Chapter Summary: Jacob exerts a little more control over Bella than ever before as they continue to stay buried beneath each other in the wake of an impending battle that was almost forgotten during their side excursion to Florida. Meanwhile, distressing news hits the pack and Bella must find a new way to cope with it.

*Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, but Taylor & Jacob are two walls that I wouldn't mind covering me at all.

Chapter XXVII Title: 'Knock Down Walls,' by Tonic

(BPOV)

Jacob curved his back toward the ceiling almost as soon as my chest arched forward to meet him. My uncontrollable panting was a sign to him that he was doing something right, but I knew he didn't need the encouragement or lacked the confidence. His movements quickened, making my body more excited to feel him so close, to feel him inside of me. He was so warm. He felt so good. My eyes closed as I gently laughed in his ear. His lips softly swept across my forehead and moved to the damper area of my hair. He then wrapped his fingers into it and pulled a little. I gasped at the extra warmth on my scalp. "Jake, don't tease me," I whispered. "I want to come again. Let me—OH!" My plea was cut off as I suddenly bucked forward and bit into my best friend's shoulder; I broke the skin.

I didn't surrender my hold until my orgasmic tremors began to subside almost a full minute later. My lips moved rapidly across his beautiful skin in affection and I tasted light bits of sweat on his body. My legs had their feeling return back to them and I moved them up and down his sides and spoke loving words in his ear. It took him only moments after to experience a climax of his very own. My stomach shuddered involuntarily in reaction to his sperm's heat invading my body, but I moaned pleasurably in his ear. My fingers draped along where I had just bitten him and it had already healed into a light pink scar. In less than ten minutes, it would be like nothing was ever there. Not even a mark would be left on his gorgeous skin.

"Perfect," I purred in Jacob's ear. "I'll be ready for round three by then," I said more to myself, but I left the open meaning for him to interpret as he pleased.

Jacob sighed suddenly and rolled off of me, careful not to hit or crush my limbs under his enormous weight. I swore he had grown again in the short week that we had come back home from Florida. More than once I had wondered just how I managed to keep feeding him without Charlie, Billy, and myself losing any meals in the process. Jacob blinked and elbowed his way across his full bed. We had had a queen in my mom's guest room, but I thought we did just fine with this. My bed was only a twin. My smile met his slight frown.

"We have to talk," were the next words that tumbled out of his mouth.

My good mood suddenly soured and I pulled his white sheets over the top half of my body. He left himself exposed. What did he care? I thought bitterly. He never got cold. "About what?" I snapped back, already knowing what he would say. I was already trying to think of an escape.

He looked hurt. "Bella, I want to be with you. I need to be with you. We've been doing this for awhile and I just don't—"

"It's only been a couple weeks. What's your rush?" I cut in.

"What's your hesitation?" He fired back. He then ran his hand through his slightly disheveled hair but softened his voice, "Sorry. It's just that I love us together like this, but it's not really right. This isn't everything that I could be for you. 'A roll in the hay?' Come on."

"It's not all you are and I know you can be more." I was debating whether I should close my eyes so that I couldn't see that amazing face, but I continued as if I had already turned away from him. "I just don't need anything more right now."

I felt his body tense at my coldness and watched him move to sit up. Jacob clenched his teeth. "What about what I want? This isn't the kind of thing I want with my best friend." His voice started to rise and I struggled to match his pitch. My voice was already shaking with anger.

"You weren't complaining just a minute ago when you were inside of me. And your other pack mates hoot and holler every time we come within close proximity of each other!" I shouted back. "They seem to think everything we do is fine!"

"I don't give a shit what they think about what we do! I care about you! And I wish you felt the same way as me," he declared, watching me.

"I do, Jacob." I defended. "It's just not what I want. I want us just like this. No pressure. No rules. No—"

"Commitment," he interrupted bitterly, giving me a taste of my own medicine.

My voice raised another octave. "You know, most sixteen year old guys would kill for something like this."

The bed moved violently when Jacob literally leapt backwards and across his tiny bedroom, to the doorway. "I AM NOT MOST GUYS! And you're not just another girl I want to fuck!" His fists banged into the wall. It vibrated a little and I saw tiny cracks appear from the impact. My eyes widened when I realized I had pushed him too far. "I'm in love with you! I'm not leaving you—ever! But you keep punishing me for his mistakes! That leech is the one who left you!" He roared and my very heart shook from the force.

I grabbed a hold of the bed's sheets to keep wrapped around me as I carefully reached for him and went closer to his side. "Jake, sweetie, calm down. Just calm down, okay? Please?"

He continued to shake. "Get away from me, Bella. I don't want to hurt you. Stay away from me." His voice became low and threatening. His eyes narrowed and turned canary yellow, turning into slits already stretching back toward his ears. His skin started to blister under my very touch.

"Honey, please. Relax. Calm down." I moved in front of him to rub his shoulders and began to kiss his neck. My tongue numbed a little after the third kiss. He was scorching, but I was sure I could calm him back down from the phase. I pleaded in a small voice, "You wouldn't hurt me."

Jacob's rapid breathing continued, but his eyes turned onyx black. I didn't feel him shake quite as much. "Bella, please get away from me. I can't calm down. I can't," he beseeched.

"You're doing just fine. Just keep going. Just feel me against you." I wrapped my arms around his neck and used my teeth more than my tongue and lips against his skin. I pulled at the sheet a little and my top was exposed against him. His eyes closed and a pleasant humming noise came from his chest and throat. His lips crashed into me as he pulled off the rest of my cover, placed the front of my body against the wall, and entered me from behind swiftly. I gasped in both longing and discomfort. I still hadn't gotten use to his size and I hated when he entered me too quickly, but seconds after he began to move and wrapped his arm around my waist, I wasn't up to dissuading him. I sucked in air through my teeth, feeling content as I felt his chest scrape across my back.

"Oh God, Jake…" His thrusts increased and I fought back tears with closed eyes and tightened fists. My hair provided very little cushion against the friction of the wall, but I didn't dare make him slow down. I didn't want to anyway. I came quickly and felt the liquid trickle down my thighs as his fingers pressed into my hips. I gasped again, this time from him holding onto me too tightly and he slowed down his pace finally. I felt his breath against my ear and his fingers push aside the rest of my hair to leave my entire backside and neck exposed. His chest left my back as his lips met the skin just under my rib cage and the heat continued to blaze as it trailed up my shoulders.

"Bella, I'm so sorry. I just want you so much."

Elation filled my heart. "It's okay. Its fine, Jake. Don't stop. Just don't stop."

I heard him breathe deeply as if he was hesitating and then I felt his sharp teeth sink into the very middle back of my neck. I shook against it, but he fastened my arms to the walls and kept moving inside of me. Surprise and fear clouded my thoughts as my legs clenched closed, but he slammed the front of his body against me, to reopen me to his liking. My eyes fluttered wide and glistened at the momentary pain, but my nipples soon re-hardened and my body betrayed me by giving into another climax. "J—Jake—?" Jacob's tongue quickly lapped over my neck, his hands reached to my front to cover my breasts, and my butt gently bounced off his warm, upper thighs, making my core vibrate. I suddenly fought to keep my eyes open; the pleasure was immense. My clit throbbed as he continued to enter and re-enter me, again and again, harder, softer, faster, longer, and then I was internally begging for him to never stop. What's happening?

I still felt his teeth in my neck's skin, but the pain receded. His hands lessened their grip and he quickly turned me to face him, lifted me with his arms, and entered me again from the front. Pleasure ripped through my body as it continued to cling to him, but my eyes searched his for an answer to what had just happened.

Tears were in his eyes as our bodies continued through the act of unrequited and unequal love-making and he kissed my eyelids closed with his lips. "I love you, Bella, I do. Please don't be mad. Please don't be mad."

"What did you do?" I trembled, afraid to look in his eyes again. My nails dug into my palms, beginning to shake a little as my lower body numbed from his heat. I could not be having another orgasm. I could not be having another orgasm, I screamed inside. Please don't do this. Please don't make me come again.

"I proved it." His admission made my mouth clamp shut, a breathy sigh getting the better of me as my body continued to defy my internal pleas to not give in. My head crashed into his naked chest, crying still. Our tears met each other's as we quietly orgasmed together. I didn't understand what had happened or why my body had acted with such desire to his ferocity, but I suddenly felt more like his that early afternoon than any other day.

It ran my blood cold.

Later...

I pulled over the side of the road twice to throw up on my way to the Newton's Sporting Goods store for a summer job application. I realized that it was a little late to try and look for a summer job, but I was intent on going to college in the spring and I would need more money than what I had initially been saving. Most of it was from wanting to buy a car when I moved to Forks, but fortunately Charlie had taken care of that last year.

My chest heaved in from the overwhelming feeling of guilt that tugged the back corner of my mind. Was I a masochist? Did I like it when Jacob got rough? I couldn't get over my feelings for Jacob's aggressive and dominant behavior. I was close to tears again when I my mind warped back to the way his teeth felt against my delicate skin or the way his fingers pressed into me as he increased his speed. I was sick. There was no doubt in my mind. Jacob was slowly taking over every part of me and soon there would be no more room for anything else.

I sighed as I walked out of my Chevy into the sporting goods store. Mike was working, but I my interview was with his mother. I knew Mike would be leaving toward the end of the summer for college so if I at least didn't get a job for the summer, I thought maybe I would be in the running by the time fall came around. My luck held out. Mrs. Newton actually wanted me for the summer and I would start next week at 11.

I drove back in silence. My prior thoughts of Jacob gave in my need for a distraction as I thought of his shoulders and the outline of his back as it towered over me. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have him. Maybe I was just scared that Edward would come back just as I was getting even closer to Jacob. I shook my head. Edward was not coming back. None of them were. They didn't care about me. They hadn't even surfaced when Laurent had come after me on behalf of Victoria. I was a fool.

My tires screeched as a loud thump came from my cab. I turned and swerved when a voice boomed, "It's me, Bella! It's Embry!"

I stopped the truck and turned all the way around. Embry stood in the cab with one knee elevated and gave me a small smile. "Dude, you drive weird. How do you stop in the middle of the road still after a swerve like that? Jacob needs to teach you how to drag race."

"What are you doing here?" I screamed, ignoring what he had said.

Embry lost his smile and grew serious. "Leech is in the area; possibly two. We smelled them a few miles back so Jacob sent me ahead. I'm not supposed to let you freak out. He said 'Tell her, but don't let her go after them.' You are pretty cool, but weird for a 'vampire girl' you know. Your boyfriend is weird too."

I didn't correct him with the proper term I had been describing Jacob with, but I rolled my eyes and looked around. Embry's nose started to flare and his hands sunk into the metal of my truck as his grip hardened. I felt bad for my truck and started to protest, "Embry—"

"Don't move," Embry warned. "Seth! Stay here with Bella," he called out to his left.

Another wolf, this one sandy brown, walked slowly out of the forest and gave me a friendly grin. Embry stripped out of pants and I closed my eyes too late, seeing more of him than I needed. None of the boys were very shy and these guys could choke a bull with their anatomy.

"Jeez, Embry!" I heard him laugh and then it turned into a wheeze as he phased. I shook my head remembering the first time I had seen Jacob's. Jacob was still noticeably bigger, but Embry's future wife wouldn't be disappointed either. I slapped myself for even thinking such a thing.

I paced in front of Seth and pulled on one of his ears. He didn't seem to care and stretched out in front of me. I flicked a small stone out at him and he rolled it back with his nose. These guys were really at ease with being giant wolves. Suddenly Seth turned and growled.

I didn't wait.

I ran into the forest almost as soon as the howls began. I heard Seth behind me, but either because of his lack of experience at being a wolf or not being use to having "Bella-duty," I was able to keep in front of him. I smelled something sweet and my speed increased. I knew that smell. The odor was distinctly of lavender and freesia. My blood began to warm as I was thrown off my path by a large furry animal. I quickly thought it was the creature back for me when I saw red patches of a coat push me to its side and between two trees.

Jacob growled at me in his wolf form. I knew it was a stern warning because I had gotten away from Seth. "I'm sorry, honey. I know that smell." Jacob wouldn't budge and continued with a low growl and backed me further into the tree. I huffed at him, "I love you, but I will get past you. Let me pass, Jake!"

His eyes enlarged and he looked around cautiously. He took half a step back as I continued to give him a defiant stare and pushed past him toward the scent. I heard more snarls as two figures stood in a defensive position, surrounded by three other wolves. I recognized Paul, Embry, and Sam right away. I knew there would be more wolves soon and I couldn't wait for them to catch up. I saw black, fairy-like hair with a small frame, and cute gray designer boots in the mud—Alice!

"ALICE! Wait! Don't hurt them!" I ran in front of the black wolf, Sam, and plunged into the arms of a still defensive vampire.

Alice wrinkled her nose slightly as if to be snooty, but widened her eyes in distress as I felt her cold arms cover me and meet my tearful gaze. "Bella, what the hell are you doing? Are you mad? These dogs are dangerous—"

"They were only protecting their land and Bella. It seems that we overestimated Bella's need for our help, sis."

I hadn't looked to see who the other vampire was, but now I was sure. I had smelled him not that long ago as I ran from Seth, but my senses had not yet caught up to me as I felt lifted by his voice and his golden-brown eyes. I shivered and became giddy. Light as the air and as stiff as the granite stone his skin was made of. "Edward."

"Hello, Bella," was his reply.

I shook in Alice's arms, but I wouldn't let go of her. I was too afraid of what would happen if my arms happened to be free, to wrap themselves around the best gift that God could have given me. Maybe Edward didn't believe that he had soul and maybe he would have taken mine had he turned me, but he had just saved mine by showing his face to me by letting me inhale his great scent and gaze at his flawless skin that sparkled even with the clouds. It was just as we were in the meadow, our meadow; the meadow where we had professed our love and promised each other to one another.

And then he broke that promise.

I heard two barks reemerge and I turned. Jacob was still in a defensive position and the silver wolf, Paul, was mimicking him. Sam and the others had relaxed, but again looked concerned as their eyes went from the vampires back to their pack mates.

"Forgive me. Where are my manners? I am Edward Cullen and this is my sister, Alice." Edward was cordial as he turned to the other wolves, including Paul. He lingered his gaze over Jacob. "Jacob, I believe we have already met. You were a good friend of Bella's when she came to Forks. I am glad she reacquainted herself with you."

Jacob snarled and took one aggressive step forward toward him. I let go of Alice and put half of my body in front of Edward and met Jacob's eyes. Paul dropped his stance, but Jacob held strong. Sam phased immediately and stepped in front of Jacob, naked. I looked away, not wanting to see any part of Sam that I didn't have to.

"Jacob, calm down." Sam's voice soothed me even, but Jacob still looked ruffled. Jacob shook his head and took a half a step more. "Jacob, not now. Not now. You will calm down." Jacob's head jerked, but his teeth were still bared.

I took a step toward Jacob to help, but Alice grabbed my sleeve, flinging me back. A roar echoed from my Jacob's mouth and Edward's still cordial smile flinched a little. "He's very protective of her. Let her go, Alice. He's calm enough."

"Werewolves are not good company, Edward. You know that." Alice then turned to me, "And you should have more common sense, Bella. You don't repel danger; you attract it."

I couldn't believe Alice was giving me a lecture with the love of my life, my very attractive and angry best friend, a naked Quileute, and four other wolves watching us very carefully.

"What is this about anyway? Why are you on our land?" Sam was back down to business.

Edward's smile turned wider. "It's not what you think. We were not feeding. We bring you news of what you have been hunting; Victoria is hunting Bella. And she brings a few surprises."

My blood ran cold again.

Late afternoon...

"Jake, calm down. You have to calm down." I reached to pull on Jacob's fur, but he jumped out of my grasp again. I sighed and put my hands on my hips. We had about an hour left before we had to meet with the other members of the pack and the Cullens and Jacob wouldn't phase back to talk to me. I had tried talking quietly and I tried yelling. The only thing left that I could have done was taken off my shirt to grab his attention, but my heart lacked the mood. "You have to talk to me, Jacob. Please? Just relax and phase back. Let me hold you—"

Jacob barked harshly at me and his fore legs pushed the dirt to create a little wall mound between us. I hissed at him, "I love you, you miserable canine, but you are really pushing my nerves. Phase back or I am leaving, Jacob." He stared at me and whimpered. "I swear it, Jacob. I will leave," I threatened again. Jacob panted loudly and shook his head. He looked sad. My anger waned as I started to worry. "Can you phase back? Are you that upset?" Jacob nodded. I sat on the porch step of his house and beckoned him. He approached me slowly and rested his head on my lap and I gently rubbed behind his ears and kissed his nose a dozen times. By the time his other pack mates had walked over to pick us up to go to the meet with the Cullens, Jacob's human head was still in my lap. And if any of them saw the tears that had caked up on his perfect russet skin, no one laughed. Not even Paul.

*A/N: Have a great New Years! I'll post again within the week I get back. Thanks for reviewing!