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Jacob didn't leave the hospital. He stayed every day and every night. He barely even showered. He would sleep on the couch, talk to Lila, watch TV, bring Lila flowers from the gift shop.

Quil came every day from six AM to six PM with Embry. Sam came around 5 PM and left around 12 AM.

One night, Jacob brought a chair over to Lila's bed side. He sighed. "Lila. What are you doing? Why are you doing this? You should've been eating. Should've been taking care of yourself. You can't leave me. I will literally die without you." He held her hand and it was cold. So cold that it ran deep into his bones.

Her doctor came in. It was around 1 AM. "Still here, Jacob?"

"Yes, I can't leave."

"I understand. Her results came back. I thought I could personally bring them to just you." The doctor opened the files.

"Well?" Jacob asked.

"She's, uh... Well. Alive. She's alive." The doctor said. "We found a pulse. It's weak."

"Why?"

"It could be that she's just not eating. She is missing out on the nutrition and protiens and all the other carbon based molecules that are needed to survive. We're feeding her to a tube and that's why we can hear the pulse."

"So, the pulse just magically came back?"

"It was always there, Jacob. Lila was never going to die."

Jacob couldn't been in the room anymore because doctors and nurses were coming out of Lila's room. Everyone came at the same time and were sitting eating snacks from the vending machine.

The doctor came out of Lila's room and didn't turn to the waiting room. Rather, a nurse came out with Lila with a wheelchair and an IV still hooked up to her. Her skin was pale, her eyes dark, and she was shaky.

"I'm going to leave her here." The nurse said. "If you want, you guys can take her back to the room." The nurse left when everyone said ok.

Everyone crowded around the wheelchair kissing her, hugging her.

"Lila." Sam said. "What really happened?"

"The, uh, night before my birthday I went out by myself. Around 8pm when you guys were at dinner. I found the vampire."

"It didn't bite you, right?" Quil asked.

"No, no. I wouldn't be in this hospital if he did."

"He?" Embry asked.

"He has dreads. He stinks and he's ugly. He tried to bite me but he missed. He scratched me down my back. That's why at the beach I didn't take my shirt off. I lost alot of blood." Lila explained.

"I'll rip him apart." Jacob said.

"No." Lila said. "We're going to get him and I will kill him. I'll come back with his head."

"5 bucks you don't decapitate him." Embry held out his hand. Every laughed when Lila shook Embry's hand.

Jacob watched as Quil was helping Lila out of the hospital the next day. She wasn't in the wheelchair, she could walk, but she needed help. The drive was quick to Quil's house.

Quil went to the Pharmacy to get her medicine even though she didn't need it. Lila and Jacob were sitting in Lila's room with the door closed.

"Why didn't they see your scratches?" Jacob asked.

"Well, they were almost healed. They just tied the hospital gown around my neck because when I woke it was helped me get dressed before leaving."

"They didn't see them at all? Not even the nurse?"

"Well, she asked if something was wrong and I told her it was a bad fall from jumping from cliffs. She believed it." Lila and Jacob laughed.

"Can I see?" Jacob asked softly when they got quiet. Lila turned around on her knees and took of her shirt. Her back was bare expect for the strap from her bra.

Jacob got on his knees behind her and started tracing her scars. "What does it look like when you're a wolf?"

"Bald spots."

They laughed.

Jacob leaned down and kissed each of her scar before going up and kissing her neck. "I vow to rip the vampire whoever did this limb from limb. Dread by dread, shred from shred." Jacob said before Lila turned around and they were now facing each other.

She smiled before running her hands through Jacob's scruffy hair. "Oh no."

"Lady says no?"

"Lady says that she's going to do that."

"God, I can imagine you in wolf form with a vampire's head in your mouth. Ugh. So hot." He started kissing her neck. She still was only in her bra.

Lila moaned a bit before laughing as he nibbled on her neck. "God, Jacob, I missed you."

"Never again." Jacob said. "God I was so dumb. Almost lost you." He brought her into an embrace. "I love you. I swear to god, above in the sky, to the last galaxy. I love you."

Lila didn't respond. She sat in his embrace for a while. "I-I love you too."

"I was a fool and you almost died." Jacob buried his face into her neck.

"It's fixed. I'm ok."

"I can tell you're not. You're still not eating and these scars, they'll go away, but this is just totally unacceptable." Jacob said. He put his fingers under her chin and lifted her head so his eyes met hers. "I will never ever hurt you."

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