Sorry this took so long. Major writers block. 'Nough about why this wasn't on time! On with the story!
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Casey POV
"We're going to have a party!" Alice announced bouncing in her chair.
It was Monday at lunch in Forks High's cafeteria. For the most part the table had been silent but that can only last so long with Alice around.
"For what?" Angela asked.
"Graduation!" she squealed.
"Alice, please no," Bella practically whined.
"But it's part of the high school experience," she pouted.
"One that I will be skipping out on," I muttered pushing the food on my plate around.
"Oh, no you don't Casey. You're going too."
"If she's dragging me along with it you're defiantly doing it too," Bella said.
"You really think Jake is going to be ok with that?" I said praying to Selene that they would buy it.
"I'll talk to the mutt about it," Alice said dismissing it with a wave of her hand.
"Alice, he has a name," I said just barely keeping the growling out of my voice.
"Why would you call him a mutt?" Mike asked.
"Uh, cause…" Bella stuttered.
"He's always getting Casey dirty," Alice pouted. She didn't like that some of the clothes she gave me ended up getting extremely dirty cause of me and Jake.
"He's not always the one who gets me dirty Alice," I said keeping my eyes down. Bella blushed along with Angela as Jessica giggled.
"So there's more than one guy?" Jessica asked.
"What? No! It just his friends kinda treat me as one of the guys so I get involved in a lot of their wrestling," I said.
"Sure you do," Jessica said smirking slightly.
"Whatever," I rolled my eyes at her. There would be a bit of gossip around the whole school that I was cheating on Jake with his friends by the end of school. "But anyway, I'm not going."
"Yes you are. I'm sure I can convince Jacob to let you come once I tell him that he's invited and show him what you'll be wearing," Alice said smirking evilly.
"What do you have planned you demented little pixie?" I groaned.
"You shall see," she said smirking. I pried into her mind slightly but saw a multitude of dresses and outfits and ideas for how to decorate the house for the party.
"I so hate you Alice," I said quietly enough that only Alice and Edward could hear me causing both of them to smile.
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"Jacob!" I called stepping through the door. "I'm home!"
"He just headed out Casey," Billy said wheeling into the room.
"Did he tell you what for?"
"He said that Alice wanted to talk to him about something," Billy said with a confused look.
"What? No!" I ran out the door and into the forest hoping to catch Jake. I saw him not to far ahead of me and the Cullen house just over the next hill. I yelled to Jake making him look back at me as I jumped on him, knocking him over.
"What the fuck, Case?" he asked confused once he phased back.
"I, uh, was sad that you weren't home?" my excuse came out like a question making Jacob raise his eyebrows at me.
"Case," Jake said looking at me dead in the eyes.
"Fine, Alice is planning a party and she wants me to go even though I don't want to and she was going to convince you to come so that I would come with what she'll force me to wear," I said trying to pout.
Jake laughed at me and stood up before helping me up. "Case, as much as I don't like the leeches, I know in a weird way they're your family and that you need to spend time with them."
What the fuck? "When did you become understanding about the Cullens and shit?"
"I just know that you love the lee… I mean Cullens and I don't want you have to make you choose between me and them," he said.
I raised and eyebrow at him, "You talked to Emily didn't you?"
"Uh, maybe?"
"Jacob…"
"Ok, I did. I just want you to be happy Case," he said looking down at the ground.
I stepped closer to him and looked up into his face, "Jake, I am happy. Stuff could be better, like no red-haired crazed bitch trying to kill one of my friends but I have you and the pack and the Cullens who know everything about me. I haven't had that in so long. I haven't been able to actually trust people and not worry about what I say around them since my family was killed."
He pulled me against his body and hugged me tightly to him. There was no space between us just as I liked it.
"Well we probably shouldn't keep the pixie vamp waiting," he said turning around with my wrist clutched tightly in his hand.
"Let go of me Jake!" I yelled digging my feet into the ground but because of his strength my feet just scraped across the dirt overturning leaves and dead plants.
"Not gonna happen. I want to see the dress that the pixie has planned for you."
He pulled me the rest of the way as I struggled and even at one point debated chewing off my arm in an attempt to escape but I knew that he would continue on and see the dress and make me go to the stupid party. When Jacob pulled me into the clearing that held the Cullen's house Edward and Bella were sitting on the porch laughing at me as I was dragged to the steps.
"Are you going to walk up them?" Jake asked me.
I sent him a glare that normally sent people running but had no effect on him. Damn, I'm losing my touch. He sighed at my look and instead hoisted me over his shoulder.
"Jacob Ephriam Black put me down right now!"
"Not gonna happen. Hey, Dr. Sparkles," Jake said to Carlisle. "Was she always really stubborn?"
"Yes," Carlisle said without looking up from the book that he was reading in his chair. "The Carlyle stubbornness gets worse with age."
"Then this is gonna be fun," Jake said with a smile in his voice.
Carlisle looked up from his book to give Jake a 'Are you serious? You have no idea what you're talking about,' look.
"Jacob! You're here! And you brought Casey!" Alice gushed jumping up and down in glee.
"Unwillingly," I grumbled.
"You're going Case."
"No I am not Jake. There is no reason to go. I've been to enough parties in my life."
"Please, Case. Just experience what it's like to be in High School. You only get one year of it. Please, for me," he pleaded, turning on the puppy dog eyes full force.
"Fine! But I have conditions," I said glaring back and forth from Jake to Alice. "One, I choose the dress I'm going to wear, you may pick out suggestions," I told Alice. "Two, you do not get to see the dress until the party," I directed this to Jacob. "And three, I get to help pick out Bella's dress."
Bella smiled at me from the couch she was sitting on with Edward and mouthed thank you to me as well.
Alice pouted but nodded in agreement while Jake looked put out over the fact that he wouldn't see the dress until I wore it.
"Hey no pouting," I said kissing his lips. "You get to take it off," I whispered so only he could hear which perked him up tremendously.
"It reeks of dog! Will some let it out!" Rosalie said from upstairs which everyone in the room except for Bella heard.
"C'mon Jake let's head home. See you guys later!"
I rushed out of the house with Jake in tow, both of us laughing as we ran back to La Push playing tag with each other. We finally got back to the house and collapsed on the bed still laughing like the silly teenagers we were before we fell silent just staring into each others eyes.
Jake started playing with a strand of my hair twirling it around his finger staring at it with such intensity that I wondered what he could be thinking about so hard. I was about to ask what was on his mind when his eyes went back to mine, silencing me.
"Can I see you?" His voice was husky, deep, sounding almost like a growl that sent shivers down my spine. I let myself slip into my true form and in an instant his lips were on mine, surprisingly soft and gentle. After a few seconds he pulled back, his eyes staring tenderly into mine. "I love you so much."
I smiled and reached out tracing a finger over each feature of his face. Over his strong cheekbones, his angular nose, his soft full lips that were perfect for mine to kiss, and his powerful jaw. Each individual thing wasn't perfect but combine all of it together and it was.
"I love you too," I whispered.
"Tell me about your home."
I jumped, his sudden statement startling me. The topic of home to me was hard. I really hadn't had a home since my family was massacred. The Imperial City wasn't my home, it was just a place that I lived.
"You're my home," I tried avoiding the subject.
He shook his head, "just tell me what the City looks like, what the people are like. Stuff like that."
I paused a moment thinking over everything trying to decide what to start with. The City was so complicated, such a long history. "I should start at the beginning I think. As to how the City started. Have you heard of Atlantis?"
"Course, I think everyone has."
"That's how it started."
"What?"
"Everyone said that the people of Atlantis were really advanced right?"
"Yeah…"
"They really weren't. They just controlled the elements. One day there was a threat that another country was going to attack Atlantis so the Queen at the time uprooted the island from the ocean floor and set the island afloat so it could move around the world."
"But I thought the Imperial City was a part of Japan."
I shook my head. "Japan just happened to be the only country that ever accidentally landed on our shores. It was complicated as to how that happened but basically Japan agreed to act as our surrogate, saying that we were a part of them. Of course all the world's leaders know the truth but they can never track us."
"Why's that?"
"Because, since we were able to travel all around the world, we were able to see all of the inventions that were being created and were able to skip steps that other countries had to take to get something to work. Now, we're so far ahead of other countries technologically that no country is a threat to us. We've been able to create a shield that blocks out all harmful rays from the sun, blocks out excess amounts of carbon dioxide, filters the rain so that it is the cleanest on earth and keeps radar from recognizing us."
"Wow," he breathed rolling onto his back to stare at the ceiling.
"The name of the island is actually Atlanticas and at the very center of the island is Silostia Mountain with the Imperial City at the top. Silostia actually used to be a volcano that created the entire island. There wasn't a city at the top of it until the island started moving. Then it was the best point to see where the island was heading so an entire city was built on top and it became the capital."
"That's amazing."
I nodded.
"So, the Imperial City is at the top of the volcano, but what's on the island around it?"
"Farms, other towns, things like that. It's not super populated. That's where the Impiadum was."
"What's that?"
"Where all Carlyle's lived. It was hidden deep in the forest near the steepest cliff face at the base of Silostia."
"Is that where they were killed?"
"Yes. Most of the time the royal family lived in the palace but the rest of the family lived at the Impiadum. I liked being there better. I didn't have to put on a good face, I could just be me." I closed my eyes remembering the sounds of children laughing, hearing my family greet me as I ran down the street. "I miss it so much. Jeala just had to ruin it all." Tears threatened to run down my cheeks but the faded as Jake reached for me and held me close to him, giving me his strength.
We laid there in silence for a few moments just reveling in each others presence. My banishment hung over our heads threatening to end at any moment, threatening to tear us apart. I pulled myself closer to him burying my face in his chest in a childish attempt to escape from reality. He reached down lifting my face to his. He stared into my eyes reading everything that I was trying so hard to hide. I could never hide from him, my soul was laid bare for him to read and used as he pleased, I would do anything for him.
"I'm here Faith, I'm here and I always will be," he murmured. He gave me a soft kiss lips, so soft, it was like a butterfly landing on my lips. "I love you."
"I love you too." I propped myself up on an elbow leaning over him. "I want to try something. Relax and close your eyes."
Jacob POV
I was curious as to what Case was up to but I laid back and closed my eyes as she asked. At first she didn't do anything but then I felt a single fingertip on the center of my chest. It didn't feel any different than any other touch would but then it started to grow warm, not hot but a pleasant heat that was soothing. The heat at fist centered around her finger but then seemed to branch out. It felt like when you walked through a spider web, very light, almost not noticeable but this was a warm spider web. Excruciatingly slow, she traced her finger down the center of my chest, closer and closer to my cut offs. Suddenly the heat hit my groin and the most intense pleasure I had ever experienced flooded my entire body causing me to grip the sheets and arch my back off the bed. She was at my belly button and I felt like I was on the edge of cumming. I couldn't take it!
I rolled over pinning her to the bed and crushing my lips to hers. Our lips were brutal against each other most likely leaving bruises but neither of us seemed to care. Teeth scraped against each other, hands roamed, bodies crushed together. I couldn't figure out where I ended and where she began. She flipped me over and straddled me, staring down at me with a predatory gleam in her eyes. I hoped to see that look in her eyes again when we could finally be together in every way possible. Her eyes slowly cleared and softened with a cocky smirk on her swollen lips.
"I'm guessing you liked that."
"What was that?"
"That's what happens when you boil blood," she said with an even larger smirk.
I growled and flipped her back under me. I planned on making her blood boil.
Hope you guys like it :) I loved writing about the Imperial City! Don't you wish it was real? I do! Leave me a line.
