A/N. Ok so here it is, and the ending is much better this chapter. I promise. LOL. Thanks to PattyOFurniture again for helping me with Kade's powers and editing me so late at night on a Saturday. *MWAH*

Chapter 33: It All Comes Down To This

Sam's POV

"Where's Sophie? She's not with you is she?" Jake asked when I stepped into his house and saw most of my pack sitting there waiting for me.

"Of course not," I barked at him, "I let her go to the library, we needed…time away from each other. Seth and the twins are watching her."

"What do you mean time away what did you do?" Leah was concerned about Sophie but hell, did she think I wasn't?

My mind flashed back to just minutes earlier when I overheard her phone conversation with Mike. I can't believe I hurt her. It was just a gut reaction, knowing that the leech was so close. I've never lost my control like that. God it killed me that she cowered away from me. I would never hurt her. To think that I came so close to actually hurting her was tearing me up inside but I needed these guys to stay focused.

"Nothing, I was sort of freaking out and it scared her a little is all." I tried to play it off and change the subject. "But that's not the point, where the hell were you guys on Sunday? Who was patrolling?"

"Leah and I were on the north side of the rez," Embry spoke up, "and Paul and Henry on the south. I swear to you man we never smelled anything that wasn't at least a day old."

"What do you think is going on with this bloodsucker? Do you think he has special abilities like some of the Cullen's had?" Jake growled at Jared and Jackson piped up.

"What are special abilities? Like super vampy powers?" I scoffed at this kid; he had no idea what they were truly capable of.

"Yeah kid, something like that. But they are all different for every leech, it's hard to say what exactly they are because no one knows until the vampire reveals it." I sat down on Jake's couch and put my head in my hands. I was clueless as to what to do. I was so tired of chasing after this thing.

"What if we try to pull him out?" Paul chimed in, "like we know he seems to be able to sense when we are around her." I started growling at his insinuation; we'd been over this before.

"Just hear me out Sam, so what if we don't leave Sophie alone, but we leave something of hers, something big that has her scent all over it. Like her truck or something."

Leah chimed in, "Yeah we can park her truck up north somewhere, have Kim or Bella or someone drive it so he doesn't smell us. Maybe being that he's getting frustrated he'll maybe not be thinking as sharp and fall for it?"

"Okay so where do we wait? I mean he seems to sense whenever we are near." I liked the idea, I had my doubts. But at this point I would try nearly anything.

"No," Jake said thinking hard about something, "he senses when we are near SOPHIE, but maybe since it's just her scent and not really her…he'll not sense us hiding nearby."

"I guess anything is worth a try. Okay, we gotta get Sophie's truck then without her wondering why. Leah, you take the young ones and go patrol with Seth and the twins. I'm taking all the guys over to Sophie's so we can be there when she gets home."

Moments later, Jake, Quil, Embry, Paul and I were sitting at Sophie's, Jared had gone home waiting for our call to bring Kim over to get the truck. I couldn't sit still I kept pacing around the house. I couldn't wait until all this was over. I just wanted my normalcy back, well as normal as we have it. I sat back down with my friends and waited for Sophie to return. It was already nearly 10 PM so I knew she'd be home soon.

What I wasn't expecting was for Seth to come storming in the door with Sophie trailing behind him. I barely noticed Seth's pissy attitude and went to pull my Angel into a hug. I was so happy to see her and knowing this nightmare might be over soon was such a relief. I pulled her face up and finally noticed her face, it looked haunted.

I growled at Seth and pulled her in closer, he was supposed to be watching her. "What happened? And where are the others?" He knew I was pissed, what I wasn't expecting was for him to be just as angry at me.

"I found Sophie at the school, too afraid to walk to her god damn car. Do you want to know why she was so scared? Because he called her Sam, he called her and freaked her the fuck out now I think she has something to tell you." Seth stormed out the door mumbling so that Sophie wouldn't hear him.

"She needs to know, you need to be the one. She's so scared, you didn't see." His ranting was all over the place but the message wasn't missed by any of us. She was reaching her limit and something had to be done.

I felt her leave my embrace and head toward Quil, her brother. I lifted my arm to pull her to me but let her move past me. I needed to follow her lead on this. She was freaked out and getting all ALPHA on her would not help the situation. I tried to bottle my anger and gritted my teeth together.

"Angel, I need to know what he said to you on the phone, what has you so upset?" I moved to sit on the couch next to her and Quil moved so that I could pull her to me. I clung to her like a life line. I already knew the bastard would die but now he was going to suffer before he did. Nobody scares my Angel like this.

She looked around at all the guys who were focused on what she was about to say, Paul and Embry were itching for a fight, Jake was overcome with memories of Bella being in nearly the same position as Sophie and Quil conflicted with his duty to me and his duty to her as her brother.

"He," her voice cracked as she started to talk and I whimpered pulling her to me even closer. The thought of her in pain tore me apart. "He said a lot of things, hurtful things but then he started to get mean, like scary mean. Almost like there was a rage building inside him that was bursting. It was only the phone but I could feel the evil in him."

I sat there and listened as she told us about the conversation. What I wasn't expecting was for her to ask me what the bloodsucker wanted from us. From their reactions I guess the guys weren't either. We all shot each other a quick glance and I asked Sophie what she meant by that.

"He wanted you to know, he specifically told me to let you know. That. Um, that he always gets what he wants and that he won't be denied. He said that the game had been fun but he was done playing and that his will power was crumbling. What did he mean?"

I sat there frozen when she said that. Not that he wasn't dangerous before but now, hell if I won't be the first to admit I was scared. I never expected things to play out this way. I should have told her sooner, should have explained everything to her. Now he's getting desperate, we're out of options and she is stuck in the middle not knowing what the hell we all were.

"Seth told me I had the right to know…" I barely registered her voice. My mind was elsewhere trying to figure out what to do. Can we tell her now? How will she handle it? I felt her get up and stand in front of us. Even scared she knew how to stick up for herself.

"QUIL!" she was asking her brother for help, she was falling apart and I wasn't doing anything to help hold her together, what kind of mate was I? I was about to speak up, to get everyone out of the house so we could talk.

"Sam, man, it's time." I took my frustration out on Quil and growled at him. I know it's time asshole. I just don't know how the hell to do this. I looked up at her as she stood there waiting for someone to tell her. No one said anything. She looked at me so hurt, so vulnerable.

"Sam? Nothing! You are going to say nothing?" Yes my Angel I just need to figure out how, how am I going to change your entire life, shake your whole world and still expect you to love me afterward? I was a coward.

"Fine. That's fine." She said trying to sound strong, no Angel you don't understand. "I'm really tired guys; I'd like you to leave now please." WHAT? No, I moved to stand up and she looked directly at me, "All of you." She said and walked away. AGH! This whole time I sat there trying to figure out how to tell her she was thinking that I had abandoned her. FUCK!

"Are you fucking happy Sam?" Quil yelled at me standing up to tower over me. I stood up quickly to get back in his face. No I wasn't fucking happy dickhead.

"Knock it off Quil," Jake said jumping in between the two of us, "just calm down and we'll figure this out." He said in quieter tone trying to settle the situation.

"Bullshit. Just fucking go back there and tell her. If you're lucky she won't dump your ass on the spot."

I growled again and Jake pushed Quil, "not now Quil, can't you see he's fucked up over this too?"

"Sam, what do you want to do?" Paul put his hand on my shoulder, my oldest and closest friend. "Whatever you think is best man, just tell us."

"I have to tell her, it's time. You guys go on home; I'll talk to her about Kade. About everything else. Jake you get in touch with the others and rotate a patrol soon, keep close I don't know what Kade's motives were for calling her but this will end very soon I can just feel it."

I felt defeated, I felt alone. I was scared that Quil was right; what if she decided this wasn't what she wanted? "I'll stay with you; help you…if you want." I looked up at Quil and smiled lightly and nodded. I did want him there, Sophie would need him there.

The rest of the guys left and Quil sat back down. "Should we go back there?" I shook my head. "No, I'll go back first. Just please stay here in case one of us needs you."

"No problem."

I went to the kitchen to grab her a glass of water and some aspirin, if she didn't need them yet she would when I was done. I noticed her bags thrown on the floor near the door and picked them up carrying them in the kitchen and placing them on the counter. I caught sight of the large brown leather book sticking out of her bag. I knew that book; I pulled it out and traced the cover with my fingers.

Of course my beautiful, curious Angel would have found this book. I'm surprised that she hadn't stumbled upon some of these readings earlier as much time as she spent in the library. I picked it up and brought it with me, it might help.

I stopped in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room. She was standing there. Looking beautiful but broken. She had dealt with a lot today and it was so late at night, I hope she's ready for all this. I tucked the book under my arm and held out the glass of water.

"Hi, I thought you might need this," when she took the water I opened my palm to give her the aspirin.

"Thanks," was all she said as she took the aspirin and moved to sit next to Quil on the couch. I sighed heavily and hung my head; I've really fucked this whole thing up. I moved the recliner to in front of the couch so that she would be forced to look at me.

"Sophie, Angel, I don't know how to start." I looked up to her and saw her looking back at me blankly. If I didn't do this right she might run, if I didn't do this right she might decide I wasn't worth it. I was so scared. "If I tell you what I have to tell you and I lose you because of it…"

"Tell me." She said in a dead tone.

"We know what Kade wants. To answer your first question. We know." I had to breathe deep and try to shake off the anger that coursed through my body when I thought about that asshole.

"There are a lot of things in this world Angel, things that I didn't understand or believe. Things that the normal person shouldn't know about. I thought I was doing the right thing, protecting you from that reality as long as I could. I should have been honest with you from the beginning and for not doing that I'm truly sorry."

I just sat there watching her. This strong, wonderful woman who could make me laugh and do crazy things that no one else could. This woman who helped take care of everyone and loved us all unconditionally, well, maybe not unconditionally, that was still to be determined. She was silent for a long time trying to roll around what I had just said. I wanted to scoop her into my arms and pledge my undying love and beg for forgiveness but I had to do this her way.

"You're sorry? You're sorry? What exactly for? Tell me Sam. Tell me everything. What do you mean things in this world that you don't understand?" Her jaw was clenched tight and she was angry, I was worried this wasn't going well. Before I told her anything else I needed her to know one thing.

"First I need to tell you that I love you, with my whole being I love you. Nothing can or will change that. You are my reason for existence." She had to know that, to believe that or none of what I was about to tell her would matter, "and the guys, the rest of the family, they love you too. Please don't doubt that. The reason we have kept things from you has nothing to do with how much we love you."

"It's because of how much we love you," Quil added his two cents and I looked at him bugged eyes as I watched her slowly turn to him and eye him down like he had just said his last words. Then she looked at me.

"Because you love me. HA. That's a good one; you don't keep things from people you love. And would one of you please fucking tell me exactly what you were keeping from me? Stop talking in fucking circles and just tell me."

Oh god, this was just fucking awful. I quickly moved to the couch and scooped her up; I needed her close to me. I buried my face into her neck to hide the tears that were coming. They were angry tears, scared tears, and sad tears at the thought of losing her over this. She fought my touch at first but I just held on tighter and she sighed giving in wrapping her arms around me like I was a damn child, well I was acting like a pussy, she'll probably laugh when she finds out I'm the leader. Some fearless leader I've been.

"Quil, I'm starting to freak out here, tell me what's going on." There was an undeniable shake in her voice, I was freaking her out, and I was freaking myself out. I couldn't seem to get it together whenever our relationship was tested. I'd have to work on that. I'm not used to this vulnerability that came with having someone to care for.

"Sophie, God, Sophie I can't I'm sorry…but see Sam…" Quil, looking broken and sad turned to me for help. I could see in his eyes that he was worried about how she would take the fact that he also kept things from her. I owed it to him to get him through this with as little blame as possible.

"I told him he couldn't. And he had to follow orders, Seth too, no one was allowed to tell you." Then she surprised us both and started laughing. I mean really laughing until she saw our confused faces and realized we weren't laughing with her.

"You're serious? How the hell does someone order someone else and take away their free will? I'm not in the mood for jokes you guys." Joking? We would pick a time like this to fucking joke? Quil's phone started ringing and I subtly nodded to him to answer it seeing as how I had broken my phone earlier this afternoon. They really needed to make those things more durable.

After Quil left and our conversation was interrupted there was an awkward silence until my Angel wrapped her arms around me tight. "I love you Sam, I still don't understand what this is about but I love you. No matter what you have to say, yeah I'm angry about the secrets and lies and we will deal with that, but I will always love you."

I let out the breath I'd been holding and I knew she could tell I was on the verge of starting my water works again, what a fucking girl. "Please Angel, no matter what, hold on to that. Hold on to the love you feel for me and know that I feel it too."

I leaned over to pick up the nameless leather bound book and held it out in front of us on her lap. "In here, all our secrets are written, of course you're amazing ass found this book of all the books in that damn library."

She gave me a small smile and I felt a tiny amount of relief wash through me I opened up the book, "I need to start by telling you that you will think I'm crazy, but trust that I would never lie to you. You've heard the stories before, but never quite like this."

I took a deep breath as I started to tell her the one thing that would change her world forever. Because the universe seems to just fucking hate me Quil came running in the house looking like he'd seen a ghost. One look in his eyes and I knew, KADE. I stood up quickly bring Sophie with me but I wasn't holding onto her and she fell to the floor. Smooth ass wipe. "Shit," I said bending over to help her up.

"Sam, now, it's time and it's a shit storm."

"Who called, what's going on," I spoke in a low quick voice that I knew only Quil could hear.

"Leah called, Jackson and Henry were home and Abbey got pissed off at them and phased right there. She's freaking out won't listen to anyone."

"Fuck."

"That's not all Sam." Not all? What else could there be? Now I spoke louder too pissed to control my tone.

"Damn, you're sure, she's phased?" Quil nodded and then hit me with more bad news.

"And the twins they found Kade, everyone else is already on their way, he's not getting away this time."

Well bad news that was good I guess. We finally had him. Quil was out the door as soon as he spoke and I followed immediately. This all ended tonight.

"Sam," Quil said as he undressed quickly.

"What?!" I shouted.

"You sort of left her in the lurch." He pointed toward the door.

"Shit, go now, find the others I'll be right behind you." And then I went back into the house to find Sophie standing in the same spot I left her looking shocked. I pulled her to me.

"Angel, I have to go, I know you don't understand, I know you are confused but," I picked up the book and held it out. "I wanted to tell you myself, but if you can't wait, it's all in here. I know you'll be able figure it out." I knew I had to go but I also knew that she didn't deserve to sit there until who knows when wondering what the hell was going on.

"Sam, please stay, please." It broke my heart to hear the pain in her voice knowing that she didn't understand that I couldn't stay. I smiled lamely at her and pushed the book toward her hands. "Sophie, I have to go, I'm so sorry." I ran out of the house and phased without even undressing.

What's going on, someone talk to me. I tried to enter the thoughts of the pack but they were all over the place.

Sam! Head towards Port Angeles, we're almost there. Everyone else is already there. They've found a new scent near Lake Crescent in Olympic State Park. Quil sounded excited yet nervous.

Well what are they waiting for, why haven't they attacked. I thought you said the twins had him.

That's the weird thing, I recognized Jake's voice, they got there and there was nothing. Then they doubled back around and found the trail and again it led to nothing.

So we don't actually know where the fuck he is, is what you're telling me.

NO! We saw them, the girl leech fucked Brady up pretty bad, but it was just the two of us and they got away. I could tell Collin was really upset as he replayed the encounter for me.

Now it's a chase until we can figure out what their next move might be and we cut them off at the path.

But we're sure they are this way? They didn't go back toward La Push did they?

No, they are this way I can smell them, just get here fast so we can surround them.

And Abbey, what's going on there?

Leah was with her until we all saw that Brady got hurt, now she's with him in the forest waiting for him to heal. Abbey was able to phase back but is unsteady, we left her in her brothers' care because this was more important. I was glad I had a beta like Jake to make these decisions when I was busy.

Good job Jake, I'm almost there. Leah?

Yeah I'm here, Brady's got it pretty bad but he's healing already. I carried him to Billy's.

Okay why don't you go see if you can check on Abbey then come this way.

Sure thing Sam.

It only took me about 30 minutes to run from La Push to Port Angeles and catch up with the guys. By the time I got there Leah was already on her way. It seemed that Abbey was still freaked out but Henry was sitting with her and all the girls, including Sophie, were asleep. When she showed me my Angel asleep on the floor in the living room a pang of guilt washed over me but I knew this was all for her, to save her.

Don't worry Sam, we'll get him.

Yeah thanks Seth.

So what's the latest?

Paul, Embry, Quil, Jake, Seth were all in a small circle surrounding the entrance to a small cave in the park.

Jared and Jackson were both standing at the entrance.

We caught the female bloodsucker go in here a minute ago, we can smell him too so we think this is their hideout. We wanted to wait until you got here.

I growled deeply as I stepped past everyone toward the mouth of the cave.

Jake, you, Paul and Jared stay out here in case either of them get past us, tell Leah to wait out here too when she gets here. Everyone else fall in line.

We were a team the way we moved in line together into the cave. Hunched low to the ground ready to attack, I lead the charge. It was dark as night in the cave, but that didn't bother us; unfortunately I knew it also didn't bother the leeches. The smell was enough to make me want to vomit, I picked up the scent of the female but Kade's scent seemed vague, almost translucent.

"Well, well, well. Took you boys long enough didn't it? I thought you guys did this for a living." I halted our movements and waited while the female came strutting out of the darkness as though she wasn't afraid that we had them outnumbered.

Growls erupted from behind me and I barked lowed and low to tell them to shut up. "Now, now doggies, lets play nice shall we."

What the hell is going on Sam? Quil thought, where's the other bloodsucker?

I don't know Quil this isn't sitting right with me. Be on guard everyone lets move in, I don't want him jumping out of the darkness. I paused and looked around the cave listening for any noise.

"You won't find anyone here but me pup." The female leech said, "Nope, Kade is busy right now, as a matter of fact I'm suppose to be joining him just as soon as I've distracted you long enough for him to feed on that pretty young brunette you've got at home."

Instinct took over and I lunged at the blonde leech but when I landed nothing was there. What the…

"Over here mongrel," she said from the far end of the cave. Then she giggled a high pitched childlike giggle. "Isn't this fun, you know with my power to manipulate senses and Kade's power to sense human connections we've been having a lot of fun with this cat and mouse game."

A deep growl came from my left where Seth was standing and he leapt at her this time. Again it was like she moved before he even landed. How did our fastest wolf not even catch her?

"Are your eyes playing tricks on you?" she cackled. "Playing with your noses was fun, but I have to admit playing with your eye sight is even more fun."

Shit, we can't see her move because she's playing with us. Jake, she doesn't know we've got you guys outside, we're going to force her out and you guys grab her.

Got it Sam, we'll be ready. But what about Kade? She said he's not here.

She could be lying just catch her, stop her then before she dies she will talk to us.

Right!

The pack that was with me slowly circled in a half circle around the leech. She in turn started to back up and turn, like a synchronized dance or fight we moved like this until she was finally heading toward the opening. As soon as she was in Jake's sight I stepped forward so that she could be distracted by me.

Within seconds the female leech was pinned to the ground by the big russet wolf. She gasped surprised that we were able to catch her. Seth and Quil, both eager to get a piece of one of the leeches that stalked Sophie, each grabbed one of her stone like arms in their mouths helping Jake keep her in place.

I came out of the cave in human form forgetting that I had phased with my clothes on but I didn't really care. I walked up to the leech and kneeled down next to her.

"So, looks like we were able to do our job. Now, the guys back there," I pointed to Embry and Paul who were also in human form. "Those guys are going to go start the fire that will eventually be your demise. In the mean time you will answer my questions."

"Why should I you flea bag, if I'm going to die anyway then why should I tell you anything?"

"Because leech, if you do, I might be able to talk these guys into letting you die quickly. If not then I can guarantee you will suffer." I motioned to Quil who immediately ripped her arm off and tossed it to the side as she screamed in agony.

"We can do this your way or mine." If she was capable she would have been crying. She nodded slowly knowing she didn't want to mess with us.

"Where's Kade and what is his power?" She smirked a little but with a nod from me Seth sunk his teeth in her arm and she quickly changed her tune.

"He can sense connections between people, which is how he always knew when you guys were around the girl. The closer you were to her the stronger he could feel the pull coming from her. That is how we got away from the bar, he could feel you coming."

"And where is he now?"

"Wherever she is." Was all she said and I felt all the blood rush from my face.

"We smelled him with you, this whole time we were following two scents."

"Well then," she smirked again, cocky bitch. "Guess that means my powers were working, I was able to manipulate your sense of smell by carrying a small piece of his clothing. You may want to hurry, he's pretty fast and he left me about an hour ago."

FUCK! He really wasn't here. "Finish her; now and then get back to La Push as fast as you can." I said to Quil, Seth and Jake. "Everyone lets go now."

As soon as I phased I started running, I could hear everyone else behind me straining to keep up but I wasn't waiting for them. I hit Forks in no time but something made me stop dead in my tracks.

Oh my god, oh my god, Abbey's thoughts invaded my mind and I saw her going to Sophie, alone and scared, I saw her confront Sophie and Sophie chasing after her. I saw her stop on the beach and watch in horror as Abbey phased.

Abbey! I shouted.

Sam? SAM! Oh god Sam I almost phased in front of Sophie, I almost hurt her.

Abbey calm down, by now everyone had caught up with me and we were all moving again toward La Push. Abbey where's Henry?

I yelled at him, told him to leave me alone. He was sitting with Brady so I snuck off as soon as Leah left. I phased again and was alone and naked so I went to Sophie's. I didn't mean to yell at her, but I am so confused and I needed to know why she kept this from me. Then I was getting angry so I ran.

Abbey you need to go back to Billy's and wait with Henry and Brady. Okay?

Yes, I'm so sorry Sam, if I had hurt her…

We'll talk about it later Abbey, but Abbey, she didn't know. I shut my mind out and focused on the task at hand. I rounded the corner toward Sophie's house.

With the girl leech out of commission I could smell Kade as soon as I was within a mile of her house. I pushed myself even harder to get to her. They weren't at the house so I made my way to the beach. I tuned back in to the pack so that we could work together.

There was a collective gasp when we made our way to the beach. I didn't have time to think about the scene in from of me, if I did I might get sick and not be able to do a damn thing but curl up in a ball and die. I lunged at the tall blonde fucker just as he was swiping blood of my Angel.

A feral growl escaped him, he saw me nothing more than interference to his meal. I sunk my teeth into his shoulder and pulled a big hunk out and spit it on the ground.

"You stupid mutt, you're too late…" he didn't get to finish his thoughts because Quil came at him from the side knocking him back into the trees.

Start a fire, I yelled figuring at least one of them would take care of it. Seconds later I was in Kade's face snarling at him, I would have loved to spend the whole day tearing little pieces of him apart but there was too much to deal with right now, namely my Angel lying on the beach bleeding.

With one quick swipe of my paw his head rolled. Burn it. I yelled and then phased immediately.

I ran over to Sophie and kneeled down. "Oh God." She was a bloody mess, it was everywhere, and I couldn't even tell where or why she was bleeding. I picked up her head and rocked her. "Baby, my Angel, please open your eyes, Sophie look at me."

I was crying like a little girl, I was bellowing so loud that I think the whole of La Push could hear me. After the purple smoke started to climb out of the fire everyone else phased. Leah came up and handed me a pair of shorts, I don't know where she got them from, I didn't care.

"Sam, come on Sam, you need to get dressed, we need to get her help." Quil tried to pull her away from me but I sneered at him and pulled her closer. I could feel the pull in my chest getting weak and I didn't like what that meant.

"Don't touch her! Someone go get Koda and make sure he's okay she will be pissed that we didn't take care of him when she wakes up." She had to wake up, I don't know what I'd do if she didn't.

"Sophie, Angel please talk to me."

"Sam we are wasting time," Quil put one hand on my shoulder and bent down, "We need to get her help, you need to get dressed."

I looked at him through blurry eyes, he was right, I was wasting time. I laid her back down and backed away; I was covered in blood but didn't care. I heard the sounds of sirens in the back ground and snapped my head up.

"I called, we have to get her to the house, they can't come down here and see this," Jake said pointing to the fire. I gently picked Sophie up and cradled her lifeless body in my arms. She still had a pulse, though low and shallow. As long as I could still hear her heart beat then I knew there was a chance.

I was pushed back as the paramedics began working on her. "What happened?" One of them asked.

"It was a bear we think, she was hiking with her dog." Jake took charge as I sat there numb to the world. I did this, this was my fault. The whole thing could have been avoided if only I'd done something, said something sooner.

"Sir, sir," I felt a push on my shoulder, "Sir are you coming with us in the ambulance?" Everything was so clouded; the whole scene was like an out of body experience. I nodded and stepped into the rear. I sat down on the bench next to Sophie. She had tubes and hoses and IV's coming out of her, dried blood caked her broken body.

"We'll meet you there, Seth already went to find Anne and Jimmy, Sam, she'll be okay." Jake's hopeful face was the last thing I saw as they closed the doors.

I grabbed her hand and brought it to my face. "It'll be ok Sophie, I'm here baby, it'll be okay you just need to wake up for me okay? I need to see those beautiful gray eyes." Nothing, just the beep of the heart monitor they attached to her. I dropped her hand and sobbed into my own.

"God," I said out loud, "I only just got her, whoever's listening please don't take her from me yet. I will spend the rest of my life making up for this but I can't live without her." The EMT next to me was quietly working on her charts when I felt it. The lightest of brushes against my knee. The tug at my heart was like a chained weight again, the electricity from that touch sparked my whole body back to life.

"Sophie…"

"Sam…"

Okay there you have it, he's okay, she's okay. Everyone's okay. Right? *laughes evilly* Please review you know I love them.