Sorry it's been so long, but here is the next chapter. PLEASE review.
Chapter 10
Leah says that we should just check and then attack. I begrudgingly accept, although I know I should've protested. Of course, I'm still shocked over the whole Sam thing she showed me when we were phased. She peeks into the window and I hear her gasp. "Oh my God."
I run into the house at an inhuman speed, barging through the door. The living room is empty, but I smell blood from that cup on the coffee table. Racing upstairs, I burst in the room, and the world comes to a stop. She's sick alright. Sick, pale, bags under her eyes. She lays on the couch of what I think is the leech's room, her stomach bulging. I couldn't take my eyes off it, despite the bloodsucker that is growling at me, daring me to move closer to the pregnant girl. Trust me, I won't.
I try to hold it together as trembles run through my body, taking control. Sure, leave for Italy. Go ahead, take him back. I'm overjoyed you're engaged. Yeah, go get married. I am so ecstatic you're freaking pregnant!
"Jacob, Jacob," I hear her whisper my name over and over again, trying to soothe me.
What did I do? What did I do to deserve this? Am I so terrible? So terrible that I deserve this?
If karma is in charge of this, then I have done something terrible sometime in my life. My body is shaking so hard that I make a mad dash for the window before I can phase, crashing through the glass wall. I land on my paws and take off through the woods. I leave behind Leah, Bella, and the darn bloodsucker.
Life sucks. It sucks A LOT.
(Leah's POV)
"You bitch! You freaking bitch!" I am on the verge of slapping the shit out of Bella Swan. My judgment is teetering on the edge while I try to decide whether to slap or punch this dumb girl. I shout, "How could you do this to Jacob? Do you have no heart? Or are you just plain stupid? Do you realize that you have a bloodsucker in your stomach? If that little monster doesn't kill you, we will. Wait and see."
Bella is crying while the blonde one stood by her side, glaring at me. I shot daggers back through my eyes. I bent down to whisper to Bella, "You never deserved Jacob's love. All you ever did was hurt him. Well he's done with you. You are a sick, demented person if you lack enough sense to pass by someone so great. I hope you're proud of yourself. Jacob's never going to love like he loved you, and he's never going to be truly happy. And I will be blunt and say that it is truly your fault."
The blondie runs to attack me, but I hop out the shattered glass wall, landing solidly on my feet. I look back on today. This morning, I told Sam that I forgive him. Then, Jacob found out Bella's pregnant and ran into the woods. Just now, I told Bella what a complete asshole is she is. All that's left is meeting with the pack and getting Jacob back.
Jacob! Jacob, wait! Leah yells.
Leave me alone, Leah! This isn't how it's supposed to happen! I'm not supposed to fall in love at 16 with a girl who loved a freaking vampire and is having his monster!
Tell me how I can help, she pleads. I want to help…
I answer pained, Make it stop. You want to help? Well make this stop. All of it. Just make it stop and I won't ever be a jerk to you again.
…I'm sorry, Jake, she says in a softer tone. I'm so sorry. You deserve so much better than this. You deserve to be happy.
You do too, Leah. But leave me alone for a while, kay?
I reach the cliff I was looking for, the one that Bella had jumped off, and I howl. I howl so long and loud my dad can hear me, so loud that people may be thinking What the hell was that, so loud people may file animal threats. I don't want to feel like this anymore. I don't want to wake up to pain and sorrow. I don't want to live my life like this.
(Leah's POV)
I cringe as Jacob's agonized howl sounds in my ear while I run to the emergency meeting Sam held once he heard what had happened. I arrive at the clearing where most of the wolves already are, and Sam stares at me even longer than usual. It's easier, I suppose, being around him knowing that I have forgiven him. I feel like a bird that has been freed from its cage after what seems like forever. I've had so much bitterness in my heart since Sam went with Emily, but it and the nagging pain weren't going to go away even if Sam broke up with her. They would only loosen their hold if I forgave him. And I will always hurt over Sam, always feel a little bitterness towards Emily, but it's different now because forgiveness sets you on the road to moving on. Because I forgave him, I can finally move on.
Good, we're all here. Sam says a few moments later once Quil arrives from the other side of town. It seems that Bella Swan is not yet a vampire. However, she has an offspring of them inside her, making it, I suppose, a half-breed. Leah saw it herself earlier. We need to get rid of it before it becomes a threat. We don't know what this… thing is, but it must surely be an abomination. It's not natural. Granted, werewolves and vampires are not natural, but this is beyond even that. Humans and vampires should not mix, and as Quileutes, we need to defend human kind from any vampire, including their… offspring.
Are we going to attack? Won't the Cullens fight back? Seth asks, still having images of our truce to fight the newborn army.
I am sure the Cullens are going to defend Bella and that baby, but unless they can get it out without biting her, we have to attack. We have no other choice.
Quil asks, Are they going to kill us?
Not if we're prepared, Sam answers.
So we have to kill all of them- even Bella? Brady asks, still not understanding the concept of "attack".
I'm afraid so, Sam says with sadness in his voice. I know that he doesn't want to kill Bella or any of the Cullens, especially Carlisle. He helped Jacob when he was injured, he welcomed us to their training sessions, and all of them had our backs during the battle. But Sam is right. We have no choice.
Jacob, miles away, had kept silent until now. Don't. Please, you can't.
Sam uses his commanding alpha tone. We have to. They have created a monster, Jacob! We cannot let it live when it is a danger to humanity.
How do you know it's a danger to humanity? Jacob asks.
Jacob, listen to me. I know you love Bella, but she has chosen them. And there is no possible way this vampire-human child cannot be a threat. We have to get rid of it.
We all know he is right. This abomination cannot be allowed to live any longer. It's killing its mother as we speak. But Jacob still defies him, Then you'll have to go through me.
I try to reason with him. They're going to bite her anyway! Either way, we will have to attack! You know that she knew what was going to happen between you! She brought this upon herself.
I won't let you kill her. Jacob says darkly. If you want to kill her, kill me first.
Idiot. Utter moron. Why can't he just accept that Bella is his enemy now? For God's sake, she is carrying the child of a leech! Does that not bother him?
Are you trying to tell me that you are protecting the vampires? Sam asks. Are you betraying us for them? Our enemies? I cannot allow that to happen.
Try and stop me.
I fairly warned you that this was not a Jacob/Leah romance so do not get all zippy about Jake going after Bella. Please review and tell me what you think.
