JPOV

I woke up late. Really late, when I had falling asleep it couldn't have being four o'clock now it looked to be well passed midnight. I shook off the remaining sleep from my brain and leapt quickly to my paws. It was pitch black out, but I blinked a couple times and I guess being a wolf I could see in the dark because suddenly the world became as clear as day. I glanced down at Sam, he was still deeply asleep and I didn't want to wake him, he looked so cute like this.

I did not just use the word cute to describe another guy! What is wrong with me?

I gave Sam one last longing look, before turning and racing off in to the dark woods. I felt kind of scared running around alone this late at night, but I just shrugged the feeling off and followed my scent home.

It was when I got home that things got a little weird.

Have you ever had that feeling when you know someone is watching you, and you turn around and it turns out to be your friend or something? Well I got that feeling, minus the friend, or anyone for that matter. I looked around after I phased but didn't see anything.

"Hello! Is anyone out there?" I called scrunching up my eyes trying to see through the trees, now that I was human again.

No reply. It was probably just my inner wolf anyways, probably a raccoon or something. I laughed it off as I walked up in to my house making a bee line for my bedroom. I could hear my dad's soft snores from down the hall, and I breathed out a sigh of relief knowing that he wasn't waiting for me, wouldn't want to explain where I was. Dad would probably check me in to a mental institution when I told him I and a bunch of other guys were running around as wolves.

As I pulled on my old pj pants and crawled into bed, a strange smell seemed to be in the air as I drifted off to sleep, it was so sweet that my nose burned.

***

I woke up to the sound of someone banging loudly against our front door, and I shot up in bed. I scrambled out of my room and got down the hall just as my dad pulled open the thin, old door. In the door frame stood a glowering Sam. He was shaking all over and looked barely capable of human speech. A low growl escaped his throat at the sight of Billy, and he stomped his way in to the house. Wow, guess I was right.

"Where is he?" He yelled at my dad. "What did you do with my imprint?" He was sniffing the air and his eyes finally landed on me.

He shoved passed my dad nearly knocking my dad's wheelchair over in the process. Suddenly I found myself crushed against Sam's chest, he was checking me all over, looking at me and sniffing every once in a while.

"Jacob, what did you do?" My dad asked quietly. He froze when Sam growled again, but it was slightly more quiet this time.

"Nothing I just…I don't know we fell asleep, and then I woke up….and then I came back here…'cause he was still asleep…"

"Wait! You left your dominant without telling him? Jake didn't you learn about this is any of the old legend I taught you?" He sighed before continuing "A dominant shifter is very, very protective of their mate. They want to know where they are at all times especially if there are vampires around, you just walking off like that looks to Sam as if someone had taken you from him!"

"What? I didn't mean to, I just thought- Hey wait! Dad, what did you just say?"

He sat up straighter in his chair and puffed up his chest. "I'm an elder Jake, I know a lot more then you would think." He smiled at me before nodding his head at Sam.

I looked up at Sam who was now cooing at me softly, acting as if to calm me down. It was actually kind of relaxing, I felt my eyes droop and I was leaning further in to his embrace. He was so warm and strong, and I felt my inner wolf telling me I had nothing to worry about now that Sam was here to protect me. I was just about to doze off when…

"Sam! Jacob is fine and I need to talk to him, so could you try to keep him awake?" Abruptly the cooing stopped and I was startled in to reality. I was held tightly in Sam's arms my head leaning against his chest and my arms loosely gripping his shoulders.

I blushed a deep scarlet and quickly pulled away wrapping my arms around my still naked torso.

Sam seemed to physically sadden when I let go, but he quickly covered it when I looked up at him.

I felt guilt crawling through my brain. What was I doing to my imprint?

***

Next morning as I stepped out my front door, instead of Bella's noisy old truck was Sam's slightly quieter car. It was a deep red probably dating someone where from the early nineties, not the best around but definitely not the worst. Scratch that in Forks you didn't come by much better cars then this one, except for the Cullens.

I pulled open the passenger's side door and buckled myself in before looking at Sam. "Hey, long time no see." I mumbled before looking ahead at the road as we started moving.

"Too long." It was barely above a whisper and I almost thought I hadn't heard it.

I didn't answer, not sure if Sam even wanted me to anyways. I was so confused, I'd never liked to be close to anyone, and they always left one way or another. Just like mom, just like my sisters.

I felt my eyes start to sting with tears at the thought of my mom, I squeezed my eyes shut, I wouldn't cry in front of Sam, I may be a submissive but I wasn't a girl. I took a deep breath, exhaling slowly, calming myself down enough to open up my eyes and wipe away the few stray tears that were there.

"Are you alright Jacob?" Sam asked brushing his hand against mine.

I remembered my last train of thought and yanked my hand away. He audibly whined, though quietly but we still both heard it.

"I'm fine." I said gruffly not looking at him for the rest of the drive. I didn't want him to see the tears in my eyes.

***

When Sam dropped me off at school, my life was oddly calm. No Mike, Eric or Tyler to harass me, no Bella trying to mother me, and no Embry trying to talk to me about anything and everything ever.

I reveled in the unusual silence as I walked in to my homeroom. I was in junior biology this year because the year before my teacher had decided that I was showing promise so I got bumped up. As I quietly walked in to class and sat down next to Jared, who was a junior, I noticed a smell in the air that seemed to burn my nose. I scrunched up my face, and glanced over at Jared. He wore the same expression and when he noticed me looking at him he nodded his head over to the table a couple rows over.

There sat Alice Cullen, one of them. She was swinging her legs innocently back and forth as the stool was far too big for her. She must have noticed us staring because she waved before pulling out her note book and a pen and started jotting down notes.

I looked at Jared curiously, wondering what we did now. He didn't respond but I could see his hands shaking as he pulled out his phone and started texting someone furiously. I just shrugged and tried to ignore the smell as I listened to the teacher start to explain today's lesson.

It was twenty minutes later when Embry came to the door with a note from the office.

"Excuse me Mr. Banner Jared and Jacob have to leave now?" He said handing the teacher the note.

"And why would this be?" Mr. Banner asked skeptically.

"The elders want to speak to us on the reservation." He replied before quickly walking out of the classroom, me and Jared following quickly behind him.

When we got outside Sam, who apparently had just gotten there, ran up to me and dragged me in to his arms. "Leeches! You're not going back there! Not with them around." He growled before pulling me in to the woods, Embry, Jared, and Paul followed quickly behind us.

"Sam I still have to go to school, and they didn't do anything before I phased they probably won't do anything now!" I was slightly annoyed at Sam for overreacting like this because not only had they not done anything but the Cullen's had been nice to me before they left. Most of them stood up for me against Mike, Tyler, and Eric not only Edward, and they all went out of their way to be nice to me, even if it was only for Bella. I wasn't going to hold a grudge against them for no reason.

Sam snarled roughly dragged his hand through his hair. "Jacob you've got to understand, I hate vampires already, but I can't let you be around them. You're my submissive and as a submissive the pack isn't supposed to let you be within a mile range of normal vampires. It's against our instincts, they tell us that a normal vampire can rip a submissive to pieces, and we can't risk our pack mate." Paul, Embry and Jared all nodded behind him.

I felt my hands shake, I had taken this all my life. I was the baby of the family so I was always babied, I was bullied at school so everyone had to always protect me, and now I had to be the weakest in the pack and I wasn't allowed to do anything!

"Calm down, Jake!" I heard Sam say coming up to me.

"No, my whole life everyone has always treated me like I'm helpless, I don't need to depend on people, I don't want to!" I yelled. I could feel myself loosing it.

I looked at Sam through blurry eyes, before quickly covering my face with my hands. I was so angry, I couldn't even fight the tears that threatened to spill.

I could hear Sam shooing the other three away quickly before he turned back to me.

"Jake, why don't you want to depend on people, what's wrong with letting people take care of you, letting people care about you? Why can't you trust me?" He asked gently grabbing my shoulders, concern lacing his every word.

"Because if I do you'll just leave me!" I cried, finally letting the tears fall. Sam gently wrapped his arms around me as I sobbed clutching desperately to him. He was shushing me rocking me back and forth as I cried. I had been holding this in since mom died, I wouldn't cry when she passed because I wanted to be brave, and I didn't cry when Rebecca and Rachel left without even a good bye because I wanted to pretend it didn't hurt. But it had hurt so much, but everyone was always putting on brave faces for me so I wanted to put on a brave face for them

"I won't leave, I promise Jake, and I won't ever leave." He whispered in my ear. I once again had my face pressed in to the warmth of his chest and had my arms wrapped around his waist. He continued to console me and I just cried.

When I finally cried myself out and looked at him he brushed a thumb across my cheek, caressing it softly. I closed my eyes and leaned in to the touch sighing softly

Sam was, always overprotective, but he was also always caring, and I had to admit it I loved the way Sam treated me. It was always me first, I'd never put me first in my life, and not really anyone else's. No matter how much I denied it Sam was the perfect thing for me. Maybe I could finally be happy.

"Jacob I know you probably don't want to but we need to go talk with the pack now." Sam whispered softly to me, pulling back to look me in the eye.

"Its ok, I'm good now." I replied wiping the tear tracks from my face.

"I'm going to phase and call the pack, but I'll turn right back." He said glancing at me worriedly. I nodded, and then in the next second he was in his wolf form, he reared his head and let out a long low howl. It wasn't long before the pack came running all of them looking curiously at me.

Sam was once again human with his arms wrapped around my mid section holding me against him. Embry, Paul, and Jared were phasing when a hand covered my eyes.

"Sam what are you doing?" I asked trying to pull his hand off of my face.

"They're naked; I don't want you to see that!" He said, and after a couple minutes he uncovered my eyes.

"Sam I've seen other guys naked, I am a guy I think I can deal with seeing it!" I grumbled angrily.

The other three snickered, while Sam just continued. "I'm your dominant so I'm the only dominant your going to see naked." He whispered huskily at me and I felt my face go deep shade of red.

SPOV

I held my imprint tightly in my arms, pressing him against me. I was so happy to have him here with me finally; I had waited for years to have him. And I knew I would have waited years more for him too. He was the kindest, sweetest, most beautiful person I knew, though my opinion might be biased, he meant then world to me.

I pressed my face in to his hair, inhaling the smell that was all him, pine, earth and just a hint of vanilla, as Jared and Embry described to me their sightings of the leeches.

When Jared texted me I almost phased and tore up the whole school to get to Jacob, but I knew I had to stay calm. I couldn't risk a fight around my imprint, it was too dangerous, he could be hurt if a fight got to violent. I had to keep him away from them, I don't care if they say they're vegetarians, one of them might slip up, and I don't want Jacob there when it happens.

Jake looked up at me and his russet skin took a pinkish tinge around his cheeks, he raked a hand through his dark hair as he quickly looked down at his feet again. I couldn't get over the fact of how cute he was, blushing constantly and being completely innocent. I switched my train of thought quickly because I could already feel myself getting hard, at the thought of my little submissive.

I looked back up as Embry exclaimed for loudly then before, and I saw Paul staring again.

He was looking at Jacob, My Jacob, with lustful eyes. We all knew he had wanted Jacob even when he knew Jake was my imprint, he thought about him way more then I liked. And I admit I had beaten the crap out of him on multiple occasions when his thoughts passed the PG line, but I didn't care because Paul didn't really understand the meaning of the word 'no'.

I growled at him, and he instantly jumped back a bit and gave me an innocent look.

Jared just rolled his eyes, while Embry glared at Paul.

"What's wrong Sam?" Jacob asked pressing himself against me and looking around for any sign of a threat.

I glanced back at Paul who was doing all he could to look like he was paying complete attention to Embry talk.

"Nothing Jake, its nothing."

A/N Ok so I know this took a while to get out but I have been trapped in the land of no wireless internet so no way to publish this story from my lap top : ( I decided to throw in the Sam POV because well I wanted to shake it up a bit. But this chapter took three rewritings to do, and in every one Jacob ended up crying some where, so I decided whatever and just went with it. And don't worry he's not going to be like this the entire story (I just wanted to have a caring protective Sam somewhere I admit it).

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