would do it anyway, I know you like to run the forest after work. Can you stop by Sam and come to get me."

His gentle voice seems timider, less fierce there was something missing that would aggravate me later I just knew it. But as I stood still and watched the blue jays singing in the trees. With a golden light from the sun turning the ground a bright green as the light hit the canopy leaves of the fork forest. I couldn't help but feel at peace no matter what was about to go on.

"Sure" I soaked in the serene moment for a little bit longer, really memorizing every detail so that I would paint it later before rushing off to Sam house. I knew the way by heart by now, I had been running theses forest for years so it was relatively easy.

I was so lost in my thought that I hadn't even noticed that I had made it to Emily's house. I could smell her cooking as this warm presence filled my entire body. I'm sure that whatever she was cooking would be delicious you would think that Paul would stay. He's not one to pass of a free me.

I heard a shifting in the forest as the snapping of tree twigs echoed in the air, I watched a body dart out and notice that it was the newest pup. The Ateara boy, I hadn't met him, so I wasn't shocked to see a confused expression on his face. When Paul was in his exile I made it a habit to stay away from the pack.

I didn't want to influence their decision in any way. I watched them on at a time drift out the forest till Paul was jogging up behind him this smug grin on his face as the others frowned at him. I shook my head sadly before shifting back into my human form.

"How were the pack exercises." He shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly as his smug grin turned into a full-blown proud smile. "I kicked ass what else is new, beside the green pups, who ain't got any skills, it was pretty easy. In the end, it came to me, Sam, and Jared. Can we go?"

Why did he want to go and why was his tone so hurried? I watched his eyes rack frantically behind my shoulder before this smile melted from his face. Leaving nothing but a worried frown. I shifted to see a silver SUV pulling up to the house. "Your mother? You are trying to avoid her." Paul shuffled his weight from his left foot to his right, before giving me a pair of hazel puppy dog eyes. "Dad please can we just leave."

I could tell how scared and worried he sounded as his eyes shifted quickly from my face to his mother before trying back to me. I could tell by the way that the gears shifted that she had just parked the car. The jingling of Kahula's keys echoed in the air as I turned back to look at the frantic look on Pauls' face.

"Please." His voice was nothing short of terrified as his mother hopped from the driver's side and moved over to his swiftly and quietly. This deep scowl on her face as she looked over at Paul, this disgust bringing in her eyes turning them a bright ice blue before she looked at me. As if Paul didn't even exist, soon the blue disappear leaving bright amber eyes. To my surprise, the lack of attention Paul was getting put him at ease.

"How was work? You stink of smoke." I sighed and shifted to Paul who seemed to be fighting in place like he was trying to make himself smaller so that he wouldn't have to deal with her.

"Good is there a reason that you are ignoring our son." I looked up at Paul who let out a whimper. "Dad" He whined my name out as Ka looked from me over Paul. "I don't see a son just a murder who tried to kill my little boy. Those who attacked their family are below even the worst pond scum."

She let out a hmph before running out of the sight and into the house, I look over to Paul he had a stoic mask on his face but I could smell it coming off of him in waves. He was heartbroken but there was also this scent of acceptance which only made me angrier. He shouldn't be expecting this from his mother. I dug my hand deep into my jeans and pulling out a lanyard with tons of set of keys on it. "Here take this and head home. I will be there soon."

Paul looked up at me, at this point this face was cold, this rock hard expression taking over his face. But he couldn't hit the scents of his overwhelming emotions of guilt and sadness. "Please don't it will only get worse, she will blame me for the Jake thing and you being angry with her."

I could feel the others shifting at my back as they made their way into the house. Only leaving his two brothers. I took in a deep breath, steading my wolf and myself. "Paul head home and relax I got this."

He squirmed under my gaze before nodding his head and jogging off to a beaten path that I used to get back to the house. I sighed and looked at Sam and Jake as I stared off into the house with them on my heels. I still couldn't believe that they didn't even rise to his defense, I'm not saying that what he did was okay. But he doesn't deserve to lose everything over it.

I took in a deep calming breath before walking into the house to see that Emily and Ka were talking adivdly about something. I'm sure that it had something to do with my grandson but I was so angry I couldn't even be excited for Sam and Emily."Kahlua can I talk to you for a moment." I knew that my voice was cold when a tense silence was ushered over the room as I left.

I could hear Sam talking to Emily as Ka sighed heavily as she followed after me. Not a sign like I'm sure that this is going to be a long and hard conversation. More of the type of sign that says I'm bored and this is lame. How could she possibly be bored, this was about one of our that shit she was going to have this convection and like it.

I walk further into the forest as the birds stopped singing like they knew that shit was about to go down. I spun rapidly on my heels so that I was face to face with my mate. She was rolling her eyes like I was being over dramatic about all of this. But I could smell her righteous anger drifting off of her.

"He attacked my pup that won't forgiven because Jake hurt his feeling and hurled a few insults at him." I looked at her in pure shock she knew about everything and she still didn't care even a little bit.

"You kidding me right, so its alright for Jake to say all do that, to challenge Paul and when he loses it the end of the about Paul do you even care how he feels. Jake isn't your only son."

Red angry waves rolled over of her as she moved closer to me jabbing a clawed finger angrily at me as she spoke in a cold voice. "He attacks my son and said that it would be better off for him to die. People don't just get to say that." Did she hear herself, I mean really she couldn't be serious.

I snarled angrily at her this was total bull. "Oh, but it is okay that Jake said all that shit to Paul. But Paul is the fucked up one, yea right you are mental you know that. When I was a pup me and my brother fought like that all the time. I did the same thing that Paul did. Do you think that my mother disowned me."

I was beyond filled with rage and I had never been angry at Kahula, she is my everything but at this moment all I wanted to do was yelled. We had spent the better part of 65 years together and right now she wasn't the one that I fell in love with.

Her nose seemed to scrunch up in disgust as her eyebrows dipped down as she thought about something. "That was a different time. " Her voice was small as she shifted her eyes towards the ground. She knew that didn't make sense and that time period didn't change shit.

"That as has nothing to do with it, and you know it, Sam and Paul challenge each other like that all the time and there was never been a problem. Hell a week ago Sam beat Paul in the parking lot and he looked like total shit but now that Jake is involved it is an issue."

"You don't get to value one son over the other, you have 3 kids. I know that I'm not a good father, not even a decent one but I'm trying to make up for that. What you're doing to Paul is idiotic and stupid. I know you feel bad for me I can sense it, we are tired in case you forgot so don't even bother lying. So when your done being a terrible mother stop by my house, your son is there."

I didn't wait for her to say something, to scream at me in outrage and throw something back in my face, Instead, I ran at my top speed, not even bothering to take in the sights of the forest as I made my way to the house. I was there in a matter of minutes, it had to be my fastest time in human form.

I took in a deep breath as I tried to slow my heart rate down as my legs got a little shaky from being on my feet all day. I felt my eyes drift to the front window of the house, Paul was sitting on the couch reading some book. I knew that he was just trying to keep his mind busy, the poor kid, his mother could have at least taken it easy and waited till he was gone to vent.

I slowly made my way to the door as the fading afternoon sun fell over the horizon, I turned the knob. Getting hit with the ace that was blasting through the house. I was expecting to get hit with anxiety or sadness or even anger. But I wasn't met with any strong emotions just Paul calling from the living room.

"Can I stay with you when school starts back up, I'm sure that mom should be over it by September but I can't live in that house. Not if she hates the very sight of me." He didn't even look up from his book as I moved further into the room.

His voice wasting quivering with sadness and his eyes were frantically searching the room. He was just there. I sigh and pulled my sketch pad off of the coffee table and a pen before I dropped in my recliner, drawing the scene from the forest earlier.

The glimmer of the blue wings in the sunlight, the thick canopy leaves of the trees as the golden light hit them turning the light a bright green. "You're not going to ask me how it went with your mother." I looked up as my picture but my hand moved with rapid speed. Making sure to put in every little detail as I watched Paul. He was speeding reading through a chapter when he grabbed his notebook, writing something in perfect cursive.

"Why would I need to ask? I already know how it ended, I could tell the moment that you walked in that door alone." His voice was void of any emotion like he didn't care. His eyes were transfixed on the paper this wasn't the Paul that I knew.

I took in a deep breath as I look down at the scratch pad, the picture sending me back into the moment, one minute of bliss before the shit hit the fan. I sighed heavily washing it be back in that moment as IT through the pad back down on the table. Paul caught a quick glimpse of the paper before turning his face back to his book.

His eyes running rapidly over the pages as he flipped through the book with ease, "What's your paper on." I watched him look up quickly before he sighed "You not much for small talk, what really eating at you dad?" If there was one thing that didn't change, he said what was on his mind all the time. "How can you be so calm about all of this? Why aren't you more upset? Angrier?"

He seemed to frown at my words, as he placed his book on the table and started writing with alarming speed. I wasn't even sure that he was writing words. But his hand glide effortlessly over the paper. After a minute or two of silence,he banged out an entire page of writing as he moved onto the next sheet of paper at his disapproval.

I let my eyes scan over the red and black leather book with one word on it that I managed to make out. Dracula. "You're doing your book report on Dracula ." I looked up at him as he gave me this sly grin. "It's a paper about mass media and how they glamorize vampire, make it more romantic. Compared to way back when this book was the content and difference between the books. I had to read this filth as well."

Paul lifted with a purple novel with some pale skinny vampire, with a damsel in distress in his arms. I think the title said Whirlwind of Love. "It was horrible, really wouldn't recommend it if you wanted to, I don't know have a functioning brain afterwords. Anyway to answer your question from early. I expected it. I know that mom favors Jake, I'm aware of it, everyone coddles him since Billy died. Too scared to move or do anything that might upset him. So when I attacked Jake, I knew that my relationship with her might be over but I did it anyway."

He let out an exhausted sigh as he put the final touches on that page before standing up. I could hear the popping sound of his ligaments as he stretched out his back. "I'm going to take a shower and get changed." I nodded my head slowly, as hunger pangs looked at my stomach

"I'm going to get take out what do you want." He smiled but shrugged his shoulder,"Chinese sound good." I nodded my head as he disappeared around the corner, I shook my head before sitting up long enough to snatch my phone out of my back jean pocket.

I hit the number of the Chinese place as I looked down at the table, as the phone rang rather loudly in my ear. I peered over the table only being able to catch a glimpse at Pauls paper. The title printed out in boldly. Pop Culture VS The Classic! What Side Are You On? I smirked, of course, that would be his title.

"Hello, sir what would you like?" I snapped my head up at the sudden sound of someone in the room. I napped my head over my shoulder before remembering that I was on the phone. I sighed shaking my head sadly before telling him my long-winded order. "Oh one thing, make sure that none of it had garlic or nuts in it." "Yes, sir for pick up of delivery." I looked up the stair it wouldn't be a good idea leaving him alone. I would just pay the extra fee for delivery. "Delivery."

I hung up the phone just as there was a knock at the door, there was no way that it could be the food so it had to be my pain in the ass wife. But as I moved closer the smell of gunpowder and human wafted into my nose.

I blanched from the smell as I opened the door to be met with a similar figure. Charlie stood before me a deshelved mess, his eyes panicked and his hair sitting out in every direction. This thin layer of sweat on his ivory skin as he spoke, "I stopped by your ex's place but she wasn't there is here."

I frowned at his panicked tone please tell me that this wasn't about Bella, Paul would go apeshit. I stepped aside so that he could walk in, each step he took was fast pace and frantic as he bound around the room his body lit up with angry energy as he paced back and forth.

"Yeah, she is at our son's place, Sam, you know the one that works for you, is there something wrong with Bella?" Her name rolled so casually off of my tongue but it seemed to make Charlie angry as he seemed more focused than before. He was made with rage right now what could have possibly happened.

"Is there something wrong with you Charlie?" I looked at him for a moment, as the sound of running water stopped, he must have gotten out the moment that he heard Bella and Okay in the same sentence. "She is fine but that doesn't me that there is a problem." I nodded my head as I walked into the kitchen grabbing two beers and handing one cautious to him. He reminded me of a wild wolf crazed with rabies.

"I heard that your son was missing for 3 days, you should have filed a missing person reports." I sighed and looked up at the stairs I knew that he must have been listening. "Family problems don't count as a police matter. He didn't go missing he just went to a friend's house and didn't bother to tell anyone. Not missing just taking time to clear his head in a bad suction." Charlie deep brown eyes turned black with rage as he racked his eyes over me like he was trying to figure out if I was lying. "That doesn't change the fact that my daughter didn't come home for three days because she was looking for him."

I could tell by the anger in his eyes that he blamed me, and my family for that, but I wasn't at the house I was here the whole time. He wasn't going to blame me or Pay for my wife and others sons choice. For Bella choice that was on them. "Yes understand that she was staying with Kahlua but that wasn't Paula's choice or mine."

"She made that all on her own, though Sam told her more than once that she should at least call you. That as on her so if you have a problem then you should not talk to her." I looked at him as his eyes widen in outrageous but I could tell that he was trying to calm himself down.

"I'm aware of that but since she has been dating your son she has become a different person, more sassy and arrogant and I think temper control is actually getting worse. I don't like it this isn't a change for a better. I don't know what the two of them are doing but I know that you should have dragged her back to my house kicking and screaming before letting her stay 3 days at your house."

"What is this about." I looked to see that Kahlua who was walking casually into the house, I had forgotten that I had told her to stop by. Dinner at Sam's must have been over and she decides to take a detour. "Charlie here doesn't like the fact that you let Bella stay with you while Paul was missing for those 3 days."

Ka looks at me and then at Charlie's confused for a minute before moving further into the house, her eyes scanning the room like she was looking for Paul. But was she looking for him because she wanted to talk or to ignore him. She gave him her best dazzling smile as she spoke. Her voice laced with honey and the most transfixing tone she could.

"She was worried about Paul, we all were he and Jake got into a little tizzy and Paul left. It was a little melodramatic for my taste but Paul can be like that sometimes .I'm sorry if Bella not being there threw you through a loop."

I could feel Charles's anger ebbing before it came back in full forcing snarling angrily at the both of us."That doesn't matter now, I'm here because ever since my daughter started dating either of your sons all she has done is lie to me. So I'm here to tell you to keep your fucked up son away from my daughter. They spend almost every awakening moment together even when they are out with friend they are never apart. This ends here, keep him away!"

"You can't do that!" I watched as Paul ran down the stairs, his hair dripping wet from the shower he was barely in. He was in nothing but a pair of gray sweatpants, hi tribal tattoo on complete display and was that? I let my eyes rack over his chest a few times, thinking that maybe I was seeing thing but he had a new tattoo, one that he didn't ask for. Bella was tattooed over his heart in cursive.

"When did you get that Paul?" I keep my voice steady no matter how angry I was at him as he sucked in a breath he realized that in his haste he fucked up. "I got it in Arizona when I went with Bella." "I'm sorry what?" I look at Charlie who was in complete shock, did he not know that Bella took Paul with her.

Charlie's jaw seems to hang open for a minute as his eyes widen in shock. But it didn't last long it was like his emotions were on autopilot and the only emotion was anger. He growled at Paul forcing me to let my own growl escape my lips. "Either way it does matter, I don't care what you want boy, you're no good for my daughter stay away from her or I will arrest you and take a restraining order out."

Paul snarled angrily as he ran down to the bottom step, "You can't do that I didn't do anything wrong and we go to the same school." Charlie snarled as he let his eyes hit for Paul. Almost like he was getting close to hitting him and I didn't like that. I took a step forward as Charlie spoke in a menacing voice. This thick vein sticking out his neck as his skin turned a bright red.

"I'm sure you find some new plaything by then, I meant it say away from her." He gave each of us a menacing glare before running out the house. I took in a deep breath as I shifted to look at Paul who looked ready to crumble. A look of confusion and pain appeared on his face as shocked tears formed in his eyes. "Paul head upstairs and put a shirt on we can talk about this later."

He looked up at me and I could just tell that all he cared about, all his thoughts were drawn on right now was Bella "Go Paul don't make me repeat myself." I knew that he was still upset but he jogged up the stairs. I waited till I heard his bedroom slamming before turning my attention to my mate.

"What are you doing here." I watched her eyes widen as she glared at me like I was the idiot. That had walked into her house like I owned the place "'I came here to get an apology for the way that you acted towards me earlier." I laugh just about to sit down when there was yet another nock, please let this to be food.

I walked over to the door my finger crossed that it wasn't a council member that wanted to yell at me. But as I opened the door I was met with a teenage boy who wasn't happy he had to drive this far out. I chuck and handed him a 50 dollar bill. I could see his eyes widening in change, I'm sure that he would say that he didn't have change for it.

"Keep the change." I gently tugged the food out of his hand before slamming the door on his face and making my way into the small dining room. It was the smallest room in the house because when the fuck is I ever going to use it.

From the sound of shifting behind me, I knew that it had to be my mate though I wished that it was Paul. "Why did you laugh?" I spun around to see a confused frown on m mate face as I walked into the kitchen. Grabbing a bottle of soda and a beer before applying them at the head of the table in the seat to the right of me.

"Well I just assume that it was a joke, you are treating our son like he is none exists because he messed up. Jake challenged him what did you expect him to do. He could have said no but Jake wouldn't have backed down. He was out for blood so don't start acting like this was all his fault. Your brat is to blame, Jake might be your pup but Paul is mine"

She growled heavily as I grabbed a bottle opener, snapping the top off of the bottle as I heard Paul running down the steps."Unless your here to talk to Paul you can leave." I could feel waves of shock wash over me as I finally looked up to see A frowning at me. Stomping her foot hard into the ground as she folded her arms over her chest.

She was acting like a child couldn't she just admit that she was wrong and get over it, "Your being ridiculous you know that." I scoffed getting ready to yell at her when I noticed that Paul was walking in other room. He seemed like he didn't even care that he was interrupting us. He just sat down and started to rip into a container of boneless spare ribs.

After he gulped down a few chunks of candy red meat he looked up at his mother his eyes darkened with rage. "That was a pretty convincing lie you said to Charlie, you almost had him." What lie? There was no lie, all of that really did happen, I shifted to look at Paul who was glaring down his confused mother.

This had to be the first time that the two of them were in the same room for more than a few seconds. "What do you mean I didn't lie about any of it." Paul laughed coldly as his eye began to glow red. "Sure you did, when you said that you were worried about me, I'm not our son remember."

His voice was filled with so much hurt and I could see the cold blue aura engulf his body as the scent of rain filtered into the air. Ka, on the other hand, seemed to be shell-shocked, there was no snippy comeback. She just stood there, I sighed before digging into my food. Paul would eat it all if I didn't start to eat.

I doauced one of my steaming hot egg rolls with salty soy sauce before taking into a deep bight. As the golden exterior turned black from the soy sauce. All the while I was still frozen in place I'm shocked that she hadn't stormed out the house yet. "What are we going to do about Charlie. I won't be away from Bella, dad I can't be away from Bella."

His voice was so small and soft as he spoke to me, I took in a deep breath as he let out a lit whimper before finishing off a pint of logman. "He seemed fired up from work and overreact I'll talk to him after I get off of work. But Paul you need to understand that if he doesn't change her mind you will respect his wishes. Seeing her every once in awhile instead of every day."

Paul snapped his head up, his eyes glowing a bright red as he bared his fangs at me. Paul!" He whimpered and whined but didn't say a word for a long time "It's not fair." I growled at him before looking up at hi mother who still hadn't moved. "Life isn't fair my little pup, but I stayed away from your mother for 4 years so I know it can be done. You two don't always need to be together no matter how dangerous it is for imprints right not." He whined lightly but nodded his head knowing better than to press the subject.

"You running patroll?" "Yeah I voulnteer, is that okay." He looked up worried that I might say no but he I don't know why he would say that. "Nah its fine, but make sure that you aren't running around all day, I don't want you trieding yourself out."

He sighed heavily as he shook his head slowly, "That doesn't seem possible we have drills at 8 am to improve our teamwork and get the new pups acclimated to fighting. That I supposed to last a couple of hours plus I have patrol with Jake and Sam before that. Which I asked for new partners to run with. Jared and Kimmy, or Leah and Seth. But they refused to switch out said that we needed the time to talk. Then I'll hunt down some lunch and then take a bath in the creek. My fur has a lot of blood in it."

I nodded my head slowly taking in his relaxed posture and neutral tone, he didn't let a single emotion came rushing through, kinda like a robot or an AI. I shook my head as I shifted my line of sight to the living room to were his paper was still laying. "Paul" I watched his head snapped up like he was planning on doing something stupid and got caught.

By this time he was on to his 3rd eggroll, he was a bottomless pit even for our standards, "Yeah pops." I smirked but sighed sadly all the same, "Don't forget your summer assignments is that paper finish." I watched him shake his no forcing a sigh to leave my lips. "Finnish it by tonight if you want to due tomorrow. I won't let your grades slip. When we win this war I want you to have stellar grades."

He laughed and nodded his head "Your pretty confident in our victory" I scoffed like there was any doubt, I looked up to see Ka staring down at Paul. With this newfound interest did she want to talk to him or did she make up some new input to hurl at him. "Kid I took down 400 wolves with just Ka I think that I can take down a measly 200. Now finish up and go do your work." Paul nodded his head heavily like he knew I wanted him out of the room. He grabbed his bottle of soda and a few cartons of Chinese food before running into the living room. "You want to talk to him?"

I look up to see Ka taring t me in confusion before sighing as a realization dawned on her. "It's a sad day when he rather be with you than with me. When everything that you have done, for you to be the voice of reason. Makes me think that maybe I am going about this the wrong way. Do you really think that Charlie will change his mind?"

It was a harmless question but still, the answer could dictate Paul mood for the rest of the night, so all I did was shrugged my shoulder as I dug my chopsticks further into my shrimp lomange. Shoveling noodle after noddle into my mouth as I watched her shift her weight from foot to foot like she was thinking about something. "Yeah, I think that I will talk to him." Before I could even swallow my food she walked off into the living room. I hope that this goes well.