A/N: I really enjoy writing this story, so much in fact that I've ended up writing 4k+ words for a single chapter :0. This is the longest chapter so far, so bear with it. Enjoy, and as always, review.

Daniel's POV

"You sure you're okay with this?"

"Yeah. I'm fine." I replied. Jake gave me a look that told me he knew how nervous I was, then reached over and took my hand.

"Hey." He said, rubbing his thumb over the back of my hand. "They'll love you." I smiled gratefully and squeezed his hand, he squeezed it back, then let go and climbed out of the car. I took a deep breath then climbed out after him. We were parked outside Emily's house, and judging by the amount of noise there was already several people there. Jake walked round the side of the car and took my hand again, then gave me a comforting smile.

I loved it when Jake held my hand. His hand was so warm it was like holding onto a water bottle, and it was so large it easily engulfed mine. His fingers fitted perfectly between mine, I knew it was a cliche, but sometimes it really felt like we were made for each other. Actually...wasn't that exactly what his imprinting meant? I would have to ask him sometime.

We paused at the top of the steps, then Jake leaned over and kissed the top of my head. "Seriously, don't worry. Paul's probably gonna be a jerk, but he always is so don't let him bother you." He gave me another smile, then pushed the door open and walked in. I let myself be lead in, moving closer to Jake automatically.

"Oh, hi! You must be Daniel." I had barely set foot inside the house when a smiling, beautiful woman charged out of nowhere and wrapped her arm around my shoulder, knocking me out of Jake's grasp at the same time. "It's about time you brought him round." She chided Jake good-naturedly.

"You must be Emily." I smiled, mananging to ignore the scars on her cheek. "Jake's told me all about you."

"Really?" She said, glancing at Jake speculatively. "Well, I'll be finding out exactly what he said later, but for now, lets introduce you to the rest of the pack." She lead me over to the living room where four guys were gathered on two of the three couches laughing and messing about, Jake following behind us, close enough for me to feel the comforting heat from his body. "Boys!" She called out, and they fell silent, staring at us intently. "This is Daniel, play nice or no muffins for a month."

"Hi." I said nervously, then frowned. "I thought there were more of you?"

"Sam, Jared and Leah are out on patrol." One of them provided. "I'm Quil by the way." He added, giving me a pearly smile. "Nice to meet you."

"Good to meet you to." I replied, smiling back. I moved forward and sat down on the only empty couch. Jake sat down next to me and put his hand on my leg, squeezing gently.

"I'm Seth." One of the other boys said, the only one who didn't look like he spent all his spare time lifiting weights I recognised him from the bonfire. "And this is Paul." He gestured at the boy sitting next to him, who was ignoring me and continuing to watch the TV. "And that's Embry." Embry gave me another pearly smile (what about turning into a wolf gae them perfect teeth?) and moved over so he was closer to the edge of the couch.

"Has Jacob been telling you horror stories about us?" He asked, giving Jake a suspicious look.

"Only about Paul." I admitted, glancing over at him. He continued to ignore me, but I saw his mouth twitch. "He just made fun of the rest of you."

"I did not!" Jake protested, but the dark red colour his skin turned when he blushed gave him away. "Well maybe a little..."

That set off a round of insults and jokes that went on for nearly half an hour, eventually even drawing Paul into it. I sat there quietly for most of it, not certain what to do. They were all so close, and knew each other so well, I felt like an intruder. Seth seemed to notice and slipped out of his seat and sat on the other side of me.

"You okay?" He asked. I nodded automatically, then paused.

"Not really." I admitted. "It's all a bit..." I didn't know how to describe it, but Seth seemed to understand what I meant.

"It's a lot easier when you spend half your time inside each others heads." He said, giving me his own smile.

"Oh, yeah. That must be weird." I tried to imagine what it would be like, but I couldn't.

"Sometimes it's pretty cool, but mostly it's just awkward." He glanced over at Jake, who was in the middle of an argument with Paul and smirked. "Especially when all some people can think about is their imprints..." He trailed off suggestively and I started blushing, thinking about all the things Jake might have been thinking that they would have heard. Seth laughed at me and shook his head. "Don't worry, Jacob's good at hiding his thoughts."

"Thank god." I muttered, relieved. "That would just be embarrassing." Seth nodded, then slowly turned his head to glare at Embry.

"Unfortunately some people can't do that. Or at least, they can't be bothered." It took me a few seconds to realise what he meant, then I burst out laughing.

"Oh my god." I laughed. "What's it like when he and Jared are out at the same time?"

"It's torture." Quil said, joining in with a grin. "They spend the whole time sending dirty thoughts at each other. You would not believe the things they do in their spare time."

"You're just jealous 'cos your imprints a baby girl." Embry said, elbowing Quil in the stomach. "And you're gonna have to wait for sixteen years before you get any!"

Quil's imprint always made me feel a little uncomfortable. I knew that the way he felt about Claire was nothing like the way Jacob felt about me, or the way Embry and Jared felt about each other. But still... We continued like that for nearly an hour, I had to strip off my hoodie half an hour in due to the heat coming off of Seth and Jake. It felt like the middle of summer, although rain had started battering the windows minutes after Jake and I had come in.

Suddenly the door slammed back open and a burst of cold air flew in. Three more barely dressed people ran into the house and shut the door behind them. Leah, at least I assume it was Leah since she was the only girl, yelled something about getting dressed and ran up the stairs. The largest guy, presumably Sam, walked straight over to Emily and pulled her in for a kiss. Jared turned into a blur as he ran over, leapt over the couch me, Jake and Seth were sitting on, hurtled past over the table and slammed into Embry, pinning him to the couch and straddling his waist.

"Hey." He said, breathlessly, then moved his head down and slammed their lips together, kissing him with a passion that most people didn't show in public. There was a chorus of groans and they were bombarded with bits of food and balled-up wrappers.

"Quit the homo-ness." Paul complained. "I just ate." Jared pulled himself away from Embry and glared at him.

"Kiss my ass, Paul." He suggested, then went back to kissing Embry, lifting his ass in the air and pulling down the back of his shorts. If the two of them making out hadn't already given me a raging hard-on that certainly would have.

"I thought that was Embry's job." Jake grinned, wrapping his arm around my shoulder. I leaned back and rested my head against his arm, enjoying the feel of his warm skin on the back of my neck. Jared turned to give him a sarcastic reply, but paused and started grinning when he saw me.

"Hey! You must be Daniel." He grinned, turning around so he was sitting in Embry's lap, facing me. "All I've seen of you is Jacob's thoughts. Good kisser by the way." I blushed and looked away, burying my face in Jacob's shoulder. The rest of them burst out laughing, and I could feel Jacob's skin heating up even more as he blushed.

"Jared!" He hissed. "Shut it!" He shook me gently and I pulled my head back, although to be honest his smell and heat made me incredibly comfortable. I could happily have gone to sleep there. "I swear, I didn't mean to..."

"I know." I laughed, although I was still blushing. "It's not your fault these pervs are spying on your thoughts." There was a stunned silence for a moment, then the werewolves burst out laughing.

"I like him." Jared told Jake approvingly, flashing me yet another perfect smile. Eventually Leah came back down the stairs, now wearing jeans and a t-shirt. She seemed friendly enough to me, just a little bit...cold. Sam acted more like a father, or a big brother who had been left in charge. He and Emily stayed in the kitchen, talking quietly to each other.

They must have made a phone call when I wasn't paying attention because about twenty minutes later the doorbell rang. Sam went over to answer it, then walked over to us with, literally, at least a dozen pizzas. I thought they had made a mistake ordering until I saw them going at it. They ate like...well, like starving wolves actually. Emily leaned over the couch and spoke to me while they were busy fighting over the pizza boxes.

"Daniel, I called your mother and she's fine with you staying for dinner." She told me, smiling. "She says you need to be back by eleven though."

"Thanks." I said, smiling back at her. She really acted like a mother to everyone, and I thought it was really sweet. She walked back over into the kitchen, where Sam was waiting with his own pizza.

Jacob eventually came out of the fray with an entire twelve-inch pizza box. He smiled at me and held it open towards me. It took me a few seconds to work out that he intended for the two of us too eat it all between the two of us. Although...I glanced over at the others, he might be intending to eat the entire thing himself. In the end I ate three slices and Jacob had the rest of it. He also stole several slices from various other people, taking the punches he got in return without complaint.

Eventually a film came on the TV that everyone wanted to watch, so the talk died down and we ended up watching it in near silence. Jacob started playing with my hair, running his hands through it and curling it around his fingers. I ran my hand over the exposed part of his leg, it amazed how brilliant physical contact of any kind with Jake felt. Which of course immediately started me thinking about what kind of physical contact we could be having...

All I could do was think though. Jacob had decided that we should wait until I was sixteen to do anything beyond making-out. I had told him that he was going to make the next month and a half the most difficult of my life, then I had sulked at him for a whole five minutes before he got me kissing him again.

I sighed and leaned back into his chest, listening to his heartbeat. His warmth, smell, and regular heartbeat engulfed three of my five senses. I closed my eyes to concentrate all my senses on him, unfortunately we were in public so I couldn't add taste to the mix. I'm not sure whether I was more tired than I thought, or if Jacob was just even more comforting than I realised, but slowly, I slipped into sleep.

Jacob's POV

I watched the film and ran my fingers through Daniel's hair, enjoying the soft feel of it in my hands. He had been using me as a pillow/armrest for a while now, but I was just enjoying the closeness. I watched the movie and actually enjoyed most of it. It was some kind of sci-fi action thriller, lots of explosions and space battles. Horrors had sort of lost their appeal to the rest of us, most of the time we just ended up laughing at the vampires and werewolves.

We were watching for nearly an hour when a gentle snore drifted up from the area of my chest. I looked down and realised that Daniel had fallen asleep against me. Apparently I was a better pillow than I thought. I reached over with my other hand and rubbed his cheek gently. Even in his sleep he smiled at the contact.

"Jacob..."He muttered dreamily, then settled back into a comfortable sleep.

"Aww...he's so cute!" Embry complained. "How come you get him, and I'm stuck with this?" He elbowed Jared, who had climbed out of his lap and sat next to him, although they still had their arms wrapped around each other.

"Thanks a lot!" Jared complained, making a half-hearted attempt to wriggle out of his grasp. "You're right though, he is cute..." He trailed off, giving Daniel a thoughtful look. Then his face lit up and he gave Embry a bright smile. "Hey! Maybe Jacob'll share." They both turned and gave me a pleading look.

"No chance." I told them firmly, grinning. I lifted Daniel gently and put him in my lap, wrapping my arms around him possessively. "He's mine." Their faces fell and they looked at me with fake-heartbroken expressions.

"Oh well, guess we'll have to find someone else..." Jared trailed of thoughtfully. "Seth, you busy later?"

"Stay away from my brother." Leah warned, before Seth had a chance to answer. She only sounded like she was half-joking, so the two horny wolves backed off quickly.

"What about you Paul? Feel like experimenting?"

"The only experiment I want to do involves your face and my fist." Paul snapped back. He had been Rather than back off, Jared just smirked, sensing a chance for a wind up.

"Well, the fist part sounds alright, but we might have to change the other body part..." Almost as one we moaned and drew away from them. Even Embry looked mildly disgusted by that, so it probably wasn't something they had actually tried...probably.

"I don't want to hear you thinking about that next time we're on patrol!" Quil complained, throwing an empty coke can at them. Jared batted it away without even thinking and reached for a wrapper, but Sam intercepted before it could get any further.

"Alright you two that's enough. Paul, Seth and Quil, it's your shift, get going." They got up and left, stripping their shirts off and tossing them onto the couches as they went. "Jacob, you should probably get Daniel home. It's getting late." I nodded and stood up, still holding Daniel like a baby. Embry and Jared made kissy noises as we walked away, and I impressed myself by holding Daniel to my chest with one hand and giving them the finger at the same time.

I did another one handed move as I stepped outside, waving goodbye to Seth, who was still hanging around in the woods. He gave me a tilt of his head that was the wolf version of a goodbye, then vanished into the trees. I opened the door and put Daniel in the truck one handed, then put his seat-belt on for him. As soon as he was away from me his sleeping face fell, and he began to frown. I felt strangely glad that he missed me even in his sleep.

I jumped into the car and drove him home, while Daniel mumbled and turned in the seat next to me. He muttered my name at least ten times, and each one was like a warm hug to me. Finally we reached his house and I reached over and shook him awake.

"Come on sleeping beauty, time to go home." He yawned and stretched, looking around in bleary eyed confusion.

"Sleeping beauty..." He repeated tiredly. "Nope. Not working for me." I laughed and got out, walked round to his side and helped him out of the car.

"I'm not Bella." He complained, knocking my hands away. He took a few steps forward then stumbled suddenly grabbing his head. "Whoa... headrush..." I laughed again and wrapped my arm around his shoulders, letting him use me as support. "My mom..."

"You worry too much." I told him, smirking. I rang his doorbell and let go of him reluctantly. Daniel's mom opened the door and looked at me in surprise. "Special delivery." I smiled. "I believe this is yours?" She looked over at Daniel, took in his sleepy expression, the way he was swaying slightly, and the way he kept blinking then smiled.

"Did he fall asleep?" She asked me, giving him a smile.

"Like a light being turned off. Didn't even notice till he started drooling..."

"Right here!" He complained, hitting me in the arm. It felt like an insect biting me, but I winced and rubbed my arm for his mom's sake. "I'll see you tomorrow, 'kay."

"'Kay." I replied, then gave his mom a smile. "Nice seeing you again. Miss Swan."

"Nice seeing you again too Jacob, and please, call me Samantha. Miss Swan sounds...old."

"Umm...okay, Samantha. Feels weird calling your b-friends mom by their first name." I cursed my near slip, but she didn't seem to notice anything. Daniel walked in and up the stairs with a lazy wave. I walked back to my Rabbit, giving his mom a polite goodbye before I got into it.

I started the truck, then paused and looked up at the top window of the house. The light had just come on, and I saw Daniel wave another goodbye as he shut the curtains. I drummed my fingers on the steering wheel for a second, then put my foot down on the accelerator and drove away.

I ran through the woods, enjoying the feeling of strength in my legs. All four of them. My tail worked as a rudder as I ran, like a furry steering wheel sticking out of my ass was how I described it to Daniel when he asked. My senses were stronger than when I was human as well, allowing me to hear every sound for miles. And every smell as well. I could smell all the others who were in the woods, and this close to Forks I could smell all the leeches that had been driving around there.

I could hear the thoughts of the others on patrol too, although for the most part we were blocking each other out. I didn't like them listening to what I was thinking at the best of times, and they didn't really want to hear what I was thinking about. I finally reached my destination and stopped, concentrating on my body.

I felt a shiver go down my spine, then spread to the rest of my body. I felt hot, then cold, then my vision blurred and for a second I felt totally numb. My vision cleared and I stretched my arms above my head, taking a minute to adjust to the different body, then reached down, untied my shorts, then pulled them on. I glanced up at the window above me and glanced around.

I found a suitable stone and picked it up, then flicked it at the window, making sure not to throw it too hard. I wanted to hit it, not smash it. It clinked of the window and I waited for a few seconds. I was just about to get another stone when the light clicked on and the curtains pulled open.

Daniel stared down at me blankly, then opened the window. "What are you doing?" He hissed, although thanks to werewolf hearing it sounded like he was right next to me.

"Move back." I replied, hoping he could hear me, then ran forward and cleared the distance in one massive leap. I slipped in the window and landed right next to him. "Hey." I said cheerfully and wrapped my arms round him. He stared at me in surprise.

"What are you doing here?" He asked. "Don't get me wrong, I love seeing you, but what's going on?"

"I was jealous of your pillow." I grinned, then leaned down and kissed him. He kissed me back, wrapping his arms around me as well. He moaned into the kiss quietly, then pulled back and rested his head on my chest.

"I'm so tired..." He yawned. I gave a gentle laugh, not wanting to alert his mom to my presence.

"Sleeping beauty again." I grinned, taking by the arm and leading him over to his bed. I sat down then pulled him down next to me, then lay down and carried him with me. He yawned again, then nestled in closer to me, nuzzling against my chest like a baby. "Night night." I whispered, kissing him on the top of his head.

"Night..."He replied sleepily, then settled against me and fell asleep again. I watched him sleep for a while, listening to his breathing settling into a steady pattern. Just beneath that was the rhythm of his hearbeat, pounding quietly in his chest. I kissed him on the head again, inhaling his perfect scent.

I didn't bother pulling the covers over us. If I added another layer he would probably over heat. I lay my head down on his pillow, which also smelt like him, then closed my eyes. I only slept five or six hours on average now, so I would be up and gone before his mom had a chance to catch me.

"Jacob..." Daniel murmered, still sleeping. I smiled down at him, my heart filled with so much love and adoration I thought it was going to burst. I couldn't believe how lucky I had been to find him, or how lucky I was that he had agreed to have me. With all these thoughts of love in my head, I slowly settled into sleep.

A/N: I love writing this so much. I hope you enjoy reading it as well :) tell you what, review and let me know :D