A/N:

This chapter is very emotional. I hope it's not too much for you guys to keep track of, I tried not to make it confusing(:

Enjoy

-xx

Next morning I wake up to an empty house, there's a note by my bed asking me to call Sue when I wake up.

"I got your note." I say when she answers.

"Do you by any chance have this morning free?"

"Until when? I just know my dad needed to talk to me, but I don't know how long it will take."

"Just until noon. Emily has a dentist appointment and I can't let Leah do the whole house, it's not possible for one person."

"Sure, I'll get changed and come now." we hang up; I put on my uniform and head over to the restaurant. All the guys are in the kitchen this time; even Jacob. I don't let them know I'm here because I wanna see if he talks about last night.

"Will you just say something?" Paul joked.

"No out of respect for her, and the fact that her brother is right next to me, I'm not talking about it." he's so sweet and considerate!

"That's alright, we'll just hear about it later in your thoughts." Quil says. Hear it in his thoughts?

"Morning ladies." I smile walking in the kitchen.

"Sveta how long have you been here?" Paul asks.

"Just a few minutes." I walk over to the sink, which is coincidentally next to Jacob and wash my hands.

"Good morning." he says quietly to me.

"Hi." I smile at him. He leans down and kisses my cheek then once on my neck. It tickles, I giggle and he pulls me in to a sideways hug.

"D'aww!" they all chime. I forgot they were there, I turn around and smile at them.

"How cute!" Embry chuckles a little.

"Well I have work to do." I give Jacob a quick kiss then walk out to the front.

After my shift I say bye to everyone and pick up lunch for me and my dad.

"Hi dad." I smile setting the food down on the counter. I change into sweat pants and a hoodie, fill up Thumper's food and water and head back to the kitchen to eat with my dad. He has a bottle of water ready for both of us and sits across from me.

"How is it?" He asks a few bites in.

"So good." I smile.

"So you comfy?"

"...yes..."

"So to begin our talk I want to ask you a few background questions. Before you heard the stories at the party, had you mother ever told you anything out them?"

"Um no."

"Have you heard anything besides what you heard that night?"

"No."

"Good. Have you heard about imprinting?"

"I've heard the word, but I don't know what it is." I remember my first day here Jacob told Seth he was imprinting on me.

"It's basically love at first sight. When a member of the tribe or pack imprints he or she will do whatever it takes to keep that person safe and happy. Even if they just stay friends, they will barely every leave their side. It's life long devotion to one person."

"Wait you said pack?"

We are descendants from wolves. Our ancestors were given the ability to shape shift, and it just so happened to be a wolf they transformed into. Some members of the tribe have the specific gene to shape shift, but just because you have the ability, doesn't necessarily mean you will shift."

"Do I know anyone who has the gene?"

"Yes."

"Do I have it?"

"That's a difficult question. Since your mother isn't apart of the tribe and doesn't have the gene herself, you only get the gene from me. Since it's only from one parent I don't think you have the full ability to change."

"Can you?"

"I used to. Once you learn to control your anger you stop phasing and you age normally."

"What? You start aging?"

"Your first phase is the effect of a loss of temper and control. Once you start, until you control your anger and stop phasing, you don't age."

"Why does it happen. Like I know because of the chromosome gene thing, but why did it before?"

"Because of the cold ones. Surely you remember their story?" I nod, "can you guess what they are?"

"Vampires." I joke, laughing.

"Very good!"

"Wait, I'm sorry what?" I ask almost choking.

"They're vampires. They attacked the reservation and that's what set it off. Their skin is so cold, but so thick. Only the destruction from a werewolf or another vampire can tear them apart. You rip them apart and burn the pieces to officially...end their lives, so to say."

"Do I know any...vampires?"

"Do you remember when you woke up from being drugged? The pale man that was here is a vampire."

"You let one in here? After explaining that they're our mortal enemies! How could you let one in especially so close to your family?"

"His name is Carlisle Cullen. Jacob's great great grandfather made a treaty with him and his family. They don't hunt on our land and we don't bother them. They only drink animals anyways, they like to consider themselves as 'vegetarian vampires'."

"So about Jacob's great great grandfather, you say he was Chief and Alpha,"

"Right."

"And I assume Billy and Jacob's mom had the gene and used to phase."

"Billy used to, but his mother did not phase."

"So he has the gene. That-that would make him Alpha." I cover my mouth and whisper, "Jacob's a monster."

"Now wait a minute. You know Jacob. He is obviously not a monster."

"Obviously I don't know him that well. Silly me for thinking he was human! For thinking you were human!"

"It's not something we can tell people. One of the rules, only a parent can pass down the news to their children, it is not to be spoken about freely until everyone knows."

"Who else."

"Again, I can't tell you that."

"Is sue apart of the tribe?"

"This one and another."

"So Sue, Leah, and Seth are werewolves too right?"

"Not entirely. There has never been a female to phase in the history of our tribe except for a few exceptions."

"So is Jacob Alpha?"

"No."

"Is he a shape shifter?" He keeps his mouth closed and looks at me, "right you can't say." I stand and throw away my box.

"Where are you going?" He asks as I start to leave.

"I need to think. Suddenly I don't feel comfortable." I run up to my room and sit on my bed. How can he just spring this on me! Why now? How am I supposed to react to this? I hate to think of them as monsters, especially Jacob and Seth. Seth is my brother, he can't be non human.

I stay in the room for what seems like minutes, but has actually been hours; the sun has sent almost fully and it has gotten colder. I open the door quietly and walk downstairs. Seth, Sue, Leah, Paul, Quill, Embry, Jared and Jacob are sitting in the living with the T.V on; they aren't exactly watching it though. My dad walks out of the kitchen, looks at them and them me. I stand there, scared and barely breathing. I put my flip flops on and run out the front door. I just run straight, into the trees, and just keep going. Leah said running helps her, but LEAH'S NOT FUCKING HUMAN! But wait, Leah is a girl, dad said only a few exceptions have changed. Can Leah be one of the special few? She did say she can outrun the guys, though...

"Ugh!" I breathe. I hear a howl, it's getting louder even as I run away from the direction it came from. I suddenly stop. "Who's there?" I ask scared, my breathing hitches and I spin trying to find the wolf. Vlk comes to me slowly.

"Vlk?" I back away slowly, he comes closer. "Pl-please stop. Who are you?" He sits. "My dad told me about werewolves, now who the hell are you?" I yell, he cries a few times. "I'm sorry Vlk, but this is goodbye." He stands and walks right in front of me. For the first time since I met him, I'm scared. He licks my chin and bows his head. "B-bye." I stutter and rub his head on last time. I run back, hopefully towards the house. A few wrong turns later I make it back. I walk through the front door and everyone is there except Jacob. Why is Jacob gone? Where could he be? When they look up at me, I see them differently. Seth looks more masculine, his hair a sandy mixture of colors, and his eyes change. Leah's face becomes more pointed, her hair now grey and her eyes black. Quill's face puffs out and his skin is now a light brown fur. He looks a little like Vlk, just lighter. Paul's eyes change first. They were a light brown, now they're as black as tar. His face grows long and he starts growing light brown and grey fur. Embry looks sad, his face is a darker shade of grey and his nose sticks out a little. Jared is the one that looks like Vlk. His eyes turn up a little and spread further apart on his face. The fur he grows is a few shades deeper than Vlk, but it's not black. These wolves have taken over the people I once knew. I've seen all these faces before though, maybe in a dream. Then it hits me, "Oh my god." I whisper in horror as I realize where I've seen them. I saw them in the forest that one night; the first time I met Vlk. Jacob walks through the door, shirtless. Where is his shirt? I watch his face as it molds into an identical replication of Vlk's. An identical replication of the stuffed wolf he gave me as a gift. "Vlk," I whisper. "You?" I ask. He looks confused. I look back at the other wolves sitting in the living room then back at Jacob. "You were-" I shake my head and look at the other wolves, "you were all there!" I run upstairs, grab Vlk and run back down. "Why did you give me this?" I question. He looks at the wolf and then up at me. His face slowly molds back to his normal face. "Why Jacob? Or should I say Vlk!" I yell. His face droops and he looks horrible.

"I wanted you to kn-"

"Why did you give me a Russet wolf? A wolf with distinct features and a specific name embroidered into his paw? A wolf with the same fucking howl I hear every night out my window?" I throw it at him. "I don't feel right here. Excuse me." Tears gather in my eyes as I turn away and jog up to my room. I gather all my loose things around the room and stuff them in my suitcase; I'm leaving I'm the morning. I grab Thumper and sit in the window with him. A little while later Seth comes up, sees me and sits on his bed. It's obvious I'm scared, he can see it.

"I'm sorry." He starts.

"Don't. Just please. It was nice to meet you, but I will never see you the same again."

"Sveta...I'm your brother. I'm still me."

"You are not my brother." I say quietly, "I am human, my brother would have to be human too. You're not human Seth!" For the first time since I've been here, he's not smiling. He looks as if he's about to cry. "I don't mean to sound harsh, but I don't know how else to put it!"

"Why is your suitcase on your bed?"

"I'm leaving in the morning. I would leave tonight, but I'm too upset. I'd probably crash and kill myself.

"Please don't leave. You just need to sleep."

"I'm not sleeping in this house anymore. I'm living with beasts, wild animals that I know nothing about. I don't know what makes you tick and poof turns you into a snarling monster."

"Are you looking at me right now? Do you see fur, four paws and a tail? No you see me! I am talking right now, right? Do animals talk? No! I'm not a monster!" He yells at me, his breathing is starting to rise.

"I never really got to know you and now its too late."

"You act like I'm dying, or dead!"

"The human brother I knew is." That does it and he starts shaking, he paces the floor back and forth. A steady flow of tears drop from his eyes. "You can cry?" I ask quietly.

"I can feel and hurt too!" He growls, I jump as it scares me. He sees the fear in my eyes and clams down a little. "I am still human. I have a beating heart, warm blood coursing through my veins and hurt feelings. I'm not a wolf right now I'm human!" He says and pounds his chest a little.

"I'm sorry." I whisper. He sits on his bed and takes a few deep breaths. He looks at me, turns off the lamp between our beds and lays down facing the door.

"Goodnight…sleep tight…and don't let the vampires bite." He says.

I grab a piece of paper and a pen.

Seth,

I can't begin to say how sorry I am. I know last night I probably sounded like the monster and I'm sorry. Dad just sprung it on me so quickly and I didn't have the right time to react. Here I was thinking that the father I hadn't seen in a year was human, that the brother and sister I never knew I had were human; I thought everyone was human! Then suddenly he's a werewolf, you're a werewolf, everyone here is a werewolf it seems. Werewolves and vampires used to be mystical made up fantasies. Not real life. Obviously I knew wolves existed, but WEREwolves? That day when we were talking about the wolves outside and you asked if I found them, I lied to you, you knew I lied; you were there. All of you were there and you all scared the shit out of me! One thing you might not have known was that I kept going back. The brown wolf-I call him Vlk-was the reason I kept going back. I would talk to him and he would listen, I told him things I wouldn't tell anyone else because I knew he couldn't tell anyone. But now I realize he could tell someone. I realized last night that Vlk was Jacob, IS Jacob. I just have so many thoughts and questions that I'm afraid to know the answers to. You know I was actually beginning to think that I might love Jacob. I barely know him and yet I dare to say love! How can that be, Seth? He made me feel different. I used to feel safe around him, protected, but I didn't even know him, I didn't even know he wasn't human.. How can I love someone and not even know what species they are! Seth I can't forget the few memories we have together, I don't want to forget them. I want to remember you that way, human. As I sit here and write this to you, brother, dad's nursery rhyme keeps running through my head. His good night saying finally makes sense; Goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the vampires bite…

Goodbye Seth.

Love Always,

Sveta

I fold the piece of paper and place it next to his pillow. The sun is rising and I don't want to be here when he reads this. I take my suitcases quietly out to my car and go back up to put Thumper in his cage. I empty his litter box and take down the boards. I put Thumper and all of his belongings into my car. I make my bed and leave a note for Sue saying how I'm sorry I'm leaving early and that I need to quit from the diner. On my way back out to my car I stop frozen in my tracks.

"What are you doing here?" I ask David as he walks towards my car.

"Unfinished business." I can hear a faint growl, but I don't see any wolf.

"I'm done with you."

"Not with you! Jacob!"

"He was defending me because you fucking drugged me! Or do you not remember that part?" I yell.

"So I admit it, I gave you ex when you wanted an aspirin. I was just trying to make you feel better!"

"BULLSHIT!" I yell. The growl gets louder. He starts walking up to me. "Stay back!" he walks faster.

"HEY!" Seth yells running out the door. "You have some nerve coming back here, what the fuck do you want?" he growls at him. David holds out an envelope, I snatch it from him and open it.

"You're suing? You're fucking suing him?"

"He assaulted me and put me in the hospital!" he yells. Out of the corner of my eye I see something approaching. It's Jacob-in wolf form-and he's growling. He stands by my side and I take a step closer to Seth.

"Look I didn't come here for trouble, just to tell you I'll see you on Friday." great it's bad enough he's suing Jacob, but now this means I have to stay until the end of the week!

"You keep fucking up my life, you know that! I was leaving!" I say pointing to my car, "Now I have to stay here!" Seth and Jacob look at me. "Leave!"

"So this is it for us?" I stare at him.

"Are you fucking kidding me? YES! We are over. I don't want you in my life anymore." he nods slowly and leaves. I look over at Jacob and he's human again; and naked.

"Um hi!" I say turning away. "Why are you naked?"

"When we phase, either our clothes rip off or we take them off."

"And you're comfortable just standing here naked in front of me and another guy?"

"We've seen each other naked. All of us have." Seth says quietly.

"Besides it's nothing you haven't seen or enjoyed before." Jacob smiles.

"Please just put some shorts on." he runs to the house and grabs a pair from the bushes. "I'm sorry you're being sued."

"It's fine. Were you really leaving?"

"Yeah. Um Seth how long have you been up?"

"Every since you put something on my pillow."

"You read-"

"Can I hug you?"

"…O-okay." he wastes no time in grabbing me and hugging me tightly.

"I understand so much better now." he says letting me go. "Is there anyway we can still keep in touch?"

"I think so. We need to talk first though."

"Completely understandable." I smile.

"What about us?" Jacob asks hopeful.

"That is going to take time. Possibly more time than I can spare."

"How can you forgive him so much easier than me? He lied too, he is the same thing I am."

"He didn't lie to me, I lied to him! He didn't come to me in wolf form and comfort me. He didn't listen to all my problems-still in wolf form-and act like nothing ever happened! You know so much about me that honestly I wish you didn't. and what did you expect me to do with that wolf you gave me? Were you trying to let me know it was you?"

"I wasn't allowed to tell you." Sam walks up the path, his face starts changing.

"Not again." I murmur, they look at me then at Sam confused. Sam was the black wolf from that night.

"Why are you scared, you know who Sam is." Seth said.

"What's going on?" Sam said standing in front of us.

"Because the last time I saw him, he was hovered over me, teeth bared and snarling." I close my eyes and see Emily being attacked. "Emily." I whisper. It was before she got her scars, it wasn't a bear, "It wasn't a bear. You did that to her." I open my eyes starring at Sam.

"How could you know that?"

"I just saw it." I back away a little from all of them. "You're all capable of that. Capable of hurting an innocent person you love."

"It was an accident." Sam defends almost in a growl.

"Keep your composure." Jacob says.

"You're ordering me? I am your alpha, you don't order me, I order you!" he growls at Jacob and he backs away.

"Don't hurt her like you did Emily!" Jacob snapped back.

"That was practically a year ago, when will I live that down?" he yells. A rumble builds in his chest and Jacob's head lowers.

"Sam." Seth says quietly. Sam looks at me, closes his eyes and lets out a deep breath.

"I'm sorry." he says to me. I swallow my nerves and start breathing again.

"I-I'm," I stutter and go in the house. Leah walks down the steps, I hurry and leave the house through the back door.

"Go get her." I hear my dad say. I don't want to talk to anyone right now, I start running. I wish I wasn't running into the forest, but there is NOTHING ELSE around their house!

"Sveta!" Jacob, Seth and Leah call out. I try to run faster, but I'm only human.

"Sveta stop!" Seth yells.

"It's not safe!" Jacob yells.

"Not safe?" I ask quietly out of breath. I keep running, Seth runs up next to me, in wolf form now.

'Stop!' I can hear him.

"Wolves can't talk." I breathe.

'There's a vampire!' I hear Jacob on my right, also in wolf form. I stop suddenly.

"What?" they keep going a little until they skid to a stop. Three people walk towards me on my left. Three wolves are suddenly in front of me growling at them.

"Hello doggie." one says. All three of them charge at the people. I try to see what's going on but it's hard to keep my eyes on them; they're fast.

"These must be vampires." I say to myself. I back away slowly until I hit something hard and cold. Fuck! My breathing speeds up and I turn around slowly. A tall pale man stares down at me.

"Hello." he says and cocks his head to the side.

"H-hi." I say quietly. He leans down and takes in a whiff of my scent.

"Delicious." he says.

"Please don't."

"Oh now the begging." he chuckles. I start to run, but he grabs me and throws me down on the ground. I grab some dirt and throw it in his face. I quickly slide out from underneath him. I hear him groan and turn my head to see him lung at me. He sinks his teeth into my shoulder and I fall to my knees screaming. He moves to my neck and bites down hard.

"AHHHHH!" I screech at the top of my lungs. I feel my blood being drained and replaced by something else; it burns. I become limp, Jacob runs towards us and knocks the vampire off of me. I fall to the ground gasping and burning. I see flames as I'm lifted onto Jacob's back. I latch on to his fur as he runs back to the house. He sets me down and I close my eyes as Seth and Leah phase and put clothes on.

"She was bitten!" Seth yells.

"You have to suck it out." Leah says.

'I'm sorry. I'm gonna make it go away.' I hear Jacob. He lowers his huge wolf mouth onto my shoulder and sinks his teeth in making big holes. He sucks out some of my blood, he doesn't swallow it, but spits it out in the grass; he does the same at my neck. Then he collects a lot of his saliva and slathers it all the way from my neck to my shoulder. His saliva seeps into the open holes made by his teeth and the burning stops. He turns back into a human and puts shorts on.

"Did you do everything?" my dad asks Jacob.

"Yeah." he says. My breathing turns normal and I sit up slowly, Sue hands me a bottle of water, I take a few sips.

"Are you okay?" my dad asks.

"Am I a vampire now?"

"No."

"But he bit me, twice!"

"I sucked all his venom out and put my saliva in and around the wounds." Jacob says.

"You put your saliva in me?" I ask disgusted.

"It's the only way to save you. A wolf's spit stops any extra venom from spreading through your body." I look down at my shoulder and wince at the pain from moving my neck.

"Thank you." I say quietly. He helps me up. We all go back in the house and talk. All of my questions are answered and I'm feeling a little better.

"I'm embarrassed about the way I treated you guys." I say.

"It was expected, you didn't know." Seth says.

"Jacob can I talk to you outside?" I ask standing. He follows me outside.

"Thank you for saving me."

"It was nothing."

"Stop being modest."

"I've told you before I'd literally do anything to keep you safe." anything to keep me safe, the words seem familiar. My dad mentioned those words when he was talking about imprinting. I give him a hug, he hugs back.

"I have something to ask you."

"Anything."

"Did you imprint on me?"

He sighs, "Yes."

"So you lo-"

"I love you." he says cutting me off. I stare at him not knowing what to say.

"You're being sued?" Sam asks coming outside. "When were you gonna tell us?"

"I just found out this morning."

"We need to prepare."

"It's not a-"

"You can go back to jail Jacob!"

"That Cullen guy, he's a doctor?" I ask.

"Yes."

"Did he document that I was drugged?"

"I think so."

"We need him. That's our way to justify his actions, he was protecting-"

"The woman I love." Jacob finishes my sentence.

A/N:

I felt bad writing all the scenes with Sveta and Seth because it hurt his feelings! But I promise it will all work out!(: