Exile

8:Notes on an Almost Scandal

'A jealous wolf in human clothes? Jeez Jake, do you want to send her running to the hills screaming? Girls really don't dig the whole green-eyed monster thing especially not when the guy's like an actual monster.' – Embry Call

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He glared out the window studying the events outside with fanatic intensity: he didn't like what was happening- actually he didn't like it at all.

Because well, Seth giving Blair driving lessons-, he almost actually growled at the thought and had to use all the restraint he possessed to keep him from marching outside and dragging her back insidecaveman style-, which probably wouldn't only result in a very pissed off Blair-, something told him she was a bit too feminist to be dragged around like that.

He winched as the truck jerked a few times before coming to a rough standstill: judging from the anxious bouncing of his leg to the hammering of his heart he apparently felt distinctively antsy at leaving Blair in Seth's care. Okay he trusted the kid with his life and that of his pack but that didn't necessarily mean he trusted him with his imprint's life.

He'd wanted to teach her how to drive himself, but Emily had quickly vetoed the idea bringing up the Jared-teaching-Kim-fiasco to convince him that overprotective wolves could not teach their girlfriends how to drive without the imminent threat of a break-up.

Sure she had a point-, Emily always had a point-, but that didn't mean he had to like it!Because he didn't…like at all.

'So she just accepted it-, without question?' Embry asked snapping him out of his monologue; Emily had apparently just finished the tale of how he'd told Blair about the imprinting thing with Sam nodding every now and then in agreement and Paul's snoring in the living room as background noise.

'Yep,' Jacob answered popping the p, though his eyes still fixed on what was happening outside.

'Oh,' Embry muttered.

Oh?

Jacob tore his eyes away from Blair's general location to look at his friend: he knew Embry and he knew that tone: something was bothering him.

'What oh?'

Embry made a face, slumping back in his chair apprehensively: 'it's just kind of weird-, that's all.'

'Weird how?'

'It's just…she just accepted it like-, like it's thisnormal thing,' he muttered obviously mulling over everything he said. 'Look I know she's good with the whole supernatural thing but girls don't just accept the whole: I'm-tied-to-you-forever-thing without some hesitation and drama….I mean just look at Kim. Sheloved Jared before any of this wolf-stuff went down and even she lost it when he told her about the imprinting thing because she felt like he was forced to love her.'

Jacob frowned, feeling the onset of a headache knocking at his skull: he was right, Embry was always right and as much as he wanted to pretend he'd just been lucky for once-, deep down, he knew there was something wrong with Blair just accepting the imprint thing without question: this town just didn't do no-complications.

Sam let out a loud sigh. 'I hate to say this Jacob but Embry meet be right here: you two haven't even known each other for a week-, you've barely talked to each other and yet she's totally okay with spending the rest of her life with you?'

Way to make me feel better Sam. All he had succeeded in doing was making him want to bang his head into the table because yet again faith had totally fucked him over only this time faith had been sneaky about it and he still had to figure out exactly what was going on: just great…absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.