The Other Hale

Battle Preperations

I stood in between my brother and my best friend as we waited for the mutt to arrive. Bella stood on the other side of Edward as I looked up into the sky. The horrid stench of wolf made me look back to earth as the puppy dog walked towards us targeting Eddie boy with his question, "You're not fighting. Did you pull a muscle or something?" "HE's doing it for me, okay?" Bella said as I raised an eyebrow at the mutt, "Do you even own a shirt?" I said in disgust only to be given a glare and then ignored, "Whatever. Just tell me the plan." Jasper looked over to him as I pulled my cloak tightly around my cold body, not fir warmth but to annoy the werewolf in front of me. "This field will give us an advantage in battle. We need to lure the newborns with Bella's scent but it needs to end here." "Edward and I are going to a campsite." Bella explained to her  shapeshifting friend, "even if he carries me, they'll still pick up on our scents." Edward read my thoughts and smirked before broadcasting them to the group taking the credit, "Your stench, however, is revolting." "Dude, you really don't wanna start comparing stinks." Said the wolf as I snarled at him causing Jasper to wrap his arm around me keeping me restrained and Bella to interrupt any arguments, "What he means is that your scent will mask mine if you carry me." "Done" he said without hesitation as Edward glared at him ferociously, surprising me as that was totally against Hufflepuff law, "this is not a good idea." he said through gritted teeth causing me to sigh at him, "Cedric... I mean Edward, they won't want to get anywhere near his.... odour." Bella begun to walk towards him before being picked up bridal style, annoying Edward beyond belief. "Eau de wolf comin' up." "RUN." and with that Bella was gone, carried into the woods by a shirtless muttbrain furball.

I sat keeping Eddie boy company as Jasper tracked the pair, trying to decipher if Bella's scent could be picked up. My brother reappearing from the trees and informing us that the plan was going to work made me smile before I ran back to the house, getting there in a matter of minutes. I had a decision to make, stay in the house with Bella and Edward and annoy them as I secretly drank human blood in my room or go hunting and drink disgusting bear blood, I think I have made my decision... Edward I'm sorry but you can't do anything inappropriate tonight, your best friend is staying home!

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My music was loud but that didn't stop me from hearing the gift exchange in the room next door and the bed revelation. I sighed turning my music up one more time to block out any coversation... or other things and I sat on my window sill, rose in hand and blood in a bottle next to me as I looked up into the stars hoping Caius was doing the same thing, minus the people in the room next door. 

I sat looking over my room, thinking about how different it was to my Italian home, stuffed animals lined the shelves, Disney and DreamWorks characters and animals all staring back at me some a gift from family, some bought by myself and my three central stuffies from Caius, ironically they were all wolves. My roses lay on my bed side table, some wilting but that was fine, I would get someone to fix that soon, maybe I could get in touch with an old friend who was able to prevent the death of flowers, oh how I missed Megs. My red eyes travelled to one of the photos on my wall, Meg and me in a field of flowers grown by her, small balls of fire lighting the area as we looked up at the stars... Meg was one of my best friends but sadly she lived in London and I only saw her once in a Eclipse. My eyes drifted to the other photos I had hung on my walls, myself and Edward standing in front of the Disney castle, me on his back with ears on my head, a photo of Jasper in a farm looking after a horse that reminded us of our pet in the old Wild West, Rosalie and Emmet sat in one frame smiling back at me not realising the chaos that was about to ensue as soon as I gave my Maid of Honour speech at their wedding, a photo of myself and Jane wearing our capes and pretending to be stereotypical vampires, pictures of Felix, Dimitri and Alec wearing flower crowns and dancing like idiots as I chased them with fire and finally my pictures of Caius, ones where we are hugging with my legs wrapped around his waist, ones where we are kissing whether it be a forehead kiss or a peck on the lips, another of a piggy back ride around the grounds and one of the king on his throne with his queen sitting on his lap. I smile before looking back to the forest, letting the music continue and jumping into the trees hoping to reach the mountains to see the stars more clearly.