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Chapter 4

Jake sighed as they pulled into the house, his eyes flicking back to Bella, "I can't believe they both fell asleep as soon as we hit the 101."

Shoving the door open and unrolling from the car, they looked at each other and then at the girls, "You think we can get them out of there without waking them up?" Embry said as he tried to work out in his mind just how he was going to pull Angela from the back of the car.

"We can try."

Holding Bella in his arms Jake, slowly started to make his way to the front door as Embry began pulling Angela from the car behind him a vicious growl erupted from the woods. Jerking back a little quicker than he meant to, he jostled Angela enough that she shifted in his gasped and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Put her the fuck down Call. She's mine." Paul seethed as he strode out of the woods.

"Paul," Jake and Embry both stated in unison.

"I said, put her the fuck down," he grit out, reaching toward Angela.

"She's sleeping; I'm not putting her down."

"Get your hands off her right fucking now."

Embry could feel his body start to shake out of anger, it wasn't hard to notice Angela's body shifting with each word Paul spoke. "Would you shut up Paul? You're going to wake her up."

Paul's didn't stop until his bare chest bumped into Embry's with Paul's eyes locked on his own and Paul's ragged breathing Embry stiffened waiting for a fight he hoped wouldn't happen.

Paul bared his teeth, "Give her to me Call, get your fucking hands off her," he snarled once again. This time Angela stirred in Embry's arms, her eyes opening slowly, "Embry-" Her voice was barely above a whisper and full of questions, but cut off when Paul snarled again, jerking her attention in the direction of the noise.

"Paul is that-"

"Last chance Call, right fucking now."

Angela was trying to wiggle her way away from Embry, and toward Paul, her heart doubled in pace when she saw the look in Paul's eyes. Embry's grip on her tightened as Paul rocked forward, his weight pushing into her further into Embry's chest.

Snapping his teeth at Embry, Paul's hand shot out and wrapped around Angela's back while shoving Embry's shoulder, as Embry rocked back Angela's body leaned toward Paul's and before she knew it she was wrapped in his arms. He was still standing almost nose-to-nose with Embry though and his body was shaking.

"Touch her again Call," with another snap of his teeth and a warning that was still ringing in her ears, Paul slowly began to back away. Angela couldn't believe what was happening. She really wasn't sure what it was and as she looked around the yard, she could see Jake's face marred with anger and fear as he stood in front of a wide-eyed Bella who was clinging to his bicep.

Paul was still backing his way through the yard and away from Embry when she heard a rustle in the trees. As Angela's eyes focused on the spot a gasp escaped her mouth, the man from before the one that hauled Paul around like a rag doll was walking out of the woods barefoot, shirtless and pulling up a pair of ratty cut off sweat pants.

"Paul, put her down." Angela shuttered at the rumbling bass in his voice. Paul's grip on her grew tighter, almost painful and his body began to quake.

"Paul, NOW!"

Paul began to fall. Squealing, Angela's eyes slammed shut and her arms latched around his neck awaiting impact. When nothing happened she peeled her eyes open and realized that while Paul was on his knees she was upright, and her fingernails were digging into the back of his neck. His eyes shot to hers and she gasped at the wildness in them.

"You need to step away from him," the voice said from above.

When Angela looked up she gripped Paul even harder, feeling bad that her fingernails were lodged into his neck, but the man above her was stood above them arms crossed and deadly serious.

Angela felt a pang of hurt when her feet dropped to the ground as Paul's grip on her disappeared. Sam was watching her closely; his head raised tracking her movement as she stood.

"Bella, get her and take her in the house." Sam's booming voice made Angela flinch and she could see one of Paul's fists curl at his side.

As Bella's hand wrapped around her forearm Angela jumped and noticed that Paul's lips went into a straight line. The rims of his eyes were turning red and she could see a vein jumping in his neck. Feeling a tug at her arm, Angela snapped her eyes to the side only to meet the very worried faces of Bella and Jacob. He was nearly pressed into her back; his own hand was curled around her forearm just as Bella's was hers.

Angela could see Bella's pleading eyes, but her feet were frozen to the ground. With another look at Paul, still on his knees in front of her, she surprised herself when an unintentional whine left her throat at the sight of him. The overwhelming urge to lunge forward and press herself into him had her foot rising to step forward, but just as quickly her body was jerked back and she was off her feet.

A loud roar rang in her ears and then she felt the wind. It was rushing through her hair and cutting through the light jacket that she wore. She was trying to take in her surroundings when her eyes met Bella. A squeak escaped her throat and then her eyes swung to the left. She hadn't realized it before, but Jacob was carrying her bridal style as Bella clung to his back, and they were running through the forest at an alarming rate. They were going so fast that when Angela turned her head to look in front of her the wind snapped her hair back and the cold biting wind made tears prickle at her eyes.

Eventually when the forest thinned out Jake slowed to a steady walk, and then stopped when she could see street lights.

"We're- is that my house?" Angela asked, clearly astonished that Jacob had run holding both her and Bella through the woods from Bella's house to her own. Although Forks was a small town it had to be at least two miles from one place to the other. "What the hell?"

Jake shook ever so slightly and that's when Angela felt a shoe rubbing against her back, tucking her body up she felt when the support of Bella's legs that were barely wrapped around Jake's midsection left, her body seemed to sag just enough for her to let her own legs drop.

When her feet touched the ground she stood. Everything around her swirled and moved, the street lights turned into a blur, her eyes slipped closed and she could feel herself falling backwards and hear Bella's voice in the back of her head yelling out her name.

*U*

"Don't even think about going after her, Paul."

Looking over his shoulder Paul fought the urge to snarl at his Alpha, didn't he get that he needed to be near his imprint.

"What do you think you're doing here anyway? You're supposed to be at home, not camped in Forks stalking girls."

Paul's eyes narrowed and this time a snarl did rip through his chest, "I had to know who she was, Sam. By this time you and Emily were already shacked up, do you remember that?"

Sam inched closer, his shoulders rolling forward. "Don't you even dare."

"What keeps you from your imprint?" Paul bit back.

"Paul," Sam grit out in warning.

"Let me up, Sam."

"You need to get yourself under control, Paul."

"You need to let me go to my imprint."

"Paul."

"Sam."

"Maybe he's right, Sam." Embry cut in eyes darting back and forth between the two of them.

"Paul snarled when his eyes met Embry's. "You might want to shut the fuck up about her, Call."

"I'm trying to help you here."

"I don't need your fucking help, and you'd better keep your damn hands off her."

Embry rolled his eyes and huffed, "Chill dude, Jake told me when we left. I didn't freaking touch her besides getting her out of the car."

"You'd better never touch her again."

"Stop," Sam commanded.

"Embry, go home, you're not helping."

Throwing his hands in the air, Embry shook his head, turned on his heel and darted into the woods.

"I'll let you go to her-"Sam stopped when Paul perked up, "after you patrol the rez."

"What the hell, Sam?"

"Don't push me on this Paul, she has no idea what the hell is going on, you're about to turn on one of your brothers and we need to figure out how we're going to protect an imprint that doesn't live on the rez."

With a jerk of his head Paul waited for Sam's order to lift. The second it did he took off in a dead sprint toward the rez; the sooner his patrol was done the sooner he could get to her.

*U*

"I did the same thing the first time Edward ran with me, he was so fast Jake, I just passed -" her voice cut through the blackness pulling Angela out of the state she was in.

"I think she's waking up, Bells."

Angela felt a cool rag slide across her forehead. Slowly peeling her eyes open, Bella and Jake's faces came into view. She smiled shyly at them before tucking her elbows under her so she could push off of the couch that they had laid her on. Slowly sitting up, Angela groaned and dropped back against it when the world began spinning again. She felt the couch sag a little before she heard her fridge open and then the clinking of a glass.

Bella nudged Angela's arm with the cold glass, "Here drink some of this, take small sips." Bella put a straw at Angela's lips and waited for her to take it into her mouth.

After drinking some water and then, even slower than before, pushing herself into a seated position, Angela had so many questions and she didn't know where to begin.

"Why was Paul so mad?"

Bella shot a look toward Jake and shrugged her shoulders, as her eyes slid from her friend's to Jake's she could tell he knew the answer but was unwilling to answer.

Not taking her eyes off of him, Angela swung her feet over the couch and realized that she was in her living room. "How did I get here so fast?"

Jake shot Bella another look and cleared his throat, "We just needed to make sure that Paul wouldn't-"

At the mention of Paul her eyes widened, Paul had taken her almost forcefully out of Embry's arms while his entire body was shaking. His teeth were bared like a wild animal and the things he had said to Embry, "Oh god is Embry, where is Embry? Is he ok?"

She knew that he wasn't there but she couldn't help but get up and look out the front window in the living room. Jake and Bella quickly following behind her. "Jake is he ok, did you…have you talked him?"

Her eyes were darting between the two; their mouths hung open they were clearly stumped as to what to say to her. Marching over to Jake she snapped her fingers in his face, "What the heck was that!? Paul is he stalking me, where did he come from; why was he doing that, and he said I was… said I was his!"

Jake couldn't help the grimace although he tried hard, but the more worked up Angela got the more her voice cut into his ears like nails on a chalk board. She was clearly freaking out. He couldn't tell her anything though; it truly was a mystery to him. He didn't understand it any more than any of them had.

"Do you know him at all, Angela? Why do you think he's stalking you?"

"No!" Her voice once again taking on an octave that had Jake's skin crawling, "I don't know him, but I've seen him, and why does he call me Tom? Bella, what's going on?"

"Ugh, just a sec." Jake said to Angela as he grabbed Bella's hand and quickly led her into the kitchen.

*U*

"Jake, you're scaring me. What's going on?"

"Honey, I don't know if I'm supposed to tell you this but-" Jake's words cut off as he heard a low howl, he knew Paul was coming.

With a slight squeeze to her shoulders, Jake leant forward and dropped a kiss to her temple before backing away, "I'll just be right back ok, honey? Don't let her get too worked up it's probably not going to do either of them any good right now."

"Do either of who-"

Jake had bolted out of the back door before Bella could finish her sentence. What was that all about, and just what was Jake keeping from her?

*U*

Stripping as soon as the back door closed Jake tried to prepare himself for the state Paul would be in once he got to the house. As soon as all four paws hit the dirt he shook himself out, quickly acclimating to being the wolf.

He stopped his shaking when he heard Paul threatening to kill Embry and then Embry's vision collided with Jake's. He was running somewhere unfamiliar and he was lucky from what he got form Paul that he was the fastest of the pack. Paul was running through everything in an attempt to catch up with Embry, but the gray wolf was outrunning the silver one, not by much, which was a shock.

Jake shook his head trying to work out the images along with the screaming words that were streaming through his head. Embry wanted to know where the hell Sam was which made Jake wonder too.

Sam, Jacob yelled out wondering where his Alpha was.

Jake stood waiting for any sign that Sam was there, but when nothing happened he focused back on Paul and Embry. Paul was snapping at Embry, nearly catching his tail the last time. Embry howled out and ducked under a particularly thick patch of shrubbery. He didn't want to do it, Jake knew that he shouldn't, but with every flash of red hot anger and then a flash of that pale leg Jake knew something had to be done before Paul actually got a hold of Embry. It was saying something that Paul had actually caught up with him; he had never been nearly as close to running as fast as Embry was.

Paul, Jake felt a tingle of power slither across his spine when he lowered his voice much like Sam did when he was giving an Alpha command. Paul didn't stop snapping or trying to get at Embry, but Jake could feel that his focus wasn't solely on Embry any longer.

There's something wrong, Jake could almost feel every muscle in Paul's wolf form seize up as his body skidded to a halt watching as Embry's form slowly disappeared into the trees. It wasn't long after that the two were alone, Embry having phased out.

There's something wrong, Jake's words rung through Paul's mind slamming him to a halt. Something was wrong with his imprint. As the thought left his mind he just barely heard a curse come from Jake's mouth before he was turning himself around and crashing back through the woods toward Forks, Embry long forgotten.

Where did you take her Jake? Paul snarled when Jake didn't answer fast enough.

She's at her house.

Paul felt some of the tension leave his body as he shifted his body in that direction, I'm coming.

I can't believe Bella knows Tom.

Paul blocked Jake out as he pushed his legs as fast as they would go; he needed to get to her, hold her in his arms without Sam breathing down his neck, and without that little fuck Embry touching her.

He didn't touch her Paul. Jake snarled showing Paul clips of the night.

Fuck off, Black, Paul snarled back and shot Jake view of Embry pulling Angela from the car. She was HIS imprint and no one got to touch her. As he ran a thought raced through his mind and he almost lost his footing on a set of jagged rocks.

That better have been all the touching he did tonight, Black

Paul- Jake started but stopped when Bella's voice flowed through the mind link.

"She's really freaking out Jake, I can't calm her down."

Shit, Paul cursed while pushing his legs faster, tell Bella I'm coming, tell her I'm coming, Jake.

Paul, she's been asking about Embry

Paul could hear the caution in Jake's voice as he said the words only angering him further, Fuck Call, she's mine.

Might be, but if you come busting in here raging she's not really going to respond to that. She's pretty shaken up, Paul. A snarl was the only response he got from Paul before he phased and told Bella that someone was coming to fix it.