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DREAMS OF AMBROSIA, Chapter 3: Look after you

If I don't say this now I will surely break

As I'm leaving the one I want to take

Forgive the urgency but hurry up and wait

My heart has started to separate

There now, steady love, so few come and don't go

Will you won't you, be the one I'll always know

When I'm losing my control, the city spins around

You're the only one who knows to slow it down

If ever there was a doubt, my love, she leans into me

This most assuredly counts, she says most assuredly

It's always have and never hold, you've begun to feel like home

What's mine is yours to leave or take, what's mine is yours to make your own

Be mine… and I'll look after you…

The Fray, "Look after you"

The moment her green eyes met hazel ones she knew she was as good as dead. Not only because she had escaped from home that morning without saying a word to neither her sister or her so called guardians, but also for being surrounded by unknown male population… and on top of that being in the arms of a man that held her as if she was his to have… yes, she was pretty much screwed.

Charlotte's face tinted crimson red as she untangled herself from Jacob's warming arms. Standing up straight she held her composure, she could feel Jacob close behind her in grace of the warmness coming from his body, somehow she felt safe knowing he was standing near her. With a mask of indifference she addressed the new arrived. "Hey… good to see you too… what brings you here my dearest sister?" she said nonchalantly.

A snort came out of Alexis before crossing her arms and responding. "What the hell where you thinking running away like devil was close on your tail! … Couldn't you at least save me the worry and tell me you will be at the beach or something?" Alexis ended with a raise of her brow as she waited for her answer.

Charlotte rolled her eyes at her sister; she could be so melodramatic sometimes. "Don't lecture me Alexis… you of all people should know you aren't the one to talk about sneaking out… besides… I am nineteen, not ten… I can take perfectly care of myself". She said with a tone of annoyance in her voice.

Jacob chuckled and Alexis narrowed her eyes at him. "And who are you supposed to be gigantor?" The irritated girl said with narrowing eyes and a deep frown.

He took this as his cue to introduce himself to the girl who was theoretical to be his future sister in-law… if everything worked out as he hoped it will be that is… He took a step around Charlotte and extended his hand to Alexis, placing one of his best smiles while he made the formality. "Jacob Black…Charlotte's friend".

Alexis's eyes traveled from his face to his hand looking at him suspiciously, 'Jacob Black, Charlotte's friend…sure as hell he wants to be her friend… in a world that pigs fly and Caleb is as hot as Brad Pitt …this should be interesting though' Alexis thought. With a full smirk Alexis shook his hand and comply to the silent request. "Alexis Nevaeh, Charlotte's older sister… a pleasure to meet you Jacob Black".

Charlotte's eyes narrowed at her sister perfectly knowing what her thoughts were, she did not want to be teased by her and needed to take desperate measures to set the record straight before the damage was permanent. She shoved Jacob to the side, standing before him and breaking the hand shake. "First of all, you are just a year older than me… and second of all….we are not friends… we are acquaintances…. There is a big difference" the last part referring to Jacob, ignoring the remorse she felt as she saw disappointment for a moment in Jacob's features before he masked it with a smile.

The boys, who had stayed on the background observing the interactions between the trio stood up and walked up to them, eager, to say the least, to be introduced to the beautiful girl who was Charlotte's sister. One had been imprinted on, so she was off limits for them, but Alexis on the other hand…. Fresh meat to be taken…. As crude as it sounds. They all wanted someone to spend time with… and who better than the blonde bombshell with hazel eyes called Alexis… maybe one of them would get lucky enough to imprint on her.

The first one to approach her was Embry, as always. He squeezed himself between Alexis and Charlotte, making the last stumble backwards and colliding with Jacob's chest as he caught her in the process. "Embry Call… Charlotte's friend too… a pleasure to meet you gorgeous". He said with a big smile while a 'stop saying we are friends!' could be heard on the background by a frustrated Charlotte who was struggling to get free from Jacob's grasp as he playfully smiled down at her only making her further desperate.

Alexis's gave him a twitch of a smile looking him up and down and nodding in approval. "Yeah… nice to meet you too hotshot". She said with a smirk.

Then Quil came in the picture with a kind smile and friendly approach, in his arms a now six year old Claire smiling brightly at Alexis. "I am Quil and this is Claire…". Claire placed a bigger gin on her angelic little face before extending her hand to the blonde.

Alexis extended her hand and took Claire's little one. "It is nice to meet you Claire… you too Quil" she said addressing to the pair with a gentle smile in her features, she could see that the boy had taken a gentler approach to her, and she was glad for it.

Paul stayed in his place, sitting over a rock and observing the exchange before standing up and planting himself beside Quil and Claire. He nodded towards Alexis and placed a knowing smile on his lips. "Paul" he said simply as he had noticed what no one had seen, their obliviousness was really amusing, his eyes returned to the stoic boy on the background. Seth stood on the sidelines with an astonished semblance; he had stopped in his tracks and gotten lost in some sort of trance … 'So much for a relaxing evening…what a joke' Paul thought.

"They grow them big here don't they?" Alexis said surprised at how tall the young men were. Turning her eyes to the side her eyes locked with a pair of deep brown and she frowned. "Aren't you 'gonna introduce yourself boy?" She said, 'maybe he is too shy to speak' Alexis frowned and waved her hand in front of his face. That seemed to have an effect as a sweet smile planted on his lips.

"Hey … I am Seth" he said with a love sick fool's smile. 'Why is he looking at me like that? Oh god saves me from a kindergarten's crush' Alexis thought. The rest of the boys laughed at the interaction before inviting the girls to play some beach football, of course Alexis accepted the challenge; she had always been up to any competition, to prove herself better than the rest... Charlotte on the other side… was incredibly bad at any sport that involved balls, ever since Alexis had thrown a ball at her taking her out of guard and hitting her straight in her face she had gotten traumatize and refused to repeat the story, there for Charlotte decided to remain sitting on the sand watching her sister massacring the boys.

Jacob on the other side, decided not to play since he could not let the chance of sitting beside his new found love. He insisted on sitting with her and give her some company, Charlotte had protested as the stubborn blonde she was, but he had won the argument saying that he had good reflexes and could caught the ball of it was thrown to them… bottom line, she agreed… on one condition… 'No funny business', Jacob laughed at it and shook his head promising to behave, so they sat side by side on the smooth golden sand.

On a typical day in a normal life, they all could have been friends, mess around town, do unthinkable things and share secrets… but they were all but normal… and things had just gotten more complicated. Obliviousness is a bless…unfortunately it doesn't last long before it turns to chaos… confusing thoughts clouding minds and troubling hearts… life is all but fair, and this… was not the exception.

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Jacob and Charlotte sat a few feet away from the improvised field observing the events unfolding before their eyes as they did. The boys were taking it too seriously as they choose their teams and lined up, setting rules and making complicated tactics to fool the others. Since Quil had whined about wanting to play Charlotte offer to take care of Claire as he did, he had thanked her saying he owed her one but she waved him away dismissing the idea. she had sit Claire in her lap entertaining her, both girls enjoying the lightness of the day as they became enthralled in children's games.

Jacob observed the young woman, she had a different semblance… a gentler one… without any walls up or pretention to be rough and hiding behind her sarcasm or indifference… seeing her so carefree brought a soft smile to his lips, his deep brown eyes tracing each and every one of her features trying to capture the moment and engrave it in his memories.

Incredible how things could turn out to be, just the night before they had been so close to share their first kiss and now they seemed to be worlds apart even when they were close enough for their figures to brush. Once his mind settled on his memories he recalled the previous events with detail, he was intrigued and bothered at the same time, who was the new wolf trailing the woodlands? That was the question that kept haunting Jacob's thoughts.

The fight had been brutal, teeth and claws forcing into each other's bodies as they battled for dominance, his wounds where deep and excruciating as he tried to keep his paws moving vigorously as he tried to evade the other's bite from his neck. They were close enough to ripping one another to shards when a different howl was heard loud and clear from deep into the forest. This howl was unlike from the pack, rough and gruesome; he could not place the connection in which they were communicating, so they were not part of the reservation, that alone had given him prove that the wolves had come to his lands uninvited and where claiming territory as they did.

The mysterious wolf growled at him one more time before running away from him, he had phased back into human form since he was drained from the fight, his wounds were taking longer to heal and his body shut down as he drifted into unconsciousness. The next thing he knew was that he was laying on a bed, as much as he wanted to get up the wounds were not fully heal, the pain was vivid and he groaned in discomfort as uncertainty clouded his mind in need to know how he was still hurting when normally would have healed by now.

Soon after he recognize the room as Emily's guest room, he sighed taking whoever brought him there, then as if he had asked what happened a new figure entered the room. "You were attacked by a blood lined Alpha" A voice said. Jacob turned then to his side and saw Sam sitting there. 'An Alpha?' Jacob thought. The only Alpha he knew, by blood right was himself, and he certainly hadn't done this to himself, that would explain why he hadn't healed yet. "I heard a howl… then a wolf appeared, as large as me… we were in the middle of the fight when another howl came from the cliffs… then he ran away…" He looked down at his bod, bandaged all over his torso and parts of his arms and legs too.

"There was a lingering scent… something we have not smelled before… its lingering but untraceable… they must have use the river as a cover before phasing into human form… if they are even human" Sam's eyes looked hard and dark as he spoke with anger and deception. "We have to find them… you have a free day for now… until you heal fully… we are changing our shifts, no one goes alone into the woods, we are setting teams of three… I am not letting those bastards get us by surprise".

"A blood line Alpha you said… we have talked about the duty of Alphas and the power they have over the pack… but I didn't know about how they affect others" He questioned his former Alpha.

"Alphas are stronger, faster, their skin thicker, their movements sharper… their power over the packs are not only to command, but to overcome… the wolf that attacked you… he is a true blooded, a pure Alpha, your power over him is strong, but he is… older… stronger at least… we need to know what we are confronting… this wolves have a purpose, they are here for some reason… and we need to know which reason is that… the vampire too… he isn't here by coincidence… and I am afraid to know what that reason is". Sam got up and started walking out of the room, his muscles yet tensed as he did. "I would suggest you get up and change… the boys said they were meeting a… 'hot mamacita' on the beach… should I be concerned Jacob?" he said with a tone of laugher in his voice before leaving.

"Shit" The young Quileute said before swiftly getting up and start looking for decent clothes to wear. "Dammit! If any of those assfaces so much as…fuck" he fell on the floor while trying to put on some dark jeans and hit his still to be healed rib. "I am going to kill the bastards!" he said finally finishing and running out the door of Emily's home.

All those things Sam had spoken about left him anxious, if those wolves where here to cause trouble, Charlotte would be in danger since one of them had seen him with her, they could use her to get to him, and that alone leave his blood cold. A laugh broke Jacob's trance, he looked at the girls and smiled broadly at them, they seemed to be too enthralled in a game…Mary Mack apparently, he had to admit Charlotte looked rather sweet playing with Claire…maybe one day they would be blessed to have children of their own…be a family…be away from all the drama revolving around vampires and half humans… maybe life would be kind enough to let him have it… but life was certainly a bitch who usually keeps him from what he usually wants, hopefully he would be able to overcome whatever it was that was set down for them by fate. Jacob smiled lightly as his mind set to wonder the confine of possibilities his eyes lost as the rest of the world became a blur, if these little moments were all he would have, he would make the most of them, no one would take them away from him.

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Charlotte was too distracted playing Mary Mack with Claire to notice the affectionate stare of the russet man sitting close to her… that was until the little girl started giggling at her making the older girl amused at her reaction. "What is so funny Claire" She said smiling at her.

"Uncle Jay is looking at you funny! ... like Uncle Sam looks at Emmy" She giggled some more and Charlotte wanted to dig a hole and hide for the rest of her life. Her face turned up bright red and he turned to Jacob slapping him in the arm.

"What? I wasn't doing anything!" Said Jacob feigning to be hurt and rubbing his arm before grinning at her. "I was just watching you play… no funny business in that". He concluded with a raised brow.

She frowned at him and she was about to retaliate when the most opportune thing happened, Jacob was hit in straight in the head by Alexis's doings. Charlotte had to admit, she hadn't been more proud of her sister and her tomboyish arm throwing than that very moment in life. She busted out laughing as she tried to cover her mouth to prevent her scandalous laughter to get free. Claire, on the other side, had decided to run from the crime scene into Quil's arms as all the boys remained close, Seth standing in between Alexis and Jacob taking his place protecting his imprint in case Jacob got mad and had an episode.

"Fuck" The young Quileute said while he held his head for a moment, his brain throbbing by the force from the knockout, it had been stronger than anything he had expected it, too strong it was shocking to him… 'where the hell did she get her strength from? Spinaches? She is diminutive for fuck sakes!' Thought Jacob as he glared at her.

Alexis recovered the ball that had bounced from Jacob's head into the ground and rolled her eyes. "Don't be so dramatic… it was just a little bump" She said as she rested the ball over her hip as one of her arms rounded it and maintained it in place.

"Whatever… go back to the game". Jacob said dismissively letting go of his head and returning to see a still lost in hysterics blonde. He smirked and got close to her with a dangerous expression in his face. "What are you laughing at little girl" he said while he towered over her as she laid over the sand holding her sides as a few tears rolled down her cheeks.

She seemed to snap out of her laugh attack when he called her 'little'. Charlotte had never been fond of people calling any names because of her height, she in fact detested being call anything related to small, and the worst part of it was that coming from Jacob's lips didn't seem affect her negatively… that alone made her further aggravated. She raised herself on her elbows and frowned at him oblivious to Jacob's hidden agenda. "Who are you to call me little! … Everything is little compared to you King Kong! … I may be short but that's better than freakishly tall" She said.

Kneeling beside her, Jacob rested his weight on his hands and arms as he leaned into her, smirk still in place as he did so. "You shouldn't have said that" He spoke to her as his face lingered a few inches away from her face.

Charlotte pretended to be unfazed by his actions and kept her frown in place as she leaned in a bit further. "Yeah… why is that? The big bad wolf is gonna eat me or what?" she said with a taunting tone.

Jacob could not had been more infatuated with her as she spoke with such tenacity, his breathing heavier as the space was reduced to barely nothing, then it occurred the one thing she could not have prevented… he bended in and placed his shoulder against her belly pulling her up with him as he stood up and marched towards the ocean. She was now being carried on his shoulder towards what seemed to be her doom. "Who is laughing now" He said as she tried to make him drop her.

"Jacob! You smartass! Put me down! … I swear to you I'll make you regret this!" She fisted his back and tried to kick him but her legs where too short and his torso was too large for her to reach his 'manly' parts. She was getting desperate as she could now them nearing the water. She fidgeted in his hold, moving constantly but he dared to give her a smack as he said 'don't fight the inevitable. Charlotte gapped indignantly, 'he did not just spank me!... oh now it's on' she was going to set the score even, no matter what it took, he had humiliated her enough by treating her like a ragged doll, or something comparable, for her to let it pass as nothing.

She was brusquely hoven down as Jacob accommodated her in his arms so he was holding her, an arm behind her back while the other was set beneath her knees. "Take it back" he said as he raised his eyes brows at her as he was now standing inside the sea, water reaching his knees.

Charlotte kept her face set in an angry stare as her arms crossed over her chest, maybe her façade was staying strong but inside she trying hard not to crumble. "I will not" The girl said with a determined yet juvenile poise. The last thing she would do was giving him the pleasure of hearing her apologize over something so insignificant, she will go down with her dignity intact for no man, as gorgeous and divine he might be… not that he was that gorgeous or perfect… whatever … will get her to admit defeat.

"Too bad… I guess you lose" Jacob said with a bit of laugh in his voice before swinging her and counting down from five to one so she would know perfectly well that when he reached to one she would be thrown into the water that was probably freezing to the fact that they were in the middle of October. Charlotte closed her eyes tightly as he continued his countdown and squealed loudly when she was thrown to the air, quickly covering her nose… but the clash never came. She opened one eye at the time and looked up to meet brown eyes dancing with mirth as a full grin reign on his features…Jacob had played her… he had caught her his arms before she collided with the glacial seawater and now there she was, teased and embarrassed.

"You…you… Jerk!" Charlotte screamed outraged, she tussled in his hold but he had a firm grasp on her. "Let me go!" but he wouldn't budge, his face changing into a serene one, looking at her intently and making her stomach coiled and her pulse raised involuntary. As much as she wanted to pretend he didn't have a pull on her, her body always appeared to have distinct views in the matter.

"As you wish" she saw a smirk plastered on his face before his grip on her loosed "No! Don't!" Charlotte cried as she swiftly wrapped her arms around his neck pressing herself tightly to him. His muscles tensed and she could feel the change in his breathing, it was heavier as his voice came out serious and in a low tone. "We need to talk". He said.

Charlotte shivered hearing his voice and swallowed hard as the lump that had formed in her throat was dismissed as she prepared herself for what was coming. "About what?" she said softly as her eyes bored into his darker ones. There were only two roads the conversation could go, the first one being about the fact that they were so close to a kiss she could practically breathe his air, the second one could turn about the wolf, and how he had managed to get away… the last one sounded more amicable than the first, she could not be in that uncomfortable position, not if she could avoid it as long as she could.

"Not here…". He said in a grating voice that send shivers down her spine. Charlotte wanted to protest against him carrying her to wherever the hell he was trying to take her, but she knew there was no use, he was stronger and taller than her… and she was held inside his warm embrace… possibly having a panic attack by the nervousness he appeared to evoke in her. Jacob had kept his seriousness, carrying her off the sea and out of sight from the rest, his feet moving at a calm pace until they were entering the woods, she wanted so bad to ask of him where he was planning on taking her, but his eyes, dark and mysterious held emotion she could not place, and his muscles were still tensed against her skin.

Finally he lowered her to sit on a rock, her eyes attached to him trying to decipher whatever he was about to speak to her about, her pulse rose considerably and she could have sworn there was a hint of a smirk on his lips before he spoke once more. "Yesterday… when we were out there on the deepest of the woods… we met a wolf… a big one for that matter… I need to know what you were doing so late there… that wolf is trailing, stalking the woods, you don't do any more walks in those woods alone… if he got you by yourself you would be dead… you realize the danger in your midnight strolls don't you?" His eyes pierced into hers, a challenge was set without his knowledge, the more he might prohibited, the more she could be curious about it… and a curious Charlotte never ended up well.

Anger flattered inside her, 'who the hell is he to tell her what she can or can not do? She is a free autonomous person, not some submissive woman that grants everyone rights over her doings' she thought. "What I do or not do is my business… and mine alone. If I want to keep up with my strolls as you put it… I will" she said determined.

Suddenly Jacob had started trembling lightly, anger reflected in his posture as he took long strides towards her and leaned in until his face lingered inches above hers, his breath tickling as he breathed heavily with ire. "Why don't you stop being an irrational stubborn ass and listen… he…it could kill you…don't you get it?... that thing is still out there… if it did this to me…what would it do to you?" he said a bit more dreadfully this time, anger still audible on his rough voice.

She frowned at him, she knew he had reason in his words, but she did not want to give him the pleasure of hearing her say such thing. "I will do as I want, when I want … and there is nothing you can say to change that" she challenged him as she breathed into his face by the proximity he still held. Charlotte's pulse had arouse further as his presence intoxicated her sanity, his aroma filling the hair, it was earthy, somehow comforting, a mixture of wood and sweat, perfect combination for a man as him. Her eyes were tempted to take a glimpse of his full lips, her body once more succumbing to his enchanting soul, but she could not let herself fall into him, the repercussions would be too much for her to handle knowing her life was chaos and she could not get tied onto one place…not for a man…and certainly not by love, for love only brought pain to one's life.

He frowned as if he had been confused, but then it changed to a smirk as he leaned further and his eyes drifted along her face. "Well… if you insist on it… I guess I will have to accompany you then… you know… to keep an eye on you the whole time… as caretaker of this lands, it is kinda my duty". He said presumptuously as his breath tinkled her face.

Charlotte frowned and was about to retort him on it when a loud growl came from somewhere deeper into the woods, all colors drained from her face as she stood still, Jacob didn't seem to press any care for it. "Jacob… was that … the wolf?" she said as her hands gripped the front of his shirt as her knuckles turned white from the force of it, her head turning to her side to look for the source of such terrifying sound.

In times like this she wished she had her sister's strength, or maybe agility, to fight back and don't feel so useless or vulnerable, of course she could perfectly defend herself from any human or maybe those cryptic creatures wandering the night, but the monster she had seen before, the giant wolf in the woods had been an entirely different story, she knew there was no humanly possible way to defeat the beast, what brought to her mind… Jacob had lived after it, that alone brought her back as curiosity filled her senses, she turned back to face him while her hand still hold their grip on his shirt…but his orbs had shifted, they don't longer held their shine for it had vanished until nothing but a cloud of emotion filled them.

Jacob's eyes weren't on hers any longer; they had drifted lower… her lips to be precise. She swallowed hard as the turmoil forming inside her kept rising, lips parting as she searched for words, a clever remark, anything, even a joke would be enough to ease the thickness of the situation she had gotten herself into, she could have sworn something flashed through his eyes before he leaned in, his lips where barely even brushing with hers and their breathes where already heavier, she felt compulsion towards him, as if something kept bringing her closer to him.

Charlotte had never been allowed to ever much look at male population, her entire memory started the day she was salvaged from the imprisonment she doomed to live in, she didn't recall her past, her family, anything she once was… turned nothing at all. Had she loved once? Had she cared about someone? She had no idea of love, living on the run, not getting attach to anyone as she hid on false names, temporary homes and no schools or hospitals, those creatures of the night had followed them to America, they had been close on their tail, they had been hunted down as if they were animals, too close they had barely made it out, if it wasn't for Lucas… they had been in bed for a month, healing from the wounds that confrontation had left behind, up until now all her life had circled the same patter, run, unpack, blend in, pack again, run once more…. it was vicious and sickening, but that was all she had known.

Coming to La Push had brought her new experiences, new people that were so warming and openhearted, making her feel like there was a possibility for her to have a home, to have genuine friends and family… and then there was Jacob, something about him kept her wondering, his proximity seemed to compel her, lure her into his essence, and that alone scared her the most, for someone who she knew so little held such influence on her, she could not give into him, she was far stronger than this, and yet… he made all her determination flatter inside her.

Charlotte closed her eyes as something took over her body completely, his hand had been raised to her cheek as it perfectly fitted to be placed there, his thumb caressing her ever so lightly that chills went down her spine, all it would take it was a brief inch for the kiss to occur, but things seemed to always take a turn these days, who knows the reason but to fate to change its mind once and again.

"Nevaeh" a stern voice called for Charlotte, and only one person addressed her with that nickname was… god, she didn't need this now, didn't need him to come and interrupt her brief moment of delusion as she moved abruptly from where she was sitting and as far as away from Jacob as possible as she tried to regain some of her poise and remain unfazed by the newly arrived…. This would be hell to explain, and not anyone could win an argument with him… life kept turning her upside down… and the worst was, she kept giving her arm to twist… there goes the rest of a peaceful afternoon.