Carlisle became steadily more worried as the werewolf followed him calmly into the house, there was no stopping, no hesitation, he just followed the vampire around like a tame puppy.
"Ok, lets get you in the bath.....like it or not your filthy.....and you don't smell too good either.....Edward and the others are at school at the moment, and Esme's gone shopping, with all the humans coming over now days, we actually do need to buy food."
Carlisle stopped talking as he realised that while Jacob was standing next to the full bathtub, he made no attempt to get into the water.
"What is it?"
The young wolf whimpered and licked his right hindleg, the wound was impairing his ability to stand long enough to get into the comfortably warm water, werewolves and vampires may have been mortal enemies, but Carlisle had never really had the heart to make people suffer much.
"I'm gonna have to lift you in, aren't I?"
The wolf whimpered again
"Alright, just wait a minute, I'm not getting my clothes dirty."
Carlisle, never having really been ashamed of his body, quickly stripped down to his boxers, pausing slightly when Jacob made a slight Whuffing sound in his throat, Wrapping his arms around the wolf's midsection as gently as possible, he hefted the two hundred pounds of injured beast into the bath.
Lightly soaping the wounded areas, he found himself feeling a little perturbed by the kind of injuries he found, there where Bite marks, Deep gouging claw marks up the werewolf's sides, he could tell right away this was no rogue vampire trying to break the treaty, these were marks made by animal attacks, but there where no animals capable of injuring a werewolf like this, they may not be as strong as a vampire, but they outweighed, outsized and out-strengthed all known animals in the world, Carlisle had seen a werewolf fight a fully grown grizzly and come out on top, these marks worried him more than he'd like to admit, he decided he'd wait until Edward came home, hopefully he'd be able to get a read on the wolf's mind, give them an idea what they were dealing with.
After he finished Bathing the wolf, he hauled the now drowsy pup out of the tub, the werewolf healing already doing it's work, and proceeded to towel him dry, he was somewhat glad that the young wolf was too injured to shake himself all over the bathroom, drying finished, he redressed himself, before opening the bathroom door.
Walking into the lounge room, he decided to read a book while he waited for the rest of the family to arrive, he was, by now, used to the werewolf trying to be as close to him a possible, so he barely shifted as the wolf clambered onto the couch and lay it's head into his lap.
"You do realise that when your back to normal, Edward is going to tease you mercilessly about this?"
The werewolf just huffed at him and fell asleep.
TBC
