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Chapter IX

War and Death

Crouching to where my back looked like half a circle, I snarled loudly keeping my teeth bared. The Pack didn't they're own threatening actions getting fully ready for the fight to come. Jasper and his family remained calm only Jasper and Emmett let out a litle chuckle. I glanced at Rosalie and saw her grinning darkly. Blondie's got spirit.

In front of us the large army stopped in place letting 5 vampires dash forward at us. While 3 went towards the Cullen's, 2 came after my pack. Barking loudly I grabbed one's attention just before I bit it's head off and made him mense meat. The other was fighting with Leah, and she was doing great. She dodged each move remaining unharmed.

Glancing at Gabe I saw he was on edge worried about Leah, his imprint. I barked again when Leah finished her kill grabbing everyone attention back to the oncoming leeches.

After seeing that the Wolves were strong than they thought they sent 10 more after us. Which gave us all a chance to kill. Though I was worried about my family I had to remember that they could hold themselves. Before one could double team with another vampire, I grabbed it and swung it several feet away. This one was a female and she grinned dangerously at me. One second she was in front of me the next she was back to the place where her pal was fighting Avo. Snarling I jumped on her and before she could do anything again, I bit into her shoulder while sinking my claws into it's back. It let out a piercing scream that made my ears rings, but I finished the job, and went onto the next.

30 minutes past as we were still no closer to wining this battle. There was still over a hundred vampires coming after us. I stopped for a few minutes to gain my breath and looked around me. Jasper was fight 5 vampires at the moment, holding on by the head then ripped it off tossing it to the ground and kicked every few seconds. He was a blur. Alice danced around 8 vampires seeing all of they're moves at once. She was grinning the whole time and every now and then picking one to kill. Emmett was a monster, laughing loudly as he killed 2 at the same time. The vampires around him stopped for a brief second to move back but like they were programed, moved back to attacking Emmett again. Rose was not to far from Emmett and fought a bunch of men that thought she couldn't keep herself. But she proved them wrong by the punch at went through bodies and twisting heads backwards. Carlisle fought 3 at the moment with his back against Esme's. Together they protected each other and looked like they were preformed a well practiced dance. These two vampires were artistic.

Looking to my pack I saw Leah holding her ground against 3 vampires, they had her surrounded but she made it very clear after swiping her paw at ones chest she was deadly. The vampire dropped to it's knees and half of it's body fell to the ground. I grined inwardly at her work. Paul who was bleeding at one of his shoulders was tackled by a large male vampire. He yelped a bit at the contact it made, but was back on his feet taking on the others that went after him. Jared was regaining his breath as well and I saw a few drops of blood drop from his mouth and side. Avo pounced ontop of one vampire to another after taking it's head off and stopped to howl loudly. Embry and Quil were team mates and weaved they're way around each other and were killing vampires left and right. I was proud of them. Sam was this one vamp that went in circles around him. Sam was looking like he was getting a bit dizzy, but he then flashed his claws out and slammed the vampire to the ground where he finished it off.

Jacob was still missing and I was really starting to get worried, but that was wiped away when I was slammed into the ground. I yelped loudly and looked up to see a male vampire bare it's teeth at me. I replied the gesture, and scrambled when it tried o bite me. That was a bit too close.

"Ava! Behind you!" Emmett yelled across the field. I turned around to see another vampire coming onto me and kicked my back legs into it. But the male that was in front of me grabbed me by the throat and tossed me several feet away. I landed into a tree and felt something crack. Ignoring the pain I tried getting up and saw the vampire stalk towards me. What the fuck is with this thing!?

"Your mine pup." He growled as he towered over me.

Growled as my reply I lunged at him catching him on his left arm. I tore it off but it struck me with its over arm in the gut. I fell to the ground quickly coughing up some blood. This was not good at all. As I continued to cough I felt it step on my hind leg, snapping it instantly. Yelping loudly everyone of my pack member stopped.

"Get away from her!" Emmett yelled and instantly ripped it's head off. He knelled next to me helping me up.

"Easy." He told me when I whined a I was standing perfectly up hugging my back leg to my body, I moved forward remaining next to Emmett.

I heard a howl in the distance and I looked towards the sound. At the border I saw Jacob and he was running towards us quickly, fighting a few vampires along the way. Thank god! He was finally here!

I howled in reply and Jacob saw me next to Emmett. Emmett guarded me while I guarded him a few times. Though I was injured and a bit slowed down, I was determined to keep fighting.

'What happened?!' Jacob asked loudly in my head.

'I'll explain later. Get killing!' I yelled just as a vampire tried going after Jacob from behind.

We were winning, we were almost done. There were 20 more vampires left and they were scattering. I chased after one of them baring my teeth and huffing at the same time. This one was really fast. Though I was still slowed down because of my back leg, I was still one of the fastest in the pack. Jacob and Leah were very close and tracking they're own vampires at the same time. Once I almost caught the vampire, it turned around and slammed it's elbow into my face. I yelped as I felt the blood trickled down my muzzle. As I shuck my head quickly I was tackled and slammed into a tree. With the force we both had, we knocked it down, causing a loud noise.

'Ava?!' Jacob yelled questioningly.

I didn't reply as I was a bit worried about saving my neck at the moment.

"I'm gonna wear that pelt of yours when I'm finished with you." The young man growled at me.

Fuck you Pansy! I growled as my response and was almost on my feet when I was kicked in the sides for the millionth time this night. Yelping louder I fell to the ground. God it hurt a lot.

I heard a loud growl not too far away from us and saw Jacob and Avo both looking pissed as hell. Jacob dove in first and grabbed the vampire. Swinging it in a circle it landed on the tree a few inches away from me.

'Ava? You gotta get up!' Avo told me.

Whining a bit, I tried getting up putting all my weight on the tree. Avo howled loudly and quickly other wolves came with the Cullen's.

"Ava!" Paul yelled in his human form as he ran towards me.

But he stopped when I growled. There were quiet a few other vampires coming into the area. Paul phased instantly and began running after the vamps. Avo Continued to help me up, and once I was on most of my feet, I looked around.

Something wasn't right. I heard a loudly yelp, one that I never wanted to hear. It was Jacob. I jerked my head in the direction and saw him laying on the ground with the vampire over him.

'No..' I thought desperately as I ran over to him. Sam and Leah both attacked the vampire and killed it quickly. I on the other hand was limping my way. When I was 5 feet from him I phased and jumped over to him. My leg seared with pain but I didn't care.

"Jacob!" I yelled as I pulled on his fur to pull him onto my lap. He whined a few time as I cried my eyes out.

"Carlisle!" I screamed out rocking back and forth as I held onto my imprint.

Quickly the doctor was next to me and looking over Jacob carefully.

"What happened?!" I heard Edward call in the distance. When he got close enough to see me crying in Jacob's fur while he whined with every breath he took, Edward stopped instantly looking upset.

"Carlisle, he's going to be ok right?" I asked desperately.

When he didn't reply I grabbed him by the collar, "Right!?"

Carlisle took a hold of my hands that were clutching his shirt and pried them away.

"I'm afraid not." He whispered.

"No, no, no, no!" I yelled, "Jacob, dammit, no!"

Jacob phased under me and looked like shit. But what made me cry even harder was the large gash running across his chest.

"I'm sorry love." He whispered and held onto my hand.

"No Jake, please. I need you." I cried kissing him quickly, "Please, don't leave me."

I got no reply and was dragged away by Paul and Sam together.

"JACOB!"

I fought against my pack members, as Carlisle and Edward moved my imprints body. Eventually Emmett took me from they're arms and just held me.

"Let me go!" I yelled as I tried to get back to my Jacob.

"Ava, I'm sorry for this." I faintly heard Avo say then everything went black.

1 month later

It's been a month since my imprint died, and a week since Billy passed. Now I was going through Jacob's house, since in Billy's will, he left me the house. Why? Hell if I know. I would have thought he'd have left it to his daughters.

Sam and I walked into the kitchen as sat being completely silent. Ever since that night I've barley spoken a word, and what words I did speak it was a verbal bashing at the pack and Cullen's. I've almost broken the treaty twice, which earned well earned ass kicking from Sam.

"This place seem's so dead." Sam muttered.

I nodded my head. It would seem dead when it's main inhabitants are passed. I had net Rebbecca and Rachel when they came for Billy's funeral that was shared with Jacob. We kept both casket's closed since they knew that if I saw Jacob's face, i'd phase in front of everyone. It was bad enough that when they were burying them I had taken off and phased as soon as I hit the forest border.

"Ava, you've gotta speak sometime." Sam told me frowning.

As my reply I growled lowly at him. As you can tell my connection with the pack have been damaged greatly. Though they still cared deeply about me, I wanted nothing to do with them.

Sam sighed at my stubbornness and shuck his head.

"Okay, do you want to take care of Jacob's room, or am I?" He asked me getting up.

Rolling my eyes I got up instantly heading to my imprints room. When I got in there still laying on the floor were mine and Jacob's clothes from the night before he left for his part of the guard duty.

Rubbing my face and picking the clothes up I placed them all in a basket. I must say he usually had a messy room, but this was clean compared to the usual. The most that I had to clean up on the floor were our clothes, and shoes. When I had the floor cleared I went to his closet. It was fairly neat aside from the pile of dirty clothes in the back corner. Shaking my head I picked them up, and wanted to barf. God these things stunk! Quickly dumping them in the basket, I went back to the closet. Hanging were his shirts that I found I'd always loved on him. I picked up my favorite, which was a black button up shirt, and decided to put it on. I sat on his bed breathing in his fading scent.

"Hey Av's, I found..." Sam started but stopped quickly.

I glanced up at him and saw new tears blur my vision. My pack brother jumped over to me and hugged me tightly.

"It's alright Ava. We'll get through this." He muttered rocking me back and forth as I cried my eyes out in his chest.

"Ava?" I heard someone call from the front of the house.

Jacob?! I jumped up and ran into the front room smiling.

"Jac-ob.." I started but saw Paul standing in the front room.

He turned to me and frowned, "Come here."

Listening to my best friend I ran into his arms and cried so more.

Later that night I found myself sitting in Emily and Sam's home trying to enjoy my time with my Pack sister's. Leah was sitting on the counter, while I stud between her legs as she played with my hair. Emily told me about how she was enjoying going to collage at Port Angels. She was studying to be a teacher for our local school.

"I don't know how you can stand the idea of being a teacher." I giggled.

If there was anyone who could get me to open up at all, it was Emily and Leah. Not to mention Clair. But right now she was out of town with her family. Quil was a bit upset but he knew she'd be back before the end of the month. Which was a week from now. Big puppy.

"One would say the same thing about how I deal with all you wolves." She couinter back sticking her tongue out at me.

I rolled my eyes smiling at her softly. Leah was running her hand thought my hair that was now just past my shoulders.

"You should keep you hair long." She noted.

"Why?" I asked her, "It's easier to take care of when it's short."

"Yeah, but it looked really nice right now." Leah continued as she pulled a brush through it.

"If you say so Leah." I muttered.

So while we females caught up in the kitchen, I knew the males were off on patrols.

"Hey, I gotta stop by the Cullen's today. Wana come with?" Leah asked.

I looked at her very carefully, "I thought you hated them?"

"I do, but Seth is been there for a while and mom's getting fed up with it. So I need to drag him home." She replied.

"Ah." I muttered then shrugged, "Yeah, I need to apologize to them anyways for my recent actions."

"Ok, well we can go now, or-"

"Not now. I want her to help with make that soup she brought me not too long ago. I've got dinner duty tonight." Emily interrupted.

I laughed a bit and moved away from Leah to help her cousin with the food.

It must have been about 10 that night when Leah and I were able to go drag Seth back to the rez. I was slightly a bit nervous as to how they'd react when I came over. Probably be a bit on edge, but I didn't blame them at all.

"You okay?" Leah asked when she saw the weird look on my face.

"Yeah, just slightly on edge I guess." I replied as I massaged my right shoulder a little. It had been swore for a while because of a huge knot.

Leah nodded her head then yawned. "Seth!" she yelled when we got on they're property.

I listened closely and heard only one heart beat. So Bella wasn't here tonight. Good. I don't want to have to deal with seeing her right now.

We both saw Seth peek out the window from the kitchen and then Jasper and Emmett filed outside.

"You gonna start anything Ava?" Jasper asked.

"Check my mood, Jasper." I muttered softly ducking my head.

He huffed a bit but Emmett jumped over towards me and gave me a hug.

"Hey monkey." I teased and punched his shoulder.

"Hey pup." Emmett teased back and lead us into the house were we saw Seth standing behind Edward for protection.

Sighing I nodded my head at Edward and gave Seth a pitiful look.

"Come on kid. Your mom's getting pissed." I told him softly.

"Nu-uh. If mom sent Leah then I'm in deep shit." He refused.

"Look Seth, Leah brought me here with her, which means if your tail doesnt' start heading to Sue's, I'll drag you there myself." I threatened with a calm voice.

"You wouldn't!" Seth blanched.

"Try me." I growled at him not liking that everyone apparently thought i'd gone soft. Just because I was in a depression doesn't mean I wouldn't put everybody's ass in line.

I noticed the whole time Edward was looked at me a bit oddly.

"Geese Edward, I know I've been off, but god." I muttered to him.

"Yeah your off quiet a bit. You need to see Carlisle." He told me.

"Why?" I asked as the doctor came down stair quickly.

"Yeah, why does she need to see me?" Carlisle asked coming to stand next to me then jumped a little.

That was really odd he never reacted like this. "Ok, fess up. What's wrong with me now!?"

While Leah and Seth looked just as confused, Edward broke out into a smile while Carlisle chuckled. Either they've gone crazy or I'm going nuts..

A/N: Writing this chapter made me cry in certain areas as you might guess.. BUT!!! this will not end as a sad story, so please please bear with me. It will get better. Something's wrong with Ava?! Not really.. just wait an see in the next chapter..

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