- Broken -

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, that belongs to Stephenie Meyer….but I own my OC's.

Last time- Kyle turned into a werewolf, and then escaped from his room triggering a search party. During which, Nafina got injured and Carlisle tended her wounds, causing a tension filled scene with the Cullen's and Jacob.

Now here's chapter three…..

I had fallen asleep the minute I got home…The dream came again…I was running in the forest…running, just running. I smelled a foul stench, and I followed it….where had I smelled this stench before? I don't know…I just ran towards it…

Two days later, after I injured myself, Jacob was still insisting that I stay inside and rest. Sometimes Jacob and I would go out to the garage and I would keep him company well he worked on his newest car project. It made me a bit frustrated….I shared Jacob's love for cars, but I couldn't work on them….he wouldn't let me.

Other then that, it was boring as hell. Jacob and I would sometimes watch t.v. or a movie or play cards but we both wanted to run and be outside. I couldn't take anymore….two days was enough to drive me insane, thankfully, my salvation came in an odd way.

"Hey Fina…Kyle is here to see you…" Jacob said opening the door of my room. I was actually wearing short pajama pants with a red top since I wouldn't be making a transformation anytime soon. But I was shocked because Kyle had never come to visit me alone.

"Just Kyle?" I asked. Jacob nodded.

"Yup, will you be able to handle a visitor?" He asked me. I rolled my eyes…I needed a visitor.

"For god sakes, Jacob… I'm fine." I responded. Jacob chuckled but nodded, walking over and helping me stand up, and maybe I flinched in pain? Wounds for us heal alot faster then wounds for humans do. But I got a pretty deep and painful cut…so, it still hurt a little, but I could stand it.

Kyle was waiting in the living room, I was shocked. Kyle's brown hair had grown out tremendously, I mean, it was always long, but it never reached his chin before…that was a natural part of the transformation. Before Celia's transformation, her hair only reach her ears, now it reached the small of her back….of course, when it actually happened, it reached her shoulders.

Not only that….Kyle didn't look fourteen anymore…physically he wasn't. He now looked about twenty-two….he didn't look like a teenager anymore…he just didn't look like Kyle.

"Kyle…what the hell…" I said in shock. Kyle looked up…his eyes were deeper and more serious, he smiled.

"Nafina…I'm glad you're okay…" He said. He stood up, walking to me. I stopped balancing on Jacob and balanced on Kyle. Great….he was taller than me. The only person I was taller then in our small group was Celia and Kyle, mostly because Kyle hadn't reached his transformation. Now…Kyle may have actually been the tallest one now. He out grew me by a good foot and a half now.

"Jacob…would you mind if I took her somewhere?" Kyle asked. I felt happiness glow inside me….a way out of the house!

"Please Jacob!" I said all too quickly. Jacob scratched his chin; he thought about it and then sighed.

"Alright….but take my crutches for her to walk with and not too long." Jacob decided. I smiled, wrapping my arms around Kyle. My salvation had come and freed me.

We didn't drive far, just to the beach actually. I pulled my crutches out of the back of the car.

"Wait….you don't want to take those in the sand…" Kyle said, he walked over and picked me up in his arms. I squealed, amazed at how strong he was. He was strong, even for a werewolf. Where had my teenaged stickly boy gone?

"Now you're just showing off!" I yelled, he laughed as he carried me. Where had this all come from? Sure, Kyle and I had always been friends; I had known him since the day he was born. But this was all new…the transformation hadn't just changed him on the outside, but the inside too. He was more confident…

"Here we are…" He said, setting me on my feet. He had brought me to the end of the beach, just where the forest began. There was a log that was big enough for us to sit on, I immediately sat down, Kyle shoved his hands in the pockets of his shorts, I noticed for the first time he was shirtless. Geez, he had a six-pack too? I was shocked….I mean the same exact thing had happened to A.J., Will, Ty, and Morgan…but they were always strong for boys in the first place. This was my little Kyle…the weakest guy and he had always accepted it. Now…well, just look at him…he wasn't little anymore.

"I just can't get past it….You grew up over night…" I said with a smile. Kyle looked to the ground, trying to hide the smug smile forming on his face.

"Yeah….Morgan was mad….He didn't look this good after the transformation." Kyle said, kicking the sand at his feet.

"Yeah…he should be mad…His little brother turned into a muscle man." I commented, Kyle sat next to me.

"Look who's talking….you went from looking twelve to looking nineteen…Will would get mad at us because we would always stare at you…" Kyle admitted. I almost blushed, but kept my composure. "Morgan said that you were like the ugly duckling that turned into the swan."

I rolled my eyes. "I'm gonna kill Morgan."

"Morgan's stupid….I always thought you were cute…" Kyle said, looking away from me. I smiled, and leaned my head on his shoulder.

"Well, thanks…" I whispered; he wrapped an arm around me.

"I felt horrible, Fina…" Great, now he was calling me Fina too? "You got hurt because you were trying to save me."

"Well, it wasn't your fault…A.J., Celia, and Morgan moved the cage before I was ready besides…"

"Which you wouldn't have had to move if I wasn't in it…" Kyle cut me off. "Who knows what those bloodsuckers would have done to you…"

"I'm fine Kyle….they didn't do anything." I said sternly. For some reason, it bothered me that he called them bloodsuckers so harshly, maybe because they helped me when I was injured.

"They could have, that's the point, you're my friend Fina…I never would have forgiven myself." Kyle said, I took his hand in mine. This was the closest Kyle and I had ever been. And I don't think it would be the closest we would ever be. At the moment, it felt as if Kyle and I were one setting…one mind…best friends. Maybe this was the start of something new.

Days went by before I was finally in top notch condition. I decided that after everything, I needed to go out and run…I offered for anyone to go with me on a hiking trip. All the teenagers were in; Sam thought this would be a good bonding experience.

"You're all packed…" Jacob said closing the back of the pick-up truck. Morgan, A.J. and Kyle were leaning against a second truck since ours couldn't fit everyone. Celia, Ambell, and I would be riding in one truck, well A.J., Morgan, and Kyle would be riding in the other. Finally we were ready to go.

The adults were all there to say bye…or rather, to have a barn fire party when we left in our back yard. Emily kept hugging A.J. and Celia, Paul and Jared continuously checked the supplies for Morgan and Kyle. Jacob was probably tired of spending all his time with me, but he gave me a heart-filled hug.

"Take care of yourself, Nafina." He said. I smiled in return; finally we were on the road and on our way. We weren't going to the forest in La Push by the way, we were heading to a forest outside of Forks, we would camp out there for the night and come back tomorrow afternoon. I didn't think the forest in La Push was big enough to stop my need to be in the open woods.

"I can't believe how much Kyle changed…" Celia said as I drove the truck, Ambell sat in the back, enjoying the wind. "I mean…really changed…"

"I know…it's weird huh? But, at least he doesn't have to feel like an outsider anymore." I said. Celia giggled to herself.

"Since when did he call you Fina?" Celia couldn't help but ask. I laughed.

"Celia…everyone is calling me Fina now." I said, we both laughed together. Growing up, I had to make the most with what I had with female influences since my Mom died. It was kind of hard…Naturally, Claire, Emily, Rebekka, and at one time Leah Clearwater became my female role models….but the thing about werewolves was to truly be one, you had to be one of the guys…So, it was comforting to have another female werewolf always there for you…that way, I didn't feel so alone.

I pulled into the gravel out of the path we had been following. I practically jumped out of the truck, ready to get moving.

"Ambell, come on." Ambell hopped out of the back of the truck. I released my hair from the ponytail I kept it in; intending for us to be free as we wanted to be. We'd run in the forest for awhile and then come back here and set up stuff for the night.

"Ladies…See you in the forest…" Morgan said kindly as the guys walked into the forest so we wouldn't see them naked. Celia and I began to undress.

"You know, their probably looking at us…" I said smugly. Celia laughed, hitting me with her top.

"They are not! That's gross…A.J.'s my brother!" Celia yelled.

"And he's my cousin…but I'm not talking about him, A.J. wouldn't do that…I'm talking about the brothers..." I said sarcastically. "Lucky you, you have Morgan and Kyle drooling over you."

Surprisingly, Celia shook her head. "Nope…Kyle's all over you, babe…I mean, don't you know?"

I shrugged. "Know what?" Celia turned around and stared at me.

"Kyle has a monster crush on you!" Celia told me, now I was the one staring.

"Nah uh!" I said out loud.

"Um yeah…."

"I mean, he was kind of touchy the other day, but that was him showing off." I said unzipping my jeans.

"That wasn't him showing off, that was him with confidence…" Celia explained removing her own pants. "Kyle's always had a crush on you…only now he's confident enough to move forward with it."

I shook my head. "You're out of your wits Celia…"

"Whatever…" She said. Finally we were naked…we were ready to transform. I took off in a run with Ambell following before I leaped and turned into a giant blackish-brown wolf. I ran in the forest with Celia, a sandy yellow wolf, following behind as well as Ambell.

Ambell was happy, very happy. I could feel that in his mind. It was so much easier to communicate with him this way then when I was human. Kyle was happy too as he ran beside me. I didn't think about what Celia had said, mostly because if I did, Kyle would hear what we said. I didn't think about anything like that…just about how fast we were going.

Eventually we crashed into a small lake; we all changed back into our human forms, laughing as we splashed each other. We floated in the water for awhile.

"Just what we needed to get our heads off those bloodsuckers…" Morgan said, relaxing into the pool of water.

"That black haired vampire with the spiked hair was a pretty little thing though." A.J. admitted. He was talking about the vampire with the pixie cut….

"You mean Alice…" I said. They all stared at me.

"That's right! You've been in their home, you know what their like…what are they like?" Celia asked with excitement. I shrugged.

"I don't know that much about them…I know Edward and Bella of course…" I said Bella's name with disgust, it was getting harder to say it without the tinge of hate. "Alice was the vampire with the pixie cut….There's Carlisle, the one that talked to Sam….The head female seems to be that older looking female, her name is Esme…I think she's Carlisle's mate….The blonde male vampire is named Jasper…he didn't talk at all….Then…there was Nic…." Nic….He had interested me the most; he had talked to me so sweetly. His voice was addicting too. The teenage Greek-god-like vampire was intriguing. I frowned as I remembered the last member I knew. "Then, there was this annoying vampire…Mary I think her name was."

"So…Carlisle, Esme, Edward, Bella, Jasper, Alice, Nic, and Mary?" Kyle asked. "Nic doesn't seem like a very vampire name at all."

"Well, they were humans at one time remember…" I said as I soaked farther into the water.

Mary didn't seem to like me at all, and the blonde gorgeous vampire was all too quick to leave when I was there. Bella seemed interested in me, but more invested in Jacob. Edward simply was concerned because I was Jacob's daughter and Bella cared about Jacob….and because they wanted to get into my mind and pry. Jasper didn't seem interested in me at all…the muscular vampire might have been, but he wasn't too interested. Esme and Carlisle just wanted me well because it was Carlisle's job, and because of their morals…Alice didn't want to see anyone hurt. The only one who seemed truly invested in the story for me was Nic. Why did his name keep coming up? Every time I thought about the bloodsuckers…I thought about him. I thought about his smile, his laugh, the way he looked….everything.

We turned into our wolf forms again and headed back to the truck to spend the night. After we got dressed we built the tents up and built a fire. It was getting darker out as we sat around the fire. Ambell sat closely trying to warm his fur; we sat in folding-chairs.

"This is the life….good friends in the outdoors, just us and nature…" Morgan said digging into the cooler.

"It's always us and nature." A.J. said. Morgan tossed him a soda; Morgan dug out another one and passed it to Celia.

"Yeah, but no boundaries out here…just us and the trees, the grass, and the animals." Morgan explained, throwing a soda to me and then to his brother.

"I can't believe how exhilarating that was." Kyle said. We had forgotten that this was the first time Kyle had ever gone out and ran like this. We've done it plenty of times in the forest at La Push; Kyle picked an awesome place for his first actual run in the pack with the group.

"Yeah….but it's hard to tune out things in other peoples minds." Celia said quietly. We all nodded in agreement. Kyle frowned.

"I forgot about that….I hope I didn't think anything too embarrassing." Kyle murmured quietly.

"When we're running for the heck of it….our thoughts are normally pretty safe…when we're running because of something…it's a different story." I explained. Everyone pretty much knew that. We learned that lesson, all of us did.

Celia learned about Sam, Emily, and Leah that way. Celia, who's very first boyfriend left her for someone who was questionably (and I say that in every sense of the word) more beautiful, had learned that her own Father had left someone for her own Mother.

A.J. had seen in one of Sam's memories what happened to Emily and why she had those scars…we all did…A.J. was haunted by that memory more then anyone else though. It made him afraid to get close to anyone besides us. That didn't leave any options dating wise since Celia was his sister, and I'm his half-cousin. Sometimes it seemed lonely that A.J. couldn't allow himself to interact with girls because of it.

Morgan looked away. His Mom, Kim, had died in a motorcycle accident. Jared was driving the motorcycle. Every now and again, Jared would remember the accident, and it would haunt Morgan to no end…He knew Kyle would see it someday too.

Then there was me… I had learned about Edward and Bella that way…I saw everything Jacob went through with Bella…The flirtation, the numb look on her face when Sam found her, the time it took for Bella to seem even human again, the kisses they shared, and finally, the heartbreak…it was a wonderful story for Bella and Edward who would spend an eternity together….But my Dad had lost the girl he truly loved more then….as much as I hate to admit this, my Mother…He still very much loved her.

"Hey, um, I'm gonna go get some firewood." I said standing up from my chair and walking away. I walked into the forest, pushing branches and twigs out of my way, occasionally picking up a log or so.

I heard a noise, a screeching noise. Like an animal screaming. I perked up and looked around…it was gone. I thought it was my imagination until I heard another screech. I ran towards it. I could smell a horrible smell, my eyes widen, this happened in my dream! Except, the smell….in my dream, it wasn't this bad. This smell was foul in every sense of the word; in my dream the smell was awful, but tolerable.

I looked into an opening. I saw two shadows; one shadow was a lot larger and was on top of the second shadow. As I peered closer, my eyes widen.

It was Nic….And he was killing a mountain lion.