CHAPTER FIFTEEN

(BPOV)

We were defeating them, steadily knocking back the numbers and lighting their remains on fire to burn. Some of them even seemed to be hesitant in their attack, as if they knew this would be their own demise. That they had met their match.

I watched the ravenous newborns continue to fight on while they ran for their next target and I heard the cuss that left Sam when one of them struck Seth hard enough to knock him down and try to crush hip with their concrete grip. I headed for him, my running advance being brought up short when Cauis darted out in front of me and struck me hard across the muzzle. The hit left me dizzy and disoriented as I lunged for him, my jaws snapping inches above him when something collided into me with the speed and weight of a runaway freight train. The sound of my bones breaking made me inwardly cringe, and I heard the sharp crackling of the floor beneath us as we rolled over and over, my wolf gaze focusing in on Felix's blood red gaze as he swiftly got back on his feet and came at me with a seething rage etched into his stony face. I tore into him without mercy then, ripping off half of his right hand when he attempted to strike me again. I managed the block the hit but when Caius called my name and I whipped my head his way to see my father in front of him, all the fight in me died out as the choking fear took hold.

I screamed out in my head, the sound echoing through the pack mind and causing them all to look toward Caius as he hauled Charlie out in front of him and pulled his head back before hissing our way with his venom soaked fangs glinting and eager.

No.. No... not Charlie.

I met my fathers gaze as he shook his head to me, telling me to stay put, our silent conversation making me momentarily forget all about Felix who used this opportunity to jab a needle into the side of my neck. The moment I felt the small puncture, I knew what it was and I snarled his way, jerking forward and tearing his head from his stone cold body in mere seconds.

The room began to spin around me as the heavy and unmoving black spots steadily filled my vision. I huffed and staggered forward. The last thing I saw was Marcus attacking Jacob as he fought to get to me.

"No!" He yelled, the distraught sound of it filling every part of me as I tried to keep going.

They still needed me.

Jacob needed me and Charlie needed me.

Pain like nothing I've ever known rocked through me and I fell to the floor, my white fur disappearing and replaced with my pale skin, as
I laid there naked and violently shuddering as the blood curdling screams tore through me. I could feel it coursing it's way through me and I knew this would be the end.

"We warned you! You shouldn't have crossed us! Now you'll pay the ultimate price!" Marcus yelled to Jacob and Sam as I tried to drag myself up, my arms and legs numb and my insides lit with a raging fire that was trying to consume me.

"Jacob." I gasped, my voice nearly that of a whispered breath.

A mass of russet fur flew in front of me and I heard the shriek that came from Marcus as his body fell limp to the ground beside me, his head falling only a few inches away from my own. I writhed there under the pain, my back arching and my body convulsing when my eyes locked on the fire burning ahead of me.

We had nearly beaten them all. We had been victorious in the fight. I looked around and did a count of all the other members of the pack, of my family. They were all accounted for and none of them were broken beyond repair.

I watched Paul hastily rip apart the last two newborns with Quil by his side and I curled in on myself further when the thunderous roar came from Jacob.

Everything happened so fast then. It felt like a dream or a nightmare. Before I could scream again, he was there. My Jacob. My sun in the dark world. My warmth from the cold.

He took hold of me, his strong arms cradling me to him as the others rushed in around us.

"Bells, honey."

I clung to him and heard the familiar voice carry out to me somewhere off in the distance.

"I can help her."

"Don't touch her!" Jacob angrily replied, his whole body tensing with his words.

That voice. That hauntingly familiar but nearly forgotten voice.

I heard Sam next, his tone cautious but pleading.

"He may be her only chance, Jacob. You know what will happen if the venom continues to spread. We don't have time-"

Jacob's dark eyes were full of agony when they met mine and I struggled not to scream out again as more fire trickled down through my arms and legs.

"Come with me. I can help you!" Carlisle insisted, as the sound of another voice cut in. One that I recognized the softness from immediately.

"Jacob, he knows what he's doing and you're running out of time. Give her to him. He can do it." Esme timidly stated.

"We'll stay with her. The whole time." Sam added, reaching out for me as Jacob got to his feet and pressed me tighter to him.

"I'm not going anywhere, honey. I'll be right here. It's gonna be okay."

I lost the battle of consciousness when I was passed to a different set of arms, ones that were cold and not the ones I craved right now.

We had won against them all.

To Be Continued...

A/N: New chapter will be posted tonight as promised yesterday. Till then!