Danna was eleven when I imprinted on her and she reminded me so much of Nova, young and innocent. I was having breakfast with the guys the morning I was to leave and I witnessed a little girl get hit by a young boy on a bike. She fell to the ground and winced in pain, my immediate reaction was to go and help. The boy, who looked shocked and frightened, was trying to help her but she wouldn't let him touch her. She had hurt her arm and had scraped her knees and elbows. I bent down to examine her and that was when we locked eyes and I immediately knew what was happening. I didn't even try to fight it, she instantly became my life.
"Are you alright?" I managed to say as I trembled.
She was hurt and I didn't know what to do. She was on the floor staring at me with this big green eyes and her curly ash brown hair covering her face. I didn't know who she was let alone her name but in one split of a second she became the center of my universe. I began to panic and the guys looked at me as if I was crazy. I wanted to hold her, be her guardian and protector and I also kind of wanted to fling the kid and his bike across the street. I know she felt something too when we locked eyes and she seemed a bit concerned which confused me.
"Are you alright?" She asked and I smiled knowing everything would be different from then on.
Everything rapidly changed after that. I decided to stay in La Push of course, and Sam handed over the Alpha position to me after I had proven my loyalty, but they all knew I was serious about it. I spent a lot of time with Danna and got to know her better. She had just moved to Forks a few months ago with her mom who was a nurse. Her mom worked long hours so Danna often stayed in my house and she and Nova became really good friends. I loved having both of them at home, making sure they were safe and under my care. I even built Danna a room for when she slept over. Danna's mom and my dad built a good relationship and she trusted him with her daughter. I refrained from meeting her for a few years I figured it was best since she would never understand the relationship I had with Danna. Danna at first didn't really understand iteither but it's true what they said, we were soul mates.
Even as a kid we had so much in common and felt so comfortable with one another. We just had to be with each other, there was this pull and I suffered when she wasn't around. She became so attached to me too she never wanted to go home or go anywhere without me. She went through the puberty by my side and as I watched her grow my feelings intensified. I don't know how I lived without her. She was on this earth for eleven years and I didn't know; I had missed those eleven years of her precious life. She was the sweetest most selfless person I had ever met. Danna was smart and witty, she was also stubborn and head strong all which made me love her more.
When I told her about my wolf she was twelve and I couldn't keep it from her anymore, she had to know. It was best I told her while she was still a kid since they had more of an open mind to life. I was afraid to tell Danna, afraid I would lose her, but most of all I was afraid she would be afraid of me. I turned in front of her and her green eyes were shocked but full of wonder.
"Jake?" she said hesitantly and I bowed my head at her letting her know it was okay. My wolf would never harm her; he was weak and submissive when it came to her. She stepped closer and touched my fur. My wolf leaned in to her touch, he loved her and he was elated.
"You have Jake's eyes." She smiled and hugged the wolf.
The wolf hummed and howled in complete happiness.
He licked her and she giggled.
"You're my Jacob now too."
My wolf nodded and urged her to get on its back. We rode for a while and she seemed so carefree and blissful on my back, I wanted her to always be this happy. My wolf hadn't scared her in fact she loved him too. The wolf and the man both lived and died for her, it was why we existed. I arranged for Danna to always be picked up from school by one of my brother's or myself. I needed to know where she was and with who at all times and in time she got used to our strange customs and she saw us as her family. At first the elders and my father didn't like the fact that Danna isn't Native American, but she grew on all of them and there was the simple fact that she was my imprint and it is the most sacred law.
Everyone was happy I was staying expect Elsu and he betrayed the pack. After I became Alpha the pack and I had to do a mission that was rather dangerous, it involved bloodsuckers. There hadn't been vampires in La Push in decades so this was rather serious. The police were saying it was animal attacks but we knew the truth. Elsu had stayed a few extra days to help us kill the filthy blood suckers but instead he made matters worse. He was supposed to keep watch that night and fight off any vampires that tried to get through La Push with the help of Jared and Quill. I felt something was wrong the minute I stepped foot outside La Push.
"Jacob!" I heard Quill's voice in my head; we were all in wolf form and could hear each other's thoughts.
"What is it Quill?" I asked and the others tuned in to listen.
"It's Elsu Jake, he disappeared! Jared is out looking for him, one of the elders got injured because of him. He let the damn blood suckers through Jake. Jared and I tried to stop it but we were too late, I'm sorry Jake."
I don't think I'd ever felt so angry and betrayed in my life, Elsu was going to pay for what he had done. The others sensed my frustration and stood silent as hundreds of thoughts consumed my brain. I spoke in my Alpha voice then and everyone knew I was in command from then on.
"Quill, stay right where you are and guard the reservation, Leah go stand guard with Quill. Embry go make sure my father, Nova and Danna are alright then stand guard with Leah and Quill. Paul and Sam I want you both to hunt down the blood suckers and kill them, no mercy. I will hunt down Elsu, he's mine."
Once I finally go to Elsu who had fled the reservation and was in the outskirts of town Nahele was with him.
"What are you doing here Nahele?" I growled.
Her wolf was limping, she was hurt.
"I heard about Jared and I tried to come but I was in Alaska, it took me forever to get here and once a did a few bloodsuckers attacked me. I'm fine I fought them off with the help of Elsu, he saved my life."
I looked at Elsu with hate and disgust and flung at him and held him down and even though he tried his best to be free of me I was stronger. I could have killed him then, I had easy access to his neck but I didn't, I let him live. He whined in pain and I pressed him harder onto the ground almost crushing his bones. He knew I had him and he closed his eyes accepting his fate.
"I'm not going to kill you even though you betrayed your brothers, your family and now Seth and Leah's dad is in critical condition because of you. My family could have gotten hurt, my Danna could have gotten hurt Elsu do you know what that means to me?! My imprint Elsu what the fuck were you thinking?! I never wanna see you on this reservation again, you're banned and you don't exist to us anymore. Leave and never come back." I spit those words out like venom in my Alpha voice and I knew the rest of the pack had heard me.
I let go of him then and he got up slowly limping. "You come back, imprint on some kid and now everyone accepts you as their Alpha male. And where does that leave me? In the shadows of course, I should have known it wasn't going to be any different this time. You have everything and I have nothing."
"Leave Elsu, things could have ended differently but this is what you chose now LEAVE!"
He left without saying another word and Nahele and I ran back to the reservation, I could hear her heart breaking at the news I had imprinted. We patched her up and she left a few days later after things had settled down. I thanked her for what she did and she said she would be back someday.
"He's not bad Jake, he was angry and he fucked up but hes not bad, he saved my life," she told me one night.
"You know how close my house is to the woods, the most important people in my life were in that house Lahene. If something would have happened to one of them I don't know what I would have done."
"I guess your biggest fear came true," she said not looking at me.
"You better than anyone knew I never wanted to imprint, but now that it has happened I wonder how I could have not wanted this. How could I have not wanted that little girl in my life? I feel guilty and stupid now about the whole thing. They were right this is my destiny and now she is my life and I wouldn't have it any other way."
"I feel like I'm talking to a whole new Jacob," she shook her head amazed, but her eyes were sad.
"You are," I said with a stern face.
I knew seeing Danna hurt her even though she was just a kid back then. Harry Clearwater died and the whole pack and reservation mourned his death. Seth and Lea were devastated and we all tried to be there for them as much as possible. Seth turned a few months later, but he had his brothers to look after him. I swore to myself and the memory of his father that I would never let anything happen to him or any of my brothers.
The years passed and things went back to normal again. The pack was stronger than ever and the reservation was safe. Danna is now fifteen, your typical moody teenager and so is Nova. I got Danna to attend La Push's High School to keep her close. I was Alpha and she was my imprint so I called the shots when it came to her. Our relationship was stronger than ever and now that she was growing up the feelings I was trying to keep at bay for as long as possible surfaced. Yes I was falling in love with her, at first I saw her as a little sister someone I loved and had to protect with my life but now it was different. I looked at Danna and I desired her, the need was killing me. But I kept these feelings locked away, she was only fifteen, still a kid and she wasn't ready for the next step in our relationship.
