Jacob's POV

I was hoping to spend more time with Jade, but when I heard Embry calling so loudly outside of the house and then seeing him and Seth standing so close to the house, I just knew that there was something big going on. I couldn't just ignore them both when they were calling me, especially with Dan looking for Jade. None of us stayed in our wolf form so close to houses, even our own in case we got caught. That was the last thing I needed my pack getting caught, and yes, as you just read, it's my pack that I run with. I am the Alpha now. Sam gave me the title a few years back, before he went to New Zealand to live. I don't know what ever happen between him and Emily, but neither of them talk about each other anymore. But I can't say that I miss Sam that much. He's still a friend to me, a second father, but now that I am the Alpha, I don't feel like I need him as much… And speaking of which, Sam had gotten caught over and over when she first changed, back when Bella was human, but he was black and looked like a giant black bear, letting him off the hook soon as anyone seen him, but me not so much, I'm russet so I do look like a wolf, just like the others.

Just thinking of Bella and how she used to be human, made me upset. Knowing that she was a vampire and knowing that her human memories of her spending time with me were more than likely disappeared long ago, but I would never forget them. I still loved her, too much to how I should because she's married to the stinking leech that killed her, married her and took her away from me all together. I never wanted to see Edward again, I don't know what would happen if I did see him again. I don't think I would have enough control to stop myself from taking him all together. I couldn't understand how I still loved Bella, when I loved Jade also. I guess it's just another Leah, Emily, Sam, romance. Something I never wanted to get into, but at least Bella didn't love me, it made things a little easier. I wished I knew if Jade cared for me the way I cared for her. With Bella, it had been so easy for me to tell that she also cared for me, before she was a vampire. I just didn't get enough time with her so she would have picked me over that leech. If I just had another month with her before he came back, I could have made her happy, made her safe and kept her human.

I let the heat run down my back of my inner wolf threatening to come out like I was wanting it to. My eyes closed as I felt the change come over me and I looked up to see Seth and Embry in front of me. Seth's sandy coat was dripping wet down his side, like he had been out for hours on end. Embry's dark grey and black coat looked drier than Seth's, but not by much.

'What's going on?' I asked, looking up to Jade's window, glad that she wasn't looking outside now that the rain was easing a little.

'Leah and Paul are tracking Dan and another's scent east of La Push. He seems different from the others Jacob. Stronger,' Embry told him. Jacob looked to Seth while listening to his best friend, seeing that Seth was exhorted. He looked back to Embry swiftly when he heard the last part.

'Volturi?' I questioned.

'Maybe. But I don't think that he would be acting like he is if he was one of them.'

I nodded, looking back to Seth. 'Go home if you're tired Seth.'

He looked up to me, a little surprised that I was letting me off when we did sort of need him. But he was no good to anyone as tired as he looked and was. 'Thanks Jake.'

Both Embry and I watched as he turned his back on us and ran towards his home. I smiled for a second watching him, thinking how respectful Seth was to us for his age of just seventeen. I wasn't even as disciplined as he was at that age, nor was I that respectful or devoted to been a werewolf. Far from it actually…

My ears picked up hearing a crake of thunder in the distance and then I looked up to the sky, seeing another fork of lightning crake through the darkened clouds above us and snaked through past us and towards the mountains of La Push. I looked to Embry shocked to the weather we were getting. I hadn't ever seen a storm like this before.

'It's not a normal storm Jake. It's Dan.' I couldn't believe my ears, my head with his thought echoing through it. I hated telepathy sometimes!

'H-how are we supposed to kill him with a power like that?'

Embry laughed darkly for a second. I growled at him, really not seeing what was so funny. He was starting to get the humour of Paul and I didn't like it.

'Water and our own electricity of course, Leah has figured that all out.'

I rolled my eyes at him. How would she know that would work? And how would that work anyway? I would have thought it would be better if he was dry, but then I thought of how lightning worked with water, running around the body when wet, not through if you were to be dry. I thought a fire effect would have been better, but maybe the electricity would act like fire in the end. It was all too confusing to me, especially when I hated Science in school.

'And if that doesn't work, then what?' I asked, taking off into a run with Embry running at my shoulder.

'Then… we run.'

'I don't run from a fight of any kind Emb, you know that.'

'Yeah that's why you get your butt kicked more than us,' he laughed.

'One time! Thanks to Leah and that leech that we and the Cullen's missed. I wasn't about to just let Leah deal with it and have Seth lose his sister and father within the same year.'

'Well maybe you should start thinking about you're safety for Jade more.'

I stopped dead behind him when I heard his suggestion. I didn't have a clue in the world to how he knew that I cared for Jade. I hadn't ever thought about her as a wolf for him to know, only the once when I and Paul saved her from Dan at the beach. He hadn't even met her yet.

He stopped a hundred meters ahead of me and looked back to see why I had stopped. I tilted my head up to question him. 'How did you know?'

He smiled and looked away. 'Do you seriously don't remember when I found Kat? I was thinking about her without even knowing it Jacob. It's pretty obvious coming from you really…'

'So you're saying I've been thinking about her and I didn't even know?' If my face could have gone red in the face as a wolf, it would have. I hated the pack knowing about people I cared for like Bella and Jade, especially if it ended up like Bella.

'Exactly Jacob,' he half laughed.

I rolled my eyes at him and started running again. I wasn't impressed with myself. I didn't even know how 'not' knowing I was thinking about Jade worked and it really did annoy me when I didn't even know anything about her… okay I knew a lot about her thanks to been a wolf… but I didn't know anything about what she thought about me, apart from how she kissed me, but that could have easily been the pain killing drugs. My eyes squeezed shut tightly for a second, getting frustrated. Stupidly I thought that thinking how she kissed me would make things better and I touched my paw to my lips and tripped over into a tree because I was still running. Mental Note: Wolves can't run on three legs, especially werewolves.

'Gees Jake, you're going to kill yourself before the year is out with this girl.'

I ignored him, getting up and shaking my head, trying to get the daze feeling out of me. I was lucky that I didn't phased back when I hit the tree, which would have caused my shoulder to break from the impact.

'I'll be fine Emb.' I shook my head dizzily, taking off into a run again, making sure that Embry was far behind me, so he wouldn't think that I had hit the tree too badly. The last thing I wanted was him telling the others that the Alpha ran into a tree cause of thinking of a girl. That would sound so stupid! I had to start focusing better while I was on the job, or I would soon end up letting everyone down and I couldn't let that happen. I was the one responsible for La Push, for Forks and for my pack. Sam had left me to be the Alpha and that was what I was going to live up to, wither I liked it or not.

I ran faster again, trying to find Leah and Paul. I saw from the corner of my eye Embry had caught up with me. I was surprised at how quick of a runner he was becoming. I was enjoying the warm wind whipping through my coat and the cool drops of rain falling into my coat as I ran, crossing the treaty line of La Push and deep within my land's forest.

I smiled looking up to the sky peering through the trees, making sure that everything was how it was meant to be as I passed through. Soon enough I and Embry were hearing voices again in our heads. I looked up ahead of the path we were walking on and seen Leah, Paul and Jared all walking along aside of each other, looking rather annoyed. Paul and Leah's silvery and silvery white coat stood out from the greenery around them. Jared almost black-brown coat hid well in the shadows of the trees and grass. It was easier for him and Quil to blend than Paul and Leah, because of the colours of their coats. I and the others found it quiet easy to hide in the forest with the shadows and browns of the bark from the trees and fallen leaves.

'You shouldn't have let him get anywhere near the water Leah!' I heard Paul growl in her direction.

'You said that you had the cliffs covered Paul!'

'Yeah the cliffs Leah not entire the ocean!'

'The ocean is right near the cliffs Paul! Come on!'

I watched Jared shake his head, rather sick of hearing the two of them bickering. It was Paul and Leah's thing to bicker all the time, especially been the two most aggressive in the pack didn't help anything. I could easily see what had happen and I pouted knowing that Dan had once again gotten away from us. He was a slippery one, even for us, a pack of sixteen.

'What happened?' I ordered, wanting to hear what had happened and not them arguing. Embry stood at my side, looking and waiting for their expiation too. I was glad that I made him my Beta and not Paul. Embry was always alert and always looking to make things better between others in the pack, but Leah and Paul were a lost cause for his time. I didn't think that they would ever stop bickering.

'It was all Leah's fault Jake!' Paul stated with a loud growl, stepping forward.

I rolled my eyes at him. It was always Leah's fault. I hated it when Paul tried to downgrade Leah cause she was the only girl in the pack and ever known female werewolf.

'My fault! You son of a-'

'LEAH!' I hated it when I ask one question and started the argument all over again… I looked back to Jared who wasn't saying a thing because he knew better than to say a word when Leah and Paul acting like they were.

'Jared, what happen?'

'We almost had him Jacob. Until he slipped past Paul and jumped into the ocean.'

'So it was no one's fault,' I stated, looking to the three of them and then to Embry. He nodded agreeing with me. Paul and Leah dropped their heads, realizing that we were right. I sighed and half laughed.

'Alright, get home. Meet back here at three-a-m.'

They nodded once and all but Embry ran off. I walked ahead of him a few steps. He stayed behind. 'Where are you going Jacob?'

'To check out the rest of the forest; you can go home if you want Emb.'

'You're sure?'

I nodded and watched him take off towards home. I looked around myself before taking off into a slow run, listening carefully to every sound around me. I knew that it was dangerous to be running alone like I was, but I needed to make sure that everything was how it should be around La Push and I could see that the others were getting tired. Besides, it wouldn't be hard to find one of the others running too. I mean there is sixteen of us, including myself.

The rain came down harder suddenly and I stopped, looking around, making sure that I wasn't been watched like I felt I was. There wasn't a scent around apart from the scent of rain, but I wasn't going to let my guard down just because of no scents, because I had been cause out like that before. Vampires could easily stand down wind and trick us. I kept on walking, heading back to Forks for the night. It was getting dark quickly. I jumped over a small river, quickening into a run and then I smelt the sickly-sweet enter the wind, but I was going to ignore it for now. I kept on running, knowing that he was running just on the other side of the trees. I could his figure easily as a wolf, better than I could if I was in my human form. I could keep better track of him like this.

My paws hit the ground hard as I ran, trying to out run him – like we usually do out run vampires – but he was faster than any other vampire I had seen. It was impossible for me to out run him. I stopped dead seeing that he was cutting in front of me. I stepped back slowly, my ears laid back against my head, snarling with my teeth shining at him as he stood in front of me, smiling and his arms crossed. I was by far taller than him, but I still knew that this was a too obvious time to attack him, especially alone. I knew better than to take to obvious kill. I had seen and felt the consequences of that just two years ago, thanks to Leah when we and the Cullens were fighting against the vampire army that Victoria lead who wanted to kill Bella, when Leah found a vampire that we all had missed and took the obvious kill by herself and ended up almost getting her neck broken if it wasn't for me saving her neck from getting shattered for my whole upper right side. Yeah, I differently learnt not to go for the obvious kill…

I didn't know what he wanted, but if just one of the others came along, he was going to be a goner. I wasn't going to let him get away, no way would he! I snarled and lowered myself to the ground as I watched him come closer to me. If I had to, I would attack him, but I would have to be quick about it.

"So Jacob, in exchange for your girlfriend's life, will you be my guard dog?" he smirked. I had no idea how he knew my name, or what he meant. I guessed that he was meaning Jade, but I still was only guessing. He may have meant Bella, but I knew that she and the Cullens could easily fight this one vampire themselves without our help, so it had to be Jade he was talking about, which really annoyed me!

I growled harshly at him, hoping that he would know my answer without the words. Like we wouldn't be able to protect her and kill him. I knew my pack better than he did and I knew myself and my deviation to Jade, to know that he wasn't going to get anywhere near her on my watch again! It was bad enough the first time he got near her and hurt her… just the thought of her been hurt, physically hurt me. If I knew that Paul could have killed him alone, I would have allowed it, but I did know better. I wasn't going to be stupid and let one of my best get hurt on my order and then be without him when he needed him most!

His eyes turned surprised, but a smirk lightened his face. I looked at him with narrow eyes, standing my ground a few feet away from him.

"I guess she doesn't mean that much to you then," he shrugged and then turned away from me, turning towards Forks and in the direction of where Jade's house was.

'I'm not letting you near her!' I growled, thinking to myself as I leapt over top of him, landing the same distance from him as I had been on the other side. I laid low against the ground, ready to jump at him again. My ears were laid flat against my head, my teeth showing brightly in the moonlight. I would risk myself for her and he knew that.

He laughed darkly, crossing his arms over his chest. "So she does mean something to you? But how much I wonder?" He crouched down, ready to spring like a cat at me. I took a step back, making sure that I had enough room if he wanted to fight. I wasn't going to let him get the best of me. If we were going to fight, it was going to be on my terms.

At that point, I had forgotten that I wasn't just fighting any usual vampire, with any old gift that couldn't touch me unless he touched me, but with Dan, it was greatly different. I hadn't fought anyone alike him before so I knew that I had to be careful.

He shoot between two trees and he only had back to escape. I growled, stepping back a little but not letting him past me. I ran at him, my eyes fixed on him and then he was suddenly gone. I stopped and looked up, seeing that he was jumping over top of me. I almost grabbed his wrist, but he was once again gone. I turned around, searching for his rapidly. I knew vampires were a whole new level of danger when you couldn't see them, because they were so fast they could be not there one second and then grabbing you and crushing you the next. It scared me that the past could so easily repeat its self like just two years ago. But now was no time to let my own fear get to me, I had to let my fear for Jade get to me, to get the job done.

He smirked again, flashing his hand at me and then I saw a light flash of light coming at me and I only just dogged it, but my eyes went wide when I saw the damage on the tree behind me where it had hit. It was a deep burnt out hole in the tree. I focused again, turning back at him, snarling. I was sick of his games!

I looked around myself, seeing that now I was the one who was trapped between the trees, with the only exit been backwards. He had easily distracted me enough to get me where he wanted me. Trapped like a mouse in the paws of a cat. It would be so much more easily to have two of the others on either side of him and then one of us behind him. I wound have been the perfect kill.

Something in the corner of my eye caught my attention. I looked to my left side and seen a flicker of a figure. 'Oh no…' I had been so blind. It was an ambush. I should have seen it coming! Whoever the other vampire was that the others were tracking with Dan, was the one I just seen the figure of. I had to get out and away before they teamed up. I looked around frantic, deciding that I had to make a run for it. I felt stupid and cowardly for deciding it, but I had to do it.

As I kept looking around, I had a surprise attack. A shock of pain shot up my left arm. I didn't stop to look down and see what had happen. I didn't take notice to where Dan or the other one was. I just ran, like a coward I felt like. I found another way back to Jade's, making sure that they weren't following me. I phased back, shaking my head annoyed at what I had just done. I stood on the porch, sitting down on the top step, looking down to my arm. It felt sprained. It hurt greatly to move it, but I could move it, I was grateful for that much. But I couldn't think of how my arm had gotten hurt. Dan hadn't gotten anywhere near me and I would have known if the other had come near me. Nothing made sense.

I sighed getting up and going inside out of the rain. I wanted to hide my pain, but I knew that it wouldn't be a sale on Emily. She would see it, soon as she seen me. I just hoped that it wouldn't be so obvious to Jade. I didn't want to make her worry. I wondered if she had remembered anything more since she woke up. I hoped she didn't. I didn't want her to know about vampires… about us… about me…