AN: I changed the story title! :D The old one didn't really satisfy me so I finally came up with the title Undisclosed Desires in tribute to the new single from MUSE. I love that band it's absolutely amazing. Here are the lyrics, you can see why the song fits (:
I know you've suffered
But I don't want you to hide
It's cold and loveless
I won't let you be denied
Soothing
I'll make you feel pure
Trust me
You can be sure
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart
You trick your lovers
That you're wicked and divine
You may be a sinner
But your innocence is mine
Please me
Show me how it's done
Tease me
You are the one
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart
Please me
Show me how it's done
Trust me
You are the one
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart
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IMPORTANT: P.S.: There are 3 different stages of imprinting:
First Stage: If the person is young, the shape-shifter will act as an older sibling.
Second Stage: As the person gets older, the shape-shifter will also come to be their friend
Third Stage: When the person is old enough, the shape-shifter's feelings are suspected to grow into romantic love, but this hasn't been confirmed. (Source: Twilight Wiki)
Leah's POV;
"Thanks" I said with an equally wide smile and hugged him. "I'm so glad you're smiling again Leah. I'm very glad because I have to tell you something."
I let go of him a little afraid of what I was about to hear next. "What are you talking about?" My smile faded as a more serious expression ran across my face. He hugged me again, "When I went back, Carlisle, he told me that… he's not entirely sure that Sue will … keep breathing tomorrow…"
Jacob's POV;
Flashback: I neared the Cullen's house, which by the way, absolutely reeked, you'd think after a while I'd get used to it but, the stench never failed to make my face cringe.
Bella, Edward, and Renesmee were here all the time, more than at their own home. That place, only seemed to be used in the night time. UGH. I didn't even want to think.
I rang the doorbell, it was more for show than for anything, they would have smelled me by now. Bella opened the door and greeted me with a hug, but not with the usual smile I was used to. Even though Bella wasn't so close to Sue, she knew that she was Leah's mother and she also knew that it would upset me if anything hurt either of them.
She rubbed my shoulder, "Hey Jake, I'm sorry for what happened. How's Leah holding up?"
"Not that great." I said as I shook my head and looked to the floor.
"I know what happened with Seth… if there's anything any of us can do, just tell us." That was a nice offer but unless I wanted my head cut off by Leah I'd better not get them so involved.
"Thanks. I'll pass that onto Leah." Not.
"Ok… Oh, Reneesme, she turned in early but you can still go see her. I imagine you're going to console Leah and spend more time with her, but Reneesme will want to see you too."
And I would want to see her also.
Bella slightly smiled and left for the living room, she looked so different now. I still couldn't get over it. Her face was impenetrably pale but there was a remarkable degree of further beauty she had acquired. She was no longer near as clumsy, every step she took was full of grace. Her hair fell long to the waist, wavy not nearly so curly or straight. The brown contouring shades of her brown hair color glistened as she moved. She was a dreaded vampire now; the shade of her eye color was no longer brown. When I saw myself in her eyes I became more and more convinced that I loved her, but not in the way I had thought. Not romantically, maybe at one point but it wasn't true love. That's something I think she had with her beloved blood sucker.
I went to check in on Sue first, I wanted to know how she was doing. I hoped she'd be doing better. I entered the guest room where Carlisle had translated her to personally take care of her. The large windows that replaced the walls were over shunned by tan curtains. The room was vaguely different kinds of white. There was only a bed in the center of the room backed up to the only wall. There was complex machinery on both sides of the bed, the wires all led to Sue who lied in an unconscious state underneath the white sheets. It moved my heart to witness her like this. I was so glad that Leah and Seth weren't seeing her like this, it'd destroy them.
There was an oxygen tube in her mouth and another set of wires that provided air to her nose. Her arms were full of different colored cables, and tubes that carried different liquids. Her face had become so pale that she could almost blend in with these leeches; her lips lost their natural color and now looked dull and chapped. The only color that was physically on her body was that of multi-colored purple blue bruises, scabs and bandages. Ultimately she looked lifeless and I wondered whether she would make it out alive.
"Carlisle is a great doctor." I heard Edward say from behind me; of course he could read me.
"He wants to talk to you. He's waiting at his office." By the time I turned around he wasn't there, but I didn't have time to deal with him.
I walked into Carlisle's office not bothering to pay attention much to anything but him. "So tell me the reality of things." I said bluntly skipping the greeting, perhaps that was rude but at this certain point I didn't care. He folded his arms and set his elbows on the glass desk in front of him. "We're going to have to operate." Oh no, that couldn't have been good. "She suffered severe brain damage, the brain is one of the most vital organs, and without it— she dies. Now, as time has been progressing well one of the main vessels is beginning to rupture." I really didn't see how this could get any worse.
"How bad does she need this?" I asked wondering if while I was here questioning him he could have been helping her. "As soon as possible, right now in fact, I'm going to have to take her back to the hospital." He paused and took a deep breath; he looked distressed as if for the first time he was measuring his options very carefully. Since Forks was a small town not a lot of these major accidents happened and these situations weren't faced. "Jacob, the 24 hours after the surgery will be crucial. If she's able to get through them without complications she will stabilize. But one complication— I'm saddened to say that it may be her last hours." Ok, I took my last statement back, it did just get worse…
I entered the room in which Reneesme slept, she looked so adorable. The ringlets of curls that took the texture of her hair dangled off the side of the bed. The natural blush of her cheeks seemed rosy pink in the dim light. I began to walk over to her bed and then she woke up attentive, and when she saw me a wide smile beamed on her little angelic face. "Jacob!" She ran to me and jumped up to give me a hug. "How are you munchkin?" She looked like she was eight years old already when she was only about 3 and a half. She was growing up so fast; I felt this sort of instinct to be protective of her, against anything and everything…
She touched my cheek and sent a rush of images that illustrated her day in vivid detail through my mind. "I missed you Jake" She said as she placed her head on my shoulder, I looked at her and wondered how it was possible that one day I could come to be romantically interested in her. But, there was this indescribable feeling that transcended me, holding this small entity of life near me. Renesmee was one of the things that had my gravitational pull down to earth. Yet, I felt more like her brother, a guardian or a protector, but I guess it was because we were only in the 2nd stage of imprintation. I loved her a ton but, I wasn't sure I could picture it like "that", I guess time would tell. I've just been waiting for the actual feeling of love to dawn on me.
I walked over to her bed and sat her on my lap, "Renesmee, I don't know if I'll be able to stay tonight." I told her as I played with the promise bracelet I had given her. It felt like a bracelet that promised I would always be there to PROTECT her and let no harm near her. "Is it because of Leah?" She asked looking for my gaze, "Yeah, but please understand. She needs me right now, and as her … friend I have to help her cope with the situation." She looked thoughtful for a second and then slowly raised her hand to touch my cheek once again. She showed me that she wasn't so pleased and wanted me to stay. But she also showed me that if I wished to help her then I should go. I tucked her in bed and gave her a gentle kiss on the forehead. "Goodnight Ness, keep safe and I love you— remember that."
Flashback End.
Leah's angst snapped me back into reality.
"She's in surgery, right now?"
"She's most likely going into it in a couple hours, if not now."
Leah's POV;
My heart dropped, why? I buried my face in my hands and felt Jacob's warmth enclosing around me.
"Lee- bear, I'm sure she's going to be fine."
"I want to go home, Jacob."
Within minutes we were at my house, "I need to shower." I told him as I smelled myself.
"Yeah, me too." He said as he smelled himself too and smiled at me. He waited to see if I would respond with another smile. "Jake, please promise me you'll be here when I get out."
"Count on it." He hugged me, kissed my cheek, and darted out the window in that swift precise order.
I let the water run as I undressed. I stepped in the shower and let the water fall freely on me, the rays of water became visible when they hit my skin. The steam of the hot water began to cloud every inch of the bathroom. The flashbacks of my dream kept hitting me, they plunged me into wonder, wonder if that's how it had really all gone by. Then, it got to be too much; I couldn't get the damn images out of my head. I retracted to the corner of the tub where the water nearly reached me and I began to cry. I couldn't even tell I was crying until tasted the tears in my mouth. Salty. They blended in with the water so well that I was sure Jacob wouldn't notice that I was still crying. I wondered when I would eventually run out of reasons to cry, before I ran out of tears. I had to compose myself, after a couple of minutes I found the strength to pull myself together and finish showering.
I put on a plain gray tank top and a pair of loose shorts with a pale blue plaid design. I applied lotion to my skin, it felt so much cleaner and softer. I smelled fresh and looked all nice and clean except for my eyes. I examined them in the mirror, they were red. Talk about "not noticeable". I combed through my hair which I had grown out until about my mid back. Even if having longer hair meant having longer fur, which was ok. Truthfully, I didn't really like short hair on myself.
When I walked out into my room I saw Jacob waiting patiently on my bed with his hands folded behind his head as he starred at the ceiling, looking solicitously. When he noticed I was standing near the door he sat up. "There she is."
I walked over to the bed as he got up and hugged him, "Thanks so much Jake."
He hugged me back tighter then when we pulled away he brought my face up so it was clearly visible. "You were crying? Your eyes are red." I pulled my face free from his hand and buried it on his shoulder. He stroked my hair, "Lee-bear, I haven't seen that beautiful smile of yours in a long time."
I remained quiet, and then he started tickling me. I couldn't help but laugh, to my dismay I was extremely ticklish but to his dismay so was he. Our laughter flooded the room, for a moment all of the negative things in my mind drifted. It felt good in a way, even if I could hardly breathe. All the tickling made us move violently, trying to block each other's hands. We fell back onto the bed; I landed on top of him. We were amused, but we stopped our little childish display. We stayed like this, with my head rested on his chest and his hand on my back.
I turned a little to my side, "I can hear your heartbeat." He smiled at my remark and put his hand up, waiting for approval to feel my heart. I nodded and smiled back at him. His warm hand spread across the left side of my chest. I subtlety slid off of him, but kept my hand over his heart, his free hand then topped mine.
"The same, our heartbeats, they're in sync." He took my free hand and placed it over my own heart. Our hearts were in fact beating together in rhythm. "We're so much alike Lee-Bear."
Yeah we were incredibly so much alike. It made me think about all the things that tied us together, being wolves of course and we had both been terribly heartbroken over loving someone who didn't quite love us the same way. And finally the way our love for that person had become the same love they had for us. "Yeah, we are so much alike Jakey Bear" Yeah, I teased him because up until a couple of minutes ago he had never associated my name with that of a bear.
He just smiled at me and kissed my forehead, "Yeah we like …" I looked into his eyes as he made some funny face trying to figure out the next word he was going to say "… like complete each other, you know?" Yeah I did know but I don't think he meant like I would have liked. Wait, how would I have liked it? Anyways, I just disregarded that and simply replied yes.
"Except I'm the hotter one" I said jokingly as I got off the bed, " Ha ha ha, if you think so, Leah Clearwater." He got up and I turned to face him, "Yes I know so." I hugged him and he hugged me, but he also rolled his eyes, "I think it's the other way around." I laughed at his remark, some part of me I think thought it was true. "Ha ha, as if Jacob Black."
"Well I think I should go now, it's getting really late."
"What? No, no please stay. I don't want to be alone tonight when my mom- she- my mother is like …" I started babbling on.
"Hey, hey, hey. It's ok. I'll stay."
I hugged him really tight. "Thanks Jake."
"Psh, what? No need. Besides, I was kind of hoping you'd ask me to stay."
The night crept on, I loved the ability Jacob had to make me smile, but then again I think he had that effect on everyone. "Look! You've been smiling! It makes you look even more beautiful than you already are; you light up this whole room." We had so much fun that night, we played video games, ate ice cream and messed around with the whipped cream, we laughed and we didn't care about anything or anyone outside of thee wall of my house. I told him, "You know reality is still waiting for us out there?" And he replied, "Right now, reality can wait."
We had finally decided to watch a movie, a Rush Hour marathon. We laid down some blankets on the floor and I made some popcorn. I took a seat on my pillow, "Oh! Popcorn!" He made a move for the popcorn bowl and I slapped his hand away. "Patience." I smiled at him trying to keep a laugh in side. He pouted and looked at me with a "you little" stare. "Open." I said and threw a popcorn ball into his mouth. "Mmm, why thank you." He smiled, grabbed my hand and kissed the top of it. "You're welcome, sir." I said with a giggle. "Let's play catch." He suggested. I started throwing more popcorn at him; I missed his mouth by long shots. "You know, you could be the next great NBA player." Hahaha. "Shut up! Haha." I pushed him down then positioned myself next to him resting on my elbow.
"You grew out your hair a bit, it looks nice." He said as he grabbed a strand of my hair. "Yeah, I went to one of the old Quileute elder woman, she gave me some sort of like potion thing to make it grow." Our hair wouldn't grow since we were sort of frozen in time, but any "magic" seemed to be fair game in our world.
"Oh yeah, magic or whatever it is— it can do curses and it can do wonders."
"Yeah." I started to think a little, but he interrupted my thoughts. "Oh look the movie's starting."
We lay down close to each other, we laughed at the funny things Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker did. Not long into the film I felt Jacobs arm creep around my shoulders, I didn't mind. Why didn't I mind? By the end of the move I heard Jacob snoring, couldn't blame him, I was half asleep myself. I managed to get up and turn off the television. Then, without even thinking I returned close to the warm heat of his body.
11 pm ; 12 am ; 1 am ; Nightmares. Again.
"Leah! Leah! Wake up, it's only a dream!" I assumed that I was fidgeting around a lot; I woke up to Jacob shaking my shoulders. I had seen it so clear like many times before, I wanted to get the stupid images out of my head already. I felt like they were aggravating flies chasing after me in a room with no doors and no windows. I was prisoner of my dreams.
2:00 am ; 3:00 am; 3:30 am; More Nightmares.
"Lee-Bear come on, please." He stroked my hair as I tried to silence my muffled cries on his shoulder.
4:00 am ; 4:30 am. The replay of my same nightmare.
This time I woke myself up and found the wet tears against my cheek and Jacobs shoulder. I was afraid to go back to sleep, but I was afraid to be awake too. There was nowhere where I would be safe from these terrifying things. For the moment being I decided that it was in my best interest to stay awake, at least this night with Jake at my side, I could feel a little more conformity.
The glow of the few stars in the night seeped through a crack between the pale curtains that draped over the windows. A blow from the wind made one of the curtains sway in a swirl; it broke my train of thought. Although, I wasn't really thinking of anything much but the fact my mother could be healing or getting worse.
I realized that I was actually resting on Jacobs arm when he in took a deep breath and moved himself closer to me, hugging me. He was about 3 inches away from my face; instead of slapping him away like I should have, I noticed the handsomeness in his face. I also noticed how delicately defined his chest and his stomach were. My index finger traced over some of the lines that were marked on his abdomen. I lingered my way to his chest and stopped whence I reached his heart. Then I extended my hand over the rapid beats of his heart and felt them even more so intensely. With my other hand I found my own heart and picked up its beats too. Still they were the same, beating in unison with the same speed, rhythm, and pattern.
I think that's when my realization hit the hardest. I think I felt something more for him than I ever thought I could feel for anyone. Wait, did I mention I ever thought I could feel for anyone especially Jacob Black? Something maybe even more than I ever felt for Sam. Love? I didn't quite know, I actually refused to think of that preposterous idea. Me love him? That little mutt, whatever.
My eyes looked over his face while he slept as I wondered what he was dreaming of, or if he was dreaming at all. Truthfully I was so thankful to him, and somewhere in my heart I knew that I didn't want to discard the idea of love. I pulled myself up a little, just enough for my lips to reach his check. I pressed them softly on his skin; his mouth seemed so close to me. An urge in me wanted to kiss his own lips but my mind yelled NO, while my heart seemed to say YES. When he in took a deep breath and stirred a little I quickly closed my eyes and pretended to have been sleeping.
Jacob's POV;
I felt something smooth stroke my face, like a breeze sort of brushing over me. It took me a bit out of my sleep. As I slowly opened my eyes I saw Leah on my shoulder. The long locks of her hair glistened with the star's luminosity. As the polish from her hair lit her face I noted how she never failed to look beautiful, I remembered why I once thought she was beautiful. And, I knew I still thought so after all this time. I saw her hand move a little and detected that she was awake. She was never that good at faking stuff anyways.
It clicked. In that moment I knew that the soft strokes I felt on my skin were actually the gentle touch of her pressed lips against my cheek.
I thought about everything. I felt so different when I was with Renesmee, like it was just me and her tiny soul. When I was with Leah, I felt we were the only ones here, but in a different way. It was all so damn confusing, my feelings betrayed me. As I kept thinking I ran my hand down her arm picking up on the smoothness of its texture. Did Leah really want to kiss me? I should have pretended to be asleep. Hmm, maybe not. But then again, did I want to kiss her? Hours ago when I felt our equal paced heart beats it felt as if my heart had everything it needed. The sound tun tun, tun tun, perforated my eardrums, I was still mesmerized by the feeling it induced on me. I felt such love for her. Love. Love. I repeated the word over and over again. Love. I could absolutely not love anyone, especially not Leah Clearwater. Really, love? Renesmee is my imprintee, I mean of course we'd come to wed some day. Then, how did that fit the possibility of love towards Leah. ; I felt this pull towards Leah, it was hard to explain but, it was like a magnetic attraction. A feeling of longing for her, her body, her soul, her mind, her being, and her heart. ; her love? I was so confused. How would I feel romantically when Renesmee came of age?
Hesitantly and slowly I neared my face close to hers and delicately kissed her soft lips with mine. At the first contact of our lips her face was shadowed by a pained expression as she slowly opened her eyes. I pulled back a little as we looked back into each other's eyes. I could see in them that she was just as confused as I was. But then suddenly, she kissed me, swiftly and passionately. I didn't think but to responded with the same ardor. I slowly ran my fingers through her smooth textured tresses, I felt like I was in the still of a cheesy romantic movie. The thing is, I liked it and I was more than ok with it.
Just as she had initiated the kiss she redundantly broke it off.
"What was that for, why did you kiss me?" She asked kind of perplexed as she touched her lips.
"Well why did you kiss me?" I asked her demonstrating the same intent on getting an answer.
The darkness that filled the room made it unbearably hard to see a clear picture of the expression on her face. "I-I, I don't … I-I shouldn't have. You shouldn't have. I'm sorry." That's all she managed to say.
"Leah… -I;" I searched for some sort of words, even if I didn't know exactly what I was searching for.
She interrupted me, "Mmm, yeah. Jake, you're … tired." She turned her back to me facing the opposite direction.
"What? Oh come on, Leah."
"You know, maybe this wasn't such a brilliant idea. Maybe you shouldn't have stayed tonight. "
What? Unbelievable. I got frustrated and laid on back while I grabbed my head and ran my fingers throughout my hair. I tried to touch her shoulder but she squirmed away. Brat.
I'd like to think she was my brat, exclusively.
She turned to face me again, "This. Can't be. This us, we, it just… it can't be."
"Wait, so you're admitting you feel something— special for me."
"Jacob. That's not the point." Her voice grew lower at this statement. She did feel something for me, like I felt for her. Even if we weren't quite sure of what it was.
"Then why can't we at least try something?"
"… and Renesmee?" She rebutted. Renesmee, of course. My little angle.
"You know I don't even see her like that yet."
"Yet. You said it. So tell me, what's going to happen when you no longer return my feelings because, you will reserve them for her. I don't blame her or you Jake but what's going to happen to me? Huh? I'm going to go through another heartbreak? No thank you. I'd rather spare my heart form a bigger pain by going through the smaller hassle of ending this now." Spare herself the heartbreak of having me, being happy for a while and then loosing me by just not having me at all. She was right, though. I couldn't put her through anything hurtful, not after everything she'd been through.
"You remember you once told me that all the lines that held you to your life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings to a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who you were disconnected, and floated up into space. But, you were not left drifting because a new string held you where you were. That string is Renesmee."
" … I caught the string of before it drifted away, and it holds me here still today. I just didn't know it— but now, I know." Leah and Renesmee were the most important women in my life aside to Bella. I knew that one day those "strings" would weigh in on me and I'd have to choose which string was stronger. Either my heart would choose, or imprintation would."
After a pause of silence her voice broke the stillness, "I hate imprinting, it's stupid."
"Yeah I know." I agreed with her but I couldn't be sorry for imprinting having brought the being that is Renesmee into my heart. "True human love is …" I searched for a word that would fit. If it was true love that I felt for Leah I couldn't blame it for bringing her into my heart either.
"I wish things could be different." I said sincerely.
"Yeah a lot of people do. But they're not so… look let's just pretend that this never happened ok? We were asleep this whole night and morning." I stared at her for a good 4 seconds before turning my gaze away.
"Fine."
"Goodnight Jacob."
"Goodnight Leah."
Leah's Thoughts:
It would be better this way, even if it hurt having him near and feeling so strongly for him.
It'd be better in the long run because I wouldn't hurt so much inside when he'd be taken away from me.
It'd be more painful to comprise him and then have him be absent.
I'd rather just abstain from him so the ache won't be so transcending.
Jacobs's Thoughts:
I tried to convince myself that it would be better for Leah this way. Even if having her near hurt because, I felt so strongly for her.
It would be better in the long run because it would spare her heart the feeling of pain since one day I would involuntarily love another.
Jacob & Leah's Thoughts (Both):
But one thing was for sure.
Whatever laid in our future—was unknown …
AN: There you go! Sorry I took a little longer to get this chapter up but it's longer than most of them(:
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