Hi so here is another chapter, i hope this clears some of the events of the last chapter up. This is a slow burn relationship but i think in another three chapters Paul should learn the truth.

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Next Chapter from Rachel's point of view.

I Would For You

Paul/Rachel Fanfiction-When Rachel Black left La Push nearly four years ago to go to college she was carrying a secret. When she returns to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of her brother's disappearance she has no idea of what fate has in store for her and the effect it has on her life.

Chapter 8-An Honest Mistake

Paul's Point Of View

There was a split second when I transformed and then everything went blissfully blank. Thankfully I wasn't alone. Within a second of transforming Embry was there along with Quill and they both ran at the wolf, the kid really…Jeremy dragging him back through the bushes by the skin of his almost dark blueish fur. The kid was panicking hysterical and I couldn't help but feel a twinge of pity even though he was responsible for ruining the moment between me and Rachel.

Now I had to go and explain everything. God I hoped she'd let me finish rather than run out the door before I even got a chance to explain. Jackson had done what any young wolf would have done…hell he'd done exactly what I would have done in the same situation. He'd taken a time-bomb just waiting to go off and managed to deflect it onto himself while all the while looking for help. Honestly the kid had done better than I'd thought he would.

"Really?" Jackson asked his voice cautiously hopeful in my head. "I did the right thing?"

"Course you did" Embry said roughly Jeremy now a crumpled heap at his feet his wolf body still twisting. Gotta give it to the kid for an eleven year old boy he had a good grasp on the finer points of swearing.

Jackson snorted under his breath pawing at the ground. Then I realised something.

"What happened to Rachel?"

"Your girl fainted" Jackson said with all the tack of a bullet to the head.

"WHAT!" Embry shouted as I snarled turning back into human form disregarding the fact that I was naked in the middle of the woods. The newest wolf covered his eyes with his paws.

Kids.

"I gotta go" I said to Embry's wolf who nodded his big shaggy head. Embry wasn't stupid, he could handle the wolves, both Jackson and the newest one even as I sprinted back up the path.

God I hoped the kid hadn't just left her there on the floor.

It turned out that he hadn't. Rachel was sat in the kitchen. She'd gotten changed into her jeans and jumper again and more to the point I'd seen that she'd gotten my bottle of cheap (and hey Sam had been the one that had gotten me work) scotch in front of her and had poured herself a shots worth.

"I'm sorry" I confessed.

It was perhaps the most shit excuse I had come up with in my entire life but as far as I was concerned I was. Desperately sorry.

"I know the legends" Rachel said effectively cutting off what I thought was my own reasoning. My own telling of the story. Because of course this was Billy Black's daughter. This was the woman who had grown up knowing every inch of the legends that we had known regardless of her statue in the pack. This was the woman who had broken all laws without even trying who had seen without meaning to, who I know had to explain this too.

"I suppose that you might have questions" I said finally before kicking myself because of course she had questions. Of course she would, she had just seen me turn into a wolf.

Rachel snorted taking another gulp of the drink in front of her.

"So the legends are true?" she asked "The one's my Mom and Dad used to tell me, Jake and Becca as kids?"

"Yes" I said finally.

Rachel nodded rubbing that little crease on her forehead.

"If I remember correctly" she said breathing heavily. "The wolves are only supposed to come out when the Cold…when the Vampires are around"

I nodded.

Rachel groaned her eyes filling with tears.

"Who?" she asked her voice breaking and my lower lip trembled because this was my girl and she was in pain.

"The Cullen's" I said finally.

Rachel turned to look at me.

"That's the family that Bella Swan married into" she said sharply. I nodded. Rachel raised one perfectly pointed eyebrow.

"Does she know?" she asked. I nodded. Rachel's eyes widened for a second before she closed them.

"She loves him" she said finally.

Huh, maybe there was a way this whole Bella Swan problem could finally have a good outcome.

"Yes" I said finally. "And…and I love you…even though I'm dangerous…"

Holy shit. I realised that for once I could truly emphasize with Edward Cullen because he too had been in love with a powerful, beautiful woman who he didn't deserve because she could see the goodness where he thought there was none.

Fuck.

Rachel snorted again, hands fingering the glass as if she too had come to that realisation as well.

"So Jacob didn't really stand a chance" she said smirking again. She caught my eye for a second before lowering it to the ground again.

"How many are there?"

I smiled though there was no humour in this situation whatsoever.

"Me, Sam Uley, Jared, Quill, Embry, Jacob" I winced as she downed the rest of the scotch and poured herself a long finger again.

"Jackson, Colin, Brady, Seth Clearwater, Leah Clearwater" Rachel shot me another look before ducking her eyes back down to the table. "And now Jeremy. God knows there's gonna be more what with everything that's going on"

Rachel stared at me. "Oh good" she said drowning another glass at the liquid. "This just gets better and better…tell me what's coming next. I suppose your here to tell me that the forest is full of Fairytale characters plotting around a fire"

She shook her head and then because God knows I hadn't shot myself in the foot more than once I decided to blurt out the truth.

"Edward and Bella are having a half vampire child. Should they survive they intend to turn Bella into a vampire, which is against the treaty that our grandfathers dealt with. We have no idea how dangerous the child is or…" I swallowed.

"Jacob, Seth and Leah all deflected to help protect it" I said finally.

Rachel stood up then her hair flying around her face.

"So Sam leads the pack into another fight to slaughter my brother" she hissed.

"No" I said weakly "We…were gonna wait"

"And then kill an innocent child"

"It's…its hardly innocent" I stressed but Rachel had already scoffed picking up her jacket.

"It's a child Paul" she said finally "If you cannot see that it has no control over its actions then I really despair for all of you"

I winced. In truth murdering a child wasn't something I believed we should do but I didn't want to open that door, especially in front of Sam and Jared who were universal in their hatred of all vampires regardless of the relationship that had sprung up between our pack and the Cullen's. Seth and Leah were still family, Jacob still had a stronger grasp of his Pack than Sam and he had the right to it. And despite everything with Rachel came Jacob and there was no life I could see with her that didn't include him. Hell there was a time where we were pack brothers and friends.

"Sam's the Alpha" I said finally "I follow him"

Rachel blinked at me her mouth twisting again.

"You're not really smart are you" she said. "Sounds so self-prophesying, following one man and to hell with the consequences."

I had no answer to that, I wasn't even sure what it meant. But God knows I had a feeling of what she was trying to say.

"I left that day…I mean…I didn't come back to you because I transformed" I said truthfully. She looked at me then really looked at me and I was transfixed for a brief second before she stood up standing straight and tall, and her expression changed in that moment.

Because she understood finally, that it hadn't been a choice for me to go that morning. It had been a horrible decision and one that I'd had no choice in making. Fate had chosen the both of us a long time ago. The one thing that I was still unsure of was that I had fallen in love with Rachel before the transformation. Had the same happened to her?

It was on the tip of my tongue to tell her about the imprinting. To tell her that we were destined to be together, that I had loved her since I had known what love was and that the wolf didn't have to change anything but she was already speaking again and I fell silent in preparation for what would either be my saving or my undoing.

"I remember" she said her eyes closed as if straining for the legend that she like the rest of us had known since childhood. "That it was only the strongest men of the tribe that were transformed, that it was only the men…how do you explain Leah?"

I shrugged. How do you explain Leah? How do you explain Leah's whole persona never mind the rest of it? A biological mix up of pain and hurt and anger and horror after horror after horror. Either way Leah was one of us and despite all her best intentions to prove contrary the pack did look after one of their own.

"Leah and Seth transformed together, something set Leah off and the shock of a girl transforming caused Harry Clearwater to have a heart attack. The shock of that caused Seth to transform and Harry was dead before Sue ever got to him" I said finally.

God I was so happy that I was no longer sharing any of my thoughts with the Clearwater siblings. The topic of their father was taboo even for mild-mannered Seth and it made Leah even more volatile.

"So girls can develop…what the gene?" Rachel asked her expression morphing from that cold mask of indifference into one of horror.

Stupidly I thought I knew where she was going with this and I shook my head.

"If you'd have it, like Jacob then we'd know by now. The Cullen's, Bella, the baby, that's what set of Jeremy. That's what set of Jackson, God knows if the…child…is born then there's gonna be more of them. Each as young as the other"

Rachel looked up at me with eyes that were filled with so much agony that I physically struggled to breath for a few seconds.

"So a child could get this, a girl…our daughter…"

She turned away as soon as she could see the look on my face.

Had she thought about it? About having a child? About having a child with me? About a daughter with me?

She shook her head her hair rippling down her back before she burst into laughing sobs each as terrible as the one beforehand. She forced herself to stop her hand outstretched as if to block me from touching her and God did it hurt.

"Back then" she confessed turning back to me her face once again an impassive mask. "I thought it was me, I thought that I was the one that was unlovable. I thought the reason that you left was because you didn't want to be with me and now you tell me that it's because you turned into a giant wolf and that boys younger than you, younger than that kid out there…" she shook her head.

"There's more" I confessed. May as well rip the band aid off when it came to the imprinting rather than wait…but before I could open the mouth Rachel had stood up and slung her jacket over her shoulders.

"I don't want to know" she said her eyes wide but her expression resolute.

"Ok" I said because at that point it was. Rachel shook her head. "I don't want to know any of this" she said coming closer. "I don't want this life…I don't want wolves in my backyard I want sand, I don't want to have to worry about my kids turning into wolves or my father lying through his teeth in order to get me home I mean…my God it makes so much sense now" she shook her head her expression forming into a murderous anger than I knew wasn't directed at me for once.

She turned to face me. "I have some Daddy issues that I crave the answers to" she said shaking her head. "And you are damn well gonna get out of my way while I get them"

I paused. "You'll come back?" I asked and God I was so pathetically hopeful I could hear it in my own voice.

Rachel shrugged her expression still a mixture of anger and fear and blind white hot hurt that I was powerless against it. I was powerless against her. I moved aside helplessly, I moved aside as she stormed out of my house where mere hours ago we'd been making love with each other wrapped in each other's arms and talking about our secrets and now it was all crumbling to dust…again…

And there was nothing more I could do about it.

A howl sounded out over the distance and Rachel scoffed again her eyes wide and brown and burning. "Go" she said without turning round "I'll drive myself home and pick up the pieces"

And with that she was out of my house and into her car and then in the distance before I could say or do anything.

Perhaps that should have been the first clue.

But it wasn't at least not to me and I was forced to drop my pants and deal with not only Jeremy but Keaton and Rory the two twelve year olds that due to increasing danger that the tribe faced had been forced to become wolves to save their families.

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