Paul couldn't remember the last time he woke up this content in his own house, actually he couldn't really remember the last time he woke up in his house at all. When Julianna got released from that hell she was forced to live in Paul stopped going to his house other than to check and make sure his dad hadn't wrecked it. He kept clothes at Sam and Emily's since he was usually half naked anyway. Paul felt Julianna squirm against him trying to break out of cage his arms had created around her.

"I have to get up and pee." She mumbled pushing against his chest with her tired arms.

Paul didn't even open his eyes when he replied in a grumble. "Hold it." He wasn't ready to let her out of his arms yet.

"I'll make breakfast so we don't have to go to Sam and Emily's."

All argument went out the window when food was brought into the picture. Paul unwrapped his arms from her waist causing the cold breeze to pierce her sides where his arms just were. Julianna got out of Paul's bed and pulled on a sweatshirt before going across the hall. Suddenly Paul's ears perked up when he heard somebody else breathing in the house other than him and Julianna. He couldn't believe he hadn't heard anything last night while he and Julianna slept. His wolf ears were usually extremely sensitive to possible threats, and his father definitely fell into the threat category. Paul lept out of his bed leaving it a disheveled mess and grabbed his phone that was on the side table. The sound of the bathroom door opening broke Paul from his frenzy and caused him to run out of his room almost crashing into Julianna. She squeaked in shock expecting that Paul had fallen back asleep.

"What's wrong why are you all panicked."

"We're going to Sam and Emily's; Now. Let's go." Paul wrapped his arm around her to hopefully shade her from the creature that lurked on the floor below, aka his father who he prayed was passed out on the couch.

"Ok." She started down the stairs , too fast for Tuck to count, not wanting to argue with Paul when he went into full overprotective territorial mode. Julianna knew that he only got this protective when there was a threat nearby but when she was with him she always felt safe. When they reached the bottom she heard footsteps and it instantly clicked that somebody was in the house. She looked up at Paul who obviously heard the noise and noticed his face was tense and his jaw was locked.

"Come on." Paul growled tightening his grip on her. Julianna squeaked again when Paul started taking much bigger steps than her 5 foot form could keep up with. She had to nearly jog to keep up with him.

"You're leaving as fast as your mother ran out." The voice rang throughout the room clearly intending to bother Paul. He tried to ignore the voice not wanted to phase with Julianna next to him since it could severely hurt her. He started farther down the hallway until the voice spoke again unsatisfied with the lack of response to the first sentence. "So they finally let the mad girl out."

The word mad echoed throughout the house causing Julianna to gasp and her eyes to widen. Of course she knew people thought of her as crazy or mad but never had they said it actually to her, and more importantly in front of Paul. Paul had always made sure that everybody watched what they said around or about Julianna. He had started a lot of fights with somebody at school or one of the pack members calling her crazy or psycho. Julianna was almost in shock and hadn't noticed Paul had left her side until she heard a loud bang. Paul had his father, she assumed, pushed up against the wall glaring down at him. If looks could kill his father would be as dead as Caesar. Paul's large 6'3 build towered over his father's normal height. The smug look on his father's face slowly started to fade as Paul's locked jaw and piercing eyes never faltered.

"Say one more word about her and i'll send you to the fucking hospital." Paul growled lowly his fist raised in the air. He was surprised that he hadn't phased with how angry he was but he wasn't going to question it.

"Paul come on." Julianna said in a soft voice still standing in the same spot. She didn't want to get in anywhere near his father. Paul lowered his fist to his side before walking back over to where she was. If she wasn't in the room he would've without a doubt knocked his father out. Paul wrapped his arm around Julianna and started down the hall to the front door. He needed to get out of here before he did something he regretted.

"That psycho bitch always did have you wrapped around her little finger." Paul's father sneered with his voice laced with venom. He thought Paul wouldn't hurt him with Julianna there so he didn't hold back what he thought of her. He had never liked her since she had a calming effect on Paul and he believed that anger led to power and fear. Paul tried to keep Julianna and Jared away from his father but his father knew what people said about her on the reservation. Her pale freckled face and bright ginger hair always caused her to stand out. Paul turned around instantly ready to beat the shit out of his father. When he saw the smug look on his father's face Paul lost the control he had once before.

Right in the hallway only about 4 feet away from Julianna, Paul phased. His giant gray wolf form took up almost the whole width of the hallway. He was blinded with anger and the only thing he could see was red. He stalked over to his father his giant paws shaking the floor. The growl Paul let out was more of a roar and shook the whole house.

Sam was on patrol at the time and felt Paul phase. He heard all of Paul's thoughts and knew that this was going to end badly if he doesn't get there in time. An alpha order wouldn't stop Paul's rage and temper when he was this livid. Instantly Sam started sprinting towards Paul's house praying it wasn't a similar incident that happened to Emily. If Paul had phased too close to Julianna than she could be severely hurt or worse. With her small size one scratch from Paul's gigantic paw in the wrong spot could kill her. When Sam arrived his heart sank seeing the scene. Furniture all over the house was broken due to the giant wolf in the house and broken glass littered to floor. Paul had backed his dad into a corner while growling furiously; Julianna was nowhere in sight but Sam could smell and hear that she was still in the house.

Paul back off!Sam growled breaking apart the red. While Paul was distracted by Sam his father sprinted out of his house leaving the two wolves. Paul calm down!

You don't know what he said to her! He roared standing his ground against Sam.

Where was she when you phased? Paul's anger instantly flipped to fear realizing what he had done. Now she knew about the pack and more importantly he knew he wasn't far from her when he phased. If he had scarred her like Sam did to Emily Paul would never forgive himself. Both wolves phased back into human form running around Paul's house searching for her. They followed her scent but she had already been in most of the rooms of the house making it confusing. Finally they stood together outside the front closet door listening to her terrified form hyperventilating. Neither wanted to open the door afraid to see how this was affecting her.

Julianna couldn't believe what she just saw. She didn't know if she was hallucinating again or if this was just another nightmare that Tick Tock and Tuck were forcing on her.

Did Paul just turn into a fucking werewolf? Tick yelled over the commotion of the other two voices.

No Tick I think he's more of shapeshifter and it just happens to be into a wolf.

Does it matter what it is he just turned into a fucking wolf.

Tuck is right Tock, we have to stay away from him he is dangerous. Tick said in a matter of fact tone.

I agree.

Julianna shrunk further into the closet corner making herself even smaller. Her hands covered her ears trying the block out the shouts of Tick Tock and Tuck. She was absolutely terrified and didn't know what to do. What she did know was that Paul could turn into a wolf, he was terrifying, and he could hurt her.

Paul opened the door slowly looking at Julianna who was huddled in the corner. Her knees were pressed against her chest and her hands covered her ears.

"Julianna?" Paul said softly stepping into the doorway a little closer to her. Her eyes instantly shot up looking at Paul with more fear he had ever seen. It was worse than any visit to the mental institute. "I promise you're safe nothing will hurt you." She shook her head in reply but when he took a step closer she instantly started screaming. Pain filled blood curdling screams left her small body as she curled smaller into the corner.

Make yourself smaller!

Scream louder!

Start kicking if he comes any closer we can't have him hurting us again!

As Tuck predicted Paul took another step and immediately Julianna started kicking her legs towards him. Paul and Sam were shocked by this, she had never gotten violent towards Paul. Towards some of the pack members or workers at the mental hospital yes but she would usually run towards Paul and beg him to protect her. Now she looked at Sam with begging eyes pleading for him to get Paul away from her.

"Get away from me!" She screamed her voice hoarse from crying.

Paul looked at Sam not knowing what to do. "You have to calm her down, please." Paul begged to Sam. "I'll just freak her out more."

Sam stepped into the closet doorway while Paul stood outside the door so he was out of Julianna's line of sight. Sam crouched down and grabbed Julianna's legs holding them still to stop her kicking. Her screaming stopped as she looked at Sam with frightful eyes.

"You have to calm down, everything is fine, nobody here will hurt you." Sam said in the voice he uses when he talks with Emily. He didn't need to scare her anymore than she already was and yelling didn't seem like the best option.

"He already has." Julianna said in a hauntingly soft voice lifting her left arm revealing the torn bloodied sweatshirt. Paul heard through the wall and rushed to the doorway only to see her eyes roll in the back of her head and her body to squirm around as if somebody else was in control. After what seemed like forever but only was a few seconds she was still against the ground.

She lay on the ground for only moment before Paul scooped her up into his arms. Neither guy noticed until then that Paul's paw had cut Julianna severely on her left arm and the left side of her waist and rib cage, leaving what was going to be a large scar.

"We have to take her to the hospital, Now!" Sam yelled breaking the shocked state Paul was in. He had hurt her. His best friend. The girl who was his light in this dark world. The girl he had tried to protect and take care of ever since he was 8. Her usual smiling face was now blank and pale due to blood loss. "Paul!" Sam shouted again.

Julianna woke up a few hours later with a terrible headache in Forks hospital. Hearing the familiar beeps and buzzes from machines she had gotten used to from living in the mental institute she inwardly groaned. She hated the hospital. The nurses never trusted her to do anything and the doctors looked at her in disappoint. All anybody would do is tell her what was wrong with her and force her to do things. She hated all the food and how she didn't know when they put medicine in it or not. They wouldn't let anybody visit her unless she was drugged to the max.

When her eyes finally adjusted to the bright fluorescent lights she noticed that her room was filled with nurses. They were buzzing around like bees making sure everything was fine. She could feel that her side was bandaged as was her arm.

"How are you feeling sweetie?" A nurse asked cheerfully.

She's new she doesn't know our tricks yet. Tock said

Of course she's new none of the other nurses go near us anymore.

Well it's not our fault they scared us so bad that Julianna broke her nose. Tuck said laughing as he remembered the memory. He was sure Julianna didn't remember this since she had boarded off any of these memories. There was a point where she got so out of control that it took three assistants to hold her down. Arms flailing, legs kicking, and body squirming every which way she truly was a handful, no wonder none of the workers liked her. They had tried a straight jacket on her but it only made things worse. She was unable to calm herself down and she almost went into panicked enforced shock due to it.

"Ok."Julianna mumbled back to the nurse refusing to make eye contact. "Do you know if Paul is here?" She needed to see Paul, the anticipation of if what she saw was true was killing her. Tuck had already locked the memory of her kicking and screaming at Paul away so she wouldn't end up back in the mad house.

"Only immediate family is allowed in i'm sorry. We're going to inject some more painkillers so your arm and ribs feel better. Ok?" The nurse said not realizing what she had just triggered.

Julianna's eyes widened when she saw the needle filled with chemicals to supposedly make her feel better. She started shaking her head no and backing away from the nurse. Since this hospital was familiar with Julianna and how she reacted the other two nurses went to hold down her arms. She started struggling against their tight grip squirming her body around. By now Julianna was kicking and screaming for the nurses to get away from her and for somebody to help, she was so loud the pleas were heard throughout the floor.

Paul who was forced to stay in the waiting room heard Julianna's pleads for help and instantly ran down the hallway following her voice. The door practically flew off the hinges with how hard Paul opened it causing the nurses to look away from the screaming girl. There was almost a look of relief in Julianna's eyes when she saw Paul practically growl at the nurses to step away from her. One nurse ran out of the room to probably get an officer while the other two cowered in the corner. Paul was hesitant to go near Julianna after how she reacted to him earlier but all worry was gone when she flung her arms around his neck and buried her face in the crook of his neck.

"They were trying to inject something into me." Julianna cried into the crook of Paul's neck as if he hadn't already known.

"It's ok. They won't hurt you I promise. Not while i'm here." Paul comforted her while scooping her up in his arms. He sat down on the small hospital bed with her in his lap making sure none of her IV tubes were pulled.

After a few minutes of Paul calming Julianna's racing heart rate back to normal an officer walked into the room followed by the nurse who Paul had yelled at. "Sir we are going to have to ask you to leave." The officer looked nervous as he told this to Paul after seeing the size of him. But then again who would want to be the person to separate the 6'3 muscular Native from whom everybody thought was his girlfriend. (They are NOT dating just the people in Forks think so since they always see them together.)

Julianna looked up at the officer snuggling closer into Paul. She started shaking her head afraid that they were going to take him away from her. "Please don't let them hurt me." Julianna begged looking back at Paul with wide eyes. "Please don't go."

"You're gonna be ok I promise." Paul whispered in her ear as she shook with fear in his lap. "I'm not leaving her and you can drag me away but it'll be damn hard and there's no way in hell she'll cooperate if i'm not here."

After thinking it over one of the nurses nodded knowing that this was true and told the officer everything was alright. "Just make sure she takes these painkillers twice a day and to come back in a week for a check-up, we don't need to run any more tests on her." The nurse said handing over a bottle of pills. Paul nodded to the nurse saying thank you and walked out to the waiting room where the whole pack was waiting for the small girl.

"I'm gonna hand you over to Jared and then we're going back to Sam and Emily's ok?" Paul said to Julianna before she nodded into the crook of his neck. After Paul handled everything at the front desk the pack filed into their cars.

"So what do you remember from this morning?" Paul asked breaking the silence that had fallen over the two.

"I don't know what's fake and what's real. I know we woke up in your house and you started panicking so we were trying to get out but then your dad started yelling at us. I know he said some things and they made you really angry, but then the story gets fuzzy. I think I saw you change into a wolf but I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating or not, The scars on my side and arm say I wasn't but I don't know what to believe. After that I know I hid in your closet terrified out of my mind and then I blacked out and the voices took over." Julianna said looking out the window as Paul drove back to the res. "I don't know remember anything after that, it's just fuzzy since that's when the voices took over."

"What if I told you that you weren't hallucinating. That everything that you saw was real." Paul said looking over at Julianna who had a small smile forming on her face.

"Then i'd tell you nobody sane would believe you." Julianna said looking over meeting Paul's eyes. She was relieved that she wasn't hallucinating and didn't care that it meant that Paul could turn into a wolf. She had three voices that lived in her head who was she to judge. "Good thing i'm mad enough to believe my best friend can shape shift into a huge wolf." She laughed causing Paul to let out a sigh of relief. Of course the whole thing made her full of questions but if Paul could deal with the voices she heard then she could deal with anything he had to. Who would she be to end their friendship because he had the ability to do something nobody else could.

"Have you always been able to do it?" Julianna asked, her voice rising almost 2 octaves. It happened most times she got excited about something.

"No, the first time it happened was actually day you were taken into the mental institute."

"What about the other guys?"

Paul nodded since she had only met other pack members before. "Sam is alpha, I'm beta, Jared is third-in-command, and Embry is the newest member. We think more are going to phase soon though ."

"That's why you guys call yourselves a pack." Julianna laughed.

Paul pulled up into Sam and Emily's driveway with a huge grin on his face, Julianna wasn't freaked out by the fact that he turned into a giant wolf. Kim didn't care when she found out since she was obsessed with Jared anyway but it took Emily a while to get used to it. After helping Julianna into the house she was showered with hugs from everybody.

"Bandages bandages! " Julianna giggled as Embry spun her around.

"Sorry pup we missed you though."

"Embry." Sam called from across the room. "We're gonna run a quick patrol, come on." Embry nodded after setting Julianna down. Sam kissed Emily's cheek before meeting Jared and Embry in the backyard.

"We'll be back for dinner, ok?" Paul said hugging Julianna and kissing her temple before joining the pack outside. Once he phased he was flooded with his pack members thoughts. Sam had already showed them everything that had happened earlier with his father.

What did he say for you to phase? Embry asked. Paul replayed this morning and everything that his father said. After it was over Jared and Embry both were furious with everything that his father had said.

I would've phased to. Jared said while Embry nodded next to him.

So why are we out here Sam cause we all know it's not because of a patrol. Paul said trying to control himself from not running back to Julianna.

We need to watch Jacob and make sure he doesn't phase at school or with anybody. We can't have another incident where one of us hurts a girl or else the hospital will get suspicious. Paul started growling knowing the comment was directed towards him.

Embry who still wasn't good at controlling his thoughts spoke under his breath. At least Paul didn't hit her face.

Sam instantly sprung off the ground tackling Embry. He let out a furious growl making his alpha status known.

Sam come on, Em will kill us if we're late. Paul said before Sam could rip Embry's head off. And don't think I forgot about you letting Julianna walk home alone yesterday. Paul said to Jared who lowered his head under the daggers that were glared at him.

The rest of the night was event less for once. They all eat the feast Emily had prepared and watched a movie until Emily and Julianna had fallen asleep. Sam wouldn't let Jared go see Kim as punishment for the hell he caused last night with having Julianna walk home alone. After kicking Embry and Jared out Paul and Sam carried their girls upstairs giving each other a nod before going into their rooms. It was their way of accepting everything that had happened in the past two days. Julianna had met the Cullens, found out about them being shapeshifters, and been to the hospital in the span of two days.

"Goodnight Paul." Julianna mumbled snuggling closer into Paul's chest as they both fell into a peaceful sleep. To Julianna knowing that she was sleeping up against somebody who was a giant wolf didn't scare her, instead it made her more at peace and safe than she ever had.

Hi everybody so thanks for reading and please review! Ok so wanna know a fun fact, I HATE when authors on here write about situations they have never been in like having an abusive family or being sexually assaulted because they never show it right. I know its their story and everything but some people actually live in situations like that and they just write about it like it's a joke and it's not. I have lived in a mental hospital because of all my fun problems and I luckily don't live their anymore...for now probably... but that's besides the point most of the things Julianna has been through so have I or friends I made while in the institute, trust me it's an accurate representation of at least the place I was in. One of my friends from the institute had an abusive father and she would tell me stories about it and trust me the things that people who write about abusive families write about them as if their a joke and it just makes me heated. Living in tough situations like a foster/ group home, or living on the streets, or with an abusive family doesn't make your character any more special. You don't need that background to make them special. Ok rant over I'm sorry I just needed to say that. So if you read this far thank you haha and please review even a smiley face makes my day. :)