Take Me Home

Chapter eight

The pair were half way to Forks hospital when Addison's car decided to die. It coughed and spluttered as she pulled it off the road.

"You have to be joking," Addison hissed, hitting her hands agents the steering wheel.

"It's fine, I'll have a look at it," Paul said climbing out of the car. Addison pooped the hood before getting out of the car herself.

"It's the dam spark plug, the stupid thing keeps coming off. Heap of useless crap," Addison said muttering the last part to herself. She held her phone light out over the engine and sure enough one of the spark plugs had come lose. Addison grabbed the cord and clipped it back to the engine. There was a spark of light as it zapped Addison's hand. "Dame it," she stumbled back a step and ended up losing her balance.

Addie prepared herself for the hard ground but two strong arms broke her fall. Sadly her phone wasn't as lucky and hit the road with a crack. The torch on it still shined up into their eyes but the screen was sourly smashed.

"Are you okay?" Paul asked helping Addison stand back up.

"Yeah I'm find," she said but as soon as she let go of Paul she was falling back down.

"You sure?" Paul asked after he stoped her from hitting the ground, again.

"Yeah I'm fine, my leg just came lose," Addison hissed as she now clung to Paul's arm to stables herself. She lifted her skirt part way up to her knee to show a plastic foot in place of her real foot and a metal bar where her leg should be.

"Your, umm? Missing a foot," Paul said really slowly.

"Really? Hadn't noticed," Addison laughed. Her leg had gotten twisted, she held onto Paul with one arm and reached down with the other to straighten the prosthetic and pull it on tighter.

"That was a really dumb thing to say," Paul muttered as Addison let go of him and stood back onto her prosthetic.

"No it's fine, most people don't notice it," she chuckled as she picked up her phone.

"Oh," was all he could say.

"Come on get back in the car before I get attacked by a wolf or something?" She smiled at him as she climbed back into the car, he fooled after now even more confused.

"Why would you get attacked by a wolf?" Paul asked, both surprised and nervous by her choice of words. He was sure she didn't know about shapeshifter.

"I just got shocked by my car, smashed my phone, and made a complete fool of myself in front of a-" she stoped herself.

"In front of a...?" Paul asked wanting to know what she was going to say.

"In front of a friend of Quil's. Really the only way to make my night any better is if I was attacked by a wolf or abducted by aliens," Addison spoke quickly now and laughed after she had finished. Paul watched her start the car.

He had never met anyone missing a leg before. When he thought of someone missing a limb he thought of an old army vet, not a young, beautiful, kind woman like Addison. But he hardly know her, for all he know she was a criminal. He thought about that for a moment before he decided she definitely wasn't a criminal. He was so deep in thought that he didn't realise the car had stoped and he was still watching her.

"Car accident," she said quietly looking over at him.

"Hu?" He said not understanding what she was saying.

"My leg, I lost it in a car crash," she spoke clearly this time.

"Oh I uh... sorry," Paul said.

"Why are you sorry?" She smiled now.

"I didn't release I was starring, sorry," he looked around the hospital parking lot. It was late and dark but out of the few remaining cars he could make out Jared's truck.

"I know, I don't mind, I just... can you not tell Quil?"

"He doesn't know?"

"No, and I would like to keep it that way. I want him to talk to me but not out of pity."

"Yeah sure, I won't say anything," Paul know his words were a lie, but if he did tell someone it wouldn't be intentional, wolves just couldn't keep secrets.

"Thanks... Well I guess you better be going," Addison's eyes were watching her hands fidget on the steering wheel.

"When are you leaving town?" Paul asked.

"In the morning."

"When do you plan on coming back next?"

"A few weeks."

"Oh... well thanks for the talk, and the drinks. I'll see you when your back in town," Paul said opening his door.

"Yeah sure. By Paul," she said looking over at him one last time.

"By Addison," he said with a small smile as he shut the car door. She drove off a second later and Paul hoped that she would come back soon.

Sky was fast asleep by the time Paul arrived at her room.

"I didn't think you wanted to see her?" Jared said from his seat in the corner of the room, Kim had gone home a few hours ago but Jared stayed so Sky wouldn't be alone.

"Addison talked me around."

"Addison? Quil's sister? Why were you with her?" Jared asked raising an eyebrow.

"Ran into her at the bar and she gave me a lift home and then here."

"Ok..." Jared said not sure what to say.

"She pretty much told me to stop being a baby and man up,"

"Why do you listen to her and not me?" Jared asked.

"Guess she just said it nicer then you did. How is she?" Paul asked looking at the girl on the bed.

"She'll be fine, she is right to leave in the morning," Jared said looking at the girl as well.

"Tyler?"

"He's fine too, they took him home a couple of hours ago. He needed stitches and will probably have a scare on his arm but things could have been a lot worse... So are you going to call Charlie and tell him you changed your mind... Again."

"No-"

"Paul," Jared warned.

"Let me finish, no I'm not going to call him now it's late, I'll call him in the morning," Paul said walking over to the bed and taking a seat in the chair next to it. The chair made a loud squeeze and both men cringed at the noise. Sky shuffled in the bed and her eyes fluttered open to look at Paul.

"Paul?" She asked.

"Yeah sweetheart, just me, you can go back to sleep," Paul smiled and the small girl's eyes fluttered shut.

Author Notes: I can't explain how sorry I am that it has taken me so many months to update. I had a bit of a brake down after my last update and lost all inspection to do anything with my time. But I'm finally starting to get back in a better place with a clearer head and wanted to try writing again. Good news the next chapter is pretty much finshed.

Fun fact #1: Addison was originally going to be an solider who lost her leg in war but it didn't fit with the time line so I put her in a car crash which you will read more about later.

Fun fact #2: Not much is known about what happened to Quil's Dad or what happened to him so I chose to give Quil a sister and explain more about Quil's mystery father as time went on.

Fun fact #3: I don't plan to have Paul imprint ever in this story.

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

True fact #1: I love the walking dead and other apocalyptic shows and movies.

True fact #2: the last time I updated this story I said I was working a full-time job as a gas station manager (youngest manager they have ever had) and I run my one Hatchery. I quit that job seven months ago and went back to waiting tables as I found out happiness is worth more then money.

True fact #3: As of this Friday it would have been one year since my last update on May 10th 2018 how time flys by and things keep changing.