Bella pov

the week had started so well, ash had started attending the school and Bella had successfully warded of any unwanted female attention without alerting ash to what she was doing by using subtle body language that generally only other girls got sometime gay men picked up on to but generally straight men didn't have a clue, or if they noticed it they didn't get what it meant.

but then Edward just had to go and open his mouth, who the hell did that pompous prick think he was calling her 'his Bella' I was not his, ever! the only good to come of it had been seeing the flash of jealousy in ash's eyes before he had politely asked me if I knew Edward to which I said he was a vague acquaintance and certainly shouldn't presume to be more. ash had then suggested Edward leave and what he did resulted in what she was now seeing, Edward and ash rolling around the floor with Edward trying to smash ashes head in and ash just barely avoiding the blows. knowing ash needed a couple seconds for him to be of any effectiveness I waded in grabbing Edward by the scruff of his neck and literally throwing him halfway down the corridor. the blond seemed to think this was her cue to join in as she jumped in swinging wildly until her fist connected at last with my jaw. I froze for a second and reached up and rubbed my jaw, frowning at the blond I said "shit that actually hurt a little"

"you little..." she didn't get to finish as with a flick of ash's fingers she went limp

moving closer to him I said "I thought vampires couldn't sleep if they can't sleep how can you knock one unconscious"

grinning he replied "you can't I just cut of her control of her muscles so she looks unconscious she is currently fully aware of what is going on around her."

"ahh, that makes sense, cool"

Edward finally returned and he wasn't alone following him was the rest of the coven minus the adults when emmet saw rose he went mental, and made to lunge for me. instinctively I curled my lip slightly and hissed. the vamps seemed surprised and I realised it was just cat like it was almost vampire like.

scowling I glanced around thankful there was nobody around to witness the strange behaviour and the fight. the feeling of ash tensing had me realising that he had just rolled around on the floor with a god knows how old vampire and could well be injured open wounds aside as I couldn't smell any blood, turning I said "did you get hurt? are you alright? do we need to get you to a doctor or a healer? how are..."

pressing a finger against my lips to pause the flow of worried words he chuckled slightly and said "im fine the pretty boy over there was trying to get a read on me again and it was mildly irritating that's all darling I promise im fine" I could hear Edward complaining about his inability to read either of our minds and that he was quote ' not a stupid pretty boy'

finally calming himself down enough to talk emmet said "what did you do to rose?"

rolling his eyes ash said "she's fine I just temporarily paralysed her she will be fine once she is far enough away from me for the effects to wear off, I think your home is far enough away"

without waiting for more information or to say anything in response the huge vampire scooped up his mate and ran for home blurring the whole way Alice however wanted to know how ash had done what he did snorting ash said "how does he read minds? it's a gift of mine"

"temporary paralysis is your gift? but that's not possible your still human, I think, you smell weird for a human but your definitely not as weird as Bella here"

"gee thanks!"

"sorry Bella but you do, you almost smell like the mutts but without the wet dog aspect. it's odd."

frowning at her I said "I am not telling you what I am!" I was about to stalk off when I remembered the warning from ash sighing I turned back and said "by the way there is a large pack of werewolves that are kind of out to get me and they are one the move so it won't be long before they work out where I am and mobilise to come here so I would advise caution."

Edward snorted and said "we've dealt with the pack before when the stupid mutts get out of control"

rolling my eyes I said "yeah no they are shape shifters not werewolves the form of a wolf is a coincident, when I say werewolf I mean full moon with a gruesome shifted form of something between wolf and man that frankly is vile and they are generally about three times as strong as a mature vampire only new-borns really stand any chance against werewolves as they understand the feral needs that generally drive werewolves so are better able to anticipate attacks, this is how your voltori nearly wiped them out"

I grasped ash's hand and stalked off careful not to grip to tight for fear of hurting him, leaving behind three very confused vampires.

We were barely outside and into the woods before I started fussing I couldn't help it, I loved ash not matter how hard I tried not to and how much I suppressed the emotions they just came out as sisterly affection which was preferable to some school girl crush. Turning him this way and that I search for injuries, gently running my hands over his ribs I felt him tense up slightly, retracing my steps I found the same result coming to the conclusion that he must have hurt his ribs while he was tussling with Edward I looked up and said "your hurt"

Frowning he said "I'm fine"

"no you're not you need to sit down and fix those ribs of yours before you do something to get hurt worse!"

Quietly grumbling about the indignities of it all he quietly healed his ribs before standing and saying "well what do you want to do with the rest of the day as it seems like were skipping the second half of school"

Pondering the question I said "port angles?"

"hmm I was thinking something else"

Grinning slightly I said "you want to go running in the woods don't you?"

Grinning hugely he replied "you got me!"

Shifting I turned and presented him with my side, carefully climbing on my back he perched between my shoulders and as soon as he was securely in place I took off racing through the woods. Ash's laughter echoed through the woods filling me with a sense of rightness we had only done this once and it was in a life or death situation but ash had joked that we would have to do it again sometime however we had never really found the time before.

I was so busy laughing at ash who was laughing at me because of the choked gabled noise that was being emitted by my mouth when I laughed that I didn't notice the vampire standing in the middle of the clearing to start with it was only when I sucked in a deep lung full of air to laugh more when I caught the scent and froze, looking up I scanned the field and it didn't take me long to spot Edward standing amongst the flowers. I mentally face palmed as I growled the feline equivalent of saying 'shit!'

Edward pov

There was a giant mountain lion with that idiot ash sat on its back and my first mental though was 'what the hell' it was clear that they hadn't seen me to start with as ash was laughing madly and the mountain lion was making some weird choking noise that was similar to the one time I had seen one of the wolves laughing. It was clear when they noticed him because all signs of laughter faded and the mountain lion growled. Staring at the cat I finally noticed it eyes, they were the same stunning gold that Bella's were. A crazy and completely ridiculous idea popped into his head "Bella?"

The cat snarled looking distinctly murderous, pretty much confirming my theory, knowing the others would want to know I ignored the part of me that desperately wanted to punch that ash guy in his too pretty face and instead turned and run for home. They didn't pursue me but I didn't ease up on the speed just kept going till I reached my home. Slamming the door open I shouted "I know what Bella is!" that got a response there was suddenly a crowd of vampires in front of me all clamouring for answers, shouting again to be heard over the noise I said "be quiet!"

Every one fell silent and rose said "what is she?"

"a shape shifter"

There was a brief pause and then "she's a mutt? But she doesn't smell like one"

Nodding I said "that would be because she is a cat shape shifter"

Rose snorted and said "gee I bet that was scary what did she meow at you to send you running"

Scowling I said "cat is the general term a more accurate description would be horse sized mountain lion"

Rose looked slightly stunned and then Alice said "well if she is the Sam as the wolves that would explain why I can see her future but what about the guy"

Frowning I said "still haven got a clue I would assume he is not a shape shifter as he was riding her as opposed to running with her." I caught a brief flash of emmet's thought and let out an audible groan,

"what is it?" jasper was looking somewhat intrigued as he wondered what could make me groan like that.

Instead of really answering I just pointed at emmet and said "him"

The tension lifted for a moment as everyone laughed and it was almost like old times.

Bella pov

Once Edward left we turned and headed back the way we came the mood was gone now and I couldn't be more pissed with Edward for it. Ash could probably tell I was pissed I had never been good at hiding my anger but especially so in my cat form, tail lashing small angry growls escaping me and ears pinned flat against my head were just a few indicators.

I was so startled by the sudden feeling of hands rubbing my ears I completely failed to contain the sudden purring that rumbled from my chest, embarrassed I tried to stop it but I simply couldn't the feeling of ash's hands running over and around my ears. Shuddering I went boneless in pleasure, if I had been human I would be a very fetching shade of crimson but at the moment the pleasure was outweighing the embarrassment. Sliding of my back ash started working his way down my body massaging as he went, when he reached my lower back he started back up sending little tingles through my insanely relaxed body when he reached my head again he rubbed my ears and I went completely limp my head falling to the floor, I let out a soft chuffing noise and watched as ash laughed , it took much more effort than normal in this languid state to shift to human but I did and when I did I tackled ash to the ground and started tickling him. Shouts and laughter rang out as we wrestled until I became suddenly aware of the fact that we had come to rest with me laying on my back and ash leaning over me arms caging me in on either side, I could feel every inch of his muscled body pressing against me as he pinned me to the ground. A breathy sigh escaped me as I relished the feeling of this position, looking up at his face to see what his reaction to this position was, I was startled when my gaze was met by a pair of burning silver eyes, gasping slightly I watched transfixed as his gaze travelled down to my lips and stopped there. I waited barely breathing to see what he would do, he didn't pull away instead leaning in our lips were barely a hairs width apart and I could feel his breath on my lips, smell the mint from his tooth paste this morning.