Jacob...
I sigh. I remember him running towards me I'm all bandaged up but most of my severe wounds have already healed. The pain is nothing compared to the double heartbreak I have suffered. I refuse to cry, though. I don't think I have any tears left to cry. I'm quite surprised that my heart still beats, let alone work properly. With all of the emotional damage (and possibly physical damage) done to it, I shouldn't still be able to feel. Look what I had done to Kunzite. I completely beat the shit out of him before murdering him in cold blood...not that I regret it, mind you. I'm just surprised that Circe even allowed me to see everything. Normally when she takes over, I'm usually shut away in some dark corner of my consciousness and I don't know what happens afterward. Speaking of Circe...
"Oh, you're awake!" A pleasant voice says.
I look to my right and see a woman with scars running down her face. She has a pleasant demeanor about her. I quickly check my surroundings and assume that this was her house. Jacob must have brought me here. I slowly pull myself upright in a sitting position and check the damage. A lot of scratches and bruises here and there from eating asphalt and a couple of broken ribs from being punched but, overall, I'm not in bad shape. Of course, I probably had more damage before my advanced healing kicked in.
"Huh?"
"You took quite a beating." She said. "You had some broken bones...which seem to have healed on their own."
She says this in a slow, surprised tone. My bones do heal up pretty fast and will reset themselves without the aide of Circe or the silver crystal. Quietly, I try to feel for the crystals and, fortunately, I feel their presence. I haven't lost them, thank the gods. I don't know what I would do if I had lost them. I sigh and tell my apparent nurse that I'm a fast healer. She gives me this look that indicates she doesn't believe me. I don't blame her but what am I supposed to say?
"Did Jacob bring me here?"
"Yes. He was quite worried about you."
"Worried, huh?" I snort.
The woman tilts her head to the side, raising an eyebrow at my skepticism before realizing something. Her expression softens and gives me a sympathetic smile. I don't understand this until I realize that she may have seen my prior exchange with Jacob earlier that day. Sheesh.
"He's...going through a stage, right now." She says. "Give him time."
"Time? I'll give him time." I growl. "He was the only friend I had left and look what happened."
I lie back down and sink into the pillows. I really don't want to talk about how everyone just left me. I pull the blanket over my face and blot out the world.
"Sakura?" Jacob calls.
"What do you want?"
He pulls the blanket off of my face, giving me a good look at him and ,god, I swear that kid keeps getting bigger by the minute! In this case, he's a little bit more muscular than he used to be. His growth spurt seems to have stopped at the moment but holy shit! I think it goes without saying that I'll never get over it. He sits down on the edge of my bed, quietly inspecting my visible wounds, before asking me if I was alright. I look to see if that woman is around. She is not. Must have left the room to let Jacob and I talk.
"Never better." I say dully. "Why are you here?"
"I wanted to apologize. I've left things a mess."
"That you did."
"I want to explain but I can't at the same time." Jacob says.
Neither one of us say a word for a couple of minutes. I get up from bed to stretch my legs and reveal all of my bandages. He gasps. I've taken some hard hits from Kunzite and being dragged across asphalt isn't exactly pleasant. The bandages cover the length of my entire body. Thank goodness I have some advanced healing techniques in my arsenal. Jacob tells me to lie down and I'm about to protest when I realize that I'm simply wearing bandages and shorts. Fortunately, my chest is covered as well. Sheesh. That explains why Jacob is blushing.
"Were you ever going to tell me you were Sailor Night?"
Damn. I didn't expect him to call me out on that of all things. I was kind of hoping that he would call me on other stuff but not on my alias. I take a deep breath and count to ten before answering him.
"Only in return that you tell me yours." I reply evenly. "Truth be told, Jacob, I already know about it. I just wanted to hear you say it."
"Did you figure it out from the legends?"
"That, and I caught Sam and another guy turn back into humans."
Jacob shuts up. I tell him that Angela had seen large creatures out in the woods at school and I figured that I would investigate her claims. I also tell him that I hadn't been expecting to find over sized wolves, two of whom I had run into during that investigation. I describe the other wolf as being gray in color and has a volatile energy about him.
"Must've been Paul." Jacob replies. "He's a hothead."
I then describe my encounter with Laurent in the meadow and how I had been ready to finish him off when the pack turned up at that time. I stare straight into Jacob's eyes and call him out on his alias.
"You're that russet-colored wolf, aren't you?"
He simply nods.
"Come to La Push tomorrow. Everything will be explained."
"Alright."
The next day, I drive down to La Push with Jacob, with the majority of my injuries healed. We head out to the forest and we're greeted by four large figures striding out of the trees. Just like my companion, they are large and muscular with other similar features. They walk in complete synchronization, which is very indicative of a pack, before meeting up with Jake and myself. I'm counting on their anger but, right now, they are merely cautious and curious. There's no anger to be seen.
"So you're the Child of Fate." Sam says without introduction.
"That's right. How'd you know about that?"
"It goes back to the time of Jacob's great-grandfather."
"He was there when you came to be." Jake elaborates. "He also saw you defy your dark path."
"I see."
I don't ever recall seeing another being out there on the battlefield but I do remember seeing a lone, white wolf there. It sat there along the outer edges of the field, as if it was observing the fight as a spectator would. I don't remember anything else but my mind had been occupied with the fight rather than a creature that somehow survived the poisonous atmosphere that was Metalia.
"I remember now. There was a white wolf there."
"That's him."
All six of us start walking towards a house in the woods. Another boy joins us and it's Embry, though I hardly recognize him due to the changes he's undergone. He asks how Jake got around an injunction that had been placed and I tell him that I guessed the first time around and that I saw Sam and Paul (the gray wolf) shift back into humans one night.
"I thought I sensed your presence."
"I can turn into a shadow when I'm a Sailor Scout." I explain. "That's why you didn't see me."
The house we come to belongs to Sam's fiancee, Emily. That must have been the woman who had bandaged my wounds. Sam goes on in along with the rest of the boys, but Embry stays behind to warn me to not stare at her. I don't bother to ask, much to his relief. He doesn't realize that I had met her the day prior and already seen her scars. It's clear to me that some animal must have gotten her in the face.
"About that blood-sucker in the field." Embry starts. "The one you started to rip apart...are you okay with the result?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"We have a treaty with the Cullens..."
"Say no more. My sources explained it to me." I say with a smile. "Glad you showed up when you did."
"Our pleasure."
"Why do I get the feeling you mean that literally?"
The front room is very spacious and airy. I guess it's more of a kitchen since there's a table and a stove in there. The woman from yesterday is standing nearby with muffins at a nearby counter. Now that I'm up and about and less stressed, I take note of her. She has beautiful dark hair and copper skin. She turns around and asks us if we're hungry before greeting me.
"You really are a fast healer." She says with a smile.
"Um...yeah." I grin sheepishly.
"This is Sakura Adachi, the Japanese girl." A boy named Jared says. "Who else?"
"A topic of interest, apparently." I reply with a smirk. "Pleased to meet you, uh...?"
"I'm sorry. I'm Emily. It's nice to meet you."
She offers me a muffin and I take one, while Embry takes his third and shoves it into his mouth. Heh. He reminds me of Usagi when she had been a teenager. I grin. Good times.