Bites, Fights, and Lovely Ladies

Ch. 14

So, this was the great Bella.

Jazz bit her lip to keep from snarling as she watched Jacob and Bella dance together and chat. She knew that they were best friends, Jake had told her that. He'd said that nothing was between them except that. So why did she feel so jealous when she watched them?

To keep herself from reacting foolishly she studied the crowd. The guy who'd been with Bella earlier must have been her new Vampire husband, Edward. She watched him first, dancing with a blonde who she didn't know, and it was obvious that whoever Blondie was, that she was a Vampire too.

She watched them for a while before scanning over the rest of the crowd, noting who was a Vampire and who wasn't. She smiled when she got to Seth, laughing and enjoying himself, but occasionally glancing over a Jacob and Bella, just to make sure everything was alright.

She heard Jacob snort and turned to glance at him, but he was still dancing with Bella, so she looked away as the envy started to grow again. However, that envy soon disappeared into despair as she took a look at all the Vampires she had spotted.

They're all beautiful… She internally sighed in hopeless-ness and even a bit of silent awe. She noted their flawless, pale skin, white teeth, bright eyes and gorgeous hair; not to mention the pretty and obviously expensive clothes they all wore.

She looked down at her filthy, oversized clothes and felt out-classed, lower, like dirt and feelings of despair and sadness began to creep in, but before any of the other wolves could notice her descending mood, something caught their attention and they all tensed.

Looking back over she noticed that Jacob and Bella had stopped dancing and that Jacob was holding her upper-arms tightly.

"Ow, Jake! Let go!" Bella said, and Jacob started shaking her. For a moment Jazz wondered if he was going to rip her arms off (and for a few moments Jazz smiled at the idea), but Jacob then said back, in almost a yell:

"Bella! Have you lost your mind? You can't be that stupid! Tell me you're joking!" He continued shaking her, as if trying to shake the answer literally out of her and Jazz noticed he was trembling.

"Jake – stop!"

Jazz saw Edward rush over in less then a fraction of a second and the pack immediately moved forward at the challenge, even Seth made his way over, but more slowly, and everyone was suddenly crowding around the pair.

"Take your hands off her!" Edward said, and then the wolves started snarling.

Seth finally made his way over, "Jake, bro, back away. You're losing it."

Jazz was taken aback by the expression on Jake's face, it almost looked scared, and Seth said, "You'll hurt her, let her go."

"Now!" Edward snarled.

Jacob finally let go of Bella's arms and Jazz could see the blood pump down to her fingers, and for a moment she realized that Bella didn't have to hurt Jake anymore, she didn't even have to be around. If she just went and took Bella away, she could never, ever hurt Jacob ever again…

However, Jazz snapped out of her reverie as Edward pulled Bella about 6 or so feet away from Jacob. Jazz longed to go and stand by him, to help him or hold him back if necessary, but she didn't want to blow her cover, and besides, the rest of the pack had this under control. That she could tell.

Now that Edward had pulled Bella away and was standing in front of her, Seth and Quil ran in between the two pairs and Seth went and tried to restrain Jake by wrapping his gangly arms around him. None of us wanted a fight, except perhaps Jacob, though Jazz didn't know why. Now she wished she had been listening in, she wanted to know what was so bad that Jacob was getting so upset over.

"C'mon, Jake. Let's go" Seth muttered, trying to calm Jacob down.

"I'll kill you" Jacob said. He was tensing so much that the muscles in his neck weren't working right and he couldn't raise his voise above a whisper, but Jazz could hear the anger in his voice as he spoke to Edward.

"I'll kill you myself! I'll do it now!" He started to shudder and shake, and Jazz wondered if he'd phase, but not before wondering why he would try to kill Edward on his own. If Edward was pissing Jake off so badly that he'd kill him, then Jazz would definitely want to help Jacob to kill him.

Sam growled and Jazz could hear the command in his voice to back off. It wasn't the Alpha's command, because Jake wasn't affected, but it was a warning. However, Jake took no notice of it.

"Seth, get out of the way" Edward mumbled. Jazz noticed that he had the slightest of accents, but she couldn't place where it was from.

Seth somehow managed to pull Jake a few feet back and said, "Don't do it, Jake. Walk away. Come on." Sam turned and started pushing Jake back too. Jazz kept out of sight, but followed them back as she heard Bella mutter an apology to Quil. Why was she apologizing to him? This was going to bother Jazz until she figured it out.

After a while Quil rejoined them and Seth headed back to his mom.

Jacob paced angrily for a few more second before he just exploded into his wolf form. For a few seconds Jazz was amazing by how it happened, he literally exploded. She was amazed because she'd never actually seen them phase before.

Her awe was short lived though as Jacob's previous conversation flooded her head. She wasn't sure for a moment why he was so mad about it, but upon realizing once again that they were best friends, she began to understand.

She didn't remember most of her past, but the one memory of a flash of brown hair held the same significance. She had no idea who it was in her memory, but whoever it was, she was Jazz's own Bella, and she once again felt rage. This time, however, it was not directed at Bella, because she finally realized that Bella wasn't trying to hurt Jake.

No. It was not directed at Bella, it was directed at Edward. He was going to kill Bella! Didn't he realize this? Jacob would be in so much pain because of this, because of him!

Her rage grew but then subsided as it dawned onto the pack that Bella would not return alive and the Jacob would lose his best friend.

Jazz turned her head and looked up at the moon as Jacob reared his head and let out a long, loud, sorrowful howl.