Title: Cold Burn

Author: Lazalot_Anreads

Beta: None

Characters/Pairings: Bella/Jacob

Rating: NC-17

Challenge: None

Summary: When Edward changes Bella without her consent, she goes to Jacob for help.

Notes: Eclipse AU

Chapter 001 - Bella's POV

"Stop! I don't want this!" I yelled as at Edward as he held me down and licked a path from my shoulder to my neck. "STOP!"

He wasn't listening, though. After I had told him that I couldn't marry him because I wanted to be with Jacob, he flipped. He became an entirely different person, a person that scared me.

He'd told me that I wasn't leaving him and that I would never be with Jacob before he grabbed me and pinned me to his bed. "You are MINE!" He growled the words.

Then he bit me. Fire flooded my veins and I thought the agony would never end. My blood burned and I screamed and screamed, but nobody came to my rescue. Everyone else had gone hunting because I had asked to speak with Edward privately. How I regretted that decision now.

For three days that felt like an eternity to me, I burned and seethed. I could think of nothing but the fact that Jacob would never accept me as a Vampire. The emotional pain was worse than the physical pain, and believe me, that's saying something.

Suddenly, the physical pain disappeared as if it had never been. I sat up; Edward had pulled a chair up next to the bed and he was sitting there, smiling at me. I didn't think; I just reacted.

I hit him as hard as I could, and then I ran.

When I was almost to La Push, it occurred to me that I should probably call first. I needed to warn Jacob that I was a Vampire now. So I stopped and pulled out my cell phone, hitting speed dial one and the call button in quick succession.

"Bella?" Jacob's voice soothed the panic brewing inside of me even though he sounded worried and just a little bit angry. "Where the hell have you been?"

"I said no." If I could have cried, I would have been sobbing. Even my voice sounded different - like music. I was sure Jacob noticed, but he didn't say anything. He was probably in shock. "I didn't want him to change me, Jake."

"You're a Vampire." It wasn't a question. I heard him sit down heavily. "Where are you?"

"Close," I replied sadly, "but I won't come if you don't want me to."

"I'll meet you at the treaty line instead. Do you remember where it is?" He kept his voice calm, though I was positive he was freaking out nearly as much as I was.

"Yes. When?"

"I'm on my way now." With that, he hung up.

We arrived at the same time, which was pretty much instantly thanks to our supernatural speed. He didn't hug me, of course; I hadn't expected him to. But it still hurt, just a little bit.

For a long moment, we just stood there staring at each other. It occurred to me that Jacob didn't stink - he smelled hot and spicy, wonderful. Venom flooded my mouth and I suddenly realized how thirsty I was. I stepped back warily, and hurt flooded his eyes.

"Are you afraid of me, Bells?" He sounded so broken. I wanted so badly to hug him, but I didn't dare try.

"Afraid for you," I corrected him. "I'm a newborn Vampire and even though I'm obviously not totally out of control like I'm supposed to be, you smell wonderful and I don't want to chance getting too close to you."

"Oh." He still sounded like his best friend had just died, and I supposed that I had, in a way. Even if our friendship withstood this, I knew that it would never be the same. "Bella, God, I don't even know what to say to you! You're a fucking bloodsucker!"

I reared back, stung. "I'm still the same person, Jacob. Anyway, it's not my FAULT! I told him not to!"

His expression became murderous, and when he spoke, his tone was deadly serious. "I WILL kill him for this, Bells."

I wondered if he expected me to defend my ex. If he did, he was in for a big surprise. "I don't care. Just don't get hurt - promise me."

His expression finally softened, then. "I promise to try, Bella. Now tell me everything - why did he do this? I thought he didn't WANT to change you!"

So I told him the whole story, from the moment I decided that I couldn't marry Edward. He listened intently, his face full of emotion. Sadness and anger were the most prevalent. When I finished, he was quiet for a long time.

When he finally spoke, his voice was husky with suppressed emotion. "You want to be with me?"

"Yes," I replied bitterly, "but it's too late now."

"Bella." For the first time since we'd met up, he smiled at me. It wasn't his usual sunbeam smile, but it still warmed me. "Love always finds a way. I don't care that you're a Vampire, you're MY Vampire and I'm not going to let ANYTHING stand between us." To prove his point, he stepped forward and pulled me into a tight hug.

I froze, terrified that I would lose control, but relaxed when nothing happened after a minute or so. His arms felt so right, wrapped around me the way they were. His hot skin sent a different kind of fire flooding my veins, and I moaned quietly.

He kissed the top of my head and inhaled deeply. "You don't smell like a Vampire. You smell like my Bella, only … MORE. I wonder why that is?"

"I don't know, but Jacob, I'm REALLY thirsty." As much as I hated to do so, I pulled away from him. "Will you help me hunt? I don't know what I'm doing."

"Sure, sure." Though he looked a little disgusted, he jogged toward the tree line so that he could phase without giving me a show. A moment later, a huge wolf with russet colored fur ran back to me. Jacob nudged my hand in a friendly way before taking off, looking back once to make sure I was following him, which I was.

We moved silently through the trees at a breakneck speed. After only a few moments, I caught a whiff of what I instinctively knew was some sort of animal. It smelled good, though not anywhere near as good as Jacob did.

The animal turned out to be a large buck. Instinct took over and I tackled it easily as Jacob looked on. I snapped it's neck like a twig, not at all interested in making it suffer. Then, turning away from Jacob, I sank my fangs in and drank.

Once I'd finished, I dropped the dead animal to the ground and turned back to find Jacob watching me. He was in his Human skin again and had already put his sweat pants back on. His heavy-lidded gaze would have made me blush had I still been Human.

"What?" I wiped my mouth. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

To my surprise, a light blush tinted HIS cheeks and he looked away, toward the dead buck. That was when I smelled it; he was turned on. I inhaled deeply, getting wet just from the scent of him. He must have smelled my own lust, because he jerked his gaze back to mine, eyes wide with surprise.

I purred. "You smell so … HOT. You really still want me, Jacob, even like this?"

He stepped close and looked down at me, his hands coming up to cup my face. "I will ALWAYS want you, Bells." Then he kissed me.

His lips burned mine, but it was a good kind of burn. His tongue traced my lips and I opened to him eagerly. The kiss was slow and sweet, and heartbreaking in its intensity. A single tear fell between our mouths, and I wished that I could cry with him. I couldn't, though. I would never cry again.

He broke the kiss and pressed his forehead to mine, eyes squeezed tightly shut, I assumed to hold back more tears. "I love you SO much, Bells."

"I love you, too, Jake," I whispered. "What are we going to DO?"

"I wish I knew. The Pack is NOT going to be happy about this, and neither is my Dad. You probably shouldn't go home again, but I don't know where to take you." Jacob sighed and opened his eyes, which still glistened with unshed tears. "Lets not think about it right now. Can we just be together?"

"Sure, sure. Just, can we go somewhere else? The buck is starting to really stink." I wrinkled my nose.

"Sure, sure." He smirked at me as he repeated the line I'd picked up from him in the first place. "Where do you want to go?"

That was a difficult question to answer. Where DID I want to go? "I don't know. Someplace quiet, where we can be alone without worrying about anyone finding us."

"I know just the place." He took my hand, and we ran.

In mere seconds we arrived in the most beautiful clearing I'd ever seen. The grass was lush and green. There was a gorgeous waterfall pouring into a small, almost perfectly round lake.

I sank to the ground next to the lake, pulling Jacob down to sit beside me. "This place is so beautiful, Jake. How did you find it?"

He smiled with a touch of sadness. "Mom used to bring me here when I was little. I found it again one day not too long ago during a patrol. Nobody else ever comes here."

"Good." I snuggled into his side, laying my head on his shoulder as he wrapped both of his arms around me. "Thank you for bringing me here."

"Anytime." He squeezed me briefly. "This can be our place, now."

"Aw, Jake. You're such a romantic," I teased. Though I couldn't see his face, I swear I could FEEL his smile. I tilted my head back to look at him and sure enough, there it was, sweet and just a little shy. "Kiss me again?"

He didn't reply; he just caught my lips with his own. Passion surged between us instantly, and I moaned. He kissed me even more deeply in response. I slid my hands up the front of his shirt and he shivered a little at the feel of my cold hands. I found his already hard nipples and gave them both a sharp pinch.

He growled and pulled out of the kiss. "Don't touch me like that unless you MEAN it, Bells. Please." I could smell his arousal again, and noticed that it was tinged with desperation.

I felt the same way, and though I knew it probably wasn't the right time, I wanted so badly to feel him inside me. So I pinched his nipples again. "I mean it," I whispered.

But he took my hands in his and pulled them out from under his shirt. Smiling sheepishly, he said, "When we have sex for the first time, I want it to at least be inside. Preferably on a bed, surrounded by candles."

I was surprised, though I suppose I shouldn't have been. Jacob had wanted me for a long time - of course he'd fantasized about me. "You've really thought about this!" I sounded accusing, though I hadn't meant to.

Luckily, Jacob didn't take offense. He did blush again, though. I thought about how strange it was to have him doing the blushing instead of me. "Of course I have," he said honestly, if not a little defensively. "I've thought about a LOT of things."

I shivered with lust. "Oh yeah?" My voice sounded sexy even to me. "What kinds of things?"

He just laughed. "THAT is a discussion for another time. Right now we really need to focus; it's getting dark and even though I know you don't sleep, I hate to leave you out here alone."

I didn't like that idea either. "Well, where do you want me to go?"

"Hmm …" He thought for a long moment before a grin spread over his face and he jumped to his feet. "I've got it!"