Temper, Temper: Chapter Six: Stupid Treaty
"Guess what today is?" Quil bellowed into the blanket, which subsequently groaned at the loud noise so early on in the day. The boy ripped back the blanket away from the figure underneath who was scowling despite her closed eyes. Alex's hand started to search for the lost warmth but Quil had strewn it across the room, out of her reach.
"It's Sunday! And we all know what that means! No patrolling for Quil. That's right zero patrolling for me!" Alex could hear the room's chuckles at Quil performing the same way she had yesterday when it was her day off. Alex just tucked her arms through the sleeves of her tee, shielding them against the chilly air and rolled away from him, whispering curses.
"Alex come on, you're on shift today" Sam barked, hearing the commotion from upstairs.
"No I'm sleeping, get Quil to do it, he's already up" Alex whipped back through a drawling sleep hungry voice,
"You've slept for twelve hours yesterday and Quil took yesterday's shift" Sam countered in a sterner tone, even moving to the stair banister to look at Alex still curled protectively into the sofa.
"I'm a foreign wolf with extreme anger issues, Quil you take the shift" Alex debated waving her hand dismissively in the air without looking.
"I don't care. Get up, now" Sam growled out slowly, the pane of threat in Sam's voice made Paul tense up, a barely audible low rumble, emitting from his chest.
Alex joined in to the duo of growls with her own, she raised her arms up, pushing down on the cushion surface to prop herself up before she gave Sam an angry glower and marched from the house,
"Fine" She gave Paul a look before leaving the home muttering a course of profanities aimed at the 'stupid, controlling, pig headed alpha'. Quil folded his arms thoughtfully, 'Somebodies woke up on the wrong side of the bed'.
Alex marched straight to the border, her anger making her tear her clothes and change into her wolf before she even got half way – It didn't matter, she was due a visit to the Cullen's' anyway, overdue. Jared was already on the East side of the border, he lost his train of thought as her monologue entered his head.
'I have a bad feeling about today Socks' commented Jared, he cast an eye upwards, staring at the grey which was starting to overpower the usual white mist skies, Alex looked at them too and agreed with Jared instantly.
'Something's not right Ja'
They patrolled for best part of the day but the sky was darkening now, settling into a dark cold evening. Bottled energy was coursing through Alex's veins, she trotted to and fro a small area she had settled herself into, paws barely touching the soil before leaving. Something was coming, call it animal instinct, call it intuition but it was coming and Alex was bursting for the trigger to be pulled and whatever it was that was preparing itself to be set off.
She suddenly smelt it; vampires.
Jared was the first to sound the alarm to the others and a deep long howl resounded through the air, breaking the silence that had smothered the air.
Alex recognised a few of the vampire smells, it was the Cullen's they were running down the line of the split in the ground which separated the lands of vampire and wolf. Another was running from them, a tall vampire with a mass of curled fiery hair.
They were after her. If they were after her, so were the wolves. Alex took off, pelting to left all the energy she was bottling cracked into her stride, whipping her legs into a lightning speed. The cracks and crevices in the stone surface made Alex, jump, landing on the rocks with a trembling force. Jared was behind her, the others had changed as well but Alex was in front paying them no attention. All her attention was on the chase.
Suddenly, as Jasper was gaining distance on the redhead she jumped landing ahead of Alex. The clean sight of the vampire pushed Alex forward, not to mention the burning scent of it burning in her throat.
On the other side of her, Emmett was in front of the leading wolf. When the rocks were more even and Alice had spurred him on, Emmett made the mistake of jumping, onto wolf territory. Alex was nearly there now, the vampire's coat was just in her grip if she could put in one more stride. It was then everything went wrong. Emmett didn't even get a chance to land on the Quileute land before another silver wolf jumped from one of the rocky ledges above Alex. The large wolfs paws, knocked Alex's back as he launched. Her paw was knocked from its fast pace, yelping out a whine, she fell in to the small canyon's river, hitting one of the stones on her way.
Emmett was in there as well, a few yards ahead of her facing off with another wolf, both were snarling viciously, threatening each other. When Alex saw who the wolf was, she couldn't help but allow the angry red cloud to fog her vision. Water splashed around her as she dashed over to the conflict.
Her lip was curled over her teeth, allowing more roaring snarls and armoured barks to spill out, directed straight at Paul. It was all silent apart from the snarls coming from all three in the belly of the earth's rock; Alex was in front of Emmett defending him against her own species. Paul was furious – How on earth could she be taking that leeches side over his?
'You just couldn't keep it together for two minutes could you? I could have had the leech, I could of caught her! Oh no, you had be the boss and uphold a stupid fucking treaty made by some ancient men, you don't even know. The same fucking treaty that's keeping me here! He doesn't even eat people you egotistical jackass!'
Alex was equally furious, she was panting heavily and her rant was building up, she had so much anger at her entire situation. Paul was speechless; he couldn't believe she was putting everything she'd been through down to him.
He curled his own lip over the sharp canines that occupied his mouth as her tirade continued,
"It's because of that treaty that I'm going to end up back with real vampires! The kind that drain innocent people every day, woman and children and men, all day every day. It's because of that treaty that I'm going to end up back in with the Volturi having chunks taken out of me, all day, every day.'
It all came out in that rant, all her pent up anger built up into a bullet, and Alex just let it out, pulling the trigger, aiming the gun straight at Paul.
'It. Is. Not. My. Fault'
His frustration had ebbed into a small ember, but Paul had his own anger issues and despite everything he had heard, the fault did not lie with him and even she could not blame it all on any one person. It wasn't fair.
Emmett put a hand on Alex's back. The gesture earned him to be the focus of Paul's anger, but none the less, it made Alex stop the rant, turn around and walk to the other side of the gorge.
'You're a wolf Alexandria, remember that' Paul said finally before returning up the side to his own territory. The words didn't make Alex stop walking, but she didn't rumble a final lowly growl in response.
At some point this will all end. That's the thought that Alex kept repeating in her head. It'll all be worth it in the end, I'm going to back in Wales and I'll never have to worry about the Volturi again.
Alice had sought out an outfit for Alex from the supply that was ready and waiting for her in a neat compartment of a spare room, she had put it there herself, obviously. It was even co-ordinated.
The outfit was simple and comfortable, Alice knew better than to dress Alex up in a ball gown, especially after all that had happened. Not to mention, mind reading vampire Edward had tipped the whole family off to the dispute that had occurred between Alex and Paul.
"You can stay here for a few days, that's visiting, you're not staying here so no rules broken" Carlisle put a steady hand on her shoulder, reassuring her that everything would turn out for the best in the eye.
Alex nodded her head as Carlisle continued to explain how their anger training would be better and she, herself, would get better at reining in her temper.
After a while a lot of the vampires had left Alex to her thoughts, she breathed deeply and opened her dewy eyes wide to dry. Emmett walked into the room and sat onto the sofa, harshly, making the cushions surrender to his weight.
"Wolves eh?" Emmett stated with a smile,
"Vamps eh?" Alex copied with a breathy laugh.
They sat like that for a while, enjoying each other's company. It was nice having a friend her, both were content at the platonic friendship that had developed between them. Alex would have said how rare it was for a wolf and a vampire to be friends. But, Edward and Bella's, human and vampire relationship – which was more than platonic, overshadowed any rare relationships out there.
"Fancy a game?" Emmett gestured to the xbox that was perfectly polished in place underneath the immaculate wide screen TV, with a neat stack of games to its side. Another breathy laugh came from Alex, it was amazing how he could cheer her up so easily, by simply being his own laid back cheeky character.
"You're on"