Disclaimer: Uhm. I don't even own the plot anymore really…haha…you'll see why next (and final) chapter.
A/M: 2nd to last chapter! This will be the third actual story I've finished on this website so YAY ME!
Chapter Eight
The next five days were spent prepping Anna for a surgery she was technically not supposed to have. It had been experimented with in theory but Anna would be the first to undergo it. And even though she should have been worried about being a guinea pig, Anna did not have a care in the world. She was sure the operation would go perfectly.
It had been decided that Carlisle Cullen, the oldest vampire with a "vegetarian" diet, would perform the operation in the empty surgery slot that Tuesday.
On the evening before the operation, Jacob and Anna sat opposite each other on Anna's bed holding their arms outstretched so their fingertips and thumbs touched in a fan on both hands.
Due to Anna's fragile state and Jacob's immense size and strength this was as much affection as they were allowed to show according Anna's doctor, Bella Cullen.
It frustrated them both, they who were crazy with sexual frustration, to not be able to touch each other even in the most chaste of ways and they couldn't help but hope for the days that would soon come where they would be inseparable because they could afford to be.
They stared into each other's eyes as they had been doing for the last few hours. Neither had moved for such a long time that nurses had had a break and come back to find them in the same position as they had been in when they had left.
At about 11 pm, Bella came in and they both broke concentration, looking up, but never removing their fingers from the others. Even at this innocent expression of affection, Bella felt awkward and bad for stepping in even though she had worked around them all day so she wouldn't interrupt.
"I'm sorry, Jake, you have to go now, Anna has to sleep before tomorrow, and so do you." She announced. Jake just nodded and they pressed their fingers together harder and looked at each other with more love in their eyes if possible before he slid off the bed, which gave a few squeaks from the release of Jacob's weight.
He walked around so they were the closest they had been all day. She leaned forward and so did he. Anna's fevered forehead touched Jacob's burning one and his hand held her face gently before he placed a single kiss on her lips. "Tomorrow." He said.
"Tomorrow." She replied back.
Jacob reluctantly pulled away and, without breaking eye contact, left the room silently.
Outside stood Carlisle.
Jacob stared at him with hard eyes, he didn't want a fight or a war or anything of that nature, but he had to make his thoughts known. "If you hurt her tomorrow, I will kill you. I will rip you to pieces, burn you and scatter the fucking ashes." He said, shocked at his own use of profanity, despite what the Cullen's might think he was normally very docile.
The vampire did not smile, he stared back at Jacob with serious eyes that showed that he had no intention on killing Anna Call. "I would expect nothing less." He agreed and held out his hand.
Jacob glared at the temporary peace offering for a moment before taking it in his own firm grasp. Any other topic and Jacob would have laughed at the doctor, he had just agreed that if anything went wrong, Jacob had the right to kill him.
They said their farewells as cordially as possible with their ongoing feud between the two species and Jacob left the hospital.
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The next morning Jacob awoke rather early, but not early enough, he glanced at his clock that flashed 9:26 AM and groaned. He had missed Anna going into surgery. He threw back the covers on his too-small bed and stood up quickly hitting his head on the slanted roof that he constantly forgot about.
He threw on a new set of clothes and grabbed his shoes off the floor where he had kicked them off the previous night.
He pounded down the stairs, not caring if he woke up Billy, he was too worried about Anna to think straight or be remotely polite.
Cereal found its way into Jacob's stomach and churned unsettlingly as he scrawled a messy note to his father.
Billy,
At hospital. Anna's surgery by Doctor Fang.
Back later or not.
Jake
He'd understand that. Billy had been Jacob's father his whole life he understood Jacob's detached thoughts better than the Pack sometimes.
Jacob pulled his shoes on reluctantly, he hated their restriction but they were necessary for the hospital. After he had tied them both he glanced at the clock again 10:00. He needed to get out of the house but the hospital wasn't an answer by any means, Anna would be in surgery for another two hours and it only took one hour to get to the hospital.
Jacob had literally begun to twiddle his thumbs when an out of breath Seth Clearwater burst through the front door and ran into the kitchen. Shocked, Jacob stood quickly.
Seth took a few deep breaths to even out his breathing before he began talking and even then he couldn't get his thought out correctly though his heaving breaths. "I found them." He said. "Vampires. A whole group!" Jacob felt his eyes widen and Seth nodded. "That's what I said! I think our scent drove them off though, they're really far north, they're practically in Canada. I just got on a trail and followed but yah, they're gone I think." His breathing had calmed.
"Alert the Pack, everyone except Embry is on duty starting now. We'll put one group around the perimeter and other groups lined up with them going north, got that?" Seth nodded once.
"All but Embry. One perimeter, others going north. Yup, I've got it." Seth was a werewolf, yes, but his face still had a boyish tone that hadn't disappeared during his transformation. His childlike features lit up with power as they always did in crisis, he was the co-leader. If something were to happen to Jacob, Seth would take over.
"Good job. I'm going to the hospital, I'm trusting you here, Seth." Jacob warned the younger yet possibly more competent werewolf who nodded dutifully before running out into the morning once again.
Jacob didn't take another moment to think before he ran out to his car and drove to the hospital.
He parked next to Embry's car in the parking lot, which was incidentally one space between a silver Volvo. Normally, Jacob would have joked with himself about how a vampire's age isn't the only thing that never changes, but instead he got out of the car, slammed the door and locked it as he was running up to the building.
A/M: Heyy…okay well…my life is shitty right now so give me a break. Anyways, story will end next chapter. And I'll talk to you then! Byeeee! Haha, sorry that this took so long to post, I thought I had posted it but apparently I hadn't!