Chapter 11 - Wolves

ALICEPOV

The wolf had come from no where. One minute I was alone in the meadow, and then next Edwin is to my left and the wolf to my right. It seemed to think for a moment before springing at me. Edwin bounded away, knowing it was a werewolf and being smart enough to leave. It was a large russet colored one, like Jacob Black had been. It leaped at me and caught me by the arm, dragging me into the forest. The tiny silver cell phone had fallen out of my pocket and the werewolf had crushed it with it's giant paw.

Now here we were, in the darkness. A cave. A cold cave. It was standing, facing the open part of the cave, howling into the night. He stopped howling and turned to me, in what seemed at first like he was coming to finish me off, but turned to be a dog-like smile.

Okay, now I was truly, truly confused.

It barked playfully and nudged my hurt arm with his nose, then whined. As if it was sorry for the gash that was causing me an enormous amount of pain.

I shivered with unwanted fear and it nestled up against me.

Werewolves were not usually this kind to vampires. It struck me as odd. It had been a week since Edwin's attack. I hadn't heard from Edward in a while. Bella had to be one of us now. I hoped she wasn't being as difficult as that newborn, Bee, had been. The Volturi killed that poor girl. As long as Bella was good, they wouldn't do that to her.

"What's going on?" I asked the wolf as it rolled its giant head into my lap and stuck its tongue out. It barked once.

"I don't speak werewolf." I said.

It whined. Why didn't whoever this was phase back into a human? I knew it was a werewolf. A regular wolf sure didn't get this big, and it sure didn't drag people off into a cave and nestle against them. Plus, its fur was warm and its body was letting off more heat than a furnace. Werewolves are known for their high temperatures. Reaching as high as one-ten.

A howl in the darkness outside echoed into the cave. The wolf laying on me jumped lightly to its feet and howled back. Two more giant wolves entered the cave. One pitch black, the other a dark brown.

The russet wolf bobbed his head as they walked slowly over towards me. I scrambled backwards on my one good arm. My head hit the back of the cave and I cursed. This was not exactly my favorite predicament I've been in. Three werewolves stared back at me as I looked at them, fear in my eyes.

"What?!" I shouted. My arm stung. I held onto it. Tears stung my eyes. Werewolves were only supposed to attack and kill vampires that bite humans in their area, or seem like they are going to. So I did not fit that category.

The black one cocked his head to the side and took another step towards me. It bowed its head. "Okay, seriously. What. Is. Going. On?" I said.

Somebody entered the cave. "Jasper!" I shouted.

He nodded to the wolves and ran over to me. "You weren't supposed to hurt her." He said, bending down and examining my arm. The gash was still bleeding. My jeans were ruined. My shirt might as well be too. Not that that mattered. What mattered was that the russet wolf whined apologetically and Jasper was replying with "It's okay."

"Damn it Jasper what's going on?" I hated not being clued in on things, considering the fact that I usually knew everything about what was going on.

"Sorry." He said, ripping off the bottom of his t-shirt and wrapping it around my arm. "You remember the last time we had other vampires that were threatening Bella? How the werewolves wanted to help? Well, they still do."

"But its just one vampire." I said matter-of-factly.

"True, but its one tough vampire. Jacob came back to help." He waved at the russet wolf. I knew it was Jacob.

"Jacob." I said. Then anger rose inside me. "You left! Do you even know how sad that made Bella!?" I stopped. "Why am I yelling at him like he can answer me? Wait, is he…did he…WHAT?"

Another figure entered from the darkness. Sam. The pack leader. He wore black cutoff sweats and nothing on his feet. "Yes. Jacob has chosen to become a wolf. We can still connect thoughts with him in our wolf form, but he cannot phase back."

I blinked and nodded slowly. Though I was still very, very confused.

"Alice. Have you heard from Edward?"

I shook my head and Jasper sighed. "None of us have Sam. You know he didn't break the treaty. It was a complete and total accident."

"He should have been more careful Jasper."

My brow furrowed. "They kissed damn it! Then that dumb vampire had to scare the life out of them and he bit her! It is not anybody's fault other than Edwin's! So don't go breaking your part of the treaty when we haven't broken ours!" I slumped down. "Dumb wolves."

Jasper laughed, lightening the tension a bit.

"We will discuss this with your whole family at a later time."

"There is nothing to discuss." I hissed under my breath.

"Alice, come on. We have to get you to Carlisle."

"Wait, why did Jacob drag me in here?" I said, looking at the russet wolf.

"He was protecting you from Edwin. I asked him to."

I narrowed my eyes, but the worry that Jasper must have gone through to put him in the position of asking something of Jacob Black had to of been great, so I bit my tongue.

"Come…please?" he held his arms out.

"I can run." I said, grasping one of Jaspers arms and pulling myself up.

"Okay." he nodded. "Lets go." He turned to Jacob. "Thank you Jacob."

Jacob barked and seemed to smile. Staying a werewolf had made him soft.

We took off.