"Please tell me this you're idea of a sick joke." Paul asked me, I frowned.
"You're acting like this is easy for me, my choices are become the mate of a demon and be abused and unloved for all eternity, DIE, or lose my virginity. It's not a magic show; I don't just pick a card and be happy with it." I growled at him.
"You should really talk to like a girl about this." Embry replied I could see this made him uncomfortable.
"Yeah well guess what right now I'm stuck with you two." I turned and crossed my arms.
"No you're not." Leah's voice came in from the doorway, I turned.
"Thank god I'll go guard the house or something." Embry barreled out. Surprisingly Paul stayed he may be the one who got along with Jacob the least but he was a pretty good friend it me.
"We all heard their thoughts." Leah explained,
"I assumed it was either that or Embry sent out a girlie talk 911 call." I said, she cracked a smile but her eyes stayed serious.
"So are those really you're only options we can't just kill him and be done with it?" She sat down on the edge of my bed.
"No please don't kill him. As much as it sucks he's currently my intended mate and if he dies I die." I told her, and her face looked like someone had dropped a boulder on her tail.
"So that's why you have to sleep with someone. You have to be mated to someone else so the bond is broken." Leah said quietly, I nodded none of this was very bright prospect for me.
"Sam's calling but I'll stay nearby." Paul said before he walked out.
"You know I never thought it would happen this way. I thought I'd lose my virginity on my wedding night, and a year ago I thought it would be to someone dude I met in college. Not my werewolf boyfriend. Who I didn't really have a choice of loving he just had to be so goddam charming." I said to her,
"At least you have someone to love, and there is no doubt in my mind that he'd be more than happy to help fix this problem." She grimaced, I sweat dropped,
"That is if I choose this, I could always try to kill him before he well rapes me." Leah's face became stony.
"You can't do that. You just found out how to use your priestess magic to get to the spirit world, you can't learn to kill something when you can't even keep the bridge open for more than thirty minutes. And even if you do can you face him and kill him. He can shift into Jacobs form remember from your dreams. Could you kill him if he looked at you through Jacobs eyes and begged you and told you he loved you?" her voice was like a vice on my mind, I felt Alue lick my hand I looked down into her big silver eyes and started crying.
"Why me? Why did this fucked up world choose me? It would have turned out fine without me, Jacob would have found his real imprint and I would still be in my world no demons no vampires, no happiness, just normalcy." I cried Leah's hands gripped my shoulders.
"But would you trade this life for your old one? Would you trade the unending love? The family who will never leave you?" I closed my eyes, divorced parents, brothers who left to college so far away I was sure they were never coming back, a sister who only wanted to catch a rich guy and leave as soon as possible? And no one to love me?
"No." I whispered and picture my families faces and realized I could barely remember them, because I had a family, that loved me now. The dream family ones that would show up a swim meets and cheer without having to sit on other sides of the pool just so they wouldn't come into contact with each other. I loved them but the love the Cullen's gave me was really out of a story, one I was ok living in.
"Well then let your family save you." Leah told me she hugged me before standing up to leave, "Get some sleep you're going to need it."
As soon as my eyes closed I was called back to the spirit world,
"Lula." Coyotl stood before me,
"I assume you have more details from Huehuecoyotl." I sighed and followed him through the forest.
"Just a warning you must mate on the summer solstice, you have a month before there is no way around Etzli. He will take you and no one will be able to save you." His eyes were dark like a moonless sky, "When you find your mate you must bring him here to learn the ritual."
"So that's it? Either I find Jacob by the Summer solstice or I die basically." I could feel the tears burn at my eyes but they didn't fall.
"A month is all the time you have." And the spirit world faded into a grey abyss.
"Lula?" Esme's cold hands woke me up.
"I have a month to find him." Her eyes told me she knew what I meant of course Sam had told them I was their family as much as I was part of his.
"We'll take care of you darling." Her voice was soft and strong but I heard it waver.
And the month started passing us by like a shooting star in the sky.
Bella's wedding was next weekend, the Solstice was this weekend and Jacob was nowhere to be found.
"We'll find him." Paul was my escort of the week, no one wanted to leave me out of their sight.
"We have to or I carry Etzli's demon spawn and die." Said part of me had come to terms that my life was over.
"I won't let that happen." Paul put his hand of my shoulder.
"You don't have a choice." I heard his voice behind me. Paul was in front of me in a flash.
"She does and I'm gonna give it to her." He snarled.
"Back down little wolf, she's my mate and I'll take her anyway necessary." His eyes raked down my body.
"Your mate?" a dark angry voice filtered through the trees and finally Jacob's voice came into my world.
"Jacob!" I could help but the happiness burble out into his name.
"Don't get involved wolf, I'd rather spend my time ravishing my mate." I swear I saw fire in Jacob's eyes. He lunged at Etzli with a roar that shook the forest.
"I'll be back for you." And he vanished like a shadow into the trees.
"Lula." Jacob wrapped me in his arms.
"You two need to talk." Paul said as he stepped away towards the forest.
"Paul wait I have to take him to the spirit world, can you guard us." I asked, he nodded and crossed his arms watching us.
"I'm sorry I left you, I couldn't face you. I broke my promise and I let him hurt you." His eyes were filled with pain.
"No, I didn't tell you about him because it was my problem I let him through and I thought I was stronger, I was tired of being the damsel in distress and now I'm in more distress than ever." His fingers traced my cheeks.
"Then I'll save you." His whispered.
"Good because we found out how." Paul interrupted; Jacob looked up as I blushed.
"Lula?" he turned to me,
"Well you see, Etzli claimed me as his mate, so you know that entails, and um the only way around it without killing me, is um I can't um..." I blushed and bit my tongue, "You have to um, have to well we..."
"Good lord woman spit it out already!" Paul growled at me.
"You have to fuck me." I blurted out oh so eloquently and covered my bright red face. Paul burst into laughter.
"I expected some class but little sister this will have to do."
"Shut up!" It's not funny!" I yelled at him and looked over at Jacob whose face was impossible to read.
"You gonna say something because I can smell her embarrassment." Paul faced him, even though his words were joking, his voice said he was worried for me.
"I've never had to respond to that sort of thing give me a minute." He snapped.
"You don't have a few; you have to do the deed on Saturday on the solstice." Paul snarled. I walked up to him and grabbed his hand,
"So do you want to be stuck with me forever or not?" I looked up into his beautiful eyes.
"No guy could ask for more." He replied.
"This is heartfelt and all but you should get going to the spirit world." I nodded and whispered,
"Tlatlauhtilia Tecciztecatl teihtitia in imióhhuih in occequi xolal." When I opened my eyes I saw a dumbstruck Jake staring around.
"Lula." Huehuecoyotl appeared and Jake stepped back.
"Is that a?"
"A talking coyote?" I replied to him,
"Yeah." Jake nodded.
"No, he's my spirit guide, trust me he could look human if he wasn't trying to sneaky and such." And Huehuecoyotl gave me a toothy grin.
"So you've chosen you're mate?" He asked me.
"Yes this is Jacob." I told him, I half expected the dumbstruck man next to me to wave.
"Then come Jacob you must learn the mating ritual if you are to save your beloved." And he walked away we followed.
"Enter the cave above the Waterfall, and there you will find Xochiquetzal." Huehuecoyotl told us before he vanished back into the grey forest.
"He's really not helpful is he?" Jake told me.
"No he's the god of tricks and cunning. We're lucky he didn't make us guess using a riddle." I told him before looking up at the cave.
"So who's Choc I pretzel?" Jake stuttered over her name.
"Xochiquetzal, the goddess of love." I laughed, "Now stop stuttering and get us up there." I looked at him, he grinned,
"This I can manage." He bent down so I could jump on his back and he climbed up the face of the cliff till we were at the entrance.
"Xochiquetzal, tlatlahtianimitz pale ome tlazo tla amocualli inemiliz." I spoke the words to the dark entrance and waited.
"What did you say exactly?" Jake whispered.
"I asked her to help two lovers end an evil life. In a manner of speaking." He nodded as the cave's mouth became bright with golden flames.
"Enter." A melodic voice came from the darkness and we stepped through. The flames flickered off the walls as a beautiful woman sat on a throne.
"Young lovers what is it you seek?" she spoke. I walked up to her and pulled off my shirt. His fingers danced over the mark Eztli had left.
"So you wish to become her mate wolf?" she turned her burning gaze to Jacob.
"Yes."
"Then is will be done on the summer solstice, you must mate her in a natural setting, a cave with nothing of the mortal world. Your palms must touch as you make this mark yours. You must let your inner beast mark this woman as the men of old did." She told him,
"He has to bite me too." I reached my shoulder.
"Once you are claimed even if Etzli does take you from him, he will never succeed in his quest to have an earthly anchor."
"Wait he wants my Lula to have his baby?" Jake interjected, she nodded. "No way in hell he's touching you." His arm wrapped around me protectively.
"Then there is nothing more I can help you with, except, do you wish to bear his child? For it would keep Etzli from taking you if you belonged to someone else." She looked at me.
"No not yet." I blushed.
"I understand as the times have changed outside the spirit world." Jake nodded her was pale from the question, apparently he didn't want to be a dad just yet either, "That is all I can tell you, you must go now you cannot stay here for too long." And the fire flickered out and the darkness of the cave became lighter as the sunset forest became our world.
"Well you've been gone long enough you learn the details of your soon to come escapade?" Paul walked over.
"Yes now we just have to wait a week." I breathed my heart was pounding in my chest for a moment that I had to wait for.
Ok so I'm working on the Lemon as requested, it'll be the first one I have the courage to actually post just because I have friends who read this and I really don't want them to know how corrupt I am. Lol so I'm getting there.