Chapter 12: Breaking

Isaac's P.O.V

I could hear Sarah sniffling the entire way home. I took her hand in mine. She looked over at me from the passenger seat. Her eyes red and puffy from crying so much. I was so sad, just seeing her like that. I had never seen her cry that much. It killed me to see her so hurt.

"I love you." Sarah said, her voice uneasy and shaky. She squeezed my hand. I thought back to the day I first met her in the woods. Her tears were different then. Then, they were scared tears. But these tears were devastation and sadness.

They were the same tears that she shed after she woke up from one of her nightmares.

"I love you too." I said. I meant it, with all my heart. 2 weeks was all it took for me to fall for her.

We sat in a comfortable silence until we got to the loft parking lot, never dropping the other's hand. I climbed out of my door and rushed to her's. I opened the door and held my hand out. She took my hand in hers.

We started to walk into the building, when Sarah paused. Her head down. I could tell she was crying again. I pulled her into a hug and we stood there in each other's embrace for a few minutes.

She pulled from the hug, wiping her tears. She looked up at me. She grabbed my hand and held it with both of hers.

"I have lost everyone. My parents, the man who turned me, and now my brother is a hunter. He's long, long gone." She said, she paused, trying to find her words. She squeezed my hand and put her head down for a moment, then continued. "Isaac promise me that you won't disappear. I couldn't take it." She said, sounding so broken. It literally hurt my heart.

I tilted her chin up so she could see me. I cupped her head in both of my palms. I stroked her jaw gently.

"I would never dream of disappearing on you. I love you and I mean it." I said before kissing her lightly for a brief moment. She nodded and hugged me one last time before we walked into the loft building.

We walked into the loft. Cora, Derek and Stiles were all sitting around and laughing. The turned to us and their happy faces turned worried as they saw Sarah's face, still red and puffy.

They all stared at the two of us, I turned to Sarah.

"I'll tell them what happened, Go upstairs. I'll be up in a few." I said. She nodded, sniffling. She smiled weakly then got on her tippy toes to kiss me.

I waited until she was up the stairs and she shut her door to walk over to the group. They were all staring at me, questioning Sarah kissing me.

"When did that happen?" Cora asked, giving me a weird look. Stiles held his hand up for a high 5. I gave him the high five, knowing he would bug me about it later.

"It became official today I guess." I said, smiling uncontrollably.

"I'm happy for you." Derek said with a small smile. His compliment threw me off guard. Derek rarely showed emotions. I pushed his emotions aside.

"Thank you." I said, still smiling.

"But why was she crying?" Stiles asked, confused. My smile faded, recalling the horrifying images.

Before Mason was killed, I guess I saw vampires as sort of invincible. I mean, they didn't age, things that would kill werewolves only minorly harmed vampires. It surprised me that they even had weaknesses.

"It's Mason. He was killed by vampire hunters." I said, looking down at the table. I could tell Derek and Mason had gotten somewhat close. They both were sort of leaders, guardians in some ways.

"Hunters? Vampire hunters?" Cora said. She had only encountered werewolf hunters.

I nodded. I looked over at Derek who looked like someone just punched him in the gut. He looked hurt.

"They seemed much, much more ruthless." I added.

They didn't seem to have any sort of code. They just killed Mason. Just like that. They reminded me of a more cruel Gerard.

"Why did they kill him?" Derek asked, pulling himself together.

"I'm not really sure. They kept asking if there were others." I said, Cora tensed then looked at the stairs where Sarah had been just moments ago.

"He didn't say anything? About Sarah?" Cora asked, sounding worried and frantic. She and Sarah had gotten close. Sarah considered her a close friend.

"No. thankfully. He wouldn't throw Sarah under the bus like that. I think they bought it too." I said, hopeful.

"There's something else, Isn't there?" Derek said, sensing that I was holding back.

I nodded, thinking back to Brayden's face. He didn't have that same, happy look in his eyes. Like he did in the picture. His eyes were emotionless and cold.

"Sarah's brother, Brayden. He's one of them." It hurt saying it. I looked at my 3 friends. Shock painted on their faces.

"Oh my god, She must be so hurt and confused." Cora said, her voice dripping with sadness. Stiles grabbed her hand and squeezed it. Him and Sarah were pretty good friends too.

"I'm guessing he doesn't know about Sarah, right?" Derek asked, concerned.

"He doesn't, And we need to keep it that way. I'm not going to lose Sarah to hunters. I'm not going to lose her period." I said, my voice beginning to shake.

"That settles it, Sarah doesn't leave any of our sights until the hunters are gone. We have all become close to her. She's important to all of us. Especially Cora and Isaac. If one of the hunter's sees her and knows she's brayden's sister, they'll know something's up." He paused for a moment. "I don't like the idea of her at school with hunters are around, I'm sure there are more." Derek added.

"So we tell the attendance office that she's going to be out for a while. I'll bring over her work." Stiles said.

"She's smart. She won't fall behind." I said, trying to keep the hunters from my mind.

"I'll tell Scott tomorrow. But for now, none of this leaves the loft. We don't know where the hunters have insiders at. No talking about this at school or anywhere for that matter. Bring Scott over here tomorrow after school." Derek said, I could tell he was pretty protective over all of us.

The group agreed.

"I'll be upstairs with Sarah." I said, walking away from the group. I made my way upstairs.

I knocked on Sarah's door. She opened it within seconds, pulling me inside and into an urgent hug. She had been crying again.

I picked her up, still hugging her. I carefully laid her on the bed. I started to walk from the bed but she stopped me.

"I'm just changing. I'm not going anywhere." I said comfortingly. She nodded then let go of my arm.

I walked over and opened my drawer. She let me have my own drawer since I was here so much. I opened it and picked out a pair of grey sweatpants.

I changed my pants quickly. She had seen me in boxers plenty of times before, so it wasn't weird or awkward. We were just that comfortable with each other.

I tugged my shirt off. I could feel her eyes on my torso. I threw my shirt on the floor, deciding to sleep shirtless tonight, as I often did.

I walked over to rejoin Sarah. I laid down beside her and she immediately curled up next to me. I had one of my arms underneath her head so I absentmindedly played with a strand of her hair. She traced small circles on my muscular chest.

"He didn't turn me right away. He was a doctor, so he tried to save me medically." She said quietly. I nodded. I didn't know that, surprisingly.

"My injuries were too much though. I had a brain hemorrhage, internal bleeding and multiple stab wounds. The only way I could survive was if he turned me. And he did." She added, holding back tears.

"I woke up from being turned and everything was so different. Beautiful things were more beautiful. Soft things were softer. Loud things were louder. Every single emotion I had felt before I was turned, I felt them so much harder. He told me that I could turn my emotions off at will. We have a switch. One flip of the mental switch and it was gone. All of the emotions. The hurt, the anger, the loneliness."

"It didn't last long for me though. I turned my emotions back on the first day I saw Mason and his wife, Gemma together. They seemed so happy and alive, even with Mason being a vampire and Gemma being human. I turned my emotions back on because seeing Mason and Gemma so happily in love made me realize that if I kept the switch flipped, that I would never find anything like they had."

"I am so amazingly happy with myself for turning them back on. Because if I kept them off, I would've never felt sorry for killing those men, Chris would've killed me indefinitely and I would've never fallen for you, Isaac." She finished. She placed a small peck on my chest near my heart.

Her words touched me. I felt so grateful. If Sarah hadn't seen Mason and Gemma together, would she have still ended up caring for me? Would she even be here?

"I love you, Sarah. So much." I said, looking down into her beautiful, warm blue eyes. She smiled up at me.

I leaned down to kiss her. The kiss was sweet and passionate. When I pulled away from it, It left me breathless and fuzzy inside.

I pulled her closer to me. She cuddled up against me. I felt her warm breath on mt chest as she drifted to sleep.

A/N: UGH. This chapter was so sad and I apologize. But hey, We got to learn a little more about how Sarah was turned and We learned that Mason had a wife! I might be bringing her into the story later on, not sure yet tho. I love writing Isaac/Sarah lovey dovey moments. It brings joy to me. I also have somewhat of a surprise for you Derek fans out there. Maybe ;) Chapter 13 should be up later today. But anywho, Happy Reading my loves!