Chapter 7
I had to come up for another breath, but that wasn't going to stop me from saving him. I swam to the top and once again gasped for air.
"I found him! I found him!" Edward yelled as he swam toward the beach with Jacob.
I swam toward him, and helped him.
We pulled Jacob's lifeless body into the sand.
"He's not breathing," Edward said.
"I can help," Leah said, "Watch out!"
Leah laid her head on his chest.
"He still has a heart beat!"
She tilted his head back and opened his mouth.
"Shit! He's still not breathing," she yelled.
She pinched his nose and pressed her lips to his. Then she blew a big breath of air into his mouth. Between every breath she would rest her head on her chest for five seconds.
After ten minutes, Jacob started to cough.
"Back up!" Leah yelled.
She sat him up, and he coughed up a bunch of water. After he was done, she laid him back down.
"We need to get him out of these wet clothes, or he will freeze to death."
She started ripping off his clothes and drying him off with the pile of t-shirts the rest of the pack made.
"Help me move him closer to the fire, he's losing heat!" Leah commanded.
Jacob's breathing pattern changed, and he started to shake. Everyone started to move closer to him.
"Back up!" she yelled, "Sam, help me out here."
"Back away from them." I yelled over the excitement.
Everyone moved away and sat in the sand watching Leah work with Jake.
"Does anyone have a jacket?" Leah said.
"Here, take this," Edward said, handing Leah a thick coat.
"Thank you, this is perfect."
Leah wrapped the coat around Jake. Then she grabbed his wrist and measured his pulse.
"Edward, call Dr. Cullen. His pulse is only forty-five beats per minute."
Edward got on the phone.
"Carlisle, I need your help. Jacob is dying. He has a pulse of forty-five beats per minute."
Leah stared at him desperately.
"Leah, is Jacob conscious?" he asked.
"Barely."
"Okay," he said, "Yes, but barely... Okay, thanks Carlisle."
Everyone looked at Edward.
"He's coming. He said to just keep doing what you are, because it's keeping him alive."
"I can do that," she said.
Leah laid her head on his chest again, then took his pulse.
"Shit! We're loosing him!" she yelled.
"What's his pulse Leah?" I asked.
"Thirty-six beats per minute."
"Jake, you can do this." I said, "I'm not going to let you die."
Leah moved her hands in the center of his chest, and began pushing down.
"Sam, take is pulse. Just put your index finger and your middle finger on his wrist till you feel a pulse."
"Okay, I can do that," I said.
I knelt down by Jakes side, and felt for his pulse.
"Now count how many beats you feel. Edward time it, one minute. Go!" Leah commanded.
I felt Jake's pulse, counting every beat.
"Come on Jake," I said.
"Sam, don't talk. You'll lose track," Leah said.
"Time," Edward yelled.
"What did you get Sam?"
"Fifty-two."
"Great, it's working."
Leah continued to push on Jakes chest.
"Carlisle can't make it. He was just assigned into a surgery, but he's going to talk you through it Leah," Edward said.
"Okay, what do I do first?" Leah asked.
"What's his pulse?"
"Fifty-two."
"Okay, give him another breath."
Once again Leah plugged Jake's nose and blew a big breath into his mouth.
"He's breathing, but barely!" Leah yelled.
"How long's he been out?"
"About an hour," Leah said.
"Okay, we need to get him breathing stronger now, or we're going to loose him."
"What do I do?" she asked.
"Does anyone have asthma here?" Edward asked.
Jared raised his hand.
"Do you have your inhaler?"
"Yah, here," he tossed Edward the inhaler.
"Okay, Leah here's what you do, puff the inhaler in his mouth, then force in down with a breath, but don't breathe it in."
"Okay."
Leah puffed the inhaler in Jake's mouth, then took a huge breath and blew it down his airway.
"Is his breathing any stronger?" Edward asked.
"A little," she said.
"Okay, great! Do it again," Edward directed.
Leah forced the puff of the inhaler down his airway once again.
"He's waking up!" Leah yelled.
"Okay, give him a command, like if you can hear me open your mouth, something like that, but get right next to his ear.
"Jake, if you can here me, I need you blink twice," Leah whispered.
Everyone stared at his face.
Jake blinked twice.
"Now show praise Leah," Edward said.
"Good job, Jake."
"Take his pulse."
Leah felt for his pulse.
"Seventy-one," Leah said.
"Great, we're almost there. Give him one last breath," Edward said.
Leah gave him a breath.
"His breathing is strong!" Leah said.
"Awesome. Now Leah, do you have a hair pin, or safety pin? We need to shock him," Edward said.
Leah felt her hair for a clip.
"I've got a bobby pin, will that work?" she asked.
"Yes, bite the rubber guard off the tip.
Leah stuck the bobby pin in her mouth, and bit off the tip.
"Now jab it into the bottom of his foot," Edward said.
Leah stuck the bottom of the bobby pin into the bottom of his foot, Jake's body tensed up.
"We need more pressure," Edward said.
"Hold on."
Leah pulled something out from her hair.
"I have an earring, it has a point on the end, so that it's easier to pierce, will it work?" she asked.
"Yes, that's perfect, stabbed the bottom of his foot."
Leah stabbed the earring into his foot.
He yelled, and sat up, "Shit, what was that?"
"It was Leah, saving your life," I said.
"What?"
"You jumped off the cliff and drowned, you were out for almost two hours, but Leah never stopped fighting for you," I said.
Leah smiled at him.
Jake shivered, "It's really cold out here."
"Well, that could be because you're laying in your underwear."
Everyone started laughing.
"Here, cover up, you don't want to freeze."
"Where are my clothes?" Jake asked.
"Great, you're awake. Leah, take his pulse one last time."
Leah nodded, then grabbed Jake's wrist.
"Pulse is seventy-eight," Leah said.
"Perfect, Jacob, you should be fine."
Leah stood up and hugged Edward.
"You did it, you did it!" she yelled.
"No Leah, you did it," Edward said.
Then Leah ran over to Jake, and smacked him.
"If you ever do that again, I'll save you just to push you off again, but I'm glad you're okay."
She gave him a hug.
"Jake, I think you have some explaining to do, Bella's worried sick about you."
"Yah, I do, can you take me to her?" Jacob asked.
"Yah, let's go."
Edward helped Jake into the passenger side of his Volvo.
"Thank you for the help and cooperation today. You are all free to go," I said.
Leah smiled at me.
"You did good today Leah, I don't know what we would've done with out you," I gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Honestly, I wouldn't have known what to do besides CPR, if it wasn't for Edward."
"I'm going to make sure everybody hears about what you did."
Leah's face turned red.
"You saved a life, and not any life, the life of a future Alpha Wolf."
Leah's eyes widened.
"I did?"
"Yes, Jacob will be the Alpha pretty soon."
Leah smiled
"Good job, Leah."
Jacob
I got out of Edward's Volvo; he walked up to the door, and walked in. When Bella saw me, she ran towards me and wrapped her arms around me.
"Oh, thank God you're okay! I don't know what I would've done without you," tears streamed down her face, "I was so worried about you. What were you thinking?"
"I don't know," I said.
Honestly I had no idea what I did. All I remember is that I went to see Rosalie, after that I don't know.
"How do you not know, you were the one who did it."
"Thank God for Rosalie," Edward said.
"What? Why?!" Bella yelled.
"Jake, do you want me to tell her, or do you remember?" Edward asked.
"I uh, kinda went to Rosalie, and uh asked her to kill me," I said.
"If it weren't for Rosalie refusing to kill him, he wouldn't be here right now," Edward explained.
"You what?!" Bella yelled.
"I didn't know what I was doing, and I'm sorry I worried you."
"Damn right you are! You went to Rosalie! What were you going to do if I was there? Were you going to make me watch her kill you?!" Bella was enraged.
"I told you, I didn't know what I was doing."
Just then I felt a large hand on my shoulder.
"Bella, Jake's been out for quite a while, he's probably forgot a lot that happened," Sam said.
Bella wiped her face and hugged me again.
"I'm just glad you're okay," she said.
"Emily, you will never guess what happened," Sam said.
"What?" Emily said.
"Leah saved his life, if she hadn't been there, Jake would've died," he said.
I dropped my head, and rubbed the back of my neck.
"Our Leah? Leah Clearwater?" Emily asked.
Sam nodded, "Yah."
"See, I knew there was a good reason Leah was on the pack," Emily said, "She's a savior."
"Yes she is," Sam said.
"So, Jacob, how long were you down?" Emily asked.
I shrugged my shoulders, I had no idea.
"About two hours," Edward said.
"We never would've found Jake if Edward hadn't showed up," Sam said.
Bella gave Edward a hug and a kiss.
I started to cough.
"Jake, are you okay?" Bella asked.
I couldn't stop coughing to answer her. I had to gasp for air between coughs. It was getting hard to breathe. Bella walked over and felt my forehead.
"Wow, Jake you're really hot, and I mean hotter than normal."
"Watch out," Sam said, as he walked over and felt my for head, "Yes, you do seem warmer than normal. Emily, get me a thermometer, if it reads to high, then we know there's something wrong."
Emily disappeared into the kitchen and came out with a thermometer.
"Okay, you know how a thermometer works, under you're tongue, until it beeps," Sam said.
I sat there with a thermometer under my tongue, for about ten seconds, before the thermometer read "Error High."
"This isn't good. His temperature is way to high, we need to bring it down," Sam said, "Edward run to the store, and get as much ice as you can, we're going to need a lot."
"Being in the water must've messed you up," Edward said.
"Water, what water?" Bella asked.
"Bella, Jake tried to drown himself," Sam said.
Edward left Emily's house.
"Get the coat off of him," Sam said, "Emily, Bella, help me get him to the bath tub."
Sam, Bella, and Emily all walked towards me. Sam lifted me into his arms, and Bella held my head up. Emily ran into the bathroom and opened the door, and the shower curtain.
"Okay, gently now set him down," Sam said.
They laid me in Emily's bathtub.
"Emily, get me and fans you have," Sam directed.
Emily ran out of the bathroom. Bella sat on the edge of the tub, and ran her fingers threw my hair.
"Sam, is Jake going to be okay?" she asked.
"To tell you the truth, I don't know. I'm hoping we can bring his fever down, enough to get him able to move again."
Bella covered her mouth with her hand, and started to cry. It killed me to not be able to move or talk to comfort her, it was like I was trapped in my own body. I wanted to give her a hug, I wanted to tell her it was going to be all right, when I knew damn well it wouldn't be, but I couldn't. Now to make things even worse my nose itches. It's like as soon as you can use your arms your nose itches.
"Are you telling me, that if he doesn't get better, he won't be able to move anymore?" Bella asked.
"I don't know," Sam said.
"I've got the ice, Sam. It's in my car," Edward said.
"Bella, go help Edward with ice," Sam commanded.
Emily came in with a box fan, and plugged it in on the sink counter.
"Point to fan at Jake," Sam said to Emily.
Edward and Bella came in with four big bags of ice.
"Great, now dump the ice not the bath tub," Sam said.
Now I wish I could scream. Ice, seriously, they're going to dump ice on me?!
"Yes we are, Jacob. It will help bring down your fever," Edward said.
Sam looked at him confused.
"Edward can read his mind," Bella explained.
"Helpful. Edward, you can tell us what Jake is thinking," Sam said.
"He's thinking that his nose itches really bad."
"Typical," Sam said.
Bella scratched my nose. Thank you Bella!
"He says thanks."
Bella smiled at me.
"Okay, now that we've got that out of the way, pour the ice," Sam said.
Edward and Bella began dumping bags of ice into the tub, which wasn't as cold as I thought it'd be. It actually felt good. I could start to move my fingers.
"It's working!" Bella said.
"Good, keep going," Sam said.
I could move my hands, and my neck. My whole body started to cool down. I eventually got the rest of the movement back to my body, but I still couldn't talk. Sam brought me a towel so I could dry off.
"Emily, get me some cough medicine," Sam said.
I walked out to the kitchen and sat down. Emily brought me a little cup of cough medicine.
"Here Jacob, take this. It might help."
I nodded, then swigged the cough medicine down. I started to cough again, and I thought cough medicine stops coughing.
"Sorry, but we needed to find a way to educe coughing. It was the only way to get you able to talk again," Edward said.
I tried to clear my throat.
"Water," I could barely whisper.
"Water?" Bella asked.
I nodded.
"Can he have water?" Bella asked.
"It's worth a shot," Sam said.
Sam went and got me a glass of water. I took a sip, then tried to clear my throat again.
"Thank you," my voice was a little stronger.
I kept taking little sips of water, and clearing my throat.
"Maybe we should take him to Carlisle," Bella said.
"Carlisle's at the hospital," Sam said.
"I can probably get Jacob in to see him, hold on," Edward said.
Edward got on the phone, and left the room.
"How do you feel Jake," Bella asked.
I gave her a thumbs up.
"Good," she said.
Edward came back in a few minutes later.
"Carlisle has an opening, in ten minutes, if we can get Jake there in that time, he can check him out," Edward said.
"Okay, that's great, except he's half naked," Sam said.
"When Edward went to Italy, the day before I left for him. I fell off my bike and cut my arm up pretty bad. Trust me, Jacob's gone into a hospital with a lot less on," Bella said.
"Okay, let's go," Edward said.
I wrapped my arms around Sam and Edward's necks. They wrapped their arms around my waist to help me out to Edward's Volvo. They put me in the passengers side, and Bella, and Sam got in the back. Edward sped down the road to the hospital. He had to get there in ten minutes, and we were a half hour away. Edward drove crazily threw Forks to the hospital.
When got to the hospital Carlisle was waiting for us.
"Hello Jacob," Carlisle said.
I nodded at him.
"I'm glad to see you're alive."
I nodded at him again.
"Sorry Carlisle, but something happened to Jacob, and he was trapped in his own body. He's able to move now, but he can barely talk. Do you know what's wrong?" Edward explained.
"Hmm that's interesting. Jacob open your mouth for me."
I opened my mouth, and Carlisle shined a light down my throat.
"Nothing seems to be wrong, but it might be because, when you went down, you were out for a long time, it could've caused brain damage. I want to get you under an MRI. Come with me," Carlisle said.
I followed Carlisle into a dark room with a big round machine.
"Okay, Jacob take off any metal. Then lay on the that table," Carlisle directed.
I didn't have any metal on me. All my stuff was in my car, except for my necklace. I had no idea where that was. I went and laid down on the table.
"Everybody else get behind the wall. Okay, Jacob the table is going to move into the machine and take several pictures of your brain, so don't move," Carlisle explained.
I laid very still, while this giant tube encased my body, scanning pictures of my brain.
"Great job Jacob, you're done," Carlisle said, "I didn't see anything, maybe it's just temporary, like laryngitis. That doesn't always show up on your throat. Just give it a couple days, you should be fine. Quite a scare you caused everybody there. Alright, I have to go to another appointment. I will see you later."
"Thanks Carlisle," Edward said.
We walked outside to the parking lot.
"We should get you home Jacob," Sam said.
I shook my head. I didn't want to go back, because that would only prove my point that my dad only cares when it won't make him look bad.
"Actually Sam, Jacob's been staying with me. He's not getting along with his dad right now," Edward said.
"Billy specifically told me that if I fund Jacob that I was to bring him home," Sam said.
"Great, then take him home, so that he can just run away again," Edward yelled.
"He's not going to run away again," Sam said.
"How do you know?" Edward asked.
"Fine let's let Jacob decide, then I will tell Billy what he decides," Sam said, "Jacob, do you want to go home, or back with Cullen?"
I looked at Edward, then Sam. I know that I probably worried my dad a lot, but then again we don't get along at all anymore. Edward's been like a brother to me lately, and I'm around Bella more, but then I have to deal with Rosalie. I don't know what to do! Do I go with Edward and live with him and Bella, or do I go home and resume my life there? I don't know. Somebody help me!
