Heres's the chapter that I'm sure you've been looking forward to...or at least i hope you have. anyway, enjoy and let me know what you think! :)

Luke's POV

Silver jumped up, turning around to face the sound of loud growling. I got up more slowly, worried if I made a fast move I would be put in insane danger. About ten feet from us, at the tree's edge, stood a pack of eight wolves. The light-brown wolf in the middle kept eye contact with Silver as she pushed me backwards.

I felt my back hit a tree and then felt Silver trying to push me up, as if wanting me to climb it. I reached for the closet branch but even with my height, I couldn't reach it. Keeping her eyes on the pack, Silv wrapped her jaw gently around my ankle, guiding it to her back. I didn't want to hurt her but I had to get up the tree somehow. Pushing on her back, I reached for the tree and managed to grab the branch. I pulled myself up and climbed a bit higher before looking down.

Silver stood protectively in of the tree, crouched as the other wolves began to circle her. She leaned back on her hind-legs, ready to defend herself...and me. She shook her head, before tilting it back and letting out a loud howl. The loudness of the lone wolfs howl sent the other pack stumbling back a step. They looked to their leader, he just snarled – telling them to carry on.

I heard rustling in the bushes behind the tree I sat in. Please, not more of them – she's alone! I looked down only to see my cousin come walking out with some of his friends. Silver growls at his, shaking her big head. What are they doing?! They'll get torn to shreds! I'm about to shout to them when they begin to take their clothes off. Silver lifts her head to look at me, sadness in her soft eyes.

I look back to Jared, watching as he crouches down. My eyes widen as dark brown fur starts to push through the skin of his back and his head begins to change shape.

He explodes, no longer a human standing beneath me but instead a horse-sized wolf. Shit! Jared's a werewolf?! I look to his friends only they aren't there, wolves stood in their place. Jared and his friends are wolves! Why did I have to move here? They'll probably kill me in my sleep for finding out their wolfy secret. Jared, wolf Jared, raises his head; looking at me. I heard the dark wolf let out a huge breath before turning to the pack that had been about to attack Silver.

The other pack, who I shall now call The Intruders, out number Jared and his group. Silver's pack has a different advantage though, their bigger which means stronger. Silver, with wolf Jared at her side, walks forward. She snarls at The Intruders, unhappy with them being here. I watched in horror as the leader of The Intruders made a jump for Silv, trying to get its jaw around her neck. She flung him to the side easily, standing above him as he lay on the ground.

I waited to see if the rest of his pack would attack but they just backed away slowly. The black wolf got up, obviously realising his pack would win the fight. I watched as the black wolf wobbled as he to a step before regaining his balance and running into the forest. His pack followed but before departing, they snarled and bared their teeth at Silver's pack.

I watched their retreating figures before I began to get down from the tree. Silv waits at the bottom, ready to help me to the floor. I step as lightly onto her as possible before jumping to the ground. I don't stand near Jared's wolf form or his friends, I stand beside Silver. My hand rests on her back, softly gripping the fur as I watch the fur on my cousins back begin to retreat. Its as if its sucked into his body to be hidden by a layer of russet skin. I turn my head away as he and his friends stand naked before me, waiting them to put their clothes back on.

"We're decent" Jared said.

I turn to them, they have no shirts on but the essentials are covered. "Good."

"Guess the wolf's no longer a secret, hey Le-le" one of his friends, I think Embry, laughed.

Silver growls at him, showing her impressive two set rows of sharp teeth.

"I don't think she's happy with you" I told him, rubbing the wolfs back.

"You don't think?" the boy laughed as he pulled on his shirt.

"Shut up Embry! He doesn't know about her" Jared whispered, it may have been a quite whisper but I heard it.

"What?" I ask, looking to my wolf. "Silver? Silver's like you guys, a werewolf?"

"Not a werewolf, a shape-shifter" Jared replied. He reached into one of the bushes, retrieving a top and a pair of shorts.

He threw them to Silv who picked them up in her mouth, jogging behind a tree. I heard some rustling and the sound of moving fabric before a figure stepped out into the small clearing. I stood there, completely shocked as I looked at her. That's why the two different faces mixed together in my dream, their the same person.

"Leah?" I asked, voice shaking as I looked at her in confusion. "Your my wolf? Your Silver?"

Leah nodded her very human head, looking at her bare feet. "Yeah. Luke I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you. I wanted to, I really did but I didn't know how too."

"You were Silver this whole time?!" I had told that wolf about what I though of Leah...I had told Leah herself without even realising it.

"I'm sorry" her voice broke and I heard her sniffle. She was crying... no, I didn't want her to cry.

I nodded but then realised she couldn't see me as she looked at her feet. "Its fine...I think...Does this mean you need to wear a collar? Being a huge dog and all?"

I heard laughter behind me but before I could turn to look at them, I felt a pair of warm arms wrap around my waist. I hesitated a second before wrapping my own arms around her. I was hugging a wolf and a human at the same time...cool...I guess. I pushed her hair back, looking to see if the black wolf had left a mark on her pretty neck but she pushed my hand away, mumbling that she was fine.

I felt different holding Leah in my arms, whole. It was as if I had been missing something, something that was important but when holding Leah I was okay. She was the thing I was missing. I admit I was still a bit shaky about the shape-shifter thing but it didn't matter, Leah was the one who was important. If I was going to accept Leah as being special to me, I had to accept all of her.

I held her warm hand as we walked out of the forest and towards home. Leah said there was more things that needed to be explained but they could wait until tomorrow, I had had enough put on my shoulders today. One thing I knew for absolute certainty, was that I couldn't tell anyone about the shape-shifters I knew. I was happy with that though, I'm sure if some people found out they would have a heart attack. That sounded good though for some people...would Leah and the guys like to visit my parents? Only joking, I'm not that cold hearted.

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