bloodypinkrose - DONT OWN TWILIGHT! enjoy! Just so you know the three sort of OC's aren't going to be much important in this fic. (04/4/09 UPDATING MISTAKES AND STUFF :D ) Thanks for all the lovely reviews anon ones will be answered next chapter :).
Chapter Two: Walks on
Jacob eyed the tiny hole in the ground and shuddered squeezing his legs together, a day and a half had gone past and he could no longer keep the silence nor hold his bodily functions. Regardless of what he wanted.
His body needed to release and it wanted to release now.
Normally it wouldn't have been a problem had he been in a cell on his own or with someone else who at least still had their bodily functions and a less than sensitive nose. He was never that lucky.
He had to deal with a vampire whose nose already wrinkled every now and then, almost like he smelt blood, or he was making a statement that to him, Jacob's kind really did reek up the room. Jacob did not want to use the – well, frankly it was a hole – toilet and he didn't want to use it while Edward was there.
"Hey Edward?" he swallowed nervously, this whole calling by name thing made him feel like a traitor to the rest of his tribe. To them vampires didn't get the privilege to have a name, they weren't human or anything but monsters that didn't deserve one.
"Mm?" Edward's eyes flicked to Jacob and internally he smiled, as if he hadn't heard the constant thoughts of how he was desperate to relieve himself but that he was too embarrassed to with Edward sat there.
Jacob sighed and shifted against the damp rock,
"Can you just … I don't know, I need to use the toilet … can you just – fuck – just not look or listen or something" he asked, his eyes didn't linger on his face at all, he didn't want to see the smug look on the vampire's face of anything.
Edward smiled in what he hoped with understanding and turned around, he wouldn't be able to block out the sound but he could at least stop breathing. He jammed his long slender fingers into his ears and waited.
'That feels so damn good!'
Edward resisted the urge to snort but he did allow himself a smirk, it wasn't like Jacob could see, he was facing the damn wall. The shape shifter would really freak out when – if – he found out that Edward could read his thoughts.
Jacob couldn't stop blushing, even when he had finished and moved as far away from the hole as he could. When Edward turned around his blush darkened and he looked to the floor playing with his cut off jeans.
"Thank" he muttered as quietly as he could.
Edward smiled, "Your welcome."
Jacob rolled his eyes,
"Sure, Sure"
'Stupid Bloodsucker bet he'll taking this all in to go laugh with the other leeches!'
Edward sighed once more, how slow could the others go.
One and a half more days later and they had been alone for three days, Jacob hated to admit but he was weakening, for a werewolf not to have food in so long was torture considering that normally throughout the day he never did stop eating.
Edward also wasn't looking so hot!
The normally dark bruises under his eyes were now a really prominent mulberry and his eyes were almost pitch black. He was really hungry and Jacob couldn't do a thing about it except … well … that but if Sam and the elders heard he had done that.
He'd be toast!
That and well, Billy had fed him with so many rumours about how it hurt and he wasn't really a pain junkie. He was nervous, yeah that's right he was nervous of offering his blood to the blood sucker.
That was actually an almost lie, he was so goddamned scared it was unbelievable. As much as he wanted to hang himself he had to admit that he trusted Edward enough to know that he wouldn't just bite him without putting up a fight first.
"Jacob" his voice was deeper than usual, slightly husky and it caught Jacob's attention almost straight away, "Come closer" he continued and Jacob's heartbeat sped up without him meaning too. Edward groaned lightly at the reaction.
He smelt sooo good!
He was so content by the smell that he almost missed what Jacob was saying,
"Are – Are you going to eat me now?" Edward shook his head in order to try and focus on the words, saying them in his head a few times till he processed them; he blinked and looked up at Jacob, who was anxiously waiting to see his response.
"No, I'm not going to bite you, just with you so far away it's playing with my senses, teasing me. Makes me want to just have a little taste …" he trailed off when he noticed that he was frightening the other.
He cleared his throat and spoke again, "Just come closer, it will help strengthen my resolve because I'll be conscious that there is a person that owns the blood and I will be less likely to bite you." Jacob liked this explanation better and crawled over to sit next to Edward.
He almost jumped when Edward's head lolled onto his shoulder.
"W-What are you doing?!" Jacob yelled scrambling back and pushing the weak vampire away hard, wasn't trying to eat him his foot! The guy looked about ready to bring out the salt and pepper to season him.
Edward beckoned him again,
"It's okay, I already said I wouldn't eat you come back," he knew that Jacob was nervous and he could only guess the kind of things that the Quiluete tribe had taught him. Sure it was painful but there were ways around the pain.
Jacob slowly and carefully moved back into his previous position and he flinched when Edward dropped his head on his shoulder again. Before long however, when it seemed that Edward really wasn't going to bite him; he began to relax.
"How often do … your kind have to feed?" Jacob asked curiously once the silence began getting to him, he wanted something to take him off the possible idea that he could be bitten. He did want to get to the age twenty five.
Edward's eyes watched him carefully, he was unsure if this was a conversation that Jacob really wanted to hear when Edward was already so hungry and was pretty close to one of the prime eating spots.
"Depends on the vampire I suppose. We tend to eat around twice a week at the beginning and end. Some vampire; like the Volturi eat everyday and they eat the 'rich in protein stuff' while we just allow ourselves to make do" Edward explained.
Jacob found that fascinating though he wasn't exactly sure why,
"When was the last time you ate then?" he asked, his curiosity was really growing. Edward wasn't so sure that was a good thing; he hadn't eaten in a very long time and was sure that it would make Jacob feel uncomfortable.
"Coming up to two and a half weeks now I think, maybe a bit longer" he replied and Jacob's eyes widened and his heart sped up again. Edward felt his gums itch and forced himself to swallow down the venom.
"Calm down, my control is good but not that good, each time your heart speeds up-" he cut himself off and sighed, Jacob's thoughts were all over the place and just trying to keep up was giving him a headache.
"Sorry," Jacob muttered then he sighed, he was starting to feel a little sleepy but with the vampire there he didn't really want to let his guard down. He coughed lightly, he hoped he wasn't annoying the vampire into wanting to eat him but he had another question.
"Does it hurt?"
Edward didn't respond for a bit, that was this kids billion dollar question but he wasn't sure how he was going to word it. He didn't want Jacob to think that he would be being nice if he offered his blood.
Edward wasn't sure if he could stop even though he had been able to for Bella.
"Yes," he admitted and Jacob stiffened, "However if you distract the victim while drinking the pain is forgotten. The Volturi are one of many that prefer their victims screaming, they say it makes the blood richer."
Jacob sighed,
"Would it make it better for you if I-" Edward sat up and covered Jacob's mouth with one hand, he didn't even want to hear the offer, it would make it too hard for him to resist. He was so damn hungry.
"Don't! I'm not rejecting you but if I drink from you I may not be able to stop, I don't want to kill anyone else." The added Bella would never forgive me was implied but not said.
Jacob nodded and shrugged,
"Sure, Sure. I'm going to sleep then I guess; nothing else here to do" he turned his body slightly and rested his head against the wall but he was carefully to make sure he didn't knock Edward's head off again.
'Guess the bloodsucker isn't as bad as I first thought'
Edward resisted the smile but closed his eyes to go into deep thought, he couldn't sleep but he could at least make it seem like he could now, he was stuck there after all and he had spent all day looking at a scene that wasn't changing.
Edward opened his eyes when he heard the first whimper, it was a kicked puppy sort of sound. He pulled his head off Jacob's shoulder and the wolf curled into the fatal position and began whimpering louder.
Listening into his mind, Edward could see flashes of different people. He recognised Billy Black; his father. But there was another woman with friendly, loving eyes. There were also two girls there that had a vague resemblance Jacob and a strong resemblance to Billy.
Jacob's skin was cooling slightly and Edward wasn't so sure that was a good thing for a wolf considering their temperature was also so hot. He rubbed his cold hands quickly together to cause friction to make them seem warm.
Then he placed his slightly warm hands to his bare arm and rubbed quickly but not hard enough to give him a burn. The action made Jacob startle awake and he shoved his hand at Edward; their two hands connected and linked for a brief moment.
The strangest feeling went through Jacob, he was temporarily rendered blind by a bright white light and his body felt strange, like he was content and he wasn't feeling starving. He just wanted to curl up in his wolf form on Edward.
Then it hit him, like a bullet to the chest. This was no ordinary feeling. Sam had had that when you knew, you really knew. He knew alright but he was not going to accept it with a smile, he was going to fight this.
He ripped his hand back and the feeling of being slightly chilly and really hungry came back, he jumped back to the opposite side of the wall and refused to look at Edward. He wouldn't look at him, think of him and he was going to breathe through his mouth as not to smell that heavenly scent.
He wasn't even sure when he stopped thinking that the vampire smelt so sickly sweet.
Edward was confused, that was just the oddest reaction, he had been reading the wolf's thoughts still and he too had been blinded by that light and he had felt that feeling of content, he hadn't wanted to eat anything either.
Whatever it was got Jacob worried, he was trembling, his head down on his knees. He guessed that it couldn't be good if he was acting like that. He decided to leave Jacob alone and he just hoped that Alice hurried, he was really hungry.
Jacob woke up to the sight of his knees, they were damp slightly and his eyes were stinging, he had fallen asleep after he had learnt that he had … done that with the vampire who probably didn't understand what had happened.
He had no idea how he was going to hide this from the others, Sam was seriously going to maim him, he knew that Seth, Quil and Embry wouldn't mind. Leah may give him a hard time but she would give pretty quickly and Emily was Emily she wouldn't judge.
He had no idea what his father would say, Billy would be so mad with him. What if he disowned him or kicked him out or refused to talk to him. What if he got really really mad, like really mad and walloped him.
He shook his head wildly,
Billy was a lot of things but abusive he wasn't, he wouldn't hurt Jacob, he loved his son too much for being the only one out of their family to stay by his side. Jacob flinched when he realised that he had forgotten all about Billy.
What if he thought that he had run away just like Bella?
"Is everything alright Jacob?" Edward asked politely, he had been closely watching the wolf and his thoughts but he hadn't let go what exactly had happened and why half his group were going to beat him up.
Jacob jumped, he had forgotten about the vampire, he looked up. Edward looked worse than the night before – if that was even possible. The mulberry bruises were now a bright violet and his eyes were literally all black there was no little shine or anything.
He looked ravenous!
"Yes but your not okay, why don't you eat a rat or something I thought your leeches liked animals" he sneered pushing away the concern and the wolf's need of wanting to offer their blood once more.
Edward mentally recoiled at the insult; he thought that they were over that already, that they were almost becoming acceptant of each others races. In a strange way it hurt him to see that it wasn't the same for the wolf.
Jacob felt bad, he didn't mean to be horrible, it was just that he was scared and tired and hungry and it seemed like no one was going to come for them.
"Its only mutts that eat rats and in this case preferably a poisoned one" Edward retorted calmly and Jacob frowned, that was mean too but he guessed that he really did deserve it. He shouldn't have started it.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that" he muttered, it irritated him that he had to keep apologising but the wolf would be pissed if he didn't apologise to his mate and he was just plain being rude so he needed to.
Edward rolled his eyes; Jacob was all over the place.
"What do you know about my kind?" he shape shifted as curiously and Edward thought about it for a while. He had read a lot and picked up bits but it still wasn't a lot that he knew was true. It wasn't like any of them were just going to tell him their secrets.
"Well it isn't very common but wolves; we do this thing called imprinting, do you understand what that means?" Jacob spoke slowly and unsurely. Edward thought about it till his eyes widened, he had heard about imprinting before.
The thoughts that Jacob had been having before suddenly made sense,
"Are you saying that …" he trailed off and Jacob nodded, averting his eyes.
"It hasn't happened before I swear! None of us have ever imprinted on one of yours before, not even people from my great grandfathers time but then strange things are happening in our tribe, I mean we have Leah and we haven't had a girl wolf before" he was rambling but he didn't care.
Edward's eyes were still widened he couldn't believe that Jacob had done that to him!
It couldn't have been that Alice had seen this could it? Alice knew that he still loved Bella; she wouldn't have just set him up to see this. Edward took a deep breath and calmed himself down; when he was hungry being mad wasn't a good thing.
"This imprint thing, can you stop it?" he asked curiously.
Jacob couldn't help it but that hurt him, sure Edward wasn't to know but for him to even suggest it. Sure Sam had when he imprinted on Emily while he still loved Leah but still. Edward didn't have the right to say something like that.
He wasn't the one who was an almost slave now, for the rest of his life Jacob would want to make Edward happy, he would change until he was perfectly suited to Edward. It wasn't fair on him at all but of course a bloodsucker wouldn't understand.
Edward frowned, from his thoughts it seemed that he had upset Jacob, that hadn't been his objective but he wasn't about to take it back now. He needed to know the truth; he didn't want to be drawn to anyone else but Bella.
"No you can't stop it. If the person… the imprintee doesn't want the imprinter then they can just get on with there life provided they don't come into contact with the imprinter otherwise they feel drawn" Jacob explained, his voice was flat like he was giving up.
"What happens to the Imprinter?" Edward asked next and before Jacob could answer that he didn't know; Edward was overcome by strong stomach cramps that left him bowling over and dry retching. He was feeling some of the most painful hunger pangs he had ever felt.
'Shit, what the hell is the matter with him?'
"Edward, are you alright?" he asked ignoring the fact that he was still annoyed that the vampire didn't want to be bonded to him. He hated to admit it but he would never forgive himself if the vampire really kicked the can opener.
"Just one moment …. Please", the vampire's jaws were clamped together trying to stop the thick venom from drooling out his mouth. He felt like Emmett had sucker punched him in the stomach at full strength. That was pretty much like being slammed into by a couple of eighteen wheelers, not that he had quite felt that before.
"Jesus – fuck are you crazy, I'm not going to leave you like this! Take some damn blood, it won't kill me!!" he hated feeling desperate but he couldn't just leave the vampire looking like he had just been hit by a train! He was still his mate and he wanted to protect him.
"I won't take your blood; no one deserves to be robbed by monsters. Can you just come here?" Edward managed to gasp out; forcing his back against the wall and clutching his stomach tightly trying to substitute the hungry cramping with real pain.
"Sure, sure"
Jacob sighed and crawled over to sit next to him, Edward lay his head on Jacob's shoulder and softly panted, not only was he feeling hungry but he was also exhausted and he felt colder than he usually did but that was to be expected since it had been so long since he had fed.
"Is there anything I can do to help a little?" Jacob asked slowly easing his arm around the vampire's waist to gently rub his aching stomach. Edward was surprised at the wolf's sudden attempt to make him feel better after their fight but it was seriously appreciated.
"No this is satisfactory for now but I fear that if we have to wait any longer, I may have to take you up on that generous offering", the vampire murmured closing his eyes and trying to relax himself on Jacob's shoulder. As childish as it sounded the gentle tummy rub was actually helping him a great deal.
Jacob sighed, if Edward was going to take blood; he just wanted him to get it over with instead of all the stalling. He didn't want to take back his offer next time if he didn't feel absolutely sure that the vampire would be able to stop.
"Sure, sure"
"Aurelia didn't you hear Cyrus?!" Sophronia snapped, looking back at the crazy vampire who was busy fidgeting with objects around the dungeons. It was pure luck they happened to have found the mutt and other vampire near Aro's old vampire dungeon.
"No, leave her. This is definitely a good idea" Cyrus interrupted airily and almost disapprovingly as if he knew something they both didn't. Aurelia just grinned and kept fidgeting before she moved back to stand with the others. Edward was going to eat that mutt whether he wanted to or not.
"What ..?" the ability stealing vampire asked shortly. She was annoyed that Cyrus had chastised her but at the same time she wanted to know what Aurelia had done. The lady vampire wasn't well known for her plans, they were too 'heat of the moment' based.
"Bombs!" her large eyes sparkled in glee, "Those vampires know that their own is hungry and they may not completely pay attention in their rush. He normally does the scouting and they won't bother!" Cyrus didn't say anything he just began walking away.
The vampires would be arriving at their home only to have that girl tell them of the problem, if they didn't get out of their then his vision may come to pass. Sophronia clobbered Aurelia on the head in agitation before following after Cyrus.
She didn't see why she always had to babysit the berserker vampire!
Aurelia hummed to herself as she ran behind the other two, as soon as the other mutts or the vampires got to close. BANG!! The mountain would collapse burying the two under, if they were injured in anyway Edward's healing powers would take the last of his strength and he would HAVE to feed.
No more would she be underestimated by them or by the others! She couldn't wait to be the one Aro favoured, she wasn't crazy and soon he would know; they would all know and she would never let them forget it!
