Chapter Seven:

Jacob:

Just for a second, I thought saw her. Deep inside those blue eyes, I thought I felt a small flicker of my Ness. God, if I could only tell her, if I could only reach out to her. I had to give her something. Anything, to take with her.

When I looked at the girl looking up at me, everything was wrong. The tan skin that matched mine, the small strange blue eyes. They did not make me bubble up the way hers did.

Suddenly, her eyes flashed. The deep blue was gone, and for only a moment, her eyes turned a chocolate brown that hummed with passion. But the precious time soon was gone, and the vacant blue eyes returned.


In my hands were bags upon bags of clothes. Clothes that weren't comfortable on me. Clothes that made me feel like a ridiculous stand in for a Disney movie. This wasn't who I was, this wasn't what I wanted. But I put on a brave face for Alice.

She had paraded me around dressing room after dressing room, for the simple fact of trying to show me all the male attention I got.

I knew she was trying to tell me I had options without him.

And I knew that, I didn't need a constant reminder.

I was beautiful, shockingly so. But so was the rest of my breed. I wasn't anything compared to the real deal.

Also, it just felt wrong. Jacob never looked at me like that. His eyes never looked at me like meat or something to be bought. He had looked at me as if I was the only thing in his world that was permanent.

Looking down at my wardrobe, I noticed a small hole on the end of my t-shirt. It was old, but it smelled of him.

Knowing I wore a tank underneath, I stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. I dropped my bag, and swiftly removed the shirt.

Alice had stopped beside me and was looking at me curiously.

I wadded up the faces of the Ramones, and stuffed them into a garbage can.

Even as I did so, even as I received a pat on the back from Alice, I wanted to snatch it back up.

But I held back, half for me, and half for pride.

When we reached the diner, I plopped onto a plastic fire engine booth seat, and picked up the waiting menu.

I wasn't hungry. My stomach still churned from the loss of connection from him. But I had to put on a good face. If I ate, then I was healthy. I was going to be okay.

Without interest, I picked the first thing on the menu. A patty melt with a side salad.

I set down the menu and Alice ordered a rare steak as usual. That was about the only thing she could hold down these days.

Dad had always been a master though. He could eat anything a human could for appearance sake. Still, to them, it was the equivalent of eating paper.

When the food came, I ate it slowly, trying not to think about anything, keeping my mind clear of all thought.

"Hey Ness?" Alice asked, and I slowly came back to life. She looked down at her half eaten steak and back at me.

"I kind of just realized I'm supposed to meet Jasper soon to hunt. Do you mind walking back? Ill drop our stuff off first.

I didn't mind. In fact, I was actually kind of liking the idea of alone time. Not having to perform the "Don't worry, I'm not falling apart" bit.

"Yeah, that's fine. Can I borrow your iPod?"

She agreed, and handed me the shiny purple touch screen. For a split second, I wonder what had become of mine. Last I seen it, it was on Jacob's dresser in his room. In fact, what happened to those clothes I left there? Would he have thrown them away?

After a few moments of apologies from Alice, and flustered goodbyes, I was left outside the restraint.

I plugged in some music, and blasted it as loud as the tiny machine could handle.

Although my ears were super sensitive, they couldn't be hurt. Any noise that was amplified simply sent the signals deeper. Gramps had done a whole experiment on it.

I decided not to go straight home. I wanted air. The bustle of cars and people made me feel sick having to withstand it alone.

So I headed to the forest.

I dipped into the side streets and began the few miles it would take.

The lyrics to an Aerosmith pounded into my skull and I let myself shake loose.

The sun was dropping in the sky, and my bare arms shivered. Not with cold, but with instinct. This was my time.

As I walked, I began to sway my hips to the music, smiling.

For a moment, I was happy.

"Look at that ass. Charles, Isn't that a nice ass? Makes you just wanna bury something in it." A voice slurred from behind me.

I swiveled, my perfect hearing catching their words over the lyrics, I snapped the ear buds out.

"Damn, and look at those tits!"The man's companion answered.

There were seven of them. Seven humans. Three, judging from my nose, were out of their minds drunk. The rest were sober, and lustful.

Fear pitted at my stomach, and I couldn't breathe.

"Aww, now your scaring it." A man sneered. He walked in front, with a sense of dangerous power. He was big, and large. His huge muscular body came towards mine.

I felt my fists tighten. I had the strength and the skills to kill them all. There was nothing in the world stopping me. That is, until someone from behind me smashed a rag into my face.

The smell was of chloroform. It made humans sleep, and was completely ineffective on humans. And apparently, just made a half vampire extremely weak and dizzy.

The man behind me cackled.

"I bet you taste so good." I felt a tongue slip into my ear. I tried to pull away, to fight, but only crumpled to the ground.

The leader was no standing in front of me, unbuckling his large belt. When he revealed himself I gasped through the fogs and tried to stand, tried to run.

"I'm gonna be first princess. Don't worry, I'll take it real slow." He murmured, and he reached towards me, pulling me up.

"GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF HER!"

That voice, oh god that voice. Was I hallucinating? The man who held me dropped me like a doll and my skull bounced on the pavement with a crack. I felt a warm wet feeling seep into my short hair.

The world was spinning, my vision was blurring, and all I could hear was a ripping, and a deep ferocious growl.

So, so sleepy. I closed my eyes to the sounds of screams.


Jacob:

When she dropped limply to the cement, I lost it. My whole body was already vibrating from fury and my whole body twist and spiraled as I shifted.

The men, who dared touch my Ness, were backing up. The leader, pants still around his knees were stumbling back and cussing.

I couldn't contain myself, these, cockroaches, didn't deserve to live.

A man in the back, younger than the rest with a shock of red hair, reached for Ness.

I tore off that arm.


My whole body was soft. I was floating.

I was free, and didn't care about anything.

"Ness, baby, Ness!"

Some voice traveled to me through the clouds I laid on, but I didn't want to bother. For some reason that voice was making me feel things. Confusing things.

I didn't want that. I ignored the pleading and simply let myself fall deeper.

"Baby! Love, its Jacob! Me, it's me! Baby please!"

My eyes snapped open.

Jacob?

"Oh honey, can you see me? Sweetheart?"

My eyes searched for him but I saw nothing. Just heard, felt that voice.

Jacob.

Why was he here?

The more I thought, the more I started to ease back to the ground. I felt grass under my back and a pounding in my head.

I wanted peace, but I wanted to see him more.

With a great effort, I pushed through the haze, and met his eyes.

Those eyes. With that look.

I leaned away, and threw up.

"Baby? Baby?" He called to me, panicked.

I wiped my mouth, and felt the back of my head. Sore, but healed.

I tried to stand up, to get away, but my legs wouldn't allow it and I fell back into his arms.

That smell, god that smell. I wanted to smother myself with it. Bur y my face in his warm body, but I held back.

"Sugar?" He whispered, holding me to him.

"Put me down." I groaned.

I felt his muscles tense under me.

"Please, just put me down." I murmured.

I felt his eyes on mine, wild and fierce.

Fake. It was fake. I couldn't even trust myself anymore. I began to see earth shattering love in his eyes, and deep unbending worry. But it was just a lie. He felt the same for the girl before.

No, no.

I weakly struggled against him.

"No…" I tried to command, but it came out garbled and miserable.

He ignored my attempts to break free, and crushed me into his chest,

"What? No baby. I'm here, I love-"

Will all the strength I had left, I kicked him as hard as I could in the rib.

He gasped in pain, and released me, I fell into the ground with a roll.

I had to run. It wasn't safe here, he would make me feel it.

I stumbled to my feet and started to run, I didn't know where we were, I just knew I couldn't be there.

I didn't hear him come up behind me, all I heard was the cracking of twigs as he tackled me to the ground.

"Ness! Ness! What the hell-"

I was exhausted and didn't fight him when he rolled me over and pinned my arms to my side, straddling my waist.

"Please god, please god." I whispered with my eyes closed.

I felt him pepper my cheeks with kisses, hot tears were spilling from his, mixing with mine.

I tried to turn my face away, but he just pinned his whole body to mine, and held me beneath him, unable to move.

"Why are you fighting Ness? I'm here, and god damn it I love you!" He groaned as he leaned down and nuzzled my neck.

"Stop." I gasped.

My own body was betraying me, I was overjoyed to see him. His touch made my skin boil with heat. I wanted to touch him, to feel him, it had been too long.

He froze and leaned half an inch away from my lips. His hair curtained around our faces, making everything seem so much more intimate.

"Why?" He whispered, and his breath swam across me.

"Because, because…" I started to cry harder, sobbing.

A whine escaped his lips, and he nuzzled and nipped at my collarbone.

"Oh god, because I saw you." I yelled the last part. The trees, that towered above us shook as a small wave of my energy burst forth.

"What? When?" He demanded, leaving my neck to peer at my face.

He was naked. His long, hard smooth body lay completely atop of mine and I felt so vulnerable.

"With her, that woman. You, your….IMPRINT!" I sobbed, this time I just lost myself in the sheer power of my feelings and despair.

I hadn't allowed myself to go there, but he had just knocked those doors wide open, and everything was gushing out.

He got closer to my lips.

"I have no other."

"He whispered. And he kissed me.

And I didn't want to fight. I didn't care that he lied. I loved him, needed him.

When he drew back he murmured, "It was a ruse Ness."

My whole body tensed.

"Sugar, she is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Please believe that."

The tears stopped, and I stared at him.

"I don't believe you. I saw you. You looked at her…" I was lost, confused.

His brows drew together.

"That night, when she was wearing that, that dress. I was there, I, I saw you. And you, you looked at her."

He knew what I meant. He closed his eyes and leaned his forehead on mine.

"I saw you." He murmured.

"What?" I whispered.

No, don't do this Ness, don't let him get to you. You'll have no hope when he leaves.

"You were there. I saw you. In her."

My head was spinning again. No, this wasn't real. I wouldn't let myself go back. Doubt what I had decided.

"No-" I began, but he cut me off.

"See for yourself then." And he lowered his lips to mine.

He showed me that moment, let me see inside of him. When I came back to reality, I was crying again.

"But what about? About the…?" Imprint. I couldn't bring myself to say it.

"It didn't work Ness, our bond was too deep."

"Really?" I whispered.

"Really." His lips came back to mine, gently, soothingly.

But I didn't feel like being soothed.

I flipped him over, suddenly all my strength back, and kissed him hard and deep.

I felt his surprise, but then the two months of loneliness kicked in and he was as desperate as I was.

We joined there, and loved. When we moved together,, when I let him in, we both held on for dear life.

At that moment of pure light and utter pleasure, we both cried out each other's names and fell back into each other's arms.

It was our first time.

I felt for the thread, and it was there, stronger than even before, and glowing.

We held each other there, and drifted off.

We both knew that monuments were ahead of us, but knowing I had him, well that made everything seem easy.

Without talking about tomorrow, we made love over and over until we were spent and full at the same time.


"That's quite enough." Cairo removed his hand from the woman's head.

He had seen them. Together. This simply wouldn't do.

If there was one thing in this world he treasured, it was the purity of the race. Bella and Edward had found a loophole that had allowed for this girl.

And because of her powers he allowed her life. But even a half vampire was above the company of some dog.

He clicked his teeth. No, no.

It was time he stepped in.

There you go! Now you all can take a breath. I'm tired, considering this is the longest chapter yet I think. But as your faithful servant, tomorrow I'll repeat the process.

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