A/N: Finally some reviews. I know it's a little confusing with so much new characters but you really won't hear from the wolf girls, unless you want too. I shoved them in there because I felt that it was important for the wolf pack descents to be there, especially Seth's. Also Leah needed a rock and those wolf girls are hers.
A/N 1/6/10 : Posted Nicole's tattoo on my profile for the curious people who are reading this.
Chapter Four
"They are rather gorgeous for humans." Renesmee stated drinking her soda. "Alexia has this beautiful green eyes. Their so bright it's like their almost glowing! Dark strawberry hair, slightly curly and layered. She's a tomboy though, into punk fashion with the chains."
"Bondage?" Melody corrected. "Baggy pants with chains, black cloths-"
"Nope." Renesmee interrupted. "She wore the baggy pants with chains but no black. She was adopted by Nicole's dad. Very playful and outgoing. Not really rude like her sisters."
"What about Mel's Brazilian boy?" Jolene questioned.
"Almost as hot as his boyfriend." Renesmee smirked, "Sweet chocolate brown hair, short, shaggy but kinda spiky. Like a soccer player." Melody grin. "He is very muscular. Not bulgy like the wolves. He's a social butterfly, unlike his boyfriend, Xander. Xander is almost as big as the wolves." Nessie paused, eyes closed. "I think he said he was 6ft. He has black hair in a fauxhawk that grows into a little rattail. It's really sexy especially his body! More muscle than Xander but not as bulgy as Jake! Oh and his Arabic accent is just so cute."
"He has an Arabic accent?" Jolene questioned. "And how do you know this? Did you peep into the boy's locker room?"
"No!!" Renesmee yelped. "We had them in P.E." Smirked while Melody scowled cursing under her breath. "He was adopted by Arabic's. Monica Breg is another red head. Spiky pixie hair. Very butch. The German accent is weird, not too strong but still there. She's not adopted but her older sister lives with the family."
"And the last one?" Melody asked. Renesmee smiled, looking at her.
"Oh, Leah can tell you all about the last one." Nessie teased, "They got into a fight in several of their class and before school started."
"Pfft! Tease." The twins scoffed. Leaning back and drinking their soda. "Anyway what do you think about Leah imprinting on a werewolf?" Renesmee's slowly fell. She looking at the soda can in her hand.
"Honestly?" Jolene nodded. "It's… surprising. Jake has told me imprinting is very important. After seeing Leah, he is convinced imprinting is a way of taming the beast within, to keep their sanity and such." Renesmee paused. She bit her lip, her fang playing against the hard vampire skin. "I'm worried. Jake told me Leah ordered her pack to protect us and kill her imprint if they needed to. Is that normal?"
"No." Melody sighed. Her eyes fixed on Renesmee who finally looked back up at her. "Imprints can be anything but I never heard of a negative relationship. They were always friends or lovers, never enemies."
"Is that what Leah's imprint needs? An enemy? Someone to kill her?" Renesmee shook her head, words continued to be breathless and confused. "I don't think so."
"We can't judge. We don't know her." There was an uneasy silence as they each just drank their soda. "Where did Rahne and the others go?"
Everyone sat at the table. Olivier taking her usual thinking position, hands lanced in front of her mouth. To Raven it was obvious that the pups never thought about this. Raymundo tried harder not to think about the war than anyone else. It was written on his face conflicted face. Olivier is forcing the answer out now, promising to allow them to back out whenever they wanted, she was older enough to understand and let it go with a nod. The other pups aren't.
Of course Nicole spoke up, she did feel strongly about the war and loved fighting. "I'd rather be helping the werewolves than in school." Raven noticed movement. She looked at Monica too see her smiling, if only slightly.
"You can't be serious." Raymundo breathed. He shook his head in protest and his conflicted feelings radiating into the room. "I mean- Yes, the werewolves need help but-"
"But?!" Nicole barked, snarling at the other. Monica shifted, staring intensely at the young women next to her, ready to grab Nicole if she pounced. "You rather save yourself!!"
"Yes!" Raven sighed. The answer annoying Nicole enough for her to leak magic. Alexia shifted a bit closer to Olivier as the air chilled. Sea green eyes glowing and looking like they'd shoot lasers at Ray. Beside the magic chill in the air, something else tensed the room. New emotions, frustration and a slight depression.
"I'm not like you guys! I'm not a brave super soldier. I can't fight in a war." Raymundo yelled, his voice quiver slightly.
"Ray, listen to yourself." Xander spoke with a scowled. His yellow eyes glaring at his boyfriend. "You are allowing many people to die. Innocent or not. They are dying."
"What can I do?!" Raymundo yelled again. "God! My family didn't move to America for a war!!"
"No they moved here for a better life!!" Xander's voice rose, not something that happens often. "Don't you want that chance for other people?"
"I just want to have fun!" Raymundo yelled back. He sighed and sat back down standing somewhere in the argument. "I… I don't know…" He muttered softly and deflated.
"I planned to join the army after I graduated." Xander stated, voice stern and unwavering. Raymundo hung his head lower, remembering the talk and the advice he'd given. "You said 'What better way to die than to die helping people'?' Remember Ray?" He paused giving the chance for his boyfriend to speak. Raymundo didn't even look up. "Helping Olivier and Breg Pack isn't that much of a difference."
Ray shook his head, not answering as his throat tighten. Raven guessed that he was finally feeling the pressure of the situation. The weight of lives on your shoulders doesn't feel great especially if you're the one taking it. Raven watched him during hunts, how Raymundo always seemed to hesitated before killing the deer or vampire.
"You already know my answer." Alexia spoke, not letting silence settle in again. Hand supporting her head as if she was tired, but if anything she was amused at the show. The mages were sadistic like that, everything was an experiment, up for study and analysis. "I don't mind saying it again. This life is interesting."
"With all the dangers?" Raymundo cut in through Alexia's calmed and playful statement. His fear spiking into the room.
"That's what makes it interesting! My research is actually useful and not just a hobby to pass the time anymore." Alexia pressed. Her eyes just as stern as her voice as she focused on Raymundo. Raymundo glanced down and Alexia relaxed slightly. She then glanced at Olivier and smirked. "As a bonus I still get my girl."
Olivier's lips turned up slightly while Abigail scowled. Olivier's smile straighten again when the soldier looked at Nicolas. "Your answer?"
"Well…" Nicolas took a deep breath. "Mages aren't fighters. That is what lead to their near extinction. But mages are born not bitten. The werewolves need more help…" He looked at Nicole. She was upset, staring at Raymundo with her body tensing and relaxing, as if she didn't know wither to attack or not. "I am also curious to see where this leads."
"Great…" Abigail scowled, thick sarcasm and disappointment making the air even heavier. She crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair. "My answer is still NO. I'm here for my family, not strangers." Raven swallowed.
"Sorry Nick." Raven glanced at her husband. Nicolas nodded in understand but she knew they'll at least talk about it before he slept. "But I agree with Ray and Abi. Our support will come only if it is for our family." She wasn't ready for the life of death and war just yet. She wanted to enjoy the peace a bit more.
"That's all we wanted to hear." Monica said, standing up. She sounded satisfied.
"I'm going to sleep." Raymundo muttered. He stood up and walked out of Nicolas' study. He was up the stairs when Xander jumped over the rail. They walked towards the curtains to the 'Den' as Abigail titled it, only because the werewolves practically owned the fourth floor of the mansion.
"Xander…" Raymundo whispered. Voice shaking. He could feel it digging a hole into his stomach. He wanted to throw up but his throat was to tight. He was going to lose Xander and his new family. He could feel it.
"We're not having the same talk again are we?" Xander asked. "This is the same thing as when I told you I'm joining the military."
"Then why does it feel worse?" Raymundo scoffed. His heart was falling into the pit in his stomach. Ray barely noticed the giant beanie bag chairs as they walked past. Xander could see his boy shaking with every step. Quivering hands opening his bedroom door. Xander closed the door behind them, locking it. "There is more at stake here."
"A life is a life, Ray." He felt Xander's breath brush the back of his neck. He felt the strong arms wrap around his waist. It was to comfort the both of them. "What's the difference between one war and another?" Xander tenderly kissed the back of Raymundo's neck, his body loosening with the hot kiss.
"The fact that your on the losing side." Raymundo whispered. He didn't want Xander dying, but he wasn't going to take back his word. He turned, pressing his lips into Xander. He could taste his own salty tears in the kiss. "I'm scared."
"Of what?" Xander questioned, kissing his boy's forehead. Raymundo tucked his head under Xander's chin.
"Losing you."
"Then I just won't die."
"Hehe, Idiot." Raymundo chuckled softly, shaking his head before pressing his body harder against Xander. Open lips against open lips and tongues dancing.
Outside the bedroom door Monica and Alexia glanced at each other. They could feel the tension in the air easing but the lust in the room building.
"So gross…" Alexia shuttered, "So back in Breg do you feel the release too?"
"Yeah." Monica nodded. Alexia started at the casual women in wonder, "We can even trace the emotion back to the emitter if their close enough. Older werewolves know how to stop emitting their emotions. With pups if they get to emotional they just leak it out." Alexia shivered, a spike of pleasure hitting her full force. Time to intervene.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Alexia pounded her fist on the door.
"What!?" Raymundo screamed slamming open the door. Shirt off and button to his pants undone, his body just started to sweat. Alexia was pretty sure his face was flushed because of someone else though.
"Stop emitting!!" Alexia yelled back. "It's just so- so wrong!! It was cute at first but now that you guys are having sex it's just-"
Bam! Alexia flinched as the door was slammed in her face.
"Rude." Alexia huffed.
Bella followed Rosalie into the locker room, not to fast as to draw attention but slow enough to be irritating. "Why do you hate them so much?" Bella pressed, walking past the filled locker allies in the girl's locker room. "You only said ten words to them yesterday."
"Twelve." Rosalie corrected. "I said twelve words not ten." Rosalie stopped, brows knitting together as she stared at the last row of lockers. She sniffed the air and the scowl fell deeper. "Oh great." Bella glared at Rose before walking into the last row, occupied by only Nicole and Alexia. She stopped eyes widening at the tattooed back and arms. Both girls without a shirt or bra.
"If your girl ruined it-"
"Olivier didn't ruin it." Alexia interrupted, fingers trailing over the long scratch. She winced as her hands drifted from the left shoulder to left hip. "I think."
"You think." Nicole's voice hissed.
"This wouldn't happen if you guys didn't train with real swords."
"This wouldn't happen if you didn't distract me!" Nicole barked back. She stood up and faced Alexia, instead her sea green eyes flickered over Alexia's shoulder to a gasping Bella and surprised Rosalie. "Oui?"
"Um-Uh. What?" Bella muttered shaking her head and looking back at both tattooed girls. They both grin slightly both amused.
"No. It means 'Yes' in French. Not what, I do have manners… sometimes." Nicole said, crossing her arms under her nude breast, pushing them up slightly. Bella's eyes shot back up when she noticed the decent mounds push up. The grin on Nicole's face grew a bit larger and more playful. "What is 'Que'."
"We didn't ask for a French Lesson." Rosalie scoffed, stepping forward. "We were just surprised about your tattoos." Rosalie's eyes trailed over both to Alexia's left breast to her right, up to the neck then the shoulder and arm. When Alexia turned around, Rosalie's eyes followed the tattoo down the spin and to the right hip, curling to the front and sliding under her shorts.
"Wow. That's… big." Bella breathed softly, but loud enough for the two to hear.
"You think mine is big?" Alexia laughed slightly, sliding on a sports bra. "Didn't you see Niki's back when you walk in?"
"Actually, I'm surprise you guys haven't noticed." Nicole stated, uncrossing her arms and pointing to the left side of her neck where the tattoo crept up. "Many people don't because of my hair but I think Leah noticed." She poke while pulling on a sports bra Rosalie and Bella glanced at each other. "Is that why she's always glaring at me?"
"I'm not Leah." Rosalie answered with a thin lip and tight jaws. Nicole just watched as Rosalie's locker snapped open.
"I'll just ask her then." Nicole pulled down her pants, hanging them inside the locker and pulling out her shorts. Rosalie glanced with vampire speed, the tattoo even running down the side of her hips and thighs. "I have her sixth anyway."
"How old are you guys?"
"Oue?" Alexia questioned, turning to Rosalie. "Say that again, it was a little fast."
Rosalie clenched her jaw. Nostrils flared slightly annoyed. She spoke again with human speed. "How old are you guys? Aren't you a bit young to have tattoos?"
"I'm 17." Nicole answered, taking off her cartilage ear rings.
"18." Alexia smiled, "We got the tattoo and piercings back in Hawaii. For the tattoos, you need parent consent if your under 18."
"And your parents let you?" Both Alexia and Nicole nodded.
"If your done interrogating, I suggest you hurry up." Nicole closed her locker, and spun the lock. "You only have about 5 minutes to change." She informed, pulling the shirt over her head with an already dressed Alexia following her out.
"I was going to say 30 for a second." Nicole muttered in French, with a heavy sigh.
"They wouldn't believe you anyway. You don't look older than 23." Alexia laughed, ruffling Nicole's shaggy hair. "Your still helping me tonight right?"
"Yeah."
"She said she has her own tattoo and wasn't a hypocrite." Nicole glanced at Alexia who was breathing fire onto a flask. "Then we ended up partners for the project."
"Ack!!" Alexia coughed, inhaling part of the flame from surprise. "Burning, water!" She croaked, smoke coughing out of her mouth and noise. Alexia was at the sink in their study as Nicole turned it on. Water followed Nicole's hand as it ran through the water.
"Hold your breath, open your mouth." Alexia did just that, torso pulsing as she with held the urge to cough. Her body relaxed as Nicole maneuvered the water down her throat, soothing the burns. Quickly Nicole slid her hands up Alexia's throat, the water flying back into the sink with a flick of her wrist. "Idiot."
"Shut up." Alexia winced, throat rough and feeling torn as her voice. "Maybe we should work on." Cough. "The healing potion…"
"That potion is only meant for humans." Nicole clarified, falling back down in her chair. "And when we did try it only accelerated the healing twice as fast."
"Can you get me something to numb it then?" Nicole stared at Alexia, both having smiles slide onto their faces. "Numbing Potion for Vampires?"
"Of course." Nicole smiled, jumping to her feet and running to the scroll. Not even three steps and Nicolas called them.
"It's 12. Curfew." He spoke, deep French accent and long strides. Nicole and Alexia groaned bodies sulking, "Good idea though. Next time think faster."
"Shut up." Nicole huffed, walking back to the table and picking up her notes and pen, writing a few notes down as she walked out of the room.
"What about the Memory Depressant?" Alexia asked, swishing the purple elixir inside the flask.
"Drink it and find out!" Nicole and Nicolas both called out.
"Very funny!!" Alexia scowled, picking up her books and closing the light. "How about I pour this in your drink!"
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