Mackenzie's eyebrow shoots up in question as she stares back at Jacob Black, who's looking at her as if she's sprouted a third eye. "Everything alright, Jacob?"
The sound of her voice snaps him out of his daze, but he still looks confused, conflicted even. "Huh?- Yeah, I'm fine. What about you?" He can tell that it'd been a long night. He'd been in the forest when the incounter with the red-headed vampire had given Harry Clearwater a heart attack. Jacob is aware of her closeness to the Clearwaters. He knows that Sue and Harry's youngest, Seth, is her best friend. They'd all gone through hell tonight. And, the pack would make the leech pay for it.
Mackenzie sniffs, eyes on the carpet as she sits down beside him on the couch, tucking her legs under her petite form. "It was a tough night. Harry- Mr. Clearwater had a heart attack." her voice cracks, "He didn't make it." She's going to cry. He can smell it, the salt of tears as they gather at the corners of her eyes, but she tries not to. She's cried enough already, she doesn't need to infront of Jacob.
"I know," he says and puts a comforting arm around her shoulder. "My dad told me." That's a lie, he hasn't gotten the chance to speak to Billy yet. Not between the chase in the forest, Bella almost drowning, and pixie-leech showing up. But, he already knew the outcome. The entire pack is furious. It's their job to protect people from vampires, and yet they'd lost Harry today. They'd failed him.
Next to him, Mackenzie is trembling, so he pulls her to him and she cries. She doesn't want to, but she cries. She should be there with Seth, but she can't, so she cries into Jacob's chest until her father comes home. Charlie asks where Bella is and Jacob tells him that she'd taken off with Alice, that she'd taken a bag. In the kitchen, she'd left them a note.
It isn't good enough. Something about an emergency, about Edward. Mackenzie is angry. Harry died today. The world is falling down around them and her sister has the gall to go gallivanting who-knows-where, after the asshole who left her. Apparently, Jacob and her father share her sentiment.
That night, Mackenzie tries to sleep. She really does, but she can't stop crying. She calls Seth, they stay on the phone in mostly-silence (interrupted occasionally by fits of crying on both sides) until finally Seth falls asleep. But, Mackenzie can't sleep. Instead she sits on her windowseat and stares out at the forest.
In the distance, the brush rustles, but she pays no mind, eventually falling asleep there. From the cover of the trees, a russet wolf looks out into her bedroom window. Mackenzie has gone to sleep-finally- though not in the most comfortable place. Jacob is tempted to climb up and tuck her in bed, but rethinks this. Probably not a good idea, He hears Paul cackle. So he settles for watching her sleep against the window until he faintly hears Sam ordering him to get a move on with their patrol, The longer you linger the later you'll get home.
With much difficulty Jacob turns around and takes back off into the forest. If he stays out too late he'll sleep all day. If he sleeps all day, he won't get to come see her.
Goddamn, Paul comments with a laugh, You've got it bad.
And, he really does.