I'll Be Your Little Red Riding Wolf
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone from Twilight, but the few OC's I have here. Namely Snowbird's pack, which is five people. This is post-Eclipse, but pre-Wedding invitation. NO BREAKING DAWN. After Eclipse, that's it, along with no other imprints like Claire. All plots here belong to me!
Chapter Two: Fire It Up, Little Red
Jacob's POV
Sam hired Athena and she begun to work the next day. She began her work by tearing ass into some rich guy's mint green Gran Torino. She was quick with her hands and since they were small, she could get to places our large hands couldn't. She looked really good in the jumpsuit we gave her. She rolled it down over her belt and found an old black beater shirt of Quil's. She already had grease stains on the knees and some on her face.
"HA! I knew it! He's been gunning this poor baby to much! He blew all the cylinders and has, not one, but TWO knocking rods! She should get better treatment than that!" She groaned as she changed out a few things, before she started to put the new engine in. Then the sound of a really pumped up song came to my ears.
"A domesticated girl that's all you ask of me
Darling it is no joke, this is lycanthropy
The moon's awake now with eyes wide open
My body's craving, so feed the hungry." It sung.
She wiped her hands of grease on the jumpsuit before reaching in her pocket; she pulled out her cell and opened it up.
"Hey kiddo, what's up? Yeah. I have no problem with that; just be sure it's okay with them first. Alright. That's fine. I'll see you at the bonfire tonight then. What time is it? Six? Seven then. Okay. Love you too, sweetheart. Be safe." She said then hung up the phone. That was it. Sam 'ahem' at me to get back to work. I couldn't help, but to watch her. When I looked away, I heard a roar of the engine and a loud curse from her. I looked over and saw her sucking on her index finger, hissing at the engine. Embry dashed around the car to her, mouthing unheard apologies to her. She just grinned while sucking on her finger, waving it off with her free hand. I felt like I should go over and shove him away from her for even talking to her. I quickly ignored that feeling.
Sam came out of the office and said we were done for the day. After that it was pretty much a blur. I gave Athena a ride back to her house, since I lived only a block over from her. She told me she could get to the bonfire herself, that she'll see me later. I agreed without any say back. She smiled at me and told me she hoped I would come, that she missed me and the guys a lot. That just made my stomach twist and my heart jump to my throat. When she shut the door, I felt kind of lonely there as I watched her head inside. I drove home and many thoughts raced threw my head.
Thoughts from how she looked in the past to now. How she use to act then, but now she's much more assertive that I remembered. It was weird. What's stranger was when Dad and I spoke to her; she seemed troubled by something, but vanished. No. Not vanished, hidden behind her emotions to not show the others her upset nature. That's something that never changed about her. I have to get her alone to talk to me though, maybe after she's finished talking with my dad, I can pull her into going for a walk with me or something. She used to talk to me about everything. Just like her. Just like…Bella… use to.
I hung around the house to scarf down any thing that looked good for a quick bite to eat, which meant about seven or eight peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and leftovers from Emily's. I flipped threw the television channels for a couple hours before I looked to the clock, seeing it was about seven thirty. I shot up and dashed out the door to my Rabbit. As soon as I got there, I saw Embry and Quil being chased by Athena like pups chasing one another. It stopped when Athena tripped and hit the sand face first. Quil and Embry rushed over to her, she rolled over and sat up laughing. I exhaled the breath I was holding. I got out as if nothing that they did to her bugged me. Quil and Embry ruffled her hair a bit, which cause her to try to flatten it back. She got up from the sand and waved at me when I came into her view. She got tackled by Embry to the sand, which Quil joined in as they rolled around. She finally squeezed out of the tussle after I drew closer, jumping quickly to her feet, only grinning and covered head to toe in sand.
She wore a black shirt and blue jeans with that charm necklace again. She happens to be running around bare foot that I noticed until Quil thrown and hit her, square in the back of the head, with a single black flip-flop.
"Quil! You bastard! I'm gonna chop your nuts off and feed them to the bears!" She roared, darting off after him with her flip-flop in hand, raised above her head threaten to hit him with it.
I laughed at the sight of Athena hitting Quil with the limp flip-flop, he cowering under her as she hit him while running around, and Embry tackled her to the ground again. Everything seemed great, even though Bella wasn't around to enjoy it with me like before. It felt awkward thinking about past things that dealt with Bella. She had her leech now.
"JACOB! CATCH!" I heard Quil yell, throwing me the odd flip-flop. Athena charged at me, I took off for the beach with her on my heels.
"You guys are such assholes!" She snarled, but laughed. Finally, she stopped and slumped over to catch her breath.
I jogged back to her, handing her back her flip-flop. She, of course, snatched it from me. I laughed at her effortless glare. She rolled her eyes and slipped on the shoe. She turned away from me, "Wow. We ran a pretty good ways from the bonfire." She said. I looked back and saw the fire was about thumb size to us. Crap. I didn't mean for us to go out this far.
"So. Did you get a chance to talk to Dad?" I asked as we started to head back.
"Yeah. Wasn't much I really could say." She said.
"Why not?" I asked. Me and my big mouth.
"So it won't endanger you, the guys, and the rest of the tribe. I hate to see anyone else get hurt." She said, looking to the sky above her.
"Anyone else? You can trust me, Athena. You always did before." I said, pleading.
She gave me a heavy sigh, and then looked at me, "Remember what I told you about my great grandmother's blood line right?" She said.
"Of course. You said that she was a Chemakum," I said.
"And of course you remember how I told you about my father and mother. About my father being a Quileute and my mother a Makah. Well, funny thing about that. The stories about you guys…" She said, peering off again. It was as if she was trying to stall telling me. It was something important and she was trying to keep it from me.
"Athena, please. You use to tell me everything back then." I said.
She went to say something; she quickly stiffened and sharply looked to the woods. Her eyes flickered around the trees as if she was searching for something…or someone. Her eyes stopped; narrowing dangerously at whatever it was and her breathing became sharp.
"I'm sorry, Jay, but I have to go." She said quickly and rushed off.
Something's up and it didn't seem at all like the Athena we knew. I got Quil and Embry in on it; I didn't want Paul and the others to stir up something that could be nothing. Athena had already taken off with Artemis, we assumed back to their house. When we got there Athena was standing on the porch, arms crossed, she was turned towards the woods that rested west of her house. Her face looked serious, but not angry, staring down whatever laid in the forest, as if she was daring it to come out.
"Athena?" I said. Her eyes looked cold and harsh. She didn't look to us until Embry stepped up the stairs.
Her eyes darted to us, "Be careful in what you three are getting yourselves into." She warned.
Her voice held nothing, but seriousness and coldness. The last time she was like this was when someone punched her kid cousin, she looked like she was going to rip someone's throat out. The way she looked now compared to back then, now was the most deadliest I've ever seen her.
"Auntie Athena?" Squeaked Artemis; peeking out from the door. She was shaking like a leaf, looking to Athena for answers.
"Get back inside, Artemis. Do what I told you and I promise they won't touch you." She said, stressing hard on the word 'they' as if it were poison. Artemis darted back inside, I guess to hid back when Athena instructed. That's when I smelled something sweet. A disgustingly, sick, sweet smell that only lingers around one thing.
"Vampires," She said, "Damn it. They did smell her."
I sharply looked to the forest seeing four vampires emerge from the woods, I looked back to Athena. Her features were twisted with anger, her teeth bare and her eyes were wild with many emotions.
"Athena. Who do they want?" Asked Embry.
"My family." She said, bluntly. That brought up many questions through my mind.
"Give us the girl, wolf!" Roared a man with red hair; plastered slick against his head. The other three hissed at his order against Athena. She only stood there, her features returned back to her cold and calm appearance.
"No, vampire. I will not." She said, harshly upsetting the vampires. A woman with short hair dashed towards the house, Athena had leaped over the railing, catching the woman by her throat sending the woman to the ground hard.
"I said, no." Said Athena, then cracked the vampire's neck, quickly grabbed the hair, twisting enough to take her head off.
This seemed to upset them and cause them to retreat. Athena sighed heavily and dropped the vampire woman's head. Athena stood silent for a moment, I guess, looking to see if any vampires were watching. She looked to the body and its severed head, flexing her fingers, Athena begun to tear into the vampire's body. Popping of bones and tearing of muscles didn't seem at all hard for her. Artemis dashed outside with some paper and a lighter, handing them off to Athena. She took them and set the vampire ablaze.
"Guys," Said Athena, when she turned to looked at us, "We need to talk." The fire's light was flickering in her eyes and darken the blood covering her arms. I knew then, she was going to explain everything.
Well, that's it so far. Enjoy and please review. Thanks!