I turned and a familiar pair of eyes met mine.
I gasped.
Jacob Black was at the other side of the bars.
Chapter 12 BPOV
I leaped back from the bars fell on my butt and hissed through clenched teeth "Jacob! What the hell are you doing here?"
"I…uh." He looked down at his feet "I just needed to know you were ok."
"Jacob! I am in a prison cell! Do you honestly think I'm ok?" I all but growled. My hands were curled into angry fists ready to hit him seeing as I couldn't locate a baseball bat or a crowbar.
"No! It isn't like that!"
"Well what is it like Jacob! Huh? C'mon explain" he stared at me "What? A second ago you were desperate to explain. So go ahead. Now!" I yelled the last part and it echoed around us.
He shushed me "I needed to know you were ok because I hadn't heard from you in weeks so I asked these weird people" he broke off "What are they anyway?"
Parker butted in "Soulless ones are what we call them. There just a group who tend to live like cave people. They got their name because they seem to hold nothing human in them. The murder anyone that isn't their own and we've been underestimating them for to long." He had been sitting looking at his feet with his knees dragged up to his chin but now his gaze locked on Jake and I. I felt kind of guilty for just shifting my attention from him onto Jacob at the blink of an eye.
"Anyway" Jacob was saying, "I wanted to check up on you and I asked these guys to do it. But it turns out I should pay more attention in my language class. They must have misunderstood me. Why are leeches trying to hunt down these things anyway?" he turned to Parker.
"Well they can match a vampires strength & speed. They're just as hard to injure and heal just as quickly. They last a long time though they are not immortal like the wish the were. Which is what makes them dangerous. They will stop at nothing to become immortal. To be damned for all eternity. Like I said before, they are primitive and they are led by instinct. They will flee from a normal vampire; a vampire that kills human would not curl up their nose at a primitive man who poses a challenge now would they?
"But they see us as normal. We blend in so easily and they alarm bells don't ring when they see us. Because to them we're immortal humans, we blend in too much to be cursed with the need for blood so they presume we know the secret of how to obtain immortality. So they capture us, torture us and try to find out information and they find nothing. Because, of course, we're not immortal humans. We're dead, cursed beings that are trying to be something they're not.
"They're very dangerous to us all. They kill us humane ones then the Volturi and their human killing buddies will have a bit of a" a small smile appeared on his face "celebratory feast, to put it kindly."
Oh. That made sense.
Oh, no. If this was starting to make sense then I had been spending too much time with mythical creatures.
"How are we going to get out?" I asked.
Parker's face drifted from me back to Jacob as if he expected Jake to answer. Jake looked confused. The silence that stretched between us felt like hours even though it was only a few minutes.
"Hey mutt. You got me and Bella into this mess, you get us out of it." Parker was silent for a moment before saying "Oh, my God. That sounds really cheesy doesn't it?"
Jacob glanced at me "Um, I could bust you guys out?" his voice rose as though it was a question.
I glanced at Parker. He stared right back at me. Did he ever blink?
"Sounds promising to me." Was the only reply I got.