Sitka POV
The next few weeks passed uneventfully. I was 'learning' to speak again. Embry and the pack played with me, I gardened, Charlie said hello. Basically this was the best time in my life so far.
Until Alice had the vision.
We were all watching TV, a standard Saturday afternoon; Edward and Bella were out hunting. Alice gasped; Jasper grabbed a pad of paper and a pencil and shoved them under her hands. Alice drew a face. I felt my stomach roil. It was Demetri.
"He's coming. He'll be here at the end of the month," Alice said in a dead voice. Her voice cleared, "I didn't see what made him come here."
They all glanced at me nervously. Embry pulled me to his side. I didn't show any emotion. I knew what Demetri was looking for. He was looking for me and he would kill my family to get to me. I tried not to cry. Was I going to lose two families? Wasn't it enough to just lose one? Unless, I tried not to gasp, what if I went out to meet him? He wouldn't get his hands on the Cullens or the wolves. I decided. I would go to meet my hunter to spare my family.
Alice gasped. Her eyes clouded and cleared. "Sitka, we won't let anything happen to you," she promised. I tried to play the part. I smiled nervously.
"How far away is he?" I asked.
"Right now he's in Mexico. We won't let him get you." Alice promised again. What was a promise? It was something you might mean, but in the end it was worthless.
I planned to go to my doom. I volunteered to go find Edward and Bella. My request was granted. I took off. Embry watched me go with a worried frown.
I took off in the opposite direction of where they were hunting. I ran south. It reminded me of my flight from my home. But instead of running away from people who wanted to kill me, I was headed to someone who wanted to kill me.
Two days later I reached Southern California. It was here that I waited. I knew that Demetri could find me. I waited.
He didn't disappoint me. I had my eyes closed as I sat on the rock. I heard him draw near. His excitement was almost palpable. A hunt gave him some sort of high.
I heard his ashy cloak. I opened my eyes and looked at my death. Demetri smiled.
"Well, we can do this easy way or the hard way," he said in a seductive voice. I exposed my throat. Silent tears tracked down my face.
"Family." I sighed.
Demetri came forward slowly. He wanted me to cower in fear and beg for my life. I wouldn't give him the satisfaction. His mouth fastened on the side of my throat. I felt the venom shoot through my blood, even as it left my body. I welcomed the pain. Better my pain then my family's. I felt my strength leave my body and go into his. My eyes closed. Blackness came for me.
"I'll miss you," I whispered to my family.
As the blackness covered me, I heard a roar. My curiosity beat at the blackness so I could see what was happening.
A wolf leaped at Demetri. Embry, no, I wanted to say, but my strength had fled.
Demetri dropped me to counter the attack. I fell, but was caught by strong arms.
"Carlisle, she needs more blood!" Esme called. My eyes fluttered. I gasped.
A needle poked through my skin. Hands held my wound closed and wrapped a bandage around it. I looked into the golden eyes of my family.
Embry phased and came over. He pulled on shorts. "Sitka, you're going to be okay!" he said, fervently.
No I'm not. I'll never be okay if my family dies again. That's why I did this, so you wouldn't be hurt, I tried to say. Edward growled in rage.
"Sitka, we wouldn't have let him! You are our family! Promise us you'll never do this again!" He yelled.
Promises mean nothing, I thought as I slipped away into the blackness.
