Chapter 14

Ten wolves from the other Pack had joined us for the fight, making our numbers to twenty wolves. I couldn't help but look around the backyard amazed.
Sam led me down the steps towards Cora who was talking to a larger man, my throughs went straight to her brother.
Walking past a few of the other wolves, some of them nodded their heads in respect at me. I was puzzled for a moment until I realise it was because of my blood, Alpha ruling.

I was thankful to reach Cora and the rest of the pack with their imprints. Cora was bouncing on the balls of her toes in happiness, and Embry was watching her with the same energy. "Bella, this is my big brother Nathan."

Nathan and I shook hands. "It's a pressure to finally met you, and thank you for coming to our aid." I stood back and wrapped an arm around Sam.

"We only wish you'd do the same for us, if needed be." He said back smiling.

Jake stood up next to me from the bench he was sitting on. "Anytime." I heard the truth in Jakes words, but his body was telling me a different thing. He didn't like having another pack leader around. It was an Alpha thing, two leaders can't rule the same land.

I stood closer to Jake and spoke to Nathan. "So you have somewhere to stay?"

Before he could speak, Jake did. "Billy and Harry have made space for your pack at the town hall, why don't you check it out now? We can met up later and plan." Nathan looked like he wanted to say more, but didn't press that matter. He nodded his head, gave Cora a kiss and left with his pack through the trees.

"Ooo...I was waiting for a fight." Paul's eyes were lit up with excitement.

"I wonder who would win." Brady asked just as excited as Paul.

"Brady, Paul." I snapped at the two wolves sitting on the bench. "The fight isn't with them, it's with the vampires." The two didn't say anything expect share a look, while a grumpy Cora leaned against Embry with her arms crossed.

"You are talking about my brother." She hissed at the two boys.

I rolled my eyes at the idiots and headed back in the house, the rest followed excepting food.
Collin came running up beside me. "So who do you think would win, our pack or theirs?" He asked in a quiet voice, so Cora could hear him.

I gave him a huge grin. "Well, us of course." Like it was the most simplest question. He laughed before running ahead into the house.

Emily walks up beside me and smiled. "I'll help you make breakfast." I nodded my head thankfully. "If it helps, I think the two packs did well. Could have turned into a real problem."

"Yeah, that's what i'm afraid is going to happen." I opened the kitchen fridge.

"Gave them time." She said, pouring flouring in a mixing blow while I added milk.

"We don't have time." She stopped stirring and frowned at the bowl, before looking at me.

"We'll get through it." I wasn't sure if she was trying to convince me or herself.

I nodded anyway. "Of course we will." I looked over to the lounge room at the guys joking around, smiling at something Seth said. Would we all make it through?

"Bella?" I turned around to Emily and cracked the eggs into the mixing bowl.

"We'll make it." I whispered under my breath, taking another quick look behind my shoulder at Sam.

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"Sam, we need to be at that meeting." I was standing in front of him, in the empty house.

"And those boys need us." He knew my weak spot for children, and he was right. Those two boys needed us. "You know how close those boys could be to changing. They could do it anytime, and with the amount of vampires in town I'm surprised their still human." I nodded my head in agreement.

"Well if we're going to visit them, can we at least run instead of drive?" He grinned at me, before heading for the forest. "You should really carry a shirt." He stopped walking and finally walked into the house for a shirt, mumbling under his breath. I knew how hard it was to carry around so many clothes, but we need to look presentable and I don't think walking around shirtless would be a great idea.

He came back out with a shirt in his hands and walked into the forest with me following. I couldn't help but giggle when he threw the shirt on the ground before changing. I began unbuttoning my shirt, while watching him unzip and shorts, pulling them down his legs. Of course, no underwear.

I signed at the look of his back side, he turned his head over his shoulder and grinned at me. "We don't have time to play around Honey." I gave him a smile before taking my own shorts off and shifted into a wolf next to Sam.

He took off deeper into the forest, and I hurried after him. 'The other pack has been around.' He didn't sound too happy about the fact, our forest was staring to smell different. First the vampires and now the other pack.

'We need them.' I heard him give a mental sign. He pushed harder into the forest, making me speed up.

We came to the freeway and ducked under a bush, waiting for a clear shot to cross. 'Ready...' I moved closer up front to him, the muscles in my back legs ready to push off at any moment. 'Ready...Now.' We bolted from under the bush and run hard and fast across the road into the forest, running in the direction of the Port Angeles shopping centre. The place we were meeting the two boys and the co-worker.

The shopping centre came into view, we stayed hidden in the dark forest and shifted, changing back into our clothes. I tried to smooth out the wrinkles that appeared from running, and let out a frustrated groan when they wouldn't disappear. "Come on." I looked at Sam, and took hold of his hand. He looked worse than me, his shirt looked like mine except his had a wet patch on the side where he held it while running. I looked him from head to toe before staring at his feet, than mine.

"Sammy, we don't have shoes." I groaned at thought of how presentable we would look to the human eye.

He kissed the top of my head and started walking us to the stores. "We'll buy some thongs." I let out a relief sign and hugged him close to me. "It will be fine."

We were sitting at the front of the coffee shop to meet the boys, I could feel my nerves working up and the bright pink thongs didn't help. They were meant to be here five minutes ago.

Sam put a hand on my moving knee, and raised an eyebrow. "Nervous?" I rolled my eyes at his stupid question. "The freeway was busy, they'll be here..." His voice faded, looking behind me. "Speaking about the devils." He got up and shook hands with a middle age woman with dirty blonde hair, two young boys were standing behind her.

The woman turned to me, and stuck her hand out. "I'm Julia, you must be Bella." She gave me a calculating smile before turning to the two boys. "This is Court and Will." The woman waved them over, Court confidently walked while Will stayed slightly behind his brother. "Boys, this is Sam and Bella Uley." Uley? I looked over at Sam surprised, and he returned it with a cheeky grin.

I turned back to the boys, I could tell they were both weighting there opinions with us. The two boys were twins, but there was hardly a hint of it. Court had brown hair, while Will had Black. You could tell they hadn't gotten a hair cut for awhile, judging by the hair hanging in their face. Court was slightly tall than his brother, his green eyes looking for any threats. Will only edged closer to his brother while nervously looking around with brown eyes. They were around the same age as Collin and Brady, they looked like they've come from hell and back. "Why don't we get some lunch, and then you can look around the shopping centre?" They shrugged their shoulders at Julia and followed her into the coffee shop.

We grabbed our take away drinks and headed for the shops. The boys were busy drinking their milkshakes, while Sam and Julia talk up front, leaving me with the teenage boys. "Is it true that we're related to you?" Will asked from beside Court, earning a hit over the head by his brother.

"You can't just pop it out, we're not even meant to know." Court palmed himself in the face when he realised he said to much.

I couldn't help but smile. From the sound of it, these boys have been snooping through files. "What's this about being related to you?" That was the only surprise to me.

Will looked at his brother than down at the ground before answering. "Well it said something about a-a-a relation to one of the La-a-Pus-h guys." He was nervously mumbling under his breath, if I didn't have good hearing I wouldn't have heard it.

I didn't know anything about a relation, I remember Jared asking Old Quil the question, but he skipped around it. I looked over at Sam, I had a feeling he knows something about it.

"I don't know." I saw their faces drop and the hope shining in their eyes disappear. "But, you are somehow apart of this family." Will's face lit up and he hugged me. I couldn't believe the strength the boy had which scared me, their close.

I looked up at Court, he was staring at me curiously. No hug, no smile, but the spark in his eyes was enough to tell me it meant something.

Somewhere between playing video games in the arcade and joking around I fell in love with the two boys. It was sad to finally say goodbye, everyone's mood went downhill when Julia announced it. I went to hug Will, when he looked up at me with those big brown eyes. "Will you take us away with you?"

"Soon, Will." I gave him another hug before turning to Court. He seemed indifference to us leaving. "See ya later Court." I held my hand out for him, and he slowly grabbed it, giving it a squeeze and a shake.

"Bye." It was his short response before jumping into the back on the car where his brother was waiting.

Julia turned to us. "They seemed to have had a great day, we'll have to organise another meeting." She shook hands with us before hoping into the car and leaving.

Sam and I stood there, watching the car disappear into a tiny dot. "Their ready." He stated walking into the forest. I stood for a second later watching, until I followed him. He was already striping his clothes off, when I walked into the quiet trees.

I started takinging off my clothes until I remembered the question Will first asked. "Sam, Will said something about a relation to one of you." I turned around to look at him, and find a black wolf with its tongue rolled out. I stripped the rest of my clothes and shifted into a white wolf beside my imprint. 'Are you going to answer my question?'

He let out an annoyed growl. 'The elders haven't told us yet. Billy said its either Jake, Quil, Embry or Me.'

'How is that?'

'Remember Embry is a half brother to one of us, they think that's the connection.' I could tell he wasn't happy, he didn't know his parents so anything could be possible for him, for any of them.

I nudged him further into the woods and started running beside him. He started heading straight home. I picked up my speed and blocked him from running any further. He gave me a questionable look. 'We should go for a run.'

'We are running.' I growled at him, and he repaid it back. 'This isn't the time.' He snapped at me.

'Sam, just the two of us, nothing else.' I couldn't help the slight hurt in my tone, he never snaps at me.

'Bella, Honey.' His voice was softer, he walked towards me, nuzzling my neck. 'Just you and me.' I nuzzled him back before taking off in the opposite direction to the house.

I could hear Sam catching up to me. He nipped at my back legs, making me run faster. Kicking up the dirty and leave behind me, while my paws pounded into the ground. I took a turn left at the next tree and headed for the stream. Sam made a sharp turn and continued after me.

My paws just touched the dirt on the clearing when I was knocked to the ground, flat on my stomach with a heavy Sam over the top of me. He nipped at my neck and smiled down at me. I tried to sit up, but his strong legs kept me pinned to the ground. I let out a growl of frustration and stare at him.

He bent down and nuzzled my neck; I went to return the gesture when I felt Sam's body turn stiff. He let out a violent growl that vibrated through his chest. I turned my head back to look in the same direction. A large silhouette was standing at the edge of forest, another wolf. The wolf took a step closer and Sam growled a warning, standing over my whole body. The wolf looked interested with his head cocked to the side and his eyes scanning over us. Sam growled again, and took a step closer to the invader. The other wolf slowly stood up straight, and backed into the woods. Sam didn't move for awhile before he was sure the wolf had gone. 'Sam.'

'Home, now.' He nudged me towards the house, making me run in front of him. I run a steady pace next to Sam. 'The agreement this morning was, they stay on the other side of the forest. There are too many of us to be in the one spot.'

'And you don't want the other pack near the female wolf.' He looked sharply at me, telling me all I need to now.

'There has never being a female wolf before, they could be curious.' He growled the last words out. 'It's for everyone protection.'

'Why haven't I been told this?'

'Jake didn't want to bother you.'

'Sam, I'm second in command, if I don't know the rules or what is happening, how am I meant to look after the Pack?' He shook his head at me. Of course Sam and Jake are talking and planning, Sam was made third in command in the Pack.

I ignored Sam the rest of the way home, we were almost there when Sam took a turn right. I changed my direction and went after him. We were heading to Harry's house, I could smell Jake and Nathan in the backyard with a few others.

Sam shifted in mid air and landed on his feet, he was a man on a mission. He was even pulling his shorts on while walking around to the back. I chased after him and change in the forest, slipping on my shorts and singlet top before walking into the open.

When I entered the backyard, two packs of wolves were angrily shouting at each other, some wolves were even shaking with anger. Jake and Sam were in Nathans face, saying something about keeping his pack under control.

I run up in the middle the two leaders, putting space between. Jake backed down a little bit, when I came into view. Sam went to take a step forward to Nathan. "Sam, don't you dare think about it." I growled at him, he stopped behind Jake. Now that the group of boys had calmed down it was my turn. "Are you crazy! We're in a war, people are dying and all your doing is yelling at each other! Your letting the enemy win by not working together! Get over yourselves and act like men!" My heart was pounding in my ears when I finished my rant.

In a calmer voice I spoke to the two leaders. "Jake and Nathan, You are going to head inside and talk like adults. You're going to finish planning and be a leader." The two nodded their head and walked into the house, Sam started following. "Sam, your coming home with me, and the rest of you are going back to your places. God help me, if one of you put a foot out of line, you'll wish you were sent to hell." I grabbed Sam's hand and pulled him into the forest with me, we were heading home.

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AN: What are you thoughts on Court and Will? And the other pack? A little feedback would be nice to spark my enthusiasm to finish the story, we are so close to the final chapter.