It took them two days to catch a fresh trail and when they did, the boys were off with a vengeance. Emily and Kim turned up at mine a few minutes later and we caught glimpses of Seth guarding us in the woods. We knew another wolf would be in the woods by the council house, guarding all the elders. The only one they didn't need to call and warn this time was Charlie. I wiped at the tear that fell and pushed away the pain. Something didn't feel right to me. I was worried about the pack. Maybe it was just because these leeches had killed my father that I was afraid they would take away another of my family but I felt restless and afraid. I stayed outside, watching the woods with Emily and Kim.

Then I felt a chill race through me. I stepped off the porch, staring into the woods. It was wrong. Something was wrong. Everything was wrong.

I felt molten lava run through my veins as though my blood were boiling. I could feel the mark on my neck turning ice cold and each beat of my heart was a painful drum singing the name of my mate.

"SAM!" I screamed out his name as the earth began to tremble. My vision swam with darkness as I heard the screaming of animals deep in the woods all over shadowed by the howling of wolves so loud it was as if there were hundreds all around the reservation.

Emily POV

Bella's head shot to the direction of the woods, and she got up and walked off the patio. I saw her hair lighten to honey blonde and her skin begin to glow like the full moon on a cloudless night. Her eyes shone like emeralds with gold around the pupil. The earth began to tremble and as she screamed out Sam's name, her eyes glowed like flames were behind them and her hair shone silver.

Animals in the woods began a symphony of screams and howls, birds lifted into the air and the howls of more wolves than the pack could produce rose in pain and anger. Human screams joined them as the trembling of the earth grew until the shaking tore open the land, the sky opened up and rain poured down, thunder and lightening shaking the sky as the earthquake shook the land.

Bella dropped to the ground, her silver hair had grown and splayed out around her, her skin still glowed but she lay still as death.

I ran to her but stopped as a pure white wolf came out of the woods. It's eyes shone as crystal blue as a glacier. It walked over to her side and lay down, ignoring Kim and I so I slowly continued on out to her. Kim had followed me and she helped me lift Bella, the wolf followed us as we carried her into the house and laid her out on her bed. She was still breathing. The wolf climbed on the bed and lay beside her, its odd blue eyes watching us as we dried her as best we could and changed her wet clothes.

Bella slept, peacefully, her heartbeat steady and her breathing even but she didn't wake or stir at all. I gently lifted a lid of her eyes and saw they were green, a golden ring around the iris and a black one around the pupil but it was pale green that shone as though the sun shone through the finest emerald.

The rain beat down around us but the earthquake had passed and the thunder and lightening were coming less often. I kissed my sisters forehead and took her hand in mine. Kim sat at the foot of the bed, her hand resting on Bella's ankle. We stayed like that, watching Bella for any sign of movement, worrying over her and our mates.

Jacob was the first to come. Each of our hearts felt as though they froze in our chests. Our mates would come for us if they were well.

His eyes passed us to Bella, his body seemed to tremble as he spoke, "Sam was bitten."

Tears flowed past our eyes, we knew what that meant; vampire venom was poison to the wolves.

When he died, so would Bella and perhaps following her would be Paul and then myself. Our lives interconnected, bound one to the other, by magic we did not understand. I didn't care to. The ties were gifts and I would not want to survive without my Paul nor could I watch him suffer each day without his spirit sister.

"He's alive."

"How long?" I asked him, my hand squeezing my sisters gently.

"He's not going to die." The exhausted voice of my mate temporarily cancelled out his words and I jumped up and ran into his warm arms.

"Paul." I let all the fear I had refused to feel fill me as I held him; so grateful he was here and alive.

He held me for only a moment, but it was all I needed to feel warm, safe and stronger. He kissed my temple before turning his attention to the still form of Bella.

"What happened?"

"We don't really know." Kim answered, her voice no higher than a whisper.

"Is she ok?" Jacob's voice was just as soft.

"She's breathing." I told them, I had no other answer to give.

"The Doctor…" Paul seemed to hesitate, "Cullen, is with Sam." I wondered why he hesitated to call him a leech, they had helped us before but whatever respect my mate might begrudgingly allow them, he still disliked the Cullen's. Perhaps it was for his sleeping sister.

"Is it all of them?" Jake asked him, stepping a little away from Bella so Paul could sit near her, he held me close to him even as he ran a hand gently over her forehead and down her silver hair.

Paul nodded, "The elders need you. We're all needed."

I hugged him, loath to let him go again. "Is it safe?"

He nodded, "The three are dead."

"You two stay here with Bella, if there's any change at all call us. The Doctor Cullen will come here when he's done helping Sam. Her uncle will come as well."

"Onto the reservation?" Kim asked him, her voice still strained with worry for her absent mate and her sleeping sister.

"Things have changed." Was Jacob's only answer, "Jared will bring them soon." He assured her as he turned and left the room.

I looked to my mate for answers but he just kissed my temple as he stood, "Take care of her. I'll be back as soon as I can."

"Paul?"

"I think she did something. Something big. You'll understand more when the Cullen's come. I have to go now."

He hugged me to him again and gently stroked the back of Bella's hand before leaving.

I sat back down and again noticed the wolf watching me. I wondered that Jake and Paul hadn't asked about it.

Jared POV

It was routine. Leeches on the reservation, three of them, the same three that had passed through not long after Bella arrived. The three that had come back and killed Charlie.

The Pixie fortuneteller had called to tell us.

It was routine. Hunt them down and tear them apart.

No one should have gotten hurt.

We were running around the ocean way, Sam, Paul and I. Jake and the others were chasing them this way. I could see Collin grab hold of the leech with dread locks; he and Brady tore him apart. Quil was guarding the elders and Seth was with our mates. Jacob and Embry were chasing the blonde and Leah was at the heals of the red-haired woman.

She slipped past just as Jake drove the male into us but then she dropped onto Sam's back as he tore an arm off her mate. Her teeth ripped into his shoulder. We could feel his pain as the venom burned icy fire through him. Paul ripped off her head, a piece of Sam's shoulder tearing away in her mouth.

The earth began to tremble and the sky thundered; the clear night instantly turned to an unnatural storm as an earthquake ripped open the land. The male vampire began to scream, his voice mixing with the screams of all the animals in the woods, his venom turning to blood as Jake tore him apart. We heard wolves begin to howl as mind after mind joined our own and I watched as the darkness of the forest deepened and a pack of wolves led by a pure white wolf seemed to materialize out of the dark, three pointy-eared, silver-haired beings behind them.

They moved to Sam and one touched his shoulder, instantly the black wolf became a man. We saw clear fluid dripping out of the wound on his shoulder.

"He will live." One of the silver-haired people spoke to us.

"Things will be changed." The gentle voice of another sounded both sad and hopeful.

"Hold faith and she will return to you." The third spoke nodding to us before the three of them melted back into the darkness and disappeared. With them, the new voices in our minds disappeared.

Paul, help me take Sam to Charlie's place. Jared get the Doctor leech. Jacob took command. Seth? Quil?

I saw Bella in Seth's mind and whined with fear and worry. I had to get to them, I had to hold Kim in my arms and see Bella."

Focus. Jake ordered us and our minds began to process Quil's confused thoughts. Every Quileute boy over thirteen and under forty had phased for three minutes before reverting back to terrified humans.

Embry, Leah get to the Elders. Paul take Sam to Charlie's, Jared get the doctor Leech. Jake commanded, already running.

The whole of the reservation had converged on the council house when he arrived. I ran to the Cullen house, my mind focused on my pack brothers' minds until I noticed I was at the Cullen house and I still didn't smell them. I focused my attention on my own task as I let up a howl. There was no response. I found the pixie laying in the grass, her mate only a few feet away. Gentle heartbeats thrummed in their chests.

Fuck me! Jacob cursed in my head, it was echoed by every wolf in the pack.

Find Bella's uncle! Find the fucking doctor! Paul demanded, pacing just outside the door to Charlie's house. I could see in his head that Sam was inside on the couch already.

Bring all the Cullen's to Charlie's they can go with the doctor lee… Cullen, to check on Bella after he sees Sam. Collin, Brady stay with Sam. Paul, I'm with Bella meet me here. Jacob ordered before phasing out of our heads.

I sniffed out the rest of the family and phased as I saw the caramel haired girl stir.

"Shit!" She cursed sitting up.

"You have no idea, lee, um, lady."

"Esme."

"Right, listen, I'm not sure what's all going on but I need the doctor. Sam is hurt bad, he was bitten but I think he's going to live and then you need to check on Bella. Some weird shit has happened."

"Carlisle." She called gently.

"Doc Cullen?" I shouted.

Five minutes later, all the Cullen's had gathered. The blond was crying against her mate, all of them looked stunned and cold in the rain and darkness, all of them had gently thrumming heartbeats and smelled clean and human if still a little over sweet.

It took another ten minutes to get them all up to date, relatively calm and into cars to get to Sam. I phased and ran back to meet them there. This night could not get more fucked.

Time passed and things calmed down. Sam woke up and was gaining strength daily, he was healing quickly but Bella remained, unmoving, still and silent as death. The only thing that let us know she lived was the gentle rise and fall of her chest and the steady thrum of her heartbeat.

The Cullen family were still living breathing people who ate, bled and had a heartbeat though they still seemed slightly faster and stronger than regular people.

They called friends in Alaska and found they were talking of heartbeats and humanity. Together both covens called as far as South America before they found a vampire who was still a vampire.

None of the boys who had phased for those few minutes remained wolves. Though they ran one or two degrees hotter than average and most had grown an inch or two, they showed no signs of phasing again.

The wolf was well and truly out of the bag now and the council was speaking with everyone about everything.

Jacob had taken the reins of control, while Sam remained with Bella. He, Paul, Emily and the white wolf with strange glacier blue eyes never leaving her side. Sam and Jacob seemed to both hold Alpha power though as the pack took orders from Sam at his home while Jake dealt with the tribe and his newfound chiefdom. The tribe might not have had a real chief for years but it seemed they would return to many of the old ways. The secrets of the pack were to be maintained and the pack supported by all the tribe.

Rylan and Jack moved into Paul's house, while he and Emily stayed with Bella. Outsiders were not welcomed on tribe lands while things were being sorted out, except for the newly welcomed Cullen's who carefully monitored Sam and Bella as well as all the other tribe members who had so briefly become pack.

The autumn turned to winter and Rosalie became pregnant. She cried over Bella and begged her to wake up to see the miracle she had given them.

All of the former Cullen's and several of the former vampires they had known in North America trekked to the reservation with gifts. We knew many out there would not view the loss of their vampire lives a gift but we were surprised at how many did.

They came, gave her a gift, and settled into Forks to wait for her to wake. The Cullen's stayed on the reservation.

The snow began to fall and Bella lay still. The white wolf ever at her side, life continued on around their sleeping Luna.

The pack feared the Volturi but it seemed the Volturi feared what had occurred in La Push and ordered that none of the guard step foot in North America at least for the time being. They also offered Carlisle and the other newly humanized vampires to come to Italy and change again. None who came here took the option. They were grateful for humanity.

In the middle of January, Lore finally came to see Bella; she came with the long absent Niki who immediately curled up next to the white wolf we were all calling Ghost for her pure white coat and the silent way she moved the few times she left Bella's side.

Most people were loosing hope that Bella would ever wake up.

Lore went into the room for several hours and when she came out, she sat at the table with the pack.

"She'll return to you." Lore spoke quietly but in the silence of the room, she was easily heard.

"When?" Sam asked, fear and sadness filling his voice.

"When she is able."

Paul's fist slammed onto the table, "When!" He demanded. "When will that be?"

Lore shook her head, her eyes filling with tears, "You cannot comprehend what she has done."

"Then explain it." Rosalie spat.

"She expelled the venom not just from her mate but from this realm."

"Vampire's still exist around the world." Carlisle informed her.

"Yes, her power is great but not so limitless as to do what it tried to."

"So she's what? Tapped out?" The pixie asked.

"She is resting." Lore asked.

"How do we make her better?" Emmett hugged his pregnant wife to him.

"She can be taken across the veil where her people will be able to heal her."

"Then take her!" Rosalie demanded.

"What about the Sidhe?" Jasper, ever the strategist, thinking four steps ahead.

"She is marked, she can only have Sam's children." Emily told him.

"They would not be able to breed her but they would still try to kill her, like they did her aunt." Lore told them.

"So what do we do?" Sam looked at her, his eyes pleading.

"You do what her people said to do."

"Wait." Jared spoke up. "We wait and keep faith."

Lore nodded, "Bella will wake. Until she does, the world is changed, the tribe is changed and we must continue on."

We did exactly that. Sam was a shell; he spent hours sitting with Bella and slept at her side every night. We all spent hours with her, talking to her, sharing everything with her. No one spent more time by her side than Sam and Paul, but Rosalie was a close third. The blonde woman would sit for hours talking about the pregnancy and baby names, she would brush out Bella's long silky, silver hair or read to her, only leaving when Sam came.

Paul and Emily sold the Cullen's his house and bought the cottage closest to Sam and Bella. All the pack bought up the area surrounding them. The properties readily sold by the tribe who did all they could to help the pack that had secretly protected them for so long.

The world was changed, Bella had changed it but we could not live while she slept, we only existed. We continued on, day after day, waiting for our Luna, our Alpha's mate to return to us, trusting that she would, one day, wake as Lore and the elves in the woods had promised.

A/N

So, this is the last chapter. I hope you have enjoyed the story. Please don't hurt me for the end. I know it's sad but its not really over, the sequel Luna Rising, is in progress.

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