I woke to the sound of a sort of ruffling. I frowned for a moment, feeling sort of disconcerted. I looked around, unable to resist the cheesy smile that grew as i gazed at Paul. He was still asleep, but it looked as though he had felt me wake up. That seemed unusual somehow. I didn't think Shifters were light sleepers. Paul did seem different though, but i didn't know many Shifters, so i couldn't say. There whole Pack seemed weird. Maybe it was just because of how uneducated they seemed to be.
I pulled on some shorts and another tank top, before slipping out the door silently. I heard movement behind me, turning to see Isabel. "Morning," she said glancing at the window.
"Coffee?" i asked, eyebrows raised.
"Coffee," she said nodding in agreement. Both of us moved down the stairs, and another door opened behind us. Both of the twins emerged and all of us had the same thought in mind. The damn coffee.
We all sat quietly, watching the sun begin to rise. We'd all woken up around the same time, and slowly one by one the rest of the house appeared to be as well. Paul entered the room, gravitating straight towards me without a thought. He kissed my forehead, throwing me a smile before getting his own coffee.
The coffee machine was in a corner on the shelf, the fridge taking up the right side of it. Jake stood there, taking his time getting his coffee made. I could feel the annoyance in the air and several of us noticed the big shit eating grin on his face. "Hurry up," Paul said, and then nudged him. When Jake didn't budge they started pushing one another to get to the space. Bell just stared amused and rolled her eyes.
"Get out of the way Jacob!" Paul said, as both of them began jostling even more. We all watched, wondering what they were going to do next.
"I would if you'd quit being impatient!" he retorted, a little breathless. Paul took his chance, hip checking him and was shoved out of the way. All of us had glanced at Jacob but i caught onto the smirk the twins were wearing.
"There, that's all i wanted you ass," Paul said, moving to stand next to me. He had this devious look in his eyes and i suddenly found myself wondering what he'd done.
"Are you going back to school today B?" i asked, before could respond Jake had spat out his coffee and was gagging.
"Jesus, you do make bad coffee dont you?" Gwen asked smirking at Isabel, having just entered the room.
"You asshole," Jake said to Paul, face red and still gagging. Paul had this obvious and overly innocent expression on his face.
"Whatever do you mean?" he asked sweetly, unable to contain a smirk.
Jake leapt at us, and i side stepped as they collided and went straight into the living room. Cole and Connor were snickering, "what'd he do?" Bella asked, not looking too impressed.
"He put the entire container of salt into his coffee when we weren't looking," i snickered slightly, and took a sip of coffee to keep from laughing.
"Very mature Luna," Isabel said, clearly unimpressed.
"Sorry," i said for her benefit. "You never answered my question. You going back to school?"
She pondered that for a moment, when Jake went flying through the room and into the hallway on the opposite side. Paul collided with him before he even hit the ground. "Yeah, i think i should. I dont want people to start asking more questions then they already are."
"Alright, well, when class is out i'll pick you up and we'll go to your vampires, sound good?" she nodded a jerkily.
"Just dont pick any fights, please?" she asked, frowning at me now.
"I wont start a fight," i appeased. Neither of us commented on whether or not i would reciprocate if i was attacked, we didn't need to. I was defensive now, i could fight instead of run.
"I'm going to get ready then, we should talk to Charlie, let him know what's going on," she said hesitantly.
"Whose Charlie?" Zack asked, as confused as the rest of us. We all knew pretty much the same people.
"Reese had a cousin named Charlie that lives out here. She told him that i was a daughter of her friends, that i was in trouble and i needed a place to hide out," more creative then what i went for. I just took off, didn't even think to get help. Bell always was resourceful like that.
"Smart," Brandon said, having come out of his conversation with Adam.
"I'm going to get ready," she said to me, i nodded, having most of my attention on Adam and Brandon. Both of whom had similar looks on their faces.
"What's going on?" i asked uncomfortable with there expressions of worry.
"get rid of-," both Paul and Jake entered the room, covered in mud and soaked.
"What did you do?" i asked in disbelief. It wasn't even raining out.
"He shoved me into a ditch, that's what," Jake said coldly.
"You charged," Paul said defensively, they glared at each other. They took a calming breath, "we have to go check in with Sam and the Pack, but i'll come back in a bit, is that okay?"
"Yeah, sure thing," i said a little sad he was leaving so soon. I got the feeling that's who Brandon had wanted to get rid of. We couldn't put too much trust into the Shifters though. They all communicated through telepathy and i didn't know, let alone, trust there pack.
We all waited silently, and Brandon spoke first. "We believe we need to contact the rest of the pack. There thirty six of us when we split up, we need to find each person and bring them here, or somewhere safe. If were all being hunted it's only a matter of time before were found. All of us together is dangerous enough."
"Were all defenceless alone, we dont have any weapons, nothing, the only one capable of fighting is Luna," Connor said pointedly.
"Which is why we need to reverse whatever curse was laid on us. As we re-group chances are were going to be attacked sooner rather then later. If were all going to re-gain our wovles as well as any abilities we had, it has to be now," Gwen said, already understanding where Brandon was going with this.
"First we need to figure out who laid the curse who put the hit on us, we all thinking the same thing?" Nate asked.
"Yeah, it has to be the Council, now either one of the pack knows something they dont want them to know, or someone really does have whatever 'It' is, even if it's not them, any information we need can be found with them," i said evenly. "Isabel and i had been planning to break into the library, see what we could find."
"The Vancouver house is probably packed right now, it's halloween," Cole said frowning at us.
"Perfect," David said, having not spoken until now. Couldn't blame him, stuck in a house full of people who used to be your family and hate you now. "Humans go to that celebration all of the time, we can get in."
"Only certain humans get to go, and there eaten," i pointed out, though he was onto something.
"Exactly, humans with vibrant souls and healthy bodies. We may not be able to shift anymore, but were still wolves. Regardless of whatever species we may be, were always in pristine health. They never actually see the faces of the humans. All we do is intercept the ones that are picked, switch places and go in."
"The soul part?" Zack asked next.
"Glamour, they wont look for a glamour on a bunch of sacrifices. Why would a human know of a spirit glamour strong enough to cover a soul, and they wont expect a human to glamour to be sacrificed. It's perfect," i said, giving David an appreciative look. I couldn't hide my skepticism though.
"Halloween is in six days, who will make the glamour, none of us have any useful magic, let alone enough power to make a glamour to cover all of us and Adam isn't exactly good at magic," Nate pointed out.
"I'll make it," i said shrugging. "There's clearly something different about me, that means power."
Everyone thought that over for a moment and Adam pulled out his cellphone. "You need to see these," he said, passing the phone to Brandon first. I assumed the pictures were the ones of me unconscious.
As Adam gave them whatever details he could about the forms i had taken on as well as the attack, Bella had re-entered the room clean and re-dressed. "I'll be at your school when class is over."
She nodded, lost in thought as she filled a travel mug. "Did anyone else have any weird dreams last night?" she asked suddenly.
"Define weird," Adam said eying her. we all were. She shifted under all of the attention, clearly uncomfortable. I nodded at the door and she followed as we moved out onto the front porch.
"What's going on Isabel?" i asked, weary of her answer. Unusual dreams were normal, so when someone mentioned a weird dream, i couldn't help but worry. Weird was usually dangerous.
"I had this crazy dream," she said a little shaky. "I didn't clue in as to what i was seeing until just now, never got much of a chance to think about it. But it was you."
"Me?" i repeated, even more worried. "What do you mean?"
She hesitated, "i saw you. You were running and standing in this big pool of water. Sam attacked you."
"Sam attacked me in water?" i said, wondering why that felt familiar.
"Sam is a black wolf, and you looked like you when you were with Aleera, but different. When i watched, it was like i was watching from your side. But there was glow inside of you, like only i could see it. Sam had a glow too, but it was sort of murky, and shaky, not as big as yours. His was sort of green, but you were this blue color, and it was getting bigger. Then he had leapt at you and that was about it," she had a strange look on her face. She was leaving something out. I pursed my lips, waiting for her to tell me what was really bothering her.
She said nothing, looking away and then back at me in fear. "Bell, tell me what's wrong," she swallowed thickly.
"I keep seeing this things," i gave her a weird look and she rolled her eyes. "When i woke up and i saw you, you had the light thing glowing on you. I keep seeing them, on everyone. Sam, Jake and Paul were all different shades of green, but they were green. Adam was this red color, but sort of dark red, but a solid color."
"Everyone else?" i asked, assuming she was reading what we were.
"We all seem to be this light purple color," she shook her head. "i keep glimpsing it and then it's gone."
"What about you?" i asked, wondering whether or not she had some sort of color.
"I was white, just white," i raised my eyebrows, but we stood quietly for a moment. She was scared. "One minute it's there and the next it's gone."
I suddenly got a weird feeling, a protective feeling. "Isabel i need you to do exactly what im about to tell you, alright?" she gave me a weary look but nodded once. "Tell no one about what you told me. If anything like this happens, anything at all, you tell me and no one else. Not over the phone, not with a text or a note. If anything strange happens that you haven't experienced before, you come straight to me and tell me."
"Is something wrong with me?!" she asked, voice frantic.
"No, nothing is wrong with you, i just dont want anyone jumping to the wrong conclusions," i said evenly. She nodded, and took a deep breath. "Okay?"
"Yeah, but if you find something out, tell me?"
"Of course," i said, giving her a smile.