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"Leah? Lee! Wake up!" Jacob yelled desperately as he cradled the women in his arms. He couldn't hear any of the shuffling going on behind him, couldn't hear Sue and Emily scream in fear, couldn't hear Billy wheel over to try to help the young couple.
All he could hear was the sound of Leah's heart pumping, slowly struggling and finally…stopping.
"No! Someone help me! Get a doctor!" he screamed, his eyes clouding over with tears and his mind fogging up with fear and one steady thought of panic. This couldn't be happening.
"Jake, you need to get out of the way!" Billy roared as Jake felt a pair of strong hands shove him away from the beautiful shapeshifter. "Let go of her, Dan needs to take her!"
He felt like the world was moving in slow motion as he watched his soulmate be laid out on the dirty wood floor of the tribal house. His blood was pumping quickly, the urge to phase overwhelming.
He watched as Dan did compresses against her chest, as he heaved breath back into her. The sight of his lips on hers didn't even register with Jake. All he was focused on was straining to hear the silence coming from Leah's chest. Her heart was still not beating.
"We need to get her to the hospital, now!" Dan was trying to remain calm among the chaos around him and the council had to commend the young man who was not falling to pieces over his fiancé's maybe death. "Jake help me carry her out to my car!"
Jake jumped from the ground and helped Dan lift Leah. He spared Sue a look as he passed and saw that she was now wrapped in Emily's arms and while the latter was hysterically sobbing, Sue seemed to be staring at her daughter in silent anguish. Jake knew exactly what she was thinking as they met eyes briefly.
Leah is strong. The strongest. With the greatest heart. There is no way it can fail her now.
The ride to hospital passed in a blur, and Jake did his best to not phase and tear Dan's arms off when he commanded that the shapeshifter stay in the waiting room. But Dan was a doctor, and Jake was a werewolf. And for now, watching Leah be rolled away on a stretcher, he knew she was with the man she needed to be with.
Time passed slowly as he waited. He noticed Seth joining him at some point before going off to find his mom. He studied the clock on the wall for what seemed like days, noting how the minute hand always seemed to skip past the six. He wondered if it was maybe some sort of sign. At some point Dan came out and spoke quietly to Sue, and for the second time Jacob cursed supernatural hearing as he tried to block out words like heart attack… intubated breathing and defibrillators… heart failure.
Dan explained how he did everything he could. How the heart had been stopped for so long and the recovery rate for someone whose heart refused to beat was less than five percent.
The rest of the council showed up at the hospital sometime soon after Dan and they explained the legends of fighting the imprint and how when the imprinter makes the decision to break the bond their heart goes into a state of panic, often times referred to in the medical world as a myocardial infarction: a heart attack.
He had never been devout, as Leah was his favorite celestial being. But as he heard the last broken sentence Dan let out, how it was up to her now and they just had to wait for Leah to make a decision, he sent his desperate prayers up to every deity that he thought might listen.
A/N: Short but I wanted to get something up for everyone who has been patiently waiting! Last chapter I broke my review record, and I would love to have even more reviews this chapter.
