Chapter 8: The Shocking Revelation

(Jake's POV)

As she gripped my arms, I couldn't help but think of what is putting her through this pain to make her grip me really toughly. She must have been walking everywhere by the way her clothes are slightly torn in spots where shrubs could reach. She also had no shoes on so you could see how muddy her feet were. I wonder how she found me IF she was looking for me. I mean, I was in a tough enough spot that the others had a hard time finding me. The power of the Imprint must of lead her here, looking for me because in the midst of all the pain she had been holding in and the pain of the Imprint, she can still semi hold her head high to look at me before she surrenders to the pain trying to swallow her whole.

She tried to look at me again. "You...you need to help me, Jake. I... I know I don't know you... that well, but you need to promise me... Promise me that you'll help me when-" She whimpered then started screaming again. What does she mean help her? Help her heal? Help her as an imprinter or what? It could literally be anything!

She looked so helpless - screaming and holding onto me like I'm her life - like she was going through the pains of shifting but she can't. Can she? I feel like I'm starting to question all that I knew about the Quileute and Makah bloodlines. If she can shift, then this will change the Makah's thinking of who can or cannot shift in the generations. We knew that women could shift but we also knew it was rare for the women. There has been only 3 women who have shifted and others who have had the pains of shifting but never did.

All of a sudden, I was pulled back by the pack and she fell face first into the grass, having what looked like a seizure. Damien was there, blocking my view of Kat, and throwing her clothes behind his back. Wait... Throwing her- I picked up an article of cloth that he threw behind him. Conveniently, I picked out her bra. I smirked, knowing she was wearing this , a black satin bra, while trying to find me.

"Don't you think about taking that." Damien threw a frustrated and stressed look across his shoulder at me. " She needs it for when she changes back."

"Wait, she's changing?" We all said in unison. I knew that it was a very good possibility that she was but then again, anything could happen.

"Yes, and you all should too so that when she tries to run, and we know she will, we will be ready." He stepped back, making us run to the forest.

(Kat's POV)

I wanted to tell Damien to comfort me and tell me it's going to be all right, but I couldn't find my voice. The screams subsided and they turned to whimpers that could break any grown man's heart and I could tell by the look on Damien's face that they have.

He was on the other side of the meadow, almost waiting for me to explode or something. It felt like I was going to burst although I don't know why he had to take my clothes away. When the boys went away into the forest, I felt a little bit better about being naked in the open.

As if I left my body or something, it felt like I changed or exploded into a million pieces. The pain went with the million pieces as well and I felt like the weight as been lifted off my shoulders, or rather put on my shoulders. Suddenly, I felt much heavier though I weigh 110 pounds and it almost feels like I weigh 220 pounds instead. In my peripheral vision, I could see a snout is it? Yep, definitely a wolf's nose. I looked down and almost collapsed. I had paws and a wolf's nose! Damien must have been trying to gear me up for this but you can never gear up for the pain that I went through.

I looked up and I must have been dreaming because there are 10 other wolfs in the woods, including the one that was laying where I'm standing about 15 minutes ago. My brother was in the center and it seemed like he was working with them.

"I know you must feel afraid right now and you must want to try to run away from this but you shouldn't. You need to stay here so we can help you." He stretched his arms out wide. "We know what you are going through and the pain you've felt." I snorted. I doubt that anyone would know how painful it would be to go through that.

"Come here. It's ok. You can trust me. I'm still the same person you've been with for your entire life." He stepped closer and brought his hand forward as if to pet me. I feel like I'm 7 foot tall or something and the wolfs in the woods are about a foot taller than me. I have no idea what to do about this situation I'm in. I could either run away and not come back because I know all the others can shift and live a happy, normal life or I can stay and try to shift back, knowing that I'll be shifting all the time.

All of a sudden, everything was a blur. I turned 180 and ran through the forest at inhuman speed. I guess the guys were one step ahead of me because I almost ran into a wolf that was in front of me. That caused me to turn left, which resulted to three other wolfs in front of me that were following me. I found an opening in the two groups and ran for it. They snapped at me, trying to grab hold of my fur, but I was faster. I ran for a while, having to take different routes because they got ahead of me but there was always an opening for me to go through because I'm smaller than them. I'm also white which doesn't help because they're a whole bunch of colors that could blend into the trees like black and brown or gray.

As soon as I knew it, I was flung 20 feet into a tree by a gray and black wolf. The tree broke due to the sudden force but I fell and felt like I had a couple broken bones. I was about to start running again but I realized I got circled while I was down. They all stared at me as I stood up, my bones cracking as I went. In turn, I stared at them back, rolling my eyes as to say "What you guys never ran away when you shifted?" A couple of them made this deep, raspy sound that sounded like they laughed at me. I growled but stopped when a figure stepped out of the pack that I knew all too well. Jake. He stepped lightly, as if he didn't want to scare me off, and took it one step at a time until I allowed him about 3 feet in front of me then I lightly growled. He stopped, getting the hint.

"Ok. We have all been through the same thing and even the same thoughts." I rolled my eyes. "Yes the same thoughts, Kat. Your thinking that you should run away so that you don't have to shift and you could live a normal life right?" I hesitantly nod my head. "So, like I said, same thoughts. We all went through that same pain but you were born into the wolf line to protect your people from our enemies. The cold ones or better known as vampires. We shift when they move here and we," he gestures to the wolfs behind him, "shifted because there is a clan of bloodsuckers that moved back here a while ago and our natural instincts came in except there is an exception with this group of fangs. Our ancestors found them hunting on our land but they claimed they were different. They drank only animal blood so they came up with a treaty. If they stopped hunting on our land, we wouldn't kill them and that's where they drew the line in the sand."

I hadn't noticed he took tiny steps towards me until he stopped his story. Now he was within an arm's length away from me. I snapped my teeth at him and surprisingly, he didn't flinch. "Werewolf too, remember?" Oh, shoot. He's just so cute, I forgot that he can turn too.

"Can you turn back now?" I shook my head while the same black and gray wolf that flung me in the tree poked him in the side with his nose and winked at me. Then I realized who that was. That's Damien. He's the one who flung me in the tree. I crouched down and started walking towards him. He saw that and stood up tall and growled. For some reason, I stopped dead in my tracks. What the hell? I started shaking my head and growling and snarling to wake me out of it so I could get him but I couldn't. I heard a couple of the wolfs laughing at me but that only made me snarl more. By then, Jake had gotten to me and started petting me to calm me down. It may sound weird but it helped and I stopped almost instantly. The little things he do make me love him a little more.

"Ok. We need to get you to turn back now. The first time it is a little difficult but you can practice and it will eventually become instant. All you have to do is calm your nerves and clear your mind." My nerves were already shot down by Jake but he made my mind go berserk so I need him to go or something. As if he read my mind, he started backing away. "We all need to go so that Damien can help her. Let's gather her clothes."

The wolfs left simultaneously, running back to the clearing while Jake went behind a bush. He came out a few seconds later except as a wolf. I let this image burn into my head as he smiled at me and ran away.