Chapter 14: Life is strange when you have paws
Damon returned home and smiled when he saw Bella's smart. The two of them needed to talk, now! His smile turned to pure fear when he saw a large animal in his hall. The animal was large, reminded a lot of a wolf but was smaller. Completely white with captivating brown eyes. A heart shaped locket with rose stones hanging around its neck left almost no room as to its identity. The animal looked at him and whimpered.
"Bella?"
Another whimper greeted him. Remembering how easy it was for the wolf to kill rose less than 3 months ago Damon stood frozen to the entrance, just shy of the door. Bella tried to move towards him but lost her balance and fell on her side. Glancing at the back legs Damon saw why, somehow the wolf Bella still wore shoes.
"You're wearing high heels"
He informed it and after checking the wolf rolled its eyes. Cautiously Damon crept in the room and slowly pulled the torn shoes off the animal. It made another try to get up and managed it perfectly. Damon closed his eyes as it moved to him and was more than a little startled to feel it pressing its head against his torso, as if asking for a hug. Before he could offer the hug it growled and looked at him panicked. Then it ran out the window breaking it to a million pieces. Letting a breath he hadn't realized he was holding fell back. They were screwed, royally screwed.
Mayor Lockwood in his salt and pepper fur was lying on the grass at the park near the cemetery. His thoughts were on this morning. He and Carol were not at all happy when a few days ago Tyler wanted to bring his girlfriend over for dinner. Not to mention that his choices in girlfriends was not the best. They were expecting a shallow girl that only saw a name and a bank account, just like the late Vicky Donovan. That was why Carol suggested the cheap lunch, to see her reaction. What greeted them was a vibrant girl that had both feet planted firmly on the ground and was more than able to keep their son in line.
Gone was the time when Tyler would ignore school and rules to be led by long nights of sex and drinking to be replaced by nights spent at the Grill. not drinking but simply keeping company to his girlfriend and homework and had an actual, if a bit lenient, curfew.
Richard Lockwood was not happy that Bella knew the family secret, the one secret not even his wife knew of, but admired her promise to keep her mouth shut. Plus her ability to beat him in his own game of wit. Tyler was right, this girl is special. When she didn't bat an eyelash over the cheap lunch and simply ate it, his wife was a goner. Carol loved her and had told him she'd shape the girl up for her 'coming out as a Mystic Falls girl' pageant in the end of the month.
He and his son were never close. Richard didn't know why but for some reason he lacked the paternal instinct. If he was honest with himself he wasn't so sure Tyler was even his. Those doubts went out of the window when three months ago Tyler triggered the family curse. A curse that ran in the Lockwood's' blood for years. He remembered Tyler's panicked face as he held the dead body of Caroline Forbes.
Richard was all set to feed an excuse to Liz Forbes, the mother of Caroline and local chief of police but Caroline woke up a few hours later, completely disoriented and reeking of vampire. He thought about killing the girl but if Caroline Forbes was a vampire that meant that someone changed her. So he kept a tight watch over the residents of mystic falls waiting for something to happen. The only thing that happened was that Caroline, somehow walked in broad daylight and they caught the vampire that was responsible for the killings. It was a little too open and shut for Richard (and the rest of the secret council) but as the killings stopped everyone was eager to put it behind them. Still he kept watch the one night of the month he could and trained Tyler to do the same, even though he chose not to tell him about the vampires.
Killing Caroline was the trigger to cause a strange friendship between him and Tyler though and now things were better. Which was put to the test when last month Tyler had returned to the house covered in blood saying he killed someone. Upon further inspection of the situation Richard realized that his son had a noble reason for doing so and let it go. The scumbag Tyler killed would have raped an innocent girl. Having met the girl in question he could understand Tyler's motive better. His son had found his soul mate, if you believe that werewolves still have souls that is.
A howl interrupted his musings and he ran at top speed to the falls where his son, as a large black wolf, was play fighting in an excited way with a smaller white wolf. He let a surprised howl himself stopping the two others. The bright brown eyes of the female (as the lack of a hanging penis indicated) and the locket around its neck told him who he wolf girl was. His son's girlfriend.
Huh, so the other part of the family legend was also true. A werewolf can only change its mate. The two teens ignored him and started playing again. When his son tried to smell the crotch of the girl Richard let an authority howl causing the black wolf to focus on the grassy ground. Great! Now he had two horny teens to keep in check.
The night passed slowly for him as the two teens would often get lost in their new senses and would start caressing each other causing him to howl at them breaking them up. When a couple hours before sunrise they were once again entwined and once again he howled to stop them they growled at him in perfect unison. Realizing he was out of his element here he nodded and ran away leaving the two teens to 'discover themselves' to put it delicately. After returning to the cellar to transform back Richard decided that he would go home to wait for the two teens there.
"Wow"
Bella muttered as the pain of transforming back to human passed and pressed herself in Tyler's body.
"Tell me about it"
"Does it get any easier?"
"No, not really. Although the last time was more pleasant"
"I was talking about the transformation!"
"oh, then yeah a few more tines and it will be with less pain"
he chuckled
"We took it slow huh?"
She laughed along. It was true, ever since she bolted out of Damon's feeling more than a little ready to rip him to pieces and having no idea why, she had ran instinctively to the waterfalls. From the moment she laid eyes on the black wolf only the presence of his dad stopped her from pinning her boyfriend to the ground and get her way with him. He felt the same way so at some point they chased they mayor away and gave in to their desires.
"Who would have thought that my first time would be in wolf form with another wolf?"
Bella muttered without paying attention to the fact that the super senses would let Tyler hear her
"it was your first time? I'm so sorry baby I should have..."
Bella silenced him with a kiss telling him she didn't regret it, she was just a bit sore to walk now. Since she had no clothes she borrowed Tyler's t-shirt and they made their way to Tyler's car and then to her studio where Bella was glad that it was just after sunrise as the grill was still close and she avoided the walk of shame they headed upstairs. Tyler's days of being a bad boy let them get it without her keys (as all her stuff were still at Damon's) and she took a shower and then got dressed in a pair of shorts and a tank with a pair of flats to go with. She was a bit unsteady on her feet. After putting a lease on prince the couple headed to Tyler's house for him to do the same and together they grilled the mayor to tell them more about this curse.
That evening as the couple lay on the shore at the falls, butt naked after a couple rounds of love making with their dogs playing happily near them there was only one thought in Bella's head.
Since werewolves could kill vampires could she keep her vampire friends?
