A Reason To Smile
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Twilight characters or anything Twilight related.
This takes place during The Other Half where while the Cullens and Jacob go to Seattle to save Krystal and her friends learn more about the world they live in.
Outtake 5 – Ch. 21 of The Other Half
Nathan's POV
This sucks! Not only is my best friend's in trouble because of this Jonathan and that bitch Miley, I'm stuck here at the Cullen house with Carly and Danielle and the wolves and can't do a thing. Man this guy Jonathan is really an idiot to think getting Krystal out of the picture is the way to get revenge on Lucas for what he unintentionally did to Jonathan's mate.
"Um, Carly, you're gripping me a bit tight." Seth said.
"Oh, sorry." Carly said as she let go of his arm quickly. "I just can't help but worry about Krystal."
"Don't worry," Seth said assuring with a smile. "The Cullens know their way when it comes to saving someone they love. They'll be sure to find Krystal. Just calm down."
"How can we calm down when our best friend is in trouble?!" Danielle asked flailing her arms around.
"Look, we care about Krystal as much as you do since she's very important to you three, but you can't go out there where an army of vampires are roaming around the city." Embry said wrapping his arms arm Danielle to calm her down. "If anything happens to you guys… we don't know what we would do without you." He said that last part sadly.
"Um, not that we're complaining but what is the big deal about this imprinting thing?" I asked looking at Leah, Seth and Embry.
"Imprinting as you probably know is how we wolves find our soul mates." Leah explained. "When a shape-shifter imprints on that person, they become unconditionally bound to that person for the rest of their life."
"You could say that it's like love at first sight, but it's not." Seth said. "It's like the way gravity moves so suddenly. That's when you realize that it's not the earth that brought you here. It was him or her. You would do anything for that person, be anything they want you to be; a brother or sister, a friend and mostly a protector."
"We must be honored to be the ones for you guys." Carly smiled with a blush. Wow, consider me lucky to be picked by a beautiful woman.
"You can say some of us are lucky to find 'the right one.'" Embry said quoting the last part.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked.
"Let's just say that some shape-shifters made a bad timing to who they imprinted on." Embry said. "By that, I mean that some people think of their relationship as scandalous."
"We're confuse you know so can you just say it all in plain English?" I asked.
"Take Quil for example." Seth said.
"Quil imprinted on someone?" Danielle asked.
"Yeah, our cousin Claire." Seth answered. "She's thirteen I believe right now."
"What's wrong with their relationship?" Carly asked. Yeah, I'm not following on this besides the major age difference.
"Quil imprinted on Claire when she was three." Leah answered.
"WHAT!" Well that explains what Embry was explaining.
"Why would he imprint on a toddler?" Danielle asked.
"Well that's the thing about imprinting. It's an involuntary process, but don't worry, Quil didn't rush to it right away." Seth said. "Like we said before; Quil will be anything Claire wants him to be until she is able to have feelings for Quil when she gets older."
"So, you didn't really pick us as your soul mates?" Danielle asked sounding hurt. Carly and I are with her on that. Were we not the ones they're in love with?
"If it makes you feel any better, I didn't think I could imprint since I'm the first ever female to shape-shift since it's usually the males that take on the role." Leah explained to me. "So I didn't think I was able to imprint, let alone be imprinted on."
"I didn't think I would since my mother was from the Makah tribe and my father who is the one I inherited my wolf genes from, left us." Embry said. "Back then, I thought of people like Quil being lucky that they imprinted and I gave up hope of finding one, until I met you Dani." He said to Danielle who blushed from the nickname he gave her.
"I was the youngest member of the pack back then to understand the whole imprinting thing." Seth shrugged then smiled. "I was also the newest, bestest, brightest,"
"And the slowest." Leah and Embry said then laughed.
"Hey!" Seth said as Carly giggled and then hugged him.
"To be honest, I don't care because I love you." She said to him and Seth's face lit up.
"You do?" He asked and Carly nodded shyly.
"That goes for me as well Leah." I said to her causing Leah to smile. "I luuuuu-" Danielle came over to me and slapped the back of my head. "I love you." Man I really need to work on how to talk to women.
"And that's the same with me." Danielle said to Embry when she came back to his side as he smiled.
"Okay so since we're being brought in to your guys' life, do you mind if we ask you some questions?" I asked.
"What do you got?" Seth asked happily. Where do we start?
"Well we understand that you're not really werewolves since you don't need to change during a full moon," Carly started. "But what about the Cullens being vampires? How could they just go out during the day and not at night?"
"Oh those stories are nothing but myths." Seth laughed. "Everything you hear about vampires is nothing but myths like the whole garlic and stake doesn't kill them, only ripping them apart and burning them as Carlisle told you."
"And in case you haven't noticed, there are no dungeons or moats or skeletons in the place they live here." Embry said pointing at the house we're in. "They just look like your everyday humans."
"As for how they go out in the sun, they don't burn in the light. Instead they sparkle like diamonds." Leah said. Well that clears things up.
"Okay but why are you and the Cullens okay with each other if you're enemies?" Danielle asked. Yeah that's what's bothering me seeing everyone's in the same place.
"The Cullens are different than other vampires. As Lucas told you before, they drink animal blood instead of humans. Since they're not like the others, we have a treaty to prevent any war between us as long as the Cullens don't bite humans and don't come in our land unless the Alpha of the pack gives the word." Embry said.
"Things got a bit intense though when Bella, back when she was human, got pregnant with Nessie." Seth said. Okay, I still can't get over that part of Bella and Edward being Nessie's parents. "Back then, we didn't know the outcome of a half-human half-vampire hybrid being born so Sam, the Alpha of his pack, did the unthinkable and plan to kill the Cullens and Bella before she gives birth."
"That's terrible! I thought you guys protect humans from vampires." Danielle said.
"Apparently, one human dying is better than all humans suffering since Bella's decision affects us all." Leah said rolling her eyes. What an idiot, worse than how he dumped her for Leah's cousin she told me which I'm guessing it's because of imprinting now.
"What happened then?" I asked.
"The fight stopped because Jacob who is the Alpha of our pack, imprinted on Nessie when she was born." Embry said. When he saw our confused expression, he continued. "We have one very important absolute law about imprints; whoever the wolf imprints on, can't be harmed, at all and that stopped the attack and both our tribe and the Cullens lived in peace but the treaty is still in place."
"Uh hold on, how old is Nessie actually?" I asked slowly.
"She's ten years old." Seth answered and that's when I saw nothing but blackness.
"Nathan!"
"Nathan!"
I fluttered opened my eyes to see Leah, Danielle, Carly and Embry looking at me and I realized that I'm lying on the floor.
"Are you okay?" Leah said with worry as I sat up.
"Yeah I'm fine, nothing broken." I said waving it off.
"You have got to stop fainting every time you freak out like that." Carly said as we all stood up.
"Well excuse me if this is a lot to take in." I said. "So Nessie is actually ten years old? How did that happen?"
"Hybrids growth rates are very fast until they reach their full maturity at age seven." Embry explained and then chuckled along with Leah and Seth.
"You should've seen how Bella reacted when she heard Jacob imprinted on their daughter." Leah said.
"You know I thought the dad is the one who reacts about their daughters but what happened?" Carly asked excitedly.
"She was very upset to hear what he did to Nessie even though she knew that it wasn't gonna be like that until Nessie grows up and then Bella was about to kill Jacob when she heard he nicknamed her daughter after the Loch Ness Monster until Seth jumped in and got injured." Leah said.
"What!" Carly yelled.
"Carly, chill out. It was an accident. There was no blood, no foul. It's all good." Seth said.
"Fine but the next person that tries to hurt you, I'm straight on for the kill." Carly said as we all laughed… except one.
"Wait, so Nessie and Jacob are together?" I forgot that Nahuel is here.
"Yep, they've been together for four years now." Seth smiled.
"I should go now." Nahuel said suddenly and then left the room and out of the house. Uh, did we miss something or was it something that we said?
"I think he was hoping he and Nessie would be together since they are the same kinds that aren't related. Why else would he come to Forks?" Embry sniggered as the rest of us laughed. Talk about awkward.
It was around nightfall as Leah, Seth and Embry explained to me and my friends more about wolves and vampires to know when the front door opened and the Cullens and Jacob entered the room. My friends and I were relieved that they've found Krystal but when I saw Lucas's expression and then Krystal with her eyes closed in Emmett's arms, something wasn't right. No… she couldn't be.
"What happened to her?" Carly asked in panic. No one answered as Carlisle, Lucas and Emmett with Krystal went inside to another room down the hall and then a few minutes later, Carlisle and Emmett returned and Lucas and Krystal didn't.
"Can someone explain to me what the hell happened to our best friend?" I asked.
"Lucas found Krystal with Jonathan and Miley and Lucas tried to fight them off by himself, while we were trying to get to them." Carlisle explained.
"During the fight, a fire came in the building they were found and when Lucas had Krystal in his arms and was in the air, Jonathan grabbed Lucas and yanked him down causing Lucas to drop Krystal and she fell to the floor where she hit her head." Edward explained.
"So Krystal's…." Danielle didn't want to say the word and Carly and I didn't want to hear it.
"No she's not dead." Carlisle said. "She was when her heart was beating."
"Wait, was?" I said.
"Her heartbeat was slowing down but we were able to save her." Jacob explained. "I gave Lucas permission to change Krystal so that she can still live and become a vampire."
"Then why is Krystal –"
"She is going through her transformation and that takes now about two days to be complete." Alice said. Whoa was all I could say. I can see why the Cullens want to change Krystal and I'm willing to bet it has something to do with Lucas.
"So Krystal will be a vampire for the rest of her life?" Carly asked.
"Yes but this may be hard for you three." Jasper said to us. "Since you're three are humans, we don't know for that once Krystal wakes up if she'll be able to control her thirst of blood like we do when she's with you. I know you guys are her best friends but we had to warn you of the danger you might put yourselves through. You have to understand that." There was silence from us until Carly spoke.
"I know Krystal wouldn't hurt us. She's been my best friend since she moved here." She said.
"Krystal's like a sister to me. I care about her as much as she does for me and I know she would never do anything to me that way." I said.
"Krystal's not dumb to hurt us for her survival." Danielle said. "I know she can control herself around us."
"We had a feeling you would say that." Bella smiled as did everyone admiring our faith to our best friend.
"I bet you three are hungry." Esme said to me and my friends as most people left the room. At that moment, all three of our stomachs growled loudly. Damn, I really miss out dinner. I need to remember to call my parents to let them know where I'm at and I also hope that I won't get grounded. "I'll make you guys something." She smiled and walked her way to the kitchen. I really like this woman. She acts like a real mother instead of a foster mom.
"Hey, where's Nahuel?" Carlisle asked when he just noticed Nahuel's absent. Edward started chuckling. I forgot he can read our minds. Yeah, this is a lot to take in.
Now you know what happened in those chapters during the rescue mission for Krystal. One more outtake you guys. Please review.