Take Me Home

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE TWILIGHT SERIES. ALL THE RIGHTS BELONG TO STEPHANIE MEYER. I ONLY OWN THE PLOT AND OC'S IN THIS STORY.

CHAPTER SIX

Paul's heart stopped. Everyone's heart stopped.

"Help!" Came the cry once more. It was Claire's voice. They could see the girl down the other end of the beach jumping up and down waving her arms. The pack was off in seconds, the imprints following as fast as they could. Sam, Paul and Quil all led the way reaching the other end of the beach first.

Quil went straight to his imprint. "What happened? Are you hurt?" He asked Claire, she was dripping wet.

"Where's Tyler?" Sam asked, eyes looking all around but not seeing his son anywhere.

"Sky!" Paul yelled but got no response.

"Their over here. They fell," Claire said pointing towards the area where the rock pools ended and the waves crashed with anger against the rocks. Claire grabbed Quil's arm and dragged him in the direction she was pointing. Paul and Sam were already moving in that direction, their eyes darting all around looking for the missing children. They began yelling their names, as the sent of blood mixed with the ocean air.

"Dad!" Sam's mind flooded with relief as he heard his sons voice.

"Tyler! Tyler where are you!?" Sam yelled, he could still not see the boy.

"He's down here," Claire yelled. She had led Quil to one of the higher rocks and was pointing out in front of it where Tyler stood on a low-lying rock father down. They boy was being hit by hard waves, barely able to stay standing. He clung to his left arm, it looked broke, Sam could also see blood was all over his son's arms.

"Where's Sky!" Paul yelled at Claire as Sam rushed to his sons aid.

"She got swept away!" Tyler cried. "It's my fault, it's my fault." The boy sobbed as his father finally reached the rock he was stranded on. Sam picked up his son and retreated from the water's edge.

Paul didn't hesitate, Claire pointed to a patch of water and he dove.

It took his eyes a moment to adjust to the dark water but as soon as they did he saw the pink of Sky's jacket. She wasn't moving, slowly, she was sinking into the dark water. She had run out of air.

Paul pulled himself through the water towards the girl's small limp body. All he could hear was his heart beating, and all he could see was her. It felt like the whole ocean separated the two of them. It took Paul just a few seconds to reach her. but time had slowed down for him and it felt like hours before he had a grasp on her arm. As soon as he had her Paul was swimming towards the shore.

Jared was on the edge of the rocks looking for Paul and Sky. Other members of the pack looked back along the beach in case current had moved them. Sam had rushed Tyler back to Emily and now they were headed to Forks hospital. Quil had also gotten Claire back to the beach and away from the crashing waves.

Jared didn't notice he was holding his own breath until he saw Paul finally break the service of the waves with a gasp of breath. Paul pushed Sky towards Jared, "Take her, Take her," Paul screamed. Jared pulled the girl from the water and his heart stopped when he saw her eyes were shut and she wasn't breathing.

Paul pulled himself up onto the rocks, his mind, a mess of thoughts. He grabbed Sky from Jared's arms, putting her over his shoulder and patting her on the back, trying to get water off her chest, as he ran for the beach. Jared was by his side, and once on the beach, Embry, Kim, and Seth were also there.

"Oh my gosh," Kim gasped. "She's blue. She needs mouth to mouth resuscitation." They had all seen it in movies but no one was trained. That didn't stop Paul though, what other options did he have, try and save her or leave her to surely die if she wasn't dead already.

He laid the girls limp body down on the sand and began to push up and down on her chest, he was worried he would break her. In front of him here, she looked so small, so delicate, her face blue, her eyes closed, her skin ice cold.

After several compression Paul opened Sky's mouth and blow air into her mouth.

Kim was crying and Jared was hugging her tightly, the sound of sirens could faintly be heard in the distance.

Paul returned to chest compression and for the first time in his life he felt helpless. He repeated the process three more times leading to no results. He was sure she was gone, they all were. How could he have let this happen?

...

Sky POV

She didn't know how it happened, one minute she was listening to Tyler talk about all the things he had found in the rock pools over the years, and the next a wall of water was knocking her to the ground. She heard Claire yelling and saw Tyler running towards her. And then all she saw was water, and all she felt was cold, as another wave fell over her and pulled her off the rocks.

She couldn't move, her body was frozen and the salt water stung her eyes. She could feel her body sinking, her lungs burning for air, and heard only her heartbeat. Time seemed to slow down, to almost stop. There was a light above her, she knew that was the service, but all she could do was watch it get blurry and dark as she sunk deeper.

She didn't really know what was going to happen next. She was still too young to comprehend death, to understand the likely hood that this would be her final moments on earth. She wondered if super man would finally save her. That was her last thought before she fell unconscious.

The next thing she saw was a bright light, the eyes of the person who saved her, and then once more she returned to the cold darkness.

...

"How... doing..."

"Doctor... improving... How... Paul doing?"

"He blames... doesn't want... see her."

Sky woke to the sound of voices, she felt tired and could only pick up bits and pieces of the conversation. She definitely wasn't in the water any more. She was warm and cozy, on a soft bed in the middle of a white room.

"She's awake," a voice announced.

Faces appeared above her, Kim, Jared and Sam.

"Hey Sky, how you feeling?" Jared asked. Sky shrugged, her whole body hurt from the small movement, but it was bearable.

"You really scared us," Kim said with a tied smile.

"Where am I?" Her voice was horse.

"You are in the hospital sweetie, you got into an accident at the beach," Jared said.

"She's awake?" All heads in the room turned to see officer Swan standing in the door way with a duffle bag.

"Charlie, what are you doing here," Sam asked.

"Paul called me, explaining what happened at the beach. He thought it would be best if Sky didn't see him again. I've got her stuff, I'm gonna take her to the station in the morning, and child services will take it from there," Charlie explained.

"Dam it Paul," Jared said under his breath. He had hoped his friend was coming around.

...

Paul's POV

"You mind if I sit here?" asked a female voice.

Paul looked up from his beer to the woman who had asked the question. The bar was loud, he hadn't heard her approach.

"Are you following me or something?" He asked Addison. She smiled.

"I could ask you the same thing." Paul couldn't stop his eyes from giving her a glance over. She had a thing for long skirts Paul declared as he saw she was wearing yet another long skirt, this one black with white stripes. Very conservative, he though it odd as her top half was only covered by a white tank top. She hooked a black jacket over the back of the chair next to Paul before taking a seat.

"You need another one Paul," the bar tender said as he looked at the now empty beer in Paul's hands.

"Yeah keep them coming," He said.

"Can I get you anything, miss?" The bar tender asked. He was a man in his late twenties, his pale skin and blonde hair made him stand out behind the dark bar.

"Umm no thanks," Addison said, brushing some hair behind her ear.

"Come on," the bar tender insisted. "Anything at all, on the house."

"Okay... just a beer thanks." Paul heard the girl next to him say as he took his new beer from the bar tender and paid the man.

"Cool," The bar tender smiled, grabbing a beer and handing it over to the girl. "My names Duke by the way."

"Addison," The girl smiled taking the drink. Some people down the other end of the bar called for Duke.

"Be right back," Duke told her before going to serve the other customers.

"Here," Addison said sliding the beer towards Paul. He gave her a confused look.

"I don't drink," She said.

"Then I think you came to the wrong place," Paul scoffed.

"Old habit, I guess. Also, it's the only place in town still open and my hotel room doesn't have TV," she shrugged. "Long day?"

"Yeah." He showed no sign of elaborating, so Addison sighed looked up at the flat screen TV in the corner of the room. After a few minutes she got bored of the game on the screen, already seeing one team as the clear winner as it neared the final count down. She saw Duke was on his way back to her end of the bar and smiled. Grabbing one of Paul's Empty beer bottles she acted as though she had just taken the last sip.

Paul looked at the girl questioningly but didn't say anything.

"Done already, wow, want another Addison?" Duke asked smiling wider then he had before. Paul could tell this guy only wanted one thing but kept his mouth shut and acted like he wasn't watching.

"Sure," Addison smiled. "You can just call me Addie by the way."

"Cute," Duke whispered handing her another bottle. The pair talked for a few minutes before Duke had to go get other people drinks, as soon as his back was turned Addison swapped her full beer for the one Paul had already finished. She bit her lip a little, trying to hide her smile. 'Now that was cute,' Paul thought to himself.

Soon Duke returned and Addie shook her empty bottle in the air.

"The damn thing had a hole in it," She giggled, eyelids flattering. He gave her another drink and this was repeated several times until Paul could no longer keep up with the rate of the beers. Each time Addie giggled a little louder and acted more and more drunk.

"Thanks," Paul muttered once Duke had left the pair sitting alone once more.

"For what?" Addison asked, acting like she had no idea what he was talking about.

"You just saved me thirty bucks," Paul said with the smallest of smiles.

"All good. I best be getting back to my room though. Got to get out of town especially early in the morning so Quil doesn't have a fit," she sighed standing up and pulling on her jacket.

"Where are you going?" Duke asked seeing Addison move towards the door.

"Sorry Duke but I'm not actually drunk as you think I am and you're not actually as hot and funny as you think you are," she smiled as she spoke and with a toss of her hair she was gone. Leaving not only one but two men with shocked and confused expression. Paul couldn't help himself, there was something about this girl and he just had to follow her.

"Thanks for the drinks man," Paul said with a nod to Duke before going after Addison. He had over a dozen beers but with his high temperature the alcohol wore off as fast as he drank it. He spotted Addison as soon as he exited the bar. She was unlocking a yellow sadan.

"For someone who doesn't drink you sure know your way round a bar tender," Paul said catching the girl's attention.

"Practice makes perfect. Plus, it's easy when the bar tender is using his little man's head to think," Addison scoffed opening the car door.

"You are smarter than you look," Paul said.

"Thanks. You need a lift home, I don't think you should really drive after that many drinks. I have to admit it, you did pretty well at drinking them all." Paul knew he was fine to drive home but went along with it anyway.

"Sure, thanks," He was kind of surprised by how nice she was being to him.

"Ok, hurry up," she said dropping into the car and shutting the door behind her. Paul got into the passenger seat as Addison started the engine. As they left the bar he gave her some directions on how to get to his house. And they traveled a long way in silence before pulling up outside Paul's dark trailer.

"Where's your girl at?" Addison asked. She didn't mean to do it, it kind of slipped out.

"Hospital," Paul said.

"What?" Addison's eyes were wide, looking at Paul for any sign of a joke.

"It's a long story," Paul sighed as he reached for the door handle.

"And here I was thinking you were just a weekend dad. No, you are a low life dad," Addison scoffed. Paul stopped for a moment as a wave of frustration rushed through his body.

"Up till yesterday I didn't even know I had a kid, so yeah I'm a pretty shitty dad," Paul snapped.

"Oh?" Was all Addison could say.

"Yeah, oh," Paul got out and slammed the car door.

Addison sat in the car, shocked for many moments as she watched Paul stomp his way into the trailer, slamming the door behind him.

Paul paced the house, his head throbbing, his heart thumping and his thoughts mixed.

There was a knock on the door.

"Go away Addison!" He yelled.

"I just wanted to say sorry." Paul sighed and opened the door.

"No, I'm sorry I shouted, it's just been a long day," he said scratching the back of his head.

"No, it's okay. At least you have a reason for it, I'm a shitty parent and I don't even have an excuse," Addison said looking away from Paul.

"You have kids?" Paul asked.

"Yeah," Addison said with a small, sad, smile. "Two. They live with their dad most the time, I only see them every other weekend and two holidays a year. So, I shouldn't really judge you. No matter what people tell you kids are hard work, being a parent isn't a job for everyone. Definitely wasn't a job for me."

"You are the first person to tell me that, everyone keeps saying it's easy, just talk to her, it's easy. I don't even know if she's mine..."

"Well, you are not going to find out sitting here, are you?"

Author Notes:

Fun fact #1: There was never meant to be an accident at the beach, it was actually meant to be a fun day. Lol I thought of the scream thing end of last chapter right before I posted it and then had to make all this chapter up to try and make it work with the story. How do u think I did?

Fun fact #2: Addison used to be an alcoholic. Hence that's why she says "old habits I guess," to Paul when handing him the first of many free beers.

Fun fact #3: This story is made up of two different story ideas I had, one idea being Paul having to deal with a kid he didn't know about and the other being Quil's mystery sister coming back to La Push. So technically Addison isn't even meant to be in this story, she was meant to have her own story.

And for every three fun facts about the story there will be three true fact about me.

True fact #1: I show Poultry, and own over 400 chicks, ducks, pigeons, Quails and other birds.

True fact #2: I work a full-time job as a gas station manager (youngest manager they have ever had) and I run my one Hatchery.

True fact #3: I do most my writing at midnight when I have to be up by five to get to work on time. Lol who needs sleep?

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