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Okay here's the next chapter!!! SORRY I took so long to upload it, I've been really busy with assessment at school so I haven't been able to spend as much time working on this chapter as I wanted to.

The next chapter should be out in another five-six days, sorry that it's beginning to take me longer to upload the next chapters, but I'm working on trying to increase the length of my chapters as there's more things going on in those chapters so please be patient with me. Also I'm sorry if Jacob doesn't seem as withdrawn or in the same mindset as he was in the first or second chapter, but he is a little messed in the head and is unsure about how to react to the situations so please forgive him and me for making him so.

SEE BOTTOM FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CHAPTER FIVE Okay I'll stop talking now and let you get on with the reading.

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WARNING: Rated M for language, angst and future lemony goodness.

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-Wolfbite-

Chapter Four

Sam's P.O.V.

"Deal."

I stared at the young wolf beneath me, a wide smile creeping over my face. I couldn't help it. He'd agreed, Jacob had agreed to stay. My heart sung, happiness welled up in my chest. Jacob had given me a chance; one month to prove that I really was his imprint, one month to help him heal old wounds and hopefully, give him a reason to live again.

I stared into his hollow dark eyes. Before the week was out I was determined to put a spark in them. Some sort of proof that there really was someone in there. Seven days, it couldn't be too hard right?

"Er..can you let me go now?" his pleasant husky voice interrupted my thoughts.

"Oh, yeah...sorry" quickly I let him up. He rolled to his side and tried to stand, his legs shook with the effort. Before they could give out I was at his side, using my shoulders to hold him up. "You need to rest." For a moment he looked like he was going to protest. From the moment I saw him I could tell he'd been denying sleep for a long time. But why? Did he think death would come quicker that way?

The thought of Jacob dying made my stomach churn. If I hadn't rose so early that morning, if I'd stayed at the camp; Jacob would've slipped right past me and I would've lost him forever. The knowledge of this fact made the churning in my stomach become more violent. I was beginning to feel nauseous.

"Okay" he submitted.

"This way" I led him back to camp keeping to a slow walk. I stayed near, making sure that if those sickly thin legs did decide to give out I would be close enough to catch him. I walked no closer than what was necessary, the last thing I wanted to do was to crowd or intimidate him.

"Sam where are you?" Jarred's voice came though the pack link. He'd just woke up by the looks of it, he was still at the campfire.

"With Jacob, he's going to be staying with us for a while."

"Did you tell him about what the elder said?" Jarred questioned.

"Most of it."

"And?"

"I've got a month to get him to imprint on me." Jarred paused.

"How are you going to do that?"

"I don't know. The elders only told me about same sex imprinting and how Jacob's inner wolf couldn't imprint because he's too far gone."

"Are you going to go back to them?" Jarred asked hesitantly.

The elders were very wise and an Alpha's greatest source of knowledge, however, they were also very strange and only gave the reason of why, and nothing else. Simply put, the elders only told the Alphas why something happened and nothing more. They told me Jacob couldn't recognize me as his imprint because his human emotions had turned him into a wolf looking through human eyes. They didn't however, tell me how to fix this and to make Jacob see me though the eyes of his wolf.

That was why I had Rachel.

"No, I think it's time I paid Rach a visit"

"Your sister?"

"The elders are the why, she is the how." Jarred nodded in understanding.

Jacob and I were nearing the camp now. I could see Jarred's dark, blue black fur through through the trees. It was a good thing too, Jacob's legs looked like they were going to give out any moment now. I led Jacob back into the camp and set him down in his original sleeping place right next to my own.

"You need to rest, I have to leave for a few hours." I turned to Jacob, switching to wolf tongue as I did. "The pack will stay here until I get back, if you need anything -food, water- don't hesitate to ask." The young wolf gave a small nod.

I sighed inwardly. Jacob wasn't going to ask for anything, for some reason he didn't see the need to eat or drink unless it was forcefully given to him.

"I'll make sure he has something when he wakes up" Jarred murmured, hearing my thoughts.

"Thank you. I'll be back as soon as I can"

"Just make sure you get your 'how' boss"

"I plan to." With a final glance back at Jacob, I raced off through the trees. A dull ache spreading through my chest with ever step I took away from him. I hated leaving Jacob, this was the second time in two days. What if he thought I was deserting him? That I wasn't serious about him being my imprint?

I sighed. I couldn't help Jacob if I didn't know how. At the moment seeing Rachel was my only hope.

Rachel lived in a tiny cottage at the edge of the reservation. To everyone living in the reservation she was described as all-knowing like the elders, to me she was just my annoying older sister.

I phased quickly. I'd barely taken a step on the driveway before the cottage door swung open. She stood a spitting image of our late mother. She had the same mocha colored skin with a long black hair that she wore just as mum had, tied up in a patterned silk cloth. She wore a simple white dress and a various pieces of beaded jewelery decorated her neck, wrists and ears.

"Samuel where have you been?" Rachel growled, her voice echoed loudly in the tiny clearing. She stood in the doorway of her cottage, hands on hips and a look of utter irritation on her face. I winced, no wonder why everyone was too scared to come to her for advice; She was scary.

"Sis-"

"Don't you sis me, get your butt in here." She disappeared into the house and I had no choice but to follow. As soon as I stepped into the house my senses were flooded by the smell of scented candles and incense. Inside, the interior had been decorated with yellow and white striped wallpaper and chestnut floorboards. Candles and pot-plants of every sort decorated every stool and bench tops while photos of family and friends hung framed on the walls. I wandered through the house searching for Rachel, I found her in the kitchen, hovering near the stove as a kettle boiled.

"Rachel, I need help-"

"I know. Sit." Without turning, she pointed at the small wooden table in the middle of the kitchen. I was in a hurry, but I knew Rachel wouldn't talk until she was ready. I pulled out a chair and sat down. When the kettle was boiled she poured the hot water into a teapot, adding a few herb leaves in as she did. She set the teapot down on the table to soak.

"Tea?"

"Er... no thank you." she placed a teacup in front of me anyway.

"Now" she said leaning back in the chair and folding her arms over her chest. "You've imprinted"

"Yes but-" she held up a hand, silencing me.

"I know he hasn't imprinted on you, we'll get to that- what I want to know is why are you only coming to tell me this now?"

"You knew practically as soon as I did so what's the point?" her eyes narrowed.

"What's the point!" She threw her hands up in anger. "What's the point!" she repeated. "The point is my own brother won't tell me that he's finally imprinted! Clearly I have to wait for the spirits to call if I want to find out anything around here." She crossed her arms over her chest again.

"Rach I only met him yesterday morning-" I protested. That only seemed to make her madder.

"A whole day you had to come and see me!" She growled.

"I was at the elders cave until nightfall" I pleaded. "And then I couldn't leave him alone that night." I reached out and touched the hand still left on the table. She glared at me. "Rach please" I whined guiltily, staring directly into her eyes. She looked like she would very much like to rip my head off. I knew she hadn't phased in years, but that didn't mean she wouldn't if it meant getting even with her younger brother.

Finally her gaze softened. She sighed.

"God, how am I supposed to stay mad at you when you give me that face?"

"What do you mean?" I asked innocently. I may or may not have been slipping her the puppy eyes while I'd been staring. I knew she couldn't ignore me when I did, they always brought out the motherly side in her.

Sighing in defeat she poured me a cup of tea and pushed it towards me.

"Drink" She ordered. I did obediently. After what seemed like forever she let out a sigh. "Whatever, I'm over it. I can't stay mad at you anyway, no matter how many times you decide not to call." I grinned sheepishly knowing my plan had worked and I'd successfully wormed my way back onto her good side.

"But you don't like phone calls" I reasoned.

"I know that's why you should visit more" she quipped.

"I try sis"

"Yeah, yeah I know; the pack needs me and all that jazz blah, blah" She held my gaze for a moment longer before letting out another sigh. "So the elders didn't tell you how to get Jacob to imprint on you?" I shook my head.

"No, they just said he was blind because-"

"He's a human looking out through wolf's eyes- yeah I know." I held back a frustrated sigh. Rachel had the habit of asking questions she already knew the answer to then interrupting halfway through the answer. "So basically all you have to do is to get Jacob looking out through his wolf eyes again"

"But how do I do that?"

"Come on Samuel even you should be able to get this one" I hated it when she called me by my full name. She only ever used it when she was either mad or patronizing and in this case in knew which one it was.

"But I don't, that's why I'm so lucky to have you" I said softening her up a bit more. She saw right through it, lightly scowling at me.

"Damm straight and don't you forget it." there was another long pause. I broke the silence.

"So...do you know how to-?"

"Of course I know how, I AM the 'how'."

"And?"

"You have to find his wolf" I frowned in confusion. She let out another irritated sigh. "Must I explain everything" she muttered just loud enough for me to hear. "Okay so Jacob's looking out through human eyes right? That's not supposed to happen, the only way it CAN happen is when the human side of a shifter pushes away it's wolf. Now a wolf should still be able to recognize his imprint even if he's not in control, but my guess is Jacob has pushed him way too far away, he's banished him-"

"Into a pit- yeah I already know- OW!" there was a loud crack as Rachel's palm connected with the side of my head.

"Don't interrupt! If you want your answers you're gonna have to listen to the whole story!" She growled. I nodded meekly rubbing the side of my head in pain. "Right now, the only way to get that wolf back is to get him to bond with his inner wolf, but the only way to make them bond is to separate the human from the wolf.

"But that doesn't make any sense, to bring them together you've got to separate them?"

"Life doesn't make sense! To bring something together it has to be separate first, something has to be broken to be fixed- and so on you get the drift"

"Okay so how do I do that? Separate the wolf from man?"

"Do human things with the human, do wolf things with the wolf. Awaken the part that has been dormant, get him to live again. Only then will he be able to finally bond with his wolf and finally recognize his imprint."

"Any idea how I supposed to do that?"

"Yes"

"Well?"

"I'm not telling"

"What!"

"Samuel, there are just some things you need work out on your own." I stared at her in disbelief.

"You're kidding me right?"

"What? You want me to write down a list of things you and him to do?" I didn't know what it was, but something about the way she was looking at me made a blush slowly creep over my face.

"Well...yeah." I pushed.

"Tough luck." I glared at her. "You better get planning" she warned, rising from her chair. "you don't have much time- how long did you agree on again? A month?" she teased.

This is why I hate older sisters! They always knew how to make you squirm.

"Bitch" I hissed. Storming out the front door.

"Love you too Samuel!" She called after me. I almost didn't hear her. I phased as soon as I was outside.

Jarred's P.O.V.

I watched the trees for Sam's return. I knew he wouldn't stay away any longer than he had to be. Jacob whined in his sleep and flinched. He was having a nightmare. My 'motherly' side as the pack so commonly referred to it as, kicked in. I hated seeing those around me in pain, including strangers, I guess that's why I tried so hard to help them even if they didn't ask for it.

Jacob whined again, this time more loudly, and yelped. He sounded scared, unsure. I walked over to his sleeping figure. He was only four years younger than me and already he'd seen too much for one to bear. He was running from it the day we found him, he probably thought about it all the time and when he slept it came to haunt him in his dreams.

I didn't know what 'it' was. All I did know was that it was something from his past, that it was something so bad it made him loose sight of who he really was and that it was something he would have to deal with the rest of his life.

The muscles in Jacob's legs twitched as he tried to run in his dream. His whining was becoming louder, it was only a matter of time before they became loud enough to wake the rest of the pack.

Cautiously, I bumped my head against Jacob's side. I made sure to apply enough pressure to interrupt whatever dream Jacob was having, but not enough to actually wake him up. My mother used to use the same trick on me when was a child. Originally I never used to have nightmares, but then there was the car accident, that car accident, the one that had left me without a father or a younger sister and since then the nightmares had never stopped.

I sighed. There was no point dwelling in the past, my life was here...now. If people spent more time in their past or the future then the present, they would miss out on what was right in front of them.

"Jarred?" Seth's sleepy voice chased any thoughts or memories about my past from my mind.

"Good morning Seth. Did you sleep well?" I turned to face him, deliberately avoiding gaze and blocking out my thoughts, only allowing conversation to get through. I had to be so careful around him, there was too much at stake...

The day that Seth had turned, Sam had chosen me to be the one to give word to his older sister Rachel. When I visited her she already knew that Seth had been turned. It was no surprise that she was one step ahead of the pack in every situation, she had the spirits on her side after all. But instead of letting me return to Sam after I'd delivered the message, she'd asked me to come inside and had told me something that would change my life forever.

Seth was my imprint.

She'd told me to not speak of this information to anyone, or to make the bond complete by meeting Seth's gaze. Seth was sixteen and at the time had barely been a shifter for a day. He was not ready for an imprint. He needed to grow up first- to have other relationships so that when the time came when he was ready to imprint, he would realize how much more special imprinting was to just any other relationship he'd had.

Although I hadn't seen Rachel's reasoning at first, I soon understood the situation and the importance of holding off imprinting. It also made things much more easier for me; if I had imprinted on Seth and he hadn't understood the situation fully, it was almost guaranteed that he would reject me and continue to date people his own age. The thought of one's mate being with someone other then their second half was pure torture to shifters everywhere. And although seeing Seth dating other people bothered me, it was nothing compared to the emotions I would've felt if I'd imprinted on Seth the first day he was turned.

Instead of meeting Seth's gaze now, I focused on his sandy yellow coat, more specifically the part that covered his forehead.

"I slept okay I guess" the young wolf looked around the campfire at his sleeping pack mates. "Are you the first up?" He asked, oblivious to the mind block I had set up between us.

"No, Sam was up before me"

"As usual-hey where is Sam?"

"He had to pay Rachel a visit" Seth tilted his head to one side confused. It was a cute response, typically Seth.

"Why?" he asked.

"To get more information about Jacob." I watched Seth switch his focus to Jacob.

"How is he?"

"Hard to tell, he's exhausted- that much is certain, but other than that...-"

"What do you think happened to him?" Seth's voice had taken on a much quieter tone.

"I don't know... we can only guess"

"It must have been bad, if he's like this now it must've been really, really bad..."

Jacob's P.O.V.

Blood...there was just so much blood. I stared over the cliff edge and down to my father's death bed. Finally, finally I had my revenge. I soon became aware of the fact I was holding a flaming touch and the rocky bed that my dad now lay upon was soaked in gasoline. I let the torch fall, it's flame almost disappearing from sight as it fell through the air before suddenly exploding a wave of fire as t came into contact with the gasoline.

"Son!!" Somehow, my dad was still alive. With what little energy he had left he called up to me. The flames licked his hide tearing horrific cries of pain from his mouth.

"You shouldn't have ignored me" I growled. Staring into my father's pleading eyes as I watched him burn and finally... die.

Good riddance.

I woke naked in the middle of the forest. Flecks of gasoline decorated my over-heated skin and the smell of smoke, burning fuel and some other putrid smell was thick in the night-air making it hard to breathe.

"Jacob!" Dazed I looked up to see my twin brother Michael standing over me. His eyes wild with fear. He took in my appearance. "Jacob...what have you done?!"


The next chapter should be out in the next 5-6 days. It will be longer than previous chapters so that's why it's taking me slightly longer to write them. In the next chapter Jacob and Sam have a lot more time with each other... lets see what happens shall we.

And how excatly is Sam going to seperate Jacob's inner wolf from his human side?

It's good that's all i can say

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