A/N: Hehe… so remember that policy that I was supposedly implementing? Yeah, that's officially going to start now because after my last update I spent the rest of break studying for finals, taking them, and then recovering from finals and starting second semester. Suffice to say I've had zero free-time, but I'm back now and can hopefully finish this story in another ten chapters or so! Enjoy! PS, I'm also massively mortified that I haven't finished this and it's been two years. Really, most of you have been with me since the beginning, and you know it never takes me this long, so for that I sincerely apologize.

Disclaimer: If I owned Embry Call, I'd have nothing to worry about in life, but that unfortunately is not the case. Embry and all the other characters in this story belong to the beloved Stephanie Meyer.

Embry POV: Just over two hours had passed since Jake got back from the bloodsucker's crypt. By now, the rest of the pack, along with Emily, Kim, my mom, Joshua and Alison had all shown up. The doctor had come out again an hour ago and he'd pulled me aside. Little did he know, only five of the people in that waiting room with me wouldn't be able to hear him.

Flashback:

"Now son, I know this is probably not what you want to hear, and trust me, I wouldn't be telling you this if I didn't feel like it wasn't something you needed to hear, but the odds don't look good," doctor Snow said, sounding highly sympathetic.

I fought to swallow back the lump that had formed in my throat. "But there are still some odds, right?" I clarified. "There's still some chance she'll make it?"

"Well," he said slowly. "I suppose it is possible, but not likely. Have you ever heard a medical miracle story, son? You know, the ones where the patients have absolutely no chance at all of waking up or making a recovery, but somehow, they beat the odds?"

I nodded.

"Those are very unlikely, but with how she's doing at the moment, I'm not positive there will be much of a change. You may need to pray for a miracle, because that could be the only chance she'll have at making it."

End Flashback

"Em, you don't need to worry so much," Jacob tried to console me. "The doctor said that there's a chance that she's going to be-"

"Fine?" I interrupted him sharply. "No. you clearly didn't hear what he said, Jake. He said that it would take a miracle for her to survive this. There isn't any hope. Our kind isn't associated with miracles; it hasn't been since the first time our forefathers fraternized with the parasites. I'm going to lose the love of life because of him," my voice dropped to an agonized whisper. "It's inevitable."

"Embry Call," my mother chastised me, raising her voice. "Don't you talk like that. You must have hope. Without your hope, how can you ever expect a miracle to happen?"

It had been a while since I'd seen my mother look even the slightest bit disappointed in me, so to see it etched on her face clear as day before me scared the hell out of me.

I knew deep down that she was right, but how could I ever have hope when I knew that I would lose her anyway? "You don't understand," I told her coldly. "You may have lost him once," I jerked my head in my father's direction. "But he didn't die. You didn't lose him entirely. You still had a piece of him; you still had me. Meanwhile, if Bella leaves me I will not have any hope left. There will be no reason to fight, no reason to wake up every morning. She won't be coming back to me if she leaves me now, and that is something I won't ever be able to handle."

My mother sat stunned silent, unsure what to say to me. Unable to sit in the midst of this pity party any longer, I got up and made my way to the section of the ICU where Bella was being held.

Usually, the hospital would only allow family in to see her, but Charlie pulled some strings and got the nurses to agree to let any of us in, only two at a time in intervals.

When I made it there, I looked up through the glass window and could make out her form laying on the far end of the room. I hadn't yet been in to see her, as she's been forgoing tests for these past couple hours, so I wasn't sure what I might find when I reached her.

I made my way into the room and as I got closer to her, I felt a pang of fear shoot through me.

Then I saw her.

But she didn't look like my Bella. Her arms were marred with black, painful looking burns, her leg was wrapped in a cast, along with a bandage across the bridge of her nose. I could also see a bump on her abdomen underneath the fabric of her hospital gown. That must be where they made the incision to remove her kidney.

Overwhelmed with emotion, I kneeled by her side, took her hand, and let the tears fall. "Bella," I whispered. "I don't know if you can hear me right now, but I need you to listen to me, okay sweetheart? Are you listening? Good."

I took a deep, shaky breath and continued, "Please… please fight. I know you don't want to die, sweetheart. I know you want to stay here, be with me, start a life one day, just like we've talked about. It was him that did it angel, we have proof now and I promise I will get rid of him. When you wake up, not if, when because you are going to wake up, I promise you that you will never have to worry about him again. I love you, Bella. I love you so much. Please, get through this for me, angel."

And then I broke. The emotions I'd been holding in since I'd arrived drowned me now, and I let them. I began to sob at my girlfriend's bedside, fearing for her life, praying that she would open her beautiful eyes and let me look into them just once more. It broke me even more to know that I may never get that chance again.

A/N: Well that was a fluffy, sad moment for our favorite couple. How about a little test? Embry thinks there is no hope for Bella to live, the doctor said Bella needed a miracle to live. What is Bella's miracle? *NOTE* THIS HAS BEEN MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Once again, I apologize for the massive delay and the fact that it's taken me two years to get this far. I'm never usually this slow and I SWEAR that new policy starts now. I may even update tomorrow because I'm off of school. As always, review and tell me what you thought! I hope you all had a magnificent day yesterday filled with joy and love. I love you all!

Thanks for Reading!

-thewolfgurlgleek :)