AN: Chapter five already! I need to address some reviewers who I can't answer privately because you PM's are turned off, I don't know what sms is but I assume you can leave reviews like that. Also many of you keep asking about Ron, Molly, and Percy and I can't tell you what happened because you have to wait to read it in the story! If I put everything that happens in the first few chapters that wouldn't be fun to read, but we are almost to the revelation! Hee Hee Hee for my new Twilight readers you should know I have always been a Slytherin at heart and thanks to Pottermore it's official so I gotta be sneaky and leave you with cliffhangers and plot twists! Enjoy this chapter, I am aiming for some humor this chapter and hope I deliver! Clumsy!

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Hermione slammed the front door and headed straight to her bedroom because she was so mad and more than a little scared of what Jake had just told her! She needed to talk to Harry, Ginny, and Draco very badly but that wasn't possible so she did the next best thing and sat down at her desk with ink, parchment and quill and started writing furiously. She put all the fear and anger she was feeling in them trying to vent it out.

Dear Harry, Ginny, Draco,

I am writing this letter to all of you but please, please, please write back separately because I need advice from all of you! So here is what just happened to me: I've been here a couple days and it's all been so lovely! Everything here is so green and pretty and the ocean is amazing of course. The people have been amazingly accepting of me and welcomed me quite warmly. That all just changed because of HIM!

Him is Jacob Black! He's a shape shifter which as you all know is automatically fascinating and not only that there are a group of them I can study here, so rare and in this large a group it's unheard of. Would have made a lovely book to write; if it weren't for what Jake just did!

I'm so scared! He says he's imprinted on me which means I can't come home without causing him physical and emotional torture. After what Bellatrix and Ron did how can I possibly cause that? Now I won't be able to come home, ever because I'm now trapped. I told him I will do as I please and no wolfy bond will stop me but you all know me better than that and I just don't know what to do! I'm scared, and sad, and pissed off!

All of you need to help me! Write back immediately with answers!

Love,

Hermione

P.S. What are you doing still reading? Get to answering!

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When she was done with her letter she rolled it up and attached it to Scooby's leg and with an affectionate nip on her fingers, Scooby hurried out the window, sensing Hermione's need for speed and answers.

Once Scooby was gone Hermione regretted her haste knowing that the letter sounded desperate. She would correct it when she had their replies, but she was a little desperate. This felt like her life was being taken by another man the way Ron….

She stopped her thoughts automatically; she wasn't ready to revisit the horror of her last night with Ronald Weasley, it was too much.

So she got out of bed and went in search of Sam and Emily, they could talk to her and explain this imprint thing at least. That was a start so she dragged herself off the bed.

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Hermione found them sitting alone at the kitchen table, for once all the other guys weren't around.

"Hermione, how did your talk with Jake go? I take it there were some issues by the way you slammed the door and took off to your room." Sam began, his voice a deep but lyrical timbre.

"Sam, Emily. Sorry for my rudeness but I was uncontrollably mad and scared. I wrote home for advice and while I await my friend's answers I came to get a few from you two! I assume you know about the imprint?" She asked them after apologizing.

"What did Jacob say to you?" Em asked.

"Soul mate, bonding, yada, yada, yada! He said that I would cause him pain if he lost me." Hermione said.

"Jake was protecting you. If you leave him behind Hermione he'll eventually die. Whether by broken heart, his own hand, or forcing the hand of his brother to do the deed he will die. It won't be immediate though, he'll suffer the worst heart break before the end." Sam said. "I am not trying to force your hand here Hermione, but Jake is my brother and if telling you the truth is wrong then I will accept that, but I fight for my brother and you need to know that when you decide to leave this will happen. Of course, there is always the other option." He finished with a quirked eyebrow.

"What other option do I have?" Hermione asked desperately. Em just reached to take her hand in a show of support for her friend.

"You end up in love with him and decide to stay." He said simply.

"You don't understand!" Hermione yelled as she stood. "Maybe for anyone else falling in love would be an answer, Emily knows as much as I do that it isn't a viable option for me! That was stolen from me months ago. I am broken!" Not able to handle anymore she turned and returned to her room in tears.

"Em, what am I missing?" Sam wondered.

"Sit back Sam, it's a very long, tragic story. I guess I should have warned you before she came." Emily sighed and then began telling Sam all about Hermione's story, her nightmare.

When she was done Sam sat back and rubbed his hand down his face. "When Jake finds out about this he'll help her heal, Jake has a touch for healing hearts. He can handle it, I'm betting on Jake! Poor girl, I thought that we'd had a rough few years here with the vampires; it's nothing to the tragedy she's faced. She's strong though or she'd already have quit." Sam sighed shaking his head. He had some thinking to do because he didn't know if he should step in and talk to Jake or wait for things to play out as they would.

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Jake and some of the guys came a few hours later and the group was eating at a few picnic tables set up out back enjoying a warm and dry evening which was rare for Forks. Hermione was pointedly ignoring Jake and he had just opened his mouth to say something when the sound of loud pops crackled in the air.

The pack turned towards the sound but Hermione was on her feet and running before they could stop her. They watched as three guys and one girl materialized from thin air which caused the noise. Jacob growled as he watched her throw herself into their arms. There seemed to be a greeting and then she pulled the whole group over to meet everyone.

Hermione introduced Ginny, Harry, Draco, and Fred to the group leaving Jake for last. As soon as she said his name however her friends moved in synchronization as four wands were drawn and aimed at Jake's face.

"You will leave her alone! Do you understand us? I hope you do because you don't want to know what we'll do to you otherwise!" Harry said. Draco was scary in his intense stare; no words were needed from him. Ginny looked calculating watching his reactions, and Fred? Well Fred was Fred after all.

Fred just walked around the table and reached a hand to shake Jake's. "It's a pleasure, believe me. You'll know why it's a pleasure in just a second, but I have ways to create extreme discomfort. You should consider that, plus a less handsome twin with just as evil a mind. Hermione is my sister and you don't fuck with a sister." He said as he walked away.

"Wait! Fred, what did you just do to him?" Hermione yelled. "What are you all doing here?"

"Rescuing you, of course." Draco said while rolling his eyes.

Hermione sat down and hid her face in her hands. "Ugh! I keep telling you that you don't need to rescue me anymore! I wrote my friends for advice, not an advance guard of militants coming to battle a dragon!"

The group put their wands away and Fred cleared his throat before saying, "Well it appears that there has been a misunderstanding. My apologies Jake! Don't worry, the effects will wear off after 24 hours, unfortunately that is a fairly new product and we don't have an antidote at the moment."

"FREDERICK GIDEON WEASLEY! Are you telling me you just tried an untested product on him?" Hermione yelled as she got to her feet. Jake was thinking if taking a hex produced this result he'd take one every day! Her hair crackled with her magic, and you could almost taste that Fred's fear!

"Hermione, it's just Taboo Lotion! Yeah see, when anyone says the name of the person the charmed lotion is for then well, something mild but very funny happens. Perfectly safe, mind you we tried the lotion on ourselves." Fred answered.

Jared being the joker of the group decided to find out what happens.

"Hey Jake!"

All of a sudden Jake screeched out and was covered in green boils all over his body. Unfortunately that wasn't all because anytime someone said his name something else happened. By the end of his packs laughter and jokes which only stopped with the end of Hermione's wand pointed at each of them, he was covered in boils, had sprouted tentacles out of both ears, had grown beaver teeth, and clucked like a chicken!

"Wow that's so cool! How do we get more of that?" Seth asked, in awe of Fred.

"Well my new little friend, step over here to my office and I will tell you about our products!" Fred joked leading Seth back to the boulder Hermione had sat at earlier.

"Jake, I'm so sorry! Here come with me and I'm sure there is some way that I can at least ease some of it." Hermione said embarrassed by her friends' behavior. Before going in the door she turned and gave them a pointed look that told them they were in big trouble.

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Hermione sat Jake on the bed and pulled out some of her books on healing charms trying to find a way to heal him.

"Hermione, its okay, you know." Jake said.

"What is okay? Certainly not them doing this!" She pointed out.

"No. I'm talking about earlier, when I explained the imprint. I know it seems crazy to you because 24 hours ago I didn't even know you, but I love you and if you can't deal with the imprint I will understand." He tried to smile and ended up cutting his lip on the beaver teeth. "Ow!"

Hermione was thinking as she went through different charms. She gave him some relief so far she had gotten rid of the teeth, healed his split lip, and was tackling the tentacle ears.

"Jake, I'm sorry about leaving like that earlier. I was just scared beyond comprehension. I've had a…..hmm, difficult year. I'm not at a place in my life that you should hang your hopes on me Jake. If you have any possible way of moving past this imprint and finding someone else then you'd be wise to do so. I am damaged and not sure I will ever be whole again." Hermione said as a tear rolled down her cheek. She wasn't quite sure why telling Jake was so easy considering she didn't know him, but there was the instinctive sense that she could trust him.

"Do you want to talk about what's been happening to you? I'm a good listener." Jacob offered reaching out a hand to hers and rubbing it soothingly.

"Thanks but I'm just not ready to talk about it and I really doubt anyone is ready to hear it, it's not a pretty story. It's what nightmares are made of." Hermione said sadly.

"I'm here if you need to talk about it. Now, how am I going to get past those idiots without new horrors popping out on my body?" He said to lighten her burden, and surprisingly she noticed it worked and she giggled.

AN: So, if you enjoyed this let me know! Longest chapter of the story so far. Interesting things will be happening at La Push now that Hermione's friends arrived, her secret will come out. She is going to put her trust in someone and tell her story, wink, wink!