Thanks to my reviewers. I'm so good to you guys and giving you this chapter for the weekend. You gotta love me for that. Well my holiday starts on Thursday if I get enough reviews I might get another one or two out for you. Remember I will be away for two weeks and don't' think I will have internet at the hotels we are staying at. I'm really excited as my son is representing his country for the first time in his sport. Yep I'm boasting :P

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Chapter 14

Three years later.

Jacob leaned his back over the kitchen counter as he watched his pack fool around in the lounge. Sam and Leah had moved in together and the pack normally went there for meetings or something decent to eat. Even though Leah was only sixteen her parents knew that her and Sam were destined to be together forever and they were having intimate relations anyway. At thirteen Jacob was just going on six foot tall. Embry and Quil were taller than the average teenager but nowhere as big as the alpha.

Embry looked up from the fight that had broken out between Paul and Quil over the television remote and smiled at his alpha. The two cubs had become close since Embry's rescue from Italy keeping their promise to Jasper to take care of each other. Embry was welcomed into the pack with open arms and it was accepted that he was part of the pack and tribe. However the elders still saw him as a bastard child.

"Have you told him yet?" Sam asked.

Jacob looked at his beta and shook his head. There was something holding him back and he wished he knew what. Of course Sam knew he had become the big brother that Jacob always wanted. Billy and Jacob never spoke unless at tribal meetings. There was a grunt from the lounge and somehow Embry was in the middle of the fighting wolves. Jacob went to break it up only for Sam to squeeze his shoulder and go and sort them out himself. There was a howl meaning it was time for Jacob and Quil to head out to patrol.

With one last look at his small pack Jacob began to strip as he headed to the trees. Quil dashes past and phases in seconds. Jacob sighed he knew he was in for a long patrol with his brother who was just starting to have feelings for Edward. Of course at only thirteen he was to young for Edward to consider taking it further than them being friends but it didn't stop a hormonal teenage wolf to think what he would like to happen. Jacob was grateful that Sam had taught him to block and if it hadn't been for a slip on one patrol he was running with Sam he wouldn't have found out that in fact Jacob had imprinted. Jacob closed his eyes and cleared his mind before he let his wolf out.

"All quiet." Jared said

"Okay well you two go rest. I'm sure Paul is waiting for you pup." Jacob said to the youngest of the pack.

The day that Sam got the call from Carlisle about Marcus, Paul panicked and tried to get the Clearwaters to run as far away as possible with the family. He didn't want his imprint in danger of being hurt. He needed to stay and protect the tribe. Of course he wasn't going to let the prick hurt anyone but he certainly wasn't going to run away. The only time the wolf seemed to relax was when he was allowed to take a weekend away with Seth to go visit Rosalie and Emmett. Even they agreed with Paul that Seth should leave the area with his family. But the Clearwater's wouldn't hear of it.

Paul had no intention of telling Seth any of it since there was nothing his imprint could do. However when Seth woke that night and watched as his Paul cried silently at the end of his bed he wanted to know what was wrong. Paul tried to deny Seth and tell him nothing, but his imprint was insistent and Paul could do nothing but tell him everything. With no warning Seth began to tremble and it was only by luck that Paul got back just in time to watch his little imprint shift into a beautiful little cub. He was smaller than Jacob and the others even though he was older for his first shift.

At ten years old the pup was the fastest runner even with his short legs and had managed to outrun Edward once much to the vampires horror but the delight of the pack. Training Seth to fight was hard on Paul as he would always try and protect his cub even though he knew it was training. In the end Paul was never allowed to any of the training sessions that Seth was given by Jacob. Seth wasn't the best fighter and in all honesty Jacob was grateful that Paul would be there to protect him and make him run away if there was any danger.

"He's going to take me and Embry to the beach."

"I know so you better hurry. We'll keep an eye out around that area. Have fun." Jacob chuckled.

Seth and Jared were already near Sam's house and Jacob sighed when they phased out. Giving Quil the eastern side Jacob took the west so he was closest to the beach. As much as Paul and the rest of the tribe wanted to keep Seth locked indoors until word came that Marcus was not coming after Paul it was impossible. They tried to lead a normal of a life as possible. An hour later Jacob was able to see the beach and his pack brothers. The day was warm and sunny many families and small groups of teenagers were at the beach. It would seem that everyone in the pack decided to go and they were playing soccer together. Leah sitting on the sand with coolers around her no doubt filled with food for the hungry wolves.

Jacob paused to watch them, Paul was allowing his little imprint to get past him easily. Jacob chuckled he could almost hear the rest of the pack roll their eyes at how obvious it was that Paul was letting Seth dodge him. If it was any of them there would be no mercy shown no matter who it was. Jacob tried to keep his eyes wandering to his imprint but failed. Quil joined in watching them through Jacob's eyes. For once he wasn't thinking about Edward but rather some tune they were working on together.

"So when you going to tell him?" Quil asked

"What are you talking about?" Jacob's heart stuttered of course Edward must have told him about the imprint.

"Your imprint I'm not blind and neither are the others. Okay maybe Embry but he only sees what he wants to see."

"I'm not telling anyone anything just butt out."

"Jacob you have been standing in the same spot for the last half hour and your eyes keep wandering away to him. He's cute give you that."

Jacob huffed and took off to patrol again. Quil went back to thinking about the tune while Jacob focused on the area in front of him. He had hoped he had kept his feelings for his imprint on the down low. But the moment he imprinted on him his whole life revolved around the boy. When alone he would always wonder what he was doing or if he even noticed Jacob. Quil scoffed at that thought making Jacob completely block his mind.

"Everyone notices you Jake. Your kinda hard to miss."

"Just shut up would you."

"Shutting it." Quil chuckled.

They were just coming to the end of their shift when Jacob picked up a scent he recognized. He opened his mind up to Quil and let him smell it as well through his mind.

"We going to call the pack?"

"Lets see where it goes." Jacob said.

"I'm coming your way just hold up." Quil said suddenly changing direction.

"Keep your eyes and ears peeled I don't know where it leads but so far its heading the other way but if they suddenly back track they could be heading towards you."

It didn't take long for Quil to join Jacob who had slowed down to a trot so he could keep his nose to the ground. There was only one scent meaning that it was a lone leech. Jacob wasn't sure whose scent it was but knew it was not a Cullen or Alec. Jacob followed it till they came to the cliffs and the scent disappeared. Whoever it was was now gone.

"Guess we are upping up patrols again." Quil asked sitting beside the alpha who was looking over the ocean.

Jacob didn't answer and tilted his head back and howled the pack. So much for summer vacation. A minute later the pack started popping into Jacob and Quil's head. Paul grumbling that he had just managed to lay down before his patrol at midnight. However he stopped complaining when he saw why they were called. His thoughts went straight to Seth who was trotting beside him. A whine escaped his mouth and he nudged his little imprint to run closer to him. Seth huffed but did as he was told.

Embry was first to the others and rubbed up against them before taking his position in the circle. He couldn't believe that Jacob was trying to keep a secret from him and wondered why he never told him about the imprint. Did he think he would be mad? He decided tonight he was going to confront him about it and get to the bottom of it. He just wished that Jasper was here for him. He hadn't spoken to either his papa or Jasper in months. The regular phone calls became less frequent and when they did call it was normally about pack business with Jacob and he only got to say a quick hello.

A few times he would sneak away from La-Push and race all the way to Seattle just so he could get hugged by Emmett taking in the big vampire's scent which was closest to his beloved papa and Jasper. As much as he loved the Clearwater's they weren't his true family. Jacob saw all this going through his thoughts and knew that tonight no matter what he had to tell him and the pack about his imprint. Right now though they had to deal with the lone leech that had come into their lands.

"I'd hoped after three years they would have given up." Jared said.

"To leeches three years is nothing. Its like a day to us time means almost nothing." Quil explained.

"So is it the leech who is after Paul?"

"I don't know do either of you remember his scent?" Jacob looked at Quil and Embry.

"I do." Seth whispered.

"Seth you haven't met him in wolf."

Seth hung his head. "I know but I can never forget his scent or his taste." Seth blushed through his fur.

"So is it him?" Paul asked.

Seth looked up at his Paul's eyes with tears welling up in them and just nodded before rubbing against his mate. Fear running through his whole body. Jacob went to his youngest pack brother and lifted his paw and brought him towards him as though in a hug. If it had been Sam or Jared trying to do that to his little imprint Paul would have attacked them but Jacob was like a big brother to him and his alpha. Seth phased and sobbed into Jacob's fur. He understood everything about the imprint and knew that one day him and Paul would be in love but right now Paul was his best friend and big brother. He couldn't imagine his life without him.

"Please let me take him to Rosalie and Emmett. Let me keep him safe."

"Paul he is part of the pack and he has a job to do as much as everyone else I'm sorry but my answer is no."

"Jacob please."

"I'm sorry" Jacob pushed Seth away from him and went to stand at the top of the circle. "This is what we have been waiting for. The time has come that we protect our brother our people. By the spirit warriors grace I wish us well."

The pack howled together even Seth having shifted back now standing between his imprints front legs. Patrols were set up so that four wolves would be on at one time no one patrolling on their own. Jacob made sure that Embry Quil and Seth were with one of the older wolves he himself as alpha would be with whoever. The meeting quickly broke up. Embry, Paul, Sam and Jared were taking the first shift as Jacob needed to get hold of Carlisle in Italy and let him know that Marcus had indeed come to La-Push.

Jacob would keep Seth with him when he wasn't patrolling or one of the other pack brothers. As much as they believed Paul was in danger Jacob and Paul agreed that Seth would be just a big of a target. Leah was waiting for them to arrive back her fear for her mate no less than anyone elses. Jacob was fearful for his mate but had to have faith in his pack to keep him and the rest of the tribe safe.

Carlisle answered the phone almost straight away. As soon as he heard Jacob's voice he knew it was time he and Jasper headed to Forks. Jasper was one step ahead of him and had booked tickets thanks to Alice. Their cubs were needing their help. The Cullen's were going back to look after their cubs.

TBC

And Jacob imprinted :D

All we know is that it is a boy. No surprise there really. But on who did he imprint on? Embry? Review and stay tuned.