Chapter 13

I was baking a cake while Sam was hugging me from behind, trying to scoop some of the mixture from the bowl. "Sam." I slapped his hand away. I felt a trail of feather kisses on my neck. "Sam, behave."

He stopped trying to eat the mixture. He put his head on my shoulder and hands on my waist. "Shouldn't you be doing your science homework?" I was avoiding it by cooking the guys some cakes.

"I should be, but i'm not."

"You've only got half a year left."

"It's not like i'm going to need a degree for shifting into wolf." This had always been a rocky subject for us. Sam had finished school, gotten a degree and was heading for the real world, away from La Push. But fate didn't want that.

"Things can change Bella." I turned around in his arms when I heard the tone in his voice.

"What's wrong?" He shook his head and pulled me closer to him. He breathed in my scent, and I could feel his tense muscles relaxing.

"I'm going to help them." We've had this conversation nearly every night since the elders told us. "Bella?" He had told me of his plan a couple of nights ago and his given me time to think about it, now he wanted an answer.

I nodded my head and he kissed my head happily before walking to the door. "I'm going to catch up with Billy, I'll see you at dinner."

"I'm patrolling tonight, dinner will be in the fridge!" I yelled back at him, he was already out of the house.

Thinking over Sam's plan scared me more than I would like to admit. Looking after someone is a big responsibility. Sam and I agreed on sharing the load, we'll become parents before i'm finished school or married.

I opened the oven door and put the cake in, I put the dishes in the dish washer and flopped down onto the couch. I was tired from patrolling, we never seem to find them but we could smell them. Forks and La Push are stinking with vampires.

The towns people don't wander around in the dark anymore, the doors are close at sundown. They know something's out there, but they don't know what.

Jake had being taking his job as alpha seriously. I know his stressed about being the leader of a pack, but he was made for it. When Sam was helping Jake with the pack, he hardly had to do anything. It just came to Jake naturally.

Everything had change so much, the world seemed to be spinning out of control. I sat on the couch listening to the world continue, while our was racing. The cars driving past Sam's house and the soft voices of people far away. The sound and smell of the forest was the best, it always made me clam. I closed my eyes and relaxed into the soft couch.

It wasn't long until I could hear paws running. It was one of the boys, younger ones. We're quiet animals but the sound of paws hitting the ground is different. The older boys are louder. This one was soft, probably Seth or Collin, Brady is wild compared to the other two.

The paws changed into feet and someone was running up the stairs on the house. "Bella!" Seth was standing at the door looking excited.

"Come for a run." Seth started pulling me off the couch, I turned off the oven. "Brady and Collin are waiting for us at the gorge." I let him drag me out of the house and we raced to the gorge.

'Bella!' Brady and Collin stopped fighting once Seth and I entered the clearing.

'I can see you two are having fun.' I smiled at the two dirty wolves in front of me. Collin shook his head happily and Brady attacked Collin. The two started rolling on the ground wrestling. 'Go play Seth.' He smiled at me before joining the boys.

I gave the boys one last look before walking back into the trees to find something to do. I didn't get far before I heard a panicked howl. I run back to the clearing to see two female vampires crouched down, ready to attack the three wolves.

One vampire jumped at Collin, I jumped at her and slide us both into a tree. The young vampire shook her head and hissed at me. I almost went into shock when I realised I'd seen that face before, in my dream. It was the young girl who got bitten by the redhead vampire. I was snapped back to the present when she kicked me further into the ground.

She went to help her friendbut I jumped up and ripped her arm off, she let out a painful high pitched scream and turned around to me with angry red eyes. I could hear the other three handling the brunet female, there were a few yelps but I didn't let it distract me.

The vampire run straight for me, and I run at her. I was sure I could rip her head off this time. She was a metre away from me, when she jumped over my head and run her sharp fingers down my back; it felt like a set of knives had gone through me. I let out a howl and felt my back legs give out when she dug her fingers in deeper at the end. I could already feel it healing, and the blood flowing from my cuts stopping.

I got back up and looked around for her. She was hanging from the tree with a smile on her face. I growled at her and she let out a high pitched laugh. She was enjoying this, the scared girl from my dream wasn't there anymore.

I started to run at her and she took off into the forest, jumping onto tress and another, looking like a monkey. I set out, chasing after her. I felt the rest of the Pack shift, running towards the gouge.

I followed her, hoping that she'd soon drop to the ground from and I could have my chance with her. I could feel the blood pumping through my veins, the adrenaline making me push that much faster to catch her.
I heard them before I saw them, the Pack was close behind. I could only think of one thing, she was mine.

I could tell she wasn't going to be fair and come to the ground anytime soon, so I jumped onto a large rock and jumped at the next tree she was going to land. She was already on the next tree, and I missed her by a few minutes. I fell onto the ground, knocking me off balance for a minute from the impact.

Embry and Brady flashed past me towards my prey; I growled and jumped back up into action. I was far enough behind to be running with the rest of the Pack. 'Got her.' Brady's voice rang out happily in our heads. I wasn't sure if I was happy or not, she was my prey.

When we reached Brady and Embry, they had her pinned down with her legs ripped off. She was hissing and still trying to run, even though she had no hope. Jake stepped forward and pushed her back into the ground when she tried to escape. Instead of hissing at us, she started laughing. Laughing like a loony person. Jake growled at her to shut up. "You stupid dogs." She hissed at the word 'dogs'. Paul growled at her this time, I could feel his patience about to run out. "She didn't think it would be this easy." She laughed again, shaking her head side to side. "You fell for it."

Her words seemed to echo in everyone's minds. 'Let's get out of here.' Jake ripped the vampires head off. We turned around to head home, when another voice echoed around us. "And where do you think you're going?" I'd know that voice anywhere. We couldn't see her but we could smell...

'I can smell more than one.' Seth moved closer to the Pack feeling nervous.

'Stand your ground.' We didn't need Jake to tell us, we already knew. Moving closer together in a circle, our tails in the middle, we could see everything around us. We didn't have much room, the forest was dark and the trees were closer together, making it harder to move. "I do love a game." Her voice echoed through the trees, followed by hissing vampires.

It was silent for awhile, occasional sound would be heard, until we could finally see them. The red eyes shining in the darkness, when they stepped out of the shadows they sparkled. 'They don't look to threatening now.' The nervous, tense atmosphere in the Pack eased with the humours comment from Embry.

There were about a dozen vampires surrounding us, a vampire for each of us and a couple left over for whoever. The vampires edged closer to us. I looked around at the situation we had ourselves in, I was positive we could win.

Something caught the corner of my eye, a flash of red. High in a tree away from the fight was a vampire, she was just sitting there while her army of newborns fought for her.

I casted a quick look to Sam, he was standing next to Jake looking strong and fierce. Nothing would happen to him, I wouldn't let it. 'Focus Bells.' Jake said without taking his eyes off the two vampires in front of him. I followed his example and watched the young black man walking closer towards me. 'Let's take these bitches down.' Paul didn't wait for anyone, he jumped at his vampire and the fighting began.

The vampire lunged at me and wrestled us to the ground. He clawed at my fur, while I pulled my left paw back and kicked him off into another vampire who was fighting Jared. The vampires got up and hissed before attacking again. He came running at me and I bit into his side and ripped out his stomach while he run past, he shattered into pieces like glass.

I didn't get a chance to look around when another vampire grabbed onto my back, ripping out my own fur. I let out a howl and rolled onto my back, trying to get the vampire off. I could feel it digging deeper into my back while the vampire tried to stay on. My fur was starting to soak with blood, it couldn't heal itself. I stopped rolling on the ground trying to catch my breath, when I howled in pain. The top of my ear had been bitten off. I went to turn my head to rip its face off when I felt the heavy weight of the vampire being taken off.

My black wolf, My Sam, sat beside me and nuzzled into my neck before he started cleaning my fur. I sat there breathing heavy, while I laid in my own blood and let my body heal itself. My ear was the last to heal, but it still didn't feel right.

Jake stood in front of me while the others cleaned up, dragging limbs of shattered vampires to the bright fire. 'She got away.' I put my paw over my face. I really didn't want to hear that. 'She ran away before the last couple of vampires died.' I didn't answer, my body felt tired. 'Are you alright Bells?' Jakes voice was soft this time. Sam stopped licking for a second before continuing, interested in the answer.

'Yeah.' My voice came out tired and hollow. The boys had finished cleaning, waiting around for what to do next. Jake didn't answer straight away, he was staring at me.

'Head home. Bella go see Sue.' I shook my head 'no', and got up on shaky legs. Sam was stood up in flash looking at me like I might fall down. 'Bella.' I could hear the warning in Jakes voice.

'I can look after myself, I just need to go home.' The boys shook their heads at me before running home, Jake stayed a little longer watching me before going home himself. Sam slowly walked beside me while I limped towards home. I could tell he wanted to say something but kept his mouth shut.

We didn't get far when I stopped and laid down onto the ground. Sam nuzzled me before stepping back and shifting into a human. He knelled beside me and stroked my fur. "Change for me, Love." I did as he said and it took most of my energy to shift into a human.

Sam pulled me into his arms and started running home. I wrapped my arms around his neck and laid my head on his bare chest. I let the warmth and darkness take over.

...

The sound of running water filled my ears, bring me back to the present. I looked over to the sound of water, the bath. Sam was running a bath, and he was now wearing a pair of shorts. He turned the water off and helped me into the warm bath. I could hear people walking into the house. "Sam." Jakes voice was heard. Sam looked at the bathroom door and turned back to look at me. "I'll be back." He kissed me on the top of the head before leaving.

My body felt disconnected, but I could still feel the pain. I wiped a patch of dry blood off my arm, adding to the already light pink coloured water.

Someone came into the bathroom, but it wasn't Sam. Sue. I should have known better, of course they would send her over to Sam's house. She knelt beside the bath tub and grabbed the face washer, she started cleaning off the blood. Sue didn't say anything which I was thankful for, she just cleaned every part of my body til it was back to the pale white skin I was born with.

Somehow I was able to move and stepped out of the bath; she wrapped a huge towel around me and led me out of the bathroom and cross the hall to Sam's bedroom. I caught a smell while crossing the hall and realised that the Pack was sitting in Sam lounge room with their imprints.

Sue sat me down on the bed after I dried off and started check my body for injures. Her cold fingers run up and down my back, than she moved to the front of my body. She looked at my face, moving it from side to side. She turned my head to the right and stopped, pushing my brown hair back, her fingers traced the top of my ear. Dropping her hand, she smiled and stood up. "You seemed to have healed. The muscle in your back will seem a bit sore, but after a nights rest, you'll be back to your old self tomorrow morning." She walked over to the door. "I'll send Sam in." Before she could close the door, Sam was already standing there. I should have known he was listening, the whole Pack probably was.

Sam walked over to his draws and started looking for one of his shirts. "Sam." He stopped searching and looked up at me. I shook my head and patted the bed next to me. He closed the draw and sat down, pulling me close into his warm body.

"Sleep?" His deep voice broke the silence of the room. I nodded my head and he pulled us further up the bed and under the covers. My voice was barely a whisper. "Shorts." I heard the zip and fabric being thrown onto the floor. He wrapped his arm around me, spooning us. "Better?" His mouth pressed against my ear and kissed me when I nodded 'yes'.

I just wanted us, nothing holding us apart. No vampires, no school, no family and no clothes. Just him, that's what I needed.

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It wasn't the light coming from the open curtain or the stiff muscles that woke me up; it was the cold empty space next to me. Sam was gone, it left strange waking up without him. When I looked around the room, I realised the empty space beside me wasn't the only different thing. New smells and new voices were heard from outside.

Before I could get to search out the new things and find my imprint, Sam opened the bedroom door carrying the new smell on him. He came in smiling and kissed me on the lips. "What's that smell?"

"Reinforcements." I raised an eyebrow at him. "Cora has been speaking with her brother lately." Her brother is another Pack leader. "They have heard about our problems." Sam gave me a strange look. "You didn't dream about it?" I shook my head.

"Must have been made at the late minute." And I was in no shape to be dreaming last night.

"Well we're accommodating some of the Pack, the rest are sharing with the other guys."

"Wait? The whole Pack is here." He shook his head.

"Only half, they didn't want to leave their home defenceless, but the extra numbers will help. The more of us, and the less chance of anyone getting hurt." I could tell he was hinting at me. Yesterday was a mistake, it won't happen again. "Come on, Cora is dying for you to met her family." I pulled on some clothes and put my hair up in a messy bun, and took Sam's hand to follow him out to the backyard.

When we stood in the doorway of the backyard, I felt a spark of excitement and hope run through me. Wolves and people were spread over the yard, two Packs joined together.

She wanted a war, and one was heading straight for her.
Game on.

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AN: Sorry I haven't updated in ages and I feel bad for it but hopefully this made up for the time. The next chapter will be up as soon as I can figure out how to write the words on the paper.