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Leah's POV-
"Ow! Fuck that hurts!" I hissed as Jasper held my hand and Carlisle stitched up my arm.
Today I'd had a one on one match and the other shifter I had phased had taken a good chunk out of my arm. In the end I had simply torn his head from his shoulders, but still it didn't feel like I was walking on sunshine to have his bite on my arm. The good thing about this was the fact I did not have to worry about poison or anything in my blood stream. It would just take a little time to heal.
"You should have dodged left instead of right." The honey blond vampire chastised and I sent him a withering glare in the hopes of shutting him up. Apparently he did not take the hint. "His body language indicated he would be moving that way. Darlin', what have I told you about body language? You can determine the outcome of a fight if you would watch your opponent's body language. How do you think I have survived so long? It is all in the body language. Everything you need to know is there and all you have to do is pay attention."
"Hey, did I ask for backseat fighting?" I snapped wincing against the pain. "I thought he was going to lunge to the left and so I dodged right. It is a common mistake and I paid for it."
Jasper shook his head and let out and exasperated sigh. "It is a mistake like that which could cost you your life in the end. I don't want anything to happen to you. Not when we have finally worked through our issues you and have agreed to be with-"
I quickly slapped my good hand over his mouth. What the hell was he thinking talking about our personal life right now with Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the room with us? It's not that I don't trust Carlisle, but he does work for the humans who keep us trapped here and so I have never been one hundred percent sure we could trust him. Talking about how we were back together right now is not exactly the smartest thing he could have done. He should know we have to be careful because if the humans ever found out the truth I knew without a doubt they would use that information against the two of us and not in good ways.
Carlisle looked up at us and I could practically see him putting two and two together. I only hoped he would keep the information to himself. After a moment he stood up and gathered up all the bloody towels and other stuff he had needed to use in order to patch me up. "You are good to go Leah. The wound was deep, but there was no damage to any of your nerves of your muscles. The bite was not deep enough to hit your bone and it was pretty clean cut. You should heal in a couple of days and until then I see no reason why you shouldn't be cleared to fight. I wouldn't worry about that anytime soon though because there have been whispers about a match coming up in a few weeks' time that will have everyone buzzing. They are even keeping the details from me and so you know it has to be something extreme. All I know is it is going be a one on one fight. My theory is that they are bringing in new fighters. There is supposed to be an announcement about it later on today so if I were you I would keep listening to make sure I didn't miss it. If there are going to be new fighters then I am sure you want to find out everything you can about them."
I nodded. "I'll keep an ear to the ground doc thanks."
Jasper waited until he left to press his lips against mine softly. His fingers traced up and down my arms careful not to touch my wound. We had just come back from being home yesterday and as he almost let slip we had figured things out for now. It wasn't really fair because he had used this southern charm against me and convinced me to have sex. Well it didn't really take a whole lot of convincing on his part. So for right now we were in a good place. I still had my doubts about being in a relationship with him, but in the end he had a point about living in the moment. We may as well enjoy what we have together while we still have it. Who knew how long it would be before someone or something tore us apart?
After a few minutes my leech pulled away and run his knuckles down my cheek. "Are you worried about the announcement they may be making later today?"
"Not particularly." I shrugged and rolled my shoulders. Holding my arm still for so long while Carlisle stitched it up had caused the limb to tense up and it was not very comfortable. "You should have heard the announcement they made the day you were brought here. They made you sound like the worst monster imaginable. Imagine my surprise when I actually met you and you called me Ma'am. I had never known that monsters could have manners. After that you weren't nearly as scary as everyone made you out to be."
"Thank you I think." He smirked before worry clouded his features. "If they are keeping this top secret then I have to wonder how bad it could be. Silence is never good in situations such as this."
"Don't worry about this Whitlock." I told him as I stood up and did the 'bring it' gesture with my hand. "You were the one who told me that we could face anything they throw at us and now is not the time to worry. Get your ass up because we are going to spar. You say that body language teaches you everything you need to know and so now you're going to help me read it better."
"Course I am Ma'am." He smirked and got to his feet as we started to circle each other.
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It was later in the day when Jasper and I were eating what passed for lunch in the prison when all the televisions in all of the cells switched on. Both of our heads swiveled in the direction of the TV's knowing this had to be what we had all been waiting for all day long. This had to do something with the announcement they were going to make. It had to be big if they were going to air it life and they wanted all of us supernatural creatures to watch. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. The only reason they would want us all watching was if they were waiting to see our reaction. This wasn't just an announcement, it was a test of some kind and I wasn't sure that I wanted to pass this test or not.
Do you all want to hear a story? Words in big bold letters took over the TV screen. The letters were made to look as if they were made out of blood that was slowly dripping. This story is about a vampire… Next an image of Jasper appeared on the screen and I realized it was of the day he was captured. Someone had been filming the entire time. I felt him tense up next to me and so I laced my fingers with his. It was times such as this I wished that I had the ability to control and manipulate emotions. And a female shape-shifter… His image melted away to show me. There were a bunch of quick flashes as they showed me as a baby and at different stages in my life. The last image was of my last fight earlier in the day.
The two met and fell in love… The next video clip was of the first time we had actually met and I asked him who he was. It progressed from there showing different moments between that I had never known were even being filmed. They had us killing Royce King, talking of escaping, Jasper telling me that he loved me, one of me telling him we couldn't be together when Jacob left, and the last clip cut off right before we made love for the first time after our match with the brother and sister true wolf team. I felt sick to my stomach watching our whole relationship basically be broadcast for the entire world to see. I should have seen this coming and yet I was totally stunned. I was so not prepared for something like this and I had a feeling it was about to get worse. Now the story is going to continue when we see if true love really can survive anything. In three weeks' time the vampire and only female shifter known to exist will fight to the death. Be sure to order your tickets now and see for yourself if love can outweigh the odds.
The television clicked off after that I fell to my knees on the floor as I started to vomit. I had known all along something like this would happen. I heaved even after the contents of my lunch had come up. I think I would have puked up my stomach if it were at all possible. I felt dizzy and light headed as the words played over and over again in my head. Our matches as a team, the people we had been forced to fight one on one, it had all been a test. Everything we had ever been put through since arrival had been planned. This was all sick game and now we would be forced in to fighting each other which in my mind was the cruelest possible punishment they could have ever come up with. Jasper and I would be forced to fight and one of us would die at the hands of the other.
I felt him kneel down next to me as he started to rub my back soothingly. "They can't make us fight each other darlin'. We will find a way to get out of this. Maybe we can speak with Carlisle and he can do something. He has to have some pull or if not then we can always go to Vladmir and Felix. If they refuse to let us fight then there is no way these humans can make us. If it comes to worst case scenario then I will stand there and not fight. If we do not fight each other then they have no show."
"You don't get it do you?" I rasped trying to even out my sporadic breathing. I felt as if the walls were closing in on me. "They can and will make us fight. They have ways of getting what they want and this is what they want more than anything else. If we don't fight what do you think they are going to do? They will go after the people we care about the most. Vladmir and Felix won't be able to stop this from happening. If they try to do anything then they will be sentenced to die. They will go after everyone we have ever had contact with until they get what they want. What the fuck do you think we can do to stop this? We don't have a choice in the matter. We are going to fight and one of us going to die. It would better if you just killed me now. At least if you did it that way then we would be taking something from them. If we have to go down fighting then I say we do it on our own terms don't you? I won't kill you because we both know that I can't do it. You know how I feel about you and because of that it has to be you who kills me. Do it now before they can stop us. Do it for me because I love you."
TBC…
AN: So I hope that you all liked that chapter and I have had this planned from the very start. There are three chapters left and the epilogue. The epilogue will also be a sort of prequel for the sequel. Anyways, let me know what you all thought about this chapter since you know that I love to hear your thoughts. The next chapter should be up in a few days and it kind of continues right fromt his point in Jasper's POV.
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