WARNING: Parts of this story contain very explicit sexual content.

Please do not read if you are underage or easily offended...

**********Bella***********

Warm soft kisses on my neck woke me. The sun was up. I purred into Jacob's arm as I brought my hand up to his cheek. What a nice way to wake up.

"Bella, I am so sorry." His voice sounded a little panicked. My stomach tightened, oh no, what now? "I'm so, so, sorry. Why didn't you stop me? I would have stopped, I didn't realize. God, Bella, I'm so sorry." What was he talking about, what had he done?

Now I was worked up into a panic. "What happened Jake? What's wrong?" I sat up on the bed, and turned to look back at him. That's when I noticed that my neck was a little sore. I turned my eyes back to the mirror over my dresser, oh. That's what's wrong. I tipped my neck up to survey the damage.

"Bella, I got carried away, it will NEVER happen again! Are you okay? God, I can't believe I did that too you." Jake kept sputtering out apologies while I stared at my reflection.

It did look bad, but it really didn't hurt much. I kinda thought there would be some marks but I didn't expect the very nasty looking blue and purple bruise. I stood up and walked over to the mirror. Around the bruise there were red marks. This looked bad, really bad. Were those teeth marks?

I turned back to Jacob, my eyes wide. His were filled with regret and pain. He thought he had hurt me, and though I suppose technically he did a little, I would not have changed it for anything.

"Jacob, it's okay. I'm okay. It looks way worse than it is." His eyes didn't believe me. "Last night was amazing. I bruise easy, it's not your fault."

"Not my fault? Are your serious Bella? I know you don't want me to feel guilty, but that is clearly MY fault! You should have stopped me, Bella. No actually, you shouldn't have needed to." His hand gestured to my neck. His eyes were disgusted, but I knew it wasn't with me.

"I know it looks really bad, Jacob, and I can only imagine how that is making you feel. I didn't stop you because, I didn't want to stop you. I love the way you touch me. I loved the way you touched me last night." He snorted at me. "I did! It was very...exciting." Was that the right word? Exciting? Not strong enough, but I couldn't think of a better way to put it. "God, Jake! I woke up really happy and you are ruining it for me. Last night was amazing and I don't want you to say anything else bad about it."

He didn't believe me, but he stopped spewing apologies at me.

"And if you are telling me THAT will never happen again, let me just tell you now that I will NOT be happy about that!" I turned and stomped into the bathroom. The bathroom light made it look even worse. I quickly brushed my teeth and washed my face. There were several sets of teeth marks that I could see now. That made my stomach tighten a little, but not in a bad way.

I heard Jacobs heavy footsteps as he went downstairs. I pulled out some make-up that Alice had given me. It had gone unused until now, but maybe I could cover up the bruise. Maybe if Jake didn't have to look at it, he wouldn't feel so guilty.

I spent twenty minutes dabbing and blending concealer on my neck. It looked a little better, but still pretty bad. In my room, I pull a scarf from around a hook on my door and twisted around my neck a few times. That was much better.

I went downstairs and found Jake rummaging in the refrigerator. He closed the door when he heard me and turned to me. He frowned at my scarf and came over to wrap his arms around me. I guess I had made myself clear, he wasn't trying to apologize anymore, but I could tell that he still wasn't happy that he had left a bruise on me.

"I'll whip us up some bacon and eggs, okay?" I batted my eyes at him and smiled trying to reassure him that everything was fine.

"I'm gonna run outside and check in with the pack." He leaned down and pulled the scarf out of the way enough to kiss the edge of the bruise.

"I'm really fine, Jake. Go check in, I'll have breakfast ready by the time you get back."

Charlie came in while we were eating and helped himself. Thankfully, Jake had thought to throw a pillow and some blankets on the sofa so it actually looked as if he slept there. "Thanks for staying Jake. I know you are ready to get home, but its been nice to be able to stay and help Sue without worrying about Bella being stuck all by herself." I felt a little guilty, I'm sure that Charlie wouldn't be so appreciative if he know exactly how closely Jake had been babysitting me. The smirk on Jacob's face told me that he had thought the same thing but didn't feel guilty about it.

"So what do you kids have planned for the day?"

Well, I thought, there is this huge battle tonight with an angry vampire gang, oh, but don't worry dad, the good vampires and the werewolves will be taking care of it. I almost laughed out loud as that thought passed through my mind. Thankfully, Jake answered for us, "Well, I thought Bella could use some time out of the house. Maybe go for a hike on the rez."

"That sounds good, I have some office work that I've been ignoring, but I'll pop over later." With that, he went upstairs to shower and get ready for work.

After Jake finished the rest of the bacon and eggs, we made our way out to my truck. He automatically went to open the passenger side for me.

"Why exactly do you think I'm going to let you drive today?" I said in a fake angry tone. "I haven't done anything to justify you taking my keys, not yet anyway, it's still early."

"You're a fainter now." He smirked back at me. "Can't take that kind of chance on the road. Too many innocent people driving around." He kissed the top of my head and I caved. I climbed into the passenger seat. Thankfully, it doesn't really matter who's driving my truck, it can only go but so fast.

Jacob took me to his house so that he could get fresh clothes. I was sitting alone on his couch, flipping through a fishing magazine when Embry and Quil walked in.

"Hey Bella" Embry's voice had a humorous tone. "Have a good night?" Quil blushed and jabbed his elbow at Embry and looked then back to the floor. What was that about? Oh. I think I know. They saw Jacob's thoughts about last night when he was checking in earlier. Oh, oh, this was not good.

"Ignore him, Bella" Quil rolled his eyes. "Part of the wolf thing is that everyone knows way too much about you... You get used to it." I blushed and wondered if there was anyway I would be able to get used to that.

Jake walked out just in time to bail me out either a very uncomfortable silence or an even more uncomfortable conversation. We spent the rest of the morning visiting Sue and then headed to Sam and Emily's for lunch. I could barely eat because I knew after lunch we would be heading off. I'm not sure which was more daunting, the battle or spending the rest of the day with both Jacob and Edward.

The looming fight was starting to worry me though. I knew that both the wolves and the Cullens were capable fighters, I was confident in the abilities to win, but I did worry about casualties. No one else seemed concerned, but there was always the possibility that someone could be hurt, or worse. If even one of my loved ones was hurt because of me, I would never forgive myself. Alice seemed a little concerned that she couldn't see the outcome, she was not used to entering a situation without knowing the outcome, but the wolves seemed to affect her visions. Everyone conceded that it was better to have the wolves fighting with them and flying blind than to go into the fight outnumbered.

I picked at my food and fretted while all the boys stuffed themselves. As we left, Emily handed me a backpack. "Some food to hold you and Jake over, who knows how late you'll be stuck there..." She smiled encouragingly. I liked her.

Sam and the other's ran with us, escorting us to the cave. Edward wasn't there yet. The wolves waited there with us until the Cullens arrived. Jasper and Sam reviewed the strategy from the prior day and everyone started splitting up. After everyone had went dispersed, Edward, Jacob, and I turned to go into the cave. It was going to be a long day.

************Author's note****************

Thanks for reading my story! It's finally the day of the fight, I thought I would be able to wrap this up in a chapter or two, but it's drawing out a little. We have some time to kill before the fight and then wait until Edward sees those bruises on Bella's neck! Should be an interesting day! Hope your'e enjoying it! Feel free to make suggestions!

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