Trust Factor
A/N- Paradox Tremors-The point of Cleo going to stay with the Cullen's is that she got them to trust her by telling her secret. She already knows there's (Besides the full werewolf story)
Chapter 6: Watch Your Back, The Mermaids' Got Game
Wednesday January 15- 11:12am- Cullen house-Forks Washington
"What else can you do?" Alice asked, not that she was the only one curious.
"It's manly moving water," Cleo confessed. "But I can do some amazing things with water." After she said this she took her hand and moved water from the stream with Emmett on top of it. She pulled it high in the air, higher than it would have gone with just the water in the stream. Rosalie shrieked to find Emmett up there. The others watched as Cleo left him on top of the water for five minutes. "I held Lewis up there for four hours when he didn't tell Rikki, Emma, and I that we were still mermaids when we thought we were not."
"Now that's amazing," Bella said.
"You can do all of this next to swimming fast, and holding your breath for almost ever?" Jacob asked.
"That is pretty amazing," Jasper admitted.
Carlisle wrote down his notes as the others crowded Cleo. They wanted to know everything.
Thursday January 16-1:46am-the Dove house-Mexico
"Rikki… Rikki wake up!" Ash called jerking the blond back and forth.
"What is it, and can it wait?" Rikki asked in a sheepish voice. "Ash it's only 2 in the morning."
"1:45 actually, but this can't wait, you have to see this." Ash pulled Rikki from her bed and towards the window. Down on his mile long drive she could just make out the face of a very pale couple and a darker skinned teen girl.
"Ok, so…" Rikki asked rubbing her eyes.
"So… keep watching, I've seen them four times already and each night it's a new victim," Ash explained.
Down on the drive, the couple were talking to the girl, most likely taking a short cut through Ash's yard as many did after parties in the neighborhood. They started to run circles around the girl, at speeds unreachable to humans, keeping a deep crouch in front of her. The girl was even more shocked herself. Then the male pounced onto the poor girl. He bit into her neck as the female watched. Then he let go and tossed her on the ground. She was shaking and screaming, but before Rikki and Ash could do anything to help her, the couple had taken her and all three of them were gone.
"What was that?" Rikki asked.
"Vampires," Ash answered. "I read about it on the net. The feed off human blood and if a human is lucky enough to get away, then they too become one."
"What about those two, they just stick around your home and you don't do anything to stop it?" Rikki asked. "I mean you could call the police, animal control…"
"They would believe me just as much if I told them I'm housing a mermaid," Ash pointed out. "I've tried looking for them in the morning, but they tend to disappear and reappear. I've never confronted them."
"Good, let's keep it that way," Rikki said before straggling off to her bed, not that she wanted to sleep now.
Thursday January 16-9:55-La Push Beach-Forks Washington
"Just ask her anything," Jacob told Seth as the two of them took the morning to walk along the beach.
"It's not that easy. I want to be right next to her and miles away at the same time. You saw what she can do," Seth complained.
"So she can toss a vampire into the air, so can we," Jacob reminded him. "Ask her to go for a walk or something, get her alone. Alice must want a brake at least for a day."
"Your right, I will," Seth said with sudden enthusiasm.
The boys walked a bit further before breaking into a run for the Cullen house. The forest flashed by them as they ran, making better time than ever before. It did not take long to smell the horrendous smell of vampire and the new smell of mermaid.
"Ready?" Jacob asked as they came up on the house.
Seth nodded as they walked up the stairs to be greeted by the Cullen's mind-reader, Edward and their shield, Bella who was holding Nessie.
"Hey, I was wondering what happen to you two," Edward said in a mockingly ton.
"Very funny," Jacob said as he took Nessie from Bella.
"Cleo's in the living room with Alice," Edward said answering Seth's unsaid question.
Seth walked into the living room to find Cleo and Alice on the couch. Jasper was sitting on the stairs, watching the two girls with curiosity. The others were nowhere to be found. Alice smiled as Seth walked in.
"Hey, Cleo," Seth said lightly.
"Hello, Seth, right?" Cleo said in her angelic voice smiling as she said it.
"Right, I was wondering if you would like to come with me today, you know, get out of this house, for a little bit?" Seth asked.
"That sounds great," Cleo said slowly.
"You should go Cleo. Maybe Seth can show you some of La Push," Alice said.
"Ok then," Cleo said, "Let's go."
It took a while to get back to La Push on foot, but Cleo was enthusiastic to just talk a little with someone that was not a hundred years older than her. The beach was empty as the two of them chatted about everything from Cleo's home, to Seth's family. They stayed a good distance from the water as they walked, a request by Cleo. Before they knew it, it was already 4 o-clock.
Clouds had formed in the sky as the two of them were out, and as Seth started to walk her home, there was a crash of thunder. Cleo looked up to the sky and could see the dark clouds above their heads.
"Hey, I know some place where we can stay for a while," Seth said as he picked her up and started to run.
He took her to a cave nearer the ocean. They made it there right before it started to rain. Seth started a fire as Cleo sat down.
"I'm stuck here," Cleo said softly.
"I'm not about to leave you, so I guess we are both stuck," Seth said. "Are you cold?"
"A little, I've never actually been somewhere this cold in January."
Seth pulled Cleo closer to his worm body and asked, "How's that?"
"Wormer," Cleo answered with a shy smile. "Why is that?"
"It's just the way werewolf's are made, like mermaids can swim for miles in freezing water and hold their breath forever."
"It's not forever. To tell you the truth, I'm the only one who can go for as long as I can," Cleo confessed. "Emma's fastest, even if Rikki would like to deny it. Rikki is most powerful, and dangerous, and Bella Hartley's got all three of us on experience, 8 years."
"So everyone's not the same?" Seth asked.
"Not at all, and those are just a few differences. There are the powers, abilities, not to mention attitude and personality," Cleo shared.
"So you're a bit more like the vampire's with all that. The wolves are all pretty much connected. You know we can talk to each other in our minds, when in wolf form and only between packs, which there are two of here," Seth explained. "Jacob's and Sam's, whom you have yet to meet."
"You mean, the wolves are just like linked brothers, with two different families?"
"I guess you could call it that," Seth said as he watched Cleo touch the silver locket hanging from her neck.
"What's that," Seth asked pointing to the locket.
"It's my locket, Emma fond it and gave it to me. She and Rikki have one two. It reminds us to always trust one another." Cleo explained. "But recently it just reminds me I don't know when I will ever see them again."
Seth pulled her closer and whispered through a crash of thunder, "I will make sure you see them again, I promise."
Cleo looked up at him, with tears in her eyes, and smiled.