Temper, Temper: Chapter Thirteen: Oh Shit

With her guard let down, as soon as Alex woke up the next morning and instantly regretted her decision to go out the night before.

A hangover she could deal with, but now Alex had begun talking again, the Quileute's saw it as a sign to try and bring her round again.

Under the shade of the trees Alex groaned, not even bothering to sit up as the memories trickled back again and a chorus of voices began to mentally tirade her.

Her mind argued and debated at what she should do, but Alex reverted to what she knew best. The guard she had momentarily dropped, induced by alcohol was back up; she closed off her thoughts and chose to ignore every voice that tried to speak to her.

Later in the day, when the voices had given up Alex watched them from her natural, woodland bed. It was the Quileute's regular dinner time and the majority of the pack was there, Leah included, just finishing off their meal.

Only once did Paul look up and stare it the trees, catching a glimpse of Alex's silver coat. She avoided his gaze quickly and sat up, shaking her coat out vigorously.

A sudden scent caught Alex's attention and she froze for a moment in disbelief.

'Oh Shit'

They were here, coming fast at them, several miles away but the way they travelled it would be a matter of minutes before they arrived.

Launching into action Alex phased, changed quickly and ran into the Uley home, earning everyone's stared surprised looks as she did so.

The only person she had eyes on though was Paul, before she spoke to him, Alex grabbed a muffin from the table.

"For your sake, you need to forget every thought you've had for me" she warned before sniffing the air again and marching to the western part of the boarder's direction, undoubtedly where they were coming to. She devoured the muffin on her way before phasing once again and running faster, the Quileute's had rallied at Alex's warning and were now following behind her trying to get some answers.

'Alex, what is going on?' Paul was the first to reach her, confusion laced in all his thoughts.

Now they were at the border, and waiting for whatever it was that was about to confront them. Out of the forest they came, wolves. Two of them. The one was a hugely built, deep brown coloured wolf, while the smaller one was grey and had flecks of black coating the tips of his hair.

The Quileute's went into frenzy, Sam trying to order some control and get a formation around the strangers. Alex paid no heed to those thoughts though, her eyes were still trying to convince her mind that the presence of the wolves was a reality.

When she raced forward, the Quileute's watched, baffled at her actions. Alex greeted the larger one first, rubbing her nose deeply into the crook of his shoulder while he held her tightly with his neck. The smaller wolf barked impatiently and Alex moved on to greet him, giving his muzzle a quick lick.

Sam stepped forward then, and Alex couldn't help let out a deep growl as he disturbed the reunion she had joined. The action shocked Sam, he didn't hesitate in retaliating though, consequently making the two foreign wolves pick up their own defensive snarls and the Quileute's respond identically.

'Enough!' Sam spoke silencing his own pack, 'Who are you?' he demanded at the two strangers.

'Sam this is Zeus and Josh – my brother and…boyfriend' Alex spoke up, she instantly regretted it though.

Paul's heart completely crumpled at the smaller wolf's revealed identity and it was felt throughout the entire mental bonds.

The usually well-guarded wolf suddenly dropped his defences and all the memories he had of Alex were flickering in front of everyone's eyes.

Despite the fact only alphas from different packs could communicate, Alex belonged to both and therefore her mind was a link between every pack member of both tribes. She saw the memories and that meant so did Zeus and Josh.

Josh suddenly saw red, infuriated by the fact this stranger had imprinted on his girlfriend.

Vulnerable, Paul wasn't prepared for Josh's attack but someone else was. Before Josh's claws or teeth went anywhere near Paul, Alex launched forward. Desperate she clamped down on Josh's neck, using her weight to pull him away from his target.

Paul fired into action then, sheer fury taking over his earlier brief moment of melancholy. He couldn't get anywhere though; Quil, Embry and Jacob were preventing him from intervening.

Josh, realising his fight with Paul was being prevented, Josh turned his attention on Alex snapping at her while she still desperately pulled him away from the group.

'Stop it Josh, its fine.'

'He's imprinted one you, and you think its fine! – I thought you hated imprinting'

'I do!' Alex countered, trying to keep her cool while Josh bombarded her patience with all his own anger and frustration. 'Nothing's happened!'

'Yeah, I believe that' He spat sarcastically at her, still trying to shake her grip from his neck.

In an instant Alex changed from defensive, she dropping her grip and launched at Josh.

Snapping her jaws viciously inducing a fight between the two, Alex barked at Josh and they wrestled viciously before they left the groups site. Paul was still trying to get free from his captors until Sam ordered him to stay where he was, now the alpha's attention was back on Alex's supposed brother.

'I'm going to be prematurely bald if this carries on' thought Sam as he began to explain the entirety of the situation to Zeus.

Alex and Josh had simmered down, like they always did and everyone was now human again, finding communication easier without their wolf egos in the way.

Paul's tremors were failing to die down though; his shoulders were trembling as he watched Alex with her new group.

Josh was a tall boy, thick through the shoulders and dark black facial stubble. Zeus was a large man, he carried a lot of thick, muscle weight around his thighs, chest and shoulders, making him a very imposing figure before you even looked at his face.

His eyes were dark and calculating, his hair was dark as well; muddy brown like his wolf alias and his jaw line was harsh and set in its place firmly.

After his talk with Sam, Zeus decided that it was best for Alex to stay here until the test was over; if the Volturi came here and saw she wasn't it would definitely go against her.

He did remain firm on staying her himself though, after Alex had visited home yesterday he was able to follow the trail here. It was up to Alex on filling him in with how she ended up with the Volturi, not Sam, he didn't even know the answer himself.

They would also be helping out on patrol, considering Victoria hadn't been found yet and the pack also needed to be Bella's bodyguards – Alex had protested at this.

If the human was stupid enough to get involved with their species, she deserved to be stupid enough to protect herself.

Though she wouldn't make the mistake of thinking this in Jacob's presence again; Alex had suffered a nasty cut – though it healed quickly – in a fight with him.

Since then, the issue had been resolved but she had noticed him leaving his second patrol with his own grizzly chest laceration the day after though.

Paul was undoubtedly to blame.

It had made Alex smile when it happened, wolves got in fights all the time, cuts and bruises easily healed within the hour, there was no need for fuss.

Alex was pleased to see her brother and boyfriend, but the tension between the groups were unbearable, everyone was attempting to stare the other person out.

Quileute's were angry at the Welsh wolves, the Welsh wolves were angry at the Quileute's and it was not a pleasant place to be.

When they all parted, Alex looked back at her Quileute's as they all left for their homes while she phased once again for another night in the peacefully, quiet forest.

Exactly what she liked, but when Josh's body shadowed her own possessively Alex couldn't help but dread the inquisition off the two men that was, without fail, going to happen.