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Chapter 3

Leah POV

My instinct was to scream, but I ignored it, rolling over again though it sent pain through my body, and staggering to my paws. The wolf knocked me down in a second – I was half its size, had I really expected to stand a chance even if I wasn't injured? So this was how I was going to die – kill by one of my own kind. Great. A vampire would've been better.

I remembered something Jacob had said long ago... "Life Sucks, Then You Die." That had kind of become my motto, but things were genuinely starting to look up. Turns out it was the calm before the storm, and I was going to die.

The wolf stepped over me, paws on either side, as I breathed heavily, choking slightly on the blood in my throat. I phased back, my human bones hurting like hell in comparison to as a werewolf. But as a human I was small enough to crawl between its paws and stagger away into the forest. Obviously, if it had wanted to catch me, it could have done – like I stood a chance running at this rate – but it seemed to have lost interest.

'You!' A voice shouted, and I turned to see a boy running through the forest. He was more of a man really, but from being in a werewolf pack, I knew full well that appearances could be deceiving. He wasn't quite as dark skinned as the rest of us, but his hair was, if possible, even blacker, and was messily ruffled around his head. He was wearing black jeans cut off just below the knee, and was shirtless, showing a well-muscled but not obscene frame, with several jagged scars across it.

'Me,' I choked, 'you need... to get out of here!'

'You're the girl who got attacked by the wolf?' He called, sprinting over and catching me as my legs gave way. I nodded, wincing as I felt the ribs on my left side shift, where the wolf had hit me. 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry!' He gasped, 'I didn't know you were...' he didn't finish the sentence, pulling a shirt from a cord around his upper arm – it didn't look strange tied to him, the muscle was so huge. He unfolded it and wrapped it around my shoulders, before lifting me gently in both arms and heading forwards.

'LEAH!' Another voice shouted, and I blinked wearily, seeing Jacob's blurred outline.

'Jake...' I groaned, before passing out.

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'Will it heal up alright?' I heard Jake's voice.

'I may have to re-break some of the bones in her arm,' that was the smooth voice of Carlisle Cullen, 'they've healed too quickly.'

'Re-break?' Seth – he sounded slightly ill.

'They set badly, what with the speed you guys heal. I'll just have to give the bone a little knock and splint it up so it can heal in the right place.'

''m awake...' I mumbled, but they didn't seem to hear me. 'I'm awake,' I repeated, louder, 'and I don't want my frickin' bones re-broken!'

'Leah,' Jacob was at my head in an instant, 'are you alright?'

'Do I look it?' I growled. 'Where is he? The one who saved me?' I groaned, suspecting that he had also been the one who had hurt me, but no one answered me, even Carlisle, whose vampire hearing would have heard, and who laughed softly as he tied an extremely tight bandage around my ankle.

'I think you'll be fine,' he said with a sigh, 'most of the bones on this side have broken, and I'll give the arm a couple of days before I re-break the Radius, and the Humerus, by disjointing the HumeralCoronidFossa, and twisting the Spinator to offer better access to the upper Ulna, where I might have to re-adjoin the Humeral Lateral Epicondyle.'

I looked at him with wide eyes – it was as though he was speaking another language!

'I want to operate, though,' he added, and my eyes widened even more, 'on here,' his finger traced around my collar bone, exceedingly gentle and ice cold, 'which is the Clavicle, but it's the Acromion I'm more worried about.'

'In English?'

'I'm gonna break a couple of bones in your arm to even them out, and I'm a bit worried that the bone supporting your collar bone has been badly damaged, so I'm just going to operate and take a look at it.'

'Why do doctors even bother speaking Latin, it would be much easier if they spoke English. The only thing worse than hearing it must be learning it.'

'Three hundred years of free time,' he smiled weakly.

I smiled back – for a vampire, Carlisle was alright.

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Jacob POV

I was sitting outside on the front lawn of Leah's house when I first saw him.

He was walking calmly up to the door, though his jaw was clenched slightly, and the thought only computed in my mind when he reached the veranda. I was over in a shot, pushing him away and growling slightly.

'Who are you?' I snarled.

'Lucien,' he said, raising his eyebrows and holding out a hand even larger than Sam's.

'I think you misunderstood the question.'

'I'm the one who saved her,' he added coolly, trying to move past me.

'The one who hurt her then – it's obvious! Gone to finish her off, eh?'

'How was I to know she was a female?' he hissed, 'there was another pack here, we couldn't take chances, what was I supposed to do?'

'Taken the time to find out!' I said icily. 'You broke all the bones on one half of her body!'

'Is she in there?' He seemed not to have heard me.

'She's sleeping. Where's the Alpha, I wanna speak with him.'

'You are speaking with him.'

'YOU,' I snorted, 'someone that reckless can't be the Alpha!'

'Wow, you Quileutes don't get out much, eh?' He grinned, and I was about to lunge at him when Jared and Quil caught me from behind, dragging me back and hissing, 'no, Jake, no!'

I saw why – Six figures had stepped out of the woods and were walking towards us, taking strong stances behind Lucien. They were all taller than our pack, and more heavily muscled, and slightly paler. Their hair was jet black, but tinted with different colours – the Alpha, Lucien had a dark-bluish undertone to his hair, while the one right beside him was more reddy. The latter sturck an impressive pose, much, much taller than Lucien and with an axe hooked into his belt – Wow, Sam had never let us carry weapons, he said the wolf was all we needed, and I'd never even considered it in our pack.

'No need to get violent, lads,' Jared said nervously, pulling me back into the shadow of the veranda.

'We don't intend to,' Lucien said calmly, 'this is Pablo,' he nodded to the reddy tinted one, 'Stefano, Ferdinando, Giorgio, Sicilia and Arianna,' the last two were female, and my eyes widened as I looked at them – so Leah wasn't the only one.

'You're Italian-American,' I hadn't heard Embry come outside.

'From Chicago,' Lucien nodded.

'No vampires, no forests – figured we'd come check this place out,' Pablo added.

'So why are you werewolves, if there weren't any vampires where you came from?' Quil asked.

'Because, unlike you, we're werewolves, not shape-shifters,' there was no time for Stefano to continue, as Leah came outside on crutches, though Cullen was taking most of her weight. Carlisle, I muttered mentally, his name is Carlisle.

'There you are,' she growled weakly, and I went to help her, but froze at the expression on her face. Her eyes were fixed on Lucien's, and I knew, on instinct, that she was looking not just into his eye, but into his heart. Carlisle caught her as she stumbled backwards, and Lucien started forwards once more.

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