Bites, Fights, and Lovely Ladies
Ch. 06
"So… What's your name?"
Ah, Seth… He always was the good one. He was trying to be nice, because he was a nice person, who could be mad at him? The pack could apparently. They all glared at him as if he'd suggested letting her run wild on the town.
After Seth had convinced Sam to let Jane Doe live, they had all gone and had some intricate discussions involving some very important stuff apparently and had just gotten back.
In all reality she couldn't remember anything.
"Um… I think… I think someone called me… Jazz… I think… So, call me that."
"You think?" Jacob asked.
"I don't remember anything… the last thing I remember is being bitten…" It does make sense, who'd ever forget what caused horrible pain for nearly a week?
"Let's go." Everyone turned towards Sam, who had spoken.
"Go where?" Jacob asked.
"If we're going to train her, we might as well start now by training her to catch animals, not people. So let's go."
They all filed out of the house after Sam and began walking towards the heart of the woods. Along the way, Jazz walked along side Jacob and asked a question that had been bugging her for a while.
"Hey, your name is Jacob, right?"
"Yes…"
"Can you…uh… tell me what…umm…what was it called…phrasing is?"
He looked confused. "Phrasing? Oh, do you mean phasing?"
"Yeah, that's it! I heard someone say it when I was still burning."
"Burning?"
"I mean turning… into… a… vampire…" She didn't know why she didn't like admitting she had been in pain, but she didn't.
"Well" Jacob began, "We're all werewolves."
Everyone stared at him like he was crazy. "What? She's a vampire, plus she's going to find out sooner or later, might as well be sooner."
Shaking their heads they all just kept walking forward, following Sam.
"As I was saying. We're all werewolves. Well… technically we're shapeshifters, who can only turn into wolves, but we just call ourselves werewolves. Following me so far?"
"Yeah, I think so"
"So, we can turn into these huge wolves whenever we want to. When we change, we call it phasing. You phase into a wolf and then you phase back into a human. Got it?"
"Yeah. Thanks for explaining."
"Your wel-"
"We're here."
And 'here' they were, even though Jazz didn't know where 'here' was. Leah, who had been standing off and keeping to herself, said "I don't trust the leech, even though Seth does, and if she suddenly goes crazy with thirst I don't want to be in human form to see it. I'm going to go phase."
Nobody seemed to object or even care as she went off behind a tree for a few seconds, then returning soon after, as Jacob had mentioned, as a huge wolf.
Can't believe that I have to be stuck babysitting a freakin' LEECH for christ's sake…I don't trust her one bit, for all we know she's planning to bring us down, one by one… Maybe THAT'S why she's so cozy around Jacob, he's first-
Turning and pointing at Leah, Jazz nearly shouted, "I wouldn't kill Jacob!"
And that earned her the privilege of all of the pack staring at her like she was crazy. Well… she had just shouted out of nowhere when no one had been talking.
Jacob, obviously, was the first to talk. "Well that's good to know. Any reason as to WHY you said it though?"
"Leah was saying that she thinks that I'd kill everyone and I wouldn't do that! I wouldn't do that!" She was almost pleading, she did NOT want the pack to think that she'd kill them if they turned their backs.
"Well…" Started Seth, "You DID attack Paul."
"He attacked ME!"
"Good point…"
"Wait" Jake said "Leah isn't saying anything, she CAN'T say anything while she's a wolf… Can you read our minds?" Some of them groaned, they really didn't want to have to deal with another Edward Cullen.
I can't believe this… another freakin' blood suckin' mind reader!
"No." Some of them looked relieved, but they still had curiosity and even a bit of worry about her.
"No… I can only hear Leah…"
It was quiet for a while as they tried to think of what it meant, but believe it or not, Seth was the first to have an actually good idea.
"Wait… What if… What if… I'm going to go phase, I'll be right back!" Running off behind a tree, Jazz wondered why they needed to do that to phase before Seth came back as a sandy wolf, not as big as Leah though.
Hey blood sucker, we don't NEED to go behind a tree to phase, we do it to take our clothes off. Otherwise they'd be ripped apart.
Leah! Stop calling her a blood sucker!
I'll call her that if I want, after all, she IS a blood sucker!
That doesn't mean you have to be so RUDE about it!
Wait, Jazz thought, can you hear me too?
Yep! This proves my theory, I'm gonna phase back to explain.
Well hurry up and phase already.
Seth had already returned to his human form before he heard Leah and came back to the mostly-impatiently waiting pack.
"I think I might have just figured it out."
"Well?" Sam asked.
"Somehow, I'm not sure how, but somehow she's become a part of the pack. She could hear Leah and me when we were wolves and we could hear her, but she can't hear people. So somehow, she's a part of the pack!"
Leah and I…
What's that leech?
He said 'Leah and me', that's bad grammar; it SHOULD be 'Leah and I'
How weird ARE you?
…Very…
"Well" Sam started, getting everyone's attention, "This is good news. Now we can phase and still have contact with Jazz, and since we'll be in our wolf forms, if she loses control then we can stop her by force if we need to."
Everyone nodded and went off to phase, but returned shortly.
Now, Sam said, since we can communicate, we can put off hunting until later. First, we'll tests your strengths and see if you'll help or hinder us in a fight. We'll attack you one by one and see how you do, understand?
Jazz nodded.
Good. Leah, NOW!