TRIGGER WARNING: ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

Sam and Paul were taken to Emily's house. Paul was laid out on the sofa while Sam was taken upstairs. Right away, Emily noticed that both men were sweating profusely and mumbling. When the pack put Sam down in Emily's bed, and he was able to pick up her scent, things got worse for him. He started trembling and thrashing, calling out for Emily. And no matter how much Emily tried to comfort Sam, it only made things worse.

In Sam's mind, it was the chase all over again. He was running alongside Selene, and they had almost caught the red-haired vampire when suddenly Emily appeared in the path. Sam and Selene skidded to a stop. Sam stared at his imprint, wide-eyed, "Emily, what are you doing here, go back!"

To Sam's surprise, Emily understood him, "Sam, I came to help. I'm here as bait."

No sooner had Emily said that, than the female vampire was on her and bit Emily and was gone.

"No!" Sam screamed, "Help her," Sam screamed at Carlisle, who was on the other side of the ravine.

"There's nothing we can do, we can't cross the treaty line, and she's already changed," Carlisle said.

Sam changed back and kneeled next to Emily. Her skin was pale white and marble hard. She opened her eyes, and they were bright red. Emily looked at Sam sadly, "I'm sorry, Sam, I only wanted to help."

"It's alright, Sweetheart, we'll work it out."

Suddenly, Sam heard a furious snarl behind him, he turned around, and saul Paul was staring at Emily with so much hatred in his eyes and hackles raised. Sam realized at that moment that Paul was going to attack his imprint, the same way he attacked Emmett. Sam pushed Emily behind him and faced off against Paul.

"Paul, calm down. This is Emily. She's not going to hurt anyone."

"She's a parasite, Sam, and in our territory. She needs to be destroyed."

"You'll have to get through me, Paul," Sam said.

But Sam discovered that he could not shift. He stood there frozen as Paul rushed forward with his teeth bare. Sam looked on helplessly as Paul began to close in. He looked at the pack for help, but no one moved. Out of the corner of his eye, Sam saw a white blur hit Paul from the side; It was Selene. She and Paul started to fight, but Paul was too strong and quickly tore out Selene's throat, leaving her body lifeless on the ground.

Paul turned towards Sam and Emily, blood dripping from his muzzle and snarled. He rushed Sam and knocked him out of the way. Sam went flying and landed next to Selene's dead body. The next thing Sam heard was Emily screams bloody murder.

"SAM HELP ME! OH GOD, IT HURT!" Emily screamed as Paul began tearing Emily apart. Eventually, the screams stopped, and the only thing that Sam could hear was paul growling and the metallic sound of body parts being torn apart.

Sam sat there next to Selene's dead body staring off into nothing. He felt something roll into his foot. When Sam looked down, he gasped. It was Emily's head, her beautiful face contorted in a look of fear and pain. Tears began to run down Sam's face as he stared at his beautiful imprint. Sam gave out a heart, breaking howl and phased into his black wolf. He took off running through the woods, trying to get the images and sounds of Emily's death out of his head.

Sam ran straight home and changed back. He grabbed his father's old .38 handgun and took off towards the cliffs where the guys go cliff diving. Sam stood there looking out over the sea, crying. He put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Sam heard the shot, but nothing happened. He whirled around when Sam heard someone laughing at him.

A man was standing behind him, holding the bullet in his hand. He was wearing jeans, a jacket, and a mariner's baseball cap. Sam couldn't make out his facial features; it was like he was standing in perpetual shadows. Sam stared at the man who laughed at him again.

"You think your punishment will end so easily, Sam?"

"Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am. Just know that your suffering has only just begun, and there is no way you can escape it. For the rest of eternity, you will see the death of your beloved imprint by the hothead you let off the hook, and not only did your imprint die, but the only person that helped you was murdered as well. Live with that, Samuel Uley."

In the real world, Sam continued to sweat, shiver, and mumble Emily's name. He would thrash about in bed, trying to get away from his pain. Emily stood there and watched helplessly, "Is there anything we can do?"

"No, he has to ride this out. The more we help him, the worse it will get, especially if you try to help him, Emily." Jared said, "We need to leave him alone."

Downstairs, Paul wasn't faring any better. Jake, Quil, and Embry stood around and watched as Paul thrashed and screamed, 'don't go!' Who he was talking to, they had no idea.

In Paul's vision, Selene had finally come to him, but he felt empty and incomplete. There was nothing between them, and he was miserable until he picked up the most fabulous smell he had ever smelled in his life. Following the scent, Paul saw a beautiful woman standing in a meadow waiting for him. The sun was shining in Paul's eyes, and he couldn't see her face, but he knew that this woman was his imprint. Paul's entire world shifted. It wasn't gravity holding to the Earth anymore; it was this woman. Paul knew that he could never live without this woman in his life ever again.

Paul slowly started walking toward this mystery woman, and she did the same, her beautiful hair blowing in the breeze, "Paul, I've been waiting for you for so long, and you're finally here."

Paul smiled and began rushing towards his imprint. Just as they were going to meet, a white wolf jumped in between them, snarling and snapping her jaws towards Paul's imprint. Paul's eyes widened when he realized it was Selene, "Selene, what are you doing?! Get away from my imprint!"

Selene looked at Paul, "You're mine, Paul, and I'll be damned if I let anyone take you away from me."

"I don't belong to you, Selene, you're supposed to be with Emmett!"

"Emmett's dead, you made sure of that, and now we're going to be together forever, just like you wanted."

"No Sel, I was wrong-"

"I DON'T CARE! You're mine, and she's going to die."

Selene turned towards Paul's imprint and slowly began to stalk her. The girl started slowly backing away from Selene. "Paul, what's going on?"

"It's okay, Honey, I'll protect you."

But when Paul tried to shift, he found that he couldn't. Paul tried to run towards Selene to stop her, but he was frozen in place. He watched helplessly as Selene pounced on his imprint and tore her apart. All he could hear was his imprint's agonizing screams then gurgling as she drowned in her blood after Selene tore her throat out.

Blood was everywhere, and when Selene turned around, she was drenched in his imprint's blood. Selene licked the blood off her lips and carried her mangled arm towards Paul in her jaws. She let the arm drop from her jaw onto Paul's lap and left him alone in the meadow. All Paul could do was stare at the mangled limb lying in his lab. He suddenly let out an agonizing scream and fell back into the grass and sobbed.

When Paul opened his eyes, a man was standing over him, looking down at him. The man was wearing jeans, a Hawaiian shirt, and a Mariners baseball cap that covered his features, "Hurts, huh? Losing someone you love? I bet that's a pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, and yet you wanted Selene to go through that pain for your selfishness."

"I'm sorry," Paul sniffled.

"Oh, I bet you are. But not as sorry as you're going to be. This pain never ends, and you're going to carry it with you for all eternity. I'll make sure of that."

"Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter. But I want you to know, there's no escape from this, not even in death."

With that, the figure disappeared.

And that's the way it went for twenty-four hours for Sam and Paul. The most agonizing event of their lives was relived over and over until they were almost driven to the point of madness.

SORRY IF THIS IS TOO SHORT. IT WAS ALL I COULD THINK OF.