AN: I am glad you all liked that little scene at the end of the last chapter haha, I'll admit it made me cringe slightly writing about it!

Chapter ten

The party was in full flow, Sam's house was full of people Bella didn't know having a good time, laughing and dancing and happier than normal as they held joints between their fingers. Dean, Angela and Ben hadn't arrived yet, but they promised to be there as soon as possible, so Sam and Bella were huddled together in the kitchen, kissing one another of course.

"Let's dance." Bella said suddenly, though she herself knew she wasn't at all great at dancing. Nevertheless, she took Sam's hand and pulled him through to the living room, some Lady Gaga song in which she sang German that Bella didn't even like was playing, however no matter how much she didn't like the music it seemed to fit the moment, everyone was dancing mindlessly. Paul walked past with one hand dragging a stranger up to Sam's spare room to do who knows what and the other one holding a joint, Bella winked at Sam and snatched it from Paul's hand.

"Aw, Bells!" Paul grumbled angrily, Bella just laughed and stuck it between her lips.

Everyone was jumping around and some girls were doing slut drops, one girl appeared to be stripping which Quil was very much enjoying.

Bella laughed and held one of her arms aloft in the air, she used the other to pull out her ponytail and then shook her head vigorously, letting her hair fly out around her head. Sam didn't jump or anything, but he moved his head in time with the music and watched Bella lovingly. As she danced, Bella felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned round to see Dean holding a six pack of beer. Angela and Ben were behind him, looking slightly awkward but happy all the same.

"Hey!" Bella yelled over the roar of the music, Dean shouted back but Bella couldn't hear him properly.

"Dance with me!" Bella yelled, tilting her head back so her chin was in the air and swinging her hair wildly, Dean laughed at her.

"Hey I'm Sam." Sam yelled over Bella's head, reaching out a hand to shake.

"The boyfriend, right?" Dean yelled back, Sam nodded.

"Cool!" Dean replied, "I'm her friend Dean, and that's Ben and Angela."

Ben and Angela had wrapped themselves around one another and were kissing ferociously, Dean laughed.

Bella handed Dean the joint and he smoked a few rings and then handed it back to her, she smoked some and handed it to Sam, before running through the crowd. She wasn't thinking straight due to the weed and all the alcohol she had drunk, but she felt ecstatic. She had spotted Jake and a pretty girl with wavy blonde hair enter the room.

"Hey!" she shouted over the music.

"Hey Bella, this is Ellie!"

"Hi Ellie!"

Ellie laughed, "Hey, Bella! This is some party."

"Too right it is." Bella replied, she was so happy with finally feeling free to do stuff like this, if she had asked Edward to do this he would be disgusted with her.

"You look good together." Bella commented to Jake and Ellie, then she hugged Jake and moved back over to Sam. Luckily Sam lived in quite a remote area and he had no neighbours, someone cranked the music up even higher. Bella grabbed a can of beer and downed it quickly, then she went searching for Sam.

She found Quil sitting at the bottom of the staircase with some random girl with dyed red hair in his arms, she was kissing him all over.

"Quil! Have you seen Sam?"

Quil looked round frowning, "No," he started to say but he stopped suddenly to let out a groan, the redhead had her hand on his dick.

Bella rolled her eyes and continued to move around the house looking for him, she found Jared and Embry sitting in the kitchen with joints and asked them. They were completely gone, Bella could smell the drugs on them.

"Bella, has anyone ever told you how hot you are?" Jared asked, flinging an arm around her. "I mean, my soul mate better be as hot as you!"

Bella laughed and shrugged his arm off of her shoulders, "Down, boy. Embry?"

"You aren't hot, Bella. You are beautiful. When I look at you I see… I see glory!" Embry said, his voice dreamy.

Bella tried to glare at them but they looked so funny as they swayed in time with one another she spluttered with laughter and continued through the room. She couldn't find Sam but she did find Dean standing in the corner with some guy, talking about Vegas or something.

"Dean! Where's Sam?"

"I don't know, Bella… I need…"

"What do you need, Dean?" Bella asked nervously, putting a hand to his skin, and then flinching. He felt even hotter than Sam! That couldn't be right… could it?

"I need to go outside, I'm not too feeling, I mean, I'm feeling, I'm not feeling too could."

Bella gasped slightly, he was definitely burning up. She began to drag him through the crowd, maybe he was having a panic attack or something, she could hear his rapid, heavy breaths. They got outside and there were still loads of people there, but there was fresh air. The music was still so loud, Bella thought she was going half deaf, she could barely hear anything.

"Dean, what's the matter?" she demanded of him. Then she heard a howl. A howl! It had to be one of the wolves… Sam. She had seen everyone else but Sam inside, only he had been heading upstairs with a mystery girl.

"Oh shit. Dean, please wait over there quickly… wait!"

She led him to Sam's shed at the back of the garden and left him sitting in there, she instructed him to wait because she had to go find the other wolf pack boys and tell them she heard a howl. She kept hearing it as she raced to the back door and then back in to the crowd. God, they were all so high, would that wear off once they phased? Heading in to the kitchen, she passed Quil, the girl was now freaking topless.

"Quil!" she shrieked at him.

"I'm a bit preoccupied." Quil snorted, shutting up as soon as the girl crushed her lips to his.

Bella rolled her eyes, "Quil, I heard a howl! Go outside, phase!"

She didn't care who heard, nobody would remember anything the next day. La push parties were way hard core. In the kitchen, Jared and Embry seemed to be talking normally, at least the effects of drugs still wore off of them quite quickly.

"You find Sam?" Jared asked her.

"No, but I heard his howl. Go, go!"

Jared and Embry shot surprised looks at her and then at one another, and then in unison tore out towards the back door. Quil had left the topless redhead on the stairs and she was crying, saying to herself, "EVERYBODY LEAVES ME!"

Bella felt a little bad but really it was just a hook up so she couldn't be that torn up about it. Outside the spare bedroom she hesitated, what if she was walking in on them…?

She was, as she opened the door her eyes fell upon the girl wincing and moaning on all fours, Paul was leaning over her and had his hand in her hair.

"Bella, what the fuck!?" he roared angrily, gesturing to his sex buddy.

"You need to phase!" Bella said, holding her hands over her eyes. "Sam howled!"

"I'm doing her at the moment, Bella!"

"What if he needs you?!"

Paul muttered angrily and rolled his eyes, Bella peeped through a gap between her fingers to see him pulling out of the girl. She didn't have it in her to be too embarrassed though, she was just worried about Sam. Damn, she thought to herself, I have just broken up two hook ups.

Although she hadn't found Jake, she knew he wouldn't want to leave Ellie anyway so there was no point searching for him and ruining their getting to know each other session, not that this party was very good for it. Bella did understand what Sam meant, when you weren't as high or drunk it just looked like hell to be involved in this party. Her only concern other than Sam and the others was Dean, she ran back over to the shed.

"Sorry, I had to do something, I-" she stopped in the doorway, Dean wasn't even in the shed.

"Great." She muttered to herself.

Her head had already started to ache; she was surprised how quick the high had faded. Not really in the mood to go back to the party and also filled with worry about what was going on with the wolves, Bella curled up on one of the chairs that leant against the wall of the garage.

"Bella?"

Bella jerked upright, blinking in to blasting sunlight. Slowly her eyes focused on to the face of Jake, he was looking down at her, chewing his lip.

"Jake?" Bella mumbled, sitting up and looking around the room blearily. "Did I fall asleep in the garage?"

Jake nodded and took her hand, pulling her to her feet.

"Whoa, Jake, what's going on?"

"Bella, last night, I… something happened."

Bella felt her heart start to hammer beneath her sweater already, the events of last night were slowly returning to her, she had heard Sam's howl…

"Sam." She said suddenly, and Jake's startled eyes were enough to tell her she was right, something was wrong with Sam. "What's happened to him?"

"You have to come with me, Bella I-"

"No, not until you tell me what's wrong with him!"

Jake rolled his eyes, ignoring her protests he hauled her in to his arms and carried her round to the front of the house where her truck was parked.

"Jake, tell me what's happened."

He didn't. They drove with Bella demanding to know what was going on but receiving no answers, eventually she gave up and rested her head against the window. They pulled up outside a house Bella had never been to, and she stomped up the path behind Jake angrily. What was wrong with Sam!?

Jake didn't bother knocking on the door, so Bella followed him in to the living room where she saw her Dad's friend Sue Clearwater leant over a body… Sam.

"What's happened?" she breathed, moving over to stand beside Sue, who stood up and moved aside for Bella.

She took the place of Leah hovering over him and placed a gentle kiss on her head.

"Sam?" she asked softly, but he didn't make a sound.

"Damn it, tell me what happened!" she yelled, angry that they were hiding it from her.

"At the party last night he smelt a leech so he chased after it. He howled for us but none of us heard, if you hadn't told us you heard him, Bella, he'd probably…" Jared started to explain, but that didn't even explain what had happened. She opened her mouth to say so but Quil went on.

"It was Edward, Bella. He was coming for you but Sam chased him away, only Edward lost it. He… he got his arms around him and he's shattered his bones. Sue's a doctor, she's doing all she can."

"His bones are shattered!? What does that mean?"

"He's in a great deal of pain, we're lucky he is a shapeshifter because it means his bones will heal, but first we have to break all the bones. I have a hospital bed coming over." Sue said quietly.

"He did this? I'm going to kill him, that bastard!" she got to her feet and started for the door, but a hand stopped her.

She turned around, ready to shove whoever it was away but she found herself looking in to the eyes of Dean.

"What are you doing here?" she gasped, forgetting to be mad.

"I… last night, when you left, I… I turned."

"You're a werewolf?" Bella said, her eyebrows shot up. "How? You aren't even from here!"

"My grandma was Quileute, I'm the first male descendant since my great great grandma. My grandma made my mom swear to bring me here when she died."

"Oh… god." Bella moaned, "You're a werewolf too. Am I some sort of supernatural magnet?"

Dean laughed, and Bella smiled but then her face tightened, she turned around again and began to head out the door, but this time Embry stopped her.

"Bella, the morphine will wear off soon and Sam will want you. And we aren't letting you go and try and fight a vampire alone. We'll wait, Bella."

"No, I need to go!"

"P-please, get me Bel-Bella." somebody croaked, and everyone looked round, including Bella.

Sam's lips were moving, no more sound came out but he was undoubtedly mouthing, "Bella."

She rushed back to his side and collapsed on to the floor around her, Sam had always been so strong… and here he was, looking so weak and vulnerable…

"I'm here, Sam." She whispered, kissing his lips. "I love you, I'm here. I'm so sorry he did this to you.."

"I…love..y-you."

Bella smiled and wiped some tears from her cheek and fell down, resting her head on his chest and hugging him. "I'm not leaving you."

They had to cancel dinner with Sam's mom, there was no way he could even think of standing up. They moved Sam in to the guest room and Bella lay on the bed beside him, not daring to close her eyes in case something went wrong, she couldn't bear watching his pain. When he awoke he would wince and growl, he would tremble like he was about to phase but he wasn't allowed to, because that would interfere with the re growing of his bones.

"You okay?" he asked Bella gruffly in the evening while he waited for his next dose of morphine to kick in.

"You're asking me if I'm okay?"

"Yes."

"Sam, I'm fine. Well, I'm worried about you and I am furious with Edward… we have to kill him when you're better, I swear."

Sam laughed shakily, then winced. "I l-love you, B-Bel-Bella."

"I love you more."

Bella shuffled closer to him and Sam (painfully) put an around her waist, pulling her closer, and then they kissed. Slowly, Sam let out a sigh as relief, at the taste of Bella's lips and at the sweet feeling of the morphine, and slowly his eyes closed again. It was more difficult than Bella would have ever imagined, seeing him in such pain. He could barely function properly because he was having to be knocked out the majority of the time so that he wouldn't feel the pain of his bones growing back. Bella had watched earlier as they had broken his bones, it was the most terrifying thing she had ever witnessed.

As she thought over the events of the day and enjoyed the feeling of being in Sam's arms, she gradually drifted off in to near sleep.

She was startled awake.

"What are you doing in my house?"

Leah Clearwater stood in the doorway, glaring at Bella and the sleeping Sam with obvious disgust, her arms were folded across her chest.

"Leah…?"

She hadn't seen her since she met her briefly at Jake's house, and here she was staring at her like she was mud on the bottom of her shoe.

"What is my fucking ex boyfriend doing in my house?" she asked again, a tone of malice in her voice.

"Ex boyfriend?" Bella repeated, aghast.

Nobody had ever told her Sam was in a relationship with Leah! She had been told briefly about how he had got out of a serious relationship but not with Leah, and anyway they said that was at least two years before, surely Leah wasn't still pissed off?

"Yes. He disappeared, I searched for him all day and all night, because I loved him, and then he came back and broke my heart."

"Why?" Bella murmured, not wanting to talk loudly.

Leah laughed a cold laugh, "Because 'it isn't fate, Leah!'" she said in perfect imitation of his voice.

"Leah, I'm sorry, I-"

"If you were sorry you would break up with him you little slut."

Bella shut her eyes and opened them wider, letting out a little laugh. "How am I a slut, Leah?" she asked, "I'm not just sleeping with any random guy, not that we have even slept together yet."

"He's my ex boyfriend."

"Most guys are somebody's ex boyfriend, Leah. Sam is right, you and him aren't fate."

Leah opened her mouth to retort, her face was flaming an angry red, but her younger brother Seth appeared at her shoulder.

"Leah, what are you doing in here?" he asked suspiciously, and then looked from her violent looking face to Bella's close to tears one, and groaned.

"Leah, Sam is hurt and mom is helping him. Leave them alone."

"Yeah. My mom is playing house with my ex boyfriend and his freaking girlfriend!" Leah retorted furiously.

"Leah, please come out." Seth pleaded, "Please?"

It seemed Seth could make Leah do anything he wanted, because once they had a minor stare down, she let out an angry sound and stormed off, Bella heard her stomping downstairs and then the front door slammed. Seth winced.

"Sorry about her, Bella."

He had grown so much since Bella had last seen him. It was a while ago, however it was so weird. He was so much more muscular and he looked like he'd begin to grow facial hair anytime… could he be preparing to phase, too? She could kill Edward, and even his family. Their return had made her new friend phase and she hadn't even been able to help him try and get his head around it because she was tending to her boyfriend who had been practically left for dead by Edward. Now they were going to force young little Seth to phase? Surely then he would be the youngest of them to phase for the first time…

"Err… Bella?"

She flinched again, realising she had probably been studying Seth for quite a while.

"Oh, sorry, Seth. I don't know where my head is at the moment."

Seth smiled at her, "It's fine. I was just saying, sorry about Leah. I hope he gets better soon. I'll see you round."

He nodded at Sam and then retreated from the room. Bella heard the front door close again. She turned her attention back to Sam's face, giving him a goodnight peck on the head and then curling closer to him, at last able to relax.