Disclaimer: I do not own Bella, Jacob, or any of the other original Twilight characters and I do not take credit for any of the contents you recognize from the books in this Chapter especially, like about imprinting and such. All I have to say is if I did, Bella would've never chosen Edward in the end and she would've chosen Jacob because Jacob's just incredibly right for her. BTW Everyone, today is Taylor Lautner's birthday! Yay Taylor Lautner! :D


Chapter 3

Now Why Couldn't He Have Just

Waited Like the Rest of Us?


Few weeks had past since Bella and I had started going out ---- One of the most happiest days of my mere exsistence ---- and since Victoria had slipped away from us. We were beginning to think she was finally giving up, knowing that no matter what move she makes we would be there to catch her. Now that the freaky bloodsucker with the physic powers was gone, we could now freely roam Forks as well, looking for signs of this Victoria and I could visit my Bella and protect her from any danger because she was mine and mine alone.

After getting back from yet another restless sleep of patroling the forest. I decided instead of going home and getting some sleep, ---- So I could go on another mission tonight ---- I decided to go over to Bella's and be with her for a while.

The thing about being on shifts at night and sleeping during the day was that I had little time to spend with Bella, so the times I do get to spend with her is like walking into the gates of Heaven. She was my angel, my Heaven.

Once I pulled up to the Swan Residence, parking on the side of the road next to the house. Turning off the engine and getting out of the car, I started to feel my stomach lurching and doing somersaults.

I knocked on the door, taking a deep breath, in hopes that the butterflies in my stomach would die down just a little.

I heard the creak of the stairs as a couple feet were running down them in haste of opening the door. The door flew open and in all of its glory, I saw my angel standing there with a breathtaking smile spread across her pale face. She took one look at me and walked over to wrap her arms around my waist.

I accepted her hug by leaning down and wrapping my arms around her small waist. One could never get immune to this girl's hugs, she always felt amazing and always smelt good, like strawberry shampoo and vanilla body wash.

"I can hear your heart beating, it's comforting." She said, sighing contently.

"It sings for you, Bella. When were not together, it sings for you to come home and when were together, it sings in harmony." I said, speaking nothing but the truth. When we were not together, my heart would ache but when we were together, I felt like nothing could go wrong.

She looked up at me with her beautiful chocolate brown eyes and stood up on her tippy toes, assuming she wanted a kiss, I leaned down and met her lips in a tender kiss. God, if you thought her hugs were something, her kisses were even better. They were unexplainable.

After a minute we pulled apart and I rested my forehead on hers.

"I love you, Jake." She said in a low whisper.

"I love you too, Bells."

"Always?" She asked, smiling.

"And forever." I said, finishing her sentence.

We were so caught up in our own little Universe, that we didn't even hear Charlie come down the stairs until he cleared his throat.

We both backed away quickly from his sudden announcement that he was in the room and I just settled by taking Bella's hand in mine, "Good morning, Charlie."

"Good morning, Jake. How's your father doing?" He said, straightening his badge on his police uniform.

"He's holding up there." I said.

"Well, that's good to hear. You should tell him to come up here sometime. The fish are really biting these days."

"Heh, I'll be sure to tell him."

"Okay, thanks, son." He said, patting my shoulder firmly before proceeding toward the kitchen.

"So what do you wanna do today?" I asked, looking back down at Bella.

She bit her bottom lip nervously.

"What?" I asked, wondering why she was acting this way.

There was another minute of silence before she started to speak. "Well, it's just that I have to work this afternoon." She said, still biting her bottom lip.

Darn it. I should've known that today was Saturday and that she worked over at Newton's like every Saturday afternoon. "Well, if you want I can come back tomorrow." I said, holding back the disappointment.

"No no, why don't you come in and hangout until I have to leave?" She asked, the sadness filtering her face.

"Are you sure?" I asked, brushing my fingers across her smooth warm cheek.

She closed her eyes, "Absolutely." She said.

I couldn't help to smile at her reactions whenever we were so close. "Okay."

Her eyes fluttered open and she pulled me into the house with little effort. So I just followed her in and closed the door.

Charlie was in the kitchen, sitting at the table with a cup of coffee in one hand and the daily newspaper in the other. As I followed Bella toward the living room, he looked up from his paper, "What are you kids up to today?"

"Just gonna hangout and catch up." Bella said, still inching toward the living room.

"Well, you kids have fun." He said, turning back to his paper and coffee.

Bella plopped down on the couch, tucking her feet off to the side. I took a seat next to her and she turned the TV on, probably giving us something to do until Charlie left. Then we would go deep into our conversation without worrying about Charlie overhearing us. She settled it on MTV, where there was music videos playing.

After five minutes we heard Charlie get up from the table and the sudden clink of the coffee mug being set into the sink. "Well kids, I'm off to work. So you have fun watching your....music videos." He said, looking at the screen all funny.

"Okay." Bella said, pretending to be lost into the video.

Once we heard Charlie's Cruiser pull out of the driveway, Bella turned the TV off and turned her body facing me. "It feels like it's been a long time since we hung out. I'm probably missing some things. So what's the scoop?"

I grabbed her hand and held it in mine. "Well, Quil imprinted. So that's three now." I said, looking down at our hands intertwined.

"What do you mean imprinted?" She asked. I looked up to find her head cocked to the left and her face scrunched up.

"It means hes found his other half, his soul mate to be exact."

Her face suddenly relaxed and a smile came into view. "Well, that's great. What's her name?"

"Claire. She's Emily's 2 year old niece."

In that second Bella's smile vanished, replaced with disgust and she yanked her hand away from me, "What?!" She exclaimed, her voice just a little over normal volume.

Me who was still relaxed about the whole ordeal, took Bella's hand again, "Bells, honey, it's not what you think." I said, trying to calm her down a bit.

"Then what is it?" She asked, trying me now.

"Yes Quil did imprint on Claire but trust me, there's nothing romantic about it at all, not for Quil, not now."

"How can you be certain?"

"Because I've seen what it's like, through his eyes." I paused, replaying Quil's thoughts through my head and shook them out immediately. "Quil will be like a big brother figure for that girl and once she gets older and more understanding, they'll have what you and I had before we started dating, they'll be best friends and if she wants to develope it into something more than friendship. Then by all means, they'll be as happy as Sam and Emily and you and me." I said, smiling and brushing my fingertips once more to her cheek.

She sighed, "But what if she doesn't wanna develope what they have into something romantic and she's just happy with them staying as best friends?"

"Well, I mean sure Quil wouldn't mind but why wouldn't she wanna develope it into something serious in the end? He'll be her perfect match. Like he was designed for her alone."

"Oh, so what is imprinting exactly?" She asked, full of wonder.

I blew out a big gust of air, "Mmm, jeeze, that's a little hard to explain. Lets see...." I trailed off, thinking of a way to explain it a lot better. "Well, like I said it's hard to explain but it's like love at first sight but a lot more powerful. It's more like....gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it's not the Earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her....You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother. It's definitly one of those legends that rarely happens, it's once in a blue moon it happens but I don't know, after Quil imprinted on Claire, I'm starting to believe it's more common then we think."

"So you said three people has imprinted. Who's the other two? Quil and Claire, who else?" She asked, more curious now.

I tried to pick my words more carefully now. "Sam and Emily and then there's Jared and Kim."

"Oh," She said, now looking down at our hands. "So you haven't imprinted then?"

I should've saw this coming. Maybe I shouldn't have told her anything about imprinting. No! That wouldn't have solved anything. If she was my best friend, now girlfriend, she needed to know the truth. Honestly, I didn't even know if I've imprinted on her or not. I know the legends had stated that it wasn't hard to miss if you've imprinted on your other half but with Bella I can certainly say I was totally clueless. So I said the first thing that came to my mind, "No."

She nodded her head, still keeping her eyes locked to our hands.

I lifted her chin slightly, "Bella, I don't need to imprint to know who my other half is. You are my other half, imprint or no imprint."

"Yeah but what if you find your other half. Can you control who you imprint?"

"Your not supposed to but Bella, I don't see anybody else but you. Your everything I live for. Do you feel this?" I asked, taking her hand with my free hand and placing it on my chest, where my heart is located. "Everyday that my heart still beats is another day I'm with you. Don't you understand, I don't need a stupid legend to tell me who my soul mate is, Bella."

"Are you sure?" She asked, looking up at me now, smiling her warm beautiful smile.

I smiled back, "Positive." I said, grabing her and pulling her next to my chest. "You truly are everything to me, Bella." I said, kissing the top of her head.

She sighed contently.

We sat on the couch in nothing but pure silence and I suddenly felt my eyelids get heavy and soon I drifted off into unconciousness.


It felt like hours, maybe even days, before I finally woke up but only to see I wasn't home and in my bed. I was still over at the Swans', passed out where I was before I gained unconciousness, their couch. Except I wasn't in the same position I had been, sitting up with Bella curled up in my arms. I was sprawled out on my back with my large frame taking up the whole couch and my legs laying limp over the armrest with no Bella. I leaned up to find the house deserted. Bella must've already tooken off for work and Charlie still gone. I looked over at the clock, hanging up on the wall, above the small Entertainment Center. It was fifteen minutes after four.

As soon as I pulled myself off the couch, in that same second, there came several loud raps at the front door.

I walked over to retrieve it and there stood, my two pack brothers, Quil and Embry with not the usual humor on their faces but nothing more than serious and urgent looks.

"Jake, we gotta go," Embry said, urgently. "Sam came across a fresh new trail of that red-headed bloodsucker."

"Where?" I said with the same urgency now.

"Farther south, deep in the forest." Quil said, jerking his thumb back toward the forest.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Lets go." I said, stepping out of the house and closing the door on my way out.

Quil and Embry turned without a word and dashed for the forest, disappearing in the sea of green trees and ferns.

I took one last glance back at the house and felt the sudden desire to go and find that filthy bloodsucker and tear her from limb to limb and burn the remains. The fact that she was back again meant that she only came back for one thing and that was Bella.

Once that thought crossed my mind without hesitation I turned back to the forest Quil and Embry disappeared into and I was running before I hit the trees, once in the forest I started stripping my clothes off, leaving a trail behind me like a trail of bread crumbs. It was almost too easy now to phase. I didn't have to think. My body already knew where I was going and, before I asked it to, it gave me what I wanted.

I had four legs now, and I was flying.

The trees blurred into a sea of black flowing around me. My muscles bunched and released in an effortless rhythm. I could run like this for days and I would not be tired.

So Jakey Poo, what were you doing over at Bella's? Quil said in a mocking tone.

I rolled my eyes, Shut up Quil, it's not like that. We just started going out about a few weeks ago.

I heard a sudden burst of laughter in Quil's head, So your telling me that you haven't considered tapping that already?

Now I'm not saying I've never considered it but I love Bella and I respect her rights. Besides how is this any of your business anyways?

It's not, I just let the curiosity get the better of me. He said with a snicker.

Guys, this is not really a good time. We have a vampire to kill. Embry said.

As soon as he said that we started getting closer and I started to hear Sam giving the others orders. I must've been too deep into my own thoughts, that I didn't even pay the slightest attention to the others besides Quil's annoying gestures.

Hey! Quil growled.

What? It's true. I said.

Quil continued to growl but stopped immediately.

That's when I smelled it, the sweet scent that burned the inside of my nose to the point of pain. Automatically my lip pulled over my teeth and I felt the long deep growl resonate from my chest.

Calm down, Jake. Not yet. Sam ordered.

By this point we were all standing in a line, side by side, not giving her much space to slip in between any of us. This was it, once and for all, we were gonna do anything in our power to catch her and if not we, then I will. I hated everyday that she was still alive, walking around, preparing her next move to get a step closer to the girl I would risk my whole life for. She was not to get away. If I have to keep chasing her for days, even years, I will. Just to protect my Bella.

Suddenly I heard a deep growl slip between Paul's teeth and my head turned in his direction and that's when I saw her bright orange hair gleam in the shadows.

I felt the burning hot fury build up inside me and it took everything in my body to hold still until Sam gave us a direct order to attack.

Then without any kind of warning what-so-ever Victoria lunged out of the darkness in Paul's general direction and out of instinct, knowing Paul, he leaped at her and she ducked and slipped out of his reach. Just for him to land on the ground and wheel himself back toward her. She paused and grinned at Paul. Before turning and running back toward Forks, where Bella was.

I couldn't take it any longer, I couldn't wait any longer, I turned around and started running, following Victoria's scent and hoping to God that I made it back to Bella's in time to get her out of Forks immediately. There was no time to waste chasing Victoria now, she was heading straight toward Forks.


Um, ha ha, sorry for the cliffie but I thought this Chapter was already dragging on and I thought it was a really good stopping point for this Chapter because it makes the next Chapter a lot more interesting. ;) I am quite aware that it took me almost a month to give you an update and I apologize for the wait, I've been a little bit on the busy side and got major writer's block on top of it all but thanks to my wonderful and fabulous cousin Katie for helping me get over it with her awesome ideas. I love you, Cuz. :D Noticed more and more of you have sent your reviews, saved this on alert, and as your favorite. Again thanks for all of your support. :) Since this was a cliffhanger I will try and get Chapter 4 up and ready as soon as I can. :) I need Everyones' opinion for a later Chapter, that I'm not too sure on. Do any of you wanna see a lemon in this story or no? Please leave your opinions in a review. Hope you liked the Chapter and please make sure to review. :)

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