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A Thousand Pieces: Jacob Black

Chapter 2: Waking Up

I was not running. I was lying in a crevice…the rocks were sharp…but they didn't hurt…no physical pain could hurt me…

I had just ate…a rabbit. I vaguely thought of my Rabbit…wondered who was driving it with me gone…Billy couldn't…

Jacob! The sudden hit of a female thought in my brain jerked me to attention and I sat up only to bang my head against the rocks above me.

What Leah? I asked dully.

Sam's hurt. There was pain in that admission and for a moment my own sadness was added to, feeling the weight of it through the pack connection was overpowering.

What happened? I asked momentarily stimulated for coherent thoughts.

Those bad-ass bloodsuckers you told us about, the ones from Italy, they came to check on Bella. They remembered us from her leaches thoughts and came to investigate. Sam got in the way when they tried to check out La Push.

So what happened to him, he'll be okay, right?

We don't know. I heard Leah's internal whimper of pain and it seared through me. Doc Cullen came to check on him and says he's healing himself but just barely and slowly. And Jacob, we need somebody to lead us while he's out, especially with these super-freaks here. It's your duty.

I though a moment about this, knowing full well Leah was listening in to every word. Finally I thought I cut myself off from all of that, I don't want to be anymore.

Bullshit Jacob Black, she is just a girl, you didn't even imprint on her, it can't be worth the safety of the pack, LaPush, all of it. Leah sneered at me, bitter as ever.

Look whose talking, you and Sam never imprinted, and …

And what Jake? You just going to let one girl affect the safety of us all? No one else but you could do this! No one else is good enough! You're a natural Jake, help us. Lead us. That was the sweetest Leah's tone had been in years, mental or otherwise and once again it left me to think…

If she and her leeches had brought this on Forks there was nothing anyone could do to stop it, the Volturi would feed wherever the hell they pleased and no one could stop them, but Leah was right the pack needed someone to lead them to protect La Push and like it or not that job fell to me.

Excellent! Came Quil's sudden thought.

Welcome back! Embry called.

About time! Paul thundered through the connection.

Knew you'd be back man! Jared sent my way.

Thanks Jacob! Chorused Seth, Brady and Collin.

Get outta here everyone! Leah screeched her anger infiltrating the minds of us all. I felt the resentment and chastise of the pack as one by one they receded back to their "human" forms until it was just Leah and I again.

Come back soon, I don't know how long things will stay sane around here. Worry edged out the bitterness.

I will, Oddly this experience reminded me of waking up after weeks of painful numbing sleep and though I was deeply upset about Sam's injury, I knew that I had needed this.

Thanks Jacob. And then she too was gone.

I rose up from my crevice and tore back in the direction I came from. I was going home.

So didn't that have much more sustenance than the last chapter? I told ya I had ideas. Hope more people will read this and review. Hope ya liked it.:D melissaturkey