Sorry for the lateness, but hopefully these next two chapters will make up for it. Enjoy.

***SHANE POV***

'Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, think, Anderson, think' I start shouting in my mind.

I'm being held two feet off the ground by a giant teddy-bear, Elizabeth is standing in front of my only escape route, everyone else is just staring at us, and I'm starting to feel my air supply shortening...wait a minute, I've got an idea. I reach for my shirt, trying to pull it away from my neck, while making choking sounds. Elizabeth's eyes widen and she quickly shouts.

"Emmett, you're choking her" she cries and I'm instantly dropped to the floor.

If I wasn't short of breath before, I am now because the air is knocked out of me when I hit the floor hard. I start coughing, throwing in a few small dramatics as everyone surrounds me.

"Air, space" I choke out.

"Let's get her outside" Seth suggests and I feel someone help me up before leading me outside.

I glance around, as I catch my breath, and I see everyone standing at the doorway behind us with Elizabeth helping to support me. Perfect. Before she can react, I lean over and kiss her as passionately as possible. When I pull back, she's practically frozen in shock with wide eyes and that's when I take my chance. Before anyone else can react, most of whom can't because they're shocked by my boldness, I quickly shift to my wolf-form and take off running like Road-Runner himself. As I run, I nearly howl with glee at the fact that I just kissed Elizabeth, but then my heart sinks; she's so gonna kill me for that. About twenty seconds has passed, and I begin to wonder if I should turn back, but then my decision is made for me.

"SHANE" a voice shouts and my eyes widen as I run even faster.

Ok, she's not happy, and I'm sure as hell not turning back while she's mad. I keep running and I hear the others chasing me, but I've gotten too much of a head start.

'There's no way they can catch me unless-' I start to think, but a howl breaks my thought process.

This howl isn't from behind me, though, it's from in front of me and I mentally curse to myself. Of course Sam would get involved with this. I growl and keep running, but change my course slightly to avoid the LaPush pack, hopefully. I run for another ten minutes, and I think I'm ok, but then something tackles me from the side and I go rolling. I jump back to my feet to see Sam's wolf-form grinning at me.

'Stay out of this, Sam' I growl.

'Sorry, Shane, but I'm not letting you back out of this; it's been long enough' he shakes his head and howls.

I hear answering howls and my eyes widen. Shit. I quickly try to run again, but Sam jumps in front of me.

'Sam, seriously, you've got to let me go; it's life or death' I state.

'I know' he grins and I hear the others on their way to us.

I start shifting and jumping around before quickly taking off again. Sam doesn't move at all, but then two LaPush wolves block my way. I growl and turn another way, only to be blocked by two more. I turn and run again, but instead of being blocked by LaPush wolves, I'm being blocked by Edward and Jasper. I look around and see that I'm surrounded by shifters and vampires.

'Just great; thanks a lot, Sam' I sigh and trot to the center of my prison before sitting down in front of Sam.

He just grins at me before looking over my shoulder then he smirks and walks to the outside of my prison.

'I know that look, I don't like that look' I state and my body tenses as a familiar scent appears.

I mentally prepare myself before I turn around one more time and come face-to-face with Elizabeth. Her face is expressionless, except for an emotion that I can't place in her eyes, and I shift on my paws nervously. She looks around at everyone and nods. I'm confused when they all nod back, but then all of them leave and I'm both worried and nervous again. Once the last one is gone, Elizabeth turns back to me.

"Change back" she commands and I shake my head.

If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die in my wolf-form.

"Shane, please" she pleads and my eyes meet her tear-filled ones.

I whimper and bounce on my paws slightly. It's breaking my heart to see her like this. Finally giving in, I shift back to human. I don't look in her eyes, though, I just stare at the ground off to the side. She's a couple of feet in front of me and when she takes a step towards me, I take a step back. She takes another step forward and I take another step back. This is repeated a couple of times until my back hits a tree and I have nowhere else to go. I don't look at her, though, I can't bare to see something hurtful in her eyes. Elizabeth starts trying to get me to look up at her, but I won't, I can't. That is until she places her hand against my cheek and makes me look at her. I shift nervously again, but hold her gaze. Then she does something that I don't expect; she leans forward and kisses me. My eyes widen in surprise before closing as I kiss her back just as passionately.

"About time" a voice shouts and both of us jump apart to see everyone (shifters and vampires) watching us with smirks.

Before I can say anything, Elizabeth turns to them and hisses. Some of the shifters tense in case of an attack, but Edward steps forward with something in his hands.

"She's not exactly happy with the fact that you're naked in front of everyone" he smirks and throws the clothes at me while I blush.

I quickly throw on the shorts and tank-top while fighting the blush, but I'm having little success with the latter. When I'm done, I cough awkwardly and shove my hands in my pockets.

"Well then, I believe I'll just be going now" I mutter and start to walk off.

"Oh, no, you don't" Elizabeth says as she grabs my shirt and pulls me back.

I look at her before looking at the others then back at her.

"They are leaving" she glares at everyone.

"And what if we want to stay" Emmett smirks, but it's wiped off when Rosalie smacks him in the back of the head. Rosalie then turns to me while grabbing her husband's arm.

"Good luck" she says to me before dragging Emmett off towards their house.

Sam also makes the pack leave before going as well.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do" Jake calls as Leah rolls her eyes.

"What wouldn't you do" I ask.

"Exactly" he laughs before running off with Leah and Seth.

Jasper has already dragged Edward off somewhere and Alice had 'kidnapped' Bella earlier. This just leaves Elizabeth and me here. I open my mouth to say something, but then she turns and slaps me.

"What the hell; what was that for" I demand as I hold my cheek.

"That was for running off after kissing me" she growls and I swallow nervously.

"Ok, I deserved that then" I mumble.

"And this is for kissing me" she states before grabbing the front of my shirt and kissing me again.

I grin into this kiss before turning around and pinning her against the tree. She groans and I take the opportunity to explore her mouth with no opposition. After I have completed my exploration, I start to pull back, but then she pulls me closer and thrusts her tongue into my mouth. I groan at the pleasant sensations that are coursing through my body as we kiss, but it ends too soon for my liking when I have to pull back for air. I lean my hot forehead against her cold one and try to catch my breath.

"Wow" I whisper and she nods.

I kiss her softly once more before pulling back.

"I could definitely get used to this" I grin and she smiles back.

"Good because now you're stuck with me" she smirks.

"Wouldn't have it any other way" I smirk back and kiss her again.

Ha. I finally got those two together and even added a little chase in. Oh, Shane, a coward to the very end in romance haha. Next chapter will be up shortly; so, until then, l8er.