CHAPTER 14

This chapter is unbeta'd so far. It will be reposted when the beta'd version comes through.

Together in my soul, my dearest pre-reader, MissJude. I'm grateful for your talent and strength.

Sunflower3759, my beta, you plucked me from the shadows and made me see the light.

The votes were so incredibly close, but there can only be one winner.

Reminder: Stephenie Meyer owns these characters. I only for my twisted needs.

~LBC~

The phone rang. One, two, three, four, five rings. Jacob rolled over, tangled up in his sheets and pulled the pillow over his head.

"Dad, would you answer that thing?" Jacob yelled, yawning. He rolled over again, falling off the tiny bed.

Six, seven, eight, nine rings and then silence. Jacob cursed as he stood up and untangled his legs from the sheets. He dragged his body out of the bedroom and into the bathroom.

The phone interrupted the silence again. One, two, three rings. "Fuck." Jacob cursed as he ran into the living room. He looked around and found the house empty.

He snatched the phone off the base and hit the send button. "What?" he growled into the receiver.

"Damn, Jacob. Where the fuck have you been?" The voice on the other end asked.

"Sleeping. I took watch last night, remember, Paul?" Jacob snarled as he headed towards the kitchen, looking for something to eat. "What do you want and it better be good?"

"Sam went into town to get Bella." Paul answered.

Jacob dropped the phone, his hands trembling. He looked down at them as his body shook uncontrollably. Control Jake, keep control, he kept repeating in his head.

"Jake...Jake...fuck, Jake, answer me!" Paul yelled.

Jacob brought his emotions back under control and reached down to pick the phone back up. "When?"

"About two hours ago." Paul answered.

Jacob looked outside and saw the sun setting. "Why the hell didn't you call me then?"

"The pack is thinned out, Jake. Sam slipped through. I called as soon as we found out." Paul explained.

"Where's Bella now?" Jacob asked with another growl. He wasn't sure he was going to like the answer.

"Gone...Jared...Jake, he found Sam's car. It was in an accident with a deer." Paul said nervously.

Jacob threw the phone, shattering it against the wall. He raced outside and allowed his anger to transform him, his clothes shedding off his body.

~LBC~

Jacob ran quickly through the woods, listening to the thoughts of the pack. Where's the car?

On the main road, about two clicks inside the rez border.

We need to find Bella. She doesn't know the kind of danger she's in.

Jacob, do you really think Sam would do anything to harm her?

Seth, she doesn't know shit. She's got everything wrong, remember?

Damn, we should've been watching out for Charlie more carefully.

It wouldn't have done any good. The blood-suckers would've found another way to get to her.

Jacob cleared the woods and stopped short. The sight before him was horrible. How the hell did anyone survive this?

The car was on it's roof. The windows smashed, glass shards everywhere. The car's bumper was feet away from the car. The impact must have been really hard. Jacob could smell the distant scents of blood; the deer, Sam's and Bella's.

He shot off in the direction of Sam and Bella's trail. They were together. The trees seemed to bend, creating a path for him to follow. The ground under his paws soften his path.

Jacob knew the direction the path was leading him. He silently hoped that the scent changed directions. Unfortunately, it did but not the way he wanted. It shifted east, a short cut towards the Cullen's border.

He could hear the others picking through his head. He was picking through theirs for something that would let him know where Sam and Bella were.

He stopped short of the Cullen's border, knowing he couldn't go any further. He snarled in anger as he phased. He slammed his fist against a tree.

"Jacob."

Jacob turned around, coming face to face with the one person he had no interest in seeing. "What do you want, blood-sucker?"

Edward stepped out from around a tree. The rarely seen sun glinting off his skin. The look in his eyes was black and haunted.

"I'm assuming the same as you; to find Bella." Edward answered flatly.

"And how's that working for ya?" Jacob hissed as he paced back and forth.

Edward paused, narrowing his eyes. "The same as you."

Jacob suddenly realized what Edward was doing. He cursed and started reciting the alphabet in his head.

"Trying to hide something, Jacob." Edward snapped.

"Stay the fuck out of my head, blood-sucker." Jacob whipped back.

"What's going on with Sam? Why don't you want him around Bella?" Edward asked.

"Where are they?" Jacob asked, avoiding Edward's question.

"They split up. I followed Bella's scent after they split up. Her scent disappeared. Why would Sam split up from her?" Edward growled.

"Wait...what?" Edward definitely had Jacob's attention now.

"I came across their scent. Alice called and said that Sam had picked up Bella at Charlie's and was bringing her to the rez. I headed to cut them off and picked up their scent coming back from the rez. I smelled vampires with them." Edward explained.

"How many scents, blood-sucker?" Jacob's mind was spinning with the information.

"Two, Riley and Victoria. Their scents split up at the same point as Sam and Bella's did."

"Damn, that asshole." Jacob smashed another tree.

"Jacob, what's going on?" Edward's normally calm voice was suddenly nervous. He knew something was up and not knowing was driving him crazy.

"Did you go after Sam's scent?"

"No, I came here when I heard your thoughts." Edward replied hoping Jacob would explain.

"Well, I guess you've come as far as you can go. You and your clan started this shit, blood-sucker, and now it's time for the wolves to put an end to it."

Edward fought to keep calm. Jacob was trying to hide something. Something to do with Sam. "I'm sick of these games, mutt. What the hell is going on?"

"You deal with your blood-suckers and we'll deal with Sam." Jacob muttered. Jacob raced off back into the woods. He didn't have time to answer Edward's stupid questions.

In Jacob's opinion, the vampire's didn't have any clue what was going on. How could they be so dense and blind to what was going on? How could they not see what Sam was doing? The fact that Sam had broken away from the pack was the beginning of the end for Bella. Jacob had to find her before it's too late.

Jacob thought back to his time with Bella. They had been close, his feelings for her were stronger than hers for him. Her obsession with Edward had been too much. He couldn't win against a ghost. He had been given no choice at that point. He had turned his back on her. He felt like shit for it but what was done was done. It would've hurt even more and he kept it going longer.

Jacob arrived back at the rez in record time. He headed straight to his place. He could smell two wolves inside.

"Jake, what's going on?" Jared asked.

"Sam and Bella split up. One with each vampire."

"So, our assumptions were right?" Paul asked.

"Looks like it. The blood-suckers are still in the dark. They believe what they see. I don't get it; how did Sam keep everything from Edward?" Jacob paced the living room.

"He had us all thinking the wrong way, man. It doesn't matter now. We need to find Bella. She's all that matters. Once we find her, we can finish this with Sam. He's wrong. The blood-suckers are wrong. We just need to show them that." Paul answered.

"Okay, for now we need to figure out where Sam is. If we find him, we'll find Bella."

"So, where do we start?" Jared asked.

"I'm heading to Sam's. You and Paul seach the border and see where Sam or Bella came out."

"You think the blood-suckers went straight through Cullen territory?" Paul asked.

"I know they did. Cullen said he lost Bella's scent in their territory. It's a safe bet they wouldn't stay too close to the Cullen's homeland."

Jacob grabbed his cell phone off the table, placed it in a bag and tied it to his leg. "Call me when you find something."

Jacob took off towards Sam's, leaving Paul and Jared to formulate their own plan. It had been a long time since he had seen or spoken to Sam. After the turnover of leadership, Sam hadn't been in a very talkative mood. Jacob had been right taking over, becoming alpha.

He and Bella had split up and moved away from each other, but it was still Jacob's creed to protect her and the other humans from blood-suckers. As long as he lived that was what he would do. Apparently, Sam didn't see it that way.

Jacob slowed down near the edge of the woods. Using all his senses, Jacob realized there hadn't been anyone near Sam's house in a long time. He moved out of the woods and closer to the house. He kept his senses keen in case this was a set-up.

He stepped up to the door and pushed it open. The hinges creaked from lack of use. The dust swirled through the light. The house was definitely deserted. Electricity had been shut off. Sam wasn't planning on coming back.

Jacob stepped in and looked around the room. The pictures on the wall made Jacob's skin crawl. Dozens of pictures of Bella lined the wall. Dust covering them but they were definitely pictures of Bella. Some were taken here in Forks and some in Seattle. All were taken from a hidden view. She had never been aware that they were being taken.

Jacob's sense the cell phone an instant before it rang. He pulled it out and answered it. "Hello."

So the questions of the week are...

Who does Jacob gets phone call from?

Sam

Edward

Jared

Victoria

Who's third person POV do you want next?

Edward

Sam

Victoria

Jacob

Rec'd:

Who We Are? by Dooba. Alternate version of New Moon. An unbelievable first chapter. Author of the beautiful story Torn.