HANNAHS POV
I'm not sure if it was because, I had fed on the rabbit the other day, or what. But when I tasted Seths lips with my tongue, I had no desire to kill him. I had no desire to feed, like I did with Paul.
I let my hand come to his hot chest, feeling the muscles that had formed on it.
Just as our tongues were going to meet, as our lips parted. My father called me from downstairs.
"Hannah! Can you please come downstairs?" he asked.
Both Seth and I pulled away, looking into each others eyes.
Should I be upset that my father spoiled my second kiss ever? Or should I be grateful, because I had feelings for Paul as well? One way or the other, I stood up, and cleared my throat.
Seth smiled, and caressed my hand.
"Come with me." I said.
He nodded and stood up, letting go of my hand, as he opened the door for me.
We both walked down stairs, I felt embarrassed, knowing my father knew what had just happened.
"Hannah, why is the dog inside the house?" my aunt asked.
"Alice." My father warned her.
I heard my aunt mumble something that I didn't catch, but I was sure, it was nothing good.
"Did Emmett start the fight?" my grandfather asked. He smiled at Seth and asked him how he was feeling.
Emmett was sitting down in a couch, his head down.
"No. Landon did, he's the one who threw himself at Emmett first. Emmett was just defending himself." I said. I was well aware that Emmett had provoked Landon. But they asked who started the fight, not the argument. GOT EM!
"Told you!" Emmett said, jumping on to his feet.
He started arguing with my mother again, about being careful. About his strength, about how he could have killed Landon.
I tapped my fathers shoulder.
"Can I get out of here? You know take a walk?" I asked.
"With Seth?" he asked, looking at him.
I nodded.
He gave Seth a look I can't describe, not a dirty one, but one I can't put a name to.
Seth cleared his throat. "I might have grown up Edward, and I might be a man. But my thoughts, and respects haven't changed."
"Really?" my father asked, I knew he was trying to challenge our kiss from a moment ago.
"Yes, yes, really. We'll be back." I said grabbing Seths wrist, and pulling him along with me.
"Be back before sun down!" my father warned.
I promised as I closed the door behind us. I let the warm beams of the sun hit me, as I stretched.
"Wow, I never took the chance to appreciate, exactly how beautiful the woods are." Seth said, walking up to a tree. He started admiring it, running his hands across its trunk. I smiled, as his wavy dark hair, bounced every time he turned his head. The way his arms muscles tightened on the sleeve of his shirt.
I walked slowly past him, walking into the woods, my hands cupped together in front of me. He had kissed me. My little wolf had kissed me.
"Whoa." I said, as I felt my body being picked up. He lifted me off my feet, and on to his shoulders. Almost like a child, with both legs over each shoulder, his head was between my legs. I felt like I could fall from this height, so I grabbed on to his hair.
"Does it hurt?" I asked him.
"Nah. I guess I found a use for my long hair now. Even though I hate it, I feel like a bum with it. I need to get it cut." He said, as he walked with me on is shoulders.
He started skipping, making me bounce around, causing me to giggle in hysteria.
"Hahaha, Seth stop. Put me down." I said still laughing.
He grabbed me by the waist, and put me back down on the ground.
I didn't look at him, but instead skipped over to a log. Smiling at him, he came over and sat next to me.
"Seth… did you know my mom, before she became a vampire?" I asked.
He played with my hair, pushing it behind my ear.
"Yeah. I actually didn't even know she had became a leech.. I mean a vampire."
"A leech? Hahaha, blood suckers? Hah, nice one." I said.
He smirked. "I became what I was, just before she gave birth to you, and your brother."
He stood quiet, and stared off into the space.
"Can you tell me what you remember?" I asked him.
"I don't think that's a good idea, its too depressing for such a moment." He said.
"Oh come on.. please? For me?" I asked him. I leaned over and kissed his cheek.
"I will.. some other day. Not today." He said.
"Promise?" I asked.
"Promise." He said.
We stood quiet for a while, when I finally started jumping around while I was sitting.
"Hey, hey… hey! Can you like.. change?"
"Change?" he asked.
"Yeah, you know. Like become a wolf?" I asked.
"I don't know.. I'm afraid to try." He said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because I'm afraid that if I phase… I won't be able to come back… and then I won't remember you, I won't remember this." He said.
"Oh come on. Please, please, please? Pretty pretty pleeeease?"
He looked away and bite down on his lip.
SETHS POV
It was a simple request to her, but to me, it felt like life or death.
What if I couldn't phase back? I didn't want to lose her.
But it was killing me to say no to her. I felt a great desperation, and guilt saying no to her. I felt like I was letting her down.
She looked down, giving up.
I finally sighed and started to take the Emmetts shoes, that Edward had gave me, off.
She looked up and smiled. "Really?"
"I have no choice." I said, taking my shirt off. "Just.. look away or something until I have phased."
"Oh.. right… naked." She said, turning around on the log.
I took the pants I was wearing off. And stood in the middle of the woods naked.
Oh lord, if Edward could see me now, I'd be dead. I thought to myself. And I wondered if he was able to hear my thoughts from far away.
I decided to not put much thought into it.
I cracked my fingers, and shook my hands hard. Trying to relax my shoulders.
Okay Seth, you can do this. You have done it before. Phase, phase.
I tried remembering how exactly to do it. It had been such a long time, that I felt like I probably wouldn't be able to do it anymore.
"Are you phased yet?" Hannah asked. Her back still to me.
"Not yet." I said, trying to control my anger. I was starting to get frustrated.
Come on Seth, phase. I closed my eyes, held my breath, and starting pushing my body to phase…. Nothing.
PHASE! I screamed in my head. I felt a bolt of heat in my body as the anger consumed my it, and pain joined along with it.
"Ugh." I said through gritted teeth. I fell to the ground, on all four. My hands balled together. I could feel my body trembling. My body felt like it was on fire.
"Seth?" Hannah asked.
I felt her hand on my back, as she touched it. "Seth are you okay? Seth?!"
"Get… away." I said through gritted teeth.
"Oh my god… this is my fault…" she said.
I felt my bones cracking, as they began to separate, my body began to get larger, it felt like I was inflating, like if at any second, I would explode open.
I had forgot how painful, the first times it was.
As Hannah began touching my forehead, I could feel my senses frenzy. I could hear things more clearer and louder, and my sense of smelling was stronger.
As Hannah brushed her hand past my cheek, I caught a whiff of her. But it wasn't her.. no this scent smelled different from her… familiar though.
I had smelled it before. Somewher. In between the agonizing pain, memories of my past began to sweep at me.
I remembered the first time I phased, the pain, the feeling of fright. Sam finding me and my sister, taking us into his pack. School… the girls and guys who used to pick on me, until I changed… then they wanted to either be with me, or be me. Jacob… and his rollercoaster soap opera emotions with Bella…
As the pack came into my mind, I was able to remember how each of them looked, how each sounded… and how each smelled… Paul…she smelled like Paul.. but why? And then it came, the reason I became trapped for all these years, the night they abandoned me. The night they called me a traitor, and beat me. I never thought they would ever do such a thing, but the memory was much more clearer, then that very night.
I grunted loudly as the memories faded away, I closed my eyes as my bones began to crush together again, I had almost phased into a wolf, but was now back to my human self.
I kept my palms flat on the ground, I could feel wood chips welding marks into my palms. I could hear myself, as I panted loudly, almost like a dog.
"Seth?" Hannah asked cautiously.
"Hannah… how do you know Paul?" I asked looking up at her.
"What?" she asked shocked.
"Paul… how do you know Paul?" I repeated.
"How.. how do you know, I know him?" she asked.
"I smelled him on you." I said.
" I.." she sounded nervous.
My thoughts began to run wild.. could she possibly be involved with him? Why was she so nervous?
I snatched my boxers from the ground, and waited until she turned around, until I began to cloth my self again.
I waited until I had put my shoes back on, until I walked up to her and turned her around.
"Are you… seeing him?" I asked her.
"I…" her eyes began to water.
I could feel my anger rising. Hannah is mine, mine, MINE!
I started to tremble viciously. Why wasn't she answering me?
"Hannah, are you seeing Paul?" I asked again.
She backed away slowly, until she was sitting back on the log.
"No… we're friends… he asked me to be his girlfriend." She said slowly.
Girlfriend? His girlfriend? There was no way I was going to allow that. Especially Paul. Paul didn't like anyone, he only thought of himself always. He's only going to use her, and hurt her. I knew Pauls little games, and he wasn't going to play it on my Hannah!
"AND YOU SAID?" I asked loudly. I didn't mean to shout. But the pain was starting to kick in hard, as my bones began to part, my head felt like it would explode soon.
"I didn't give him an answer."
That did it, that was the only thing she had to say, before I felt a mass of fur erupt from my skin. It felt like a million needles coming out my skin. I towered over Hannah even more now.
She looked at me amazed, but I also sensed fear in her.
She didn't give him an answer!? DIDN'T GIVE HIM AN ANSWER!? She was actually considering it!
I sniffed the air sharply, and caught Pauls scent on her again. A major part of me felt like going on a rampage in these woods. But I knew I could accidentally hurt her. So I ran, I ran away from her, and towards La Push. It was time to pay my brothers a visit.
I didn't care if someone might see me, I didn't even care that I had left Hannah all alone in the woods. All I knew, was that I wasn't going to let Paul take her from me. She was mine, and only mine. I wasn't going to let history repeat itself, I wasn't going to be Edward.
I looked over my shoulder, and was actually quite surprised that Hannah hadn't followed, but was very grateful for it.
As the territory line came to view, I leaped high in the air and crossed over it, landing on La Pushes side, and storming on through the woods.
PAULS POV
"PAUL! JAKE! WAKE UP!"
I punched the air, trying to get John.
"Fuck off John." I said turning around on the couch.
"Come on wake up! Brady said someone coming!"
"You tell Brady, that I don't give a hell about what he and Alexa are doing. Now go away." I said.
I could hear Jacob chuckle, followed by a yawn.
"No, not in that way! I mean, while Brady and I were our rounds with Embry, we sensed someone coming. Embry and Brady went to see who it was, Embry sent me to tell you two." He said pulling at my arm.
I punched the air, and managed to hit him. I heard him moan in pain.
"JAKE! PAUL! SETHS CROSSED THE LINE! HE'S COMING HOME! SETHS COMING HOME!" Embry stormed into the house excited.
"What? Why didn't you tell us you dimwit." I said, smacking the back of Johns head.
"I tried." He said cupping his nose with both hands.
I turned to look at Jacob, we both had the stupid big grin he regularly had.
"He remembered us." I said happy.
"He's coming home." Jacob said.
"He's coming home." Embry repeated.
"Whos' coming home? Who is this guy?" John asked.
"He's an old pack member." Jacob said quickly.
I wasn't sure if he went on explaining even more, because I had walked around John, and out the door past Brady.
I was actually looking forward to seeing Seth again. It had been so long. I know that I had done him wrong, along with Jacob and Sam- may his spirit rest. But things were in the past. All that would change now, especially now that I have met Hannah. If he hadn't been one of the few who were protecting her being, then I wouldn't have been able to have met her. I had to thank him.
I could see a dark figure running through the woods, I stepped down the steps and to the front lawn of Jacobs house.
I spread my arms, waiting for him to hug me. The same stupid grin I had inside, still on my face.
As he came to the clearing from the woods, he continued to run at full speed at him. Wow he must really want to accept my hug. He leaped up in the air, and phased.
With my arms still spread, waiting for the hug that didn't come. I took his fist straight to my nose. I heard my nose make a loud cracking noise. Followed by blood flowing out. As I fell backwards, I cupped my nose with my hands, quickly coating them with fresh blood.
"FUCK! My nose! What the hell?" I asked Seth. I could feel my eyes tearing in the pain.
Before I knew it, Brady had phased and was attacking Seth.
Neither got a good clean hit, to the other, because Jacob had took a good hold on Seth.
As I got up, I could hear Jacob telling Brady and John to chill out.
"What the fuck?" I asked Seth. I let my head hang, so the blood could fall straight down, instead of, down my chin.
"Let me go Jacob!" I heard Seth say, his voice, to say the least like his appearance, had changed. His voice was deeper then I remembered it had been. And he looked like he had bulked up even more.
"Seth, what's your problem?" Jacob asked him. It looked like he was struggling to even hold Seths arms, behind his back.
"Stay away from Hannah Paul. I'm warning you." Seth said to me.
I looked up at him, causing the blood to drip down my chin, and neck.
"What?" I asked him.
"You stay away from Hannah, Hannah is mine you hear me? She's mine. I imprinted on her, not you. I love her." He was still trying to get away from Jacobs grasp.
Jacob glared at me, "Did you know he had imprinted on her?"
"No." I said.
"Who's Hannah?" Brady asked.
Jacob glared at him, shutting him up.
"I love her too!" I said to him. I knew I liked her, but love.. that's a huge step… I wasn't sure why I said it, since I wasn't even sure about it. But saying it, made the words feel so real.
"Bullshit Paul, BULLSHIT!"
I was taken a back just as much as Jacob was, when we heard Seth curse. Seth curse!?
"I know the little games you like to play with girls like Hannah, but not her Paul. Not my Hannah. You don't even deserve her as friend! You tried killing her, you were desperate to kill her! I stood by her families side, I stood by her side. Do you really think she will forgive you when she finds out?"
"She knows." I said. Jacob gave me a puzzled look. I hadn't told him.
"Oh yeah? What does she know?" Seth asked.
"She knows I tried killing her family, she knows what I am, she knows what I was made for. And she doesn't care. She likes me too. And you know what? Not you, or anyone is going to stop me from making her my girl." I said turning away, and heading towards Jacobs house. I had to clean this nose up.
"Oh yeah? Well does she know that you tried killing Bella, while she was pregnant with her and her brother? Does she know you killed her father? I bet you don't even love her, I bet you're just saying that because you know I love her. You were always a competitive person. Well guess what? You're going to lose this one." he shouted after me.
I stopped and turned around. Storming towards him, Jacob let go of him and tried stopping me, but he didn't do it fast enough. I punched Seth across the face, just like he had done to me, he also fell back to the ground.
"No one is ever going to tell her. You think I'm afraid of you? Try my Seth. You want to play dirty, I'll play dirty too."
He spit some of the blood that had formed in his mouth, at me.
I spit back at him. "Welcome home brother." I said sarcastically.
A/N Don't forget to check out the cover of this story, in my profile.
It features: Hannah, Paul, and Seth.
