Chapter 2 - A Gypsy Walks Into My Room



In all honesty, when I awoke to the knocking on the door of the room we booked, I thought it was Emmett that was going to break through the door to try and kidnap me again. Riley and Bree both became alert to the noise while I stupidly try to blink the sleep away.

Bree came to my side while Riley made his way to the door on silent feet. Since Jasper told us about Aro and his gang of murderers were on the prowl we have been extra careful of how we pay for things and even where we can sleep.

"Somebody order a witch doctor?" I hear a British accent ask through the door.

I am suddenly filled with energy as I got up from the bed, ignoring Bree rolling her eyes.

A throat clears. "Ahem, Carlisle sent me? Said someone had a soul to be cleansed."

'Thank you Carlisle! Remind me to send him a Christmas card.' I thought to myself before nodding to Riley.

Riley looks hesitant but gave a sigh and opens the door. What stood on the other side was... a gypsy; looked around my age, a bit more leaner than Riley but looks as though he could probably pick me up with one arm if he felt like it. He had a look of a gypsy to him with his long curly brown hair with feathers and beads, I could count five tattoo in sight but had a feeling he probably has more hidden away and the little hoops earrings and the stud on his nose tells me he expresses himself through it all. Really he could pass as a Lost Boy (If you don't know what I mean I am sad for you) if it weren't for Bree poking me to signal that he was human

"Who the hell are you?" Riley asks bringing me out of my starring contest with the man.

"Well." The gypsy steps forward with a bow. "I am Jericho McCoy, bachelor and warlock! "

... That was blunt of him.

"I beg your pardon?" I blurt out.

"Carlisle tells me you got yourself a wolf spirit in you?" he asks as he enters the room and walks straight towards me.

"That is the theory yes." I say, rubbing my arm nervously. "To tell you the truth we have no idea what is going on."

"Yes." He starts walking towards me, ignoring Bree and Riley's glaring eyes and tense postures as he walks around me. "I guess if you knew what was happening you wouldn't be looking for help from a vampire right?"

"...Right." I watch him as he begins to circle me. "So are you going to role play as a vulture or are going to do something productive?"

"I am trying to find any marks or deformity." He explains. "Though from my wolfy friends lack of hostility the spirit is not as potent as it seems."

"Wolfy friend?" I say with a raised eyebrow.

"Hmm fascinating." He mutters tugging on my hair a little ignoring my question. "Now before your bodyguards gets any ideas, please sit on the bed and we can figure out just what is going on? And would one of you tell me exactly what has been happening since her last shift?"

I made my way back to the bed as Bree and Riley went into detail about my odd quirks fro eating almost raw food and being super territorial and even down to when I have had my last period.

"Okay dude, that is a little creepy and too much information to tell a complete stranger." I shout in indignation.

"Quite the contrary."Jericho expresses as he comes back to me and grabs my face. "It is a known fact women are closer to the moon spirit the same way the wolves are so if there is a difference or a similarity to you and a typical wolf it may cause some problems. But don't worry from what your friends tell me you are perfectly alright. Now let me into your soul."

"... You have to buy me dinner first sir." I await for his reaction.

To my surprise he smirks in amusement before looking over his shoulder to Riley. "I could go for some Chinese."

And my brain sees a Chinese carton of maggots and worms, not to mention a young Kiefer Sutherland laughing at me.

Riley stares at him in disbelief before looking at me. "Is that what you want?"

Despite the gross vision I just had a second ago I nod, might as well have something to eat while this guy pokes into my body... okay that sounded dirty.

"So what exactly do you mean when you said you 'let me into your soul' do you have to get in her brain?" Bree asking the right questions as she sat by me while Riley walks into the kitchen to get a Chinese menu.

"Not into her brain but more like into her very being, if what you say is correct and the wolf in as you say 'soaked' into her I need to go in to see it myself." He explains as he took out a little pouch that looks to contain a red tube of sorts.

I watch intrigued though scrunch my nose as he licks the end of it before he starts... drawing? Yes he is drawing on my face like a kid getting her face painted, good gods what would the boys at home think if they saw me like this.

"Get the lights would you?" He asks bringing me out to of my sombre thoughts of my boys as he concentrates on what he is doing to my face.

Bree, being the nice little lady that she was did as she was told and sprinted across the room to turn off the lights and close the curtains with her vampire speed.

I blinked in the darkness. "Who can't see in the dark say aye."

No one spoke up.

"Oh that is bullshit dude, you are not supernatural!" I berated the guy in front of me.

He became still, pausing in whatever he was doing to my face. "I literally just seconds ago said I am a witch doctor and now I am drawing a chart on your face for me to enter your soul and you count me as human?"

I blink in the darkness, opening my mouth to reply when he grabs my face once more.

"Enough talking Filene Grace Swan. It is time to get in touch with your wild side."

My last thought before everything left my conscious was. 'How the fuck did he know my middle name?"

Tea Breaking Dawn everybody!

As I came to I feel woozy like I have been of the tilt-a-whirl twenty times with only a hotdog in my tummy. The next thing I felt was a cold hand laid against my forehead as it pressed gently against it like a ice pack. Opening my eyes I see Bree smiling in relief down at me and Riley still looking concerned and was being my icepack.

I guess someone turned the lights back on.

"Wha" My voice croaks. "What happened?"

"Honestly?" Bree says looking over to the left of me. "We have no idea. When you fell unconscious he immediately began to chant something in what sounded like Russian the next thing either of us knew you... well you began to glow and then snarling like your wolf got pissed for him even doing this to you and... well-"

"He grabbed your face and made out with your wolf side." Riley says bluntly.

"What?!"

"Riley! That is not what he did! He simply placed his mouth on yours Filene." Bree tries to assure me.

"... Bree hun mouth to mouth is when you breath air into someone not sucking the breath out of them." Riley patronizes the young vampire who now was glaring at him.

I turn to where Bree was looking to find the doctor laying beside me asleep. I am immediately taken aback by his relaxed... good looking face. Which is weird since I have been around the Cullens and my beloved wolves so seeing him shouldn't really surprise me in the least! Plus why am I reacting now instead of when I first saw him?

"Then what happened?" I ask turning back to my friends.

They look away from their glaring contest to me.

"Well your glow transferred to him and you guys sort of sat there a while... it was really awkward to be honest." Bree explains sitting next to me as Riley walked back into the kitchen. "Don't know how long we waited but the next thing we knew he collapses beside you and something came out of his mouth."

"Something came out of his mouth?" I can feel my disbelief and disgust form inside me. "Like puke or-"

"No! No nothing like that is was like a light or something and it streamed out of him like that healing scene from the Scorpion King!" She exclaims excitedly, no doubt happy she got a good description for what happened.

"Except instead of the hot Kelly Hu doing it you got Dwayne from Lost Boys doing it." Riley adds bringing a glass of water and some food on a plate.

"You saw that to huh." I chuckle as I sit up to take the food and water.

"Saw it? I felt it dude." He replies with a smile. "I could hear the seventies music play as he entered."

I almost snort out my rice through my nose as Bree shakes her head at the two of us. "Why am I stuck with you guys again?"

"Because I said yes." I smirk.

"And the both of us would have been torn to shreds and barbecued if Filene wasn't super pissed at everyone and has a inner mama bear." Riley throws in giving me a look of amusement.

I return a small smile as I think back to that day. Protecting Isabella from the cold and Victoria, waking up the next morning to find her making out with the guy I thought was my imprint, and then transforming into a giant motherfucking werewolf and killed Victoria and snarled at anyone who came near me as I swept Riley and Bree away from them.

I had to turn my phone off as we cut across country to Canada for the two newborn vampires to train to hunt animals like the Cullens and be away from humans for months. The Constant rings from texts from everyone blew up my phone. I only answered it twice; my father of course and Carlisle which Emmett used that chance to find me. The most texts I got was from Rosalie and Paul, both them had way too much in common personality wise as they both threatened to drag me home then later pleaded for me to come back home.

Isabella phoned me the most but I deleted all the messages without even listening to them.

"Do you think you will ever go back to them?" Bree asks softly, playing with my hair a little.

I take a deep breath and let it out slowly as I thoguht about it. It has been a couple of years and I have calmed down a bit, not to mention my little vamps before me were okay with being in public. Hell they even have wonderful gifts that Carlisle always talks about; Riley had the gift of telekenisis which he discovered when he throw a nomad vampire across a field when it was coming to attack me. Bree had the power to sense people of good or bad intentions, that she sensed Riley about to prank her and felt his intentions of doing so.

They still roll their eyes at me at remember how I puffed out my chest in pride of them.

"She is going to have to." a british voice comes to us.

Looking over I see that Jericho has awakened, rubbing his as he sat up.

"What do you mean? And what the hell did you do to Filene?" Riley demands frowning at the man.

"What did you find that was in my mouth?" I ask with a raised eyebrow.

He looks confused for a moment, staring at the three of us before shaking head and getting off the bed.

"Alright first off I need food so if one of you could get me some as I explain again what I was doing before your boyo here kills me from touching your sacred lips." He nods to Riley who did indeed look like he was about to take his life.

I pass my leftovers to him. "Well obviously we know that you were trying to figure out what was going on with me but was it really necessary to use the kiss of life on me?"

"Okay you were asleep the whole time so you don't really any say on that and in my defence you wolfy wouldn't let me through touching wise so I had no choice but to gain access through your mouth." he takes a bite out of the sweet and sour pork. "Which by the way is okay if you wanted to know, it is a simple side effect from housing a werewolf spirit with such intense emotions. So you are in the clear of becoming a werewolf."

I sigh in relief. "So I am still human."

"Well a human with a craving for rare steak and a side of animalistic tendencies." He throws in finishing his plate. "But yeah, the spirit will fade with time."

"Okay and what were you saying about me going back to Forks?" I inquire leaning against the pillow.

He takes a long looks at me before rolling off the bed and digging into his book bag he had brought in. He takes out what looks like a white envelope.

Before he even handed it to I already wanted to burn it.

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