Jacob's POV
It seemed like it had been hours while I waited for Sam to get here with the tribal doctor. The good thing was, he was Harry… the bad thing was Leah was at home. Probably why it took so long.
"Jake…how's she doing?" I heard Sam ask me. The door opened and then slammed shut. I cringed.
"I… I don't know! She's not waking up and she's still bleeding! I don't know!" I started shaking again. I felt like I was doing nothing for her.
"Jacob! Focus, you do not want to phase while you're holding her. It'll hurt you even more then this does!" Sam shouted at me, I knew what he was hinting at. What he did to Emily still haunted him.
Harry wheeled himself up to where I was sitting and tried to examine her arm. I didn't like that he was touching her when she was his hurt and when she whimpered in pain I lost it. I snarled at him with everything I had. I clutched her closer to me, nuzzling my face into the crook of her neck, breathing her in. I calmed a little.
"Jacob, let me see Bella." Sam ordered in his alpha voice. I fought desperately with his command and when I broke it he started shaking his head. "Why can't you just make it easier on everyone and give her to me for now. Harry has to take care of Bella and he can't do that when you can't control yourself." Sam eyes were probing, trying to get me to submit. I didn't.
"Get Paul and Jared in here. No need to make Quil and Embury do it and if I'm right he just might rip Leah's head off." I heard Harry whisper to him.
"Jared, Paul get in here and help me." I looked at him, trying to figure out what he was going to do and why he was calling them. They were joking around when they came in but once they got a look at Bella and Sam's face they seemed to sober up. Well Jared at least, he had an imprint- Paul- he just didn't know when to stop.
"Eww, gruesome! Should've just left her with the leech like Leah said, now we're gonna have to clean all the blood up!" He complained. I snarled at him for talking that way and that's when they both seemed to see me with new eyes. They were scared.
"Jared, Paul you need to help me get Bella away from him so Harry can clean her up and figure what's going on with her. Ready…Go!" They flung themselves at me; I had no idea what was coming because I didn't get what they were ever going to do to get me away from her.
I felt Bella being wrenched away from me and tried to get her back. I felt arms restraining me from doing so and I started shaking.
"Guy's get him outside. Now!" I heard Sam shout and suddenly I was being pulled away from her. I struggled but it was two against one, they got me out the door and pulled me into the woods.
I had tremors running through my body and they instantly let go, knowing I wasn't far away from phasing. When I felt heat coursing through my back I forced my eyes closed and when I opened them I was looking down at my paws.
I tried to launch myself back to where my house was but I got blocked by Jared and Paul was pulling my tail, trying to get my attention.
'Dude, she'll be fine! It looked like you were gonna take a chunk out of Harry there.' Jared tried to stop my struggles but I had to be there with Bella. I was literally going to either curl into a little ball and cry or I was going to fight someone. And with how things were going right now Paul was going to be the target.
'Paul…would you stop pulling on my tail!' I shouted at him and turned around on my back feet so I landed on top of him with my tail out of reach.
'You must've forgot or something. That girl in there, she used to run with leeches! She can handle a little pain!' Paul snarled at me. I growled at him, applying more pressure so he yelped. He snapped at my face. 'Oh, so it's a fight you want Jake? Cause I can so handle that!' he snapped at me again.
He kicked his back feet up so I launched into the air and he could get on his feet. I landed a few feet away from him, brushing up against Jared. I looked back at him to see if he was going to object- not that I would've cared- and he was sitting there the look of calm. He was sitting with his tongue lolled out exposing his teeth to form a wolfy smile, wagging his tail. I swear he would make a great house pet. Lucky Kim.
Paul launched himself at me and I met him halfway. A felt another presence in my head and without breaking our fight I realized who it was. Leah
I pounced on Paul unexpectedly and sent him launching into the trees and then my attention was all for Leah. I could see she was coming here at a fast pace. I turned to where I saw she was in my head and brought my lips up to expose my teeth waiting for her to get here.
I felt Paul and Jared leave and then it was only Leah and I left. Oh joy now who was going to stop me from killing her?
'Yeah, like you could kill me. Your mind is probably with that little oh I am in the house anyways. It wouldn't be a fair fight!' she yelled into my thoughts.
Sam POV
After Paul and Jared got Jake out of the house I sat down where Jake was with Bella still unconscious in my arms. I knew this must be like hell for Jake but if we wanted to get her fixed we didn't want Harry to be in two pieces.
"Okay Harry, might want to make this as quick as you can." I said to him, he nodded and brought his things up and examined her arm.
He went into the kitchen and dampened a wash cloth and wiped away the blood that was still there. It didn't take long fort the cut to pool more blood around us. He sighed in irritation.
"Sam there's two ways we can do this. I can stitch it up but that would probably be very painful for her and I don't know if you want Jake anymore on edge then he already is. Or we can try what the one legend tells and you could heal her with your blood. There may not even be a scar in that case." He brought his eyes to meet mine and it finally clicked in.
"Are you sure it would work though?" I asked him. The legend says that a human with a wound could be healed at a werewolves pace if they apply some of their blood directly to the cut.
"I… I do think it would work actually." He said.
I thought about for a minute and nodded my head. "What do I have to-"
"Sam!" That was Paul. Damn did he get away already?
"Dude, Leah's coming here and Jake's gonna fight her! She's egging him on about it!" Jared sounded freaked. Well, obviously I was going to have to get out there to stop what was bound to happen.
"How far away is she?" I asked.
"About five minutes I guess. She started at her house." Jared calmed a little by now.
"Okay, just let Harry fix Bella first. It'll be more likely Jake won't tear her apart if we can tell him he can come in now." I sighed and looked at Harry again. He had some sort of knife in his hand.
"Give me your arm." He instructed. I complied and wished this would move along quicker.
"Alright, I'm going to cut you, when the wound starts to bleed press in to Bella's wounds then you can go and deal with my daughter and Jake." I nodded my head and with no warning he sliced my arm with the knife. I felt a slight sting when I press it to Bella's wounds but stopped when it started to heal. "Thank you Sam, you can go now."
I brushed the hair out of Bella's hair and placed her lying down on the couch, she never woke up once. I was going to have to deal with Leah, Bella is family now- whether she likes it or not- and she was going to have to apologize.
I turned to go towards the door and saw Paul and Jared there with there mouths open. Of course Paul had to say something.
"You know that was really weird Sam. I would call you blood siblings now but Jake would tear me apart and you know what, her wound stopped bleeding. That was just so gross and-" I put my hand up to stop his babbling.
"Paul you come with me to deal with those two, Jared stay in here with Bella. If anything goes wrong come and get me." They nodded and I went out the door with Paul following me.
Jacob's POV
It's been a few minutes since Paul and Jared left and Leah and I are still going at it. I can tell she's only a minute or so away and I was shaking with fury. She was going to pay.
'That leech lover doesn't even want to live! She wants to be one of the undead who suck blood! I know she's already been a zombie, twice actually- now she only needs to be a bloodsucker and a werewolf and she has all the slots taken up!' Leah's been ranting the whole run over here and I've been snarling at her, telling her to keep quiet but she didn't get the message. But the part with her being a zombie, she had pushed it and she knew she had. Instead of waiting another thirty seconds I rushed over to her and jumped on her back.
She wasn't ready for it and so I got in a couple of deep bites before she could shake me off. In our heads all you could hear were snarls. I was trying to get her to submit to me and she was trying to get me to submit to her. I had the upper hand until Sam came into the picture.
'You two STOP!' we both got off each other but I was still snarling at her. She was a smile on like it was nothing we were fighting about. Ugh!
'Sam, just let me deal with her, Bella is my imprint, Leah hurt her she should be sorry in the least!' I shouted at him. I didn't want Sam's crap right now. I partially blamed it on him for not letting me go to Bella when she was in trouble in the first place.
Sam winced when I thought about that, he knew I was right. 'Jacob, I am sorry she got hurt but she is alright now- just sleeping. I can deal with Leah and she will say sorry to Bella. You can go and see her now if you'd like, she should be waking up soon and she's going to have some questions for you.
I nodded and walked out of there. I noticed Paul was there with Sam but he didn't say anything, that's weird for him. As I was walking towards my house I heard the treatment Sam was giving Leah. I winced a little because I couldn't help but overhear their…um conversation.
'Leah, you have no right to do that to Bella, you defied me and you got Bella hurt. I will not let any petty jealousy go on with you and her. You will say sorry to her and Jacob, you will not attack on your own and you will not-'
Leah cut him off. Not so smart. 'Yeah, and what does this have to do with me? Yeah sure she got hurt but she was in my way. You know, I can't help but to believe that this holds some meaning to Emily for you. You can't punish yourself so you're going to punish me?'
I saw my house and phased. I did not want to be in that conversation and Leah was going to get her butt kicked for bringing Emily in on this. But I had Bella to think about now.
Bella's POV
I was in a dark place. I couldn't hear or feel or see anything. Am I dead? Aw crap, Charles going to kill me, so is Jake and my mom and Victoria's probably going to bring me back from the dead just to kill me again. And the wolves will have some part in it.
I felt someone squeeze my hand. Wait! I just felt something! The hand was really hot… am I a vampire then?
"Bella, baby can you open your eyes. C'mon Bells I know you can hear me. Please get up, I need you…" the soothing voice kept getting more and more clear until I had the strength to open my eyes like the person wanted me to.
I felt like I had the whole world against myself as I tried to stay away, I just wanted to sleep again.
I got hugged against a very warm figure. I tried to speak a couple times but couldn't make myself say anything.
"Who…?" I asked, finally I got my voice back, even if it was hoarse and cracked.
"It's me honey. It's Jacob." It was Jake? Oh yeah, he was there in the meadow, with Laurent and the wolves. I shivered out of fear. He only held me tighter and I started to cry.
I had no idea how long I was crying for when I brought my hand up to wipe my face. Then I remembered something. My arm had claw marks on it, and it was bleeding…bad. How is there not even a scar?
"Jake, how long was I out?" I asked him, I was finally able to see the whole room now. There was some guy here with Harry.
"A few hours. Are you feeling okay?" He asked me. I thought for a minute.
"Can you take me home? I don't feel too good." I whispered and he nodded. I was clammy, not sure if that was from the temperature from Jake's body or if it was because I had fever. And I had a headache.
"I will, but I have to tell you something first." He whispered back to me. He lifted me up like I was nothing and sat on the edge of the couch. He sat me on his lap and I curled into him and he started playing with my hair.
"What?" I asked, I could tell he didn't want to tell me.
"What do you remember before you passed out?" He asked in a tight voice.
Everything, I wanted to say but I didn't know if I could. "Um, a person named Laurent was there and a pack of wolves and then one of the wolves attacked us, he ran away. I got hurt and then you were there with Quil." I said, leaving out the details I thought was appropriate, like the fact that Laurent was a vampire.
Jacob's POV
"Bella, I don't know how to say this so I'm just going to say it okay? I know Laurent was a vampire and that he was going to kill you because I was one of the wolves. I'm a werewolf and so you know, I would never, never hurt you. We're supposed to protect everyone from vampires. Do you remember that story I told you? The one where my people were descendants of wolves?" I asked her. Her eyes were wide but she wasn't screaming or anything. She nodded her head to say she remembered.
I took a deep breath and continued. "I wanted to help you right when I saw him threatening to kill you, but I had an alpha command not to. The thing is, we can't go back on those commands so I couldn't get to you when I wanted to. Then Leah, being the big head she is tried to take him by herself and knocked you down. So I phased and got you here. Am I making any sense?" I asked her. She nodded her head and she did a huge release of breath.
"But did you kill Laurent?" She looked like she was going to cry. I hoped that leech wasn't her friend.
"Yeah, we did." I answered her.
She smiled. Like she thought this was completely normal. She just got weirder and weirder. "Um, do you run with real wolves or is there other people who, um, turn into wolves?" She asked me nervously.
I laughed at her expression. "Yeah, they're people Bells. Remember Quil and Embury?" I asked her. She smiled wider and nodded. "They're wolves. And the people you might not know are Leah, Colin, Brady, Seth, Paul, Jared-" he waved from behind me and she waved back at him "-and Sam. He's the alpha." I confessed. I looked back up at her and saw she sighed in relief. I raised an eyebrow and she hugged me. I was so happy she wasn't scared of me or shouting at me to get away from her. I didn't know if I could handle that.
"So you weren't ignoring me for no reason?" She asked and looked up into my eyes.
"No, I swear I did not ignore you for no reason. I had to because if I got too angry, if I ever lost control and you were too close, what Leah did to you, that's what would've happened. But ten times worse." I shivered, that could still happen. I wouldn't let it though, she was mine and nothing would ever hurt her again.
There was a silence between us until I got up the nerve to ask her what I was so desperately hoping she would like. Or at least not hate me for it. "Bells?" I whispered.
"Yeah?" She giggled and looked at me with confusion; I tried to brighten my face up.
"Do you know about imprinting?" I asked her. She looked like she was thinking and then she shook her head. I took a deep breath and kept going. "Well, it's when a wolf meets his soul mate. It's like all the strings that hold him to the earth are all clipped away and now she's the one holding him to the earth. He would do anything for her, be anything for her-if it's a friend, a brother, or a lover- and it's really rare." I whispered to her. She shivered and I tightened my hold on her.
"Did you… did you imprint on anyone yet?' She asked, it sounded like she was going to cry. I nuzzled my head under her head like I was trying to get under her skin and hide from everything.
I nodded my head. "Yes… I did." I didn't look up at her so I didn't see the tears that filled her eyes.
"Oh, well, that's nice. I think I have to get home. I have to make dinner for Charlie tonight." She squirmed out of my hold and I finally looked up at her. She had tears running down her cheeks. I wiped them away and each one new one broke my heart.
I let her sit up but I didn't let her go. "Why are you crying?" I asked her brokenly. She shouldn't be crying. She could be screaming at me to get away from her, that she never wanted to see again but crying? I didn't get it.
"I… I hope you have a good life Jake, and um, thanks. For everything." She whispered her voice breaking. She thought I imprinted on someone else! That made me feel anger, I loved her, I needed her, not someone else. I tried again.
"But, don't you want to know who it was?" I asked her. She shook her head and more diamonds fell from her eyes and I caught them with my thumb. "Well, I'm going to tell you who it was anyways okay?"
"Sorry Jake. I don't want to know though. I'm good for nothing and I can't take it anymore." She whispered depressed. I felt like I was going to cry. For her. Instead of telling her I pressed my lips to her mouth, trying to will her to see our connection. She kept her hands down as I brought mine up to her cheeks, wiping away the stray tears but she kissed me back. I gave the kiss everything I held for her. My love, my terror for her.
When I broke the kiss, before she could say anything else I whispered. "I imprinted on you. I love you, it was always you." I kissed her again and she responded better. She brought her hands up around my neck and then I heard a cough. I groaned and we broke it. I looked at the door and saw Sam and Leah.
"Glad it worked out for you Jake," Sam said with his eyes twinkling. I looked over to where Jared was facing the wall. I chuckled.
"Yeah, sure." Leah's voice was unemotional. "I just came in here to tell the leech lover I'm sorry that I attacked you." She sneered. Bella started shaking and I held her closer and growled at Leah.
I tried to calm Bella down but when she didn't I got worried. I lifted her chin so I could look at her face. Her eyes were full of unshed tears and she looked broken.
"Ssh Bells, its okay. Calm down, don't listen to her. I love you." I glared at Leah. She chuckled. She thought this was funny!
"Jake?" I looked down at Bella. Her voice was cracked. "I don't feel too good." She whispered.
Leah chuckled again. "Jake, you might want to get her into the forest. And so is the fate of a leech lover." She said dramatically, flipped her hair and went outside.
I didn't get it. I got what she was saying but Bella. She wasn't even Quileute. I looked at Sam and he had a mask of worry on. "Jacob, I think something was left out of that legend." He said to me.
I knew what he did to stop the bleeding on Bella's arm. How could I not, I could see his thought's? I started shaking my head, this couldn't be happening to her.
So… Did you love it? Did you hate it? And what do you think should happen? Do you think Bella and Leah should get along or not? Review please. And thanks for everyone who did review. It helped me out a lot!
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