"You wanna say no, no, it ain't gon' work, no, but then you fumble your words,
Oh, you're running out of reasons;
No, no, tell all of your lies, you'll bite your lips on mine,
Oh, you're running out of reasons.

(Running Out of Reasons – The Wanted)

(Bella's POV)

I woke up this morning feeling a little cold. I realised that Edward kicked Embry out. I was annoyed that Embry had to go and fight. I didn't want him to go. I wanted him to stay here with Edward and I.

"Morning, beautiful! How did you sleep? " Edward asked me.

"Morning, love! After Embry came in and turned into my space heater, I was able to sleep very well," I replied. "The ring still feels weird. It's a good feeling to have it there, but I think it'll take a while for me to get used to it," I added.

"That's okay because soon, you'll have another ring to get used to having to wear…your wedding ring!" he told me. I could hear some rustling in the trees and saw Embry standing about 50ft away from me.

"You're getting hitched. When the hell were you planning on telling me Bella? When? Or were you going to tell me with an invite? Or were you even going to send one? I'm sure your fiancée of a bloodsucker doesn't want to even have me there…"

"Embry I…"

"Forget it Bella. I understand. I'm not worthy of your love and apparently he is so why should I stick around?" He asked as he disappeared, without even waiting for my response.

"Edward, please can I…"

"Go, he needs you. I'll wait here for you. I love you," he replied.

"Thank you, I love you too." I told him. I followed Embry and saw him at the cliffs.

"Maybe I should go and let one of those newborns kill me. Without you, I don't know why I would ever bother living," he said. I was shocked by his comment.

"Em, don't be stupid! How many people would you hurt by doing that?" I retorted.

"No one really, my mom wouldn't care, the pack would see it as annoying Embry gone and the bloodsuckers would see it as one more wolf out of the way, an you probably would think 'now I don't have to worry about little old Em getting in the way of Eddie and I" he replied sadly.

"Em, everyone would be saying the total opposite! Your mom would see it as her baby gone and she wouldn't even understand why or how you died because she doesn't know about the pack. The pack would see it as their brother dead for nothing, a valued pack member gone because h couldn't handle it anymore. The Cullens would come to your funeral, along with everyone else you know personally. And most of all, I would never say that about you. I need you in my life Em. I see us as family and I…I love you," I managed to get out. Now that I've said it out loud, I realise that it's true.

"Kiss me Embry Call." He instantly obeyed and kissed me. I realised then that I was cheating on Edward. It felt so wrong, but it felt so right. I kissed back for a few seconds and let go. He looked at me with a newfound happiness.

"Now promise me you won't do anything stupid and not get yourself killed, please," I asked. He nodded and ran off with a skip in his step. I walked back to Edward with regret written all over my face, even though I didn't feel all that regretful.

"You saw all of that didn't you?" I asked the love of my life.

"No, but his thoughts are quite loud," he countered.

"I'm sorry, I love you more than him…"

"Honey, relax, you did what you had to do. I would've done the same thing if I were in your position. Let's get in the tent," he told me. We walked over to the tent as Seth showed up. Edward stopped when he saw him and looked at him directly.

"It's starting…"

(Angie's POV)

I could smell the newborns coming and alerted everyone quietly. They were all blood-crazed, untrained idiots and were given a death sentence. We all stood in a line with Esme, Carlisle, Alice, myself, Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie from left to right and the wolves in the trees behind us.

"Everyone, stick with your mates and fight together. Don't be afraid to kill, just go for it," I advised. They all nodded solemnly. I was surprised by Carlisle and Esme's determination to fight, but was grateful for it. As soon as the first ten peeked out of the trees, we all growled and snarled. Once they all showed up, I ran up to the first one and ripped his head off with one hand and the battle began.

Alice and Jasper ran up behind me to help me take the middle section. Carlisle and Esme took the left flank and Rosalie and Emmett took the right flank. After ten minutes and about 20 newborns were killed, I started a fire and this was the signal for the dogs to jump out. All Cullen mates were assigned with two or three mutts. The Cullens noticed the fire and started to throw newborn limbs into it. The dogs were doing pretty well for children and were killing a fair amount of the newborns. I don't know how many I've killed but it's a lot. The fire has been growing from the amount of newborns being thrown into it. I sense a whole new wave in the waters and I look to Alice, who has just done a flip over a newborn while ripping its head of then throwing it and the body into the fire. After her little stunt, she looked to me as I manipulated her thoughts to hear and see my vision. She nodded and kept fighting. I looked to where the water was and ran to it. I sent up my own wave, but instead of it being one of reinforcements, it was one of water. I lifted the water up, boiled it to its highest point and slammed it back down on them. They didn't scream, but I knew they would in this next part. I use my electricity to electrocute them and they were all in a state of pain. I grew plants out of the earth to hold them in place, making them unable to move. I brought a hurricane wind over and blew off all the water that was on them and got rid of all the blood in them. My vines were too strong for their newborn strength and held them even tighter. I then performed the finale. Death by fire. With all limbs connected. I lit my hands on fire and projected it out of me and onto the newborns. They burned quickly and thus, the end of my amazing performance. I heard Bella screaming so I ran over to their hideout to find two people that shouldn't be there. Victoria and Riley.

I saw Seth fighting Riley. I liked that wolf, he was a very happy kid and shouldn't be fighting. So I went to help him. He used his front paws to push Riley forward and I caught him with my electric-ridden hands and he screamed in pain yelling,

"Victoria, help me! I need you!"

"Shut up you stupid newborn!" she replied. I laughed hard; to the point where my electricity was enhanced and made the pain worse. I shoved him back to Seth as he was recovering so Seth could still fight him and win. I saw Edward struggling so I pulled Victoria off of him and electrocuted her too. But it wasn't enough. I was out of charge. Great, another ability I need to work on. As if I don't have enough. Bella had found a rock and cut herself to distract Victoria which worked. I pushed her to the floor and Edward ripped her head off. By then, Seth was done with Riley so he put his head and body there with Victoria's and I set it alight.

Four black figures appeared in the forest and walked out onto the battlefield. The Cullens were there and it was going to happen in 20 minutes.

I looked at Edward as he was bandaging Bella's wound and he realised what was about to happen. I looked to Seth and told him to go home. He did as he was told almost instantly after nodding to Edward. He picked Bella up and we ran to the battlefield. I burnt all that was left but there was one newborn left. The girl mutt, Leah I think, went to play hero and went to kill it herself, but due to inexperience and no backup, she had no idea. Then the Bella-lover dog Embry went and saved her, while getting a hug from the newborn, crushing the left side of his body. He howled in pain and continued whimpering while I burned him on the spot. Everyone rushed over to him and I told the dogs to go phase back and the girls to move away. They all did as they were told. I helped Embry phase back and put some shorts on him at the same time to save him some embarrassment. I did all this while chanting 'For Bella, for Ephraim' in my head. Even Edward chuckled softly. The Alpha, Sam I think, came and picked Embry up.

"No wait! That will cause him more pain! Let me try something. I need you all to huddle in a circle and touch me somewhere that's not inappropriate and Sam or whatever your name is, give me Embry and think of his home or wherever you want me to fix him. I have been a doctor for a few centuries now and have amazing abilities that can fix him. I can't do it here because the Volturi are going to come here and I can't be here when they are," I instructed.

"I'll think of Jake's house, his father is the chief and Em's mom doesn't know about us," Sam answered.

"Yeah, whatever, let's go, they are 10 minutes away and I need to clear the scents," I replied. I looked into his thoughts and I recognised the land and smiled weakly. I transported everyone there in 2 minutes, lying Embry down on Jake or whatever his name's bed. I went back to the battlefield and cleared the dogs and my scents from the area.

"Carlisle, come to Jake's house, I think it is afterwards and help me fix Bella's other boyfriend. I heard Edward and Bella sigh and Emmett laugh. It was kind of funny I guess. Oh well! I transported myself back to Embry and was confronted by the chief. Billy Black, the grandson of my last lover who I still hated. I looked at him with an impatient look and gestured him to talk.

"You are breaking the treaty…"

"Would you rather Embry die or never phase or walk again?" I interrupted. He sighed and nodded, permitting my entrance. "Thank you," I said. I walked in and noticed Embry's state had gotten worse.

"Okay, now I need you to relax, the healing rate has increased since the last generation, making it worse for you. I need to re-break all of your bones to reset them so it's going to hurt. If you want, I can give you some morphine or my blood. You pick," I informed him.

"Why would I want your blood? Do you even have any blood?" he questioned.

"I have blood because I am the first vampire ever to be in existence and I was never a newborn, so technically I still have blood in my system. This enables me to take on disguises and hide my vampiric scent. You see how amazing I am? The blood that I have is like a drug. It can be addictive so vampires that bite me and drink my blood can then only drink my blood because my blood is so much more potent. It tastes like human blood with a little bit of sweetness added to it, the vampire part, that makes it addictive. Lucky for you, only vampires can get addicted to it. My blood can act as a pain killer which is what I think you need. It confuses the pain receptor in your body, therefore confusing your brain to think there is no pain. Your body temperature would burn off morphine too quickly, but my blood will only stop working when I want it to. Your choice," I told him. He seemed really out of it.

"Just hurry up and get it over with. I'm not a bloodsucker so I'm not having your blood. Give me morphine and hurry," he decided.

"Suit yourself. You'll probably prefer death over this by the way," I warned.

"Yeah, I don't care. Just hurry," he replied.

I sighed and gave him some morphine I had in case this happened. I gave him an overdose by 10 times and Carlisle walked in just as I gave him morphine.

"We ready to start?" he asked.

"Yeah, he's an idiot though because he doesn't want my blood," I replied.

"Are you sure you don't want it Embry?" Carlisle asked him.

"Yeah, like I said, I'm not a bloodsucker. I'm a man and I can take it," he replied.

"Stubborn child," I muttered.

I re-broke his left arm and boy did he scream. Carlisle worked on his leg and lower body while I worked on his upper body. He screamed consistently and Carlisle winced every time he broke a bone. We used our vampire speed to move quickly and get it done. I regularly gave him more morphine that I transported from the hospital. I could hear Bella outside with the others. I had one more rib to reset and Carlisle had his ankle. Once we were done, we walked outside to where the others were.

"I wanted to put him under a stronger drug but he wouldn't let me, hence the screaming. I would've used my abilities to fix it quickly but he had already healed quite a fair bit. I tried everything to make it easier but it was either impossible or he didn't want it and I didn't want to go against his wishes. Bella, you can go in and see him now, I need to talk to the Quileutes for a little," I told her. She nodded and walked in. I looked at the wolves and Billy.

"I'm sorry that I was a bit rude to you before Billy, but your grandfather destroyed me indefinitely and so I held a grudge against your family and all the wolves. You aren't as bad as I thought you were and you have had so many enhances since the last generation of wolves that I could talk about for hours. Thank you for letting me heal Embry. I will have to come back once a day for the next week to give him some more morphine. He means a lot to Bella and I regard her as a part of my family now, even though she and Edward haven't married yet. You boys helped us out so much today. I don't think we would've been able to do it without you. Seth, you're a good kid. Your mind is pure and I'm sorry that my family and I have made you phase. You shouldn't've had to fight today. As the leader of the Cullen coven, the Cullen family, thank you for all of your help these last few days," I stated. They all nodded appreciatively.

"Thank you for looking after Embry, his mother doesn't know anything about the wolves and we don't know who his father is. He is like a son to me and I thank you on behalf of his mother for helping him," Billy thanked. He stuck his hand out and I took it.

"Thank you for giving us the chance to see some real vampire action. Although we were fighting a bunch of newborns, our perspectives have changed towards you Cullens. You guys aren't as bad as you may seem. The treaty will still remain intact, but if you ever need our assistance, we will be there," Sam told me. I nodded. I looked to Carlisle and read his mind.

We need to get home, I need to see Esme and calm he down, she was a little stressed out from the attack on Embry and I think you need to sleep and recharge.

"I agree," I replied to Carlisle's thoughts. "Thank you one again and now that our job is done, we will leave the reservation to uphold our side of the treaty. And I'm tired, I need to sleep. And so do all of you boys. Go home to your girlfriends and family and tell them that we won and that the closest person to dying from this encounter is Embry who is in the safe hands of the chief," I told them and before we got a reply, Carlisle and I had transported back home.

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