Chapter 4: This can get you hurt

"Pick up the phone damn it." I redialed Embry's number. He had fallen off the face of the earth when he joined Sam's…what? Pack? When he joined Sam's whatever. He still texted me but always made an excuse when I tried to hang out. I thought maybe he just didn't like me.

"Pick up the phone Call…" I was bouncing up and down in the seat on my way down to the La Push. I was about to hang up the phone when a groggy voice answered, "Hello?" I have never been so relieved to hear a boy's voice in my life. Checking my sister's truck clock it read 1:20am. I winced, "Sorry Embry, no time for pleasantries we have a problem."

"What? Abby? What's wrong?" He sounded more awake.

"Can you just meet me at First Beach in ten minutes?"

I got out of the truck and jogged up to the only other body on the beach this early in the morning. Embry had grown at least six inches, had chopped off all his hair, gotten a tattoo, and put on at least ten pounds in muscle alone. When he looked at me though, his eyes were still his eyes. Please don't let me be crazy. "What's going on Abby?" I felt disheveled and awkward. Now that I had him here, what was I supposed to say? I shuffled my feet back and forth. Embry poked my shoulder, "Well? You're scaring me here Abs."

"You have Heterochromia iridium." I blurted out. Embry just looked confused, "Yeah I told you that a few weeks ago." Great, he thought I was crazy. I pushed on, "No you have heterochromia iridium which causes you to have one brown eye and one hazel eye."

"You don't have to enlighten me about my own condition Abs." He was starting to get annoyed. "In animals, it almost always involves a blue eye. That wolf in the woods didn't have a blue eye. It had your eyes." He froze and looked down at me in shock.

"I need you to stay right here and don't move okay?" He backed away slowly before sprinting off, that was so not the reaction I was going for. A few seconds later I heard howling. Embry came running back a few minutes later, "Come on, I'm taking you to Sam and Emily's."

I pulled up to a quaint blue one story house nestled in the woods down a long dirt driveway. It was overflowing with flower boxes and wind chimes. Embry guided me in the house where I was met with three more massive bodies and a woman with a marred face. Embry introduced me to his pack alpha Sam, then to his two pack brothers, Paul and Jared. Emily was Sam's fiancée. When I finished telling Sam how I figured it out Paul started laughing, "Damn I like this one. She's smart." I grinned. I'm just glad I wasn't crazy. After everyone settled down and Emily had gotten a cup of coffee Embry looked at me confused, "But why couldn't you have waited until later to tell me you knew?" I gasped; I had forgotten the reason for all the urgency. "My dad is putting a search party together; they're going out to hunt you guys. They think that you guys are the ones killing all those people." I bit my bottom lip harshly. Jared growled and Paul stood up yelling, "They think we're killing people? Talk to your leech loving sister. We are saving people." I winced.

"So vampires are killing people?" I looked at Embry, he nodded, "It's the only reason we phase. We are made to hunt vampires." I shook my head as a chill ran down my back. Emily patted me on the shoulder, "You get used to it, but might I say sweetheart. You're good with weird." I laughed. Bella had made sure of that.

Emily insisted I stay the night here instead of driving back, I could just tell Charlie I stayed with Leah. I agreed easily enough, know that my body wasn't running on adrenaline I was tired. Then the front door slammed open, "Its bullshit that I can't tell her Sam." I recognized Jacob's voice as he came into the living room. I was sitting on the couch with Emily and Embry. Did anyone knock in this house? Jacob scanned the room, looking for Sam, when he eyes landed on me. "Abby?" I lifted my head from my chest and met Jacob's eyes. His jaw went slack, his posture weakened, his eyes got big, and he got a small dopey smile on his face. He slowly walked over to me and fell to his knees, up close I could see his eyes were filled with adoration and need; they looked at me with love and protectiveness. It was a very strange thing to see him looking at me like that, especially since I hardly ever recall him looking at me at all. "What are you doing here?" His voice was soft, like he was trying not to startle me.

"Um…wolves…search party…dead people." I stuttered in broken snippets, he was making me nervous. Embry put a protective arm around me, "She figured out our secret and came over to warn us about Charlie putting together a search party." Jacob zeroed in on Embry's arm around my shoulder.

Jacob growled, "Take your arm off of her…now." Embry glared, "What? Now you give a shit about her? You never did before. You're all about Bella remember?" I felt stuck in the middle of a testosterone fight. I didn't have a clue what was going on, maybe I was too sleep deprived.

Jacob shot up, "You know I can't control it." I jumped at the rising level of his voice. He seemed to notice he was upsetting me because he dialed it back down, "How'd you figure it out?"

"Embry's eyes…"

Jacob growled, "Of fucking course. So now she knows because of fucking Embry and Bella can't even figure it out." He ran his fingers through his cropped hair. "This is bullshit." He stormed back out of the house. My eyes widened but no one said anything. Sam followed Jacob got of the house.

"So what are you guys going to do?" Everyone had got to sleep but Embry had stayed up with me.

"No clue, only certain people know about us. Charlie didn't tell any of us about the search party so I don't think Sam has had any time to think of anything. He's had his hands full with Jacob phasing." I slumped lower on the couch where I was laying vertically with my feet in Embry's lap, "What do you mean?" He was playing with my pink anklet, it had ballet shoes, the letter A, and a feather charms on it.

"Well technically Jacob is supposed to be alpha of the pack because he's the grandson of the chief Ephraim Black. Jacob didn't want the responsibility so he passed it off to Sam." He shrugged. I chewed on my lip, "Who all knows about you guys?"

"The Elders: Billy Black, Harry Clearwater, and Old Quil. Why?" I was slowly forming an idea. I winced when I drew blood from gnawing on my lip.

"Harry is friends with my dad, so what if he offered to be part of the search party? He knows about you guys, he could cover the pack's tracks. He could make sure that no one got near you guys." I was playing with a loose strand of my shirt. Embry didn't say anything. I looked up nervously, "I understand if you think it's stupid…" I muttered. Embry started shaking his head and got up off the couch.

"Jacob doesn't deserve you. You're brilliant Abs, so fucking brilliant. I'm going to go talk to Sam; I'll be back in the morning okay? Get some rest girl. You did great." He threw me a smile before jogging out the back door. I didn't understand what Jacob had to do with anything but I felt content that maybe I had been some help to my new friends. I yawned and fell asleep on the couch.

My phone was ringing somewhere in the distance, I reached blindly on the floor and cracked my eye open to see my sister calling. I slid the green icon and put the phone to my ear, "Hello?" I knew I sounded exhausted.

"Where are you? Oh my god, Lynn, Jacob and Sam…they're all werewolves. Dad is about to go hunt them. We have to stop them, where are you?" She was talking hurriedly and didn't give me a chance before she said that I needed to meet her in La Push so we could talk to Jacob. She hung up the phone before I even had time to process anything. I lowered my phone and just stared at the screen. What the hell just happened?

Emily came down the stairs a few minutes later and smiled warmly at me, "How'd you sleep?" I threw my hair back into a bun and followed her into the kitchen to help start breakfast. She explained that she was kind of the 'mother wolf' and fed all of the guys. She also explained that they ate…. A lot.

"I slept okay, my sister just called me. Apparently I'm supposed to meet her here so we can war, Jacob about our dad's search party." Emily looked confused, "Doesn't she know where you are?" I shrugged, "She didn't give me time to explain, I imagine she'll figure it out when she realizes her truck is gone."

Emily giggled, "She's not very quick on the draw is she?"

The guys came bustling in the kitchen a little while later, after Emily and I cooked enough food to feed a medium sized army. My sister walked in with Jacob and she glared when she saw me. She stalked towards me and put her hands on her hips. "You took my truck. Why didn't you tell me you had figured it out already? We could have come down here together." She accused.

I sipped my coffee, "I wasn't really thinking of anything Bells, and I was more focused on telling them than I was telling you." I tried to be honest but I think it only made her more irritated.

She huffed, "I had to call Jacob and have him bring me down here. If you would have talked to me first I would have told you I have a plan about the search party." I was going to answer when Embry walked over and came to my defense.

"Your sister already did that too actually, Sam talked to Harry and he's going to be on the search party and lead them away from us." Sam came around and hugged Emily from behind; he kissed her cheek and then looked at me, "You're smart Abby. You did a great service for this pack, I won't forget that." I could feel my cheeks get very red.

Bella sat down in the kitchen chair, "So you killed Laurent?" she looked around the room. Embry smiled and boasted, "Yeah easy as pie." I laughed.

Jacob growled, "There's still a red headed leech dodging us, we can't figure out what she wants." He glanced at me almost worriedly. Bella froze and tugged at Jacob's arm to get his attention, "I know what she wants. She wants me." My sister whispered. She looked genuinely scared. I gripped her hand across the table.

"So she's after you because your leech killed her mate?" Jacob clarified.

"His name is Edward..." she glared. I just listened to their back and forth. I t was very obvious that Jacob did not like the Cullen's. Jacob growled, "Whatever, fine, Edward." She looked at him contently. Sure, everything was great when my sister was getting her way. Jesus, when did I become so bitter? I shook my head trying to clear my thoughts. My sister wasn't a bad person, but I kind of wanted to bitch at her for how she was acting with Jacob. It made me see her in a whole new light, I didn't like it. I was probably sleep deprived and slowly losing my mind to the supernatural, I loved my sister. She was a good person, I was defiantly going crazy.

Jacob had exiled Bella and I to his house while the pack ran the perimeter for Victoria, he wanted to make sure we were safe. The safest place for us was on the reservation. Harry was effectively leading the search party away from the Pack, so it gave them time to track down Victoria. Hopefully they'd catch her soon.

"He promised to take me cliff diving…" Bella moaned. I wanted to smack her. I loved my sister, but lately I had to keeping repeating that mantra in my head to keep from strangling her. The pressure was getting to everyone and it was driving me to insanity. I leaned forward on the floor in the butterfly stretch, "Well when everything is said and done I'm sure he'll take you." I tried to reason. I took deep breathes and tried to not let my annoyance seep into my voice.

"We should go now." Bella sat up from her place on the couch. I looked out of the window; it looked like there was a storm coming. "I don't know Bella, Embry said the waves can get pretty brutal."

"I don't care what your boyfriend says Abby." She snapped. We were all going to kill each other before Victoria ever could. This is what happened when you trapped everyone in close quarters without a break from each other. I rolled my eyes, "He's my friend, and I think he might be right. We should go when the weather calms down." Bella got up resolutely and shoved her feet back into her sneakers.

"I'm going…" I groaned and followed her out the door.

We reached the top of the cliffs and Bella was teetering on the edge. I wrapped my jacket closer to my body; the wind was strong enough to sway me sideways. "This wouldn't have anything to do with your hallucinations about Edward would it?" Bella turned back to look at me with the saddest pair of eyes I've ever seen. She looked ghastly, "You've never been in love Lynn. There's this hole in my body and it hurts so much sometimes I can't breathe. He's the other half of me. If you could do something to feel whole again, wouldn't you?" She took her jacket off and slipped her shoes off. She took a deep breath and looked down at the water.

She was right, I'd never been in love, and I had never gotten my heart broken. But if this was what love looked like, maybe I didn't ever want to fall in love. She gave me an ugly smile, "Here now you can feel my pain too." I looked at her confused before she grabbed my hand and fell over the edge of the cliff. I could hear my own terrified screams and the distant howl of pain from a wolf.