Jordan's POV

It had been a fun afternoon hanging out with Kim the two of us had spent the afternoon shopping while she attempted to talk me into getting a dress to wear on out double date on Friday which Sam had surprisingly said okay to me going to. There had been quite a bit of teasing going on after Sam mentioned this date to Spike as he kept telling me that he was going to have a word with Paul when he came to pick me up on Friday. Now that did freak me out a bit as Paul seemed to be able to take care of himself I don't know how he would fair in a battle of the mind with Spike. Yet I couldn't warn him. Which was the real bother about this entire thing. I knew he would be walking into an interrogation but there was nothing I could do about it the only one who hadn't gone through this when we started dating had been Clark but that had been because he was a special case being Ed's son made it funny. Although I had always thought that he should have been put through the ropes more but that was just my opinion the others didn't agree.

So we are now driving back to La Push all of our shopping finished and Kim had promised Emily that the two of us would help her with dinner tonight. It would be a nice idea but the boys seem to eat a ton of food each and every night that they ate there. But I wanted to see Paul and that is where he was so that I where I had to go.

I was looking forward to starting at the school on Monday though as I knew my way around but part of me still did want to have Clark be there beside me when I did enter the school in the morning. But he was starting at Forks High school and that was fine too.

It would be awesome to have a few friends in class and that is what I did have already before I had even started at the school really. I doubt that Kelly or Clark were this lucky but I did have a knack for finding people to get along with and that is how I had gotten a tour well that and my need to use up the energy that I had built up from the lack of a run in the morning and the plane ride to the other side of the country.

I smiled to Kim as we drove back to La Push. "Kim what is up with Paul and Jared were they working today?"

Kim shrugged. "I think they might have been. Jared just said that we should go out and then he told me about Friday so I was really happy to have that happen. Now I just have to convince you that a dress won't be so bad."

I laughed. "Ya good luck with that one, I wear about as many dresses as Jules."

Kim looked at me. "Jordan, can I ask you something?"

I nodded looking at Kim. "Sure, I am pretty open about almost anything."

Kim sighed as we pulled into the laneway to Sam and Emily's house. "I've noticed that you will sometimes mess up and call Jules that instead of mom and Sam that instead of dad. If you don't mind me asking I was wondering why."

I looked over at her feeling a tear come down my cheek. I had always called them that ever since the day that they had taken me in. "Habit I guess. They aren't really my birth parents. But can we not talk about that. I don't really want to be crying when we walk into the house."

Kim nodded pulling me into a hug. "I am sorry for whatever happened to you."

That got to me. I couldn't help it. I opened the door looking over at her. "I don't want your pity and I don't need it either." With that I took off away from her running down the road.

It's true that I didn't know the area that well but this was going to be a million times easier to deal with if I didn't have to deal with someone who really didn't understand the situation. Sam and Jules were going to have my head though for me taking off. Wasn't sure what Paul would do, probably yell at Kim for making me cry then come after me. That thought made me smile though. Paul was nice but there was something about him that caused me to want to be with him on a daily basis. I couldn't pin point it but when we were together everything seemed calmer. Like he was holding me to the earth and part of me needed him. After a few minutes of running I found myself at the beach. One of the guys was there just walking around. When he spotted me he smiled.

"Jordan?" He asked as he walked up.

I nodded wiping the tears away that had managed to have fallen while I was running.

He walked up pulling me into a hug. "You've been crying. Are you okay? Did Paul do something?"

I shook my head. Both of the answers were no so hopefully he would catch on. But for the life of me I couldn't remember his name.

He reached into the pocket of his cut offs and pulled out his phone. He looked down at me smiling slightly. "Jordan, who did this? Who made you cry?"

I shook my head. I didn't want to answer him. I didn't think that Kim had done it on purpose I think it just kind of happened.

He put the phone to his ear. I could hear Paul answer on the other side of the phone.

"Embry, what the hell are you doing calling me I just got off patrol."

Embry that is what his name was. "Umm …" He scratched the back of his head. "Paul, Jordan can hear you."

His voice had softened to the point that I couldn't hear it.

Paul's POV

It had been a busy patrol. There were a ton of new smells plus I had way too much energy. Jared was constantly thinking about what we could do on Friday night with the girls. About half way through the day Sam came around saying that there were weird smells around his place. We did go and check it out finding a blood sucker. Naturally I had been worried about Jordan until I realized that she was in Seattle and then she was going to Port Angelus to go shopping. So it was all safe and we did take care of the one thing that we needed to have taken care of.

So I was at home sleeping, the girls were going to be helping Emily make dinner so I figured that Sam would call us when they got there because he didn't like to be the only one told off for trying to kiss his imprint. And although the imprint was so new for me it still caused me to need to kiss Jordan. I loved just holding her in my arms, Monday was going to be hard. The school had a no PDA rule and Jared had always said that it was a royal bitch to follow. But he had found ways around it and he had said that he would show me how so it was all good.

So I was fast asleep when my phone rang. I immediately recognized the number as Embry's, oh boy he was going to get a piece of my mind for waking me up.

"Embry, what the hell you doing calling me, I just got off patrol?" I shouted into the phone. There was no one home at my house so no one could hear me. I was hoping he was alone too.

"Umm… Jordan can hear you." Was his only reply to me.

Shit, I didn't want to tell her about everything yet. I quieted my voice speaking really softly. "Okay what's going on? Is she okay?"

"I don't think so; I mean she has been crying. We are down at the beach. Paul, I don't think she is okay but she won't say what happened or who did it."

I shook my head pulling on a pair of sweats, realizing that this is probably what had woken me up from my sleep. "I'll be down there in a few minutes unless you can get her to my house."

"I can try, but I don't think she will come. I can try to get her to Sam's place or to her house."

I nodded grabbing my keys. "Her house works. I'm stopping by Sam's to pick up some dinner and to ask Kim what happened. So help me if she did something to Jordan."

I could hear Embry ask Jordan where she wanted to go and she just said home.

"I will meet you there. Don't leave her. I will get Emily to save you some dinner." I hung up the phone hopping into my truck.

It was a short drive down to the house and when I got there Sam was outside waiting for me. "Kim, didn't mean anything by it Paul, it was just a question."

I shrugged. "What did she ask?"

"Something about her calling Sam and Jules by their first names. Next thing we all knew she was taking off out of the yard."

I nodded to him walking into the house. Kim was curled up on Jared's lap. He was sitting there speaking quietly to her. "I will talk to you later. But first I have to go make sure that Jordan is okay."

Jared glared at me. "Dude it isn't her fault. No one knew how sensitive your imprint was about her birth family. Do you even know what happened?"

I shook my head at him. "No and frankly she will tell me when she is ready to do so. Until then I am content allowing her to keep that secret. I do know it was a really dark time for her. Other than that she hasn't said much. I do know she doesn't talk in the morning until she takes this stuff that smells worse than Jacob's feet. She has had it rough, I know that. I know she also has scars that stretch down her back from her shoulder blades. And there are ones on her wrists you can feel if you touch them. If she didn't call them mom and dad wouldn't you think that there would be a pretty good reason for that?"

Everyone just looked at me. I stomped off into the kitchen looking at Emily. "Is there any way you can make me up two plates, one for Jordan and one for me. Then get Sam to hold dinner until Embry gets back he is with her right now."

She nodded to me. "Are you okay?"

I shook my head running my hands through my hair. "I don't know to be honest with you Emily. I mean it feels like my heart has a million daggers piercing it. I know she is hurting. I could feel it the second I woke up. It was the first ring that I picked up on when Embry called me. I don't even do that when Sam calls me. I knew she was in pain and now I just want to get to her and make it go away."

She nodded to me scurrying around the kitchen grabbing everything that we would need for a picnic at her house. She handed me a basket with everything in it. "Go to her Paul. Don't worry about Kim or anyone here. You can deal with them later. Right now Jordan needs you to be there with her she needs to know that you care about her and that you will be there for her."

I nodded grabbing the basket hugging Emily. "Thanks for this." Turning around I walk out of the kitchen and back into the living room. Everyone was still where I had last seen them. Jared was still quietly talking to Kim. I guess she was a little upset. Jared pulled me outside after setting Kim down on the couch.

"Paul, that wasn't fair what you said to Kim. She didn't mean to make Jordan cry."

I sighed, nodding. "I know Jared. But it was like that time that I made Kim cry and I didn't mean to remember how pissed you were at me for doing that?"

He nodded. "How is she or do you not know?"

"I don't know and right now I am trying to get to her but I keep getting held up. So could you please let me go so I can check on my imprint? Like I can feel her pain right now, and I know that something is killing her inside and I know that her parents aren't in town right now so she can't call anyone except the people at the SRU where her father works."

He nodded at me smiling. "Okay well go see her. Let her know though that Kim didn't mean to make her cry, please."

I nodded taking off for my truck. "Okay, Jared I will. But we are going to have to talk as I will need to know the way to get around the No PDA rule on Monday morning."

He nodded going back towards the door. "We will discuss it tomorrow, no worries."

I nodded again. "Okay well I best be off as I am sure everyone is getting hungry and I asked Sam to wait dinner for Embry until he gets here tonight." With that I took off in the truck racing down the road towards Jordan's place. When I got to there they were outside, Embry didn't have his car here so I'm guessing that they walked from the beach. I nodded to Embry. "You can go back to the house if you want we should be fine here."

He nodded. "Can I talk to you for a second before you go in privately please, Paul?"

I handed the basket to Jordan, nodding towards the house. After she was safely inside the house I turned to Embry. "What is it?"

Embry looked at me, "Paul, when she was crying. When she looked up at me and her eyes weren't the normal colour. I'm not saying that they were from a vampire colour but they weren't the green they are right now."

I looked at him. "Have you ever seen something like it before? Like are we talking the way Leah's get? Or is it something different?"

Embry looked at me. "I am going to show Sam when I get back to the house and make Emily hold dinner and see what he thinks. But Paul I have honestly never seen anything like it before."

I nodded. "Text me and let me know when you find out anything, I will keep my phone with me for the rest of the night. Also, let Jared know that I do forgive Kim, but she needs to apologize to her when they see each other again."

Embry nodded and left taking off for the woods. I half thought that I should call Sam right now and tell him that he should get Emily to stall dinner even more. And with that thought I sent him a text knowing that he would have his phone on him and that I could text him back and forth easily through my own dinner I was having with Jordan.

'Sam, Embry is on his way over he needs to see you outside, he will explain when he gets there. Let me know what you find out'

With that I slip my phone back into the pocket of my jeans and walk into the house. She is sitting on the couch in a ball crying. And my heart crashes down. Rushing over to her, trying my best to hug her when she pushes me away. Her eyes look up at me and yes, they are red from the crying but they are also purple. Forcing myself to stay still I meet her eyes with loving ones. She is my imprint and already that feeling is so much there.

Before I could stop myself, I had to ask. "what happened? Are you okay?"

She nodded blinking a few times as her eyes wandered back to the normal green that they were when we first met.

"Paul sometimes this just happens, I want to kill Kim for asking the question that she decided to ask me while we were in the car today. Like wouldn't it make sense that if I don't call Sam and Jules mom and dad that there is a reason for it. But NO, she had to go and ask. Push matters because what she was curious. I haven't had a perfect life like you guys. And now Sam is texting me saying that I need to talk to a counsellor here too. I was hoping that I could skip that here, not have to do anything about my past but apparently the courts are still having a say." She took a breath looking at me. "Sorry I just had to get that off my chest. Your phone is blinking though."

I pulled out looking at it, pressing the talk symbol. "Emily made us dinner why don't you go set it up in your room we can have a picnic in there together and talk about. I have an idea about your issue with counsellors."

She nodded. "Okay" picking up the basket and headed to her room. I could hear music playing in the background as I put the phone up to my ear.

"Sam, you found something?"

'Yes, those eyes aren't normal Paul. And neither Jacob nor I have ever seen anything like it. We are going to keep a close eye on her.'

"Okay Sam. I'm going to sit down and have dinner. But can you do me a favour, call Sue and see if she has any time open this week?"

'Do you need to talk to her this week?'

"Not me, it is for Jordan. I can explain it to her when she calls but if you can call her that would be great and just TEXT me the information."

'Okay I will do that, you two have a good evening. I want to eat dinner.'

With that he hung up. And I walked into the room where Jordan had a sheet on the floor and was curled up with a blanket covering her lap and had put a movie on the tv in her room. I sat down beside her handing her a plate that she had made up.

"So, movie first then we can talk to each other about this other thing. Sam is sending me the information for the thing and if she can meet up with you this week."

She looked at me for a second before starting to eat. "So how was work today?"

I smiled at her eating my food. "It was good, we had to help down at the lake for a while so it was wet and cold but alright. Jared pushed me into the water and was asking questions about our night last night together." Glancing up for a second I was gifted with seeing her blush slightly.

She pushed me away playfully. "don't say that." She looked down. "What did you tell him?"

I laughed for a second. "Not much. Just told him that we watched a movie then your dad put you to bed and I stayed on the couch."

"Okay" She turned away from the tv putting the movie on pause as she put the dishes away not touching any of the desert that Emily had put in the basket. "So, what is the deal? You know a counsellor that I'd be okay with?"

I gulped nodding. Only Sam, Emily, Seth, and Leah knew that I was seeing someone about my anger issues. Seth and Leah only knew because it was their mom that I was seeing. "Sam was going to see if she had a chance this week that you could go over and meet her."

Jordan immediately started shaking her head. "Nope. I'm not doing it. I don't want to talk to someone who is trained to deal with stuff. I'm fine, why can't anyone see that?"

I nodded to her. "I'm sure you are fine. But listen what will happen if you don't talk to anyone. You said something about courts in your ramble earlier. Will they really do something if you don't talk to someone about what ever happened?"

She glared at me for a second, I could see a little glint of purple coming to her eyes ever so slightly whatever it was it wasn't really human in some ways.

"They will come and take me and force me to talk to someone, if I keep quiet they have the right to hold me in the hospital, or a jail cell."

I hugged her tightly if they did that I wouldn't be able to do this so I had to prevent it. "Then listen, there are 3 people on the reservation that you can talk to, the one at the school is a complete ass believe me I got through about 2 minutes with her listening to her tell me that she knew exactly how I felt. That is when Sam had suggested me talking with Sue and she does help. Just let me introduce you two this week. I'll take you over there after school and you can sit and talk to her while I go to work and then she can drive you over to Sam's place for dinner that night?"

I pulled out my phone and seen that Sam had gotten back to me with a message. "It's Sam I'm going to see what it says okay?"

She nodded as I opened the message looking at it reading it out loud.

"Just got off the phone with Sue, she was with Leah and couldn't talk for long. She has an appointment that she can see someone on Monday at 1:30 this would mean missing class but the power is there to do that. Give her a call and let her know if that is okay, as it is tentatively blocked in until morning as it is she will be up until 9:30pm. Don't make it too late you have work at 7:30 tomorrow and are expected here for breakfast at 6 with Jordan."

"We are expected for breakfast. Paul, I don't know. I mean that would mean you taking me over to Spike in the morning to get him to give me my meds, are you ready for that?"

I nodded to her. "Kim probably wants to apologize to you about what happened today. I know you probably don't want to talk about it but she did really feel bad. When I went to get dinner from there she was crying about it."