Well it seems my writer's block is over with for the time being. I have been popping these babies out at lightning speed.

Jacob's POV

"Alright Sam, what's up?" I crossed my arms over my chest and cocked an eyebrow at him. Really this had better be important. It had been a very eventful night, and I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was climb into Bella's window, make out with her for a few minutes, and then go to bed.

I needed to kiss her, to feel her, to taste her sweet lips. Edward had come back, and she had chosen to stay with me. My heart flipped and flopped in my chest. Man I loved that girl.

"Listen Jake, I'm really sorry about how you found out about the other packs. I would have rather you had found out from the counsel and I and not from a bloodsucker."

I waved my hand at Sam. If this is what he wanted to talk about, it could wait. Truth be told I wasn't thrilled to have been let in on tribal secrets by a bloodsucker, but I knew they planned on telling me after this meeting. How could Sam and the counsel have known that the bloodsucker was so curious about these things.

"Seriously Sam, it's okay. I'm not upset about it. But if that's what you want to talk about, we can do it at another time...."

Sam shook his head and cut me off. "No Jake, that isn't it. Believe me, if that was it I would have waited until tomorrow." He smirked at me. He knew. He understood the need, the want of the imprint. I'm sure he was itching to get back to Emily as badly as I was itching to get upstairs to Bella.

"We actually need to talk about your imprinting on Bella." I began to speak, expecting something about how she wasn't one of us, and maybe this had been a fluke or something. He waved his hand. "No Jake, don't worry. I want to talk about her power and stuff. I got to thinking about it when we were at the meeting with the bloodsuckers. I told you about marking and stuff right?"

I nodded at him, a little confused about where he was going with this.

"Alright, so yeah..um..okay see you're Alpha, but you carry wolf gene from both sides, since your mom was an Atera, so you strongly hold the wolf, stronger than any of the rest of us. And you imprinted on someone who has their own power. I told you how when I marked Emily, she and I shared parts of ourselves, acquiring traits from the other."

I nodded again, slowly understanding. "I haven't marked her yet. We aren't fully mated yet." I looked at the ground. I knew Sam knew this, he had been in my head.

"Yeah I know, I'm just filling you in. Because I have a theory. When you mark Bella, you might acquire some of her shielding abilities, and who knows what you may give her." I stiffened and Sam chuckled.

"We're shape shifters Jake, not real werewolves. You and I both know you cant turn her into a werewolf. Your not the first Alpha to imprint and mark. No other imprint has become one of us. Even with all your wolf genes. You have to be born with the genes to be able to phase. But anyway, I thought you might like to know this. You aren't a fully mated Alpha yet. You and I both know that that alone will boost your abilities, even without the mark. It works that way for all wolves with imprints. When the wolf gets to mate for the first time, it boost his power. I guess it's a wolfy ego boost."

I gave Sam a look "Are you trying to convince me to mate?" I tried to stifle a laugh. Sam smiled at me and shook his head.

"Hey man, you want to mate, then mate, you want to wait, then wait. I'm not trying to say it either way. Although it is true your Alpha powers will be greater and easier to control once you have mated. I just wanted you to be aware of these things. You might want to talk to Bella about all of this. She needs to know." He paused and wrinkled his brow, thinking for a moment before continuing. "How you think she's gonna take marking? I mean she was with a bloodsucker for Christ sake. He was gonna bite her, and now she doesn't want it."

I shook my head. I had begun to wonder myself. Was she going to let me bite her? I shrugged. We would cross that bridge when we came to it.

I sniffed the air. A sickly sweet scent invaded my nostrils. Sam wrinkled his nose, we crouched in defensive positions.

The tall burly bloodsucker, the one who had been with Rosalie stepped from the trees. He held up his hands.

"I come in piece."

Sam and I stood. We crossed our arms over our chest and stared at the bloodsucker.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him, cocking an eyebrow.

He flashed me a grin. "Hey man, I'm on "Make sure Alice and Edward leave Bella alone" watch. I'm Rosalie's mate. I agree with everything she said. Bella is awesome dude, you are one lucky dog. And hey, she stays human, then she stays funny. And I'm all for that."

Sam and I exchanged glances. Sam shrugged. I turned back to the bloodsucker. "And how is she funny? Hey I didn't catch your name."

"Oh yeah sorry I'm Emmett. And Bella is funny because she is just so human. She trips over air man, you date her, you know. And the colors she turns. It's a hoot and a half to make that girl blush. And man, I've been listening to the two of you talking about wolf mating. I wish I could be a fly on the wall for that conversation. I'm betting she'll be almost purple by the end of it." He crossed his arms over his chest, smiling and shaking his head.

A smile came to my lips, and I looked at Sam, he was trying so hard not to laugh. We both failed and with in minutes the three of us were cracking up. He was so right about Bella.

Emmett looked at me, serious for a moment. "You're one lucky dog man. Bella is a great girl. My brother was a fool to leave her, but he doesn't deserve her. I'm glad she isn't taking him back. You'll take care of her, even if you do smell like wet dog. Oh man! DOG! DOGGY STYLE! OH! I cant wait to tease her about that. Hahaha. This is going to be awesome."

I smiled and shook my head. I was supposed to hate Emmett. He was, after all, what I was born to destroy. But sitting here, talking to him, like he was one of my brothers. Human, almost.

"Anyway, I need to be on my way. Carlisle doesn't want to step on any toes, and I wasn't supposed to come this close to the house, but you know the thing with super hearing. I picked up on your conversation and just had to come over." He shrugged with a smile. "I know a thing or two about mating vampire style. Don't know much about werewolf style, although I'm sure Carlisle has books on the subject." We all chuckled. "Oh hey do you mind if I work with you guys when you train with Jasper? I am no where near as experienced with fighting vampires, but I am one, so it might be helpful for the pack to spar with me!"

I looked at Sam and he shrugged. I looked at Emmett and nodded. It was a good idea after all. "Sure, sure. We'll be in contact with Carlisle in a few days."

"Right, well I'm off. Don't worry about Edward and Alice too much. Jasper is fucking with there emotions so much right now it's as if they are stoned. They are blissfully happy and singing "Kumbaya" Funny shit let me tell you."

Sam and I burst out in hysterics. The thought Edwierdo and the Pixie sitting around emo stoned and singing "Kumbaya" was just too much. Emmett smiled and started to walk back into the dense forest, he waved and then he was gone.

Sam and I were doubled over in laughter. Slowly our fit slowed and we straightened up.

"We are so keeping that one around!"

I nodded. "Alright Sam, I'm going to go up and try to get some sleep." Sam smirked at me. "I am not going to try and mate with Bella while Charlie snores down the hall. Why don't you head home Sam, do whatever it is you do. I'll call you tomorrow. If you have a chance in the morning call and set up a meeting with the council. They will be interested in all of this." Sam nodded, waved, moved into the trees, stripped, phased and ran off towards La Push.

I stripped and phased, did one loop around Bella's house. After satisfying my need to keep my mate safe, I returned to my clothes, phased and dressed quickly. I went to the tree near Bella's window and effortlessly made my way up and swung myself silently into Bella's room, landing in a crouched position on the balls of my feet with a soft thump.

Oh and I still have an open poll for my story "OUTTAKES FROM T.R.O.I.S." "When should Bella and Jake have sex." If you read that story, please go vote. I will be closing that poll on tomorrow. The results of that poll will make an impact on this story too because as you can see from this chapter, Bella and Jake have a lot to talk about when it comes to mating. So to write the chapter on their "talk", which is the next chapter, will be crafted around the results of that poll. And in this case, I will be using the one that has the highest vote. This poll is important to this story, because they will be making their desicion when they have their "talk". So yeah, go vote. And review! Hope you liked this chapter. I know it's short. But I thought it was funny. I love Emmett, and couldn't leave him out either.