A/M: Woah. Hey! I haven't been on here in a while, but the topics of my other stories ceased to interest me but I doubt that this will cease to interest me any time soon. I have places to go with this story. I know that last chapter I didn't do a disclaimer or an author's note, but that's because I didn't wanna ruin the "moment".
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or any of its affiliates; I only own Anna, Meg and Katy.
Chapter Two
Anna muttered something into Jacob's bare chest in response, but it was unintelligible. Jacob panicked, he had just told a girl he had know for an hour tops that they were weird werewolf-soul mates. That he had imprinted on her. "What was that?" He asked hoarsely, not sure if he wanted to hear it or not. Anna picked her head up.
"Well that's not what I was going to say." She said.
"Do you mind that I said it?" he asked.
Anna looked at him for a moment, scrutinizing and studying everything about him. His russet skin, his black eyes, and his long hair that was far too shaggy for convenience. Then she pressed her forehead to his over-muscled, abnormally hot arm and muttered, "No," she sighed. "I like it."
Anna had fallen asleep like that, her head resting on his arm with his arm around her shoulders protectively. Jacob had carried her in the house and let Emily direct him up the stairs and help him put her in Meg's bed. But before he could leave, Emily talked with him.
"Jake," she'd said. "Anna's got some issues she needs to work out before she's ready to be in a relationship." Jake had sighed at that. "But, I'm sure that whenever she decides she's ready I'm sure she'll come straight to you."
Jacob had left less spirited than he had thought he would and outside of the house he stared up at the window to Meg's room where Anna was sleeping and then he had walked home.
The next day Jacob woke up later than he had in many years, he didn't bother to look at a clock until he got out of the shower and wanted to know if it was acceptable to go over to Emily's yet. When he did look at the digital clock the big red numbers flashed 11:53, which made him gasp.
He dug around his drawers for a good pair of jeans and a nice tee shirt, when he emerged he had found decent clothes and, again, uncharacteristically struggled to put the clothes on.
He stumbled out of his room and came face to face with his father, Billy Black. Wheels had controlled Billy's life for 15 years now. He was doomed to a life in a chair. This was another stream of thoughts Jacob didn't like to think about.
"I was just about to check to make sure you were alive," Belly teased. "You haven't slept this long since your transformation."
That wasn't true, Jacob had spent a lot of his time sleeping when he had run away from La Push 13 years ago, but he didn't want to think about that either so, he just agreed. "Yah," he agreed. "I don't know what happened."
But Billy smiled knowingly, he turned himself around and wheeled himself to the kitchen, Jacob wasn't hungry enough to delay seeing Anna any longer but before he was out the door Billy spoke again.
"Emily called," he informed Jacob who winced slightly. "She told me that I must be proud of you, I told her I didn't know what for so she told me to ask you about it." It was very open ended, Jacob assessed. He could just lie about it or he could make it sound as non-challont as possible he went with the second option, not being able to conceive lying about Anna.
"Yah," he said. "Well, I guess you can be proud. I imprinted on Embry's cousin." He didn't know what he had been thinking would happen, but Jacob was surprised when he heard the sound of shattering ceramic. Great, he groaned to himself. Two broken dishes in less than twenty-four hours. Yah, you're a great guy to have around a house.
"You…imprinted?" Billy asked from the kitchen, his voice had something more than general curiosity, something like concern or possibly even fright? Jacob was in the kitchen sitting across from Billy in an old chair in a flash.
"Her name is Anna and she's amazing! She's so small and she's got the dainty little hands and she thinks mine are too big and she has green eyes and she made me laugh every time she said something and despite the fact that I vowed I'd never love again," he took a deep breath for the first time. "I love her."
"You don't even know her!" Billy insisted, and Jacob heard that something in his voice again.
"She's my soul mate! I've never felt this way about anyone before! Not even Bella!" The words were out of his mouth before he could stop them. He had never told Billy about his love for Bella because he was sure he had figured it out for himself. Regardless of what Billy might have known, he was still shell-shocked from the news of Jacob's imprint that this just sent him over.
"Fine." Billy said grudgingly. "Go."
He didn't need to be told twice, Jacob sprinted from the house as fast as he could go until he got out of seeing distance of it. When he reached that marker he slowed to a walk and headed in the direction of Emily's house.
When he knocked Katy opened the door and lead him upstairs to the bathroom on the landing where the door was wide open and on the edge of the tub Anna sat with damp hair running her latex glove-blocked hands through Meg's hair. The first thing that Jacob noticed was that Anna's hair was a different color than it had been the night before. He knocked on the doorframe and both girls looked up.
"Damnit Meg, don't move!" Anna ordered pushing Meg's head back into place but she met Jacob's eyes with already red cheeks. "Hey, we're doing hair!" she exclaimed then teasingly added, "Wanna join?"
"Ha. Ha." Jacob laughed sarcastically and leaned on the doorframe.
"You're hair's long enough." Meg said even though she wasn't aloud to look at him. Jacob growled low in his throat and Meg just chuckled.
"Jacob," Anna said grabbing his attention. He wondered briefly how he had let it slip. "Do you like my hair?" she swished the mass of damp, shoulder length locks around, messing it up.
"It's not dry yet, Anna, he can't tell." Emily said making Jacob jump, he hadn't notice her come up right next to her. "How long will it take to come out?" she asked pointing at the bottle of goo Anna was rubbing into Meg's hair.
"A month, maybe more, I've never done purple before." Anna admitted. "Hair dye's a recent thing for me." Emily groaned and shoved an old towel at Jacob. "I don't even know if it will set right, based on how dark Meg's hair is."
"We should have gone with the lime green." Meg complained.
"You wanted purple." Emily chided before walking away again.
"Emphasis on the past tense!" Meg shouted after her but Emily didn't break her stride. "Ugh, this stuff smells terrible." She complained moving her hand to her nose and at the same time moving her head – attempting to push the hair out of her face.
Anna's free hand went to the top of her head and held it still, "Stop moving." She growled. She was less menacing than any of the wolves, but Meg obeyed knowing that the condition in which her hair turned out relied on her.
"What color's your hair naturally?" Jacob asked Anna.
"Platinum blonde," she replied, disgust loud in her voice. "The color it was last night, but I think it looks bad so I stick to darker colors, they bring out my eyes better and I like it better when my hair is darker."
"You looked just fine to me." Jacob said, editing things he didn't want her to know he thought after knowing her less than a day and things he didn't believe Meg should ever hear pass his lips.
Anna chuckled knowingly and looked up from Meg's hair allowing herself to meet his eyes, she smiled briefly before turning back to the dark hair she was supposed to be making purple. She ran her fingers through the long wet hair once more and said, "Over the tub." Meg repositioned herself and flopped her hair so that it was in the basin of the tub. Anna took a hose that Jacob recognized immediately.
"EW! Mom!" Meg protested when she saw the hose. "The wolf hose?"
"The wolf hose?" Anna asked raising an eyebrow at Jacob.
Jacob sighed not really wanting to talk about this. "Water is water Meg, stop complaining about how it gets there!"
Anna nodded and whacked Meg's head she protested but was explained to, "That is for making me think the worst!" she looked up for the towel that Jacob was holding and blushed furiously when their eyes met.
"Nothing like that," he assured her. "I promise."
He didn't even know what she could possibly have been thinking but she smiled at this and the blush faded slightly.
Later, Jacob was sitting at the cliff edge where he constantly came to think, here he could never be disturbed not anymore. One of the first things he had done when he got back was to order everyone to stay away while he was there unless directed otherwise. He didn't actually think it would work, but he found out later that they had no choice. Jacob was the new pack leader and therefore what he ordered had to be followed.
But that didn't stop her.
"Oh," a startled voice said. "Sorry, I didn't know someone else was up here, I just wanted to get a picture of the view and I –"
"You can join me, Anna." He allowed Anna seemed hesitant but sat next to him anyway, they sat pretty far apart, he wanted to close the space but he knew that he should listen to Emily and give it time. "When are you going back to Seattle?"
"Tomorrow afternoon, around three." She said numbly, Jacob turned his head quickly, she was looking through a professional camera to the water and sky below, a picture clicked and she sighed.
"So soon?" Jacob said trying not to let his disappointment show, Anna nodded glumly. "It's too bad I have to drive Billy down to Charlie's for dinner otherwise I'd come for dinner at Emily's again." Jacob had cleaned up the sentence to the extremes, in his head he was cursing Charlie for realizing that Billy hadn't been up in a while, then he remembered the scene from that morning and Jacob realized how much he would truly dread the rest of the evening.
"Come have an early dinner then," Anna suggested without thinking.
Jacob shrugged but stood to show that he agreed with the plan, they walked in silence toward Emily's house until the sun peeked out from a cloud for just a moment but enough to shine off Anna's hair. "I like your hair." He complimented, Anna suddenly became self-conscious and began pulling at it lightly and blushing.
"Thanks." She murmured.
"Oh, er, by the way, we understand everything you say even when we're in our wolf forms." He said answering her question from the previous night.
"I should have known." Anna said lightly.
"What did you want to say last night? Before I told you I had imprinted?" He couldn't believe how easy and casually the word came to him, before he had always scorned it hating how everyone else in the pack had a soul mate except him – even though it wasn't true.
"Oh, uhm, nothing. I was just going to point out the sky, it was nice last night." She said using an obvious excuse. The sky could hardly ever be seen through the constant loud cover that marked Forks, Washington.
She looked up at him and he expected for her to look away like the times beforehand, but she didn't, a light blush came to her cheeks but she couldn't pull her eyes away. At that moment, Jacob wanted nothing more than to kiss her but he knew he had to take Emily's words to heart. He almost brought that up too, but he refrained because the house was now in clear view.
"Anna, I can't seem to find that red blouse, the one Embry got you, I know you wanted to wear it to the – Oh, Jake," Emily gasped, surprised by his unexpected appearance behind Anna. "I didn't know you were coming."
"It's in my daybag, Emily." Anna assured her.
Emily nodded and turned to Jacob, "Sue Clearwater's driving Billy up instead, she hasn't seen Charlie in a while either. They wanted to give you time off from being Billy's chauffer." She turned back to Anna. "Which books to you want? You mentioned a few, I put them on the dresser. How many books can you read in a week?"
"Let's give it five, and if I have some left over – so be it." Anna shrugged.
"Do you sleep?" The words were out of Jacob's mouth before he could stop them, but Anna just started to laugh crazily.
"Of course I sleep!" She said between laughs. "I just have a lot of free time on my hands."
"Go finish packing, Anna, I need to talk to Jake, alone." Emily said once Anna had stopped laughing, Jacob wished she never would the sound was – to him – like bells ringing. Anna nodded once and ran up the stairs, we heard the door close and Emily dragged me into the kitchen and gave me her Talk. Now. look, Jacob was aware of Meg sitting at the table, but Emily urged him to speak anyway.
"Emily," Jacob asked hesitantly. "What – How should I say goodbye to her tomorrow? Do I hug her? Do I wave? Do I shake her hand? Do I –"
"Jacob," Emily said, her voice now friendly and helping. "You're going to have to follow her lead, even if it means that you two look like awkward pre-teens after their first date."
"I resent that!" Meg glowered.
Emily frowned at Meg, "Is that algebra done yet?" she asked heatedly and Meg dropped her eyes back to her homework and the pencil continued to scratch away. "This is the first intensely social activity she's had in a while, that's why she only listened last night, she didn't know what to say." Emily sighed. "She won't know what to say for a very long time."
"Why is everyone being so damn cryptic about all of this?" Jacob suddenly shouted.
"Not their secret to tell." A voice said behind them, it was Anna. Jacob's face went a sheepish red and he turned away.
The next afternoon at 2:30 Jacob walked up to Emily and Sam's house where Sam's car was parked outside, he assumed this was Anna's mode of transportation back to Seattle. He sighed as Embry came out with a duffle and swung it into the backseat of the car. Then he approached the house.
Anna was in the little hallway giving everyone a hug goodbye, even Leah! When she noticed Jacob's presence in the doorway she ran up to him and hugged him around the middle. "Jacob! Oh I was so worried Sam and Embry would make me leave without saying goodbye to you!" She pulled away talking a mile a minute. "Of course, I'll be back next weekend, so this really isn't goodbye, but it feels like it!" She hugged him again.
"Okay, Anna," Embry grumbled. "You've said goodbye to Jake. Can we go now? You know hospitals give me the creeps." Anna suddenly tensed.
"Embry." Sam warned.
Anna pulled away from Jacob suddenly with an angry force and threw herself out the door in a huff. Jacob was having trouble processing everything that Anna had just said and done to even notice what Embry had said.
"We'll see you next weekend!" Emily called from the doorstep as the car with Anna drove away.
A/M: OOOOOOHHHH Hospital?? What now peeps?
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