Chapter 1: Preface
Her breath was burning through her lungs as she urged her legs to move faster, faster because she could not fail. Not when it was this important, it would destroy her. Destroy Seth. Destroy The Pack. She slid into the rocky area by the cliffs as she cleared the forest, spraying pebbles up in her wake. And she knew immediately that she never wanted to see the sight in front of her again.
Jacob had his teeth bared in the fiercest expression a human could manage, Embry and Quill on either side of him trying to keep him calm because he couldn't wolf out, they could not afford it. Leah looked destroyed… they were good friends now, and that's how she knew that anything that harmed Seth would destroy her too.
Seth…Seth looked like he had just watched the world burn around him and now he was alone, stuck, with no way out.
And Angela, Angie, was below Seth covered in blood. Pale in the moonlight and this image would haunt Bella in her dreams, more than Edward leaving, or Phoenix, or the Volturi. Seth looked at Bella like a drowning man looked at a man on a life boat.
"You can fix this?" He asked gruffly, his voice a wolfy rumble that warned if this did not get fixed and soon, he would choose the way of the wolf and never look back.
And Bella closed her eyes. She never wanted to do this, never wanted to have to use it but they were – she was- desperate. "Yes, it will be at a cost though." Her eyes betrayed the truth of her words to the wolves, along with her steady heart beat.
"What Cost?" Jake asked, as was his right as Alpha.
"A cost of protection- infinitely, always, indefinitely." To this she got a questioning stare from Jacob, a she's-crazy stare from Embry and Quill. She however didn't get any looks at all from the Clearwater's.
Seth only had eyes for Angela- his imprint- and Leah only had eyes for Seth- her little brother.
"Why?" Jake asked in his Alpha tone, trying to have her answer everything.
"We don't have time for this Jake! If I'm going to save her it has to be now!" Without consent from his alpha Seth grabbed her arm and dragged her over to Angela.
"Hey Angie." Bella whispered placing one hand on the wound just below Angela's heart and one on her forehead.
"Hey Bells." She said croakily. "Going…to…fix me up?
"'Course I am. Just lay still." Bella said as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath and her hands started to glow. "Listen to my heart Ang. It beats for you, so listen close and hear my thoughts in every beat. You. Will. Be. Fine." And with those words the glow intensified until there was no wound left and Bella fell back against Embry who was suddenly behind her. "Thanks Em." Seth had picked Angela up and was crooning to her and checking her over. There was only a scar on her once blemish free chest now.
"We're tied together now, Angela and I. It beats for you. That's my power once I heal someone, as long as I'm alive she will be too and I can always heal her. There are other things too but I don't think I can go over them tonight." And before anyone could protest she passed out into Embry's arms leaving five wolves and a new healed best friend to stare at her and wonder.
Author's Note: Hate it, like it? Let me know. If people want more I will continue with the story. This is just a preface.
