Summary
Jacob is taken hostage by a vengeful vixen that turns out to be his imprint! A dark twist on what could have happened if Jacob never met Nessie mixed with a little bit of Stockholm syndrome. Very mature content! ADULTS ONLY PLEASE!
A\N: I really went into the dark and forbidden places of my imagination for this one so I almost didn't publish it, so again ADULTS ONLY PLEASE!
Jake
My life turned upside down after Bella left with him. I was angry. I had never known anger like that before. I ran off after her wedding and I never returned. My family tried to get me back but I just couldn't do it. Not while they still lived there. The Cullens left a few months after the wedding, after Bella and Edward's 'accident'. I went back a few times to visit my dad but I dedicated the past eight years to hunting. If I had to be immortal, I was going to spend immortality killing as many leeches I could. I hated them all.
My life felt empty and dark but I managed to finish high school while I was on the run through the internet which was a positive. I was good at mechanics and it helped when I needed money those first few years. My life was simple. Patrol, sleep, work. Eventually, Embry joined me after he finished a few years in technical school. The rest of the pack stayed behind as LaPush's 'protectors' but Em and I widened our scope. We became hunters. We were the only two hunters in the tribe. The goal was to eliminate all vampires in North America. It was an ambitious goal but we had eternity to achieve it. Embry was good at computers so he scanned the web for any murders that seemed suspicious and then we went off to investigate.
Embry and I didn't need much. The odd jobs here and there worked for us but eventually we opened an emergency car repair shop together. We only did onsite repairs so everything we did was by referral. It suited us because we didn't have customers, we had emergency repairs which meant we didn't see most callers more than once so it suited us well.
Embry liked this life. He liked moving, living under the radar, hunting leeches, the whole damn super hero thing worked for him. For me, it was more about keeping busy. I needed this. I needed to feel like this curse was meant for something. Every leech I killed made me feel a little better about loosing everything to the Cullens. My life, my humanity and my love were all gone because of them. That's why I didn't feel bad for killing that yellowed eyed bitch three years ago. Her name was Irina.
It had been six years since I saw a yellow eyed leech. I was out patrolling when I caught the scent of a leech. I followed the scent into deep into the forest. It only took me a few minutes to find her. She was draining a deer when I saw her. I didn't attack immediately. I wanted to see what she did but then I saw another leech with her.
"Let's go Irina. I caught the scent of a wolf." The other leech told her. Irina hissed.
"Where?!" She growled at the strawberry blonde leech. Strawberry looked at her worried.
"Do not go looking for trouble sister. We are alone for this trip." Strawberry warned her.
"Then go. I'm not afraid of them." Irina told her. Strawberry shook her hand and took her sister by the arm. Irina hissed and smacked her arm away.
"Sister please… They hunt in packs. We are powerless against them." Strawberry told her.
"Leave Tanya. I've been waiting for an opportunity like this for far too long. I stood by and did nothing for the Cullen's sake but their allegiance with the wolves is gone now that Bella is one of us."
"I will not leave. I will not allow you to dishonor our family like this!" Strawberry, aka Tanya, told her. Irina got into a crouching position and hissed at her sister.
"Leave now or I will rip you apart myself!" Irina told her sister and gave her a feral hiss. Tanya looked at her distraught. I almost felt sorry for her. She turned around and disappeared into the forest. That's when the hunt began. I was far enough away that she couldn't hear me but it didn't take long for her to find my scent. It was an old trail but she managed to use it to find out house. I kept my distance so I was able to follow her the entire way back to my house without her noticing. Embry was home sleeping. It was an old ranch house so we didn't have any neighbors. She stood outside our patio weighing her options. I ran closer and closer and she finally heard me. She turned around just as I phased into my human form and revealed myself to the leech.
"You should listen to your sister Irina. Don't do this. I will kill you if I have to."
"Like you killed my Laurent?" She hissed accusingly. I recognized the name instantly. It seemed like a lifetime ago.
"He was going to kill Bella. He told her so. He was about to strike her down when we attacked." I told her.
"Lies!" She hissed.
"I will not let this opportunity pass by again. I will make you pay, I will make you all pay." She told me before attacked me.
I phased back immediately and countered her attack. We slammed hard against a tree causing it to fall. This must have woken Embry because a second later he was outside tearing out Irina's arm as I tore apart her neck.
'What do you want to do now? Do we burn her?' Embry asked me. He saw the conversation I overheard with Irina and her sister.
'She'll come after us again if we don't.' I said weighing the different options. I didn't want to burn her. I knew the Cullen's considered them as family. I could almost see Esme's sad face in my head.
'This can provoke a war with them.' Embry reminded me. He didn't like that I brought up Esme. Esme and Carlisle were far less easy to hate than the others.
'I gave her a chance to stand down. She attacked us and she threatened our entire pack.' I told him, finally making my decision. Embry nodded and phased. I got some firewood for us and we burned the body.
We moved out of that house that same day. We were on the run for several weeks before we heard that the Cullens tried to contact us. Edward actually had the audacity to call us. He was smart though. He called Seth and, as he expected, Seth was more than willing to talk to him. Seth told Edward what happened and that I was the one who killed Irina. Edward was furious but he said that they will not retaliate and that they will convince Irina's family not to retaliate either. He offered to be the intermediary between us and the Denali. He actually wanted me to apologize.
I stood by my decision, even with the threat of war hanging over me. Though nothing would satisfy me more than the opportunity to kill Edward, I didn't want my family to go to war either. I didn't apologize but I told Seth to tell them that as long as they do not attack, our treaty still stands. The one satisfaction I would get is that Edward knew it was me. Seth was upset with me for months for not apologizing to the Cullens at least. I didn't care. I did what I had to do and if it pissed Edward off then it was just icing on the cake. But as much as I wanted to gloat, as much as I wanted to see Irina as some other dead leech. I couldn't. I felt guilty and angry. I even hated myself a bit for what I had done and I hated the world around me. I could barely face my own family because I actually felt like I had done something wrong. Somehow my life actually felt darker after that incident.
We settled in Georgia shortly after that. That's when hunting became easier. The southern vamps were careless. We were able to find them easily and take out entire covens. Leah and Quill would join us on the larger covens but they headed back soon after. For the most part, it was Embry and me and that was more than enough. We had to keep moving because we didn't want other vampires to track us so Embry and I decided to live on an off-the-grid mobile home. This gave us the flexibility and freedom that we wanted.
Overall life was as good as it could be for a darkened, broken hearted renegade hunter and his sidekick but it was also pretty damn empty. For some reason I just could never get over what happened to Bella. I couldn't get over having to let her go, to let her die at the hands of my enemy all in the name of 'love'. It wasn't love, it was an infatuation that lead the woman I loved to her death. I could never forgive myself. In a different world, I would be with Bella but that damn nineteenth century leech took her from me. I didn't want to hate Carlisle but, if he would have let Edward die, none of this would have happened. Little did I know that my life would be turned upside down by the damn Cullens once again. To top everything off, I couldn't shake this awful feeling in my gut after I killed Irina. The guilt over Irina and the anger and regret over Bella made my life pretty miserable. I was no longer the same light hearted kid that left LaPush.
Embry and I were living in a small plot of land in Texas. I didn't like Texas. It was a little too hot for my taste but Embry liked it. It also helped us keep track of the southern covens better. We were having more and more problems in the south so it made sense to park our home in this frying pan.
"Bro, we got a call. College girls again, you wanna take it?" Embry asked me. I was on the computer researching a new underground club that the leeches might be using to kidnap people.
"Naw. You take it. I'm gonna check this new place out. Its by the college so I'll call you if I run into anything." I told him and grabbed my bike jacket. He nodded once and grabbed to keys to the truck before he headed out.