JPOV

I hit the ground painfully, and I yelped as I felt my left shoulder pop out of place causing it to lie at an odd angle. Above me stood Paul, his body stood protectively over mine, as he growled threateningly at Quil. Paul I guess had tackled me out of the way because a few feet away from us where I had stood Quil, standing with his claws dug in to the ground where I had stood only moments before. Did Paul actually just save my life? Weird….

Quil darted towards us but Paul lashed forward and bit in to the side of his neck drawing blood. Quil jumped back in pain, whimpering quietly before breaking out in to a fit of barking and snapping in my general direction.

Move Paul, I'm more dominant and I'm going to take that little submissive down to prove it. Quil's voice was animalistic, and I figured that had to be more of the wolf talking then him.

You come at him again and I'll rip you a new one Ateara! Paul snarled back.

Quil growled then lunged at us again, I squeezed my eyes shut, getting prepared to be crushed by two giant wolves when Sam a roaring black blur brought both him and Quil to the ground. There was a couple ominous snaps as Sam threw all his weight on to Quil's side, and Quil let out a howl of pain. He turned his head to bite Sam, but Sam had already jumped to his feet and was grabbing Quil by the scruff of the neck tossing him around like a rag doll.

After a few more minutes of Sam roughing him up, Quil eventually lay on the ground motionless, the odd whine of pain the only sign that he was conscious. Sam lent down until his muzzle was a couple of inches away from Quil's.

If you ever even lay a pawon my submissive again, I will kill youAteara! Mark my words I will kill you. Now go! Your grandfather can tell you everything; if I have to look at you any longer I might kill you now.

Quil nodded his large wolfish head quickly before wincing as he stood up and stumbled to his grandfather who was standing outside his house. He after a few minutes phased back and stumbled inside, his grandfather looked back and glared at me and Sam before following Quil in, slamming the door behind him.

I still couldn't stand up properly because of my shoulder, so I just lay there nervously Paul still standing over me, watching as Sam approached.

Paul, thank you for protecting Jacob, but I must ask you to move now. His voice was strained and we could all see the thoughts in his head of attacking Paul violently if he didn't move soon. Embry and Seth stood a ways off, Embry standing with himself in front of Seth in a protective stance, eyeing Sam and Paul warily.

Sam glared at Paul, but he just stood his ground. He kept his thoughts shadowed, not revealing his intentions. Well that probably was not a good sign.

I tried to crawl out towards Sam, but Paul maneuvered his body in front of mine, he looked down at me, with possessive eyes. No! Don't move. I'm not done with you yet.

I flinched away my ears lying flat on my head in fear.

Sam snarled stepping forward until he and Paul were nose to nose. Move! Before I make you, he's mine!

Paul gave off a wolfish chuckle. He's not your yet Sam, you haven't laid your claim yet so he's still free for the taking. Suddenly his thoughts flashed into our minds.

Him slamming in to me, over and over, me begging for more…

I snarled and whipped around lashing out with one of my good paws raking my claws across his side. He yelped in surprise and anger and whipped around to face me, but I just shot my paw towards him again, and he had to jump back to protect his face.

Get the hell away from me! I want nothing to do with you, and I would never do…do…THAT, with YOU! I shouted in my head, as I stood up and stumbled over to Sam.

Why you little bitch! He sneered. He shook his head trying to calm himself. You're going to be mine Jacob, mark my words you are going to be mine.

And then just like that he trotted off in to the woods without a backwards glance.

When I was sure he wasn't coming back, I finally phased back, and just lay there sobbing. I was in pain from my arm which even as a human stuck out at a weird angle, but also out of fear. I knew Paul was going to come after me eventually, with whatever sick twisted ideas he had about me, because he was too delusional to see that it would never happen, well willingly.

I felt a warm hand lift up my upper body and another grab my arm. "This is going to hurt, I'm sorry." Sam whispered in my ear before twisting my arm back in to place.

I let out a strangled cry, before just falling limply back in to his chest. After a minute of sitting there numbly I reached up with both hands and rubbed my eyes stressfully. "Can we…can we just go home Sam?" I asked hoarsely, afraid of breaking the sudden silence that had fallen over Quil's backyard.

"Of course, Jake." He said helping me to my feet, and without even looking at him I knew he was glancing at me worriedly.

His arm slipped protectively around my shoulders as we walked away from Quil's house and down the road to mine, where the lights were still on so I assumed Billy was still awake. I sighed heavily, I really just wanted to go to sleep and forget about today completely, or at least temporarily.

"Sam?"

"Yeah?"

"Paul…he-he can't really do anything right? I don't want it so he can't right?" My voice grew more desperate as I felt Sam tense up next to me.

He was silent for a long time after that and for a while I thought he just wasn't going to answer. "Jake, with a claim it's not always between imprints, sometimes it was a way of demeaning a pack member, because with claims you basically own the other person, and therefore it's not always…consensual." His voice dropped on the last word, and I felt myself stop walking. I tried to think clearly but it felt like my brain had just shut down.

"So he could just…he could…he wants to...Oh god! Sam he's going to rape me! You can't let him rape me!" I screamed hysterically clutching at him desperately.

He put a hand on either side of my face and leaned down to look me in the eye. "Jacob calm down, I will never let him get you. I will never let him hurt you, and he will claim you over my dead body. You've got to trust me Jake." He whispered before pressing his lips softly against mine.

I slowly calmed down, eventually kissing him back and wrapping my arms around him we finally broke apart when we needed to breathe.

"But, isn't there some way to just make him not do it, I mean will he ever stop trying to claim me?" I asked softly leaning in to Sam's embrace.

"Only when I claim you Jake, when I claim you he can't because you'll be mine." His breath ghosted over my face as he talked, and I had to fight the pull to kiss him again.

"Oh." I mumbled stupidly, taking a step back. "I…I…I'm not ready yet…I'm sorry." I said hanging my head, when I saw the look of rejection flash across his face.

He just grabbed my chin and titled my face up to look in to his eyes. "Don't be sorry Jake. I won't ever pressure you in to anything you don't want. If you ever don't want to have sex I will take a vow of celibacy right along with you and I would never be upset about it, because if it would make you happy it would make me happy." And he pressed a chaste kiss to my forehead, as I felt a smile spread across my face.

"I love you." I said.

"I love you too." He whispered before stealing a kiss from me again.

When we entered my house, Billy flicked off whatever sports game he was watching and held up today's newspaper in front of us.

"Can you two please explain this?" He asked turning his wheel chair to look at us. The large picture on the front page that he was holding was of….us. Well me Sam, Embry, and Seth, it looked like the night that Seth had phased. Sam and I were further in the background closely pressed together while Embry and Seth were staring at each other intently. And we we're all in wolf form….fuck!

"What!" I exclaimed grabbing the paper.

New wolf species discovered in Forks

The Forks, Washington wolf, or 'Olympic Wolf' had only been myth until recent photos from the La Push reservation were sent in. Leah Clearwater was sitting in her house last Friday night when looking out the window she spotted the wolves quickly snapping a photo with her phone.

"I had been looking for my brother who had left a while earlier and they were just there!"

Scientists have been studying the picture in great detail it appears that the largest wolf is seven feet tall at the shoulder, but the smallest one is only 4 feet. All four appear to be male and are probably part of the same pack, what is strange though is that the large black one and small brown one in the background exhibit a mate like stance….Article continues on page A3

I continued to stare at the paper in disbelief.

"How could you boys be so reckless? You can't be seen like this we don't want other bloodsuckers knowing about our existence. This could call unwanted attention to you guys, I cannot believe this!" Billy yelled angrily. There was an awkward silence for a minute as my dad glared at us.

"Seth was phasing for the first time, there wasn't much we could do, we were trying to calm him down and I guess we forgot where we were." Sam supplied pulling the paper out of my hand to read the article himself.

Billy just grumbled. "Well don't do it again, this is already too much exposure. I'll go down to Forks tomorrow and talk to Charlie and see if he can keep nosy tourists out of the woods, but just stay on guard for now and avoid any contact with humans."

He wheeled off to his bedroom slamming the door behind him and I turned to Sam. "Come on we should go to bed too, I have school in," I glanced at the clock in the kitchen "six hours."

Ok I know what you're thinking, why is Sam going to bed with me. Well it's not like that! We're not doing anything we just both sleep easier in each other's presence, the whole imprint thing makes you feel depressed when you're away from your other half for long periods of time.

Once I was in bed with him my head tucked under his chin and his arms wrapped around me holding me tightly against him, I asked him the question I had been holding in since Quil's attack.

"Sam, why did….why would Quil try to…kill me like that?" I whispered.

He growled. "Jacob, that was an example of why I didn't want you around newly phased wolves. They're new to this and nervous so their wolf tries to take over, with dominant wolves they're trying to prove who's strongest, and therefore how they should rank in the pack. What Quil was doing was trying to improve his standing in the pack, right now he's the lowest on the totem pole because he's the newest, his wolf knew he wasn't strong enough to take down Embry, but it knew you we're a submissive and weaker than him. Normally he would have probably just gone straight after Seth, but his wolf could smell me on you and knew you we're my mate and that meant you rank higher in the pack-"

"Wait I rank higher in the pack? But I'm the second, no well now the third lowest in the pack, how is that highly ranking?"

His grimace momentarily disappeared as he smiled at me. "You're my mate; an alpha's mate is third highest in authority only after the Alpha himself and his Beta."

"Oh, that's pretty cool." I mumbled.

"Yes and Quil's wolf thought that if it defeated you in a fight then it could prove that it deserved to be ranked third in the pack instead of you. Which is why generally when a dominant wolf phases either me or Jared have to fight it to show it that it can't improve its standing in the pack, well at least not through violence to other pack members."

I nodded. "Ok I get that but then why was I fine with Seth."

"Well the wolves in the submissive shifters know that they are submissive and one, they can't fight one of the dominant wolves and two they don't really feel the urge to prove anything or rank any higher because they don't fight anyways. You didn't want to fight me when you first phased did you?"

"Not really, but you're freaking huge I don't really know why anyone would want to fight you…" I rambled off.

He just grinned. "So does that answer your question?"

"Yeah, good night."

"Night, Jake."

And almost instantly after I closed my eyes I was asleep.

It was after school the next day, and Sam and I had decided to let off some steam by just goofing off in our wolf forms. I raced in between trees laughing when he had to come to a sudden stop to get around tight spaces that I slipped through easily. I laughed, well kind of barked because of the whole wolf thing.

Can't catch me! I teased, slipping under a low hanging branch.

I so can! He laughed in reply just running through the same branch snapping it off the tree. I slowed down letting him catch up to me and I turned around and jumped on to him when he got there. He chuckled gently shaking me off and standing over me; he leaned down and licked my whole face thoroughly.

Ew! Sam you're so gross! I thought while shaking out my fur.

He just licked me again before moving to let me get up. Yeah, but you still love me. He replied.

Well yeah I guess. I teased, dancing a few feet away from him.

Suddenly there was a sharp pain in my shoulder, and then I felt the sudden need to sleep, I laid down then everything went black, Sam's panicky voice disappearing from my mind.

CharliePOV

"So how are you two planning on finding these wolves?" I asked the two scientists in the back seat of the jeep. Dr. John Anderson, and Dr. Sue Smith had flown in yesterday after hearing about the wolves, and wanted to find one and do some tests on it.

I of course had been asked to escort them through town and the surrounding wood land to look for these things. A lot of help that would do, even with their size finding one animal in these forests was like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.

"Well were just going to sit and wait really, not much else we can do. We'll change positions every twenty four hours until we find one, then tranquilize it, and possibly bring it back to town to do further testing." John answered as I pulled off the road and in to a gap in the trees, trying to get them as far in to the woods as possible. Luckily they had brought their own all-terrain vehicle or this could have taken days of hiking.

I wasn't exactly pleased with his response; I mean taking some poor animal from its home and family that was just cruel. And what would they plan to do after, just dump it here and hope it finds its way home, or keep it locked in a zoo the rest of its life, either way probably didn't have a good outcome.

After half an hour of snaking in between trees Sue called out. "Here looks good."

I turned off the car and slowly followed them out. We were all decked out in camouflaged clothing, as they had requested, and before we had left the station Sue had sprayed us and the car down with some pheromone that would mask most of our scent.

They were already outside setting up their equipment which included cameras, tranquilizer guns, medical kits, books, notebooks, heat detectors, and a large rifle, just to name a few.

"We'll probably be here for a few hours, so just take a seat and relax Officer Swan." John said flicking a switch on one of their cameras.

I just nodded and hopped back in the car, I decided I was going to take a nap because I knew this would be a late night.

I awoke, maybe an hour or two later because it was still bright outside, to their excited whispering. I silently walked over to where they were and tapped Sue on the shoulder.

"What's going on?" I asked looking at the cameras that had all been pointed at one spot in the distance.

Her face split into a wide grin as she pointed at something in front of her. I squinted my eyes and saw, not two hundred meters away the large black wolf and the smaller brown wolf that had been in the picture in the paper.

They were rolling around playfully the smaller one shaking its head in annoyance when the larger one licked it, before bouncing up and trotting around the larger one again. All I could think was for such large animals they sure did look like a couple of puppies.

I heard a click and looked over to John who had pulled out the tranquilizer gun and was looking through the eye piece and every now and again adjusting the angle of the gun.

"John, don't worry about the both of them, if you shoot one the other one should run off back to the pack." He didn't answer but just pulled the trigger.

The gun went off with a 'bang' and almost instantly the smaller one was teetering dangerously, it slumped onto its stomach before teetering over, and remaining motionless. The large one darted around it nervously nudging it and whining.

"Just give it a second, he'll leave." Sue said confidently grabbing her notebook and walking towards the wolves, and the silence that had fallen minutes ago was broken as she stepped on a twig.

It broke with a loud resounding 'crack'. The black wolf's head turned towards us, and when he saw us I felt my heart freeze in fear. His eyes were filled with an unimaginable fury, as his lips curled back showing teeth the size of my hand, as it let out a growl we could hear clearly from where we stood.

And then it was running towards us and the only words that went through my head we're, Oh shit….

A/N: Hey everybody! So here's another chapter, sorry about the cliffy last chapter and again here…(Please don't kill me if you do I can't continue the story) And of course thank you for all the reviews and favs and alerts they keep me writing :) . And I hope this chapter doesn't suck to much I kinda hate it but yeah whatever :(

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