ππππππ πππ ππππ πππππ π ππππ π ππππ πππ π πππππ ππππ, Catherine didn't think she'd ever been this close to physically harming him, but the amount she'd been cut off was frustrating.
"Yeah kind of like that." She muttered under her breath as she folded her arms over her chest, her words quickly snapping Jacob out of his stupor.
"I'm sorry, Bunny, but you have real bu-" Jacob almost immediately apologized as he saw how upset he'd made her, but at this point, Catherine was over it.
"Bunny ears coming out of my head," Catherine cut him off once again, this time not out of spite she was honestly getting tired of him repeating himself. "yeah, we bunnies made a deal with a witch for a more controlled shift."
"A witch?" Paul spoke up as he tilted his head down trying to get a gauge of whether she was messing with them or telling them the truth.
"Yeah," Catherine nodded her head as a small dopey smile came over her face, letting the four men around her know she was telling the truth. "she was so nice, not like the stories at all might I add."
Once again the room went silent as the men just stared at the young bunny girl, none of them once again knowing what to say to the new supernatural information.
No Elder in the Rez had ever mentioned witches, they were seen as fictional amongst the already fictional creatures, so hearing someone they thought wasn't a possibility bring it up.
They knew it was true.
"So I guess I picked the best nickname all those years ago." Jacob joked/flirted lightly as he wrapped his arm around Catherine's shoulder, his words causing the girl to roll her eyes as she leaned into him.
"Oh don't act like you didn't accidentally hear my mom call me it once and adopted it." Catherine tsked whilst rolling her eyes, for years he took responsibility for the nickname as if he made it.
In all honesty, they had been playing hide and seek, when Jacob hid under the kitchen window behind Catherine's mother's prized petunias.
However, at the time Catherine's mother was in the kitchen getting ready to cook dinner, when Catherine ran in so she could grab a drink before heading back out to play.
It just so happened that Carolina, after seeing dirt covered child, called her as dirty as a dust bunny, and Jacob ended up adopting the nickname ever since.
He just shortened it to what it was today, Bunny.
"You've been calling her bunny since you were kids?" Jared spoke up and asked curiously, he hadn't known the nickname had been deemed ever since they were kids.
It was very ironic that Jacob managed to hit the name on the head at such young age.
"Yeah, it was my little thing," Jacob replied with a small chuckle until he rolled his eyes thinking about what had happened a few weeks ago. "until Quil came along-"
"Bun-Bun is different than Bunny." Catherine quickly jumped into the conversation in defense of her friend, or rather she just liked the annoyed look on Jacob's face when the other nickname is brought up.
"No, it's not." Paul chimed in drawing attention over to himself after listening to the two of them partially arguing, there wasn't a difference to him.
"Exactly!" Jacob almost immediately exclaimed as he pointed towards Paul, finally, someone was on his side about the subject.
However his exclamation only caused Catherine to burst out laughing, the young bunny amused by her boyfriend's attitude towards the subject.
"Okay," Sam spoke up after zoning out entranced by how beautiful his imprint became when she laughed, the way her eyes crinkled into crescents whilst she chuckled. "we're getting off subject."
At Sam's sudden words, the other members of his pack zoned in once again the other two having also started gazing at the girl lovingly after hearing her laughter.
Only Jacob being in control of himself having heard her laughter for weeks now consistently, he wasn't as entranced as the other as he started laughing along with her.
"Catherine I'm guessing Jacob filled you in on Imprints?" Sam asked hopefully as he partially nodded his head, his eyes glancing from his imprint to his soon-to-be Alpha.
Although that wasn't a subject Sam liked to think about as of right now.
"I gave her the basics of what I could remember," Jacob spoke as he nodded his head as well, over the years he'd forgotten a large portion of the stories. "gravity shifts, brother, boyfriend, protector."
As he spoke Jacob glanced over to the other two shifters in the room, his arm still protectively around Catherine as he began to think about the reason they'd come here.
"But how come she's not just mine," Jacob asked as he pulled her further into his chest, it was starting to upset him with how okay with the situation he had previously become.Β "the stories never said anything about this, is it like a pack thing?"
It was like the longer they hung out together the more natural it seemed, which was something that was honestly starting to both anger and scare Jacob.
"We don't know," Sam answered softly, he'd made call after call the moment they'd gotten home and no one seemed to know what was happening. "I called the elders and they'd never seen something like this."
At his honest announcement, everyone seemingly went quiet, there was no real information on what was going on with them, and there was nothing that could be told to help them.
They were stuck with a singular imprint that all of them were coming to fall further in love with.
"So what do we do now?" Jacob asked lowly as he glanced at everyone around the room, at this point he was open to suggestions.
Although the room was once again only filled with silence, no one spoke up only sending glances to some people and avoiding them from others.
"She could choose." Jared spoke up after a few seconds, his words drawing the attention of everyone, all eyes immediately turning to him.
Atlas that was until they turned back towards Sam.
"No, that's asking us to ignore the imprint," Sam almost immediately spoke up shaking his head, from what he'd heard ignoring an imprint was like beginning for something bad to happen. "and that's only been tried once or twice."
At his confession, Sam was only met with questioning gazes from everyone around him, everyone asking that same question without even verbalizing it.
They wanted him to explain those situations, they wanted to know more.
"The story isn't the most accurate from how few times someone has tried," Sam started to explain with a few stutters, he'd heard so many gruesome things in so much detail but he couldn't relay that to them. "but every ending is the same, neither of them can ignore it and one of them ends up dead or hurt."
At the mention of Catherine being hurt, a flurry of growls wafted through the air, Jacob, Jared, and Paul letting out loud growls as their chest started to convulse.
Catherine quickly leaned over rubbing her head up against Jacob's chest, whilst rubbing his stomach up and down the girl quickly to try and calm him down.
Her sudden movements did exactly that as Jacob started holding her closer, Jared and Paul on the other hand could only force themselves to calm down as they narrowed in on Catherine's scent.
Furiously reassuring themselves that she was okay, despite their Alpha's hypothetical words.
"And I don't think any of us want that." Sam continued as they started to calm down, using their reactions as an example for his words.
"True, but when I said she can choose I meant like choose," Jared spoke up trying to clarify himself, they just hadn't let him finish what he was saying the first time around. "brother, boyfriend, protector."
At his now-finished suggestion, everyone paused this time, it wasn't a bad idea if she could choose them as brothers or protectors there wouldn't be any need for confusion.
They would be able to love her differently, be able to go out and have their own families whilst loving her as their sister or child.
"Could she?" Paul spoke up questioningly as he looked at his Alpha, this wasn't a bad chance at not upsetting the imprint bond.
However during this whole thing, Sam was simply upset, he would be a bad Alpha if he hadn't thought of everything he could, he'd thought of this already.
He'd asked around about it already, it just wasn't possible.
"That's not how it works," He spoke up again shaking his head, there was no way around their situation at this point. "the bond isn't something that changes based on how the people part of it feels, it's hard to explain."
"Try," Catherine spoke up for a long time in a while, causing all of them to look at the small pout on her face as she looked up at Sam with adorable wide eyes. "please."