Jake's POV. I feel I should give a warning that this one could be a bit graphic. I had a really weird dream (but not nightmare) after I wrote it. Well, you've been forewarned. I hope you enjoy.

-Damn Bloodsuckers Ruin Everything-

I watched Edward fall and I knew Bella was next, but I couldn't help her, there were too many and she'd trusted me with Nessie. I couldn't help weeping baseball-sized tears and I felt like someone had kicked me in the gut and punched through my chest. I stood a moment in shocked horror. It was the longest and most painful moment of my life. Then I took off running.

I was supposed to have started running the instant that Nessie got on my back, but I just couldn't bring myself to leave. I knew that I couldn't fight with the bloodsucker to protect Bella because she'd be pissed that I left Nessie, but I also couldn't just bail without knowing if she'd make it. Don't get me wrong, I love Nessie, I imprinted on her for crying out loud, and I'll be whatever she needs. She'll always be my first priority, but she didn't want to go either without seeing her mom for at least a little longer.

I'd given myself the rule that I wouldn't run until we were outnumbered. Then I got stuck watching and I just couldn't bring myself to leave. Nessie was in the same state and couldn't remind me. Also we'd kind of gotten outnumbered all at once, so it's not like I started that much later.

My breathing was hard. I was running faster than I ever had before, spurred on by the horror of what I'd just seen.

Bella wasn't my sun anymore or my puck-me-up drug, but I still loved her. Yes, I had Nessie and yes, it was a little easier to see her and her leech of a husband together, but I never stopped loving Bella. The scene from the meadow was replaying over and over in my head:

The horror of Bella's face; the anguish; the grief. The way she fell to her knees, broken. There was no other way to describe it: Bella was broken. She wasn't even that bad when the bloodsucker dumped her last year. And then one of those red-eyed leeches ripped her into a pile of meaningless rock and another lit it up in flames. As if watching her be ripped apart wasn't bad enough, I had to watch her burn too. Then reliving that moment afterward. That moment when a bomb goes off inside me; when my world explodes. That moment when I lost what had once been my reason for living. That moment filled with more pain than any living creature should have to experience. That moment when I realized I'd have to run.

I didn't know where I was running, but Nessie had showed me that Bella had given her all the stuff to get on a plane. I'd figured I'd head for an airport, but whether it was an airport in Washington or California, I didn't know.

My main thought was just to run, to run as far away from the meadow, as far away from the horror and the leeches that had caused it as possible. I needed to run Nessie to safety, for my sake and Bella's. Even if Bella didn't make it, Nessie would. I would make sure her daughter lived.

Footfalls pulled me from my thoughts. I sniffed the air, bloodsuckers. However fast I though I could go before, I was running double that now. I don't know how the leeches caught up to me so fast, but I was going to leave them in the dust. They would not get Nessie!

That's when I came to a cliff, a cliff with nothing but sharp rocks under it. I ran parallel to it, but I only came to another drop. I ran the other parallel, but found the same. I was on a peninsula, just minus the water and add sharp rocks. I started to run back the way I'd come, but I could hear them. They were too close. I'd have to make a stand and, maybe if I got really damn lucky, take them all. It sounded like three.

I set Nessie down behind me, her back facing the drop I had initially run into. If they wanted Nessie, they'd have to go through me first. I could smell them now, that overpoweringly sweet smell. I was used to preparing myself to kill every time I got a whiff of that scent and I don't think any other time mattered more than this one.

They cleared the trees and I could see them. Two big leeches headed by a thinner one. The big ones could have taken him so there was definitely a reason why he was leading the group. Whoever he was, he was going first because he was the one who found Nessie and me. It was his fault I was corned. I hate bloodsuckers and their damn little powers. And because of theses ones I was going to get a mouthful of ick. The sacrifices I make…

They had reached me and I let out a low growl, with a snarl that showed them what they were up against.

The thin one spoke, "Listen here, beast. We outnumber you. We took down your friends back in the meadow and we'll do the same to you if we have to. We just need the child. If you give us this we will let you go free."

I could see the lie on his face and hear it in his words. That freak show wasn't going to let anyone go free. It was fight or die. I let out a loud howl as my answer and when I lowered my head to face them, I was ready to fight.

The brawny one on my right lunged for and he was met with an angry head full of teeth. I got his arm and pulled, then spat out the debris as I turned to face the other big one. He'd been trying to sneak Nessie out while I was occupied. I ripped off his hand and threw it over the cliff. While they were both in pain, the skinny one charged me. This was my target; this was going to die. I threw myself into him, stunning us both a little. Then I grabbed onto anything that I could get my teeth around and threw it as far away as I could. I bit off his head and could feel his skull crack beneath my teeth. I'd done it; I'd killed my target.

When I'd come back to taking in all of what was happening, I realized that while I was taking down my target, one of the big ugly leeches had taken Nessie. He was staring straight ahead with a blank look on his face and Nessie had her hand against his forehead.

I took the moment to spring on him, avoiding Nessie. I knocked him to the ground and rolled Nessie out of his grip. I then proceeded to rip the remaining body parts off of him.

I saw the last bloodsucker pick up Nessie out of the corner of my eye. I looked up, but before Nessie or I could do anything, he took her small form and snapped it in half. He dropped her on the ground and I rushed to her broken little body. She was breathing shallowly, with a little bit of blood dribbling from her mouth. She was broken. She was broken and I couldn't fix her. She wasn't dead, not yet, but she was living her last moments in agony. I could see it on her face even if she wasn't screaming. I'd failed. I'd lost everything in the matter of an hour. I'd lost my pack, Bella, and now Nessie, my reason for living. I was whimpering as I nuzzled Nessie with my nose as if they were some way for me to make her my Nessie again. I howled long and loud when it hit me that she wasn't coming back. That I'd never see another one of her pictures or cuddle her warm little frame. She'd barely got to live and I'd barely got to love her. Now I'd lost her forever.

I looked up at the last remaining thing. It didn't matter what it was anymore: bloodsucker, leach, murderer. Nothing mattered anymore. I'd lost my life. I'd watched everyone close to me die; everything that I loved get destroyed. I was the last to die and dammit I was going to die even if I had to do it myself. So I looked up, with huge empty eyes, showing the doorway into my lifeless husk and I begged the thing to kill me. I laid down, too devoid of strength to keep standing, and my eyes just stared into nothing. My whole body was numb and I was losing my senses.

Then it happened. Everything went away and I'd finally become nothing.

I really like this one because of what it says in Jake's preface "Like sucks, then you die. Yeah, I should be so lucky." Writing this really made me realize how hard it had been for Jake...

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