Helen's Fan Fiction
This is a follow on from the end of Eclipse from Jacob's point of view
RECOLLECTIONS
Jacob sat atop a large cliff and stared vacantly into the sea that lay in front of him. His bones had just been broken and repaired and now his heart lay in pieces because of one girl... Bella Swan. He didn't blame her for this heart brake, though the thought had crossed his mind a couple of times but he quickly talked himself out of that state of mind and turned his anger and rage onto Edward. He's all the cause of this, he thought to himself, Me and Bella were very happy with each other until that bloodsucker had to come back to town and ruin everything. Broken bones I can handle but this... He stopped in mid thought. He found himself struggling to with hold his anger so he just blanked his mind of Bella and Edward and just listened to the sound of the ocean. He wondered how far he'd run. About 65 miles he guessed. 65 miles for her, he began to think again, if it wasn't for this bloody business of imprinting I'd don't know if I'd still have the strength to be here. He laughed. Bloody, is that the best word to use at a time like this? He smiled, but it wasn't for long as he grew angry at the thought of Bella's 'gift' to him before he left many hours earlier. He'd carried her wedding invitation in one of his trouser pockets. He found it strange how a small piece of paper could weigh him down so much, more than carrying a bag of bricks on his back whilst he was in his human form and try to climb the world's tallest mountain. A simple task, yes. He thought to himself, sliding his hand in his pocket to retrieve the invitation. He read it again. He didn't need to, in the past couple of hours he'd sat staring at, reading it over and over again to try and believe what he was looking at.
TO JACOB BLACK
To he thought, that must be bloodsucker's input.
YOU ARE FORMERLY INVITED TO ATTEND THE WEDDING
OF MISS ISABELLA SWAN AND MR EDWARD CULLEN
Isabella? Very strange, Bella doesn't usually like being called Isabella, or Miss Swan for that matter. He liked to find things in the invitation that appeared to him that Bella was being forced into this marriage since she'd been told to either become a vampire or die to protect their secret. Seems like something he'd want to do, dig his teeth into her neck. And if that ever happened I would be powerless to help her. I can't go into Forks while vampires are present, nor can I take away the venom that 'it' would leave in her. He'd read enough. He couldn't go on torturing himself like this. He had to return and see Sam and the rest of them to get his mind off things. He felt like such a fool leaving them all when he was trying to get his mind off Bella when all he needed to do was just stay with them. Sitting on his own feeling sorry for himself, what he needed was human interaction.
He picked himself up and began to walk away from the edge of the cliff, transforming into a wolf right next to a massive drop into the ocean. He found a nearby tree to lean against. He looked up the sky to gather his thoughts before transforming once again into a wolf and running off into the forest.
CLOSE ENCOUNTER
Jacob ran through the forest faster than he had ever run before. He heart was pounding, but he wasn't tired. His midnight black hair was sweeping behind him, and his great paws pounding on the floor like a drum before a parade. He slowed down to a relatively slow pace for a wolf like himself. He went at the pace of a slow moving car. He accepted the view as it passed him by but didn't really look for any finer details. He kept on going for a little while longer but found the growing darkness that was starting to creep in on him as he got deeper and deeper into the forest but after a while began to feel very lonely after spending so long on his own. Just as he was about to speed up he notice something in the distance straight ahead of him. He felt mysteriously drawn to it, as if it was pulling him in. He slowed down to about cycling speed. The closer he got to it, the clearer it became. He thought it looked human, but living the life he'd lived and seen the things that he'd seen, who knew what was human and what wasn't. If I'm racing towards this person as a great big wolf I don't think that they'll find me very appealing being and they may run. If they're out here on their own they may need protecting, who knows, Cullen may be even out for feeding time. He leapt behind a nearby tree that he thought would be wide enough to hide his wolf appearance so that he could change. He tried to make it sound like the wolf was running away from him and the mysterious figure. Great, he thought suddenly realising that he was completely topless due to his many transformations that had occurred during the day.
He emerged from behind the tree and ran towards the figure. He could now make out a girls face, blurred, but defiantly a girls face. He squinted to try and get a better look at her but he couldn't. I need an excuse for running at her like this. He thought, I know, I could pretend to be checking on her because I thought I heard a strange noise around here.
He stopped right in front of her, through his head level with his waste, put his hands on his knees to make it look like he had been sprinting for a long distance and pretended to be out of breath to not arouse suspicion of what he truly was, even though he doubted that she knew anything like his kind. Maybe something like the evil, murdering werewolves of movies but he doubted she even believed in them. Could he blame her? "Are you... Are you all right?" he panted.
"Yes fine, why do you ask?" she said in a heavenly voice that could have made a choir of angels seem like a tone deaf man attempting to sing for the very first time. He looked up at her for the first time since he had been a wolf. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen in his life. She could only be as old as him. She had golden hair that ran halfway down her back. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of jade and he thought that they could outshine any diamond in the world. Her skin was perfect; no imperfections at all and long, curved eyelashes that mimicked the colour of his hair. She's perfect, he thought.
He straightened up his posture and plucked up some courage to speak again. "There was a wolf, a great big one racing towards you. I think something scared it and that's why it didn't eat you." Good cover up for the Wolverine outburst.
"Oh it wouldn't have eaten me." She said, "They don't like to come to close to humans, it protects them you see from hunters. It was very big don't you think?"
"Yes." He said, but found himself repeating yes five times mindlessly thinking of something to say so that he could hear her voice again. Luckily she found something to say, even though it wasn't the nicest of things to Jacob.
"Do you think it was pregnant?" she asked. Jacob didn't know what to say. He wanted to just shout at her for saying something like that even though she didn't realise what she was saying, but he found himself completely incapable of doing such a thing to her. She was so sweet, beautiful. He even went as far as thinking enchanting.
"No, no I don't." He laughed, "Are you on your own out here?"
"Yes."
"What, all the way out here?"
"It's not that far away from LA Push."
"Really?"
"Yes, I suppose I should ask you what your doing out here on your own but I guess a boy of your size would easily be able to take care of himself so I guess that I'll just ask your name." She walked around Jacob, looking at him. She was so close at one point that her hair caught Jacob's cheek. It felt like satin. He closed his eyes to enjoy the moment but then realised how stupid he would look if she caught him."
"I'm Jacob." He said as she was finishing her lap around him. "Jacob Black, and you are?"
"Joanna, Joanna Quays." A beautiful name he thought. "But if you feel that you want to call me Jo or Joan, please feel free."
"Naturally." He sighed. He looked up. "It's getting late, you should probably get home."
"Of course." She groaned, "But I wouldn't mind some company for the walk back, I've only lived here for a few days you see and I don't really know my way around and I'm already late as it is."
"Course." He said as he led her through the forest.
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
Jacob dropped off Joanna at her house before finally returning to his house. He slumped through his doors. Ever since leaving the new Bella he felt depressed but at the same time he'd never felt better. He left the hallway and tried to go to his room but Billy heard a floorboard creak and had wheeled himself in to see Jacob.
"Feeling better?" Billy asked smiled.
"Relatively, thanks" Jacob said turning to face Billy.
"I'd expect that Sam would like see you then, he asked me to call when you'd returned."
"Okay, just tell him to knock on my bedroom door if he decides to call." Billy nodded and left the hallway to use the telephone. Jacob continued to go up the stair. He opened his bedroom door and lay on his bed trying to sleep. He turned from side to side for what seemed like hours but in reality it was only about fifteen minutes. After about another ten minutes there was a knock on his door. It took him by surprise and made him jump slightly.
"It's Sam." A voice called from the corridor, "Do you wanna talk or do you just want to be left alone?"
"No please come in talk." Jacob shouted. He didn't need to think on that reply. Sam opened the door and slipped through. He grabbed a nearby chair and pulled it up to Jacob's bedside.
"I guess I should ask you if you're feeling okay." Sam said after a moment's silence.
"Better than this morning." Jacob murmured.
"Where'd you go?" Sam asked as he leaned closer to Jacob. Jacob could tell that he was nervous; he was rubbing his hands together constantly. Jacob thought he was trying to make sure that he didn't say anything to upset him, after all none of them were experienced in caring for a werewolf that loved a vampire's fiancé.
"I don't know, by the sea somewhere." Jacob said smiling, trying to calm Sam's nerves. It seemed to work.
"What made you come back so soon? Leah gave you three days until you came back, the rest of us gave you a week. Me included I must say. Sorry."
"Don't be, I even thought that I wouldn't be back as soon as this." That made Sam smile for the first time since he'd entered the house. There was another long pause of silence before Jacob decided to say something again. "I met a girl in the forest." Sam raised his eyebrows and straightened his back. "It was strange, she was completely on her own and it was getting dark."
"Well what did you do?"
"She was beautiful and everything but I didn't make a move if that's what you mean."
"No, did you take her home. It is your duty to do things like that." Sam said smirking.
"Of course. She's new around here and lives not too far from here." Sam lifted off his seat after yet another moment's silence.
"You look like you need some sleep. You don't mind me leaving do you?" Sam said yawning.
"You don't look to lively either, you should get some sleep too." Jacob said return Sam's yawn. Sam left as quietly as possible while Jacob began to try and go to sleep again. He heard the door close behind Sam. He rolled over and over again. He could have rolled across a football pitch seven times he turned that much. He gave up trying and decided to do some more thinking. He tried to bring his attention back to Bella but every time he tried to think about her Joanna came back into his mind.
Since he couldn't get her out of his head he decided to go and visit her in the morning. After making that decision he tried to go to sleep but only managed to drift off at around three o'clock.
HOME SCHOOL
Jacob was as violent in his sleep as he was when he was trying to get to sleep. It was very strange because he didn't have a bad dream at all; it was a rather nice dream from what he could remember. He stretched his arms out to stretch his muscles and rubbed his eyes. He looked at the clock that was on top of his bedside drawer, it said 10:30. Oh no, I'm late for school. He leaped out of bed, got dressed as quick as was werewolfly possible and practically jumped down all of the stairs. He ran into the kitchen where he bumped into Billy. He was busy making himself a cup of coffee. "Morning Jake." Billy greeted Jacob.
"Morning." Jacob said yawning. "God I'm so late for school."
"Don't worry about it, you can have the day off. You still look a bit tired from last night."
"Thanks." It all went quiet. That stupid silence again. Jacob thought. Why does every just not want to talk to me? Maybe I should go back to the seaside again since no ones helping at all.
"You feeling alright?" Billy asked. The question took Jacob by surprise but it was expected at the same time.
"Fine, why do you ask?"
"Well two things really. One, you ran away for hours yesterday and didn't even say anything to me. Two, you were shouting in your sleep."
"Sorry about not saying anything but I just..."
"Don't worry about it, Sam explained everything. I'm very sorry about it too. You really do love her don't you?"
"Yes." Jacob was becoming uncomfortable with the direction that the conversation had taken and quickly thought of something to sway the conversation in a different direction. "What was I saying in my sleep then?"
"I didn't hear that much, it was a bit muffled to me but I managed to make out one thing."
"What was that then?"
"A girl's name, Joanna I think it was." Billy said rubbing his chin. "That name mean anything to you?"
"I met a girl called Joanna yesterday and took her back to her house because she got lost in the forest. I was planning on seeing her again today and since I've got the whole day off I think I'll go and see her this morning." Billy raised his eyebrows just as Sam had done the night before. Jacob thought Billy was going to say something but he didn't. All he did was puck up his cup of coffee that he'd been making, a couple of slices of toast that were sticking out of the toaster and headed out of the kitchen and into the living room. Jacob considered following him into the living room and try to
find out more about his night screams but decided not to bother him with any more questions on the matter, at least for this morning. He grabbed a glass of water and drank it down in one. It was very refreshing, especially for today. The sun was out without a cloud in the sky and no wind what so ever. Jacob put the glass in the dishwasher and left quietly. When he closed the door he thought Better say goodbye to Billy since he got upset last time. He reopened the door and shouted "Bye Dad."
"Bye son." Came the reply. Jacob closed the door again and started to run down the street towards Joanna's house. He didn't realise how far away it was until he ran at human pace. It was only one or two miles away but because he ran back from her house last time at werewolf pace it seemed a lot longer.
He eventually reached her house after about twenty minutes of running. Her house was fairly big. He hadn't realised how big it really was the night before. It had big square windows and a big oak door with a golden door handle and a lions head for a knocker. It had a bell as well which Jacob decided to ring. A small, brown haired woman answered the door. He presumed that this was Joanna's mother because her eyes were the exact shade of green as Joanna's. "Can I help you?" She asked. She was very thin and didn't look too impressive in her business clothes but when she spoke, she seemed to command every word that came out of her mouth.
"Err, yes. I was hoping to see Joanna, is she home?" Jacob thought of how stupid this looked. A boy turning up at someone's house, who he'd only met the night before and asking to see their daughter when it was nearly eleven o'clock and she was probably in school.
"Does she know you?" The woman asked. She was clearly scared for her daughter's safety. " I don't recognise your face." Jacob thought about making a joke about her forgetting things in her old age, but she only looked forty and decided of he was to get to see Joanna, making snide comments wasn't the best way to go around it.
"Yes, we met last night. She was lost in the forest so I brought her back here."
"Ah," the woman said relaxing a little, "you must be Jacob. Yes we've heard all about you. Thank you very much for helping Joanna out last night. I fear that we may not have seen her again if it wasn't for you."
"Your welcome." Jacob said, finding himself relaxing too.
"My names Carol dear do come in." Carol stood aside from the door to allow Jacob in. Jacob stepped pas her. The hallway was huge. It had a Grandfather Clock in the corner by one of the many closed doors. On the opposite side of the hallway was a very grand staircase. Carol closed the door behind Jacob and pointed at the staircase. "If you head up those stairs and go into the second room on the right, you'll find Joanna in there." Jacob thanked Carol and headed up the staircase. He found the room easily enough. He knocked twice on the door and waited for a few moments. A voice called "Enter!" Jacob didn't recognise the voice that called but went in regardless. He saw Joanna sitting at a desk with a tall, blonde man sitting just to the side of her. They both looked around when Jacob closed the door.
"Jacob!" Joanna screamed as she jumped up to give him a hug.
"That's a nice hello for just knowing you for less than twelve hours." Jacob laughed. The man was still sitting at the side of the desk. He stood up and extended a hand to Jacob. Once Joanna had released him from the hug, Jacob shook the man's hand.
"Jacob Black I presume." He spoke with an English accent that had the same velvety complexion that Joanna's had. "Joanna's told us all about you. I'm Tony."
"Nice to meet you." Jacob said.
"I'll leave you two to it." Tony said heading for the door.
"Bye dad!" Joanna shouted. She turned back to face Jacob. "Thanks again for last night."
"No problem. What you doing here then, it's a school day?"
"Well I'm home schooled by my dad, and my mum sometimes for things like art, music. She's mad about things like that." She began to circle him like she'd done the night before. "What you doing here on a school day because I'll bet anything that you're not home schooled."
"No I'm not, but my dad likes to give me the odd day off and when I told him about helping you out because you got lost, he gave me today off to see that you were alright."
"That was kind of him. So what do you want to do then?" she asked in a sing-songy voice.
"Well you can come around to my house if you want and do something there, or I could take you for a motorbike ride?"
"Okay."
"Okay to which?" Jacob asked. He liked Joanna but she was a little strange even though he'd only known her about half a day.
"Both. I'm bored with studies, let's do something fun. Can I meet you at your house later?"
"Sure if you know how to find it."
"I wont get lost this time." She said smirking.
"Fine just head about two miles straight up the road that way," he said pointing, "And it's the first house once you start going up the bank. You can't miss it."
"I'll get my dad to drop me off." She laughed.
TREE TOP FEAST
Jacob got back to his house and went into his back garden. He decided to find himself something to do before Joanna got there. He got to the highest branch that would hold his weight and sat on it. A couple of minutes later Billy popped his head out of the door that lead to the kitchen and shouted to Jacob, "There's a visitor here for you Jake, do you want me to send them through into the garden?" Billy couldn't see Jacob but he knew that he was there.
"Just send them through here please Dad." Jacob shouted. Billy saw that Jacob was sitting in the tree in the middle of the garden, he smiled to himself before pushing himself back into the kitchen. Jacob heard footsteps standing on old, dead leaves so that they made a small crunching noise. He looked down to greet who ever it was but didn't doubt that it was Joanna. He was surprised to find Leah walking directly towards the tree. He grunted slightly, although he hoped that she'd heard and that it might make her change her mind about seeing him.
She smiled when she reached the foot of the tree and climbed up to join Jacob on the same branch. The branch was so small that Jacob had to have Leah practically on his lap. He stared straight ahead, making sure that he didn't make eye contact with Leah. She smiled when she saw him do this and desperately tried so make him look at her, she gave up after a couple of minutes. "I want to thank you for stopping that vampire from tearing me apart." She said brimming from ear to ear.
"Took your time to say that." Jacob said sourly, sill trying not to look at her.
"Well, sorry for being so late with the thanks again. I might not be here if it wasn't for you." She held his hand. Jacob couldn't help but look at her now. He through his hand out of her grip so hard it nearly threw her out of the tree.
"What do you want?" he said giving her a hard stare.
"I'll put it simply for you." She said changing her tone, "I want Sam, you want Bella. Bella loves you but loves Edward more. Sam loves Emily but I'm pretty sure that he still loves me too. What I'm saying is me and you get together for a bit to make them jealous."
"You mean date."
"Put simply, yes. But only until they're ours again."
"I'm not doing that, especially with you. I thought I made my feelings about you clear."
"I thought you were, until you saved my life. If you hate me as much as you say, why then did you save my life?"
"You're part of the group. It's my job."
"Now, now Jake." She said edging closer to him, "I'm sure that you could have easily let that vamp rip me apart and say that you were just too late."
"..." Jacob couldn't think of any reply. She was right, even though he couldn't bring himself to think about having to talk to Sam after letting a member of the group die just because of a little disliking. Never the less she was right to some extent. He did want Bella but he didn't want Sam to loose out on Emily. But Sam's imprinted with Emily, she'll never win him over. He couldn't let her get close though. "You'll never get him to love you again since he's imprinted."
"It's never been recorded that a werewolf has gone back on their imprint." Jacob and Leah heard foot steps on the dead leaves again. They both looked down. Jacob saw a pair of high heeled shoes he smiled. Leah smiled, but in a completely different way. She grabbed Jacob's shirt and pulled him towards her, forcing his lips against hers. He tried to push her away but it was too dangerous to push
her out of the tree to get her off him. He felt her tongue slide in between his lips and into his mouth. He was sure that whoever was down below could see what was going and may mistake his escape efforts for fondling Leah. He tried to push her away and into the bark to the tree but accidently grabbed her breasts which seemed to spur her on. After plenty more attempts he got her off.
"Bella should have seen that show, good job Jake. You're a good kisser I wouldn't mind doing that again soon." Jacob felt himself go to throw up but managed to stop it. He decided that it would be best if he forgot about what he'd just done and what Leah had just said to him.
"That's not Bella you wolverine cow!" Jacob snarled.
"Then who is it?" Jacob had had enough and decided to stuff the consequences and push her out of the tree. He was sure that San would understand.
"Go and see." He said pushing her out of the tree. Unfortunately she was completely unharmed. Leah landed a couple of feet away from a colour drained Joanna. Joanna looked like she was about to pass out or throw up, one of the two but managed to hold herself together.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Jacob's girlfriend Leah." Leah said extending an arm. Joanna shook her hand.
"His... girlfriend?" Joanna said sounding completely gobsmacked and shaking like a twig in a thunderstorm.
"OO, looks like I've got some competition here." Leah said smugly.
"Ignore her Joanna, she just wants to use me to get to her ex-boyfriend." He said smiling at Joanna to try and make her calm down, "And it won't happen again because she's not using me." He turned and growled at Leah again. Leah walked away sulking and slammed the kitchen door. "Do you want to come and sit up here for a while before we go for a motorbike ride?"
"Sure." Came a shaky reply from Joanna trying to sound optimistic but her voice was still shaking. Jacob knew that she wanted to come up but was too shaken to.
"Do you want me to carry you up here?" he asked.
"I wouldn't mind." She laughed, "I am in heels."
Jacob jumped down and carried Joanna on his back. He put her down so that she was closest to the bark in case she wanted to hold on. "You're so strong." Joanna said stroking Jacob's chest. "I'm sorry." She said pulling her hand away "I didn't mean to. It's just your muscles are huge. I've never seen felt any like it. May I?" she said pointing at his t shirt. Jacob took it off. He looked into Joanna's eye's while she was stroking his chest again. "Oh wow, you've got a fantastic figure. You're so hot!"
"Thanks." Jacob said blushing.
"Well yes you are but your temperature is through the roof as well." She looked at Jacob and blushed "Oh God, I said the first part out loud didn't I?" Jacob held her hand.
"Thanks for the compliment, I don't get them a lot. I usually get rejected."
"Glad to be one of the first." She said smiling and looked into Jacob's eyes. They both realised that they were both looking deep into each other's eyes. Jacob leaned forward to kiss Joanna. She leaned forward and kissed him. They kissed for a couple of minutes before they realised what they were doing.
"We can't do this." Jacob said.
"Why not?" Joanna moaned, "We both like each other."
"I've only known you for half a day."
"And it's the same for me." Joanna insisted. Jacob didn't know what he was saying. He really wanted this to happen. He looked into her eyes again.
"What the hell." He said pulling Joanna in for another kiss. As the kiss Jacob felt different, better than any kiss he'd ever had before. He felt his heart rate raise for the first time since he became a werewolf. He felt so alive and felt such a rush just sitting beside her. He felt different, he felt like he imagined Sam did around Emily. Is this me imprinted?
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