When I came too, everything felt sore and heavy, I felt too tired to move so I just laid there, blinking trying to get the world to stop spinning. It helped after a bit, and the pain in the back of my skull dulled slightly, that's when I heard a heart breaking whine, I wondered what could make something so sad that it made that sort of noise.
I glanced around finally noticing that I was lying against something huge, black, warm, and….furry. I looked at the wolf that had its body wrapped protectively around mine, as it nuzzled my arm gently.
"Sam, what happened?" My words came out as a hoarse whisper and I cringed as splitting pain shot up the back of my head.
He whined again and turned his head away looking ashamed. Slowly, ow, very slowly I sat up; bracing myself against one of his dark paws to stay upright, and then I reached out my hand and ran it through his fur. And it was surprisingly soft, a silky feel, and I quickly lost myself in just petting his side, I think it was a good thing to because it seemed to relax him.
He dejectedly put his large head in my lap, and it made me look absolutely tiny. I lay my head on top of his huge one, and after a while all the pain went away. I reached up behind my head and all I felt was dried up blood, but I couldn't find a cut anywhere so I guess I just healed quickly again. But when I looked down at my chest I froze there were four long scars going from my shoulder on one side to the bottom of my rib cage on the other.
They seemed to have stopped healing, and I tentatively traced one of the scars with my finger. Sam winced visibly.
"What is it Sam?" I asked reaching out a hand to pat him again, but he just flinched away looking miserable. I felt my heart wrench, what was wrong, what did I do to Sam to make him so miserable? "Sam what did I do? Whatever it is I'm sorry, I'm so sorry please don't leave me!" I begged reaching out for him.
Sam looked taken aback. He shook his head back and forth furiously before nuzzling me. "So you're not mad at me?" I asked. Then why was he acting this way?
Sam paused for a second before phasing back. And when he did I rushed up and wrapped my arms around him, pulling myself as close as I could get to him. "Sam what's wrong you're scaring me." I mumbled pressing my chin against his chest so I could look up at him.
He looked down at me again, and the pain in his eyes made me wince this time. "I hurt you." He whispered. "That's what those scars are, they'll never go away. They're there to remind me what I did to my submissive, to remind me to never do it again."
I felt confused. I didn't remember Sam hurting me, except when I went flying before I blacked out….oh.
"What exactly happened? All I remember was I was high up in the air then black." I reached up with one of my hands and gently ran a thumb across his forehead, trying in vain to rid it of frown lines.
"I was trying to save you…I thought I had gotten you out of the way in time. When I saw that…that leech had touched you, I couldn't control myself" his hands were shaking so I reached out and grabbed them with my own "so I tried to push you out of the way….I was hoping that I wouldn't hit you." He looked at the claw marks on my chest and sighed. "But I guess I didn't get to you soon enough. I must have been starting to phase so I clawed you then lost control of my strength and you hit the house."
I held one of his hands palm up in both of my own, and I kissed it gently. "It was an accident Sam, I don't care, and if you beat yourself up over me I'll feel like crap." I said and he just groaned.
"Don't say that, you're supposed to be mad at me! I hurt you, I'm supposed to protect you and I hurt you! I don't deserve you Jacob; I really should just leave so you're safe." He said trying to gently pull himself from my grasp.
"No! You promised you wouldn't leave and I'm not going to let you, I don't care Sam! It was an accident it happened so what it's over and I don't care the end!" I yelled holding, clutching his arm to me, like some little kid with a toy. "You promised!"
He looked torn, I stood on my tip toes and started planting small kisses along his neck and collar bone, and he shuddered with desire.
He pulled me away from him but sill kept a firm grip on my hands. "I'll stay, it would kill us both for me to leave anyways….and even though I wouldn't mind dying right now I could never let your blood be on my hands again."
I whined and nuzzled my face in to his neck. "Just don't leave, ever." I whispered quickly pressing my lips to his pulse.
He softly smiled at me, gently pulling my head up so he could press his lips to mine. "I love you." He whispered.
"I love you too." I replied before pressing my lips to his again.
***
We broke apart and went inside when we heard a car pull up my drive way, and the sound of Billy talking to someone. "Sam, come inside I don't want you to go yet." I said tugging him towards my back door.
"I will, Jake. But I have to go on patrol soon so I can't stay for long." He brushed his thumb across my cheek lovingly, before following me inside. We wandered in to the living room and Sam sat down on the couch, I tried to sit next to him but he just pulled me in to his lap and snaked is arms around my waist. I smiled and just rested my head on his shoulder as I heard my dad roll in to the house.
"Hey boys." He called wheeling in to the room carrying some groceries past us in to the kitchen.
"Dad, wait a second I'll help you." I jumped up and followed him in to the kitchen; I was reaching down to pull one of the bags off his lap when he grabbed my arm to stop me.
"Jake, what happened to your chest…" He paused staring at the scars on my chest and then suddenly his eyes darkened in anger. "Sam," he spoke slowly as if trying to refrain from yelling "could you come here for a sec?"
He let go of my arm and put the rest of the food on the counter, before turning to face Sam who had come up and wrapped his arms around my waist, in the same position as he had, had in the living room before.
"What is it Billy?"
"Sam…what did you do to my son?" He hissed and I felt Sam tense up behind me. I was amazed I hadn't seen dad this mad since th- well let's just say a while I'm not ready to go there yet.
"Dad it was nothing, don't worry about it." I tried to brush it off, but Billy only seemed to get angrier. I threaded my fingers through Sam's to try to keep him from getting upset with himself again.
"Jacob, it is not nothing he hurt you, if you had been human that could have killed you. Sam we talked about this before he phased, if anything happened to my son, anything at all you would have hell to pay!" Billy yelled. He yelled my calm, cool, collected dad was blowing his lid. This was bad.
"Dad, drop it, I don't care, and I forgave him. End. Of. Story." I growled back, Sam was my imprint no one could threaten my imprint.
"Jacob, he's right you know I did-" Sam spoke softly but I wasn't going to have any of this. I had just gotten Sam to get over this; I didn't need my stupid dad brining it back up.
"Sam, I told you it doesn't matter, it was an accident, I'm fine so there is nothing to wrong." I pleaded looking in to his eyes trying to convey my sincerity to him.
"Sam, I don't care what Jacob says you are going to stay away from my son from now on, you're obviously too dangerous to be around him, if you can't control yourself!"
It was like the wolf in me took over and pushed human me to the back of my mind. All I heard was snarling, and after a second based on my dad's stunned expression I realized it was me. I looked down at my hands which were now shaking in Sam's grasp, but I couldn't get them to stop. All I could think was, Sam is mine, he's mine, mine, mine, mine, and no one could keep him away from me.
"Mine." Was all I growled out before grabbing Sam, and the best I could describe what I did next was attack his face. I pulled his head down so his lips could meet my own, and forced my lips on his with what must have been with enough force to bruise. Sam growled, but not angrily and quickly started taking control of the kiss. I moaned as Sam pushed his tongue in to my mouth and I tangled my hands in his dark hair. After a minute or so I broke off to gasp for air, and Sam leaned his head down to start to gently nip and kiss his way along my neck. I really don't know why my wolf does all these things, but the next was probably the weirdest, I had to crane my neck to reach but then I bit down hard on the junction between Sam's neck and shoulder. He hissed, but when I looked up to meet his eyes, with my lips still attached to his shoulder, I noticed they darkened with lust. I gently sucked on the mark I had made before pulling back to go after his lips again, when there came an audible cough from behind us.
I whipped around, and there was Paul standing next to Billy looking very annoyed. I blushed a dark red at the sight of the audience, and quickly hid behind Sam.
"Ok, Jake I guess I won't separate you two. Didn't need the PDA the snarl kind of did it, but whatever floats your boat." Well at least my dad was back to his old self again, that was fast.
"Thanks Billy" Sam replied sounding much happier then he did before, how did one make out session seem to cheer everyone up, "and what's up Paul?" Oh there was the grumpy Sam again; well I can't blame him I wasn't really happy with Paul being around either.
"Patrol, you're late, so I guessed where you might be." He said, sounding nonchalant.
"I'll be right there." Paul walked out the door, but not before giving me a creepy look. "Love you Jake. Bye Billy." He said before following Paul out the door.
There was an awkward silence between me and Billy for a few minutes before he broke it. "I'm sorry about that Jacob. But you're my baby I can't let anything hurt you, you're all I have left." He said sadly.
"I'm sorry to dad, it was an accident though, Sam was trying to push me out of the way before he phased. He's been beating himself up about it for the past couple of hours. And I don't know what took over me, I just had to show that he's, um….well mine." Dad chuckled.
"I didn't know you would claim him thought that was a bit unexpected."
"Claim?" I asked, I still felt out of the loop on this whole wolf thing sometimes.
"You don't know about that. Oh well then this is going to be interesting. Well you see with wolf imprints the submissive and dominants have to claim each other and it's kind of a way to tell all the other wolves hands off." He looked up at me and I nodded for him to continue. "Submissive mates, leave a bite mark, and like your scars, it stay forever, it can't heal. The dominant mate marks their submissive by mating with them, and generally the submissive claims their dominant right before, right after, or even during the mating process." Ohh wow, I screwed up a bit there didn't I. Not that I didn't want to claim Sam as mine, no because he was mine, but I guess I shouldn't have done something like this so soon.
"And I have to tell you Jacob, Sam is going want to claim you now soon. A submissive claim, is the second most powerful sexual attraction for a dominant, and it will make him extremely possessive of you and will want to keep you away from the other male pack memebers." He stated matter-o-factly.
"Wait! What's the most powerful….sexual…thing?" Because whatever it is I really did not want to do it at the moment.
"Well, when the submissive goes in to heat of course." Heat? What was he talking about? Didn't female animals do that when….crap!
"Ok, I'm just going to guess what heat is, but how do I not do it! I don't think I'm ready for anything sexual right now!" I exclaimed feeling myself panic, but an itsy bitsy teeny part of me really wanted to go find Sam, and let him have his way with me.
"You can't Jake, it happens every spring, so probably sometime in the next month or so. It lasts about a week, usually in nature it is when the female could have pups but since you can't it's just a time where you become really….."
"Horny?" I supplied.
"Yeah that would be it."
"Hey dad I think I'm going to go lie down right now, I think I have a bit of a headache." I walked out of the room before he could respond and dashed in to my room.
I slowly lay down on the bed and slung my arm over my face, as I let out a groan.
What had I done now?
***
Next morning I knew exactly what Billy meant sexually attracted. Sam was constantly touching me whether it was just holding hands or he had me pinned against the wall in one of his many attempts to ravage me. Not that I didn't like any of it, it felt really good actually but, all of it happened in the half an hour he was at my house before he took me to school.
The ride to school was just pure torture because Sam started off by resting his hand on my knee but it was slowly making its way up my thigh, and I really did not want to start off the day with a hard on so I had to slap his hand away, repeatedly.
"Sam, stop it. We're not doing that today and my first time definitely won't be in your car." I said finally exasperated and he gave me a crestfallen look.
"You're a virgin?"
"Yes." I blushed.
He groaned. "That makes me want you more then before. I have a beautiful, innocent, pure, submissive, you're making my life hard Jake."
"Bye Sam." I leant up to just give him a peck on the lips but he wrapped his arms around me, and deepened the kiss. It took me a minute to regain conscious thought, but I was then able to slip out of the car and sneak away.
I followed my normal routine and walked up to Embry, who was exuberantly waving, well like normal. "You claimed him?" He whispered, but it was loud enough that people stopped to look at us.
I glanced around to make sure the people who were staring had walked away. "Yes, but I didn't know what I did until Billy told me later!"
"Yeah but you claimed him!" I just rolled my eyes, and turned around to walk away, when I bumped in to a warm, broad chest, an oddly familiar broad chest.
"Sam what are you doing here?" I asked, but he just glared passed me at Embry.
Embry's eyes grew wide in realization, and then he started backing away from us, holding his hand up in what looked like surrender.
"I wasn't doing anything, I promise Sam he's yours, I don't want to take him…" Embry spoke slowly and had his head tilted back so that his neck was vulnerable.
Sam still growled walking closer to Embry. "Go away." He spoke but his voice sounded different, commanding, and Embry as if he was being pulled by some invisible force waked off, all the while his eyes darted between me and Sam.
"Sam what are you doing here? You still haven't answered me, and why did you chase off Embry like that we were just talking!" I said angrily glaring up at him.
"You're mine, he has to stay away from you until I have laid my claim." He said as a reply before crashing his lips to my own.
We were in the heat of the moment and probably would have done it on the hall way floor if we weren't interrupted, yet again, but this time by someone who I didn't mind so much, so I didn't kill her.
"Jake, is this why you have been avoiding me?" Bella looked annoyed; she had cut right to the chase, and was staring pointedly between me and Sam.
"Well, kind of in a way…." I struggled for an answer sill clutched tightly against Sam, who looked like he was ready to strangle Bella.
"Jacob Black, did you avoid me because you thought I wouldn't accept you being gay?" She yelled, luckily the hall was empty now that everyone had run off to class, and I breathed a sigh of relief, I really couldn't deal with more drama right now.
"Maybe…" I mumbled drawing myself away from Sam and sheepishly looking at my feet. So maybe it was a lie, but it was a white lie, better she think this then get hurt by doing something stupid to a shifter.
And with a brief sigh of annoyance, she threw herself at me, and gave me a tight hug. "Don't be so stupid Jake, I'm your best friend, and I wouldn't care if you liked pigs, you would still be my Jacob." I heard a soft growl from Sam when she said that but I just threw a glare over her shoulder at him. "We don't keep secrets from each other, and you know that!" She jabbed me in the chest to finish her point, I nodded dumbly and she seemed to brighten instantaneously.
"So who's this?" She gestured at Sam.
I blushed but grabbed Sam's hand and clutched it closely to me. "Bella, this is Sam, Sam this is Bella." I gestured between the two, and Bella reached out her hand to shake Sam's free one.
"It's nice to meet you." She smiled pleasantly.
He grunted a reply, and Bella looked upset. "Sorry, Bella he's been a bit grumpy today. He's usually a lot nicer." I supplied elbowing him in the ribs gently.
Bella smiled at him. "Well, Jake I got to go to class, will I see you at lunch?"
"Yeah, sure Bella." I waved as she walked down the hall and out of sight. I turned back to Sam who was grimacing in obvious dislike of the idea of me and Bella hanging out. I knew he wouldn't want me hanging around her, but right now he didn't want me to hang around anyone, and I really didn't want to be a loner for however long it was until Sam claimed me.
"Sam it's either I'm going to hang out with the Pack or with Bella, so make a choice." I told him, letting go of his hand which I knew would make him squirm. For a minute he stood there, looking like he was fighting an internal battle of what he was going to do before finally giving in.
"Fine you can hang out with Bella, but not with the Cullen's, and you can't be around any of the other dominants in the pack when I'm not around fair?"
"Yes." I said before skipping in to his arms and giving him a peck on the corner of his jaw. "Thank you, but I've got to go to; you've already made me late for class. Love you." I called turning in to my class which was just down the hall.
I walked in when Mr. Banner was in the middle of a lecture, he seemed to be trying to ignore me so I just looked for an empty seat. The only one left was next to the leech.
I silently walked up to the seat and sat down beside her.
She gave me a smile, but I just screwed up my face trying to get rid of the smell and looked up to the front of the class trying not to run out of the class as fast as I could.
***
"Hey Jacob, over here!" Bella called across the cafeteria. I glanced over at her and saw she was sitting alone.
I smiled, and made my way over to her. I pulled out the seat next to her and dropped my stuff on the table.
"Hi Bella." I said, as I pulled out my lunch and instantly started digging in. The thing with being a shifter was that I was always hungry.
"So, Jake how long have I been in the dark about you and Sam?" She grinned, at me, and sadly I felt like I had become 'one of the girls', I think being a submissive has stolen a bit of my masculinity.
"Oh, it's just been a couple of days, but I really like him so…" I gestured wildly with my hands, and Bella gave me a knowing smirk.
"I know, it was just like that between me and Edward." She looked at someone lovingly behind me and suddenly the smell of leech invaded my senses.
Edward came up on her other side and kissed her cheek. That just made me shudder, the leech was touching her, lovingly, but it probably wanted to eat her too. I repressed my fear enough to speak rationally to Bella before I ran.
"I've got to go Bella." I said glancing nervously at the leech who was staring at me exactly the same way he had yesterday.
"Jake, don't go, Edward won't do anything I promise." She pleaded grabbing my arm.
"No, Bella I got to go bye." I cried before racing out of the cafeteria away from a saddened Bella, and a very confused looking leech.
A/N: Well hopefully everyone likes this chapter, it wasn't as drama filled as the last chapter. I don't have much else to say….
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