51JG: I'm baaaccckkkk! Did'ja miss me?
Jake:-mumbling sarcastic- Mmmhumm… Yeah sure whatever.
JG: Lllaaammmeee. You guys are jerks.
Carlos:-glares at Jake- Be nice. I missed you JG.
JG:-grins- thanks. Guess what you guys!
Carlos: What?
JG: I started my senior year in High School…with a BTR back pack BoooYaaa!
Everyone:-stares at JG- ….
JG: What?
Chapter Six: The end and the beginning.
The drive to Washington was long and uncomfortable for everybody. Carlos was still angry at Jake and Sam for making him leave his friends. Jake felt bad for having to make Carlos leave his friends, and life in LA.
Embry and Quil felt awkward about whole thing. They could see both sides, they know what it felt like to be separated from their friends, but they also knew what it felt like to have to obey, to have their will taken from them.
So they did what they could to cheer everyone up. Needless to say it wasn't working out very well. The only thing that it actually accomplished was to piss off Carlos, and add to the general awkwardness.
But the long tip did have its better points too, like it gave Carlos the time to calm down and evaluate his feeling about this whole 'the-world-is-not-what-you-think' thing. It also gave him anticipation about what his fellow pack mates were like.
"So…who is all in the pack?" Carlos asked finally.
"Well," Embry said clearly happy that Carlos had stopped glaring and started talking. "There is Sam, Jake, me, and Quill…but you already know that…After that there's Jared, Paul, Seth, Brady, Collin and…" he winced. "Leah."
Carlos perked up. "Who?"
"Leah," Jake said with a small wince. "She's the only girl, and is not particularly friendly."
Carlos glared at him. "Well I'm glad that she has your stamp of approval." He said rolling his eyes. "But I think I'll find out my own opinion for my self thanks."
Another awkward silence settled over the car.
-.-
"Carlos," Embry said shaking his friend gently. "Carlos, man wake up."
"Five more minutes Mrs. Knight." Carlos mumbled.
Embry glanced at Quil and Jake with an amused grin. "Carlos, dude wake up."
"Hummm?" Carlos mumbled sleepily while opening his eyes slowly. "Em? What's going on?"
"We've arrived." Quil said smirking slightly.
"Oh," Carlos mumbled "that's good. Uh…where are we?" She said looking around
"La Push." Jake said with a small wince.
"Oh yeah right." Carlos said his eyes darkening for a minute. "My home away from home." He said sarcastically.
"Look, Carlos don't be like that." Quil spoke up in defense of his friend. "Jake already said that he was sorry, and it wasn't like he could do anything about it. Sam's word is law around here. He couldn't do anything to oppose him."
Carlos looked down sheepishly "Yeah, I guess." He looked over at Jake. "I'm sorry for being so mean. It…it just happened so fast…too fast. Can you forgive me?"
Jake smiled. "Yeah. I forgive you. And I really am sorry that you had to leave your friends." He said looking away for a second.
"Yeah, I'm sorry too." Embry and Quil said looking at Carlos.
"Its fine, I'm sure I'll see them again…" Carlos said though he didn't look very optimistic.
"Right," Jake said awkwardly. "Now let's go and introduce you to the others."
They all walked in to Sam's house with a little bit of apprehension. Well…at least Carlos did, the others were just happy to be home. California was great, but they felt at home here.
Once they walked through the door the other boys came up to them. Jared walked up to Carlos and smiled. "Hey, I'm Jared. Welcome to the pack, if there is anything you need help with don't hesitate to ask."
Carlos smiled at him. "Thanks."
Seth smiled as he extended a hand. "Hey, I'm Seth."
"I'm Carlos, but you probly already knew that." Carlos said with a grin. He looked around at the others. "You must be Paul, Brady and Collin." Carlos said looking at the remaining three boys. They all smiled at him and nodded. He then turned to look at the only girl in the room. "Then that must mean…you are Leah." He said with a smile at her.
"Yeah," Leah said glaring at him slightly. She didn't want another boy to annoy her, though something about him made her want to smile.
"So…" Jake said breaking the slight silence. "What do we do now?"
"Now," Sam said coming into the room. "We go and make sure the red head vamp doesn't get any closer than she has already come."
"Okay," Jake said.
Most of the guys walked out the door, Carlos stood back hesitantly. Jake looked at him sympathetically. "Nervous for your first time?" He asked smiling encouragingly.
"Yeah," Carlos said in a small voice. "A little I guess."
"It will be fine Carlos. We'll show that blood sucker who's boss." Quil said confidently.
Carlos smiled at him. "Yeah."
xXx
Kendall, Logan and James were heartbroken. Carlos was gone, and it didn't seem as if he was coming back. They were all at Rocque records filling in Gustavo and Kelly on the situation. Gustavo looked so mad that it seemed like a vain was going to pop in his head. Kelly was just sad that Carlos was gone.
"So tell me again, what did he say exactly?" Gustavo said looking at the three boys in front of him.
"He said that he had a 'Family Emergency' and that he didn't think that he could come back." Kendall said glaring at the ground in front of him.
"So he's gone? Just like that?" Kelly spoke up from the corner.
"Yup," James said darkly. "Looks like it."
"But he can't be gone." Kelly said looking around in a daze.
"Yeah, well he is." Logan said bitterly.
"No I mean…he's under contract…" Kelly said looking up at Logan.
"Well that didn't work out now did it?" James said looking at her in exasperation.
"No she has a point," Gustavo said suddenly.
"She does?" Kendall asked
"Yeah," Gustavo said then continued. "As long as Carlos is under contract, he has to sing for Rocque Records. So we have to find him and bring him back. "
"How do you suggest we do that?" James said looking up.
"That…is a good question." Gustavo said looking lost. "I haven't the faintest idea."
"We could consult the internet." Logan said thoughtfully.
"Yes, do that." Kelly said.
xXx
Jake, Embry and Quil walked into Sam's house with grim determination. They had just got back from Bella's graduation at the Cullens house, and were going to tell Sam of the impending danger.
"Hey guys," Carlos said looking up from his book.
"Hey," Jake said shortly he was focused. "You might want to come in with us."
"Okay," Carlos said looking puzzled. They all walked into Sam's room, Jared and Paul following in their wake.
"Sam we have trouble." Jake said making Sam look up.
"What? You didn't start a fight with the Cullens…did you?" Sam said his eyes narrowing.
"No, but they told us that there is an army of blood suckers headed to forks." Embry spoke up.
"What?!" Paul and Sam said at the same time.
"Yeah," Jake said nodding grimly.
"Explain." Sam said looking at him intently.
Jake then proceeded to tell them the conversation that he had with the psychic blood sucker. With Embry and Quil adding in points that he may have left out. Sam stayed silent through the whole thing, though his eyes darkened with each word.
"Well then, we will have to work together with the Cullens." Sam said looking up in grim determination. "When will they be meeting?"
"Later tonight. I told them we would meet them." Jake said
Sam nodded "Good."
They walked, in wolf form, towards the Cullens. Even though they had the treaty between them, they still didn't trust them fully.
Carlos was nervous but strangely excited. He looked at the vampires with distrust, but curiosity. "What are they? I can tell that they are vampires, but they smell different." He thought to Jake.
"They are different; they drink the blood of animals instead of humans." Jake explained.
Carlos nodded and looked back at the Cullens. A tall blond male, who seemed to be the leader, was speaking. Carlos listened intently not wanting to miss anything. He watched as they fought and was both awed, and revolted at how fast they moved. It was just too fast, inhumanly fast. He was relieved when they stopped for the night, as he was getting tired.
They spent the next few days learning fighting techniques, and getting ready for the fight that was to come. Nothing overly exciting happened, except when a fan of Carlos's saw him when he was in town with Jake. Leaving Carlos blushing, and his friends snickering.
-.-
Carlos was sitting on a rock at a beach thinking. He was full of conflicting emotions, nervousness about the upcoming battle, but also eagerness too. He was startled out of his thoughts when he heard someone coming up behind him. Turning he was shocked to see Leah.
"Hey Leah," He said cautiously. He had noticed that she didn't like him very much. She seemed to think that he was only being nice to him out of pity. Even though that was not the case.
"Hey Carlos," She said stiffly. "What are you doing here?"
"Thinking." Carlos said smiling at her brightly. "You want to sit with me?"
"Sure," Leah said sitting down hesitantly. "Carlos can I ask you a question?"
"Go for it." Carlos said smiling.
"Why are you so nice to me?" She asked looking over at him.
"What?" Carlos asked startled.
"Why are you nice to me?" She repeated. "I mean everyone else either ignores me or annoys me. But not you, you are always nice to me. Why? Are you being charitable? Did someone put you up to this?"
Carlos looked shocked. "No, Leah that's not it." he said shaking his head. "I'm not trying to be charitable, and no one put me up to this. I…I just want you to be happy, and thought that you could use a friend, someone who you can count on." He explained then looked away embarrassed.
"Oh," Leah said not knowing exactly what to say.
xXx
"Aha!" Logan said triumphantly.
"What?" James asked looking up.
"I found Carlos," Logan said with a smile.
"What?!" Kendall said standing up and coming over to him.
"How did you do that?" James asked curiously.
"I was looking around online and found an article that said 'Carlos Garcia of Big Time Rush signs autographs in local high school'."
"Well where is he?" Kendall asked looking at the computer intently.
"Forks Washington."
xXx
The day of the battle donned cold and bright. Carlos paced around with nervous energy. He couldn't believe what he was about to do. It seemed so unreal…and yet here he was a full fledged werewolf, getting ready to fight off a horde of vampires.
"Carlos calm down, you'll be fine." Embry said grinning wolfishly.
"I'm sorry Em, I can't help it." Carlos said ducking his head.
"Get ready, because here they come." Sam said breaking into the conversation.
Carlos snapped to attention and watched as the army of newborns came. He was afraid at first but then instinct took over and he quickly took down a small newborn.
"Good job Carlos!" Quil thought ecstatically.
The fight passed quickly, and it seemed that they had this in the bag. They all piled the pieces of vampires and set them on fire. Carlos wrinkled his nose at the smell, as it was truly vile. They were all ready to leave when he saw Leah start to take on the one new born.
"No! Leah!" He yelled running forward.
He ran in front of her putting himself in between her and the vampire. He growled at the vampire and ran forward wanting to rip out his throat. He could hear everyone yelling for him to stop, but it was too late, the vampire had his cold hard arms around him and squeezed.
Searing pain wracked his body and he fell to the ground with a scream. He was in human form curled up in a ball, trying not to scream but failing miserably. It felt as if every bone in his body was broken, which wasn't far from the truth.
He could feel people trying to pick him up gently, but it didn't work as it just made him hold back a whimper.
"Shh, its okay Carlos, you are going to be okay." Jake's voice broke though the pain filled haze. "We've got you. We've got you."
"It...hurts…" Carlos whimpered.
"I know it hurts, but stay strong buddy." Quil spoke up. "We've got you."
-.-
Having his bones re-broken was the most painful experience he could ever have. But he was thankful to the head of the Cullens for helping him. He laid on the bed in extreme pain, but looked up when he heard someone knock on the door. It was Leah.
"Hey Leah," He said his voice hoarse from yelling.
"Carlos, why did you do that?" She asked a confused look on her face.
"I told you, I just wanted to be your friend. And friends look out for each other." He said softly.
Carlos was startled when he saw tears coming from her eyes. "Thank you Carlos," She said smiling for the first time since he had got there. It felt like he had been struck like lightning, and he decided he liked her smile.
Carlos smiled back. "Your welcome."
JG: Annnd That's it! The end!
Carlos: What? That's it?
JG: Yup. But you know, one story's end is an others beginning.
Jake: So you are saying you might make a sequel?
JG: Maybe...-grins evilly- maybe not.
