Chapter 9 – Jacob POV

Disclaimer – I am not Stephenie Meyer. I do not make any money of this. I do not own Twilight. If I did there would be a much different wolfie ending.

A/N – Pack mind is in Italics.

Bella rests her forehead on mine and says "I don't want to lose you. But I'm not ready to get married right now."

Thank the Spirits she's not sending us away!

"We don't have to. We will go at whatever speed you want. You are my air, my beating heart. You have been for as long as I can remember."

She smiles and brushes her lips to mine. She leans onto me with a sigh and I feel the tension easy from her.

Billy breaks my peace saying "That being settled, you need to go out with the pack and do what needs to happen to so we all can get some sleep."

I don't want to go playing wolf games with the pack. I just want to stay here with my Bella curled up on my lap.

"Charlie is going to flip out about all of this."

Charlie is going to shoot me if he figures out what I want to do to his daughter…

Sam yells at my Bella "You cannot tell anyone outside of the Pack about any of this."

I'm going to kill him if he keeps upsetting her.

"I am not going to keep lying to my father about my life!"

KEEP THE WOLF DOWN! BELLS IS IN MY LAP! GOING TO HURT HIM MAKE HIM WISH HE WAS DEAD!

"So you would keep the LEACHE'S secrets but not OUR'S?! It's not your secret to tell!"

"FINE!" She jumps out of my lap and runs out of the room.

I lunge out of my chair and grab Sam by the throat.

Billy yells "OUTSIDE!"

I throw him through the back door and off the porch. I phase mid jump at Sam. He phases and jumps to the side.

"You will not upset my mate" I lunge at him and get a mouth full of fur.

"She cannot reveal our secretes! Especially with an outsider." He snaps his jaws and gets my tail. Damn that hurts! I let out a yelp of surprise.

"Charlie is not an outsider. He and my dad have been friends forever." I get hold of his back leg. My teeth sink in to his flesh and I taste his blood for the second time tonight. I feel his skin rip as I shake his leg out from under him.

He pulls me over him as he rolls over. I scramble to get back to my feet as he does the same.

I hear Bella scream for me to stop. I see Embry has her held off the ground. I feel Sam's jaws clamp down on front leg. I hear my bones snap and I scream in pain as his vice like maw mangles my limb. I lunge to the tree line. I must put an end to this now.

Both of our blood perfumes the air. I maneuver to keep a tree on my right. Protecting my injured leg and it is keeping his weakened side to me. I dive forward sinking my teeth into the exposed muscle rending it from the bone. Sam wails in my head and howls out in pain as he collapses to the ground. I throw myself on top of him, the pain from smashing my mangled limb between us causes my bite onto his neck to be harder than I intended and my teeth sink into his flesh.

"You are NOT the Alpha! I AM! I will handle my mate NOT you! I value your experience but you are no longer Alpha. I would like you as my Bata but not if you keep overstepping. Do you understand?"

"I understand but she can't…"

I bite down harder with a warning growl.

"I understand Jacob."

I release his neck and heave myself to the side. A fresh wave of pain shoots through me. I sit back on my haunches keeping my foreleg pulled up to my chest. Sam stays laying on the ground breathing heavily.

"We need to call the pack to help us back. I don't know about you but I'm not going to be walking anytime soon."

I let loose a howl and within moments Paul, Jared, and Embry are in my head.

"Is Bella ok?" I ask.

Embry sounds nervous when he answers. "She passed out when you were fighting. Billy called Sue and she is on the way over to check on her."

"She's going to have more patients. We are going to need help getting back to the house." Sam adds.

"On our way. You two left one hell of a trail." Jared chimes in.

Within a few moments three wolves emerge from the trees.

"We need to phase back and it is going to suck. You need to calm yourself and focus your thoughts on feeling human."

I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I feel my bones snapping and reshaping. I fall to my side naked on the forest floor clutching my misshapen arm to my chest.

Sam phases back. Paul and Jared help Sam to his feet while Embry gives me a hand.

"Damn Sam your leg is shredded!"

"Shut up Paul."

When we get back to the house Sue's car is outside. I rush inside. "Bells?"

Sue stands up from the chair beside the couch. "She'll be fine. She's exhausted and has had to much for one day. One of you boys move her into her bed for me."

"Em, will you please" I ask my friend.

"As long as you are not going to bite my ass for it, sure." He carefully scoops her up and takes her to my sisters' room to lay down.

Paul and Jared help Sam in the door.

"What did you two do to each other?" She kneels down and looks at the gaping wound in Sam's thigh. "Take him into the shower. There is a lot of debris in the wound that needs to be flushed out before I can put things back where they belong."

Holding back a yawn Sue takes a deep breath. "Let me take a quick look at your arm. I have a feeling it is going to have to be re-broken though. There is a down side to you boys' healing abilities."

She gently felt my arm. "I was afraid so. Once I get Sam put back together, we will have to have the boys help re-break it so I can set it correctly."

She pulls out a large blue plastic pad and lays it on the couch.

Embry goes from Bella's room to mine. When he comes out he has two pairs of shorts in hand. "What can I do Sue?"

I pull on the shorts Em hands me.

"When Sam comes back out lay him down on his side so the wounded leg is up and he is facing the back of the couch. Jacob go sit down and rest as best as you can. You will need your strength once it is your turn."

Paul and Jared carry a pale and shaking Sam into the living room.

"You've lost a lot of blood Sam. Let's get you put back together so you can heal up."

Sue places the torn tissue back into place in Sam's leg. Securing it with a few stiches and then butterfly tapes his skin together. "You need to stay put until you're healed up. You're sleeping here for the rest of the night at least. Help him into some shorts. We don't need to give that poor girl more of a shock if she gets up in the middle of the night"

"OK boys, Jacob's arm has started healing in the wrong place. I need you to re-break it so I can set it correctly." She takes a marker and makes a line on my arm. "That is where it needs to break. This is going to hurt a lot. I will give you a shot of morphine but it will only give us a few minutes to work with any relief."

Embry and Jared take hold of my arm and sue gives me a shot in my other arm. A warm numbing wave washes over me. My eyes close and I scream as they snap my arm again. Sue takes a towel and slides it through at my shoulder. "Jared hold this and when I say keep tension on it so we can pull against it."

"Embry, sit on the floor and get a good grip on his wrist. Pull when I say while I reposition the bones. Ok now boys."

It feels like they are trying to pull my arm off. I grit my teeth trying not to cry out. I can't help the whimpers that escape my throat as I am covered by sweat. I don't watch what Sue is doing but it feels like my bones are grinding together like two millstones.

"Paul, give me those magazines then hold them in place while I secure them."

She rolls up four magazines and creates a splint with them and snuggly wraps an ace bandage around my arm and hand.

"Leave it in the splint until I come back and check it and get some rest."

Embry says "I'll crash out here in the recliner in case anyone needs anything."

"I'll head over to your place Sam and let Emily know that you are crashing here."

"Thanks Paul. Try not to worry her. I'll be fine with a little rest."

Paul and Jared head out while I head to my room. I stop at my door when Embry pushed my Dad on down to his room. "Thanks for looking after my Dad Em."

"No problem Jacob. Get some sleep. You've had a hell of a day Alpha." He says with a smile.

I wait till Embry has Dad settled in bed and has heads back to the living room to slip out of my room and into Bella's. Her face is scrunched up like she is having a bad dream. I lay down beside her with my injured arm on the outside of the bed. I start to doze off when she stirs. I hear her gasp and feel her hand on my chest. I pull her down to me with my good arm. "Bells…" I feel her snuggle in and soon her breathing evens out and I drift off to sleep.