Trials of Completing the Bond
Port Angeles, Washington; Jitterz
It was now February and Charlie was nearly healed. Training had gone one as usual. Edie's body was as focused as ever, but her mind was somewhere else and everyone's suspicions rose again. "Seth's being taken in by all the bells and whistles!" Leah protested. "What if she's lying to us? Has anyone tested her? How do we know that everything isn't all part of a master plan? Maybe she's the one behind the newborns? What if, just maybe, she is the monster in the pixie's visions?"
"Leah!" Embry yelled to get a word in. "Jeez, woman! Will you calm the fuck down?" It was uncommon for wolves to dispute with their imprints, let alone yell at them, but Embry wouldn't be Leah's perfect match if he didn't have the gumption to do it. He softened his voice, "I know our emotions are running high right now, but this has to end. All this suspicion and accusation…So now that we're not doing it to each other, we're doing it to her? What's next? We suspect the humans?"
"You have a point, but…"
"Babe. Let's just enjoy our date. I'd like to get away from all the pack stuff and just be here with my girlfriend."
"I'm sorry Embry." She gave him a chaste kiss on his lips. "So, what are we doing?"
"I heard around the Rez about this regular that's supposed to be off the charts good. Her name is E.E. Black."
"We're just gonna sit here and listen to this chick sing," she questioned.
"I thought you might want something relatively normal; since our lives definitely aren't." He pulled her close to his chest. "I even requested your favorite song."
Leah snorted. "There's no way this chick could do Bon Jovi. Still, it's a sweet gesture." She shifted herself to mold against his body, but just as fast, she makes notice of the scent of vampire and several wolves. "Oh great! What are they doing here?"
"Hi, Leah!" An exultant voice cut through the crowd. The crowd of supernatural young adults followed the tiny vampire owner of this voice. "Before you ask. I had a vision. We all need to be here."
"But Alice," Edward insists "You vision isn't a vision at all. It's more like a feeling."
"My vision is of all of us. Standing here frozen." Alice gathered all the Cullens as well as the wolves and their age appropriate mates and whisked them to Port Angeles, effectively annoying them all as best as she does as the hyper vampire she is.
"Did your vision include us crashing Leah and Embry's date?" Jacob rhetorically asked like the smart-aleck he was. "Sorry guys."
"Ladies and gentlemen!" The MC's voice boomed all over the club. "I'd like to bring up to the stage E.E. Black! Tonight, she'll be singing 'It's My Life' For a special lady in the audience." A relatively tall girl in a dark blue dress goes on stage her hair pulled up into a loose bun with strands of dark hair sticking out. Though, when the stage lights hit shone on her head, her dark hair turned a reddish hue. Her skin had almost a shine to it with its relatively flawless copper complexion. However, it was her shining green emerald eyes that were the most striking feature on her.
'Mother?' Edward silently thought. He recalled his faded human memories of the woman who begged his adoptive father to save his life and the gentle kisses she would place on his face with affection and devotion.
'Elizabeth?' Carlisle apparently had the same train of thought.
"Hey, guys!" E.E. Black's voice filled the room. "Thanks for having me here Carl. So… who likes Bon Jovi?"
"Edie?" Seth's voice broke Edward from his trance and Jacob sent him his concerned thoughts, but Edward assured him that he was fine. "What's she doing up there? She looks..."
"Watch it," Jacob warned him. "Why wouldn't she tell us?"
"I love this song," exclaimed Emmett. "May I have this dance, Angel?"
"Of course, Monkey Man," Rosalie replied. "I haven't danced to this song since the debut." Almost everyone got on the dance floor. Their fists were pumping and they were singing along to the song.
When she was done, Carl the MC asked E.E. Black to his station. "E.E. you've been coming here for months already. Your audience wants to know, who are you? Where do you come from? Can I have your phone number?"
"I told you I'm married," E.E. showed him her real wedding band.
"She's married," Seth whispered. "For real?! Did she tell you, Jake?"
"She didn't. Did she tell anybody?" Jacob asked their group.
"Oh yeah! Your 'future husband'. Tell us more about this post-apocalypse wasteland you're from."
"You don't want me to get into that," she teased. "I came here to change the future, not talk about it." Her heart was hammering. "Thank you, all. It's been a great night."
"That was E.E. Black, everybody! Our next talent is…" the MC's voice faded into the background as Edie walked out of the club.
"Should we follow her?" Sam voiced.
"We've done enough," Jacob stated. "Can we go, Ed?"
"Yeah." Edward then turned to his sister. "It was certainly eye-opening, Alice."
Cullen Residence
Edie stood in the middle of the practice field. Edward noticed her earlier but decided to wait until the wolves came to walk over to her. Looking at her, even though her eyes are gold again, he still sees his mother Elizabeth Masen. He wonders to himself if he and Edie could have a distant relation; since last night, he kept marking the similarities between his mother and this girl that he had come to call his sister.
While waiting for his wolf and the pack to come over, he found himself looking at an old photograph of his mother that Carlisle had re-imaged and turned to color. "Hey Beautiful," he heard from his doorway.
"Hi," Edward tore his eyes from the photograph to answer Jacob.
"What are you looking at?" Jacob snaked his arms around Edward and looked at the photo he was holding in a frame that looked older than his grandfather; it had minimal damage and the details were intricate. "That looks like Edie. Where'd you find a picture of her?"
"It's not Edie. This is my mother," Edward responded softly.
"Are you serious? They could be twins. You look a lot like her too. What's bothering you?" He sensed an uneasiness with his imprint.
"I don't know, Jake." Edward walked over to his couch and slumped on it as he sat. Edward Cullen rarely slumped, he is always the epitome of good manners and etiquette. "Is it crazy for me to think that somehow someway, Edie and I could actually be related?"
"No, but if you were, you wouldn't be the only one. The day I met her and saw her smile for the first time, I could swear my mom had come back to life. Where is our girl, by the way?"
"She's in the field waiting for all of us."
"She knows that we were at Jitterz last night, doesn't she?"
"It's possible. Someone with her abilities can spot us miles away."
Soon, everyone was on the field. They were waiting for what Edie had to say. Everyone wanted to confirm their suspicions that she knew what they did last night. "I wanted to wait until Charlie was healed before I talked to you guys, so here it goes; I was thinking about stepping away from the battle. We should divide the imprints among the wolves; Brady will take Kim, Collin will have Rachel, and my partner will be Emily."
"May we ask why?" Carlisle was the one who voiced their thoughts.
"I am untrustworthy in battle."
"If this is because of what happened at Jitterz, we didn't mean to spy on you."
"And Bella's interference is not your fault," Edward stressed.
"The Jitterz thing isn't important. You can do whatever you like, but it doesn't make what I say any less true." Edie paused for a moment. "I'm going to tell you something that is going to make you hate me and the very last thing I want is to know for sure that you do." She gazed upon Edward's eyes and then Jacob's when she said this. She kept her heart steady. "I turned Isabella Swan into a vampire."
"What happened to being allergic to human blood," Sam accused.
"I said I turned her. I didn't drink from her."
"How can we believe you?"
"There is a way." Emmett suggested, "Carlisle has blood stored in the house. We were using it to train Jasper so his bloodlust would die without it killing him." Emmett went to and from Carlisle's storage and grabbed a bag of A-POSITIVE blood. He threw it at Edie. "Prove your worth."
Edie punctured the blood bag and began to suck out the blood inside. Each gulp tasted like gasoline; it would kill you as soon as it entered your body. Still, she drank the entire thing and then faced her jury.
Edie's legs began to feel numb, so she fell to the ground. She could feel her body beginning to heal itself. Black bile began pouring out of her mouth and shooting out of her eyes. Edie held onto her abdomen, willing the pain away. She closed her eyes out of exhaustion; the rest of her body gave up and let gravity do the rest. She felt her body being lifted then laid down. There were many voices surrounding her. They all wanted something; she couldn't tell, so she fell asleep.
As soon as Edie's knees hit the ground, Jacob moved to reach her, but Sam delayed him. When the bile came out, Jacob nearly ripped Sam's arm out of his way, so he could tend to the suffering hybrid. Edward reached her faster and lifted her to Carlisle's lab. He placed her on the twin sized bed that Rosalie placed there as soon as he moved. He tried to read Edie's thoughts to see how much pain she was feeling, but all he could get were stray thoughts.
Carlisle kicked everyone out of the room. Everyone provided a distraction that he didn't need; especially Edward. Speaking of Edward, he and Jacob grabbed Emmett and Sam by the throats and threw them against the trees. "Was that enough proof for you two?" Jacob bellowed.
Meanwhile, Carlisle was taking off Edie's clothes when a bottle fell to the ground. 'Contact solution? Why would she need contact solution?' Carlisle could tell Edie was about to come to and moved quickly to change her into a hospital gown.
When she opened her eyes, he saw the bright green eyes he once thought were only contacts. "May I ask why you had these on your person?" He showed her the small bottle he found.
"Seeing as I can see myself on your reflective surfaces, I can only assume that you already know what they are for." She heard yelling from outside. "Is that Edward and Jacob? I need to stop them." She reached for her bottle, but a pale hand whisked it away. "Please Carlisle. I really need to do this."
Carlisle sighed, "You will explain everything to me."
"I will." She applied the drops to her eyes and soon they turned a dark topaz. "I only ask that you keep this information to yourself."
"How am I supposed to keep something like this from my family?"
"Leave that to me." Immediately, Carlisle had a mental shield against Edward and Alice. When she reached outside, Jacob was about to shift. "Wait, Jacob! Don't do it!" Her words stopped Jacob's wolf, but it was her body that stunned his movement. "It's not their fault. It's mine for keeping the truth from you."
"They nearly kill you and you expect us to let them live?" Edward growled at Sam Uley and Emmett, his accomplice.
"Why does it matter what happens to me? My life is inconsequential."
"Of course you matter to us," Jacob yelled. "How can you say that?"
"Because I'm not important; you are! The family needs to be together or you will die! You shouldn't be mad at them, be mad at me. I'm the one who changed things. I'm the one who turned Swan into a vampire."
"Why did you change her," Edward asked once their spirits were pacified and Edie had clean clothes on.
"There is a battle where the Volturi comes and the entire family dies, both vampire and shifter alike. Alice couldn't see it beforehand because they had Swan in their guard. Her ability to keep her mind private as a human transcended when she turned into a vampire and she became a Shield. Swan was powerful enough to deflect even the most unique powers."
"Why do you know so much? About Bella? About the Volturi?"
"I'm from seventy years in the future, give or take a few years."
"How do you know how to fight the way you do," Jasper queried. He had wondered why she had such a military-like fighting style.
Edie gulped. "I joined the Volturi Guard to help me, teach me, to fight. Grandma was a pacifist and if I was going to help you, I needed to have something up my sleeve."
"Woah!" Seth commented, "It doesn't make sense though. If Bitch Swan was dangerous as a vampire, then why did you turn her?"
"That is a more complicated answer."
"Then explain slowly," Edward suggested in an almost insulting tone.
Edie gave him an annoyed look that was identical to his own. "I may have bitten her, but it wasn't my venom that turned her. I used a friend's."
"You're not able to make the change?"
"In small doses, my venom could be used to heal, but it was only a theory until Charlie got hurt. My venom isn't supposed to exist yet and the consequences of creating someone from my venom strain could cause disaster."
"Meaning Swan could've become like you," Paul concluded.
"Yeah." Edie continued, "Swan was dangerous because she was with the Volturi. I never wanted to kill her. I wanted her to disappear long enough until the battle had been fought and won, but it seems your boyfriend's reputation brought her back to us too soon." She looked at Jacob when she said this.
"What 'reputation'," Jacob eyed Edward suspiciously.
"Women and some men call Edward the Vampire Prince," Rosalie explained. "The jewel among vampires. You should've seen the waves of women wanting to join our family to be with him. In fact," she teased "Tanya still asks for you, doesn't she, Edward?"
If looks could kill…the rest isn't hard to figure out. Edward was about to rebut her statement when he sensed a very dark aura coming from the direction of his wolf shifter boyfriend. "Who. Is. Tanya?"
"She's just my cousin from Alaska," he tried to placate Jacob.
"She better be." Jacob thought darkly, 'If I see her or any other vamp girl try to get their fangs on you, I'll tear them apart and burn them while we fuck on their ashes.'
"We're leaving!" Edward stood up and yanked Jacob away from their family. They got far enough away that no one would hear them. Edward then pushed Jacob down and ripped away the shirt that was in his way. He started placing kisses along Jacob's jawline.
"W-what are you doing," Jacob moaned pleasurably. Edward moved his cold tongue to lick a stripe along Jacob's neck. His cold kisses started to trail down the wolf's chest as his hand unbuckled the belt on Jacob's pants.
He began stroking Jacob's erection through the fabric of his underwear and earned encouraging sounds as a reward. "I'm giving you your punishment. You shouldn't send images like that to my mind if you don't want to suffer the consequences."
"If this my penance, I can't wait until you give me a prize. Ah!" Edward's cold hand had made skin to skin contact with Jacob's red-hot erection.
"I have yet to start your punishment." Edward sucked on Jacob's bottom lip while his hands worked the rest of the russet-toned body. Edward traced the defined abdominal muscles on Jacob's body; after Jacob became the alpha, the muscles on his body became more prominent and his torso had formed a slight curve. Edward could feel the erection he held in his left hand becoming harder.
Jacob did what he could with his hands and roamed Edward's back. He removed himself from Edward's lips, "I believe in equal opportunity relationships." He tore off the vampire's expensive looking button down shirt.
"That was Egyptian cotton, puppy," Edward commented.
Edward loosened his grip on Jacob's member and began massaging the head with his thumb. He felt the precum leaking. Jacob moaned at the touch. Edward removed himself from Jacob and walked away. Jacob whined, "Where are you going?" Edward turned back and on his face was a victorious smirk. "You are so cruel!" Edward let Jacob trip him and they both fell on the grassy floor with Jacob on top.
Jacob started copying what Edward had done to him. Edward was getting harder every second that Jacob touched him. Edward gasped when he felt his cock being touched and it wasn't a hand; it felt wetter than that. He felt the velvety tip of Jacob's tongue explore every surface of his cold and hard penis. With every touch from Jacob, Edward's neurons were blasting. It was unrealistic by many manners of reality, but still, Edward felt it.
The moans coming from Edward's mouth were playing like a symphony. As the sounds increased and his moans change tone like notes playing throughout the song. "Jacob, I think we should stop~" Jacob had taken Edward's entire prick inside the fiery confines of Jacob's mouth. Jacob sucked hard on the frozen penis inside his mouth. The sensation was almost too much for Edward; he resisted thrusting his hips up because he didn't want Jacob to choke. Still, Edward gave into the efforts of his wolf.
About fifteen minutes later, they went back to the pack coven or coven pack? There was no correct way to say it, so they may as well call it family. They went back to their family.
Family… Two ghosts danced around the family; one was a redhead with emerald eyes and the other had midnight hair and deep brown eyes. The red-head was on a rampage of sorts. "I'll kill them. I swear to God I'll kill them! How dare they hurt our baby!"
"You can't do anything to them, so calm down. You're confusing emo-vamp." Jasper's spine shivered slightly.
"I don't care. She was going to die!"
"No, she wasn't. You know that her body is adapting to it even as we speak. We should thank the Spirits that she is strong."
That seemed to pacify the green-eyed ghost. "At least we know for sure that their instincts to protect her are there."
"Exactly." The brown-eyed ghost observed their daughter longingly.
"I'm jealous too," the red-head answered the other's thoughts. "They get to hold her and we don't." The brown-eyed ghost wept on his lover's chest.
Edward and Jacob returned to their family. Most of the guys had smug looks on their faces. Others had their noses scrunched up and the girls, not including Edie, had knowing smirks.
"If we're done silently commenting on their love life, can we get back to training?" Edie asked rhetorically.
"You still haven't told us your story," said Alice.
"I told you about the battle. What else do you need to know?"
"What do you know about the creature in my vision?"
Edie was silent, she was thinking about what to tell Pixie. "It is something that must be prevented because once it is created, it can never be killed. A creature like that should never exist in this world. It will only cause pain and sorrow."
"In my vision, the creature is standing in front of Edward and Jacob. Does that mean they're in danger?"
"I don't know. Your visions are relative Alice, but my advice would be to never encounter this beast. Ever. I just hope that your vision never comes true."
"Why?"
"Many reasons." She took the imprints and Brady and Collin to an area out of reach from the other wolf shifters.
"She's so VAGUE! It's annoying me," Alice pouted.
"You're only saying that because you can't see her future," Edward pointed out.
"Well, I should be able to dammit! Every time I think I get close to seeing her, she disappears. It's like she's toying with me."
"Maybe she wants her privacy," her husband suggested. "Being around a mind-reader, a psychic, and the collective mind web of the shifters can take its toll on a person."
"She doesn't block you out," said Jared. "You can still feel her emotions, can't you?"
"Emotions aren't always mental," Jasper explained. "They have to do with your entire being. Even if she found a way to block me, as you say, I can still read her like an open book. And let's just say her book is a confusing one."
Another discussion was about to break out and the subject wasn't hard to figure out. "Enough!" Jacob spoke in his Alpha-voice. "We leave this alone until Edie is with us."
"Fine! Then get her out here. I know you can hear me, Ms. Ward!" Alice yelled to the distance. "You keep everyone at a distance!"
"Alice, behave yourself," Esme scolded her.
A distance away from the Cullen Residence
In their training field, the home group's training session has ended. There wasn't much to do, so they only went over strategy. "You guys aren't ready, but there isn't much I can do without giving you performance enhancers."
"We can still do more!" Kim insisted; Rachel and Emily agreed.
"You can't. Tonight, you need to spend as much time as you can with your families."
"Because we're going to die," Brady meekly asked.
"No. Spend time with them because you love them. Whatever happens tomorrow, you know that they love you and it's not a feeling that will go away easily."
The group sans Edie start walking to the Cullen mansion. "Aren't you coming with us," Rachel wondered.
"Can you do me a favor and tell Carlisle to meet me with Esme at my house around 8 PM?"
"Sure."
Forks Police Station; Swan Residence
An officer at the front desk asked, "How may I help you?"
"Is the chief here?" Edie responded.
"He's in a meeting with the state police, I don't know if he'll be free…" he turned to see if the meeting had ended. "Chief! This young lady is here to see you. I'm sorry, sweetheart, what's your name?"
"Edie," Charlie exclaimed. "This is a nice surprise."
"Yeah, I just came by to see if you wanted to go to The Lodge today. I don't really feel like cooking," Edie responded.
"Sure. I'm done here." They were soon in Charlie's cruiser after he locked up his office. "Do you mind if we stop at home so I can switch to my civvies?"
"Not at all." There was something different when they arrived at the house. The truck! It was missing. "Charlie, where'd you put the Chevy?"
"I traded it in." Charlie opened the garage door and there was a Nissan Altima. "I went to a dealership while you were training." When Charlie finished changing, they went over to the diner.
The Lodge
When they arrived, the people in the diner gave Charlie a round of applause as a show for admiration for his performance in the line of duty and they were led to Charlie's usual table.
"Steak and potatoes for both of us with sweet corn on the side, please," Edie told the waitress right away.
"To drink?"
"Colas please."
"Coming right up." She left to place the order in the kitchen.
"Should've ordered some cold ones; that would've made my day," Charlie chuckled.
"Yeah, well we can do that later when we get home." The food arrived and everything was peaceful. "I told them today."
"Everything?"
"No. Just where I'm from and why Bella had to leave," she whispered the last part. "Sam wanted me to prove myself to them, so Emmett got some 'Kool-Aid' from the fridge and made me drink it all."
"A whole pint?"
"Yeah. Edward and Jacob were so furious; they nearly killed Sam and Emmett."
"What else happened?"
She sighed. "Carlisle found my contacts. He and Esme are coming over today at eight."
"So, I'll be at Billy's then."
"Actually, could you call ask him and Sue to come over?"
"Then where will I be?"
Black Residence
The phone rang three times before Jacob picked it up. "Hello?"
"Hey Jake, is your dad there?"
"Yeah, I'll pass him right now. Dad! Charlie's on the phone!"
"I got it. Stop yelling!" Billy responded and picked up the phone in the living room. "Hey Charlie, what's up?"
"I wanted to know if you and Sue could come over around 8:15 tonight. It's important."
"Sure Buddy. I'll tell Jake to take us–"
"Just you and Sue, Billy."
"Ok. I'll see you then. Bye."
"Bye."
As far as anyone knew, Charlie thought he was attacked by an animal in the woods that day after he and Edie were done talking. This brought on the end of the investigations. The marks on Charlie's body matched the other bodies and when the state police questioned everyone about the animal that did this, Rosalie told them that she shot it and then it ran into the woods to die. It was all very convenient, but plausible.
Billy was rolling by Jacob's room when he saw his son very concentrated on his desk. "Whatcha doing there, son?"
"Dad! I…well I was just making something for Ed." Billy peeked at his son's project. There was leather on the desk and a whittle blade. In the center, there was a masculine bracelet that was nearly complete.
"Is there something you want to tell me?"
"I, well…you married Mom when you were young right?"
"We were eighteen. I knew the moment I met her that I would marry her. Maybe, it was my version of imprinting. You want to marry Edward?"
"Yeah. Yes, I do."
"You barely turned seventeen a month ago, Jacob."
"I know that." Jacob looked down; his fingers suddenly seemed very interesting.
"Don't you want to go to college or…you've always wanted to open a shop? What about your future?"
Jacob sighed deeply. "It's not that I don't want those things or that I want him to give them to me…I have this strong feeling that I'm going to lose him," he sniffled. "It's not the imprint. It's something else that is telling me, screaming at me, that my life with him is going to end soon and I need to stop it. I want us to be tied together in every way possible." Jake got up and opened the drawer to his desk and took out an envelope and handed it to his father. "I got this in the mail three days ago."
Billy opened it to find a paper that read Certificate of Completion. "This is a diploma."
"I've been taking classes for a while and Edie's been helping me so that no one would know. When the Cullens leave, I'm going with them Dad, but I want to be married before I go."
"Ok."
"Just like that?"
Billy smiled nostalgically. "I learned a long time ago not to get in the way of a Wilde when they want something. Your mom would never forgive me if I said no."
"Thanks, Dad." Both Blacks shared a hug and Jacob went back to finishing his project. It was later that Seth called Jacob to his house to play some video games. Jacob's project was finished after working on it for a long time. Billy sat at home waiting for Sue to pick him up to take him to Charlie's. Then there was a knock at his door.
It was his son's imprint, "Hello Mr. Black. I was wondering if I could have a word with you."
Earlier…Cullen Residence
He had given thought to forever before; once in misery and another in bliss. The blissful forever turned into a despondent ending and it's looking like the miserable forever might disappear. Edward had thought of forever, but now forever has been thrown away and replaced by something better: always.
One hundred years ago, marriage had been viewed solely as man and wife. If he had remained human and either of his parents were alive, he would've introduced them to a nice girl and courted her with the intent of marriage in a handful of years. Meeting Jacob changed that.
He was strong and brave and he had his own mind. It was a month ago when Edward told Jacob about his rebellion.
"Have you fed on anyone since then?" The question left the thin line on Jacob's lips clearly while his hands were grasping on bundles of grass that were scarce on the cliff that had become their spot. It was away from human eyes, so they could be there when the sun shone and open enough to view the whole Hoh Rainforest. He was looking up at Edward who uncharacteristically was at a loss for words.
"Not deliberately. I had a taste when I was sucking out the venom from Bella," Edward admitted.
"They were people, Ed. Their families and their victim's families deserved closure and you took it from them." It felt like years before Jacob said something else. "Are you okay? It can't be easy telling anyone about a dark part of your past."
"You don't care about what I did?"
"Of course I care. You killed people. But I can't spend the rest of my life holding it against you. It's part of what makes you who you are now." Jacob stood in front of Edward and cupped his face. "Ed, everything that has ever happened in our lives matters. I promise you, Edward Cullen, I'm going to hold on to you and for the rest of our lives anything that comes at us will be faced together." Their lips met in a soft, loving kiss.
Jacob didn't coddle him or made the matter unimportant. He was honest with Edward and accepting. Edward didn't stay after he took Jacob home that night. When he got home he opened a trunk that held trinkets from his human life. He took out a simple white gold ring that belonged to his father. He took it to a jeweler and had them modify so part of it would represent Jacob.
He picked up the ring today before the Edie-blood fiasco. It was the first decision he had made entirely on his own in nearly a century. He was scared beyond belief. He needed to talk to Carlisle. He knocked on his sire's office door.
"Come in, son." Edward opened the door. Carlisle was behind his desk reading a leather-bound book. The pages were barely holding onto the spine. When Edward came in, he closed the book carefully. "Tell me what's on your mind."
"A lot."
"More than the usual?"
"I want to marry Jacob."
"That's wonderful." Carlisle hugged his progeny. "What else did you need to talk about," he asked, knowing his son.
"I need your counsel." Edward took an unnecessary long breath. "I love Jacob. I haven't told him yet, but I do. I want to tell him all the time, but it's as if my voice won't work. It feels as though my body is afraid to tell him because once I say it, I'll have to let him go. It's completely irrational, I know, but I can't help it; and I fear the love I have for him will go unfulfilled if I don't express it in every way possible and soon."
"What brought this on?"
"I don't know. He's everything to me and now that I have him so close to me, I want to hold onto him fiercely. I just don't know how to begin to express what I feel for him to him."
"I think you do. You only need the courage to follow through."
"Where do I find it?"
"The answer is obvious."
Now…Black Residence
"Would you like to come inside?" Billy moved his chair out of the doorway.
"Thank you, Mr. Black."
They moved to the living room where Edward stayed standing and looked at Sarah Black's old paintings. "What did you want to speak to me about?"
"In my time, when a man fell in love he would ask the father of the person of his choice an important question. I love your son, Mr. Black. I love him more than I have the courage to say, but if I could have your blessing to marry him, I will spend the rest of our eternity finding the right words."
Billy Black kept his mind blank; it was a trick he learned from his grandfather in hopes of maintaining his privacy when he would become a wolf. He found the whole situation ridiculously funny. Both boys on the same day expressed the desire to marry the other. He had already made up his mind. He only wanted the vampire to sweat a little.
He gazed at Edward without giving any emotion away. "You don't have my blessing. Instead, I'll give you a warning; if you don't make him happy every day for your entire marriage, I will find a way to make your life a living hell."
The vampire gave the tribe chief the biggest smile he had ever seen. "I promise to light the fire if that ever happens." Without turning his head, he said, "Sue is here to pick you up. I should get going as well, I promised to pick up Jake."
"I'll see you then, Edward."
"Thank you, Mr. Black."
"Billy."
"Billy," Edward confirmed.
Miles away from the Cullen Residence
"I thought we were camping on the cliff?" Jacob asked curiously.
Edward had picked up Jacob from the Clearwater's as promised. They made plans to spend the night together in their spot, but tonight was special. "I wanted to show you something. Esme had been working on a project and I thought you would want to see it."
"Alright." They walked with their fingers intertwined until they came across a small clearing in the forest. There was an old-world stone cottage in the middle. There were numerous vines and flowers on the outside walls that gave the illusion of the cottage growing from the forest itself. "Esme definitely outdid herself. This amazing."
"Wait until you see the rest." He opened the door to let himself and Jacob inside. The inside was mostly bare; it had the essentials for the living but lacked the little touches that would make it a home. "I know you had your heart set on camping; there's a fireplace in the master bedroom," he whispers in Jacob's ear.
"Lead the way," said Jacob, taking the hint. The bed was huge and crimson with a wrought iron frame. The rest of the furniture looked reinforced with iron as well. The room had an overall danger-lurking-in-the-woods feel. They sat on the floor by the fireplace after Edward lit it and took his place behind Jacob. The kisses were patient and easy as if they were saying "hello" to each other. After a while, they laid comfortably against each other.
Edward broke the silence. "I'm madly in love with this man and I think he loves me too," he suddenly proclaimed.
"T-that's pretty bold of you." Jacob shifted slightly against his boyfriend.
"I find that when it comes to love, it is better to be upfront."
"You know…I'm not her." Jacob addressed the elephant in the room.
"I know you're not. Your differences are pretty evident." Edward's hold on Jacob became tighter. "It's just, not even a year ago, I was with this girl that drove me to near insanity with the scent of her blood and…"
"Now you're with a guy that happens to be a wolf."
"I'm with you, Jacob. We started this –No! This isn't the break-up speech. I would never want to end what we have."
"Sorry. I guess I get a little insecure."
Edward held Jacob's chin between his thumb and index finger and gave him a short but fiery kiss. "You know you have nothing to worry about with me, right?"
"Edward Cullen, I am madly in love with you and I think you love me too," Jacob half-jested. "I'm also a guy from this century. I should want to go out and live my life; I should want to do human things. But, I know that anything without you would be less than… everything."
"I love you, Jacob Black."
"I love you, Edward Cullen." The kiss they shared afterward turned heated. "Wait! I have something I want to tell you."
"What is it?"
"I've been taking online classes to get my GED. I got my diploma in the mail a few days ago," Jacob faced away from his imprint. He was still trying to find the right words to say.
"That's wonderful Jake. Why the big rush?" When he didn't get a response right away he asked, "Jake?"
"When a Quileute loves someone..." Jacob takes a deep breath, exhales, and turns around, still kneeling, he faces his vampire and makes direct eye contact. "When a Quileute loves someone, they give the person of their choice a gift, but this gift comes with certain conditions." He digs into his pocket and he pulls out a leather-woven bracelet with a lion sculpted into the material. "I only have two conditions. The first is that when it's time for your family to leave, I will go with you. Sam was going to take over for me anyways," he added lightly, answering Edward's silent question. "The second condition is that you marry me before that happens."
Edward felt his chest tighten at his wolf's proposal. "I have something to tell you before you get my answer." He came to and from the bedside table with something in his pocket when he came back. "When a man is in love, he finds a way to tell the person of his choosing he loves him every day. Sometimes it's not those three particular words, sometimes it's other words or actions that portray that love. The person I choose is a boy who makes me feel normal, rather than the monster that I am. He doesn't coddle me or insults my intelligence or my emotions when I tell him the darkest truths about myself. He is honest in his actions, his words, and his thoughts. I need this boy -this man for every reason even those that don't exist yet." He opens the velvet box he had been holding onto. It was a gold band with wolves etched on the outside and an inscription on the inside that read 'no est me sine te'. Jacob could hardly breathe at the sight of it. "This was my father's ring. I had the jeweler add the wolves on the outside. The inscription means 'there's no me without you'. No truer words have ever been uttered. Without you, Jake, my wolf, there's nothing left. I'll answer your question with a question of my own. Will you-"
"Yes!" Jacob attacked Edward furiously with his lips. They whispered I love you's between kisses. They finally managed to tear away from each other long enough to exchange their engagement bands. They were back to mauling and rutting against each other on the floor.
It was getting heated, more so than usual. They separated once last time so Jacob could breathe. They pulled away enough to see the lust blown pupils of their mate's eyes and the love-tainted expressions they held. They could already read minds, but they didn't need that ability to know what the other wanted. With one last love-filled kiss, they led each other on the crimson bed. The whole movement was really fluid in a way. There was no effort into ridding each other of their clothes. There was only a little hesitation when it came to their underwear because it was the first in the series of tasks that pose a question of stopping the whole thing. They moved swiftly past that stage and got on the bed with Jacob at underneath.
They continued to make-out on top of the sheets. Jacob's hands were trying to feel every bump on Edward's back and his lover's hands were exploring his slight curves. Edward's hands continued to wander. They brushed against every bump he could find on Jacob's broad chest while his mouth trailed behind; moving from his wolf's lips to his jawline. He trailed kisses and was encouraged to do more by the soft moans escaping Jacob's mouth.
Jacob felt the need to be submissive to his boyfriend while Edward wanted to simply worship the man underneath him. Edward had his mouth trail kisses on Jacob's chest until it landed on one of the nipples. He abused the nipple with his teeth and tongue while the other was being pinched by his hand. Jacob's cock grew harder with every ministration and started to rub himself on Edward's abs while his hands went through his boyfriend's bronze hair.
Edward's free hand was caressing Jacob's ass cheek. When he felt that Jacob's nipples had had enough fun, he trailed kisses down Jacob's bulging abdominal muscles. Just the thought of Edward having his mouth in that intimate area, had Jacob's appendage hard and achingly red. Edward used his lover's thoughts as a guide to what he would do.
He began by massaging Jacob's balls and making slow strokes on his cock. It started with a kiss and then a small lick on the tip. Pre-cum had begun to ooze out of the aching red cock. Edward enveloped his lips around the thick red appendage. Jacob clutched the sides of the bedspread. Edward had swallowed Jacob whole. It was like having your dick surrounded by a sheath of ice, but with Jacob's naturally high temperature, it felt perfect. Jacob's moaning and erotic sighs inspired Edward to suck harder. With the combination of his lover's use of his hands and mouth, Jacob came immediately and inside Edward's mouth. Edward swallowed every drop.
Jacob pulled Edward up to meet his lips. They kissed softly for a while. Nipping at each other's lips and their small, soft touches; they whispered sweet nothings. Jacob got on top of Edward and pulled him up; their position changed to where Jacob was sitting on Edward's hard cock and Edward was holding him and sitting upright. "I want you inside me. Just like this."
"As you wish," he gave his lover one of his signature smirks. Jacob kissed that smug smirk away. Edward used the precum already forming on Jacob's dick to slick up his fingers. Their lips never let go of each other.
This was the first time for both of them, they knew this of the other. Edward's middle finger massaged the anal cavity and found it curious as to why it was so dripping wet. It was easier to slick the next two fingers in and when he brushed them against the bundle of nerves inside the wet tunnel, Jacob let out a loud moan that could only be described as needy and erotic.
"Do it now Ed, please!" Jacob whined
Edward slipped inside with moderate ease considering his plentiful girth and the tightness of Jacob's heated cavity. It was two intense temperatures battling each other out. Usually, when the hot and cold collide, natural disasters occur; it's usually something like a tornado and sometimes it's a hurricane.
Edward was inside Jacob. He grabs his wolf's hips tighter and thrust up and down, repeatedly in vampiric speed and Jacob met him at every thrust. They planned to be equals in every step of their lives together, why wouldn't they be equals now?
They're close to orgasming. Both men are desperate to remain connected in every way possible. Then Jacob's inner wolf starts acting up; his teeth sharpened and elongated and his pupils dilated to the point of complete eradication of his deep brown eyes. At the same time, Edward's true vampiric nature was unearthed; his eyes turned black and his teeth lost their human-like appearance and sharpened and extended into fangs like Jacob's teeth had done. At the peak of their sex, when Edward came inside Jacob and Jacob ejaculated all over Edward's torso, they sunk their fangs inside the other.
It felt as if the figurative hurricane of their temperatures had come to life in the room. They never let up on their grip and the raw nature of the act transcended into their bond. It felt like the Imprint and the Mate Bond all over again; except, where the previous experience tied them together, this sensation fused their souls as one. When it was over, a calm sensation washed over them and they fell unconscious.
"I remember this day, but it's different." The male figure with midnight hair and brown eyes uttered. "When it happened before, there weren't any gifts. It was just them." He turned to his bronze-haired partner and looked to his emerald eyes and whispered in awe, "they're getting married."
"So it seems," the red-head replied while holding his lover against him.
"Did we do the right thing? Influencing them like that?"
"They have the option we never had or took for that matter."
"That doesn't answer the question."
The green-eyed spirit chuckled into his lover's shoulder. "As someone I love once told me, everything that has ever happened in our lives matters."
The Quileute turned his head back and kisses his pale-face. "You sap!"
