Have A Little Faith Chapter 7

A/N: Hey ya'll sorry for the wait. I had some stuff happen in life like a major crisis that I had to deal with and things like that so I wasn't able to get this story or any of my other stories updated like I wanted to. But, I am back now and stronger than ever! *fist pumps* So now there will be many more chapters coming. Like this one. Straight outta the oven for ya. Enjoy and hugs and kisses to you all. You all are my heart.-MoonlitShadow

2:00 a.m. Black Household

It was late, Faith knew this.

But she had had enough of tossing and turning in bed for the night.

Nightmares of the accident plagued her dreams and made sweat pore heavily from her body.

Jacob had gotten home from patrol several hours earlier and had slipped in between the flannel sheets with her.

He had taken her into his arms but only for a short while.

When she had begun to toss and turn, he had let her go and gently rolled over to the other side of the bed in his sleep.

He was snoring loudly next to her and it made her smile even if just for a moment.

She sighed heavily and knew that there was little she could do seeing as how she was too tired to even lift herself into a sitting position.

Knowing that it was more important that Jacob got sleep, she lay awake for several minutes just staring up at the moon wondering how in the hell she had managed to get herself into this situation.

Not that she wasn't happy with Jacob and the pack's love, no.

She was very content.

But nightmares and memories of her parents and their life together ran like a broken record in her head making it difficult to enjoy the silence as she laid there next to her mate.

It was then that a faint knocking sound reached her ears making her brows scrunch up in confusion.

She glanced over at Jacob who she was not surprised to see was already awake and sitting on the edge of the bed looking at the bedroom door with an intense stare.

"What is it, Jake?"

She whispered through the darkness and struggled to get herself into a sitting position.

Jake placed his hand on her belly gently and held her back down onto the bed beneath the covers before covering his lips with one finger signaling her to be quiet.

"Shh. Don't move. Stay here. I'm gonna go find out what's going on."

He said quietly making her huff in frustration before she nodded slowly in agreement.

She watched as Jake slipped quickly through the darkness and opened their bedroom door to make his way out into the hall.

He jumped back and let out a growl when he noticed that his dad was already outside his door in the hall.

Jake finally realized that it was Billy who gave him a disapproving and exhausted look.

"Geez, dad. Way to scare the shit out of me."

He murmured as he looked down at his father with a perplexed look of his own.

Billy shook his head and rolled his eyes before the knocking sound was heard.

But this time it was even louder.

Faith then realized what it was.

Someone was knocking on the front door.

Jake looked over his shoulder at where she laid amongst the pillows and covers before looking down at his father who met his eyes with an unreadable look.

"It's Charlie."

Billy said ominously making Faith's brows furrow in even more confusion.

Jacob's face scrunched up in a confused expression as well but Billy simply shook his head and pointed to the door.

"Something's wrong. We should go see what's going on."

He said in a hushed tone.

Jacob nodded and looked back at her one more time before they both headed for the door.

A few minutes later the sound of the front door opening was heard and hushed voices could be heard coming from the living room.

Faith noticed that Billy had turned on the living room lights and she wondered what was so important that someone had to come calling at this hour of night.

She waited a few more minutes in silence before she saw the hall lights turn on and Jake appear in the doorway making his way towards her.

"Everything's okay. It's just my dad's best friend Charlie Swan. Apparently Charlie's had too much to drink. He's rambling about something Renee his ex-wife said tonight when they had a fight."

He said as he reached out for her and she grasped his torso in a gentle hug.

"I doubt either of us are gonna go back to sleep with all the excitement that's happening out in the living room. I'm also gonna need to help dad with dealing with Charlie for tonight. Someone from the local bar dropped Charlie off here and Charlie can't drive when he's like this. Not with him being Chief of police and all."

Jacob said as he chuckled quietly.

Stroking his hands through her long, messy hair he looked down at her as his big brown eyes shimmered in the pale moonlight.

"How about I make us some hot cocoa and we go watch the show between Charlie and my dad? I'm sure it'll be pretty interesting seeing as how Charlie is retelling the entire story of his night."

Jacob said as she nodded tiredly and he smiled as he gently lifted her into his arms and carried her out into the hallway and into the living room where she saw that Billy sat tiredly in his wheelchair with a large multicolored shawl wrapped around his shoulders loosely and a dark haired man who looked to be about the same age as Billy sitting haphazardly on the couch next to him babbling about something incoherently.

She waved a quiet hi to Billy as she and Jake passed him and he gave them both a tired smile before turning back to the man in front of him.

"That's the Chief of Police? He looks kinda…out of it."

She said quietly as Jake placed her gently into one of the dining room chairs while he went about making them their hot cocoa.

"Well he's drunk as hell, sweetheart."

Jake chuckled making her purse her lips in distaste.

She always hated the thought of drinking and alcohol and knew that it wasn't good to drink a whole lot of it so you'd get drunk.

"What happened to him?"

She asked as Jake glanced down at her from where he was preparing the microwave for their mugs of water.

He shrugged and gave her a tired smile.

"Who knows. This happens sometimes. Usually it happens when he gets into a fight with his ex-wife Renee about their daughter Bella. Renee and Bella used to live in Forks while Renee was still married to Charlie. They broke up and Renee took Bella out to Arizona when she was about 6. I doubt she remembers any of us."

He said as Faith's eyes lit up in recognition.

"Bella…that's the girl we used to play with out in your backyard right? She had brown hair and brown eyes. I remember cause she was always reading some weird book."

She said with a smile as Jake laughed and nodded in confirmation.

"Yeah that'd be Bella. She always had her nose in some book. Was pretty antisocial too if I remember correctly. Wonder how she's doing all the way out there in Arizona."

He said as Faith nodded along with his words.

"Yeah. That's a pretty hot desert place if I remember correctly. I think mom and dad and I went there once or twice on a vacation."

She murmured quietly as Jake nodded in understanding before the microwave beeped signaling that their hot cocoa was ready.

Jake carefully took their mugs out of the microwave and blew on them lightly wincing at the hot temperature of the glass mugs before setting them down in front of them on the table.

Jake regarded his imprint carefully in the dim light of the kitchen as she blew slightly on her hot cocoa to help cool it down and made subtle glances towards the door that led to the living room where Charlie and Billy could be heard talking.

After a few moments in comfortable silence, he reached over and took her hand in his own smoothing his thumb over her knuckles in a loving motion.

"How are you doing, babe? You sleep okay tonight?"

He asked as he looked over her slim figure with a keen eye.

It was no secret that he definitely liked the way his imprint looked in the skimpy pair of short shorts and tank top that she wore to bed.

It made his cock twitch at the thought of what was underneath.

Her perky breasts were shown clearly through the almost see through tank top and it made him bite back a groan of needy want.

He had been on patrol with Paul and Embry that night and had used Paul's phone to research a few things.

Including whether or not he could still mate with his imprint sexually now that she was paralyzed from the waist down.

What he had found out made his heart leap with joy.

Even though she was paralyzed in the accident, she would still be able to enjoy sex as long as he was careful with her.

And he knew he would be.

Oh boy would he.

His eyes roamed her slim figure over and over again until he blushed when she caught him staring.

"I'm alright, Jake. By the looks of it though you've got something on your mind."

She said with a hint of sexy in her tone.

Jake's eyes widened slightly before they became hooded and slightly glazed over.

They flashed a bright golden before he let out a small growl of approval.

"Soon. Soon my little mate."

He growled lowly to her as his voice came out gravelly and needy.

Faith let out a little whimper that she wasn't even aware of as her panty clad core became damp with her want and need for her mate.

Despite being paralyzed she had discovered quite early on that that particular part of her and some others were still very much alive and active, just waiting and wanting to be touched by her mate's skilled hands.

She knew that they should wait though.

There was a lot going on and she was still getting settled into her new life with her mate and the pack.

And now they had something going on with Charlie that they had to deal with also.

Squeezing her eyes shut hard, she then opened them and sighed tiredly while giving her mate a promising smile.

"We should wait for…that. Until we have more time to ourselves. Right now we're just dealing with a lot."

She said quietly as Jake's eyes flashed between gold and brown for a few seconds before they fixed back onto their normal color and he nodded in understanding.

With their hot cocoa all but forgotten, he quickly leaned forward startling her just a bit as he came in front of her on the table and placed a searing kiss on her lips making her gasp in pleasure before stroking his fingers softly down her cheek as he pulled away with a satisfied smirk.

"I meant what I said. Soon you will be mine."

He said as he watched her pant with need and want across the table from him.

He marveled in the way her cheeks and skin were flushed and hot to the touch and he closed his eyes and whimpered as the sweet aroma of her arousal floated to him through the air.

His cock was now standing at full attention beneath his straining boxers and he winced at the sharp pain of the throb that began to build between his legs.

Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and forced himself to remain in control of his wolf who was dying to leap across the table and mate and mark their mate right at that very moment.

Thankfully, the sound of the front door closing came to them from the other side of the kitchen door, and a few seconds later; Billy tiredly rolled himself into the room to sit at the table with them.

He quirked an eyebrow at their still full and very cold mugs of cocoa before shaking his head and giving Jake an exhausted look.

"Renee called Charlie screaming about something Bella had done the other day. She said that she's sending Bella here to live with Charlie from now on and that she hopes he can straighten her out.

Charlie is beside himself I think partly with joy and partly with worry and anger. He always hated when Renee used Bella like a pawn between them.

The girl's never had a say in anything for herself. Damn Renee….She always knows how to complicate things further for all of us."

He murmured as Jake and Faith exchanged a bewildered look.

"You mean Bella's coming back to Forks to live here?"

He asked as he looked over at his mate who looked equally surprised.

Billy nodded before yawning and gesturing to their mugs of cocoa.

"Yeah she is. You kids better get ready. She'll be here first thing Monday morning on the first flight coming in from Arizona. Finish your cocoa and get to bed. You still have school in the morning. Both of you."

He said as he shot a look at Jake and then met Faith's eyes.

"Sam called me about your homeschooling. We've managed to work out a schedule for your classes starting tomorrow. You'll pick up right where you left off."

He said with a small smile making her feel all warm and fuzzy at the older man's obvious signs of affection.

It warmed her heart that Jake and Billy had been so eager to welcome her back into their home and their hearts.

As soon as Billy left to head to bed, she turned to Jake and giggled when she saw that he was sipping slowly at his cold cocoa and had made a disgusted face at it's very cold and bland taste.

Yup.

She could deal with this.

Bella hopefully would hopefully fit right in with all of them despite her rough upbringing.

At least she hoped.