Slightly AU- set after Breaking Dawn but no Renesmee and only one wolf pack. Please excuse any slight discrepancies with the book- I basically just wanted to write a Jacob OC story
Running. That was what life came down to at these moments- the speed and the thrill of the run.
Crashing through the thick green undergrowth.
Seamlessly dodging boulder, fallen trees and other debris.
The wind rushing through his fur, the sun warming his skin.
The grace.
The power.
Jacob stopped to pause for breath. From the position of the sun in the sky he must have been running for 3 hours at least. He turned his shaggy head to the sky and howled, letting his wolf senses take over momentarily.
Sight isn't a big thing when you're in wolf form- mostly greyscale and a narrow field of vision. It's the smells that take over. He could smell the shape, size and colour of an object a thousand metres away. He smelt moss on the rocks surrounding the pool he couldn't see yet; hear the break of a twig beneath-
Beneath a foot…
Jacob forced the human to regain control of the mind- the forest was always empty at this time. That was the only reason he allowed himself the release of the run. To let someone get this close to him so close to the brink of his control…
He halted the thought. He had too.
The human in him far outweighed the wolf- he was not a monster. He would not hurt anybody.
He'd promised himself that. He'd never hurt anyone again, physically or mentally. The look on Bella's face when he'd tried to force her to choose between him and Edward...
Hurriedly he pushed the thought to the back of his mind.
Better not risk it. Better the embarrassment of being found naked in the woods than the questions and the panic that would arise at the sighting of a giant wolf running around loose.
Quickly he phased back to human.
The nausea passed in a fleeting second now, but Jacob still had to brace himself against a rock as his head momentarily swam as his field of vision widened and the world exploded into technicolor.
Now all he had to do was make his way into some sort of cover and hide until whoever it was had passed. Then make his way back to warn the others that the woods were not as deserted as they once were.
"Umm… hello?" Jacob spun round as the voice cut through his internal monologue, then swore as he tried to cover himself to preserve some sort of modesty, his mind flying desperately through various explanations.
He looked up.
And his whole world stood still.
Review please :) no flames- there's a lot more to come!