Chapter Seven

Leah's POV

It had been two weeks since the accident. Seth and I had fully recovered in a couple of days of the accident happening and now we were back into training, not that they let me do very much. They were treating me like a weak puppy, especially Aro. The only type of decent fun that I got out of my days were my constant verbal battles with Jane. At the moment the score was seventeen to fifteen, tipping her way…for now.

Seth had been sent off again on another errand with the Neanderthal Felix. Turns out he imprinted as well, on Jane. As disturbing as the thought was, I was genuinely happy for him. Not in his choice of imprintee, but that he seemed happy. But then again he was always happy. I guess Jane couldn't handle all the constant attention and that's why she had him shipped off with Felix. I smiled to myself as I thought of a brilliant idea for our next battle.

"What are you doing?"

I turned from where I stood on the balcony and saw Demetri leaning against the open door.
It still amazed me, that we were actually married. Two completely opposite people, but we seemed to make it work. That and I loved him deeply, even though he was usually such a jerk. At this particular moment in time though, I was really pissed off with him, he just didn't know that yet.

"Someone could see you, you know." I replied, referring to his sparkling chest. It was noon and the Sun was out in all its glory, bearing down in his exposed chest, 'put a shirt on' I thought as I rolled my eyes.
"Then I'd have no choice but to kill them if they did." He answered casually.
"No, you wouldn't, because then I would never talk to you again."
"A welcome idea. Now come inside, I need to be back downstairs in fifteen minutes."

I rolled my eyes again and planted my feet firmly on the ground. I knew what he was talking about, how couldn't I after two weeks of the same thing. Almost every spare moment he had, he spent with me, in the bedroom. It was good, great in fact, but I was too pissed at the moment and that was the last thing that was on my mind.
"Clearwater."
"No." I answered flatly. I tightened my grip on the rails, silently praying that he would just get the picture and leave. "I'm tired."

"Always so difficult." He said sternly as he moved behind me and grabbed my arm a little too tightly for my liking.

"Let go of me! I'm angry with you. So, you can go back down now because you're not getting any today!"
"Why? What did I do now?" He asked sarcastically, "Yesterday you were upset because I smiled when Jane won your little game. The day before I gave you ham instead of chicken in your sandwich. And then the day before that you were "too hot" and decided to blame the weather on me, as if I was the Sun itself, how a wolf manages to get hot, I don't know. So tell me, what did I manage to do now that merits your merciless anger?"

"If you must know, I saw you earlier talking to Heidi. I didn't like it."
"I was…Were you jealous? Was I too close to her for your liking?"
"I wasn't jealous!" shouted. My heart was saying otherwise, 'of course I was jealous. You're my husband, and therefore you belong to me. And quite frankly, I would gladly rip her head off if given the satisfying opportunity. I would rip yours off as well if I didn't love you so much, damn imprinting crap.
"He started laughing then, "You want to know what I think, Clearwater?"
"I don't give a damn what you think. You can take your thoughts and shove them up your-"
He spun me around so that I was facing him and looked me in the eye, all his coldness had come back into them. He was upset. "I've told you before, I don't like it wen you swear." He said before placing his cool lips on mine. After what seemed like an eternity, he drew away from me and smiled triumphantly. "Silence is beautiful, isn't it."
It was so hard to be upset with him when he stood in front of me, shirtless, sparkling in the afternoon sunshine. And damn his stupid kisses. Every time he managed to pull me out of my anger when I didn't want to. 'I just want you to hurt like I do. You know I love you too much to ever ignore you for very long. Just tell me you love me and I will be the most willing wife in the world.' I thought miserably.
"It's too late now, but I'll be back. Now, you don't leave this room until I return. Be a good girl and listen for once?"
Oh, boy. You've done it now, now I'm freaking pissed. "Get out!" I said following him into the room. That's a pretty vase, I thought to myself as I picked it up and hurled it at his head. The vase smashed into a thousand little pieces as it met it's target He paused when I hit him, he didn't turn around, he just stood there facing the door. Neither of us said anything, and the time seemed to drag on. He finally looked down toward the ground and then opened the door. "When I come back, I want this mess gone."
"You asshole!" I shouted to no one in particular, as he had disappeared as quick as lightening.

I was pissed, and alone. That was never any good for a wolf, as I had come to understand over the past couple of weeks. I had to get out of here, not through the door though, he was somewhere on the other side, but I could leave from the balcony. But to do that I would have to phase. Holding in my anger and frustration, I walked back out to the balcony, ignoring the mess on the floor and checked, re-checked and triple-checked to make sure my path was clear. I didn't want any one witnessing a huge wolf jumping from a high balcony and running off. 'Here goes nothing, change. Okay, it's been three days since I last phased, so I'm a little rusty. And again. Change…change…change! Okay, don't freak out Leah!' I heard whimpering and realized after a couple of seconds that it was my own. I was shaking, literally. I suddenly felt extremely weak.

After half an hour of pacing around and a thousand more attempts to phase, I knew I had to find Dr. Melrose. Something was up and it was freaking me out. I forgot about the broken vase and remembered it was still there when I stood on a few of the pieces on my way to the door. A sharp pain pierced through my leg, and up through my body. I looked down at my feet and saw the pool of blood that had gathered around my feet. Great, because I was too stubborn to clean up the mess, fate had played their turn and had caused me to stand on…what look like the worst pieces of the vase! I thought as I pulled them out. It was so painful. I ripped of a piece of fabric from the bottom of the dress that I was wearing and bound the foot that had been massacred. I didn't bother to think about the consequences of leaving the room, Demetri could get stuffed for all I cared.
The corridor was empty, like creepy empty. 'Where is everyone?' I thought as I made my way to the elevator. I decided to push the floor button for where I knew Demetri would most likely be, with Aro in the throne room. I would worry about his anger later, I just knew that I wouldn't make it to with my foot the way it was. It had left a trail of blood from where I started to here and was starting to pool again now that I was standing still again, not a smart thing to do when you were living with vampires...leaving a trail of blood that leads to you, a vampires version of a treasure hunt. And it hurt like hell. Demetri would probably say it was my fault for not cleaning up the mess like he had told me to. Demetri be damned! ''I hope you feel guilty, jerk. This is all your fault, not mine.' I thought excitedly as I literally dragged my way out of the finally open elevator to the large double doors that stood between me and him.

'Shit. What is that smell.' I thought gagging back the rising bile in my gut. Whatever it was, it was putrid and it was coming from the other side of the door. I placed my hand tensely on the door and pushed it open. The smell was even worse inside, it wrapped itself around me as if it were a noose preparing to tighten its grip and choke me to death. I walked into the room and was greeted by a number of blood-red eyes. So that's where everyone was, it was feeding time. And there he was, leaning over the listless body of an older man. 'Poor man.'

Shit! I couldn't hold it back. I was going to be sick, really sick. Yeah, I knew it, I said to myself comically as I threw up right there, in front of everyone. I stood up finally and swayed slightly. Great, I was going to pass out I realized a bit too late as I swayed backwards. I anticipated the black void that was about to come, anything would be better than this.
He was there to catch me before I hit the ground, my knight in shining armor.
"Leah! What happened!" It sounded like a whisper, but I knew he was shouting. It sounded so good when he said my name. "Leah!"
"Shush. I'm tired and the smell of your breath makes me want to throw up." I said quietly. "And I cut my foot on some vase pieces, blood…everywhere."

He lifted me into his arms and stood swiftly, heading back out the open door.
"Demetri," I said just before blissful sleep overtook me, "clean it up before I wake up. All…your…fault."

" Demetri," I sobbed weakly, "can't…phase!"
"Quiet Leah! Rest, I'll take you to Dr. Melrose."
Did he seem worried? The thought made me smile. 'I love you so much, you stupid jerk.' I thought before sleep finally came.