A/N: OK, so I know my last chapter angered some people, my apologies Bracken's story kinda runs in the background, separate but still important. Bracken's story is going to take longer to explain, as certain situations occur in the main story then another chapter of Bracken's past life will be uncovered. I wanted Bracken's life to be full of tragedy because I wanted past experiences to shape the person she is now, her life couldn't have been perfect or she'd still be with the wolves. And Anastasia's lack of protecting her daughter will be explained later on in the story, but trust me when I say that she really didn't have a choice. I had to re-write this chapter to try and make it up to those I've upset, let me know if I did a good job. Hope you guys like it...

Chapter Fourteen: The next new problem

Emmett walked into the living room and looked out of the window to see Bracken standing in the back garden. She was stood with her back to the house, facing the woods. Emmett walked out to stand next to her and stood silent and still next to his sister, they stood there for what seemed like forever before Emmett spoke "sorry your life was so shit". A smile played on the corner of Bracken's lips "sorry you were mauled by a bear, Emmett laughed, a deep booming laugh "of all the things to be sorry about". Bracken laughed with him "could say the same to you", Emmett nodded and the two fell back into comfortable silence, stood next to each other. "But seriously" Emmett said as he turned to face Bracken "I really am sorry. You went through so much and no one helped you, no one saved you". Bracken shook her head "It's not like I was completely abandoned. There were rules that had to be followed with serious consequences", Emmett nodded and urged her to carry on. "Like the volturi, if you break one of their rules you suffer the punishment. Death. Same for the pack, and pretty much everything was punishable by death". Bracken kicked a stone at her feet and carried on "Anastasia would have given her life to protect me, it killed her that she couldn't do anything. But she knew what would happen to me if she died for me...she saw it. Callum would have been worse, he would have blamed me for killing his mate. I would have suffered more at his hands and eventually been killed myself".

"I don't hate her for not stopping them, I've never hated her and I never can. Anastasia's words may seem empty to anyone watching from the outside, but those words gave me strength. I knew someone cared, I knew that I meant something to someone and I wasn't some worthless runt only fit to be used by the other males". Emmett nodded, unable to say anything he just stood there and took in the words his sister spoke. He knew what she was saying. While it was easy for someone on the outside to put the blame on Anastasia and say she was a bad mother, but she did the only thing she could, she was there for Bracken after. They had an understanding, both abused. Bracken looked at Emmett and nodded "Anastasia was abused herself. Her marriage was a mistake that my grandfather couldn't take back, her mate was another". Emmett looked at Bracken in confusion "what do you mean?", Bracken took a deep breath "her marriage was arranged, a deal to join the two families during a time of civil war. In an effort to gain more power and take over, my grandfather joined the Richenski family and the McCanse family together by marrying off his first born daughter with their eldest son."

"Anastasia had met and fell in love with the youngest brother, Daniel, but she was never to marry him. Callum was going to be the one to take over the family, their father was on his death bed and his final act was to decide that Callum was to marry Anastasia. Daniel had to stand and watch as his one true love married his evil, twisted brother. Callum was cruel to everyone, he demanded that Anastasia give him everything he wanted, when he wanted it. If she refused then he would take it by force. He would gladly beat Anastasia if she even disagreed with him in the slightest. He would leave her bloodied and bruised". Emmett froze on the spot as he listened to Bracken explain to him, It made him feel sick to think that any man could think this was OK. Bracken sighed and carried on "the first time it happened, Anastasia burst into the room and attacked Callum's closest friend. I was only 5 at the time, but I remember it all. Callum heard the fighting and came in, he dragged Anastasia out of the room and into their bedroom. Frankie helped me up and we went to the bedroom door to listen, there was so much shouting. Callum beat her nearly to death, as Anastasia laid beaten on the floor he stood over her and said that if she ever stopped one of the males again he would not only kill her but make me suffer for her mistake and then kill me slowly. She knew then that she had no choice, he would do as he threatened".

Emmett and Bracken walked back into the house to find everyone sat around on the chairs, the pair froze and Bracken moved to sit next to Alice "what's wrong?". Carlisle looked at Bracken "we have another problem", Bracken looked at her father in confusion "what do you mean?". "The wolves have noticed another wolf pack, they're in an uproar" Carlisle spoke solemnly, Bracken stood and paced around the room. One wolf pack noticing another would have no affect on a vampire coven, there had to be another reason for Carlisle to be worried. "Dad, how has this got anything to do with us? This is the LaPush wolves business" Bracken said, Carlisle sighed "Bracken, they're blaming us. They think we brought this new pack to Forks... they want to bring the battle to us before dealing with this new wolf pack threat". Emmett stood up "the damn wolves are always blaming us, It's not our fault!", Carlisle stood and walled to Emmett "son, you need to calm down. Getting angry is not going to get us anywhere". Bracken looked around at everyone "we need to go see them, to make them see that this is not our fault...they need to be warned to leave them alone", Edward was the first to speak "we can't go onto the wolves land, we'd break the treaty and we'd be killed on the spot". Bracken looked to Carlisle "dad, old world wolves rule over all other wolves. I still have some of my wolf genes in me, if I go as well I can order them to let you onto tribe land". Carlisle nodded as he got lost in thought "that could work, they would have a natural instinct to follow a more powerful wolf".

Everyone raced over to LaPush, Edward carrying Bella on his back. As they reached the boundary lines, three wolves appeared out of the trees. One went behind a large rock and a few seconds later Sam appeared and walked to stand in front of the Cullens, "none of you are allowed here, turn around and leave". Bracken stepped forward and stood inches from Sam's face "I am Bracken McCanse, descendent of the most powerful clan of old world wolves. Your superior, I order you to allow my new family to walk through your tribe's land. We have business with your elders". Sam looked like he was about to disagree with Bracken's command, but something seamed to be holding back the words. Sam stepped back, clearly angry at having his authority overruled, he stepped to the side and allowed the Cullen's to pass. With the wolf escort, they headed to Jacobs house. As Billy exited the house and stopped in front of the Cullen's, Carlisle stepped forward. "Billy, we have heard that your tribe have placed the blame of a new wolf pack arriving on us. I assure you that this is not the case and we are in fact as worried as you are by their arrival".

Billy looked at Bracken for a second and the back to Carlisle "you have one of the wolves in your pressance right now, how can we not feel that it is connected to you". Carlisle nodded "that is true, but Bracken is no longer part of the pack. We rescued her and if you may notice, she is now a new species, a werevamp". Esme spoke up "Bracken is our child now, she has no connection to them any more They are as much a threat to us as they are to you, more to us in fact". As the adults were talking about the situation, Bracken turned her head to look at Sam. Everyone stopped talking as Bracken growled loudly and pounced on Sam, pinning him against a large rock. The other wolves growled and as they were about to spring into action to protect Sam, Carlisle and Emmett jumped onto Bracken, pulling her off and struggling to pull her back as she snaps and snarls at Sam. Swiping her arms at him, trying to reach, Bracken struggled against their grasp. As Bracken and Emmett held Bracken, Alice stood in front of her and calmed her down. Bracken stopped struggling and stood still, Carlisle, who looked confused at her daughter's outburst turned to Billy. The two agreed that there would be no conflict between the Cullen's and the wolves over this and that the new pack would be watched closely by both.

As they got back to the house, Alice looked worriedly at bracken "what the hell was that?". Bracken walked to the window and looked out "you won't like it but I had to", Esme stepped forward "you had to do no such thing, what you did was wrong!". Bracken turned quickly "what Sam has planned is wrong!", Bella stepped forward and spoke calmly "what do you mean by what Sam has planned?". Bracken turned back to the window and sighed "the tribe elders have no idea, but Sam has a plan to wipe us all out. A plan involving Jacob". "what plan" Bella asked, even though she had an idea where it was going. Bracken turned to look at only Bella "they're using the fact that Jake is in love with you to lure you away from Edward. They're hoping that Edward will go onto tribe land in a bid to get himself killed and break the treaty...that way they can kill us all". Everyone looked at each other as they took in Bracken's words. Not only do they have to worry about Bracken's old pack, they now had to worry about the LaPush wolves as well.

A/N2: OK, that took forever to write. I now completely understand why writers take forever to update chapters. It's not easy to write this story, work on my novel and keep my house running all at the same time. I hope that the bit at the start helps everyone understand why Anastasia let the abuse of Bracken carry on. She had a choice to make and she chose the lesser of two evils. And remember everyone, Bracken's past will help her later on. Trust me. I have a plan. I'll try and update quicker next time, but I can't promise. Review please, it was the review of one of the readers that helped shape this chapter. You know who you are. I take all suggestions seriously and will use them to shape the next chapters, so please review. Love you all!