Chapter Twenty-Two: The Treaty and an Accident
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Marie's POV
I pulled up in front of my house on Jasper's silver Ducati motorcycle that he let me borrow to get home on. My house was on the territory line so that I was neutral and anyone who came into my home. I tried to have a house near the pack and near the Cullens and the closest I could find that would be on neutral land when I visited Bella. Charlie is actually living in the house Bella had bought for herself when she chose the northwestern region of the United States. But as far as she knows, it's Charlie's house.
I walked into my house and went up to my room. I changed out of my bloody clothing and threw them into the trash. I'm surprised Alice didn't change my clothing while I was asleep. I went to the very back of my closet that had another door and opened it to reveal my clothing from when I was with Taha Aki. I pulled out a long-sleeved hide shirt that had painted purple wooden beads on a leather string that ties the shirt together and strips of hide on the sleeves. It had ancient runes burned into it to create a beautiful pattern but also for protection after what happened with Utlapa. I then pulled out pair of hide pants with some runes burned down the side and the leather strings with purple beads woven down the sides also. The last thing I grabbed was my wolf fur vest. The fur matched the pattern of Embry's wolf form. I had skinned it from my dead familiar so that she will always be with me.
I grabbed a pair of my biker boots on the way out of my closet and quickly got dressed. I pulled the butterfly stitches, that Carlisle used to fix my arm, off and examined my arm. The scratch marks looked pink but were completely healed. I grabbed the keys to the bike out of the bowl that I set them in when I walked in. The night was clear right now and it wasn't that chilly to me, even on the bike. I rode the fifteen minutes to the reservation and pulled up to Sam and Emily's house.
The entire pack was there and snacking, though Embry looked really worried. I knew why and wanted to calm him down. There's no need for him worry about me, I'm completely fine. I walked up to the house and knocked on the door. Sam answered it and gazed down at me with a surprised look before he lifted me up in a hug. I see now everyone has been worried for me. Sam put me down in between a surprised Embry and Leah. Embry pulled me into a toe-curling, passionate kiss and sat me in his lap. Leah then gave me a hug which caused some of the guys' jaws to drop except Sam, Emily, and Seth's.
"Thank you for your advice," she whispered into my ear.
I smiled, "No problem. That's what I'm here for."
Paul passed me the plate of chocolate chip cookies that Emily had made and noticed the arm I had grabbed them with.
"You heal quickly," he commented as he examined my new scars.
"I know, but there's something I came to talk to y'all about," I said as I took a bite of the cookie.
"Should I call the elders? With the way you sounded earlier, it sounds very important," Sam asked me.
"Yes, I'll need them here, also," I told Sam.
He walked into the kitchen and I heard him call Billy. From there Billy started calling everyone and soon they arrived. I hadn't told the pack anything, we just kept talking about other things until the elders arrived. Billy was wheeled in by Sue and they were followed by Old Quil. I stood up from Embry's lap and pulled him up. He gave me a quizzically look before I motioned for Sue or Old Quil to take our seat. Leah followed our lead and gave her seat to her mother.
"What do you need to discuss with us?" Old Quil asked me.
"About the treaty that was created with the Cullens," I told him and Paul stood up defensively.
"That leech was trying to cross on to our land, what was wrong with me protecting our land?" Paul asked angrily.
I stepped up in Paul's face, even though my face only came to his chest, and I growled out, "That 'leech' is my nephew! At one point my blood, my sister's blood ran through his veins."
All the wolves heard the deep alpha timber in my voice and Paul began to sit back down. The elders looked at me in astonishment as they realized what I just did.
"As I was saying before I was interrupted, the treaty was created by my request of Ephraim," I started and they all were surprised except Embry because I had told him this the other night. "My family and I have had some kind of connection with one of the Cullens when they were human. Like I told you, Emmett is my nephew; I practically raised Alice when she was human, she became like a niece to me but she is actually my sister-in-law by one of my older brothers marrying her sister, Cynthia; my niece, Lynda, knew Carlisle when he was human. Rosalie and my sister-in-law, Vera are best friends, Jasper was like my brother when I lived in Texas when he was human; Esme became part of the family when her and Carlisle married; and last of all Edward, Bella and I met him while he was still human. Bella fell in love right then.
"All of them are my family in some way and I didn't want both my families fighting so I showed myself to the first chief of the tribe in over a thousand years and only him. He was amazed to see that I was a pale face, but he listened to what I had to say. Ephraim did as I asked and the next time him, Levi, and Quil III went patrolling, they ran into them. He kept his word and I watched from a distance as both my families parted with no trouble," I told them.
Everyone had a thoughtful expression but then Jacob decided to question me on what was in the treaty.
"If they're not supposed to bite or change a human than how will they change Bella?" he asked with a smirk.
Sometimes that boy gets on my nerves and this is one of those times. I decided to wipe that smirk off his face and answer his question.
"Bella isn't human, remember? She's a witch and when she regains more of her memory, I will perform a spell for her to gain her magic back," I explained to him wiping his smirk away and getting my own.
I watched as his ego deflated a few notches and thought he finally gave up. But he got up and walked out of the house, slamming the door on his way out. Billy was about to unlock the brakes on his wheelchair and go talk to Jacob. I put my hand on his and walked outside to follow after Jacob and ended up having to follow his wolf tracks. I jumped into the trees and began following him to an empty field where he was human and breaking down some trees. I entered the field calmly and warily, not wanting to surprise Jacob.
"Jacob, I'm sorry that you feel that way for Bella but I need you to understand. You have an imprint out there that isn't even born yet. She is quite beautiful for I have seen her in a vision. You'll see that Bella is a greater friend than mate for," I explained to him.
Jacob turned toward me with angry fire in his eyes and growled at me.
"Do you know what it feels like to love someone who you can't have?" he asked me angrily.
"No, I don't Jake because I kept my heart guarded until I found my true love. I'm sorry you're in so much pain but you need to trust me," I told him sadly.
"Trust you? Trust you! You're just going to let Bella become a vampire and died! How can I trust someone like that?!" he yelled at me as he began to tremble.
"Jake, you must calm down before you phase," I tried to keep calm but Jacob quickly phased.
I backed up and quickly phased, too. Jacob advanced on me growling and of course I can't hear his thoughts. I don't want to fight him, but I will if I have, too. I backed up as he approached me. He lunged at me with his jaw open and I jumped to the side. I heard a growl but not from either of us. I turned toward the forest to see Embry in his wolf form and I was happy until I felt teeth in my shoulder.
Embry growled and jumped over me and on to Jacob causing them to go rolling through the field. I could feel the pain in my shoulder as I phased back to human, holding my bloody shoulder. I didn't want the guys fighting because they are best friends so I raised my uninjured arm. The guys became surprised when they began to levitate and looked toward me. I lowered two of my fingers, lowering Embry to the ground, and then I waved my hand throwing Jacob into the forest.
"Phase back now, both of you," I commanded to them.
Embry phased in front of me and pulled his shorts on while Jacob walked out of the trees. His eyes could not meet mine. Looks like I might need to add some new runes and spells to my clothing and repair them. Jacob ran up to me with a glum expression but I turned my back on him and began to run back to Sam's house. I walked into the house and collapsed on the couch next to Leah. The elders looked at me worried.
"What happened?" Billy asked me as Emily left the living room and returned with bowl of water and a rag.
Leah helped me remove my vest while Emily damped the wash cloth. We could hear Embry yelling at Jacob as they approached the house.
"Did Jacob do that to you?" Billy asked me, worried and scared of me.
"Do worry Billy, nothing will happen to him. I won't punish him," I told him.
"Alright but what all happened, Marie?" Billy asked again.
I told Billy about everything that happened in the field. He became disappointed in his son. Everyone looked to the door when Jacob and Embry entered the house. Jacob looked at me sorrowfully and walked up to me. He kneeled down in front of me with his head bowed.
"Marie, please forgive me for what I did. I should have calmed down and thought clearly instead of lashing out on you," Jacob apologized.
Embry had come to sit on my other side as Emily dabbed at my shoulder. I cringed in pain when she moved to the back of my shoulder. Embry also cringed and I didn't like that he shared my pain. He sent a small smile to me and then glared at Jacob.
"Let's go to my room and finish. We're going to have to remove your shirt," Emily told me.
"Alright," I stood and cringed at the pain that shot through my shoulder as Emily, Leah, and I walked to Sam and Emily's room.
Emily went to change the water and get a clean rag. Leah helped me remove my shirt which was painful. Emily came back with water, rags, gauze and gauze tape. She finished cleaning my wounds and had Leah hold my arm out straight so she could wrap the gauze around my shoulder and chest a little.
Embry's POV
Sam sat in the space that Marie and Leah just vacated as I worried about Marie. I could feel the amount of pain she was but didn't cringe at it. I constantly glared at Jacob though Marie accepted his apology; I would not until he learns to get his emotions under control. Billy had taken Jacob to talk to him. I saw Emily come out of the room with bowl of water and bloody rag. I wanted to be sick then. Sam patted my shoulder in comfort but I flinched in pain. He noticed and remembered what Marie had said about mine and her connection.
"Embry, she'll be fine," Emily told me as she went back with her hands full with rags, gauze, the bowl of water, and gauze tape.
She went back to the room and I would cringe every once and while. Finally Leah came out with a sad look and I began to worry more though I could sense Marie was healing. Leah came to stand next to me when I heard Emily and Marie leave the room. They went down the hall to the guest room.
"Sam, could you turn the air conditioner? Marie got over heated with Leah in the room. I have her in our guest room sleeping right now after giving her some pain medications," Emily told Sam as he did what she asked.
"That's good. You want to go get some clothing for her?" Sam asked her.
"Sure, Embry can you come with me to show me where she lives?" Emily requested of me.
I looked up at her and nodded my head. She went to grab her purse while I walked down the hall to check on Marie.
Her shirt and bra were removed but in its place was gauze. Marie was lying up against the headboard of the bed, watching TV. I went over to her and kissed her lips chastely.
"Emily and I are running to your house to get you some clothes," I told her.
"Y'all don't need to do that. Here, let me just go home; I don't want to me any trouble," Marie said as she moved to get up but she flinched.
I felt the pain that went through her shoulder and began to rub mine a little. She gasped and covered her mouth.
"I'm sorry, Embry, I shouldn't have moved. Are you alright?" Marie asked concerned.
She reminded me of Bella at that moment. They were so alike, except Bella wasn't so tough but she made up with that with her courage.
"Don't worry about me, just get better for me," I told her as I caressed her cheek.
I kissed Marie one more time before I left the room and got in the truck with Emily. I directed her to Marie's parents' home and pulled into the driveway. Marie's dad walked out on the porch.
"Who's this and where's my daughter?" Carson asked eying Emily suspiciously.
"She's at my house, sir. I'm Emily and we came to get her some clothes," Emily explained to him.
"What happened to Marie?" he asked seriously and worried.
Emily and I glanced at each other, wondering what to tell him but I don't think that helped our case. He became angry.
"What happened to my daughter?" he asked eerily calm with anger in his eyes.
I sighed and explained what happened over at Sam and Emily's with Jacob. I rubbed my shoulder in the process of telling him how Jacob had bit her and Emily had wrapped her up.
"Come on in and get her stuff. I'll have Bethanee whip up a healing potion while you're upstairs," he told us as we walked in and he shook his head.
"Yes, sir, I would like to get back to her as quickly as possible," I told Carson.
"Yes, we'll need to change her bandages soon as we get back," Emily told both of us.
"Thanks for taking care of her," Carson told us, walking into the living room where Mrs. Bethanee was. "By the way, just call me Carson, Emily."
"Yes, sir," she responded as we went to Marie's room.
I heard Carson tell his wife that they had to make a healing potion. When she asked about it, he told her it was for Marie. All Mrs. Bethanee could say was "the trouble Marie can get herself into". I stood at the door as Emily went through Marie's closet to get her clothes. She pulled out a dress at first but I told her Marie couldn't wear it riding a motorcycle. So she pulled out a pair of jeans and a black wolf shirt and a gray tank top for Marie. Emily then moved to the underwear drawer and grabbed pair purple matching underwear set and socks also. I bent down and searched under the bed for Marie's overnight bag and found a striped blue bag.
We came down stairs with everything in my hand. Carson and Mrs. Bethanee were waiting at the door for us with four vials of purple liquid. He handed three of them to me for Marie but gave the last one to Emily.
"Here, honey, this can heal those scars you have," Mrs. Bethanee told Emily as she uncorked the vial.
The smell in the vial was horrid but Emily took it anyways.
"I would recommend drinking it like a shot. Just throw it back," Carson instructed her with a smirk.
Emily gave him a nervous smile before holding her nose and swallowing the potion quickly. She gagged for a second and Mrs. Bethanee began patting her back to help her. Emily's expression was like she just took bad tasting medicine. I watched as the scars across her face slowly disappeared and I gasped. Emily ran quickly to the bathroom to look in the mirror and we heard her scream and come running back in.
"Thank you so much. Sam will be so grateful for this and might not worry about what happened anymore," Emily told them with a big smile.
Emily hugged Mrs. Bethanee and shook Carson's hand as we left. I turned to Carson before I walked off the porch.
"Thank you for doing that. She's right, my brother will be grateful for what you did, especially after the time he spent beating himself up for what he did to her," I told Carson.
"It's no problem, just help Marie get better," he told me as he walked back into the house.
Emily was waiting in the car for me when I threw Marie's bag in the back. We got back to the house quickly and everyone was gone. Sam sat outside waiting for Emily. He was surprised when she ran up to him with no scars. Emily told him about what happened over at Marie's house while I went in to check on Marie. I saw Marie had stripped herself down to her underwear as she slept. I kneeled down next to her and shook her awake. Her eyes gently fluttered open and her eyes rolled over toward me. She gave me a drowsy smile before looking at the door where Emily stood.
"I never knew how good human medicine was," she whispered groggily before giggling while I helped her sit up.
I laughed at how she was acting. I was quite amusing and beautiful still. I held her up as Emily unwrap the bloody gauze from Marie's chest and wiped down the bite marks before rewrapping them. I took out one of the potions her father gave me and told her to drink it. When she looked like she was going to spit it out, I covered her mouth and she quickly swallowed it. Once everything was put away, I climbed in next to Marie easily and went fast to sleep.
AN: This is the longest chapter I've written yet but I have more in store for everyone. Doesn't Marie just have that darn bad luck like Bella? Leave a review and tell me what you think about it.