Bo Hunter

Chapter 13

"This is your fault! She wouldn't have succumb to it if she had had her mate at her side!" I heard Zack's voice as I started regaining consciousness. Where am I?

"Zack, that's not fair. Look at him. He probably didn't even know." Nick spoke up. What the - but they're not supposed to be here until morning.

"How could he not know?! Charlie could tell just be looking at him!" Nick, Zack, Charlie? Mate? Emmett! I shot off the bed into a sitting position, looking around the room for my brothers. But they were so loud. How were they not in the room?

"Your sister is awake." I heard Edward say. My hearing's never been this good. What is going on? I threw my legs over the side of the bed and stood up, intent on seeing my family. "Bo, stay there until Carlisle can check on you." I feel fine Edward. "Stay in the room." No. You can't make me when my family is here. I straightened out my clothes and left the room, only just realizing it was Emmett's as I closed the door behind me. Before I could comprehend it, I stood in front of my parents in the family room.

"Bo... honey. Are you okay?" My mom asked, circling and fretting over me.

"I'm fine, Mama. I swear. I just didn't feel well last night."

"You look different." Chris commented.

"What do you mean?"

"He means you look like crap." Zack answered.

"Zack!" Nick scolded.

"You're pale, Bo. You're never pale." Charlie spoke up from the corner of the room.

"Daddy?" I looked back to my father, who still stood stock still, staring at me.

"Everyone sit down. I'll explain while Anne takes a look at Bo."

"Does she really have to do that in front of everyone?" I whined.

"Bo Leslie Hunter, sit down. Now."

"Ooh... full name." Zack sing-songed.

"Zackary Clark Hunter, don't mock your sister." Mom scolded. I sat down on an ottoman, deflated, and let my mother brush my hair from my neck.

"Before the Original Clan, we Hunters were a small leash. The woman who led our line was called Kathleen Hunter. she found her mate in a Cold One already one hundred years her senior."

"Wait. If she was the start of our line, what happened? I thought we could only breed with our mates." I interrupted.

"That is correct, Bo. It was shown to us by Kathleen that male Cold Ones could still produce offspring. Kathleen gave birth to five sons and two daughters before her mate was killed. These seven children began the Original Clan along with their mates. Their mother, Kathleen Hunter, was bitten by her mate before her first child. As a result, she stopped aging, and her natural abilities were enhanced."

"But why isn't that mentioned in our history? Surely someone would have written it down." Carlisle asked.

"Kathleen forbade her bloodline from ever speaking of our history outside of our family. Bo is the first of our kind to find their mate in a Cold One sine the time of the Original Clan." I hissed when my mother licked my fading wound.

"How did my niece get bitten in the first place?" Aunt Sarah demanded

"We were fighting the creator of the army. She bit Bo before we tore her apart."

"The Volturi showed up. Bo said something about your family taking their rightful place." Rosalie added onto Edward's statement.

"You did what?!" Charlie shouted.