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JACOB POV

Her hand held his wrist…she brought her elbow down braking his arm . It hung in a disfigured way. She looked up at him…I could see her from here…her eyes a bright yellow flame…glowing.

"My turn." She seethed before dragging her hands to his throat pushing him up against a tree.

"This cannot be." He sputtered the words through his bloody lips. Then what happened next made my wolf go frozen in utter terror. She ripped his head off with her own hands, a blanket of blood surrounded her and the trees. She looked over her shoulder at me, this was not Aleara…something in her was alive stirring. You could tell by the way she looked at us, checking to see if we were a threat to her. When she realized who we were, she looked up to the sky. I watched her know intently, the glow was dimming from her eyes returning them to normal color. Then all the sudden, her eyes rolled in the back of her head and her body started to collapse to the ground. My instinct kicked in at I saw my imprint laying lifeless on the ground. I ran towards her, realizing I had already shifted to my human form.

"Aleara…" My hands were shaking as I picked up her head. "Aleara!" No response…Seth appeared behind me. My heart became sickened with dread. No pulse. No hear beat I couldn't hear it. She wouldn't come too. Leah and Embry stood back with Paul. I heard Leah whisper.

"Come on…" Furiously, desperately as angry tears fell down her cheeks.

"Aleara!" I held her to me…her head fell limply back. I pulled my ear to her chest. Nothing "Aleara!" I shook her body…she wouldn't wake up. I leaned in over her body giving her mouth to mouth, then pumping her chest. "Come on baby…wake up…come on."

I started to run my hands over her blood stained clothes. I was going hysterical. Her face had blood splattered all over it. Leah turned her face into Paul…he looked down at me, his eyes filled with the purest emotion I had ever seen on his face, and yet I couldn't place it. I shifted my eyes to Embry. He only turned walking around with his hands on his head. I looked at Aleara …my love, my darling. She looked lifeless. I raked my fingers threw my hair. This couldn't be happening. I picked her up in my arms…her head falling back, her arms falling limply where ever gravity lead them too. I realized in this moment I was crying. I looked up….

"Please…" I whispered. THUMP…we all stopped and looked at her, I slowly sat her back on the ground. THUMP…it hit again. Thump…thump…thump. I let out a breath that I hadn't realized I had been holding. I saw the steady fall of her chest. I put my hand on her chest to feel...to make sure. Her hands jerked to the side of her. Suddenly she slung forward. A blood curling scream ripping through her throat. I suddenly realized she was screaming my name.

"Jacob!...Jacob!" I grabbed her face yelling over her as loud as I could.

"Open your eyes Aleara!" She finally calmed down a little bit.

"Th...the wolves! Th…they…and you." Her body was trembling. I brought her head slowly into my chest, shushing her softly. "Th…man. Red…rrred eyes." She sputtered words in shock.

"I know…I know baby, your safe…your safe." Then she was out again. Her head was laid softly against my chest. I picked her up.

"Embry, Leah take care of the vampires." Paul and Seth flanked me as I took off running. The closer we got to the reservation the more my shame and regret wavered in my conscious. Soon so soon Jarred and Sam had joined us. I knew that they silently were going through our thoughts, what we had seen. But as I ran to Aleara's house, I realized the pack has never traveled so silent…the forest had never seemed so silent. I looked down at her in my arms…my heart ruptured with sorrow. How could this have happened? How could this be possible?

The memory of her ripping that blood sucker's head off replayed distastefully over and over again in my head. I ran up her front steps and through her front door. I ran to her master bathroom before sitting down on the toilet with her safely in my lap. It made me uneasy at how weakly her head fell from side to side. I slowly started to pull her clothes off, when I reached her undies I decided against it. I reached over and turned the water on testing it to make sure it wasn't too hot. I couldn't stand seeing her covered in blood I wanted it off. All of it. Moisture fell on my hand and I realized I was crying again. I angrily wiped the tears away and waited for the water to fill. I looked at her, beautiful she was my beautiful. My beloved. My wolf was on edge inside. I had never felt this way before. I lowered her into the water…she started to mumble incoherently small bits and pieces of words that I couldn't make out. I took a soapy rag and started to bathe all the dirt and dried blood off her skin. I picked leaves and debris out of her hair. She had goose bumps all over her body. I knew tonight would be a long night.

THREE DAYS LATER

I watched her closely, never leaving her side. Emily and Kim would come every now and then. My body felt like it was in chains. Every time someone entered the room, I had to pull my chains tighter around my wolf. I often growled or stood protectively over her. Then if he was really in a mood he wouldn't allow anyone to enter. I often times had to fight the instinct to rip someone's throat out that touched her. I reran what happened nights ago over and over in my head. She was helpless; there was no way I could have gotten to her in time. If whatever happened wouldn't have happened she would be gone, lost from me forever. My heart broke over again every time I thought about it. I put my head down on the bed beside her. She did more damage to that vampire in two seconds than one of our pups could have managed in three days. In an odd way, it made me proud. She was my little wildcat.

KNOCK…KNOCK….KNOCK

I couldn't help the rumble that built in my chest and soon vibrated in low growl in the room. I tightened my chains some more on my wolf.

"Jacob…I know you don't want to leave her…but Sam and the boys would like to talk to you, we will watch her while you are gone." Emily's small voice came from behind the door. I instinctively squeezed Aleara's hand. It was hard for me to push my wolf aside and be reasonable…he didn't trust anyone when it came to the safety of his mate. All he saw was his mate on a bed hurt and not waking up…defenseless, vulnerable, and he refused to let anyone hurt her any more.

"Come in Emily." She quietly came in and Kim filed in behind her.

"If it's ok with you we would like to bath her now and change her bedding." I hovered over her form…trying to hold back the thought of picking her up and running away from everyone with her in my arms. "Or we can wait outside until you get back then you can watch or help us do it." I looked at Aleara, so peaceful looking…almost angelic with her features. Her golden luscious hair spiraled around her like a halo. I gritted my teeth.

"No Emily I will leave you to do whatever you see fit." I forced myself to walk out of the room. I stopped when I got to the end of the stairs breathing deeply. I could hear all the voices and their rumbling owners as I sat down on the bottom step not exactly ready leave her, or confront the tribe.

"Unkie Jake!" I turned to the tiny girl running from the open living room to me. Instantly I forgot about everything for a moment.

"Hey Claire bear." She jumped into my open arms.

"Is she awake yet?" Claire asked innocently with anticipation.

"No Claire, not yet." She wrinkled her nose.

"Well she must be having dreams…probably a really nice dream… where she is a princess and she doesn't want to wake up." I chuckled at her innocence.

"Maybe your right…how did you get to be all by yourself in here?" She smiled mischievously.

"Qwil gave me a bag a skittles and said I could watch all the Hello Kitty I want if I stay in here and be quiet till you are done talking." She put her finger over her mouth as if to signal that it was a secret.

"Your secret is safe with me." I winked at her and patted her on the bottom as she scrambled back to the couch. I huffed realizing I could no longer hold off seeing my pack as well as Sam's. When I entered the kitchen, I immediately saw my plate full of food that Emily had left me. I walked forward and started eating as they all seemed to slowly seize their conversations.

"How is she?" Seth was the first to ask.

"She started mumbling, but hasn't spoken…has yet to even roll over or open her eyes so honestly her heart beat is normal, so is her breathing and I hope that is a good sign she is ok." They all looked at me for a moment. "As Alpha I want to take this time to talk to my pack as well as our brother pack." I looked to Sam his gaze held steadfast on mine. "No one is responsible for what happened to Aleara…"

"Jake…you don't…"

"I mean it." I cut Quil off sternly. "She is my imprint, it's my duty to protect her, and I failed. Most importantly I am Alpha of the pack and sole responsibility is mine." I finished my food after three bites and pushed my plate aside. "I would now like to express my thoughts as far as this attack. There were two vampires, one caught us by surprise. My guess…" I shrugged. "Simply that his power was to cover his sent, however I refuse to believe that the only reason they were after Aleara was because of the outfit she wore." Leah looked down as if ashamed she had apart in it. "Leah… look at me." When she looked back up there was water rimming her eyes…Paul reached out and took her hand. "Leah it was not your fault."

"I shouldn't have pushed her to wear that outfit Jake…" She spoke with tears laced in her words.

"Leah I will not have you thinking that way, do you understand? It was not your fault." She nodded quietly. Sam cleared his voice.

"How about we focus on how your imprint ripped the head off a vampire." I looked at him and stood.

"I know we are brothers Sam," I looked at everyone else in the room "Same for all of you…but I warn you now…if you so much as utter a syllable against my imprint…or refuse to do what you can to protect her from harm because of what happened in the woods that night…I will rip your throat out myself." The room got deadly quiet. The pack feeling like a pack taking heed to their superior. "Whatever reason they had for coming after Aleara must have been a good one…my gut as a wolf tells me that that was just the beginning."

"What if she lied about the scars that were on her stomach?" Paul asked perfectly at ease.

"That is true, there has to be a logical reason for this…" Jared sorted out with his hands crossed under his arms.

Seth stepped in defensive over his best friend. "Listen, we don't know how long it will take for her to wake up…we don't know what's going to happen when she does…we just have to be patient."

"Listen, sitting up there staring into the face of someone I let down has made me do more than think. And what I do know is we have slacked off a lot since the Cullens left, the hell with the fucking Cullens…our duty is to our people. Two vampires snuck up on us…in our town. That shouldn't happen…When I first turned, I was young… I thought of this as a curse, that my life was being chosen for me. And I apologize for not being the leader I was destined to be." I turned looking into our younger wolves faces'. "I thought the same of the woman who was hand crafted for me…and now she lays lifeless in a bed."

"Jake…" Embry came forward putting his hand on my shoulder. "Don't be so hard on yourself…you're not the only one who would have reacted the way you have…after what you've been through." I looked at him.

"That's no excuse. What we have is gift…a gift of survival…to have a fighting chance to protect those we love. Vampires are our enemy, how can we fight a force that is so strong when we ourselves are so weak?" Everyone looked around at each other. "We need to pick up the path that has been laid before us…carry it with honor…this is our land." Low growls rumbled through the room. "We will protect our land…we will protect our people at any cost."

"Jacob!" Emily yelled for me. I took off running up the steps, my heart quickening in my chest. I slung open the door almost knocking it off its hinges. I immediately looked at the bed…and there she was…Aleara. Her body completely still her eyes open…and glowing as she spoke softly while looking to the ceiling.

"What is happening?!" I yelled as I knelt by her side.

"I don't know…it almost sounds like she is speaking a different language!" Emily grabbed her arm checking her pulse; she grabbed her face looking at her eyes trying to see if she could do something to stop her.

ALEARA POV MEAN TIME

It was dark…I wanted to wake up but I just couldn't make myself do it. Then suddenly I was spiraling to a different scene. I stood surrounded by woods.

"Hawkeye are you ok?" Bracken…that was Bracken's voice. His young face came into view, he must have been 17 at least. I saw my father follow behind him into the clearing…oh my father…seeing him in this memory made me miss him even more. I walked over towards them, however they weren't looking at me, they were looking at something behind me. I turned…there I stood 6 or so…I was sitting on a rock, and beside me was my mother. I couldn't help the tears that swelled in my eyes, the last time I had seen her was when I was 8. She looked down at me moving the hair out of my face.

I remember this memory; this is right before the grizzly attacked me. Suddenly I was jolted to a different scene…I was in a corridor, it was warm. The sun snuck through the windows.

"Victoria..." The voice boomed down the halls. I turned around to see a huge man. He had a full beard. Black and scruffy…his eyes were yellow…pure golden yellow. I looked around me. Surely he wasn't talking to me. When I looked back at him he was smiling…there was a golden woven crown upon his head. "Come here my Victoria…." In one of his hands he held a necklace…a golden heart locket; it was fairly large with a red, red, ruby in the center of it. I recognized that necklace from somewhere…I just couldn't place it. I took a step back.

"Who are you?" I whispered. He didn't have time to answer me. My surroundings switched again; suddenly I was jolted into my living room. I saw myself laying on the couch…I smiled at this memory…Jacob was rubbing my feet. This was the night we had decided to become friends. Suddenly his face changed he started growling…his body started to convulse…I covered my eyes. No this can't be happening. When I heard the rip of flesh I uncovered my eyes.

"JACOB!"

"I'm here!" I was surprised to hear his voice yell back at me. I tried again.

"JACOB!" I yelled out in fear.

"Aleara, I'm right here….look at me." I felt his hand brush my check. The haziness left my eyes. All the sudden his handsome face was in front of mine, those dark chocolate orbs swallowed me whole with their worry. I was here I was awake.

"Jacob?" I whispered.

"Yes…it's me." He said unsure of himself as he knelt to the side of my bed. I turned looking around the room…my eyes started to rim with tears.

"Oh everyone is here...you're all here…and I'm here, I'm awake." Seth started to smile.

"Ok, Hawk just for the record you are awake and yes we are all here." Leah elbowed him after his comment.

"How long was I asleep?" I looked over to Emily.

"Three days."

"Three days!" I jumped out of bed only feel Jacob grab my wrest, I looked down at my hand then back up to him.

"Aleara…I would feel better if you took your time…" He motioned for me to sit back down I did as he asked. Everyone became quiet.

"What happened? Did I have another spell?" I looked into his face anxiously. He looked somewhat surprised. He grabbed my hand.

"Aleara…what do you remember?" Everyone seemed to be on edge.

"What do you mean? " I looked around getting irritated. "Why are all of you so quiet? What is going on?" Jacob slid his thumb across the top of my hand. Emily came across the room to me.

"Aleara, I know that you may feel disoriented, but close your eyes and focus," I did as she told me too. "What is the first thing you remember?" I tried to focus…

"Jacob, he was mad at me….we were bowling." I felt him put his hand on my knee. "I was mad at him…we went outside."

"What else do you remember?" I heard Emily ask again.

"We were talking…we decided to try us…or figure us out or something like that…" I got embarrassed talking about this in front of everyone. I felt my cheeks flame.

"Yes…" Jacob's soft voice assured me…hearing him caused me to open my eyes. I looked at his grinning face. Oh God he was so deliciously handsome. But looking at him seemed to make me jolt into the scene that happened nights ago.

"Hooded man…vampire …rrrred eyes." I couldn't help but tremor over the words. Jacob grabbed my hand.

"I know it's hard Aleara but take your time." I nodded at him before continuing to close my eyes.

"We ran…I was in the woods…" Everyone seemed to shuffle uneasily. I felt the hair stand up on the back of my neck. "Wolves!" I jumped up on my bed and backed up to my headboard. "Huge fucking wolves!" I pointed at all of them. For some reason I couldn't form a sentence let along control my fear and surprise. I saw how their faces fell. "You lied…all of you lied to me, Seth...Leah? You…you and Jacob….How could you keep that from me?"

"Aleara…we were only trying to protect you." Seth mumbled as he leaned into the wall. Without another word I jumped off the bed and ran to Leah and threw my arms around her.

"Thank you." I spoke in tears. "Thank you…all of you, for protecting me." Leah slowly and awkwardly returned my hug. "Embry, Paul, Seth…get your asses over here!" I whispered vehemently. Embry wasted no time in starting what looked to be a group hug.

"AW…Hawk your welcome, but next time…don't waste your time with your gun. That doesn't really work on the undead." I laughed at him as he joined me and Leah.

"Yeah and next time…for the greater good, let's not dress like a slut either." Paul refused to hug but bumped my shoulder with his fist which to Paul that was like a hug.

Seth shook his head at Paul as he hugged me. "Paul…unnecessary." I turned and looked back at Jacob.

"Um guys let's give them some time alone." Emily started pushing everyone out of the room, which I was very thankful for. As soon as they closed the door Jacob walked over to me. He engulfed me in his arms and picked me up.

"Aleara…I'm so sorry I lied to you…" After kissing the top of my head he placed me back on my feet.

"It's ok Jacob, I understand. So was this what you had to tell me…you know that you weren't ready to tell me." He looked at me for a moment as if he was debating on something and couldn't decide.

"Well, yeah…I just couldn't find a way to tell you 'hey I'm a wolf"." I smiled at his words.

"Ok, I trust you…but don't make me regret it." He looked at me surprised.

"Are you sure?" He seemed in disbelief that I would follow him so easily.

"Jacob, I know your past leads you to believe that a girl will string you along, not give you an answer for certain, use you, expect things from you." He looked down at my words and I simply scooted myself into his lap and clasped his face in my hands. "But that's not me, I'm not Bella. If you need me to wait…then that's what I'll do, if I need you to wait then that's what you will do. Just know that I care about you, and when I say I am in this…you should have no reason to doubt me." He nodded slowly.

"You know you being in my lap like this reminded me of something I forgot to do." Before I could think of some clever witty thing to say…his lips were on mine, consuming me. They were the sweetest sin. I felt my head getting dizzy. The only thing that would register was simply that all I wanted was more. I twisted myself to face him I wrapped my legs around him. "Aleara…I don't think…" I put my finger to his lips and started to shake my head "NO".

"You're not going to stop me." I wrapped my arms around his neck. Oh God this felt so right.

"Is that a challenge?" He asked skeptically.

"You may have beaten me in our first combat fight, this one though, I'm pretty confident in my abilities." A growl rumbled through the room. My heart quickened with excitement, my stomach swirled with pleasure. He stood and flipped me on back.

"Are you saying you've had experience before?" His movements were so quick I almost didn't catch them, one second he was standing at the foot of my bed the next he was between my legs and something indescribably perfect was toying with me with soft hard movements against my core. My breathing hitched, my legs started shaking…and then what happened next was indescribable. Something was happening to me. My toes curled and I cried out in pleasure. I grabbed onto him grinding into him harder…Something in me was building in me. He reached down and wrapped his arm between my back and the mattress. With one flawless and smooth movement he lifted my neck to his mouth. He kissed and nibbled, leaving a fiery trail down my neck to the low cut "V" of my night shirt; He slid my shirt down a little and looked at me with the darkest most lustful stare I had ever seen in my life. That itself was enough to send me flying over the edge. I cried out his name, my hands clutched onto his back. My core clenched, quaking, begging to grab onto something that just wasn't there. My heart beat quickened. Wait … I just realized I couldn't breathe….My heart was hammering against my chest; I could feel it fluttering fast.

"Aleara…baby…" He pushed my hair out of my face. My body felt like it was on fire. "Shhhh…." He put his hand on my chest…when I felt the contact; I realized my body was shaking. "Aleara…look at me." My eyes locked on his. "You need to breathe; your heart is beating way to fast." I closed my eyes and tried to remember the rhythm and decided eventually to take a deep breath. Jacob got up letting me sit up, when I was able to catch my breath I felt my cheeks flame…I felt mortified. All I could do was look away. I couldn't even look him in the eye. I cleared my throat.

"Um…does anyone know where my cell phone is at?" He eyed me as if he had just seen a ghost.

"Aleara…" I jumped up off the bed.

"Don't say anything." I interrupted his sentence. "Just give me my phone." His face became irritated.

"I don't have your phone, it kind of got destroyed in battle." I turned to look at him throwing my hands up in the air.

"WHAT!? Oh no…no, no, no, no…that means I missed his Tuesday call." Jacob shrugged.

"I'm sure you can call him back, you missed one phone call, no big deal." I looked at him exasperated.

"Are you out of your FUCKING MIND?!" I waved my hands around in the air as if to try to make him understand.

"Calm down." He stood obviously not understanding why I was getting so upset.

"Don't tell me to be calm wolf boy! Once missed call from Bracken is like the unholy of unholys." I paced around the room. "Matter of fact he is probably on his way he..."

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!? WHERE THE FUCK IS MY SISTER?!" My body froze in mid-sentence…Bracken was here in La Push.

"Whoa man take it easy." I heard Seth speak up and I panicked because I knew it wouldn't do any good. I took off running down the stairs.

"Bracken, I'm here!" I stumbled as I ran down the steps. I looked up at him, expecting full wrath…and that's just what I got.

"Where the fuck is your phone? You missed my call! What always happens when you miss my call and you don't call back?! I gave you a whole day Hawk!" I heard Paul whistle in the background…yeah they didn't know what overprotective was when it came to my family. I looked around at everyone in the living room…what was I supposed to say? Hey I was out running from vampires and it resulted in a small coma. "Don't try to get out of it either; you're in big ass trouble. You better be glad I haven't told dad yet." Jacob stepped forward, I tried to get him to stop but he ignored me and held out his hand.

Bracken was fuming; he eyed Jacob's hand then looked back at him in livid anger.

"Hello Bracken, My name is Jacob Black I am Billy Black's son." Bracken's composure instantly changed, he smiled and I thought my jaw was going to hit the floor.

"Charlie Swann speaks very highly of you, I'm glad to know that my baby sister is surrounded in good company." Everyone somehow seemed to file out of my house at this point.

Bracken in La Push….what else can go wrong?

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