Chapter 2: An Accident

Hey everybody! Yes, so an update within a week! UNHEARD OF. At least, well...don't expect this a lot. I just have some free time today and inspiration.

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So, Jacob's Third Person view today! Also, for the sake of the story (I'm nooot sure if this is CORRECT or not, but hey, I didn't read the books! Wikipedia can only give me so much!) Jacob is now eighteen, almost nineteen, and its pretty much the middle of Eclipse. Also, its July now.

Onward we go!

Jacob never thought himself much of a pessimistic person. As a kid he was always smiling, always laughing and playing with others. His infectious smile brought joy to his father and sisters, even though he alone was not enough to persuade them to stay in La Push.

He had plenty of friends, and was well liked around the rez, even in Forks as well. When Jacob had turned fifteen, though, things began changing. The first part of this change was when he met Isabella Swan.

She was just as beautiful as her name suggested; a beautiful, perfect, delicate Swan, if a bit clumsy. He had made an utter fool of himself during their first meeting, but slowly, and surely, she warmed up to him. She started talking to him. Before he knew it was really happening, he was completely falling for Bella.

Then of course, he shifted for the first time and low and behold things started taking a turn for the worse.

The leech had to show up. The blood thirsty monster that was going to kill the woman he loved because she was confused and mixed up. At least, he had thought she was.

It was becoming increasingly more clear as the weeks and months went by that perhaps Bella really did love the parasite. Jacob acknowledged this but that didn't mean that he had to like it.

So Jake stopped smiling. He stopped laughing. He stopped rough housing with his brothers. He stopped being Jacob, much to his father's concern. He still talked and participated with his Pack duties, but he did it was a bitterness that could only rival Leah's. And that was saying something.

So what was Jacob Ephraim Black doing now? Laying in bed on one of his only days off, tossing a football up in the air and catching it mindlessly. His thoughts were anywhere but his room though. He wondered what Bella was doing. Was she thinking about him? Probably not.

Just as Jacob was about to throw the football up against the ceiling once more, he heard his father's heartbeat pick up and his frantic cry: "Jacob!"

Jacob was out of bed and in the kitchen before his father's voice had died in the air.

"Dad, what's going on!?" Jake asked, his own panic filling the room. He first checked that his father wasn't injured. Seeing his father, holding the phone in his shaking grip, Jacob's thoughts turned even more negative. Was it Bella? Had the leech turned her?! Had Charlie called?!

"It's Alicia." His father said gravely, wheeling himself over to the coatrack.

Jacob deflated instantly, relief washing over him for a brief moment before he suddenly felt like slapping himself.

Alicia Crowe was a kind, older woman, just a bit older than Billy. She lived on the outskirts of La Push and ran a ballet school in her home. Jake had tagged along with Quil when he would drop Claire off for her lessons on some Tuesdays. When he was younger, along with Quil and Embry, he would help Alicia out with her tomato garden on Sundays with his sisters. She was like the grandmother he never had.

She was also one of the few people who knew the Pack's secret whom weren't actually in the pack or connected directly, thanks to Paul phasing in her kitchen when he had dropped off some pies for Emily and ended up getting frustrated with a phone conversation he was having. That one had been kind of hard to explain.

But the ballet instructor had taken it all in stride, and ended up being a very calming presence. She had an air about her that made the pack instantly relax. Even Paul with his short temper could never really get mad around Alicia (except maybe when he was on the phone). It was a large surprise that she wasn't married with children, but his father at a young age had told him never to bring it up. Jake supposed everyone knew that unspoken rule because barely anyone ever talked about her family, and when they did they asked about her niece.

Alicia would light up like a Christmas tree whenever someone brought up her niece, whose name was also Alicia. The girl lived in Los Angeles and hadn't been back on the rez since apparently she was six. Alicia had pictures of her all over the house along with Alicia's sister and her sister's husband, even a few of the pack and the elders.

To hear his father say her name with such panic made Jacob nervous.

"What happened?!" Jake asked, grabbing the keys to his father's truck, not even bothering to get out of his flannel pajama pants he hadn't thought to change out of (even though it was almost five o' clock in the afternoon).

"Sam thinks that a vampire attacked Alicia this morning."

Jacob felt himself shaking, trembling so hard he thought he would collapse. Bloodsuckers.

"D-Did they..." Jake swallowed the lump in his throat and looked pleadingly at his father. Billy shook his head.

"She's alive, but according to Sam in rough shape. Carlisle is tending to her now."

Jacob had to remind himself to breathe and think of happier thoughts like fixing the Rabbit to keep himself from possibly breaking a wall.

"T-the leech is her doctor!? How is that right, or do the parasites enjoy irony?" Jake snapped, slamming the door shut after his father.

Billy shot him a glare. "Don't use that tone with me, Jacob Ephriam."

Jacob winced, his father only used his middle name when his patience was running out or Jake had done something practically unforgivable.

"Sorry." he muttered and Billy grunted, obviously still displeased with his son.

The car ride passed in silence, the air crackling with tension. Billy wrung his hands in the passenger seat, Jake braced the steering wheel with tight fists until he heard the metal underneath the leather groan in protest.

They arrived at Forks General in less than twenty minutes, and Jake wasted no time helping his father out of the truck and followed him then into the hospital.

They were met at the front desk by a bored looking receptionist looking to be in her late thirties, whom Jacob noted with a bit of spite seemed unconcerned with the urgency that they pressed her with.

She led them down endless halls, twisting and turning so fast Jake almost took more than one wrong turn.

"Room one-forty-one. Alicia Crowe. Please wait for the doctor in here." The receptionist said robotically before turning on her heel and disappearing down a hallway. Jake shook his head and quietly closed the door behind him, sitting down in a plastic chair while his father wheeled his chair up next to the bed.

Alicia looked so different and sick that if Jacob hadn't known that for sure it was her in the bed, hooked up to all sorts of different wires and tubes, he wouldn't have recognized her.

"Oh 'Licia..." Billy murmured, taking her hand in his and rubbing a gentle circling pattern on the back of her hand.

Jake wasn't sure when he dozed off, but when he jolted awake there were several other people in the room.

"-just got off the phone with her niece. Embry, you have a license, yes?" a voice which Jake recognized as Charlie Swan's.

"Yeah, just got it a few months ago, why?" Embry asked, curiously. Jake blinked sleep out of his eyes and yawned.

"Welcome back to the land of the living."

Jake turned his head to see Quil, Embry and Paul sitting in three other plastic chairs while his father talked to Charlie near Alicia's bed.

"How long was I out?" he muttered, rubbing his eyes.

"About half an hour." Quil replied.

"We got here ten minutes after you. The pack just left." Paul lowered his voice so only Embry, Quil and Jake could hear him for the last sentence.

"Did the doc come in?" Jake asked, rolling his head so his neck cracked loudly, the pins and needles feeling slowly fading away.

"Yeah, but we didn't understand a lot of it. Only thing I really got out of it was that she...Alicia's not doing too well..." Quil murmured. Jake felt panic rising up in his throat.

Charlie turned away from Billy and looked to Embry.

"Would you mind driving up to Seattle to pick up Alicia's niece?" Charlie asked. Embry shifted in his seat, looking to Jake. His patrol was in a half an hour.

"I'll take your shift." he assured, though he wasn't all that happy about it. A whole hour of one of his pack mates invading his thoughts and criticizing him about Bella. Whoop-de-freaking-doo.

"I'll leave now. Take's a hell of a lot of time to get up there." Embry muttered the last sentence and stood from his chair.

"Wish me luck. Hey, Chief Swan, do you know what this girl looks like?"

Charlie nodded. "She looks a lot like her aunt; black hair, tan skin, but she has green eyes. Oh and her name's Alicia."

Embry nodded and exited the room.

Jake sighed, leaning back in his chair once more.

He kept thinking about how having this new girl on the rez would complicate things. Hopefully she wouldn't be staying very long.

Boy was he wrong.

It is done! Chapter two!

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