Give Into Us Chapter 12

When I got back to Washington, Carlisle met us in the airport with Esme. Heidi and Jane were glued to my side as we walked through the airport and then on the drive back. Edward was still in Italy, having been the one to actually break the law, in the end the queens refused to let him leave. I tried to argue to let him go back, to go home, because people would notice his absence, but the queens wouldn’t have it.

I was surprised to find I didn’t mind as much as I thought I would to not have him coming back with me. I was more excited to have Jane and Heidi come back with me and to see how they may interact with my human friends. If I still had my human friends after I had ignored them so much for the last few months.

When we landed, Carlisle drove me straight to my house. It was the most silent and awkward drive I had ever been on. Every time Carlisle, or especially Esme, tried to say something, either Jane or Heidi would growl a warning. Apparently, for whatever reason that I would have to talk to them about later, they didn’t want to hear anything the Cullen’s had to say. When I asked them on the drive, they only said the only sound they wanted to hear was either my voice or my heartbeat, they didn’t want to hear anything else. I’m sure they meant that to be romantic, but personally, I thought it was the only excuse they could come up with on the spot. And it was lame.

Eventually, everyone gave up trying to make conversation, so I just stared out the window and thought of how the night would play out. I was sure Jacob would try to visit and Charlie was sure to be an issue since he was my dad and likely pissed about me ditching the country.

For the entire ride I thought of every possible scenario and every comeback I may have to give him that would leave me in the least amount of trouble. By the time Carlisle parked in front of my house, I didn’t have any better idea’s about how to go about the conversation about to take place.

Carlisle walked me to the front door and exchanged pleasantries with Charlie before driving off. I knew, even if I hadn’t seen anything, Jane would be in my room waiting for me and Heidi was already on her way to the reservation. I just hoped that conversation played out to our benefit.

When Charlie and I were finally alone, except for Jane whom Charlie had no idea was waiting upstairs, he could only look me, shake his head in clear disappointment and went up to his room. I wasn’t sure if the disappointment or the lack of yelling hurt me more. Even though I wasn’t nearly as close to Charlie as I would have liked, and probably never would be considering what happened in Italy, I still wanted him to do something other than shake his head and hide in his room.

Perhaps he would yell at me or talk with me about what happened in the morning? Tomorrow was Sunday, so I didn’t have school and I didn’t think he had work, so maybe then? A small part of me, a part I was trying to ignore especially while I was at home, thought the queens wouldn’t just shake their heads and walk away. They would have talked with me, I bet Sulpicia would have had a long speech ready to give me. Was it weird that I wanted the attention from Charlie and since he wasn’t doing or saying anything, I then wanted that attention from the queens?

In a show of good faith, so hopefully nothing too bad would happen once Charlie decided to talk with me, I cleaned up the kitchen. It was all mostly just trash from take-out and beer cans, but at least I could clean it up and hope it showed him I was sorry. Once that was done and since it was too late to really do any other sort of chore without waking up Charlie with a lot of noise, I decided to go to my room and just wait out the night.

I found Jane standing near the food of my bed, looking out the window. I couldn’t tell if she was looking at something specifically or just staring at the woods waiting to see something.

“Hey.” I said with a hint of nervousness that hit me out of nowhere. I didn’t know what to expect with Jane in my personal room. I felt like a teenage boy that found a girl was willing to go to his room for the first time. But it wasn’t like I was going to do anything with Jane, regardless of how comfortable she made me feel, she was still a stranger to me. I shouldn’t be nervous around her like she wasn’t going to like what she saw in my personal space.

“Hello.” Jane answered, not tearing her gaze away from the woods.

“Are you okay?” I asked, unsure of what else to do. I stayed in the doorway, not sure if I was interrupting something or invading her space… even if she was in my room.

The question finally caused Jane to turn away from the window with a confused look on her face. I almost took back my question. I felt like the new kid in school trying to impress the popular kid in school and doing a horrible job of it.

“Of course, I am.” Jane answered like I had asked a stupid question. “Do I not seem so?”

Was that a trick question? I wouldn’t have asked if she didn’t seem so.

“Is there something going on in the forest?” I asked, vaguely gesturing to the window she had been staring so intently out of.

“No.” She briskly answered and a second or two later seemed to realize I wanted more information without having to ask. “That is the direction Heidi will return from, I was just keeping watch.”

“Do you think she’ll be back soon?” I asked with a sigh of relief. If Jane wasn’t worried, only keeping an eye out, then they weren’t preparing for something bad to happen, right?

“Probably not.” Jane answered truthfully and I was thankful she didn’t give me the answer I was sure she knew I wanted. She wasn’t one to sugar coat things like the Cullen’s would. “She will use her gift very subtly to influence them to do what she wants. But it is a very delicate procedure to make sure none of the wolves there are suspicious and none that aren’t there won’t be suspicious when they are told of the truce afterwards.”

“You don’t think all the wolves will be there?” I asked. I knew if Sam decided something, as long as he was sure of his choice, not even the council could get him to change his mind. And since Sam was the alpha, while the council had a lot influence on his decisions, he had the final say in what the pack does.

“If they have any skills in warfare, they won’t all be there.” Jane said; her tone said she didn’t believe the wolves had any of those skills. “It would be smart to only bring a fraction of their pack to leave the rest behind as backup if needed. Therefore, they won’t be privy to Heidi’s powers. So she will need to be very careful with her influence and make it seem as natural as possible as she gives her suggestions for them to do what we want.” She further explained.

I couldn’t stop the smile from forming on my face. Not because I was happy Heidi was with people that could very well kill her, but because Jane didn’t seem to be hiding anything from me. She was including me on everything she knew to be happening. And even while she was explaining something that I probably should have figured out if I had thought about it more, she didn’t make me feel like an idiot for not knowing the answer already.

“She’ll be okay though, right?” I was still worried Sam and the others, especially some of the ones that had the biggest anger issues within the pack, would try to attack and not listen to anything Heidi had to say.

The soft smile Jane gave me as she came closer to me was something I was sure no one else ever saw, maybe not even her brother. It was such a beautiful smile, I really hoped no one else would ever see it.

“She will be fine.” Jane assured me. “There is a reason she is our fisher. She not only fishes for our food, she also fishes for our alliances and helps to avoid full out brawls when someone doesn’t agree with our stance on a matter.”

“I guess her gift makes it kind of hard to get mad at her if she gets them to agree to anything she says.” I replied, happy she wouldn’t be hurt by the wolves.

It was late at night, not too late but late enough to be tired and ready for bed. I hadn’t been sleeping much since my trip started to get back home with how worried I was with how Charlie and the wolves would react to what I did. But I knew I would be visiting with the wolves tomorrow, either they would come here first or I would go to them. Whichever way I got in touch with them, I knew I needed to be well rested to make sure I didn’t miss-talk and make them think something shady was happening with the vampires here.

“I think I’m going to get ready for bed.” I said as I looked around to where I knew I had clean pajamas.” I knew Jane wouldn’t need them because she wouldn’t be sleeping but… “Are you going to stay in here all night, or go someplace else?” Perhaps she wanted to go to the Cullen’s to set up the plans the Volturi had while they were here. I had no idea what the protocol would be when vampires were visiting another vampire’s territory.

“I’m not leaving you alone.” She said with a seriousness that left no room for questioning. “I will stay in here where it is easiest to protect you if needed.”

Secretly I was relieved, I didn’t want her to leave me alone. Even though Edward was no longer here and even though there was a time I had always wanted him in my room with me. Since the queens told me about him being in my room without me knowing, before we were even dating, I didn’t think my room was as safe as it used to be while I slept. With Jane there, I knew there was no chance of anyone but people I would be okay with like Heidi and Charlie, coming into my room while I was asleep.

“Okay, I’m going to get ready for bed then.” I said before grabbing everything I would need to take a shower and get ready for bed.

“We will wake you up tomorrow morning to go over what happened with Heidi but before then, just no, she will not fail in her task and she will be safe.”

“Good.” I said with a nod of my head before heading out to the bathroom.

I knew I wouldn’t have a good nights’ rest because of how worried I was with what would happen with the wolves and Heidi. But if the queens and Jane were so confident Heidi wouldn’t have any problems, then I needed to trust she would be okay and nothing bad would happen to either party. I would find out tomorrow morning for sure from Jane and Heidi and then the wolves would give me their own version of what happened. Hopefully, if they let me on the reservation of course. But I had to hope everything would go okay.