Chapter 5

Mary groaned as she was blinded by a very bright light. The light suddenly disappeared.

"How do you feel?" a female voice said. Mary squinted to see Emily hovering over her.

"My God....like I was hit with a Mac truck, then thrown over a bridge and then trampled on by a bunch of hippopotamuses."

Emily looked at her for a moment before cracking up in hysterical laughter.

Mary grinned before frowning, "What happened after I touched it.."

"You passes out and have been unconscious for 3 days. I'm sorry, Mary, but after the second day, Paul....I had to tell them. Paul was on a rampage. My living room has a hole in the wall the size of a wolf."

Mary nodded. Then her eyes lit up. "Oh, Emily.....it was amazing." She became aware that people were trickling into the room but she didn't' care. Emily sat down on the bed and Kim jumped up next to Mary. The boys were all standing in the room.

"Ah, yeah. Sorry guys, but I want to tell this since it is the most exciting thing I have ever seen. Anyway. As soon as I touched the pouch I was hit with the most powerful vision I have ever had. My God....It was so beautiful....the sky, the mountains, the water.....so pure, and carefree....untouched my man.....everything happened the way it says, but there was so much more.....Tahi Aka tried to possess different animals before the wolf. None of them worked or even wanted him there. Only the wolf allowed him. He was married three times. His third wife was named Ki tae. After he ran away, he was found half dead by a tribe in Montana. I think it was the Blackfoot tribe. Anyway a medicine woman nursed him back to health. Even though he had no will to live, he wanted to leave her with a gift. So, he turned into a man for one night. One night to spend with her.....She never knew it was him. If she became pregnant....there may be another pack out there. Think of it, another tribe, with other wolves..."

Mary grabbed Emily's hand and searched the future. There was still the wedding, but now there were additional people there. One's who didn't quite have the same features as the Quileutes, but close enough.

"Everything is still good." She grinned at Emily.

"Mary, would you please explain what is going on. Emily and Kim explained the best they could, but they really didn't understand much." Sam asked.

Mary nodded and pushed herself up to a sitting position. "I'm psychic. I know don't roll your eyes. I guess you guys should sit down. I hate telling my story." She waited till they all sat. Paul sat at her feet, Sam on the floor next to Emily, Jared next to Kim and Jacob and Embry on the floor leaning on the wall.

"After my mom died, my dad had no choice but to take me. When I was little, like really little. Around the time I started to talk, I would tell him things. Things that hadn't happened yet. Or things that happened in the past. He thought I was possessed. There was a relative about a hundred years ago that was sent to a mental institute for having visions. She was my great-great-great-aunt or something. No one knows what happened to her. Anyway, my father was descended from her sister. So for some reason, I inherited the gene that gave me visions. But only when I touch something. I can see the future or the past. I can see what is going on as long as I'm touching something that either that person has touched or that person in general. Houses are like story books. The people that lived in them basically pour their emotions into them. Like I said growing up, I was the freak of the school. Telling everyone what would happen. The reason I believed in fairy tales, is because I seen them. I would walk down the street and someone would brush up against me and I would see them being attacked by a....creature. I was hysterical for the longest time. Seeing something so grousome at a young age.... well I couldn't control the visions for a long time. Quite recently actually, but when I found that box, it was like a gold mine of information. I watched as the first treaty was written out, as they found their imprints and had children. As their children had children. I read the letters my mother wrote and found out why she ran away. Then I came to a picture of Jacob as a baby....."

She paused and took a deep breath. "I made the decision to come here based on the fact that if I didn't, in two years time everyone from here to Seattle would be dead or a vampire."

They all sucked in a breath, then Jacob whispered, "How?"

"I can't tell you the specifics, because even I don't know. I explained it to Emily and Kim once. I can see the end result of a decision. But there are so many people, hundreds, making so many decisions about their every day life, from now till then, that it is impossible to pinpoint any one thing. All I get is flickers and fuzzy images. All I know is that there will be a war. Vampires against Werewolves. Hundreds of people will die. But we will live."

"A war?" Kim asked in a small voice. Jared pulled her into a hug.

Mary looked at Paul and reached over and touched his shoulder. She kept her eyes open this time. They all watched as her normal crystal blue eyes paled to almost a white. It was quite creepy, which was why she normally shut her eyes.

As soon as Mary touched Paul she focused on the future. She could see into the next six months, but after that....it was a blur. She tried to latch onto a couple images. There was something that confused her. They were fighting along side vampires? Some of them were the ones that held the treaty, but there was one girl.....she looked so familiar.

She broke contact and scrunched up her face. "It's so confusing. I can see clearly the next six or so months, but then it becomes fuzzy and everything changes so rapidly that I can't latch onto anything. There was one image that stood out. But I don't know what it means. You guys were standing in a clearing and across from you were 7 vampires and a human girl. But you weren't fighting, you were....talking? I don't understand....."

She was so frustrated. She didn't understand. Her visions never failed her before. Why now. Paul put his arm around her and pulled her over to him. She slumped into him and sighed. Silence filled the room while everything was being digested by the pack and the girls. Then the silence was broken by....

"Your so small." Mary couldn't contain it. She broke out in almost hysterical laughter. She gasped for breath while trying to be mad or anything else.

"Of...all...the...idiotic...things....to....say. It's I'm small?" She told Paul

He picked her up with one arm and deposited her on his lap. "But I can pick you up with one arm."

She snorted, "You could pick up a mac truck with one arm. That's not saying much."

"So, you knew about us before you came?" Sam asked.

"Not really. I knew some. I knew that Jake here was one, only that he had just changed. I knew there were wolves, just not who. what or how. When I got to Jake's and touched the couch, it was like watching a story. I saw Uncle Billy carry Aunt Sarah in the house when they were first married. I watched the twins and Jacob playing as kids. I seen when they left and how Uncle Billy was depressed when Aunt Sarah died. I also saw a girl....but I still don't know who she is. I have seen her in a lot of my visions...anyway. I seen as you, Sam, explained things to Jacob when he changed. But I still don't know all the little details....." She was broken out of her speech by a vision.

"You guys got to get over to Jakes. That girl is coming and she won't leave till she see's Jake. Um.....Jacob, you might want to be careful. She says some pretty hurtful things, and the conversation can go three different ways....." Mary glanced at Emily. They all followed her gaze and tensed.

"Are you saying...?" Jacob asked huskily.

Mary nodded. "It's not definite.....but if you keep your cool, everything will be fine. Just remember, she doesn't know. She thinks you abandoned her." She scrunched up her face, "Oh, hell, I'm coming too. I will go crazy with out being able to see what happens." Mary jumped down and headed out the door.

They all, except Kim and Emily, walked over to Jacobs house. They took a short cut through the woods and she got to ride on Pauls back. She froze up for a minute.

"She shouldn't see me yet. It will cause her too much pain. I don't know why but it will. I need to hide."

They took her to the back of the house where she snuck in the back door and waited by the front window. She peered through the curtains to see a rusty old truck sitting there. She watched as the boys came, and Jacob walked up to the truck window.

"What are you doing?" Mary yelped and spun around to see Billy silently laughing behind her.

"I'm spying, what does it look like I'm doing." He laughed.

"So, your psychic?" Mary nodded and looked back out the window

"If your psychic, why do you need to spy?" She looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"I don't know everything. It's difficult to explain."

Mary heard footsteps on the porch. The boys, minus Jacob, came through the door frowning. They spread out through out the living room and everyone was silent. Mary kept her face plastered on the window until Jacob and the girl walked into the woods. She plopped down on the couch and sighed.

"What are they saying?" She asked no one in particular.

Sam chuckled, "She's telling him it's all my fault. She thinks that he joined a cult."

Mary watched as they all winced in sync. They waited a few more minutes till Jacob came back through the door. Mary jumped up and grabbed his hand. She watched what happened and then her eyes widened and she looked at him in shock. He grimaced and nodded his head.

"Your not going to tell her!? Are you insane? Do you know what this changes? Everything! Jacob, you have to tell her!"

"Mary...." Jacob croaked.

"What's going on?" Sam asked. "You know already that I forbid you from telling Bella anything about us."

"So, that's her name." Mary murmured.

"I know." Jacob sighed.

Sam looked up at the clock then got to his feet. "It's getting dark soon. We have to go patrol. Jacob and Embry are on duty second shift. I'll see you then."

Paul looked at Mary then got up and followed them out. Jacob went to his room, and Mary went to hers. She sat on her bed and thought about things. Jacob imprinted on Bella, but he didn't want to tell her. He thought she would think him a monster. She sighed and went to Jacob's room.

He was laying on his bed staring at the ceiling. "Jake?"

"Hhhmm?"

She came and sat on his bed. "Please tell her."

"I can't, Mary. Sam ordered me not to. I can't go against his word. I won't ever tell her."

"No, Jacob Black. I know what happens if you don't tell her. Trust me, you don't want that." Mary softened her expression and looked at him. "Jake, she don't care. She already knows, she just doesn't remember. Think Jake, when was the first time you saw her?"

He looked at her for a minute before his eyes widened. "At the beach...."

Mary smiled and nodded, "And what did you tell her at the beach?"

"The stories." He was sitting up now.

"Technically, you told her before Sam gave you the order. All you have to do is nudge her in the right direction. She already knows. Go, Jacob. Tell her. Please. I've seen it, you belong together."

Jacob nodded and thanked her before loping out of the room. She sighed and layed back on his bed. Closing her eyes, she hoped everything would turn out right.