A/N: yet again I own nothing accept Bracken and her family....... I do wish I own Alice though, that'd be cool. She's so damn hot, anyway, own with the story......

Chapter 5: this place has turned into a kennel

For the past two weeks Bella felt like someone was following her, a feeling of eyes on her that she couldn't shake. Finally Bella decided to go see the Cullen's to talk about it, even though she felt like such a human for feeling like it. Bella climbed into her truck and headed off down the road, still feeling like someone was watching her. What if it was something bad? What if it was Victoria and Laurent? Bella knew she was probably worrying over nothing, but they hadn't been seen since the attack at the end of the year. Bella had to stop thinking so much about the what if's, she was starting to feel a panic attack coming on. The road to the Cullen's seemed longer the more she thought about the possible dangers, she pressed down on the gas pedal in an effort to speed up. About a minute after speeding up the truck sputtered and started slowing down, "aw come on!" Bella moaned as the car rolled to a stop "I can't be out of gas yet!". Bella looked at her surroundings and sighed "if I stay here and a vampire is after me then I'll be a tasty snack in a can. I better get moving", Bella got out of the truck and started walking to the house.

Bracken and her brothers jogged through the woods, Bracken trailed behind her brothers and kept her head down in alert mode. Keep your eyes open Bracken Remus thought as they moved silently, Bracken nodded and looked over at Sandy. Sandy halted and sniffed up, and evil grin appearing on his wolf face. Sandy broke out into a sprint, the others trailing behind him. What's Sandy found! We were tracking deer the other way Bracken thought frantically as the raced to an unknown target, no one answered her thoughts, no one wanted to. Sandy stopped in the distance and Bracken heard a gasp, she changed into human form as she ran. "mmmm.... I love the smell of fear in a human" Sandy growled as Bracken came to a stop, "Sandy stop!" Bracken shouted as she realised who it was Sandy had tracked. "ah runt, just in time to join in" Sandy said as he turned to face Bracken, Bracken moved over to Bella "no Sandy, this is Bella my friend". Sandy growled and crouched "humans are meat not friends!", Bracken crouched "humans are not meat Sandy! ". Bella took a step back, wondering if they'd know if she ran off. Probably would, but why were they talking about humans being meat? Bella guessed they weren't human themselves.

The two siblings looked like they were about to rip each other to pieces, while the other two were standing to the side watching with lazy interest. "It's about time you learned your place runt! Either help me kill the human or suffer along with her!" Sandy shouted as he backed up ready to transform. Bracken moved in front of Bella and crouched low to the ground "you'll have to kill me before you get to Bella Sandy" Bracken growled, Sandy snarled at Bracken "fine with me, you've been annoying me for a long time now". Bracken looked over her shoulder at Bella "Bella run!", both Bracken and Sandy charged at each other and transformed mid sprint. The two wolves crashed into each other and started biting and clawing at each other as Bella stumbled backwards. She ran as fast as she could to the Cullen house, the only safe place she knew in the entire woods. Not stopping until she reached the front door, she banged on the door so hard she thought her hand would break.

Edward and Alice rushed to the front door and threw it open as Bella charged through the door and into Edward's arms. "Quick.... help...... Bracken........ werewolf!" Bella panted into Edwards's chest, Edward looked over at Alice, "Bella, we know" Alice said softly. "but they're killing her!" Bella exclaimed as the other Cullen's appeared "you have to help her!", Carlisle looked at Bella with concern as Emmett and Rosalie appeared behind him, Having arrived home from Africa for a visit "who are killing her Bella? How do you know this?". Bella was getting impatient with everyone and just wanted Bracken safe "because she saved me! She fought her brother to give me time to run away, Carlisle please help her!". Carlisle nodded and everyone ran into the woods with Bella showing the way on Edwards back, the run seemed like it was taking forever and Bella was watching everywhere to see if she could see them, or hear them. Finally Edward stopped and everyone gasped at the sight they saw in front of them, Bella hopped off Edwards back and slowly approached. Lying on the floor was a blood covered Bracken with her eyes closed, if it wasn't for her gasping for breath she would look dead.

Everyone except Carlisle and Edward kept back and held their breath, Carlisle looked at Edward and nodded "Emmett" he said over his shoulder "carry Bracken please, Edward carry Bella. Alice and Esme sort out somewhere in the house for Bracken to lie. We need to be quick everyone, there's no time". Everyone rushed off to do their jobs, Emmett carrying Bracken as if she weighed nothing at all. Bella spent the entire time praying to god that Bracken will be ok, Edward holding Bella close to him. They rushed upstairs and into Alice's room, Alice and Esme were waiting for them. Emmett layed Bracken on the bed and stood back as Carlisle went to work on her, Alice and Bella stayed to lend a hand while everyone left the room. Esme went to find some clothes for Bracken to wear after, Edward and Jasper went to the living room to watch T.V and Rosalie and Emmett went to wait outside. Carlisle cut Brackens blood soaked clothes off her and Bella removed the clothes so they wouldn't affect anyone. Alice gasped at how many wounds exactly covered the young wolf's body, more than she could count she thought to herself. Carlisle went to work cleaning each wound and stitching each up carefully, making sure there was no internal bleeding as he went.

Finally, after over six hours of careful cleaning, examining, and stitching, Carlisle was done. He stood up and Esme moved in, dressing Bracken in an old pair of Emmett's jogging bottoms and T-shirt. Carlisle looked at everyone in the room "now all we can do is wait for her to wake up", Bella sat down on a chair "if it's ok I'd like to wait here, Bracken saved me and now I want to do the same for her". Alice nodded and sat on the end of the bed "same here, I'll keep Bella company while she waits". Carlisle nodded "very well, you can tell us when she wakes up", everyone left Bella and Alice alone. After what seemed like forever Bracken began to stir, Alice called out to everyone. Bracken slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room, suddenly her eyes opened in shock and she gasped, fear etched on her face. "relax Bracken, this is my family we won't hurt you. Your safe here" Alice said soothingly, "but.... but..... you're all vampires" Bracken whispered to Alice, not taking her eyes off the rest of the family. Carlisle stepped forward and smiled at Bracken reassuringly "I assure you Bracken, no one here will harm you. You are very safe now", "Bracken, this is Carlisle my father. He healed you" Alice said.

"Bracken, feel free to stay here as long as you need to. You saved Bella's life, we owe it to you to help you recover" Esme said as she stepped forward with a loving motherly smile that made Bracken relax slightly. Bracken's eye drooped slowly and she let out a small moan of pain through slightly clenched teeth, Bella sat on the side of Bracken's bed and lent down to hug her gently "you saved me Bracken, thank you so much". Bracken lifted her right arm slightly and hugged Bella with it as best as she could "I couldn't let Sandy kill you, your my best friend", Bracken looked at Alice and smiled "one of them" Alice smiled back. "are you in a lot of pain Bracken, I could try you with some morphine" Carlisle asked, Bracken shook her head "it's ok Doctor Cullen, believe it or not I've gone through worse pain than this". "well, you have a long recovery ahead of you. You need to rest for tonight and tomorrow we can all talk some more" Carlisle said in a soft but authorative voice, Esme agreed and ushered her 'children' out of the room. Alice and Bella stayed behind to keep Bracken company until she fell asleep.

Once the door closed Bella turned to Bracken "how come you never said you're a werewolf?", Bracken shrugged and winced from the pain "your friends with vampires, I was afraid to tell you". Bella looked a little shocked "you thought I would hurt you?", Bracken looked at Alice "I thought they would hurt me, I was surprised that they didn't tell you themselves". "It was not our place to say Bracken, it's your secret to tell" Alice said calmly, Bracken looked Alice in the eyes and saw that she ment what she said. Bracken nodded slightly "maybe if I had told you more then you could have been better protected. I should have been more trusting", "why did Sandy come after me anyway?" Bella asked. Bracken looked thoughtful for a second "it could not simply be wrong place at the wrong time, that would be too much of a coincidence. No, I think Sandy may have known you were there", Bella and Alice listened to Bracken as she tried to decipher the string of incidents leading to tonight's climax. "Bella, why were you in the woods to begin with?" Bracken asked "surely you can guess that vampires are not the most dangerous things in the woods". Bella nodded "yeah I knew that, my truck broke down for some reason. It shouldn't have, it was only just serviced. My phone wasn't working and I knew it was only a ten minute or so walk to here, so I decided to get out and walk quickly".

"Do you think Sandy was planning something?" Alice asked, Bracken thought for a second "no, I'm not sure. Sandy's not exactly the brains of the outfit and this doesn't smell of the twins. I'm gonna have to think about this one some more". Bracken's eyes drooped uncontrollably and Bella stood up "well we can talk about this tomorrow, sleep Bracken", Alice nodded and followed Bella out of the room. The two walked downstairs where everyone were waiting, arguing in hushed voices, "we come back and already this place has turned into a kennel" Rosalie muttered. "Bracken saved Bella, we will not turn our back on her" Esme replied, "Is everyone going to start taking her for walks now? Will she become the family pet or is she Alice's?" Rosalie asked in anger. Alice walked ahead of Bella and looked at everyone furiously "why the hell is everyone arguing?!?!?! Can't you see rose that Bracken is definitely no threat to any of us? She put herself in danger for Bella". Rose turned on Alice "and how do you know it's not a plan? Edward can't read her mind, Jasper can't get a reading either and you can't see any future that has her in it!", "fucking hell Rose, Bracken's own brother tried to kill Bracken. Carlisle had to work for over six hours just to patch her up and now Bracken is so week she can only keep her eyes open for a few minutes" Alice said with a sigh as she sat one of the sofas. She was too tired to argue anymore and was ready to give up.

"I think I need to do some research into all this, Bracken should be healing by now. She's made no kind of recovery at all, and maybe we can work out what the hell happened tonight" Carlisle said as he tried to distract everyone with a plan. "Bracken thinks it might have been planned, she said it doesn't feel like a coincidence to her" Bella suggested "My truck is broken down further back along the road". Edward nodded "I know, Emmett went to get it. It's in the garage, there is something wrong with it", Bella nodded "what is it?". Edward didn't look up "the fuel pip has been cut almost clean though, designed to give you a gradual loss of fuel but not quick enough for you to notice until it was too late". "Something tells me that this might have been planned" Edward said, and just as Rosalie was about to jump up and shout ha, Carlisle joined in "but I don't think Bracken is in on it, there is nothing that says a werewolf will risk it's life for the sake of killing one human"

A/N2: ok so it's getting a little more interesting now. Bella now knows Bracken's a wolf, Bracken has now been brought to the Cullen house and told to stay as long as she needs and Bracken as well as Doctor have both worked out that this must be a plan...... but by who and for what? That and many more questions will be answered probably in the next chapter. The chapters are getting a little longer now and the action will pick up more of a speed as it goes along. Do you think Rosalie will ever accept Bracken being here? And why is Edward not joining her in her fury? Hope everyone has enjoyed reading this chapter and LEAVE A REVIEW!!!!!!! lol