A/N: I'm so super sorry it's taken me so long to update, but I haven't had been able to get online. I should be posting at least three chapters today so I hope that makes up for it.

Chapter 5.

I hardly ever left Bella's side, only when Carlisle was seeing her, our on the few nights I was staying with dad. Jake didn't leave her much either and when he did he would send Seth in as a back-up, Leah wouldn't come in the house being so close to them was hard for her.

"You could stay in the garage, I'm sure they wouldn't mind." I told her as we sat in the Cullen's front yard.

"I'm fine out here, I like being away from everyone else, having space to think." she said. I stared out into the tree line, watching for movement to show where the wolves were. "He's out there, Embry, he comes every night." Leah told me. "Jake keeps sending him warnings, when he's in wolf form, telling him to stay away but Em just won't leave."

"He did this to himself." I said. "I mean all he had to do was fallow Jake, but he didn't. What would make him think that everything would be okay between us if he'd killed her, and the baby. I know that it may be dangerous, but we don't know for sure yet, and Bella's still human, that would be murder Leah."

"I know Cass but they don't care, all they see is a threat to the pack, and for Sam that's all the matters, and unless Em can break away, that's all he'll care about to."

"I just don't understand how he could hurt me like that Leah, I'm stuck between my sister and the love of my life, and it's hurting me." A howl ripped through the woods.

"Go home Embry, and leave her the hell alone." Jake yelled as he came out the front door. "Bella want's you Cass." I nodded and then went in the house.

Bella sat in her usual seat on the couch, wrapped in a blanket, Edward close by. She was thin, her cheek bones looked like they would rip through her face, her arms thin little lines, she was so different then the Bella who had sat there two months ago.

"Jake said you needed me." I took a seat in the armchair across from her.

"Cassie, I hate what this is doing to you, your losing everything for me." she said. "You and dad use to be so close, and now you never see him, and when you do you have to lie. Now your giving up the love of your life for me, I can't ask you to do that Cassie, you don't have to stay here."

"Bella, you're my big sister, and whatever the hell is inside you is my niece or nephew, I can't let him hurt you." I told her. "I'll be okay, I mean if all else fails I have Jake to fall back on, Charlie seems to like him over Embry these days anyway." I smiled. "I'm gonna go get some sleep now." I stood up and walked over to Bella giving her a gentle hug before heading upstairs to the room I'd been using. I laid across the bed and just stared up at the ceiling.

"Cassandra."

"Edward please call me Cassie, Cassandra was what my mom would call me when she was mad, and I hate being called that."

"Sorry, Cassie, I appreciate what your doing for Bella, it means a lot to her having you and Jacob here. Carlisle thinks that having the two of you with her is helping her hold on."

"I hate watching her die." I said, Edward laid down on the bed beside me. "I can't imagine how painful it must be for you."

"I think to myself everyday that if she'd never met me this wouldn't have happened." he said. "I've put her in danger so many times, and yet I stay and continue to hurt her."

"But Edward if you weren't there the day Tyler's van came at her, she'd be died already, and when you left it didn't do anything but put both of you in danger." I looked at him, "Sooner or later we're all going to have to come to terms with the fact that my sister brings danger upon her self, as Alice would say "due to her own stupidity"" I smiled at him, and I thought I saw a hint of a smile on his lips.

"I guess Bella's number truly was up the day I met her, maybe we've just been putting off the inevitable." he said.

"Maybe, but my sister has faced death many times and lived, maybe she can pull it off again."

"I hope so, cause honestly I don't remember how to live without her."