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2025-02-25
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2025-03-06
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What could go wrong? Hint: a lot

Summary:

Jacob Black was a smart kid, everyone knew that. But if you asked anyone that had met him, they’d tell you that for all his smarts, he was rather dumb.
He could take apart an engine, clean it, then put it back together running better than new. Sue Clearwater watched him walk into a glass panel at the local grocery store, back up, frown at it and try to walk through it again. The automatic glass doors were three feet to his right.
Jacob Black was a sweetheart, especially with kids. But Lord was that boy worse than the devil when pushed.
He would play whatever game the kids on the rez wanted him to for hours on end, seeming to genuinely enjoy himself when he could make the kids laugh. Last week he paid a visit to the uncle of one of the kids he plays with. The uncle moved states the next day. He somehow ended up 16 broken bones. At least, that’s what they say.
Safe to say, Jacob Black was many things. Maybe that’s why everyone was both shocked and somehow completely unsurprised when he disappeared for a few months after turning 14 and came back with an infant daughter. Out there, yes, but not the strangest thing that’s happened. After all, this is La Push. Just another teen dad. What could go wrong?

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A lot. A lot could apparently go wrong.

 

Having been attacked by a Cold One as a child, Jacob Black shifted at three years old for the first time. His dad helped him learn to shift back. It took two weeks. The elders were told immediately afterwards. His sisters, Rachel and Rebecca, were told next, the 8-year-old twins having been staying with Billy Black’s friend Harry Clearwater and his family while Jacob and Billy ‘recovered’ from the ‘car crash’ that killed Billy’s wife Sarah and left Billy in a wheelchair. The rogue vampire that attacked them was played off as a drunk driver and subsequently brushed under the rug.
Billy was dealing with the loss of his wife, the loss of his legs, a toddler that once able to shift back into a human form, could not choose between one skin or the other, two 8 year olds who were way to smart for their own good who had decided that their brother being the only ‘cool one’ in the family was unfair and so they had to learn magic, and keeping everyone not in the know away from his family until he could get control. Let’s just say, it was a rough several years.
It had finally settled down. Well, as settled down as it can get in a family with a newly 14-year-old who, at this point, acted more wolf than man, two 19-year-olds who, somehow, taught themselves magic through the use of their ancestors texts and the internet, and a 40-year-old, wheelchair bound single father. But the point is, it had finally slowed a bit. And then his son had to disappear for three months and come back with a daughter. Who had Jacob knocked up? When? Well, actually, that last question is pretty self explanatory.
More importantly, why was said daughter, a barely a week-fresh wolf pup? Well, there goes a summer of peaceful fishing trips with Charlie. Hello grandparenthood.