Hi Everyone! this is something I did during the last couple of days, only because I was attempting a Jacob/Carlisle one shot... But it didn't really work for me. Still I challenged myself and now I know. Anyway, there will be part two, but for now enjoy part one!

The little house by La Push was full of people yet at the same time very quiet. Almost everyone who belonged to the Wolf Pack or knew about its existence was there, however no one dared to brake the silence that fell on the room. All the faces seemed almost like a mirror images of each other - sad, hopeless and worried, the emotions so clear in their eyes.

Suddenly, there was a sound, like a weak, incoherent voice that quickly turned into a scream. Everyone turned their eyes to the small door, now closed, leading to Jake's room. Seth stood up from his chair by the fireplace where he was sitting, alarmed. He was not the only one looking like he was about to cry. He looked at Billy who was in his wheelchair closest to the door.

'Should I go and see if he's okay?' he asked unsure.

'It's probably the fever giving him nightmares again. Wake him up and try to bring his body temperature down.' Billy said somehow calmly, trying not to show his emotions. 'Pour some cold water into the bowl and grab a fresh cloth from the cupboard.'

'Of course.' he answered almost in a whisper and did what Billy told him as fast as possible and in the next moment he found himself entering the small room, the bowl and the cloth in his hand, closing the door behind him.

Putting the items on the table, he hurried to the boy laying on the bed next to it trying to wake him. Jake looked bad. Worse than before and Seth's heart broke when he saw the boy in such state. There was cold sweat covering his face and body as he kept shaking, drilling and screaming on the bed. His tanned body seemed now unnaturally pale and his lips visibly dry. There was thin white sheet over his body showing only his face and half of his muscular chest.

Seth lightly slapped Jake's cheek and smiled slightly when he saw him open his eyes, clearly relieved that whatever he saw, it was just a dream. The sick boy was breathing heavily bringing his hands up to his eyes, rubbing them with his fingers. He then looked at his younger friend and sighted, trying not to show how much pain he was experiencing.

'Seth, you don't need to-' Jake started but he was cut off by a 'shush' sound from Seth's mouth.

'Do you want some water?'

'Yes, thank you.'

Seth handed him the cup, their fingers touching for a brief second. Jake's skin was so hot it almost burnt Seth, who didn't usually find anything hot, considering that he was a werewolf. He grabbed the cloth from the table and put it into the cold water. He took the empty cup from Jake's hand and set it aside. Seth pulled the soaking wet cloth from the bowl, squeezed out the excess amount of water from it and placed it on Jake's forehead.

'Oh...that feels good' a moan escaped his mouth and his chocolate coloured eyes closed immediately.

Seth watched him for a moment, happy that he made Jake feel at least a little better. He sat on the chair near the bed and remembered the time when he was in his room earlier on and Paul came in saying that Jacob collapsed on the patrol they were having in the morning and was very seriously ill. He felt like his heart stopped beating for a moment, the world died, the time stopped. He couldn't move, his whole body not responding to the orders his brain gave. Emptiness. Sadness.

Then everything changed and he found himself running toward Jake's house, desperately trying to hold back the tears building up in his eyes. It couldn't be true, but sadly it was.

And now he was sitting in his room watching him get worse with every passing minute and he couldn't let himself cry. He had to be strong, because there was no way that it wouldn't end well. It had to be okay, Jake had to be okay. There were just too many things he wanted to tell him and never had the chance to say.

He put his head in his hands. He heard Jacob's even breaths and looked up to see him sleeping again now calmly. He stood up and removed the now warm cloth from Jake's forehead and made sure it was cold and wet enough before replacing it back.

Seth put his hand on Jake's hot chest and leaned in to kiss his cheek lightly before leaving the room.

Everyone looked at him, the concern written all over their faces when he gave a nod of his head signalizing it was all okay. Well, as okay as it could be in this situation.

This wasn't enough for Billy, as he finally let go of his emotions.

'Seth, how is he, tell me.' he asked his voice trembling.

'He's definitely not getting better, but I guess it could also be worse. His fever is not going down and he's in a lot of pain even though he thinks he is hiding it well from me.'

'No. We just can't seat like this while the poison spreads around his body and... ' Billy was unable to finish. Leah finally let herself cry, sobbing slightly, while being held by Emily. For a moment it was the only sound in the room.

'Billy is right.' said Sam standing up as if to emphasize his words.

'But what can we do? We never dealt with anything like this before and none of us know how to cure someone that's been poisoned. We can't get a human doctor, because werewolves are very different to humans even if they look the same.' Paul reasoned from his place on the sofa. 'And the last option he will never allow...' he trailed off.

This seemed to anger Bella a lot who was sitting hugging her knees on the sofa next to Paul. She spoke annoyed:

'Why is he being like this? Carlisle is an amazing doctor and when there is a chance that he could save Jacob... Why would he rather die than let Carlisle help him?'

'Pride.' simply stated Seth.

'Urghhh.' was the only response from Bella who put her hands over her head.

There was a short silence.

'No, I'm not letting my son die because of something as stupid as that. I no longer care what he thinks about it. Bella, please call Dr. Cullen and ask him to come as quickly as possible. Pride is not worth dying for.' Billy said in a strong voice.

Bella took her cell phone out of her pocket and called the vampire, pacing around the room at the same time.

When she was done, she put the phone back and said that he will be here in ten minutes. Everyone seemed to be relieved that he agreed to come, which meant there was hope for the young Wolf Pack member, but at the same time everyone except Bella seemed also more tense than before as a vampire, as kind as Carlisle or not, was coming to their house.

It was an uncomfortable ten minutes, but finally they heard a car stopping outside and seconds later a light knock on the wooden door.

Sam decided to be the one to face the vampire and opened the door. Carlisle was wearing casual clothes and carrying rather large bag in his left hand, where he probably had all his medicines. He looked very much like a human with calm dark amber eyes and kind expression on his beautiful face. However his skin had much lighter shade compared to everyone in the room, even Bella.

'Good evening' Carlisle said politely to everyone in the room.

'Dr. Cullen, I'm glad you could come. I appreciate your help.' said Billy in a calm but not very confident voice.

'Will you be able to help him, Carlisle?' asked Bella with hope looking at the vampire, clearly glad to see him here.

'I need to examine him first, Bella. Where is he?'

As Bella was showing the doctor the way to Jake's room, Seth interrupted before the blonde man could enter:

'But please don't take notice of what he tells you, just do what you can to save him.'

Carlisle looked at the boy for a second with an understanding. It was only expected that Jacob will not be pleased to take help from a vampire, especially one from the Cullen family. He nodded to the boy and entered the room. Sam followed him into the room, but kept everyone else out by shutting the door.

Jacob didn't look any better than when Seth came to see him, but at least he was now sleeping rather peacefully undisturbed by nightmares.

Carlisle, just by looking at the boy knew that he wouldn't live another day if he didn't get any help. The poison that was in his blood was spreading fast, incredibly fast in fact. He knew the poison rather well, a lot of humans was taken to the hospital after eating the forest berries which looked just like blackberries but were very poisonous. There was a cure for it that could be safely given to humans, but werewolves? That he didn't know. The biology between these two species was so different...

He told Sam everything that he knew and Sam seemed to understand but he was very worried. What if the cure didn't work on werewolves?

As it wasn't enough to deal with, Jacob just woke up and seeing Carlisle set him on edge.

'I thought I made myself clear that I don't want to see him in this house.' he said his voice sounding angry.

'Jake, all I want is to help you, I don't want to lose you, none of us do and if the only way is with doctor Cullen's help I will do it whether you like it or not.' Sam spoke in a voice that was expected from an alpha. Confident and stern.

'I don't care Sam! I made the decision and I can't believe you of all people agreed for him to come here.' his voice softened at the end the anger slowly turning into disbelief.

'All I know Jake is that I'm going to do everything I can to save you. Don't you understand? Look at the people in the other room crying and worrying and all you care about is some stupid "werewolves-are-not-friends-with-vampires" thing!' Sam almost shouted the last sentence.

Suddenly Jake looked like he had no more energy to argue and just closed his eyes and his reply was almost a whisper.

'Fine. Whatever.'

'I will do all in my power. I promise.'said Carlisle and it seemed to Jake that this promise was the most beautiful thing in this world right now, it have him hope, but he blamed such ridiculous thoughts on the fever he was having.

'I will leave you to work then.' Sam said and left.

The silence that followed was long but not uncomfortable or awkward. In fact it was in some ways nice, at least if felt like it for Jake who for the first time today felt that he wasn't alone but also wasn't bombed with questions about how he was feeling. How could a dying man feel?

Jacob found himself watching the vampire, who was now looking through his bag for the right medicine. Carlisle pulled out a small bottle with dark coloured liquid inside it and the paper wrapped around its middle had a drawing of the same berries that he ate in the woods, when they were on the patrol. He was sure they were the regular blackberries that he ate many times before, so he didn't really looked at them closely to see any differences. He was hungry and they still had at least two hours before returning home for dinner.

'So I am not the first one to eat the wrong berries?' Jake found himself asking before he could stop himself. His tone wasn't angry like it was before. In the end the doctor was here only to help him, so he should be grateful.

Carlisle looked at the tanned boy surprised, then focused on the small bottle in his hands again.

'Yes, there are many such cases in the hospital during summer.' he said his voice sounding calm as always. After few seconds passed he added with what sounded like amusement in his voice:

'However the poisoned patients were mostly young kids.'

'I was hungry.' Jake said like it was explaining absolutely everything. When he noticed that maybe it didn't explain anything at all, he added:

'I didn't pay attention and they tasted the same.'

'I'm sure they did.'

It was silent again when the doctor measured the right amount of the liquid from the bottle to a clean cup and added some water. He handed it to Jacob to drink it, while he watched with unsure expression.

Jake rose the cup to his lips and took a sip, also unsure. It wasn't even that he didn't trust the man, it was more of a childish matter - he was afraid it would taste horribly. However, it didn't. It had almost sweet, lemony flavor. Seems that not all medicine tastes bad after all.

He drank all of it and even smiled a little.

The doctor sat on the chair that Seth sat on previously and said:

'It should start working in about half an hour. If there is no obvious change after that time, I'm afraid we will need to find a different way to cure it.' the blond man said in a serious voice.

The smile disappeared from Jake's lips in a second. He looked scared now ...and confused.

'But why would it not work? You said it happened often to people during this season.'

'Exactly, Jacob. People, in other words humans. You are not a human, the biology between your kind and their kind is different, even if there are many similarities. I never dealt with ill werewolves. I can't be sure.' Carlisle replied with a strangely quiet voice.

They looked into each other's eyes, really looked for the first time. They knew it was serious, it was a matter of life and death, however it sounded.

Jake covered his face with his hands. He couldn't believe his life could really end so soon. Too soon...

...to be continued :)

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