A/N: Ok so here's another chapter, its still SLASH so again if you don't like it don't read it. This chapter seemed to take a mind of its own so it kind of goes crazy at the end. Just a quick question should I do Bella/Edward in this story or Bella/Embry as a minor couple, not really sure which but please review your opinions and answer. Thank you for reading I hope you enjoy it!

JPOV

Sam had left shortly after that. He said he wanted me to rest and that we would talk more about the imprint thing in the morning, but in his eyes I saw the pain he was feeling by leaving me. When I went to bed, I tried to sleep, really I did, but when you have just realized you can turn in to a wolf, and have a prepackaged soul mate, its kind of hard to relax.

By the time I finally drifted off to sleep it was four am and, three hours later I had to drag myself out of bed. Whose bright idea was it to make school so early?

After a quick shower and breakfast, I stepped outside to meet Bella when she came by in the old truck I fixed up for her, I had tried earlier in the year to convince her that I could drive to school just fine by myself but she said if we carpooled we helped the environment. No offense to Bella, and all, but even with all my work on it I don't think anyone should be driving that tuck around at all for the sake of the environment.

It used to be up until a couple of years ago that La Push had its own high school, but then someone burned it to the ground and the reservation couldn't be bothered to rebuild it. Now we were merged with the high school in Forks, which was a bittersweet arrangement.

Bella pulled the tuck into a parking space, which drew everyone's attention. She grabbed my hand on when I tried to jump out. "Jake wait!" I sighed, great just what I needed a lecture. "Jake, if Mike and those guys gave you a problem again you would tell me right?" I nodded "I know you head is full of testosterone," she poked my lightly on the forehead "and you think you can deal with every problem by yourself but everyone needs help sometimes." I rolled my eyes as I waved good bye and stepped out of the truck, Bella sometimes took it upon herself to be my big sister, even though I already have two.

As I was walking over to Embry who was hailing we down wildly huge arm waving above the mass of students, I realized I didn't have any romantic thoughts about Bella, whatsoever. Even if I tried to think about it, my stomach just became nauseated. Was this the whole imprint thing? Is Sam the only one I'll ever be attracted to or something? Was it Bella or just all girls now? Was I gay?

I was ripped out of my thoughts when a huge arm was slung around my shoulders. I looked up, damn, way up to see who it was.

"Oh, hey Embry…" I mumbled, looks like I was going to be the runt of the wolf pack.

He grinned like an idiot at me, pulling me in the direction of the doors. "Isn't it great!" he staged whispered, wow Embry really didn't know the meaning of quiet did he?

"Yeah Embry it's amazing, but aren't we supposed to keep quiet about this?" I whispered glancing around.

A light bulb seemed to go off in his head. "Oh yeah we'll talk later right."

I laughed, "Sure, sure Embry."

He ran off down the hall to his first class, and I went the opposite way towards my locker. I pulled open my locker and was about to shove my bag in when it was slammed shut. Internally I groaned, but I tried to keep my face uncaring, why couldn't these guys leave me alone.

They were some upperclassmen from Bella's year, Mike, Tyler, and Eric. They were all dumb as bricks, but they were all bigger then me too, which sometimes made my life here a living hell.

"Hey Jakey" said Mike overly loud "you look tired, did you have a nightmare last night and then couldn't sleep!" He said in a mocking voice.

I yanked open my locker again. "Yes Mike I did, it was of your ugly face, and after seeing that I just couldn't sleep." He took a minute to process that before he slammed me into the locker next to mine.

"Watch it Black!" He growled before releasing me and walking off as Mr. Banner came around the corner. I quickly grabbed my stuff and headed to class not meeting anybody's gaze on the way.

*****

I raced off to lunch, quickly grabbing what looked like disgustingly greasy piece of pizza from the cafeteria. But I was starving so I could've eaten anything at the moment. I sat down at a table with Embry and Jared, who both greeted me with grunts before going back to their food. They didn't really interact with me until I tried to wave down Quil.

"You can't do that." Jared said. I glared at him

"Why the hell not?" Embry sighed next to me.

"It's for his own safety, if a human is around us when we loose control we could kill them accidentally. We heal quickly so if we hit one of our own they'll be fine, but humans are just so fragile."

I looked up at Quil as he passed, he looked at me with a pained expression, like I had betrayed him, which I guess I had. He pulled up a seat at a table with Seth Clearwater, they both glanced over at me worriedly before breaking in to a heated conversation.

*****

I was running late at the end of the day, Bella would kill me if I made her late for making dinner again. I slammed my locker shut, before running out into the parking lot.

Damn, I couldn't see Bella's truck anywhere; well she always said she would leave without me if I kept her late. I guess she finally went through with that threat, well maybe I could ask Charlie to drive me back home later. I started walking out of the parking lot, when I felt someone yank my arm pulling me backwards to face my attackers.

"Where do you think you're going, Jakey?" Mike's annoying as hell voice asked.

"To Bella's house, Newton." I hissed with venom trying to pull my arm out of his grasp but to no avail.

He, Tyler, and Eric laughed. "Bella Swan, is she going to protect you from us big scary juniors?"

I felt my face redden, I hated being helpless, but I always had being small for my age. I felt my hand begin to shake, oh crap, I needed to calm down, or I was going to kill these guys. I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to pull away again.

"Cold Jakey?" He asked noting my now shaking arms.

"….No…" I managed to growl out through my clenched teeth. Mike shoved me to the ground, and I felt the bottom of my hands scrape across the asphalt drawing blood. I hissed but didn't otherwise acknowledge it, I tried to stand up but Tyler shoved his foot on my chest holding me down. I struggled for a minute but it was no use, this guy may look skinny but he weighed a ton.

"What do you think about giving him a lesson about showing respect to his elders, guys?" Eric asked kicking me in the side. Pain shot through my ribcage.

"Sounds good." Mike grinned. His fist was raised to hit me in the face when, someone let out a animalistic growl.

The three on top of me froze, when they saw who it was. I pushed the foot off of me and stumbled to a standing position. I felt a warm arm wrap around my waist and help me stand; I glanced up and saw a furious Sam glaring at Mike, Tyler, and Eric.

"What the hell do you think you were doing?" He hissed at them. The three looked scared, as they might be, Sam was close to seven feet tall, and all muscle. He looked…….hot. I felt my face go crimson at this realization.

Mike seemed to shake off his fear of Sam, pretty quickly, which probably wasn't the smartest idea. But I already said this guy was dumb.

"Beating up this little," he looked at us and noticed Sam had shoved me behind in in a protective stance, "fag here, and I'm going to ask politely for you to hand him over." He grinned like an idiot probably thinking that he and his back up would scare Sam.

Another deep growl reverberated out of Sam's chest, which seemed to throw off Mike a bit. "What…..what did you call him?" I noticed him begin to shake, and I know he was having a hard time keeping under control. He walked up until he was mere inches away from Mike.

"A fag…" Mike said nervously. And then Mike was flying, like ten feet high grabbing air time flying before he hit the school with a painful thud. I looked over at Sam who still had his fist out from hitting Mike in the stomach with all of his force. Eric and Tyler both screamed before running off to a car which they jumped in to before careening passed us out on to the street.

Sam was still shaking, as I slowly place my hand on his arm, he let out a bit of tension, and looked at me his eyes full of concern. He began looking me over, grabbing my arms and inspecting them carefully. "Are you okay? Did they hurt you? Do you want to see a doctor?"

I laughed. "I'm fine Sam, already healing." I held my bloody hands up to show him the cuts quickly healing closed. He breathed a sigh of relief, before pulling me tightly against him; I froze for a moment before doing what felt natural and wrapped my arms around him and hugged him back. "I'm fine Sam, I'm fine." I repeated it like a mantra and it seemed to calm him. And after a few minutes like that he stopped shaking altogether.

"I was so...so worried, when I saw those guys….those assholes, kicking you, and hitting you….I nearly killed them Jake. From now on I'm taking you back and forth from school, I like Bella and all but I don't trust her when it comes to my imprint." He smiled at me when he said imprint, and I gave a tentative smile in return.

"Come on I have my car her anyways because I was going to give you a ride in the first place. Bella called Billy and said that her mom was calling tonight and she needed to go home to get the call in time. Billy called me, but I guess I didn't get here soon enough." He grimaced.

"It's ok Sam it happens all the time I can take care of myself by now." I tried to laugh it off but I noticed that Sam was shaking worse then before.

He looked at me through narrowed eyes as his whole body shook violently every few seconds. "What do you mean by it happens all the time?"

I took a step back letting my arms drop from Sam. "They've being doing stuff like this since I was a freshmen…" I mumbled looking at my shoes. I squeezed my eyes shut trying to hold back the tears from remembering all the physical and mental abuse they put me through. It had been much worse before Bella had brought her leech boyfriend in to have a talk with them. They left me alone while he was around, because him and Bella kept a close eye on me at all times. When you think about it, it's kind of sad that a leech was like the big brother I never had.

A loud ripping sound brought me out of my thoughts, and instead of facing Sam, I was facing his huge black wolf form his clothes and shoes lying in tatters around his paws. With a growl he turned to the forest and took off.

What had I done now? I should have just sucked it up and not told Sam about this, now I don't know what he was going to do.

I reached for the feelings of rage and anxiety I had felt yesterday when I changed, and I shifted pretty fast already worked up because of the useless threesome. I gave a quick look around before racing in to the woods after Sam. I couldn't hear his thoughts but I could see images, and believe me they weren't pretty. Most of them were him beating the crap out of Embry and Jared.

Sam what are you doing they didn't do anything? I said desperately quickly catching up to him. What a submissive wolf lacked in strength they made up for in speed.

Sam glanced at me but it only seemed to spur him on more. I could feel his rage coursing through my mind, his protectiveness of me mixed in with it.

We came to the reservation pretty quickly, me still begging Sam to stop and calm down, but it just seemed to fall on deaf ears. He let out a howl and I knew he was calling the pack. In no time at all the other three pack members were standing in front of us.

All three of them were a bit smaller then Sam but much larger then me. I looked at Jared and Embry and whined; Embry's gaze flickered to me momentarily before interpreting Sam's thoughts, he turned his terrified eyes back to his Alpha, tucking his tail between his legs.

Why didn't you protect my imprint? Why did you let him get hurt repeatedly when you guys could have done something? If nothing else why didn't you tell ME! His words came out as shouts in my head, and I lay my ears back flat trying to get the sound to go away.

I'm sorry Sam, we thought it had stopped! Jake told us it had stopped! Ever since the Swan girl sicked her leech on them they cowered in fear whenever someone mentioned Jacob! Embry's wavering thoughts filled my head. Jared sent me a quick glare, showing his annoyance for not telling them the truth.

Apparently Sam thought different.

A horrible snarl filled the air and then Sam was wrestling Jared to the ground, biting and scratching with his teeth and claws. Fur and blood flew up in the air, and I could hear Jared's yelps and barks of pain.

I raced towards them. Sam Stop! Please don't do this!

There was a distinct Snap! And Embry and I winced as Jared let out a howl.

I let a pitiful whine escape my throat and that seemed to get through to Sam's protective instincts. He raced over to me, sniffing me all over, and nuzzling me softly. Jake what is it? Are you ok?

Sam what the hell were you doing! I ignored his words of worry and glared at him. He seemed to cringe away from the look, thoughts of regret flitted through his head

I saw him look at you that way and I was worried he was going to hurt you. I'm a dominant I'm supposed to protect you but I just seem to be failing at it. He whined, and I admit it I completely caved. When did I become such a sap?

I gave him a quick lick on the nose. Just don't do it again! I replied. He wagged his tail happily as I turned to check on Jared.

As I did he was pulling himself to his feet. He seemed to be healing and no serious damage was done, well that I could see. Are you ok? I asked when I was closer.

Yeah, Paul's done worse don't worry. He shrugged it off. I heard Paul's chuckle in my head and I sent him a glare. The grey wolf just seemed to smirk before walking off.

You sure?

Yeah Jake, better go, Sam's not really happy with you being around me right now. There was a growl from behind me and I whipped around to face Sam. He walked up and pushed my tinier frame behind his larger one, in a very protective stance.

Go! NOW! He growled at Jared, who quickly limped away with Embry at his side.

Sam I thought I told you-

I didn't lay a paw on him, I'm still mad and him and Embry for letting those guys hurt you. Pack mates are not only supposed to protect everyone else's imprints but they're always supposed to protect the submissive wolf.

Why? I asked dropping myself down onto the ground in front of him, I guess the lack of sleep was catching up with me.

Because not only are you not designed to fight your average leech, but you're smaller in human form and can be attacked more easily.

I can take care of myself Sam. I growled.

I know Jake, but it's in my nature to worry about you. He began nuzzling me affectionately again, and I just seemed to melt in to it. Sam soon lay down next to me, curling around me protectively, and I sighed drifting off to sleep.