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Chapter 25: I Wish I was a Possum

SETH'S POV

Sometimes I wish I was a possum. Do you wanna know why? Because possums, they do this thing where they play dead. If they think they're in danger, the just lay down and pretend to die. Then, the animal walks on by, thinking the possum is dead.

I really wish I could play dead right now.

We're coming Seth!- Quil

So there I was, face to face with three vampires, all sparkling in the sunlight shining through the trees. They growled at me menacingly and for a while, we just stood there, glaring. Two males and a female, all wearing raged clothing and seeming more catlike than human. The tension was thick in the air as we all waited for the other one to make the first move. I was hoping I could hold them off until Jake and Quil caught up. Three against three is a piece of cake. One against three... not so much.

And then one pounced.

It landed on top of me and I quickly got hold of his arm in my mouth, biting down hard. He howled in pain and fell to the forest ground. Biting into a vampire is like biting onto an ice cube. It's so cold that it hurts your teeth and it's extremely hard. I threw his arm up into a tree, but soon another vampire was on top of me, trying to get his arms around me body. If I learned one thing from Jasper Cullen, it was to never let a vampire get its arms around you. He shoved that down our throats during those fighting lessons.

I felt the second one grab my front leg and I crumpled to the ground in pain, howling loudly. The one without an arm was coming towards me, nostrils flaring in rage. I had to think quickly. I rolled underneath the vampire on top of me until he was under me and bit into his neck. But not before he managed to scratch across my stomach. I knew that was going to leave a mark. His head came off and went rolling into the trees.

Ew.

Next, I stood up, ignoring the pain in my front leg and ran straight towards the vampire already running towards me. We collided in the center, the vampire getting thrown backwards fifteen feet and then landing in a crouching position. I went to attack again, but the female vamp attacked me from behind, raking her claws across my back. I let out another howl as the one armed vampire came running at me, punching me in the face.

Almost there Seth!- Jake

I shook my head, trying to make the pain in my face go away. The vampire went to punch me again, but I caught his arm in my mouth and tore it off, flinging it into the trees again. The armless vampire looked helpless and I pounced again, ignoring the female clawing at my back and legs. I bit his head off, too. His howl in pain was cut short when I flung his head into a tree. I tried not to vomit when I looked up and saw his eyes still moving.

Finally, I turned to the female, her eyes burning and her mouth snarling. She crouched in front of me, ready to attack. She blew her jet black hair out of her face. I could tell she was going to pounce. And second now and she would go for me. She glared at me, but her eyes slowly focused to something behind me and then she fled. I looked behind at Jake and Quil, who had just caught up. They were growling in the direction the vamp had just run off. But she was running away from La Push, so there was nothing we could do as long as she stayed in the direction. I sighed in relief and flopped down onto the ground.

Took you long enough- Me

And then I passed out.

000

"Seth, come on buddy wake up," Jake yelled, shaking my shoulders.

"Jake what the hell am I supposed I do? He's losing so much blood!" Quil yelled.

"He should be healing!" Jake growled.

I felt my eyes flutter open and I looked up at the sky, a few birds flew overhead. You know, you never really notice how uncomfortable the forest floor is until you're bleeding to death.

"Seth! You're awake," Jake said in relief, "Come on, we're gonna get you to Emily's."

"Chrissie," I moaned.

"Yeah, Chrissie will be there," Jake said quickly.

"No, she has to stay at the hospital," I grumbled, closing my eyes again. I just wanted to go back to sleep, even though the ground is really hard.

"Do not close your eyes Seth!" Jake yelled, shaking me again.

"Go away," I moaned.

"Come on Quil, let's get him up," Jake said.

I felt Jake take my right arm and put it around his shoulder. He heaved me up onto my feet, wrapping his arm around my waist. Quil tried to take my other arm, but I yelled out in pain, bringing it close to me. Just great, my arm is broken. Instead, Quil just wrapped his arm around my waist and slowly, Jake and he walked me back. I tried to be helpful and move my legs, but there were long gashes down both of them that stung like bitches. There were also five long gashes across my chest and abdomen, obviously from that stupid vampire. My back was the worst though. Stupid freaking vampire, clawing at my back. She couldn't have thought of somewhere else to claw, just to even out the pain?

I kept my eyes open as we walked, too weak to keep my head up. I was just thankful someone had thought to put my pants on.

"We're almost there Seth," Jake said breathlessly as he dragged my body along.

"Only you," I heard Quil say in amazement, "Would think of possums when faced with three rabid vampires."

We walked for a few more minutes before Jake finally yelled to Quil, "Go run ahead and get Sam!"

Quil let go of me and disappeared ahead. Jake took a deep breath and pulled my arm closer around his neck.

"You know," I muttered, looking at him, "if I'd known you were this in to me, I would have so asked you out on a date first."

Jake chuckled a little, "Only you Seth."

"Come on! Let's get him inside!" I heard Sam yell. I guess some of the pack was with him because suddenly I was lifted off my feet and carried into Sam and Emily's house.

"Oh my goodness!" I heard Emily gasped.

"He was attacked," Jake announced, "he killed two of them, the third one got away."

"Put me down!" I yelled, well tried to yell. I could feel some of my scratches slowly heal themselves up. It's a funny feeling, like you're skin is going back together again. It kind of tickles.

The guys set me on my feet and I stumbled around for a minute.

"Seth! What on Earth are you doing?" Emily asked, running into the living room with her first aid kit (which is bigger than her I might add).

"I… I'm going to see Chrissie," I told her, trying to find the door. Apparently my feet didn't want to work properly.

"You are bleeding everywhere! And I just got this rug cleaned!" she exclaimed, "You are not well enough to see Chrissie yet. Let me stitch up your wounds and Dr. Cullen may need to come look at your arm."

"Naw!" I whined, "I don't wanna get it re-broken!"

"Seth Clearwater, if you are not in bed in one minute, I am calling your mother!" Emily scolded.

She wouldn't dare. Let me put it this way, last time I got a paper cut my mom gave me a shot with her Epinephrine pen because she was afraid I was gonna go into Anaphylactic Shock… because she thought I was allergic to paper.

"Okay okay!" I gasped.

"Paul, Quil, bring Seth into the guest room," Emily told them.

I was lifted again and then set on my stomach into the guest bed. Emily followed them and soon I felt a cool cloth being dabbed against the scratches on my back. It felt nice, but stung at the same time.

"I can see some of these are healing themselves, but I think a few may need stitches to stop the bleeding," Emily muttered, more to herself than to me.

Once she cleaned the scratches on my back, she moved to the ones covering my legs. Most of those had healed themselves, only a few deep ones remained and they were already getting better looking by the minute.

"Is he alright?" I heard Jake ask from the doorway.

"Yes, I think he will be," Emily told him, not looking away from my wounds.

"It there anything I can do?" Jake asked. AWW! Jakey's worried about me. I'll have to thank him later.

"Could you bring me some ice for his face? I want to keep the swelling down."

Jake returned soon with an icepack. He handed it to Emily, who pressed it against my throbbing cheek. It did little to help, the ice just melted and eventually Emily got frustrated with it and threw it to the other side of the small room.

"Ugh shit!" I heard Emily groan.

"What?" I asked, feeling some energy slowly come back to me.

Super wolf healing FTW!

"Damn needle can't penetrate your skin. I guess you'll just have to lay here until they heal themselves. So NO MOVING," Emily told me.

"Yes ma'am," I mumbled.

"How's your arm?" Emily asked.

"Feels fine now," I told her truthfully.

She sighed in frustration, "That's what I was afraid of."

"How come?"

"Because it healed wrong and now Carlisle's going to have to re-break it," Emily said.

"Damn," I muttered sleepily.

"Darn. I was really hoping to set it so that this wouldn't happen again. It happened to Sam once when he broke his nose and he had to…"

I didn't hear another word she said because my eyes fell shut and I was asleep.

000

When I woke up again, Emily was gone and the room was dark. My back felt find and the scratches on my legs were all but gone. I stretched and sat up, my muscles feeling tired. The only thing I couldn't move was my left arm, which was curled into my stomach. The scratches on my abdomen were gone, but I had completely ruined Emily's sheets. Looking at the clock next to me, I saw that it was only eight o'clock. Visiting hours were still for another hour. Smiling to myself, I staggered out of bed and went to see my girlfriend.

The hospital was still pretty busy and brightly lit. I managed to pick up my car from my house and drive here, one handed. Yeah, I got skills. I think I saw a few people gasp at my horrible appearance. I probably was still covered in dried blood and my face was still pretty bruised. Oh yeah, and my arm was in the shape of a Z.

"Carlisle, I need your uh… help," I called, knocking on his door.

"Come on in Seth," he said brightly.

I opened the door and staggered in like a drunk person. Jeez how much blood had I lost?

I made sure the door was closed behind me before I began talking, "I sort of got into this fight and a vampire grabbed onto my arm and… yeah…" I trailed off, gesturing towards my Z shaped arm.

"I can tell," Carlisle said, touching my arm lightly. Is it bad I couldn't feel anything? He tried to bend it, but it had obviously already healed itself in the shape of a Z. Maybe I could call myself Zeth now. That would be a pretty awesome name! Like if Zach and Jeff had a baby!

…

No. I do not know anyone named Zach or Jeff.

"Well, it definitely needs to be re-broken," Carlisle sighed. You don't say.

"Man, I really like this new look for my arm, though," I laughed.

"Alright Seth, we can do this here or back at my home. Whichever you chose, but I ask if we do it here then you do not scream," Carlisle said.

"Here," I answered automatically. I really wanted to see Chrissie today.

"Okay. One… two… three!"

"AAAAAAAHAAA!" I screamed. Woops.

"I'm going to go get a splint so we can set it," Carlisle said, leaving and coming back thirty seconds later. He set my arm in the splint in its regular old L shape.

"Ouch ouch ouch ouch," I cried, holding onto a chair so hard some of the stuffing started to come out.

"What did I say about screaming?" Carlisle asked.

"If somebody grabs you forcefully and it's not your mommy or daddy, it's okay to scream," I answered through clenched teeth.

Carlisle sighed again, "The circumstances were different."

"Yeah well… nobody's perfect I guess."

"Very true."

"These vampires... anyone we might know?" Carlisle asked.

"Not sure. They were on our territory, though and looked pretty pissed. One got away. All I remember is she had black hair and daggers for fingernails," I shuttered.

"Doesn't sound like anyone I would recognize. I'll keep an eye out for her," he told me.

"Well, thanks Carlisle. I'm off to see Chrissie," I told him, turning to go.

"Any time Seth," Carlisle said, "Oh and she's a little under the weather today. The new pills were making her nauseated."

"Good to know," I said, opening the door and leaving.

I walked the familiar path to Chrissie's room, smiling when I entered. The lights were off though, and both she and Audrey were sleeping. There was a curtain between the two of them, separating the room. Luckily, Chrissie's bed was closer to the door. I quietly made my way inside but ended up tripping over a chair and making a banging noise.

"Seth?" Chrissie whispered in the darkness.

"Yeah, it's me," I whispered, readjusting the chair so that it wasn't in the middle of the room..

"Come here," she demanded.

I walked over, lying next to her on the tiny bed. She turned onto her side to face me and even in the darkness, I could see her smile.

"Hi," she whispered, touching my face. I winced slightly and hopped she wouldn't notice.

"Hey."

"What's on your arm?" she asked.

"A splint."

"Why?"

"Fought a vampire," I shrugged, "No big deal."

She gasped, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just a few scratches here and there. And a black eye, which I think makes me look tougher," I laughed quietly, hoping not to wake Audrey up.

She was quiet for a minute and I could hear Audrey's deep breathing through the curtain.

"Did you kill him?" she asked.

"Yep. Two actually," I didn't want to brag, but it was pretty cool to show off for my imprint.

"Wow," she breathed, "Tell me about it?"

I chuckled at her enthusiasm, "Well, there were three of them and-"

"Three?" she yelled.

"Shh!" I shushed her, putting my good finger to her lips. We both listened as Audrey got quiet, but then her heavy breathing picked up again.

"Three?" she whispered.

"Yeah, two males and a female," I told her, "And Quil and Jake were on the other side of the forest."

"Did you play dead?" she asked, "Like a possum, you know?"

I swear we share a brain. We should have a brain baby. Named Zeth.

"No, they had already seen me. But it would have been the perfect opportunity," I sighed, "Plus they would hear my heart beating."

"How?" she asked.

"They have super hearing. And super speed. And super everything else," I shrugged.

"Super."

I laughed, "Yeah. But wolves have all that stuff, too. And we're faster."

"I wish I was a wolf," she sighed, "Then I could hear your thoughts and know all your embarrassing secrets."

"You already know all my secrets," I laughed, planting a quick kiss on her forehead.

"Nuh uh!" she protested, "There's a bunch of stuff about you that I don't know!"

"Like what?" I challenged.

"Well… uh… I don't know but I'll figure it out," she whispered.

"You do that Chrissie," I laughed.

"So three vampires huh?" she asked.

"Yep, one got away though. But I killed the other two by myself," I said proudly.

"Whoa!" she breathed, then after a few seconds asked, "How do you kill a vampire?"

"Umm… well…"

"What?" she asked, "Wooden stake? Garlic?"

"No… you sort of… rip them apart and uh… burn the pieces," I said. No way to put it gently.

"Uh… I see…"

"It's not pretty."

"I bet it's not," she agreed, and then yawned, "They told me I might be able to go home soon."

"That's awesome," I whispered.

"I know right," she yawned, "I'll get to see my couch!"

I laughed. "Go to sleep Chrissie, I'll tell you all about my vampire fight in the morning," I whispered.

"But I'm not tired," she protested, yawning again.

"Sure you're not," I laughed, kissing her nose. I got up to leave, but she grabbed my arm and pulled my back down, cuddling into me.

"Stay," she pleaded, wrapping her arms around my neck.

"But visiting hours-"

"Are over and nobody's come to kick you out yet. Please, just stay?" she asked, kissing my lips.

"Okay," I said. I don't think I could have said no if I tried.

"Yay!" she whispered, kissing me again.

I wrapped my free arm around her, pulling her close to me. I closed my eyes and breathed in her scent, feeling high on happiness.

"I love you Chrissie," I told her, yawning.

"I love you, too Seth," she sighed, before her breathing got heavier and I knew she was asleep.

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