Disclaimer: I don't own any of the songs or any of the bands or anything Twilight Saga Related.
A/M: Wow…I'm just handing these chapters out!
Chapter Five
Anna had gotten a chemo treatment that she had responded to very well so they had released her after a week. Now, every Tuesday, Jacob, Embry or Sam would drive Anna up to the hospital in Seattle until Wednesday when they would drive back down. It made Anna weak but everyone agreed that it was better if she were around her loved ones.
One very early morning, around 6:30, one Leah Clearwater couldn't sleep after a long patrol, so she casually went to the Uley's house, what she saw there, surprised her.
Standing in the kitchen at the counter mixing a bowl was Anna, dancing around to a very odd song that Leah hadn't heard in the longest time, yet Anna knew all the words.
"I can't control myself because I don't know how./And they love me for it, honestly/ I'll be here for a while/ So give them blood, blood / gallons of the stuff."
Leah jumped in remembering the song as one of her favorites a while back, "Give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough," Anna didn't seem surprised by Leah's presence, instead she unhooked the lock on the screen door and let her in, both still singing.
"So give them blood, blood, blood! Grab a glass because there's going to be a flood." Leah cracked up. The song continued on with more disturbing lyrics and Anna turned it down after the song ended.
"So, why are you up at this un-Godly hour?" Leah asked as Anna got some eggs from the refrigerator.
"Emily got stung by a bee yesterday and this morning her hand was swollen and she couldn't sleep because it hurt so much but Megan has camp so someone had to be up to wake her and make breakfast, and it was me because Sam had to drive Emily to the ER." Anna explained as she cracked the egg. "So, I'm making pancakes." Leah's eyes widened. "Probably not enough to feed even one werewolf though, let alone three humans and a werewolf." Leah just chuckled.
The song switched again after another short song and Anna smiled widely and Leah gasped, "You actually know this song?"
"I'm a fan of the oldies." She said then sang, "I've got birds on my ear and a devil on my shoulder/And a phone on the other, and I can't get a hold of her/And what's a crush to do? And what's a crush to do?/When he can't get through."
"I saw their concert years ago!" Leah sighed. "Along with MCR as The Black Parade, and Panic at the Disco, I actually saw two Panic concerts, one with an exclamation point one without one."
"I love Panic!" Anna exclaimed. "I'm such a sucker for old alternative music!"
"You're such a weirdie." Jacob said from the door, letting himself in. He nodded to Leah and the song switched again, she tried to figure out the song by the opening but Anna bet her to it, she squealed.
"Oh, I love my psychic iPod!" she said, and the piano interlude faded and she sang along with the song as it started.
"Turn away,
If you could get me a drink of water
Cause my lips are chapped and faded.
Call my Aunt Marie.
Help her gather all my things
And bury me in all my favorite colors,
My sisters and my brothers.
Still, I will not kiss you.
And I just hope you know,
That if you say goodbye today
I'd ask you to be true
Cause the hardest part of this, is leaving you."
If Anna was emotionally relating to the song, Leah and Jacob couldn't tell. They watched in astonishment – Leah in amusement actually – as she poured a pancake on the pan and watched it bubble, bopping along to a melancholy beat.
"Now, turn away
Cause I'm awful just to see
Cause all my hairs abandoned all my body,
All my agony
She flipped the pancake neatly and it came out a nice golden-brown, she bopped over to Jacob and took his hands swaying them gently with the tune and slight beat, continuing to sing all the while.
Know that I will never marry
Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo
We're counting down the days to go."
She got flipped the pancake again and then placed it lightly on the plate before turning back to Jacob. She took his hands and swayed again.
"It just ain't living
And I just hope you know
That if you say goodbye today
I'd ask you to be true
Cause the hardest part of this
Is leaving you."
Without even realizing it, she rested her head on his broad, warm chest and whispered the last few lines.
"Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you.
Cause the hardest part of this
Is leaving you."
Jacob's hands left hers and wrapped her in a tight – but not too tight – hug. The song switched again, but they didn't pay attention, Anna's arms went around him too. They were interrupted only when a throat was cleared from the doorway of the kitchen where Megan was standing.
"Jake," Megan said, tears forming in her eyes. "Did you – did you –"
"Meg, honey, he can't do anything –" Leah started.
"Shut up, Leah." Megan said through tears. "I hate you, Jacob Black!"
Jacob pulled away from Anna and went to Megan who wouldn't look him in the eye. He kneeled down and put his hands on her shoulders. "Meg, honey, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Megan said, trying to keep her voice from breaking.
"Meg, it upsets me to see you upset, now will you –"
"It used to tear you apart!" She shouted, ripping herself from his grip, passing him as she went to Leah across the room still near the door.
"What?" Jacob stood and turned, facing her across the room. "Megimoo, what's wrong."
"Don't call me that." Megan spat. "What's so special about her? She's only a few years older than me! She's only 15!" she turned her body to Leah though she was still staring at him. "Leah!" she whined.
"Jacob has imprinted, Meg. And you know that age has nothing to do with anything, Quil imprinted on Claire when she was 2."
Meg stared around the room to find everyone staring at her back she gave out a loud huff then declared. "I hate you all." And she ran out the door before anyone could stop her, Leah started after her, but Anna stopped her.
"She needs space." She said knowingly.
0.o.0.
Megan got back in time to eat and be driven to camp by Leah who hadn't returned back to Sam and Emily's for very long, only long enough to get out of the car. She was a wolf before the door had slammed.
Sam and Emily had gotten back about noon and Emily had gone to lie down. Sam was alerted of his daughter's fragile emotional state. He had frowned muttering something about never wanting a daughter to begin with.
Anna and Jacob had been oddly physical all day, they always found someway to be touching each other, they spent the day in the guest room – now known as her room – with the door cracked enough to satisfy Sam with her iPod on shuffle of old alternative songs. To which, they both knew most of the words and the words they didn't understand they improvised bizarrely. Sometimes understanding lyrics for the first time ever.
He had gotten comfortable after about an hour of sitting awkwardly on her bed, he was now casually lounging on the bed, laughing at Anna's non-existent dancing skills. She would occasionally join him on the bed but it was a small twin and Jacob took up most of it.
The song switched from Far From Beautiful by Push Play to another song that they both recognized.
"God," Anna exclaimed. "This is the horniest song ever."
"I wasn't aware that a song could
be horny." Jacob teased.
Anna laughed. "I wasn't either
until I heard this one!"
"Are you perspiring from the irony?/Or sweating to these lyrics?/And this just in/You're a dead fit/But my wit won't allow it." Jacob sang off key and out of tune.
"The inside lingo had me at hello/And we go where the money goes/The inside lingo had me at hello/And we go where the money goes." She walked, swinging her hips over dramatically to the bed where she jumped up and kneeled facing him.
They both sang, not caring how bad they sounded or who heard them. "I want someone provocative and talkative/But it's so hard when you're shallow as a shower/And from what I've heard with skin you'll win."
Jacob teasingly grabbed her arms gently pretending to be seductive. "Her bone structure screams/'Touch her! Touch her!'" He let his hands, non-challontly trail down her thin sides. "And she's got the curse of curves." He had somehow switched positions and they were now both on their knees facing each other and there wasn't a lot of bed in between them.
Anna whispered, "So with the combination of my gift with one liners/And my way/My way with words." She tilted her head and closed the gap. Letting her lips graze against his.
He responded by taking her face and hair in his two separate hands and pressing his lips harder onto hers, yet still reasonably delicate. One of Anna's hands rested on his thigh, the other held his face.
Jacob moved his lips from hers and trailed down her jaw line, Anna was brought even closer to him, she said to him, in a voice barely above a whisper, "Oh, I'm gonna be wounded. Oh, you're gonna be my wound." She barely got that out before his lips recaptured hers. They were more demanding now, yet still unbearably perfect.
Something hit the wall and they jumped apart, unready to face embarasment from anyone. They were even less prepared for what they saw there instead.
Nothing.
Jacob moved off the bed swiftly and picked up what had hit the wall, he dropped it and ran out of the room.
It had been a picture from Megan's 13 Birthday. Megan had her arms clasped around his neck and was placing a kiss on his cheek as a thank you for the Johnny Depp/Helena Bohnam Carter/Tim Burton trio DVD set including Sweeney Todd and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. They were old movies, but Megan adored them all the same.
Jacob entered Megan's room and smiled at it. It had personality all over it. It had pictures of actors Megan found attractive, some were modern and some were older. There were several Johnny Depp pictures, a few of Ben Barns and a very old poster that had belonged to Claire when she was 5 of The Jonas Brothers. Some more modern actors were ones that Jacob couldn't drag from his mind because he hadn't been going to the movies lately. Running a werewolf pack was rather time consuming.
Megan pretended to ignore Jacob, sitting at the window seat, looking out at the rain that was always falling. He sat on the edge of her bed uncomfortably. "Megan, we have to talk." He said.
She didn't look up. "There's nothing to say." She said. "I should have known you'd always see me as a child."
He sighed. "Megan, age has –"
"Nothing to do with it, I know, okay?" she stood in a furious huff. Jacob took this moment to see her as she wanted to be seen by him, he let himself judge her in a manner he never would have thought of before.
She had indeed grown up, she was a good 5'5" with a rounded chest and a flat stomach, her face wasn't unappealing but it had obvious maturing that needed to be done. She was also emotionally immature.
"Meg, you are beautiful and some bucket full of guys will be lucky as hell to have you in their lives like that but," he walked to her and stared down at her frowning face. "I am not one of them."
0.o.0.
Jacob re-entered Anna's room to find it abandoned. He assumed she'd be back so he wandered over to her desk where her iPod was nesting in a dock. Next to it was a notebook, it was opened to a page that looked like it had been recently written on, he started to read it.
I'm Ready To Die by Anna Call
"Jacob?" Anna's voice called, he knew he couldn't read this in a matter of seconds. "Jake?" her voice called again, she was downstairs, but she was starting up the stairs, walking slowly because of her weaker body but still a speedy demon. "Jake where are you?" Jacob's eyes moved from the paper in the notebook to the door and back again He quickly reached one hand out to the notebook and tore the page right out of it. He stuffed it carelessly into his pocket just as the door opened. "There you are." Anna said. "How's Megan?"
"I think she'll forgive you in time." Jacob chuckled, leaning against the desk, he held his arms open for Anna. She embraced him and let him place a soft, sweet kiss on her lips.
A/M: Okay, I'm becoming quite the Speed Demon with these updates!
I don't really know what to say…overall I'm outrageously happy with this chapter and I'm sorry about all the singing involved, I hate it when writers slap on some lyrics and call it a fanfiction…but I won't point fingers (mainly because I can't remember the name of the Fanfic)
The songs were (in this order):
Blood by My Chemical Romance
Risque by Cute Is What We Aim For
Cancer by My Chemical Romance
Curse of Curves by Cute Is What We Aim For
And that little "Oh, I'm gonna be wounded. Oh, you're gonna be my wound." Is from Spring Awakening which is a show on Broadway currently starting its tour (I know someone who's gonna be in the tour! He goes to my highschool!)
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