Jackson...

"Jackson, come on, you need to think about something else." Bray wasn't doing a great job at trying to comfort me like Seth had asked him to do.

"If you don't like it then why don't you phase and leave?" I referred to the fact my wolf brother could hear my every thought while we were both werewolves.

"I'm here to help you Jackson, you need to get out of this slump."

What if I didn't want to get out? What if I wanted to stay miserable? Without Lily I was miserable and I knew I always would be.

"Why don't you just go and hang out with Morgan?" Morgan was Bray's new 'mate'. We werewolves had a special way of falling in love: Imprinting. Basically, we would only have to look at a certain girl and automatically we were connected to them. We were connected in a way that couldn't be explained with words, it was something on a totally different level.

"You need me right now Jackson."

I walked away into the woods so that I was away from him. "I don't need anyone." Then my walk turned into a run and I was off. Bray didn't even try to run after me.

My misery was starting to bring my whole pack into a state of utter depression along with me. I did feel bad about that but what could I do? I couldn't just turn off how I felt. I loved Lily Truscott...er...Lily Oken now. The name itself left a disgusting taste in my mouth. I knew that soon she would be officially considered an Oken when she turned into a disgusting leech. She swore nothing would really change and that she would still consider me her best friend but she was wrong. She would no longer be the clutzy, self concious, blushing Lily. She would no longer be my Lily.

I laid in the grass and tried to shut my eyes for a few minutes. I had been running on about 2 hours of sleep. Just as I let my heavy eyelids fall a shouting screeched through my head like someone shoved a police radar in it. I snapped my eyes open and jumped to my feet.

"THEY'RE BACK! LILY AND OLIVER ARE BACK!" yelled Seth. Somehow, his voice was not enthusiastic it was worried or panicked.

I ran as fast as my four legs could push me until I was facing all my wolf brothers circled around Seth. No one phased back so we all had to speak through our thoughts.

"They returned last night. Apparently Lily is sick." Seth began

"Sick?!" I immediantly interrupted.

"Yes, she supposedly caught something while on the honeymoon. She is in quarantine and is not allowed to see anyone, not even her father."

They had done it, they had turned her. Now she was recovering before she could kill someone innocent.

"Seth, it's obvious! She's not sick, they turned her!" I was getting angrier.

"We don't know that for sure. We need to have solid evidence before we plan on attacking them."

"Wait for what? For them to escape? We already know they broke the treaty!"

Seth barred his long teeth at me in irratation. "Enough Jackson!"

I shook my head. "I don't know why I came back to this pack. You are not dedicated to protecting our people if you won't even take action!" I was to angry to look at anyone so I ran as fast as I could.

"Let him go Bray" I heard Seth demand.

Bray whimpered but I was off and I knew what I had to do now. I didn't care if I died to do it either! I was going to go and finish off that family myself.

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"Jackson!" Lily smiled as best as she would. The bones in her cheeks looked like they could easily poke out through her skin.

I walked further into the room and looked at her intently. She looked so frail, so weak, almost like a corpse.

"Lily...what..."

Lily's smiled faded and she looked at me with tears in her eyes. "I'm scary looking aren't I?"

"What happened to you?"

She got up with the blonde trying to stop her but she still got up. It was then I saw it, it was staring me in the face. Her rounded stomach was sticking out as if she was about to pop any minute. That parasite had sentanced her to death by getting her pregnant with a monster that was slowly killing her.