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Chapter Three guys! Y'all are meeting Graham in this chapter.

Shapeshifters in Alaska

Graham

The wind blew through his fur as Graham shot through the snow. Even before he had started shifting into a four-legged wolf he had liked to run fast. It was so much better now though, having supernatural speed on his side.

As he ran through the valley he glanced up at the snow capped mountains on either side of him. He loved being in Alaska, the wind had a nip in it that penetrated into his overly warm skin in a way the wind in La Push never did. He would stay here forever if Quil would allow him.

Ha, like you would ever leave your mommy.

Chris Uley came up beside him and kept pace as they raced to get to the make shift camp they had set up.

What are laughing at, Chris? If it wasn't for Freya you would still be up Emily's butt.

Don't be so defensive, Swan, and don't talk about my mom's butt. She is way out of your league.

I don't know she might go for me. I could show her a good time.

Chris let out a low growl and moved to ram into Graham. Shooting forward Graham dodged him. He howled a laugh as camp came into view.

The Denali Coven had been nice to them while they had been tracking a vampire that they ran from La Push. The Coven had made sure the pack had everything they needed. Graham now knew why his sister Bella liked them so much.

The pack didn't usually hunt down Vampires that didn't stay in their area but this one wouldn't stay away. Everytime they would chase him off he would come back a day or two later. Quil was fed up and frankly so was Graham.

Quil had split up his 8 member pack bringing 5 with him. Leaving Embry, Brady, and Freya back in La Push.

Graham and Chris had first round of patrol but Seth and Brandon were getting ready. When Graham entered camp he saw Quil was on the phone, probably with Claire. Max's snores came through loudly from his tent.

Shifting back into his human form Graham got dressed. He moved to the make shift kitchen and grabbed a bowl of whatever Kate had brought them. Taking a bite he tried not to moan, potato soup, his favorite.

Chris came up beside him, he was in his human form again also. He ate a few bites before looking at Graham. He started laughing all the sudden and Graham was afraid he had lost his mind.

"Look Swan you are definitely my favorite of all of the Swan/Clearwater offspring but your vampire half sister has a better chance with my mom than you ever would. So give it up."

It had been a running joke through out the single members of the pack of who had the best chance with Emily Uley. At first it had just been to be funny but had slowly become a competition between the boys. It was mostly between Graham, Brady, and Seth but the rest of the pack like to join in every once in a while.

"Does that mean you are pulling for Seth to be your new daddy? Or is Brady the guy?"

Chris choked on the soup dipped bread he had been eating and Graham laughed. He had never seen either one of the Uley brothers turn that shade of red, both were pretty easygoing, but Chris turned redder than a ripe tomato.

Graham decided to move away from him just in case he went all wolf-hulk. Shapeshifters did that sometimes.

Quil, having ended his phone call, was heading over toward them. He looked to be lost in thought but then he looked up at Graham.

"I just got off the phone with Jacob, did you know they were coming back to town?"

"Lee's coming to town?" Graham asked cheerfully.

He might only see her once every other year, in random towns for coffee, but he loved his sister Leah. They were really close to be so far apart in both age and distance.

"No, they already moved back. Supposedly they arrived two days ago. They needed to come back for the girl. Something about her 18th birthday."

This suprised Graham, he wondered why they hadn't told him that they were moving back.

"Annalise, yeah when she turns 18 things are suppose to get ugly. I've never met her. Jacob used every protection he could think of to keep her a secret. I didn't even find out about her till I started turning."

"Well, they are living in town now. The pack members that are there will have to keep watch for now. We need to take control of this vampire. He is taunting us and it is on my last nerve."

Quil turned away from Graham to look at Seth and Brandon.

"Wait 10 minutes and then start patrol."

Graham started for his tent to get some much needed sleep. He loved Alaska but now that Leah was back in La Push he was ready to be home.

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Annalise

Annalise woke to Leah shaking her. She felt like a ton of bricks had been dropped on her head. Her night had been filled with one nightmare after another. Not that that was anything new, but it didn't make it any easier.

Leah was sitting on the edge of her bed. She looked concerned but didn't say anything. She just handed Annalise two ibuprofen and a glass of water.

She wanted to roll over and go back to sleep but she knew she couldn't. Today was her first day of school. Instead of groaning like she wanted to she took the medicine and tried to will herself awake.

"We have 15 minutes before we are officially going to be late. I would have got you up sooner but I knew it was a ruff night."

She had gotten ready in less time before, jumping up she started doing her morning routine. She was ready in ten.

Twenty minutes later they were pulling into the La Push parking lot. Annalise looked at the brick building, it looked like every other school she had been to before this one.

She was startled as a giant guy suddenly appeared at her window. He smiled at her and then made the motion of rolling done her window. She turned to Leah with a confused look.

"Wolf." Leah said smirking. She then proceeded to roll the window down.

"Brady, long time no see. How are you?"

"Hi Leah, Annalise, I'm good. Wishing I was in Alaska with the boys but it's whatever."

He reached in and unlocked Annalise's door before pulling it open. He took her bag and offered her his hand.

"I'm on first watch. Ready for class?"

Annalise shot a look at Leah. She looked just as confused.

"Watch?" Leah asked him.

"Yeah, Jake told Quil y'all where here for Annalise's protection. So we are taking shifts to protect her."

"No." Annalise responded calmly as she got out of the car and reached for her bag. "I don't need 24 hour protection. Thank you though... Brady was it?"

Brady nodded his head but didn't let go of her bag.

"Quil gave the order, you are stuck with me, sweetheart."

"Please don't call me that. High School is hard enough without wolf protection. Can't you like watch from a distance? Please."

Looking down at her Brady smiled.

"How about I walk you to the office to get your schedule and then we can decide from there?"

Annalise did let the sigh escape this time. This was going to be a long day.

"Fine. I will take what I can get."

Brady's grin was huge, almost taking up his whole face. If Annalise wasn't so annoyed by the situation she would have smiled back.

Walking around to Leah's side Annalise hugged her tightly. The first day was always hard on both of them. They never knew what to expect.

"I am just a phone call away if you need me."

"Okay." Annalise whispered.

She wanted to beg to be taken home now but knew that wouldn't help, so she turned back to Brady and followed him into the school.

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The school day had not been like Annalise had suspected it to be. She had been envisioning a Mean Girls kind of day where everyone was nice but in a condescending kind of way. That didn't happen though.

Brady took her to the office where the sweetest lady she had ever met, named Mrs. Padgent, gave her a class schedule. She then walked her through all of her periods and gave instructions on where to find them and who her teachers were.

After this Brady decided to stick with her, turns out they have the same classes for the first three periods, Algebra II, World History, and French.

While at Annalise's locker a girl runs up to Brady. She has an angry look on her face and she shoves a rose at Brady. She waits a second to see if he will say anything. When he doesn't she starts talking.

"Is that some kind of joke?" Her voice is a tone of controlled anger.

"Of course not, Lydia." His smile only seems to infuriate Lydia more.

"I know it's from him. You might have been the one to put it in my locker but I know Embry told you to place it there."

"He loves you, Lyd, maybe it's time you..."

"Just tell him to stop. I don't want to be involved with the cult you people are in."

With that Lydia pivoted on her heels and walked away.

Brady looled sheepishly at Annalise. Grabbing her books he started down the hall. Annalise ran to catch up.

"Sorry about Lydia. She is really nice usually."

"What was that all about anyway?"

Brady sighed before looking around. Leaning closer to Annalise he started to explain.

"The town seems to think the pack is a cult. People try to explain things they don't understand. Lydia goes along with it even though I don't thibk she believes all the talk. One of the wolves, Embry, imprinted on her. She doesn't know anything about it though. Her parents, Rachel and Paul, are trying to keep her away from this life. Paul was a wolf at one time but he is very protective of his daughter. Rachel loves Paul, and is happy that he imprinted on her, but she doesn't want anything forced on Lydia. Embry tries every couple of months to convince them to change their minds. He does little things, like the rose, to try and get Lydia to fall for him. So far nothing has worked."

Annalise looked at him in silence. She made a mental note to ask Leah what imprinting was and why Lydia's parents thought it was forcing something on their daughter.

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Annalise's first four periods went without incident and she walked into fifth period feeling relaxed for the first time that day. Brady had started to grow on her a little and she had already met some nice people. A girl named Aly in World History and a guy named Kyle in Biology (her fourth period).

Walking into Art she randomly chose a work bench and sat down. A few minutes later Lydia walked in with another girl. Looking around Annalise saw that her table was the only one that had empty seats. The girls walked over and sat down.

"Hey you were the girl with Brady this morning."

"Annalise." She stuck out her hand for Lydia to shake.

"Lydia. This is Baylee." She pointed to the girl beside her. "Sorry about my poor first impression this morning."

"That's okay." Annalise said as the teacher started class.

After Art, Annalise went to lunch. She had not had time to eat breakfast this morning and she was starving. Having paid for her food she started looking for a place to sit. Then her tray disappered from her arms. Turning she saw Brayden holding her food with a smile on his face.

"I've been looking for you all day, Annalise. Glad you finally decided to grace me with you presence."

With that he motioned for her to follow as he started toward a table.

Nope, this day definitely hadn't turned out like she expected.