I'm sorry it has taken so long to update. I lost my muse, then I had another baby blanket to do for a friends sister. I'm going to try to get back into the grove of things, but it will take some time. But fear not, I will not let this fic go down the drain. I put alot of work into this, and I refuse to let it go to waste. So, just bear with me for the time being. Next update will be in one - two weeks.
Chapter 14
Over a month passes and Mary has been picking up disturbing visions. Once, when Mary and the girls went to Port Angelus for shopping, Mary bumped into a girl of around 15 and got a glimpse of her with wild, crazy, red eyes, then people in black cloaks, then a fire and purple smoke.
That particular vision haunted her for days. Just the look of terror on the girls face. Of course, Mary knew what the red eyes meant, but she couldn't se a way to stop the vision from happening.
With Mary being plagued by visions of things she couldn't help, she wasn't prepared for the vision that hit when she grabbed her cell phone when it rang after school Tuesday someday in the middle of May.
The wolves were running through the woods in the pack formation. They were excited, their adrenaline pupming. They were truly under the spell of the hunt. Then a flash of red flashed by, and the spell broke.
A woman stood there in all her glory. Flaming red hair, crimson eyes, a malicious smile upon her face. She took off, and like the wolves had hit an invisible line, they stopped all in a row, snarling, and snapping at thin air. The red head came back into veiw, only to disappear again over the invisable border.
Then a flash of red, and the silver wolf fell to the ground under a huge, burly man. The silver wolf got up and attacked the huge man. Then a blond haired woman attacked the silver wolf. And then the vision went black.
Mary gasped and quickly wrote down all that she had seen. The world around her started to become clear, and she could hear Jacob growling into Mary's cell phone, that she must have dropped some time during the vision.
Mary held out her hand, "Give it here, Jake."
He glared at her then handed over the phone. Mary put the phone up to her ear and she heard Alices's frantic voice on the other end. "Mary! Mary! She's coming!"
"Alice, calm down! I already know! I just seen it. But I have to tell you one thing. If any of you atack my Paul, I don't care if we are related or if you are a vampire. I will find a way to rip you all to shreds and burn the pieces, and scatter the ashes to the four corners of the world. So there will be no hope of ever putting yourself together again."
Jacob and Billy, who had just came into the kitchen, stood there gaping at her. Here was this tiny girl threatening a family of vampires, on behalf of her werewolf boyfriend.
"Mary, what exactly did you see?" Alice asked.
"I seen the huge one attck Paul, who retaliated. Then the blond, I thin, Rose, attacked too. So the pack attacked. That was all, I'm sorry Alice, but if Paul gets hurt, you guys better hightail it towards the hills, cause if the pack don't kill you, I will"
Mary hung up and collapsed in the nearest chair. Now that she thought about it, did she overreact? Did she just lose the only relative on her fathers side to ever except her? But it was Paul! Even though she never really though about it, but now that she did, she realized that when he wasn't there, it felt like a piece of her was missing.
She had always just put off the intensity of the attraction as her already knowing about the imprint and accepting it. But from the moment she saw him, she had felt like she had finally found a part of her that she had never knew was missing.
Mary felt drawn to him. He was her security blanket. He felt like home, like if she was with Paul, nothing could ever go wrong. It was a childish fantasy, but one that every now and then it was ok to enjoy.
Which brought her back to the reason she was staring blankly at the kitchen table, with her uncle and cousin trying frantically to figure out what was wrong.
Finally, one of them had enough smarts to call Paul, who came barroling through the door with enough force to bust the door off the doorframe.
"What's wrong with her? What did you do?" Paul asked while scooping Mary up in his arms.
"Nothing. She had a vision. Then threatened the Cullens with a painful death if any of them hurt you." Jacob said clearly amused.
Paul chuckled and looked down at Mary, who was starting to come out of her self-induced trance.
"Hey, Baby, would you like to tell me about it?" Paul asked Mary.
Mary shook her head and looked up at Paul. "I think it's on Saturday. The red head will be here. She'll be dancing on the treaty line. Paul....please watch yourself. One of the Cullens are going to attack you. Please be careful. Watch your temper. I don't....I don't know what I would do if something happened to you."
Paul pulled Mary closer to him. Even though he knew it wasn't likely that he would get hurt, he also knew that she was genuinly worried. He couldn't just blow that off. "It's ok, Baby. I'll watch myself. I promise." He all but cooed.
Jacob made some gagging noise and left the house to talk to Sam. Billy went to the living room to call Charlie. Billy knew the safest place for Charlie and Bella was down on the reservation. So he would invite them down for diner, and hope that Mary hadn't ruined Bella's chances at coming down to La Push.
Mary thought she probably sat on Paul's lap for about an hour. Making it around 4. Paul apparently flet her shift and started to talk again. "If your feeling better, Sam probably wants us to go over there so you can share your vision."
"Yeah, I figured. I think Jacke is already over there. They are probably really impatient." Paul nodded and stood up still holding Mary in his arms. She really wasn't complaining. They waved to Billy, who looked bummed out over something. Mary made a note ot ask later. Then they walked into the woods.
Paul could travel faster in the woods than out in the open. Most of the pack actually prefered the woods, cause they could let their guard down with out worrying and act like their super human selves.
They made it to Emily's in less than 2 minutes. When they walked in, they seen that the whole pack was smooshed into the tiny living room.
Paul sat, still holding Mary, in the place Jacob gave up fot them. Mary handed the paper to Sam of what she had seen. They al studied it to see what they could fix.
"So, she dances along the treaty line. How does she even know where it is?" Seth asked. They all looked at Mary who shrugged. "I need something of her. I can't focus on her with out it. I can only get glimses of her through you guys, and ther's only when you come into contact with her."
"So this happens on Saturday? Emily, can you set up something at Billy's to keep Charlie and Bella there? Maybe Sue too?" Sam asked.
Mary cleard her throat. "Um, I think Billy already did that. I can see everyone there but Bella. Her future is black right now. So I don't know what she's doing."
The days till Saturday were very slow. Everyone was on edge. The pack was barely in school. Which left Kim and Mary in school by thierselves.
Saturday was a very tense day. Mary got up early to clean up the house for the little secret hostage party. Charlie had told Billy that Bella and Edward had gone to Flordia to see her mother. None of the pack believed that one bit. Why would a vampire go to a place that sunny to be around humans that can see him. So the question remains. Where is Bella?
Mary had tried to get a vision of her, but it kept on coming out extremely fuzzy. Like someone was making decisions for her. Like she had no free will. Which very well may be. She seen how the vampires acted around Bella. Treating her like she was a piece of glass, incapable of making even the simplist decisions.
Mary put the thughts out of her head as Emily and Sue showed up to start cooking. They were having a speghetti dinner, because it was simple and easy and the girls would be a nervous wreck and not be able to concentrate.
When Charlie showed up, they made the excuse that Sam and Jacob were out helping someone or something like that.
Dinner was a quiet affair. Billy, Charlie, and Sue did most of the talking. Emily was calm and heppy on the outside, but was a nervouse wreck on the inside. Mary, while she knew logically that the boys could take care of themselves, it was still her Paul out there. He was going to get attacked, and there was nothing she could do about it.
Every sound made Mary jump. Emily kept one hand on Mary's leg at all times.
Charlie left, then Billy left with Sue to keep her company. While Emily and Mary were cleaning up. They heard loud swearing coming closer. With one look at Emily, they both ran to the porch to see the pack coming out of the woods.
Mary broke away from Emily and ran straight into Pauls arms. She knew she was foolish, but she couldn't help checking him over for battle wounds. "I'm fine, Mary. Really. It was barely a scratch."
Mary leaned back to look up at him. "A scratch? What happened? Did it happen as I said, or did it change?"
They all walked into Billy's living room. Most of the pack went home. All that was left was Sam, Jacob, Paul, Quil, and Embry. Jared went to check on Kim. And Seth and Leah went home.
They all got confortable, and Sam started. "For the most part it happened how you said. The leech was dancing on the line. Paul would have had her, but that huge one made a lundge for her, and ran into Paul. Now I have to give Paul credit, he really tried to keep his temper. He didn't bite him at all. He just kinda bumped him back to the other side of the line."
"Then the blond leech jumped on Paul. Then all hell broke loose." Quil interrupted. Sam sent him a glare that had Quil cowering.
"Anyway, just as the pack was about ready to jump them, the short one and her mate came out of no where and we all felt so calm. I phased back so I could talk to their leader. He had asked if they could cross the line to track her, but we said no."
"Good. The treaty is there for a reason. If you got rid of it just once, then they would think that they can push their luck." Jacob looked at Mary and asked, "Can you see Bella?"
Mary shook her head. "No, I've been trying, but all I see is a lot of Sun."
No one commented, but the same thought was on everyones mind. Why would a vampire be in a sunny place?