Disclaimer:
All characters and known situations belong to their respective owners. Everything else came from my own mind- scary place that it is sometimes. In no way shape or form have I made or intended to make a profit from this story…. All rights still belong to Stephanie… though it's a shame she never did anything more with the wolves… ah well.. There's always fan fiction

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Chapter 8

Bella sighed in ill hidden relief when she heard the final bell ring. School had been hellacious- not due in part to it being Monday- simply because Jessica and Lauren had been their typical selves. Rumors abounded now about Bella. She was only too happy to leave. She was a great many things- smart, loyal, loving, responsible- but a slut, whore, and pregnant she was not.

She made her way down the hallways to her locker meeting those students brave enough to stare her way with an indifferent glare. Those who were a little more curious and tried to approach her were met with an arched eyebrow and were sent quickly scurrying back from wince they had come. Beside her, a puffy eyed Angela was already placing text books into her book bag.

"Angela, hey. Are you… what's wrong?" Bella asked with a frown of worry creasing her brow.

Angela smiled shyly and shook her head minutely. "It's nothing serious. I'll be alright tomorrow." She said trying not to burden Bella with her problems.

Bella was having none of it. "Angie… you were there for me after I went just a slight bit crazy over my idiot ex. I know something is wrong. You've got tears in your eyes. Please. Let me help?" She asked.

Angela sighed. "Ben broke up with me. He's moving away now that his parents are getting a divorce. He doesn't want to try a long distance relationship regardless of the plans we made to go to college together. I mean… this is our last year.. And he doesn't even want to stay together until we're in college." She said before her lower lip began to quiver.

Bella smiled. "Oh Angie. I'm so sorry. You know what! You should come over tonight!" Bella insisted.

Angela smiled. "I don't want to impose Bella. I'm sure you have plans already." She told her.

"You won't impose! We can watch sappy romance movies and get fat eating ice cream!" She said with a grin. "I'll even invite my two friends Emily and Kim from the reservation. They're both really sweet girls and I think you would like them." She said ignoring the feeling that someone was watching her. She mused that it was someone from the pack.

Angela agreed after some hesitance. "If you're completely sure?"

"Of course! Now. Can you do me a favor. This might come off as a little odd, but the hairs on the back of my neck are standing on end. Is there someone behind us?" She asked noticing how empty the hallway now was.

Angela subtly peered over Bella's shoulder and nodded her head quickly, her eyes wide. "It's Edward. He looks really upset. Should I stay here?"

Bella pulled her cell phone from her pocket and opened the text message screen. Adding in the contacts for the pack members at school, she sent out an S.O.S followed shortly by her location. "Just wait here. I'll talk to him then we can leave, ok?"

Angela nodded her head and smiled. Bella sighed and squared her shoulders. When she turned around, she schooled her face into a carefully void mask. She almost wished Jacob would break the treaty just so she could watch with pop corn in her hands as her wolf gave her ex boyfriend the beating he well and truly deserved. She was careful to look over his shoulders while pretending to look at him. Inwardly, she patted herself on her back for her efforts.

"Bella." It was said for Angela's benefit no doubt. "Can I talk to you alone for a moment?" Edward asked her politely.

Bella glared. "One minute. Angela and I have plans for this afternoon." She told him.

Edward nodded. "I'll be brief." He said moving out of Angela's hearing range.

"What do you want now Edward?" Bella huffed in annoyance. "Haven't you learned your lesson yet? The pack doesn't like you. I don't like you. Hell, my boyfriend doesn't even like you."

Edward pinched the bridge of his nose. "Isabella. You've been really rather difficult. All you had to do was simply stay away from the dogs. It's a wonder their tempers haven't done you some kind of damage by now." He said as if he were scolding a toddler.

Bella's ire was rising swiftly. "What. Do. You. Want?" She hissed.

"What do you know of the Volturi?" He asked completely catching her off guard.

Bella reeled back in surprise. "Only what Carlisle has told me. Three leaders who have a large guard of gifted vampires to protect them. One goal in mind. Protect vampires from human knowledge. It's their one rule." She shrugged. "I don't understand what that has to do with me." She told him.

"It will please me to tell you this then. Of the three- Aro can read a vampires every thought with a single touch. Marcus can sense relationships between two individuals. But it's Caius who I want to tell you about now. You see, he's rather… afraid -if you will- of werewolves. He was attacked by one in his early days. It almost killed him, but he survived. Since then he's made it his mission to hunt and destroy each and every last one." Edward told her.

A stab of icy cold fear blossomed within Bella's gut for the pack. Edward closed his eyes and inhaled through his mouth. Her fear was a tangible substance that he craved at the moment. The sound of the blood coursing through her veins was palpable. The heady aromatic cocktail of fear, anger and adrenaline was almost too intoxicating to him. He reined in the animal within himself so he could tell her what needed to be said.

"Imagine what would happen to your precious pack, sweet Isabella, if I were to travel back to the Volturi with news that you had survived and were being held by these…wolves. Forced to think you are the mate to one. How easy Caius would rally to my aide." He all but purred.

Bella gasped. She couldn't believe he would even suggest something so horrendous. "Do you really think this will win me over?" She finally asked.

"It would. In time. You would be free of the hold those dogs have on you. You would be mine again. I wouldn't hesitate to turn you then. I would regret it for a short while. The pain… its excruciating. But an eternity with you by my side would more than make up for it."

Bella shook her head. "You're so delusional. You think that just because you come and corner me while Angela watches that I'll cave to your every whim. But guess what Edward? That Bella is long dead and gone. Now let me tell you a few things I know to be true. You can scare me into thinking that the wolves are threatened by this… Caius. You can try to tell me that you'll run to him to help you in your fight to win back your mate. But you're missing one single very important detail in your little plan, Edward."

"And what would that be, Isabella?" Edward sighed. He was tired of her attitude. The first thing he would do after she was turned was to make sure that she knew her place. He'd deny her a drop of blood until she was back under his influence.

Bella smirked. Not only did she know that while their entire conversation had taken place in a matter of mere moments- no more than five- and the pack was now on their way to her, she also knew that Edward was bluffing. She could see it in his eyes. She knew in her gut, he'd not go back to Italy.

"You're bluffing Edward. You wouldn't be able to leave me if you tried to. The inner demon you think wants to claim me for his own refused to see reason and walk away when the getting is good. And you're time to talk is up." She said with a smirk before walking back over to Angela.

Before Edward could say another word, six very angry wolves stalked forward to protect the girls. He looked at a smirking Bella as she waved her phone in front of her. Her eyebrow was arched in challenge and her stance was entirely too defiant. He sighed and quelled his temper. His hands were held up in front of him as he backed away slowly.

"Think about what I said, Isabella." He told her before walking away. Inside he was livid.

Bella let out a sigh of relief when he was gone. "I need to talk to his dad about his behavior." She growled.

Jacob nodded. It was a code for them needing to speak to Carlisle about something Edward had said. "You two ok?" He asked.

Angela smiled. "I'm alright. Bella looked like she was going to feint at first. But then she looked like she wanted to knock his head off. You ok Bella?" She asked.

Bella nodded. "I'm alright. He's just an ass. I don't know what I ever saw in him. Anyways. Angela, let me formerly introduce you to the biggest group of loyal idiots you'll ever find." She grinned.

A chorus of "Hey" met the girls ears. Bella giggled. "Ok, so there's Jacob. He's mine and completely off limits. Then you have Seth Clearwater, Collin Littlesea and Brady Fuller. They're all two years younger than us if you can believe it." She snickered when Angela's eyes went wide.

"Next to Brady is Quil Ateara. He's a huge child. Him and your twin brothers would get alone wonderfully." Bella told her dryly.

Angela giggled. "Don't be so mean Bella. I'm sure he's not that bad."

"Angie… he jumped off of a two story building roof into a pool just to say he could fly." She told him dryly.

Angela bit her lip and nodded her head. She giggled when Quil huffed. "There's nothing wrong with being an adrenaline junkie!" He sniffed.

Bella rolled her eyes. "And last but definitely not least is Embry Call. Don't not take him being quiet for him being shy. He's really sneaky and too clever for his own good sometimes." She said.

They watched her appraisal of him, each of them smirking when they saw her mouth slowly drop open. For his part, Embry stood quiet until she raised her eyes to meet his. Just like that, everything else faded away for the two of them. Their eyes were locked in a staring contest that neither felt overly inclined to break. A content rumble escaped from Embry's chest as he stared at his mate.

Bella hugged Angela at the same time Jacob and the other wolves all clapped Embry on the back. Their trance was broken. Angela looked away and blushed and Embry gave her a shy grin. "Well then. Come on Angela. I need to call Emily and Kim and see if they can make it over. If not I'm sure the guys wouldn't mind chilling with us for a few hours before they go off to work."

Jacob shook his head. Bella was good. "What's going on?" He wondered.

Angela sighed and looked down. Bella hugged her, offering her a shoulder to lean on. "Ben broke up with her today. I told her she could come over to mine so she didn't have to be alone."

"Sure. We can come with you. I'll send a message to Jared and Sam and ask them to get a hold of Emily and Kim for you." Embry said quickly.

Bella smirked. "Thanks Em." She said as they walked out of the front doors of the school and towards their cars.

The ride home was quiet as each girl sat lost in her own thoughts. Bella was thinking about every word of the brief conversation she had had with Edward at school. She knew deep down that he wouldn't leave her to go see the Volturi. He didn't want to involve them in his personal life. With a sigh, she pulled into her driveway and turned the engine off. Jacob's rabbit and Harry's -now Seth's- white ford F-150 pulled in behind her.

"Sam and Jared said they'd come over with the girls. Paul and Leah are working already." Quil said.

Bella nodded her head. Paul and Leah were on patrol in other words. All the better. Angela didn't need to meet the two most volatile wolves of the pack just yet. While Bella may have found a way to take them, no one outside of their small circle had done the impossible just yet. Bella rolled her eyes and ushered everyone inside when the front door was unlocked. She busied herself in the kitchen after demanding Angela pick a movie out.

Jacob wrapped his arms around her and placed a kiss to the back of her neck while she was busy making a pitcher of sweet tea. "Are you ok? Really?"

"Yeah. He didn't try to enthrall me. He actually tried to threaten the pack. He told me about the Volturi. Supposedly they are vampire royalty. One of them hates werewolves. He hunted them to almost full extinction. Edward said he would go to him and tell him he learned that I was alive but that I was being held against my will and being forced to think you were my mate." She huffed.

Jacob shook his head. "I'm sorry honey. I should have been there. But… that's the other thing. Quil imprinted too. He told us about it while we were in the parking lot. Her name is Nicole Bowen."

Bella turned around in his arms with a smile on her face. "I bet he's not too happy. He was all set to follow in Paul's footsteps." She snickered knowing full well all the wolves in the house could hear them.

"Yeah, well… he'd never made eye contact with her before today. She's really sweet. She's a lot like you actually. We all share the same English class. We're having a bonfire this weekend for her. You should bring Angela too." He told her picking up the three large bowls of popcorn.

Bella placed the pitcher of tea and glasses onto a tray and carried it all into the living room. Jacob followed her and got settled on the couch. "So what are we watching Angela?" She asked.

"I was thinking of the Notebook. But then the guys all came over. So I put in Fast and Furious. It's something that Ben never likes. And I like the cars." She said with a shrug.

Bella grinned. "Awesome." She snickered when her friends all nodded in agreement.

Half way through the movie, Bella felt Jacob's hand moving down her side to her upper thigh. She glanced over at him and shifted around in her seat briefly. He was playing with fire. She rolled her eyes when he merely grinned. When his hand began traveling closer to the heat between her legs, she closed her legs tightly, trapping his wandering fingers between her thighs.

"Come with me." He whispered before standing and heading outside. The wolves all knew better than to follow. Even if he didn't show it, they knew how close to the surface his wolf still was highly incensed over Edward confronting Bella again.

Angela arched an eyebrow at Bella. "Is he ok?"

"I think he's still upset that Edward won't leave me alone. He knows it bugs me. And he wasn't there today to buffer anything that was said between us. I'm gonna go talk to him." Bella said before throwing a pillow at Quil. She smirked when he pouted. He knew what would more than likely happen- they all did.

Once she was out the door, Jacob had her in his arms. She was partially right. He had been worrying about Edward. But the racy scenes in the movie had his mind wandering and his wolf begging to claim her then and there. He crashed his lips to hers before she could ask him what was wrong. When he let her up for air their eyes were dilated with lust and need.

Bella stepped away from him and held her hand out to him. "Come on. I wanna show you something." She whispered.

Jacob followed her to the back of her house where a wooden shed stood sentinel. With an eyebrow raised in question, he watched her walk over to the shed and open the door. Both eyes raised to his hairline as he saw inside. Bella had been a busy little beaver it seemed. Gone was the clutter. There on the floor was an old mattress with fresh sheets over top of it. Next to the mattress was a box of condoms. Even though she was on birth control, she didn't want to take a chance just yet. Jacob grinned.

"I found the mattress when I was out here cleaning the other day. I just moved all the boxes that were in here to the garage for right now. I guess… with the pack in and out of here so much. This is a place for us. For night now. Just somewhere we can hang out and talk without too much interference.

"It's awesome Bells. It's not the Taj, but it's ours. Now come here." He grinned when she sauntered over to him. "Stay here for a few minutes. I want you to see something."

Jacob grinned. "Sure honey." He agreed.

Bella made her way into the shed and made quick work of the clothes she was wearing. She pulled the sheer babydoll teddy from her book bag and placed it on quickly. When she was ready, she lay down on the mattress, her body propped up on her elbows. The pose was seductive and sexy.

"Jake?" He heard her and grinned. When the door was opened he stopped and stared openly, his eyes raking down her scantily clad body. He nearly purred as he crawled onto the bed and over her body slowly. As he advanced on her, he forced her to lie prone again, watching the lust growing in her chocolate eyes.

Bella worried her bottom lip as she watched the wolf in him rise to the surface to almost completely shut the human part of him out. She allowed herself to be coaxed back against the cool cotton sheets that covered the mattress by his larger than life form. Her breath hitched slightly when she felt his teeth graze over the juncture of her neck and shoulder.

"Right there, my gorgeous mate. That's where you'll carry my mark until the day we leave this life." He all but purred.

"Jake…" It was a breathless whisper, but the way it was said, in that way- in that voice- sent shivers of lust through Jacob's body.

"Bella." He nearly hissed when her hands found their way shyly under his shirt. His lips crashed into hers, eliciting a low and approving groan from her.

The thin babydoll teddy she was wearing did little to hide her shapely form from Jacob's lusty gaze. The sheer material only added to his excitement as he stared down at her. He groaned close to her ear when he felt her shift under him, their bodies touching briefly. He felt her breath against his skin as his hands behind tracing a path up her body, reaching her thighs and then bringing the night gown along with them.

He kissed the newly exposed skin, taking the same path his hands had shortly before. His wolf was almost purring in his chest at the scent of his mates arousal. The sounds she was making were almost enough to drive him over the cliff of bliss alone. When Jacob stopped at her wrist and stared at her scar, Bella felt hot tears of shame pricking at her eyes. She bit her lip and closed her eyes tightly trying to shut the pain away. She started to sit up, pushing him away as she turned her head, trying to hide the tears that had fallen down her cheeks. She was stopped gently Jacob's thumb brushing them away from her skin.

"What's wrong?" He asked her.

"We don't have to do anything you know." She said quietly, trying to hide her scar from him.

Jacob's eyebrows knit together in confusion. "Bells, what are you talking about?" He asked wiping another stray tear from her face.

"You're not mat that I didn't tell you about it?" She asked him.

"Knowing what really happened to you? Not a chance." He answered with a slight chuckle. "We all have scars Bella." He added with a kiss. "My wolf is more furious that you were put in that position in the first place. That tick kept you under his thumb for so long. I'm so glad you finally woke up."

He allowed her to pull his shirt from his body, her lust reborn tenfold as she ran her gaze over his toned muscles. The predatory grin returned when he felt her fingers roaming over the expanse of smooth tanned skin. She complied when he pulled her nightgown slowly from her lithe frame. Goose bumps formed across her skin as her naked body was exposed to the cool air and Jacob's hungry eyes.

He groaned staring at her. "You're so damn sexy." he whispered before kissing her hard.

Bella broke their kiss shortly after it started with a pout on her lips. "Jake, you're being unfair." She said playfully.

"Oh yeah?" He asked as he arched an eyebrow.

"You are." She said with a quick nod before pulling him back over her prone form. She grinned when she elicited a quiet hiss from him as she dragged her nails down his back.

"Care to enlighten me as to how?" He whispered so low she wasn't sure it was still him she was talking to and not the wolf in him.

"Well, here I wearing nothing.." She nipped at his neck, eliciting another quiet groan. "And there you are, still half dressed." She whispered against his lips.

Jacob nodded his grin was almost feral. "I see your point." He said pinching her left nipple between his thumb and forefinger. "I'll have to remedy that then, won't I?" he asked replacing his fingers with his lips and teeth.

"God! Jake." Bella gasped, her back arching into the man above her.

"Something wrong?" He purred as his fingers played her body like a finely tuned piano.

Bella was getting drunk off of the lust coursing through her body. It was intoxicating, making it hard for her mind to clearly think of a way to turn things into her favor. Almost instinctively, she raked her nails down Jacob's back. The lust in his eyes increased tenfold, a hiss of pleasure escaping his lips as his body trembled with excitement. Bella's grin turned feral. That was it. Pain was his pleasure.

"Yes," He hissed quietly. "…how'd you know?" He whispered shakily.

"Your eyes gave it away. I just thought that with you being a wolf, you'd appreciate a little pain with the pleasure." She replied digging her nails into his waist slightly.

Jacob chuckled, his eyes dilated with lust. "Only you Bells would think of someone else's pleasure when you're supposed to be the one taking it." He muttered, his teeth nipping her neck.

"I'd say I'm sorry. But I'm not. I want to please you too, Jake. I want to watch your face when we fall over the edge of pleasure together." She muttered with a gasp as two of Jacob's fingers slipped just inside her wet pussy.

Bella's lithe form arched against him as his hands teased her core. Gasps of pleasure escaped her lips and pleas for more caressed Jacob's ears in breathless whispers. Her nails assaulted his back as she spread her lightly muscled thighs apart, allowing him to settle easily between them. He muffled her groans by capturing her lips in a searing kiss as he continued his blissfully sweet torture.

Jacob grinned and removed his pants before settling once again between Bella's thighs. His hands and lips were all over her skin as he settled his naked form comfortably against hers. His arms trembled with the effort it took to not just take her then and there. He wanted to draw the pleasure out. He wanted to see her reactions to his touch. He wanted to see her in the throws of passion.

"Jake, please." Bella cried in pleasured frustration.

His nose ran the length of her jaw to the shell of her ear where his teeth then worried her ear lobe. "Please what?" He purred. He and his wolf both were entirely too pleased with her reactions to want to stop what was going on.

"Don't tease me." she growled out in frustration.

Jacob's hips began to thrust gently against hers, teasing her core, pushing Bella's senses to their limits. It was a coy game of cat and mouse, each trying to outlast the other as long as they physically could. He and his wolf agreed they wanted her as theirs- had been waiting for a long while. He was beyond thinking straight as his wolf whispered in his ear to claim her, make her his for the rest of their natural born lives. Images flashed of her belly, swollen with his child growing within her, of her face in the throws of ultimate pleasure, of her as she was just waking up. Without thinking of it, Jacob entered her tight pussy in one powerful stroke of his hips.

Bella's back arched into him, her nails clawing at his back as a loud gasp escaped her lips. Her virginity was well and truly gone, freely given to the man she loved. Even with the pain racking her body, she wouldn't change a thing. Jacob held her to him, one arm around her body, the other shaking in an effort to keep them balanced. He kissed her neck, giving her time to adjust to the suddenness of being filled so completely. Bella's nails left deep and angry welts down his back causing Jacob's hips to buck against hers involuntarily. She gasped out his name, a jolt of pleasure coursing through her body.

"Jake." She purred as her nails dug into his shoulders. "It's ok."

He decided he liked hearing his name spilling from her lips in her lust induced state. His hips began to move against hers, a harmonic dance of fluid emotion and rhythmic passion. The urge to fall over the edge of an increasingly growing wave of euphoric bliss was making itself blatantly known as they rocked against one another in perfect unison. The gentleness was replaced the farther they fell into lusts' embrace, passion swallowing everything but them as they continued their ascent into bliss.

"Fuck, Bella…" Jacob growled when she dragged her nails down his back hard enough to draw blood.

Before they knew what was going on, before either was conscious of it, Jacob had turned Bella onto her stomach and pulled her up onto her hands and knees. He dragged the head of his almost painfully throbbing cock against her sensitive slit three times as he tried to regain some control of his body. When he felt her relax, he slammed his hips back against hers, encasing his dick within her tight walls.

"Jake, please. Yes… God yes!" He head was thrown backwards in the pleasurable pain of the act.

Jacob had to smirk. "You like that Bella?" He asked stilling himself until he had gained control of his wolf.

She whined and looked back at him over her shoulder. "Claim me, Jake." She all but purred.

His pupils dilated with lust after hearing her demand. He pulled her body flush to his and growled in her ear. The new wave of arousal that flooded his nostrils has his wolf growling in ecstasy. The hair was pulled from her shoulder as he began an almost brutal pace with his hips. She cried out and tilted her head to the side when she felt his lips against her neck, his teeth scraping along the sensitive flesh. He could feel the wolf taking over. The need to claim what was his was too apparent.

Bella felt a massive wave of ecstasy crash over her as she arched against him when his teeth sank into the fleshy part of her neck. She had expected it to hurt, but she felt nothing but pleasure from the act. His hands gripped her waist hard, and he groaned as he felt her release and heard his name screamed from her lips. She felt his body shudder as his seed spilled deep into her womb before the collapsed into a boneless pile together on the mattress. The coppery smell of blood filled her sense of smell. She saw half moon shaped wounds on his back, made by her nails while she had been in the throws of euphoric bliss. The frown that was dancing across her lips was gently kissed away.

"Don't be upset. It'll heal in a little while. Besides. I loved it." Jacob whispered.

She hummed in response and moved to lay against him. They had done something so entirely wonderful. She couldn't be happier. She was the claimed mate of a wolf. She felt secure now, knowing that he'd never have another by his side. With that thought, she drifted off into a light sleep, content that her wolf would keep her safe from any and all harm.

An hour of rest had Bella waking with a smile across her face and peace in her mind. Her hand moved across the warm space in the sheets where Jacob had been. She opened her eyes when she felt the emptiness there. Sitting up, she found him quietly dressing. Shock passed in his eyes before he masked it. He hadn't expected her to wake up so soon. He crawled back over her grinning. Their lips met and Bella sighed placing one of her hands on his cheek.

"I have to go honey. Let me carry you back into the house. Charlie should be home soon. The girls are all here. Quil told the guys what happened… unfortunately." Jacob huffed.

Bella smiled. Like the pack mind, it was still something she would have to get used to in time. There were just too few secrets among the pack. She kissed his cheek and leaned over to pull her jeans back on, followed quickly by her shirt. "It's alright Jake. We'll be teased for a few days, but it'll be alright."

They made their way back to the house to find Angela asleep on the couch with her head in Embry's lap. Emily and Kim had serene smiles on their faces and the boys all had knowing smirks on theirs. Before they could say anything, Sam's phone alerted him to a text message. He sighed and looked at them.

"Seth, Collin, Brady, you three stay here. We'll be back soon." He told them. They nodded and made their way into the living room.

Bella grinned at Jacob. "Make sure you show them what happened between Edward and I in school today. I want Carlisle talked to about it. He needs to know what Edward was trying to do." She told him.

The wolves in the pack looked on in disbelief. Bella had ordered him to do something. If it were them, they'd not stand for it. Their wolves were too dominant. However, Jacob smiled indulgently and kissed her cheek. When they were phased, he showed them what happened, as well as why he had taken her command. His wolf was entirely too at peace for the moment. His mate was claimed and there was nothing more the leech could do about it.

Training was everything they expected. However, towards the end, Jacob intentionally let his thoughts go. Edward had just showed up and Jacob was looking for a fight. What better way to do that than to let him see what happened earlier in the day.

It perfect clarity, the wolves and Edward had front row seats to every gasp of pleasure, every moan, every whimper and every scream of his name. He gave Edward a challenging look, daring him to say anything to him. He wasn't disappointed when the vampires eyes blackened with rage and hatred.

"You DEFILED her?!" He screamed.

The coven as well as the pack stayed back, allowing Edward and Jacob to circle one another. Jasper told them this could be used as a training exercise and let it continue so long as no one got hurt. It wasn't too much longer before Jacob had Edward pinned under his massive weight, his jaws clamped around his throat. His wolf was itching to finish the job, but the man in him reined the beast in and let him go- reluctant as he was to do so.

Jasper cleared his throat. "I think that's enough for now." He told them. His own emotions were going haywire within his body. He needed to be in his room away from anyone who was as emotionally torn as his brother, or as angry as Jacob. With a sigh just shy of pure relief, Jasper watched the wolves leave as silently as they had come. Jacob would go back to Bella and Carlisle and Esme were going to take Edward hunting. Perhaps, even for an hour or two, he could find some peace of his own.

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Author's Notes:
Ok, not my best in my opinion, but it's finished. I'm a might bit stuck for the battle scene… looking for that one little shot of inspiration, going through all of my play lists but it might be a couple days. Please be patient. It's slow going, but I'll finish it, I promise y'all that.