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Jacob mostly kept to a set schedule on the island. Wake up, teach his class if school was in session, work on anything at the Homestead that needed repairing and head home to spend time with Belle. It was a bit predictable and occasionally broken up by going to see Bella and the baby or Coraline but it was his life and he loved it.

The island, of course, occasionally decided to throw a wrench in those plans and if his way home became a swamp or there was a freak blizzard, Jacob tried to take it in stride and just keep moving on. It wasn't anything new after three years and some change, right? Except today. He'd pulled open the door to his and Belle's little house expecting to see his wife working on some new invention...and got greeted with a complete decor change.

So the new carpet was nice. So was the air conditioning, which wasn't available in abundance on the island (being inside a room without feeling hot and sticky and without the air so thick that he could breathe without drowning was a novelty) but he couldn't figure out how it got here. Was this some trick? Some temporary decorating change that was going away whenever the island's wacky magic decided to swing back to (relatively) normal? Jacob didn't know. Smarter people than him had been stumped by the island and he had never professed to be into researching or anything that involved reading or sitting still for very long.

But the biggest change about this place was the little undercurrent of power he felt. There was a little ripple, a little spark in the air and it just felt different than he'd felt in the three years since he'd shown up on the island and resigned himself to not being able to shift anymore. Maybe he'd learned to live without that part of himself but he'd never really accepted it and he sure as hell had never rejected it. Could it be? Was the wolf still under there after all and he was finally in a place where he could access it?

He turned the corner away from the front desk and let loose on his control, feeling his body shift and change into the wolf he hadn't been since showing up on the sandy beaches of Tabula Rasa all those years ago.

Finally.

[[See Jacob either before or after he shifts into a wolf - don't worry, he's not going to bite.]]

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"It wasn't an issue on the island," Leah pointed out, grumbling a little. She never thought she'd miss the island, especially after Jon left, but at the very least she hadn't had to deal with phasing there. "You realize we gotta share headspace now when we're both furry? That didn't slip by you did it?"

She snorted softly. "Well, I can't hear his thoughts or anything, but he doesn't seem to be turning his nose up at having a hunting buddy, especially since I don't eat the kills. Double the dinner."

"Look, as long as I don't get HD widescreen of you and Snow getting nasty, I don't care," Jacob promised.

"And I'll try not to give you me and Belle and we should be good to go. Otherwise, well, that's going to make family dinners pretty awkward."

"Trust me Jake, if I can help you, you won't see any of it," Leah snorted. That was the one part of her life she'd actually been able to keep to herself. She preferred to keep it that way. She imagined Jake felt the same way about Belle.