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A/N: This starts from the end of chapter 3 in Jacob's POV
CH. 16 My Tribe Has Lost Their Minds, I'm the Only Sane One Left.
JB POV
2006
She shook her head furiously and tried to get by me again. I reached out and grabbed her hand. She let out a screech, but I didn't let go. I wasn't going to let her leave without a fight.
"Jacob!" a voice boomed from the forest edge and Sam stepped out with Jared and Paul behind him. "Let her go."
"Sam, stay out of this." I turned towards him but didn't let go of her. Why couldn't he just butt out?
"That is an order, Jacob Black. Let her go, you're hurting her." Sam ordered, my body reacted and I let go of her hand without wanting to. "Now let her leave."
"Let the leech come for her if he really wants her." I glared at him. I wanted a fight; I was itching for the leech to break the treaty.
"She wants to leave; we will not hold her here. If Edward Cullen comes for his mate then the pack will stand down as long as he does no harm to innocents." Sam shook his head.
"She is not his mate and he would be breaking the treaty." I argued back. She was mine, I loved her. That leech has brainwashed her, if he wanted her it would be a fight to the finish.
"By your provocation, we won't stand behind you." Sam crossed his arms.
"You would let me fight alone?" I was angry. The pack should stand together against the bloodsuckers and he was willing to sacrifice me and Bella.
"You would lead your brothers to a pointless fight when she has already chosen. Step aside." Sam ordered. I stepped aside against my own will, I hated that he could control me this way. Bella glanced quickly at Sam and gave him a smile. Sam gave her a stiff nod in return. I couldn't believe my own brother would let a leech take an innocent like this.
"Bella, if you have chosen the Cullens I must ask you, like them, not to come here again." Sam asked with no emotion in his voice. What! He had to be kidding. I wasn't going to give up. Not until I drew my last breath, I just needed more time.
"I don't have any plans to." Bella glared at me, I could tell she was furious with me. Or perhaps it was with herself, since she refused to accept that she loved me too.
She got in the overpriced vehicle and started it. I scowled as she drove off. I turned to phase and chase after her.
Before I could move, Sam placed a hand on my shoulder to stop me. I shrugged him off and glared at him. My own brother had betrayed me.
"That is enough, Jacob, you have to let her go." He said firmly, but it wasn't an order just advice.
"Never, he's going to hurt her. And you're just going to sit by and let him do it." I spit angrily.
"All I have seen is that you're the one that hurt her and forced yourself on her." He answered crossing his arms in front of my chest.
"Deep down she wanted me to kiss her." I insisted.
"The fact that she hit you and kneed you speaks otherwise." Sam retorted with a scoff.
"What, are you having me watched or something?"
"No, Jared saw the mindreader's Volvo and alerted us then he followed it. I got here in time myself to see it." He informed. "I heard her make her choice, were you even listening? You've expressed to her before your feelings but she still is choosing the vampire. She told you her feelings for him. In fact she ran off to Italy and faced the worse of their kind for him. She has always kept you in the friend zone, though you tried to get out of it. It's time for you to accept her decision."
"I'm not going to give up. Do you know what that leech is going to do to her? We are protectors, we have to stop it." I growled starting to shake.
"We are protectors, yes. However you're acting vindictively and out of spite. If she didn't want him then we would step in, but there is no evidence of that. She seems to be in sound mind to me." Sam spoke with a stoic look on his face.
"You make it sound like we won't stop her from being changed." He remained silent.
"Unbelievable! That would break the treaty." I hollered loud enough that birds took off from the tree around us.
"Do you think she would suddenly love you if you killed him? She would never forgive you for that." Sam pointed out. I scowled and looked away into the trees.
"Even if she did choose you, what happens if you imprint on someone?" I turned back to him.
"Won't happen," I shrugged.
"You can't control that. I couldn't, neither could the others. You would hurt her just like I hurt Leah." He said softer. "Let her go. It's the best for both you."
"You know I could take over as Alpha and then the pack will take care of the Cullens." I sneered at him.
"You will have to kill me to do so. I will not hand over the pack to you when you're thinking this way. Are you prepared to kill me, Jacob?" He pulled himself up to his full height and glared into my eyes until I turned to scowl into the woods again.
"That's what I thought. It's time that you grew up, Jacob." He stormed off to the edge of the woods.
"Stay with him, don't let him go after her." He ordered someone.
After enjoying the silence for few minutes I looked up to see who was charged with babysitting me. Quil was standing awkwardly nearby but not saying anything.
"Do you agree with him?" I asked. He at one time was my best friend.
"On some things." He admitted, slipping his hands into his shorts. "Jake, you did force that kiss on her and she didn't like it." I sighed, okay so that wasn't the best idea I had.
"She does love me though. I know she does." I grumbled.
"But she loves him more. Maybe if he wasn't in the picture you would have a shot." He sighed.
"So that is why we kill him or you could do it." I gave him an imploring look.
"Are you out of your mind? I'm not going to break the treaty for you. You saw how messed up she was when he left. What do you think would happen if he died? She might not survive that." Quil looked at me as if I was crazy.
"Some friend you are." I snapped.
"I am your friend. That is why I'm trying to stop you from making a big mistake. Sam was right about the imprinting too. Do you think I had plans to imprint on a toddler? It just happens." Quil snapped back. He scratched his head and looked away for moment.
"Look I am sorry that it blows, alright. If I could turn back time to stop the Cullens from coming here or so you could've met her first I would."
"Maybe we could." I spoke slowly forming an idea in my head.
"Now what are you going on about." Quil looked at me weirdly.
"Your grandpa still prepares wood for vision quests, right?" I asked.
"I think so," Quil frowned. "But what does that have to with anything?"
"We need to go see him?" I walked off heading to his house.
"Jake, wait up. What are you planning to do?" Quil caught up with me.
"We may not be able to turn back time, but maybe we can show her what life is supposed to be like." I grinned liking the idea more and more.
"How do you plan to do that?" Quil asked.
"Send her on a vision quest." I answered as we entered his house.
"I don't think he's here. Your plan is crazy anyways." Quil mumbled.
"Where does he keep the wood?" I ignored his doubt.
"Out back in a shed." Quil sighed and continued to follow me.
I found the shed and opened it. There were several logs of driftwood piled in a corner.
"Has that been prepared?" I asked him.
"I don't think so. It has been awhile since anyone went on one." Quil leaned against the door of the shed.
"Prepare it for me then," I turned to him.
"Are you crazy, I don't know how to do that?" Quil scoffed.
"You can. The Shaman runs through your family line." I insisted. "Come on please, Quil. I need to try and save her from that leech."
"I don't like this, we should run this by my grandfather or Sam." He shook his head.
"We don't need them. You're supposed to be a friend, help me out. I will take the blame if they do anything." Quil groaned and disappeared. I stepped out of the shed to watch him disappear into the house. He reemerged a moment later carrying an old leather book and leather pouch.
"I have no clue if I can do this right." He gave me a pointed look.
"It's worth a shot." I grinned realizing I had won.
"How do you even plan on getting the wood to her anyways? She doesn't plan on coming back here." He asked stepping around me into the shed where he selected a few logs.
I thought about it.
"We can find the path that the Cullens use when going on their hunts and you can place it on it. We leave the logs on it. When blessing the wood ask the Spirits to make the wood irresistible or something to get it to her." I shrugged.
"And the Cullens? What about them, don't you think they will flip out to see her go into a trance like state?" Quil asked.
"Let them worry." No skin off my nose.
"For the record, I still think this is a bad idea and isn't going to work." Quil opened the book and the pouch.
"Just do it." I ordered.
I smiled as I watched him start to sprinkle the wood and muttering to the Spirits. It wouldn't be long now I thought. Soon Bella will be mine and the leech will be all alone, like it should be.
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I awoke with a start. What had gone wrong? She was supposed to have chosen me.
I wasn't sure how I ended up back in time too, but once I did I worked my hardest to assure that she chose me. I had met her first, so the connection should have been made between us. I even tried to phase so I could try to imprint on her. But nothing happened.
She seemed to have her memory and was hell bent on finding Edward. Despite me trying to sway her towards me, she seemed to despise me on sight and kept a wall up. She wasted no time getting back with Edward so I had to wonder what the point of this was.
"What happened?' I growled at Quil who was slumped against the wall across from me.
"What happened is that you went messing in areas you had no business in?" a gruff voice spoke.
I turned to glare at my father and the other elders as well as Sam.
"Jacob Black, you had no business trying to invoke the Spirits." Old Quil's cold eyes rested on me.
"It didn't work anyways. The Spirits didn't show her that I was the better one." I scoffed.
"You think that you can control the Spirits, young one?" Old Quil questioned.
"Of course not," I grumbled.
"The Spirits shows us what we need to see, not what we want to see." Old Quil informed me.
"I can't believe that she belongs to the leech." I hissed.
"Well, you have to learn to accept it. The Spirits have decided her true path is with him." His eyes narrowed. How can he think such a thing?
"You realize that they will change her." I glanced at him then at my father. My father looked solemn.
"Then we must respect the path her life is supposed to go, even if it's with heavy hearts." My father sighed. "We aren't protecting anyone by trying to stop it. Altering the path that the Spirits have chosen can result in death."
"She would be better off. We would be doing her a favor." I mumbled. "At least I will be able to kill him for breaking the treaty."
"You would be lucky if they don't claim that you have broken the treaty first or should I say again." Sam spoke up. "Those logs also affected the Cullens."
"How, that would mean they have souls?" He had to be wrong.
"So it would seem. Perhaps that is why they chose their diet to be animals." Dad spoke he looked to be thinking hard.
"They are still monsters." Have they all lost it?
"The Cullens are not our enemy and we will not fight them." Sam spoke with clear authority. It was obvious that my father and the elders agreed with him.
"This is unbelievable. They have bewitched you as well. I'm out of here." I stood up and raced out of the room. I phased and ran into the woods.
"Jacob," my father yelled behind me.
Since several of the other members of the pack were in wolf form they saw everything that had happened on my journey.
You could have killed Seth. You idiot! Leah was biting at the mouth.
Wow, I can't believe she pushed me out of the way when she knew you were phasing. I feel bad she got hurt because of it. Seth was amazed she risked her own life for him.
It's her own fault anyways. She was fishing for information. Paul growled.
It's Jacob's fault. He's the one that did this. She wouldn't have fished if Jacob wasn't up to no good. Leah hissed. She was firmly on Bella's side.
Of course I'm on her side. First, you force yourself on her then you do this to her. You are lucky she and Seth really didn't get hurt. If you don't leave her alone, I will kick your ass for her.
Bring it, bitch. I was in no mood for her attitude.
ENOUGH! Sam broke in. The timber in his voice prevented us from speaking again.
Jacob, you will leave the Cullens and Bella alone. We will not help you fight them.
Feeling betrayed I had to get out of here. I took off running for the Canadian border.
Come back, Jacob. Embry was trying to meet up with me
Let him leave. Sam told him. Come back when you can think with a clear head.
A/N: The first part of the chapter was right before the vision quest at the end of Bella's visit. The second part when Jacob woke up from the vision quest.
As soon as he phased the other wolves saw the vision quest for themselves. So Leah would have seen Bella risk her own life to try and save Seth from getting hurt. Jacob was the only one that went on the vision quest from the tribe.
Since the Spirits have spoken the tribal elders are going to trust their judgment.
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Preview:
"What do you know about Victoria?" I hissed taking a step closer to him.
"I don't know who you're taking about," he spoke narrowing his eyes.
"Yeah, I think you do," I insisted. Shit, he must be the mind reader.
"Yes, I'm the mind reader. Might as well talk we have our ways to get the information out." I glanced quickly at Jasper to play with the boy's emotions a bit.
(Did you forget about her? She isn't gone in this reality.)