A/N: I can no longer use 'I have no beta' as an excuse, thanks to my brand-new, fantastically patient Beta; Jaspered01. Thank you to her for putting up with my erratic-ness (is that a real word?). I'm sorry to everyone else for my lack of a quick update, but this chapter grew out to more than 3,500 words. I hope you enjoy it :)

Warnings: Sex (the gay kind), swearing, violence and I use Jared to voice all my dirty thoughts so implied fisting/bestiality/threesomes/etc,etc... sorry if anything offends, but you have been warned.

Jacob's POV

Eight hours earlier...

I rested my head on the pillow and watched the sleeping angel in my arms.

His lips were slightly parted, and his mouth was curved in a small smile, and every now and then he made a small sound that could have been either 'Jake' or 'cake'. Good enough for me. His hair was messy and wild, making him look like he had just had the best sex of his life, and I made a mental promise to myself that in three weeks, five days, that was exactly what he would be sleeping off.

The sun had just risen, and the clouds hadn't gathered to block it out yet, so a steady stream of gold-orange light was streaming in through the windows, making his skin glow against the white sheets. Sometimes I liked to imagine it was my love shooting out like a solar flare to illuminate him, then I chuckled softly, the sound sending vibrations through the bed and making him shift slightly. I sounded like a bad romance novel. Guess Paul was right, that was what imprinting did to you.

And I couldn't care less.

I craned my neck down and nuzzled my nose in his hair, inhaling his perfect scent. I reached down with the hand that he wasn't sleeping on, then tilted his head up towards me and planted a soft kiss on his sleeping lips.

"Be back soon as I can, babe." I whispered. "Promise." I gave him one more soft kiss, then slowly and reluctantly untangled myself from the mix of bed covers and limbs. As soon as I was gone he whined in his sleep and started drawing the covers tighter around himself, trying to regain the lost warmth. As always, I felt my heart pull me backwards as I forced myself to climb out of his window and drop to the ground, then run into the forest.

Occasionally I had encountered Edward leaving Bella at the same time. We ignored each other.

Luckily today was not one of those times. I left as quickly as I could, getting as far as I could from Daniel's house, resisting the temptation to run back and just skip my patrol today. I loved watching him wake up...

That was the other reason I ran first. It gave me time to get my thoughts under control before I phased. It wasn't just that it was embarrassing, but I didn't want the rest of the pack to see the Daniel I saw in private. He was mine, and no-one else should get to see him at moments like that.

Of course some people didn't have that problem...

'...maybe I'll phase and stick my two foot wolf dick up your ass, you dirty little-'

'ENOUGH!' I shouted mentally, as I joined the pack mind and was immediately aware of exactly how dirty-minded Jared was. 'It is WAY too early for me to be listening to you two.'

'Sorry Jake.' I heard Embry reply sheepishly. 'We didn't think anyone else was going to be on patrol for a while.'

'Who else is coming?' I asked, praying for Seth. Or Quil. Or god help me, even Paul. There was silence and I let out a mental groan. 'Tell me it's not just you two...'

'Okay.' Was the joint mental reply. There was silence for a long moment, then I prompted.

'Well?' I asked pointedly, wanting to know who else was coming.

'You said not to tell you it's just the two of us...'

I was going to kill Jared. I don't care if killing a pack-mate was against the rules, I was going to hunt him down and kill him.

Three hours. Three hours I had to listen to him dirty-talking with Embry. Three hours of him planning to try out every fetish and position he had looked up on the internet. If he had learned state capitals that well...

And then, to top it all off, he kept thinking about Daniel; he kept wondering how I was managing to resist, "pinning him to the ground and fucking his brains out" as he so elegantly put it. The really irritating thing was that that immediately made me think about "pinning him to the ground and fucking his brains out", which to Jared was the equivalent of free mental porn.

He was dead meat.

At least that was the plan. The plan was ruined when Embry found a scent just west of the border.

'Definitely vampire' He thought, a wave of agreement washing through the mental link as we shared his senses.

'Did it cross the border?' I asked quickly. A wild vampire nearby was serious. A wild vampire who had crossed the border was a full pack situation.

'Give me a second.' Embry said, following the trail as it lead further away from the border line. There was a few minutes of silence, then suddenly Jared called out.

'Wait!' He said urgently.

'What is it?' I demanded, trying not to let my more violent thoughts slip out at him.

'The scents getting stronger the further away it gets from the Res, but what if that means he was already in the Res and this is where he left it?' There was a moment of rapid thoughts as we realized that a) he might be right, and b) Jared could occasionally be a lot smarter than he seemed.

'Alright. Embry, keep following the trail, Jared you go join him. I'm gonna follow the trail back and see where he's been.'

'What do we do if he's been in the Res?'

'We get the whole damn pack out here and hunt him down for trespassing on our territory.' I thought fiercely. That was more than just me talking. When we were in wolf form the pack instincts were stronger; the instincts to defend our territory and to hunt our prey.

I followed the scent back, and quickly came to the conclusion that Jared had been right. Bloody leech had been in our territory. I followed it back through the woods, my heart rate speeding up as it passed dangerously close to houses and roads. But it kept twisting and turning through the woods, until finally it passed through the Reservation and out the other side.

I felt a momentary surge of relief as I realized no-one on the res had been hurt, but it was quickly followed by a burst of suspicion. Forks was the only thing in that direction for miles. I continued to follow the trail, making sure to be more careful as I did so, the closer I got to the town the more likely it was that I would run into hikers.

I felt a knot in my stomach as my paws started walking along a familiar path. I could smell my own, older scent mixing with the vampires. I silently began to pray that I was wrong, but I soon reached the one place I both wanted, and didn't want to go.

Daniel's house. The scent was stronger outside, like the vampire had stopped there. It had stood outside my Daniel's house and watched him. Probably just minutes after I left.

I was too blinded by fury to notice that the scent veered off towards Bella's house. All that I cared about was that the leech had been so close to my Daniel. The fact that the leech was in the same state as him made me angry, but just a few feet away from his house?

I was gonna rip that leech to pieces and burn it to ashes personally.

I sat back on my haunches and howled at the sky, not caring about how close I was to the town. Before the last echoes had died away I was running, not following the trail but taking a straight route to where Embry and Jared were frozen, uncertain of what to do. I barely even noticed as one at a time the others joined us.

'Hey guys, what's- jeez, Jacob, what're you going mental over...oh.' Quil's reaction was shared by pretty much everyone, the moment of confusion, followed by understanding as they saw the thoughts going through our heads. I blew past Embry and Jared in minutes, at full speed only Leah could out-run me.

'Jacob, what the hell are you doing? You can't go after it alone, you don't know how many of them there could be!'

'He's the Beta, he's not gonna listen to us.'

'Crap, where's Sam when you need him?'

'He's taken Emily to Seattle. Leah see if you can-'

I blocked them out as I concentrated on the scent in front of me. We were faster than vampires, and I was very fast, I was in a fury-fueled adrenaline rush. It wouldn't take me long to catch the blood-sucking monster, and when I did...

The scent got stronger and stronger as I flew through the woods, a small part of my mind recognized the direction we were headed in. Seattle. Why was the vampire heading straight for a crowded city in the middle of the day?

That thought, along with every other coherent one, went straight out my head as I saw something shining up ahead. The human part of me was shoved into the back seat of my mind as the wolf took over. I somehow managed to move faster, putting on a burst of speed I didn't know I was capable of.

I caught up with him just as he entered a clearing. I took the last ten meters at a leap, flying through the air towards him. He turned around but he was too slow. There was no way he could get out the way fast enough.

Unfortunately I didn't see the other one lying in wait.

She slammed into my side like a block of ice, throwing me to the ground with a sharp crack. One of her nails raked over my face, cutting through the skin just above my eye. I slammed into the ground, a sharp crack echoing as one of my ribs broke. I tried to get to my feet but I must have been hurt worse than I thought because my entire left side had gone numb.

The bitch landed on the other side of me and glanced over her shoulder at me. Her blonde hair was short and messy, and her red eyes were brighter than any vampire I had ever seen. She sniffed once then wrinkled her nose and frowned in disgust. She glanced over at where the boy-leech had gone, and then looked back at me.

"I should probably be following Riley." She told me, like she was sharing a secret with her best friend. "But I'm so hungry even you'll do." She ran her eyes over my wolf body and for a minute I thought the sick leech was getting turned on. "And you look like you've got a lot of blood in that big body." She finished, making me feel both relieved and scared.

She leapt towards me, a feral snarl ripping out of her throat and her eyes widening in glee.

Fortunately she didn't see Leah come shooting out of the trees.

She caught the leech in her jaws and threw it out of sight, all I heard was tearing and the sound of wolf jaws ripping through vampire skin. I tried to turn my head and immediately a bolt of pain shot down my neck going through my body. I heard the others getting frantic as my vision began to go blurry.

"Jacob, what's wrong?'

'Shit, he's hurt bad.'

'Somebody-'

The voices in the back of my mind faded away to nothing as my vision clouded over and I fell into the deep darkness of sleep.

When I woke up, god knows how long later, my head was pounding and my whole body was aching, and there was something sticky on my forehead. I sat up and looked around. I must have hit my head pretty hard because it took me a few moments to recognize my own bedroom.

I got up and stretched, wincing as I heard the bones in my spine pop into place. I was about to walk out the door when I heard the sound of low voices and was suddenly very aware of how naked I was. I quickly grabbed one of the dozen pairs of shorts we all had lying around our homes, then I stepped out and walked into the kitchen.

My dad, Sam, Emily, Quil and Seth were all sitting together in my cramped kitchen. Whatever conversation they had been having stopped when I walked in but before I had a chance to say anything all the breath was knocked out of me by a russet blur.

"Jacob, thank god your okay!" Seth said, from somewhere in the area of my chest. "We couldn't wake you up, then Quil made Leah run all the way to Seattle, then she got Sam, then he came and said that you would be fine, but he seemed really worried, then we had to carry you home, which was okay because you'd turned back human when you passed out, and then-"

"Woah, woah!" I said, stepping back and shaking him gently. "Calm down, buddy. Look at me, I'm fine." Seth may look like a young-ish seventeen year old, but he had always been prone to over-reacting. "What happened? Last thing I remember Leah was tearing into that blonde bitch." I saw my dad's eyebrows go up when I swore, but he let it pass.

"We think you must have hurt your spine. There was a pretty...gruesome noise when we put you in your bed. If you were human it probably would have killed you." I blinked in surprise, I hadn't been expecting something so...serious.

"How long was I out for?"

"About four hours." Sam said, looking apologetic. I blinked again. That was a lot longer than I had thought too. Daniel must have been going insane with worry. I said as much and immediately a guilty look passed over their faces.

"I knew we forgot something." Emily muttered. I stared at them one at a time slowly, understanding what they meant.

"You mean I've been lying unconscious for four hours and no-one thought to tell my imprint?" I asked. Before they had a chance to answer I brushed past them and out the back door. I paused for a moment to tie my shorts around my leg, before heading towards the woods and phasing mid stride.

Forget going insane with worry, Daniel would be...well, I didn't actually know what was worse than going insane but that was what Daniel would be doing. I pounded through the forests, following a trail I had travelled along so many times; my scent was permanently marked there. I finally came in sight of his house and phased back, a small wave of pain accompanying the shiver down my spine.

I burst into his house still pulling my shorts on, when a loud, angry and relieved voice shouted. "Where the bloody hell have you been?"

Daniel's POV

I wrapped both my arms tighter around Jacob as he finished his story. I couldn't believe how close I had come to losing him. If Leah had been just a little bit slower, if that vampire had been just a little bit faster...

"You realize I'm never letting you out of my sight again, right?" I said when he finished, only half joking. He wrapped me up in his arms, pulled me closer, kissing the top of my head. He inhaled my scent slowly, sighing in contentment as he tilted my face to look at him.

"I'm right here." He said. "And I am never, ever gonna leave if that's what you want."

"I do want." I agreed, kissing his lips softly. He kissed me back, as he laid back on the couch, resting his head on the arm and keeping me lying on top of him.

"I can't believe none of them called me." I complained, before going back to kissing him.

"Don't worry, I'm gonna kick their asses when I go back." He promised, moving me higher so he could nuzzle my neck again. "Then I'm gonna make Sam let me take tomorrow off and we are gonna spend all day together."

"That sounds...good." I said breathlessly, as the feeling of Jake nipping and suckling at the base of my neck coarse through me liketoe-curling blissful pleasure. I shuddered in ecstasy. This spot which he was gladly ravishing in attention was a place that could start a sweet euphoric high of thrilling sensations. He stopped suddenly and pulled back slightly, grinning at me.

"Did I just find your horny spot?" He asked, smirking.

"Jake, everywhere you touch is my horny spot." I told him honestly. "And I didn't say you could stop."

"Yes, sir." He smirked, going back to my neck. He rolled over so he was on top of me, using one arm to support his weight, while the other one explored my body. I ran my hands over his shoulders which were too big for me to grab hold of, as Iran one hand down the arm he was using to support himself, feeling the tensed muscles.

The other hand ran down over his chest, trailing over the thick slabs of muscle, down to his thick eight pack. He tensed the muscles as he felt me touch them, making them stand out in stark relief. I paused at the base of his abs, and was just building up the courage to go lower when he suddenly sat upright, towering over me like a Native American god of sex.

"Your mom just pulled up outside." He said apologetically. I bit my lip and nodded. Her walking in to find Jacob shirtless, with no visible means of having got here, would just make everything way too complicated.

"You go outside and wait, I'll tell her I've got homework to do and meet you in my bedroom to continue this." I ordered. He saluted me, darting down pulling me so our lips met in a passionate kiss.

Suddenly I heard the sound of a car door slamming and he pulled back, kissed me once more on my forehead, before jumping over the couch, into the kitchen and out the back door. It shut just as the key turned in the front door, and I had just enough time to 'adjust' myself before my mom walked in.

"Hi, honey." She said cheerfully, sticking her umbrella in the stand and rubbing her hands together. "How was your day?"

"Oh you know, nothing special. Same old boring weekend..."

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