Hey everybody, sorry it took me so long to update. I really didn't have any ideas for the next chapter, so it took me a while to figure out what how I wanted to start this chapter. POVs and stuff like that. Sorry if it's kind of crappy.

Bella's POV

After someone brought Jake some pants the guys went back to the house to break up the party. In light of recent events they felt it necessary to hold a pack meeting this evening. Jake and I were left alone to walk back to the house. I held his hand tightly, lost in my thoughts, mulling over what had just happened. We weren't far from the house, but we walked back slowly, knowing that it would be about an hour before the pack meeting could be held, since it would take at least that long to clear the house of non-pack members.

I had already made plans to stay at Emily's tonight after the party, but the only problem was Jessica and Angela were supposed to stay with me. Emily was so nice, she didn't even know them, but Emily insisted they stay over since it was Jessica's birthday. Of course we had to figure out what to do with them now. Sam wanted me at the meeting too, since I was the one who knew about Victoria and why she was after me. I knew they would have no problem going to Emily's without me, I just needed a good reason to stay behind. I mean I did have a good reason to stay behind, but I couldn't really tell them. Well, we couldn't tell Jessica. Jake had a little surprise about Angela.

"Embry imprinted on Angela last weekend. The idiot didn't even realize he had imprinted. I mean he has been in all of our heads, seen all of us imprint, but didn't think it had happened to him." Jake smiled at me. "So he's off explaining to Angela what is up with him."

As we got into the backyard I could hear Embry and Angela. Well I could hear Angela, screaming.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU FUCKING SMOKING?" Angela's face was red and she stood with her hands in the air. Embry kept trying to take a step toward her, only for her to take two steps back. She saw me and came running into my arms.

"Bella! This freak is trying to tell me that he turns into a werewolf and chases vampires. And on top of that bullshit, he says that he has imparted on..."

"Imprinted." I cut her off. She pulled out of the hug and looked at me like I had five heads.

"He...he isn't lying?" She blinked at me, looked at Jake, then turned her head to look at Embry.

"No Angela, he isn't lying. Embry wouldn't lie to you. I know it's a lot to take in. Maybe you should calm down a little and let him explain it to you. And Bella, Emily, Kim, Claire, and Rachael are always around to answer your questions." Sam said as he walked down the porch steps towards us.

"Wolves? Huh. Prove it." Angela put her hands on her hips and looked at Embry.

Embry looked at Sam and Sam nodded. "Let's walk away from the house a little bit so that people who aren't supposed to see, wont." He looked at me. "Don't worry about Jessica. She was really trashed so Emily and Kim brought her back to my house to sleep it off. You don't have to worry about explaining where you too were."

I nodded, then looked at Jake as we walked towards a grouping of trees. "If Angela gets to see Embry's wolf, I want to see yours." I gave him my best pouting look. I stuck out my bottom lip and gave him the saddest, most pleading puppy dog eyes I could manage. He sighed and squeezed my hand.

"Alright baby."

"Okay Embry and Jake go behind the trees and phase." Sam motioned towards the trees and the boys were off. Embry was racing in, stripping off his shirt while still running.

I took Angela's hand and smiled at her.

"I don't fucking believe it." She gasped and put her hand to her mouth. I looked back to where the boys had gone into the woods.

There in front of us stood two giant, horse size wolves. One was a sandy brown and the other was a reddish brown. I looked at Sam.

"So, who is who.?" I asked.

Sam chuckled. "Well the reddish brown one is Jake." He pointed and Jake wolf gave a little yip and I swear to fucking god it looked like the wolf was grinning at me.

Sam stepped over to Angela. "The sandy brown wolf is Embry." He pointed to him. Angela stared at him. "I'll be a fucking monkey's uncle." she whispered. Sam chuckled and the wolves barked a laugh.

"They heard that?" She looked up at Sam in surprise. He nodded.

"We have heightened senses. Smelling and hearing this normal humans wouldn't We also have incredible speed and strength."

"Is it okay if I touch him?" Sam squinted at her. Then he nodded and gestured for Embry to come forward. Embry came trotting over, his tongue lolling out of the side of his mouth. And his tail was wagging. Embry was obviously very happy that Angela wanted to touch his wolf.

Embry stopped about 2 feet away from Angela and laid down with his head on his front paws. Angela stepped forward slowly, reaching her hand out and gently touching his nose. Embry wolf closed his eyes and it looked like he smiled. Angela stood right in front of his head and rubbed his nose, she was smiling.

Okay now I was getting fucking jealous. I looked over at Jake. I tapped my foot impatiently and rolled my eyes.

"Well, are you going to come over here so I can touch you? Or are you going to let Embry have all the fun." I jerked my head toward Angela and Embry. Angela had her head leaning on the forehead of the Embry wolf, her eyes closed, stroking his face. Embry's eyes were closed and it sounded like he was purring.

Sam looked at Jake and then walked over to me. He crossed his arms over his chest, still looking at Jake.

"He's scared. He has seen through our shared thoughts what happened to Emily and he is terrified he will do that to you. He doesn't want to hurt you, especially since you just got your heart broken by the leech. He also hates what he is, we all do to an extent. In his mind we are monsters, just like vampires."

I sighed and rolled my eyes. "He can hear everything we are saying, right?" Sam nodded. "Well Jake needs to stop worrying. I trust him, and I know what happened to Emily was an accident. But he needs to trust himself. And he doesn't need to hate himself He isn't a monster, he protects people from monsters. And I love him regardless of what he is or turns into."

The Jake wolf whined a little. But then he ever so slowly started towards me. He stopped when he was also about 2 feet away and got into the same position as Embry. But Jake didn't seem to be smiling, and his tail was definetly not wagging. I took a step towards him, I went slowly. Not that I was scared. But I knew he was. When I was standing in front of his face I dropped to my knees and put my hands on either side of his face and looked in his eyes.

"I meant what I said Jake. I love you for who you are inside." I started to stroke his fur and he closed his eyes."

Jacob's POV

"Dude are you fucking purring?"

Embry and I were now both sitting in front of our respective imprints. Embry was all for letting Angela touch him and was obviously enjoying himself. I on the other hand was a nervous fucking wreck. I had seen in Sam's head what could happen. I knew he had phased too close to Emily and I was just so scared. And then there was the fact that I was a monster. I turned into a giant fucking wolf. I was something from horror films. Something to be afraid of. Not something to pet.

But there Embry sat, letting Angela stroke his fur and scratch his ears. And he fucking loved it, and was purring. Like a fucking pet cat.

"Shut the fuck up Jake!"

"Embry, dude, you fucking imprinted? Why the hell didn't you tell any of us! Wait, you're purring? Pussy whipped already?

"Shut up Paul, you're just jealous. Because we all know Rachael wants nothing to do with your wolf."

We could hear Paul in our head as he headed back to my house on Second Beach after he had escorted the rest of the imprints and Jessica to Sam's house.

Embry did have a point. My sister hadn't taken the news about the whole werewolf thing very well. She actually shut herself in her room for three days when she first found out. She only finally came out because of the pain she was causing herself by being separated from her imprint. And while she slowly accepted Paul and the fact he was her soul mate, she didn't really like the whole turning into a wolf part. And that was a bad thing for Paul. He was such a fucking hot head he phased at the drop of a hate. And the two of them seemed to love to have fights. Big screaming, throwing things, Paul phases and runs into the woods and has to stay there for 5 hours because Rachael refuses to bring him clothes type of fights. Paul growled at me as I thought about these things and of course I was laughing.

"Alright guys, time for a pack meeting, why don't you two go phase. And Paul, I know you're out there, hurry up and get back here." Sam motioned for us to go back to the woods.

In Embry's thoughts I could see Angela peck Embry on the nose and get up and walk toward Sam. Embry then got up and trotted back towards the trees. Bells leaned down and kissed me as well.

"I'll see you when you're human again." She said. And with that she got up and went to stand with Sam and Angela.

I went into the trees, phased, changed and then jogged out of the trees to catch up with Embry who was a few steps ahead of me.

"She took it well." I said to him, motioning towards Angela. Embry nodded, never taking his eyes off of her.

I looked towards Bella and couldn't help but smile. My heart soared in my chest and I picked up the pace to get to her. I grabbed her by the waist and lifted her to my lips, placing a chaste kiss on her lips. I put her down smiled and leaned toward her ear.

"Thanks for loving me the two ways that I am."

She smiled and kissed me. I heard someone clear their throat. I looked over to see Sam and Paul standing there. Sam was looking at Bella and I, Paul was glaring at Angela and Embry.

"When everyone is ready we can head in. We need to discuss what happened tonight." Sam started to walk toward the house. We followed behind. Angela yawned as she leaned on Embry.

"Embry if you want to bring Angela upstairs to one of the spare rooms so she can rest while we have a meeting that's fine with me." I said as we got in the house. My house was really big. Several generations had lived in this house all at once, so there was tons of spare bedrooms, that were fully furnished too. My room, the master suite was actually the a while wing of the house off of the great room. It was pretty awesome.

Embry nodded and led Angela upstairs to the room that Embry usually used. Embry actually lived in this house a lot more than I did. His mom was a drunk and he didn't even know who his dad was. He didn't like to be at home, so he stayed here. I didn't mind.

When Embry came back downstairs we all settled down in the great room. Sam had Bella explain to everyone about the vampire Victoria and she told us everything she knew. We then discussed strategies for keeping Bella safe, and new patrol schedules and things like that. It was almost one in the morning when the meeting finally wrapped up and everyone left. Bella went into the kitchen to grab a drink of water and I cornered Embry at the foot of the stairs.

"I'm not your parent and I'm not Sam. I'm not going to give you a lecture and shit but dude, not in my house."

He grinned at me and shook his head.

"Jake man, I just imprinted on her, and just told her tonight. All I want is to hold her in my arms. And I'm not even sure she'll let me. So if you hear screaming, well I'll be on the couch."

I chuckled and shook my head as I headed into the kitchen. I started turning off lights and locking up the house. And then I started thinking. Maybe I should sleep on the couch tonight. I didn't want to push Bella and I didn't want her to think we had to have sex right away or anything. And her being here tonight was unexpected.

As I wandered through the house I noticed Bella wasn't in the kitchen. I walked back through the house and still no sign of Bella. Then I noticed the door to my room was open just a crack and the light was on. Oh sweet Jesus. I opened the door and found Bella. She was folding the clothes she had worn today and placing them neatly on a chair. And she was wearing....my clothes. My tee shirt was 4 sizes to big for her and hung to her needs. She had a pair of my sweat pants on, she had rolled up the pant legs so that she wasn't tripping over them, and folded over the waist band 4 times, but they were still too big. She looked so fucking hot in my clothes. She looked over at me and caught me looking her up and down and she smiled.

"I hope you don't mind I crash here, it's so late. I just borrowed some of your clothes and was going to sleep in one of the spare rooms upstairs, or the couch." She bit her bottom lip, and looked at the ground.

I shook my head. "No I don't mind you borrowing my clothes, and you don't have to sleep anywhere else you can sleep in here, I'll sleep....."

"Stay with me." She came over and grabbed my arm. I pulled her into a hug and she buried her head in my chest. "I'm so scared Jake." She started to cry.

I kissed the top of her head and held her tightly. "Shh honey, it's okay. We will protect you. Don't you worry. And I'll stay."

We climbed into bed and she snuggled up to me. She sighed and laid her head on my chest, one of my arms around her shoulders, the other holding one of her hands. I put my chin on her head and kissed her hair. It was perfect. This moment, here with her. Perfect. And I wished it would never end.

Okay when I started this chapter I really didn't know where it was going to go. So I am as surprised as you that she and Jake are in bed together. But let me say that they will not I repeat they WILL NOT be having sex anytime soon. And I have actually been thinking of writing the sex scene as it's own separate one-shot, for those of you who like a little less lemon in your story. But anyway, that chapter or one shot is a ways off. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Give me some love, and if any body has any ideas as to where this should go or anything they would like to see, let me know. Alright, leave me some love and I'll see you in the next chapter.