**QUICK NOTE** Sorry it took so long... I got obsessed with a computer game... but I finished this yaaaaaay! PLEASE REVIEW! i love reading feed back and if you have any idea's as to what should happen please please please tell me I am open for suggestions =D, thank you so much for reading!
I stood there in shock. I mean I knew it would happen some day. That he and I would be together. And he was right, It was hard denying it any longer. I opened my mouth a few times, but nothing came out. Of course all the times I couldn't speak was this once. I think for a moment, of course I wanted to be his girlfriend.
"Jake I do want to be your girlfriend, but I cant." I say. I feel it through the bond that he feels rejected and I feel him move away from me quickly. He starts to walk away and I start to follow him quickly. "Jake... I..."
"No Grace..." He cuts me off turning to face me. "You don't have to explain yourself. I just wish you wouldn't be so mean as to lead me on like that. Bella I could understand she was confused by the time Edward came back, but my own imprint." He says disappointed and hurt in his voice. It hurt, a lot, for him to say that to me and he knew it. He face stays the same but in his eyes there is a battle, one that is of guilt for hurting me, and one that is he was defending himself.
"I haven't been leading you on!" I snap at him more out of defense at his remark. "If you must know I cant because of my dad. He said that he doesn't want us together in his lifetime. It wouldn't be right. So until he says that I can date you I am sorry but I cant no matter how bad I've wanted to be with you." I state. I feel a blush creeping into my cheeks as I realized I had confessed to him what I had been hiding for a few month now.
"You want to be with me?" He asks a bit less mad. I decided to take my own advice that I had given to Garrett earlier. I walk up to him.
"Of course I do, I have known I wanted it since I woke up in the hospital after the crash." I say looking up at him as I take his left hand in my right hand. "I denied it as long as I could no matter who said what, but I cant anymore. It hurts to much. But at the same time I love my dad, and I want to respect his wishes. It would kill me almost as much as not being with you if I disappointed him." I say honestly. He leans down and gently places a kiss on my lips.
"We will figure something out. For now, out of respect of Charlie, we will stay friends. But please Grace allow me one thing. If we are in private with no one around, can I kiss you?" He asks. I smile and blush a little.
"I don't think what we do is consider kissing more like intense make out sessions." I joke with him. He smirks.
"I don't hear you complaining to much about them." He states.
"That's because I like them, so the answer is yes, when no one is around, we can kiss." I state with a smirk. He smiles at me and leans down and kisses my lips gently.
"Good because I would have done it anyways." He says pulling away. We start to walk again this time a little closer but not touching. The rest of the walk was a comfortable silence and once we got tot he tree line behind my house Jake grabs my hand gently and stops me and I turn to look at him.
"Do you want me to stay tonight?" He asks me.
"You need to do patrols. It's fine, maybe another night." I comment with a small smile. I knew he needed to do his job and it didn't bother me so much now that he knew how I felt. He leans down and kisses my lips I kiss back. It was short but it was sweet and simple.
"Good night my beautiful Imprint." He says in almost a whisper and I blush.
"Good night." I say in a whisper as well. He gives me another kiss before I head into my back yard and into the house. My dad wasn't home yet so I made sure the house was in decent shape before turning off all the lights and heading up to my room. When I get there I sit at my desk and open up my calculus book and start on that. Yes I was exhausted, but this was due tomorrow.
I feel myself being gently shaken awake and I jump a little and sit up strait. My back and neck was really sore as I look up at who had woke me.
"Grace you should really sleep in your bed." Jake says as I slowly start to put together what had happened. I had fell asleep at my desk while working on my calculus.
"Oh no I have to finish my homework it's due tomorrow." I say sleepily. I look at the clock that read 3:30am I moan "More like in six hours."
"How about you get some sleep and I do your homework." He states.
"Isn't that cheating?" I ask him. He shrugs.
"I would much rather see you pass then turn in a half of paper and fail. Now come on, no protesting." He states. I sit there only half listening as I feel myself drifting back to sleep. I hear a low laugh before I hear my closet door being opened. I feel myself being shaken awake again.
"You know you are being annoying." I comment. He hands me something and I look down at it.
"Get in your pajamas and get in bed." Jake says and walks over to the window. A surge of panic runs through me that he will leave and he chuckles lowly. "I am not going anywhere Grace, just respecting your privacy and not looking at you while you change." He states not looking back at me and continuing his focus outside the window. I blush realizing he had felt my panic and I get up and quickly change, watching him the whole time to make sure he didn't turn around. He was true to his word though and did not peek. It was strange, him usually being the immature guy, who would be perverted and look anyways, was actually being mature and respecting my privacy. I smile as I slowly walk up to him and gently kiss his shoulder as my arms go around his waist from behind and hug him.
"Thank you." I say quietly. I could feel him relaxing under my touch. Had he actually been that uncomfortable with me being almost naked in the same room as him. Granted I was probably just as tense while doing it. He turns around and faces me and leans down and kiss me. It was a passionate kiss, one that was going to easily escalate. But just as it started it ended and Jake pulled away.
"Go to bed, I will cuddle with you until you are asleep then I will help with your homework ok?" he asks me. I nod my head. Jake walks over and gets in my bed first and I follow after him I lay down facing him and burry my head into his chest as my legs entangle with his.
"Why were you so tense when I walked up to you?" I asked him half asleep.
"You really want to know?" he asks me quietly.
"mhmm." was all I could muster my energy to say.
"Because I have a hard time controlling myself around you. I don't mean changing. I mean..." he sighs. "This is probably a better conversation for when you are awake." He states.
"Hmmm I thought It was because you were uncomfortable with me being almost naked." I say almost asleep. If I was fully conscious I would not be saying these things, I was however half asleep and honestly didn't care at this point and would face the consequences in the morning. However I felt Jacob's body get tense, my mind instantly started to believe that maybe I was right and he didn't like the idea of me naked. I feel him shaking me a little pulling from my almost sleep. I open my eyes and look up at him.
"Grace, please don't ever think that. I am definitely not uncomfortable with that. I just... its hard to explain." He says. I frown my eyebrows. "Please Grace go to sleep you need it." He said pleading. I sigh.
"Fine but you will tell me wont you?" I ask him as I lay my head on his chest. His fingers were gently rubbing through my hair relaxing me.
"I will tell you later." He whispers.
"Oh my gosh you actually... WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY YES!" Garrett screams in my ear the next morning in the hallway. I had told him about Jake asking me to be his girlfriend but nothing about early this morning.
"Garre I couldn't my dad asked me not to. You were there when he said it." I state. He sighs.
"Grace your a teenager, YOUR SUPPOSE TO GO AGAINST WHAT YOUR PARENTS SAY!" He screams at me. I laugh.
"And I am going to be the leader on an entire world here in a few months. It's not exactly like I can be a normal teenager." I state. Zoey comes up to us a bit of panic in her face.
"Guys Payton and Adam, they are... ugh infuriating for one, but they are starting a fight with the football team." She says. I groan and Garrett and I follow her out to the football field. The football team was surrounding them.
"Move please." I say and shove one of the football players a little harder then intended knocking him in the lot of them.
"Payton... Adam... come with me... Now!" I say in my Alpha tone. The football players all started to snicker and I turn on them and they all jumped back.
"The lot of you leave, NOW!" I scream at them and they run away. Garrett and Zoey was looking at me in shock, and Payton and Adam were looking at me scared for their lives.
"Um Grace..." Garrett say quietly.
"Yes?" I say to him still very upset.
"Ummm... your eyes are glowing..." I turn to look at him in shock. I could feel myself calming down instantly.
"What?" I ask not sure if I heard him correctly.
"Umm... well your eyes were glowing... they were all white and just... It was freaky" He states. I look over at my friends that I was going to scold but didn't feel like punishing them anymore. I was more worried about what was going on with me.
"Look guys just don't do that again. Sure you can beat them in one swoop, but seriously don't flaunt these powers, there is still the rule where we need to hide our powers, we might get burned at the stake if anyone else knew." I comment they nod their heads. "Besides we are the good ones, the ones to protect the humans, not get in fights with them no matter how much they bully us." I say.
"I'm sorry Grace. It was all me. Adam was just there and when they started making gay remarks about me Adam stepped in to defend me." Payton says. I nod my head.
"You guys get back to school I need to go speak with Carlisle." I state.
"Maybe you should wait until after school." Adam suggests. "I mean... we don't want you to miss any more school and not end up graduating with us." He comments. He was right I only had a few more absences left and I would end up failing my senior year despite passing all of my classes with A's and B's. We all head up to the school to finish out our day.
"Hi Esme is Carlisle home?" I ask into the phone as I drive away from school and to the Cullen's.
"He's not going to be here tonight Grace he went hunting with the others." She states. I sighs. I turn down a rode that would start taking me back to my place. "Is everything okay?" she asks me in her motherly tone.
"I am not sure." I say and explain to her what happened at school. She listened very carefully as I talked and drove.
"I see... Once he and the others get home I will tell him this and we will contact you." She says. I hang up with her. but instead of turning down my street I continue on. I drive all the way to La Push and to Jacob's house. I get out and knock on the door. Billy answers it.
"Oh Grace its so good to see you!" Billy says happily. I smile at him. I open my mouth but before anything can come out he replies. "Jake is asleep in his room."
"May I go see him?" I ask Billy. Billy understood that I needed to see him. I was still a bit panicky about what happened and me not knowing what's going on. He rolled aside.
"Just try not to wake him. And Grace no funny business under my roof." He says and I was confused for a moment then realized what he meant and I blushed.
"Trust me that's not going to happen." I state and he chuckles at my blush.
"Go on then." He says and I hurry to Jake's room. I open his door and slip in closing it quietly. There was my Jacob sleeping with a slight snore and I smile. I went to go walk over to him and lay down when I stopped and realized I called him mine. Was he really mine? I smile as I realize yes he was mine. I walk up to the bed and climb on top the blankets slowly and lay next to him. He rolls over and faces me in his sleep and his arm goes around me instantly pulling me to him while he was asleep. I smile as I feel my heart rate increase and lay my head on his chest and I hear his increase as well. I smile more as I realize I have the exact same effect on him that he has on me. Within a matter of seconds of being their I didn't feel as worried about what happened earlier as I previously did. I lay there for a few moments listening to Jake's heart and starting to fall asleep to the sound of it when I hear him mumble something.
"Are you okay?" he asks me as I feel his fingers run through my hair gently. I nod my head.
"Just a lot of things I don't understand happened today." I state. He pulls me away from him and I look up at him.
"What happened?" He asks, I begin to explain to him everything that had happened. He thinks bout it for a moment.
"I a honestly not sure..." He finally said. "We will just have to wait to see what the Cullen says." I nod my head agreeing and lay my head on his chest again.
"Grace... I have to tell you something..." Jake says to me after a few moments of silence. I look back up at him. He was serious but he looked almost scared. Like he wasn't ready to tell me. "It's about your question this morning, about um... why I was so tense..." He says. "I... umm... well... you see..." He starts to stutter and blush. I place my hand gently on his chest which this calms him down some.
"Jake... If its something that is hard for you to say you don't have to tell me now. When you are ready will be fine." I say to him with a small smile. He nods his head and kisses my forehead. There was a knock on the door. I try to pull away but Jake wont let me.
"It's okay to come in dad." Jake says to the door. The door opens and Billy rolls in.
"You two better separate, Charlie and Sue are on their way over for dinner." Billy says. Jake signs and lets go of me the once warmth that was surrounding me gone and I shutter a little from the cold. I sit up and face Billy a small blush creeping up my face. "Look I know how the imprinting thing works and I know you two want to be together. I can keep this a secret. But Charlie has told me time and time again, he doesn't want you two together yet. So for now, you kids act like friends around him and no couple stuff." He says. I was about to state that we were not in a relationship yet but he held up his hand to silence me. "I know your not together yet, but that's not what it looks like and I don't want your dad mad at me." Billy states. I get up off the bed and head into the kitchen to start making food and Jake gets up and showers and changes before my dad and Sue show up. Once I put the food over I came and sat in the living room with Billy
"Grace, I am sorry that I had to break the two of you up but..." Billy starts. It was my turn to stop him.
"Billy its fine... I guess... It's hard... I mean... I want to be with him, not because of the bond, but because of him, the bond makes it easier and harder all at the same time. It's hard because, well..." I pause for a second wondering if I should tell Billy everything. He new I was an Elemental, he knew all that, but, I had never really talked to anyone about the whole imprint thing and how it made me feel, only because the fact that Jake and I have been so unique, and now with Zoey and Payton imprinting on wolves, it was my responsibility to figure the whole connection thing worked. With Billy being an Elder and someone I have known for a long time I decided to trust him.
"Its just, I feel the pull all the time and I know what I want. I thought that it would lessen or go away once I figured out everything but its only getting stronger and its to the point where it almost hurts if I don't see him every day. I don't mean to sound cling but honestly it physically hurts at this point to be away from him. I have to though because I don't want to disappoint my dad. So there is no way right now I can truly be with Jake. I am sure Zoey and Payton wont have their parents denying them the right to date their soul mates. So I hope that they don't get this way, I just I don't know what to do. I know I have to wait but, this is really insufferable." I states.
"For one, your not clingy, I think through yours and his bond because your spirits have finally accepted the others they want to be together, but the conscious and body can not be, so that making the soul upset. I believe that may be why you are in pain. You can come over as much as you like and you can be with him hear, I wont keep you apart." He says and I nod my head. "There is something else isn't their?" He asks I wonder if it was written on my face but it was something I had been fearing for a while now.
"What if I am not good enough..." I say quietly, looking down at my hands in my lap.
"Grace, You are good enough, if you wasn't then the spirits wouldn't have paired you together." Billy says. I look up at him.
"Did Jake tell you how the bond works for us Elementals? He can still chose to just be friends with me and love someone else." I say the idea bringing a slight panic to me. Billy laughs quietly.
"Grace, you don't have to worry about how Jake feels about you, he has been in love with you since the day you were born." Billy says.
"Okay, now I know you are over exaggerating." I say with a small smile. And he chuckles but shakes his head no.
"You want to know what Jake's first word was?" he asks me amused.
"Let me guess 'da-da'" I say. Billy shakes his head no.
"It was your name, he said Gracie." He says. The small smile on my face was replaced with a confused but serious look.
"What?" I ask although I did hear him correctly. He smiled.
"Sarah and I knew at that moment that Jake loved you. Despite Jake's love for your sister, I knew the moment I heard you were coming back that he was going to imprint. I guess it doesn't help the night that he came storming in and told me about it I laughed." I smile and giggled a little.
"I knew you loved him as a baby as well." Billy says and my giggles stop and I feel my cheeks heat up.
"I'm sorry?" I ask confused.
"We use to visit a lot, whenever we were going to leave you started crying and the only thing that would calm you down was putting Jake next to you. So we would wait for the two of you to fall asleep before going home. Grace, your dad has know, he always has, give him time he will approve eventually." Billy says. I nod my head and that was when I heard a car pulling up. Billy went to the door to welcome them as I went into the kitchen and checked on the food.
"So have an interesting conversation with my dad?" Jake asks coming up next to me with a smirk. I side glance at him grateful that he at least put a shirt on. But I still couldn't help but blush. I really have lost it. That smirk that use to make me so mad now was making me blush.
"Oh just telling me how everyone apparently knew we were going to end up together eventually. Even told me your first word was my name." I comment as I pull the food out of the oven.
"Hmm think he is getting old I pretty sure it as not your name." Jake says with a small smirk. Before I could say anything my dad walks into the kitchen.
"Grace..." He says and gives me a small smile, he turns his eyes to Jake and I notice that his demeanor changes. "Jake..." My dad says and takes my hand and pulls me towards him a little.
"Dad I am fine Jake wont hurt me." I tell him the one hundredth time.
"Gracie I..." my dad starts.
"No its okay Charlie, I am just leaving the kitchen now." Jake says backing away. Once he reaches the door he turns back. "Food smells great by the way Grace." He says with a half smile before walking into the living room. I blush a light pink and smile and try to turn quicker so my dad doesn't see it.
"Gracie..." My dad says. I guess I wasn't fast enough. I turn to look at him. "I told you I don't want you to be with him in my life time."
"I know dad and I am not. I am not going to disrespect you even if I did want to date him I wont. I love you to much to hurt you." I say giving him a small smile. He looks at me unsure for a moment before giving me a small smile.
"Okay Gracie, just making sure you don't get hurt." He says.
"I know dad. But Jake wont hurt me... in fact I would probably hurt him before he hurt me." I state.
"Grace he turns into a giant wolf." dad states.
"And I turn into a giant tiger, whiled the elements, and can listen in on peoples thoughts, yet you still find him the dangerous one." I state in a mater of fact tone.
"Grace, I don't want you hurt okay." He says I smile and nod my head. He leaves and I start to set the table.
"Want some help?" Jake asks me.
"I'm not sure are you allowed to help me?" I ask him with a small smirk.
"Behave Grace. You know he is only trying to protect you." Jake says as he gets the plates down. We continue to set the table and talk about just random things. We were all enjoying dinner, my dad eyeing Jake and I the whole time when I suddenly get a phone call I look to see its Garrett. I dismiss myself from the table and answer it.
"Hey what's up?" I ask Garrett.
"Well you might want to get here quick... we are in a clearing and, well lets just say Payton and Leah... they are about to kill each other..." he says and I could hear screaming in the background.
"What the hell is happening?" I ask worried.
"Please just get here." he pleaded.
"Ok." I say as I hear a snarl and a thump. I hang up the phone and return to the dinning room quickly. I hear a howl and I cringe as I see Jake stiffing. His eyes met mine.
"Ummm I have to go an emergency came up with Payton..." I say in a half honest. Jake gets out of his seat and leaves the house quickly.
"Grace it might be dangerous I don't want you going out there when Jake and his pack are around. I almost growl at my dad.
"Look dad no offence but I am not listening to you this time, ground me for a million years if you have to but if I don't go Payton could end up dead." I state. And without waiting for my dads reply I left the house. Jake was already in his wolf form, with a look of what took you so long. I ignore it and we both start running through the woods at top speed.
"I'm going to kill him being him back to life kill him again and then maybe if I am satisfied might bring him back to life." I yell over to the Wolf form of Jake. We get to the clearing just as Adam and Zoey ran in as well. Garrett must have freaked out and called them too.
"Payton Stop!" I yell at him as he swings at Leah again sending fireballs at her. Payton didn't look so good, he had his blood all over him. His shirt, well it was so ripped he might as well not have been wearing a shirt, his chest and stomach had claw marks on them his jeans were ripped and it looked like he had a bloody lip. Leah, in her wolf form looked no better. She had cuts and gashes of her own and several different scorch marks on her fur where Payton must have either touched or hit.
I hear Jake growl next to me, probably telling Leah to stop, or angry at Payton for attacking his pack mate either way it was for one of them, but she doesn't she snarls at him and then goes to attack Payton again. I look to the others. Zoey looked pale and about to faint, Garrett didn't look to much better, Adam looked pissed though. I had never actually seen him that angry and it was starting to scare me.
"Enough!" Adam says loudly. They didn't listen to him just like with Jake and I. They were about to attack each other again when Adam screamed louder. "Enough!" He screamed and held out his hands and just as the were about to hit each other they ran into an invisible force field. They went flying back each landing on the ground. I gasp, which I am sure everyone else did. I look at the two body's on the ground then at Adam in shock. He had discovered his talent.
"Adam... You have the ability to create a physical force field... you have found your power" I say still surprised. I run over and hug him happily almost forgetting the task at hand. That was until I heard Payton groaning as he stood up and Leah doing the same as she comes up in her wolf form. I turn and look at the pare.
"What caused this?" I ask.
"Well it's kinda my fault..." Garrett pipes up from behind me. I turn to look at him while Jake and Leah go into the forest to change back. "I was kinda hoping if I broght them together... they would you know stop fighting... I only made it worse..." he says looking down.
"No they made it worse don't let yourself believe that their problem is caused by you." Adam says looking over at Garrett. Garrett gave Adam a small smile. I smile at there small exchange, I knew it meant the world to Garrett that Adam would stand up for him. When Jake and Leah returned, She was still badly cut and bleeding but her super speed for healing was mending her up quick, as was Payton's
"This has to stop, the both of you." Jake says in his Alpha voice.
"Who are you..." Payton starts and I growl at him. He looks at me a bit worried. I was trying to be fair not firm with my friends, but I was starting to realize that If we were going to work I would have to disciple when needed and this was one of those times.
"Leah..." Jake continues. "What are you trying to prove... That Sam did have a choice? Well He did he chose his imprint. He chose not to fight it, he still loves you just not in the same way. Dammit Leah you know as well as I do if you completely reject the imprint its going to kill the both of you, because like it or not you and him are meant for each other. Payton, Leah has been through a lot of heartbreak, and since she wont tell you what it is I will."
"Jake... maybe..."
"Grace he needs to hear it. If you didn't interrupt me then maybe this would be over with by now and he would have some understanding of her. " Jake says a bit rude and I felt a bit hurt by it.
"Don't tell her what to do. You may have imprinted on her but you don't own her." Payton says with a glare. Jake growls next to me.
"Don't tell me..." But I could tell what Payton was thinking, he wanted to prove that Jake didn't own me. He was screaming his idea in my brain and I tried to tell him not to but he said it before I could say anything.
"Grace prom is coming up in a few weeks, will you go with me?" Payton asks. Leah looked at him hurt, and Jake... well he burst into his wolf form without hesitation.
"Jake..." I say and reach out for him, my hand comes in contact with his fur. but instead of him calming down his head snapped to me and I felt pain blistering through my shoulder and down my arm.
"Grace!" Garrett shrieked from somewhere far away. I felt pressure being removed from my shoulder as I stumble back and fall to the ground. I look up into the eyes of the wolf that just bit me. It broke my heart to see them like that. I could feel as well as I could see his emotions, he was ashamed, felt guilt, he was in pain, and he was angry.
"Get out of hear Jacob, I swear I am going to kill you if you ever come around her again, imprint or not you will never see or touch her again." I hear Adam say as he blocks my view of Jake. I feel Garrett kneeling next to me trying to help me, I was getting dizzy and not sure what was going on.
I hear the soft thud of paws when through blurry vision I see the wolf form of Seth appear then more come and it was Paul and Embry in there wolf forms. I hear a whimper form one of the wolves and I wasn't sure which one anymore.
"You lot stay away. We don't want any of you near her not when you are in the wolf form." Adam says. "Leah get them out of here." Adam instructs the still human wolf.
"Adam she's losing a lot of blood!" Garrett says to his mate. my vision was becoming spotted.
"Someone needs to go get Carlisle I don't think she will last if we try to take her to him." Adam says.
"Zoey has already went for him." I hear Payton's voice it was slowly fading away. I feel a pressure on my wound and like fire it burned me and I scream.
"Shh shh its okay Grace, I am just trying to clean it." I hear Garrett's voice far away. "Stay with us Grace... Damn it I thought we were suppose to heal fast." I hear him say. but it was fuzzy, everything was fuzzy. The pain was no longer there and I felt numb, I started to slip into the darkness there I felt nor heard anything... I was alone.
