DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Twilight Saga or any of it's characters, but oh how I wish to.
SUMMARY:
Jacob's life has been nothing but hurt and betrayal, but when Sam Uley imprints on him this is bound to change...-right? Jacob's a bit OCC in this one due to his circumstances. SamxJacob, JarredxSeth boyxboy don't like don't read.
WARNING: Contains boyxboy, child abuse, hot guys, supernatural themes, shifters with no shirts, bullying, sparkling vampires, explicit scenes and ever so juicy lemons in later chapters.
Enjoy!
Phoenix
Call Of The Alpha
-Chapter Five-
"Shit."
"They're still there."
Seth, Embry and Jacob all eyed the red ute in Quil's driveway. Sam's car, meaning the 'cult' was still here.
"Maybe we should go-"
"No! we're going to see him- Sam or no Sam." Embry cut off Seth's unsure protest easily. The longer he spent away from Quil the more agitated he had become. Jake just wished they would hurry up and get this over with. He still wasn't quite sure why here was here, he'd only known the trio for a day or so- Quil only one- but on the other hand they had stuck up for him and protected him from the bullies when no one else had. He guessed in a way, he owed them.
"Come on."
"Embry wait!" Seth tugged at the older boy's arm. "They're in there!"
"So? We just have to barge in and demand to see Quil."
"I'm not sure that's a good idea…-"
"Seth! You wanna lose Quil or not? You know what it's like to lose someone to those over-pumped princesses, Quil's always been there for us, he's always protected us. What do you think it's going to be like with him gone? You saw what happened today."
Seth was silent, he was looking at the ground again. Embry turned to Jacob, looking for anymore protests.
"You guys can stay out here if you want, but I'm going in there either way and getting my friend back." Seth and Jake both looked at their shoes. Embry turned and marched towards the house, head up and determined. Seth looked to Jake.
"Come on, we better go after him." Jake followed the youth up the stone pathway and up to the door of yet another 'perfect' house, the kind that Jake dreamed about.
Embry banged on the door, he kept banging until it opened.
"Embry?"
"Leah?" Seth's older sister sighed.
"I knew you guys would show up sooner or later."
"We're here to see Quil." Embry demanded, not losing focus.
"Quil's sick."
"We wanna see him."
"Seth, he's too sick to have visitors."
"Let him tell us that himself!" Embry shoved the door and barged past the older girl.
"Hey!" Seth scampered past. Jake stood there dumb-folded. Leah eyed him.
"You're that kid from yesterday" Jake flushed and dropped his head. He hadn't spoken to a girl since Bella and Leah certainly wasn't bad on the eyes. "I guess you wanna come in to?" Jake nodded again, quickly wiping his shoes on the doormat before stepping inside.
He felt Leah's scrutinizing gaze watching his back as he followed the other two boys down the hallway.
"Hey! You can't just barge in!" A male, bludging with muscles stood at the end of the hallway where the kitchen was located. Embry ignored him and headed straight up the stairs where Jacob guessed Embry's room was located. Seth half-paused in front of the man. Jake could tell by his shrinking figure that Seth wasn't as keen as Embry to ignore this…-what had Embry called them?- 'over-pumped princesses.
"Seth?" Another male appeared at the end of the hall, he was slightly taller than the original male and although he too had muscles bludging at the seams they seemed to be more natural in a way, more slim, whereas the first looked like he'd taken too many steroids and had an angry expression to match it.
"Er.. hi... Jarred." Seth edged nervously towards the stairs.
"How was school?"
"Um..okay." Seth darted up the stairs escaping the scene. Jake found himself tugging at the frayed hems of his jumper nervously. He couldn't really go up the stairs without taking on the two body-builders at the end of the hall and he had no desire to do that. Men with muscles hit harder and Jake had plenty of that back at the caravan. He also wasn't sure that he was allowed to go upstairs, apparently he was 'friends' enough with Quil, Seth and Embry to come here in the first place, but he wasn't sure he was 'friends' enough to go and lecture one of them.
"Next time mate." The steroid man was clapping the slimmer man on the shoulder.
"Hey that's my little brother you're talking about." Leah warned somewhere behind him. Jake felt three pairs of eyes slowly move to him. Jake's face burned and he kept his head down, his shoulders instinctively hunching further as he tried to make himself as small as possible. He hated having the attention on him, when that happened it usually meant nothing good.
"Who's this?"
"This is Seth's friend...umm-sorry kid what's your name?" Leah got stuck in Jake's introduction.
"J-jacob." Jake refused to look up off the floor. He wondered if his voice was loud enough to hear apparently it was.
"Jacob 'ey, you're just turning sixteen right? In Seth's class?" Jake shook his head.
"No…I'm seventeen…Embry's class."
"No shit." Paul scoffed.
"You sure don't look that old, you're too scrawny." Leah joked lightly touching his arm. Jake flinched. He couldn't stop it if he tried. He hated being touched no one except Bella had ever touched him with good intent and she had never half-grabbed his arm like Leah just had.
"Jumpy much? Hey you're bleeding." Jake jumped again instantly looking to his side, his heart in his throat wondering how much blood his re-opened wound was spilling. If she saw it she would start asking questions, she would take him to a doctor, they would ask questions, Garrid would hear about it and…-
Leah grabbed his hands instead, looking at the palms. Jake felt his whole body cave in relief. She was only talking about the scraps he had the day before from the bullies pushing them around, they must have been split open again in round two with the thugs.
"I-it's…n-nothing." Jake curled his hands into fists.
"Don't do that! You'll make it bleed more." Leah, still firmly clasping his wist dragged him the rest of the way down the hall, past the two guys and into the kitchen.
"Sit." Jake didn't feel confident enough not to heed the order. He sat on a kitchen stool hoping that his clothes wouldn't dirty it too much.
Leah grabbed some paper towel, rinsed it with water and came back over to him.
"Hand." Jake held it up to her obediently. She dabbed it with the damp towel. Jake flinched at the touch slightly but did not move to stop her.
"Mother much?"
"Shut up Paul- you've been fighting haven't you?" Jake tensed, Leah took it as a confirmation. "Those jerks were mean to Seth too, don't let them hold it over you." Jake felt some odd sort of ache blare in his chest. It was getting harder to breathe once more. It was the same feeling he'd felt at Seth's house… yet different.
Leah was tending to his wounds… almost like a mother would…almost like… someone who cared for him would. Jake felt his face burn even redder and yet his eyes slowly lifted to her face. Leah really was quite pretty, she had traces all over her of her mother Emily and yet she had her father's sharp eyes.
"Hey. Where'd you get that scar?" Jake jerked, Leah was edging up his sleeves to tend to the wound, but now she was looking at a pale scar, one going down is wrist and onto his palm. Jake felt a surge of heat swell through him. It was the mark Garrid had made one night after catching Jake trying to steal food.
'This will teach you to keep those sticky hands to yourself!" He'd run a kitchen knife down the middle of his wrist to his palm. There had been so much blood that night, it had taken forever to scab over and had been the hardest wound to hide.
"N-nothing…-"
"-And this one"- She had flipped his hand over now and was looking at the jiggered circle cut on the back of his hand. That was where Garrid had pressed a broken beer bottle to his skin. Jake had failed to have a new bottle ready for him when he finished his first one. Jack winced at the memory. They couldn't know, she couldn't know.
Jake yanked his hand back abruptly. Leah's shocked eyes met his. Jake hesitated, there was emotion in her eyes, she actually looked concerned for him. It was so close to actualy caring for him that Jake almost told. He almost told her what was going on, that every night when he went home he went through hell. He wanted her to be more concerned for him, because it was so close to caring, to actually giving a dam about him…-
Then what are you going to do? Beg on your knees for her to take you home? What will happen if she says no? What happens if she's disgusted? What if she tells Seth to say away from you?
Jake felt something painful rip in his chest.
He dropped his gaze to the floor.
"I have to go."
His voice was barely a whisper. He didn't stay around to see if they heard it. He was fleeing the kitchen, escaping past the shorter, more pumped male named Paul and the taller male named Jarred and running out the door. He thought he heard someone calling him back. He didn't look over his shoulder to confirm it. His worn sneakers slapped against the road the noise blaring around him until it was just a fast, repetitive beat. Trees and signpost flew by Jake found himself near the high school once again and veered right, heading towards the caravan park. It was only about then that he realized his cheeks where wet.
Jake kept running, letting the cold air whipping past him to dry his face. Jake just wanted to get back, not to the caravan but just back. He needed somewhere he could clear his head, somewhere he knew where he belonged. Jake weaved through the caravan park and headed into the woods. Finding the spot he had bathed that very morning he sunk into the dirt, his back resting against a tree.
His face was dry now but his short, panting breaths sounded more like someone hyperventilating. It took more than several minutes for the gasping breaths to ease out and even longer for the slight tremors to cease rippling across his skin.
That had been way too close.
Jacob put his head in his hands, it was too close but it was close enough. Leah probably though he was depressed or something and that the wounds were self-inflicted. She would probably tell Seth at least and then he would be freaked out too.
Jake felt his shoulder shudder.
He just lost his chance of friends.
Jake never found out if Leah told Seth of her findings or not because the next day both Seth and Quil begun to ignore him. Jake guessed they were angry at him for bailing on them last night or not fighting back against the bullies in the bathroom. Either way they ignored him and when Jake actually caught Seth's gaze the younger shook his head.
Jake found another table to sit at.
The pair didn't seem to notice this fact.
The bullies did however.
Jake faced them once again in the car park. They slammed him face down on the asphalt and belted into him from all sides. Lastly they emptied his bag ass over him and without stealing anything left laughing.
Embry and Seth had just watched from the sidelines.
Jake did not cry, a cold numb feeling had taken residence in his chest again making him feel achingly hollow. Bleeding all over and a slight limp in his left side, Jake made it home after dark. Jake knew he was undoubtedly in trouble Garrid would well and truly home by now and you be severely pissed that dinner had not been ready and waiting for him. Jake wished that he didn't have to return home for the night, to not face Garrid. He had no qualms about sleeping in the neighbouring woods he often dozed there when Garrid kicked him out for the night.
But not coming home at night meant not coming back ever again and Jake had nowhere near enough money to escape yet. When Jake approached the caravan though, he was seriously considering taking off anyway. The shouts of laughter that came from within the rust bucket made his blood run cold.
Garrid's friends had arrived.
And they were waiting for him.
Okay so I lied, Garrid's friends and sam will be making an appearance in the NEXT chapter. I had planned to get them in this one but Quils house scene ran for too long. Don't worry its only another seven days until I post the next chapter so you won't have to wait too long for it.
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