Temper, Temper: Chapter Three – Quilt Tribe
Alex, made to move forward away from one group and into the other. It was like a game of pass the parcel, but the music never stopped and as the prize inside, she was never kept. The wolves tried to surround her; she picked up snarling again, trying to get them to give her some distance. Outnumbered she could do no more than voice her protest; they made a semicircle behind her ensuring she could not back track.
The downside of there being wolves here, meant that Alex had the alphas voice in her head. Seeing as she was currently wolf pack of one, and alphas were able to communicate mentally Alex could not shake this Sam Uley's voice from her skull. He introduced himself, explained the pack and further pointless details. Alex regretted letting that thought enter her head though, now he was continuing with how serious this was and blah blah blah.
The journey wasn't that far, and soon they came to a small house. It was quaint, with wooden structures and Alex could smell an open fire coming from the inside, it was nice, reminded her of Wales in a sense. As they stopped, one of the wolves following her nudged her with his nose. Alex lashed around, snarling like crazy at the shocked animal that quickly backed up, retreating from her gnashing jaws. Another wolf had come defensively in front of her, but Alex just huffed and lifted her front paws up, swivelling round to face the house again.
A woman came from the house, she was carrying a large t shirt and small pair of jean shorts in the crook of her elbow. Sam defensively stepped in front of Alex, 'Dramatic much' Alex thought lowering her head and falling to the floor, to lie down. The wolves behind her disbanded suddenly, but six boys replaced them after a moment.
"You nearly lost a limb back there Quil"
"Shut up, Embry"
The alpha had been replaced by another shirtless man, he took the clothes from the girl who he had encircled with a large, muscled arm and offered them to Alex, who gently took them and walked away from the group.
Back in her human form, Alex felt vulnerable. Behind the tree she had gotton changed, Alex put her hands on her belly trying to calm herself down by feeling each intake of deep breath she took.
With the now or never phrase deep in her head, Alex came from behind the tree and walked to the front of the house.
It wasn't an unfamiliar situation, having all eyes in the room on her, but as many times as she experienced it, she didn't appreciate it any more.
"Carlisle has informed me of many of the details of the situation Alexandria, but I would like to hear it from you if you don't" Sam explained, standing in front of the dining table seat she had been guided into.
"I was in one group of lunatic vampires, rescued by another, went home, got taken back to the second group of vampires, kidnapped by a group of wolves and I have a test in two months or I go back to the first group of lunatic vampires"
One member of the pack was making thoughtful noises, the noise filled the otherwise silent room and it was grating on Alec's nerves, "I think it's rather simple personally" She continued, shooting daggers at the boy, who just stared at her in return, thankfully though the noise ceased.
"Ok" Sam stretched out the word thoughtfully, "You obviously understand the treaty and so, you can stay here until the test is past and then it is obviously your choice at what you do-"
"That will be a first" Alex interrupted, smiling obnoxiously at the leader who chose to ignore his attitude and continued his sentence.
"Until then though, you can help pull your wait in the pack and take shifts with the rest of the pack. You'll need to accept a temporary position in the Quillette pack though, as a way of communicating with the others"
"Woah, woah, woah" Alex stood up and the wolves went into action, Emily as the only human was already the furthest away from her, but now the other wolves had more defensive body languages.
"I am not a Quilt-"
"Quilette" One of the younger wolves, Quil corrected in a small voice.
"I do not want to be a Quilt, you are not my alpha and if it were not for a stupid owed favour, I would not be here right now!" In anger Alex, harshly pushed the chair back under the table and headed for the door, it was blocked by a figure.
"Get. Out. Of. My Way" Through gritted teeth Alex was attempting to get the boy to move, she was in his personal space now, noses almost touching.
"Um…" Paul taunted, "No"
There they were again; tremors were pushing their way to the surface, making her shake uncontrollably.
"Don't let her phase in the house!" Sam shouted and reluctantly Paul let her pass, the red of anger clouding his own vision when she smiled triumphantly at him, strutting her way out the door. Paul phased quickly, jumping from the porch to make up the few steps that Alex had taken. When she saw he had phased she did the same, but Paul wasn't an alpha, she couldn't hear his thoughts. They were growling in unison, each wolf snapping their jaws together waiting for the other to make the first move. Alex, darted at him, snapping at his neck while he swatted her away with his paw. Paul was a lot bigger than Alex, but she had speed as her quality, she dodged his paw easily and as he was retracting it, she bit him. That's when Sam tried to intervene.
'It would be a lot easier if I could hear what he was thinking' Alex allowed that battle stratergy into her mind, but no sooner had she thought it than a new voice trickled into her subconscious.
'-stupid, angry leech lover'
'Oh no! I didn't mean that literally, I don't want to be part of the stupid Quilt tribe!'
"QUILLETTE!" Sam and Paul both bellowed in response.
Alex mournfully yelled out, she had unintentionally accepted to be a part of the tribe, taking all the consequences with it; she now had an alpha.
'This is horse shit' Alex commentated, collapsing to the floor with a huff and covering her wolfy face with both her paws as if that would shield her from the turmoil that had decided to work its way into her life.
When she eventually calmed down, Alex accepted more clothes from the woman with the scarred faced, came back into the house and apologised for the destruction of the others in a small voice. After proper introductions had been made, Alex settled deeply into the corner of the one sofa.
Just like at the Cullen's, Alex declined the offer of a bed at the Uley's and it took a lot more persuasion for the pack to accept that, she was fine with the sofa.
"What's it like in Wales?"
Sam and Emily had left the group to go grocery shopping, Jared to go and see Kim and Quil was on orders not to miss the usual traditional, Artera family lunch. Now it was just, Alex, Paul and Jacob in the house. Alex had a feeling Sam had something to do with the fact she wasn't left alone.
"Um, it's green, has lots of mountains and lots of sheep" Alex answered Jacob, but she was paying more attention to her own thoughts, pushing back the cuticles of her nails.
Jacob's lips curled into a smile, it was nice hearing her accent, nothing like he had heard before so each word she spoke was like a new language. In fact, it was nice in general to have somebody new to talk to, things easily went stale in La Push when you saw and spoke to the same people, day in, day out.
Paul was interested in what she had to say to, that was fairly obvious given the circumstances.
"Can you speak Welsh?"
"Ydw"
"Wicked" Jacob said, watching Paul as he moved from the sofa and strode into the kitchen opening one of the cabinets and catching a huge bag of crisps that fell from the amount of food pushing it forward.
Paul inspected the front of the bag before deeming it worthy, closing the cupboard and popping open the bag easily. Very gentlemanly like, Paul extended the bag towards her first, Alex filled her palm full of the snack and smiled at him gratefully.
Jacob rolled his eyes before snatching the bag for his own and starting a wrestling match between them, making Alex give a small smile as she watched, every now and then taking a crisp from the pile she had placed on her abdomen.
When she finished the savoury mountain she sat up, sending a cascade of cheesy dust to the floor and swaggered from the house leaving the two boys to it.
She left her clothes in a neat folded pile in the forest and sprang forward, phasing and running forward at a steady pace, enjoying the forest.
The beach she came to was secluded offset from the town and deciding it was safe, she loped down there plunging into the cold, salty water and walking out till the sandbank disappeared and she was swimming freely. She had, for the most part, forgotten her troubles, the icy water had drown them out that was until a howl resounded through the air and in a matter of minutes three wolves were looking at her from the forest edge.
'Get out of that water, right now Alex'
It was Paul's voice, but the other voices of Jake and Sam were still there, whispering in the background. Clearly she was under twenty four hour surveillance.
'Christ. I can tell living here is gonna' be so much fun'