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Chapter 11 – Suspicion --Carrie's POV

I was still in my car when Jacob emerged from the forest. I hadn't noticed so I jumped when he opened my car door. He looked relieved as he looked me over and I couldn't place my finger on this reaction. We had seen each other last night…or this morning I guess. "What's wrong?" I finally asked.

"What? Nothing."

"No, something's definitely wrong."

"Why?"

"I don't know you sounded sort of freaked out on the phone."

"Really? I didn't mean to. I just wanted to hang out so I asked where you were."

"Huh." Maybe I was going crazy, but I could have sworn something was up. Just then he pulled me out of the car and shut the door with grace that reminded me of my encounter with Edward Cullen. My thoughts cut off as he pulled me into a vice tight bear hug. He grabbed my face and held it between his large hands. I couldn't move an inch under his hot iron grip, but I didn't want to. We stared at each other for a moment before his lips were on mine, shaping around each other. We pulled apart swiftly as the front door to my house opened and Noah stepped out.

"Not the best location, don't you think?" He called after us as he walked to his car.

"Where are you going?" I called back, slightly embarassed.

"Back to school, I'll see you later. I don't think I'm coming home next week."

"Bye!" I didn't wait for him to drive away, there was so much about Jacob that I still wanted to know, last night a whole new world opened up to me. I grabbed his hand and started pulling him toward the back of my house. He let me lead him to an old stump I'd used as a place to sit many times prior before he spun me around to kiss me again. His hands were twisted into my hair, locking me into place while my arms were around his neck crushing myself to him before I finally pulled back. Well, he didn't notice at first, he only notice when he felt my hands lightly push against his chest. "Does it hurt? To change, I mean," I was trying to catch my breath as I sank down onto my makeshift bench.

"It kinda feels like your exploding away from yourself in a way. But it doesn't hurt, if that makes sense. It only hurt the first time. That was…agonizing."

"Will I maybe get to see you transform one day?"

"Sure, sure. I'll have to wear clothes," he mused,"Which means I'll need a spare when those shred." He was smirking.

"What?" I asked, a puzzled look on my face at the unusual turn of our conversation.

"Well our clothes don't just poof into inexistence, we have to carry them. I'm usually not wearing all of this," he pointed to his shirt and sneakers, "It's a hassle."

"I never thought of that." I looked away embarrassed. "What do you mean carry them?"

"Well I can't stand holding them in my mouth so we figured the best way is to have them around our legs." He lifted a pant leg and I noticed a thin black cord around his ankle.

"Whenever you talk about being a wolf you say 'we' a lot."

"Yea well we're all kind of one when we're in a pack. We can.."

"Go on," I prodded as he trailed off. I could tell he was wondering whether or not to tell me something.

"Well. We can kind of…read each other's minds. It's useful when we have to be in formation but overall it's totally maddening." I realized my mouth was hanging open and shut it quickly hoping he didn't notice.

"Oh god, please tell me it's only the other guys in the pack. You can't read mine can you?" The mere thought had me flushing, and I was never one to blush.

"No, no. I can't read yours, just the packs and only in wolf form."

"Oh boy, thank goodness!"

"Why? What have you been thinking that would embarrass you so much?" He chuckled at the understanding in my eyes.

"Noo! Not like that!" I punched his arm but the only damage inflicted was to me. I tried to play it off as if I felt nothing either. "I just rather my thoughts in my head only." He raised his eyebrows at me teasingly and I glared halfheartedly back before he pinched my side and I fell off the stump laughing.

"So what are you guys making 'formations' for anyway? Like army formations? Are you protecting or fighting something? Other wolves?"

"I think that's enough quizzing for now," he breathed into my face. He buried his face in my hair as I bit back the now flooding questions. 'I'll get it out of him, eventually,' I thought to myself. "What do you say we go out to dinner tonight?" he mumbled as his lips brushed my neckline.

"I guess I could spend some time with you tonight, I'll have to check my schedule."

"Ha, ha," he replied, continuing his routine.

-----Jacobs POV

"Jacob. Stop. Nothing is going to happen okay?" Leah was sitting closest to me as I began to shake Emily's little kitchen table, Seth was on my other side. The rest of the two packs were around the table or outside, there were too many of us to all fit these days and since the end of the whole Bella's evil mutant child thing had passed, Sam and I had reconciled. We had been talking about Alice's vision and I couldn't help but to shake. I remembered the phone conversation perfectly, so did the rest of my pack for that matter.

"I think…I think it's your girlfriend," Alice had said.

"What Alice?" I had begged her already trembling from head to toe.

"If it was her, well it was her, Edward confirmed. I saw her. As a Vampire." My shape blurred and the phone dropped from my hand before I could crush it. I punched my clenched fists to the sides of my head and attempted to calm myself down. I could hear Alice's voice from the ground, "Jake. Answer me, please." I snatched up the phone when I was no longer shaking.

"How is it possible that you saw her and as a bloodsucker."

"Hey don't use that tone with me, I had nothing to do with this, I'm just warning you."

"Alice!"

"Well I don't really know, it's so strange since I've never met her before but Edward saw the vision in my head and said that's who it was, he wants to have a little chat with you by the way. Apparently you spilled the beans."

"You have no idea how you saw her?"

"Well. I assume you know about the Irina situation? How they're coming for a little visit soon, possibly to fight?" The blood drained from my face.

"I thought they were like you, they don't…they only leech off of animals."

"That's true, but I only saw her as a Vampire, not dead, of course."

"Why do you think they would do that?"

"The only guess I have is that they somehow find out she's with you and do a little payback for Laurent. Oh, I wish you could have seen her though, she was gorgeous, exceptional, even for a vampire." I growled into the phone. "Sorry, just a fact. Well that theory would make sense since I've been watching the Denali's every move."

"Do you know when?"

"Can't tell, and it may not happen, definitely won't if you watch her, don't let her near our border's."

"Sure, sure. Starting now."

"Jake, cut it out!" Leah's annoyed tone snapped me back into present time and I realized that I started to shake again.

"Sorry," I mumbled.

"Jakey is scared of a big nasty leech," Paul taunted from across the table. I grabbed a soda can and flung it at him with all my strength. He caught it lazily in front of himself but it burst, showering him in soda. Quil started roaring with laughter.

"You're dead," he spat through his soda dripping lips.

"Jacob, honey, don't worry. I know you and your brother's will keep her safe, keep everyone safe."

"Hem, hem," I heard bitterly from my left.

"And sister," Emily corrected smiling fondly.

It had been a month since that phone call and nothing had happened yet. Carrie was as intuitive as ever though. She seemed to pick up my tense mood immediately from the moment I'd found her in her car until last night when I almost slipped up about protecting her. To my horror I also discovered that she had actually met Edward, go figure, at the local grocery store. Of course they had to make it appear as if they ate normal food. There was a burning curiosity in her eyes when she talked about meeting him, it made me worry. She, like Bella before her, was meddling in something she shouldn't be meddling in. She seemed to know they weren't human. Look where that got Bella. Look where that might get her. I shuddered and received a nasty look from Leah and a few other people this time.

"I think I'll go," I announced getting up from the table and edging toward the door.

"Quil and I will run the perimeter," Embry said standing up. Paul rolled his eyes. He still looked a little sour, and sticky. He was still in Sam's pack and was bothered by my being an Alpha.

"Sure, sure," I waved a hand. "Switch with Seth and Leah when you're ready," I answered more directly. Like always, the second I saw Carrie all the tension in my body left, and I could take deep breaths again.

"Hey, you," she called as she pounced on me. I spun her around and she wrapped her legs around my waist. "What's the agenda for the day?" She asked as I walked with her in my arms, towards my car.

"Well. It's a Friday night, have any of your friends invited you to do anything?"

"Well, yes."

"You don't want to go?"

"I rather spend time with you."

"I can't meet your friends?" I asked in mock disappointment.

"You already have," she pointed out, "But do you want to hang out with them?"

"Sure, sure, why not."

"Why not," she repeated skeptically. From what I could guess Dillon would be there and her over enthusiastic friend Alex, who Carrie divulged once has a crush on me. I found it amusing and thought hanging out with her human friends was bound to keep her away from trouble.

"Where to?" I asked.

"Alex's house," she prompted. "Go straight here."


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