Kensi hangs her legs over the branch she's sitting on and yawns tiredly.
"Quit yawning." I moan, stifling my own yawn.
Kensi shakes her head before leaning against the tree. Being in La Push, and being able to, we've started doing patrols ourselves. Gives the guys time to be around their imprints and do things together. But maybe we should take a morning shift instead of a late one.
"I thought you were a night owl." I tease Kensi quietly. The forest is so peaceful at this house, and I would hate to disturb it.
"I am." Kensi yawns again tiredly. "I just do not feel like it tonight."
She leaps out of her tree and into another one, grabbing a branch and swinging on it. Kensi has always been part monkey, doing the craziest things you could think of.
"Boys are coming." Kensi says in a monotonous voice.
"I thought I would've gotten a little more excitement than that." Jake teases.
"From me maybe." I retort jumping out of the tree I was in. I land slightly crouched in front of Jake and smirk at him. "Kensi is just moody."
"Fuck off Dani." Kensi growls from her spot in the tree. Right now she's hanging off the branch with her legs crossed around the branch. Her hair tumbles down in shiny and immaculate black ringlets.
"You look like a damn sloth." I retort rolling my eyes.
"You're just jealous you don't have the upper body strength to hang like this." Kensi retorts.
"Yeah." Embry retorts coming into the clearing. "Just please don't fall."
I see the ghost of a smile on Kensi's lips. "Going to catch me if I do, Call?"
"I'll try." Embry answers with a smile on his lips. "But I make no promises."
Kensi slips and swears under her breath, bark dropping down onto Embry's head. He shakes the particles out of his shiny black hair and looks up at Kensi. She tips her head backwards, and lets go of the branch, hanging upside down.
Kensi's hair hangs a few inches above Embry's head as she looks down at him from her upside-down position in the tree. "Hey Embry."
"Please don't fall." Embry begs.
I look at Kensi in surprise.
"I won't. Promise." She assures. How can she be so daft! Can't she see that the poor boy is absolutely enamored with her?
Kensi untangles one leg and throws it over the branch and then hangs by one leg for a few moments. Then she untucks both legs, doing a backflip as she drops to earth.
I watch as Embry grabs her shoulder to steady her as Kensi sways.
"Dizzy." She says, shaking her head a few times.
"That makes it worse." I say tiredly. I lean back against Jake's warm chest watching Kensi and Embry interact. Really, it's so sweet. It's clear they both care about each other after only a few days. I mean the past few days Embry has practically lived at our house. How can Kensi not have figured out that she's his imprint? I mean I know she knows she is an imprint, Mara straight up told her.
Kensi has to know. She'd be stupid not to. And Kensi is a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them.
"Paul and Jared are starting up here in a few minutes. Figured we'd come to find you guys." Jake says into my ear. I get goosebumps as his breath brushes against my ear.
Kensi smirks to herself as she slowly figures out her enter of balance again.
"You mean Jake convinced Embry to go with him so Jake could shamelessly say 'we' came to look for you." Kensi jabs at me.
I open my eyes in surprise and really want to butt in and comment, but it isn't my place.
"No, I came to see you too." Embry cuts in after seeing that I couldn't respond without giving him away. His reply is short and curt.
"On your own volition?" Kensi inquires carefully. Gears turning in her head.
Embry furrows his dark eyebrows at my sister. "Why wouldn't I?"
Kensi smirks and I smirk at Jake. He leans down and I speak into his head.
She's playing with him! She's stringing him along!
Jake shakes his head. Don't feel bad for him. He loves it.
I gag quietly and the duo's eyes cut to mine.
"You were gagging." Kensi explains without needing to. "I wasn't sure I was going to like what I was about to see. However I'm glad to see Jake's tongue isn't down your throat… And that you are gagging on account of something that he said in your head instead."
Kensi's eyes narrow as Embry finishes her thought. "And you would've just said it out loud if it wasn't about Kensi or myself."
Jake and I share a look and Jake starts talking. "Actually we were talking about…."
"Um." I say scratching the back of my neck. "Segregation." I blurt the first answer that comes into my head.
Kensi rolls her eyes. "You know, I assumed that you were full of shit before. Now I know. You're full of shit. Leave the lying to me, you do not have my knack for bullshit."
"Think you get that from mom." I mutter.
"Yeah I get it naturally I promise." Kensi teases as she starts into the forest.
"You guys want a ride?" Jake offers. "No offence, Dan, but you look ready to drop?"
Did he call me Dan? That seems like a very… anti-me kind of name.
"I won't say no to not having to walk all the way back to civilization." I tease with a smile.
Jake shakes his head. "So demanding."
He turns to leave but I know he secretly likes when I let him give me a ride to certain places. But Embry likes it because Kensi only seems to touch him when he's in wolf form. As if that's somehow less intimidating than actually talking to Embry.
Guess for her it would be, she's always found it easier to talk to animals than it is to talk to actual people. Especially attractive males like Embry.
Jake and Embry return a few minutes later, emerging from the foliage of the forest slowly and carefully.
I climb onto Jake's back easily, and Kensi lands on Embry's as gently as possible from another tree. She'd climbed a small one when Embry went to phase.
Goddamn idiot.
Sparks of Jake's thoughts enter my head with my touch on his fur.
Sorry. I immediately apologize. I seem to be the only Elemental Guardian that can't control whether she hears someone's thoughts or not.
No sweat. Jacob answers.
Nothing we aren't used to. Jared retorts. We're good with no privacy.
Some of us still get away with it . Embry growls, and I know that's directed at Paul.
Shut up Embry. Paul growls. You know at least I'm not afraid of my imprint.
Jared laughs. It sounds like his laugh, which I find to be the strangest thing. Paul, you should be afraid of your imprint. I'm afraid of your imprint.
Jake's growl reverberates my body. Your imprint, Paul, is my sister.. So watch it.
I wince as Paul snaps back at Jake. Same to you Jake! Your imprint is my sister!
I scoff and Kensi growls out an angry response though Embry. Seeing as how we're sisters they didn't know you had... Jake wins this one.
I can tell Embry has some serious skills in the self-control department not to let the often-times rampant thoughts about your imprint surface, especially not while Kensi, Embry's imprint, could hear him.
Embry your mom was looking for you at Emily's. Jared says. She seemed pretty upset.
Embry winces and a soft whine slips past his teeth.
Did you tell her at least? Paul growls.
Shut up Paulina. Kensi snarls through Embry's head.
Kensi he's- Paul starts, but at the same time Embry's own thoughts of absolutely nothing cut him off.
Don't you think I know that? Kensi retorts. I know he's hiding something from me, but I respect his privacy enough not to pry into it. Take notes Paula.
I snort. Paula. Paulina. Penelope. There are so many names we can come up with for you Paul!
Paul growls, I can sense it.
Paul, back off. Jake retorts. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside with his protectiveness. And Jake, in turn, feels all warm and fuzzy.
Oh that is so disgusting. Kensi groans. Please keep your emotions to yourself.
Through Jared's eyes, I can see Paul vigorously trying to un-hear, un-see, and un-feel everything he just felt, heard, and saw. Please do not let this happen again, Jake.
Oh Paulina. Kensi snorts. Can't wait until they're dating officially.
My head snaps over to Kensi and I flip her the bird. There's snickers from Jared while Paul groans at the thought. It doesn't seem like Jacob is against the idea, just that he doesn't want to pressure me.
Do not have this conversation with my sister where I can hear it. Paul demands.
Paulina and I agree here. Kensi whimpers. I am regretfully sorry I said anything at all, do not have this conversation where I can hear.
You know- I start.
Alright. I'm out. Audios. Bye. I can sense Kensi pulled out as she wraps her arms around Embry's neck and buries her face into his fur. She's obsessed with his scent. With his warmth. She loves how warm he is, and how he smells.
Kensi is a nutter.
Seriously? Embry echoes in surprise.
Damn.
Yeah I answer.
Another conversation I don't want to hear. Paul complains.
There are several conversations that you and I ought to have, Paul, that you don't want to hear either but for the sake of your pack mates it can wait.
Immediately the night of me screaming and fighting Dani to kill Paul flashes through Embry's eyes. Mostly he watches Kensi, and he winces with every hit she takes.
Sorry I apologize. But we're sisters. We tend to fight a lot, whether it be physically or not.
Embry shrugs. Not like I could be much use there. Not in my wolf form at least.
We finally reach the tree line by our house and I slide off Jake's back, disconnecting myself from his mind and the pack mind.
Embry and Jacob emerge moments later.
I yawn and follow Kensi up to the front porch. She grabs her keys out of her pocket and unlocks the door, walking inside.
She immediately crashes onto the new couch that the boys installed today while Kensi and I were out and about.
"What does your mom want?" Kensi asks quietly.
"To know why I'm not home." Embry sighs.
"She doesn't know." Jake elaborates for Embry.
Embry nods. "I could tell her, I have the council's approval to, but I wouldn't. I don't want her to know."
Kensi looks at him in sympathy. Something I've never seen before flashes through her eyes. I've never seen her look at someone with so much empathy and… compassion. She's just not a compassionate person. She's too rough around the edges, and always keeps people at bay with her bitchy personality. Here she is, letting Embry in.
The imprint has ripped that wall down.
Oh boy.
Kensi leans against Embry's arm, as he answers. I can sense he's upset about something, but Kensi picks up on it like a bloodhound, identifying the source of the problem.
"I don't want her to know unless something happens to me. I don't want her to know what I do and how dangerous it is. She worries enough. So unless I die or go missing or something, I don't want her to know."
I don't pry but the look Kensi gives Embry, while a curious one, is an understanding one.
"She's sick. She's got enough to worry about." Embry answers plainly.
Kensi's fleeting touch drives Embry insane, that much is clear.
"They're too adorable." Jake whispers lowly against my ear.
I nod with a smirk. "I can't wait until they're together." My tone is just as low and quiet as Jacob's. If Kensi heard me, she would've glared at me, but since I got no reaction out of her, I know she didn't hear me.
"I mean why doesn't she say something?" Jake whispers.
"Because she doesn't want to take Embry's right to tell her away from him." I answer, smacking Jake's chest with the back of my hand telling him to shut up. I don't want Kensi to accidentally overhear this conversation. That won't end up well. She will not be a happy camper.
"Shut up." I hiss quietly. "We can talk about it later, but these kinds of things just trigger an ultimate bitch switch inside of Kensi, and you do not want to see that side of my sister."
Jake nods. "I'm going to bed I think."
I turn back to Jake. "You're going home?" I tried to keep the disappointment out of my voice.
Jake locks eyes with me. "Do you want me to go home, Dani?"
I look down at his hand and grab it in mine before tugging on it. His fingers lock around mine and he allows me to lead him down the hallway to my bedroom.
"You're not going anywhere." I whisper, closing the door quietly.
"No?" Jacob asks, surprised.
"Nope." I answer by crossing my arms over my chest. "You're not going anywhere."
"Are you sure?" Jacob asks.
"Do you want to stay with me?" I ask.
"Hell yes, but I don't want to push you." He whispers.
I look into his deep and soulful brown eyes. "You aren't pushing me anywhere. Please Jake. Please don't go." I pull my best pout and listen to Jacob's heart race.
"I'll stay." He whispers quietly.
I nod smirking at him before floating over to my dresser and grabbing some running shorts and a tee shirt that will double as pajamas.
I tug my shirt off over my head and toss it onto the laundry pile.
Jacob's breath catches in his throat and I smirk to myself. Do I care that I'm changing in front of a boy? No, not really. I'm not ashamed of my body, nor do I feel like I ought to hide anything.
I tug the other shirt on and then change into shorts.
I lie down on the inside of my bed against the wall, and look at my phone as Jake sits down beside me, resting his body against the headboard. His arms wrap around me and he pulls me in between his legs and into his lap, hugging me tightly from behind.
"You're going to be the death of me." Jacob whispers against my hair. I just smile while I try to swallow past the lump in my throat. His warm arms around my waist release an entire herd of butterflies inside my stomach, making my heart feel so light. I feel like I'm flying when he holds me like this. I absolutely love it.
I tip my head back, against his collar bone while looking up at him. "I know." I whisper finally.
"Oh so you intentionally tease me?" Jake retorts lightly.
I smile bashfully before sitting up and giving Jake a peck on the cheek.
Jacob blushes lightly before a shit-eating grin splits his face in two.
"Yeah, I do. And just like Embry, you can't convince me you don't love it.
Jacob shakes his head. "You are the wildest twins I have ever met."
I laugh quietly as the TV turns on in the living room. I can smell popcorn.
"Kensi is definitely wilder than I am. She's... more like a wild animal. She's always defending herself, lets no one inside."
Jacob winces.
"Embry shouldn't worry about that. He's already got his hooks in her so deep that she doesn't even understand it. She's just a little confused right now as to why she feels so strongly for him. Assuming she hasn't already figured it out yet."
"It being the imprint right?" Jake asks for clarification.
I nod. "Of course." I reply relaxing in Jacob's embrace. The warmth is so intoxicating. His scent is intoxicating. Everything about him is intoxicating and safe. And with warmth and safety, I let myself fall asleep in Jacob's arms..
A/N - never before in my life has it taken this long to edit a chapter on here before. I'm done for the night. Buenos noches.
-Pardon my shit attempt at being bilingual.
-Nick