Bella stopped just shy of the treaty line. She could no longer see through her tears and the breaking of her heart kept her from driving any further. She sobbed as she lay down across the bench seat of her truck, only to sob harder when she could smell the scent of the Black's home, permanently a part of the truck.
She was being watched from both sides of the treaty line and finally after she remained there, Embry couldn't take it any longer and walked up to the passenger side. He wrenched the old door open and looked at Bella's body. While part of him was furious with her for telling Jake what she did, he couldn't understand why she would do it when she was obviously as heartbroken as Jake. So, he grabbed her limp body and carried her into the woods.
He didn't flinch when he heard Edward calling for him, telling him to bring Bella to him so he could comfort her. He continued to walk back to the reservation, ignoring the pleas of Alice and his fellow wolves. Bella continued to cry out in pain, but didn't seem to recognize that she was not in her truck. His chest was slick from the tears that were pouring from her eyes.
When he walked up the porch steps of the Black home, Sam looked at them.
"What's going on?" he asked. But Embry ignored him as well, carrying the slight woman in his arms to the place he knew she belonged. While tears continued to stream down her face, her loud sobbing had subsided. Her eyes remained closed and neither of them had spoken a word to the other.
Embry marched into Jacob's room. Jacob was asleep. They'd had to inject him with morphine after he tried to get out of the bed and follow after Bella. Even though the medication should have caused him to be in a coma, he moaned and moved around restlessly. It was hard on everyone to watch as he fought the medication induced sleep.
Embry came close to the edge of the bed. Lightly, he hugged Bella and lifted her carefully across Jacob and laid her down on the bed next to him. Without speaking, he stepped back and watched as she lifted Jacob's arm and wrapped it around her. She rested her head in the crook of his shoulder and stayed there, her eyes never opening, still silent.
Carefully, he backed out of the room and left the two. It hadn't been missed that Jacob's face relaxed when she touched him and that her tears had stopped falling. Embry rubbed his hands over his face and stepped out into the living room to face Billy.
"Embry? What's going on? Is she okay?" Billy asked quietly.
"She is now. So is he."
Billy simply nodded and rolled himself into the kitchen.
Embry left to go talk with Sam. They were going to have to tell the Cullens it was time for them to leave. Without Bella.
