In the clearing where once Bella and Edward had spent the day knowing each other. Bella had come to find him again, craving his voice after months of separation. Instead, she found the vampire Laurent, thirsty and alone. As a pack of La Push werewolves looks on, debating whether or not to intercede, Laurent shows Bella what Edward always feared most…
Laurent lunged, and Bella screamed. Half the pack was frozen in surprise, not really believing that the bloodsucker would be so violent about it. The other half was already leaping into the clearing. Suddenly the world was full of snarling. Jacob and Sam wrenched the leech from Bella's throat, and under the crunching of the marble body in their jaws, they heard a sickening ripping sound, and Bella's screaming kicked up a notch.
The vampire fought, wrestling against his captors, but the wolves wouldn't let him leave the clearing. The entire pack fell on him, pinning and ripping and tearing him to pieces. It was only a few moments before they'd piled his remains in the far side of the clearing, and phased back to burn them.
While the others took care of the pyre, Jacob ran to Bella. She was writhing and screaming, bleeding out in the grass. Her throat was torn open, shredded when the wolves had pulled Laurent off. Jacob desperately pressed his hand against the wound in a futile attempt to stop the bleeding. He only succeeded in coating his arm with her draining life.
Struggling to keep control of himself, he lifted her up in his arms. It was hard to keep hold of her, with the way she tried to squirm away from him in pain. 'Why hasn't she passed out? She must be in so much pain…' Jake thought, but he knew that once she lost consciousness, she would be dead. He clutched her to his chest, holding on to these last, painful minutes with her.
He ran then. He ran away from his pack, back to La Push. He didn't know what to do, but he needed to get Bella away from the clearing where that vile creature had…
At some point while he ran with her, her face was pressed into his shoulder, muffling the screams. Her kicking feet might have upset his balance a few months ago, but nothing would have made him drop her now.