Yo! How's life going? This chapter is coming out later than I planned, I am so sorry about that. Thank you all for putting up with me and my erratic posting. I've had some family and health issues going on that wouldn't let me post and I didn't really have time to write, so I am really sorry about how late this chapter is. As I said last chapter, I have big plans for the rest of this story, but I have to get to them without skipping important stuff in the movies/books. Shout out to Phoenixtears28, trix87, Alana Xavier1, MavisVermillion54, Deanna Saber, DragonRider225, ShadowMoon Paxs, TimeLady-Wolf, and Koori no Kitsune for favoriting/following this story! And to the guest that reviewed and told me to "KILL MARY SUE," I apologize if you think my character is a Mary Sue. I'm basing her off of one of my good friends, who does actually act like this and they are a military kid, so all of Katherine's reactions are based off of an actual person that gave me permission to base this character off of them. I shall end this note here and let you read the chapter in peace! If any of you even bother reading these notes.

Legend: Speaking in thoughts purposely aimed at Edward

Thinking

Emphasis on a thought/word

**** swear words

"Comm"

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Transformers or Twilight or Hotel Transylvania, all I own is Katherine, students that were hurt/died in the attack, and the plot.

Confronting fears

I jolted awake when my phone beeped to let me know it had a message. My room was pitch black, except for the bright suns that are my phone and my alarm clock, and my eyes squinted against the blinding light until I grinned when I read the message. Chromia was able to drive her alt form to Uncle Charlie's driveway and she had someone, A.K.A. her holoform, deliver it to Uncle Charlie and tell him that my dad had sent it out for me as a "gift" and so I wouldn't waste Bella's gas. I found the last bit hilarious since I'm 99.99% sure that Edward always paid for her gas, whether she knew or not. I honestly wouldn't put it past the sneaky vampire.

Glancing at my clock, I groaned when I saw it was 4 in the morning. Early enough for me to have a lot of free time, but late enough that I couldn't get back to sleep. I literally rolled off my bed and then yelped quietly in pain because it was a harder impact than I had thought. I dragged myself to my dresser, quite literally dragged myself because I was lying on the floor, and pulled out some running shorts and a tank-top. I began doing some stretches and exercises that Ratchet had me doing before I grabbed my phone and tied my shoes on. I quietly slipped down the hall and out the front door, then proceeded to have a heart attack at the voice beside me, "You should be asleep."

I spazzed in fright, much like my boyfriend does, at the voice and turned to glare at Edward with a hand held over my heart, "**** you, Edward Anthony Masen Cullen! You about gave me heart failure!"

The old vampire rolled his eyes at my shouting whisper, "Anyway, I'm going out for a run...or, at least, try and run. I need to build back all my muscles that weakened while I was on bed rest. I'll be back in a while." I took off before he could say anything and I assumed he just went back to Bella since he didn't stop me, Stupid vampire with his nosiness. I was only walking at a fast pace and I slowly built up to a slow jog before yelping at the flare of pain in my leg. I stumbled a few steps while gritting my teeth and continued with the jogging pace until the pain dulled. The sun was starting to shine through the heavy clouds when I turned to go back to the house.

I arrived before Bella was even stirring, so I took a quick shower and got dressed in some nice black and red pants, a red tank-top, and put a black button-up on over the tank-top. I threw on some red and black checkered slip ons and grabbed my bag before sliding down the rail of the stairs. I was almost done with a can of Mountain Dew when Bella finally stumbled down the stairs and she rolled her eyes at my choice of breakfast, "You drink way too much caffeine and isn't it a little early to be drinking that stuff already?"

I scoffed, "It is never too early for caffeine! This is my life blood!"

My cousin sighed and shook her head at me before commenting, "Whatever, Edward will be by to pick us up in a couple minutes."

I shook my head and gestured to the set of keys on the kitchen table, "I'm driving myself. My dad sent my motorcycle up for me."

Her eyes darkened in worry, "Are you strong enough for that?"

I know she meant no harm and was only concerned for my injuries, but it rubbed me the wrong way, "She rides like a dream. I'm strong enough."

She held her hands up in surrender as I threw my black motorcycle jacket on and grabbed my purple and black helmet while walking to the door. Opening the door, I brushed past Edward and slammed my helmet onto my head as I climbed onto the motorcycle. Chromia was tense when she realized how upset I was, but she didn't speak until after she had pulled into a secluded parking spot at school, "What's wrong, Kat?"

I sighed and pulled my helmet off, but remained seated as I replied, "It's nothing. Bella was just worried about me driving my motorcycle and she asked if I was strong enough. I'm so sick of people asking if I'm okay or if I'm strong enough...I know I am, but it just gets frustrating when people continuously ask that."

Chromia was silent and I wasn't sure she was going to respond until I felt a hand tilt my head up. I looked up and saw her holoform staring straight at me, "Everyone is just worried about you, Kat. You bottled it all inside until you finally broke and we are all concerned that you will do it again. We don't doubt you or your strength, we just want to make sure you are truly okay."

I slumped and gave a bitter smile, "I know you're right, I just got frustrated. Guess I should apologize, huh?" She chuckled and nodded before her holoform disappeared and I sat there for a while thinking until I heard a timid voice call my name. I turned to see Bella standing a few feet from me and she was shifting around as if she was scared to approach me, "Hey, Isa. I'm sorry about snapping at ya. I was just so frustrated with everyone asking the same question over and over, but I shouldn't have taken it out on you."

She smiled and came close enough to hug me, "It's okay. I'm sorry too. I should have known that Uncle Will wouldn't send your motorcycle up if you weren't ready. Come on, we'll be late for class." We headed to my locker with Edward soon appearing by her side as I put my helmet and jacket in my locker in order to grab my books. I almost fell asleep in English because we were discussing Romeo and Juliet again and it was boring as all get out. My head kept nodding and Edward continuously poked me every once in a while to make sure I stayed awake. We finally escaped to music class, but that wasn't a relief because our teacher decided to have us work in partners again to prepare for a performance at the end of the semester since the first one had gotten canceled because of the attack.

Edward and I paired up, which was no surprise, and we took a seat in a more isolated corner of the room as everyone excitedly chatted with their partners about what they wanted to do. There was only one chair where we decided to sit, but I forced Edward to take it because I wanted to sit against the wall and stretch out my leg a little bit, "You have any ideas, Kat?"

I gave a wry grin and nodded before quickly explaining my thoughts. He smiled when I had finished, "Let's go with that. It would be a good one." We made idle talk for the rest of the class period because we already knew what we were going to do. Once we finished class, we went to AP Calc and I greeted Alice with a warm smile when she bounded up to me and gave me a tight hug.

The class period seemed to go by quickly since I somehow understood what the teacher taught us. It had something to do with square roots and imaginary numbers, but I can't honestly tell you what exactly was covered. Especially the imaginary numbers, because who on earth created imaginary numbers? Were they going to put unicorns and dragons in the next lesson? If they did, I would so not be in this class anymore. I waved good bye as I made my way to gym and prepared myself to get beat up by Bella's lack of talent when it comes to anything physical, including walking. We were playing flag football today and I sighed as I mentally pictured all the bruises Bella would give herself and proceed to give me.

Boy, was I right or was I right? I couldn't count all the bruises I got from Bella because she kept tripping and smacking me as she tried to catch herself. Not to mention the few times she somehow got the football and proceeded to throw it into the back of my head. We walked to lunch with her apologizing several times about the nice egg I had on the back of my head. I just waved her off before coming to a screeching halt a few feet away from the cafeteria and the smile slowly fell off my face. Bella was confused until she realized where we had stopped at and she gripped my hand tightly before speaking with the kindest voice, "We don't have to go in. We can sit out here and eat again."

I could sense the three vampires arrive behind us and Edward spoke first, startling Bella because she didn't realize they had come up, "Jasper can stay close to you and help you keep control, Kat, if you want to go in."

I wet my lips before giving a shaky nod, "Yeah, that would help." Right before we stepped in, my hand tightened on my cousin's and I whispered, "Don't let go, Isa."

Her eyes steeled and she nodded before squeezing back, "Never, Kat." Jasper walked on my other side with his arm around my shoulders and we all stepped into the cafeteria as silence swept over the whole room when people saw me coming in. The noise had been distracting and I could feel myself start shaking when it went quiet because it brought back the memories of laying on the ground alone and dying. I was sure I was bruising Bella's hand as she gently coaxed me to the usual table while Edward disappeared to get us both some food and Jasper sat so close to me that our arms were always touching. Bella finally had enough of people staring at me and being quiet, so she stood up and yelled, "Go back to your **** lunches! There is nothing to ******* see here!"

Slowly, noise became louder until it was a normal lunch volume and I was pretty sure they were discussing me and why I'm suddenly eating in the cafeteria again. Edward came back with two trays of food and I ate a little bit before rushing to the bathroom when I heard some guy call out, "Bang bang, freak! Too bad you didn't die that day! It would have been better for everyone!"

I was crouched over a toilet and puking my guts out as I heard Alice and Bella run in behind me, "Don't you dare listen to him, Kat. He's an idiot."

My hands were shaking as I turned to face them and my voice was hoarse, "How did he know to say that? Ever since I found out people died...that's all I think about. I've gotten better, but it makes me wonder why I lived and they didn't? If Carlisle had worked on the other kids and not me, would they all be here today?"

Bella smacked the back of my head and crouched in front of me before gripping my face between her hands as she hissed, "Don't you ever think that, Katherine," I knew she was serious when she pulled out the first full name because she never called me that, "Three died before the cops even got here, one died on the way to the hospital, and one died in surgery! Even if Carlisle had worked on that one, he wouldn't have made it. He lost too much blood and then where would we be? There would be six of you and I would have lost my best friend and my little sister! Carlisle knew what he was doing when he decided to take care of you and don't you dare think anybody regrets it or blames you for anything. None of this is your fault and I may be a horrible person for thinking and saying this, but I would rather one of them be dead than you. Do you understand?"

I nodded in surprise at the passion in her voice and the tears leaking down her cheeks before she hugged me tightly. She helped me stand and smiled, "Come on, let's leave and go see a movie."

I tilted my head in puzzlement, "We still have three more classes though."

Bella looked at Alice, who responded in her usual perky tone, "Carlisle and Charlie let the school know that all of us may need to leave early because there was a chance that you still weren't ready for school and could have another panic attack. Edward and Jasper already told the front office we are going to leave." I eyed her carefully before shrugging and deciding to go along with it and we stopped at my locker, so that I could get my helmet and jacket.

Chromia didn't say anything until after she had started moving and no humans would be able to hear her voice over the sound of her engine, "What's going on. Kat?"

I smirked a little under my helmet as I answered casually, "Had a bit of an attack when a kid said it would have been better for me to die as well. The Cullens and Bella decided we needed to go see a movie instead of going to the rest of our classes because Carlisle and Uncle Charlie had already cleared us to leave if we needed to leave." She made a noise of understanding and we made the rest of the drive to the house in silence. I ran in and ditched my school stuff before switching my wallet, gun, and taser into my motorcycle satchel and grabbing my biking gloves.

I raced back down and met Bella as she was climbing into Edward's car, "I'll meet you guys in Seattle!" She nodded and they zoomed off to meet up with Edward's other four siblings as I clambered back onto Chromia's alt form. We sped off and I reveled in the freedom of being by myself, essentially, and not having people constantly asking if I'm okay. I knew Chromia was worried about me, but she also understood how frustrating it could be when people do that as you're trying to heal and get over what happened. I somehow beat the others, which shouldn't happen considering their speeding habits, and I parked outside the movie theater.

I saw them finally pull up across the road in two cars and I pulled my helmet off before sweeping hair out of my face. I was pulling my gloves off when a young kid came up to me, "You're the girl on the news! You're a superhero!"

I froze, unsure how to respond, as he began to call out to anyone around us, "Guys! She's got superpowers! She stopped a guy that was shooting people and she isn't even hurt!" People began crowding around me as they asked for my signature, how I was doing, and how I am dealing with the attack. Emmett and Jasper quickly grabbed me and pulled me out as Alice put my stuff into their car while the others crowded around me to help keep the people away.

Edward went to buy tickets while Rosalie snarled, "Those idiots. How dare they do that to someone?"

Emmett hugged his wife to try and calm her down, "Relax, babe, she's okay. Jasper and I got her out before they could do anything." Rosalie took a few deep breaths and slowly relaxed as she realized that I was still trembling a little and she wasn't helping with her rage.

Thankfully, Edward arrived with the seven tickets and I read the ticket before raising my eyebrow, "Hotel Transylvania? Seriously?"

He shrugged, "I figured you and Emmett would enjoy it."

I rolled my eyes, but couldn't help the chuckle when said vampire pumped his fist, "Sweet! I've been wanting to see this movie for forever!" Even Rosalie had to laugh a little and Edward bought some popcorn and drinks for Bella and I. Everyone sat with their respective mate while I sat in between Emmett and Jasper with Edward and my cousin on the other side of Alice.

When the movie was over, I had to agree with Emmett when he announced that the movie was good. Edward decided to treat Bella to dinner, so the other four climbed into Emmett's car and I drove off behind them. I got back to Uncle Charlie's house and I entered to find him in his usual spot on the couch watching some baseball game, "Hey, alley cat. Where's Bella?"

I set my helmet down by the door as I responded, "Edward took her out to dinner. They invited me, but I thought it'd be awkward with us three." Uncle Charlie rolled his eyes when I said who Bella was with and I could hear him grumbling about something, but it was too quiet for me to understand. Someone knocked at the door and I turned back around to answer it.

I opened the door and I was surprised when I found Jacob standing on the steps, "Hey, Jacob. What's up?"

He glanced over me before whispering, "Sam wants to speak with you. He's the pack leader."

I bit my lip before nodding and looking back at Uncle Charlie, "I'm going with Jacob to his house." My uncle just waved us off, so I followed Jacob to his car and we drove up to the reservation. He stopped outside a house and I stared at it while feeling some dread fill me as I slowly climbed outside of the car, Well, time to meet the other part of the supernatural in my life. Here goes nothing.