Dangerously Beautiful • Carlisle Cullen

44: What's The Problem

The wolves were stretched thin, but they managed to keep one of their kind posted outside the Swan house. The other two making perimeter checks. Sam kept in limited contact with Esme, the only true Cullen there was left in Forks.

Some time had passed, months in fact. Bella had started socialize more, making a few trip down to La Push, knowing Jacob wouldn't want to talk about him.

But as Bella got better Colette seemed to only get worse. She fed more, she tried everything, but the aching that had started in her heart, had spread to her entire body. It pulsed as if it had a heartbeat of its own, one she no longer required.

Her vivid dreams, switching Carlisle for Adam, and Adam for Carlisle were happening more and more frequently, causing her to wake up in a panic.

It seemed everything was working in the opposite for the girls. The better Bella got, the worse Cole became.

Colette had no one except for her brother and Esme who was worn down from his job and taking care of his daughter, the other she really didn't feel it to be right to talk about her lover with his sister, so she kept it inside. She didn't trust to wolves enough, though Esme told her that with them protecting the house, something must have changed, shifted, and without her brother to keep the peace, or Edward to translate, they would have to talk with them one on one to figure that out.

Colette really didn't mind the wolves. She smelt them if the wind shifted just right, but she felt safe with them, just as she did with the Cullens. She didn't understand what the problem was. Why did the family have such a problem with the shape shifting people?

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On a particular day, when everyone was away from the house, Cole went into the woods to sit. She had nothing better to do, and at least she could talk to someone out there.

The longer she sat out there the lonelier she got. Of course on this particular day there was no wolf. Colette was about to call it a day when a back wolf weaved its way through the trees. "You're back." Cole said as the wolf sat close by, its brown eyes just staring at her.

"We can't really talk if you're an animal. I don't speak wolf." Cole told him and he huffed walking back into the trees before she heard popping and shifting of bone.

Sam walked out, Cole's eyes on him. "Hi Sam." She said. "Cole. How are you?" "Do you want the truth or the rehearsed answer?" She asked and he rose a brow. "The truth." "I feel like I'm dying." She told him. The wolf's eyes widened. "Are you?" He asked. "I don't know. I don't think so at least. I think it would feel better if I did." She told him quietly.

Sams eyes saddened at the words from the Swan. "What's going on?" "It's because they left." Cole told him. "Because he left." Sam corrected and her head snapped to him with a glare. "Touchy subject, got it." Sam said his hands going up in dramatic effect.

"You know, when I'm away from my imprint, my mate, I have the same reaction. It's painful to be away from her." Sam told the vampire, and she sighed. "It feels like when I had cancer all over again. It's the constant weight on my chest, constant tenseness and stress on my body. It feels like my lungs are being crushed and being ripped out at the same time." She told him in a jumbled mess of words. "But I hope they never come back." She whispered.

Sam's eyes cut to hers. "Why?" "They didn't just hurt me. They hurt my family. My niece. If I see Edward again, I'll make him wish he was never turned." Cole growled, her eyes going dark. "And Carlisle?" "I don't know how to feel. I miss him, but he haunts me. He's is my dreams, but my head is so screwed up at the moment, I don't know who is who. I just wish things were simpler, like how they used to be." "Don't we all." He told her. "I don't know if I could ever trust them again." Cole told him, "He promised. He promised he wouldn't leave." She whispered as tears fell down her face, not noticing Sam's shocked face.

Looking to him, she sniffed as she wiped her eyes. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to dump all that on you." Cole mumbled, her cheeks turning slightly pink. "You're not like them." Sam announced as he watched her. The way she moved, the tears, the sniffles, the slight blush. "It's a side effect." She told him. "Of?" "My gift. Well one of them. I can control life and death. It sounds scarier than it actually is. I think you saw it earlier." "I did. What does it do?" "I usually use it in nature. It makes hunting easier. I can make new grass and flowers grow, or I can kill trees. With it, I get part of my humanity back. It's too complicated, even for me." She said and he nodded.

"I can imagine. And your other thing, turning into someone else?" "It's an illusion. A flight response if you will. Only the person that it's meant for can see it. I haven't tried doing a whole group of people before." She said and he smiled. "It was cool, freaky but cool. Do you do anything else?" "No." She told him and he frowned slightly. "Why?" "We're drawn to you. I don't know why, but we are. You don't have a god awful smell, and we see you as an ally unless proven otherwise." Sam told her. "I'll take that as a good thing." She told him and he nodded. "It is. You're growing on me Swan, I would hate to have to kill you." He told her and for the first time since the Cullen's left, Colette laughed.

"Does that mean we can work together. Protect my family?" She asked and Sam nodded. "As long as we continue to have permission from the Cullen." "Esme. Her name is Esme." Coke told him and he nodded. "Esme." "I think we'll make a good pair Sam." "A good pack." He told her.

A/N: I finally got a chapter done on this story!!! I've been falling behind. Hope you all love it!