Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Rabbit Meets The Magic Stick

By Mama4Dukes

Chapter 17:

Paul arrived in La Push well ahead of Bella. The only problem was that he was buck naked-or wolf naked-as he had phased out of his clothes. How the hell was he supposed to help Bella while he was in the nude? He cursed himself for not thinking things through. He could have run here in human form and still would have beat her here.

The only house he could think of to go to was his grandparents’ house so he quickly jogged there. Of course, the doors were locked. Paul decided to try the sliding glass door in the back. Nope, no luck. He tried every single window and finally lucked out when he was able to pry open the bathroom window. He slid through it and went in search of clothes. He went into his father’s room, which was surprisingly pretty organized. Paul was stunned to see a complex LEGO model of a real working town along with several other projects he was working on. He also had a TV with an Atari Game Console hooked up to it. On the walls there was a NASA poster as well as one of some blonde chick in a bikini. His father had a very good life it seemed. It rankled his nerves: he had never been given those kinds of advantages.

Paul quickly rushed to the closet to look for some clothes. He found a drawer filled with shorts. He rummaged through it and thought, “Jesus, doesn’t he have anything without a loud print on it?” Shaking his head, he went to the next drawer where he found a pair of gray sweatpants. He grabbed a t-shirt and threw it on. “What the heck does Duran Duran mean?” he muttered looking at the print. He grabbed a pair of sneakers, knowing they would fit him-he and his father had the same shoe size.

After he was fully outfitted, he made his way to the house where the Clearwaters would eventually live. He hid behind a large tree and waited for Bella to arrive. His plan was to talk some sense into her and bring her back to the cabin. This idea of hers to confront Josh Uley was insane. The confrontation could jeopardize their futures, and it was the least that could happen. Bella could get hurt. He wouldn’t be able to live with himself if she got hurt.

The sound of a vehicle approaching jostled Paul out of his thoughts. He stepped out from his hiding spot behind a tree as soon as the Jeep pulled to a stop. He was waiting when Charlie, Bella, and Tiffany stepped out of it.

“Hey, Justin! Did you come to help?” Charlie asked. “I could use some backup. Josh Uley is a pretty big dude. I’m fairly sure I can take him, but just in case, it’s good to know you’re here.” He looked at the t-shirt Paul was wearing and smiled. “Awesome shirt, by the way. I like Duran Duran,” and then he started singing, “Smell like I sound, I’m lost in a crowd, and I’m hungry like the wolf.”

Bella smiled sweetly. “Of course he’s here to help. Justin is a real standup guy.”

Paul narrowed his eyes at her, went to her side, and whispered in her ear, “We’ll discuss this later.” She turned her head away from him, acting like she didn’t hear him. “I know you heard me.” She continued to ignore him while they headed for the front door. Just as Charlie was about to knock on the front door, the Forks High School Dance Committee descended from their vehicles and rushed to the porch.

“We’re here to help you, Tiffany. You’re new here and someone should have told you about Josh Uley. We had no idea it was him you were dating,” Linda Collins said. “You never really mentioned his name.”

“That’s because he asked me not to because it wouldn’t do for the quarterback of Port Angeles High School to date a girl from Forks High School.”

“It looks like he covered all of the bases. That jerk!” Gloria spat angrily.

“What a creep,” Bella stated between gritted teeth. “I’m going to teach him a lesson he should have learned long ago.” She pounded on the front door. “Open the goddamned door, Josh Uley!”

“Alright, alright, what gives?” a tall, young man with his long hair tied in a ponytail answered the door. He stepped out onto the porch and quickly shut the door. He looked a bit familiar, maybe Sam had his height and his eyes, but that was where the familiarity ended. He spotted Tiffany and donned a look of surprise before he coolly greeted, “Oh, hey, babe. How did you know I lived here?”

Tiffany stood still looking intimidated, but Bella, who clearly wasn’t, replied, “Don’t call her babe, you lying, cheating, sack of dung!” Bella nudged Tiffany. “If you don’t stand up for yourself now and tell him how it is, you’ll never be able to do it. Now is the time to get angry!”

Tiffany mustered up her confidence before approaching the deceitful jerk who had been lying to her. “You’re a real scumbag, Josh Uley! You lied to me about who you were and pretended that you liked me when, come to find out, you’re married and have a baby! How could you do that to me? Even worse, how could you do that to your wife and your son?”

“Get the hell off of my porch and don’t you ever talk about my wife and kid! You’re not worth my time, you Makah bitch. You can’t even put out!”

“You asshole!” Bella yelled. “Don’t talk to her that way!”

The door opened behind him. “Woohoo! Hok’wat girl has got some balls!” a young Billy Black cheered. A large plume of foul smelling smoke wafted out from the house. Harry Clearwater passed the joint he was smoking to Josh who inhaled it and passed it to Billy.

Billy took a drag then held the joint out to Charlie. “You want a hit, buddy?” He seemed to be debating whether or not to accept the offering.

Bella snatched it away from him and promptly stomped it out on the ground. “How dare you? How dare you push drugs onto others? These are impressionable high school students!”

“Hey! That costs money!”

“Money? You’re concerned about the cost of a joint? What about diapers? I know for a fact that you have twins, Billy Black! Maybe you should be spending money on diapers instead of on dope!”

“Hey, who the hell are you? How do you know who I am?”

Bella didn’t reply. Jacob stood there with his mouth agape and in complete shock at his father’s reprehensible behavior. Never, in his life, did he imagine his father was a pothead. His respect for Billy plummeted. He realized that for his entire life, he had sacrificed his own life for someone who did not deserve his help. He even tried to get Charlie to take a hit of his joint. What a creep! His father was nothing but a pathetic druggie with fried brain cells.

Meanwhile, Josh Uley lit up another joint and leered at Bella. “You want some?” he offered. “I’ve never seen you around. You’re kind of cute for a Hok’wat chick. I bet we can have a good time together.”

Bella tried to make a grab for the joint so that she could dispose of it, but he seized her hand and pulled her to him. “No, no, no. I don’t play that way, honey.”

Paul was about to step in when Bella shouted, “Yeah, well, play with this!” and kneed Josh Uley in the groin. She grabbed the joint and handed it to Paul who got rid of it of quickly. Bella, then, promptly gave Josh a solid left hook across his jaw followed by a roundhouse kick. “Never touch me or anyone else again, you little shit!” She punched him two more times for good measure.

“Oh, man! That was awesome!” Charlie cheered excitedly. “Where did you learn to do that?” He’d never seen anything so amazing. She was like the Karate Kid-only a girl.

“My father,” Bella replied, still in fighting stance with her fists ready to dole out more punches.”He has a black belt in karate and insisted I take lessons so I can defend myself. I just got my black belt about a year ago.”

Josh Uley was sprawled out on the ground, clutching his crotch, and groaning in pain.

“What the hell is your problem, bitch! We never did anything to you! We don’t even know who the hell you are?” Harry Clearwater shouted.

“You three should be ashamed of yourselves!” Gloria Silverwolf chastised. “All three of you have wives and babies and you’re sitting on this porch swilling beer and smoking pot! How could you do this to your families?”

“You should talk, considering your father is a drug dealer and your mother is a murderer.”

“My mother murdered your brother because he tried to rape me! You have a daughter now. How would you feel if someone tried to do that to her?”

Harry glared at Gloria, then spat, “You were asking for it!”

Before Gloria could say anything, Harry was knocked to the ground by a fist to his temple by none other than Adam Lahote. “Leave her alone! No girl ever asks to be raped! No means no, fucker!”

Paul was completely impressed by his father who seemed to be coming out of his shell.

“You don’t touch her, you don’t look at her, and you don’t ever speak to her. Do you understand me?” Adam turned to Gloria and gently asked, “Are you okay?”

The sound of a baby crying jolted all of them to attention.

“You have babies in the house?” Bella cried with incredulity. She shoved Billy out of the way and rushed towards the noise.

She ignored the sound of Josh yelling, “Hey, you can’t go in there! This is private property!” and pushed ahead. She heard Jake and some other guys subduing the three druggies as she searched for the babies. What she found made her heart hurt. Inside a playpen, in a bedroom, were three infants-a boy and twin girls. There was rolling paper and a bag of weed on a nearby nightstand. Bella reached for the crying boy. She was about to call the others for help when Paul and Gloria came to the rescue. They, too, picked up a baby each and hurried outside with them, away from the drug den.

By the time they got outside, the elders had arrived along with Paul’s and Bella’s grandparents and the tribal police. The kids all explained what had happened, and what they had found inside.

Levi Uley entered the house and shook his head in disgust. He led the three drug addicts outside then turned to them. “We will discuss the appropriate consequences for your actions. For now, you will be remanded in custody of the La Push Tribal Police, but I can tell you with confidence that two of you will never have the privilege of becoming tribal elders!”

“No, grandfather, please!” Josh begged.

“You chose to cross the line by endangering your own child and smoking drugs! And how dare you take advantage of young Tiffany Call! She is a minor! Have you no morals?”

Josh Uley had no answer for his grandfather. He simply hung his head in shame.

Ephraim Black turned to Harry. “Elder Clearwater, your powers as tribal elder are hereby suspended pending investigation into your actions.”

Harry Clearwater glared angrily at the tribal chief. “You can’t do this! My family have been elders for generations! I deserve…”

He was cutoff by Ephraim. “You don’t deserve a goddamned thing! So far, you have shown no remorse for your actions today! Can you not understand what a serious transgression drug usage is to the position of elder? You have proven today that you lack the integrity and responsibility one needs to be an elder. If your father or grandfather were alive, they would be deeply ashamed of you!”

Harry was unable to look into the elder’s eyes. He looked away instead.

Meanwhile, Billy Black got on his knees in front of Ephraim Black. “Please, grandfather, do not take the legacy away from me. I have the girls to consider. I…”

His grandfather gave him a swift slap across the face. “You were smoking marijuana in front of your babies! You should be ashamed of yourself! All three of you are a disgrace to the Quileute Nation! Now, get in the squad car before I teach you a lesson you won’t soon forget!”

The elders placed the young men into the squad car and watched it drive off.

Ephraim Black turned to the kids. “You were all very brave and are to be commended for your work. You rescued these precious babies from an unconscionable situation.”

Paul looked into the baby’s eyes and she started bawling at the sight of him. Sheesh. Paul couldn’t hand her off soon enough.

“Oh, crap! Here Jake, you take her.” He tried to pass whichever Black sister he had to her brother.

“Aw, man! I don’t want her!” Jake cried. The little baby looked into Jake’s eyes and seemed to snicker at him. “Look at her! She already hates me!”

Ephraim Black took the baby from Paul, who was glad to get rid of her. “Oh, Rachel, what shall we do about your father?” He cuddled her in his arms.

Old Quil took Rebecca and Levi Uley took Sam into his arms.

“We need to place these babies into safekeeping before we see to the situation,” Levi said. “I am very grateful to all of you kids for saving them and alerting us to the situation in this house.”

A few of the kids left, leaving just Adam, Charlie, Quil the Fourth, Gloria, and Tiffany standing around with the three kids from the future.

“Oh, Mom, I forgot. Maile, Tiffany, and I have to make marinara sauce for homework because we had to go the nurse’s office during class. It’s due tomorrow.”

“We can do that at our house. Marinara sauce is easy.”

“You should see Maile. She can chop onions faster than you can. Mrs. Crocker got mad at her because she chopped all of the onions in the class.”

“Well, I’ll have to see what she can do.”

“I use my grandmother’s marinara sauce recipe,” Bella told her proudly.

“I’m sure your grandmother is a very talented lady.” Helen developed a smug smile on her face.

“Oh, yes, she is,” Bella replied, thinking of her Grandmother Higgenbotham’s stellar cooking skills.

“I should get home. I have to see to my sister. We have to eat dinner before I go to work.” Gloria turned to Adam. “Thank you for standing up for me today.”

“No problem,” Adam said and grinned at the girl. “Can I walk you home?”

“Oh, it’s okay. I have my car here. It was very nice of you to offer.” She then said to Paul. “Thank you for listening to me during art class. I wouldn’t have had the confidence to tell Elder Clearwater off otherwise. You really are very nice.”

“Wait!” Paul turned to his grandfather. “Someone needs to help Gloria. You’re the principal! She’s still in high school and she has to work to support her kid sister. How come you aren’t aware of this?”

“Is this true, Gloria?” Gene asked. He truly had thought that family had taken the Silverwolf girls in after the Clearwater incident.

“Yes, um… since my mom was put in jail, it’s been up to me to put food on the table and pay for all of our expenses. I work at Forks Outfitters as much as I can, but it’s hard. I promised my mom I would at least graduate from high school. She wanted me to go to college before it all happened, but now…”

“But that’s so wrong!” Jacob cried. “Have you talked to the elders?”

“They’ve turned their backs on my family because of my parents.”

“Yeah, but you said your mom killed Harry Clearwater’s brother because he tried to rape you!”

There was a collective gasp from the adults who clearly had no idea that this was the case.

“Yes, but the Clearwaters are a powerful family. You have no idea what they can do to us. The Clearwater elder told me not to expect any help from the tribe because we were a disgrace.”

“Mom, Dad!” Charlie cried at the injustice. “You guys have always said that it takes a village to raise a child. How come Gloria and her sister have to raise themselves? It’s not right.”

“I agree with Charlie,” Quil said. “My dad always taught me that Quileutes help each other because one member’s suffering is the whole tribe’s suffering. I’m going to talk to my granddad and my parents. This isn’t Quileute behavior at all.”

Adam turned to his parents. “We have to help Gloria and her sister. This isn’t right.”

“It’s no trouble, really. I’m a senior. I only have a few more months of school and then I can work full time during the day so I can be home for Jasmine at night.”

“You really do need to help her, Grand…” Paul quickly corrected his slip, “Mrs. Lahote.”

Glenda looked between, her son, grandson, and Gloria, and then sharply drew in her breath. She immediately saw the connection between the three of them. Paul had his mother’s soulful eyes.

“We need to find help for the girl and her sister, Gene. This is wrong.”

“Well, good, because if you weren’t going to help, I was about to take her home myself,” Helen stated. “I won’t stand for two little girls raising themselves through no fault of their own. It’s simply cruel and unjust. I’ll be giving Ephraim Black an earful about this.” With a more gentle expression, she turned to the girls. “The Swan house is open to you anytime-day or night,” she told Gloria, running her fingers through the girl’s hair. “And I want you and your sister to come to the salon tomorrow so I can fix up your hair. I can tell that you’ve been cutting it yourself.”

“I have,” she whispered, “but I can’t come. I can’t afford…”

“I’m not charging Jasmine or you a dime, honey. I want you to come so I can take care of you.”

“Thank you,” she replied with tears in her eyes.

Helen Swan pulled Gloria into a hug. “Now, now, there will be no crying. Now that we know the situation, we won’t let anyone hurt you or your sister.”

Gene turned to Gloria. “Why don’t we go to your place and pick up your sister? Last night was the last night the two of you spent unprotected and alone. You will stay with us where you will be safe and cared for. I will have a discussion with the elders. I have a feeling that some of them were unaware of your situation.”

“But Principal Lahote, I can’t impose. It would be wrong. It’s only for…”

“No, you are a student at my high school, but most importantly, you are a member of the Quileute Nation. An injustice has been done and a wrong has to be corrected.” Gene turned to his grandson “Young man, why don’t you and Adam go to Gloria’s house and help her and her sister with their things. I’ll be along shortly.”

Paul nodded to his grandfather then told Bella. “I’ll see you later.”

“I’ll be fine. I’m going to be cooking marinara sauce the right way, not Mrs. Crocker’s way.”

“That’s right, honey. We’ll use my recipe.” Bella looked horrified at her grandmother’s idea. She had her grandmother’s old recipe book in the future and she never cooked from it because nothing ever came out right whenever she did. “Okay, let me get these kids home. Quil, your parents want you with us tonight until your mom can pick you up.”

“Jack, why don’t you come with us?” Gene offered to Jacob.

“Um, no thank you, sir. If Maile’s cooking, I’m going to their place.”

“Mrs. Lahote is a wonderful chef also, young man.”

“Not like Maile. No one can cook like Maile.” Jacob winked at Bella.

The group went their separate ways. Jake hopped into the Jeep with Charlie and Quil while Bella and Tiffany caught a ride with Mr. and Mrs. Swan.