Introducing the rest of the only characters I own in this story: Willow, Josh, Nelle, and Sam (again, not the alpha). I do not own any of the characters in the Twilight Saga.

Werewolves and Vampires

When I woke up the next morning, my ankle ached like crazy. That was the first thing I noticed. The second thing I noticed was that the kid named Seth was sitting on the couch across from me, just, looking at me. We made eye contact for just a second, and then the doctor came in.

"How does your ankle feel today," he asked.

"Okay, I guess. I mean, it doesn't hurt as much, but it still aches," I say, looking around him to Seth. His brown eyes hadn't moved a bit.

"That's good, it's going to hurt for awhile but it looks like you take after your mother, so you should be just fine in a few days," Doctor Cullen said, obviously noticing my lack of attention, "Jake will be here any minute to check on you."

"What is going on," I asked Seth after the doctor left. "I want the truth, and did you really turn into a wolf?"

He looked at me for another minute and said, "Vampires are trying to kill us."

"What?"

"The Cullens, they're vampires, but they're good. They call themselves vegetarians and only hunt animals. That's why they have gold eyes instead of red. There are some other vampires that call themselves the Volturi. They are real vampires, you know, live in an old castle, kill humans kind of vampires. Well one of them doesn't like werewolves very much and, even though we are shape-shifters, not real werewolves, he wants us dead."

That was a lot to take in. Vampires? Werewolves? Shape-shifters? "So, Nathan was a vampire?"

"Yup."

"And your a..."

"Shape-shifter apparently. Until a few years ago we thought we were werewolves, but I guess there really is the whole, full moon, lose your mind kind of thing over in Europe."

"So what does Jake have to do with this?"

"He's my Alpha."

"Your what?"

"You know, head wolf, leader of the pack."

"I'm from Hawaii, we don't have wolves there, and I've never seen Balto."

Just then, my uncle walked in with Nessi holding his hand. "Doc said you can go, you can have my old room. Seth, your sister wants to talk to you."

"Can't I take Kate home first?" Jake looked at me, then back at Seth, and back at me. Looking back at Seth, Jake told him to go tell Leah to "make it fast" and to meet us at the road.

"Jake," I said, "what did Doctor Cullen mean by 'you take after your mother'? He never knew her."

"You must have the gene," He said as he helped me to his car, which was quite difficult considering the near foot and a half difference in our heights.

"What gene?"

"All of the wolves have the Quileute gene. Whether it's triggered or not," he added, looking at me, "depends on a number of things."

"Like what?"

"The number of vampires to wolves, environment, temper... we used to think gender was on the list, then Leah phased."

"Seth mentioned a vampire wanting to kill us?" I said.

"Don't worry. We are taking care of it."

We reached the car. "So what now?" I asked.

"I introduce you to the pack."

Jacob started the car and Seth came running out of the forest, just in time to open the door and jump into the back seat. It was a ten minute drive from the Cullens house to La Push. Another five to the beach. When Jake parked, Seth helped me out of the car and over to a fire pit and Jake began building a fire. Then more people showed up.

Seth pointed out specific people and told me there names. "The tallest is Sam, everybody thinks he's getting ready to 'retire', and join the council. Behind him is Jared and Paul. They are his second and third in command. Bradley and Collin will be here later.

"Over there," he continued, pointing to the second group, "is my sister, Leah, and Embry, Jake's second and third command."

"So there are two packs?"

"It's kind of a long story, which might be why we are starting early. Quil Is probably gathering the younger pack members and the rest of the council. Bradley and Collin are either getting the food, gathering the younger members of their pack, or both."

"Do you have meetings like this often?"

"Depends. We haven't had a new wolf in a while, since everybody over the age of thirteen phased when the Volturi attacked, so not many are 'of age' and we have so many wolves that anyone who hasn't phased doesn't need to. Sam is probably retiring, like I said, so Jared might become the new Alpha."

"Why is Jacob so young? My mom told me that he was only eight years younger than her. He looks more like twelve years younger."

"Billy Black will probably explain. How's your ankle?"

I looked down at my feet. Dr. Cullen had taped it and put it in a brace. He said that I could walk on it if I felt like it, but I elected to have Jake help me out to the car rather than walk on it my self. "I guess it feels okay, why?"

"It might be awhile before we start, and I thought we could go for a walk," he said. "We can come straight back if your ankle starts hurting again." He said noticing my hesitation.

"I guess."

Kind of an abrupt ending to a chapter, but I couldn't find a good place to stop and I wanted to save the council meeting for the next chapter. And you WILL meet the new wolves next chapter.