Chapter 9 - We Got Jokes? NO!
Emily, Sam, Dallas and Jacob watched as Paul paced the living room, he had already excused himself three times to go outside and burst into a wolf, trying to calm himself down. He couldn't believe he actually phased in front of Lakota. He was so pissed off at himself. Dallas finally jumped in front of Paul to stop him from moving, "Paul stop, you're making us dizzy, Lakota is okay. I imagine you just scared the shit out of her."
Paul growled, "I know that, but I should've had control over myself. I shouldn't have phased like that in front of her, I could've seriously hurt her." Sam stepped up as he grabbed Paul by the shoulder, "The important thing is that you didn't hurt her and you called us immediately. She's going to be fine, she just fainted." Emily giggled, "It's a normal reaction Paul. I promise. You know I wouldn't lie to you. She will be okay. You just have a little explaining to do when she wakes up."
Paul gaped, "Oh God! I didn't even think of that. What the hell am I going to do? She's never going to speak to me again." Emily grabbed Paul by the arm, "Paul you need to calm down if she's anything like me she'll listen to you and won't have any kind of reservations about it." Paul scoffed, "Sure she's just going to love the fact I change into a huge furry dog. I'm sure she's just going to accept it openly."
About that time, Leah, Seth, Jared, Kim, Claire and Quil came through the front door and into the living room; Quil smirked, "So I heard you went all wolfie on your imprint Paul." Paul growled deeply and started to take a step towards Quil as Claire jumped in front of Paul, "Quil, maybe now isn't the right time to tease Paul…He doesn't look like he's in the mood to play around…Not even a little." As she elbowed Quil. Paul growled again sealing the fact that no he was not in the mood for jokes at the moment. Quil physically jumped a little as he wrapped his arms around Claire and lifted her off the floor and took a few steps back.
Jared frowned, "Don't worry bro she'll be fine. She'll accept you; you just need to make sure to be honest with her about it." Paul scowled, "Sure cause there's really a way to lie about being an over grown ball of silver fur." Quil chipped in, "Maybe you could write her a letter of some sort. You know if you didn't feel like talking to her face to face." Jake smirked, "Sure…Dear Lakota sometimes when I'm pissed off or humans are endanger from vampires I burst into a big dog, and I imprinted on you which means you get to carry my puppies so I can breed the wolf gene into them, Love Paul. P.S. I hope you don't mind the fleas."
Paul shot a glare at Jake, "This is not funny." Jake held up his hands, "Hey I wasn't making a joke, I was pointing out the fact that the whole letter idea was just asinine. Don't growl at me here dude I'm completely on your side, if you wanna skin Quil alive or scalp him I say go for it." Emily stepped between Jake and Paul, "Or you could just chalk it up to one of your brothers trying to make a bad joke at your expense. Which if he doesn't stop at this point I'll make sure he gets punished for it." Paul's scowl deepened as he rolled his eyes and gruffed out, "I'm going to go check on Lakota. Quil...Be gone when I come back out."
Quil's eyes were the size of potatoes as he grabbed Claire's hand, "C'mon Claire Bear, Let's get you home." Claire scoffed, "Why he said you had to be gone not me…It wasn't my mouth that over loaded my ass." Quil glared, "Fine I'll wait for you in the car." Claire sighed exasperatedly, "Fine let's go...Lord knows you wouldn't want to just apologize for making stupid comments." Claire grabbed Quil's hand and practically drug him out the door. He was just letting her drag him. He really was just trying to lighten the mood. Clearly it was a BAD idea.
Paul walked into Lakota's room at Dallas's house. As he sat on the bed and touched her face with the back of his hand. She was laying on her side facing him and he felt so guilty. He honestly could've hurt her really bad. Maybe worse. He was extremely lucky he hadn't been standing too close to her. As soon as she fainted he got a whiff of her and could smell the fear on her. It wasn't supposed to be like this, he wasn't ready to tell her the truth just yet. He watched as her hair slowly slid down and fell in her face. She was so beautiful and he couldn't get over the fact that some guys just used her for what he wanted and then for her to be the only survivor out of twelve people.
Paul slowly slid from the bed as he rested his elbows and head on his knees, trying to breathe and figure out how to get himself out of the hole he seemed to of dug himself. He hadn't realized how tired he was because before he knew it he fell asleep.
Lakota opened her grey eyes slowly as she looked around the room and noticed she was in her room. Slowly sitting up in bed she rubbed the back of her head as the day's events unraveling in her memories. She'd told Paul everything about the hostages, the rape, her crazy parents. God he was so angry. And weirdest of all he exploded into a giant wolf. But it was the same wolf who had been giving her the night time visits, maybe it was his way of protecting her during the night. So weird. But so sweet at the same time. Now she was more curious than ever. Did it hurt when he exploded like that? Did he have fleas? Was this a nightly thing.
Suddenly she realized that Paul was sitting on the floor next to her bed. She quietly moved around and got off the bed as she quietly sunk down to her knees in front of him. Her hand slowly went out and the tips of her fingers gently grazed the skin on his forearms. His skin was so warm. Then her hand went up and touched his head softly as her fingers weaved through his thick black hair.
Paul could feel someone touching him and figured it was probably Emily or Dallas coming to tell him to go sleep in the spare room, but he wasn't going to just leave Lakota like that. He picked his head up and to his surprise Lakota's grey eyes were looking back at him and a soft smile was dancing on her lips. Paul couldn't have stopped himself if he wanted as he grabbed her hips and slid her along the wooden floor, between his legs as he wrapped his arms around her and buried his nose in her dark honey blonde hair. Paul physically relaxed when Lakota wrapped her arms around his torso and returned his embrace her face buried in his neck both of them just sitting there enjoying each other's scent.
