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Chapter 1: Unknown

Carlie's POV

I laid there basking in the glow of the sunlight. I could feel the warmth of the sun's rays penetrate my fur. It was oddly soothing. Therapeutic even for what has become an extremely hectic and strange life.

A year. That's all it took for my life to change so drastically. One year. A lot has happened in the year. A lot of strange things have happened in the last year. Things I would've laughed off as Impossible a year ago.

In the back of my head I heard the thoughts of the rest of the pack buzzing. I did the best that I could to tune them out. It was impossible to tune them out completely. As wolves it was impossible to hide your thoughts from the rest of the pack. As annoying as it was though it at least gave me a way to keep an eye on babies. Those two tended to get in trouble when I wasn't keeping a close eye on them.

In total there were ten of us. Ten werewolves. We'd known each other all of our lives. All of us were adopted at the same time and we were all, with the exception of my babies, very close in age.

Charlie was the first of us to suddenly and violently transform into a wolf. We'd all noticed a change in him in the weeks before the transformation. There was the anger. He skipped school which he'd never done before. Then there was the unusually high body temperature.

Charlie wouldn't tell us what was going on. No matter how much we tried to get him to talk. We all worried about him. Then suddenly it wasn't just him acting strange. Marty started behaving the same way as well. Then it was Erica, Ethan, and Michael.

That was a really tough time for me. Not only was I worried sick about all of my friends. Wondering why the hell everyone was acting so strange all of a sudden. That's when I discovered that I was pregnant. I had been on the pill so it came as a complete shock to find out that I was pregnant.

I didn't know what to do at that time I didn't understand why their father was acting so strange all of a sudden. Wasn't sure he would even want his baby. Thinking about it now it seems kind of silly because I couldn't imagine a better father than Ethan.

Growing up Ethan and I were always just a little closer as friends than the rest of us. Our friendship blossomed into love as we got older. It was almost a year ago exactly that we broke all boundaries and made love for the first time. The result of that night was my son Noah and my daughter Chloe.

When I felt like I was loosing everything and everyone though that was a dark time for me. I could literally feel the stress and anger building up in me. One day it became so much for me that I ran away from home. I could feel my body shaking in anger. Ready to explode.

Explode I did. I exploded and started running on all fours. When I tried to yell it came out as a howl of desperation. I stopped running when I realized that my hands and feet had been replaced by brown furry paws. Then I heard all the voices in my head. My friends. My soulmate. All explaining what happened to me.

It was a little bit easier after that. At least I finally knew what was happening to my friends. Soon after I became a werewolf Jason and Alex joined us.

We didn't understand why or how it was possible for us to become werewolves. Hell werewolves didn't exist! Or at least that's what we all thought!

I never thought of the affect this would have on my twins. I gave birth to one healthy baby boy and one healthy baby girl on July 1st. My little Noah and Chloe. They were both human babies. The nurse was immediately concerned about their extremely high body temperatures.

They were kept at the hospital a few days as the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with them. They were released from the hospital a week later when they couldn't find a cause.

I had my own suspicions though. Those suspicions were confirmed a few days after I brought them home. My son was crying and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't seem to calm him down. Then all of a sudden he turned into a wolf pup in my arms.

I didn't know what to expect anymore.

Whenever my babies got very fussy they would wolf out. Keeping the secret from my adoptive parents has been the most difficult thing that I've ever done.

School was very difficult now. I even considered dropping out but my parents made it very clear that wasn't an option. If I wanted to provide a good life for my babies I needed to go to school. My main worry though was that my babies would wolf out on their poor unsuspecting babysitters. The Denali clan.

Oh the Denalis. When they first moved here to Wisconsin a year and a half ago everyone immediately cast them aside as "weird," mainly because of their pale ice cold skin and golden eyes.

Not us though. We were intrigued by them and they seemed equally intrigued by us. Over the following months we became closer as friends. Tanya, Kate, Elezar, Carmen, and Garrett were all great friends to us.

When I had my babies Tanya actually volunteered to babysit them while I was in school. I trusted her. I trusted all of them to take care of my babies when I couldn't.

Except for the past week. For the past week the Denalis have been doing everything they could to avoid all of us. We couldn't visit. Our calls were ignored. They even told me they wouldn't be able to babysit Noah and Chloe. Their abrupt coldness was strange to all of us.

"It'll be okay," I jumped when Ethan nudged me gently. He licked me affectionately.

"I know," I sighed mentally. "It's just strange the way they've been acting toward us all week that's it. Not even allowing us to visit. It's weird,"

"Well hopefully it'll be over soon," he smiled as he looked on at our two pups playing.

"At least my mom didn't mind helping with babysitting them for the week,"

"Yes but would if she would've taken to long to feed them or something. What if they wolfed out?"

"Stop driving yourself crazy with all the 'What ifs'. I mean it could just as easily happen with the Denalis,"

I shivered at the thought. He chuckled.

I shook my head. This telepathy thing never ceased to amaze me. The whole werewolf thing never ceased to amaze me. We were a lot like real wolves actually. We were a pack. Like all wolf packs we had a pack leader or alpha I should say. That was Charlie. We picked him because he was the first of us to make the change and he helped the rest of us as best as he could. When Charlie gave us a direct order we had to follow it. It was impossible to refuse him.

Jason hater following orders. Out of all of us he was the biggest hothead. He was a nice guy and all but I swear all it took was two seconds to piss him off and that was it. He wanted to lead but there was no way in hell any of us could trust him to make decisions for us.

My stomach suddenly growled very loudly. I shook my head. I swear to God there was not a minute that went by where I wasn't hungry these days. When I became a werewolf my appetite increased big time but once I gave birth and started breastfeeding my two little ones it was almost impossible to stay full for long. Noah and Chloe ate a lot more often than normally human babies did. I'd say their hunger was equal to the rest of us wolves. So keeping up with their appetite and my own had me eating literally all the time. I'd often have a baby in one hand and a cheeseburger in the other.

"You should go hunt. It usually keeps you full longer," Ethan suggested.

"You're right,"

"I'll keep an eye on our kids. Go eat,"

I lifted my nose into the air and stared sniffing. I could smell a deer off in the distance. The smell of deer meat made my stomach growl again. I followed the scent eagerly. Once I spotted the deer I slowed down. I wouldn't make my presence known to the animal until it was too late.

I made a run for the animal once I was close enough. As I leaped toward the animal something as hard as rock and cold as ice crashed into me from the side hard.

I instinctively started to fight the intruder and defend what was rightfully mine. In the back of my mind I registered the fact that he looked a lot like the Denalis with his pale skin and gold eyes. I had never met this man before. I didn't care though. I was more animal than human at that point.

I probably would've won my fight if a woman hadn't suddenly joined him and threw me off of him. I landed with a painful thud against a tree. I was sure my right leg was broken just by how painful it felt.

Both the man and the woman looked at me in absolute shock. I knew I couldn't take on two of them especially with a broken leg so I decided that this meal wasn't worth it.

"Carlisle is that a-"

I blocked out the rest of what the woman said after that. I felt their eyes pierce into my body as I limped off back to the rest of the pack as fast as I could.

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