He's No Hero

Summary: "There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win."

George R.R. Martin

Everybody loves the hero.

It's the way of life.

A fact known to all but never really spoken.

The hero draws you in with their good looks

Their charming personality

Their politeness

Their perfection

The hero is the symbol of perfection

Loved by all

Feared by all who oppose him

Te hero always gets the girl and saves the day

There is no exception to this rule.

The hero rises out of the ashes and swoops in to save the day.

The hero is indestructible, nothing can kill him.

The hero never loses

There may be moments when it seems like all is lost.

Like he's going to be defeated.

But in the end he always lands the winning strike

Jacob black was not a hero

He realized it the moment in the woods after Bella came back with Edward.

Sure he may have held her together and protected her

For months

Almost a year

Without asking anything in return

Still that wasn't enough to make him a hero

Because the hero always gets the girl

And Jacob was no hero

He was always a place holder

The one who fights the villain until the real hero comes and finishes the job

He was once again confronted with the truth

That he wasn't the hero of this story

A fact reinforced as he lay alone, injured on his back and heartbroken after the newborn battle

That he volunteered for

Risked his life for

To protect the girl he loved

Who used him, rejected him

Because he wasn't the hero

And the hero always gets the girl

So when he stared at the wedding invitation in his hands

The wedding of the girl he loved to another man

Someone who wasn't even alive

Who had left her once before

Who could kill her

Who would kill her

He crumbles the invitation in his hands and rips it to shreds

Then he ran

Because the hero always gets the girl

And Jacob Black was no hero