Chapter 10 – I'm a Freakin Vampire

SPOV

Oh my God! I just attacked a fucking human! Shit, he's passed out. Crap, crap, crap, what do I do now? I turned my head to look at Nessie who is frozen and gaping at me in shock. Suddenly she grabbed me by the scruff of my neck like a little puppy and drags me off Lukas's limp body.

"Quickly Seth, you need to get out of here, please!" She pleads with me. "God I hope no one saw you. Please just go, I will take care of Lukas."

I growl a warning at her, still not sure it is safe for her to be alone with the little wannabe rapist, but Nessie just pushes me out the door. I have to fight my urge to go back in there and finish him off, but part of me realises that with him unconscious there is no risk to Nessie and I would just be killing him out of anger.

I had no idea what would happen to me if I did something so against everything the pack believes. We were here to protect the humans from vampires, not kill them for behaving inappropriately towards them. But as much as I knew that Renesmee could take care of herself, I couldn't let that little asshole treat one of the imprints like that, especially her. Nessie is just so sweet and innocent and… amazing!

I check that no one else is in the hall before running quickly to my "office" (store room). I love my little office. I know a lot of people look down on me for working as a janitor, but it makes me happy. Sure the kids are little shits most of the time, but the hours were easy and I felt useful. I was technically here on pack duty whenever I worked.

A couple of years ago, Nessie had started talking about how much she was looking forward to looking like a teenager so that she could go to high school like a normal kid. Jacob and her family was dead against the idea (excuse the pun!). There was no way to ensure her safety if she was out on her own for so many hours each day. If the Volturri decided that they wanted to come back, they could easily slip through one of the holes in Alice's vision and find her unguarded.

We all started coming up with plans on how we could guard the entire school, including it on our patrols so that whenever Nessie was in school one of us could circle around and make sure she was safe. A few months later, the old janitor died. I volunteered to Jacob that I could apply for the job. Nessie would have a guard on duty every day and on top of that I would be earning a full time salary. It was the perfect solution, and also made my home life a bit easier as mum was struggling to afford all the food it took to keep two wolves going, even with us being fed by Emily every other day.

What's going on Seth? Leah butted into my thoughts. Before I could think to block them, she caught the images of what that pervert had been doing to Nessie. I could feel her anger rushing back at me.

Please Leah, calm down! I pleaded, still only holding onto my control by a thread. Nessie is fine. She had him under control, then I... I trailed off, what could I say to explain how I had lost control of myself and endangered Lukas's life?

Seth, don't blame yourself Leah thought back at me. I know you shouldn't have phased on him, but most of us take our protectiveness to the extreme when it comes to Renesmee. I can't believe the little shit tried that on her. I fucking hate teenage boys!

Leah, what about Jacob? I asked worriedly. He's going to lose it when he finds out. Nessie was practically molested under my guard and I attacked a human!

We'll just have to make sure he doesn't find out until we have Renesmee home safe and sound. If he can see she is ok, and that you and Lukas are both ok too, we might be able to stop him doing something stupid. She had another moment of rage, replaying the images from my head over again to herself. OK Seth, you just phase and get back there to make sure she is alright with him. I'll go talk to Jacob and get him to the Cullen's house.

I thought she had finished and was about to phase back so I could open my store room door, when she shocked me by finishing, Don't stress, you did good Seth. I'm proud of you. Then I felt her phase out.

I reached my store room and phased so that I could open the door. Once inside I leant back against the door and slid down to the floor. I felt drained physically and emotionally. Despite Leah's reassurance that I had done the right thing, I still felt shame at jumping a defenceless human. Nessie did appear to have the situation under control and I had just over reacted. Thinking of Nessie made me realise that I had left her alone with him, so I quickly got myself back in action. Luckily I always kept spare clothes in here in case I got too dirty, so I changed and headed back to the classroom.

NPOV

After Seth left the room, I think I was still in a state of shock. I simply sat on the floor and put my head in my hands. What a nightmare! I thought to myself. My parents will never let me date again.

Lukas stirred slightly, and I realised that I needed to come up with a plan to talk our way out of this mess. I knew that no one would ever believe him about Seth. The Janitor turned into a giant wolf! He would be the joke of the school. But how could I explain his unconscious state. And I knew that I couldn't let him get away with thinking he could force himself on girls like that.

I turned quickly as I heard the door opening behind me, and breathed a sigh of relief to see Seth standing there nervously. "Seth!" I cried, running over to give him a hug. "Are you ok?" Poor Seth looked so upset over what happened. I can understand why, he just attacked a human. Lukas totally deserved it, but still.

"What are we going to do?" I asked Seth, feeling overwhelmed. "Should we call Jacob?"

"No!" Seth shouted in a panic. "If we call Jacob right now Lukas is going to end up hurt. For now he's just unconscious. Leah is getting Jacob to go to your place to wait for us, so for now we just need to make sure our asses are covered. Fuck Nessie, what have I done?"

"Don't feel bad about this Seth, you were trying to protect me. Everyone will understand that. And who is ever going to believe Lukas if he tries to explain what happened." I had an idea of how to sort this out. "Seth you go back to the dance now and I'll be there in 2 minutes"

"But Nes…" he started.

"No, Seth trust me on this ok. I'll see you soon" I insisted and he reluctantly walked back toward the dance. Lukas started to stir again so I quickly slipped out the room and followed Seth, trying to work myself up to cry.

As I got back to the hall, I let loose. I pushed through the door and ran to the first teacher I saw. "Mr Newton… please… Lukas…" I was really playing it up.

"Renesmee, what's wrong? What's Lukas said?" he asked, obviously thinking we'd had some kind of argument.

"Lukas hasn't said anything! It's what he's done. He tried to…" I made myself cry even harder then and a look of shock crossed Mr Newton's face, then panic that he would have to deal with this situation. He started to search around the room for a female teacher to help him deal with me.

Finally he caught the attention of Miss Jones and she came over quickly and I turned and hugged her, still faking well enough to get myself an Oscar. I had to focus on keeping my thoughts to myself. Mr Newton was struggling to explain to Miss Jones what he thought had happened, so I braced myself for the embarrassment of explaining what happened.

"Miss Jones" I began with a stutter, just for effect. "Lukas he… an empty class room… he tried to, then he asked me to…" Best to just let their imaginations lead them than to tell an outright lie. I looked up to see Seth smiling at me, then his eyes shifted to the doors behind me and a dark look came over his face. Lukas was back.

He surprised me by walking straight up to where I was with Miss Jones. "What the hell Nessie?" he shouted. "I just try to kiss you and … you… and the janit… Miss Jones, you have to believe me!"

"Well, yes Lukas, we would very much like to hear you explain why Renesmee came running back in here in tears" Miss Jones said very smoothly, obviously on my side already.

"She was in tears? She wasn't the one who was attacked by the Janitor when he turned into a giant DOG" he shouted, and I held my breath at the sudden silence around us. Time to get my game face back on.

I just gave my biggest, wide eyed innocent look I could manage and asked "He turned into a what?"

"A dog. You saw it Renesmee, don't deny it. He jumped at me and just kind of… exploded into a ball of fur and was like this massive… dog!" he was getting more confident in what he was saying, "Like a werewolf or something!"

"Seth?" I asked, letting a little giggle out. "Seth is a werewolf? Yeah, Lukas, ok. Fine. You didn't try to do anything inappropriate to me at all. You were attacked by a WEREWOLF" I made little air quotations around that word. "You know what Lukas? You're right, Seth is a werewolf and I'm a freakin' VAMPIRE!" I shouted and everyone around us started to laugh.

"Suck his blood Renesmee!" shouted one guy I didn't know.

"Get him Vamp-girl!" shouted a group of girls, making fake fangs with their fingers , as I continued to laugh, amazed at how good it felt to say it out in the open, even if everyone did think it was a joke.

JPOV

Surprisingly I ended up having a really good night just hanging out at the Cullen's. Emmett and Jasper arrived home about 30 minutes after Nessie had left so obviously there was nothing to report. They'd sneaked in to spy for a couple of minutes, but Jasper is never comfortable around so many humans apparently, so they headed home after watching Nessie dancing for a few minutes.

"Hey Jacob, little Seth sure did a good job of teaching our girl to move," Emmett teased. "Lukas was looking like all his Christmases had come at once. All the other guys were just stood around them drooling!" Low growls ripped from my chest, echoed by Edward. Emmett just laughed his ass off over that. After a bit more teasing Emmett carried another wide screen plasma tv downstairs so we could all play against each other and it turned brutal. Bella went upstairs with Alice and Rosalie to talk about whatever girls talk about.

Esme appeared a little while later with a huge bowl of spaghetti bolognaise for me, which last about 10 seconds before I got back to my game. For a dead woman she really knows how to cook. I didn't understand why she always felt the need to feed me when I come here, but there was not a chance in hell that I would ever ask her and risk losing her delicious food. I also worried that I might offend her and she's kind of become my young hot surrogate grandma, so I like to keep her happy.

After around 3 hours, Edward suddenly paused the game and shouted for Leah to come in. Leah? I asked silently and he just growled. Then suddenly it was all go. Edward screamed "No" and ran for the door, only to be caught by Jasper and Emmett. Oh crap, this had to be about Nessie.

"Leah, tell me now" I demanded, using my Alpha voice so she couldn't refuse.

"Well, Lukas was being a dirty little prick and Nessie... she had him under control, but Seth came in and she was distracted and ... Seth kind of attacked him, but they're all ok." She was clearly editing and I couldn't decide if I wanted to know the whole truth. With what she'd just told me I was already shaking with the urge to phase and go rescue her.

As Leah finished speaking the rest of the family arrived and Carlisle went straight to Edward and began to whisper to him, while Bella came to me, being the only vamp that was 100% off my kill radar, and hugged me tightly like she thought she could hold me there if she needed to. "Calm Jacob. Just be calm and lets listen to what Leah has to say" she tried to sooth me. "Leah could you explain what happened again for us but... you know... edit a bit." I didn't mind that she thought she could hide anything from me, I knew as soon as I phased I would get the full story.

"Well," Leah began nervously "Like I said, Lukas was being a dirty little prick, but Nessie, she was awesome, she totally had him pinned to a desk, but Seth rushed in and distracted her and... he kind of phased and jumped Lukas" I heard a collective gasp from around the room at the realisation that Seth had attacked a human.

"Seth attacked Lukas in Wolf form?" I asked, still dumbfounded that he would do that. It was so unlike Seth to overreact, that was usually my thing. But then I had a thought that really shouldn't make me happy but brought a smile to my lips anyway as I asked "Is Lukas dead?"

"No!" Leah shouted in a panic, probably worried about Seth's punishment. "Lukas fainted as soon as Seth hit him and Nessie dragged Seth straight off him. I don't think he even got a scratch." Leah was pleading with me now.

"See Jacob" Bella said, rubbing my arm to help me relax. "There is nothing to worry about. They have it under control I'm sure. And they'll be home soon, right Leah?" she asked and Leah was nodding excitedly.

I could feel Jasper trying to push a feeling of calm over us all but I refused to be subdued. I looked over to Edward and we locked eyes knowingly for a moment in understanding, We are going to get our Nessie! Unfortunately the 7 other vampires and the moody she-wolf in the room had other ideas.