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"Vivi finish up so we can go." I spoke in a normal volume, knowing full well the even though she was across the hotel room and behind a closed door, Vivian could still hear me just find.
"Alright mommy." She calls back from the bathroom.
"Alice and Ness have already called five times asking where we are." I smirk, "next they will send Jake, because they can't come over the line- well Ness can but Edward probably won't let her."
I opened the front door and stepped out, a wolf I now recognized as Paul, laid at the treeline off to the left probably fifty feet from the cabin. I made sure to choose the most secluded one, away from the other cabins and the camping grounds so that the wolves wouldn't have any trouble watching me and Vivian. Of course we wouldn't do anything, or try anything but they didn't know that and I couldn't expect them to be okay with a half vampire staying on their lands. The question I had trouble answering was, why was I still here? Why didn't I move after a day or two? I had no idea why I felt compelled to stay here. And why were we still in Washington period? The Cullens had multiple ways to contact me if they had questions about Ness, so why did we stay any longer? I sigh, bending down and grabbing Vivi's boots that she had soaked at the beach last night. They were surprisingly dry and mostly sand free. I hit them together a few times turning my face away from the flying sand and noticing Jared emerge from the tree line next to Paul. Jared laughed and said something I couldn't catch before punching the wolf of the shoulder blade and jogging my way.
Oh God. What did he want now?
Jared had been nothing but friendly since we met (and it had been a long week) he was playful and funny and liked to tease me about silly stuff when he wasn't going on about his girlfriend Kim. It was interesting to watch him lose himself when he talked about her, he would go into a completely different world and it took him a bit before he would come back down to Earth.
"Hey Buttercup." He greets, kicking his boots against the concrete steps leading up to the back door of the cabin.
I roll my eyes, "Dog boy." I greet back with an overly friendly smile. He laughed at that and I gave a nod for him to follow me back in. He did so with a bounce, happily seating himself on the couch and stretching his tall frame to take up the whole thing.
"Vivian, Jared is here." I call, putting the boots beside the dining table and swiveling to lean a hip on the table. I heard the bumps and hits as she excitedly finished her bath and grabbed a towel.
"Vivian Paige! Don't you dare come out with only a towel on!" I said in a firm tone.
There was a drawn out 'aww' from the bedroom and I shook my head.
Jared snorts, putting the pillow he had been tossing in the air behind his head.
"You going to the Cullens?"
I nod, "Jacob is apparently taking Ness out somewhere and Vivi was invited. We were supposed to be there at eight, but someone bathed in their breakfast so they had to go take a real bath." I sigh.
"You're letting Jake take your kid somewhere without you?" He asks incredulously, making an over dramatic expression and outright mocking.
I didn't let Vivi go anywhere without me, if she wanted to go to the Cullens, I went. If she wanted to go somewhere with Ness, I went. It wasn't bad like if she was on the third floor of the Cullens house I had to be there too, but I was definitely in the same house as well. Everyone got a kick out of it; Bella and Esme being the only one who understood my fears as a mother.
"First of all," I say, "that's rude. Second, I have full plans to follow, trust me."
He laughs, "you serious? She'll be fine."
Yeah, I think I've heard that before somewhere. I shrug, "don't care." I won't risk her getting hurt just so she could go out and have some fun.
"This is bad," he sighs, "you're sad. Just so sad."
"Oh yeah, dog boy? You think so?" I take the seat across from the couch, "how long do you let Kim go off the Rez without protection?"
"That's different." He half glares.
"Not really." I dissagree.
"Vivi and Ness will be safe with Jake." He says in all seriousness.
"No Renesmee is safe with Jacob, for whatever reason," I wave a hand, "but I can't ask him for the same protection for Vivian."
"She's already got it, and the reason doesn't matter. You're family now whether you know it or not, the Cullens claim you and so does the pack- both the packs technically. So she's protected and so are you." He shrugs, seeming to let the topic fall.
"What does that even mean?" I frown, "what reason would you all take two outsiders in out of no where? You don't even like vampires." I glare.
"Don't worry about it." He smirks, looking very much like he was in on an inside joke and enjoying the fact that I was in the dark. I don't appreciate this. But before I could form a response and or throw something at him, Vivi skipped out. Her whole face lit up when she saw Jared and she immediately launched herself into the air and into Jared's open arms. Brats. The both of them.
"Vivian, Ness and Jake are already waiting." I say, clearing my mind of Jared and his annoying self. I stood and gathered my coat and Vivian's, before pulling on my boots and lacing them tightly.
"Can Jared go too?" Vivi asks after some whispers are exchanged.
"No." I deadpanned. They both gave pouting faces. And I start to smile, "well we you look like that- no."
Vivian started to grumble and Jared laughed, not surprised in the least. Vivi jumped up and ran to her own boots, plopping on the ground and clumsily starts working on getting them on.
I smack Jared's head as I passed. "If you're really going you better be ready, I'm not waiting for you."
"Sweet!" He jumps up, and takes off out the back door, shouting for Paul.
"Mommy I need help." Vivi pouts sweetly, her fingers caught in the strings. I lift her to the table and lace up her boots, setting her on her feet and wrapping her in her jacket. Jared emerged then, shutting the back door and locking it before sweeping Vivi into his arms and snatching the keys off the side table by the front door and leaving with Vivi's small giggles in his wake. I roll my eyes and grab my bag, folding my own jacket over my arm and stepping out into the wind to lock the door. Because I had chosen a secluded cabin, the wind was a bit more chilly here, the beach was to the side of the cabin, the forest to the back and a road in the front that led to more cabins and the main road to get to the Cullens.
Vivian was already buckled and Jared in the passenger seat, pressing on the horn, with an exaggerated eye roll I slid into the front. This normally short car ride was going to last forever.
"Finally!" Jacob exclaimed, running out of the Cullens front door.
"Jared's fault." I point over my shoulder, Vivian on my hip and Jared behind me.
Jacob glared over my head.
I bypassed Jacob and walked through the door, immediately Vivi was taken out of my arms and into Alice's, she pecks a kiss on my cheek before spinning at a humans pace and skipping away. I followed slower and met Esme as she came towards me with open arms. I accepted the motherly hug, returning it fervently.
"They're just going to a park." She smiles warmly, keeping her arm around my back as we went followed the noise coming from the downstairs living room. "They won't be far."
I nod, breathing out deeply and repeating Esme's reassurance. Then I pause, "is that.. a human? Two humans? You have humans over?"
Esme just laughs at my expression of surprise. "It's Bella's father and his girlfriend. Not snacks. I promise."
I shook my head, "sorry," I smile apologetically, "I forget you're not like that. I've never met a coven who was... vegetarian."
Esme's laugh was louder this time and she rubbed my back encouragingly as we entered the living room. The humans sat comfortably on the couch, Ness in Bella's father's arms and the woman (who looked like the rest of the Quileute's I'd met so far) leaning close to them, she sat on the edge leaving no room for any other. Bella was on the other side of her father and smiling at something that I missed. She turns to smile at me, standing and pulling Nessie into her arms.
"Dad," Bella says, "these are some relatives of Carlisle's."
What.
"Errabelle and Vivian Cullen."
Wait.
What.
I smiled warmly, shoving my panic down and holding out my hand to her father first.
"Charlie Swan." He greets with a big smile, he didn't flinch at the temperature difference. Charlie has a mustache and curly brown hair, which I noticed was passed down to Renesmee; his chocolate brown eyes that Renesmee inherited- and Bella had before turning, Edward had told me. He stands about 6'0" tall and has an average build, but that was still several inches taller than my 5'3" frame.
I didn't actively avoid humans but I didn't go out of my way to talk to them. When I did they always became star struck and that was a pain. Charlie wasn't much different.
"It's nice to meet you." I smile as normal as I could, before moving to the woman, who gave me a knowing look.
What is happening here?
"Sue Clearwater." She nods, clasping my hand with both hands. Sue has a thin face with black eyes and black hair that runs down to her shoulders.
"Clearwater? Are you Seth and Leah's mother?" Finally, I was on the same page. That explained the look.
"Yep that's me." She laughs, "my babies get into trouble often. Thanks for looking out for them."
"No problem. They're great." I looked to Bella for help.
"And this is Vivian," Alice skips into the room with my child in her hands, "isn't she gorgeous? We just call her Vivi."
"Hi." My daughter smiled bashfully.
"Oh my," Sue gushes, clinging to Charlie's waist, he wraps an arm around her shoulders in response. "Isn't she just beautiful." She glances at me "and she looks just like Errabelle."
"She sure is something." Charlie agrees, smiling at my blonde baby before looking to Bella and her daughter. "Gonna have to keep my shotgun loaded when they're teenagers. Boys will be lined up."
"I agree." Edward makes his entrance, sending me a smirk as he joins his wife. The edges of my eyes crinkle as I fight the urge to narrow my eyes at the mind reader. "But between me and my brothers, and Jake and his brothers you might not need to use it."
"Better save some for me." Charlie's smile widened, "I missed out on most of Bell's teen years and unfortunately she wanted to marry you. So I couldn't shoot you then." He says earning laughs all around. "Even though I wanted to." He added earning more laughs.
"Hey Sue, Charlie." Jared exclaims loudly, in a tone I've decided to dub Jared tone. The boy was too loud for me.
"I see you met my girl." He swings an arm onto my shoulders.
Don't hit him. Don't hit him.
"Jared I suggest you leave Errabelle alone before she gets you in the gut." Edward smirks, Renesmee climbs out of Bella's arms and into his.
"Nah, not our sweet, docile, little Eri." Jared looks down at me, I send up my sweetest smile that hid death beneath it. "See, she's just so sweet-"
My elbow hit his ribs and made him drop the arm from my shoulders to clutch hit gut as he doubled over. Then my hand hit the back of his neck and sent him to the floor completely. He groaned as more laughs erupted.
"I warned you." Edward shakes his head, pulling Bella and Ness to one part of the couch.
I stepped over Jared and to the couch, Esme settles beside me and Carlisle on my other side. Bella on Esme's other side and Edward beside her, Jake claims the seat beside him. And Alice jumps onto Carlisle's lap, kicking her legs onto mine with Viv in her arms still. Charlie and Sue took a chair, Sue in his lap. Alice shrugs and falls back into the small space left on the end of the couch, her back on the arm rest and her legs now on Carlisle and her feet dangling off my knees. Vivi crawled into Carlisle's side. Once Jared could breathe he took the remaining chair, sending a faux glare my way- well I assume it was fake, if not he had a weak glare.
"When are you leaving Jacob?" Edward asks the wolf beside him.
"Now," Jake smiles broad.
My heart stopped as he stood. No. No, no, no.
I was semiaware of Vivian sliding into my arms then.
"I trust you'll keep both girls safe and not let them out of your sight for even a moment." Edward says, giving Jacob a look. "Errabelle and Vivian have somewhere to go tonight so we'll all wait here for you to return."
"Right, I'll have them back just after noon." Jacob nods in agreement.
My heart was beating to fast and my breathing was definitely to shallow. Me and Vivian were never apart. We just didn't do that. And now I could see why Alice and the Cullen parents were sitting so close to me. I could see why Jared wanted to come along and why he was staring at me the way he was. I could see why they brought Charlie and Sue over, because I can't just disappear now- Edward already said this is where we'll be. Deep breath. But that's hours away, it wasn't even ten yet. And he said after noon. That's at least three hours, and they're going to be going to some park, and parks have woods- especially here. Anything could be in the woods sorrounding the park. Sure Jacob had a great sense of smell, but what if they were downwind? Breathe. What if they were downwind and just passing through and smelled the girls and wanted to investigate. Sure they didn't really smell appetizing to vampires but they still had blood flowing in their veins.
Was my daughter going to die?
My lungs stopped expanding.
What if because I didn't go, because I wasn't there for her, she died. I can't live without my baby. And there were so many out there that did not like me. That wished for my death. What if they settled for my daughter.
"Errabelle," Carlisle says warmly, "it's time for the girls to go." He said softly.
I nodded, my arms wrapped around Vivian tightly. She clung to my neck, no doubt sensing my inner panic. She pecked me on the cheek, whispering, "I love you mommy." Before pulling away and standing on my lap. Jacob took her onto his right hip, Ness already claiming his left.
"See you later Eri." Jake smiles brightly in a Jacob way before calling out a louder goodbye to all and disappearing out the front front door. I listened as doors shut in the car, and the car started before turning and driving down the long pathway.
"It feels good to be able to breathe." Edward said nonchalantly, not looking at me but at Bella. I silently took a small breath. Blinking multiple times feeling the tiny pricks from not blinking to long.
"So," Charlie says, looking to his daughter and son in law, "what do you all have on the agenda for this weekend?"
"Dad, you just got back from fishing," Bella almost moans, "don't tell me you're planning on going out again so soon."
"Well I wanted to see my not so little Nessie, but Jake stole her." He grumbled with an eye role.
I feel your pain Charlie.
Edward snorts at that and I glare his way, warning him to stop combing my thoughts.
"Well, Errabelle is only in town for so long." Carlisle smiles, his arm around my shoulders, on the back of the couch, his hand squeezed my shoulder softly. Esme held one of my hands in hers, squeezing also. "We're hoping to convince her to move down here with us."
"We would just love it if you stayed." Esme smiles.
What.
"I'm not sure about that." I mumbled softly. Not wanting to be rude I added, "but we'll see."
"Why not, hey have you been to First Beach yet?" Jared asked suddenly.
As I opened my mouth to retort something sarcastic Edward cut me off.
"Her cabin is on First Beach," he says almost smugly, "I don't think she's walked it yet though."
What in the world was going on.
"Maybe you should take her?" Alice suggests mischievously.
"Great idea." Jared leaps from his seat, grabbing my hands and tugging me from the couch. "Well I can't. I have to work, but Embry totally can." He kept his grip on my wrist as he started pulling me back.
What is this? Do you want to die Jared?! Who the heck is Embry? Why am I being set up?
My thoughts were ignored by the stupid mind reader.
"Oh Embry is a sweet boy," Sue says, wait. I know that smile. She's freaking in on this too. And I trusted you.
The only ones who were lost were me and Charlie apparently. Something told me Charlie had to go through the dark often when it involved this family.
"Come on Belle," Jared tugged again, this time wrapping his free arm around my waist and lifting my feet off the ground. Curse this shortness. "Let's go find Beast."
I frown, "I thought we were finding Embry?"
There were a few smirks that I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to see.
"Nice meeting you Charlie and Sue." I said as I was all but dragged out, "I'll see you both soon hopefully."
"That's if Beast lets you out of castle." Emmett calls from the stair case, Rose at his hip and Jasper behind him.
I sent a glare to him and a wave to them before Jared had managed to get me out of the house.
I sat silently the whole drive there, staring at him with my most unamused expression. I crossed my arms half way there and that's when his nervous eye twitches started.
We pulled into my cabin and Jared parked. Still refusing to turn and look me in the eye. He had sweat dripping from his brow, and his eyes swept across the treeline in a desperate manner.
Ten minutes later he jumped in his seat. "Finally!" He exclaims, finally turning to look st me, panic in his eyes, "you're freaking terrifying!" He yells, jumping out of the car and slamming the door before booking it towards the woods. Another boy was coming out of the forest then, maybe Embry? That's what we came here for right? To meet Embry? What's so special about Embry? And what happened to Beast? Why has my life suddenly taken a turn onto crazy road?
I sigh and climb out, reaching back in to pull the keys out before shutting the door. This is such crap. I leaned back against the car that I realized was not mine, but Carlisle's.
"Hey," he says once he was close enough. "I'm Embry Call." His smile was a bit shy but over all welcoming and warm.
I nod, "hi." I tried to return the smile just a bright but when my eyes caught his my heart decided it didn't want to just skip one beat but like three. It stuttered and I'd bet money the wolf would hear it and think there's something wrong with me.
I forced myself to look towards the beach, "I'm Errabelle... Cullen apparently." There was heat rising up my neck and to my cheeks and I was pretty sure I was going to die from embarrassment. I had never introduced myself before. I never had a name I wanted to keep before. I always just passed through names, I never kept one and I never used the same one twice.
"Wanna take a walk?"
I nodded immediately, silently cursing myself. What was with me today? Maybe I just felt weird because I always had Vivi with me and now I was bare? I don't know. I don't like this.
My heart kept doing weird things, beating just a bit faster than normal. Which for a human would mean a heart attack or something of the sort but my regular heart beat was already quick. Maybe he wouldn't notice.
"How come I've never seen you around before?" I asked quietly, purposely making my boots leave imprints in the sand.
He chuckled quietly then, "you have technically." He pointed out, walking to my left just a bit closer than socially acceptable. "I'm usually a wolf though. I guess I can't really accurately explain what it looks like other than I'm on four legs and furry."
I laughed at this, his smile seemed to widen. In all honesty, now that I had gotten a good wiff of him and I knew which wolf he was. He was the one I could always recognize even though there were a few grey wolves. He had taken the most shifts, mainly the evening and night shifts and sometimes he would take the morning that followed as well.
"So you've met the pack?" He asks after a few minutes. "As humans I mean."
"Some," I shrug, "Sam, Jacob. Seth, Leah. Paul and Jared. You now." I shrug again. "I've seen some of the others in wolf form but they seemed kind of young- judging my their paws, I didn't- don't," I stutter, "-um, uh.. I don't actually know how old they are. I was just guessing.. that... they were young." My face lit up again and I tilted my head down to let my hair fall and cover my embarrassment. I'm such an idiot.
"Yeah they are pretty young." Embry nods, not acknowledging the ridiculousness I keep sputtering. "When the Cullens started gathering witnesses, more started to phase-"
"Phase?" I questioned.
He nods, "yeah, we phase from man to wolf, and wolf to man."
I nod and he continued.
"So more phased and they started getting younger and younger. Now that all the extra leechs are gone, Sam has alpha ordered them not to phase unless of an emergency."
"Leech?" I smirk.
He gained a few shades at this, "uh, sorry. It's just what we've always called vampires. They're our natural enemy..." He trailed off.
"Oh okay. I get it." I nod softly, even though I most certainly did not get it. Any of it. Jacob seemed thrilled to spend time with Renesmee specifically. And he loved the Cullens, well most of them. And even Seth has been over plenty in the last week. I also couldn't understand why it pained my heart so bad. This feeling surpassed the pain of being unwanted, it was worse. So much worse. I swallowed thickly. "I guess you guys don't like having me around then. I wasn't aware how serious the situation was. I can leave as soon as Vivian returns."
"No!" He exclaims quickly, freezing mid step, causing me to jump out of my skin, "no." He says slower and softer. "Don't leave. Please."
My heart did some pretty violent things at that and I could only nod. We kept walking in silence then. Me trying to calm the teenage girl inside of me screaming, 'he wants me, he wants me'. Well it's official. I'm going crazy.
"What did you mean by alpha ordered?" I frowned.
"Oh that.. you caught that huh?" He sighs, "It's an order that the alpha of the pack makes, that everyone has to obey. Even if we don't want to do whatever it is."
"That's... terrifying." To lose your free will.
"It's not that bad," he shrugs, "and it's mainly used to keep the secret of us existing a secret. The kiddos all want to tell their friends that they can turn into a wolf and that's just not a smart thing to do you know?" He smirks, shoving his hands in his pockets and turned to walk backwards. His mirth swam in his dark eyes, his smile infectious, making me smile in return.
"So, how come there's no man in the picture? And that kid is obviously yours." He says, seriousness flooding the happiness, "Please don't tell me you reproduce asexually."
I laughed. Surprise flooded my system as I realized there were many things to be upset about with what he just said. The first being my child's father. I didn't want to tell anyone I was raped by a vampire who hates my guts because of my father. I didn't want anyone knowing about my father either. Definitely not. Second was 'your kid'. I made it clear in the clearing she had a name.
"He's.. I don't know." I didn't want to lie. "We aren't on good terms." Not a lie. "He doesn't know about Vivian, he probably doesn't even think I'm still alive." Also not a lie. He did in fact leave me to die. "She hasn't asked about him and I'd much rather her not ever find out, let alone meet him. That would be disaster." I shivered at the thought. Disaster indeed. One of us would have to die.
He nodded, looking torn between being relieved and maybe wanting to hurt something. Preferably not me, thank you. Even though he had a murderous look in his gaze that he pinned to the crashing waves, I wasn't afraid. He wouldn't hurt me, I could trust him couldn't I? I felt like I could.
He didn't stumble as he walked backwards and a playful part of me wanted to trip him and see what would happen. I shoved the urge down. It was definitely not good manners to trip someone you just met. The driftwood started to come in bigger sizes and different shapes. Embry ran towards a huge one. Like massively tall.
Embry took off into a sprint, jumping to catch one of the top limbs and pull himself up into the tangled mess. He turned and knelt, holding a hand out to me.
"I don't know." The fallen tree looked as if it could fall apart at any moment.
He chuckled, "don't tell me you're afraid of the fall. It's like ten feet."
I looked back unamused. "Embry Call, that is not ten feet."
"He laughs again, "we aren't standing on the tip, and once you move through this mess and onto the trunk it's even less the ten feet, and it gets smaller and smaller." He smiles at me as I stood unsure, "come on. Trust me."
How could I not. I sigh, and against my better judgment I jump and take his hand, letting him pull me up.
Immediately I regretted my decision.
Because when I looked up, I was face to face with him. And he wasn't smiling, just staring, inches from my face. My back was planted firmly against the rough bark, my chest to his as we were stuck between the dried out roots of the old tree. One of his arms passed my left side, his hand placed firmly on root, blocking the fall that I could take at any moment and his other arm stretched above my head, his hand close to my head, planted firmly on the root.
It was hard for me to pull in breaths with his scent flooding my system and clouding all rational thoughts. I didn't understand what was wrong with me. But I didn't care. It didn't matter at this point.
"Come on," he whispered, "we can go check out to the cliffs."
I nod, he moves closer to slip through the roots, his hands encasing my own and pulling me through as well. He stepped behind me, letting me climb out first and keeping his hands on my waist. His hands didn't move even though the trunk the tree was plenty wide enough that there wasn't any chance of falling. As we reached the end he stopped us and hopped off, reaching his arms out to to help. I accepted one hand and he put the other back on my waist and lowered me down gently to the sand. Letting me go once we were both situated. I let him lead me off the beach and up through the forest towards the cliffs nearby.
"You know," I said quietly. "Everytime I go into a forest a vamp tries to kill me."
"Not happening here." Embry shakes his head. "Contrary to your belief, we don't just watch you all the time. The pack takes shifts, running patrol along our borders. We protect our people from any vampires that are passing through who think they can just come and kill a few humans."
I nod. "So you guys, and girl," I add, "are the protectors of your tribe? And you protect by turning into over fed dogs?"
He glares but the smirk he held negates any heat behind it. "Yes we are the protecters, no we are not over fed dogs. You know we're wolves." Then he shrugged and looked off into the trees we passed slowly, "Maybe one day soon you can come to one of the bonfires."
I smile, "to learn about the history of how you became over grown mutts?"
Embry paused and sent another glare, but as he took a deep breath to retort he flinched. I watched silently as he pulled me to his chest, one of his arms pressed firmly to my back.
"Leech." He growls.
"I smell it too." I whisper after breathing deeply, my body tensed on its own accord, "I know that scent." I hadn't smelled that scent in months. The vampire was nomadic, he never stayed still long, always causing trouble somewhere- usually trouble for me.
"Friendly?" he asks through his teeth. His whole body shaking as he pulled me through the first at a quick pace.
"Definitely not." I ground through my teeth.
"Good." Embry growls, he leapt into action, jumping forward ten feet easily and phasing just before he hit the forest floor. Just as he jumped again he collided with an oncoming male vampire that I did not recognize, causing me to frown. This wasn't the scent I just smelled. Embry and the vampire crashed into one another, one snapping for the others head and the other swinging wildly.
I stepped forward to help only to have to throw myself through a portal to avoid the reaching arms that moved to grab my torso. I flew up from under the ground a few feet away, looking smugly at the second male vampire, we moved towards each other at lighting speed and he was the first to fall. His head flying through the trees.
His mate was next. She came at me from the front with the rashness of a newborn arms outstretched. I duck under her left one, wrapping my arm around her neck and ripping one arm clean off. Her head follows.
Two down... I suck in a deep breath, testing the air. I could smell where Embry went with the third vampire, but none of these were the scent I picked up a moment ago.
Following Embry's scent was extremely easy and I came across chunks of vampire leading up to the cliffs.
Breaking through the trees, the wind hits full force, Embry even in his wolf form, radiates smugness.
"So this is where you went."
I whip around, palm up. My eyes narrow automatically at the sight of the missing vampire. Tall, blonde and terrifying.. A second vampire stood next to him, though I didn't recognize her. She was short, brown hair and deep red feline eyes.
"Don't give me that look." He smiles prettily, "you know you've missed me." Red eyes narrow in on Embry who was inching up quickly, growling deeply.
"I know you like puppies, but isn't this overkill?" He sneers.
"Angelo." I say between clenched teeth. "I'll show you overkill."
He chuckles, holding a hand over his heart. "You wound me sweetheart."
Angelo frowns deeply as a deep growl emits from the treeline, and a tall black wolf steps out, a brown wolf with grey circling his eyes pulling up on Sam's right, a dark silver wolf on his left.
"I can handle this." The unnamed female almost begs, latching on to Angelo's arm.
"No." Angelo smiles again, "I think it's time we go now."
"I think I speak for all when I say you aren't leaving here alive." I smirk.
He tsk's, "you really don't have time to play around sweetheart." My heart dropped at his tone, "you should be getting back to precious little Vivian now shouldn't you?" He says in an overly condescending tone. "Cute kid. She grows so quickly."
My blood began to boil and I was pleased when he launched into action, leaping towards Embry, the brunette came at me. I threw a portal under him midstep and he hit me head on with enough force to send is flying through a tree and sending us in different directions. I was on my feet in a second, Angelo doing the same. From the corner of my eye I saw the brunette pivot and launch herself at Embry. Tackling Em straight off the cliff.
"No!" I scream and throw an arm out, grabbing the air and pulling it. Suddenly Embry was colliding into my chest, sending us flying back into trees.
I flipped after a few rolls and landed on my feet only to tense my body at the last second as the brunette slams into me. A screamed involuntarily fell from my lips as my ribs cracked. She was ripped away from me immediately and I heard her torn apart but I didn't care, I was in so much pain. The pounding in my head started as I curl into my side, my face contorting in agony. I let out a strangled cry. Tears built up behind my clenched eyelids. The ribs that had been broken by Vivian, just months ago hadn't healed fully and having them resmashed made the pain so much worse.
Sam, back in his human form, is suddenly at my side, tugging on one of my arms that wrapped around my midsection.
"It's going to be alright." He whispers, wrapping my arm over his shoulder and his under my back and knees, breaking into a brisk run.
I caught a glimpse of Paul, growling off to the right in wolf form.
"Go help the others find the leech!" Sam orders, Paul was quick to get gone, leaving us in silence. "You're going to be alright."
"Don"t worry about it." I cough, feeling blood dribble up my throat. "They go back into place but they don't fully mend for weeks- months even! I'll be fine eventually."