Another update! I feel proud! :D Okay so the same as last time! I NEED A BETA. MY GRAMMER IS CRAP. I wont sit here and rant so read. Oh and the poem is crap. I was having a hard time with this one cuz i couldnt find a solid theme for this chapter so i did when James captured Bella... :D
Mirroring voices
Of the ones I hold dear
You controlled my choices
You lured me with threats, until I was near
Then you srang from the dark
grabbed me with your claws
Tortured me with red eyes, scented my blood like a shark
You played the game, and you most certainly deserve a round of aplause
BPOV
With my hand still in Paul's I'm having a hard time thinking, a fine buzzing in the back of my head. Oh! I realize, my hand is still in Paul's. I quickly take my hand out of his, hurt flashes across his face, before he quickly conceals it. Quickly walking over to Jacob, I sigh.
"Werewolves?" I ask, incredulously. Jacob nods happily, smiling down at me. Damn had he grown in the last few weeks. I examine Jacob more closely, how his features have been magnified, and the way he walks with such confidence. He's beautiful. Out of the corner of my eye, I look at Paul. Having nothing to compare him to, I assume he had change a lot before he, Phazed? Was that the word Sam used? In any case, Paul is just as beautiful. His prompt jaw line, his high cheekbone. He's more than beautiful, he has a sense of strength to him. A aura of mystery. Its sexy. My eyes bulge, I've never used that word before. My face heats up, and my breathing increases as I continue to observe Paul.
"Bella? Beeellllllaaaa?" Jacob pulls me out of my trance by shaking my shoulder. I look up at him with wide eyes.
"Yeah?"
"You okay?" He asks, I nod, averting my gaze from Paul. Jake shakes his head, not believing me but dropping it. "don't stare at Emily, it bothers Sam" Jake says.
We continue to walk in scilece. Werewolves. Wow. The story Jacob told us at our first meeting comes to mind, The protectors and the cold ones. The Protectors keeping inocent people from meeting their death at the marble hands of vampires.
"Were here" Paul gruffly anounces. Paul picks up my arm and drags me into the small house.
"Hey" Sam greets. "how are you Bella?" He looks at me.
"I'm fine" I squeak, not knowing how else to answer.
"Are you sure?" Sam stands up, concern obvious in his voice. Its understandable that he's worried for me, seeing someone phaze then being told that your best friend is a wolf. But in all fare ness, I did date a vampire, I'm good with weird.
"She's fine" Paul growls, stepping in front of me.
A woman comes bussleing in, a large smile on her face, along with three long scars. That must be Emily. "Would you like a muffin dear?" Her tone sweet, as she pushes the angry man in front of me to the side.
"S-sure" I pick up a promising blueberry muffin. As I sink my teeth into the sweet fluff I sigh contently. "there delicious" I complement.
"Thank you" Emily blushes, smiling shyly. I can see myself becoming friends with Emily, cooking in the kitchen for the Pack, chatting hallpily together. Emily drags a chair next to her, ad pats the seat. I sit next to her and she take my hands into hers. "Do you have any questions?" Her voice comes out quite, and soft.
"yeah, a few. Full moon?" I ask, nervously. The moon outside is only a crescent, not full.
Howling laughter erupts from most of the wolfs, Sam only chuckling. "Shut up!" Emily yells, causing everyone to instantly be silent. "How would she know? Your all a bunch of prepubescent pups, I sware!" grumbles of disagreement flow through out the Pack. "The Pack is considered more of shifters than Werewolfs. The Phaze is triggered by extreme anger. Except the first time, the first time its more like a bottle of soda after you put a mento in it, it rises, no way to tell exactly when it will over flow. But you can always tell if it will, the fizzes is like when they tremble ,they shake more and more until Pop! They Phaze. Like before Jake Phazed, he was happy but Billy made a comment and he phazed. Small things can cause the gene to become active."
"why?" I whisper.
"Vampires" Sam answers, his voice full of venom. "We were made to kill them, when the Cullen's took up a residence in the area, the gene became active"
I nod, thinking over the facts I've learnt. "Now that the question and answer is over, can we get the meeting over with?" Embry asks, with a small smile, showing that he's joking.
"Alright" Sam agrees, taking the seat at the head of the table. Jared and Paul flanking him, then Embry sits next to Paul, and Jake next to Jared. I take a seat next to Jake while Emily buisyes herself in the kitchen. "Quil is close to phazeing. I want two wolfs on him at all times. Quil Sr said he's grounded Quil so he cant leave the house, but you know Quil..." he trails off, sighing. As content they are with their fate, none want the same for their friend. "The Leach with the dreads apparently had a friend. The female is playing with our boundary. She-"
I gasp "Female?" Oh no...
"Bella, what's wrong?" someone asks, I'm to busy trying to remember how to breathe to care who. Warm arms incase me and whisper calming words to me "Bella, I need you to look at me. Come one Bella, look at me" I raise my eyes, meeting soft brown ones.
"Paul?"
" its me Bella, I need you to stay calm"
"Okay..." I breath in and out a few times, then look up to see Sam looking at me with a worried expression. "Did she had red hair?" I ask calmly.
"How did you know that, Bella" Paul asks, shaking slightly.
"Victoria" Is all that I can manage to say through gasps. She's back for me, sheds going to kill me.
"You know her?" Paul growls "Is she another one of your friends? Like your little Cullens?" Paul is now fully trembling, I remember what Emily said "the fizzes is like when they tremble ,they shake more and more until Pop! They Phaze" Paul stands up, his arms flying off of me. His body shaking.
"Paul!" Sam roars "Calm down" the alpha order calms Paul down before he sits back down. "You know the red head?" I nod mutely. "What does she want? Why Is she trying to get on the rez?"
I laugh darkly. Isn't it funny? Edward left, saying I would be safe, wanting me out of the world of mythical creatures, and where do I wind up? Right in the fucking middle of it with a sadistic vampire hell bent on killing me! "Oh yeah I know what she wants." another laugh, but this one is on the brink of hysteria "Me"
"What the hell are you talking about" Paul snarls, tremors wriggling across him.
I turn to Jake "Do you remember when I went to Phoenix? And ended up in the hospital?" He nods. "Well, I left because a vampire was trying to kill me." A round of growls erupts from the Pack. "James, Victoria's mate wanted to kill me. He was a hunter, and when Edward defended me, it was like taking away a little kids toy. He got pissed. So I left so he wouldn't find me, but he ended up tricking me to meat up with him. When he did, he attacked me and bit me" My voice cracks, but I push on "Edward got their in time to suck the venom out and... they killed James."
"That's a... nice story, but why does the red head want you?" Embry asks, crossing his arms.
"Mate for a mate" I whisper. "she do sent know that him no longer Edwards mate. Or that I never was."
"Damn right" Paul growls, standing up and walks back and forth. From the door to the table.
"This is great!" Everyone looks at Embry with a shocked expression, "We have bait!" Paul pucks up a kitchen knife from the brownies Emily had just sat down on the table and hurled it at Embry's head. Embry caught it, with a laugh. "I didn't mean it like that. Now that we know what she wants, we can lure her into a trap."
"How is that any different that bait?" Paul asks, snarling.
"Well the bitch keeps getting away from us! How else are we gunna catch her?" Embry asks, letting out a frustrated sigh.
"Its probably her gift" All eyes snap to me.
"Gift?" Sam asks.
I sigh, getting comfortable in my seat for the explanation. "some vampires have special ability's. Alice could see the future, Jasper could control emotions, and Edward could read minds."
"So the Leach was constantly in your head?" Jared asks.
I shake my head, "No, not me. He couldn't hear me. Something about A.M. and FM" I look at Sam again. "Victoria probably has a gift that helps her stay out of trouble."
"This information could help us. We need to come up with a plan. And quick. Bella," Sam looks at me. "Would you mind staying on the rez as much as possible, its easer to protect you if the leach gets past us."
I shake my head "No! Your not going anywhere near her!"
"Bells, its completely-" Jake starts.
"Bullshit!" I yell. "Their Vampires! Hard as hell, sparkly Vampires!" I start to hyperventilate. "No!"
"Bella" Paul sighs, stepping closer to me "This is what we do... We will be fine"
"no you wont!" I cry, tears streaming down my face "please just stop." Paul shakes his head and I know that they arnt going to let it go. I stand up and bolt for the door.
"Bella!" Jake gasps "where do you think your going?" He grabs my wrist, then grabs my other one with the same hand.
"I have to go." I cry. "I have to leave! She wants me, not you. If I leave, so will she!"
"Your not leaving Bella" Sam stands up, reminding me how tall he is. "we protect our own and your Pack now"
"she'll kill you" I whimper.
Jake laughs "Thanks for the confidence Bells!"
"This isn't funny!" I scream. "Your risking you lives, for me! Me!" I gesture to myself.
"shes on our land Bella, we have to kill her either way" I look at Sam, Pausing.
Even if I leave, there still going to go after her, me leaving would just make it harder. Leaving La Push unprotected or under pertected. I put my head in my hands "fine" I mumble into my hands.
"I knew you'd come around Bells!" Jake says, picking me up and spining me.
"Someone needs to take Bella home. Charlie should be home soon" Sam looks around for volunteers, of course, Jake does.
"Ill do it!" Jake hops up, taking my hand and dragging me out the door.
PPOV
Jake drags My Bella out of Sam and Emily's front door, flailing her around like a raggdoll.
"how are we gunna get the bitch" I ask, looking to my Alpha.
"I still say we use Bella" Embry voices his opinion. I reach for the knife that Emily so inocently placed next to me a few moments before. "not like bait. Like her scent" I crouch, ready to pounce on him for even suggesting the idea of using My Bella as bait, but Sam raises a hand, silently telling me to back off for a moment. "we could take some of her stuff to lure her somewhere we can surround her. If shes so driven to get Bella, than she might not even take into account how easy it is to get to her all of a sudden." As I pause to think about it, it might actually work.
"That's actually a good idea" I say. "But Bella has to be far away from it"
"We can work out the bugs later. What are you going to do about Bella" Sam asks.
"What do you mean?" I narrow my eyes.
"Its obvious to everyone you imprinted, well, everyone but Jacob." Emily says, smiling softly at me. "You need to tell him, he's not going to be happy"
"And then you need to tell Bella" Sam says, putting his arms around Emily.
"I'm not telling her yet." I state, leaving no room for discussion.
"Why not!" Emily demands, putting her hands on her hips.
"Her last boyfriend, and only boyfriend, was a Leach. She has Jacob following her around like a lost puppy, and a hell bent vampire trying to kill her. Do you really think she needs some magical voodoo shit saying Im her soul mate?" I say after a pause. "Maybe after this whole, Red Head thing is sorted out, I can tell her. Then we can try to be friends or something."
"Why friends, Paul?" Emily asks, while the rest of the Pack just sits their awkwardly.
"Why would she want more?" I say angrily. "She has little Jacob running after her. He fucking loves her. One day he's gunna be Alpha" I look at Sam, who nods. "why would she want to be with me when she has the Alpha pinning after her?"
"Paul, what that Leach did to her... Jacob helped her get over that. Of course shes going to be atached to him!" Emily puts a soothing hand on my shoulder.
"But you've seen in his memory's, she turns him down every time, Paul. She dosent see him like that." I nod to Sam, he's right, Being in Jacob's head is a 24-7 Bella-thon. Every hug they've ever shared has been burned into Jacob's head. And mine.
"But she dated a Leach" I growl out. How could she knowingly put herself in danger. That Leach could have sucked her dry any given day, and she played fucking house with it.
"That's in the past Pa-"
I cut Sam off "No its not!" He looks at me shocked "She could have died Sam. She knew what they were, and she sat there and cuddled with the bloodsucker" Sam steps in front of Emily slowly, I look down at myself and see that im close to phazeing. I think of Bella's beautiful face, her loving brown eyes, the feel of her soft hands in mine. I stop shaking " I fucking imprinted on the Leach Lover" I growl.
"What?" I turn around to see a deathly calm Jacob, staring daggers at me. "you imprinted on Bella?"
Oh shit.
Kay, its done. there are some really stupid mistakes but im to lazy to go and fix them :) any way. Review.
