Better Than Revenge

When did my life get so dramatic? I mean, being a wolf it had always been filled with drama and danger and stuff but it used to be pretty fun. My only anchor to normalcy and my sanity was Dylan and Nessie and even things between them were getting complicated since he’d spilled everything to her at the fundraiser. Ugh. Life sucks sometimes.
“Hey, lovebirds, I’m gonna leave you two to your weirdness. See ya.”
“Oh, sorry, Drea. Were we getting annoying?” Renesmee said with a faint blush coloring her pale cheeks.
Yes. “No, of course not. Who am I to get annoyed with this whole imprint thing? But I’m still going to leave you two alone and I’m going to go do some patrolling or something. Have fun.”
“’Kay, bye,” Dylan said without even really looking at me. Crap. When did I become the third wheel?
Okay, so I didn’t go patrolling. I ended up on the huge cliff jutting over the ocean at First Beach. The mess from our fundraiser was visible from here but from so high up I could ignore it and everything else that was happening in my life. I sat with my feet dangling in the air and closed my eyes as the wind tickled my face. It was comfortable on the cliff and part of me just wanted to stay there where none of my problems could get me.
But I wasn’t raised like that. I had responsibilities that I had to take care of. Life wasn’t going to go on hold so I might as well get my butt in gear. I sighed and got up grudgingly. I nearly fell off the edge of the cliff when I turned around though because Tony was standing there with his arms crossed over his broad chest.
“You’re losing your touch, Andrea. Shouldn’t you have smelled me?”
I pursed my lips. “Well in all fairness you were downwind from me.”
“Leah’s looking for you. I saw when you came up here and I told her that I would get you.”
I frowned. “You know, psychic stalking me gets annoying sometimes. But thanks.”
He nodded. Tony was so serious sometimes but he was really a great guy. I was glad to have him around even when he was a pain in the butt. I started to smile at him before the wind suddenly shifted direction. The scent of vampire stung my nostrils and the somewhat familiar icy tint made my eyes water. Fire coursed through my veins and the wolf was just below the surface of my skin.
Tony tensed and his omniscient gaze flickered around the rocky woods. We were both on high alert but I knew that probably wouldn’t help much with Jane so close by. But I had to try. I didn’t even bother stripping off my clothes before I phased into the gigantic honey-colored wolf. My head swiveled around and I sniffed at the air looking for any clues that might help us get away from the psycho girl. My eyes were sharp and I was on alert but she still had the upper hand.
I whined loudly and dropped to my belly. Submission wasn’t exactly my strong suit but it was the only thing I could do as Jane hit me full force with her fiery power. I tried to push myself up but the pain was rendering me useless. I howl escaped my mouth and soon turned into a scream as I phased back without meaning to. The fire in my head stopped after a second and I was able to barely make out Tony pinning Jane to one of the tress.
Through my blurry, teary eyes I saw Jane calmly turn her gaze to my friend and his muscles spasm as he tried to fight off the agony she caused. Tony was strong but Jane’s silent power was brutal and it didn’t take long for her to incapacitate him. He dropped to his knees unwillingly and gripped his head between his hands.
“Pity. I was hoping for a little bit more fun. Oh well.”
“Why don’t you let me oblige you?” I snarled. A vicious snarl ripped from my throat and I welcomed the heat that scorched down my spine. My wolf tore free and I pounced at her. She was quick but I was pissed and an angry wolf was something to be feared.
“You can’t win against me. We’ve already played this game and you lost.”
*I don’t have to win,* I thought. * I just have to distract you long enough for Tony. You can only hurt one of us at a time.*
She sighed. “I’m getting bored.”
*Good.* I just needed her attention on me for a few more seconds. I even embraced the killer headache she was giving me because that meant that Tony could be one step closer to getting her.
I watched as he slowly got up but before he could attack her he was back on the ground in pain. But that didn’t make any sense because I was still whimpering like a puppy from Jane’s power. My eyes narrowed at the hybrid and I saw the haze around him like heat waves rising from a roasting parking lot. My nose burned as the smell of vampire doubled and Alec stepped out of the trees with his crimson eyes trained on Tony.
Hurt. Betrayal. Sadness. Anger. Stupid. These are all the things I felt when I saw Alec hurting Tony. Especially stupid. I shouldn’t have trusted him at all but somehow he’d duped me into believing in him. I growled but the sound was so weak that it couldn’t even dream to sound menacing.
I wanted to pain to stop. I could feel my mind trying desperately to just shut down, to block it all out. Once again I couldn’t stop the change and I laid there face down fully exposed with my body too tired to even lift my head away from the cold rocks. “S-stop,” I whispered, my voice cracking on the single word.
I had no control of anything anymore. The only thing that I could do was let myself fall into the blissful unconsciousness I so craved. My heavy eyelids fluttered closed and through the haze the pain cause I felt myself being lifted up. This was it. This single moment was the one that we’d been expecting since I’d first smelled Alec. Even after all of my training and preparing I wasn’t enough of a match. But it wasn’t me I was afraid for. It was my mom. What would she do now that they’d beaten me? How close to death would she take herself because of this moment? God, that thought hurt my heart even more than Jane’s power hurt my head.