chapter 12 : Just a little girl, am I?

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chapter 12 : Just a little girl, am I? (Jacob's pov)

This was no emergency, so we took the time to celebrate Christmas as usual, and a little after exchanging gifts we all drove off to Forks. The vampire side of the family was to settle discretely in the old house while I was to go to the reservation with Nessie and the Kids to announce our arrival. When we got to my father's house he was wheeling himself out to greet us. It was more of a shock to me every time I came to see how old he was getting, living in a house full of eternally young and beautiful people was making me loose track of time.

”Hey kids! is it just you this time, or are you merely the scouting party?”

”No we're all here, the others are doing some cleaning up at the house. We were planning on coming for new year's eve, but the kids had some big news, and they didn't want to wait.”

”Really? what is it kiddos?”

”Well, it's not so much that we have news, than it is we want the opinion of the council on something. But we do have news, so to speak. Can we call for a council meeting, or do we have to wait for a specific date?” Michael answered.

”You need to be part of the council to call for a meeting, but I will do it. Just one thing though, should I be worried?”

This time Olivia was the one to speak, which of course made no difference to the actual contents of the answer ”Not just yet, it depends on what the council has to say really.”

”OK, I'm worried. You know what, I'm going to call this meeting for tonight, because I want to know what's going on. Let me make a call to Sam, and then we'll have a nice and normal day before the craziness starts.”

”Well done guys, could you have made it sound a little more ominous, just to make sure you would scare him half to death?”

”Sorry Dad” They chorused as one.

The day went by in a flash, and very soon it was night and time for the meeting. Michael and Olivia had left a little before nightfall, officially to tell the rest of the family that the meeting was tonight and that therefore they would be a while. But I knew that in fact they were preparing for their show. Michael came back apparently alone with a magnificent eagle on his shoulder. Every one was waiting, My dad had explained to them that it was at the request of my children that they were gathered. And so when Michael appeared they went silent, and My dad spoke.

”I thought you and your sister wanted to talk to us, why is she not here?”

Then Paul asked ”And why do you have an eagle on the shoulder? Is it your new pet?”

At that Michael retorted ”I don't have pets, this eagle is my dearest friend, and as for Olivia not being here, wherever I am she is, in a manner of speaking. We asked for this gathering for two reasons, one of them being to tell you everything there is to know about us.”

Sam interrupted him and asked with a confused look on his face ”What is there to know, other than you are half vampire half werewolf, and that she is a full werewolf?”

”Quite a lot actually, you know how when you are in wolf form your thoughts are for everyone else in the pack to hear. Well we are like that no matter what form we are in. So no matter where we are in relation to each other, we are always together. But before I tell you more about us, the real reason why we're here is to tell you of our intention to stop hiding from the rest of the vampire world. And I'm sure you haven't forgotten what happened when the vampire world discovered our mother's existence, it didn't exactly go smoothly. If we do this, we want you to stand with us, if you're not ready to take that risk again, which we would understand, then we will remain hidden.”

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