~Brooklyn's point of view~
Emily was close to finishing patching my face. I could feel that healing process already taking place. Although it was slightly uncomfortable, it was something that I could handle. I heard the door swing open with significant force. I could almost instantly tell that it was Jacob. I turned my head to face to door. Something was off. There was a smell in the room that I had never smelled before. Jacob wasn't alone.
"Hello Bella."
Emily greeted her, just as she would treat everyone. She didn't have the heart to be rude to someone unless they deserved it. My heart dropped instantly. I knew that name. It was the girl that Jacob said that he loved instead of me. She was the main reason that I was going through all of this pain. I wanted to know why she was here, but I was slightly afraid to ask. As if reading my mind Sam asked him.
"What is she doing here?"
"Why wouldn't she be here?"
I could hear the hostility in his voice as he spoke back to Sam. I bit my tongue so that I wouldn't say anything. I turned my head to the direction that Sam was in, and I heard him sigh and walk from the room. He must have known that he wasn't going to get anywhere with him.
I could hear some footsteps getting closer to me. I knew from the sound of them that they were Jake's. I didn't know how to react, so I just sat there hoping that I wasn't accidently staring at him.
"What happened to you?"
The tone in his voice was clearly worried, but at the same time it had a hint of attitude in it. As much as it pained me, I raised my hand and motioned him to stop. He reeked of that leech lover's stench, and I think that if he came any closer I would have been sick.
"Why do you even care?"
I could hear that my own voice was hostile, but at the moment I didn't care. He hadn't cared about me up until the point that I was injured. I could tell that he was thinking of something to respond with. I stood up, facing the way that I heard his footsteps from, and took a step forward. Little did I know that there was a stand right in front of me, and my foot caught sending me toppling over. I braced myself for an impact, but I found myself in a warm embrace in return.
The air in the room suddenly changed to one of hostility.
"Are you okay?"
This voice wasn't Jacob's. Embry was the one that caught me. I still didn't understand why there was anger in the air. It wasn't until I felt where Embry's hands were located that I knew. Embry's hands were wrapped firmly around my butt.
"You can let go of her any time."
Jacob was practically growling at Embry. Embry quickly scrambled to let go of me.
"Why are you acting like this Jake?"
She finally spoke.
"Oh he didn't tell you?"
I could tell that Paul was smirking.
"Tell me what?"
"Well…. I- I imprinted on her, but I love you more!"
If you could see a heart breaking, you would see my heart lying on the floor in pieces.
I struggled to unravel myself from the furniture and found my way to the door and ran. I could feel the tears threatening to leave my eyes. I felt the sting of the salty substance run down my wounds. I could also feel branches hitting my face, causing new scratches, but they healed quickly enough. I hadn't noticed that I had phased, until I felt how fast I was going. I could smell the water in the distance. I knew I needed to get to the water to cool down.
"Brooke are you alright?"
"Where did you go?"
"Come back please!"
"Guys just leave her alone for a little bit"
I would have to thank Embry when I got back for telling them to leave me alone for a while. I stopped whenever I felt the water on my paws. I phased back into my human form, and sat down in the wet sand. The tears didn't stop flowing whenever I phased.
"Poor little lost pup. Something must have upset you to be injured and be out here all alone."
That voice and smell was from someone or something that was unfamiliar. I growled to myself. Sam had warned us that there were many vampires running around. How could I have been so reckless!
"Who are you? What are you?"
"Why should I give you any information when I am here to kill you darling?"
I didn't waste any time and I phased back to my wolf form immediately. I was practically screaming for help in my head. I couldn't fight this vampire on my own, not whenever I couldn't even see him. He was here to kill me.
"Brooke are you okay?"
"Jake…Vampire"
I could hear Jake howl to notify the others of the treat.
"Well now this complicates things. Pesky mutts anyways. I just need to kill you, and the other ones will make that difficult."
I didn't even hear him coming until I felt a something hit my in the side of the head. I was knocked to the ground. I could feel him crawling on top of me. I felt a swift kick to my side, enough to knock the wind out of my lungs. I thought for sure that I was going to die. I could almost feel him picking his foot up again, but this time I could hear the paws of the others beating on the ground running in our direction. I heard him scoff, but then I felt a sharp pain in the stomach and could taste the metallic taste of blood in my mouth. My body was being flung through the air, and soon the coldness of the water hit my body and I couldn't breathe. He had kicked me into the water so that I would drown. I had phased back to my human form. The amount of pain that my body was experiencing wouldn't allow me to stay in my wolf form.
~No one's Point of view~
Although nobody could hear the vampire he said his goodbyes to the wolf that he had just thrown into the water.
"Goodbye little pup. I really hope that it kills you, because if no then I will just have to come back again. The names Jared, I guess you are worth knowing that at least. Not that you can hear it anyways."
"She might not be able to, but we sure can."
Jared's smirk fell, and he took off running. He wasn't going to get away as easy as he thought he would. Jacob and Paul were both on his tail, eventually capturing his shoulder. With a large snap, his arm broke off, but he managed to slip their grasps and make it away from them. His sent had disappeared completely.
Brooke had lost consciousness under the water. Sam was looking around frantically before it hits him that she was thrown into the water. Without a second thought Sam jumped into the frigid water. It didn't take him more than a few seconds to see Brooke's body floating. He grabbed her and pulled her to the top of the water's surface. She wasn't breathing at this point. Quickly dragging her to the sandy beach, he started to preform CPR on the unconscious girl that was in front of him. It didn't take long before she coughed up water, but along with the water came blood. Blood slowly seeped down her chin, and as soon as any sign of consciousness came to the girl, she was groaning uncontrollably in pain.
"Brooke!"
"I'll call Carlisle! He is a surgeon, he should know what to do."
Nobody had any arguments with her after seeing how much pain the girl was in.
"Jake give Bella a ride back to the house. We need her to get ahold of the doctor."
Jacob was staring at the girl that was clearly in pain in front of him. He could only see the distortion of her face due to the pain.
"Jacob, Go! She will die if you don't hurry."
He turned and his paws were beating hard against the ground and were getting further and further away. Paul and Sam both picked up the injured girl that was lying on the ground. She cried out loudly in pain. The screams were terrible, and everyone cringed.
~Brooklyn's Point of View~
"Hang in their Brooke, it's going to be alright."
Embry was trying to calm me, but the pain was taking over and his words were jumbled in my brain at the moment.
"Damn it!"
Sam cursed, he must have known how much pain I was in. I still couldn't focus on anything. It seemed like forever before we got back to the house. I was in an out of consciousness the whole way back. I could smell the blood sucker in the house. Soon I could feel his cold hands running over my stomach area.
"Is she going to be alright Carlisle?"
"I am going to have to do surgery or she will die. Do I have your permission?"
It took a while to get the answer, but eventually Sam must have agreed and within a few seconds I was out cold.
~Jacob's point of view~
I didn't take my eyes off of her, even after they closed the door on the room that she was in. I stared at the door and couldn't help but feel guilty.
"What are we going to do Sam? We just did a patrol and he managed to get in without us smelling it."
"We are going to double our patrols. We need to find this bastard! Jake, you and Paul go on patrol now."
"But I want to stay here with her."
"She wouldn't be where she is now if you didn't tell her you loved Bella the way that you did."
I couldn't argue with him, because he was right. I knew that I was just as to blame as the blood leech that did this.
"Embry, I want you to stay here until she wakes up."
For some reason that made me angry. Why did he get to be with her? He's not even imprinted on her. The question was burning inside me.
"Why does he get to stay?!"
"Jacob enough! Just go patrol"
I couldn't argue with this command, it was an Alpha command. I growled at him, before I left and went out on my patrol.
~Embry's point of view~
What kind of vampire could do this much damage to one of us? I never thought that this much damage could be made. I heard the door opening behind me, and I watched as Carlisle walk out and close the door.
"How is she?"
"She will pull through, but she will be in a lot of pain. I gave her some morphine, but her body will burn that off soon. I will go get some more from the hospital and come back."
"What happened?"
"From the looks of it, she kicked and then with the frigid waters, it broke some of her internal organs and with her healing ability it healed the wrong way. A little bit of good news out of all of this is that her eyes should be fine now. She should be able to see."
"We need to find out who did this."
"Alright, I am going to go now. If she needs anything let me know. You can go visit her right now, I don't know when she will wake up though."
"Thank you Carlisle."
He left the room and I entered the room with Brooke. She was lying there, and she looked so broken. At least she was alive though. I was staring at her broken body when I heard her speak.
"Embry?"
Her voice was barely above a whisper. I walked over to her bedside.
"How do you feel?"
"Well it feels like I busted a gut."
"Well that's pretty much what happened."
"I don't know. I let my guard down. I don't know who he was or anything."
"I will let the others know, but you need to get some sleep."
"Embry? Do you think that my imprint on Jacob will ever fade? I don't want to be with someone that doesn't want to be with me."
"Now is not the time for this, you should get your rest. That is something for you and him to discuss."
It only took a few seconds for her to be out again. Even when she was injured she thought about Jake. He is going to screw this up. I walked out of the room, and closed the door slowly behind me. I went to find Sam. When he seen me, he stood up and waited for me to talk.
"She was kicked in the stomach so hard, it busted some of her organs. Carlisle said she will be fine now, but she will be in terrible pain. She told me that the vampire that she doesn't know the name of the vampire and no idea why he wanted her dead. He will probably be back for her. Also, Sam she needs time to talk to Jacob. Even in pain she was asking about him. I think she wants to know why she isn't 'good enough' for him. He's making a mistake."
"You like her don't you?"
"I do, but I know that it is her destiny to be with Jake, and if I imprint on someone I couldn't hurt her. She has already had enough hurt in her life."
