DISCLAIMER: I don't own 'Harry Potter' or 'The Twilight Saga' or any of the characters, with the exception of Livvy Wilde who is my own creation. They are the property of the fabulous Miss Rowling and Miss Meyer.
Livvy looked up from where she sat in an armchair in the Gryffindor Common Room. She had her arms wrapped around her waist, as though she could keep her stomach from rolling by holding it. Jacob paced back and forth while Harry, Ron, and Hermione still stared at her, all of them still processing what she had just told them.
"Say something", Livvy begged after another moment of silence passed.
"I'm going to kill him", Jacob declared, his voice a low snarl.
"I would let you, believe me, I'd like nothing more than to see Fenrir die a horrible, bloody death, but it won't be that easy. He's in league with You-Know-Who. He's got more power than you do and I don't want you to get hurt", Livvy told Jacob.
"So what am I supposed to do? Just stand by and let that monster continue to rape you?" hissed Jacob, looking angrier than Livvy had seen him.
"It's the better option", Livvy admitted, eyes downcast as she spoke.
"Rape is never the better option", Hermione spoke up. Livvy looked toward the brunette girl and saw that her face was set in grim lines.
Harry chimed in, "Hermione's right. You can't let this go on another moment. I admit that I've never favored you, not because you were plotting to kill me, but it wouldn't be right to sit here and let you continue to subject yourself to this level of abuse. I'm not offering my head on a platter, but I'm willing to negotiate for a better option for all of us".
"How are you going to do that?" Livvy asked Harry, confused and hopeful.
Harry pushed aside his bangs and lightly fingered his lightning-shaped scar before replying, "Voldemort and I are connected because of this scar…I can look into his mind at any given time as he can with mine. I'm going to let him in so I can relay my message to him".
"No! You can't do this, Harry! If Dumbledore knew…" Hermione began to object.
"Dumbledore can't protect me from everything! He didn't even know about Livvy's plot to kill me! I think it's best that Dumbledore be left out of this. This is between me and Voldemort, after all", Harry interrupted Hermione to argue.
Hermione wheeled around to face Ron and urged, "Do something! You can't let him do this!"
"Harry, this could be extremely dangerous…Opening your mind like that, I mean isn't that what Snape was trying to NOT get you to do with those lessons? For all we know, You-Know-Who might like your mind better than his!" Ron said to Harry.
"I won't let him get too far in, I promise", Harry said to Ron and Hermione but when they still looked like they might object again, Jacob spoke up.
"Let him do it. If he says he can do this, then let him. I can't let Livvy get hurt again", Jacob said and looked toward Livvy with such a tender, loving expression on his handsome face that Livvy broke down crying.
Jacob rushed toward her and enveloped her in his embrace. Livvy sobbed into his shoulder and said, "Never in all my life have I known someone who would protect me, like you are protecting me, Jacob. You are the most amazing if not hottest guy I have ever met and I am so honored to be called your girl".
"I will protect you for the rest of my life, if you'll let me", Jacob then told Livvy, pulling back to look into her hazel eyes with his black ones.
Livvy narrowed her eyebrows in confusion and asked him, "What do you mean 'if I'll let you'? I'm letting you protect me already! You don't need to ask for my permission".
"I shouldn't have to ask! This should be natural, but it isn't. The way I feel for you…only one other girl has made me feel that way. I shouldn't be feeling like this, not unless…" argued Jacob.
"Unless what?" Livvy was almost too angry to ask. Her hands were fisted and shaking at her sides.
"Unless I've Imprinted", Jacob answered and when Livvy looked at him with a mixture of confusion, anger, and hurt on her face, he didn't bother to explain.
Someone like Livvy could never understand a connection like Imprinting because there was a deep part of herself that she kept blocked from experiencing such a deep connection. Jacob could feel that wall and understood the reason behind it. Jacob could choose to love Livvy in spite of her walls, but the wolf part of him needed that deep connection in order to move forward and Livvy can't provide that for him.
Livvy was grasping to understand why Jacob was rejecting her. Jacob could see it in her smoky hazel eyes and she tried to not let him see how hurt and confused she was. Yet he looked at her as though he could still see every piece of her fragmented soul and that made her even angrier.
Whipping out her wand from where she stowed it in her back jeans pocket, Livvy pointed it in Jacob's face and screamed, "EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT IMPRINTING IS OR I SWEAR I'LL KILL YOU, JACOB BLACK!"
"You won't kill me. You love me too much to do that", Jacob said calmly while everyone else in the room freaked out.
Livvy's eyes filled with tears and the hand holding her wand shook. She yelled, "YOU BASTARD! Avada..!"
"NOOO!" A voice screamed and someone tackled Livvy from the side. She went tumbling to the floor and her wand flew out of her hand. She tried to punch whoever tackled her but she heard the voice cry out, "Petrificus totalus!"
Livvy went straight as a board beneath her tackler and knew that no matter how hard she tried, she wouldn't move. Her eyes moved to look toward Jacob and she thought in her head, you were lucky this time…
Livvy's tackler stood and turned toward Jacob…
It was a frazzled Hermione, who looked totally out of breath.
Jacob had to admit that he wasn't all that surprised that Hermione was the one to save him.
"I guess I'm just that great of a kisser", Jacob said to Hermione with a cocky glint in his eyes.
"What's this about kissing? You told me you never kissed him!" whined Ron, looking from Jacob to Hermione with shock and confusion.
"Relax, Ron, the most that I did to her was pat her butt a few times", Jacob reassured the redheaded boy.
"That's supposed to make me feel better?" retorted Ron.
"Honestly, Ronald, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were in love with me", Hermione said in a half-joking, half-serious tone to Ron.
To which Ron said nothing, but his face did turn magenta. Jacob smiled and shook his head. Then he went over and kneeled by Livvy.
"I think I saw in the Hogwarts book that Hermione lent me that use of any of the Unforgivable Curses in school is grounds for expulsion. I guess I was wrong about you loving me, because if you did, you wouldn't have tried to kill me. Thanks for the great sex but we're finished, babe", Jacob told the motionless redheaded girl.
With that said Hermione used a spell to lift Livvy off the ground and float her out of the Common Room and towards Professor Dumbledore's office. Ron followed her, wand raised, for security purposes in case she somehow got the curse off. Once they were gone and everybody returned to what they were doing before the incident, Harry turned to Jacob.
"I think you overstayed your welcome in England", Harry said to the Quileute boy.
"I couldn't agree more. I'd hate to leave with Sirius still missing, but hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. I shouldn't test Livvy by staying. Besides, the Wolf Pack needs me. Sam called and said something about Victoria cropping up again in Forks", Jacob replied with a shrug of his muscular shoulders.
"Then you have to go. I'll keep you informed on everything…brother", answered Harry with a smile towards Jacob.
Jacob returned the smile and gave Harry a one-armed hug. Grasping shoulders, the boy wizard and the American werewolf exchanged their good-byes.
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