So I thought I'd tell you all, because I like people knowing … It's my Birthday on Friday (the 21st) :D I'm gonna be 17 !
Sophie's POV.
I sighed, the end of Cat's scent meant she'd taken off somewhere. I looked up into the canopy of the trees, while I would sit on a cloud, Cat would sit in a tree. I thought for a minute before flying above the tree tops, I found what I was looking for without having to actually look for it. It was a huge tree. It grew so large that the top touched the clouds high in the sky. The only branches were right at the top, making it impossible for an average person to climb the tree. I flew towards the giant tree, it was monstrous. It would have made scientists confused, especially seeing as the tree grew that big over night. I reached the tree, finding the top and finding my sister sitting comfortably in a hammock woven out of vines. Her arms were crossed and her face frustrated.
"I know how you feel" I agreed, knowing she was still angry. Another hammock appeared behind me and I sat on it.
"I thought after we showed them we would be alright, they'd lay off" Cat muttered
"Guess we'll just have to prove it. They can't stop us from being there, none of them can. Guess we'll have to use that to our advantage." I shrugged
"I really feel like setting them all on fire and not letting any of them do anything" Cat grumbled
"That's a bit far. You've seen how excited they all are. The pack especially" I sighed
"Yeah. I know. But even they are looking down on us, and they saw everything we could do, why is it so hard for them to believe we'd be alright. You don't see us telling them they're all gonna get hurt and they're not strong enough and they can't handle it. We know they will be fine. We know they can handle themselves, because we've seen the things they can do, we know they're strong. They aren't normal, they'll be fine. Why is it so difficult for them to do that for us?!" Cat raged. I just let her ramble, get out all the anger and annoyance. I didn't bother trying to comfort her, that was pointless, and I couldn't comfort her when I completely agreed. It was annoying. Cat would be more alright around the vampires than me cause of her fire abilities. But that didn't mean I was completely vulnerable, I exploded things for crying out loud, I crushed them. I was expecting everyone to baby me, not Cat. Tell me that I would be in more danger than the others, and yet they were babying us both.
"Well. I guess we should try and get out of our normal charade." I began, she looked at me weirdly "We need to start using our abilities around the pack and the Cullens. We've gotten so used to keeping them hidden, but now we don't really need to. Run around, loose your temper a little, fry things, freeze things. Surprise them all. We don't need to hide anymore, so why should we? School's over, we don't need to worry about that, so come on. Lets loosen up a little" I encouraged a little excitedly. She grinned
"That'll be annoying for them"
"They'll get over it" I sneered. She started giggling and I couldn't help but smile. I ended up laughing with her, high up in the tree. We were taken out of our little world by the sound of someone's voice. We looked down, though it was a long way off, I could just make out the three tanned boys standing below. Cat began to sulk again, her arms crossed over her chest again. She didn't want to talk to them. I thought. We couldn't avoid them for ever.
"If we stay up here, we wont be able to yell at them" I taunted. I saw Cat contemplating this fact. I held the string on my hammock and it suddenly began to lower. It wasn't like a calm slow ride, the hammocks just dropped straight down. It was like those drop rides that made you feel like you'd left your stomach behind. Normal kids screamed, but Cat and I had jumped off the tops of buildings before while testing our flight ability, so we were used to this kind of thing. The hammocks came to a stop with a jolt, in front of Embry, Jacob and Quil. They stared at us surprised
"When are you going to get over us doing strange things?" I wondered. None of them replied.
"What are you doing?" Quil eventually asked
"Avoiding you" Cat said coldly, refusing to look directly at any of them, Jacob in particular. He seemed to notice this because he had an unhappy expression on his face. I felt bad for him, his imprint was… well, almost furious, with him. I looked at Embry who seemed to notice my glance, I didn't smile, I knew he would be thinking the same way everyone else was, how could he not? His imprint was in danger and about to willingly walk up to an army of raging new-born vampires. I stood up and got off the hammock, I walked past the three boys and away from Cat, she was going to want her own yelling session. Embry and Quil turned to follow me, Jacob was going to have a much harder time than Embry was, that was sure. I wasn't good at holding a grudge for long, unless it was extremely bad what the person did. Cat on the other hand…
"Maybe it'll be different with Jacob though" I wondered. We walked in silence for ages, I didn't want to talk to them really. I was upset at being looked down on, and I was probably going to ice some trees in a minute just thinking about it.
"Soph…" Embry said softly, I didn't answer.
"Sophie" Quil said after a few more minutes. I felt my anger beginning to increase
"Will you just talk to us?" Embry asked. I stopped and closed my eyes, all of my sisters words came flooding back to me. "Soph…" Embry muttered, there was worry in his voice. I heard a crack. I knew that sounds, it was the sound of something freezing, of ice forming.
"Great" I realised I'd lost my temper just a little much.
"Are you alright?" Quil wondered. I lost it, I spun around and saw the surprise in their eyes, it was also mixed with worry. They knew that even their high temperatures might not be able to do much against my ice. I'd been told many times by Cat that I actually look scary when I'm angry like this; my eyes go an icy white-blue colour and my hair basically turns the same colour, but like it's frozen and it steams like a refrigerator when you first open it after a while.
"Am I alright?!" I yelled "What kind of stupid question is that?! Imagine if you were being looked down on by everyone you knew. Imagine if all your friends thought they were better than you. Imagine if you had the potential to do something but no one was willing to trust you or give you a shot. Imagine if you had to stay home and be baby sat while everyone else was out risking their lives. Imagine you felt useless when you could be helping a great deal. IMAGINE IF THE CULLENS HAD SAID NO TO YOU HELPING THEM BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TO DANGEROUS FOR YOU AND YOU COULDN'T HANDLE IT!?" I screamed angrily. Every tree around us, in fact, everything around us was completely frozen. The grass was covered in frost, ice and even snow. The clouds above had turned dark and the air was cold. If I got any angrier, it would probably begin to snow. The boys stared at my completely surprised. I didn't blame them. Cat was the one who became like this, I hardly ever lost my temper this badly, guess Embry was going to have a harder time than Jacob after all. I didn't bother to calm down though, even I needed to let out all my anger at some point, and what better place to do it than in the middle of know where away from everyone… well except the wolves, but that could run if need be. I stood their glaring at them, no one spoke. I heard their hearts racing a little before calming down. They both looked at me, I wasn't sure what it was I saw in their expressions; pity? Sorry? Sadness? Regret? I didn't like it.
"Instead of looking at me like that you could at least explain" I ground my teeth
"Sophie. We're sorry. It's just…" Embry began
"We don't want you two getting hurt" Quil finished his sentence
"You saw what we can do, you've seen it numerous of times now, and yet you still think we're breakable?" I hissed "Have you been watching us at all?"
"We have. Just, we've never experienced what you can do, against someone who actually intends to hurt you" Embry said, I stared at him in disbelief
"So you think that everyone's been holding back on us?!" I shrieked "You think Cat would go easy on me, and me on her? You think Emmett, of all people, you hold back?!" by their expressions I guessed they realised they'd upset me again. I couldn't believe that though, they thought everyone was going easy on us? They thought Cat and I didn't actually win? This infuriated me. They didn't even believe we could handle one another's attacks, let alone an army of vampires. Have they not been listening to us? Did they not see how easily I exploded that tree? Or how easily Cat set that fire? Was everything we did just fake to them? I clenched my fists not taking my eyes off of them. They both took a step back, getting protective and defensive as their instincts told them they were in danger. If they launched at me, I hoped I could beat them, show them what I could do, but not harm them, Embry was still my soulmate, and Quil was still as close to family as anyone can get. The trees creaked, it was kind of eery, like in a horror film with those dead scary looking trees and the wind makes their branches creak. I wasn't near the ocean, but I could just tell that was going mad, even if I was several miles away from it. The wind was beginning to take on some of my anger. Water was my rage, wind my pain, but I guess the water could only take so much, not only that but there wasn't much water around me to take on my anger.
"No" Quil finally answered me
"Yes you do! You doubt us that much? You think of us as humans! The entire pack would never stand a chance against one of us, let alone two and yet we're both gonna be there!" I disagreed, this conversation was going no where, and they were definitely loosing the argument.
"Not as human. Human's can't do what you do" Embry reminded me
"Than why are you bloody looking down on us and treating us like them!?" I wondered, the rage was like a hidden fire within me, that never happened seeing as I was so cold. They shared a look
"I don't know" Embry breathed
"YOU DON'T KNOW?! THAN WHY ARE YOU DOING IT?!" I yelled. One of the frozen trees exploded, the ice flew everywhere, it was as sharp as glass so, as mad as I was at them, I was glad none if it hit them.
"I think it's cause we don't understand." Embry peeled his eyes away from the broken tree as he tried to reason with me "We've never met anyone, or anything else supernatural. We don't truly know what you can do, and therefore don't trust in it."
"You don't see Cat and I having trouble with accepting you lot and the Cullens" I hissed
"Than you're probably better at it then we are" Embry shrugged "We've only got our legends to go on. We don't understand anything outside of them. I'm really sorry Soph. We didn't mean to upset you. In fact that's the last thing we wanted to do. It doesn't matter what we see you and Cat do, we know what the vampires are capable of, and not what you are. It's difficult to understand if you're in danger or not." he explained
"I promise, we're not"
"We don't know that"
"Than what do we need to do to prove it to you?! We're sick of being looking down on. Of everyone else thinking they're better."
"I don't think you can…" Embry began
"Accept participate in the fight" I cut him off, he was about to protest, they both were "Are you going to stop me?" I asked coldly, remembering that everything around us was frozen and I could still feel that flame flickering within me, though it was slowly going out. Neither of the boys answered. I guess they understood enough about us to realise that they couldn't. I saw worry in Embry's face, panic, he really thought I was in danger. No matter how hurt that expression made me feel, I wasn't going to back down, if I did, this wouldn't stop.
Jacob's POV.
Sophie walked off, Embry immediately followed. Quil glanced at me, before following also. I looked at Cat, but she refused to look back, I saw the annoyance and frustration in her face. I sighed and sat in the hammock Sophie had just been on.
"Cat I'm sorry"
"For what? Thinking I'm useless? Thinking I can't handle it? Thinking you're better than me? Thinking I'm completely fragile and breakable? Looking down on me?" she listed. I frowned
"I don't think any of that", she turned to look at me angrily
"Than why the hell are you acting like it?" she hissed angrily
"I don't want to see you get hurt" I said softly. I was tempted to reach out and caress her face, but she didn't look like she was in the mood.
"What part of 'fire is a vampires weakness' did you miss?" she asked, I watched her angry expression, I didn't realise how upset this was actually making her.
"I know you say you'll be fine. But I know these bloodsuckers, they're dangerous"
"I already took one out, remember" she reminded me
"That was just one, and you heard the Cullens, these… 'newborns', are different"
"That was just one' oh so I'm obviously weak, stupid and incapable of handling this but you can. 'I'm better than you'!" she said furiously
"I didn't say that" I defended
"You implied it" she snapped standing up "What the hell do I need to do, to make you realise that I'm more than capable of participating in an already easy fight?" I frowned, there wasn't anything she could do. I just couldn't picture my imprint being anything but fragile and innocent. Someone that needs protecting, that was what my instincts told me. I knew that wasn't entirely true. I had just seen what she could do, I've seen that even the Cullens wouldn't be able to keep up with her. I knew she could probably set fire to things easily, but…
"I can't picture you amongst all those bloodsuckers and be fine at the same time." I told her "I can't stand the thought of you being in any sort of trouble, whether you say you can handle it or not. The thought of you surrounded by them…" I didn't continue, I looked away from her. There was silence for a while, I didn't want to look up at her, I didn't know whether she was getting ready to bite my head off again or if she was feeling more caring and had calmed down. I got my answer when she kneeled down in front of me, she put her hands on my knees, I looked at her. Her expression wasn't sorry, but it looked like she understood now.
"I'll be alright. I promise."
"You'll be one of the targets, they wont be able to stand not killing you" I reminded her
"More fun for me" she grinned, I stared at her horrified "You're thinking the exact same"
"But I'll be fine, this is what I do"
"You're looking down on me again! How do you know I won't be fine?" she stood back up and looked away from me. I stood up and took her face in my hands, forcing her to look at me
"I just don't want to see you in pain"
"I can't stand the thought of you being out there, where it's possible for you to be hurt also" she said, I scoffed "That's exactly the reaction I'm having when ever you say that to me. What ever you're thinking is exactly what I'm thinking! And yet, I'm not looking down on you or stopping you from going" I frowned "I can help. So why can't I? I have people I want to protect, and I have the power to. So why should't I?" she asked. I didn't know what to answer, all I could picture was her being hurt, or even killed, in some way.
"Please, please, please, please, please trust me" she begged. No way could I say no, no way could I not give her what she wanted when she looked at me like that. I wanted so badly to trust her, to give her what she wanted, but every time I thought of allowing this, panic and worry set in.
"What if you got hurt?" I asked softly
"What if you got hurt?" she replied "You don't think I'm worrying about the same thing?" she was trying to keep the worry from showing in her face. I never realised I was causing her such worry. I was going to tell her again that I'd be fine but she'd just answer with the same thing. She grinned and nodded, after a second I realised she heard my thoughts. I sighed, there really was nothing I could do to convince her.
"Promise me" I began "Promise you wont get hurt" I begged, she gave me a look
"I can't promise that, but, I can try" she said "But only if you do the same" I gave her the same look she'd given me, she removed my hands from her face and crossed her arms annoyed, turning away from me. I grinned and swept her off her feet, she obviously wasn't expecting it cause she jumped when I did. She looked at me and I took the chance to plant my lips down on hers. I guessed she couldn't resist because she leaned up to me, her weight disappearing from my arms. I wrapped my arms around her torso and held her as close to me as possible. If she hadn't been in my arms, I would have thought she wasn't even their, her weight was zero, she didn't have any. These thoughts disappeared as she deepened the kiss. I was glad she was no longer mad at me, I don't know what I would do if she stayed angry for much longer. I wasn't happy about her joining in, but I couldn't say no to her, I found it impossible. All of Cat's weight suddenly came rushing back, I held her up easily but something was wrong when she pulled away and suddenly gasped. I looked at her, her face looked pained. I set her down, thinking she was out of breath, but she just collapsed onto her hands and knees onto the ground.
"Cat!" I sat in front of her, picking her up and holding her shoulders. Worry was written all over my face. She wasn't unconscious but, she looked pale. "Cat, what's wrong?" I questioned, I began to panic, what could be wrong with her?
"Um…" she breathed heavily, her lips looked blue and her arms were around her chest as though she was cold. I felt her cheeks, she wasn't cold. Other than looking like she was freezing she seemed fine.
"What's wrong?" I asked again
"Cold. I feel cold" she answered, I could see the confusion on her face as much as it was showing on mine. "How?" she mumbled, she wasn't shivering, not yet at least, but her face was still pale and her lips still blue. Suddenly realisation showed on her face, she froze for a few minutes, I waited for her to move, or say something. She looked at me, the confused expression still held in place on my face.
"Sophie." she said. That didn't help, what did Sophie have to do with Cat being cold? "Jake, can you take me to Sophie please?" she asked. I nodded, still confused. She looked like she had no colour in her face, her usual tan was hidden by the sudden paleness. I took her arms and helped her to her feet before lifting her up and holding her in my arms. I almost expected her to feel freezing but she was as warm as ever, maybe warmer. I walked through the trees, following Sophie, Embry and Quil's scents, listening to Cat's heart beat and glancing down at her all the time, making sure she was ok. Suddenly, Cat's breath hitched in her throat and her heart missed a beat. She jumped in my arms and wrapped her arms around her torso, her face looked like someone had broken her bones. I froze
"Cat" I worried, I didn't understand, she looked cold, but wasn't, said Sophie was the reason, and now looked like she'd been attacked and was in pain. She breathed deeply
"Holy crap" she swore "What the hell was that?!" she was taking shallow, deep breaths, like she couldn't breath, or she'd been winded.
"What happened?" I demanded
"I felt like someone had broken my ribs" she gasped "I feel like a can't breath" this lasted a few more minutes before she finally breathed normally "What is that child doing?!" she spat. I looked concerned, what was she talking about
"Cat, what are you talking about?" I questioned
"Sophie!" Cat answered, she looked through the trees. I took that as a sign to keep walking, but my eyes didn't leave Cat. Other than still looking cold she was fine.
"What is going on?" I worried. I could hear voices in the distance, they belonged to Sophie and Embry, it sounded like they were arguing.
"Can you put me down please" Cat asked looking at me, I didn't "I'm fine. I can still walk" she promised, I still didn't obey. She crossed her arms and looked at me annoyed. I hesitated before I slowly put her down. She stood up fine and then walked, a little wobbly at first, towards the voices, I followed quickly, almost expecting her to fall over or something. Suddenly, the trees around us began to freeze. The further towards Sophie, Embry and Quil we walked, the more frozen the things around us were. The three of them came into view and I stopped short, Cat also. Sophie's eyes were white-blue, her hair looked frosted over and white also. She actually looked scary. Cat was looking around at all the ice around us. The ground was frosted over, than iced, and even had a bit of snow on top, the clouds above were dark and threatened to rain snow down on us. They hid the raising run behind them and made everything continue to look dark. The trees, bushes, grass, moss, everything around was frozen, the air was cold and thin. Near Sophie there was a frozen stump, but there was no tree around.
Third Person POV.
"Sophie!" Cat said, Sophie turned to looked at us, her face was full of rage. Cat leaned down and picked up a clump of ice from her feet, Jacob walked over to her to look at it, it was frozen wood. "What the hell?!" Cat asked looking back at her twin. Sophie's expression changed, her hair and eyes began to return to normal
"What's wrong with you?" she questioned
"You're what's wrong with me" Cat snapped back. Sophie looked at her confused before her eyes landed on the frozen landscape around us. She bit her lip "You exploded a tree?!" Cat asked, holding up the frozen wood in her hand. Sophie didn't say anything "I felt like someone had broken my ribs and I could hardly breath" realisation hit Jacob as he finally understood. Cat's abilities involved nature, she hadn't actually been cold, she was feeling what the plants were while in distress. They were frozen so Cat felt cold and looked frozen. The pain she'd felt while Jacob had carried her in his arms before was from Sophie exploding what used to be a tree and was now only a stump. Jacob had never realised how in tune the twins were with things like this.
"Well if everyone stopped looking down on me, maybe it wouldn't of happened" Sophie defended
"You never loose your temper like this. What happened?" Cat questioned
"Even I can have tantrums. I need to get it all out at some point" Sophie snapped, Cat gestured at everything around them
"By making it winter?! Did you forget you weren't just harming trees?"
"I wasn't exactly thinking about that, if I was, I wouldn't have gotten so out of control in the first place" Sophie argued. Cat crouched down on the ground, placing a hand on the ice. She sent a heat wave through it all and the ice immediately began to melt, it all began to crack and fall off the trees, disappearing instantly. None of the cold substance was left behind, not even the water. Cat stood back up
"Why did you get so angry?" Cat asked, a little calmer. Sophie crossed her arms
"The same reason you did. I was over people looking down on us, and trying to stop us from helping them, for reasons they didn't even know." Sophie shot a look at Embry. Cat looked between the two, she shook her head
"Jacob and I came to an agreement" she began, changing the subject. Embry looked at Jacob surprised, Jacob knew Embry wouldn't be happy about him allowing Cat to participate. It meant that Sophie was going to take more to convince. "All we're worried about is one another getting hurt. Of being in pain" Cat explained "So we promised to at least try to not get hurt" Embry and Quil both looked at Jacob, not three hours ago he wasn't going to budge, now he was letting his imprint participate in a war against newborn vampires. "If I'm allowed, than so is Sophie, so you two better come to your own agreement" Cat told Embry and Sophie. The two shared a look. Sophie was completely back to normal and Cat's colour had returned to her face, her lips were their normal pinkish colour also.
"Now. We're all coming back tonight. You three -" Cat pointed to the wolves "- are going to have to inform Sam of this, play this memory to him because he can't do anything to stop us." she said seriously. She took a deep breath "Can we all reach an understanding? Please?" she looked at Jacob, he studied her face before sighing and nodding. Cat looked at Embry and Quil. Quil nodded, but Embry didn't look convinced
"Embry, you can't stop me" Sophie said, but it was much calmer than the last time she'd said it. "Plus, I have Cat looking out for me. Telepathy remember"
"Not to mention everyone else, seeing as they think we can't handle it" Cat grumbled. Sophie sighed. She suddenly gasped
"What?" Cat wondered
"Mum and dad are going to wake up to us missing!" she said quietly. Cat looked worried, she turned around and kissed Jacob while Sophie gave Quil and hug, kissed Embry on the cheek and dragged her twin away.
"How did we forget that?" Cat wondered as they ran
"We were a little busy" Sophie muttered
"How did you get so angry?" Cat asked
"I just remembered all the things you'd said, how I felt and… I don't know I just got super mad. I couldn't help it, before I'd even said anything everything froze over. I'm really sorry about that by the way" Sophie rambled
"Don't worry, it's not all your fault" Cat muttered. They reached home and went into the house through Cat's window before speed changing into their pyjama's and jumping into their beds. Surprisingly they both fell straight to sleep.