I do not own Twilight only my OC. I have done a lot of research on people with schizophrenia and I have signs of it also but I'm sorry if I portray the illness wrong. If you have any questions about what it's like to have schizophrenia I can answer any questions you might have. Also I have ADD so I jump between different stories I'm writing but I will try to continually write this. Ok enough about all my problems here's the story.

Prologue

Ever since they were 8 Paul and Julianna were always inseparable. Nobody understood why since they were complete opposites. She was happy and bubbly and Paul was angry and kept to himself. They met in the woods off the beach one day in the summer. Paul was punching a tree when she saw him. His small knuckles were cut up and bleeding while he was radiating anger like the sun radiates heat. She, unlike everybody else, wasn't afraid of him and grabbed his arm before he could throw another punch at the tree.

"Let go!" Paul yelled glaring at the small girl. "Or I'll punch you instead."

Julianna shook her head holding onto the boys arm tighter. Her big bright green eyes looked up at his anger filled ones.

"I'll only let go if you promise not to punch that poor tree anymore. You already made a dent." She giggled as she spoke the last sentence. He ripped his arm out of her grip and mumbled fine before punching her in the arm instead, hard. "Ouch! I didn't mean punch me instead." She looked up at Paul with tears threatening to fall. His punch was definitely going to leave a bruise on her small form.

"Well you shouldn't have gotten in my way." He growled down at her.

"Well you shouldn't be so angry. Angry people don't live as long as happy people do." Julianna said in a matter of fact tone. Paul just looked down at the small optimistic girl and a small smile formed on his face. He appreciated that she didn't cry and stood up to him, it was a change from everybody else. Something about her made him calm but he wasn't sure why.

"Why are you being so nice to me? I usually scare everybody else away. Nobody else ever talks or plays with me." Paul said in a quiet voice looking down at the ground. The other parents on the res knew how cruel Paul's dad was so he didn't have many friends, or any really. Everybody was afraid of Paul's short temper and his tendency to hit others.

"Because friends are nice to each other. Let's go and build sand castles." Squeaked Julianna in excitement pulling Paul away from the tree.

As they grew older and went to school they had most of their classes together throughout the years. Julianna made friends easily but never left Paul's side. Soon their duo became a trio when she met Jared and instantly knew him and Paul would be great friends, and she was right. They were all best friends until freshman year. They would go to the beach, hike in the woods, and stay at Jared or Julianna's house until 3 in the morning.

Freshman year third semester was when Julianna's life changed forever. It was the day the voices in her head were awoken. At first she ignored it not telling anybody, not even Paul. But as time went on she got worse and worse. By sophomore year she began to hallucinate, hear voices to loud to ignore, and lose touch with reality. She couldn't sleep straight through the night without waking up screaming. She didn't know what was real or a figment of her imagination. Once Paul found out he was the only one who could calm her down when she was curled in a ball screaming her lungs off. He almost never left her side fearing she would have another attack. Nobody knew how he did it but it worked for a while. Until her parents became tired of her screams and found out what was wrong with her. Julianna had tried to hide it but the voices were too loud to ignore and she broke down. They sent her off to a mental institution where she was diagnosed with severe schizophrenia.

Paul was furious when he found out she was there, even tried to break her out. The day she was institutionalized was the day that Paul phased. He was at Jared's when he got the call and started shaking uncontrollably. Jared had phased a week earlier and knew to get Paul outside, quickly. Once he was in wolf form Jared brought him to Sam's who explained everything.

As time went on Paul graduated high school while she stayed in the institution. Her attacks became so frequent and violent that she was almost constantly drugged to the point that she was an empty shell of a person. She would rarely respond to anything, she'd just stare off out the window. He was allowed to bring her back to the reservation on holidays so the whole pack knew her but she was always just a shell. Paul wasn't even sure if she would remember meeting them.

By now Sam and Emily were engaged, Jared and Kim had been dating for over a year, and Quil had imprinted on Claire. Paul had dated around a lot once Julianna left. He had always only focused on her that now without her he was almost lost. Of course him, Jared, and Sam became close and when the other guys phased but there was always something missing. Paul never knew how close he was with her until she was gone. But he was determined to get her back. He was going to crack the shell she had become and bring her home where she belonged. With him. When she left his temper became almost unmanageable. Nobody knew how to calm him down, it was as if he had become permanently angry.

He never stopped visiting though. Jared had visited when it first happened but stopped once he met Kim. But Paul had visited every Sunday since she had arrived. He watched her fade from an always happy bubbly person to somebody who couldn't function on their own. He saw the amount of drugs they gave her to keep her quiet and attack the nurses begging to make the voices stop.

XxX

Paul was woken up by the sound of his phone buzzing. He looked over at his alarm clock seeing that it read 8:30am. He instantly became pissed that an unknown number was calling him before the sun had even rose. Patrol last night had sucked, Paul hated having to patrol near the Cullens house.

"Hello." He grumbled into the phone.

"Good morning Mr. Lahote." The woman said cheerfully into the phone. "I have wonderful news concerning your friend Miss Julianna Curtis." Paul's ears perked up at the sound of his friend's name and he listened intently to what the woman was saying. "She has been approved to join society again. She is being released in a few hours."

"Do her parents know?" Paul interrupted. If they had found out then they would try to send her back.

"No she is 18 so it was her choice to not contact them. She told us to call you instead."

Paul interrupted the lady again telling them how he would be down at 12 to pick her up and then hung up. He quickly showered and got dressed and immediately sprinted to Sam and Emily's leaving his dad drunk on the couch.

Instead of knocking he just walked in yelling hello to Sam and Emily from the doorway.

"Come in Paul I made muffins." Emily yelled from the kitchen.

"Their letting her out!" Paul said with a huge grin on his face as he walked into the kitchen. "I got a call from a nurse and they are discharging her later today."

"That's wonderful!" Emily squealed pulling Paul into a tight hug. Even if he didn't admit it to himself Emily knew that Paul loved Julianna, he would do anything to make her happy. He may be known as the hothead of the pack and have the temper of a volcano that nobody could control but when it came to Julianna it's as if the volcano goes dormant. Emily had only met Julianna a few times and she had always been a shell of a person but whoever could calm down Paul had to be a special girl.

Sam walked down the stairs after hearing Emily squeal and congratulated Paul.

"Oh I was wondering if she could stay here for a little bit while she adjusts. I don't trust my dad to be around her."

Emily was quick to say yes but Sam was hesitant. He knew that Julianna at any time could hear the voices again and have another attack. Sensing Sam's hesitation Paul told them how he would never leave her side unless he was going on patrol, and even then you'd have to drag him away from her. After getting Emily and Sam's approval Paul ran out to his truck and started the drive.

XxX

"PAUL!" Julianna screamed from across the room once she spotted his 6'2 form. She was barely 5 feet tall but it didn't matter when she ran across the room and jumped into Paul's arms. He barely had time to close the door before she wrapped her legs across his waist and snuggled her face into the crook of his neck. "Their letting me out of here, like letting me permanently go home!" She squealed. Her face was beaming so bright you would've thought she just won the lottery.

"I know, let's go get your stuff and then we're going back to Sam and Emily's." Paul said setting her down. He wrapped his arm around her waist pulling her close as if she was going to be taken away again. After settling all the paperwork at the desk Paul grabbed her bag and they headed out towards his truck.

"So who are Sam and Emily?" Julianna asked looking out the window. Paul laughed when he looked over seeing her with her hands and nose pressed against the glass like a small child.

"They're very good friends of mine. Sam is the leader of my 'pack' of friends and Emily is his fiancée. We all are always together, you'll like them." Paul knew that she had already met them all but she wouldn't remember. The drugs caused her to be totally out of it to ensure that she would stay calm.

"Do they know Paul?" He nodded in response. "Have they seen anything?" Her voice cracked at the end praying that she hadn't had an attack in front of them.

"No you were usually out of it when you visited." She sighed in relief as they pulled into the driveway of what she figured was Sam and Emily's. It was a sweet looking house surrounded by trees. She hoped that it wouldn't be too quiet here, Julianna hated the quiet. It made it harder to block out the voices in her head.

On the porch was a tall muscular man with his arm around a beautiful woman. He seemed to be about 6'4 while she was 5'7, all much taller than Julianna's 5 foot form. She walked out up to the porch hiding behind Paul like a child hides behind their parent. She never was good at meeting new people. Once she looked at Emily's smile it was contagious and almost forced Julianna to come out from behind Paul.

"It's wonderful to finally meet you, we've heard so much about you." Emily said with a smile. Sam nodded next to her in agreement. When Julianna saw Emily's scars she instantly became comfortable with them.

"I have scars too." Julianna said cheerfully rolling up the sleeves of her jacket showing that her arms were covered in new and old bruises along with scars everywhere. Her scars had never bothered her making her comfortable to talk about them. The three of them looked down at her arms in shock. Emily had tears in her eyes and Sam's eyes were cold. She was such an innocent girl they couldn't picture someone doing this to her. Paul started to shake uncontrollably anger boiling in him like a volcano ready to erupt. He couldn't stand the idea of somebody touching or harming her. He was close to phasing and all he could see was red.

"Paul calm down!" Sam yelled pulling Emily behind him. Julianna wrapped her arms around Paul's waist pulling her face into his chest. She focused on his rapid heartbeat and placed his large hand over her heartbeat.

"Match your heartbeat to mine." Julianna said in a whisper.

"Julianna get away from him!" Sam yelled grabbing her arm. He knew if Paul hurt her like he had hurt Emily he would never forgive himself. When he tried to separate her from Paul, Paul let out a low growl wrapping his massive arms around her. Even if he hadn't technically imprinted on her Sam knew Paul would protect Julianna like Sam would Emily.

After a few moments of tension Julianna broke the silence speaking in a small voice against his chest." Paul can we go inside I have to take more medicine." He nodded before leading her into the house.

Sam and Emily lingered outside talking about what happened.

"Paul should have phased with that temper of his." Sam mumbled mostly talking to himself. "She allows him to control it."

"Even if he doesn't realize it Sam, Paul loves her." Emily said.

"But what if he imprints on somebody else?"

"He won't; it's Julianna or nobody." Emily spoke with confidence in her voice. "Now let's go meet them inside I bet Paul has eaten half the muffins by now."