Disclaimer: I, sadly, don't own Twilight or any of the characters. They belong to S. Meyer.

I was shocked, to say the least. This random girl, in the middle of the forest, knows my name? She must be talking about some other Jacob Black. A pretty common name, right?

"What? Why? Hey, are you okay? What are you doing way out here?" I was still worried about her. She seemed to have a bit of a groggy, clueless look on her face; almost like she had no idea what was going on.

She looked around her, then back up to me. When she turned her head, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion, like she was asking herself the same questions I had asked.

When she looked at me again, a thought seemed to dawn on her. She opened her mouth to speak and I almost didn't hear her. Her voice was soft, almost like it was only half there.

"You woke me too early," she accused. "This wasn't supposed to happen…"

I don't think she expected me to hear the last part, but then again, it didn't make much sense anyway.

"Hey, girl, what's your name?" I asked. I really needed to get this girl to a hospital or something. She seemed to have hit her head pretty hard. If she can't remember who she is, where she is, or how she got here…well, I just really hope it's not serious.

She looked up and her eyes bored into me with an intensity that I have never experienced. I had to look away before she answered.

"My name is Alessa. Now, if you will excuse me, it is not time yet, so I must wait." With that, she rolled over, pulled her blanket closer and closed her eyes.

Wait, was she going back to sleep?

"Hey! You can't go back to sleep! I need to get you to a hospital or something! Where do you live? Hey…hey!" I kept shaking her, but she wouldn't wake. Great. Now what was I supposed to do? I couldn't just pick her up and bring her to some random hospital. They wouldn't know what to with her anymore than I did. All I had was her first name, and they can't look up a medical record just with that.

Ugh. She just had to have an attractive scent, didn't she? Of course, because my life wasn't complicated enough with being a werewolf and having your biggest crush ever become your worst enemy just like that, but oh, we've got to add random-girl-rescuer to the list too. Well, this is just spiffy.

Well, I could pick her up, and take her somewhere, but, I already know that would cause problems. Besides, it would take way too long to travel to a hospital on foot. If I could, the best thing to do would be to somehow carry her while I'm in my wolf form. But if she woke up on the way, it would cause her to ask questions, questions I don't think I could answer.

But…

I walked over to the backpack she had next to and very quietly picked it up. I took it a few feet away and began to look through it.

I have never seen a backpack with such a seemingly random group of stuff. She had an iPod, a wallet with no license or anything but one credit card, one change of clothes, and a really old looking book. Weird and random, but nothing that would be able to help me.

There was only one thing for it. I picked up her backpack, slung it over my shoulder, and very carefully picked up Alessa. I started to run, yet again. But this time, I was running to the very last place I wanted to be.

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I am unbelievably sorry that I didn't get this up sooner. I actually had most of this typed for about a month now, and I finally finished it. I may update again this weekend, but I may update What Emmett Does on Vacation instead.

Thanks to Skystripe, lafayette722, and edwardcullenissosexy for reviewing.

Thanks also to Skystripe for betaing. Luv you all people. :-D