Fay Age: Seventeen Years, six months
His sent was captivating, damp grass, pine trees and moder oil. My Jacob. Fay smiled at the thought. With his arms wrapped around her Fay felt grounded in place, unable to pull away from him. She wrapped her own arms around him and severed the warmth radiating off him. The drumming of his heart was all she could hear for many moments.
Not to far away a wolf howled in the night, it sounded distressed. Fay jumped back from Jacob, cursing under her breath.
"Who's that?" Jacob asked.
"Embry, it must be time for him to pick up my shift. He's worried something happened to me because I wasn't there to meet him when he phased in." Fay looked in it the direction of the howl with worry, that would have woken the whole pack.
"You got that all from a howl?" Jacob asked.
"You get use to it, don't worry. I'll be back in a minute, don't go anywhere," Fay orders.
"I won't," Jacob hardly had the words out before Fay was racing back into the tree line, throwing off her shirt and phasing in seconds.
Chill out Embry I'm fine.
Where the hell were you? A image of Jacob in wolf form flashed through Fays mind followed by an image of his human face.
No way.
No way what? Jared asked as he phased into the conversation.
Jacob phased! Embry was thrilled he would be able to talk to his old friend once again.
It's about dam time. Paul said as he joined the conversation.
Fay are you okay? Was Sam's first though when he phased.
I'm fine Sam, Embry just overreacted.
Hey you weren't phased, for all I know you were dead, Embry defends.
Don't you think that's overreacting a bit? Fay asked but Sam interrupted her.
Where were you Fay? You can't leave patrol with all the blood suckers in the area at the moment. Sam scolded.
Jacob phased, I was only gone a few seconds so I could help him phase back to human. Sam's mind went blank for a moment.
Where are you? I need to talk to him. Sam said.
Sam we are all the way across the Rez just go back to bed, we can talk in the morning. I'm taking Jacob back to my place, he can stay there the night until someone can get Billy up to date and Jacob gets his anger under control.
Okay but I will be there first thing in the morning.
Sure, whatever. Fay was struggling to keep her thoughts of Jacob and the imprinting in the back of her mind, she tried to fill her mind with the thought of making breakfast for the pack so Emily could have a day off.
If that's it I have someone I need to get back to. Images of a half naked girl spread out on Paul's bed flashed through all their minds.
Get out of here you pig. Fay growled.
Don't have to ask me twice babe. Paul was gone in seconds.
I will see you guys in the morning, good night. Oh and happy new year, Jared said before also phasing out.
Are you right to continue patrol Embry? Sam asked.
Yeah I'm fine, sorry about the fouls alarm.
I'll take a fouls alarm over a real one any night. I will see you two in the morning. Fay if you run into any trouble with Jacob let me know straight away.
Don't stress Sam, I will see you in the morning.
Okay, good night. And then it was just Fay and Embry left.
So how did he take the news? Embry asked referring to Jacob.
As good as any of us did after phasing for the first time. Is there really a good way to act after you find out you can shift into an over grown dog?
I guess not. Well I will see you in the morning.
Night Embry. And then Fay phased out. She pulled the t-shirt back on and walked back to where she had left Jacob. Jacob hadn't moved from his place in the small clearing.
"Come on, lets go," Fay said to Jacob, hardly making eye contact with him as she walked by him and into the direction of her house.
"Is everything okay?" Jacob asked seeing Fays demeanour change from what it had been a few minutes ago.
"Yeah I worked it out with the guys they will come past in the morning to talk to you, until then your my responsibility." Jacob had to walk quickly to try and keep up with Fay.
"Where are we going?" Jacob asked.
"Until we can be sure you have your anger under control you won't be able to see your father, so you will be staying with me. It usually takes a few days to get a hold on your anger so you won't phase by mistake but in some cases it can take months."
"Months?"
"Don't worry that was only for Paul, and he was a hot head to start with. I'm sure you'll be home in no time," Fay said as her house came into view
Jacob Age: Seventeen Year, eleven months
January 1st
Moonlight came down onto the house and the clearing around it sparkled as the light reflected on the damp grass. Jacob remember this place instantly as the house he had found with Fay on her birthday so long ago. How had he not thought to look here, how could she have made it so long out here? Had someone been helping her? Hiding her?
"This place, this is where you have been?"
"You should see it at day time," Fay grinned walking towards the house. "It's like a slice of heaven."
"All this time you've been here?" Fay stopped walking and turned to Jacob to see he was shaking rapidly.
"Jacob calm down," Fay said.
"You have been here!"
"Jacob," Fay warned reaching out to rest her hand on his shoulder. "You can't let emotions feed your wolf, you won't be able to control it, people will end up getting hurt." Jacob didn't notice he was shaking till he felt Fay's warm touch on his skin. He swore he couldn't breath as her hand ran down his arm and slipped into his hand. "Come on," she tugged at his hand and they continued to walk towards the house.
"Why here?" He asked. "Of all the places you could have gone, why here?"
"Good as place as any I guess," Fay shrugged leading Jacob up the steps.
Fay let go of Jacob's hand, she didn't want to make things more complicated then they already were for him.
"You hungry?" Fay asked as she turned on a few lights and led Jacob to the kitchen.
"Yeah, now you mention it, I hadn't noticed," Jacob said as they entered the kitchen.
"Have you been hungry more then normal lately? Eating but never full?" Fay questioned as she took out some lasagna from the fridge and began to re-heat it.
"How do you know that?" Jacob asked, a little wired out.
"Your wolf appetite has been kicking in. We run at a hotter temp then normal so we burn off calories too fast for our bodies to progress. Emily does most of the pack cooking, thank god. I don't think I could handle cooking enough to feed an army three times a day."
"I don't think I have ever heard you talk this much your whole life?" Jacob stated. He was staring at her, he couldn't help it.
"I'm not that scared little girl any more Jacob." The room went silent as Fay finished off heating the food. She split it between two bowls and placed one in front of Jacob. "Here, eat." Fay sat across the counter from Jacob. He watched her questionably as she started to eat her own food. Fay's eyes flicked to Jacob several times before she finally purses her eating to ask him, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"I have a million questions for you," Jacob blurted out.
"Ask then?" Fay said looking back at her food.
"Why did you leave?" Of course that would be the first question he asked.
"I wanted to live," her heart drums in her chest as she swallows thickly and meets Jacob's eyes. "Sam told me that word about Josh has gotten around town, I'm sure you heard… heard that-" there was a rumble in Fay's chest as her words turned to an animal like growl.
"I heard. Why did you never ask for help?" The hurt in Jacob's eyes made Fay feel sick.
"Jacob," she reached across the table to place her hand over his clenched fist. "It wasn't that easy, I did try to get help. But- can we talk about this another time, I'll show you eventually, when your ready." She pulled her hands back.
"When I'm ready?" It was a question but he muttered it as thought to himself more then Fay. She was thankful he didn't direct the question to her, then proceeded to change the topic with another question. "What happened to your hair?" Fay laughed, running her hands over her hair, or lack there of.
"It's a wolf thing. Having long hair makes your wolf have a long coat."
"Oh, that explains why…"
"Why your wolfs coat was really shaggy; you're gonna need a hair cut before you phase again."
"Really?" He asked not sounding pleased with the idea.
"Sorry Jacob," Fay smiled sadly. She liked him with long hair and wondered if she would even recognise him once it was cut. The food was soon gone.
"I promise we will talk more in the morning but you need to rest. Come on I'll show you where you to your room," Fay said as she rose from her seat. He followed after her like a lost puppy. Out of the kitchen, down the hallway, and up the stairs.
"This place has changed a lot," was all Jacob could to say.
The house was not the only thing to change, Jacob thought to himself as he watched Fay open one of the hallway doors and enter the room. She was not the same person he remembered, there was a sense of life within her now.
The room they entered was a large bedroom. There was a double bed against one wall, a chest of wooden draws agents the opposite one and a large set of windows filling the room with soft moon light.
"Are you sure it's okay if I stay here?" Jacob asked.
"It's fine. The guys crash here a lot, I'm used to it now. There are some clean clothes in the dresser that should fit you, help yourself. And the bathroom is straight across the hall. If you need anything just let me know, my room is at the end of the hall way." Fay stepped towards the door.
"Thank you Fay."
"Good night Jacob." He was sad to see her leave down the hall.
He sat down on the bed, and for a long time he just tried to organise his thoughts.
Fay couldn't sleep either, she sat by her window at the other end of the house and stared out to the night sky, her mind racing. She eventually moved to the bed and listened closely to hear Jacobs breathing down the hall.
He was her imprint. How was everyone going to react to this information. Sam would probably be angry. I should keep it to myself, at lest until I tell Jacob and he has time to get used to the information first, Fay told her self.
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